Chapter 78: Still inside
Damon woke up back in his room, completely and utterly exhausted. Today had been a hell of a day starting with bringing Kate back and turning Mark into a vampire and ending with a goddamn mini faction war.
He removed his helmet and placed it on the table, and looked at his two friends. They seemed to be peacefully sleeping with their chests rising and falling. They showed absolutely no signs of movement at all.
"Huh? They are not logging out?" Damon scratched his chin, staring at them for a couple of seconds.
He silently walked over to the coffee machine and brewed himself a fresh cup. He looked at the two again as he sipped his drink, and still no movements.
"Impossible," Damon muttered. This could only mean that both Mark and Kate were still inside the game, probably still participating in that special trial for vampire bloodlings with a noble heritage.
Damon narrowed his eyes at the two sleeping figures on the couch. Kate’s fingers twitched slightly, but her breathing was deep and even, completely still apart from that. Mark looked like a statue, head tilted back, lips slightly parted, utterly unresponsive. Their VR headsets sat snug against their temples, lights glowing a steady blue.
"That trial must be way more intense than I thought," Damon muttered, lowering the coffee mug.
He had assumed that their trial was probably something similar to the body tempering trial he had undergone with the multiple waves of ghouls attacking him, not a full-blown special trial that demanded this much time. But then again... nothing about this game was simple. Not anymore.
He had never before thought that there would be special exceptions to players logging out routinely every single day. It looked like there had always been more connections between the real world and the game world which he never knew about.