Parallel - A Virtual Reality.

V1. Chapter 1. Welcome to our Parallel World!

As any other day, I went jogging in the morning, but there was something different today for me.

Parallel was finally going to be released.

Parallel is a virtual reality game developed by Insanity Corporation. This game was supposed to be released years ago, but it got delayed because of problems developing the AI along with financials problems they ran during the last decade.

This left the company no choice but to seek help from externals, joining faction with another enterprising working on the same path, shares had to be shared, unknowingly to the public as to which had more. Even if they had to split the shares, Insanity Corp believed that this was better than not releasing the game at all.

Hence, after 2 years of collaboration between the two companies, they finally finished the game, releasing it to the public. The game has 4 Kingdoms, two in the Eastern part and another 2 in the Western part of the continent. It seemed simple, but there are many undiscovered areas and one Kingdom bigger than other between other things. Furthermore, there is a special feature called: The Underworld.

As the other company helped Insanity Corporation develop the game, they found out about this part of the game, and contributed many ideas to further develop the area. This area will be locked until a player finish the massive Level A Quest that will be given to all the players when they access the game.

Due to the collaboration with the other developers, many more features will be present in Parallel as well. They said that the history of Parallel will have some versatility in some areas. Which areas? The developers haven't said a single thing about it, but where's the fun in playing it if they are going to spoon-feed you with all the information? None!

And today was the day that the game will fall in my hands!

Such a thrill that will be!

Before I knew it, I was already jogging back home, because of my anxiousness to play the game, I had lost track of time.

As I arrived at my home, I saw that my cell phone was ringing, so I went to pick it up.

Seeing who was the one calling, I answered the phone. After all, if I didn't, this person would nag at me the whole day.

"Yo, did your capsule arrive yet?" A man's voice sounded over the phone.

"Not yet, but it should come soon." I replied curtly to him. "So, what else do you want, Nicolas?"

Nicolas was my childhood friend. He was the lightweight amateur champion in Kick boxing last year and a reckless guy, and I personally think that is an understatement.

"So cutting! Well, I wasn't expecting a warm response from you."

"...So?"

"Well, I called to ask where you will start, so we can destroy the continent together!"

"I don't know, I'll tell you when I log in"

"How can you not know!?"

"Still thinking, but I want to meet the one with the highest growth rate."

"You and your genius hunting, I keep telling ya, you won't find someone with more skills than you, there shouldn't be anyone in the world that can match your reaction speed."

"Ha! I doubt I am the only living human in the world that can match me! Even if I am the only living human that can keep up with me, there might be an NPC who is equally strong too."

"Not even I managed to defeat you, my friend" Nicolas sighs at that, but cheers up quickly, saying "And there should hardly be any NPC that can match my genius, haha! But don't worry, man, slack off for a while and I'll be right there to kick your ass" winking at Ezequiel.