"That will be $25.00 please!"

"Thank you, come again!"

And we see John in his natural part-time habitat, serving customers who are in need of nourishing food to satisfy their desires of delicious, tenderness food. With John's face showing nothing but pure excitement, there was nothing better than serving customers with a huge smile. But, deep inside lies his true-self, which shows mockery, embarrassment and a huge fat lier only to work under his lazy ass boss just to receive a decent amount of payment.

John thought about, it was only a part-time job and receives a equal amount of money, He guessed on par with an average person on a full-time scheduled job.

Serving customers with a huge lie on his face wasn't the kind of job he expected, ranging from bathroom cleaners to a delivery person. Out of all opportunities, John was chosen as the cashier, the one who wil take the customer's order. His boss ordered him not to make anything seem awkward or difficult for his serving customers. By doing so, he faked a smile and proceeded into taking in the orders, it was the worst experience he faced.

John couldn't suppress his smile, he is nearly at his limit, he couldn't take it in further, it was about time his facials will burst into his true mockery state, his face showed early signs of his treacherous self. Then momentarily his boss walked in with a plain look on his face. "Hoy John!, Your work here is done!" said Jerry (John's boss)

"Okay!" John replied with a disbelieving smile on his face. It was about time his so-called 'Emotion Torturing' is finished, its really difficult to suppress a smile for a very long time. It gets to the point whereas its annoying or something really bothering, well it does not concern John one bit

By looking at Jerry, he doesn't appear cheerful as ever. It was the same look every time we take sight of Jerry, as in he doesn't give two shits about us workers. But deep inside, Jerry is a generous person who offers us a decent amount of payment we receive. Judging from his appearances, Jerry still looks like someone who wouldn't care if see saw my dead body on the ground. Some kind of emotionless bastard you will say.

With John walking towards the worker's restroom whilst taking off his vest and his black cap. He goes to the tap to rinse off his face, while he gazed directly at the mirror, he thought about enjoying himself for once in awhile. Last time he had fun when set up a prank to his boss with the other workers, his burst of laughter was never forgotten, he guess it was the funniest memory he had. But deep inside him, it needed more thrilling and enjoying things.

Games was the most enjoyable thing he ever did, ranging from role-playing to strategic gaming, no one typically stands above him. John's gaming skills were at his utmost perfecrion, ever since he trained himself from all night, focusing on polishing his skills for a smooth gameplay, John would say he guessed.

The first game he played was "Dragon's Conquest", it consisted of role-playing like elements focused hugely on tactics and strategy. John specialty involves tactics and strategy thus, considered this his most favorite game of all time. With impossible-like situations he encountered, nothing couldn't stopped his instantaneous strategic thinking of solving within a few seconds. "Aurioun" his character was referred as, was widely known as the "De-Strategic-Tised", with parts of the name resembling as static, electric, storm thing, John would say "The tactician who would solve things as fast as the lightning strucks!" thing.

But his tactician-like skills were starting to rust due to his quick-solving memories been flushed by the traumatizing memory of him being "fakeful" John would preferably say. John will have a very weak mind if it involved anything embarrassing, leaving his mind vulnerable to anything that can alter his very psychological being of his. That's including his ways of behaving differently, John guesses how it ultimately had impact on his strategic skills, rendering his thinking not typically average but still very unique.

As John deeply thought about it, with his fists clenched it was about time he can go out and have a bit of fun, heaps of fun. Something that his memories will never rid of, a thrilling yet a fulfilling adventure with curiosity at its maximum peak. After hearing the world's most popular game, 'Dread Cord'. John decided, "Why not?, I should try out that game". Going out the restroom with a smile on his face, alot of things in his life are going to change drastically and it might go in a good way.

Receiving his payment, John takes the bus which takes about 10 minutes to arrive at home, upon arriving at his apartment with the newly-packaged virtual capsule already installed, which it said on a note stucked to the front door. Back at work, John already called the technicians and granted them permission to install it while he was at work. The fees were already paid with his available credit card he issued not long ago, luckily no monthly subscription were required for gameplay.

Upon opening the door, the capsule was spotted towards John's current view. He was surprised that nothing was touched in here, including the plastic cup with the straw inside, left exactly how it was and its just right next to the capsule. Reading the booklet containing useful information and instructional advices based on the virtual capsule, John carefully reads it with no hesitation.

Thank you for installing the 'Virtual Capsule' created by Futuristic Electronics.

In this capsules lies the very essence of the virtual world you may refer to as, the world containing nothing like the world, with unique landscapes and atmospheric conditions. This virtual world brings a whole new feeling to it, a experience you will truly never forget, the thrilling moment of it.

This tale has been unlawfully obtained from Royal Road. If you discover it on Amazon, kindly report it.

To get started, one must place himself into the capsule and equip the headgear located next to the person's head. The headgear ensures the success of forcing rapid-eye movement sleep upon the person inside the capsule. Once done, the machines adjusts the inner-side of the capsule size according to the person's current height and width.

Once done, the person is in a subconscious state, unable to hear or move yourself. The brain is now adapted to the virtual user thus, the virtual user is now in use and is able to move around as normal.

The virtual world time is measured as the following:

1min in real world = 1 hour in the virtual world

Meaning players can enjoy their everlasting moment in the virtual world with only a little time spent in the real world.

As you begin diving, there are two options to choose which type of diving you would like to choose.

Fast Dive:

This skips the calibration process and forces the user into their specified virtual world. Can increase risk of psychological alterations. (Not recommended)

Full Dive:

The enables the calibration process and allows the machine to check the user for any health or life-threatening issues which can worsen if diving into the virtual world. Will take up to 20 minutes until teleported to their specified virtual world. (Recommended)

Oh and also, new feature has been implemented into the capsule, its a experimental feature only available to people 19 years and above. When you choose the 'Energized Diving' option, your body will go into a sleep state, as what it says, you can dive into the virtual world overnight. So when you wake up in the morning, you felt like you rested through sleeping, although it may have little effect to some people. This will go through the calibration process from full dive.

Oh, one last thing, to turn it on say "Link Start!"

(Yeah, yeah, my boss is a big fan of 'Sword Art Online' :p)

Thank you for reading this booklet thoroughly and I hope safe travels to the virtual world.

Have a great day! :)

Regards

Futuristic Electronics Technician

"Energized Diving huh, it sounds interesting but I might choose either full dive or fast dive"

Putting the booklet away, John takes a quick shower first because he smells a bit. After putting on his gym clothes, he proceeds into his intensive workout involving hugely amounts of sit ups, push ups and weightlifting using old garbage products. With sweat pouring down from his forehead, John takes another shower but not a quick one though. Grabbing his clean clothes and equipping it, John thinks it was time for him to go into that virtual world.

With hesitation John carried, he placed himself into the capsule and closed the lid ever-so slowly. It was a bit dark inside, with the headgear to the side of his head, he equips the headgear and waits for the perfect moment to say his words.

"Link Start!"

John's vision became blurred and suddenly, a burst of white lights exploded right before his eyes with a series of colors passing through the seamless white background.

And now we see John, mid-floating in the air while glowing out white. He looked around his surroundings and only finds nothing but the white in the background, as he looked at himself, John was found butt-naked although his genitals weren't visible.

Then a screen appeared.

Please select your diving option> Full Dive

> Fast Dive

> Energized Dive (experimental)

As the buttons appeared adjacent to the text, John carefully thought about which diving option he shall choose. As he wanted to get into action real fast, he decided to change his mind and chose the fast diving option instead of full dive. "I just really want to play the game now!" John said with a bit of childish behavior.

"I choose, the fast dive!" as John quickly tapped on the button next to the 'Fast Dive' selection.

Then another screen appeared

Please select your game> Royal Road

> Dread Cord

> Avast Online

John tapped on the button next to 'Dread Cord', suddenly his vision blurred once again and huge amounts of light exploded right before eyes with seams of colors passing through him. Until when John slowly opened his eyes, a huge screen in front of him displays the title of the game, it was indeed a marvelous sight. And he was mid-floating in the air, still butt-naked.

*Familiar instrumental music plays in background*

Welcome to Dread Cord!

"Such epicness..." as John's eyes covered in sparkly eyes, known to see the best shit ever since his gaming days. Twas this day, his adventures began in this very moment.

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Author Notes:

Notice anything confusing, unexplained or unusual? or perhaps errors and such? Please give a heads out!

I am truly sorry if you guys find the POV confusing, so please bear with it.

Anyways I hope you guys like this prologue, next chapter will be his character creation and possibly his way through the kingdom. :)

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