Chapter 1: Another life
As soon as I woke up, I hurried to check my auction, to see if it had reached its required amount. When I saw it a smile had crept up my face, while not as high as Weed’s, the price was still more than enough for the equipment for Royal Road.
“this must be the best day of my life” I yelled in delight, hurriedly I withdrew the money from the bank, and ordered Royal Road, it would take approximately 3 weeks for the equipment to arrive, so I decided to do get some real life experience with some martial arts, as I thought combat would be easier if I already knew some techniques, so for 1 week I did some taekwondo, 1 week of fencing, and the final week I used on learning to smith.
Finally the day came, when some guys came with Royal Road, I couldn’t hide my excitement as I literally jumped with joy, the delivery guys must’ve thought I was crazy, but I didn’t care, I’ve waited for this for a long time now, and no one is allowed to ruin my excitement or joy for that matter.
As soon as it was set up, I gave the delivery men a bonus, and jumped into the pod. It took a while for the magical words to appear.
Would you like to connect to Royal Road?
Yes/No
As if there ever were any doubts, I shouted “YES” at the top of my lungs and everything went dark.
“Hello” said a mechanical female voice, “I see this is the first time you’ve logged in. Let’s proceed with the character creation”
“First, what is your name?”
“Dante”
“Which race do you want to play as?”
My innermost desire would be to play as an elf, but then I would be secluded from the majority of the players that chose human, so I went with that “Human”
“Any changes to your appearance?”
“None”
“Which kingdom would you like to start in?”
“Doesn’t matter”
“Your character is now complete, have fun in Royal Road”
Right when she finished saying that, I woke up in the middle of the town square. Since this was the first time I had ever played a VRMMORPG, I felt a little uncomfortable, so I started running and jumping on the spot to test out this new body. After a while I got a little more comfortable, so I started exploring the town, but since I didn’t exactly know where I was, I asked a NPC guard
“Excuse me, but do you know where I am”
“Of course I do, you are in Rosenheim city”
“Thanks a lot”
All of a sudden I had this urge to hit something, but I couldn’t go out the city before 4 weeks have passed, so I asked the guard where I could hit something.
“The training center, would be a good place to start”
Alright, let’s go to the training center
“Sorry to bother you again, but where is the training center”
“Right down this road to the right, after that at the second intersection turn left, when you reach a tavern turn right down an alley behind it, and it should be in sight”
“Ok, thanks again”
“Hmm, that was some directions, don’t think I remember them all, it was right, left, and right down an alley behind the tavern and it should be there, but I don’t see it anywhere, all I see is some slums, did I take a wrong turn somewhere”
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“Ah, sorry, I was lost in thought”
“No, no, it was my mistake” he said before walking away
“Well, that was weird”
“Hey mister, you should really chase that guy from before” said a little kid
“Why?”
“Well obviously because he stole your wallet” answered some middle-aged guy
“He WHAT, oh, he is so dead, quick kid tell me which way he went, I’m gonna kill that bastard”
“He went that way, he was walking slowly so you might be able to catch him if you run” answered the kid and pointed east.
“Alright, he won’t get away from me, thanks kid” I said as I rushed after the bastard
“Come back here, you son of a *****” I yelled after the guy was in sight
As if my yell was a signal the perpetrator ran at top speed while yelling “Hehe, Catch me if you can, but I warn you, I run 100m in 10 seconds flat”
“That’s obviously a lie you bastard, if you are still in my sight, and the distance haven’t lengthened, but shortened instead, you run slower than me, which only makes this a matter of time before I catch you”
“Ugh, this bastard” said the culprit under his breath,
After a couple of minutes of running, I caught the bastard.
“Now, you can hand over my stuff, or you’ll be beaten to death”
“Fine, here’s your stuff back, you only have 10 loaves of bread, and a canteen anyway”
“Thank you kindly, now get out of my sight, before I mess your face up”
Obviously frightened the man ran like the devil was after him.
“Yeah, you better run, and don’t let me catch you again”
Suddenly I heard a loud sound, and all went black.
“Ugh, where am I, it’s all dark and damp, like some kind of dungeon” I was in a dark and empty room, with only a single ray of moonlight coming out of a window blocked with metal bars, a sudden pain from the back of my head, showed that someone had hit me, and then brought me somewhere I don’t know.
“So you’re finally awake, eh”
“Who’s there?” I yelled out in surprise. An old man’s voice came from the corner of the room, and he approached the moonlight, so I could see his face, contrary to his voice, he was a young man, with a face so handsome that you would like to kill him, so you have one less love rival in the world.
“Allow me to introduce myself; I’m just a lowly player who got locked up in here due to a misunderstanding, my name is Virgil, and as you thought this is a dungeon, the royal dungeons to be exact, you probably committed a crime and were caught by the patrols”
“But I didn’t commit any crimes, I chased a guy who stole my stuff, and I took it back from him”
“Wait, this guy, was he around 176cm tall, had short brown hair, and a dirty face”
“Yes, how did you know?”
“Because he also stole my stuff”
“Wait, wait, wait. Let me get this straight we are both locked up for taking back our items from this guy that stole it from us”
“Seems like it”
“That’s ridiculous”
“Yes it is”
“Ugh, this is not how I imagined my new life in RR at all.”