Prologue

"Hey bitch, did you finish my homework" Koji, my main tormentor asks with a laugh between his friends.

I hate this guy, he's so annoying, thinking he's cool for having sex with girls that definitely have HIV. I just shake my head and I start walking away, but I feel a punch to the back of my head, I hit the floor as my nose starts bleeding, Koji and his gang starts stomping on my body, I lose my consciousness, but not before I hear the scream of my only friend in this hell - Jada screams, "Tálor, please be okay."

I see a woman standing in a cave with a black hood over her head, she laughs melancholy, "Tálor, soon you will die by my hand."

She turns around with a spin on her heels and darts towards me, puncturing my body with her daggers, I feel the blood leave me as I hear the soft sniffles of the real world. "Hey Jada," I smile.

"Don't hey me mister," Jada snaps.

I just laugh at her since every time I get hurt she tries to convince me to join her martial art class. She grabs my hand and starts rubbing the back of my hand soothingly, then she smacks the back side of my hand and says, "This why you should stick up to yourself."

"I'm a scrawny boy, they are jocks, see the problem," I reply.

"Come to my Tae Kwon Do classes," Jada says.

"Fine," I groan.

This girl is my only weakness, she can make me do anything with one word, I hate it so much. I stand from the bed as nurse Wendy comes in with Koji, who walks through the nurse's office with a red handprint that I expect is from Jada. Damn, Jada really smacked him good. "Nurse, can I leave," I ask.

"Sure, but stop coming here, you finished your senior test last month," she shoos me out of her office.

"Are you kidding me, why did you go the test quicker than me, how am I going to check your answers" Jada complains.

"Jada Beneya, shame on you," I shake my head disappointedly

I walk out of the office with my satchel over my right shoulder while swaying my hips as Jada says, ¨Tálor, Iḿ sorry."

She walks out with me and begins to talk about something the school is doing, but I just zone out, so I can relax. Jada screams at me looking pissed, "Are you listening"

"Not really" I say honestly.

"The school is giving all top 10 students in the sports and academics. and will be given a new game for our Animas," She says.

Thatś nice, the last game that came out for Anima was a building, like a certain block building game that was famous in the early 2000s, we walk to the city bus pick up, we waited a good 3 minutes for the familiar bus with rust on the side, my uncle opens the door with a smile and says, "hey kiddo."

"Hey uncle, how's Christina and Baby Rose," I give my uncle a quick hug.

"They're okay, Rose wants to see you soon,"Uncle respond, "before I forget, your parents went on tour early."

"They promise to go on tour next week," I hate my parents, they promise one thing before double crossing me.

"I know bud, just relax and sit with that friend of yours, she's pouting at us," Uncle glances at Jada with a laugh.

I walk to the back with Jada, who's reading a story on Wattpad. I look at my envelop icon on my phone screen to see a 'sorry' message from my mom, I put my phone in my pocket. If they want to break their promise, I'll just ignore them. "Jada, do you have a copy of the game" I ask.

"No, the school said they shipped it out today," Jada says.

"Thank Jada," I'll just submerge myself in this game and forget about them.

The bus stops at my street, Jada and I run off the bus to my front door. I unlock the door to see a empty, clean house. I see a box on the table for me, I open the small parcel to see a game with a blue crimson title on the case that´s decorated with a magic circle with Nightgate in the middle of the circle. I grab the game and head upstairs to my game room, I walk to my dresser and grab my Anima that's customize to only let only myself into the system, the privilege of going to the top private school.

Jada walks into my game room with the Anima I keep here for her, I slip the game chip into my helmet and I sit in my gaming capsule while Jada lays in the other with her visor plugged in and laying on capsule's gel bed, I relax into my capsule. "Jada, is this your first time" I ask.

"Yeah it is, why," she answers

I just grin at her, we played everything together, now we're playing this together and we say together, "Mind Dive."

I feel my body sink into the gel, I feel a wind brushing past my ears as white races past my eyesight followed by a black room with a naked man on a pedestal. A soft, warm women's voice greets me, "welcome kobeta, I will be your guide. please, Select your race."

I press an arrow that goes right in the selection to see a elf, who are adept in magic and long range attacks. I press it again until I find a race that has a visor with digital like lines all over their cream color body, I select that race that says their name are the Buths, I read the description of them.

"A race of halflings, they can only be up to 5'9 tall and weigh up to 140 pounds. Their hair are two colors that go together, they have metallic colored eyes, the Buth have digital like marks that flow with their magic They are an mostly male race. They have excellent hearing. They are clean and can make anything. They are noted for their healing and technological magic. They worship a single goddess who works with a host of sub-deities that are also worshipped - this deity is named Lysyn, Goddess Of Tranquility, who in turn has a nemesis, whoś name is Yla, Goddess Of War, who's responsible for evil in the world. They have a Matriarchal continent which a powerful Queen rules," I read aloud.

They sound interesting, women are the backbone of the world, so lets go with this. I select them by clicking a check mark as the women says, " pick his hairstyle, hair color and eye color"

I give him silver blue and Maya blue, I gave him a samurai braid and the final touch is golden eyes. "Now, select default" she says.

I give him a hood-less cloak that covers his whole body with a material that I see was snug on the model. "Enter name"

"Titia" I say.

"Welcome Titia, prepare to enter the game"

I get shot down in my character into technological city that was beautiful, I open the menu with a drag down with my middle and pointer finger. I send a friend request to Jada, who accepts and calls me telepathically since a icon appears on my screen with a sort of identical face of her, I click the accept as her voice rang in my head "hey Titia, I see you are a Buth. I heard that race was going to get deleted, since there are no Buth players"

"Are you kidding me" I sigh, puffing my cheeks

Jada and I begin walking around the Buth's town that was beautiful. "I'm teleporting to you since I found my teleport to a friend,"Jada says.

As a flash appears in front me taking shape into a elf like race, when it fully takes her form, I see she's a Dalo, a race of elf that are famous for healing and cosmic magic. She has a spear with her that looks sharpened, she smiles at me and says "show me your stats"

I go back to the menu and I flip my statues screen that says ´level 1 stats are based on a body scan and mental scan´

Stats

Agility: 57

Intellect:55

Strength:43

Spirit: 50

Vitality:57

Magic Attack Bonus: 110-550

Attack: 430-860

Health:100

Mana:110

"No, your intellect is higher than mine and your health is higher, so you're smarter than me by 14 points and you'll live longer than me. I will not accept it" she shouts

"Calm down" I laugh

We through the town which I learn is Dlaya, I see a rat-like creature stop in front of me, so I stomp on it, my foot hit the rodent with a pop as a skill icon 'mastery of killing unlocked'

"I have a mastery already" I say.

"No fair," she punches my shoulders, "I got a punching mastery. Talor, can you give me some brass knuckles"

I go to my skills and see if I have the crafting ability which I do, I grab a rock and a hammer from my satchel. " knuckles" I yell

I pound the rock once to turn into a pair of stone knuckles that had a few cracks on the back of them. I look into my inventory to see a welcome package and weapon package. I open them as time freezes and women appears in front of me with a cloak that made it hard to see her face with the hood shadowing her face. She draws a pair of dual short swords from her waist holsters and attacks me, I block with my forearms, but she she shreds through them repeated stab of her swords, I beg her to stop, but she stabs harder until everything turns dark. I barely played, well, let's make a new character,t hen maybe the game will give me compensation, I quietly laugh.