World Gate Online

Chapter 1: Dark Fire

Chapter 1: Dark Fire

July 10th, in a household that can be considered as wealthy, Zeal and Lowy Argot was lazing around their room.

Though the two were considered as siblings, they were not related by blood since Lowy was someone that was adopted by the Argot household.

The two were of the same age and there aren't any visible conflicts between the two, except maybe, according to their preferences.

Lowy was someone that wouldn't mind eating roasted rats or cockroaches or any other exotic food for that matter while Zeal was very picky and only wanted the edible looking food.

Lowy was also more into gore while Zeal was a mecha fan which caused a few fights between the two here and there but nothing severe.

Zeal doesn't get arrogant being the legal son and Lowy doesn't disrespect the parents who took him in. It was a perfectly normal family.

Both were Mapua students and in their second year already. While Zeal was a CS student, Lowy was a BA student. So to say, Zeal was more into computer and Lowy was more in business.

"Zeal, Lowy! Come down here, we have a surprise for you!" (Mrs. Argot)

A female voice resounded throughout the house.

"Coming~!" (Zeal)

Normally, they would keep saying 'Just a minute~' but as there was nothing for the two of them to do, they immediately came downstairs to see their mother.

Having seen their parents downstairs, Zeal and Lowy wore curious faces.

"What's wrong mom? Did something happen?" (Lowy)

"Huhu, son, have you heard of virtual reality?" (Mr. Argot)

Zeal and Lowy looked at each other seemingly asking the other if their father was alright.

"Well...yeah I guess? As its name suggest, it is a virtual world right?" (Zeal)

"Then what would you say if the technology for a virtual game was already made? You know, diving into the virtual world and have adventures and stuff." (Mrs. Argot)

At the moment, the two sons fell silent.

Both in their minds screaming what was happening? Is this real? Are they messing with us again?

In truth, the two of them has no idea what sort of job their parents did, when they asked, they were only answered with 'I wonder~?' and leave it at that.

They were very mysterious parents but they were good parents so the two just assumed that they will tell them when it's the right time.

"Haha, shocked ain't you? What, you don't believe us? Then why don't you find out yourselves?" (Mr. Argot)

The father brought out two boxes with a wide grin.

Already guessing what was inside the boxes, Zeal and Lowy immediately grabbed one for each of them and opened them.

What was inside was a visor that looks futuristic all over it.

"I-is this really-!?" (Zeal)

"A virtual gaming device!?" (Lowy)

"Since when did you two finish each other's sentences? Well yeah. As I said, if you don't believe me then try it!" (Mr. Argot)

Not needing to say anything more, the two dashed towards their room and turned the [Portals] on.

"Hm? Why a CD disk?...Well whatever, let's go!" (Zeal)

"Yeah!"

As a CS student, Zeal was naturally familiar to computers and gadgets so he noticed how come a virtual game is in CD form but since virtual gaming was already way ahead of his knowledge, he decided that there must be a reason to it and ignored it.