It was a warm summer day or was it a cool summer day? Well, either way, it doesn't matter since I was a shut-in gamer that almost never went outside. I was playing games with my only friend in my dark cozy room. When my friend remembered that I, by some miracle, got my hands on a preorder for Ember Moon Collector's Edition, a popular game that is coming out next weekend, he asked if I would let him watch me unbox it when I get my hands on it to which I responded by messaging them that I don't have a webcam, that was a lie though before I became a shut-in I wanted to be a streamer and uselessly bought all the necessary equipment but now I don't want to become any more social than just typing on my keyboard and playing games.
A week later the day finally arrived, the most anticipated game of the decade had been released, Ember Moon. I couldn’t get a wink of sleep last night because of how excited I was to pick up the Collectors Edition Box. Once I picked up the box, walking home from the store somehow became one of the most stressful things I had ever done in my life. The most precious thing in my hands, only a few hundred existed in the world, and some people would probably kill me for this box. The amount of money I could make from streaming an unboxing video or selling it would probably be enough to let me retire.
While I was walking, having been half-asleep, I arrived at a crosswalk when I put my foot on the pavement, someone bumped into me at the crosswalk which made me lose my grasp on my precious box, thinking quickly with my half-asleep mind I lunged and surrounded it with my body to make sure nobody could steal or damage it by accidentally hitting it, ready to take a beating for this luxurious box. someone must've noticed what I was protecting and started tugging at my shirt yelling at me to hand it over but I wasn't having any of it, I bunkered down and kept protecting my precious box, when they finally stopped tugging at me I looked up only to see the bumper of the car maybe 20 feet away from me and rapidly approaching, people all around were watching, my body froze unable to move I was forced to watch the car zoom towards me, as my life flashed before my eyes, everything around me started moving slower as the car got closer and closer, I would never be able to play Ember Moon even though it was so close to me, I couldn't ever do anything good with my life I'll only be known for being a shut-in gamer, I slammed my eyes shut hoping it would be over soon.
A few minutes go by and I decide to slowly open my eyes. I saw a weird light in front of me I looked around and I was standing in some sort of weird room, it was all dark and had weird floating lights moving all around me. I pulled out my smartphone to try and call anyone but when I press the power button nothing happened, I must've forgotten to charge it "Dammit" I whispered under my breath, of course, I forgot to charge my phone it just had to be today that I forget to plug it in; in front of me, a white door suddenly flashed into existence, with nothing else to do I walked through the door, as bright lights flashed me and I heard a soothing gentle voice "Welcome Rio" the blinding lights quickly vanished and as soon as my eyes adjusted I saw a tall beautiful woman in front of me she was floating above the ground with her, she was so beautiful with her long white hair and yellow eyes, she had a beautiful pair of angelic white wings, she had robes that were a lovely white that made it nice to look at, "Beautiful" I said without thinking.
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The angelic woman gave me a gentle smile before she slowly opened her mouth and started talking in the gentle voice I heard earlier "Welcome to the afterlife Rio, you have been selected and will be going through reincarnation, the world you're transferring to is different from the one you were in, it's set in the medieval time, and it has magic, I'm giving you a quest to defeat the Demon Queen within 30 years of your reincarnation, aside from that live your life however you see fit.”
Stunned by my situation I muster up the only words I can think of “C-Can I please know your name?”
The angelic beauty smirks a little and says “Many names know me, but you may call me Mercy. I'll be helping you throughout your journey, whilst there are restrictions to my abilities, I will help you with all I can while you finish your quest to defeat the Demon Queen.”
“I don’t have any experience with fighting through,” I say nervous chuckle
Mercy smirks a little as she rises her pale arm as 10 or so armor stands arise around me “one of these classes will help you through your journey, they will provide you with the skills, armor, and basic weapons you need to combat enemies you may find on your path to the Demon Queen, each class has its strength and weakness for example, the Supporter class is strong when it has teammates but is weak when alone. When you walk up to each class in this room a status screen will show up and tell you about its stats, strengths, and weaknesses.”
“Is there a time limit to how long I can take until I choose my class?”
“There is no time limit take as long as you would like, I wouldn't want you to rush and pick the wrong class,” Mercy says smiling joyfully
I walk up to the first class in front of me and a screen popped up
Status Screen
Berserker
Vigor 13
Strength 16
Endurance 12
Dexterity 8
Vitality 10
Intelligence 4
Mana 6
Faith 1
Summoning 0
Stealth 7
Luck 9