Chapter 1: Interplanetary Network

"Teaching is a noblest profession. They made people change their minds, hands and hearts. Teachers also do other professions. Without them, other professions will not be produced. The teacher doesn't literally mean teaching inside the school. We people can become teachers ourselves. It's up to us on how we're gonna teach people the well or bad one."

This is from the education book that I read a long time ago making a teacher like a saint. Now, the book is now published online in a new version.I came to hate teaching at first but after some time, it became my hobby. Teaching is fun.

If you ask me how I teach at school, I'm doing it in a very serious way but I could see more positive outcomes doing it anyway. It's a very tiring profession considering that the work is so expensive that you'll bring other works at home. The problem is that the government only pays for our eight hours of work. No more overtime payments.Well, it doesn't matter to me, as long as I could teach the youngs very well and the health benefits from the government are very promising.

It's Friday and I'm going home already. There will be no more classes tomorrow so I can take a rest for a bit. I put my phone in my pocket and leisurely walk at the edge of the street as I observe some people pass through me. Most of them are group of students probably going straight home but that's uncertain because it's Friday. I'm familiar with most of them. They are probably going straight to some random game pod rental shops nearby. They are in the middle school of which the place I'm working at is nearby.

I'm Wyvon Klovis, 28 years old and currently a science teacher at a not so popular public high school. I have a friend. Wait, I will remember! He's probably waiting for me now. I promised him last week that I should go to his place and try his new game.

I glanced at my watch and it's almost 6:00 pm so I hurriedly walked into my apartment. It's on the first floor of a five-story building near the school. It is a small room with one bed, a cabinet, table, kitchen utensils and a chair inside. I don't have many things in here because I only buy things that I need the most. Well, this is only my cash I can afford with somehow. Teaching profession can't make you a billionaire at all.

I changed my clothes into a casual white t-shirt and black pants and hurriedly walked down the street again towards my buddy's house.

Wyvon walked a couple of blocks after he saw a huge house. It's a three-story building with a unique design.A combination of modern metallic and window glass with an irregular size of rooms that seems to be overtop each other.Well, that friend of his is unique as it is. He quickly entered the gate and walked in front of a big steel metalic door and entered the password. He clearly understands that a house needs a high security system especially this one but he can't crack his brain because his best friend doesn't want to change the password '1234' of this uncommon house.

"Surprise!" He shouted, making Wyvon shocked for a bit.

"What the! What happened ton?"

A chubby short guy wearing his nerd glasses and his favorite jumpsuit but this time it's yellow. Also he's wearing a party hat and a pop up in his hands that hasn't exploded yet.

That's his friend Anton Artron, 28 years old, a mechanical engineer, computer engineer, physicist, astrologist and he forgot them all because there's too many to mention. He's a genius after all. Also a multi billionaire man, he is the only heir of Artron Industries- it's a technology company focuses on expanding research and modern technology and their target market are every country in the planet. They're currently the second biggest company in the world.

"Hey! Let's celebrate it! I've got a deal with the famous game company."

"That Quincy Enterprise? Really?"

Everyone knows what Quincy Enterprise was. It's a mysterious company that leads the very famous games in the entire world. No one ever knew who exactly the owner of the company is.

"Yeah!" Got lucky at this time. Let's eat later. Come with me, I have to show you something."

I let myself dragged by him into the elevator. It seems he's so excited.

" You're ok? You seem really happy. Do you have a girlfriend now?"

"It's better than a boyfriend." He said while smiling at me.

Ding! At last the elevator got open and he dragged me into his room, a big circular room. That's right, all the rooms here are based on different shapes.

"Look! They also gave me a congratulatory gift!"

"What's that?"

It's like a hibernation pod that I've once seen in a movie. But there's a logo for the letter "Q" on the side. I guess it's from Quincy .

"You don't know? You sure you're a human being? It's the latest game pod version of the most popular game in the world! The Interplanetary Network , IPN remember?".

He knew that game. It's the survival game that made the whole world craze for almost 10 years now. The game pod will make you in a hibernation state for a maximum of 24 hours while the conscious mind and senses will be connected to a real-time game system run by advanced and smooth quantum computing systems . It also works anywhere in the world because it just needs satellite transmission and electricity to operate . Although it's really a huge pain the pocket, more than 70 million people all over the world are actively playing this game now.

"I know what it is Anton. I remember that you had one of this. So, what is with the surprise? ". Wyvon remembers that Anton already had a silver colored of the game pod that he just bought last month. " It's for you. I know that you'll kill me if I buy you one. But, come on it's free! I don't spend a single coin for it ."

"Anton , you know that I can't accept- "

" It's a gift , ok ? Besides your birthday is two days from now . You always bring back the gifts I gave you. It hurts you know ." . Anton said in a painful tone . It's true that Wyvon really did bring back the gift Anton gave him last year. He remembered that his birthday last year was an epic . A luxury car made by their company was parked infront of the school with a big red ribbon and a large signage 'Happy Birthday Sir , Von ! From A . Artron' He really felt ashamed that time. All the gifts that Anton gave him cost numerous digits that made him feel wrong. It's too much to take.

"Hays Fine , but no more gifts from now on. This will be the last ."

He really didn't like it when Anton always provides necessities for him. They were best friend of almost ten years. He wants to provide things for himself and his family by his hard-working. They continued to talk each other until midnight about their past week activities. The only time they could see each other is only at Friday nights. They are too busy now especially Anton. His father trained him now to be the successor of the industries. That's when he decided to go home. The next day, he woke up early to jog as his usual routine. He wore his black hoody along with his sportswear and finally left his apartment around 5:00 AM . He jogged around the city park to keep himself physically fit. Many people are also doing exercises. The grass field was full of mid-50's women doing Zumba and some are walking with their dogs. He stopped midway due to exhaustion and drank his bottled water.

He glanced at the view screen of a nearby building advertising the new model version of the game pod of IPN of Quincy Enterprise. A long time ago since the game became so popular when other countries came to shut it down because many people are getting confused with the fantasy game that made the reality in question. But Quincy Enterprise made a breakthrough in economy . In less than a year , almost all countries around the globe raised their economy in almost 60% because of the expansion of the game . All countries accepted the ideas of the game especially it benefits world economy in a great deal. Wyvon decided to come back at 7:10 AM in the apartment to have a breakfast. When he opened his apartment, his eyes widened like he saw a ghost.

"What the fucking hell?"

His small room now has no space left because the game pod now occupied the remaining space . He quickly dialed his phone and call Anton, which unfortunately was out of coverage area. He tried to call Anton again but failed. Instead he received a message.

| Be glad that I delivered it to you for free Sir. Play well. Don't hate me. |

He sighed and slowly slipped himself to finally enter the inside. He changed quickly and prepared for breakfast. As he eats fried rice and egg, he keeps glancing through the game pod besides him . He didn't notice the detailed appearance last night . So he carefully looked for it now. It's a red ecliptic-shaped metallic chamber with a white dim light on the inside that can be seen in the transparent glass . 'looks like a coffin' he said to himself. As a curious being, he quickly finished eating and tried to play the game. He knows how to operate it because he had seen Anton played it numerous times and also people around him watching the gameplay videos of it everyday including his colleagues at school. He finally pressed the button to open the pod and comfortably rest himself as the transparent glass automatically closed. And a holographic message popped up infront of his eyes.

[Welcome Player. Please close your eyes if you are ready to enter the game.]

He closed his eyes and after a second the dark view that surrounds him became white. He can't see his body. Again, the system messages simultaneously popped up in the transparent blue screen infront of him. He remembered that it's called Virtual Status from the system.

[Welcome to Interplanetary Network]

[System has detected a new player has logged in]

[System has accessed your personal qualities and skills]

[Please select your in-game name]

In-game name? Since it more liked a space game, how about Photon-V? It seems cool.

[Congratulations, in-game name Photon-V has been selected. ].

[Your role will be based on the gathered data the system has derived from you.]

[Recommended roles in progress . ]

[Recommended roles selection verified.]

[Please select a recommended role . ]

[1 . Planetary Teacher

2. Hunter's Trainer

3. Weapon Merchant

4. Charmer]

Even in this game? A teacher too? It's not that I don't like teaching. I'm getting tired of doing it somehow. Planetary Teacher and Hunter's Trainer are obviously connected to teaching so I'll discard them . Next is Weapon Merchant. Well, it sounds cool but I don't really like 'merchant ' in that role . It seems that it only keeps me to sell and supply weapons so it's a no. Lastly, the one that picks my interests is 'Charmer'. It seems to be a role using magic. As a man of science its quite interesting. Time to choose.

[You have selected a role . ]

[You have selected the role Charmer]

[Data Configuration Complete]

[System scanned your physical attributes]

[Your in-game body is now ready to generate. ]

[Your in-game body will be automatically generated once the transmigration ended. ]

[Transmigration will commence in 5.4.3.2.1] [Transmigration Commenced]

[Good luck , Photon-V]

The surrounding begins

to scatter like a pixel the view changed in no time. .