? : “Good god I'm tired. It's been so long since I've waited for this MMO and it's taking too long….. Finally, wait who are you guys?”
For some odd reason there was six other people here in the white room with me and from the looks of it, they also have no clue why where here. From my calculations there were three females and three males but the one thing that struck me was that why they were here with me on my waiting screen.
The guy with short red hair looked at me and the rest of us and smirked but not In a evil or arrogant way. His body and looks was that of a noble rich family that a princess would dream about as prince charming. But it felt like I knew him for some reason. Then he spoke.
? :” My name not important so I'll just say my online name that I was going to use for this game. My name will be Crimson Overlord.”
Now that he said that name Crimson Overlord, he is the number 1 player of all time he was somehow good at magic, most guns and swords and was equally capable to be considered king of games even though he used the knight profession.
Crimson Overlord: May I ask for your names, I feel I know each and every one of you.
? : “You made a great point of, the name I will use is Deadman.”
Everyone looked at him and all smile, I was rank number 3 in the world and rank as the best sniper across the gun MMOs. Now that it comes to mind if Crimson is ranked 1st and I'm rank 3rd so the others must be in the top 7 of best players.
Now that the others come to the same conclusion as me they all started saying their names. The first one to speak after me was a mysterious guy, and we couldn't see his face due to his hoodie. He looked around 5’5 in height and was fairly slim.
? : “I’m Specter, well that's name I was going to use when the game start.”
He's rank 5th he's best known as the top assassin. The next to speak up was one of the females, she looked like a student in high school she had a beautiful body that was of a women. With her hair color being white with a slight dye of sky blue covering her right eye. While on the subject of her eyes they were turquoise crystals.
? : “This is getting interesting I think I know who everyone's name will be but I just got to see your faces on who you were in real life. My name will be Transient Ocean.
From my knowledge she's the best mage across all MMOs ranking number 4 in the leaderboards. Next was a small girl that looked around 16.Her body looks delicate with her hair being pitch black what struck my attention was her eyes. They were blood red. There were many rumors about her in the last MMO about her eyes but most thought it was due to the customization feature. But we couldn't alter our appearance yet.
? : “ummmmm………….my name will be like it was in the last game Hrist.
Now that I remember she's ranked 6th and used the hidden class Valkyrie in the last game she had look like a dark knight.
? : “My online name will be Fallen Fairy and it's a pleasure to play with you guys again.”
? : “Yeah continue off with what my sister said it's great to meet everybody again. My name will stay as Raging Berserker.”
That comment confirms my knowledge since they were brother and sister and was known across most MMOs. However they were a pair of weird siblings. There was rumors they both had a brother and sister complex and the sister would PK any girl that would attempt to talk to her brother and the same could be same for the brother with boys. I know the sister used the Cleric class she's rank 7th while the brother used the swordsman class and he's rank 2nd.
We all had common knowledge about everyone here since we played a lot together. We were recognized as the top players but considered monsters. We never associated with anyone else except us. We are known for being solo players and never joining any guilds, and to be honest we were flooded with invites. With have trust issues with people that don't share our common knowledge so players stop trying to talk to us and just fear us. We complete all raids together but did missions separately for maximum rewards unless it was too difficult.
We were all waiting to play the new MMO and is considered to first VRMMORPG Re:Evolution Rise of the Codex .The story is in a time period where magic and swords exist in the past. Humans fight demons in the hope to find peace however half the population split didn't believe in the church and wanted to rule the world. They were capable of finding a rare mythological Codex that gave them the knowledge to build weaponry and vehicles in our own current time however it came at a price. Most were turned into cyborg and considered themselves the superior species, so they wage war. This resulted in a new type of Maou that the humans never seen and as the kingdom and church to summon heroes to face the Maou of the demons and the Maou of the cyborgs. With the war continuing for many years’ humans and demons were able to use some guns made by the cyborgs and be able to adapt to bullet damage. This was left to the new heroes to help civilization find peace.
From my knowledge a MMO like this needs balancing and the developers stated that they will constantly update the game even while we are playing. Some classes use guns and swords but to make in favor of the swords and magic classes they have a 10% damage reduction against bullets and any melee weapon can deflect bullets if you have the reaction time. They also stated in addition to the hidden classes, you're capable of having two main classes if you can acquire it. I'm really excited for this feature.
Since we were the top 7 in the world we got invited to play the game 2 hours before release.
Now all of us are waiting to play the game.
Just now the game started and we were still together. We 7 never alter our appearance. I don't know the reason why but none us look ugly per say. I wear glasses and have short black hair. I also am fairly slim and tall, I don't considered myself ugly but not handsome either just average. The only reason we never seen our true appearance is because we wore helmets, hoodies or any other piece of clothing to hide our face .We made our desired names and was ready to depart our own ways until we really needed help, but then a dark figure came out.
? :” Hello dear players I'm guessing everybody got associated with each other and knows who you are. I'm this game moderator and I have a special task for you all.”
Everybody: “What do you mean?”
Moderator: “Well first off I’m guessing everybody didn't figure out that you can't log off.”
Everybody put up the start menu but didn't see the log off, we were very calm in this situation most likely since we watch and read a lot of anime and manga.
Moderator: “Don't worry your body won't die. As soon as you had put the helmets on it contained a special virus that it injected into your head when you put it on. This virus is specifically made to keep you alive and feed your body in your slumber state. Also don't worry about people taking off your helmet and you think you might die because you won’t. The helmet locks onto each of your heads and won't come off.”
Deadman: “Don’t tell me you want us to be the generic heroes that save the world and players’ right.”
Moderator: “hahaha ha-ha ha-ha………… that was a good joke but no. You 7 will be the new Maou’s and the only way for the other players to leave when they start the game is to kill you. I will announce it when they start but don't worry they won't know any of your identities. But here's the catch your identities will be revealed when players start to reach level 500 which is the level cap. Your task is to make an undefeatable dungeon of 20 floors before players reach 500 and be able to kill them before they kill you.”
Crimson Overlord: “I’m guessing if we die in the game we die in real life correct?
Moderator: “Yes, however I won't be that cruel. The maximum number people in the party is 7 however even if one person dies in the party of 7 that person wouldn't die yet. They have a cool down to respond however if all 7 of you party dies you all die completely.
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Fallen Fairy & Transient Ocean: “Why us?”
Moderator: “I was waiting for that question. Simple each and every one of you have are considered the best players and comrades towards each other. However in life you have committed the 7 sins more than any other person I had seen which is Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Laziness, Wrath, Envy and Pride. Now don't get me wrong don't consider this a punishment just think of it as freedom. You all are considered outcast in society with different backgrounds of people and don't like people. You all enjoy each other’s company because you sense in each other familiarity. You 7 have the best coordination and teamwork across all games and I think you will be able to complete this task.
I'm the Maou Overlord and I need you to kill people in the dungeon so I will be able to resurrect and form the 21st floor of the dungeon. More specifically I need souls of heroes in the dungeon. I already made you Maous’ and can give you all three gifts. One will be giving you all duel classes in your main slot off the bat while raising your normal class to 4th tier. Another is giving you each a unique skill or two if you’re lucky. You will flip a coin heads gets two and tails gets one this will happen with classes’ too. Lastly all you must pick which Stat attribute you want to raise and I will put 50 puts in it. That is all; you won't be able to contact me until you built all 20 floors of your dungeon.
Deadman: “I have a question about dual classes can we pick a hidden profession as our second class.”
Moderator : “ Yes and No, Once you pick one of the normal classes as your main, I will raise it to the 4th tier of which I have the power and your second profession will be granted to your play style and personality randomly.
Hrist: “Excuse me about the dungeon; do we make the bosses of each floor?”
Moderator: “Yes, you can make the boss however you see fit, giving the boss skills and gear depends on you. To give it skills you have to have it in a skill book and the boss will automatically learn it. As for gear just give it to it and it will put it on. Now you can also capture special hidden bosses around the world, but I won't go into detail on how to get one.”
Specter: “What are the tiers of the equipment around the world?”
Moderator: “Grey (Poor) < White (Common) < Green (Uncommon) < Sky Blue (Rare) < Purple (Very Rare) < Silver (Legendary) < Gold (Ancient) < Platinum (Myth) < Crimson (Hell)
< Pink (Demigod) < Onyx (Titan) < Colorless Crystal (God) < Rainbow (Omnipotent) Specter: “Yes now about the classes?” Moderator: “Of course, the classes are broken into two categories. Which is past and modern, each one has pros and cons which I won’t point out nor will I explain each one. The past classes included Swordsman, Berserker, Knight, Archer, Monk, Water Mage, Fire Mage, Lightning Mage, Cleric and Thief. With modern classes include Sniper, Medic, Commando, Assassin, Scientist and Titan.” Moderator: “Now that I explained everything, I will go down the list of ranking to see which class and amount of skills everybody will get. So everybody flip your coin.” As soon as he said that a coin appeared on all of our hands. The weird thing was we all got heads and the moderator was speechless. Moderator: “…………….. Ok then we'll start from the top ranking and go down with pick classes then will be skills.” Crimson Overlord picked Knight and got the hidden unique profession Angel of War as his second class. Crimson was focusing on me and Raging Berserker for some reason not even bothering to give a glance at the others. Raging Berserker picked Berserker but he got a hidden unique class called War Berserker which replaced the regular berserker class. I picked Sniper and also got a hidden unique class Cybernetic -Phantom I was clueless about this class and Crimson smiled for some odd reason. My guess was that the top 3 players got hidden unique classes already. Deadman: “What's a hidden unique class?” Moderator: “T-To think three of you would actually get one. A hidden unique profession is a class that only one player can get and no one else.” Transient Ocean looks sad my guess was that there was no regular mage class. So she was restricted to an element. Transient Ocean: “I'll pick Monk” Everyone was pitch silence. The best mage in the world was picking a melee class that uses their fists. Transient Ocean: “Oh don't worry about me I know how to fight. My father taught me most fighting styles my whole life in our dojo.” Then the second she said that she gained a hidden profession that was Elementalist. She looks at it and started jumping in joy. She can prove to be deadly to be able to handle close range fighting as well as casting deadly magic of all types. Specter was up and was a no brainer class. Specter: “I want to pick the Assassin class.” Specter also got a hidden class and it was Shadow hunter. Next up was Hrist she picked Swordsman and got the hidden unique class Valkyrie this class like Raging Berserker’s one also replace the 1st class. She put up a sinister smile. My guess was she really wanted that class. Last up was Fallen Fairy picked Cleric. She gained the hidden profession Summoner that was a rather rare set up but she will be able to protect herself. Moderator: “...............All hidden classes huh, well let's check the skills. Oh I forgot skills are also divided into the same way that gear was. So let's get started.” Crimson got a two god skills [Supernova] and [Soul Resurrection]. Raging Berserker got two Titan skills [Endless Rage] and [Dual Wielding Prodigy]. Crimson and Berserker didn’t look at the skills description but was already satisfied at the rank. They both looked at me and were dumbfounded. For some reason I got three skills all ranked Codex. [Dimensional Jump], [Phantom God Domain] and [Phantom Bullets]. Everyone was looking at me with envy and it turns out [Phantom Bullets] is a passive skill. I'm going to wait till we go to the village before checking out the skills description. Transient Ocean got an Omnipotent skill which was called [Elemental Domain] and an Ancient passive skill that was [Chantless Magic]. Specter received a Demigod skill [Mist Field] and a Titan skill [Sword Teleportation] when Specter got his Titan skill a weird symbol appeared on his left and right palm. Hrist received a God skill [Valkyrie Flight] and a Myth skill called [∞ Durability]. Last up was Fallen Fairy she got a Legendary skill called [ Twilight Aura ] and the last skill which shocked us since she's rank 7th in the world is a Codex skill called [ Gaia’s Domain ] I was most curious about two skills which happen to be my domain skill as well as Fallen Fairy Domain. The moderator didn't say anything trying to make his mind come to a realization when we all received powerful skills. Moderator: “OK last but not least which is the attributes I'll show them all to you. Physical Attack Strength: 0 Magic Attack Strength: 0 Gun Attack Strength: 0 Physical Defense: 0 Magic Defense: 0 Gun Defense:0 Intelligence:0 Endurance:0 Luck:0 Prestige:0 Magic Regen+: 0 Critical Hit Rate: 0%; Pierce Rate: 0% Attack Speed: 0%; Movement Speed: 0% Elemental Resistance: Water: 0%; Fire: 0%; Wind: 0%; Lightning: 0%; Earth: 0%; Light: 0%; Darkness: 0% Moderator: “Which attribute does everyone want it has to be the same answer.” Everyone looked at each other and knew the attribute and said in unison “Luck.” Moderator: “OK now you a have two hour head start before players sign in. They will only know about 7 players that can die and end the game they won't know your names so I suggest to stay hidden. Now without further ado let's begin. Everyone smiled and wasn't worried at all for what is about to happen only that we will finally be able to have fun.