Chapter 2

walking through the town zero couldn't help but noticed that it seemed to act like a real town, the npc went about the place as if they were living creatures. if a person wanted to use programming of this level then they would be hard pressed to make it flow so seamlessly.

after walking for a few minutes zero arrived on the outskirts of the city out here he could see groups of players beating on what would be considered the basic ‘enemy’ otherwise known as a bunny. walking by them he continued towards a rather large looking forest.

pulling out his ‘sword’ zero began to walk cautiously deeper into the forest, every few minutes he could hear the sound of the underbrush rustling. the rustling began to get louder before all of a sudden a small wolf headed green skinned creature appeared in front of him.

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Forest koboldLevel3HP67Attack9

as the kobold leaped at him trying to use its small sharp claws to rip his flesh apart, zero activated his only skill bash, this caused the buckler on his arm to glow in a faint grey light before he swung it towards the kobold, the shield connected with a loud crunch and a number appeared over the kobolds head - 12.

Zero’s eyes widened as this number was nearly double the amount of attack he had, e quickly checked his skill list as the kobold slowly raised itself to his feet and he saw that the skill was grey out with a small green bar along the side slowly going down. seeing that the kobold was still reeling from the blow he delivered zero quickly dash up to him and swept its legs from underneath it causing it to fall to the ground again, as it fell he stabbed towards it head impaling it delivering a fatal blow.

the body of the kobold began to glow before turning into a black dust and floating off leaving behind a few copper coins.

‘’just a few bits of copper, thought it would leave a bit more’’zero said aloud as he pocketed them.

for the next few hours this routine continues, search the forest, get attacked by a kobold, kill it and gather the copper. doing this was not only tedious but also tiring. the only good thing to come out of it was that he had been able to level to 2 and put all five of the gained stat points into constitution. raising his attack by one and his health by twenty.

during this time his ‘sword’ had broken and he had resorted to beating the kobold by bashing them with his shield before ripping out their throat with his teeth, he did this as his fists did even less damage than his ‘sword’.

‘’my gear is beginning to break better head back and get it repaired’’ he thought to himself as he slowly exited the forest into the plains that were in front of the city, again he could see other players grouping together to kill the bunnies, as he walked past he couldn't help but let out a ‘hmmph’ as if to say that the players around here couldn't even kill a single bunny without help.

hearing this a few of the players called out to him.

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‘’kid if i were you id shut the hell up, unless you want to feel the end of my blade’’ one rather large man said as he held up the rusted sword , seeing this zero couldn't help but laugh, after all who in their right mind would consider a rusted and falling apart sword as a weapon.

seeing that zero had been to laugh the made a thrust the sword into the guts of zero, as the blade entered zero’s body a damage number appeared over his head - 3.

this caused zero to laugh even more mainly due to the fact that the man's attack had done basically nothing to him.

he then responded by driving the edge of his buckler in the man's throat. - 23 as the number popped out the man couldnt help but be suprised, leaping back he then shouted for the group with him to attack, as he finish telling them to attack one of the mages cast the spark spell, this made a golfball sized ball of flames speed towards him, zero raised the buckler to block it but as he raised it an narrow lodged itself inside of his chest, - 32

the amount of damage that a single arrow caused seemed to be to high to zero’s mind, but as he thought this the fire ball splashed against the arrow's shaft lighting it on fire and causing a status effect.

-46, you have been set alight -5 HP per second until the fire has been snuffed out

‘jesus the damage shouldnt be this high, they are only level 1-2 this isnt right’

‘’ha brat i told you to shut it now i guess i have to kill you’’ the large man said as he rushed at zero aiming to spear him with the blade of his sword. as the blade drew nearer zero simply raised his shield but right as the blade’s tip touched it he threw his entire weight behind the shield and twisted his arm to the left causing the man's blade to be sent flying. a grey auar then surrounded the shield and zero smashed it into the man throat yet again. -67

the man was left with only a single point of hp left but he was unable to do anything as zero leapt onto him and forced him to the ground.

‘’ i thought you were going to kill me?’’ zero snarled at him before using his teeth to rip out the man's throat killing him, the other player around them seeing the scene that had just happened couldn't believe it. how could someone using just a shield kill another player and better yet why rip out his throat.

‘’alright then whose next’’ zero roared at the surrounding people but all he got in response was a flurry of attacks ranging from arrows to spell and even a few swords were thrown at him.

YOU HAVE DIED - respawn available in 4 hours.

during the time that zero was being killed on the walls of the city a cloaked man could be seen .

‘’hmm ferocity check, some skill and a good amount of bravery, hmm maybe just maybe’’ the figure said to himself  before walking off towards the city center.

auothers note

her is another chapter and as yo can see by how rought it is i am not used to writing in the third person and i may consider changing the viewpoint to first, also a shield is also a weapon if handled right, arrows do more damage the shorter they have to fly. anywho i hope that you enjoy and will leave a few comments on how i could improve this story and the like