Albert stabbed the ant.

[Health: 0/0]

[You have Vanquished the Ant]

[Tutorial Completed]

[Skill Gained: Fast Travel]

Albert smiled, Fast Travel was the most useful skill in the game, and it opened up so many choices to strategize over.

[Portal Ignited]

Albert walked forward, and found himself sitting in his chair. His computer announced a constant stream of messages.

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“skull-finger: i’m at ten out of ten health, got life force first, then slash so i lost less than one health to the roly-poly”

“42Triangles: This is real”

“GeorgeTheAlien: get in voice chat now”

While the messages continued streaming in, Albert joined the voice call on the Blind Bug Hunters server.

The messages kept streaming in, so Albert muted the chat.

After joining the voice call, the other people welcomed Albert in.

“Hey Lake Fly, did you go through the tutorial?” George said.

“Yeah. What is happening? One second I was working through my email, the next I was in the tutorial.”

“Bug Hunting came to life. Apparently the sky broke open, and bugs came out,” Skull Finger said.

“The bugs have been attacking people, killing them,” Triangles said.

“We should fight them.” Albert said, “We went through the tutorial, and as such have skills. Who’s got fast travel?”

Albert arranged a party to start fighting the bugs, and decided to hunt out a common tier bug. With his party of five, even though they each only had the tutorial skills, Albert was confident in their safety.