Parallel - A Virtual Reality.

V1. Chapter 8. Quality's Power. (Part 1)

Steven was watching the webpage in front of him, waiting for an update to happen. It has been a week already since the interview with KK Tv.

He was waiting to see how much the other players advanced; after all, he was playing the game too.

He was one of the Level 2 players overshadowed by Vladi and, most of all, Ardha. He did many quests and also trained a lot, as even he only knew about the basics of the game. At most, he knew a few more bits, but even that was minute.

Thus, he rose to level 6 in the one-month span; he also got some skills like Archery as he liked being a sniper and adventurer skills to help for... well, adventure.

Maybe he wasn't the highest leveled player, but he got many stats and honed his skills along with it. But even so, who wouldn't want to be in the Top 100 Ranking ladder?

And then, suddenly the page refreshed, and the updated ranking showed.

Rank 1. User name: Ardha Level: 15

Rank 2. User name: Vladi Level: 9

Rank 84. User name: Strike Level 6

82 and 83 rankings separated them respectively but how!? Adding 4 more levels already being level 11 must have been incredibly hard.

But that Ardha did it, and even Vladi was level 9! They were in a place of their own, as they were the only ones with those levels, the others were mainly level 7 players and below.

Gritting his teeth, he logged into Parallel, waiting for the one-month restriction to end to ruthlessly kill every monster in his way...

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When the Ranking ladder was mentioned, I was really surprised as I was having dinner, then I thought I would be one of the top ranked players as I was level 3 because of a chain quest that is still going on.

But then, I got stunned, I wasn't surprised of being second, in fact, it was really good, but that Rank 1 was 8 levels beyond me! How could he!?

I logged on to see a man who had a stupid grin on his face, maybe because he was among the rankers...

Realization hit me and I thought, 'He might be that Ardha!'. After a few seconds entertaining that thought, I shook my head with a bitter smile. 'How could that be? Coincidences can't be that great'. But I went up to him anyways and asked

"Hello ~ sorry to bother you, but I saw you smile joyously and couldn't help but get close to ask, are you in the Ranking ladder?"

The man flashed a wide smile and said, "Nope~". I do have to admit that he was pretty handsome, having light brown hair, eyes that had a mix between green and sky blue, and a seemingly toned body that wasn't completely hidden by the wardrobe he used.

At this I got curious, why is the man smiling then, and with a stupid grin too, so I asked.

"Then why are you smiling like that?

"Well, a friend of mine is in the ladder, and he didn't pick up my call, so I think he logged on before the update, it will be hilarious when he sees his ranking" Said the man with a teasing smile.

"Ohh, what's his ranking then?" I asked now, really curious.

"Number 1" Said the man in front of me.

"You know Ardha!?"

"Yup~"

At this I got stunned, the man in front of me was a link between me and the Rank 1. I feel my blood boiling, I wouldn't let this chance pass! I wanted to know how he leveled up so quickly.