Mythran's Master Of All

Ren sat up in bed and opened the player menu. “I guess I better go.”

“Hm? What?” Lara rolled over to put a hand on his back.

“Despite how tempting it is to stay here with you for a lot longer, I need to get back so I can spend the day in the Fire Realm.”

Lara sighed and sat up. “I suppose I could let you out of my sight for a while.”

Ren chuckled. “Just pop out to your desk and I'll only be gone for a day.”

“Are you kidding?” Lara asked and gave him a hug. “With all these books to wade through?!?”

“Hey, now. Don't overload on them.” Ren said. “You need to meet me for supper, remember?”

Lara slid her hands down to his chest. “Wait, how can I tell what time it is? I was used to the time compression before; but, since you changed it...”

“Just open the player menu.” Ren said.

Lara let him go and did so, then saw the different time codes at the top. “Ren! You added real time displays!”

“Thinking of Teepo while I was with Vasalor gave me the idea.” Ren said. “I've been so used to having Teepo keep track of time for me, that I figured the least I could do is show people what time it is in the real world and in the Earth Realm.”

“Will everyone have the third option?” Lara asked as it showed her the time inside her closet.

“No, that only displays if you're inside a time compressed area.” Ren said. “That way, you can keep track of when you need to leave.”

“Wow.” Lara said and closed it, then leaned close and gave him a kiss. “What other little tidbits did you add to make the game better to play?”

“I'm sure you'll find them all eventually.” Ren said. “Walk me out, will you?”

Lara nodded and they equipped their clothing, then she led him to the door of her apartment. “I really can't thank you enough, Ren.” She said and wrapped her arms around his neck.

“I'm pretty sure you made a lot of headway in that regard.” Ren said and waggled his eyebrows at her.

Lara laughed and gave him a kiss, let him go, then opened the door. “See you later.”

“Bye, Baby.” Ren said and stepped out without kissing her goodbye, because he knew not to touch her with the door open. He didn't want to overwhelm her with everything he had done, so he just waved to her and Teepo dropped onto his shoulder.

Ren walked across the storage area to the door, opened it, then walked down the hallway. He stopped in the break room and made two cups of coffee, stored the milk and sugar with them into his inventory, then left the side hallway to see Rosie was back behind her desk and Falla was putting some books back on one of the shelves.

“You weren't joking when you said you would only be a few minutes.” Rosie said.

“I couldn't stay because I have an appointment to get to.” Ren said and glanced at Falla before whispering. “Do you have any idea what she would like for her birthday?”

Rosie shook her head. “She hasn't mentioned needing or wanting anything since she started coming here.”

“What's her reading rank?”

“She's already up to B.” Rosie said proudly.

“Oh, wow.” Ren said. “I'm really far behind.”

“Are you?” Rosie asked, and Ren looked at her with a single raised eyebrow. She smiled sweetly and touched the side of his face. “I don't believe that the Creator's Assistant didn't read any books.”

Ren took in a quick breath and let it out. “Rosie...”

“I'm not even going to ask you to prove the knowledge you have.” Rosie said. “Library Card, please.”

Ren took it out and gave it to her, and she held onto his hand. His eyes widened as she took out a short knife and cut his palm with it, then pressed the card onto the wound. The card glowed for a moment and changed color from white to red, so she lifted it to see that his palm was already healed and smiled.

“There you go.” Rosie said and handed him the card back. “I don't know how many times you read your stat books; but, each and every time you did gave you one little notch on the card.”

Ren looked at the card and examined it.