🌷"After clearing an intense dungeon, they finally went to a place where they could breathe peacefully"🌷
Shakti was very happy. He did some incomprehensible things on the first floor, but at least he completed the dungeon safely, many thanks to God.
They both cleared just one dungeon, but it felt as if they had broken a mountain.
After a fresh and deep breath,
Shakti typed:
"I know what to do now. We both deserve to chill a little in a nice, beautiful place."
Something was going on in his mind.
Sophia reacted as if the energy within her had totally recovered.
She replied:
"Umm, REALLY? Do you know any place like that?"
Shakti smiled.
"Of course, shall we goooo?"
Sophia:
"Yepp, let's go there."
Shakti brought her to the Lumerin Vale of the Verdantis Kingdom.
He teleported to the vale. She followed him.
It was different here.
Shakti noticed it the moment they arrived — how the background music of the environment felt so much lighter, like the forest was watching them. The trees were huge, with leaves overlapping just enough to let the sunlight pass instead of blocking it. Green light was coming through the empty spaces, touching the ground quietly.
Ahead of them was a small river.
It wasn't grand, just simple and peaceful. The water was flowing slowly, except when a leaf fell and added a small disturbance on the surface. Shakti stepped closer and saw his reflection mixing with the sky above, the colors blurring together. For some reason, whenever he came to this place, his chest felt at peace.
There was a bench on the shore. He went and sat there, looking at the environment.
Shakti said,
"Come here and take a seat."
She was completely amazed by the surroundings… she was truly enjoying the environment.
She typed:
"How do u know about this place?? I swear it is soo peaceful, I can sit here for many hours without getting bored.
Why didn't I come to this place before?"
Shakti smirked.
"Eheheh, you can say this is one of my favourite places. Whenever I feel alone or tired or sad, I come here and just keep looking at the stars. To be honest, this place was shown to me by an online sister.
She was from India tooo, she is soo cool and even stronger than me. Once we were playing with four people here, she showed us this place and we took a lot of pictures. I still have all those pictures."
Sophia seemed very interested in both the place and his online sister.
She typed:
"So you came here a lot of times?? Sister seems so cool and experienced in this game."
"Not a lot, but yup, I have come here before. And yup, she is. If you want, I will introduce you to her someday, if you have time," Shakti said with confidence.
Sophia:
"Ahhh sure, someday I will meet her."
He didn't know what was going on in her mind…
"Whatever it is, I really liked this place, so from now on I will come here again to chill."
Shakti said,
"If you like it so much during the day, then change the time to night once. Your eyes will pop out for real."
Sophia replied,
"Okiie, let me try."
She changed the time, and the moment the moon appeared… they both went speechless.
In the flow, they hadn't realized how tense they had been until now.
For a while, they didn't talk. They just sat there, watching the moon in the vast dark sky, letting the insects sing around them. For the first time since entering the dungeon, it felt like the world had stopped — not to test them, but to give them some space.
After some minutes, a message appeared.
Sophia:
"Oh God, I swear my day got made. I didn't expect that there is something this beautiful I could feel someday in a game."
It felt as if Shakti was flying in the sky after hearing that.
He said:
"This isn't the end, the main part I didn't show you yet."
Sophia:
"Ehhhhh really?? Show me, I want to see."
He looked at the top left corner and clicked the inventory button. He searched for a while and found the one he was looking for.
He was finally ready to show her.
He set up a fireworks box 30 steps away, directly in front of the bench, and kept the height low in the settings so they could watch the shots clearly. There were many types of fireworks in that box — he even had a heart-shaped one, but he didn't set that because he thought Sophia might get offended.
He tapped the start button, and the countdown began. He ran back to the bench and sat next to her.
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The sound of the blast came, and fireworks started appearing in the sky in different shapes…
Shakti was very eager to see Sophia's reaction.
Will she be happy with this… or am I boring her?
To be continued...