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Luke waking up from the flashbacks goes to his study table to jot down the little information he had in his mind about the Virtual Reality game "Avernus Online". The game is in trend with other VR games but dominated above all the others in less than 10 days of its official release.

A big, gorgeous role-playing game universe including several classes, races, and adventures. Because the game simulates human senses exactly as they would in the real world, a powerful artificial intelligence called Celeste keeps an eye on the players and does its responsibility to keep them in check. The company's ability to stand out from the competition was largely facilitated by its most recent VR capsules. The company's CEO withheld information on the technology that could mimic between 98% and 99% of human senses. While the public was given access to the proof of the security and health precautions.

Luke who was from his previous timeline knew about the true nature of the Company. The AI Celeste was a broken consciousness of a God and the CEO was an apostle of that God tasked to prepare humanity for their impending doom which happens after the passing of 7 years of the game thinking about that for later.

Luke was a Level 789 Grand Water Magus well, nothing to be proud of about the big name since he was not even in the top 1000 list of mage players. He was just an advanced class of Water Mage class but in the unofficial ranking of support-type players, It was brought on by his natural introversion and the small number of acquaintances he had. He started playing this game because of his friend Adam, who wanted to free him from his daily routine of going from home to college and vice versa. It was Adam's recommendation to play as a Water Mage since they did not have a support mage and being a versatile class as a Water Mage it can help their team in many ways.

Nothing to do, he took up the offer later on regretting his choice since, you can not change the class without deleting the entire Account. Not giving up he tried as hard as he could to support his team even memorizing everything about other classes to play as the role of the support. With sheer effort, he managed to rise to the top 100 list of support-type players.

Glancing down at the paper, Luke saw that the information he wrote was nothing only a few treasure locations, farming spots, hidden quests, etc. He groaned and stated," Not everyone will reveal how they become powerful in forums this much information with my experience should be enough to keep me in the lead from other players".

Closing the book with his trembling hands because of the accident. He got up and was about to go out to buy a VR capsule when his phone suddenly rang, showing the name Adam on the screen. He picked up and said "Adam! how are you doing bro"

A reply came in a very excited voice "Leave all that for later. Let's go to buy the VR helmet of the latest game".

Luke said, "I know! I know I am going to buy a VR capsule".

Adam said, "Bro where did you get money to buy the capsule even though I am buying the helmet".

Luke said "Insurance money from my parents". Luke's grandparents treated him like their own child not spending a penny from life insurance for their children's death on Luke. They spent their own hard-earned money from growing him up. Luke, who saw their suffering, consistently put out great effort to provide for them.

He didn't want to save as he did the prior time since he knew that this investment would set him apart from the competition because this game offers opportunities to all participants.

Adam's voice came out saying "Sorry bro"

Luke said, "It's okay, and meet me in the game send your in-game ID to me. See u later".

Luke went to the nearby branch office of the company to buy the current VR capsule model and he paid a little extra for fast installation since the game will open its server 2 days from the current day. He wanted to install it by tomorrow to play the game as soon as possible. 

1 day before the official launch, the workers from the branch office came to install the capsule after that he went for a short jog came home panting heavily, and said "Need to work on my stamina for the future".

At 11:59 he sat inside the VR capsule liquid came from the notches of the capsule for body stability and safety measures feeling the liquid drowning his body he wore the mask inside the capsule for breathing and closed his eyes.

A timer came 10, 9 8,…. 3,2,1 with a screen showing

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