Chapter 12 Tutorial

Alex was examining the mark on the back of his left hand . It was a beautifully engraved design, an epitome of a complex hand tattoo elegantly put in the back of a hand in the context of saying a pledge, it felt truly magical. Alex had never tried out the magical elements of the game. The inventory was something he had already tried in the trial play , but Mathilda appearing out of thin air in front of him and magically disappearing after the pledge gave him a shock and this mark appearing in his hand magically was making Alex thinking of choosing his class as a mage , but he didn't fixate on it.

The next part before going through to the starter town was the tutorial and it began with the selection process of choosing your weapon , well your weapon doesn't do much in selecting your class but choosing a weapon to meet your class requirements is what everyone would do. If you want to become a warrior you choose the sword, to become a mage you choose the wooden wand , a bow if you want to become a hunter, a shield and a sword if you wish to be a tank in a party though it's not a class it can be chosen that way.

The game offered a lot of weapons, a mace was there , a set of nunchucks , a katana and lots and lots of weapons were present in front of him, and of course they were all common weapons and their attack power alone changed on how they were used, their durability was the same. During the tutorial part you cannot choose a different weapon after selecting one and once you have selected one all the others will disappear.

"You can also choose to go into the tutorial without a weapon if you want to well that is what mad men would do .Trust me tutorial without a weapon can be pretty hard, I recommend you to choose a weapon",that was what Beom had said to Alex when he was about to start the game. But Alex was in no mood to listen to Beom regarding this , Alex was determined after seeing the stuff he pulled out of the inventory that day during the trial play and seeing how well it was made , he was determined that he would not use a weapon until he makes his own .

"Do you wish to proceed to the tutorial without selecting a weapon", asked Mathilda. "Yes , I would like to",answered Alex . A small portal appeared in front of him, "Alex, are you sure this is your choice", the voice of Mathilda echoed through the air as if it was asking Alex to change his mind for wanting to go without a weapon. Alex nodded his head and stretched his body a little as he walked in through the portal.

'Welcome to the tutorial'

A small window appeared in front of him , he read it and ignored it and the window disappeared. Another window appeared in front of him,'Your stats will be locked and won't appear until the end of the tutorial, survive the tutorial '.

The tutorial in the game was a bit bizzare. It was the only part of the game where people can gain stats indefinitely but as always there was a limit , the system analysed the people based on their performance on their tutorial and distributed the stat points for the initial stat distribution. So the tutorial varied for each person according to their ability to survive.

Alex had entered a huge land . It contained lots of trees ,a small river and a big patch of grassland across the river. Another message appeared in front of Alex . 'Kill three dire wolves and survive for two hours'.

Alex knew that he had no weapons and he had to hunt . He knew he couldn't fight without weapons, if he did that without weapons then he would be having a hard time killing even one dire wolf. Alex was in the forest area of the tutorial and it was a restricted place just like the trial play, so he couldn't wander out of the space and in the front he could see a wolf it was far away from him after the river and was sleeping on the grassland. All he had to do was kill three dire wolves and survive till the end to complete the tutorial.

Every player was provided with a small dagger even without the selection process of weapons, it didn't pack much attack power and it was present in their beginner kit during the start of the game.

Alex had to use the dagger however as it was not a weapon that was assigned to him and it was not a weapon that caused major damage it was more or less like a small knife for everyday use , Alex didn't feel guilty to use it as he felt that it was not a weapon when he held it in his hands. He needed it to create something.

He went to the nearest tree and broke of a sturdy branch and took out his dagger and started to carve it and shaped it into a makeshift spear . He took it in his hand and balanced it and felt everything was perfect. He didn't stop at that and he created three more spears like the same. It took him about an hour to perfectly finish the four spears . He went as close as he can get near the river and climbed the tree as high as he could carrying the four spears.

He could see the direwolves calmly sleeping without knowing the storm that was about to pass through them. Direwolves were wolf like creatures with their sizes and strength far surpassing wolves and they had a pretty sturdy and thick hide making it hard for swords and arrows to cut them or harm them. Alex was doing something that sane people won't do . Alex had hunted animals and it became his everyday habit to hunt for his food, so he knew the weak spots of animals and the vital points that would kill them in a go. He was aiming at the first closest wolf from the top and he threw the spear as hard as he could aiming for its eyes. Swoosh!...and before the wolf could even react to the sound that was nearing it the spear went through its eyes and its brain and it was dead.

The other dire wolves felt they were in danger and started moving around. Alex waited for a wolf to come near the river. He saw a wolf nearing the river and sniffing hard, and he took aim and again a swoosh sound and the wolf fell without being able to make a sound. The wolves were in high alert they knew someone was out there and was hunting them , so they alerted every wolves nearby , every wolf on the part of the grass land started to howl and suddenly more wolves started to join the fray searching for the one who had hunted their brethren. They closed in on the wolves that died and were gathering around them. Alex kept silent he had to hunt one more wolf and now if he hunted one he may alert the entire pack. Ten wolves were on the other side of the river .

The wolves started appearing in the forest too , they were surrounding the place. Alex waited out patiently not making a single sound and blended with his surroundings.

Three wolves were present in the forest area and were wandering around the trees. They looked different than the wolves and looked bigger than the wolves in the other side of the river, but still they were wolves too. One wolf wandered off and slowly ventured near the tree. Alex knew he couldn't hide in the tree forever, and if all the wolves joined together it would be easier for them to take down the tree , so it was not use in hiding in the trees it was better to hunt down the prey than being hunted.

He did a small lunge from the tree with both the spears left in his two hands , and perfectly dropped on the direwolf, this time the direwolf had reacted to Alex and looked up with its mouth open and just before it could take a bite at him , two spears entered straight through its head and it was killed on the spot. Blood was splashed all over Alex's body and he moved around as if he was perfectly used to it .

Alex removed one spear from the dead direwolf's head and the other two wolves were nearing him. He looked at the wolves straight and ran straight to the one at his left , and used the dead wolf in front of him to jump as high as he could and slashed at the wolf , the wolf looked unfazed , just like he thought if he didn't hit the wolves in its vital points he could not make a single amount of damage, because the wooden spear in his hand could never make through the direwolf's thick skin.

The other wolf at the right used this chance to take a bite of his leg , and just as the wolf was about to take a bite , Alex made a side step instinctively and passed the spear in his hand through its ears and through its brain, and thump one wolf fell dead.