Asgard was, in a word, beautiful. A mix of old Norse and Angelic architecture. He stepped from the building that seemed to be the beginner spawn point. Only to meet a group of several angels. James thought to himself, “Wow its good to see other heteromorphs, too bad that won’t last very long.” He raced through the streets seeing all sorts of races, big and small. Many of the people here were angels with the occasional other race sprinkled in.

There were no undead of demons that he could see though. “The races must start in the world best fitting them. Angel’s to Asgard, undead to Helheim, so on. The other races must either start on one of the nine worlds at random, or some other function is deciding where they start.

That was not his concern though. His first thing he had to do was get ahead. He had to get to level 25 as soon as possible, but first, he saw a human man attempt to assault another player wearing beginner armor only to be instantly slain by lightning from the sky. A small message appeared on his Hud.

P.V.P is NOT permitted in this area (City).

Continued acts of aggression will be met with harsh punishment.

“Holy Shit! Ainz never mentioned that little detail!” He could not get into a fight in a city. “P.V.P was disabled in a majority of the cities, FUCK yeah it is!” James said half out loud, people looked at him, but quickly looked away, not wanting to start anything and risk the penalty.

“Now where was I, oh yes.” I was just about to run skip and jump my way out of town to go start grinding. The area outside of the walls was about the length of two football fields. That area was all plains followed by forest. The mobs outside the walls of this heavenly Norse city were just angelic versions of your typical starter area mobs. Rabbits, foxes, all the critters of a forest. It seemed the Devs really did not put a lot of thought into the creatures here in the beginner's area. Then again this was only day one.

Suddenly remembering all the times Ainz said, “Those shitty Devs!” He started to understand a little more of Ainz’s perspective. No time for that now he had to grind. The first creature he encountered was an angelic rabbit, as he drew his sword, and began attacking the small creature.

It took him five minute to kill the rabit. He was very embarased at his own weakness. He made excuses, 'It was too fast, this is bullshit!' James turned inward as he sat down and picked up the small amount of rabbit hide it had dropped. He smiled, "What is a world without hardship? Worthless."

James heard a scream.  He turned to see that same human trying to P.K that same poor angel guy. “This son of a bitch doesn’t know when to quit!” he said with a shocked smile on his face. Yes, a smile, he had spent the last week with the dev team getting facial expressions working. He was very proud of his accomplishment. He had and the the animations team even earned themselves a nice little bonus for that.

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He raced toward them to save the player. The asshole never saw it coming, he was too busy enjoying what he thought was an easy victory. Jacob ran up behind the man with his held in both hands, up and too the side like a samurai.

In an instant James had driven his sword through the mans back, the sword erupting from his chest. Jacob spoke, "Don't be one of those assholes now!" 

James forced the blade upward. The man never stood a chance due to only being level one. James was greeted by multiple notifications.

You have slain a human +EXP -%

You have slain a human in the defense of your fellow angel. The Gods have taken notice.

You have received the title “Angelic Defender”

“Angelic Defender”- You see what is wrong with the world and seek out to make it right. +10% to party and or guild, defense stats. Any player who slays you and those in your guild and or party that are of the race (Angel), will suffer the same penalty as if the roles were reversed.

Because of “Angelic Defender” you have been awarded EXP equal to the amount deducted from EXP earned from slaying a human in the defense of a fellow Heteromorph.

You will no longer receive EXP penalties for killing to defend fellow heteromorphs. +10 percent EXP when slaying players or creatures in the defense of fellow heteromorphs.

Before he could even express his shock, “Holy Shit!” The player he had just saved was standing up shaking his hand, “Thank you for shaving me. I just knew not everyone in this game was an asshole.” “No problem, I’m…” It suddenly dawned on him, in his excitement to play he had used his real name for his character. “I’m James, I was so excited to play I used my real name for my character.” He said while rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment.

“You should get that changed; I would know I have seen too many people get their lives ruined by doing stuff like that.” Said the man he had saved, his voice was that oof an older gentleman. It sounded familiar, too familiar.

“Oh yeah how’s that?” “Oh, that’s because I’m a police officer… and I just did it myself after chastising you for the same thing.” He said while facepalming to which a small red 1 appeared in the air, indicating he had done damage to himself. A police officer, it could not be! “What’s your character name if you don’t mind me asking?”

Quickly shaking off the feeling of his mistake, “Oh its TouchMe, that’s kind of the reason that guy was trying to kill me. I really owe you one.” NO FUCKING WAY! This was the Legendary P.V.P champion TouchMe?! Then again it is day one and people all must start somewhere. “TouchMe ill definitely remember that name. One day I’ll give you a [message] and then you can pay me back, I won’t ask anything morally wrong of you, I can tell you are a man with a deep respect for justice.”

James was about to wave him goodbye when, “Can I ask a favor of you?” Well this was unexpected. “Sure, what do you need?” “Can we party up? Just until we level up a bit!” TouchMe said putting his hands forward, palms up, with an expression of pure agony. “Sure, I don’t mind, I was going to grind some levels anyway, this will make it faster.” “Thank you.” His hands dropped and his face change to one of relief.

“Let’s get our grind on!” Said James. TouchMe simply chuckled and followed his lead as he charged another rabbit.