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Chapter 2: Really an RPG?

Chapter 2: Really an RPG?

The victims

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In the forest, two huge forces gather, one is the group of four legged animals but these animals are not your normal animals, they are not normal dogs or cats. They are magical beasts that use magic as their additional ability aside from biting and using its claws. They are the pack of magical foxes, their leader is the evolved nine-tailed fox together with its companions, a firefox and a hundred storm foxes.

They have the ability to annihilate anything using their magical abilities. Storm foxes uses wind magic creating mini whirlwind or tornados to hurt its enemies. The firefox is a one step ahead evolved of storm fox, which uses primarily on fire magic that can burn anything to ashes due to its high temperature flames.  The nine-tailed fox is one of the most powerful magical beast in this world, it is said that it can par to powerful creatures like dragons. This foxes appearance are close to normal foxes but with their colors, number of their tails makes them outstand than normal foxes. The storm fox fur color is mostly silver, the firefox is crimson while the nine-tailed fox aside from its nine colored tails, it has ability to change its color depending on its emotion or nature of its magic produced.

On the other side, the figures of filthy fast-producing humanoids, the most common enemy of all time, the most common enemy that harms small villages, the goblins. They are not just dark green colored, they have also ugly faces, with a height close to a human child, and strength greater than a normal child boy, they are definitely weak but they work in large numbers, making them the most problematic of all pests.

Yes, they are like pests far more dangerous than a swarm of insects. They are led by orc king and orc queen, they are not the evolved goblins, they are evolved orcs that can lead weaker monsters, the goblins. These are one of the rarest orc species that will occur every thousand years. They are strong like a giant, can led weaker monsters and their appetite is far more binge than your average pigs. The difference of the two orcs is just their gender and their pig appearance that stands on their two feet. They are leading at least a thousand goblins and me, the narrator, is still counting.

These two groups are always done small skirmish one another, conflict here and there. Well it’s a law of the nature that the strong shall eat the weak. But their small time conflict turn into large scale war as their preys, the small and weak animals and monsters are now hard to find or hunt due to the high rise of predators in the surroundings, making the prey’s population drastically dropped to an abnormal level. So to resolve this lack of food or prey, they need to attack or feed to their long time competitors. And both of them declare war to each other and this is their final day.

Nine-tailed fox: “I have enough of these goblins, kill them all, we found our MEAT!” as it roar towards the goblins approaching them.

That is the roar of nine-tailed fox, it didn’t talk, just that how the animals work, roar. All of its underling storm foxes rush towards the goblins which may be weak but high in numbers. They use their magical abilities to overcome the rush of these child size filthy goblins which holding sticks and stones. Every magical attack of the foxes burns tens to twenties of goblins in the process.

The orc king and queen join the fray as it sees its huge disadvantage of its minions in fighting these magical beasts. “SCATTER, EAT THEM” They order the goblins to scatter themselves to at least minimalize the casualties. The orc king swings its giant axe killing two storm foxes which was careless in their attack. The orc king and queen have high magic resistance, that’s why it didn’t afraid to rush and charge and swing their heavy weapons.

*splash* *swing* *splash* *roar*

More and more foxes become the victim of these undefeated orc duo. The nine-tailed fox and firefox joined the battlefield as it sees the number of its casualties. They fired their area-of-effect magics making tens and hundreds of goblins turn into ashes without the chance to scream. When the two strongest duos face each other, they roared and start their showdown. Their underling’s number already dwindled, more than half were dead or turn into ashes and pieces of meat. Today is their last day to decide who is the strongest in this land.

“This is it” shouted in their minds, but a big intervention suddenly comes. In the middle of their battle of the strongest, two giant bodies of large creatures dive towards their location at a fast speed like a meteor. A figure of man jump before these two bodies crash landed on top of the heads of busy fighting monsters.

*BOOM*

The foxes and goblins where hit and their bodies are flatten making all their organs move to an unwanted direction and it escape towards into their mouths, butts, ears and bloods coming out in their eyes. The sight is too gruesome making all of them likely hit by the heavy truck in the road.

The strongest duo on both sides have were killed in an unnatural and grossy manner, the orcs who are standing and the tallest monster in the battle where cut into halves, yes their body is cut into halves because  they are hit by dragon’s claws.

The nine-tailed fox and firefox where quick, they jump to escape the brutal scene but they never know, that the position leads to their last moment. *Shik* both of them were hit by the birds’ claws. The claws didn’t slice them but stab them in their heads, bloods and some kinds of brain overflowing on top of their heads, making these foxes lose its strength and fall to the ground.

*SPLASH* Our mc just right on time.

And the great monster battle ends on that day.

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Joel’s POV

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“What the hell are these blue screens?”

If my thought is right, this is more or less the same as those in light novel fantasies about people being transported, resurrected or virtual reality. For now, I have 90% sure that I am transported and 10% sure that I am reincarnated person. But when I feel my body, it’s the same like the last time, my height, my hair, my body and my junior is the same.

Okay, let’s check if this world is another world, a virtual reality, a crossover, or a mix of all those. Let’s confirm from the things that happen today. I look up in the sky; there are birds that I don’t recognize as ‘animals’.

Recalling what happen earlier, the giant bird, the giant lizard, the free fall, the hijack, the BANG, crashing sound, this out of this world scenery, the beauty of this nature and lastly these blue screens. I feel sorry for the creatures that died during my free fall and hijack.

Wait, why should I feel sorry? Instead I should feel grateful to them. Without them, I will surely land in the ground like a meteor, BOOM and my body will go SPLASH. I don’t want to imagine where my body will scatter all over the place that will paint this nature with my red blood and meat.

Right, therefore I conclude that I am not in my usual place, or worse, I am not in Earth.

Okay so the giant bird is called Great Garuda Eagle, so that’s its name. I thought that it’s a Cr*sh Gear back in my old days. And there’s ‘Great’ in its name, so maybe it’s above or stronger than normal of its kind.

Next is the Wrath Elder Dragon, at first I thought that it’s a giant iguana with wings but it seems I am wrong. I killed a dragon, I see a dragon, then I accidentally lead to its death. Damn, I hope I will not be chase by other wrath dragons because I killed its elder. Wait, do dragons live in society or they live individually? Either way, I don’t want to be chase by these dragons. Dragons are scary because they are fire-breathing-flying-giant-tank lizard, compare to me that I am just an ant to them, a normal human.

And last and not the least are creatures that I didn’t see or encounter and yet I killed them? Orc King, Orc Queen, and goblins. It seems these are some nasty big pigs cause its king and queen and why there are goblins? Maybe they are the evolved of these goblins? Then I also kill the firefox, a browser? A nine-tailed fox, N*ruto? Maybe or maybe not and some storm foxes.

Why am I the killer of these creatures that I didn’t see during my hijack? At least, they were hit by the body of two large creatures, the bird and the dragon and because of the impact, it results to their deaths. Right, right. That maybe is the most logical scenario. But why are they in the same place? Maybe they are fighting and during their climax where everyone has almost zero health and the crashing duo finished their business in one go.

And whose gonna blame? Me? You can put the blame on me? You can put the blame on me. Because of me, they die. Period.

The question is, am I gonna be a criminal now? Wait wait wait I just accidentally kill those but my conscience tells me that I do the worst thing that I have done. Oh no, wait, looking from the perspective of things, this is really unusual, unusual to the point that this will just a joke or a dream. Imagine a bird hitting the dragon through its beak and crash landed on those creatures and all of them die in action. There is one thing, I mean one person can do these and that’s the M goddess.

“Damn you!! Next time I spank you to the death!” while speaking towards the sky.

SFX: Lightning and thunder sounds

“Crap”

It seems I anger that goddess, damn today’s weather is so good and lightning and thunder suddenly disturb this fine weather. I should not provoke that damn goddess anymore. The strange phenomenon suddenly stops. And now I realize, this is not Earth anymore.

“Indeed this is another world”

Does god or goddess here can interfere the lives of mortals? Well, as for me whoever those so-called gods or goddess, they can’t deceive me as True God never show itself to a sinner like me.

Okay, let’s calm down for now so that I will not provoke that goddess, if this world is not Earth and having some kind of rpg elements, then let’s start our test.

“Stas”, “Status?”,”Open?”,”Abrakadabra?”,”Open Sesame”,”Fus ro dah”, “Lalalala”

Sigh, nothing happens, okay let’s try one more time.

“Profile”

Name: Joel Sleyar           

Class: Loner lvl. 32                            Age: 18

Affiliations: None

Title:

The Critical Slayer +

The Merciless Killer +

Steal Killer +

Lucina’s Curse +

(Current Displayed) MAIN STATS

STR: 4

PER: 3

END: 2

CHAR:1

INT: 10

AGI:2

LUCK: 0

UNDISTRIBUTED STATS: 320

Premium Points: 3

SKILL: None

HELP?

“Wow..Am I a super character now? Oh, it just level 32 loner”

My level is 32? Seriously? Class loner? Not bad, it really suits me.  Am I an OP character? Wait..wait..wait not yet cause my stats are not yet distributed. So what is exactly is the use of titles, stats and skill? I have more or less knowledge about these ones since I played games before but I’m not sure if those games’ knowledge of mine applies to my current profile. And why my age turn back to 18? Not sweet sixteen hahaha.

Enjoying this book? Seek out the original to ensure the author gets credit.

Oh, there’s a ‘Help’ button

HELP:

WELCOME NOOB,

Help section will be available if you desire it from the bottom of your heart. Those damn ignorant arrogant scum bastard fools never ever visit this section because they think that they already know about their profile, pitifully arrogant or they have no knowledge at all, simply ignorant. Ok, here we go.

Profile is like an ID, it records everything about you or it reflects you.

Name is your name, no need to explain it. Ask your mother if you hate it.

Class refers to what you are or your area of specialization or your knowledge or expertise on that class.

Level refers your class level, there is nothing like individual level since you do a specifc thing to level up right? Power leveling and level grinding here is controlled to some extent so that people will not exploit it. Hahaha

Title refers to your additional name, your job, your achievement or anything that brands you.

Not all titles give additional effects, only special titles. Special titles have mark ( +) . So if you have special title you are just one heck lucky of a bastard.

MAIN STATS describes your statistics, not your three sizes, it describes to what extent on how you do things either fighting, household chores, decision-making, social skills, etc. etc.

Every person may have different names in main stats depending in their gaming knowledge. For example, some have only HP and MP stats, some have too many stat names like strength, endurance, hit points which can be considered as one but has slight differences depending in their understanding.

As for you, since you play a specific game for a whole 5 years replaying countless times this is your current stats but this can be change depending on you. Remember even you have different stat names or complicated stat names, it doesn’t give you advantage to other people stats, it all depends on how you do things. Hard work pays off you know.

STR – strength, your melee damage, life points and how much you can carry

PER – perception, how you utilize using your five senses. How far in sensing danger and, it affects your lock pick, trap skills and anything that uses your five senses.

END – endurance; it affects your unarmed skills, your limb endurance or how you last in danger events

CHAR – charisma; affects on how you interact with other people, the higher your charisma, the higher the chance that people will be friendly to you.

INT – intelligence; refers on your overall intelligence of course, the lower the better for you. Hahaha. High INT affect the stats you earned every level.

AGI – agility, refers on how fast you move, you dodge, or how you overcome obstacles. This also affects your stealth skills.

LUCK – luck; your luck either good or bad; high luck have higher chance of critical hits and experience good luck events like finding a gold, a super item or a beauty. He he he

Now you know. So now you have a chance of becoming a top expert real life gamer not a lowly noob.

There are also substats.

Substats are like hidden/unique stats that directly dependent to main stats. This can be acquiring through huge amount in a specific stat, through quest or very hard work. Examples are dodge or critical chance.

Undistributed stats are points gained though level up for the first time and use to improve your main stat, which may affect the substat. And in rare occasions, you can add points to substats directly. Every level up earns you five undistributed stats so distribute it properly.

You can gain more stats through bonus, achievements, quests, events and remember this world is very big so everything may possible. You just need to discover it.

Premium points are used to buy premium items and skills. You can gain one by having 100 undistributed stats. Meaning in level 20, you can gain 1 but most people here are noob and you need to find a premium store to buy it and our location is…you need to find it, it’s located in a difficult to see area.

Heck, you need to do a very hard work to obtain premium skills you know.

You can also buy premium points; our current exchange is 1 million gold to 1 premium point.

And people who have premium skills or items are only few since fools here will distribute their stats after level up and they are lazy to find our stores worldwide. And another hint, our prices are not cheap so you can only acquire low leveled or close to cheap premium skills. hahahaha

Skills refer to your distinct skills. Right now, you have no skill. Skill can be acquired through selecting class or repetitive work.

Note: This world has mix of 100% gaming and 100% reality, so you can revive just like in games.

 A! a! a! don’t get overjoy yet since you cannot die here and you hear the word ‘revive’.

Do you think that reviving your filthy dead body is free? Hell no, everything has a price to pay. Do you want to know the payment of your revival? You guess by money or gold? You are wrong. The compensation for your revival is your ability to think properly, the ability to feel properly or in other words, your humanity. Hahaha.  Don’t worry, you don’t have a contract with the demon, this is just how the world works, or you can say your ‘death penalty’.

Depending on your level, the lower your level the faster you become deteriorate, yes deteriorate, your body will rot, you can only think to eat or attack others, in other words you become a mindless aggressive ghoul. So be careful not to die repetitively.

Uhh! Don’t feel sad you ignorant, there are ways to lessen or somehow avoid the effects of death penalty. One is to revive by healer which has no death penalty, two is joining a faction or organization which reduces the effects of death penalty and lastly through special items like Elixir of Life which was hard to obtain. Hope you enjoy dying. Hahahaha

Why this help has some sort of grudge to me or it just being sarcastic or boastful. I don’t think the goddess will do this? or not? Anyway, it’s not my problem as long as it explains everything.

Okay, I think I understand most of it now and wow there’s death penalties which somehow like worse than death because you can be repetitively die and have a chance on becoming a ghoul. Better be careful from now on.

Let’s see about my class,

Class Loner –Worst Class

                The masters of one man island only. They are the people who dislike others, don’t like to socialize to people, and don’t like trouble from other people. You have no skills to attack or defend. This is one of the worst and useless classes available, if I were you, you should commit suicide now.

Effects: Enhance stats and abilities by [0.5 % x current level] when not in party or group.

                Gained extra 5 stat every level up.

I am speechless, this is one of a heck class, no attack or defend skills, are you kidding me? Like it said, it’s a useless class but I will not commit suicide, I am not really a loner, I just don’t want to be with people, they only bring trouble. But it has some nice effects at least, enhance stats, with my current level it adds additional 16%, who says it’s a useless class, Ha! And I gained extra 5 stats so I gained 10 stat per level up so that’s why I get 3 premium points because I have 300 undistributed stats. Who cares about skills, if I can manage, I can survive. I bet the goddess give me this worst class, but she is wrong in giving me this class, with this…I can…I can run and avoid danger. Hahahaha.

Okay about the titles. 

Let’s see the title’s description.

The Critical Slayer

                You earned this title because of your reckless actions in critical moments leading to the death or accidental death of once proud creatures; now those proud and magnificent ones are now good as dead, corpses. The flies are now in extreme festive mood. Thank you.

Effect: Critical chance and damage increase by 10 %. This one will not display in your main stats, it’s hidden.

“Its an accident you know”

Merciless Killer

                You kill creatures without showing any emotion. Ruthless, remorseless and unforgiving. Enjoy your slaughter.

Effect: Increase damage by 1% after you kill every 5 enemies. Stackable up to 100, will reset at the end of the day.

“Wow, almost 2x damage and I am not merciless you know, it’s an accident”

Steal Killer

                Last hitting a creature or player is an immoral act but who cares? Immoral or not those rules are only applicable to the fool and weak so steal and kill anytime you want.

Effect: Steal chance increase by 15% and stealth damage increase by 15% when doing stealth operations. Hidden stat.

“Like I said, it’s an ACCIDENT!”

Lucina’s Curse

                A curse that gives harm to anyone who anger Lucina, the beautiful, benevolent and bountiful goddess, Lucina. You are doom. What have you done in earning this curse?

Effect : Unable to wield magic.

After I read properly the last title, a vein popped in my head, immense amount of heat generated in my body, my head suddenly aches and my hand grips that some blood flowing in it.

“F*ck you damn M goddess!…You are worthless goddess!!...You are really a DEMON!!”

A light suddenly emerge from the sky towards my face and in a moment, I can’t feel my body, my five senses are not working properly. I can only see that I am falling but to me it seems I slowly fall, my skin are somewhat itchy and in pain, I want to scratch it but it seems I have no strength to do it, and I can smell something that is burn and the only sound that I heard, is the sound of thunder.

I now realize that I was hit by the lightning.

On that day, I died. 

My first death.

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