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Inside a basement located in an alley in the city of Prontera, Albert sat on the wooden paneled floor while staring at the transparent rectangular screen in front of him. The screen in front of him is his character screen, it shows Albert his basic information such his name, his level and his statistics attributes. This screen also shows the six fundamental statistics attributes. The six fundamental attributes are Strength, Dexterity, Vitality, Intelligence, Agility and Luck. These are called 'Base Stats' which ultimately fortifies an adventurer's body. Each attribute fortifies an adventurer in various ways. Strength fortifies an adventurer's body by increasing his or her overall body's strength. The higher the strength base stats of an adventurer has, the higher the damage that an adventurer can deal using melee attacks. Dexterity fortifies the an adventurer's body to be more precise when attempting to deal a damage. This statistic attribute allows magical users to cast their skills at a faster rate and allows Archer class adventurers to deal more damage with their bows and arrows.  The higher dexterity attributes means lesser chance to miss one's foes.

Vitality fortifies an adventurer's life and their ability to regenerate their health. The higher Vitality an adventurer has the higher the chances of his or her ability to stay alive. Intelligence fortifies an adventurer's mind and the amount of mana that one has. This statistic attribute allows magical users to deal more damage with their skills. Agility fortifies an adventurer's body by increasing his or her entire body's movement. This statistic attribute allows an adventurer to increase one's attack speed and  evasiveness which can cause any attack to be easily dodged. Luck statistic attributes enhances an adventurer's chance to strike with a critical damage. 

Adventurers have to be careful when distributing their statistical points because they gain five statistical points per level to distribute into any of the six base stats and each stat become permanent which cannot be change once distributed.

 Albert at the moment is feeling a little panicked and confused about how he should feel right at the moment. He's doesn't know whether he should be either feeling terrified or excited at his current circumstances and he wasn't sure if what's happening was either a nightmare or a dream that has come true. But it might be too early to determine anything at all since he hasn't figured out about his exact situation. So far Albert had just discovered that he's in the world of his favorite online game called 'Deaths of the Gods'. At first he thought that he had some how found him self in a very impressive cosplay convention. But as he further investigated, he discovered the truth and the proof was right in front of him literally.

 Albert looked at the transparent screen in front of him again. Seeing the character status screen in front of him made him feel like he's in a dream. But he know that he's fully conscious and for some weird sci-fi explanation, he happens to have slipped into the world of his favorite online game accidentally. Albert wants to figure out if he's able to go into the world of his favorite online game through his closet, would he be able to get back to his own world through the same way?

"Let's try it!"

Albert hesitantly decided to walk into the door where he walked out from before he arrived into the basement in Prontera. He then closed the door and waited for a moment. While inside, he then waited for a minute or so, Albert opened the door and once it was opened, the terrifying feeling he had subsided and what was left was pure thrill.

"I'm back!"

Albert was back in his room again. Relieved that he was able to return to his room and back in to his world, he began jumping gleefully. After the excitement from his body had disappeared from all the jumping, Albert laid back on his bed and began to think and talk to himself.

"Play 'Deaths of the Gods' online or play the real live version. But wouldn't it be more exciting to play it in reality?"

Albert changed his position in his bed and sat down. He stared at his closet door as the debate in his head continuously went on. One side of him is terrified of what he had just discovered and should tell someone about it, but another side of him is simply ecstatic that he has the chance to actually live in a world of fantasy. A world of swords and magic. But before he decides what to do, he wasn't sure if he would be able to go back and forth the worlds freely. It could have just been some kind of dumb luck and now he won't be able to return again.

 Albert decided to test the closet again. If he could go back and forth anytime he wanted, Albert's entire plan for summer would be completely changed. 

"Alright I'm actually going to do this. . . ."

Albert rubbed his hand together and hopped inside his closet. He then closed the door and waited inside the compartment for a moment. When he opened the door to see if he was actually transported back to the basement in Prontera, his eyes widened.

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"Oh my god! It works!!"

Albert screamed out and began jumping up and down.

"I'm in Prontera!! I'm going to be an adventurer for reals!"

Moments later after Albert tested out his closet, he returned back to his room. Seeing that he could go back and forth into the world of 'Deaths of the Gods' anytime, the level of his excitement was off the charts. To him this incident is a great gift from the universe.

It was something out of a fantasy fiction where some guy has the ability to travel between two worlds. Albert decided to prepare for his journey into Prontera. He grabbed his backpack and emptied its contents. Once it was empty, Albert hurried to the fridge and stuffed any non-perishable snacks into his backpack. The purpose of bringing food to the game DoTG (Deaths of the Gods) is because food in the game heals a character from any injuries, this is why Albert decided to bring as much non perishable snacks as possible.

"I got the healing stuff. Now I need weapon and armor." Albert grinned.

After grabbing some snacks from the fridge, Albert went to the garage to look for anything useful. When he arrived at the garage, he saw a rack of aluminum baseball bats and some baseball helmets that he hasn't used for a while. Albert grabbed a baseball bat and helmet for him to use when he goes off for his adventure. Seeing that it was covered in cobwebs and dust. he began to clean both equipment. Albert couldn't help but grin as he wiped off the dust on one of the baseball bat and the helmet.

"I wonder if this will work." He thought to himself. 

Since these items aren't items from the game, It made him wonder if bringing them will have any effect on the world at all. But he won't know until he tries. Moments later Albert returned to his room. He put on his hiking boots that he had under his bed, denim pants and the baseball helmet that he found in the garage.

"I'm ready!"

With a baseball bat at hand and a backpack full of string cheese and jerky, Albert entered the closet from his room and closed the door. While inside he waited a while then opened the door again. The feeling of excitement brimmed throughout his body when he stepped back into the basement in Prontera.

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Prontera is knows as the capital city of the Kingdom of Midgard. This is the city where all adventurers of 'Deaths of the Gods' players began. This was also the place where Albert will begin his journey as a real adventurer. Since it was summer for him in his world, Albert doesn't need to worry about his parents worrying where he would be. Since he made a deal with his parents to not bother him in his room for the entirety of summer in exchange of him having straight A's in school. But from time to time, he needs to return home so no suspicions will occur.

While Albert was thinking about any problems that he needed to sort out, he was walking towards the Adventurer's guild which is located near the center fountain. Since he had just beginning as an adventurer, he needs to acquire an Adventurer's card. 

An Adventurer card is something every adventurer is required to have. Before becoming a Novice adventurer, a person's status class is designated as citizen of Midgard. After registering as an adventurer, that class changes to Novice adventurer and after being endowed with the title, the adventurer receives his official adventurer's card from the guild. The card serves a purpose of identification through out Midgard for all adventurers, without one an adventurer would be considered illegal.

Albert walked toward the counter where a woman wearing a maid outfit sat behind. Instantly when he made eye contact, he was greeted in a bored monotone voice.

"Hello. Welcome to the Adventurer's Guild, How may I help you."

"Hello, I'm a new adventurer and I seem to have misplaced my adventurer's card."

The woman behind the counter expressed a depressingly deep sighed.

"Typical novice. . . . Whats your name?"

"Albert Guro"

The woman quickly turned around and walked away from the counter. Then a moment later she returned with a card at hand.

"Since this is your first time losing your card, you won't be charged. But if you lose it again you will be charged one thousand gold. After the third time the fee increases to  five thousand gold. After loosing it for the fifth time its ten thousand gold. Losing your adventurer card after the fifth time will force the Adventurer Guild to enforce a punishment. So don't misplace your card!"

The woman placed Albert's card on the counter for him to take.

"Have a nice day."

Albert became nervous when he heard the fee charges after losing one's adventurer's card. He now has to make sure that he doesn't lose it or else. Albert opened his backpack and safely inserted his Adventurer's card inside. For now his only means of storage is his backpack. Later on, hopefully he'll be able to grab a hold of a dimension storage ring, a magical ring that allows an adventurer to store a certain number of items without the hassle of carrying the weight. But as of now he won't be able to afford one. 

Now since the problem with Adventurer's card has been sorted out, Albert started to head towards the east field of Prontera to look for monsters to defeat so that he could level up. Since he's only a level one Novice, he won't be able to do much but with the weapon that he brought from home, its like he's cheating. Usually a normal Novice adventurer would only have a tree branch to defend themselves with., but for Albert, he has a weapon that came from a different world.

The weapon he's currently holding is an aluminum bat. According to its description, it gives Albert an additional four hundred twenty  attack damage. That much damage is very high compared to any beginner's weapon. Plus it doesn't have any requirements for him to equip it. 

When Albert arrived in the east field of Prontera, he began swinging left and right at any monsters that he could see in sight. Albert couldn't help but laugh manically as he slaughtered the monsters that was unfortunate enough to be in his way. After a few hours he was already level five and his backpack was full of items that was dropped by the monsters that he had slayed. Albert was amazed because he hasn't even used any of his non-perishable food yet because he would instantly kill any monsters that felt the wrath of his baseball bat.

Since his backpack couldn't hold anymore items, Albert decided to go to the item shop to sell off the items that he picked up.

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