The group walked out into a plains and there were many animals running around, everything from deer and rabbits to wolves and coyotes. John looked around seeing a few people trickling outside behind them, He spotted a few people in red and black clothes, only one group was edgy enough to wear that, crimson spectres, one of them, an older looking man whose name was Gaius ran up to a random player and cut him in the neck with his sword. a critical hit and a second strike to the chest ended with the shocked player dying and bursting into blue pixels, that's Gaius for you, he'll be bragging about having the first kill in the game for years. "Dude, what if you just killed him irl?" A white haired tall man asked, Bane.

Gaius laughed. "I know because he's already dead, we all are. and if we see him again, we'll know the consequences of dying aren't character deletion."

John called out. "Did you even read his gamer tag dumbass?"

"Mind your own business liotards." A short blond guy said, the user handle was Melacis.

"Did your mommy teach you to speak like that shorty?" Tyrese said, grinning.

"Would you all shut up I have a fucking hangover..." A man with long black hair and red eyes said, nursing his head, the player tag Merlin hung over his head.

"When did you have time to drink?" Gaius asked.

"I found a pub." Merlin said, rubbing his head.

"and how did you pay?" Leo pitched in.

Merlin laughed then winced. "Pay? I took half their stock then ran away when the barkeep took out a sword."

John cracked a smile at the murder guild leaders antics, despite his apparent insanity he had a charm to him.

They split ways, agreeing for now not to get in each other's way, eventually they found some wolves, there were a good five of them. one lunged at him, and he activated incorporeal, the wolf passed right through him, but it took alot out of him, it wasn't kidding when it said it drained rapidly. "Woah, what was that?" Leo asked.

"The unique skill I rolled, what did you get?" John asked.

In response Leo roared and his staff glowed a glowing golden banner fluttered on an unfelt wind, after that each of them got a twenty percent boost to their attack and defense. Leo explained lunging at a wolf and slammed a wolf in the face with his staff before blasting it with a fire bolt, and kicked it away, sending three more firebolts at it. it landed right on it's feet but the firebolts hit it three times and the wolf exploded into red pixels.

Lenda shot a firebolt at one of the wolves and when it lunged at her Tyrese blocked it with his shield and stabbed it with his sword as she pelted it with three more fireballs, after a while they were joined by several other people who were apparently some of our guild members in other games, they started farming the wolves and it'd been nearly three hours and many had leveled up to level 6 or 7. though they'd gotten a slight head start they were only a level or two ahead at level 7. John took a break to look at his menu.

Name: Specter

Level: 7

Class: Rogue

Subclass: Unlocked at level 10

Special ability: Incorporeal

Gear:

Head, none,

Chest, basic leather chest piece,

hands, none,

Legs, none,

undergarments, Commoner's cloth shirt and pants,

necklace, none,

rings, none,

cloak, none,

main weapon, iron dagger,

offhand weapon, none,

reserve weapon, crude shortbow.

Stats:

strength, 5

Dexterity, 8

Intelligence, 5

Stat points available, 6

skills:

Skill points available, 3

backstab, upon striking an enemy from behind, you deal critical damage, stacks when striking a critical area such as head or neck.

sneak, when you can enter a stealth mode making you harder to detect, must be out of line of sight to use.

climb, you can climb up surfaces that many would deem nearly impossible, climbing becomes easier.

Abilities:

Ability points available, 3

incorporeal, attacks and objects go through you and you can walk through solid surfaces, unable to breath while in this state, rapidly drains stamina.

John looked at his stat points and ability points, the ability points seemed to be given one every two levels while stat points were given one every level.

He saw a (?) button next to each stat and decided to look at what they did.

Strength, allows one to do super human feats of strength such as punching through a wall or sending a cat to the moon, it effects carry weight, maximum health, what kind of weapons you can use, and the grade of armor you can equip.

Dexterity, okay Bruce Lee, float like a butterfly sting like a bee, effects movement speed, jump height, attack speed, and critical damage.

Intelligence, you're a wizard Harry, use the mystical powers of conjuration, elementalism, or illusion vanquish your foes, or in the case of illusion drive them into a world of madness. increases perception levels, your ability to stay cool under pressure, and of course has positive effects on magic such as damage, effectiveness, and duration.

"Great, my Menu is starting to mouth off to me..." He muttered, he put four in dexterity and two in intelligence he looked around, his vision was a little sharper, he spotted a mouse a little ways away that he had not seen before, he threw his dagger and it impaled the rodent.

Leo raised an eyebrow. "Mine's been doing that too, it apparently changed since the beta test."

[+1 experience, 358 required to level up. you better get on it, you're going so slow, it's boring to watch.]

Stolen from its rightful place, this narrative is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.

John dismissed the notification and after a couple seconds his knife appeared back in his hand.

He walked over to the others and continue grinding, he found that attacking the head and neck gave him critical hits, as well as the deepness of his cuts caused them to take more damage.

eventually as soon as he reached level nine, some random player ran up and attacked him, caught off guard he dodged but a cut landed on his cheek and critical hit panged into his vision, it hurt like a bitch but it didn't effect him all that much.

He rolled backwards and Leo looked back with surprise, they stopped fighting the coyote and kicked it away, it yipped and ran away, interesting programming they gave the coyotes making them kinda cowardly. Leo approached. "Okay champ, you can't have thought fighting a group of sixteen people alone was a good idea, the fuck were you thinking?"

On queue the swordsman whistled and two more people came out of the grass, a swordsman and two rogues, interesting he didn't see them, that must have been the sneak skill at work. "Well done, you've exposed your backup, who mind you are rogues, well done, three cheers for the greatest mind of a generation."

Tyrese laughed. "Hip hip hurray." He said, though he was still dealing with two wolves.

The swordsman scowled. "Shut up bitch." He said, in that way that kids on the internet do when confronted.

John sheathed his dagger and drew his bow and knocked an arrow, he drew and fired, it missed, he didn't have any practice with the bow but oh well, they started charging forward two at him and one of the rogues went at Leo.

John watched the rogue swing at his neck so he activated incorporeal and reslung his bow and grabbed his knife, as the rogue passed through him and the swordsman's strike went through his knife as he swung, and passed through his chest and left arm, and then his stamina ran out and he slashed them across the throat with his dagger, critical hit, the swordsman stumbled backwards clutching his throat. "D- Did you just hit me? how dare you hit me."

John was exhausted but he could feel his stamina regenerating, he must have misheard, he couldn't believe that just came out of his mouth, they thought they'd try to kill him and he'd just stand there and let him do it.

John spun around and deflected a strike from the rogue and to his surprise didn't take damage, blocking and parrying actually works in this game? John thought. He stabbed the rogue in the head and a second critical hit, he ripped his knife out and kicked the rogue away, it didn't work very well due to his lack of strength though he did stumble back, he turned back to the swordsman who was drinking a red potion. "You've got to be joking." John said with disgust. "You seriously have the gall to gang up on me, and use regen items, that's it, I'm done."

The man burped and chucked the empty bottle at him. He side stepped and the bottle broke against the rogues still injured face. "Ow! what the fuck dude!?"

"I'm so- woah!" John cut his apology off as he ran up to the swordsman and attacked, they tried to block with his arm, that didn't have a shield, causing him to stab his knife through his arm. They screamed. He tried to trip them but they pulled back and John turned throwing his dagger at the rogue it struck him in the head again, this time he exploded into blue pixels, the knife thumping to the grass the swordsman leapt at him. "Kyle no! Motherfucker! I'll end you!"

John turned feigning a scared expression, he activated incorporeal and they leapt through him, it still took alot out of him, as it drained a stamina bar he couldn't see. "Are you ever not going to fall for that?" He asked after he undid incorporeal and his dagger teleported back to his hand.

"What?" He he asked, clearly not getting the reference.

John sighed disappointedly and the swordsman struck at him again, he must have been expecting him to be incorporeal because he aimed for his chest, John raised his dagger and deflected it, and slammed the dagger into their face. they attacked him again but he didn't bother blocking he ripped his knife out again and stabbed them again. two crits did it, he exploded into blue pixels, though he now had a gaping wound in his side from their slash.

He turned looking at Leo who was sitting on top of the remaining rogue he was fighting they were throwing a tantrum trying to kick him and punching the ground, cursing him out all the while. Leo gave him a bonk on the head with his staff. "Quiet down you little troglodyte, Christ Johnny, kids these days."

John opened his menu and looked and saw a camera icon, he grinned villainously.

Level up.

Congratulations, your efforts, bullying children and eco terrorism, has given you enough xp to reach your next level, hope you enjoy the benefits of being level 10.

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Five minutes later Player noobslayer69 respawned next to one of his rogue friends in the cathedral, he got a message from user Specter, it was a picture, it was of his friend, belly up on the ground while the group he tried to fight were holding his hand and chest up by his hair, while one of them a black guy and some asian woman were holding a pair of deer antlers to each side of his head like a deer, the words 'Deer have no right to fight lions' were printed onto the picture. He screamed and stomped causing many npc's in the cathedral to look at him with looks of disgust, though apparently as of now it wasn't an uncommon sight. "Mother damn shitters!" He screamed. He wished his dad had never bought him this game.

Five minutes later and his other rogue friend spawned in. Despite his adult avatar the three of them were maybe 10 at most, all three of them friends from grade school, they were essentially the kids you'd see in a black ops 2 lobby on the Xbox, screaming and cussing without care for your precious eardrums.

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John Smiled as a string of curses filled his chat. "Aaaaand block."

[User Manslayer69 has been blocked.]

John turned to Leo and they killed the last player, the exp from the players was surprisingly low, but it managed to get him to level 10.

[Level 10 achieved.]

[Choose a subclass.]