When the three of them open their eyes, they found themselves in the middle of an endless encompass. The night sky above them is glittering with stars, while beneath their feet is a glowing black floor, with white lines criss-crossing themselves into endless grids.
"Is this the character creation stage? It's pretty vast." (Violet)
"And pretty empty as well...Wait, someone is coming, Big Sis." (Martia)
As they look around, suddenly a white light appears above the sky, slowly descending toward them. Inside the light, an angel with white wings and short blond hair slowly appear, her white dress fluttered candily in midair.
"Oh? Do we have a twinsies this time? Judging from your look, are you two sisters?"
With her golden eyes looking mischievously toward the two of them, she said toward them with a cheerful choring voice.
"Hm, you could say that. We aren't related though." (Violet)
"We're blood sisters, sis!" (Martia)
"Um...Well, I don't care much, but you two do seem pretty close, and your pet lizard is strangely cute as well. Anyway...Ahem, O' Wandering Soul, How Blessed Is Your Fate For Us To Meet Here."
As she speaks in a granding voice, while her halo showering brightly above them all, the two of them have a chat with each other.
"Big Sis, is this what people called 'Setting'?" (Martia)
"Look like so. Since the people here like theatrics, they must have set up this sequence to 'set the mood, as they said." (Violet)
"...This is the Corridor Between World, a place where wayward souls like you often get trapped, never to be seen again. But not to worry! For I..."
"And she can keep talking as well. Does she not mind us at all, Big Sis?" (Martia)
"Indeed, such professional acting. Despite her look, she has the feeling of a jaded old veteran." (Violet)
"Who are you calling old! I am only 150 years old this years, and have only worked in this field for 15 years!" (Martia)
"Mm? The game have only gone on for 5 years, and according to my research, time in here accelerates 3 times faster than in the outside world..." (Violet)
"Believe it or not, that is still considered young in this industry! I don't even want to dare comparing myself to the true old hag...A-Ny-Way! You're now fated to have the adventure of your life, so here!"
Immediately, a screen appears in front of them, showing the character model they are having right now. Alongside that, there is various sliders and palettes, which adjusts and change how they look.
"Hm, from the look of it, this is the part where we create our character right?" (Martia)
"Since you're so savvy, I won't bother you with the fluff then! Seriously, kids these days and their smartassness...This is where you begin your journey, by crafting out the ideal body you want to be in. Hairstyles, skin color, your 3 sizes, etc...The sky's the limit." (Angel)
"Hmm, I feel pretty confident about my current body though." (Violet)
"Is that a diss on my end, you uselessly golden ratio lady? Let me tell ya, that my streamlined body is the pinnacle of the angel race, envy by all..." (Angel)
Completely fallen out of her act, she began complaining toward them with a scowling voice. Ignoring her rant, they continued checking through the option, until they landed on the race setting.
"Hm, you can choose your own race as well. Let's see: Human, Elf, Dwarf, Beastman,..., Dragon?" (Violet)
"Like Blancie?...You're right, I can also pick Dragon here, Big Sis. How about you, Blancie?" (Martia)
"Kyu!" (Blanc)
Also checking through her own list, Blancie confirmed it to them with a clear cry, as she also showing her character selection screen.
Already, something weird is going on, as they put their head together in wonderment.
"Even Blanc has it too...How can we all be able to pick out Dragon, all of the sudden? I thought it's a pretty advanced race, from what I look up..." (Violet)
"...So of course, I confidently beat their shit up-Hey, did you girl just ignore my entire rant!?" (Angel)
As they all tilted their head wondering about it, they suddenly noticed the angel coming over, stomping in anger. Though it's on her to start ranting on and on, she nevertheless charge forward with a self-important puff.
"We hear them perfectly, about how you have a race against the elves in the forest and win, because they make fun of your streamlined body...I just decided that it isn't something I should concern myself with." (Violet)
"Such brutal honesty!?" (Angel)
"Don't worry, Sis. I'm sure if you try your hardest, you will also become just as buxom as my Big Sis is." (Martia)
"And such brutal kindness!? Never in my life have I been more insulted by pity..." (Angel)
"So Sis, do you know why can we all access the Dragon race? I wanna know, and you seem like the right person to ask." (Martia)
"Not even allow me to lick my wounded heart, these kids...Well, let me see." (Angel)
Taking out her glasses (that she got out of nowhere), she looked over the three of them, nodding her head each time.
"Hm,hm...I see what it is. You three all came together at the same time right?" (Angel)
"Yes, we all came here via Synch Mode." (Martia)
"I knew it...in our business, we called it the Synchronized Soul Phenomenon. When multiple souls come together through the corridor between worlds, the soul sometimes gets 'attached' to each other, and ends up having their wavelength becoming in sync with each other. They will end up sharing many features with each other, and can even feel each other's thoughts and feelings." (Angel)
She then looked toward Blancie, and through her glass showing panels about her's parameters, she formally confirmed her finding.
"So since this lizard of your has an unusually high compatibility rate with the Dragon race, you by association also have high compatibility with it as well, and as such be able to choose it as your starting point." (Angel)
"Ho..." (Violet)
"Surprise? You should feel lucky, to be honest. Being able to become a dragon is something many people dream and die for..." (Angel)
"No, I'm more surprised that you're so calm about it. Usually, people would treat something like this with utter surprise, in my experience." (Violet)
"Well, when you're going this long into the business, thing like someone becoming a Dragon, an Angel, or a Devil from birth is just commonplace." (Angel)
"Woah...as expected of a weathered veteran, you know so much, Sis." (Martia)
"Thanks...Wait, are you calling me old again, you brat!?" (Angel)
As she chases Martia around in circles (with Martia happily playing along), Violet checks over the listed race again, before asking a question.
"So, if I and Maria can become a Dragon, can Blanc become a human as well?" (Violet)
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"Well...theoretically, yes. I don't recommend it though, since the difference between a lizard and a human could become so great-" (Angel)
As she's trying to warn Violet, while successfully holding Martia by the waist and lifting her up by the armpits, she noticed that the lizard is fiddling with the panel, before pressing the confirm button. Immediately, she began to glow with white light, as she quickly transformed into a young girl around Martia's age wearing a white dress, with long white hair, fair white skin, and obsidian eyes.
Before long, she began to jump and run around on her legs, keeping perfect balance at all times as she stand with one hand, and continuously performed somersaults multiple times in the air.
With the angel gawked at the formerly-lizard girl doing multiple flips several times in a row, she asked Martia, who have a proud look on her face.
"Oi, how can your lizard do that? Is her's past life a monkey or something?" (Angel)
"Huhu, Surprise? My Blancie has always had a great sense of balance and coordination." (Martia)
"Yeah, I think this goes beyond having a great sense of balance or coordination and some shit...Like what, can she talk too?" (Angel)
"Yes, I can." (Blanc)
"Gahhh!? Where did you come from!?"
Suddenly, a charming voice appear right next to her ears, and the angel jumped up in surprise. Apearing right next to her in an instant, Blanc briefly tickle her ears with breath so gentle, that she grow goosebumps all over her body, and her feather thoroughly ruffled.
Taking advantage of that, Martia jumps out of her arms, doing a perfect 5-point landing, and introduces Blanc's talent to the angel.
"Sis, Blanc can not only talk, she also understands multiples language, even from different countries and species than herself." (Martia)
"Fufu, you're praising me too much, Maria. I don't prefer to talk like this too much though..." (Blanc)
Coming closer to the angel, who is busy combing back her feather together, she slowly raised her chin, and lovingly look deep into her eyes with an elegant gaze, slowly caressing her ears with her feminine and gallant voice, and showing her cute fang with a beautiful smile.
"After all, if I ain't careful, my voice might take your breath away." (Blanc)
Suffering the full force of her mischievous yet mature allure, despite her childish look, the angel's face boil red like a shrimp, and her painstakingly combed feathers ruffled themselves up again.
At this very moment, her brain had boiled to 100 degree Celcius.
"Blancie, stop it. You're teasing her too much already." (Martia)
"Fufu, my apology. I will change back then." (Blanc)
Immediately after, she fiddles around with the character creation panel, and swiftly turns back into a white lizard again, jumping back into Martia's arms.
"Speaking of which, I didn't know that you have become such a charmer, Blancie." (Martia)
"Well, like you, I also have to grow as well, so it's per the matter of course...Oh yeah, little miss Angel, I could turn into a lady if you want." (Blanc)
Looking at her invitingly, Blanc wagged at the angel with her tail, who right now found herself barely be able to stand.
"But well, be careful...Once I have my grasp on something, you won't be able to get away, you know." (Blanc)
Once again, the angel found herself red to the ear and at a loss of words, before shouting back in protest.
"Wawawa...I-I don't have preferences in lizard, you cold-blooded bastard!!!" (Angel)
Immediately after, the angel was chasing vigorously at Blanc, as she pick the Dragon option and fly away at her playfully, under the disapproving eyes of Martia as she puffed out her cheek.
Meanwhile, ignoring all of that once again, Violet continued testing out her character option...
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--Few Hour Later--
"Heyyy, are you girl done yet? Not having all day here." (Angel)
Founding herself lying on the side in midair, she called out to them, looking simultaneously bored and annoyed.
"Not yet, Sis! I still have to test out how would a crabman handles a hammer."
Said Martia, as she's awkwardly holding a sledgehammer between her giant claw, and still managed to twirl it around perfectly, like it was a baton held by a troupe leader.
"And I still have to test the air maneuverability's differences between a winged beastman and an angel, in combat and otherwise."
Said Violet, as she's constantly switching between harpies and angels, and consequently having to switch various weapons between her hand and feet, from wielding a spear to juggling swords.
"Hah...when I said you girl can test these things out freely, I only meant it politely, you know? Not 'Forcing me to wait for hours watching you testing things out over and over again'. Laplace forbids, you even try every single digit of the stat allocation for some reason..." (Angel)
"Sorry, Sis. We're new to these kinds of thing, so we have to check out how does the status interact with the world..." (Martia)
"It's fine, it's fine. It's my job having to watch over all you girl anyway, so at least I have a good excuse for having an early break." (Angel)
"Bark (So is that why you chased me around for at least 2 hours in a roll?)" (Blanc)
"No, that's because I wanted to choke the living shit out of you...And why do I understand what you said all of the sudden?" (Angel)
"Meow (Maybe because our hearts have finally connected?)" (Blanc)
"Who the fuck wants to connect with you, this smug cat over there!?" (Angel)
"But listen to your heart~~. Here's your conscience talking to youuuu~~." (Blanc)
"And stop being a parrot to mimic my voice, this instannnnnnt!!!" (Angel)
Once again, they chase each other around the empty space, as Blanc nimbly dodge the angel's grasp by turning into various animal. Looking disapproval of all of this, Martia, in her high elf form, stopped Blanc with a giant paper fan at the temple, while she was in her giant wolf form.
"Stop it, Blancie. I know she's very teasable, but still..." (Martia)
"Who is very teasable!?" (Angel)
"You are, Sis, so much so that even Big Sis Yukari can't avoid teasing you this whole time as well...You seem exactly like the type that get fooled around a lot by their big sister senior, just to get a reaction out of." (Martia)
"Wait, how did you know that!?...Am I really that easy to make fun of..." (Angel)
"The fact that you only know about this now proves my point, Sis. And considering how cute you look while getting teased as well, they must have hidden it from you for a lonnng time." (Martia)
Hearing about this shocking (?) news, the angel ends up placing her hand on the ground, with an incredulous look on her face. Patting her head to console her, Martia try to say words of reassurance with a (bunny) smile.
"Cheer up, Sis. Your Teased Cuteness powerlevel is one of the highest, among the people that I know of." (Martia)
"I don't want that kind of cuteness! I want to be the "cool office lady with a soft side" cute, not "guinea pig stuffing their cheek" cute!" (Angel)
"Eh? But guinea pigs are cute, right? Especially the way curls and twitches when they get tickled..." (Martia)
"Yeah, but not the kind where you find the right soft-hearted man, get married, and live happily ever after in retirement-Wait, is that why those cougar old hag never tells me about any of this !? Oh, just you waitttt!!!" (Angel)
Screaming against the sky in indignation, she rises to the air all of the sudden, vowing to take revenge for the humiliation (?) done against her.
"Um, I don't think they done that because they don't want you to get married...or wait, maybe they do, but not out of-Hm?" (Martia)
Meanwhile, being the voice of reason, Martia is trying to explain her impression (while being a gentle wind spirit), when both she, Violet, and Blanc notice a new panel in the corner of their eyes.
...In the 5 years since this game release, the collective 1 billion players have discovered an easter egg, that can only be accessed right at the beginning of the game, in the character selection stage.
When they're checking through all the various races they can select at the start, they can then test them out in-game, by temporarily turning into that selected race.
That feature, not only helped them to be familiar with both the in-game race, and the new fully-immersive VR tech at the time, it's also the showcase of technology that Isekai Online has achieved, and still achieving, in delivering to the user the feeling of stepping into a completely different world, right from experiencing the feeling of being the different self than you are.
And if you have proven to have great familiarity with the race you have chosen, feeling as if all of their quirk and feature are in the back of your hand, you can also unlock subraces, alternative evolution paths, and even more base races for you to choose from.
Though being controversial at the times, as it leads to other players essentially being able to get the headstart above all others, and unlocking rare and more powerful races right from the get-go, it doesn't stop the game from being more and more popular, being the first VRMMORPG of its times and be very incredible to play at. Plus, since it ultimately allows the player to get more immersive with the game itself, and the world behind it, it ends up becoming one of this game's selling points.
From the 100 base races, along with all the alternatives and evolutions of said race, there is a total of over 1000 races you can currently unlock right now as part of that easter eggs.
And if you somehow become greatly familiar with at least 1000 races, you can unlock an even more hidden easter egg, accessible by only a very few people...
The races that are at the start of all races, the races of the beginning...
[Congratulation. Player "Unnamed1" has unlocked the Origin Races.]
[Congratulation. Player "Unnamed2" has unlocked the Origin Races.]
[Congratulation. Player "Unnamed3" has unlocked the Origin Races.]
As the three of them unlocked the secret races, they all titled their head in wonder.