CHAPTER 42: CH 42

Alex, gripping the dream book tightly in his hands, whispered a command under his breath, his voice trembling with both anticipation and doubt.

"Do it, system." He said, prepared for almost anything as surely enough, to his astonishment, the book began to radiate an ethereal glow, casting an eerie light that danced across the room.

For a brief moment, he feared the light was too much. His gaze darted toward the bed where Isabella was.

She lay there, her chest rising and falling peacefully in the gentle rhythm of sleep, the pale light reflecting faintly on her serene face. Alex held his breath, tense and ready for her to stir awake at any second.

But she didn’t. Not even a twitch.

A quiet sigh of relief escaped his lips, though his heart still pounded wildly. The danger of discovery had passed... for now.

As if hearing his wish to stop the bright light, the words on the pages ignited, starting a mesmerizing dance of flames. Alphabet by alphabet, the letters burned with an otherworldly intensity, unraveling the mysteries held within the once-silent pages.

It was a spectacle that defied explanation, leaving Alex a bit shocked. Yes, even though he has travelled world’s, played in a game that was more like a VR, the scene still shocked him.

The beautiful red words which was written in the book turned black as soon as bright red flames passed through them, it was as if life was burned from the letter leaving only black ashes behind.

It was nothing short of a magical spectacle.

As the fire danced through the book, devouring the carefully penned words, a strange scene appeared as a red fame appeared above Isabella’s head.

Alex was a bit worried when he saw it as ’What if someone entered and saw it?’. After all, something like this isn’t normal.

But he breathed a sigh of relief when a message appeared in his head that only if you hold this book can you see it, it’s a connection like a shinigami and death note.

With anticipation, Alex saw how word by word, line by line, the mystery unfurled, revealing a connection between past and an (un)known future.

The tension in the room heightened as the flames consumed the last remnants of the first page, only to leap onto the second, continuing the spectral performance.

With the second page turning to ashes, a red flame which previously appeared above Isabella’s head started becoming active. Strangely, it began changing shape along with the words in the book.

First, it copied the first word, then the second, and then the third, like a mysterious link between the burning book and Isabella’s mind.

It was as if the words from the book were being transferred into her mind through the flame becoming a part of her memory forever.

Alex watched, with narrow eyes as the crimson glow mirrored the disappearing letters, imprinting the ’knowledge’ into her mind as Isabella started changing expression while sleeping.

Asking system, Alex understood that it will take a few hours for the process to complete so he stealthily left the room leaving Isabella in her own dream world.

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"Good, from now on, behave youself. Remember you carry the blood of a BloodRose family. I don’t want to see this type of behaviour... ever again." Isabella said to Alex.

"Yes." He nods while looking down. With a sigh, Isabella patted his head with many complex emotions in her eyes. "Go back, I have some work to do." She said as Alex left.

’Strange...’ She thought as she sat on the chair and started doing the paper work. ’Why do I feel that I have already done this once.’ She thought while experiencing the feeling of deju và.

’May be, an imagination of mine.’ She thought not knowing how wrong she was... She was already lost in this realistic dream living this same day once in reality and once in this dream.

Just like that, days continue to pass as Isabella spent days with her family and in her work, just how she expected her life to go.

There were times of profits and time where she suffered loss in business, but she was able to achieve thier business monthly targets for five straight months which was a big achievement.

Her life outside the business was also... Good? Maybe. She saw how Alex struggled with his sexual desires, a phase where every man has to go through during thier puberty however, his was a very rough one.

The same was the case with her, she has stopped her carnel desires for years but after that day, it was like the same which was holding it back broke down and what was going on now was just a struggle against it.

Sometimes, she let those desires take control of her but never went to far, at best, there were a few touch here and there or a kiss. But only she know how guilty she felt after that.

Aside from the two of them, Mary also has a growth phase but it was mainly the curiosity when she saw them lost in thier own world. After all, how much can a human change in just five month.

Isabella even thought that her like was great, like a dream in all aspects, there were a few unexpected things but they were still manageable.

She met many new people in those five month, a reunion with some old friends and has plenty of fun moments. The only thing which she wanted to change, was maybe the tabbo relation from going even more forward, the guilt was killing her.

However, things suddenly changed after that. The sixth month was a witnesser of world changing event. Popularly called the ’Great Virtual Moment’ or ’GVM’ for short.

It saw a great transition from business world to Virtual world. Isabella was aware of the VR game which was making waves throughout the world but since it wasn’t her business line, she wasn’t very keen about it.

What can you expect, humans doesn’t trust easily, ’What if?’ is the question which is always bugging them.

People weren’t able to simply trust the reliability of the first Virtual Reality game, especially when the tecnology at that time wasn’t that advanced except that VR so many that it was a small time game and it will also become a become a history after the heat died down.

Of course many wanted to acquire the tecnology for thier own use like various government to train military but that was it, no one thought that this game will become a mainstream of VR tecnology when there can be other plenty of uses of it before games.

Or atleast... That’s what they thought. However, the Money change feature of in game money in real money, launched at the start of the that month changed everything.

Every big and small companies, plenty of big shots to small time business owners, and even various government around the globe came flocking in the Virtual world, it was as crowded as stars in the sky but still everything was submerged in that world as if it’s an unending sea.

Various companies opened up in VR selling the thier products not only in VR world but also real world, even modern products was available for sale in the game with the twist of magic.

It was the first come first serve bases and unfortunately... Isabella was left far behind in the race just like many others. The front runners, they were those who either set up thier virtual company far ahead others or some lucky players, and maybe those with inside information.

There were many names which rises in that period of three to four months (6th month to 10th month) acquiring riches, wealth and fame far above what they thought they will be able to ever achieve.

However, those names even though it might be in a large numbers was insignificant compared to those who falls. It was a great shift in the pyramid of the society.

Many large companies becomes a thing of past while many unknown companies rises to become the future pillars of the human society.

The world at that time was filled with a sense of excitement as new industries started pooping up like mushrooms. With gaming being at the forefront of all of these and being a player become one of the most sought after career.

The happiness index was at all time high but... the faster you up, the faster you fall down. No one has escaped this matrix, if someone has escaped it through death, thier descendents might fall victim to this unending process.

’Apocalypse Online’, which was the topic of discussion not only in the general public but it was being discussed in every corporation as many elite teams started appearing gaining fame in both of the world, be it real of Virtual.

No part of world was getting left behind as many started to call it the golden era from the time immemorial.