Chapter 4: [4] Choose Your Poison
The light faded. Pierre blinked away the afterimages, expecting another sterile office or maybe the promised game world.
Instead—darkness. Again.
"You’ve got to be fucking kidding me."
Pierre floated in the emptiness, neither falling nor rising. Just... existing. Suspended in a digital limbo that stretched forever in all directions.
"Hey! Administrator lady!"
No answer. Just the sound of his own breathing.
"First a truck. Then a bureaucrat. Now this." Pierre tried to move his arms, surprised to find they responded normally. "I’m getting real tired of this void bullshit."
A soft blue glow appeared before him. Not the blinding white of the Administrator’s office, but a gentle pulsing notification hovering at eye level. Text materialized within the glow:
[WELCOME TO CHARACTER SELECTION]
[PIRATE LORD’S GREAT ADVENTURE v3.42.1]
[PLEASE SELECT YOUR STARTING FACTION]
"Character selection?" Pierre reached out, his finger passing through the blue light. "What is this, a video game?"