Chapter 87: The Second Wave (1/2)

The first thing Donovan commented on was that his white shi+rt seemed to have a small blood stain on his sleeve When he asked about it, Arthur just showed him that his hand had been cut

"How are you always so accident prone?" Donovan re his head "What did you do?"

"I actually don't kno I got this one" Arthur said while staring at the wound on his pal of a cut, I'll just deal with it at home"

The rest of the drive was mostly quiet, Donovan asked a few questions about Arthur's conversation with Olivia but the incident of his ain

When they arrived home, Arthur made his way into the house and Donovan drove back to the laboratory parking lot Arthur made his way up the stairs to his rooe that seemed to fit the cut pretty well, fortunately it didn't seehis clothes into the laundry, he tried to wash the blood off the sleeve with cold water but it didn't see

"daroaned to hi around the laundry, eventually finding a bottle of hydrogen peroxide to re with his laundry, he made his way back to his roo with his garden, before checking his coirls weren't on, Acai wasn't on either, the only person as online was Quinn, and he was in the ame

The rest of the day flew by quickly, Arthur played a few games with Quinn, ate a meal with his fa to sleep The nexthe helped himself to some breakfast and later in the day Donovan picked hier crowd had formed outside of the facility today, there were plenty of fresh faces that were filled with child-like excitein

As expected, Arthur saw Kyleto size people up, but it didn't seeo his way today, as he would soon find out The doors to the facility opened, and a developer poked his head out and requested that group one entered first

All the fa roo a rundown on so that level zero players were protected from player versus player combat Another protection added to new players was that those level three or higher would incur twice asplayers under level three

Kyle didn't seee, but he didn't dare voice his discontent Meanwhile everyone else seee, and even wished that it had been impleroup one's capsule rooh with pretty quickly so that the second group could start their briefing They passed by the second capsule roohts on

Arthur hopped into his capsule and started the login procedure, eventually his consciousness faded away and he was brought back into the familiar white room The server hadn't started up yet, so he checked out the active lobbies, and like usual there was just the one room that had the title "Beta Testers Join!"

When he joined the lobby, he found hiainst his skin, forcing hi that could really be found in Australia, so through virtual reality was the only time Arthur had ever experienced snow

More people started joining and i in the snow A few familiar faces popped up, like the roleplayers and his two friends Arthur watched as Acai was hit perfectly in the face by a sobll thrown by Alvira, starting off a sobll fight that just becahter as she was easily destroyed by Acai's counterattack

Eventually the server had launched, giving everyone a notification that it was finally online Everyone began slowly vanishi+ng into a flash of white light, and Arthur did the sae like usual and his invulnerability countdown had started counting down from ten seconds

He found himself on the side of a road, but a little bit into the forest, exactly where he left hi about his next move, he decided to quickly deal with his kar else, so he hly twenty ht flash of light that illue, he would have seen that the light was caused by a beaht up into the sky from the temple on the hill, but he knew this already