Chapter 132: Stay Toasty (1/2)

'Wait, actually isn't this the perfect opportunity?' Arthur thought to hi over their notes

'The streaht, 'If I try strea to grow again, and it'll be iht away'

'So the ideal scenario would be to streaive too much away'

"Oh, I had an idea" Arthur stated "Since you guys can't see inside the ga sent isn't helping at all, what if you just watched from my point of view?"

"What do yo-- Ohh" One of the developers was about to ask what he meant, but quickly realised "True! You could streaht away"

The developer turned to the other developer with a curious gaze, who turned to Arthur "We are currently setting up the strea modules for room four's machines I don't see e can't set one up in your machine as well, if that is what you want"

"That's fine by me" Arthur said with a s that up with the maintenance team It should be done over the week, hopefully by the first session of next week" The developer said while writing notes on a sheet of paper

'Jackpot, there's ht to hiroup of players started filling the roo quickly Arthur took his usual seat and his expanded friend group started taking their seats around hi sorted

"Alright, could I get everyone's attention please" One of the developers spoke up

Fortunately there wasn't e would have likely been related to Arthur, but it wasn't like they could announce that, so only a few sht over to the rankings

"Starting off at fifth place, at level five with one soul, Zankoku" The developer began reading out the top five rankings "At fourth place, also at level five with only one soul, VoidJade"

"And here we are at third place, yet another level five, this ti the page once ain level five with two souls, sobnny"

"And it seeh nobody has reached level six yet" The developer flipped the page onceat Arthur's information sheet "In first place, at level five once more, with a total of three souls, Merlin And it seeer neck and neck"

"Well, I hope you've all enjoyed, we'll be seeing you all tomorrow at the same time as usual Enjoy the rest of your day" The developer concluded

Everyone was asked to leave the briefing roo could take place shortly Most of theroup included, while a few stayed back for a

The group of friends Arthur hadas they continued outside Arthur was thinking that they'd eventually roup up in the h out of all of them, he only knew of Typhoeus and sobnny, either the others quit the ga a na as they were pretty skilled already

Eventually the group scattered, and Donovan was there by the curb to pick up Arthur After a few greetings, Donovan drove Arthur ho his plants, working out and playing games with friends And by the time it came time to eat, he was called down to the kitchen

As Arthur made his way down the stairs, he found that his father was actually ho, but Arthur noticed that Anna didn't see

"It's nothing" Anna said while poking at the peas on her plate "I'm just still worried about Mallory Doctor Hudson said she see fine, but her EEG still hasn't stabilised It shouldn't be that high and I don't understand what is happening"

"Annabelle" Their father spoke up "Please Not at the kitchen table"

"Sorry" Anna saidat her food

The family finished off their meals in an aard silence, and Arthur eventually vanished back into his roo to bed

The next day, Donovan picked Arthur up and brought hi briefing to end, and then everyone was allowed back into the game

When he loaded back into the world, it see in front of the stone door fra off any ht, so Merlin ot a notification ards to hishim that his item was ready to be picked up

"Well time to see what they whipped up for me" Merlin muttered to hie building

Merlinthe person at the front counter beforehis way to the counter at the back of the store

"Good afternoon, how can we be of service?" The ot an order that should be ready, I'm here to retrieve it" Merlin reached into his inventory and pulled out his receipt, handing it to the lanced at the receipt for aback moments later with a nicely folded fluffy black square "This was your purchase correct, the cloak?"

The e fluffy black coat that seemed to have kept the nice sheen of the panther's coat It featured a hood as Merlin requested, and also a fancy silver clasp at the front featuring a beautiful red gem, which Merlin identified as the crude fire stone