Prologue
The story takes place in a world where virtual reality has been achieved. Matrix technologies became the first company ever to create a device capable of rendering a photorealistic virtual world where a user can actually feel his surrounding.
The technology manipulated the brain waved and the senses of a person making him feel that he was in a different place, sort of a new dimension. In this artificial space the company was able to make a person feel all of his 5 senses working at optimum level with his body working at optimum as well.
The tech was touted as a new world a new era where a person lacking a sense or a physical ability could feel and do what a normal person could. From the blind to handicapped to people in a coma everybody was able to do and perform activities a normal person could. The technology was brought in the market as a form of a wearable helmet which when turned on put the user in a deep sleep tricking his senses and brain where his dream is converted to the dimensional space where his mind was awake, he was awake.
The helmet was priced a bit high due to its high production cost but the price was not unreasonable considering what it was offering. Matrix technologies actually didn't earn at all by selling these helmets. Their main purpose was to reduce the price as much as they can so that it could be made available to a larger consumer base. They aimed at earning through the use of the various applications by its customers.
Initially a few governments were a bit skeptical and there were some religious riots against it as well but by 4 months of its launch the whole world agreed to the benefits it brought to the table.
The technology was a huge success bringing a new era to mankind. In this dimensional space time flowed 4 times faster than the normal world but the feel feel of the flow was the same hence, 8 hours spent there felt like 8 hours spent in the real world though only 2 hours had actually passed. This technology became widely used in various sectors of the industry such as sports, films even business and education due to the change in time factor as more work could be done more goals could be achieved in this extraordinary dream space.
However the most popular use of this technology was in gaming. Matrix technologies had already predicted such a future which is why they were quick to act by bringing the first ever virtual reality based game Era Online 7 months after the techs launch. Touted as a game where you could do anything and be anyone and live a life you have always dreamt of. The game had a fantasy medieval setting in a place known as Skyla. A huge continent with many small countries with many of them being separated by large water bodies. The continent had many kingdoms, dungeons and a vast ocean flowing through in and around the continent. The main objective of the game was to be the ruler of the continent and hunt the world boss Dratharious an unmatched existence which nobody knew what it looked like.
The game sold over 170mil copies in the first month alone with another 120mil copies sold by the second month. Players started in various small kingdoms near the middle of the continent. There were 7 main classes available namely knight, mage, assassin, healer, archer, warrior and tanker. Each player was allowed to have only 1 account and could choose to play maximum of 3 classes. The classes where further divided into common rare and divine sub classes. The game had a special sub class quest system which did not require any level requirement. All players had to take the Test of Skyla which took place in the Hall of Heroes situated in every city in the game.
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The maximum level that could be gained without a sub class was 20 after which a player couldn't advance without a subclass. The subclass was mainly the profession the player was most interested in specializing. The game offered various subclasses from protectors to dancers to chefs to architect. The sub class allowed the player to advance in that specific area of discipline.
There were many subclasses available to choose from and each subclass was graded. According to the performance of the player in the Test of Skyla the player was bestowed a graded class ranging from common tier to rare tier. The third and strongest tier divine class was a special tier. The class could not be obtained through the test of Skyla instead by performing a special quest will trigger the class's quest. Each class had only 1 divine sub class and only one player could obtain it, which meant there could only be 7 divine sub class players in the entire game. Moreover there was also a trade off as a divine class player could only play 1 class that is his divine class and he didn't have the luxury of enjoying 3 classes like other players. The higher the grade of the sub class the better the stat values and growth potential.
Monsters were also divided in 4 categories common, rare, legendary and exotic. There was a 5th class as well which was occupied by just 1 being- Dratharious a transcendent class monster. Higher grade monsters were tougher than their common tier counterparts and also dropped more valuable loot. The same tier system went for artifacts and equipment as well from common tier to exotic tier.
Buying and selling of equipment artifacts and in game currency was allowed. The game had its official merchant website for trading with players around the world. Due to the game's large adoption rate even real world firms started accepting the in game currency gold silver and copper. 1 gold=100 silver=100 copper. In game currency could be bought and sold according to international exchange value rates. To prevent inflation of in game prices and deflation in the value of the currency the company didn't engage in selling gold(game currency) for real world currency. This prevented excessive money supply in the market which led to controlled prices. Currency could only be obtained through in game activities such as questing,trading etc and this currency obtained could be exchanged for real world currency online and vice versa.
That will be it for now as the story progresses I'll be providing the necessary information about the world