“Now on to classes,” The thing said unprompted.

Before she could even open her mouth, she was interrupted by a screen appearing before her, showing quite a wall of text. She quickly collected herself and started going through the classes one by one:

Warrior – Basic starting class. A class focused on a balanced approach to combat, finding a compromise between speed and power, survivability and power are high . Able to use a vast array of weapons of both the heavy and light variants. Stat bonuses per level: +1 Agi, +1 End, +1 Vit, +1 Str +1 Tough, +1 Free Point

warrior-archetype. Big and heavy, in her mind wearing full plate armor and a huge tower-shield. Yeah, she couldn't see herself being that.

Archer – A basic starting class. A class focused on ranged combat, mainly using bow and arrow, coupled with light options for melee such as short-swords and daggers. The class is fast and flexible, focusing on agility over strength. Stat bonuses per level: +2 Per, +1 Agi, +1 End, +1 Str, +1 Free Point

Caster – A basic starting class. The caster is focused on the magical combat, favoring wisdom and knowledge over brawn and speed. The basic class is non-attuned, meaning not yet specialized in any element or type of magic, thus limited in power, but wide in scope. Casters wield powerful destructive abilities, though often lacking in defensive options. The class mainly uses catalysts such as staves, idols, relics, or wands in order to amplify the power of magic. Stat bonuses per level: +2Int, +1 Wis, +1 Will, +1 Per, +1 Free Point.

Healer – A basic starting class. The healer can mend injuries, remove afflictions, and amplify the power of themselves and/or their comrades. The basic class is non-attuned, meaning not yet specialized in any deific powers or types of magic, thus limited in power, but wide in scope. The class is weak in solo combat, lacking offensive options, but powerful when surrounded by allies. Stat bonuses per level: +2 Will, +2 Wis, +1 Int, +1 Free Point.

And the last option seemed to be a healer. All classes were ‘basic starting classes’, meaning no special overpowered starting classes. At least not for her. She also noted that all classes provided a total stat boost of 5 per level and one free point. Compared to race, classes seemed to offer more specialized stats, but less overall, though that may just be due to her being human. The healer class did not appeal to her at all, though it did have quite an interesting line about deific powers. Does this imply the existence of gods? Could you become a priest of some kind down the line, perhaps?

“Hey, can you tell me anything more about these classes? Any advice or tips?” Maya asked, hopefully.

“Your path is for you to discover. Now choose a class before we proceed,” the thing responded, leaving little room for further discussion.

Realizing she may as well pick the class she planned on all along, Maya chose the Warrior class.

You have chosen the Warrior class. Confirm?

Maya affirmed the system of her decision.

"You have obtained the Warrior class"

As soon as those words appeared before her eyes, she felt a weird tingling in her head, neither unpleasant nor comfortable. At the same time, some items appeared on the table in front of her. Before she had any chance to look at them further, she was once again greeted by a system message :

"Choose a weapon from this selections":

Axes

Maces

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Swords

Fists, ect...

After seeing the list I decided to narrow it down to close combat weapons. And in the end I chose to go without any weapon, and fight with my hand.

"You have obtained hand-to-hand weapon."

As soon as those words appeared before her eyes, she felt a weird tingling in her head, neither unpleasant nor comfortable. At the same time, some items appeared on the table in front of her. Before she had any chance to look at them further, she was once again greeted by several system messages:

*Gained Skill*: [Basic Hand-to-hand ] – A warrior best friend is his hands. Unlocks basic proficiency with hand-to-hand combat , and adds a minuscule bonus to the effect of agility and strength when using hand .

*Gained Skill*: [Basic One-Handed Weapon ] – The warrior may not be a master in the arts of close combat but is far from helpless. Unlocks basic proficiency with most one-handed weapons and adds a minuscule bonus to the effect of agility and strength when using a fitting melee weapon.

*Gained Skill*: [Warrior's Eye ] – The eyes of the Warrior are trained to track down and spot the weakness of their foes. Allows the warrior to more easily spot prey. Passively gives a minor increase to the effect of Perception on visual organs.

As she read through the three messages, her suspicions of this new system being extremely similar to videogames or perhaps tabletop RPG’s was once again confirmed. All three seemed rather basic.

Furthermore, she instinctively knew how Warrior's Eye worked. She tried to focus and suddenly felt her vision become far clearer than it was before. It was like she gradually switched from low quality to Full HD in around 5 seconds or so as she focused. She looked around, enamored with how distinct everything appeared. As she deactivated the ability, and her vision returned to normal, she looked at her resources and saw that stamina had dropped from 70 to 68, with mana and health both remaining maxed out.

She closed the window and looked towards the items on the table. She looked at the thing sitting eerily still, and inquired: “I assume these things are for me?”

“Yes,” it answered. “They are basic starting equipment based on your starting class. Now, on to the final step of the introduction. Some necessities are given to all new initiates of the system.”

And as it finished those words, Maya was once again greeted by a screen appearing before her.

*Gained skill*: [Identify ] – Basic identification skill, known by all but the smallest of children of the myriad races. The skill allows you to attempt to identify any object or creature you are focusing on.

A skill that would actually allow her to get some semblance of information, maybe? Something she felt like she desperetly needed. Only more and more questions kept appearing throughout this entire introduction ordeal, with little to no answers.

“The time allotted for the introduction is coming to an end in 10 minutes, and you will be transported to the tutorial. It is recommended to acquire the equipment given before the end of the introduction, or the items will be lost,” It said, making Maya panic slightly as she went up to grab the stuff on the table.

The items included a small knife, a black robe and pants, black gloves and a small satchel attached to a belt.

The knife seemed to be as simple as they come and was just a steel blade attached to a wooden handle. The quality of all the items was rather good, in her opinion. Last but not least, she looked at the small satchel, and upon opening it, found a couple of small bottles.

As she wondered what they were, she nearly slapped herself across the head, remembering her identification skill. She started focusing on one of the bottles containing red tinged liquid, and after 3-4 seconds, a new screen appeared:

[Health Potion ] – Restores health when consumed.

What did she expect? As simple as they come. She used Identify on the other items in the satchel one by one, finding a total of 3 health potions, 3 stamina potions that did the exact same thing as the health potion, but for stamina. As she closed the satchel, she moved on to the other items. The gloves, pants and robe yielded no result, simply informing her that the gloves were gloves and that the black robe was a black robe. With little hope, she inspected the knife, being positively surprised:

[Enchanted knife] – A knife enchanted with the ability to restore itself when damaged when injected with mana.

That sure as hell seems useful, Maya thought. As she was finishing up her inspection, she was once more kindly reminded that she did not have infinite time.

“Two minutes till the start of the tutorial.”

Maya, in a rush, got the robe on and started attaching the belt with the satchel on it and put the gloves on . The belt also came with a small sheath, which she promptly placed the knife in, and closed the small leather buckle meant to keep it in place. Finally, she put the pants on.

“10 seconds to the start of the tutorial,” the humanoid thing reminded her.

“It was nice to meet you, I guess, whatever you are,” she said as she waved it goodbye. A bit afraid, but more so than that, she felt a small sense of excitement build up in the pit of her stomach.

*Introduction sequence completed. Transporting to tutorial…*