Dragon/magic system (1326 words)
Inside a cozy decorated room, two figures sit opposite each other.
One is a man with sleek black hair brushed backwards and sharp facial features. He sits in a caramel-colored armchair and wears a black suite.
His shining icy blue eyes calmly observe the figure sitting in front of him with a boundless patience.
Sitting in the only other chair which is slightly darker in colored is a young woman in her twenties. Her light brown hair which reaches down to the middle of her back is bound into a low ponytail with only some lone strands falling into her delicate face.
She has her legs crossed while absentmindedly holding her chin with one hand and holding a burning cigarette in the other. Deep brown eyes stare unfocused at the wooden roof of the room while the thoughts inside her head are racing to keep up with the sudden changes she was confronted with.
The woman's name is Elena Hill, not long ago she was just another human living her life on earth, passing most of her time playing "Dreams Realm", a full-dive VR game.
Inside a cozy decorated room, two figures sit opposite each other.
One is a man with sleek black hair brushed backwards and sharp facial features. He sits in a caramel-colored armchair and wears a black suite.
His shining icy blue eyes calmly observe the figure sitting in front of him with a boundless patience.
Sitting in the only other chair which is slightly darker in colored is a young woman in her twenties. Her light brown hair which reaches down to the middle of her back is bound into a low ponytail with only some lone strands falling into her delicate face.
She has her legs crossed while absentmindedly holding her chin with one hand and holding a burning cigarette in the other. Deep brown eyes stare unfocused at the wooden roof of the room while the thoughts inside her head are racing to keep up with the sudden changes she was confronted with.
The woman's name is Elena Hill, not long ago she was just another human living her life on earth, passing most of her time playing "Dreams Realm", a full-dive VR game.
She was just getting ready to jump into her VR pod when a blinding light swallowed her whole.
After that Elena found herself sitting inside this cozy little room opposite an unknown man.
Confused and a bit scared Elena carefully questioned the man. "Who are you and why did you bring me here?"
Elena has always been a direct person when she encountered an unfamiliar situation, so she didn't bother with empty pleasantries.
Her directness caused the man in black suite to smile and he responded in a deep, slightly unnatural voice.
"I like how you directly focus on the core of the situation. To answer your questions let me introduce myself.
My name is Elric and I am what you would describe as a god."
Elena's eyes narrow a bit at the Elric's words as she already started to piece the sparse information of her current situation together.
"As for the reason why I brough you, Elena Hill, here, it is pretty easy actually."
Elric lazily crosses his arms and let his shining icy blue eyes wander over Elena's face.
Without missing a beat, Elena expresses her guess.
"Entertainment for yourself, right?" She says in a low voice.
The smile on Elric's face grows into a full-blown grin and he lets out a booming laugh before returning to normal in an instant and continuing to speak.
"Indeed, I take it that you already know how this is going to play out" he says, getting a small nod from Elena. " but I think it is still better to just tell you the whole thing now."
Lifting his left hand, he brings it to his lips and takes as sip from the glass which is half filled with an amber liquid.
Elena glances at the glass which appeared all of a sudden for but a moment before dismissing it and focusing back on the conversation.
"You were originally destined to die in about two days, but I instead removed you form your home reality, making it so that you never actually existed in there to begin with." Elric say with a small, carefree smile on his lips.
'So he really is god, erasing my complete existence from a whole reality just to get a candidate for his entertainment.' A cold shiver runs down her spine at the mere thought of how freaking powerful this guy was.
"You can decide if you want to have three somewhat restricted wishes or one which you can elaborate a bit more. Depending on your choices I will send you on your way into another life." Finished with talking, Elric takes another sip form his glass.
Without even realizing it Elena raises one hand and takes a deep breath, inhaling the smoke of a burning cigarette.
She carefully deliberates about which of the two choices she should take, only after a good five minutes did she come to a decision.
"I take the second option." Elena says with a resolute expression.
Her deep brown eyes then slowly follow the trail of white smoke in front of her down to the burning cigarette in her hand.
Perplex at the existence of such a thing in her hand she stares at it for a few seconds before Elric's voice brough her out of it.
"Now then, miss Hill, what is your wish? And be sure to not forget anything."
Elena's eyes narrow a bit at the last part of Elric's sentence as it gave her a bad feeling for some reason.
After shaking her head to free it from useless thoughts Elena stares at the wooden roof of the cozy little room and prepares her wish.
Fifteen minutes pass in silence and the cigarette in Elena's hand has burned up, it was then that she finally brough up the determination to tell Elric her wish.
"I, Elena Hill, want to be reborn into a world identical to the virtual reality game "Dreams Realm" and possess all the benefits of a player, except that the world isn't a game, but a real planet inside a universe where many other worlds are present." She says in one breath.
Elric calmly listened to Elena's wish before downing the rest of the amber liquid inside his glass and throwing it out of window, shattering it in the process.
The action completely surprises Elena. Till now Elric has always given off the vibe of a calm and patient person.
'Did I overdo it with my wish? Is he angry at me?' Panic grips hold off Elena's heart as she hastily tried to come up with an apology.
Before Elena could utter a single word, a terrific suction force took hold of her and pulled her on a direct path out of the window.
She could only watch how her body got sucked out of the cozy little room through the window into the darkness lying beyond.
Once outside of the room she saw something that made her fall into a shocked daze.
The room out of which she just got sucked is but a small cube floating in empty space. A single tendril made up from billions of stars and galaxies is connected to the bottom of the room, directly underneath where Elric sat on his chair.
Elena's eyes automatically start to follow along the tendril till her deep brown eyes lit up at the sight of an infinitely big mass of tendrils and tentacles made up from universes and realities.
Her mind froze immediately, not able to process this kind of information with her simple mind.
While she floated above this unreal creature a single, small tentacle reaches out to her floating form and wraps around her.
The tentacle soon unwraps itself again, but Elena has already disappeared.