I awoke to the sound of delivery trucks and a knock on my door. Wondering what was going on I hurriedly went down stairs to open my door. There I found a tall well dressed man that seemed oddly familiar.

“Mr. Xander, I am a Representative of U.N.C.L.E he has asked me to set you up with the latest technology, pod and game for you to play test. He said it's something only you with your unique talents could do”

He must be talking about my ability to meld my mind with computers and of course he would know considering Uncle is the one who messed with my genetic code in the first place

“What does uncle really want me to do”

The strange man's features went hard at my remark and I heard a malicious voice in my head accompanied by severe pain.

'you will refrain from talking about such things in public. Learn to read between the lines and keep your mouth shut, the orders are with the package.'

“Something wrong Mr. Xander” The man said with a disingenuous grin.

“No, nothing, thank you for your concern. You can set it up in the living room” I said managing to keep the shaking from my voice.

“The men will be done in half an hour, Mr. Xander, please wait till that time is over”

After the half hour was up I went down stairs to see the man and his crew were done and in its place was a virtual dive pod and taped to the pod was a envelope. I walked over to the envelope and opened it. Inside was a thin electronic pad, on it was a video, I clicked play.

On the screen was a tall thin middle aged man dressed in a cashmere business suit that I recognized as Uncle.

“Xander as you know you were born with a rare genetic disease that would of killed you within three years of your birth. Your parents begged me to save you even knowing the price. That price is to be paid today. I have genetically re-engineered you to be the perfect virtual spy and assassin. With your mind able to accesses the very fiber of any machine to rewrite any code. I have created the future of virtual reality gaming, a game indistinguishable from reality, with added measure of being in a fantasy world.”

“You Xander will be one of my enforcers one who make sure I get what I want, but you are a hidden enforcer, one that enforces from the background, you will create a character starting in the beta and will be given tasks from me that you will be required to complete. This might be a simple assassination to full blown torture. What you do on your own time is your business”

“Failure to complete the task will end in your termination, that is all”

After reading the manual I went into the pod.

“Connect to Celestia”

My vision flashed white with the blinding light of the pod linking me into the game. And that's when I got a message from U.N.C.L.E..

'Well my boy I forgot to mention one thing. I have no need for your physical body, so when you log into the game, your body will be disposed of. Your mind will download onto the matrix with your ability intact. You see my boy I had no way of controlling you till you went into the pod. Now I can kill you when ever I want, well have fun with your new life'

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dammit, well I'm gonna have to take precautions from here on out

I connected my mind to the code surrounding my virtual body and found a tracer and a delete function embedded into my code, as well as, security features that will trigger the delete function if any of the code is messed with

uncle you sly dog well I bet you did not expect me to swipe your security codes during our conversations in the past

Using the security codes I swiped from Uncle, I disabled the security and deleted all functions put on me by Uncle, as well as adding new functions to protect me from anything that might happen to my code in the future, like a firewall and hacking devices that will hack anyone trying to hack into my code I also made my code untraceable by U.N.C.L.E.'s firewall.

With my body gone I will have to make do with my ability

“Welcome to the Celestia lobby please create your character now”

I found my self in the lobby for the game with a multitude of different races lined up against the white walls of the room thousands upon thousands of races greeted my eyes from the very exotic like elder slime's to the mundane like humans. I looked for one that might suit my needs for hours on end till I came across a race that looked like a human shaped blob, I checked the tag:

Race – Elder Changeling

Ability – Polymorph – able to change perfectly into any race and gender copying any ability's from those races

Stat Boost – +10 charisma gain every level

Cost 10,000 usd

ah, so this game is paid to win, interesting. Well its a simple matter to trick the system into thinking I paid the money required for this race

I used my ability to hack into the server code and sent a fake transaction using a program that copied the server code used to keep track of digital money to send the amount of money needed for this transaction

“you have chosen the elder changeling race are you happy with your purchase”

“yes”

“you will be sent to a random starting location please don't move till you arrive”

I felt a wrench in my gut as I was warped to my starting location. I found my self in an alleyway in what looked to be the slums of a human city, looking down at myself I found that I was still in my changeling form so I acted my polymorph ability and selected human male.

Stepping out of the shadows I found my self face to face with a group of thugs who had nothing but malicious intent in their eyes

“Well what do we have here someone sneaking near our hideout hmm? Doesn't look too rich, what do you think boss, want to take him as a slave?”

That's when a female dark elf stepped into view she wore scale mail decorated with a flowing spiderweb design she had long white hair and a gorgeous face, she looked me over with disgust in her eyes and said

“kill him he doesn't meet my taste”