Chapter 113: Only hope lost (1/2)

The games the VSW club played that day, didn't go as well as planned. Novis was far too distracted trying to go into Berserker mode while the others were busy learning the game. It was hard to learn new tactics in a game when VSW gave no extra lives.

In other games, if you died once, you would respawn meaning you could try the tactic again and again, but in VSW you only got one life. If they practiced something new in the game, their opponents would take advantage of this and kill them. Then the whole team was a player down and would most likely result in a loss.

This was the exact thing that continued to happen to the Montem VSW club.

”Alright guys, I think its time we take a break,” Frank said as he took off his VR headset.

He looked at the VSW clubroom's door once again and was saddened to see that Alex hadn't come in. It was clear to Frank that if the team was to Face Woo Woo in the next couple of days, they would lose.

That day, the rest of the VSW team headed home depressed. Not only did it feel like they were making no progress but they felt like something was missing from the team without Alex being there. Frank was good at taking charge and motivating the team but he used many terms that they just didn't understand.

Such as Missing, Gank ect.. These terms were just too much for the team to handle in such a short amount of time. The only person who seemed to be making any sought of progress was Scarlett, as she was doing her own research out of the game.

Alex had actually been there for most of the team's training sessions secretly in the back. He understood what Frank was trying to do and knew he needed to come up with a new plan. Alex took his notes with him and left just before the team finished their last game.

Now that Alex was at home and in his room, he took out the notes from the Woo Woo games he had watched. Alex looked over both of their notes and started to try to form the perfect strategy that would give them the best chance of winning.

Alex worked through the night as he could see the Team needed his help more than ever, eventually falling asleep at his desk.

His Mum had entered the room to make sure Alex had gone to sleep and she noticed Alex had fallen asleep with his head in a pile of books.

”look at him studying so hard.” Alex's mum said as she walked over to Alex.

Alex's mum slowly lifted Alex from his chair and laid him on the bed before kissing him on the forehead goodnight. But just before she left the room, she had decided to head over to Alex's desk to put his books away.

That's when her eye caught something. She started to read through the notes and quickly realized that they weren't about studying but they were all about that VSW game.

Her hands couldn't stop shaking as she lifted the book into the air.

”When will he learn!” She said as she took all of Alex's books and ripped them up on the spot one by one before tossing them in the trash.

The sun had risen for the next day and the light shining through Alex's curtains was hitting him in the face. He woke up slowly as he realized that he had ended up in his own bed somehow.