My name is Lily I'm an average 19-year-old collage student I have a small group of friends who all go to school and play games with me, my parents live out of the country because my dad works for the military.
Today is like any other day, I wake up get in the shower get dressed and eat breakfast then I head to the café and meet up with my friends. The group consists of me, the only other girl Kit she always plays the tank in the group, and 3 boys, Jack a nice guy who always plays the healer in the games we play, Lucifer who always plays either a necromancer or assassin, Michael who plays the DPS most of the time with a bow in the back of the group, and then I just play what ever the group needs mostly handling the crafting and odd jobs.
We all meet up in the café I'm the last one to show up and when I get up to them they all say “Hi” and kit asks me “Where the hell have you been? We have been waiting in you for the past 30 minutes.” Just as I'm about to respond the rest of the group just starts laughing and Lucifer says “You should know better the to expect Lily to show up on time for anything.” “Yeah, yeah I over slept.” I reply any way. I pull out my laptop and order a coffee and start playing a game with the rest of the group for about 4 hours we sit in there. We eat lunch right before we leave to go to school it’s just a 5-minute walk from the café so we head over. I have my first class with the rest of the group we take a test in that class I believe I did well. But what was really strange was that during my next class words appeared in my vision and said
{You have been chosen for project Phoenix you will be sent to the realm of gods in 5:00} {4:59} {4:58} {4:57}
Ok what the hell it’s not even a blue box with words its just words superimposed into my vision and wont go away what even is project Phoenix sounds like a secret government thing but the realm of the gods? Why does it feel like I'm going to be the protagonist of something? Well nothing to do but wait, its going to suck trying to explain this one to the group oh well not my fault.
{0:09} {0:08} {0:07}…{0:01} {Welcome to the land of the gods}
And then everything goes white its always white they never use anything else like why can’t we have a blue loading screen or something? I'm sure that’s not what I should be thinking about but why the hell not makes more sense to worry about that then the fact that I'm in a white void all by myself with words floating around my face so yeah I'm going to complain about the loading screen being white instead of something a bit more rare for loading screens maybe pink would be a good color.
As I'm thinking this, the world around me changes and turns into that of a meeting room like you would expect from a small company and in there are my friends? What are they doing here I thought I would be meeting a god in the realm of the gods, oh well at least they are here too so I'm not alone in this.
“How did you even manage to be late to this we all had a 5 minute timer so how are you 5 minutes late?” “Kit you really should stop asking how Lily manages to be late to everything its just a rule of the universe.” “Yeah, yeah I'm always late but have never missed anything has to do with the guild unlike you Lucifer you miss at least half of the raids not to mentation just normal quests.” I say but I have to admit its is kind of weird how I can even be late to a divine summoning I know I'm late to everything but you would think they would just summon all of us at the same time. At this point someone I didn’t even notice was in the room starts talking “Well please take a seat and we can get started.” Huh she’s cute short blonde hair, almost pink white skin, with blue eyes that seem deeper then the ocean, if I had to guess id say she would be around 23 but knowing what this place is called I'm going to assume she’s a goddess of something or another. I go sit done in the last available chair.
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She starts talking “My name is Ila, I am a goddess of luck. You are all here for project Phoenix, you will be given the powers of the Phoenix and gifts from a god you will go and do what you will but you have to get stronger for if we call on you, you will answer, you are probably wondering what the powers of the Phoenix are well that’s simple you will find out when you unlock them and to see hat they are just say status when you get into the new world. No you can’t go back to your home world. The gifts you gain will help you survive and complete the quests the gods give you; you can work on more then one quest at a time but not from the same god or goddess. Do you understand? Any questions?”
So she’s the tutorial while that makes it easy. “I think I understand so we get gifts to start then when you complete quests from different gods or goddesses we gain more gifts, but in exchange we have to help anytime a divine being asks for it. Am I correct in that?” “Yes that would be correct though not any divine being only gods or goddesses.” Just as I thought there are more then just gods I'm going to guess angels. “Of course Lily is the one who gets it first that’s why she’s the face of the group, but one thing I have a question about is the new world skill based or class based changes your entire play style so its important to know.” It makes since jack asked that one he’s the strategist. The goddess replies “ it would be a skill based world you use skills to make things easier but there will be classes as well.” She pauses and looks at the group to make sure no one else has a question and after about 15 seconds continues “well if you have no more questions we will start what you would call character creation a few simple rules first none of you can pick the same race as each other, second can’t pick how pretty you are that will be based entirely of your charisma stat you can however pick your body type hair color skin color and anything else along those lines, third you can not start with the same starting gift as each other you will all get 2 identical ones as the rest of your group and one that you get to pick.” So we don’t just keep are body then how are starting stats chosen oh please don’t be random stats please don’t be random. Well I guess I should try thinking status to see if that works
{Name: Lily Thornrose}
{Class: none}
{Race: please chose your race}
“Hey guys what race should I pick I'm thinking catkin but maybe human of half elf would have better stats for this?” “Go with what you want I'm pretty sure the rest of use are going to go with are normal races ill be an elf, kit will be human, Lucifer will be a gnome, Michael will play the dwarf.” “Ok so I think ill go half elf then.”
{Name: Lily Thornrose}
{Class: none}
{Race: Half-Elf} {Age: 19}
{Skills: none} {Skill points: 0}
{Traits: Phoenix born, Facile}
{Titles: none}
{Spells: none}
{STR: 8} {DEX: 11} {AGI: 11}
{INT: 10} {CHA: 12} {LUCK: 10}
{WILL: 12} {END: 8} {WIS: 9}
{Attribute points: 0}
{Quests: none}
{Fire: 200%} {Water: 100%} {Earth: 0%} {Air: 20%} {Light: 0%) {Misc. 100%}
{Please chose one of the following traits}
{Linguist: you learn all languages 600% faster}
{Combatant: you learn all combat skills 600% faster}
{Mage: you learn all magic 600% faster}
{Generalized: you learn everything 300% faster)
{Doctor: you learn everything related to healing 600% faster}
“Hey do you guys mind if I take {Generalized} as it fits my job better then any of the others.” The first one to answer is Lucifer “It’s clearly the most overpowered but I don’t mind besides ladies first right so you pick first.” Everyone else agrees with that and so I take {Generalized} kit takes {combatant} and everyone else takes what relates to their specialty except Michael gets {linguist}. After we pick all of that I read over the traits I have now
{Facile: you are a quick learner you learn everything 400% faster)
Well shit so that’s either 7 or 12 times faster to everything seems a bit OP well I hope it doesn’t get boring.
{Phoenix Born: you have the powers of the legendary Phoenix you have a 200% fire affinity and you will be reborn every time you die}
So we respawn, I wonder what the catch is? “I'm not the only one who has the {Phoenix born} stuff right it like I'm not the only one you it says ‘you will be reborn every time you die’ right it says that for you guys as well right?” again the first person to answer is Lucifer “Yeah says that here too, wonder what the catch is?” “Yeah me too seems like something that can’t be cheap, but I'm not willing to test it not that we could in here anyway.”
“Well now that all of you are done with your selections I wish you all good luck.”
{You have been wished good luck by a goddess of luck you gain +10 luck}
“Well that’s nice of you miss Ila.” I hear Lucifer say before we get sent out of the realm of gods.