Innate Talent

Han's eyes looked over at the completed vr set up. His eyes then fully locked onto the small chip on his counter. He couldn't help but tremble in excitement. Han's was a gamer who liked to enjoy playing games and when this vr technology came out 3 years ago he couldn't help but he awed with how realistic the games were.

But as time went on he slowly grew board of these vr games. As they seemed to be same old fantasy style along with the fact everyone had already adapted to the vr headsets. At that point vr games although realistic had around 70% realism. People started to get adjusted to it and began to complain that it felt too lacking.

Complains came up left and right for any vr game that came out. But this new vr game called "Espers and Mages" boasted a 99% realistic experience. This instantly caused another wave of excitement for Vr games. Almost every gamer in the world bought this vr game not only that but people who had never played games in their lives also were hooked by it's 99% realism and bought the game with the headsets.

The game developers weren't prepared for such a large amount of people wanting to play the game and had to hold off on starting the games servers as it couldn't hold all the players. It was estimated to be around 3 billion people who had bought this game. To get enough servers the developers took an extra month after the deadline of the servers start up and finally now it was time for Han's to play the game.

He quickly put the chip into a slot on the edge of the helmet and excitedly put the helmet on when a dot on the top of the helmet shined a green light.

Puting the helmet on Han's quickly felt the surroundings disappear from him as he no longer heard or felt the outside world. He was now in the login space. Not long after arriving in this space two texts appeared in front of Han.

[Welcome player would you like to create your account.]

<Yes>, <No>

Han's pressed yes. And another text appeared.

[Creating new account..., account has been created.]

[Please design your avatar.]

A 3d model of his avatar appeared in front of him. It was life sized and naked. Han's felt a sudden need to cover his crotch but he didn't act on it since he was the only person in the login space otherwise it would be quite awkward.

Han's took 5 minutes to finish his avatar's design. He looked at it with satisfaction. In this game the avatar designing had quite a degree of freedom. If a man wanted to they could totally change their appearance to look like a female or the other way around. The only thing that couldn't be changed was a person's genital other than that everything was free game.

Han was a simple man so he went for a simple look. His avatars appearance could almost be said to be one of those mobs in the background. His avatars physique average, his avatars face was so bland that a blank piece of paper might have more pop to it.

Han nodded with a smile at the avatar's appearance as he quickly clicked on the done button.

[Please choose a game name]

A keyboard appeared in front of him as he was given the choice for his name. Han rubbed his chin for a while before typing down a name.

"Heavy Cream"

[This name has not been used do you wish to choose it?]

Han's clicked the yes button and finally the moment of truth was here.

[Randomly Rolling an Innate Talent, rolling rolling... Ding! Innate Talent: Perfect Grade - Duelist]

When Han's saw the innate Talent his expression was one of pure joy. If Han could take off his clothes in the login space he would have ran around naked with joy. The reason for his happiness is because of the first two words of his Innate Talent.

This game already had a lot of early information from beta testers and most gamers had already researched all of the information on the forum. Han's was no different. He had read about the innate talents and knew about the grading system.

The game had four grades for innate talents. Low grade, medium grade, high grade, and perfect grade. Each grade would amplify the talent by an extra amount.

low grade would increase the talents effect by 25% and each grade afterwards would increase by 25% each. Meaning that perfect grade allowed the duelist talent to be 100% more effective.

This would cause a huge disparity with others who had similar talents but lower grades. This game was never meant to be fair. The developers had already stated "Life's not fair and to make it 99% realistic we also added our own unfairness into the game." So even if players who were unlucky to get bad grades and talents wanted to complain they would have no one to complain it to.

As for the fact he got a talent called Duelist, that was the thing he didn't know about. As he had never heard of this talent in the forums. So until he could enter the game and learn about it first hand he wouldn't have no idea what it did.

"Either way I wasn't really hoping for much with the innate talent but it seems like my luck could be said to be quite godly." Han smiled in satisfaction. Although he didn't know when he would see his best friends, he couldn't wait to flex his innate talents to them.

After the innate talent was rolled it was finally time for Han's to enter the game. Unlike normal rpg games the players could choose either to play as an esper or an mage these were the only two options. To choose one over the other was hard as they both sounded super fun.

While Han's thought about these two classes his avatar started to disappear as he was moved from the login space to the actual game.

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