World Gate Online

Chapter 6: Forging in the Fire!

Chapter 6: Forging in the Fire!

The tour in [Sennerth] ended and we are now back in the Rimmer household.

I'd say that we should be leaving now since it's already dark out but it's already dark out so it's been decided that we'll be eating dinner here anyway.

Compared to the breakfast earlier, the mood is a lot better now but there is still that awkwardness of finally recognizing how the girls feel about me.

And for some reason, Aleris also joined...

I mean, I don't even remember having a proper meeting with her. We met just briefly at the time of my summoning, during the meeting after the war, and short meeting after that.

Did she really fall in love with me with just that? Or does she find teasing me fun?? Rather, since when did she become such a character!!!???

Right, I still don't understand women...

Anyway, we're all casually chatting on the dinner table while we ate with the TV still on. At this point, a familiar face appeared on the screen, it was Trask. Though, he was together with the President of the Philippines in front of a press conference.

"Wait a sec." (Lucas)

Since I was talking with Len about stuffs in [Harus], I prompted to stop so I can hear Trask in the TV better.

Seeing me suddenly being absorbed in something, the others only glanced at me in wonder at first before redirecting their gaze towards the TV as well.

[[Mr. Forest, as the Philippine's CEO of IDEA, responsible for releasing both the [Portal] and [World Gate Online], what can you say about the...incidents that has been happening recently?]]

[[Did you anticipate that this will happen?]]

[[How was it made possible to have done such a thing as magic and the monsters that began to roam around?]]

Reporters repeatedly ask Trask for answers. Well of course they will be confused. They have every right to be after all.

After so long of refusing to give answers, and especially after the [Behemoth] incident, it seems that the [Gatekeeper] project has been hastened.

Well, I've already been informed of this so it's no surprise for me.

[[First of all, I would like to remind everyone that [World Gate Online] is NOT a [Game], but another [Reality].]] (Trask)

After Trask's brief pause, the reporters tried to immediately follow up a question but were stopped by Trask himself as he continues.

[[The technology of how the [Portal] was made is something even we don't know. We tried to dissect it, reverse engineer it, and other experiments but have failed to make heads or tails about it. And to answer your previous question, yes, we knew this will happen one day. Only, it happened faster than we thought thanks to a certain white haired fellow.]] (Trask)

The others who were watching with me turned to look at me which I desperately tried to avoid.

What, don't look at me. There are plenty of white haired guys out there!

[[Could it be the rumored [White Haired Adventurer], Lucas?]]

[[Yes.]] (Trask)

Oiii!!!

Don't just casually throw my name like that!

[[Anyway, let me start with how we were able to attain these technologies. It started roughly 15 years ago. That time, all of us CEOs now were a bunch of unemployed people who hang around the net almost all the time.]] (Trask)