Authors notes: Sorry for the late chapter, but I would appreciate it if you could rate my fiction so far. Its slow but I promise now that the background of Frederick is established it would be more exciting.
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Frederick slumped on his pillow, he just talked to his shifu, who only shook his head in despair.
--The Next Day--
“Hi Master Chen. I’m afraid I have some news for you. I have to stop taking your lessons in order to gain more money whilst working, I recently got a new day job. With the bartending and the new job I may not have time to spar with you like before.”
“That’s too bad. All the other disciples aren't nearly as hardworking and talented as you, why else would I fake spar, to beat up?”
“... YOU BEAT ME UP ON PURPOSE? Come here old man lets do this one last time and see who beats who up.”
They both got into their sword stances and began. Frederick began circling Master Chen, Master Chen doing the same. Suddenly Frederick nimble slashed at Master Chen. Master Chen expertly dodged wasting no time to counter attack, only to be met with air as Frederick rolled behind him and tried to thrust both swords into the masters back. The master did a backflip, ducked low, turned around and chopped at Fredericks legs. Frederick not really caring just kicked the old man in the face as he jumped to dodge the swords. Master Chen let go of the swords and used his hands to protect his face. Frederick saw his master unarmed, and charged at him. Master Chen easily dodged and slipped past Fredericks guard and delivered a series of ip man styled punches (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5HGDE3qveM). Frederick on the floor nearly passed out. The Master helped Frederick up on his feet and congratulated him for making him get disarmed.
With that, Frederick reluctantly left the dojo. Shortly after he got home, a loud knock came from his door. As he opened the door, two burly men came marching in asking if he was Frederick Dare. He said “Yes, but why are you in my home?” They told Frederick they came to install the VR equipment. Frederick told them to install it in the corner of his living room. After everything was settled, the two men left and Frederick climbed into the VR pod for the first time and closed his eyes.
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The next second when he opens them, his vision has dark. It began to get progressively brighter. A woman greets him.
“Hi, how are you doing, my name is Sara. I will be your guide today. How do you feel?” says the woman.
“I feel great actually, like I can run a 20k marathon.”
“That is because in this room, you do not experience fatigue. This room is known as your starting location when you enter any VR pod, you can furnish this now or later.”
“Can I please furnish this now? It’s kind of open and empty.”
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“Sure, just imagine what you want the room to be like.”
Frederick quickly thought of his own house, but there was an study room.
“Nicely done, most people don’t get it the first try. Since you are here, I suppose you want to play the game?”
“Yes”
“First you need to place a portal in this space, it can be placed anywhere.”
Frederick decided to put it on the in the study room.
“Please step in to initiate the next phase.”
Frederick stepped in.
The room changed before him and he was staring at a replica of himself in 3D.
“Which race would you like to be in this game. There are four major races, the elves, the dwarves, the humans and the Ocrs. Would you like a general description of all the races?”
“Yes please.”
“The elves are separated into 3 subspecies, the high elves, the wood elves and the dark elves. The high elves specialise in holy magic and can level this 120% faster than other species that do not specialise in this. The wood elves are more specialised in the hunting aspect of the game. They give 120% increase in bow mastery. The dark elves specialise in assassinating. They give 120% increase in dagger mastery and blend in quite well in darkness.”
As Sara talks about the different races Frederick’s appearance kept changing to that race to show Frederick how it looked like.
“Dwarfs are a single united race that just love to mine and craft things, keep in mind they are short in stature but are are typically stronger than the other races excluding the orcs. They give 120% increase in when crafting. The Humans are an all rounded race, they give no buffs or debuffs. (Races that specialise in different aspects are often lacking in others. The elves are lacking in defence and vitality, dwarfs have a height disadvantage and orcs are dumb) However the humans are really adaptable and can become very successful in a variety of different trades given time and effort. They are also one of the few races where you can level up all your stats by working hard enough to train for it. The orcs are great at using blunt force and give 120% increase in blunt weapons, but they can’t learn magic.
Frederick after deciding for a while, picked human.
“Would you like to alter your appearance?”
“No”
“Choose your starting location, it’s between Horn, Pipe and Fan”
“Horn, please”
With that Frederick was once again teleported.