The current year was 2275, the peak of human technology had come long ago. Today, humans colonized and terraformed many planets they traveled to by space travel.

Humanity also had far fewer jobs because of robots. All manual jobs were done by robots.

These robots weren’t fully independent, only an overseeing robot had independent thought but due to human caution towards robots, they were all built in with the most advanced failsafe completely isolated from the robot's reach which would detonate their soft and hardware with an EMP inside their bodies.

There were a few cases of rogue robots but they were contained because of the failsafe.

As for what humans do today, all jobs were mental and intelligence based.

Through the use of a combination of Virtual Reality technology and robotics one person could control several robots. Even so, the number of people to jobs were much fewer. In such a case poverty would rule but as mentioned Virtual Reality exists and has long reached its pinnacle.

Through virtual reality people had jobs in the virtual world and would trade electric coin. The proportion isn’t high though, very unlike the initial period of Virtual Reality. The current ‘Credit’, the intergalactic coin of humanity, is currently 1000:1.

For those living off games, it requires immense intelligence and luck to gain an immense amount of money to survive off Virtual Reality.

The best method is to play the game before it is ‘beat’ and quests can't get harder. That is why game makers are always trying to make new and better games which last longer.

The current longest playing game is God’s Life, a game which one plays as a god of simple tribes who are given a small piece of land and must try to raise this tribe into a powerful nation to gain power through ‘faith’, the game’s currency.

Kingdom based games are the most famous for their better money making method.

At this moment, a new game was hitting the market but it wasn’t getting as much reception because of the theme. The game is called Magic Life, the theme of the game is fantasy, a theme wholly spent early on.

The games sale point is that people don't choose race or anything, besides having a body scan, their race is randomized and even in some cases the class as well. This means there is a large chance for people to end up animals or monsters and the tutorial stage is said to be raising the group or tribe to a more intelligent stage.

There actually arent many people wanting to play this because for those starting up, it was almost sure to be a kingdom building game. Such games are under heavy tax control making money gaining harder.

That said, for one young man, he didn't have much of a choice because at 20 years old, living in the slums, he barely scrunched up enough to buy Magic Life.

He had no other option because he needed money.

His name was Lucas Rollin, he was a short skinny young man with dirty and messy black hair and green eyes. His life went downhill when his parents were killed 10 years ago. Although law enforcement was good, there were simply to many loopholes. Just as robots are good for law enforcement, crime proliferated with them.

His parents were robbed and killed leaving him without the capability to go to school or collage making him have to start gaming. That said, he isn’t particularly skilled, due to the incomplete education, as a merchant or trader, he wasn’t very good, and he sucked at fighting. Even with the time difference in games, he was truly untalented at fighting. He only had one talent, he was humane and would choose humane choices. Although his life was hard for these choices, he did survive with these choices. If he was placed within the king role, he would be called a peace loving king instead of a war and conqueror king.

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As his body is scanned, a holographic copy formed. On his arm, a strange wrist accessory was lighting up with circuit like lines.

The hologram copy was soon sucked into the wrist accessory and a hologram screen appeared.

Brainwave  and physical body scan complete. You can now log into [Magic Life] the place where your second life begins.

Warning, you will have a random race and possibly class chosen before entering the game depending on the race. Some monster races are born with a class but due to the special features of the game, the classes can evolve.

Do you want to to log into the game [Magic Life]

Yes

No

“Yes…” Lucas said in a tired and dry voice from the poor amount of water he drinks.

Suddenly the wrist accessory lit up and Lucas, who had sat down in a chair, became dizzy from the immersion. He soon found himself in a white space and two huge roulette wheels.

A beautiful woman dressed in a secretary suit stood smiling at him. “Welcome Mr. Rollin, would you like to commence the race selection?” she asked.

“Sure.” he said simply.

The woman froze a second because she always heard requests, such as avoiding certain types of creatures and all that.

“Um… do you have any particular request such as not wanting specific race?” she asked.

“Nope… you can start.” he said.

She nodded because it really wasn’t common. She pulled the left lever and the huge roulette began to spin.

It span in a blinding speed and a button appeared.

“Please push when yo…”

PA!

Before she even finished he had already pressed it and the wheel began to slow down. The wheel soon divided the colors in red and blue, the good natured races and the evil natured races.

Soon it came to a stop at the edge of the edge of the red and blue. On the blue was human and on the red was Demon.

“You have gotten the demon race. Because of the large variety of demons, most races possess classes generally suited for each race. As such, you are required to spin the class wheel and the demon and class combination will form a third wheel should there be many kinds of demon races for that combination.” she said.

“Alright, proceed.” he said.

Her lips slightly twitched and she pulled the wheel. It was blank but as soon as it began to spin it gained color and formed the hundreds of basic classes. There was combat, craft and support. Support are things like accountant and other ‘jobs’ of the sort meant for secretary type jobs.

The colors were red for combat classes, blue for craft and grey for support.

As it slowed down, the two watched and the woman sighed when she saw the pointer slow down greatly in the grey area. She thought that he would surely suffer because these were weakling demons.

That said, when it finally stopped, she nearly choked. The class design was a small crown. The two wheels shined and merged forming one line.

Race:

Demon Lord

Class:

Demon Lord

Class Tier:

1

The woman’s jaw dropped at the sudden and amazing race and class.

Lucas was also surprised because he had seen so many comics and novels and he unexpectedly was going to become a demon lord.

“C-Congradulations!” the woman said forcing a smile, “... your race is demon lord and the class is the same.” she said.

“Hey, is this the same demon lord as the novels where i’m king of demons?” he asked.

“Yes and no. This is the ‘Lord’ or ‘Noble’ demon. It is the beginner class of the king demon branch.” she explained

“Oh.” he said.

Suddenly the screen shined and condensed into an egg which floated down.

“What’s this?” Lucas asked.

“Your avatar.” he said.

“Huh?!” he exclaimed.

“Good luck.” She said.

“Wait my na…” before he could say anything about his name he blacked out. The reason he could not choose was because it was given in game just like how the race and class was decided at random.