Thread:Maddog98/@comment-4842541-20150606031801/@comment-4842541-20150922063412

Got this little idea for a side story for Layla.

She would meet a pen pal online, and said pen pal plays in a MMO that Layla herself plays. And since it's 2116, online gaming has been taken to the point in which there's virtual reality consoles. So that's how the MMO is played.

And as such there's also a magic techique, that Mark actually uses in the main story, so that the player can then play in this virtual world as their real selves using their real abilities.

As such Layla meets up with her pen pal in the game, and then when she meets the pen pal in real life, she finds out that the pen pal is actually a terminally ill girl who doesn't have long to live.

And the story will deal with Layla trying to find any way she can help, to the point that she asks Mark if there's some sort of magic spell or potion that could heal a terminally ill person. And as such there's nothing they could do, as the only option would deal with forbidden techniques.

And then Layla decides that all she can do is to give her pen pal the gift of being able to walk. While it can't be done in reality, using the magical item that Mark uses with some slight adjustments, the pen pal can interact with the virtual world using a body that is healthy enough.

So thus Layla will spend as much time as she can with her pen pal, so by the end of the story Layla will be torn once her pen pal passes away.

Also in case you're curious, the forbidden technique for the healing potion would be the creation of a philosopher's stone. Back in Ron Fei's generation, he himself broke some magical realm laws and made a philosopher stone, so as to bring his grandfather back. But his grandfather's spirit scolded him, and Ron Fei just had a philosopher's stone lying around. When Alice, the future mother of Roy and grandmother of Mark, is dying from some rare heart disease, Ron Fei decides to put the stone to good use, and creates a potion for Alice.