22 Entering the metaverse

Silver rushed to his room in his frenzy and immediately placed the metaverse head gear on the table.

" Ares scan this gadget." Silver sat down and exercised patience.

" On it Sir." The AI sounded out with its autonomous voice after which a blue infra red light immediately scanned the head piece in front of him.

" Metaverse head gear, version 3.8. All systems go " Ares spoke after which Silver hurriedly put in on and pressed a button on it.

" Boom!!" Immediately, his consciousness was transferred through what looked like a wormhole, across the starry night sky and landed on an extremely advanced civilization.

" What the hell??" Silver who was calm and composed couldn't help but exclaim in wonder. The entire place looked like an extremely advanced alien civilization with massive space ships. He could even see countless other planets and large stars from where he stood.

" Welcome ID 4888944555777333, to the metaverse. " An autonomous voice sounded just like Ares'. " Scanning user for Arcana." A red light examined Silver's body for a few seconds.

" Pyschokinesis detected, Telepathy, detected, Illusion creation detected." The AI spoke once more causing Silver to furrow his brows.

" Seems they weren't able to discover my Distortion Arcana? That's weird." Silver thought.

" Please customize character ." The AI spoke, before a large screen appeared before him. On the screen he could see countless modules and customizations he could use.

" Olympian, Asgardian, Dragon, Samurai, Devil, Angel...." There were so many modules he could choose from. Immediately he chose Olympian, cos why the hell not.

" Please note, choosing a module is only for aesthetic purposes. You can only gain the abilities by doing quests, fighting in dungeons and others..." The AI spoke which caused him to sigh. After all, if it were so easy then, where would the fun and excitement be.

" If it's only for aesthetic purposes, then I should choose something that would make me look ordinary, after all, I just got here, no need to be high profile."

Silver smiled and continued to swipe on the screen until he saw the soldier module.

" Okay, that's the one." With a slight tap, he immediately chose the soldier module.

"Please select or customize own body" The AI added. " Mmmm, Silver kept scrolling down the various looks and characters he could choose from until he saw one particular character.

" Wait, isn't that, Cloud from Final Fantasy?" Silver smiled and immediately tapped on the character.

Immediately, he felt himself in a new body and checked himself out. He was dressed in an ash tank top with military style pants and boots.

" I really do look like Cloud." Silver smiled.

" Please choose player name: " Another screen popped up in front of him, requiring him to input his name.

" Ghost it is." Silver smiled and chose Ghost as his ID.

" Welcome Ghost to Metaverse. Please access system for more information." Silver was immediately teleported and he appeared in front of some kind of mall.

Immediately he landed, he looked around and saw other players. Some of the players looked like aliens, others looked like Greek heroes, others knights and surprisingly he saw someone who looked like Ninja Turtles from his past life.

" System." Silver thought, before a transparent screen materialized right in front of him. How couldn't he know, he loved reading novels in his past life.

" Player name: Ghost

Level: 3

Strength: 450

Speed: 500

Agility: 560

Intelligence: 800

Vitality: 600

SP:0

MP:700

Skills: Hacking (lvl 50 max), Extreme Perception: Player can see things down to the cellular level. Nigh Godly reflexes, Martial Art Mastery ( lvl45) Teleportation: Player can teleport by exchanging his body with another object instantly.

Arcana: Psychokinesis, Telepathy, Illusion

Technique: Eternal Monkey King Physique; Grade (???), Limitless; Grade(??????)

Weapons: 0

Seeing all of his secrets laid bare like that made Silver very uncomfortable. If someone was able to hack the system, that person would be able to know everything about him.

Just the thought of that made him shudder.

" System, what's the average stat of a level 3 arcanist" Silver asked.

" The average stat of a level 3 arcanist is 300 in all. Host is an anomaly." The system added which caused Silver to sigh.

....

Silver walked around in the mall, as he saw things that got him even excited. Everything one would ever want was in the mall, from spaceships to automobiles, to sleek futuristic weapons and armors, everything was here.

" System, how do I purchase some of these?" Silver asked.

" Player needs to acquire System points by performing quests and raiding dungeons."

Silver nodded and continued to walk into the mall as he noticed more shops and stalls.

" Hacker needed, 300 SP every week." Stopping in front of a large shop, he saw a banner outside which greatly piqued his interest.

" Ding! Quest created: Become and employee and increase shop ratings. Current shop ratings: 2:3 stars. Rewards: 400 SP plus legendary grade technique."

Silver smiled after seeing the quest and its rewards and walked in the shop without hesitation.

" Hey what can I do for you?" Immediately he entered, he saw a female player who looked like somehow alienish and somewhat human. He or she was dressed in a black pants with blue tank top and a black leather jacket.

She wore some sort of futuristic glasses as she sized up Silver and nodded with a smile.

" What can I do for you handsome mister?" She asked with a small smile. Silver immediately shook his head from all distracting thoughts. This was the metaverse, everyone's identity was a secret. You really couldn't know if someone was male or female and was just cosplaying as the opposite sex.

" I'm here to apply for the job ." Silver said stoically.

" Pffftt." She laughed and sat down.

" Hacking ain't your fort hot shot ." She smiled and glued her eyes back to her computer. Silver only smiled and stood behind her and bent a bit, glueing his eyes to the set of codes being fired on the computer. In doing so, their faces were extremely close to one another.

" Hmmm, Java? What are we in the 21st Century?" Silver sighed and immediately erased all the codes. Immediately with a slight stretch of his fingers he began to type a new set of codes. His own personal coding language he developed with Ares.

" Are you trying to seduce me? Cos it's definitely working ." She blushed as he looked at his face which was inches apart from hers.

Silver didn't pay attention to her and kept on coding, and in a few seconds later, she pressed the enter keypad and smiled.

" Done." He stood up with a victorious smile.

" What coding language is this? Are you an alien? What the fuck?! " She exclaimed in shock as she watched the codes successfully hack into the business card she had been trying to hack for a few days now.

" Mmm. My name is Selina, welcome to your new job. " Without hesitation, she immediately stretched out her hand for a handshake. " Ghost." Silver smiled and took her hand while mentioning his alias.

" Ghost?" Selina muttered to herself as she watched Silver checking out the shop and fiddling with some old and rusty computers.

" You know I also fix computers and other gadgets. If you'll pay me extra, you can start bringing customers in for the service." Silver laughed as he picked up a pair of broken glasses on the ground and examined them.

" Mmmm." Fiddling around with it, he picked up a few tools from the holster and started working on the glasses as Selina watched him intently.

" Wow, the person who made these is a freaking genius." Silver exclaimed as he gently took the glasses apart and began to work on them.

" I bought them from the shop. My first babies." She sighed.

" Do we have a deal then?" Silver immediately pieced them back together and gave it to her, as she checked them out and put them on.

" You really fixed them. You even fixed the sensors? Who are you?" She exclaimed.