It was sunday morning when Ray woke up. Ray grabbed a bowl of cereal and started eating it in front of the television, he switched it to the 'Square One' channel.

"Hello everyone! My name is Tom!" Tom said with a smile on his face

"And I am Mary, today we are going to witness the very first war! I am so excited!" Mary exclaimed with an excited voice.

"Hahaha me too Mary, me too, anyways what can we expect from the very first war?" Tom asked

"I don't know, but thats why we have invited the maker of Square One, Adam!" Mary said while spreading her arms to welcome Adam.

Adam walked inside the room and sat down on an empty seat in between the reporters.

"Thank you Tom and Mary for having me here." Adam said

"It is our pleasure Adam, we have a couple of questions, and our viewers would want some answers" Tom said

"Fire away!" Adam said while laughing.

"Okay! My very first question is about the topic of the "Shadow Registration" was it a bug or a cheat?" Mary asked first

"Hahaha oh no, there is no hacks in the game, and once a bug is discovered it is fixed right on the spot." Adam replied while still laughing.

"So what was it Adam?" Tom asked

"Our servers record everything that everyone does, and we have access to its footage, I can assure you it wasnt a bug or a cheat, of course I can't tell you who it was or how that person did it." Adam said

"Thats amazing! For now we will leave it at that, we can now focus at the current topic at hand" Mary said

"Yes, so about that war, what can we expect out of it?" Tom asked directing the question towards Adam.

"We have decided to launch a war because we thought that it was about the right time, of course there are still countless of regions to explore and dungeons to complete, but this war is only just a test, a taste if you may."

"What do you mean a taste?" Mary asked with a confused look.

"This war is organized between NPC's, of course we were the ones to trigger it, but soon enough, players would be able to control their own territories, of course we see that now with players owning castles and keeps and villages and such, but soon enough they will be able to expand their lands. They can trigger a war on their own."

"That is amazing Adam!" Tom exclaimed with a shocked face

"It sure is, but always, this war, even though its in a large scale, its only a test, there won't be significant changes to territory, the only loss would be countless amounts of life."

"So you know the outcome of the war?" Mary asked once more

"Oh no, even if we were the ones to trigger it, the players decide the outcome of the war, of course we placed certain limitations towards it, for example, if one side conquers lands up to a certain point, the war will end there. As I said, its a test, its a taste, its a vision for whats more to come." Adam said with a very serious yet happy face.

"Thank you very much Adam, I'm afraid thats all the time we have! Im Tom!"

"And I am Mary, thank you for watching, and don't forget to tune in, we will be reporting the war later today!"

That was the end of the show, Ray turned the television off and took a shower. He dried himself of and had gotten a change of clothes.

Ray did his normal jog, but this time he was headed for another direction, he also stopped by the convenience store and bought some milk, eggs, sausages, bread, rice, and a lot of candy. He continued on with his jog, after 15 minutes of jogging he had arrived at his destination. It was a 2 story building big enough to house 20 people, the sign at the gate said.

"Sunny Side Orphanage"

It was the orphanage Ray had grown up in. As he was about to walk in he was greeted by an elderly woman.

"Ray, we missed you last week, did something happen?!" the elderly woman asked with a concerned voice

"Im fine Grandma Helen, I was just busy playing a game, thats all" Ray replied

"Thats good, the kids are still sleeping, so you better whip them up some nice breakfast to wake them up."

"Will do" Ray replied with a smile on his face.

Ray went towards the kitchen and started cooking eggs in different ways, he cooked scrambled, fried, boiled and sunny side up. He had also cooked some sausages that he had bought. He toasted some bread and cooked some rice. After 30 minutes of cooking an orphan finally came down.

The little girl ran back upstairs and shouted

"Brother Ray is here! He cooked breakfast! everybody wake up!"

The little girl then went over to Ray and hugged him.

"Good to see you too Gina" Ray replied while hugging her back

"We missed you brother Ray" Gina said

"I was sort of busy, I'm sorry"

"Its okay" Gina said

One by one, children came running down, and they all hugged Ray.

"Okay guys, breakfast is ready, go and eat as much as you want, I have more eggs and sausages, I also bought some more milk if you need more!"

They all started eating their breakfast and started drinking their milks. After they had finished eating their breakfast they had started asking Ray questions on where he was and stuff like that.

"Im sorry for not being here last week, I was busy playing a game" Ray stated as he pulled out a bag of candy.

"I will give this to Grandma Helen and she will be the ones to give you the candy, so treat her well okay guys?" Ray once more stated as he handed over more bags of candy to Grandma Helen.

"Hahaha you heard what brother Ray said, you better treat me well or you won't get any candy" Grandma Helen said with a glee full smile.

"We always treat you right Grandma Helen, without you we wouldn't have anywhere else to go, without you we won't have anyone else" Gina shouted while crying

one by one all the children started crying

"Hahaha I know you guys do, I love you all, now stop crying and have some candy!" Grandma Helen said with tears in her eyes.

"YEAY!" all of the children cheered and ran up towards Grandma Helen, not to get candy, but to hug her.

After a few minutes of hugging it out and children eating candy, a young woman about the same age as Ray walked in, she was gorgeous, she was a tiny bit shorter than Ray, but not that much, she has a beautiful natural red hair, her face was perfection, it was slightly covered in freckles that added to her cuteness and prettiness.

The girl suddenly screamed and started running towards Ray.

"A KIDNAPPER! KIDS HURRY AND RUN!" The girl shouted and grabbed everyones attention.

Ray was still too busy looking at the magnificent scene between the children and Grandma Helen. He did not notice the girl screaming and running towards him.

The girl suddenly picked up a vase and threw it in Ray's face.

"WATCH OUT!" A child shouted at Ray.

When Ray noticed what was going on, it was too late, when he turned his head, all he could see was a vase right in front of him, before he could react, he was already out cold.

Ray finally woke up in a bed, he was greeted by Grandma Helen.

"You're finally awake Ray."

"What happened?" Ray asked with a confused look.

"Claire happened Ray" Grandma Helen said while pointing towards the beautiful red haired Claire.

"Im really sorry for throwing a vase at you" Claire said while her hands are at her face trying to hide her embarrassment.

"Why would you even throw a vase at me?" Ray asked with confused look.

"I thought you were a kidnapper" Claire replied with still covering her face.

"And why would I be a kidnapper?" Ray asked with an even more confused look.

"I don't know, I thought you were just one."

" . . ." Ray stayed silent with a slight angry face for a few seconds, but after that he and calmed down.

"Ray, Claire is volunteering here, she is a nice person, she helps out around the orphanage and she also gets along with the kids pretty well." Grandma Helen said breaking the silence.

"I see, well I have to go, I have something important to do." Ray said while slowly picking himself up out of the bed.

"I see, come back again next week okay?" Grandma Helen said.

"I will, and I will bring more stuff for the kids to do" Ray replied about ready to leave the room.

"Uhm . . . It was nice meeting you Ray" Claire said while reaching out her hand for a shake.

Ray shook her hand and said.

"Yeah. . . . Nice meeting you . . . ."

Ray then left the orphanage after saying goodbye to the kids.

Ray jogged back towards his apartment, it was almost time for the first war to start.

Ray stepped inside the 'Egg' and logged in.

Scout awoke near a forest where other members of the Shadow Wings were waiting.

"Is everyone present?" Silhouette asked

"Yes" someone said

"Good, let the war begin!"

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Whew, managed to finish the chapter, I added this chapter because people suggested that I make the MC more human :D so I did.

I was planning on making 2 chapters before I go to work, but I woke up late so I could only make this one, ill try to post another chapter tomorrow, but I have school and work, so we will see.

Hope you guys enjoy

Thanks for reading

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