Chapter 2 - Customization - Avatar

"Leonardo Novalion, I will use my real name"

"Okay, then I'll arrange it like that.." Sunshine said "next is your appearance arrangement"

After sunshine said that, Sunshine grabbed the cane that had been leaning on his chair and tapped the staff on the floor then the table in front of me disappeared and what replaced it was a plain mannequin and many windows screens appeared in front of me. The screen has words like "height," "weight," "chest," "hair color," sliders for each of them, as well as facial features.

"..." I was speechless seeing how detailed the avatar customization could be.

"Use those parts and the sliders to create your own avatar to use in the game," said Sunshune. "Oh, you can also change race and gender, or even make animal and alien avatars"

"Based on what you said earlier in Unbound Boundary players can only create an avatar once".

not only avatars, during the tea session earlier Sunshine said that the player's name also could not be changed.

"That's right" Sunshine replied. "After tapping the confirm button in the status window you cannot change your avatar. However, there are items and skills that can change your race in the game."

after getting confirmation from Sunshine I realized I couldn't underestimate the avatar creation process. I mean, I don't want to enter the Unbound Boundary with an avatar that looks abnormal.

But just looking at it makes my head spin, it's not only because of the many sliders and sections there are, but the values you can set for each part are too precise.

'For me who has no artistic talent this is too difficult. in that case...'

"Can I use my original appearance as a base and make some changes to it?" I asked.

"Of course you can do it" then Sunshine tapped the staff again on the floor.

The mannequin turned into me

"Thank You"

now I just need to make some changes with this as the base.

I left most of the settings the same, but changed my hair color to red, and also changed the shape of my eyes to a sharper one which made my face look a little intimidating. after that i changed some other settings so i look more mature.

That way I finished making my avatar in less than 30 minutes.

"hmm, other than the color of my hair and eyes, this mannequin looks like me who is about 2 or 3 years older" I deliberately made my avatar as similar as possible to myself.

After I pressed the confirmation button, the Mannequin turned into spots of light that permeated my body and a full body mirror appeared where the Mannequin disappeared.

I looked at my reflection that appeared in the mirror.

The thing that stood out the most were his fiery red hair and sharp eyes with golden pupils that were enough to intimidate anyone. Except my teeth with long sharp fangs, my face resembled me in the real world. In addition, my line of sight is getting higher and my body is a bit firmer.

Somehow I feel a surreal feeling when the figure reflected in the mirror is not me, but someone else who resembles me.

"You will get used to it as time goes by" said Sunshine reading my anxiety "Next is a beginner equipment set. Leonardo, what would you choose?"

Sushine took out a catalog from his pocket and showed it to me.

Inside there is a set of various types of armor. There were western and eastern style armor, but apart from that, there were also traditional clothing from China, India, the Middle East, and South America. At the very end, there's even clothing that looks like it's from a Sci-Fi movie.

"Then I'll use this one," I said, choosing the standard outfit normally worn by novice adventurers in the games I played with a combination of leather armour, wooden shield, and razor knife as my weapon.

"Okay. So those are your weapons and equipment..." It was hard to tell whether Sunshine's voice sounded excited or not, but the moment she tapped the staff again, my appearance changed. My clothes changed to the ones I had just chosen, and now a knife hung from the belt at my waist.

"This is really really good" I said while looking at myself in the mirror, I really look like a human that came out of the middle ages.

""Then I will give you your starting item." Sunshine then took out a side bag from his pocket. "Here is your storage bag as i mentioned earlier. You can store items here if they're yours, but otherwise you can't load items that don't belong to you into it"

It's a very versatile tool, but if it was on the market and everyone could have it, wouldn't it be dangerous. I mean this tool is very easy to use for crimes, such as for smuggling weapons and drugs.

"what is the capacity of this bag?" I ask.

"It's about the size of a classroom, and the weight it can hold is probably about a ton in Earth terms."

"That can fit quite a lot," I said.

"This bag is for beginners, there are also other types, such as bags that are difficult to steal, small bags, and bags with large capacities," said Sunshine.

"To take items out of the bag, you just have to imagine the item that will be taken to remove the item from the bag. You have to try it, imagine 5 gold coins and put your hand into the bag"

as sunshine said I tried to imagine 5 gold coins and put my hand in it. a moment later I took out 5 gold coins and held them in my hand.

"That's your starting money, five gold coins equal to 50,000 ganis. Btw, 100 ganis equal to 1 dollar."

so 50,000 ganis equals 500 dollars. that's quite a large number. But I'm not sure how long I can last with that money.

"Make sure to learn how to make money before it runs out, though," he said.

In other words, I probably won't get any more money after this, so I have to use it wisely.

"since you are done next is graphics or in other words how do you see the world"

the moment Sunshine said that the scenery in front of me changed again, no it was still the same normal living room it's just that their appearances had become slightly different, more precisely, it was the way I saw them that had changed. It goes from realistic to CG looking, from CG to anime, and then back to realistic again.

"...actually, how you do that?" Unable to hold back the curiosity that had built up in my heart, I asked that question.

"After all, the image received by the eye is processed by the brain, so there is a way to do that," answered Sunshine. "Thus, the way you look can change like this, but which one will you choose? You can change it later."

"I'll leave it as usual" I said.

I thought it would be great to see the normal stuff until I got used to the game, so that's what I did. Although I'm interested in experiencing what it's like to touch something that looks like it's from an anime.

"Alright then, it's time to give your Saga," said Sunshine.

"Oh, the special feature you mentioned before!" I exclaimed.