Chapter 1 (Status in Prologue!)
Rhys had just logged in the game, he was in the middle of Mawrest Town, a low level city, waiting for his friend to join the game, he was there for a couple hours now and thought if he should go kill some monsters, his friend was very late. Even if the monsters are low level here, the combat of the game still is fun even if they die in one hit from Rhys, monsters in this area are from level 1 to level 5.
This game is hard, if you want to level up you need a ton of experience. It took 3 years to Rhys reach level 100, of course he could make it a faster, but he wanted to find good classes, his Sharper is level 25, it is a hidden and legendary class, the same for Summoner but no hidden, Sharper class can be obtained when you merge the Looter class and the Time Mage class, both are rare classes, but you need a specific item, and items are divided in common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary and mythical.
The item is a merge core, it is a rare, epic or legendary item, a merge core can only be dropped from 75+ monsters, and a rare one has a chance of 1/1000 to drop, but a legendary one has a 1/1000000 to drop, and yes, Rhys got lucky and dropped a legendary one, it was not possible merge those two classes together with a rare or epic one, but he did it with a legendary resulting on the Sharper class.
After he decides to go hunt, he goes outside the town, from the gate he can see a forest to his left to right, and the middle is a road of dirt cutting the forest. Rhys decides to go to his right, in this forest there are monsters from level 1 to 5. Bunnies with horns, wolfs, boars and snakes 3 meters long can be found.
As he enters the forest, he sees the flood of trees in front of him, the forest is already dense even though he didn't go deep inside yet. Not that it matters tho, he can detect enemies with bloodlust towards him with his assassin class.
Notification Entering Bariel Forest
After receiving the message, he activates his Detection, a skill that can detect any living thing in a a 500 meters range, and as the skill is level 10 (max level for skills), it can tell where, what or who its detecting. He plans to go where a boar got detected, and uses Appraisal on it, to show the basic information of the boar, after in his sight. After he spotted the boar 100 meters away he uses appraisal on it.
Wild Boar Level 4 Status Effect: Eating Skills: Health: 120/120 Charge Level 2 Mana Pool: 80/80 Frenzy Level 1
He seems to be eating some grass, and when a monster is eating something, they always loose a bit of reflexes, and i think this can be said to players too.
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The boar has Charge level 2, hes not a new one, to upgrade a skill he has to fight another monster or player, so you can find stronger monster here, but it is rare near a town. He can see the boar from this far thanks to his Predator Eyes, a passive skill that improves sight, as an assassin that helps so much to find his preys.
'Shadow Step' he says in his mind, immediately he apears behind the boar who was 100 meters far away from him in a cloud of smoke, he could just stay behind the boar, and the monster would not even notice him there, he jumps to the air, and aiming for the back of the boar's neck, Rhys unsheaths his dark blue dagger with his right hand and slices the neck of the innocent brown fur boar.
It makes a clean cut even if the dagger is not long enough, because of the strength and status of the dagger. Dormin's equipment was all black, made of dragon scales, the shadow dragon Kalir. weapons made from the dragon gives bonus range, and armors from the materials make you stealthier, and if you have the full set, you do more damage when attacking without being noticed.
'Fuck!' Dormin cursed in his mind when he saw what happened next.
After the body fell to the floor, blood start flooding out of the neck and head instead of just make some pixels effects on the place of the cut, the body should have disappeared. Dormin had to look back, he had played some games with gore, but that was to real, even if this game was supposed to be real, this was gross for him, and the smell of iron did not help.
'Did they just updated the game or something, this game is not even supposed to have gore' He started thinking about what could be the cause of this, he had just logged in a couple hours ago. Nothing about this made sense, and he decided to just leave the body there, he had enough items and materials from monsters of all kind of levels.
When he was in the town, he notice some NPCs doing strange things and sometimes looking at him, but he just ignored everyone, just a game imaright?
And as the body didn't disappear, nothing dropped from it, things were making less sense when he starts thinking deeper into it.
Maybe his crazy too, but he started getting hungry, it could not be possible, the capsule kept you fed, so as a response to this he took his spacial purse, it looked like a medieval one, from behind in his belt and put his hand inside and takes out a sweet bread, and take a juicy bite.
"Oh shiiit, what is this, so sweeet and deliciouuus" Dormin was almost crying in happines, it was the best bread he ate in his life. Finally he snaps out of it, not before he eat the whole thing.
Dormin PoV
'Everything is so real! It can't be right?!' I can't think about another reason for what is happening. I must be crazy for being happy for this, being transported into the game's world. "Hahaha..."
What now huh? Maybe i should test if i feel the real pain before i be happy for something i am not sure about it. First lets take a normal knife from my spacial purse, both my daggers are too overpowered to use in me, and lets cut me palm a little.
"Mmm, shit, okay it is real... And it is already healed, nice." Seems like i lost 14 health from that, seems good so far, and now lets test if the NPCs now can be normal. Even if the technology is fantastic, the A.I. in this game is not the best one, it is not bad, but if they did a good job the game was going to be the best VR game launched so far, maybe the budget was low...
Next thing is to go back to Mawrest Town, maybe something is different there, maybe a Adventure Guild is real now as the game did not have one, but i'll have to get used to seeing blood if this is all real heh.
'Lets try this, Skip-Step and go!' Oh my god, so fast, i can feel the strong wind on me, so much more real hahaha, i am really skiping steps like in the game, its like teleporting but after one step at a time. And next thing i see is the huge walls, 15 foot high made of stone. OUCH, good thing i did not break the walls, but now i has some cracks hehe.
And no system message huh, another proof, this is really happening...