Chapter 2
My first night in my new apartment was a restless one, I was too busy imagining all the possibilities! and I haven’t even scratched the surface of my skill list.
At this point in time Dark Dash was the only skill i’ve attempted. Lightning arc and create Lightning both sounded really dangerous and there was no way in hell! I was about to shoot a bolt of lightning in my shiny new apartment. I’ll need a quiet location….
When morning came I had new found purpose, James was coming at twelve so I had around...four hours until he arrived.
I decided that it would be best to raise my mana pool by adding 10 points out of my 12 to intelligence, the rest in agility.
My mana pool increased from 310 to 440 and my intelligence went to 80.
Now that I have a much larger mana pool, i’ll be able to dark dash a whole lot more!
after two hours of dashing I had reached level four
Name : Arthur White
Race : Male
Level : 4
Class : Apepeka
Health : 147
Mana : 440
Stamina : 185
Strength : 57
Agility : 87
Vitality : 47
Dexterity : 67
Intelligence : 80
Defense : 6.5%
Magic Defense: 4.5%
EXP 250/450
Unallocated points : 20
Isn’t this growth kinda high?
I mean it’s normal for a real MMO but… this… this is real life! At this rate i’m going to turn into some sort of god! And the message I got when I first leveled up? “You are the first person IN THE WORLD!” does this mean this is unique to me? And why?
So many questions and no one to answer…
Sigh~
Whelp, I might as well just enjoy it.
I look over from the couch in the living room to look at my clock 11:59:30…
Well… he did say twelve o'clock.
11:59:47…
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12:00:00…
CRASH!
POOF!
Without notice a pane appears in front of me…
Hello~
Your World Conversion Process has finished and is now ready to launch,
If you have not already picked a class please pick a class or create one.
Monsters will now spawn in certain locations.
Forming of parties is now active as well as many other different options, if you need
help with the options please refer to the guide book.
Enjoy~
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BAM!
My door swings open and James is standing there wide eyed mouth wide open.
“ARE YOU SEEING THIS?!?!?” He shouts at me.
“WTF IS GOING ON!”- James
“Ok..Calm down...I’ll explain to you what I know.”
I decided to tell james everything that happened so far except for the SSS Grade Gem and S Grade gloves. I don’t know much about these items and i’m not ready to reveal all my tricks yet.
While I was telling him what happened to me the previous day he held a serious face the entire time, he wanted to absorb everything I told him.
“Well then...Might as well make a class” - James
“Yeah.. there was something about monsters?”
I wonder if they will just be normal animals or actual MMO monsters, chaos will ensue if a Dragon starts terrorising cities and destroying towns. Imagine a Hydra fighting battleships it would be equally awesome and horrifying.
“Ah!” - James
“What happened?”
“Made my class!..
Its called Farmalidin… ” - James
“...”
“...are you serious?”
“Nah, heh your face looked really worried” - James
“Yeah, I was about to make you leave.”
“Wha?”- James
“Anyways what’s your actual class” I say rolling my eyes
“Its called Arcane Controller?” - James
“What do you do?”
“Well I use arcane magic to control my enemies and protect me and my allies, doesn’t seem to have many offensive capabilities tho.” - James
“Actually sounds quite useful, now the only thing we need now is a HUD hahaha!”
The moment the word HUD left my mouth a cluster of bars filled my view, appearing to the left and right of my vision were health, mana and stamina bars. I looked up at James and saw floating text.
James
“Uhh.. you ok your eyes kinda just sprung open...” he says worriedly.
“Say HUD”
“HUD?” he jumped back a bit from surprise.
“AWESOME!” - James
“Yeah, this'll be useful”
BOOM!
“AHHHH HELP ME!”
Me and James freeze.
“PLEASE SAVE MEeUhUgHGH!--....”
I leap to my feet and make a sprint to my door followed by James.
What we saw next was utter chaos. Hell on Earth.
In the distance roared a massive fire, smoke raised up like a hand of death. Jet planes flew over only to be taken down by some sort of bird like creature. It was massive. It was almost triple the size of the jet.
Me and James head down towards the street towards the cries for help.
WHAM!
A body flies across our view and splatters into a wall leaving a shitty rendition of modern art.
But the body was not our concern at this moment. In front of us stood a 9 ft tall statue of stone, the wings on it sides, starts to move. The statue stepped forwards with a crack.
Gargoyle Level <30>
Fuck me…
The only thing that runs through my mind. I turn to James “RUN!” as we start to bolt in the other direction.
James starts to sprint only to collide head first into obstacle…He looks up, as his eyes fill with terror and nose bleeding from the impact.
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Gargoyle
He falls backwards and starts to crawl away.
The Gargoyle lifts its stone hands in a movement of attack like trying to swat a bug from the air.
“LIGHTNING ARC!” I SCREAM! whilst point my index in the Gargoyles direction.
CRAAAAAAK!
A arc of lightning flashes forwards and cuts through the Gargoyle instantaneously melting the stone on contact. The Gargoyle’s top half flops back while the deer like legs stay standing.
The head of the Gargoyle smashes into the rock as its faces turns towards me.
Two front fangs and a pig like nose its eyes still stone.
Level up!
Level up!
Level up!
Three levels!
but I dismiss it and Dark Dash towards James to pick him up.
“t-thanks man” - James
“Let’s get the fuck outta here dude” I quickly reply
GRAAARGG!
From the corner of my eye I see an arm swing downwards I push James and Dark Dash backwards to avoid it.
“LIGHTNING ARC!” another arc strikes the target but only blast off an arm.
CRAK!
The level 30 had come to avenge his comrade. It turns towards me and punches forwards. I dash to the side just barely reacting in time to fire off another arc towards his face instantly melting it on impact before dashing away.
I dash to James grab him and run into my apartment closing the door behind me.
What the actual fuck…that was way too intense.
I turn to James and ask him if he was ok.
“Do you have any abilities right now?” I ask him seriously.
He quickly repiles telling me he has two, one was a sort of magical shield and another was using that shield to bash.
“Party create!” I say aloud remembering that they said parting is enabled.
Who would you like to add to your party?
“James Locke”
“Accept!”- James
A icon popped up at the top left of my view showing a health bar next to it.
Thank god it works. At least now we can keep tabs on each other.
“Status!”
Name : Arthur White
Race : Male
Level : 11
Class : Apepeka
Health : 240
Mana : 740
Stamina : 200
Strength : 60
Agility : 97
Vitality : 50
Dexterity : 70
Intelligence : 96
Defense : 7.5%
Magic Defense: 5.3%
EXP 1050/1500
Unallocated points : 55
My stat growth...slowed? is this because I passed level 5? most games start to make it a lot harder to get stronger at higher levels... not that level 5 is high. I even got less points.
I noticed during the fight with the Gargoyles my mana only went to half. was that because of my level up? My mana pool rose alot. I saw that Lightning arc used around 5% of my mana, that’s pretty low for such a strong ability. I mean one hitting a level 21 and only two shots for a level 30…
are they just really weak or is it just the lightning?
I really need to learn my abilities if shit like this is going to happen.
“Guide!”
POOF!
A book falls to the floor labeled guide.
BOOM!
Before I can even open the book a Gargoyle smashes into door in a straight line… Right towards “JAMES!” Before he can even turn to look at it the Gargoyle crushes him. The sound of bones cracking makes me turn away.
I look back to see James with half his body crushed under a foot.
Party has been disbanded
"JAMES!" My voice thundered through the torn apartment.
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!”
“LIGHTNING ARC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
My apartment lit up with stream of Lightning flying from both of my hands.
“FUCK YOU!!”
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“James...”
A tear slips down my eye, as I slowly walk towards the crushed body. His face was pushed in revealing his brain along with the legs.
I fall to both knees clutching my face. My throat throbbed from pain, my eyes burned.
“WHY JUST WHY!??!”
“…”
The sky darkens with trickles of rain. Thunder clouds loom as a storm brews.
I look up from the destroyed corpse up into the clouds.
A light flashes across the sky.
CRASSASSCK!
A strike perfectly aimed on my body. I didn't even react... no pain was felt.
The veins on my arms bulged with a new light blue tint, a surge of power from my arms to my chest.
VOOOM!
That day the world changed, it was no longer the peaceful world that it was.
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