This is the first time ever that I write a fanfic and well I hope it will be received well, also as I am not a native English speaker, could you, the reader, please bear with it and point out the worst mistakes that I make. Suggestions are always welcome. :)

“conversations”

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Thomas lived alone in a small city in a small country. He had quite a lot of friends but that didn’t change that he was a 18 year old bored male. He had a sister which was two years younger then he but he didn’t really like her and sometimes even bullied her. In the past he had gamed quite a lot but the normal MMORPG couldn’t even relieve him of his boredom anymore. He was in 6th grade of high school, he attended a prestigious but small school still it made it to the top ten of schools in his country most of the time. His grades were average and he wasn’t very special at all. The most special thing you could say about him was that his parents were a little richer than average (they had a hired cook and maid), but they hadn’t spoiled him or at least that was what he himself thought.

That didn’t change that when Royal Road finally was released in his country he made his parent pre-order the capsule and pay the monthly fee for him. Royal Road was released in his country over one and a half years after its original release, and it seemed that it would be the most popular game of that decade. The whole game was on just a single server and to avoid misunderstandings because of different languages, the capsules had a certain translating device in them which translated the spoken languages to one common language almost every race understood and most of the playable races spoke as did most of the NPC in their cities. The creation of this translating device also was one of the main reasons that the game was released so late in his country.

Thomas had read the manual that was delivered by the capsule and as the capsule was only for royal road, it also gave some basic information about the game. Thomas didn’t like most of the races that where described in the manual as you could find those in every normal RPG as well and thus Thomas thought the playing style would be very similar to a normal RPG even if it was in a virtual reality.

There was some races however that were never playable in normal MMORPGs such as Orks, Undead and the like. Of those uncommon races one caught his eye in particular, this was the spirit race. He had looked up information about the spirit race on the internet but was disappointed by the lack of information he found there. The only thing he found about the spirit race were the negative reviews, stating that they were almost too difficult to play but not why that was the case.

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Spirits were similar too but not the same as ghosts which were a sub race of the undead. They were similar as both where incorporeal beings but spirits where actually alive while ghosts weren’t. Both where just as unpopular though.

After reading all the reviews about the race, Thomas was actually all the more interested in it and so he decided that he would use that race to become the best in Royal Road, this being the emperor. Of course he thought he had a smaller chance to become this as a few million players had already started before him and the highest lvled among them where already around lvl 325 with the highest known one being lvl 350. So he was already at quite the disadvantage still he was positive over his chances.

It was Friday afternoon when the capsule arrived and Thomas only had to put the power plug into its socket and he was ready to go, he told the cook that he would skip the meal and asked the maid to tell his parent ‘not to expect him at dinner’. After this he sat down in the capsule and after starting up the capsule he found him self in a dark space of nothingness. Well there was this one window in front of him

connect to royal road

yes / no

He tried clicking on the yes button.

It became a little bit brighter and he heard a pleasant feminine voice

-- The eye scan has determined that you are still unregistered, do you want to register?--

He just answered to the pleasant voice,

“yes”

-- State the name of your avatar --

“Gorlois”

-- Select your gender from male, female and neutral--

“male”

--You can choose from 29 primary races; for example humans or elves--

“spirit”

--You may alter your appearance--

There appeared a kind of mirror in front of Gorlois and he saw himself as a transparent white fog with the same shape as his body and 2 glowing spots for his eyes and another one for his mouth. He changed the colour of the fog to a dark red because he thought that that looked ominous. After that he altered no other things as he thought that his character was perfect.

--Select a city where you wish to start--

“Random”

And the space became brighter and brighter….