Volume 01 Chapter 00 - Prologue
Laura Campbell
Friday evening, there is a meeting for higher up in meeting room. They discussing about new management which will needed for the future. After two hours its finally done and some of them already left the room, only four people remain there having small talk.
“Ahhh I cant believe it, finally its time to repairing main building and construct some new buildings since the first time we open this company”. Laura talking loudly while sipping her coffee.
Laura Campbell is the Head of certain Company. Fine Lady with beautiful face and nice body, have long black straight hair which almost reach her waist. But at work she always tied her hair up to make it looks so elegant. Almost all of men in company always petrified when they see her doing anything near them. Eventhough when Laura only drinking coffee its already charming enough and sometimes the woman looking at their expression with pity.
“Yes you’re right, finally I can focus on playing Royal Road again after so much working day after day.” Jason replied.
Jason is one of the two Laura’s most loyal subordinates. Tedd’s rival both on company and in game. Eventhough they always argued with each other, actually they have great teamwork when it comes to critical moment.
“By the way I hear you already bought capsule a month ago boss, did you try it?” Tedd ask timidly to Laura.
Ted is one of the two Laura’s most loyal subordinates. Have a crush on Laura since the first time they met. Always hope one day he can ask her boss to go on a date just the two of them even its only in a game.
“Not yet, I still dont have time to play.” Laura replied
“Well thats true you always busy with this company problem, but from tomorrow you can finally free for around 6 months right?” Tedd ask again.
“Yes but I need doing some excercise before playing, my body is too stiff to play and i will probably get killed by lowest lv mob hahahaha.” Laura streching her body while laughing.
‘Lowest lv mob...its rabbit...’ Jason and Tedd imagine that a rabbit chopping its teeth on Laura’s head causing fountain of blood coming out from inside of her head.
‘Nah it wont happen, though maybe its the opposite.’ They shake their head in unison.
“Dont worry ma’am, you wont get killed by mob right away because you cant get outside from your hometown for a month in game time.”
Beautiful and calm voice came from near the door. Sarah is Laura’s secretary, she has shoulder-lenght black hair. Ready to open the door and going outside from meeting room.
“Going home already Sarah?” Jason ask.
“Yes, we already promise with people from yesterday that we will hunt together tonight... Wait.. dont tell me you that forgot about this Jason.”
“Oh shit I almost forgot, wait for me i’m going too.” Jason replied while preparing to leave the room.
“Well then Im going home too, I dont wanna left behind. Oh if you need any help in game just ask us boss.” Tedd already in front of the door ready to leave the room.
“Alright, thanks for worrying me.”
The three of them leaving together and only left Laura alone in the room. After drinking her coffee she immediately leave the room too and going to parking area to get her car. 30 minutes later she reach her home. After parking her car in the garage, she opened the door and going inside.
“I’m home”
“Welcome home milady, i already prepare dinner for you and the bath is ready too.”
“Alright, thanks for your hard work Nina.”
“No problem Ma’am”
Nina is Laura’s house maid, has honest personality and very loyal to her master.
After had take a bath and dinner, Laura walk toward her room. She is turning on her computer and connect to internet in order to get more information about Royal Road. When she think its enough and feel so tired, she turn it off and going to sleep.
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“Chirp...chirp....chirp......”
“Zzz....zzz.....”
“Tiririririrngggg....tiriririringggg.....tiririr”
“Smack!.. Click!”
“Hoaaahhmm...oh its already 6am, I feel so refresh today. Guess its been so long since last time I have day off from work.”
Morning sunlight goes through the window and reach Laura’s face, like a natural alarm to wake her up today. With the dazzling light, she get up from her bed and walk toward the door then get out of her room. While strecthing her body, she observe inside the house and find out that she is alone now. Nina usually goes shopping early in the morning to prepare breakfast so that Laura can have a proper time to eat. Without waiting for Nina, Laura take a bath and changing her clothes into training suit then leaving the house. She is walking calmly around her complex while enjoy the scenery around her. After walking for about 15 minutes, she turn around and return home.
“Im home”
“Welcome back milady”
“Oh done with shopping Nina?”
“Yes ma’am, and breakfast is ready for you”
“Wow so fast, maybe you should play Royal Road too and become my personal chef”
“No thanks, if Im gonna play then who is going to take care of house chores?”
“Well I guess you still can manage it somehow”
“Please dont take lightly of my job, anyway I think you should consider to alter your appearance 10 year younger. It will make you easier to find some candidate for your ‘future husband’ inside game” Said Nina while grinning.
“Oh shut up, its not that my only purpose is fooling around with some guys there. And stop grinning it make me feel bad for not married yet”
“Cough...my apologise. Well just make sure to eat properly and dont overdone yourself ma’am”
“You sure are strict like usual”
“Cant help it, its my job afterall”
“Oh by the way I need to use ‘that’ room later so please prepare it for me”
“Yes ma’am”
After having breakfast, Laura turn her television on and watch for some news. There are news about politics, crime, discovery channel, some more and ofcourse information about Royal Road. She watch two people discussing about class in that game. Mostly players choose to become Swordman, Archer, Mage/Magician and Priest since its common to other MMORPG games. They hope by choosing the most common class it make them faster to learn the basic. When they reach at certain level or get reward from quest the class can changed into advance state. There seem to be some gossips about hidden class too which can be taken through certain condition or quest. Each class has advantages and disadvantages For example swordman has more carry-weight limit rather than archer or magician. Archer has excellent acuracy. Magician can use elemental power to either attack or deffend while Priest can heal and buff allied. The program ended it with some advice for newbe to choose class depend on hobby, favorite or something each player like the most.
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Feeling enough with information she get from television, Laura turn it off and walk toward exercise room. It is a big room with so many exercise machines and tools everywhere. At the west side, there are many kind of sticks. Most of it made of different kind of wood and bamboo, while the others made of metal. Each stick has various size ranging from 0,5 meter up to 4 meters-length with various shape too. Everyday before going to work she always exercise in this room even its only for few minutes, still it help her to maintain her body and stamina.
Laura also used to learning martial art called silat in a certain dojo. Silat is a martial art that originally came from Indonesia. Tongkat is the name that is referred to in silat’s stick fighting systems. Tongkat literally means ‘walking stick’ and the walking stick style was generally practiced by Grandmasters in silat, because only with years of experience and training could the practitioner be skilled and wise enough to be able to defend themselves with a blunt instrument against an attacker with a golok (machete) or pisau (knife).
The traditional tongkat walking stick style consists of parrying and counter-strikes with loose locks using the curved handle grip upon their assailant's attacking knife hand. The tongkat fighter will also use the curved handle to hook around their opponent's ankle to sweep them off their feet or around their neck to choke.When Laura recieved Master title, she open her own dojo and has some disciples. But eventually with her work goes busier time after time, it left her with no choice other than stop teaching silat. Though sometimes she need to relieve her stress by playing around with stick when she has day off from her work.
“Knock...knock... Its time to lunch Milady”
“Alright, I’ll be there soon” Laura stopped her exercise and put back her stick to its place and heading to dining room.
While having lunch, Laura still wondering which class she should choose. She hope there is a class which use stick as a weapon like martial art class or something like that. Its just that she is not accustomed using sword even more bow with arrow. After finishing her lunch, she walk toward her room. Not sure what feeling she is having now but Nina can see Laura grinning while walking away ‘Sigh...what a childish expression she has there’. Cant wait another minutes passed, Laura rush into her capsule and jump to get inside of it.
Connect to Royal Road
Yes
No
“Yes”
With the light sparkled in front of her eyes for few seconds, she found her self in a white room with nothing inside. When she look around suddendly there were a beautiful female voice talking to her.
- The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account?
“Yes please”
- Select the name of your avatar.
“Rose”
Beautiful flower yet thorny all over its stem. Eventhough someone who is beautiful or handsome and having perfect appearance, still there must be some flaws deep down inside their personality or something else. Its not that she is perfectionist, its just that those words can motivating her to have kindness personality despite of her perfect appearance too. Yes... she sure is thinking too highly about herself after all.
- Select your gender from male, female or neutral.
“Female”
- Royal Road have forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary twenty-nine kind of races....
“Human”
- You may alter your appearance or stay with your original state.
“No need to alter, just the way I am is fine”
‘Original body is the most suitable to move around, and I dont need to make my appearance younger.’
- Select a city and kingdom you want to start.
“The Citadel of Serabourg, Rosenheim Kingdom”
- Welcome to Royal Road. Your account have been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road. Do you want to process the tutorial mode?
“No thanks”
- We will send you directly to your starting place. Thank you for playing Royal Road and have a nice day.
‘Royal Road, here I come’
*Flash*
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Hello! finally I got my own fanfic this time. Well this is my first time to write story so i guess there will be alot of mistakes.
Anyway this is only a Prologue and hopefully i have some free time to finish my first chapter, I'll work hard to make interesting story so that u guys can enjoy tho im not really sure it will work or not.
Well like any other fanfics... all criticisms, suggestions and comments are welcome :D
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