No pain, no gain.

"Einar, all systems properly checked. Magic Realm waits for you."

After the warning, Einar carefully opened the virtcapsule and lay down in it. Inside the capsule were special virthelm which locked head and bit by bit fluid start fulfill it. Optimum temperature, pressure and other aspects all matches for keeping the human body alive.

"L wish you good luck Einar."

"Thanks, Anna. Let's start.L am ready."

Einar lost all connection with the external world. He can't see, hear or smell. It was impossible to shift his body. If it was other limited space his nervous system would be stressed and try to escape danger. For successful adaptation, virtcapsule use natural chemicals as menthol and other herbs in the fluid.

Suddenly a billion brilliant stars and dark space miraculously appeared. Einar for a moment forgets how to breathing. Then he rapidly starts moving to one of the bright dots in cosmos. When he blinked, he saw a big planet with oceans and continents. Next moment he instantly flies in the sky and gorgeous lady in red office costume stay in front of him.

" Greet you, hero! Is your eternal soul ready to the incredible journey in the Magic Realm?"

"Who are you? Where are we? Are you AI?"

"Allow me to introduce myself. My name is LadyInRed3897.As you mentioned before l am AI and my mission properly instructs young heroes, assist them to obtain a new body and correctly give some points about the game.

"LadyinRed let's skip the instruction part and start the creation of the body."

"Ok. But you are mistaken, young hero. The system will not produce a new body. After your arrangements system will launch a global search and you will, fortunately, possess a body in the Magic Realm. Which races do you prefer playing?"

"l want to start as a human."

"What age you want to be? The system earnestly recommends to you not change your age and sex. if change these fundamental options then the adaptation time will increase tremendously as your nervous system will be in chaos first period and conflict with new information.

"Okay.Age eighteen.Male sex."

"What battle class do you want? L want to inform that as in the real world you can be a warrior and archer at the same time. But when you leveled up you will get limited skill points and it will not efficient to select multiple classes."

"What about civil professions? Do there have any limit on how many l can choose?"

"Mr.Einar Magic Realm represent not an ordinary game. You can not learn the chosen profession by adding points. For become one you need speaking with profession masters. There is not any limit. Anything naturally depends on you and your unique abilities."

"Good.L want to be Magician."

"Mr. Einar, system suggest generating a character in a random area. You can not choose character position in society, city or fraction of gods. But the system will give you a random mission. It can be an SSS class or F class quest. It depends on your luck."

"Hmmm, so interesting."

In beta-testers guides, he read about it. During the two months, some of them could pick up B and A class quest. Once he gathered information about a person who got S class quest from the start.

"Why not. Let's see am l lucky or not."

"OK. Get ready. Last question. Do you want to change the nickname? Your name is free and you can use it"

The system generated a quest for you, young hero.

Einars eyelids become heavy and he closed them. Then suddenly woke up. He discovered himself before big bronze doors. Above the door, there was written "Library" with big letters. Einar unfocused and can grasp a red and blue bar in the left corner of his vision. Above indicators, he found his name and blinking symbol. He mentally pushed the symbol and saw a new window with a lot of statistics.

***

Einar. Status-Magician Apprentice.

Health points (Hp) - 80. Health status-healthy.

Regeneration - 1 Hp/min

Mana points (Mp) - 15

Mana regeneration - 0,2 Mp/min

Strength-1

Agility-1

Vitality-1

Intellect-5

Wisdom-1

No passive skills.No active skills.No titles.No pets.

***

Inventory.

Magician Apprentice Set. + 2 intellect per full set.

Magician hat, robe, boots, belt, ring, bracelet, amulet, staff. (Quality F-common)

***

When Einar investigate his status, he recalled guides which he read before. In Magic Realm all players who choose wizard class start as magician apprentice. Of course, after leveling up and completing the class quest it can be changed.

Magician apprentice - 0 level.

Magician - 20 levels.

Adept - 100 levels.

Master - 200 levels.

Magister - 400 levels.

Archmage -1000 levels.

After checking his characteristics and inventory he pays attention to the right corner and saw quest panel. There was one blinking quest. Mentally he expanded it and start reading.

Active quests.

No pain, no gain.S-class quest.

Magic Realm greets you, hero. Do you need divine power? Wisdom can grant unimaginable power. What are you waiting? Start reading and become book sage.

The books read. 0/200.000

Rewards:

First.Title of book Sage.

Second.Compass of Wisdom.The legendary item with unknown options.

***

"What the heck? What the shit luck l possess.Oh my god. Fuck you system.Hmm.The reward is not bad."

It is impossible to read all this book in the local library. How the system can generate so useless quest.If l will expend all the time to read books when l will upgrade my character or achieve other things?

Einar shocked after reading quest and decide to enter the library first.

Despite being so enormous and massive doors opened with a light touch. Before entering Einar thought that a library is an abandoned place as nobody interested in it. However, his eyes become as big as a spoon. Suddenly he pays attention to the private conversation of two apprentices not too far from him.

"....Jon. What are we doing here? Where the fucking adventures that you promised me? Master mage taught me one active and passive skill and what l am doing? Read pieces trash with you!"

"My dear cousin. You are foolish like a pig. Your rabbits and foxes will not run away. We can slay them whenever we want. In contrast, will obtain our lucky chances here. This morning l surfs the in-game forum and found interesting information. Why do you suppose here so crowdy? Why? It is not a coincidence!!!"

"Ufff, l understand pal how genius you are. What benefits can provide us a library?"

"First of all wisdom points. We can increase them by adding level points or in process of reading books."

"Booorinnggg"

"L know. Nobody says you read all books, Todd. It is not efficient spent all the time by reading books. The key point is another secret that l found. During the reading, it has the possibility to dig out a treasure map or quest card."

"Oh-oh-oooh, you persuaded me."

Einar now grasped why there were so many players. In the middle of the vast hall, he observe an elderly librarian behind bookshelves.

Hmm. He maybe thought speaking with old NPC first can push him towards successful completion of his stupid S-class quest.

"Good evening Master.L m new apprentice Einar and have some questions. Can l disturb you?"

"Not bad, young man. At least you demonstrate manners. Presently it rare to see one, especially after connection with a new realm. You can call me Ulnar, keeper of wisdom"

Einar surprised. Back in the past, he talked with an enormous amount of alternative intellect, but none of them was so perfect as this one.

"Dear master Ulnar how can l read all these books in the shortest amount time?"

"It seems you have mental problem son. Bad for you. Life is cruel. With an intellect as yours, you will not live so long."

"Sorry, master. Do not take words as offense.L just wanted to read all books and become smart."

"Honestly speaking, l can support you. Do you notice my librarian robe and hat? You can obtain a similar one. It increases reading speed and comprehension by 35 %. Just do me a favor."

"oooooo.L m ready. What do you need Master?"

"Don't worry. Nothing impossible. You need killing rats with poison l will give you. But first, close your eyes."

Einar closed his eyes. Instantaneously he felt cold fingers in his forehead. Moments later the red runic symbol appeared on the black phone.

"Remember a rune. It is the first tier runic symbol from blood magic."

Blood magic?

"Now try fill symbol with mana from your reserve. After activation, It will give passive ability to track life."

Einar thought about mana points and how he wants to fill the rune with energy. Next moment something strange happened. He felt how energy in body decrease. It was uncomfortable.

"Don't worry first tier magic does not spend much energy. Two mana points per ten minutes.The radius of skill no more than ten meters. Open your eyes and look at the nearest bookshelf. What do you detect?"

"Wow, l can see red shaped small animal projection behind the books. Thank you, master, for enlightening me."

"Stop thanking me. Take this poison powder and spill where you will find the track of rats. Don't try killing them. It is useless."

Einar took poison and left the senior librarian. It was his initial interaction with magic. Everything was like in a dream.