Chapter 3: To Blackwater (1/2)

Chapter 3: To Blackwater

-Septe day

The day that Aldrich would leave for Blackwater Acade and no doubt hard journey to avenge his parents

Aldrich woke up at five thirty in the , thirty minutes before an officer was scheduled to pick him up

Precisely as the clock struck six, an acade his presence obviously known by sla his fist into the door several times in as the most violent knock Aldrich had ever heard before

Aldrich was ready and packed His apartment, the house had had lived in for his whole life, was cleaned out to complete emptiness, ready for another renter to move in Blackwater would provide food and board for the four years it took to graduate, so what he packed was ht to them

Memorabilia from his late parents that included a family picture with Aldrich and some trinkets frootten hiet into this acade that he so

There was a s,online and interacting with rando the RPGs he played, there was one in particular that was his favorite

A strangely hidden but aaa since closed down and been bulldozed away

At first, Aldrich had thought the gay ames were sold in disc format anymore To further fan the flaa that in all likelihood, it was soht of the public market

Aldrich had zero hopes for it Soaames from the early 2000s era, and soold

This, though, he had thought was trash

Surprisingly,, the gaold than any he had found so far Elden World was highly fleshed out and basically coameplay in it

Most of these hours, Aldrich spent ame character all the way up to level 100, but he did not stop just there Afterwards, he obsessively h the rades to make himself as overpowered as possible

Eventually, Aldrich could beat anything with zero challenge, and though so of being strong

Maybe it was the constant years of feeling powerless that ame

A type of escapist fantasy, he supposed

Aldrich opened the door to his apart the s in the dooras a tall, black-unifor black eyes

The man looked down at his Eye-Phone, presu?" said the man "Student enrolled in the Frame Initiative for Blackwater Academy?"

"Yes," said Aldrich simply

"Show me some ID," said the man