47 The Journey To Afrov (1/2)

After everyone was full, people went back to what they were doing; looking for a way to kill time before they reached Afrov.

There were a bunch of coffee chairs and tables, which would be perfect for idling the time away comfortably. Or perhaps the endless supply of cards and board games, tucked under the lounge's various cabinets, could be put to use. If all else failed, everyone could just go back to their rooms and play on their computers.

However, Jam didn't want to do any of these pointless exercises. He would go along with his friend's ideas up to a certain point. So, Jam told them flat out ”Guys I'll play, but only for a couple hours.”

After a certain period of time studying his friends lifestyles, Jam understood that he wasn't as extremely talented as he once though he was. That didn't mean he wasn't talented; of course not. Rather, he was now understanding just how broken his friends were as well! All of the core disciples, including Arnold and Evangeline, spent most of their time playing games! To Jam who only knew cultivation, their lack of disciple was evident. He could swear that all of them would be countless time stronger if they spent less than half their time playing games and instead on cultivation. But what could he expect? They were just kids; ten or so year old kids...

Evangeline was the first to respond to Jam ”Alrighty then, lets play an action game!”

Kirin and Arnold voiced their assent; the fighter trio would obviously enjoy a good fighting game. However, there were other people — Rina, Cynthia, and Alex — who were opposed to Evangeline's request to play an action game; those softies would rather do something less ”stressful.”

Evangeline didn't understand why these people were giving their opinions, as she was talking solely towards Jam. 'Who the fuck do these people think they are? Am I even talking to them right now?' Even though her arrogant nature had been turned down a few pegs, she still didn't accept the other core disciples around her.

Jam noticed that Evangeline was annoyed, and that she was about to say something — probably demeaning — towards his friends, so he quickly sent her an energy transmission.

”Evangeline! Those are our friends.” Friends in the cultivation world were supposed to be treasured or something. Jam couldn't really remember Tzatziki's exact words, but the message was ingrained in his mind; that's a lie... as a cultivator he could remember how many drops of rain came down during a storm, to say nothing about a simple mantra.

This simple sentence stopped Evangeline in her tracks, and she turned away from the rest of the core disciples in the room, swallowing her words. This little episode took place in just several moments, and by the time it was over, the rest of the core disciples expressed which games they wanted to play.

Rina wanted to play a rhythm based game, Cynthia wanted to play a strategy game, and Alex wanted to play a card game. Jam didn't want to potentially harm the relationships he had ”painstakingly” built up with his friends, thus he suggested that they all play the same game at the same time.

In the end, it was decided that all of them would play an action game, since it had the most ”votes.” With that being decided, everyone returned to their rooms, and booted up their computers to play the action game.

This was Jam's first time using a virtual reality capsule, so Evangeline had to help him out. Eventually, everything was setup and ready to go. When Jam started the program, the world turned black for a moment. In the next moment, Jam was in a white space with a screen popping up in front of him.

This white space and screen were the dashboard to Jam's virtual reality console, and he would be able to navigate through it to play games. Jam was still trying to understand how to use the dashboard, when all of a sudden a notification popped up. It was a friend request from Shinestar and Returning Void, also known as Rina and Evangeline respectively.

Jam was presented with a yes/no prompt, and touched the yes, before being able to hear Evangeline and Rina's voiced through the void.

Rina said ”Jam can you hear me?”

”Yes, now what do I do?”

Rina told Jam how to navigate through the dashboard, and soon enough, Jam was able to start the action game. The game was called God's Quest, and unlike most games, there was no start screen, or character customization. Instead, Jam just appeared in the world of God's Quest, looking exactly the same as how he did in the real world.

Jam was very impressed with the world, as he couldn't tell the difference between the virtual world and the real world. Now he just had to meet up with the rest of his friends. To accomplish this, he would rely on the voice chat to find them.

Jam could still talk to Rina and Evangeline. As a matter of fact, Evangeline explained to Jam that he could spawn a near transparent map in front of his view, where he could locate Rina and Evangeline through their icons.

Jam followed her instructions and located Evangeline in his map. The map allowed Jam to set her icon as a waypoint, so that he could follow directions to her, without looking at the map. Jam was surprised to see that he still had all the abilities he possessed in the real world, which included flight.

Since that was the case, Jam flew over to where Evangeline was. Next to Evangeline, were the rest of the core disciples.

Now that all of them were together, everyone had their IGTs on top of their heads. So Jam added the rest of his friends on his friends list — with the help of Evangeline — learning their Daoist names at the same time.

Jam already knew Evangeline and Rina's Daoist names, but Kirin, Alex, Cynthia, and Arnold's names were all new to him. Kirin was called Daoist Thunderscape — very unoriginal as it was just the name of his superpower. Alex was called Daoist Earthsin. Cynthia's Daoist name was Daoist Clearwind. Last but not least, Arnold called himself Daoist Jinxsynth.

Arnold's Daoist name was so random and unorthodox... Jam just had to ask him about it. He said ”Arnold why'd you call yourself Daoist Jinxsynth?”

Arnold was used to others asking this question, but Jam's Daoist name was equally random, so he just retorted with ”Why do you call yourself Daoist Purple Sunshine?”