“Hmph! You’re just a level 1! I can see with my scanner ability that you have 450 HP!”

“Yeh and what's your point exactly?” Ken asked

“These soldiers are all level 5! Equipped with plasmoid pistols, which have a base damage per bolt of 10!”

“If you have point I’d love to”

“These pistols shoot at a rate of 4.5 bolts per second! In other words if each one of men hits you for more than one second that blade is mine!”

Enemy type Level Abilities main hand Soldier 5 Fire Plasmpid Pistol(I)

Charging up their pistols, the 12 armed soldiers began to fill the streets with the blue light of their weapons.

“Hehe...I really wish I hadn’t skipped the tutorial now…” Ken said

“Men open fire!” The man in the cybersuit ordered

They discharged an array of blue bullets all enclosing Ken's position.

“Well… what do ya know” Ken said as the fire rained down on him. “This sword ain't half bad”

Without breaking a sweat, Ken deflected all of the incoming fire with his blade. His blade moved at speeds that even his own eyes couldn’t follow, easily intercepting each shot. The craziest part about it, was the fact Ken wasn’t consciously moving his arm; it was as if the blade had a mind of its own.

“That’s… that’s impossible!” The man said as he watched “It came with the autoguard expansion slot? What! A level 1 shouldn’t have any spheres for that! What the hell is going on?”

“Lord Weewee,” The soldier said.

“It's Lord Wei-Chen-Wei! Goddamn English translators!” Wei Chen said.

“Our pistols are ineffective, we haven’t taken a single HP off of him!” The soldier reported

“Cease fire!” Wei Chen ordered.

The soldiers' fire came to a halt.

“I see, because it's a “Plasma” blade all plasma attacks are going to be auto deflected! If only I had brought some metal bullets!”

“Mace!” Wei Chen chanted.

A holographic man came out from his arm ready to receive his orders.

“What weapon option do I have against that cyberblade?” Wei Chen yelled

“At your current disposal few your main weapon as well as all of your aircrafts attacks are plasma weapons, only your offhand weapon your crimson blade as well as the homing rockets on the aircrafts will work!

“Alright then! It's time to bring out the heavy artillery!” Wei Chen shouted

“Waoh!! What is that! Did a dude just come out of your arm?” Ken said

“You idiot! This is a C.A. the cyber AI companion they give you at the beginning of the game! Did you skip the tutorial or something?” The man asked

“Uhhh… maybe” Ken said “Wait let me try! Mace!” Ken yelled into his arm.

Nothing happened

“You idiot! Mace is my C.A’s name not yours!”

“Wait what’s mine’s named then!”

“How the hell am I supposed to know? You're the one who names it! Remember the option at the beginning of the game”

“Shit…” Ken said “I thought it was weird they were asking for me to name that random cyber girl. I was clicking so fast I didn’t read what she was! What did I name her again?”

“I don’t care! I’m ending this here and now! Mace! Launch our highest priority missile at that blabbering idiot!” Wei Chen yelled

“But sir launching a missile here will cause massive NPC damage causing your star rating to”

“I don’t care! Once I get my hands on that sword I’ll be unstoppable! Even the Level 99 Nautica guards won’t be able to touch me!”

“Very well sir.”

The large aircraft pointed a homing missile aimed at Ken.

“Fire!”

The missile flew towards Ken.

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“Haha! Now you're finished! That cyberblade can’t auto deflect missiles or metallic artillery! Even if it could, with the blast radius of over 200 ft. there’s no way you can possibly escape! Btw did I mention each missile does about 12,000 dmg! Haha you're finished!”

“Hmph! That mango isn’t going to work on me!” Ken yelled

“Mango!? You mean missile?”

“Heh, what's the difference” Ken said smiling

The missile barreled through the air, blasting a hot trail of fuel behind it. As it sped towards Ken, it made an ark in the sky that added another flash of neon to the already vibrant city.

As the missile came within a few feet of hitting him Ken closed his eyes.

“Focus….”

He popped his eyes back open, raising his blade to meet the speeding missile head on. Positioning his blade in the center of its diameter he indented his blade into its tip. After penetrating an inch deep, he swiveled the blade around the edge of the inside of the missile barely cutting into its surface. Sweeping his blade around, he slashed the missile’s exhaust and thrusted it to the side.

“Hehe Juicy” Ken gagged

BOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

The missile drifted off into the distance exploding into a section of cars far behind him.

“That's impossible,” Wei Chen said, dropping to his knees. “He manually deflected the missile… That's not possible, he would have to have gone around the entire infrastructure, chamber of explosives and exhaust in the blink of an eye… That's simply not possible!”

“You there!” Wei Chen yelled “Are you smurfing! What in the hell was that! No… you’re hacking! Even a Max level player couldn’t do that! What the hell are you?”

“Heh all those days playing Fruit Samurai were worth it” Ken said patting himself on the back

“Fruit Samurai? One of those super old VR games that came out during the first launch of the VR consoles? How in the hell does that help you?”

“It may not seem like much but… I play a lot of Fruit Samurai, helps me get my anger out.”

“What's your online name in that game? I don’t believe you. I want to see your scores!”

“I… don’t have the online version… Mom never could afford that one so I played the old offline version.”

“Ok how about this! What is your highest score, hours played and longest cutting streak! The number one player has a high score of 980,000 1400 hours of game time and a cutting streak of 158 fruits! How about you?”

“That's a high score? That’s weird” Ken said “The last time I checked my high score was 30 million. Play time, well that’s 3 hours every day for 10 years, and as for cutting streak… Doesn’t everyone get to the point where they no longer miss fruit?

“That's impossible… In fruit samurai the game ends when your basket is full, a normal session is 5 minutes before people miss fruit, and at that point alone there would already have been 500 fruits that have passed.”

“What? Doesn’t everyone play for three hours and the game crashes? Or did they fix that bug?” Ken asked

“What did you just…? What! That’s ridiculous, are you even human! That would be over 25,000 fruits are you telling me you never missed one!”

“Yepp! And I don’t ever plan on missing one, that missile was just another juicy fruit to me.” Ken gagged

“You liar!” Wei Chen yelled “You're just speaking nonsense now! Men prepare to engage in hand to hand combat!”

“WOooaaahhh woo ahhhhh!” Ken yelled

The car he was standing on started to accelerate, dragging him down the neon streets with blazing speed.

“Holy shit! Looks like the traffic jam is over!” Ken yelled as the cars carried him away from Wei Chen

“After him!” Wei Chen ordered his aircraft. It took off after Ken, still being carried away by a car.

Turning around on the hood of the car Ken’s gums wiggled as the turbulence of the high speed hit his face.

“Juiicccyyyyy!!!!” He yelled as his mouth wobbled

“Hey! Get back here!” Wei Chen said, chasing him down.

As the aircraft hovered above, Wei Chen jumped onto an adjacent car traveling next to Ken. Drawing a red blade he lept into the air.

“What are you doing?” Ken began "No way you’re making that ju-”

In an instant Wei Chen close the gap between him and Ken. It was almost as if he was pulled by an invisible force directly over to Ken’s position.He came at Ken slamming down his sword.

“Grgg” Ken grunted as the two interlocked blades. “What was that some kind of air dash?”

“I’ll take care of this personally!” Wei Chen yelled into Ken’s face

“Yeh whatever Lord Weewee” Ken chuckled

“Men Fire now!” Wei Chen said as he and Ken interlocked blades. Coming up on Ken's backside, the group of soldiers fired their pistols once more at Ken’s back.

Ken shoved Wei Chen away and used his blades autoblock again.

“Cease fire!” Wei Chen ordered landing back on the adjacent car. He jumped into the air dashing at Ken once again.

“Dragon's Tooth!” Wei Chen yelled, spinning his blade in the air. He did a front flip, sweeping his blade as a red aura flowed from its tip.

Ken managed to block it in the last fraction of a second, but was knocked backwards losing his footing.

“Shit!”

Ken fell off the high moving car, slamming into the ground and rolling around on the city streets. He stood in the middle of a highway, as cars whipped past him honking their horns. His surroundings began to flash red as a danger warning popped up on his heads up display.

“Great… One HP…” He said viewing his health bar

Before he could even get up he saw Wei Chen and his aircraft quickly approaching from the sky.

“All I wanted was to do some cool stuff and meet some sexy babes! Why in the hell is the first level of this game so goddamn hard!”

As he hung his head in shame, a red holographic woman came out of his arm.

“Master you have summoned me?” The voice said

“What? I didn’t summon…”

Wei Chen jumped down to the ground ready to challenge Ken once again.

“So you finally summoned your C.A won’t help you any now” Wei Chen said

“But how I don’t even remember her name?” Ken said

“The name of this unit is Sexy Babe, as assigned by the user Ken Orobouros, is the name not sufficient? Would you like to change it?” the AI said

“Hehahahahah!” Ken laughed

“Why am I even surprised” Wei Chen said shaking his head

“Master your health is low please use this” Sexy Babe said handing him an implant

Ken shot it into his arm instantly recovering his health

“Hehe Thanks Babe!” Ken said “If you were real I’d kiss you!” He said

“This unit is not equipped with the kissing function… one must purchase a doll from Nautica’s sex store for that.”

“You're inconsolable!” Wei Chen yelled “Why the hell did a lunatic like you get that awesome sword! It doesn't make any sense!”

“Look Weewee chin face or Chen or whatever your name is.” Ken said shaking his head “You were the first human I met in this game, the first one I talked to, we coulda been friends making memories together! Me you and Sexy Babe here!” He said laughing

“But without even knowing me or getting to know me, you hunted me down and started hating me! So let me ask you! Why should a lunatic like you get this sword?” Ken yelled pointing his blade at him.

“Whatever!” Wei Chen sneered “I got you down to 1 HP! I can do it again!”

“Not happening” Ken chuckled “This time I’m not alone! Sexy Babe what abilities do I have and how do I use them!”

“You have none” Sexy Babe answered

“What about items!”

“None the one I gave you was the last one”

“Ok… well what can you do to aid me?”

“Nothing… Your first ability as well as my functionalities do not unlock until level 2.

“How do I get to level 2?”

“By defeating enemies and completing quests and achievements, the soldiers here are all level 5 taking out one of them should get you to level 3.” Sexy Babe said.

“Heh, so all I gotta do is take out one of those soldiers and I'm Level 3?” Ken asked

“Correct”

“Alright sorry Weewee but I’m about to level up!” Ken sneered

“Fat chance! I’ll never let my soldiers get caught out! Soldiers withdraw!” Wei ordered

The soldiers got into a line and began running back into the aircraft.

“Hehehehahah” Wei laughed. “Now your chances of winning are Ze-”

“AHHHHHH!!!!!”

A soldier got hit by one of the cars on the highway and started drifting through the air.

“NOOOOOOOOO!” Wei yelled

SPLAT!

The soldier landed right next to Ken.

“Heheh Juicy” Ken laughed

Striking the soldier with the tip of his sword his heads up display began to light up blue.

Level Up! Acheivement Unlocked "Not My fault brah!"

Level Abiliti's Learned Weapon Level Weapon Abilities learned Health 5

Dash

Air Dash

Double Jump

Wall Run

5

Cyber Slash

First Zephyr Form Duo Blade

724

“What the hell is that Achievement?” Wei Chen yelled

“Hehahhaha says defeat a non-player character that has been weakened to 1 hp. Grants 1500 exp hahahah let’s go!”

“Master you have unlocked the following abilities” Sexy Babe said “Cyber slash, dash , air dash, and also the first Zephyr form of the Cyberblade Plasma, Dual Blade Mode.

“Activate Duo Blade Mode!” Ken yelled

Nothing happened

“You’re the activator master... You activate dual blade by selecting the form in your heads up display…”

“Oh I knew that!” Ken said

Ken’s blade split into two, creating independent blades in each hand. He flipped them over each other, juggling them before they landed in his palms.

“Goddamnit!” Wei Chen yelled

“Whelp looks like playtime is over Weewee” Ken laughed “It's time for you to set that alarm clock! Your about to get K.O’d!”