♤
" Would you like another cup ,Master ?" , The butler asked cautiously .
The Young man with slender built , fair skin , a gentle aura can make anyone want to approach him , but those who know him will never want to stay .
The young man lifted his eyelids and glanced at the servant in front of him . Those obsidian black eyes that look more like a black hole that could devour the souls of living , making people shudder at a glance.
"Go " , he spit out lightly and the butler cautiously moved out of the room as if granted amnesty yet his movements weren't even a bit slow.
Alaric sat there motionless staring at the book in front of him , then stood up and walked towards bedroom closing the door of study behind him .
Behind the closed door , the twilight sunlight shone lightly on the open book , coincedently the open page read out ,
' Vincere aut mori '
Conquer or Die .
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Lying on his back , he was a little absentminded . Or bored .
At the age of 17 , he already is responsible for a first rate financial group with multiple companies under it . The price for this wealth was no more immidiate relatives left in this world and multiple assassinations anytime anywhere even in this law abiding era .
' Should I or ...'
Tangled thoughts popped up in his mind but he drove them away easily .
Alaric was born with a genetic defect . He feels less emotions than average humans , cannot express them , and most terryfying thing about him is absolute rationality .
This was also what allowed him to master multitude of wealth at young age and yet no one could take it away . Fortune and misfortune coexist .
But he didn't know , much more awaits him in life .
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October 12 , 2135
12:00
A meteor streaked accross the sky leaving a beautiful flaming tail in the sky . This was just the begining , dense rain of meteors streaked accross the sky but no one saw anything falling anywhere in the world.
Just when everyone was admiring the beautiful phenomena , panic arose in the masses . No one had time to react and all able youngsters started disappearing out of thin air .
Alaric glanced at himself gradually fading out of existence . It was a lie to say he isn't panicked but his body limits him showing such an expression . Soon , he , like everyone else , fell into darkness.
This day was destined to be extraordinary .
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[ Name : Alaric Kier
User name : N/A
Talent : N/A
Strength : 9
Agility : 8
Endurance : 9
Intelligence : 6
Equipment : N/A
Abilities : N/A ]
Looking at the data shown on the screen that popped in his vision , Alaric showed a thoughtful look. He was in a space with no end in sight and all darkness , this luminiscent screen is the only source of light .
Before he could ponder further , the screen changed and a mechanical voice sounded.
[ Please choose a username ]
He thought for a while and reckoned , this thing resembles more and more like a game panel that needs to be operated.
' Crimson Frost '
[ Confirm username 'Crimson Frost ' Yes/No ]
Silently thinking Yes , his panel yet changed further.
Before he had time to ponder more , he got another notification .
[ Talent identification . Innate talent detected . Forcibly awakening talent . User Crimson Frost please wait patiently 10 9 , 8 , .....]
'boom'
The loud boom sounded in his head . Pain assaulted him all over and cold sweat soaked his clothes. Alaric forcibly tried to open his eyes and stay awake but the torment didn't end just because.
Finally after unknown time in torment , his eyes regained clarity . He felt as if his body was drained of energy but at the same time far energetic than before . He couldn't point out accurately what had changed.
When he was busy feeling changes , the long lost mechanical voice sounded again .
[ Innate talent activated . S level talent Terrakinesis detected. ]
With this , his panel changed again
[ Name : Alaric Kier
User name : Crimson Frost
Talent : Terrakinesis (S)
Strength : 9
Agility : 8
Endurance : 9
Intelligence : 6
Equipment : N/A
Abilities : N/A ]
He tried to think what was the purpose of this whole act. No matter how you look at it , it was the preparation of something but he couldn't guess with his thinking limitation . It was beyond his scope of knowedge.
Just when he sat bored in dark space , the mechanical voice sounded again .
[ Welcome all Blue Star players . Planar transmission starts . Each player will be granted fixed territory and full authority over territory . Please defend and evolve your territory carefully . All Lord players , Happy gaming ~]
With a loud bang , as if being thrown and broken to space , everyone plunged into darkness and lost conciousness.
*******
When he woke up again , this time it wasn't a dark space with no end in sight , or familiar villa in blue star , but a cottage.
The small room is made of mud walls and roof is made of straws. He tried calling his panel and this time there were two panels.
[ Personal ]
[ Lord ]
He already knew a lot of things from personal panel and this time without wasting effort , he clicked lord panel.
[ Username : Crimson Frost
Lord Talent : N/A
Territory : 1 km²
Population : N/A
Wealth : N/A
Buildings : Lord's Cottage (1)
Mana : 60/60 ]
This was a complete different page from his personal talent . Apart from this , he also found many icons on the screen , much of them yet grayed .
Clicking on [Chat] , he was overwhelmed at once .
" What's going on ? Where is this place ? "
" Bloody game planner ! Let me log off !"
" F**k ! Why is this place scary "
" um...I saw wierd creature near my territory "
" Beautiful sister here ! I want someone to protect me , this sister will accompany you "
" I wanna go home "
" Hahahaha ! This master is born in gold ..hahhaha "
" Boss , Accept younger brother "
" Accept younger brother +1 "
"Accept younger brother +2"
"Accept younger brother +3 "
" Weakly asking ! Does anyone know where we are ....This does not seem to be blue star "
All kinds of nonsense and information kept scrolling on the screen . He took some time to calm his mind and started analysing the information from all the nonsense dumped in chat channel .
Firstly , He found that most people are transmitted to a different environment .
There are unknown creatures or monsters in this world , or we might not even be in same world.
Some people are born in special environment .
Too many people came to this world but there are only a few people in chat channel . Either the channel is divided into specific divisions due to unknown reasons and based on unknown criteria, or there aren't much people to begin with .
The former is most likely and the possibility of latter is negligible.
His brain was working as fast as he could . Then he finally put a stop . There wasn't much information yet , but it was a good start . This most likely is going to be like an infrastructure game , only , this is too real , or it is indeed real .
He didn't spoke in chat and tried various settings and function on the screen .
Good thing , he could hide his data to set himself anonymous as default settings. Unless it is special circumstance , no one could check his information .
Doing all this , he set his sights on [Inventory]. Clicking , there was a small cubic metallic box with no openings was lying in it .
The moment he touched it , some information was transmitted to his brain .
[Novice Gift Box] , There are basic resources needed for [Lords] for thier starter in this new world . There are also various cards that could be gained from different boxes , specific content not explained much . There are also [Source points] gained from box as well as many other sources .
The points could be used in [Lord Store] and some special stores to get resources and many things needed.
This further confirmed his guess . They are indeed in a infrasturcture game , but he also found a point , 'soldiers' , only if there are enemies does he need to fight . This could only mean , there will be enemies , and they will attack soon.
He understood the first hint of the mechanical voice.
'Defense' and 'Evolve'.
Defense from enemies , only then could he evolve.