Imagining Online: The game (On Hold)(Unedited)

Chapter 3: The big boss transfer

Running through the forest was exciting, seeing how colours, of mostly green, blur flow past him and the feeling of needing to dodge every tree truly was exciting. His paws touching the ground in a speed only a elite trained human could achieve. Rein had never been physically fit in real life, he had taken it mostly easy with both sports and studies.

His running suddenly came to a stop when he arrived at a big open grass plain at the end of the forest. In the middle of the grass plain was a small village made up of only cottages and surrounded by a wall of trees whose crowns bent down over the village as if the trees wanted to protect it.

To avoid startling the villagers he released his transformation before he walked towards the opening in the trees. Guarding the opening was a long thin human man and a short fat dwarf man.

The human man had medium short light brown hair and was a young man in his middle twenties. He was fully armoured, except the head, in a knight style armour.

The dwarf on the other hand had dark brown hair put up in a tail, a beard that reached his waist and looked like he was in his late fifties. Unlike his human colleague he mostly wore leather armour, only a few pieces of metal here and there.

When Rein arrived at the gate he was prepared to pay a small tax to enter the village, but there was none. He could just walk in while being ignored by the guards, what lousy guards this village had.

The village had a radius of about one kilometer and in the middle was a Tavern called Bear's nest. From it loud voices and shouts could be heard.

Rein entered the Bear's nest and asked the man at the counter if he had any room and what the price for a one person room was for one night with food included.

"95 copper"the man said and Rein gave him the money.

"Go right upstairs, the first room to the left is yours to take"he said and waved a hand towards the stairs. There are some advantages to getting a room in an tavern on an inn, first you get your stats enchained for a day or a week depending on what quality the in is and second, it's mostly pretty cheap.

The room Rein arrived in was a nice and tidy room with a single bed in it's left corner. At the bed's feet was a window where you could right now see the orange and red sunset. At the rooms right side was a furnace lit up with a sparkling fire. The room had a nice smell of wood, as if it had been newly built and had a nice cozy atmosphere.

Rein walked towards the bed, but not without forgetting locking the door, and sat gently down. The bed was not too soft and not too hard, perfect for Rein's taste. He felt so comfortable that he fell asleep right away.

When he woke up it was dawn in the game and 4 am in real. Oh no! He had meant to logout when he had entered the room but he accidentally fell asleep. Rein quickly logged out to walk over to his bedside, set the alarm and sleep for real.

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Today would Rein's family come back from Stockholm by lunchtime. He had some time to play before he had to make the lasagne that he had chosen to serve with some salad and some nice drinks.

His bedroom ceiling disappeared and before him was the room he had rented and logged out of. Rein went downstairs to get some breakfast, he had already gotten some Stat boost from renting a room at the tavern and now he wanted the boost from the food before he left to continue his journey.

When he was exiting the tavern he saw the blue sky hanging above him with the trees' crowns dangling around it. All around the village dwarfs and humans was running around minding their own business. People ran between the tree cottages holding a bunch of tools.