Chapter 1 – “New Game”.
Recently a new and first ever VRMMO game that connect all senses was published.
[[New Earth Online]]
"The game will be officially realeashed tomorrow morning. As you said before, many pro players, Esports teams as well as popular streamers will play the game, right?" – said the female news reporter.
[Esport Sunlight Ace Player – Nickname: Mercy]
"That exactly right." – said the young man with blond hair.
"But won't you encounter problems while playing? As said before as well as in gameplay, the gear system will directly link your brains and senses to the game. That means no keyboards, mouses or consoles. Even the beta testers that played the game confirmed that you will have to move your body just like in real life and you will also may end up feeling the real exhaustion effects as well."
"Yes, we are aware of that fact. But no true gamers would turn down the challenge of entering the realm of gaming."
"See I told they would do it." – said young man with brown hair, caring a phone while watching live broadcast.
"I told you multiple times. I don't care." – said a man with black hair wearing glasses.
"Common, you can't say that it's not interesting."
"Sigh"
The black haired man suddenly showed something to his friend
[VRMMO Head Gear: SOLD OUT]
"Even if I wanted to, I have physically have no way of getting the head gear, that is literally necessary to play the game. You even told me yourself that you had hard time getting it yourself."
[The door will now open.]
The two young boys left the train and headed towards the mall.
"But won't you buy it when will became available again?"
"How? Considering how hyped people are, I won't be surprised if they run out of stocks before I try to buy anything."
"You just want an excuse to stay as loner for the rest of the life you virgin."
"And do you want to see a magic trick where everything you see suddenly go blank."
"I say no to violence."
"You literally want to play a game that is all about the violence. The fuck do you mean "No to violence"."
The friend suddenly turned his head around and beginned to whistle.
"Look, where is your sister in the first place? We were supposed to meet her here and have her help me choose a gift for the mother days."
"You- "
"No, I don't want your sister."
"Tch. But promise you bastard you will play the game when you have a chance!"
"How? I literally just said this is physically impossible right now. What do you expect? Something like "You win a lottery and you will receive the new VR head gear device as the reward." Or something."
"Do you really think that something like dump luck would- "
The young man with black hair entered the mall and as soon as he did that, a confetti fall on him and cheerful music started playing."
"CONGRATULATION! You are our 1 000 visitor today and had won our special event! As the reward you will receive the newest VR Head Gear as well as the newest game "New Earth Online."!"
"Wait what?"
Back to the present.
(...What the actual fuck? I really got it like that? Off the dump luck?) – though the young man while in his room together with the brand new headgear.
(Now that guy and his sister got reason to not leave me alone until I play that god dammed game. I hate them.)
(To make matters worse my own mother joined them, saying I should get myself a hobby or something. My own mother betrayed me, even though yesterday on the mothers' days I gave her present gave as well as tickets for her favorite movie so she can go together with aunt, even aunt joined their side after their returned form the movie.)
"Well, from what I heard, the game plans to add currency exchange in game, allowing you to exchange the game money into real money and vice eras, that means you can earn life money and all. Maybe this game will be nice source of income, if not I can just always sell this thing when the prices sky rocket."
(The game sewers should be launching about now, so let's log in.)
The boy put on the device and laid on his bed.
"Log in start." – said the young man while closing his eyes.
The young man could feel something changing all around him.
[You have successfully connected the game.]
[Welcome new user to [New Earth Online].]
The young man opened his eyes and found himself inside the digital space.
"Wow. I honestly doubted this like hell but freaking hell, I really can move here like in real life."
(I also don't feel this thing on my head.)
[Welcome! Current you do not possess any accounts in the game. Do you wish to begin creating your new account?]
"Well, yes? I mean there is literally nothing else I can do right now."
[Please create your character.]
Suddenly in front of the young man, a digital body appeared in front of him.
"So, it's like an 3D mirror or something? It seems both bit creepy and interesting. There is a panel and other stuff. Let's see…."
[Race]
[Each race have their own benefits.]
The young man pressed Orc on the list and suddenly his copy turned into orc.
"Oh…. That seems interesting."
(There is a lot to choose from. There are also a sub race category as well, dark elf, light elf or forest elf, tons of options. Some races doesn't have sub race, for example human.)
(Hm.... There is really a lot to chose from, like a lot.)
(What to pick.... Hm? What the hell is that?.... Oh? This seems interesting? Let's go with this.)
(This will do. Now what else?)
[Starting Equipment]
[You can chose a weapons and armor you will start with.]
[Please Chose Your First Class.]
"Damm. There is a lot to choose from here as well…... Hm?"
[Blacksmith]
(Allows you to create an items such as weapons, armor and ammunition. This seems pretty interesting.)
"Let's go with this and for the weapon lets go with this thing."
"And done."
[Chose your player name]
(Hmmm…. Let's keep it simple and let's got with Forge.)
[Do you wish to procced with your choices?]
"Yea sure."
[The character creation has been completed. You will be transported to the beginner town [Alarn].]
[We hope that you will enjoy your time.]
Moment after the messenge appear, the black haired man body would transform into data like particles before then disappearing.
[You have been transported to [Alarn] town.]
The circle like icon appeared on the ground and from it the data like particles appeared that quickly combined and formed a body.
"?"
(Where am I? I was just moments ago in that weird white room? Did I got teleported or something?)
The man beginned looking around.
(Huh. Medieval looking buildings. Some weird digital looking flashy things appearing and then people appearing from them.)
(And my body!)
"Wow, this really feel fantasy like and my body feels quite different? Well, maybe it's because I'm not human anymore? Or maybe because this is different body or something? Anyway."
(Let's see… He told me to meet up at the near the sought gate after I get create my character, so let's get going.)
"…."
"?"
(…Oh. I see two people over there, I think its them. I believe his nickname was supposed to be…)
"Hey Hype."
[Hype] – [Race: Human] – [Gender: Male]
"Oh, I think he finally got here, but his voice is bit weird." – said the male player with yellow hair.
[Kitty] – [Race: Demi-Human / Catfolk] – [Gender: Female]
"It took him some time, I guess he must have -ekhe?!" – said the female player with blue cat ears, tail and hair while turning her head around.
"What? Oh…." – said the man yellow hair while turning around.
"Sorry guys. There was so many options and I didn't know what to choose. It took me a bit to make a decision."
[Forge] – [Race: Insectian / Beetle] – [Gender: Male]
"What? Why are you looking like that? Is something wrong?"
The Forge appearance was as fallow.
He was standing 185 centimeters tall.
His body surface was smooth and his head was bald, the entire body itself had color brown. He had fully black bug eyes of a beetle. His teethes were normal but he also had a bug jaws sticking out that normally covers up his mouth like a mask. His body appeared bit thick as well.
"N-no, nothing. I was not expecting for you to pick insectian out all of things."
"I won't lie, you look like a monster." – said Hype
"Anyway, what class did you pick? Can you show us your stats?" – said Kitty.
"Sure. Em. How do it do it?"
"Let me invite you to my friends, what is your nick name?"
"Forge"
[Player: Kitty had send you friend request.]
[You have accepted the friend request.]
"Go the friend menu and open your status. There should be a circle icon on top right corner, press it and press my name on the friend list."
[Do you wish to show you this person your personal stats?]
[Your status has been revealed to player: Kitty.]
[Forge] – [Race: Insectian / Beetle] – [Gender: Male]
[Level: 1]
[Job Classes: [Blacksmith – Level 1/10].]
[Class Skills: [Blacksmithing Knowledge – Level 1/1] [Basic Blacksmithing – Leve1/10].]
[Stats]
[HP: 113/113] [MP: 64/64] [SP: 64/64]
[Strength: 6.5]
[Agility: 6]
[Intelligent: 6]
[Physical Defense: 6.2]
[Magic Defense: 6.2]
[Health: 11.3]
[Mana: 6.4]
[Stamina: 6.4]
"You picked the [Blacksmith] as the first class? Oh, that is…"
"What? I did something bad?
"Well, I think I should explain it to you how the classes works in this game." – said Kitty.
-Whenever you level up, you receive a class point, using them you can either increase level of your class or pick a new one.
-Each class can level up until they reach level between 10 to 30, it all depends on the class you picked. It was like this during beta.
-You can have multiple classes, the classes are divided into 2 categories: Basic and Race
Basic classes are classes you can take right from the start or after unlocking a specific conditions such as maxing out level of the specific class or two. For example, max level warrior gives you a new option to pick advance warrior class or max level Warrior class + max level Mage class = Magic Warrior.
The race classes are classes that only your race can have, for example Orc can have Orc Warrior class that boost them in their own unique way or dragonette that can became dragon warrior, allowing him to use some dragon powers.
Some races jobs can even change or allow you to transform your appearance in different ways, for example demi-human like myself can learn class Beast-Man, this class allows us to take shape of the beast-man, changing out playstyle and appearance.
"I think I get it, so what the problem?"
"[Blacksmith] is production type class, a class that do not possess any combat related skills or anything."
"Each class gives you a skill that will grow stronger whenever you level up the class in question. The number of the skills you receive depends on your class of choosing. The skills from the class have their own level as well and will increase depending on your class level. Sometimes a class can you give multiple skills or instead small amount of them but instead they will be noticeable stronger."
"Until your first picked class reaches level 10, you are unable to get another class. The best method of leveling up right now is hunting monsters."
"But from what I checked, creating items or doing specific activities gives you EXP as well." – said Forge.
"Yea, but not really much is known about item crafting." – said Hype.
"The item crafting was in extremely early stages in beta and you could barely craft anything, to make things worse it was quite hard as well when you first start crafting stuff. That means nobody really knows how useful is this class right now. It could be a complete trash if they didn't change it." – said a human player.
"Oh."
"Anyway, why you picked the [Blacksmith] out of all the things?" – asked Hype.
"Well, I was really curios about item crafting, from what I read on the class description, there is no set crafting restrictions and you can create a lot of stuff and only limit is imagination."
"Yea, but most of the production classes like [Alchemist] or [Blacksmith] require both crafting tools and often special rooms with equipments, like furnaces."
"You just started and don't have any money right now on you. The only way to earn money is to kill monsters and sell drops from them. You can then rent an equipment from the public blacksmith, but that cost money as well."
"You don't have money, tools or anything right now." – said Kitty.
"Oh…. Is it that bad?"
"Pretty much you are screwed." – said Kitty and Hype.