Versatile: Alternate World

I am now part of the Luminous Expedition Team and I am happy that there are no elimination options that occurred. Well... we can say that it was elimination of what happened with the points but that was just a method for making sure Queen Titania got the right people for the job. After the recruitment phase, we are given some free time until the next maintenance. I am no longer busy so I decided to go back to the real world and finish all of the stuff that has accumulated.

I went back to the workshop that I rented before. Thankfully, those guys snooping around before are not around so all in all, I have a peaceful day creating stuff there. It's not much but I am getting better at it. Still, I can say that the game has a better way to simplify the method of creating stuff yet did not take them all away, allowing you to imitate the process in the real world but adjust to it depending on the design.

Spending my weekend finishing stuff but thanks to that, I am done with things and I am now good. Now, this workshop might have no usage here, but I will continue to rent this place up. I can't afford to lose it since this is the ideal spot for me to keep my workshop. Until I found a good way to have a workshop near at home, I will have to keep it until then.

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Sunday.

Usually, at this time, everyone would be lounging around the house, relaxing, chatting with everyone or doing whatever they wanted to do. But right now? The house is totally quiet, and the usual people who should have been lying on the couch or eating in the kitchen are nowhere to be found. Even the "female visitor who likes to break down doors" is nowhere to be found. The only people who are here is Rika and Rennata who are both cooking in the kitchen, practicing their craft in cooking.

As for me, I am the one lounging in the sofa. Today is the day the maintenance to the game will occur and it will last until tomorrow according to the announcements, which makes the game unplayable for a whole day. With a whole day for maintenance, it allows us players of Alternate World to touch grass for quite a while.

Without Janus and Riko to hangout with, I am stuck without anything to do. I know I can just go and join Rennata and Rika in their cooking practice but I don't want to ruin their experience of learning since my skills has become too advanced for them to enjoy cooking and they would start comparing my dishes to their dishes which will cause unfair comparison to both and I don't want to ruin the friendship I have built from them due to that.

"Why are you sulking over here? Why not join the two in their cooking show?" the pixie started to hover above my head as I stare off into space.

"I was just thinking myself of why I won't be joining them and here you are pestering me to join them. Did you really think it was a good idea to do that?"

"Well, you look bored to death in here."

"Yep, I know I am bored but I am not bad enough to cause despair in their eyes for making food so I'd rather let them do what they wanted and practice their way to master the ways of cooking. Anyways, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be there beside Rennata in case she needed to ask for translation?" I asked Pixie.

"At the moment, no. Rennata is so focused on her craft that I slowly got bored so I started flying around for a while. Oh, by the way. Earlier, Rennata has a favor to ask you. I don't know the details but she wanted your help later on."

"Favor? I don't know what she wanted to ask me but if it is within my capabilities, I don't mind."

"Oh, that's good. Talk to her later once she is done with their cooking stuff. I will help translate too so don't forget!"

After telling me that, she returned to Rennata's side. I tilted my head, thinking on whatever the favor that Rennata wanted to tell me. There are many possibilities but I don't know which one was it. However, I just needed to go and talk to her later on. Perhaps I should catch some Z's for a while since I can tell that they would take a while before they are going to be done with whatever they are doing.

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I opened my eyes as I felt something wrong. I usually don't feel anything on that but for some unknown reason, I feel a sense of dread around me. It was like I have been trying to climb up on a very deep chasm that has an endless bottom. The air also smells different. I rubbed my eyes to make my vision adapt to the surroundings. I immediately realized that I am still in my house. However, even though the surroundings are the same as my house, it doesn't feel like it was my house at all. More like, a replica?

Shaking my head and rubbing my temple, I tried my best to at least try to "wake" up in this dream of mine and see whether the situation is a product of my dreams or this is indeed the reality. The first thing I did is to try and exit the house. However, the moment I hold the doorknob of the door's entrance, my hand seems to get repelled by an invisible force that denies my touch to it. I tried it again and this time around, it was like I got electrocuted the moment I tried to do so.

Seeing that the door is out of the question, I tried to do the windows but just like the door, the window also did the same thing causing me shake my hand in pain at times.

It seems that everything that I am experiencing right now is just a f*cking dream. I have no idea if this was a nightmare but if it was, I am not afraid to face it. Because escaping seems to be out of the question, the only thing left is to explore the house and see what kind of sh*t is brewing here while I am asleep.

I went to kitchen first and noticed that the kitchen is spotless. Not a single food scraps and mess that is a sign that someone is using the kitchen. That only means that the current situation is not happening in the real world. This is a dream. However, since I am still not waking up, there must be some sort of stuff that I needed to do to wake up like most nightmares do.

Compared to most nightmares I experienced in my life, this is the most tamest nightmare I have experienced in my life. However, I can also tell that something is lurking and its not the shield hero.

First, check out all of the rooms on the ground floor. If there are no people around here, there might be something on the rooms. The first room I opened is the room of Rika since it is the closest room in the entrance. I was expecting  jumpscare of some sort but that didn't happen. I also expected to see Rika there but it is also wrong. I checked the surroundings but nothing that catches my eye so I left and went to Rennata's room. Just like Rika's room, I didn't find any kind of stuff that would aid me to get out of this nightmare.

However, the moment I went out of the room, I immediately saw someone sitting on the sofa. I can only see the head and shoulders in my position but I can already tell that the person sitting there is someone I have not seen in my entire life. The only thing I can tell by just looking at this direction is that this one is a woman around the age of 25 or above. However, looks can be deceiving so I might find it wrong but I can easily tell that this is a woman.

I am not afraid of ghost but for the first time, this person releases some sort of pressure that I have not experienced. I don't know what you call it. Is it fear? Perhaps, but that is not within the question. Since she is here, I have to ask to see what she is doing here.

The moment I approached and went to her. I finally saw that this person is exuding an aura that I have not experienced for a very long time. However, I am quite sure of it. This is not just any ordinary aura. This the aura of death.