Chapter 1:Creation

Tony’s eyes adjusted to the light and he found himself in a small white room. It was completely barren except for the black screen attached to the wall next to him. “Hello”a woman wearing an all black dress floated in front of Tony. She seemed to be around the same age as him. She had hair that was darker than the night and her eyes were as black as the dress she wore. Tony was taken aback by her presence she seemed more suited for going to high class parties then the starting AI for a VR game.

“Welcome to New Age Adventure Online”She spoke with an almost noble like air.”My name is Kuq’seenae, and I will be assisting you in the creation of your character.”

“..........” Tony just sat there and stared at her. His mind had gone completely blank. For his whole life Tony had trouble talking to people he didn’t know this problem was only compounded by the fact that the women in front of him was a beautiful women.

“A Quiet one hmm…. This might be interesting.”Kuq’Seenae said smiling as she took more interest into the human standing in front of her.

“What would you like to known as in the world of NAAO?”she asked tony.

“...uhm…..ah…..”Tony still couldn’t bring himself to answer the women in front of him. He worried that he might choose a terrible name and get laughed at.`why am I so worried she's just an AI’ he thought to himself. Nevertheless he still couldn’t answer her.

“Hahahaha you really are interesting did you know that.”Kuq’Seenae started to laugh uncontrollably holding onto her sides to support herself. “Since you seem to be unable to think of a name for yourself why don’t I think pg one for you.”

Tony thinks it over for a while and shrugs his shoulders `not like she could have a worse naming sense than me’

“Ok give me a second………...Oh I’ve got it how about….Xvaris Serpentus.”Kuq’Seenae smiled crazily as she waited for Tony’s response

`what is this she's worse than me at naming.’ Tony thought but he still nodded his head and consented to it.

“That's great Xvaris, now let's move on to choosing your race. There are currently there are five different races making up this world. There are the Elves, good in bows and magic. Then there are the Orcs, brute force is their forte. Then you have the Fairies friends to nature and animals. Then you have the Dwarfs expert craftsmen and brave warriors. Finally you have the humans weakest of all the races but also the most adaptable. So which one shall it be?”

Tony thought it over for a while. `well I know I don’t want to be a fairy that would suck. I also don’t want to be a ugly old brute with no way of learning magic so orcs are out, and there is no possible way that I would become a tree hugging sunflower so the elves are out as well. I also don't want to be a short hairy drunk with an over sized hammer.' As Tony was about to answer her question she interrupted him “Why don’t you choose humans it would probably suit you.”

`well that's convenient’ Tony thought as he nodded his head to confirm it.

“That’s Great no we can move on to finding out what your stats are!” Kuq’Seenae almost shouted before catching herself and grinning evilly.

Tony was a bet worried about how happy Kuq’Seenae seemed to be at this prospect. So Tony finally decided to man up and speak “How….do...you….figure...out ….someone's stats?” His voice was raw and sounded gruff. When he was younger he had injured his throat which made him sound like batman after he had inhaled razor blades.The effect seemed to have carried over when he entered the game.

Kuq’Seenae seemed a bit taken aback at his voice but soon recovered and started to explain “You will have to go through a series of tests. These tests will then tell us what your stats should be. The average human will have stats of 10 just so you know.”

“Well are you ready to start Xvairs?”She asked as she pulled a clipboard out of thin air.

Xvairs nods and follows behind her as she walks into another room connected to the white room that they had been standing in. This room was much bigger than the one they had just left. It was about the size of a gymnasium. It had a track circling the circumference of the room. In the center sat a large pillar made out of crystal. The crystal had this carved into it [00 miles]

“For the first test you are going to run around this track until I say stop or you keel over from exhaustion, do you understand.” Kuq’Seenae asked.

Xvaris confirmed this with a nod. ‘I wonder if i can run for longer than in real life” He thought as he walked up to the track and prepared to start the test.

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“Ready, Set, Go” Shouted kuq’Seenae as Xvaris started to run around the track. He jogged around the track slowly at first trying to maintain a moderate pace, but pretty soon Kuq’Seenae got bored and decided to goad him to run faster.

After sprinting for a few more laps the crystal in the middle of the arena changed to display the one mile mark. Thinking it was over Xvaris was about to stop running because he felt so tired but Kuq’seenae had other ideas.

“What are you doing keep going I didn't say you could only stop when I said so”She shouted at the extremely tired Xvaris. She created a whip from thin air and started to chase Xvaris around

Xvaris was chased around the track for the next four hours. When he finally collapsed from exhaustion a small window popped up.

[New Stat Unlocked]

[Endurance: for going beyond your own limits and then going further you have unlocked the stat]

 [endurance,it will affect how much stamina you have.]

‘Well that is quiet interesting to know, so if I do something extreme I’ll unlock the stat that deals with that action.’ Xvaris thought to himself.

As he was standing up Kuq’Seenae floated over to him with a small green vial in her hand. “Here drink this.” Xvaris just stared at her. “Don’t worry it's just a potion to bring up your stamina.”

Xvaris took the potion and chugged it down. It had an unpleasant bitter herbal taste to it that almost made him gag. He looked towards Kuq’Seenae to see what torture she had for him now.

“The next test will be for strength, are you ready?” She asked sounding actually concerned but the mischievous glint in her eyes overshadowed any good will she tried to emit.  Xvaris shuddered a little bit thinking of what they would do to test this.

3 hours later

Xvaris felt like he made the wrong decision in agreeing to these tests. The strength test was pretty simple. All he had to do was hold a weight over his head. He had never been that strong but this test was easy until Kuq’Seenae decided he needed more weight. In the end He was barely stopping the weight from crushing his head.

The Dexterity test was just as bad. Actually this test seemed to be something Kuq’Seenae just made up to be sadistic. The test was to see how well he could doge. To do this Kuq’Seenae shot arrows at him again and again. She said he had to dodge one hundred but every time he didn’t dodge an arrow Kuq’Seenae set the number of arrows dodged back to zero. So he ended up dodging more arrows than he could count.

The intelligence test was pretty simple just answering a SAT like test. The Wisdom test was similar but it asked you to evaluate different situations. They completely skipped the Charisma test since he had a hard time talking.

He was sitting across from Kuq’Seenae completely exhausted from the last few tests.

“So are you ready fro the last test?” Kuq’Seenae asked. He looked over and slowly nodded his head. “Ok but before you do please drink this.”She handed him a vial similar to the stamina potions that he had been using except for the fact that the liquid in it was black.

When Xvaris drank it he noticed that it had a kind of sickly sweet taste to it. Once he downed the whole vial he looked towards Kuq’Seenae to see what was going to happen next. When he looked at her she had a kind of sad smile on her face.

“Xvaris I’m truly sorry for what you're about to experience.”

After she said that he felt like the blood in his veins were on fire. The pain was extremely intense, he felt as if his whole body was being ripped apart on the molecular level. Xvaris was trying to understand how this could happen. Yes, the game had real pain added in to make it more realistic but that pain was extremely limited and couldn’t exceed a certain limit, but this pain was the worst head ever felt. As he blacked out he could hear Kuq’Seenae say

“I really am sorry for this but this is important. Good Luck.”

Then everything faded to black…….

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