Cosmic Champion
Prologue
Episode 2 – To New World
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“urhh……” Zeke wakes up with a severe headache and exhaustion.
His vision is blurry.
He blinks several time hoping that the blur would go away……. but to no avail.
He then tries to shake his head slowly but more headache was given instead.
“ha….. ha…. Ha……” with the pain continues in his head, Zeke decides to lie still and wait for his body and mind to recover.
5 minutes or so has passed and he starts to feel better. His breaths are stable.
Although the ache still persists, Zeke no longer feels the sharp pain.
“Now I understand why many people don’t wanna comeback to this game….”
He thinks as he raises his right hand to his forehead.
A numbness is felt in that hand, but it wastes away in a few moments.
“Player Ramon, how do you feel?”
A man voice appears from Zeke’s right arm.
It is the male staff from before.
“Your login system sucks.”
Zeke’s eyes follow the voice and are met with a white rectangle device, looking like a watch, on his right wrist.
He answers with displeasure.
“We are truly sorry. The after effects of logging in varies individually. We are trying to improve it as best as we can.”
The staff explains nervously.
“Whatever. Let me rest for a bit.”
Zeke’s voice still carries some anger. He lets out a big sigh from exhaustion.
The man behind the device doesn’t respond anything back after hearing him.
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“Huuuu…”
After being exhausted for 5 minutes or so, Zeke is back to normal as if nothing had happened before.
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He raises his body and let out a gentle sigh.
With his vision returned, he discovers that he’s sitting on a bed.
It is a very small bed, for one person only.
Then he looks around carefully.
He finds himself inside a large dome-shaped building.
There is a wide-open path at the opposite direction of where he is right now.
Despite the dark color of materials inside the building, there are light sources here and there on the ceiling and on the walls.
The light that shines through the path combined with light sources inside shows many beds arranging in order around Zeke.
“Only me? ….. Maybe they already went out, I guess…”
Zeke thinks to himself after seeing nothing but white sheet on those beds.
After satisfied with scanning the surrounding area, he rises up from the bed.
Thud
As he was about to take a step, his foot kicked something making it dropped to the ground.
When he picks it up, he gets himself a sword along with its sheath.
Zeke carefully draws out the sword from its wooden sheath and swings it around.
Wip wap
“Huh…I thought it’s gonna be heavy….”
….
“Yoooo this is cool…..”
Although the sword isn’t as light as a stick, it’s also not too heavy. He tries swinging it around to test.
The sword has a similar design to the medieval period. A double-edged sword, made with steel from the sharp pointy blade to the guard, but the handle was made with wood.
After swinging it around to his satisfaction, Zeke puts the sword back to its sheath and proceed to the open path.
….
What welcomes Zeke is a green forest.
A gentle wind touches his face giving a slight coldness.
The light that showers from the sky also gives a slight warmth, not hot at all.
Everything feels so real!
His heart pounds faster from glee and an excitement.
This is the game that will change the world!
And he’s one of the few who get to play before anyone!
He straps the sword to his waist and begins his journey to the forest.
This is the first step to a new dawn for Zekiel Ramon!!!!
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Although the trees inside abound, there are still some paths and open ways here and there.
The forest isn’t overgrown, it seems.
Zeke wandered around for a while before an encounter with a group of living things.
Those living things are round in shape throughout its body.
If anyone used to this type of game, they’ll know those things instantly.
“Slimes”
Slimes are animal that look like a droplet. A big droplet.
Big droplets that can jump around.
Those slimes are mixed in color. Some are green, some are blue, some are red, and some are purple.
They have sparkly and sparkling eyes like those characters in Anime.
They are no different from generic slimes in RPG games.
When carefully observe, one could see that inside their bodies exists a darker color spot.
Zeke guesses that those are the core of the slime. The core of a slime is like a heart to them.
“This much here? I guess there must be a water source around here?” he murmurs to himself.
Slimes often found in areas nearby water sources because of their appearance.
*splatter*
Zeke charges into a slime and cuts through its core making its liquidy body splashes around.
[You leveled up]
A sound rings up from the device from his arm.
“Nice” he says with a faint smile.
He’s having fun right now. He turns around to kill the other slimes.
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There were 10 slimes in that group and right now, 9 are gone.
Zeke hasn’t heard the “level up” sound for a while now, so he guesses that after finishing this last one he’ll get to level 3 for sure.
Despite that, he wants to make sure, so he tries to find a way to see his own Stats.
Stats stands for Statistics, so of course, they are the information that is necessary to play the game.
“Are you here? I want to see my Stats. How do I do it?”
Zeke tried moving his hands around, making weird gestures and such, resulting in nothing happened for a while, so he stopped embarrassing himself and called the staff.
In that moment, the device’s screen glows and the blue light appears from that screen.
[Name]: Zekiel Ramon
[Order]: Human
[Level]: 2
[Experience]: 0/10
[Health Point]: 100
[Stamina]: 32
[Attack]: 1+5
[Defense]: 1
A blue rectangle expands from the device’s screen to the size of a book showing data for Zeke to read easily.
“Wow…”
Zeke is amazed by the unknown high technology of the device and mutters with leisurely voice as he reads the texts.
“What the f***?!?!?!?!”
“Why is my Experience still 0 ???????”