24 Chapter 1 : Mars

The next day James woke up at 10 o'clock in the morning, took a bath first, got dressed and opened his stats panel.

[Name : James Art]

[Specie : Humanoid]

[Title : Travler Junior]

Creature Rank: ☆

●Strength : 3,9 +

●Constitution : 2,9 +

●Dexterity  : 5,9 +

●Senses : 3,1 +

{PT : 2350}

James looked at the Points, he had and began to think, time passed and he still sat staring at his Points.

He finally decided to close his panel of stats.

"My adventure in Survival World ends here."He said in a weak voice that could not hide a certain self-disappointment.

"I live in a peaceful world, I have all the money I can dream of."

These words he had just spoken seemed at the time to be words of comfort, but he knew deep down, through the disappointment he felt, that he was simply trying to persuade himself of a lie.

"I'm going to be happy from now on."

Silence then reigned in the dark room as he remained quietly lost in these thoughts.

. . . . .

The time passed slowly, two weeks later in New York's Griffin Northford Spaceport.

Personal Warehouse 72935, James stood in front of a dark blue ship about 23m and 15m high with an interested look on his face as a man and a woman dressed in black suits looked at him with a smile.

"Sir, this is the model you ordered, with flight assistance, state-of-the-art cosmic ray protection, one bedroom, toilet, standard indoor kitchen, top speed 20,000km/h, space-jump resistant."

James nodded his head and then pressed a small red device on his neck and made some movement with his fingers.

The woman also touched the device on her neck and nodded her head with a smile.

"We've just received payment. Here's the key to the ship. Your contact details and deed are on it. Thank you for choosing our company."

James took the black card with the woman and then whispered.

"Open."

While taking the suitcase to his left.

The left door of the ship opened, a small staircase descended to the floor, James walked slowly up the steps and entered the ship.

The man and woman then left the warehouse while James visited the interior of the ship.

James found himself in a corridor running through the interior of the ship and giving access to four doors.

Behind the first door was the control room, there were no windows, only five seats and a Holographic control device.

James approached and sat in a chair before connecting the ship to his Smart-Gear (neck device),, the Smart-Gear was an augmented reality device and also a computer, to put it differently it was a futuristic smartphone.

After connecting them, a three-dimensional map of the earth appeared in front of him, followed by a pleasant but robotic voice.

"Do you want to enter manual or automatic mode?"

The voice in question was the ship's artificial intelligence, although this world was really technologically ahead of its world one area was still taboo, artificial intelligence.

Only low-level artificial intelligence was allowed since the Great War of Machines, during which robots from more than 87 planets were rebelling, since only basic artificial intelligence is allowed.

"Automatically." Says James.

"What destinations, sir?"

"Mars, Shin State, Klos City civil space port, passing through the nearest U.S.E. space portal"

"Yes, Sir, estimated travel time 4 hours, initialize flight plan, Ghaus engine on..."

The ship then slowly left the warehouse, the appearance of the walls around James changed, making them completely transparent and allowing James to see through them.

Then the ship took off at full speed into the sky, James watched the spectacle around him in amazement.

Admiring the clouds around the incomparably blue sky and the sun on the horizon as he arrived in the stratosphere.

"Artificial gravity activation...We're going to leave the earth's orbit by spatial repulsion, giroscope activation (it usually takes several weeks to leave the earth's orbit, so we had to find a way to shorten that time)."

"Spatial repulsion in 3..2..1.."

BAM

Suddenly the space around the ship was slightly stretched and the next second James in the cabin saw a beautiful starry sky unfold before him as he was thrown away from the earth.

The spaceships then appeared in front of a gigantic metallic orange triangle around which the space was slightly curved, around the triangle several spaceships entered slowly in the triangle, James' ship advanced before stopping in front of the portal stopped by an electronic voice.

"Please identify yourself and pay a fee of 100 USM."

James made several movement with his finger, logged on to the I.D. network and paid 100USM."

"Thank you for your cooperation."

James' ship then entered the triangle and disappeared the next second.

He then left the control cabin and went to the rest room and put down his suitcase, it was a small room with a bed, a chair and a table.

He took a Glock 23 out of his suitcase and sat on the bed for a while while nostalgically staring at the gun in his hands.

"I will grant your wish."

Time then passed a few hours later James's ship left another Orange triangle before arriving in front of a blue planet surrounded by a gigantic black artificial ring that revolved around it.

James entering the same control room took a deep breath admiring the spectacular beauty of this planet and whispered unconsciously.

"Mars..."