Chapter 1
BRRRRRIIINNNGGG! The sound of the school bell flew through the classrooms and hallways followed by the sighs and cheers of the students.
A groggy face lifts from a table opening his dark jade eyes confused as to where he his. SLAM! a hand to the back is what he awakes to sending his dark black hair forwards and his face to the table “WAKEY WAKEY ARTHUR!” a brown haired boy resounds before slapping him in the back a couple more times.
“Ok! I get it, now stop hitting me you twat.” arthur rebuttals. This rude boy here was my one and only person I call “Friend” James Lock. An average heighted boy that excels in the physical department his personality is bright and cheerful and is adored by all the females for his looks,
light brown hair and blue eyes.
“Hey hurry up! We might miss the weekly boss spawn” he declares as I put away my text books and head towards the door.
What James was talking about was a MMO that we play. James being the type of person he is takes the warrior class, jumping right into battle with no fear, sword and shield in hand tanking the damage and dealing it back, while I like to take a hybrid class, sort of mage type that moves around using agility to stay clear of my opponents while shooting barrages of shortcast spells. With this combo we have been undefeated in the entire server! Defeating many of the hardest bosses and guilds that challenge us.
After we split off at a three way junction near his home but far from mine, we head off to our respective houses. I sigh, having to step into my house is like dipping my foot in hell, if i don’t reach my room in time.
I slowly open the door trying not to make the slightest sound. I take a first step into the room closing the door just as quietly as I opened it and make a silent sprint up the stairs.
The reason i’m doing this is because I have an incompetent step-father that loves to drink and get physical on any occasion. It's quite a cliche if I might say so myself. I just avoid him and my mother and get on with my life, it's what i’ve always been doing. I take the independence as a gift.
Not that any of that is going to matter by tomorrow. I’ve been saving up for a long time, got myself a job at a local hardware store and I’ll be moving out to my new apartment. It’s quite small but it’s within my price range whilst being able to have enough space to move around.
Comprised of 4 rooms I have a small living room that holds also my kitchen and on the other side connected by a door a single bathroom plus a bedroom. It’s around 480 square feet.
My room at this point is very plain. The only reason i’m still here is because they are installing the internet tomorrow and I have an important weekly raid that I must attend to with James.
I change clothes after a short shower and head to my desk and flip open my laptop and log on to Curse. With headset on and mic in hand I meet up with James to kill this boss.
After a two hours of kiting and taunting from James I’m able to pump enough damage into this dragon to be able to finish it off. My character ingame has a elemental build of fire and I maxed out my fireball to a cast time of 0.2s. This gives me the upperhand in every range battle.
I say my goodbyes to James and logoff to hit the hay satisfied with ours drops a couple legendaries and a mystic. Through the darkness I sleep past the shouting coming from the downstairs. My eyes close and...
Beep… Beep… BEEEP BEEEEP BEEEEEP! SLAM. I may of smashed my alarm a bit to hard.
I get up from my bed and hit the shower. Checking the time told me that I had 40 minutes before my class would start which was at 8:30.
I quickly pack all my things before leaving my room, this was probably going to be the last time I’ll see it in a long time. Hopefully.
Approaching the door too the house i’m greeted by a woman that looked like she was in her 50’s with greying hair and wrinkles you can clearly see the bags under her eyes.
“Goodbye dear...” she says holding her words “Yeah...goodbye” I give her a hug and leave to school. I turn around to look once more from the back of my throat comes a painful swallow.
My school isn’t that big comprising of a main building with 100 classes a football field and a gymnasium with a pool it's only the 3rd biggest school in the town of Landow.
Opening the door to my class I make my way to my usual seat sit down and face plant to progress my usual day, a person walks into the class and sits down not before expressing a huge sigh.
it was none other than our class president Sophia...I don't actually know her last name not that I really cared… She was a model student of the school.
Brown luscious hair flowed past her shoulders with her defined features of her body only complimented her “cute” face holding her light green eyes. All the guys in my class swoon over her.
Suddenly she flicks her head in my direction!? Wha?! How did she know I was looking at her?
Although I was caught off guard I keep a straight poker face and slowly turn my head casually to the window. Not before noticing her make a pouting face.
The windows revealed ominous clouds that drifted across the sky with ever darkening colour, I smile, I love the rain, the way it sounds, the way it smells, the way it makes the world feel.
Although the thought of having to run through it pisses me off…
CRAAAAAACLLKEE!!?!?
A flash of light strikes the field in front of me and smoke raises from the ground.
everyone present in the class screamed in shock and started laughing at how each of them were scared.
I keep staring at where the place was hit wide eyed and at this point everyone else has begun to ignore it.
From the smoke...just for a second I thought I saw a person… a figure perhaps the shadow of a man?
School ends and the rain is still pouring cats and dogs. Everyone is getting ready to leave with their umbrellas and coats, we were told to go home immediately in the case of lightning…
but I have something I have to do first, I grab my mat black jacket from my bag and pull the hoodie over my head and run towards the field.
Upon reaching the site a shiny object catches my eye, a sort of crystal?
The crystal looked beautiful, gleaming with shades of purple in an extended diamond shape it roared with power!
I felt attracted towards it, my hand almost moved self consciously, like that feeling to get when you sit down at your computer and your hand moves to turn on the power by itself.
picking up the crystal it felt really hot, like REALLY FREAKIN HO...BOOM!
An explosion of white light erupted from the crystal my eyes burned as light pierced into my mind.
I was propelled back 10 meters near the side of the field body spasming from the shock of the explosion.
My body was burning, it felt as if it was burning my soul.
Darkness....
My eyes stung from the blue light that glared at me. Watering from the extreme pain.
I pry my open my lids and stare in disbelief at the sight in front of me. A perfectly square pane of almost semi-transparent blue.
At the top of the words formed reading:
World Conversion process…
Please pick a class or create a class accordance to your unique affinity gem SSS* Grade
Lightning Gem of Seth (God of thunder and chaos)
Please open the class list…
What?
I sat there staring at this screen for a good 5 minutes….
Create a class? What class am I supposed to make? and wtf is a Lightning Gem of Seth?
Thunder and Chaos? sounds kinda grim…
Now, I haven't always been the person to question things and always just gone with the flow I live my life according to what I believe.
Finally something interesting to do.
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“class list?” I say quietly, the pane then disappeared and reappeared with a list of over 1000’s classes I stare at the list intently the pane controls I moved my hand to touch the pane. It was a cross between a thin piece of plastic but still stiff enough to withstand pressure it was like using a tablet, using just my fingers to scroll up and down the list.
Some classes sounded very interesting to me like the Demonlock from the description of the class it told me that it was specialized it summoning demons but lacked in many other areas, kinda like a warlock with bad stat distribution.
There were also classes that look just completely stupid like really? Farmalidin? A Farmer that uses the power of the holy to imbue his crops… that was it all it could do?
“Class creation?” I say unsure if it would work like last time then a pane flashes in front of me.
To create a class you must think very clearly of the type of class that you would like to have
You will not be able to change class until a very later date.
Mixing multiple classes is acceptable, BUT! remember that mixing many classes will affect stats
and ability distribution is negative ways depending on the amount of classes mixed.
Choose wisely!
I smiled. If this was how it worked I could make the class that was perfect for me. What did it say before? Please create a class based this gem? my hands shifted the gem around for a second as I thought about the class I was going to create.
Smile just like a game~
The class I thought of was a battle mage, a type class with high mobility combined and high magic power, dashing around the battlefield delivering powerful attacks and keeping a distance with my speed.
Congratulations!
You have created a unique class with the Lightning Gem of Seth
Your classes name is…
Apepeka
Apepeka? what the hell type of name is that? oh well at least I think it made the class I thought of, I wonder?
“Status!”
The pane in front of me changes to reveal a screen showing me a list of stats and information on me.
Name : Arthur White
Race : MaleLevel : 1Class : ApepekaHealth : 100
Mana : 300
Stamina : 150
Strength : 32
Agility : 50
Vitality : 10
Dexterity : 42
Intelligence : 52
Defense : 5%
Magic Defense: 3%
EXP 0/100
Unallocated points : 5
Wooooooow…. that’s handy. I quickly notice that the stats are very similar to normal MMO starting stats.
Hmmm...this is good distribution I like that I have a high mana pool but…. why is my health so low? is 100 the base health of everyone my age?
Well I guess there should probably be a way to increase it… unallocated points?
Does this mean I can increase my stats and it would affect me in real time? wow that would be cool.
I decided to test out my theory by allocating 3 points to intelligence all I needed to do was think about adding 3 points to it and it was added.
Hmmm… My head does kinda feel a bit clearer, and now that i notice it, it's dark out, how long have I been out here?
I decided to head home to my new apartment.
Bang!
Unlocking the door lead to an explosion of confetti and a startled voice shout.
“Ah! what? where am I.. OH YEAH! congrats Arthur!” It was James.
“How long have you been here?”
“Uhh I arrived at four to surprise you but you took hella long… IT'S 10 O’CLOCK! HOLY SHIT I’M LATE!” - James
I place my bag down in the living room and head to the fridge and grab out a soda.
“Uhh, yeah I had something to do sorry.”
James jumps up from his position on the couch and grabs his bag.
“Sorry bro I gotta bounce my parents are going to kill me!” he says hurriedly
“I’ll be over tomorrow at around 12 no school so we got all day to raid and stuff” he says as he leaves the apartment.
Sigh~
“Status!”
The pane reappears and this time I wonder if stats works then maybe….
“Skills!”
Nothing…
“Skill list!”
A pane flashes in front of me.
Skill ListDark Lightning Arc Grade C
(Active)
Create Dark Lightning Grade D
(Active)
Dark/Lightning Manipulation Grade E
(Passive)
Dark Dash Grade D
(Active)
?
Wow thats alot for a level one. But how do I use these? And should I even…
I decide to test out Dark Dash.
“DARK DASH!”
Nothing…
uhhh…
I think in my mind dark dash~
WHOOSH!
My body flings me forwards in a mist of dark purple! I arrived at the location I was looking a distance of 6 meters in a split second!
“Status!”
Name : Arthur White
Race : MaleLevel : 1Class : ApepekaHealth : 100
Mana : 300
Stamina : 150
Strength : 32
Agility : 50
Vitality : 10
Dexterity : 42
Intelligence : 52
Defense : 5%
Magic Defense: 3%
EXP 10/100
Unallocated points : 5
I knew it, well of course using a spell or skills would use up my mana it was a given… my EXP went up by 10? hmm does this mean practicing skills awards me with EXP? nice!
I only need to do this dash another 9 times to level up? My mana went down by 40 and its already going back up, although it's quite slow about 10 mana a minute. I can only use Dark Dash another 6 times before I run out.
I attempt to Dash again
WHOOSH!
I appear near the kitchen counter my original position. I repeat this 9 more times. Taking breaks to regen my mana
A pane appears in front of me with an opaque look
Level up!
Congratulations!
For being the first person in the world to reach level two you have been awarded with a S grade weapon of your willing!
Of my willing? S grade…. do i just think of a weapon?
Hmmm in Curse I don’t hand a weapon but gloves that act as an outlet for my power.
I picture a pair of gloves, a woven pair with the power to amplify and store my abilities.
POOF!
Out of nowhere a pair of gloves fall to the floor.
The gloves look like they were made of leather there were fingerless and seemed to have symbols on the palm side. A sort of rune?
I put on the gloves….
Gloves of Lightning Propulsion
+10 to all stats
+ 10 mana regen/s
+ 5 to Dexterity
Able to store and release power.
“Status!”
Name : Arthur White
Race : MaleLevel : 2Class : ApepekaHealth : 127
Mana : 310
Stamina : 165
Strength : 47
Agility : 65
Vitality : 25
Dexterity : 52
Intelligence : 70
Defense : 6%
Magic Defense: 4%
EXP 100/150
Unallocated points : 12
Perfect.
Grin~