TWENTY

Immediately I thought about leaving the message section the messages dissolved into the air and the first page reappeared again. These things were connected to my mind.

That was really cool. Whatever the game was, I acknowledged their insane technology.

I then went ahead to open the shop to see ten items in the floating rectangle. Five of them were tiny conical flasks that had liquid contents of different colors in them. The other five were just stones with different colors. Each of the items had a price attached to it at the bottom.

'What are their purposes?'

I wondered, but that question didn't remain unanswered for long. Just as I thought about the question the space below each item expanded revealing more information about each item.

The conical flask with a black colour was called the antidote potion. It looked more like poison than an antidote. It cost 50 coins and had an explanation of what it was below it.

[Cures you of poison or other negative status effects]

The second conical flask was orange and glistened as though tiny jewels were sprinkled into it. It was called the cold repellent. It cost 100 coins and below it was no explanation just the words; [Lasts for 10 minutes]

What a scam! How can it cost more than a whole antidote but last for just ten minutes?

The third conical flask was orange just like the second one but it didn't glisten. It was called a health potion and had a description below it:[Restores a portion of your health when consumed ] This one was the most expensive one out of the three because it cost 500 coins.

Even in such a strange place stuff about health costs so much...

The fourth and fifth conical flasks were colorless and had the same labels and descriptions.

They were called Potion of Fortune and the description under them was:[ Temporarily increases your luck, affecting your chances of finding rare items or critical hits.]

Would that also help me find my way out of this crazy game without having to die?

The stones resembled each other and had a brown color. They were the same thing because they were called the same name; the 10 points mana crystal.

'Crystal?'

I thought crystals were meant to be shiny and beautiful to look at but these ones were bland and unmistakably similar to ordinary stones.

Their description was [This stone adds 10 points to your mana points.]

These things were totally new to me but they weren't that difficult for me to grasp, except for the strange words like mana.

I had been rewarded a few coins before but I couldn't tell where I could find them.

Moving on to the inventory what I found was less interesting than the messages or the shop. It was just a brown hooded robe that had been patched with a pink thread at so many places like the junction between the hood and the rest of the robe; horizontally through the middle part of the robe; obliquely from one sleeve to the opposite end at the bottom part of the robe. It even had the pink thread sown in a square fashion below the left armpit.

I watched it as it spin around in my floating rectangle and had pity for the piece of clothing. It had gone through a lot and the previous owner probably didn't want to let it go.

Below it was a label: [CLOAK OF INVISIBILITY]

Item class; legendary artifact

Item attribute:

[It possesses the remarkable ability to render the wearer completely unseen by others, effectively granting them temporary invisibility. This magical cloak allows the user to move silently and undetected, making it an invaluable asset for stealth-based activities and evading enemies.

When the Cloak of Invisibility is worn, it shrouds the wearer in an ethereal veil that bends light around them, making them imperceptible to both the naked eye and magical detection.

Item's limitations; 1. The wearer is unable to perform aggressive actions while invisible

2. The item loses its viability for two minutes after interaction with water or fire.]

"Wow!" I yelled totally forgetting that we were stealthily passing through a path that could be potentially filled with creatures.

"what is it?" Sky whispered with the fear still evident in her voice.

Hassan didn't turn back to look at us conversing behind him but continued to walk ahead making sure that his footsteps didn't add to the sounds of the turning wheels of the wooden cart.

"Nothing"

" Are you in your player's info?"

" Yes," the word came out of my mouth before I could hold it back. I was supposed to be doubting them because of their probable hidden agenda.

"What's there?" she asked

"No, actually I haven't gotten there"

The rectangle was no longer hovering in front of me so I had to make it appear in front of me.

The cloak of invisibility was such a wonderful item it was such a shame that I looked down on it when I first saw it. But that wasn't where I went to.

Looking at the inventory for long would've probably kept me from seeing my info and I could see the other end of the path so I had to take a quick look.