2025

The year is 2025, the world has progressed virtual reality to the point where immersion is nearly 100%. Though it is capped at 98% scientists are confused as how to unlock this remaining 2%.

Anyhow the company, Raven World,had released a new virtual reality device that allows up to the maximum immersion rate which had taken the world by storm. Following the announcement for the new device a new game was announced to start a month after names Fallen Throne.

The Creators of the game say the goal of the game is for each continent to have a counterpart in the game with the world throne in the game being given to the top guild in the world. Guilds from each continent in game will fight this throne with the winner ruling over the entire world of Fallen throne. Not much else was said regarding the details of the battle for the throne but none the less the gamers of the world were hooked.

With each continent of the world being given a continent in the world including Antarctica, a little more than half of the population of the world (about 31%) brought this device in anticipation. Most of the percentage being young adults under 30 and kids above the age of 12. The older generation were not too worried about video games since they had either gotten their life to a stable point of simply don't have time for video games.

Underestimating how popular their game would appear to the world the creators of Fallen Throne had to delay the game 2 extra months in order for everyone who had ordered a vr (virtual reality) device to receive it.

Fast forward 3 months since the announcement and Kameron could be seen signing for a package at his home. "Thank you for signing and have a great day!" Said the delivery man as he walked back to his delivery truck and drove away.

Kameron brought his package inside and decided to get set up in his room. Taking the equipment out of the box along with the game he wasn't surprised to find only a headset for the virtual reality equipment. As he fumbled around with the instructions he took a few minutes before to read the key directions before the alarm on his phone went off.

[Game starting in 35 minutes! Get set up quickly!]

Chuckling slightly to himself Kameron threw his phone onto his bed and quickly assembled the vr equipment. Laying on the bed Kam quickly sent his mom a text saying he was going to play the game for a few hours. Since it was currently 4:27pm for him he gave an estimate of 5 hours before he would log off.

Kameron was only 16 so he couldn't play all the time. He had school the next day and with the school year having just started a few weeks before he would be busy with class and other obligations he found himself wrapped up in. After making sure a text was sent to his mother about his plans, he opened his window slightly so the autumn air could cool his room some while he played the game. After putting on the headset he recalled how to start the game. He has already input the game chip into the headset so he only needed to say the words after turning in the headset.

With a quick sigh and a check of the time Kameron closed his eyes and uttered a few words.

"Run Fallen throne"

With the headset providing feedback he was prompted to confirm his choice.

"User please say start to confirm playing the game Fallen Throne"

Not worrying about the sudden feedback as he had read the instructions before he quickly replied back.

"Start...."

.....

Going back to when Kam or rather, Zero , finished his character customization the timer for the game finally reached 0:00:00. (I will say Zero from now on when in game)

With some light action music playing in his ear Zero watched as the floor under him disappeared while he entered a free fall from the sky. The world of Fallen Throne came into view as he shot down from the clouds.

Vibrant forests with endless green stretched into the horizon showing just how large this world was. The seasons were said to change with the seasons of the actual world so currently it was summer within and outside of the game.

Though he had no control over his movements Zero noticed he was falling above a village he assumed to be one of the 20 starting villages for his continent. Not one to care what the developers were thinking when they decided to limit the starter villages to 20 he waited a few moments before he landed in the ground.

He heard a lot of chatter when he finally opened his eyes and took in his surroundings. Thousands of people seems to be moving around within this village with most appearing level 0.

Zero can tell their level since above their head a player's name and level were displayed. This can't be turned off in any system settings so similarly to other games he assumed there was equipment and skills made to hide information from others.

After a few moments of looking around Zero finally received his first notification.

[Would you like to take the tutorial? Rewards are still given even if the tutorial is skipped.]

[ Accept / Skip]

Zero looked over the notification for a second before selecting to skip. He was a fairly experienced gamer so he felt the tutorial was unnecessary. He only wanted to find the village chief and get his beginner quests.

[Tutorial skipped]

[Items have been added to your inventory]

[Beginner cloth armor set]

Zero nodded to himself as he navigated the menu while walking towards a question mark highlighted on the minimap displayed in the top left of his eye sight. It didn't move when he put his eyes on it so he didn't need to worry about the map shifting with his eye sight.

Moments later he stood outside of a large wooden house. The entrance was extremely wide with many players walking in any out of the door. Zero even took fact that players phased through each other. Probably a mechanic that helps players not get stuck against each other trying to accept quests.

Thinking he wanted to get started with the beginner quest Zero made a mental command in his head.

"Inventory"

With a simple word he was able to open his inventory and view his current armor and weapon.

Though he only had his starter sword equipped along with the beginner armor set within the item boxes to the side.

[Inventory]

Beginner armor set box

.....

Taking a few moments to open the box and equip his armor Zero finally got a few increases on his health stat along with a bit of defense with the armor.

Finally closing his inventory he took note of his armor changing to match nearly every beginner in the town. Wasting no more time Zero walked into the village chief's building and accepted a quest to slay 10 boars outside of the village.

[ Quest Accepted: Slay 10 boars]

Reward: Bronze Sword, 500 exp

....

This is your simple beginner quest to familiarize people with combat before allowing them to freely play the game with no assistance.

"Well this game is like most others with the starting aspect, now I need to level up quickly so I can go to the first city at level 10 and get a job at level 15. And I'm pretty sure there will be something special for the first player to arrive at a city so I need to move quickly."

This information was obtained over the 2 extra months the company took to had the vr devices delivered to the players. They said it would be the only information they gave about the game currently.

With hundreds of people ahead of him, Zero sprinted down the crowded streets and out of the village after following the minimap of the village. He was currently in village 4 so while he was a bit faster in connecting to the game than most people he was a bit slower than some others.

As he stepped out of the village he was greeted with a few notifications.

[Player has left Beginner Village 04]

[Village Passives Removed]

Quickly ignoring the pop ups Zero looked around at the scene in front of him where people were crowding around level 1 boars killing them with simple attacks.

While it might seem like they were easily completing their tasks it was anything but that. These boars were level 1 so they were mean't to take 2-3 hits before dying. Yet with hundreds of people around and thousands still pouring out of the village any boar that spawned was instantly slain by players.

As to be expected with such an over crowded farming area many people were either trying to create parties with others to get shared quest progression with each successful kill or getting angry at others for not being fast enough to secure the kill.

"Hey that was MY kill!"

"I killed that boar so it was MINE!"

"Forming a party to farm boars! 2 spots open!"

"Forming a party to hyper farm boars! Experienced players only!"

Zero ignored most of these people as he kept running into the with shouting and explosions filling the surroundings. With most players ignoring the forest just a few hundred yards away Zero quickly jumped through the bushes of the tree line before taking off into the wilderness to start his journey.