"Okay, since no one else is responding, I'll assume you all answered me yes," after several seconds of silence in between him and the rest of the people listening to what he said, with no choice, once again Rey Vallera spoke.

From him, I channeled my sight to my right to know what Lily Cartbridge is doing at the moment.

Although her eyes were pinned to where Rey is, I doubt that her full attention is really placed on listening to him. She is hiding her lips inside her mouth, and I know exactly why she's doing that. To entirely wipe away any trace of that pink lipstick on both of her lips, that is.

Really this girl is very different from other girls I know. With age at late teens and early twenties, the girls I am interacting at my village are fond of dressing gloriously. Whatever their reasons for fixing themselves appealing in the eyes is just natural to be called. After all, they were becoming ladies. But with this girl, with this Lily, although I mean no intention of pointing out that she is abnormal, I see her personality as very peculiar. I never saw a lady wiping away her lipstick. She is just the first.

From her, I now decided to face the person that is just sitting on the chair next to mine to the left. I saw Rustee Perth has his full attention to the front. He has now with him a notebook and a ball pen, readying himself to take down important information.

"The Mindrey Gear." I heard Rey Vallera spoke so I immediately turned to face him again. The LED screen on his background is now showing the text 'Mindrey Gear' with below it is a picture of a helmet-like thing in contemplating colors of glossy white and black. The helmet-like device did a 360-degree rotation before becoming stationary once again.

"The thing you are seeing in my back is one of the many illustrations of Mindrey Gear that will be available in the market after the public demonstration. Fifteen years in the making and it will only look like that. Very simple. Aside from the black and white combination, it will also come in red and blue, violet and pink, and yellow and green tandem. Each unit will cost one thousand dollars with a free USB containing the game that will be played in the public demonstration. Oh, and also the manual. Of course, the manual should not be forgotten. Now, let's proceed by pulling this question: What is this Mindrey Gear?"

After Rey Vallera finished articulating that question, the LED screen then changed its display. Now it is showing several papers that I recalled Michael, my younger brother, named those alike as a blueprint.

"Mindrey Gear is the result of my ambitious plan for the future to explore another very very real world in the comforts of your, mine, everyone's own home. On my back, you will see the blueprints of every component that is involved in the making of this first-ever breakthrough. So how exactly is this thing going to be ambitious?"

Once again, in the silence of everyone, the LED screen changed its display. Now, what we see is a video that shows how the Mindrey Gear will be used. A girl injects the USB in an outlet of the helmet-like thing. On its tinted black face shield, there were letters that appear. The girl said 'new game start' and all of a sudden the face shield became ordinary. The girl closed her eyes and what we see next made everyone gasp in surprise for this one of a kind environment where now the girl is. The video then paused.

"As what you have seen, that is how simply the basic demonstration of Mindrey Gear. You will just insert the USB containing your preferred game and just wait for seconds until a prompt will ask what will you do. Either resume existed progress, or play a new game. When you have decided, voice your choice then close your eyes. The operating system of the Mindrey Gear will then do the next for you. Guaranteed, adventure is what waiting."

From the stage, Rey Vallera stepped down. Still with him is the microphone. And when the display of the LED screen changed, while walking in the aisle of rows and columns of chairs, he started talking again.

"What you see on the screen is the USB that will be the first to its type. That USB will be called MGGI or in uncompressed form is Mindrey Gear Game I. It will be titled The Mighty Creature Collector which will be tackled deeply in the succeeding days. But for now, let us resume the video."

On his command, immediately the screen showed back the video of a girl in this fictional yet realistic environment. She said, "Weapon, appear," and instantly a particular thing is what appeared on her front. A pink ribbon. But just as he will grab it, the screen is divided into 9 partitions. There, the image of the girl is in the middle, while the other eight partitions have been occupied by other people's faces. Different from the girl, the other 8 have unique weapons and powers from one another. One holds a flute, the other holds a stick, the other has a flower, the other has a ball of fire, the other has lightning on his hand, the other has a gun, the other welds sharp steelwork, and the other has wings. Once again, the video paused.

"Inside the game, each player will be given a random item or capability. As you can see, it comes in either weapon or elemental power. The random item will depend on the personality of the player. If she loves to play instruments, then maybe she will get flute; and when he loves to play combat games, then maybe he will be given a knife. Resume the video."

From being paused, once again the video replay. And as the video entertain all of us, Rey spoke, "The weapon or item you will be acquiring has a level or stage of when to be upgraded to become much useful than before. An example is the stick. In certain players' level-up through experience points he gained using his or her weapon or power, the damage and toughness of your item will be increased. Level up as fast as you can and you will be seeing yourself climbing up the ranks to be the mightiest creature collector."

Concurrent with him speaking, the video seemed to be in sync with Mr. Rey. What he is saying really explains what the screen is showing. And when he stopped speaking, strange-looking beings are charging towards the nine people. But because of the title of the game, I already have a clue of what they are. And that is, creatures to be collected.

"But before we go deeply into my creation, my chosen public demonstrators, I have a single rule to every one of you. Since this is the only rule that applies, I will call this my 'Gold Rule'. Will you please just enjoy the game?"