Chapter 1 – New Beginning Beyond the Gate
Your brain waves and iris scans don’t match any of the Royal Road data bases would you like to create a new account for ‘Founding Eden’
The world was black and filled with nothingness all around me except for the message screen. The screen was lit but it didn’t shine any light in front of it like a phone or computer screen. This is getting me really exited!!
“YES!!”
All of the sudden I felt like the flooring beneath my feet disappeared and I let out a startled yell expecting to plummet. I was falling not fast but just a nice slow comfortable descent. I could feel some air coming up so I knew I was going down but it felt more like I was floating than falling. I looked down and saw an old looking clock face that looked like it was falling apart but that only made it look even cooler like a giant antique you could see gears from behind it some moving but most not (maybe they were just going so slow I didn’t notice. Both the hands of the clock were on the 12. That must be the in game time since it was like three twenty when I logged in like 2 minutes ago. As it got closer I noticed the top half was even more corroded and decrepit then I thought and it was collecting a lot of dust but the bottom half looked broken and maybe burnt and there was maybe even some blood on it. The clock was probably broken for good so I guess that isn’t the time.
I landed directly on the center of the clock and a new message window just popped up in front of me.
New players have to choose their alignment. This determines what classes you can start with and where you start in the world. You can choose Demonic, Humane, or Angelic.
I looked up the details of each of each of the alignments. The Demonic alignment contained harpies, miniatures, different kinds of demons, dragons, and many other classes of monsters like that. ‘Oh My God Dragons!!!’ The Humane alignment contained what seemed like all the races available in RR. The Angelic alignment didn’t give a description or say what races there are.
I really want to be a dragon like really, really want to be a dragon, but at the same time I really love the idea of not knowing what I’ll get if I choose the Angelic alignment. Damn! It is just too hard to choose and I can’t do random because I might get humane. Why do they do this?
Looking down I notice ten minutes had already passed, I guess the clock does work. I really should decide or I’ll be sitting here all day and never get to play the game.
After thinking about it for a while I realized being a dragon would actually be very inconvenient. You wouldn’t be able to go into towns or get any quests because you would be too big and imagine how hard it will be to get used to moving around in a dragon body. Who knows what I’ll get for Angelic. I wouldn’t mind being an angel, I mean it is a little girly, but who knows I might be able to be a God, or some kind of paladin race not just a class.
“Angelic”
Is that your final decision?
You will not be able to delete this character unlike in Royal Road so every decision you make is final from here on out.
“I’ve made my decision so I’m going to stick with it.”
A glowing white light appears at the end of the hour hand of the clock in the shape of an archway.
I walk toward the light and through the archway. Now everything is white except for my body standing right in front of me. I jump back in surprise before realizing that this must be the character creation screen.
“Show me the different races”
-…
Nothing happened. Maybe I swipe sideways or something. Nothing is happening what how do I do this. I don’t even know what race this is, it looks exactly like me so it should be a human but human was classified under the humane alignment. What do I do?
“Start”
-Are you ready to name your character and start your adventure?
“NO!!!” that’s not what I wanted.
“Instructions”
-Edit the avatar in front of you to your liking.
“Geez that helped sooo much”
I look closer at the other me and I look kind of brighter and completely clean with a slight shine kind of like the pictures of high elf’s I’ve seen except all the other features look just like me so I don’t know what race it is supposed to be.
I walk forward and touch my chest and a window pops up with a slider for skin color. Now we are getting somewhere but still how do I change the race. I don’t really want to change my skin color.
‘Damn how do I work this thing?’
I swipe my hand to get rid of the window and in doing so I accidentally slid my hand against my shoulder and it got a little on the bigger side. He had always been more of a skinny kid and now after being in a coma for so long he was even more so. This is cool I have to edit it myself. I’ll take my time.
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The finished character is bigger than his actual body he gave himself really overly defined muscles not big. He made his ears look pointed not to the extent of a whole elf but he didn’t want to look too human. He made his hair long and black, and gave him a cool/angry looking face just to spite the fact that he was a shiny bright human with angelic alignment.
I looked like one of the darker character from and anime or manga that always sit in the back of the room. The ones the girls fight over like Sasuke from Naruto except with longer hair. This race must add an overall improvement to his looks something similar to an elf I guess. The only thing that annoyed me was the shining of my skin.
‘What am I a vampire from Twilight? … Oh well’
“I’m done”
-Due to your characters high looks, one stat point from each stat you are able to add to will be in the charisma slot at the beginning of the game, do you want to continue.
“NO!!!!”
After making his character look bad and several more tries nothing he did changed that message.
‘I guess it is a race future’ I’ll go back to my original one I made.
“I am done” and before the message even came up he said “Yes”
-Are you ready to name your character and start your adventure?
“Yes”
-What would you like to name your character?
“Lucifer”
-Sorry that name is not available
“Figures, how about Mephistopheles”
-Sorry that name is not available
‘Damn if that doesn’t work then Satan defiantly won’t work. What other evil names can I think of? Ganondorf from Legend of Zelda would work but I wouldn’t want that to be my name.
This is always the hardest part of any game. I’m surprised with myself for even coming up with those names.
After a long time of thinking I went with the Name ‘Urek Mazino’ is an Irregular from the Tower of God manhwa. The character I made looks nothing like the character but his name fits the type of person I’m going for, well for the most part anyway, so I am going to use it anyway.
-You will be starting at the Gate of New Beginnings.
My vison floats out of my control turns and backs into my new body almost as if my eyes flew out of my head and put in a new body. I started moving my body around testing it out. I look ahead and see a dulled golden gate up ahead. I walk forward until it looms high over my head.
Right in front of me I saw an old beautiful antique looking wooden podium. The sides were engraved with scenes of wars involving angels and demons they almost seemed to move about but if you looked closely at one part you couldn’t see any part of it actualy. But the podium was full of scratches and the wood was starting to rot, but at the same time seemed alive. It was hard to explain most likely something that can only be created with incredible amounts of programing. An old (just like everything else so far) thick book filled with names was placed atop the podium. It was open to a page that still had a few blank spots at the bottom of the page.
“Sign your name and you may enter.”
“Huh?” I looked around and saw a paladin at one of the ends of the gates looking at me.
“Sign and enter”
“Oh ok, thanks”
Looking down at the book the three most recent names appear different than the others. They look newer more of a modern-day look to them. Silent Soul, Yanah, and the last one was written like a normal signature fast and illegible. They must be other players that hadn’t played Royal Road before. I started flipping through the pages of the book after going through a couple of hundred pages it felt like the pages would break apart in my hand by the slightest touch. As I went back I noticed that there were names crossed out and a fair amount at that. I started flipping through large groups of pages and the farther back I went the more names there were crossed off but there was normally at least one or two still there. I stopped flipping through the pages when I realized I was making no progress at all there were different names on each page but I wasn’t any closer to the beginning of the book. I decided to close it and open right to the first page. The entire page was crossed of accept for a line at the top of the page and the first entry. I looked down at it “Abel” and the line above said “King Yama” grants access beyond this point to the following.
New Journal Entry: Story of AbelNew Journal Entry: Yama’s Entry Book
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What journal entry what is that is that, a new feature of this game or something I wonder what it is …
“Hey you! Don’t just stand there if you have to write your name then you need to enter I don’t want to stand here watching you all day!”
“Okay, Okay Sorry”
I’ll worry about the journal later. It’s probably just the story of Cain and Able and I don’t want to go on some religious journey, I am going to play the bad character. It’s not fun being good in a game.
I flip to the end, write my name, and enter the gate.
New Quest: Earn your wings-The starting quest for all those who chose the angelic alignment you have to do a good deed. Depending on the deed and who and how many it impacts depends may change the results of quest. You can choose when the deed is the one to earn your wings. Once you have chosen your deed it is very hard to get better wings
- Rank: D
- Requirements:
Angelic starting alignment
- Rewards:
Wings
Damn! So I am an angel, I thought so, I mean having wings is awesome but I have to do something good and I just decided to be the bad guy!!
I get rid of the screen and take a look around.
It looks rather spare not many people around. It looked mostly like your average medieval town but the ground was white except for right up along the sides of the roads the white slowly turned into dirt and there was some grass on top.
Behind me where the gate was is now a big metallic shimmering wall. The way it shimmered was like how the sun reflects off of water when it has a slight current or a ripple but yet the wall was perfectly flat. God the sure put a lot of programing and work into giving the start of the game a very good first impression. But I hope they didn’t just spend all their time and money on aesthetics but on content as well.
So first things first I need to do is look in to this thing about the wings. What does it mean by that, are the wings different sizes?
I look around and notice that there is only a few people around me and they don’t have any wings on their back except one which had wings that weren’t very big and didn’t look like they would be able to lift them up at all (like the ones from the skypiea ark of one piece), maybe the others that didn’t have wings hadn’t gotten them yet like me. But I do notice a notice board up ahead with a map. I guess I can look for it in the library
The Library was a rather small building that looked more like a small house. I opened the door and noticed a huge staircase leading underground and on the left a desk with a librarian.
I ask if I can go down stairs. She says I can.
As I started down the stairs she said “Where are you from? I have seen people from all over the world as they enter this town when they first get here but I’ve never seen anyone who talks or walks the way you do it’s like you aren’t from the world below.”
“Do I really act that different?” (I am going to have to work on that I don’t want to stand out to much)
“I don’t know, most likely others won’t notice, my high intelligence stat gave me a passive skill that allows me to notice things most others won’t.”
“Did you say everyone comes here when they enter this word, do you mean when they die.”
“Oh did you just get here? I guess you still haven’t quite come to terms with the fact that you died. Well not everyone comes here some go to the world below the world below. “
“But if everyone who dies comes here how come the gate isn’t overflowing with people?”
“Oh well time in this town goes much slower than the rest of the world both up here and down below. And who ever judges them keeps them coming at a slow but steady pace.”
“Oh ok” How much must time be slowed down here? I mean the rest of the game is already 4:1. They say it works because the mind can handle things at a different speed then the body but this seems to be too much to make sense.
After a long time of searching I found a book about the wings you can get.
Book on known ways to get your wings
Apparently there is some ceremony for when you get your wings where the people you helped and the people you have met since getting here come and a light comes down from Gods palace, which I am guessing is a place you can go eventually, and the light takes the form of your wings.
The book then goes on about different kinds of wings you can get and some of the common ones and some of the known ways to get specific types of wings. It also gives some examples of high class wings that it is unknown how they were obtained for example the class of angels known as Seraphim they have six wings. The set of wings that attach the highest up on the back hang behind the others are the smallest set but in some cases each wing can still spread almost the length of the entire body. And each set gets larger as you go down. (Look up Seraphim on google images)
For giving food/money to the poor gives you the average Skypiea wings, as I am going to call it. The more you give or help at the instance you chose for your deed depends on the size but most for this is small, this article did not cover the giving away of your entire fortune though. ‘I noticed that it didn’t mention actually giving time only material possessions.
The next article caught my attention, Messenger wings (on feet). Each foot had a set of wings coming from the ankle. It talked about doing deeds like, if the hospital ran out of something they needed and you ran and picked it up for them for free or spent your money on it (apparently things like that add additional perks to abilities, stats, or appearance that the wings may have) could get you these. So I figure after reading it that they are common and I would rather have actual wings instead. But that’s not what caught my attention what caught my attention was, in the margin next to the article someone hand wrote in ‘The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame’, which I know I have heard before.
New Journal entry
Oh I almost forgot about that journal feature I guess I can just refresh my memory by reading about it.
“Read journal Entry”
Unable to read. You lack the requirements to read this journal
“What Requirements?”
Possible requirements:-Language
-Skill
-Previous knowledge on the subject
-Level
-Or specific circumstance
That sucks. Now think where have I heard that before, where…? I have no idea. Ok, Hermes who is Hermes. I think he is a Greek God but what which one
It is next to the article about wings on the feet so it must be the messenger god. But what does he have to do with eating wings?
If I have to get the Hermes wings for this journal I am not getting this journal. But I hope I remember where I have heard it before.
I don’t really know much about this place like if I have to stay in the first town for four weeks like in RR. I should go back to that bulletin board back where I started.
Welcome and congratulations for living your life well enough to make it up here. Was posted at the top of the message board. It was then split in two with one side being town news and normal stuff like that and the other side having info for new arrivals.
On the side for new arrivals it said you have to leave the town after four weeks, and you cannot return without special permission or for a relative, friends, or your wing ceremony which will always take place in this city.
I think I’ll log out to look up ‘The bird of Hermes is my name eating my wings to make me tame’ and probably log in in an hour or so after I get some food (and go to the bathroom).
Oh before I log out I should check my stats.
“Open stat window'
Status WindowNameUrek MazinoAlignmentAngelicRaceWingless Angelclassn/alevel1Fame0Titlen/aHealth100Mana100Strength9Dexterity9Vitality9Charisma5Wisdom9Intellect9Luck0Leadership0
"Log out"
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Thanks for reading!!!! My dyslexia made me give up on the code for the chart many times so I decided to end the chapter there. I have a lot of school work so i will try to get one chapter out every week but it might be much less sorry. I have the next chapter already started.