Curiosity killed the cat By Zero
Volume 01 Chapter 00 - Prologue
All credit to their rightful owner, as the only thing I hold credit for is the story plot .
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[Time until Activation:]
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After the timer semitransparent message vanish, another one appeared:
[Connect to Royal Road]
[Yes | No]
I said “Yes!” in excited voice without hesitation.
As soon as I said that I appeared within a universe white emptiness. In excitement and out of my curiosity I went to my little world, happily running around playing like a little girl and filing to notice feminine voice saying repeatedly and robotically:
“ The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account? “
As I was thinking to myself:
** Where does this place end. And more importantly does it end!!** as I keep running everywhere and to nowhere exactly.
**how is it there was practically no ground under my feet but it feels natural to run here** so l also begin to experiment with jumping around.
**Is there anybody else** still not noticing feminine robotically voice that know has a small hint of impatient.
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As a thought cross me of trying to hear the echo of my voice. I stopped running and said “HELLO” in a loud voice.
As soon as I was disappointed to not hearing the echo I heard an angry voice saying “HEY LITTLE KID STOP RUNNING AND FOOLING AROUND”
That snap my out of my little world and into reality. As I was realize what actually happening that I was in the middle of activating my account for Royal Road (RR), the first VRMMORPG game with 99% realism. Which runs 4x faster than real life. Where it is the only game in the world where anybody could obtain fame, power and money. And has a chance to aim to be An Emperor in its Versailles continent, and gain a massive reward from RR maker Unicorn Corporation if it is achieved .
I lowered my head in embarrassment and sensed a heat in my cheeks. I stood in there in this state frozen and ashamed from what happened especially because I was referred to as a little kid. As I was anything but that, I am a university student in my early 20s.
Seeing me like this the voice calmed down a little and said complaining: “Do you how many times did I called you. And how much I will keep repeating these lines not only to you but also others”
I said apology “ I’m sorry for the inconvenience that I cause to you. It just that I sometimes spaced out and goes to my little word” still lowering my head.
Accepting my apologize the AI said “Why do I feel that it is not just sometimes”
** why do I have a feeling that she feels concern and sorry for me ………. must be my imagination**
She completed what she was saying in a concern tone like when you advice little kids “you know there is a saying that curiosity killed the cat”
** ……. Or not……**
I said “I will careful next time around” ** but It’s not like I can erase my habits of spacing out and my curiosity. As there is a saying that old habits die hard.**
she said “Now that matter is behind us ”
Then she added in her feminine robotic “ The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account? “
I said “Yes!” immediately so I don’t waste time anger her and also out of respect for advising and forgiving me.
She said “Select the name of your avatar”
I panicked as I had yet to choose a name. Searching in my head the first thing that I come up with **…oh cat** and then said “Do you know what cat are called in Elven?” as I wanted to take the race half elf.
She said “yes it’s called Cath’ ”
I said “thinks, I wants my name to be Cath’ ”
She said “Select your gender from male, female or neutral”
** eh, neutral gender what is that!? Looks interesting**
I said “neutral , and can you please explain what it is.”
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She said “You can be both gender and can change between them at irregular times. And any more information you will have to discover it secrets yourself”
** hmm it keeps getting more interesting, this could be a hint for adventure. As this game implement the mythologies of the world as I think this has some relation to a son of a Greek god that forgot his name and Nymphs **
Cutting my line of thoughts the AI said “Royal Road has forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary twenty-seven”
I said “Can I chose the sub elf race as foundation of the half elf race?”
She said “yes you can, it is normally chosen from the available sub elf race. But as you are from the first 100 bought capsule in your region for this release. you either chose one wish to choose from any sub elf race to use. Or you can add 10 free stats point to Add to your character”
After a quick thinking I said “hmm I chose the race of half elf and as it halves a human and high elf?” **In my thinking a high elf has the most powerful magical among the elf races**
She said in a concern tone “…….hmm you had chosen a difficult race to combine with! as high elf haughtily view all other races beneath. You best to hid the fact that you are a part high elf.”
And then she continued in her robotic voice tone “You may alter your male and female appearance”
Then appears in front of me two slender 6 feet figures that looks like a human if not for the slightly pointed ears one a boyish girl with slightly flat chest and the second a girlish boy has little to no muscles. They have slightly elegant appearance ** must be because the high elf part as I has a plain appearance except my face is somewhat a baby-faced** and there face became more elegant also but it still has slightly the appearance of my somewhat a baby-faced. They had the same hair cut (my hair reaches to my shoulder)I have but the color of it has change to faintly glowing silver color. They Also has change the eye color to sky blue. As these colors are the mark of a high elf.
Panicking to what changes I can do so my appearance not gives what I am. “ …… umm”
As if reading my mind the AI said “you can change the appearance to be as closed to a human by changing the length of your ears and height. And also change the color shade degree of your hair and eyes”
I said “O ok I want to change the height to my original height (average 5 feet). Then changing the length of me ears to look like it is not pointed unless you focus on it. And I wants the color of my hair dark silver and my eyes dark blue. In addition I wants my hair to reaches the end of my ears.”
Cath' as a male
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Cath' as a female
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She said “Your account has been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road …..” I listen to what she is saying careful even thought I know almost everything as I had read the RR website and manual, out of fear that I will anger her.
Then after she finished exampling she said “Select a city and kingdom you want to start.”
I said “anywhere form the available city that has big library, and people with good related magical skills” **as I had a reason for chosen a city with these characters . this reason is the fault of my curiosity**
she said “Welcome to Royal”
Then she said “Do you wants to do the tutorial?”
I said “Yes!”
Then I proceed to do the tutorial that goes step by step explaining and trying all the commands to get the user used to using the system commands. When I finished With a flash of light, I appeared in the city plaza near the fountain. In excitement and out of my curiosity to explore the city I begin moving to nowhere exactly. And again I went to my little world exploring the city sites forgetting my promise with the AI to be more careful.
While also thinking **What does the AI look like!?**
Meanwhile the AI thinking **Will Cath’ be Okay**
Word count 1500 words