TE17 Mysterious Montenegro

Cronos Cube anything to do with Emil, or if he might even be Emil himself. But in all honesty he looked rather harmless.

“I am actually meeting someone here,” said Zack.

“No problem, after the intro you can do whatever you want.”

“Intro?”

“I’m here to introduce you to the game. Cronos is quite different to anything that you have ever experienced – you don’t have any game controllers in your hand, you don’t have to put on a pair of virtual reality glasses, you are the player, but that’s not as easy as it sounds.”

“I have absolutely no intention of playing,” said Zack, who did not think it sounded that easy at all. “I’m just looking for my mate.”

Octavian laughed. “You’re not here to play?”

“No.”

“Well ... I’d wave you through, but I can’t let you enter Cronos without an introduction.”

“Why not?”

“Have you ever died?”

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