1 Prologue

Game Freeze Headquarters - a week before global release.

"Status"

Whispering "Status" in my mind I can see the full status panel on a semi-transparent visual interface.

Name: Red

Level: 62

Experience: 350,000/1,850,000

Class: Thief->Assassin

HP: 1720/1950

MP: 480/620

Stamina: 20/100 - Upgrade Locked Before Third Class Advancement

STR - 175 (+20)

LUCK - 110 (+15)

AGILITY - 180 (+10)

INTELLIGENCE - 50 (+12)

Free Points - 20

Skills can be seen if I whisper 'skills' too, but they don't matter right now. I'll have to stop and rest before my stamina reaches 0. It means too tired to stay awaken, which in this valley would only mean - death. I should have brought a small stamina potion but there were so many important things to prepare already! How I miss games with an inventory and hundreds of slots.

I chose a thief, supposedly a great agile class with bursts of strength, but unfortunately the first class advancement was stupidly weak, and only as an assassin my power truly began to show.

Maybe all classes are terribly weak in the beginning but it's impossible to even change classes in order to experience them.

I was supposed to class advance at level 60, but reality is cruel - and this game excels at realism. Come on developers, cut me some slack! Only while using flashy skills I feel like this is a game. Maybe being a mage would be better. The mage branch is a class to consider on the official release, considering a magic to fly or at least to keep my items safe exist, I will die of envy.

- A Day Later -

EXP - 100000

Bonus Solo EXP - 30000

Total EXP - 130000

This stupid lizard finally died.

I had all that trouble but now I can have my third class advancement to Shadow Stalker, and my stamina should finally increase. Jackpot!

"You're fast young man. Would you let me teach you how to integrate with the shadows?" said old man Rodrick, my third class mentor.

Hahahah I'm so happy! Now let me see.. "Of course I accept it old man!".

And thus I blacked out.

Player ID #111000026-RED-01; DNA Origins: Earth

Accessing Update Patch #230

Extracting biological sample...

Reviewing host's genome...

Reviewing virtual machine status...

* * *

#$#WARNING#$#

Couldn't access virtual machine...

Access denied.

Rollback started...

Player ID #091830889-RODRICK-04; DNA Origins: Scalian

Success.

Player ID #111000026-RED-01; DNA Origins: Earth

Failure.

#$#WARNING#$#

FATAL ERROR #4901 - DNA NOT RECOGNIZED

Rollback failed.

Protocol #4901-3 initialized.

Starting shutdown procedure...

Failure.

Starting shutdown procedure...

Failure.

Starting shutdown procedure...

Failure.

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