Even though the space was filled with darkness, I can feel my body was dragged forward. I thought it was the loading screen. But then my body suddenly stopped moving. After stopping a while, I’m starting to feel uneasy.  

“Where am i? do I get stuck in here?” I started to panic. Don’t tell me this was the part when someone can’t leave a virtual reality game and his mind will be trapped inside the game. No, I don’t want to die in a game. This is horrible, I didn’t want this. Should I start yelling? Maybe someone will notice it if there was some high-pitched voice coming from here. There’s nothing wrong with trying  right?.

“Hel—“ as I’m starting to looking for help,  a hand suddenly hit my heat “ouch that hurt”

“Don’t you dare yelling” a familiar voice was coming from right in front of me.

I can’t see his face. What are other people do in this place? Aren’t the only people that can see character creation are the person who will create the character and invited friend? Wait that was my voice. When the light suddenly switched on, a perfect copy of myself was standing in front me. What happened? Is that my soul leaving my body I’m seeing now? But then how do I’m still able to think. What if-.

“Stop it, don’t start talking about your ridiculous theories of your again”

how do he able to see what I’m thinking, wait did he just said ridiculous theories?  It’s not some ridiculous theories I was reading the situation.

“what are you?”

it have the same appearance as me. Average height, average body. Plain white shirt and pant, now that I think about it I was wearing the same shirt and pant.

“I’m your in game guide”.

“What kind of guide do attack player and how do you know what I’m thinking” I was throwing those question at him.

“Who attacking who? I only touched your head a little to stop you from yelling. Don’t dramatize thing on your own”.

Well it’s true, but that’s not the only question here.

“I didn't read your mind, you're using  some feature in the game called whisper/private message” well that explain it

“Doesn’t that mean I was using it this whole time? How do I can stop this whisper thing?”

“just stop concentrating seeking for help in your case”

I’ve been unconsciously using it all this time. What am i? a moron? What if he was another person. I will die of embarrassment if he are.

“Do you want to start the character creation?” now he was talking in formal tone.

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“Yes” at last it was starting.

A window with the name of  starting race was appearing in front of me. The window was split into two sided color and five starting race for each side. Black-dark red color combination for the left side and blue-light yellow color combination for the right side. I think it tell us which side do each race belong to. In Zeon side there was dark elf, orc, undead, ghost, demon on the other hand Aeon side had human, elf, dwarf, nature spirit, beastman. I don’t really want to pick a flashy race so human is fine for me. Human do benefit for it balanced stat and a 1% bonus for skill mastery.

“Can I chose human?” afterward another perfect copy of mine was appeared before me. But this time it was wearing a set of novice equipment.

“I do seem quite cool huh?” I said with confident tone while admiring the other me. The guide seem to just ignore my word.

“Do you want to customize your character appearance?”

well I would like to but what Alex said still bugging me. “erm, No”

“What would your character name be?”

Name, I hate this part. Well anything will do so I will just use my first name “Arlon”

“Arlon will be your character name, are you sure about it?”

“Yes” well it not like I was the only person with Arlon in their name.

“Now, please pick your starting point on Aeon territory” the map of the Upper World of the game was displayed before me. I saw some dot and other symbol there.

“The dot symbolize the town, the bigger the dot then the bigger the town was. The town which was sparkling now is the available starting town.”

The guide explain it to me. The cross and skull symbol seem to represent dangerous zone, I just have to pick a place that was far from those symbol. I want to choose a town that won’t be flooded with people at the beginning of the game and that was when I saw a sparkling tiny dot in the outer part of  a forest.

The name was “Hunter Village” I accidentally said the name that was displayed above the dot.

“Hunter Village will be your starting point, are you sure about it?”

“Yes” it seem luck has brought me there. 

"Your character have been created"

Wait what? no i was getting carried away by the situation, now that i take a look at it again. There is a hell of big cross symbol there.