⌜Chapter 46⌟

*Swooosh!

Tanaka opened his eyes, looking around. He was in the ALO character creation once again. Yes, ALO has finally reopened after its long update, old players and new players have surged inside the game like hungry wolves wanting to explore the new world.

Since there is a new race, Tanaka and the Devs added new function for the old players to change their race and still keep their hard worked levels, then there is also the function where they could go back to the start, the players will receive an extra EXP boost and some gifts.

There are also the veterans perks for the returning SAO players, it's a special treatment to the players who were still traumatized in SAO and they could coup up with this, this was also approved by the world health organization after the RECT submitted their patents.

Now, ALO can be considered a rehab game for the players, but anyway, Tanaka immediately deleted his fairy character and recreated it into a human, its appearance is referenced after Zhong Li from Genshin Impact, the only thing missing now is the clothes that Zhong Li has.

After that, next was to choose the character class, Human race have Seven Classes, Swordsman, Warrior, Thief, Hunter, Mage, Guardian and a Priest, there is no need to explain how these class works as every RPG players knows how they function unless that someone lives under a rock or something.

"Hmm, what should I go for?"

Tanaka wondered to himself, he didn't want to go attack type class because it will be boring if he did that, even though he said that 3 people could go against him, the chances of that happening is close to none, so to give Tanaka himself some challenge.

So there can only be two Class he could go for, One is the Guardian, and the other is the Priest, Guardians are always in the front line and take all the damage for their team, the problem is that they also deal a lot of damage to their opponents, for example one of the Guardians Common Skill.

[Full Counter]

Returns half of the damage dealt to the player and also adding the lost percent HP of the Player.

If used right, this skill can destroy others. If Tanaka really uses it, he might as well be the strongest. Of course, it was only if it was him. He is not bragging, its just the facts, anyway, since Guardian doesn't work then the only choice is the Priest.

Priest doesn't have any damaging attacks nor any spells that could be powerful, it can only apply some debuff, Buff, heal, revive, in other words, a pure support, it also has low hp very squishy, an assassin can simply kill it by going behind it, it also has measly damage, unless they hold a divine weapon that could kill a player in a single hit or something.

"I'll take this then"

Tanaka immediately chose the Priest Class. Next is the allocation of his attributes, at the start, players all have unique attributes depending on their chosen class, Swordsman has balanced stat, Warrior is leaned more on strength, mage in intelligence, Thief and hunter to agility, while the Priest has a few in intelligence and Luck, now, new characters has 5 attributes: strength, agility, Intelligence Endurance and Luck. Tanaka is still at level one, so he has free five attribute points.

"Since I'm going to challenge myself, might as well"

Tanaka smiled and immediately dropped all of his free attribute points to luck. Tanaka may have added many things, but that doesn't mean he knew everything. Think of it as someone who copied an assignment from another, but the one who copied understood nothing.

So even Tanaka didn't know the function of all attributes. After the allocation of attributes, next is the final of the creation, which is character name, Tanaka changed nothing and still named himself as Ice.

[Character name taken]

"... I guess I'm popular? let's try the full name then"

[Character name taken]

"A doppleganger!?"

Tanaka could not help but slap his forehead.

"Well, whatever, I'll use a new name then"

Tanaka looked at the keyboard in front of him for a while before he finally typed the name.

"...Tanaka? no, let's go with Morax"

[Character registered, Welcome Morax, Enjoy your game]

After the system notification, Tanaka's new character slowly turned into a small particle of lights disappearing from the room. The next moment, he could already hear a lot of voices around him.

Opening his eyes, Tanaka stood in a plaza full of people. , it was vivacious and some players who couldn't wait immediately rushed out after they entered to see the new world in front of them.

Tanaka was also satisfied as he looked at this, but slowly his satisfaction turned into overwhelmed. He was only standing there for a few seconds but the next moment, the whole plaza became packed that it felt like they were inside a train in rush hour.

Tanaka immediately navigated his way out from this packed place. It took quite a while but he could finally leave. He had underestimated the popularity of the game. Tanaka ignored them and went do some missions and level up.

Unlike some games with hidden missions, Tanaka did something different this time, there are no hidden missions in the starting village, nor are there any ways to gain advantage early, everyone must do the same and do the basic missions.

For example, defeating a fire breathing chicken, of course, as a foody, Tanaka himself also added that animal type monsters will drop ingredients. That's something that couldn't be missed.

For the Chicken mission, Tanaka took the quest from a farmer not too far away from the level 1 fields. Tanaka's first mission is to defeat 10 Fire Chickens, Tanaka immediately made his way and hunted the chickens.

*Bam!

-3

Fire Chickens have 50 hp, and their damage amounts to about 10 points and doubles when it was a squishy priest character, but how it be difficult for Tanaka to fight chickens? they are nothing but meat in front of his eyes.

He easily defeated the Fire Chicken by hitting their vital spots.

Anyway, Tanaka's first goal right now is to immediately reach level 20 and enter the Dark Night Kingdom, the place where the Iceforge Guild plan to place their headquarters. Speaking of guild, players can't establish their guild unless they are level 20.

Reaching level 20 solo as a priest was quite difficult for players, as there are also subjugation missions, sure, Tanaka could have gone and asked help for his members but that will defeat the reason he wanted to challenge himself.

The basic weapon of a priest is a book, so what do you do with this book? Tanaka smacked the monsters with this book. Those who were watching even felt weird when they saw a priest smashing a monster with a book.

The thing that was even weirder is that the priest actually killed the monster much faster than they do.

"Ah! Finally level 10!"

Tanaka stretched his body as he finally finished his 3rd quest. It was much faster because of the veteran perks of SAO players.

"Now then, time to hunt some field boss monsters"

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Heyo, finally was able to write something, hope you guys like it, have a wonderful day!

Also, I planned about the plot for this side a lot and finally went with this one.

Quotes:

Don't fear to face thousands; fear a lone man who was ready to face thousands.