A few words from the Author, "Me".

Thank you "perks" for for your comment, Truth is I'm already a few chapters ahead but they are all in need of heavy editing before being readable. In truth Allastar is an almost completed world with its own set of rules and laws, like the 14 gods or the 20 elements of which only only 14 are usable by mortals. All three worlds of the worlds have a History I've created but it's all only on paper, Although I would love to share the stories I have written, truth is if VR MMO novels weren't as catchy I might have gone for fantasy but my writing skills are a bit unpolished.

Although I do confess that you might find many things in common with other fantasy stories or legends but I try to modify them to fit my own fantasy worlds. So here's the deal with Necromancers, but to understand it better first is to understand what gods are. Normally Gods don't Interact directly with mortals although there is no rule against them doing so, but all gods have their own realms to take care of.

Allastar(Planet) is a place from where they harvest souls, each soul gives them a small speck of additional Magic points regeneration, although gods already have a high enough Mp regeneration but their spells use Mp like it's water and many mages and priests derive power from the gods.

Necromancers summon(steal) souls from the god of death, or part of souls to create undead beings.

Death priests or chosen of Thaed (god of death) are given favor for hunting down undead beings and killing necromancers, although in truth they don't live long since The god of death is so strong that he doesn't really care about the undead but if they die and he gets a hold of them... he'll shatter their souls.

In computer logic The god of death is something like a processor, It has limited processing power so creating limitless numbers of undead is out of the question and mages can't do that, but Priests of death can create countless undead after gaining enough favor and undeath curses don't use lots of Mp, although they need some preparations to cast, like lots of corpses maybe.

P.S

Another long chapter awaits, and thank for the encouraging commends.

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Mona POV

Her real name was Lisa and she always envied the beautiful actors and singers, but although her voice could challenge any of them her outer appearance is somewhat lacking.

Her last job as a cleaning lady gave her little time to play the game and her

part-time job at a music cafe couldn't even help her cope with her needs.

She seldomly entered the game anymore but that wasn't because she had economical problems.

Last year she had accepted the offer of a merchant to travel from the continent of "Anchora" through the "Aquantic sea" to the Continent of "Drogan". As a bard she had traveled most of the continent of Anchora and although she was a support character, she was quite famous because she had chosen professions that complimented each other. Her main profession was that of a bard, while she had taken actress as her second profession but what made her famous were the singer and musician professions that enchanted her songs to legendary dimensions.

Everything was fine until they reached a town named Rubrick, The merchant's destination was this town. His name was Lipstick and he was a human, he tried to recruit her a lot of times to a guild called Helllion.

She didn't like the name so she rejected, though the real reason was she had already decided which guild to join beforehand, although the guild was somewhere in the "Isleplains" Continent. After the journey's end all the members of the caravan with their profit were invited to the casino by Lipstick.

They were all adults so they didn't mind, they played a few rounds and lost most of the time.

Most of the players hadn't joined the Helllion guild but the problem was that they were considered a party by the game and in the end something unexpected happened. A huge dept was divided among the players for some unknown reason. Later She learned that Lipstick was a VIP of the casino, he had played in the VIP area and had lost big time, the Helllion guild had enough money to clear the dept of all the players who were part of their guild, the rest of the players joined Helllion to avoid their character being deleted from dept but some like herself decided to work out their dept.

Months passed and the dept was not subsiding one bit, they were even given a loan to try and make some money and most of them only raised their debt. Most players deleted their characters other players had their friends or guild pay off their dept through some loan or something, but she could not, her dream to Join the prestigious Hollywood guild, where many famous actors and singers from the USA were playing together, mostly to gain more popularity when they streamed their adventures on the net or reality shows.

At first she logged in the game frequently but the only thing she could do at the casino was clean and do chores for the members of the casino. Little by little she switched to the other two worlds where her characters had different professions as bards were not a profession utilizable in a modern or post-apocalyptic world.

Until one day by a good stroke of fortune she had just logged into Allastar after having just having died in the Altgaia world.

Mona was sitting at the bar when she saw a noob entering the VIP area, normally only the richest players can enter here but here came a beginner, he was probably filthy rich in real life.

She came near him but he didn't even flinch at her beauty,

'something was definitely strange about this guy'

she thought.

She looked at him approaching the roulette and bet a small fortune on a single number. Her eyes widened and a tear fell from her eyes when she saw him win a large sum.

'How lucky are some people, those that are loved from god'

She though and cleaned her tears she logged out drank a few few rounds from a bottle she stored in her fridge and entered the game once more.

The guy was now even richer than before and she was completely drunk.

She went to the small stage at the other side of the room to escape her sorrow and begun to sing to her heart's content.

She sang for some time and after her last song ended she could hear a heartfelt clapping coming from bellow.

Although her only audience were just the five people in the room the one clapping the most was that strange guy who had just entered the room.

As drunk as she was she stepped down the stage and went to see how he was doing, he was now in front of the dice table and had a large fortune.

There was some disagreement, she couldn't catch too well from the dizziness but she saw that the game continued until from the door came a strange golden alien or something.

She wasn't sure, she went back to the bar and ordered all the booze her pocket could afford.

She looked behind from time to time seeing the three people sitting at the poker table. She hadn't seen Cleaner so anxious before but her mouth opened in awe when she saw "Death" coming In and taking a seat on the poker table, not long afterwards she was logged out with a message.

-You have died you cannot log into Allastar for 24 unless your soul -

-is returned to your body, deleting your character is still possible -

-after the 24 hours ban is up. but If after 24 hour the soul is not -

-returned you will lose half of your progress, levels, stats and skills -

-and your soul power will be half of its total until you are take your -

-soulstone back by some means, know that you can detect your -

-soulstone with a special skill given for the exact reason of getting it back -

She felt like shit after the drinks, she had died two times in one day and since in Altgaia most of the game is played through PKs she was banned from there as well. In Destros she had nothing to do at all, until tomorrow.

frustrated and exhausted from the alcohol she went to sleep, some time after she had ended vomiting her fair share.

The next day she logged in and saw that her Allastar avatar was unlocked once more, she entered and saw the familiar bar of the VIP section of the casino.

she saw familiar faces waiting at their designated places as if nothing had happened, she looked at her stats and nothing was missing.

She asked Cleaner about the card game but he only knew that he had lost miserably.

She looked at her Inventory as she remembered spending all her hard earned gold on booze and regretted it but instead she discovered a striking amount of no less than 100000 gold chips and a letter.

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Keep singing, at least in this fake world people will know you as a great singer

one day, use the money to buy your freedom back and fly me to the moon some time.

The first of your fans.

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she smiled for a bit and muttered under her nose "you are not the first" She remembered the hundreds of players that sometimes gathered to hear her songs at Anchora's taverns.

She approached Cleaner and told him her debt is now paid as she gave him all the gold coins she had in her pocket.

He smiled and gave her ten gold back and said in a kind manner,

"I know that your wanted to sing instead of cleaning but I hope you can get the life you deserve, go adventurer and know that we will all miss you"

All the employees of the casino she knew, were gathered and wished her good luck, Right gave her a lucky dice as a gift. It raised luck for a small amount of 3 points.

She was happy that she was free but also lost and afraid of an unsure future, all her so called "friends" were in Anchora but they were as poor as she was, but one thing she was sure about, she wanted to find her benefactor and at least thank him for what he had done. she had spend 2years training this character, although it was stuck for the last one year of her life.

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Darknym POV

Darknym couldn't sleep well, his mind was stuck to the times he heard aurora's erotic moans. He went back online and headed towards the adult district.

he got a message from time before he entered the brothel.

"Oi Nym what did you do to my teacher, she panics every time I mention your name"

He answered to Time with a small phrase

"What happens in the bedroom, stays in the bedroom"

An ambiguous statement like that in meant to cause misunderstandings and Darknym wanted to talk about the matter as much as Aurora wanted.(not at all)

Time didn't continue and the chat ended there.

He entered the building that was marked with many red lights and pictures of naked females and males of every race possible.

Inside there was a clerk, he was a handsome young fellow, he hated everything about him.

"Do you have any girl who could make me scream from pain?"

the young man was a little reluctant at the request since he knew full well that pain was cut to a 5% and even by using special means the game couldn't raise pain more than a 25%.

"I will pay 200gold to any of your bitches that can make me scream from pain"

Darknym continued.

"Sir you seem to not remember right but you need to pay real world money for this place, its 20dollars an hour"

"I'll give 100dollars upon screaming, for once in my life I want to know what unbearable pain feels like"

He said determined as he signed his account number and asked for a contract, it was simple, torture until he screams.

The clerk called for someone called Aretea she was a vampire with her black hair caught up in a long tail. She wore a black leather suit outlining her slim curved body.

"Will she be my partner?"

"She will, I guarantee that if she cannot do it then no one in this establishment can, watch out she's a little too forceful"

Without a second to lose she took out a whip and tried to lash him towards her by the head, but only caught his arm that he raised by reflex and pulled her towards him. If not for his low strength she would had fallen to the floor.

"Can't you see we are talking here!"

He said looking at her distressed face.

"Aretea wait first to hear the contents of the contract"

Seeing the slave mark on her arm Darknym's eyes took a more sinister shape.

"Wait a little, I want to enter a new bet in it but only if Aretea's master Accepts it"

"Well, I don't know, I must ask the administrators for any special requests"

The handsome clerk said.

"I think they will accept, I'll pay 300dollars if she can make me scream from pain, and If she can't she will become my slave for free"

A little time passed and the clerk looked at a small letter that arrived

"The administrators have accepted your request, after confirming that you have enough money on your account, but first they want to establish a time limit and the times of your daily log outs"

He checked some numbers and on a paper and the clerk was astonished.

"Wouldn't it be cheaper to just buy a slave and make him torture you?"

"Will the slave be as good as Aretea"

"Well you have a point there"

The Npc clerk sighed in defeat.

The deal was being considered by the administrators and a small box was teleported on the desk.

Inside was a small black wrist band.

"This item will raise your pain level to a shocking 25% and make sure that you won't die during the torture, you also won't gain any stats from the torture, if under these conditions you still want to continue, the deal is on"

"Let's go Aretea we are losing precious time"

He wore the wrist band and turned to Aretea who was a little disturbed by his confidence.

She took him to a dark room, numerous torture devices could be seen all around. She bound his arms and legs to chains on the ceiling and floor, and pulled a lever that pulled his limbs to all four directions, it was painful but for him it wasn't enough, he wanted more pain.

"Oi bitch...is that all you've got?"

he said in an irritated tone

the vampire didn't like his tone and took out her whip. Lashing through his skin, each hit was a painful experience but he welcomed with joy making the next one an even more painful one, all she could do is make him grind his teeth in pain.

Aretea was Annoyed, she has been torturing the human for hours, his blood now dyed his body red, as he had taken off his attire and was completely naked.

In contrast her own black leather had no stains of blood on them although the floor was full of blood. It made him understand how the game had some small imperfections.

Now he couldn't count the times he had fallen unconscious but the only thing that came from his mouth were irritating words like "more" and "harder" every time calling her a "bitch".

He saw her Infuriated face and it made him want more. she saw herself as a mistress and here a slave a mere human belittled was her and she could do nothing about it.

-You have gained Pain resistance skill-

Was the message he had gained after a long time of torture

"Fuck you system!"

Was his reply to the new skill.

If he had become a tank he would be the best man for the work, he would just hold the monster and let it tear its teeth into his flesh while the others tear through them both.

"Bitch why is it that you get weaker as time goes on, are you getting tired?"

He said smiling while his face looked like one of those Halloween costumes with blood dripping all over his face.

Aretea had begun to enjoy herself after the comment, it was the first time she had went all out.

"Do you want me to show you how it's done right, Bitch?"

Darknym said to Irritate her even more.

She took out a different whip, this one had small hooks that would cleave his skin off his flesh.

"That's more like it"

he said as she saw the gruesome image of layers of skin coming clean showing bone and organs.

She had been a torturer for a long time but this was a first for her. It made her wonder if he was some new sort of undead being..Undead creatures only felt pain from magical means and elemental attacks. So she took out two different whips, one had flames on it and the other one had a strange blue mist around it.

It was less painful than the last time. He even yawned a little.

The burns did pain him but he didn't make a sound, he just fell unconscious more often.

Aretea took him off the chains and begun beating him with a club, his eyes let tears fall from the pain but not a word was was spoken, not a cry left his mouth as he just gridded his teeth and endured.

His eyes were full of determination as he thought what he would do to her in return afterwards.

Next she took him and put him on a bed of needles, but in reality it later closed in the form of an iron maiden. The excruciating pain made him want to scream but his mouth was still shut, before he fell unconscious once more.

the next thing he knew he was inside a furnace burning, he saw his flesh burn, he felt a familiar sensation of heat he had once more in his life, but this time it engulfed his entire body.

Long ago his hand was almost on fire but it was so hot and painful, of course he escaped with but a light burn in the end.

Knowing it's only a game sure made it a lot easier for him to continue as he now knew 25% pain wasn't enough, he wanted more, something more, although the real sensation could even kill him in real life, not that he really cared.

Next she begun cutting his flesh inserting strange orbs to his body that were alive eating at his flesh. He didn't know what happened since he was unconscious most of the time of the ordeal.

After it's end he woke up yawning as if nothing happened, but had a strange feeling.

If someone had seen him now they would think he was a secret undead race or some boss monster.

If not for the wrist band he would have already been dead. A chime call interrupted them, it was his time to log out and eat something.

When he returned he was as good as new his skin was repaired and he was once more inside the torture chamber.

"So, is it time for round two?"

He had only logged out for less than an Hour. she didn't feel ready yet, she put him on the wheel and begun spinning him around while she was thinking what to do with him next.

(looked like a loading screen)

Next she just begun spinning him faster and faster. She didn't do that to make him scream but for fun, the result. He felt dizzy and fell unconscious once more.

She continued spinning him, without even knowing he was unconscious, her mind was at a different matter.

'Should I use drugs on him or not'

Her reluctance was the price of the drugs, they were not cheap.

"What are you thinking?"

Darknym asked while spinning slowly a bit dizzy as well.

She gave him a kick in the face and a punch between the legs. the pain was tolerable by his measures.

The next week he lived inside the torture chamber, he only logged out to eat and sleep. the rest of the time he played with the pretty torturer.

Torturing her mentally with his comments about her imminent failure and how he will make her his afterwards.

The last six days she hadn't made him scream, not even when she cut all his members, it was painful but all she got was him fainting once more.

Blazing from anger she looked at him as he logged in for the last time as the time limit was almost up, only a few hours left.

She came close to him and with a swift movement of her mouth forced her fangs into his nape, at least she would feed on him for the last day, she thought.

Surprisingly he bit her back right at her nape. His tongue working at the wound he gave her and his hands massaging her body as she was still draining him of blood, he knew he wouldn't die, at least not until the time's up.

He massaged her body, sometimes vulgarly groping parts of her body, but as an undead she only felt one sensation, the thirst for blood and magical power.

Undead work on Magic power to survive, they have a tank of magic power that drains every minute that passes, every undead has it's own way to drain magic powers, vampires take it through drinking the blood from their target.

But through the massage she felt different senses begun to emerge, it was a faint change, a 1% that raised her 0% sense of touch. It was so shocking that for a little she stopped draining blood and it dripped down his naked body.

His stats,health, stamina,magic powers and pain were locked he could massage her for hours if he hadn't a full erection at the moment he would have probably continued for longer.

His massage ability had raised to the beginner 2 but little by little he opened her legs wider and wider as he massaged them.

The moment he heard the ending chime he let his body fall under her dropping her on him entering her as his hands were holding her legs tightly.

As he penetrated her she let go of her grip on his neck and cried in a strange sexy way.

To her it brought back memory from long past of when she was still alive, a memory she would rather not remember.

She let out tears that merged with the fresh blood that still dripped down from her teeth.

He bend his body, stationing his head near her ear, and whispering with a lustful voice.

"You are mine now"

His words gave her goosebumps, she had been torturing him for for twelve days now, but the main reason was she was the mistress not a slave, she made others kneel didn't kneel to others and although her status was that of a slave she was a special existance in their establishment, If it wasn't for the slave contract she would have already killed him and be freed of him but all slaves start with a 30points of loyalty, her only hope was that he would be stupid or crazy enough to not look after the loyalty factor, so that when it reached 0 she could kill him and become free.

The clerk came in and seeing their weird pose he was a bit puzzled.

"I hope not all your torturing methods were as 'painful' as this Aretea"

He said with a sarcastic tone and a smile on his face.

"Shut up you walking bag of shit!"

She shouted at him satisfied.

Normally he would be her boss so she would care her manners with him but now their positions were different, she should only care not to offend her master but even if she offended him she didn't care, he was a weakling not even able to control her properly with his 0points of leadership.

"I see you won't care about pleasantries since you gained a new master, congratulation Darknym for surviving 12 days of torture or should I say a week by your understanding"

"What's a week?"

Aretea asked, In allastar each month has 30 days called 1day,2day etc, since all months have 30 days the concept of weeks and weekends does not exist in Allastar.

"I didn't know you were a player too"

Darknym said to change the subject.

"Well you are half right in that, I'm an administrator, we can change between selected individuals, to tell the truth we had checked on you for cheating a hundred or more times, it was unexpected but you really like your eggs crushed, don't you?"

"You can't Insult another man's passion, it's somewhat rude"

Darknym said with a forced smile, In truth he was a little Irritated.

"The most fascinating thing was how your mind was affected by the pop out when you gained the pain resistance ability although it had no effect since you wore the wrist band"

The man said.

Darknym remained silent, he did know that human psychology was a strange thing, but he didn't know that the pain resistance had no effect at all.

"The company would also like to thank you for your help, as we fixed many problems and bugs that existed in the pain system as well as make some new feelings of pain, if you come again we could give you a free ride once again, of course Aretea is now your slave, but we have already created a replacement, two times more skilled and vicious"

"Glad I could help with something but to be truthful unless you raise the boundary of pain at least to 50%, I highly doubt it will work"

"Just try it once more and you'll see the difference"

"I'll pass for now but I might some time in the future"

"Oh almost forgot, the company has decided to make you an offer, A beta testing of a skill that was developed after making the fixes, but we don't know how it will work on a user"

The wrist band that Darknym was wearing dissipated into thin air and the Admin took out a book.

"This is a spellbook with a rare spell that raises the pain sense called "sensitivity to pain", it is still in the beta progress so it will change according to what we see right, the max you will be able to raise with the spell is up to the limit for now but as we go on it might be lessened as it's a deadly skill if used against a player"

Darknym was about to take the book when the Administrator stopped him

"If you take the book, we want you to know that your progress will be monitored for at least two months and you must first do a the test run, right here and now"

Darknym touched the book absorbing it on contact, he gained no Intelligence points or Mp since it wasn't even a valid spell yet.

The administrator did something and they teleported into a strange dark space with blue lines like those in Tron.

"Here we will do ten beta tests, you see there are no monsters that raise pain more than 10% so we want to see what will be the reaction of ten different people"

Nine people appeared next to him they were the other beta testers for the spell.

-Here you are unable to die and you will be fighting ten different monsters, -

-you will be given no weapon but you can cast the spell as many times you like,-

-know that your pain level is set at 25% so any hit on you will hurt like hell. -

-Let the testing begin! -

Their first enemy was a small dog animal known as Frix, it was no different than a dog, only the strange spikes protruding from it's spine made it different.

Each of them had his own "monster" to fight and everyone cast the spell but him.

He begun circling around the dog as it did the exact same thing as him, they both looked for an opening. All the other players had begun their fight but he was just moving around in an absolutely symmetrical circle with the monster.

From a side they could say he was as wild as the dog, since he used the same wild instincts when he fought.

He looked in the monster's eyes and saw nothing but hate, he had a thing for animals, sometimes he could even say he could understand what they wanted from him.

The dog was not hungry it was angry probably the sense was taken from a normal animal. Everyone else had already ended their battles, he on the other side sat down doing nothing at all.

The monster being a bit intelligent as an animal feeling no hostility didn't know what to do, it paused for a little and grawled before it charged at him with all its might.

He did nothing, it jabbed it's teeth at his hand, normally he would have lost a limb and get a bleeding effect but the 25% pain made it not as painful as it would normally be. He petted the monster to calm it, he was no beast master so he had no way of taming it, but the monster wouldn't let him go, he put his hand on the back of it's head and with a fast move of his body he snapped it's neck. killing It momentarily, without even a minute of struggle.

It was taken entirely by surprise but the show surprised not only the monster but the other players as well, he was the lowest level among them but he killed it in only one strike, the monster should be nine levels above him in every aspect but magic.

The administrators were also shocked, he had used a known bug of the game, that was considered a part of the game since it was being utilized by some players, it was the inadequate space bug.

The monster didn't have space to place it's body and in order for the head not to become a second entity, the system killed the monster. Well in the real world it would be the same, you can't move a severed head anyway.

Normally it's not utilized by most due to the possibility of failure and the loss of hp but in this testing they couldn't die so it was a valid loophole in the rules. He could go and just snap the neck of all the monsters one after the other.

-Nine opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next monster appeared, it was a small weak goblin but it had a short sword and a wooden shield.

Many tried to hit it's shield and screamed from the pain as they were grabbing their fists, the pain didn't subside for some time giving the goblins a chance to attack. It was a new feature they made after Darknym's torturing, lingering pain.

Each slash of a goblin's sword was answered with cries of pain. The goblins didn't circle or wait they charged at first sight.

Darknym was at a loss because the goblin was faster and more agile than him. It was already in front of him before he could think of a strategy the goblin tried to stab him with the short sword and within a second he hit it with a kick, the sword flew and he fell to the floor from the force of his own kick. He was not trained to do that even in real life most times he ended on the floor but his kicks were a force to be reckoned with, powerful and reckless.

The goblin was left dumbstruck without it's weapon and since it fell a bit farther both human and goblin rushed for the sword. The goblin had a happy expression on its face when it bend and took it's blade off the floor, the last of it's sad life as he twisted it's neck from behind before it could turn around.

Few were those that had defeated the goblins at the end of the test, he had gained 20XP from the goblin, in the game you have to grind low leveled monsters, because their XP values are not so different, only bossed had a high XP value.

The goblins disappeared and some of the players begun regretting their decision to test the skill.

-Eight opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next opponent was a large furball, that looked something like a rabbit, they jumped in the air and fell down to the floor with force making a small quake to be generated sometimes when their jumps happen to synchronize.

The monster was a bit strange as it didn't attack them, some who took the initiative were in a world of pain as the bunny like monsters jumped into the air and fell on them with great force, the others were a bit disheartened.

Darknym had an unwritten rule, he never attacked first, if the opponent didn't want to fight he didn't two times more. Games are not all about fighting you can sometimes win just by waiting.

Two of the beta testers resigned and the spell was cut to a 20% increase max. of course that was only for pvp purposes, real monsters could be affected to a total of 1000% pain or even more if you were a powerful enough mage to augment the spell.

Darknym and some of the other contestants just waited as the "Dorths"(the bunny monster) were jumping into the air and falling down without a care in the world.

The test had ended and the Admins were a bit dissatisfied with the players' idle approach to the monster. Although there were those that had defeated their bunnies. Well being of a greater level than the bunnies that wasn't so surprising.

-your Pain level is now cut to 20% as well as the spells upper limit-

Most players were happy but those that wanted to use the spell were a bit dissatisfied.

For Darknym it was inside his prediction, he had seen someone scream with a 5% of pain, what would he do with an 20% he laughed even at the though of it.

-Seven opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next opponent appeared he was a human barbarian, his level should be around 50-60 some players explained.

The highest level player was a level 100 warrior or knight, but even with his heavy armor he still felt some pain from the hits. Normally it would be a 2% irritating sensation but now he felt a little pain, In the real world he would have bruises all over his body after the dorth's crushing stomps in him when he was earlier caught by surprise.

The barbarians holding large two handed axes charged at them, Darknym didn't care at first since their running speed didn't seem that great but when he saw the speed of their attacks he gulped his own saliva.

Most of the players had given up and endured the attacks of the barbarians since they could not die and were screaming from pain.

Only the Knight and a monk or something had won their battles since one was a tank and the second an unarmed specialist. Darknym did as well something that shocked all of the players at the end of the round.

He had caught the arm of the barbarian and twisted it into a submission hold like he had done to Fayte when he attacked him, it was a move employed by the police to neutralize criminals which he had seen on the net when he was still at school, it was the only move he could use so fast that many didn't understand what had happened.

After neutralizing one of the barbarian's arms(broke it), he went for the other as well, next he went for the leg, he hadn't done that in real life so it was a little difficult but he proceeded non the less. Leaving the barbarian paralyzed on the floor.

"Kill me!"

he shouted as he couldn't move neither hands or legs.

Darknym didn't kill him he just cast the spell and begun practicing his Chinese massage skills on his back. The main point of the massage was pinching the muscles so that the pain energizes them and generates heat throughout the area of the massage, but the result was different with each pinch the barbarian cried from pain as if he was being tortured. Maybe him being inexperienced in it also payed some part.

-You have gained chinese massage skill-

He would be more happy if the stares of the other players and barbarians were not directed at him.

Four players left after the fight two of which said they did it for the greater good.

-Pain level has been dropped to 15% six opponents remaining-

The remaining 4 players were the knight, the monk, an assassin of sorts and Darknym himself.

-Six opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next opponent was a witch, they had a handsome face and attractive body. In Allastar Witches are pretty as they have to lure their targets to their dens and kill them or enslave them.

They first cast the slow curse on the players and next bombarded them with fire missiles and other curses. The reason for this was that they had also ubdated how the elemental damage pain felt and wanted to try it. The players having felt the effect of 15% fire for the first time felt the difference in pain, the monk screamed as he gained the burn debuff. The knight just gritted his teeth while the assassin evaded all the missiles.

Darknym just walked towards his designated victim, he didn't care about the damage since he couldn't die in the testing and the pain was nothing like the furnace he had experience before he walked slowly towards the gorgeous witch who looked somewhat nervous now, she begun back stepping. He begun speeding up and a strange chasing game begun, her level and speed were above his but his intentions could be seen in his eyes.

The other players tried to replicate his actions but more screams were heard and the which didn't seem to fear them when they came closer they just back stepped a bit and continued their bombardment.

'If only I could use my flute'

he thought as he run after the bitch, they had been running for the whole duration of the round.

-You have gained the sprint ability-

Was a message he had seen while running after her but the rise in speed was still not enough to catch up to her.

The administrators were laughing behind their screens and those that didn't were mostly women who cursed him as the enemy of all women.

After a short break the announcer spoke once again with a more cheerful voice than before

-Five opponents remaining-

All four of the testers remaining were in for a surprise as orks appeared. Orks in Allastar are 3meters tall and have health regeneration, lacking to a troll's but regained health while in battle even if just 5points per sec.

Darknym was at a loss, the beast he was to face was a meter taller than him and had a club in it's hands, even if by some miracle he could take hold of it's hand, he highly doubted he could lock it in place.

The Knight was the only one that could handle the hits but even he had a few problems when the club hit his head, the pain was unbearable.

The monk had given up already, the Ork was beyond his level and the only thing he would do was become it's punching bag for the duration of the round.

The assassin did the same he did all the other times, just evaded the attacks until the round ended.

Darknym first begun casting spells on the ork again and again, failing to cast the spells and when he did cast one, it was a sorry attempt for a spell. The ork was a bit perplexed and irritated because nothing happened after his spells and sometimes he would shoot missiles that missed their target.

He wanted to cast the spell as many times as possible, and when he reached the "simple spell casting" to beginner unlocking the Simple spell control he would begin fiddling with the spells.

The ork was already upon him hitting him with it's club. He felt the pain of the blow and sometimes it affected his spellcasting making it fail.

Darknym suddenly begun running and the Ork run behind him once more, but he didn't stop casting spells, even while running but those spells were the pain amplifying ones, sooner or later the ork would catch up to him since his speed was lower than the ork's but before that happened he stopped in his tracks and gave the Ork a kick on the leg.

The ork that had so many spells stacked on itself begun groaning from pain, the other players then remembered the effects of the spell but it was already over the round had ended.

-The spell is no longer stack able for more than two times-

-pain level decreased to 10% Four opponents remaining -

-four opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

Next monster was a cave troll, it was 5 feet tall and one fist of the monster was half a man's worth of size. It's gorilla like body physique made it a terrifying opponent to fight but they weren't here to fight, but test the bearability of pain inside the game.

Each time the troll hit them they were thrown away off the ground, flying across the blues and black of the terrain. It was probably a more than 100levels monster, the knight had given up while the assassin could still evade it's massive fists, until it grabbed him and begun chewing on his head. It was a one hit kill designed for when the troll finished someone off.

Darknym was also at the same situation, with his head inside its mouth, he tried to cast the spell, it was mostly annoying, since they couldn't die and the troll's breath stank awfully.

The situation didn't change until Darknym managed to cast the spell without it being interrupted, grabbed the monster's tongue and begun pulling it.

The huge ape couldn't close it's mouth now , it tried to pull him out of it's mouth but it only felt more pain.

Darknym was holding onto the tongue while casting the spell on the beast, it was only a temporary measure as the troll pulled him out with even more strength than before. Normally that would give him some debuffs in the Injury screen like broken ribs and other semi-permanent effects.

He was now feeling a pain he hadn't felt before, as his ribs were piercing his organs a large pain was generated. In real life he would have died, normally he would have simply fainted from the pain but with the new fix he had to endure the excruciating pain caused by every one of his Injuries.

He wanted to laugh but with the pain all his attempts came out as a short snorting sound.

The round had ended sooner.

The assassin had given up saying that it's better if the spell didn't exist at all. He just felt the 10% and he was saying it was too much, what could he say about the others who felt the 25,20 and 15 % of the pain he had evaded.

-Pain level dropped back to 5%-

The only ones remaining were the knight and him, the knight was a tank so his defenses were high, protecting him a little from the damage, of course he still felt some pain but it was shortened to a considerable length.

-Three opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next monster was a succubus a female demon with a long pointy tail which she used like a whip. If she had hair she would be more likable but she was a female non the less.

The succubus did some skill of hers, and a debuff appeared.

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"Soul Torture"

Raises your pain level up to 10% once more.

"At least it won't be too boring"

Darknym said as he went towards her.

Her level must have been around 200 or even more, because the knight begun screaming from her slashes as she cut his armor like paper with her tail whip attack.

Darknym just went towards her each slash normally would have killed him or cut a limp off, so they passed right through him, red lined appeared where the limb was cut probably for the beta they didn't want to bother with falling parts.

It was a familiar pain, of course he couldn't place it cause he was unconscious most of the time of his dismemberment in the torture chamber.

The succubus was shocked, as she had cut all the possible parts and he was still walking towards her. His level was too low for her to feel any fear and lust was a succubus' life. They made a good couple, for the rest of the round while the knight was groaning from pain as he was making out with her. Her character was made after an actress they had employed and it seemed a bit obvious who she was after a closer look.

'But why removing the hair?'

Was his only thought as they did different poses while grabbing at her horns and her tail still slashing at him cutting where ever it liked.

Before disappearing, satisfied she sent his an air kiss.

-Pain level still 5%-

The knight hadn't given up on the spell yet and Darknym seriously didn't care.

There was another reason why the pain hadn't been dropped lower, first was because there were other groups who did the same beta test and the other was because the pain wasn't unbearable after the pain resistance skill was gained..

-Three opponents left-

A voice sounded inside the room

The next monster was a 20meters tall giant, one for each, the giants just stomped them with their feet, they were slow but after a little both the knight and darknym were squashed, their foot was 5meters long and at least 3meters wide. it squashed them before they could move away from the area of it's fall.

The pain was almost non existent, it only went for a few seconds and then disappeared, the knight however made a big scene out of it, he screamed every time he was squashed.

They had eaten 3 stomps each, and were stunned each time until the next stomp came, it was probably because they were meant to finish the player off and not just make him feel pain.

It was cut at that due to the administrators' dissatisfaction, the monsters didn't even attack them anymore, they just finished them off with one hit, in all the groups it was the same, it was just a bad selection of a torturer..

What the Administrators hadn't counted was that the players' stats had risen through the test, it was some bug or just an accident but the players' stats rose as the beta test went on.

Of course the players didn't say a word since they didn't mind a few extra stats.

They had all gained the pain resistance skill nearly from the start.

The two that remained if stomped a few more times would have gained enough Hp not to die by one stomp. Truth was the knight didn't die Instantly the last time and he also felt the excruciating feeling of having most of his bones crashed into a lingering Injury, thus he screamed from the pain each time and died shortly afterwards.

-Pain reduced to the minimum 2%-

The knight was relieved he made it, for some reason he really wanted this spell to exist.

-Last opponent-

A voice sounded inside the room

The last Monster was a 50meters tall Black dragon, when it appeared it used its dragon breath covering the entire field with its infernal flames, the knight was screaming as he felt the flames eating him alive at every inch of his body. Little did he know that that was just the beginning, after the flame came ice. His body chilled he felt a painful numbness all over his body and although only 2% could be felt, if every particle of your body feels it, it becomes a really awful experience.

Next came acid,lightning and they left the best for the last disintegration.

Acid didn't feel much different from flame, lightning was interesting but short they could only cry

a "wawawaawawwa" as the currents entered and exited their body but the disintegration was the something else. They felt their body breaking apart, as if thousands of needles were inserted into their bodies at the same time and cut them into pieces. Even Darknym screamed from the excruciating pain.

The last, the disintegration was in the form of a huge laser beam, and Darknym had enjoyed it the most, through all the breaths he had cast the spell on himself, just to feel a bit more of the real effect of pain, that was the only reason why he screamed he was fealing the 22% of the real thing.

-Thank you for your cooperation as a bonus for staying till the end, -

-you will be given the final version of the spell and you can keep -

- your raised stats and skills -

"sensitivity to pain"

Raises Pain sensation level up by 2% can only be

stacked up to 2 times for a striking 7-9% of pain.

Originaly it was by 10% and could be stacked indefinetely and if not for the giant amount of Mp needed to cast the spell it would be an okay spell.

The knight begun insulting the administrators, since he was no mage and the cost was in the thousands of Mp. Warrior skills only take 1-1000mp max so they are okay with only a little meditation from time to time.

Darknym appeared back at the brothel took Aretea and left.

Surprisingly, in the real world only five minutes had passed. It was the technology some other games used to compress time, they made the brain work faster heightening all senses in order for them to feel as if time in game passed the same as in reality but made a 2,4,5 or even 10 to one ratio.

It was forbidden afterwards because it caused extreme addiction to the game since people didn't want to leave the game, for one day you didn't log in you lost ten days of adventure and events passed by without the players being able to log in in time to do anything, it was chaotic, but the real problem was that some players didn't even log out to eat. Making it a serious event after the first death inside a capsule occured not to talk about the mental strain it gave to the brain to do that.

"First we should go to a clothing store, not that your leather suit isn't good but walking in the city like that will create many misunderstanding"

Darknym said to her as they went towards a boutique owned by the Helllion guild.

It was a large building but there wasn't much traffic inside.

"Is there anyone here!"

He shouted in vain for a few times and no one answered.

"Fuck you Helllion guild!"

He shouted and a head popped behind a row of terribly made clothing.

"What did you say?"

the small head said Irritated

"I said...Is the anyone here!"

He shouted so loud that an echo came from somewhere.

"I mean the other thing you said"

The girl said Irritated

"What other thing?"

Darknym said with a puzzled look that made Aretea laugh at the girl's irritated look.

"So what do you want in my shop, you aren't even part of our guild"

"I thought you sold clothes here or are they also a guild members only product"

"Are you an idiot or something, who buys clothes, begone and buy yourself some armor or something, clothes are useless anyway, in a month or so this shop won't exist anyway"

"If it will disappear, you should give us a discount or make a sell out notice outside"

The girl looked at him for a while and then looked at the ceiling in a skeptical manner before saying

"You know It's not such a bad Idea, I can get rid of all this junk and make myself some personal profit, what would you like to buy anyway?"

"Well We will look around for a while and come to you with the products we desire is that okay?"

"Suit yourself"

She probably couldn't see Aretea's clothes due to the Adult restriction effects.

There were restrictions for age limits, in other words the clothes changed in appearance when someone under aged looked at someone who was dressed indecently or when there was a lot of gore they just saw yellow or red lines on the body indicating that you have crippled or cut the part. There were many such under age restrictions and they were banned from the adult district.

Aretea and Darknym went through the whole store, they only chose what they liked, Aretea had chosen a strange cross dressing style, of black trousers, a white blouse and an artistic black jacket, accompanied by a small round black hat

Darknym chose a pair of wide sport trousers and a three sizes larger black wide hooded shirt, they took other clothes as well, so many that his inventory could not hold them all, good thing Aretea had an Inventory as well.

"That's a total of 10gold coins are you sure you have that much?"

He took ten gold from his pockets and handed them over and said.

"Thank you for your services"

She was dumfounded as she saw a noob buying clothes for a total of 10gold, most in-game deals are done with silvers, as gold is too hard to get, he just gave her 1000silver coins.

The next day a sign was outside the shop saying "whole sales", and some stickers of 10% and 20% discounts on goods.

Later she was warned from the guild to never sell things to non guild members but she didn't care, she had already sold everything she could, gaining a healthy sum of 40golds and 30silvers.

On the streets Aretea looked like one of those illusionists on TV and he looked like some strange guy who has no sense of fashion with his hood covering most of his face and his trousers being to wide, he looked like a wannabe rapper.

Their second stop was his Inn room.It was dark already so it should be Theo's turn to watch the counter, but he saw Sylvie in her place.

"What's up with Theo, is she sick?"

"Of course not, elves don't get sick, and the only known elven sicknesses are a hundred percent deadly"

"Didn't know that but isn't it her watch right now?"

"She's training her favorite apprentice"

"Haven't you told her yet that he's a member of the Helllion guild?"

"Why would I tell her such a lie?"

"Whatever, suit yourself, he will probably join them when he gains the profession"

"I must investigate him for a few days, but only to prove that you are wrong, there's no way an elf would..."

She was a bit skeptical before continuing and changed subject to another point

"Who's she?"

"Just a friend I met a week ago"

"You do know she's a vampire?"

"I don't like to discriminate between races"

"Whatever just keep her away from us"

"That's a bit difficult since she will be living here with me"

"Just don't allow her to do anything illegal, we don't want problems with the guards"

"I don't think that's for you to say"

He went upstairs and Aretea went after him, she was like a fish out of the water, a little lost but she still held whatever pride she had left.

When they entered his room, her mouth dropped open, she had expected that he would live in an expensive room, but this was the royal suite.

He rung the service call and a butler appeared, bowed humbly and said

"How can I serve you today sir?"

"Do you make food for vampires?"

The butler was a bit reluctant for some reason but nodded with a yes.

"Then it's set, Aretea, you will be living here if you need anything just call the room service, as you maybe know I can't be always here so sometimes I will be giving you some homework, oh I almost forgot"

He called the butler again and a different one came

"Could you bring my fairy to the table and give her something tasty to eat, I have been missing out on her lately"

The cage with the fairy princess Came to view on top of the table.

"Isn't that.."

Aretea said before she was cut off by Darknym

"..beautiful, so beautiful, I would love to know her name, I know I should ask for a book on the fairy language"

Aretea face palmed herself and said

"They don't speak, they are like animals only make sounds to communicate"

"Even better, I can teach her how to talk sometime in the future"

he said as he sat at the table and nodded her to come, their food came almost immediately after they sat.

"You see Aretea I have so little time and so many things I yet want to do, the month is almost up and then I won't be coming as frequently as now, the room is booked for another three months(In-game) and this one included but I can't even enjoy it"

"How come?"

She asked while eating a blood red soup, and drinking some strange red liquid probably just wine.

"You see I have to train my mage profession, gain the merchant profession, the spy profession, the bard profession and find myself an Alchemist"

He was the only one not eating as he stats were full as they were, he just took out his staff and cast the light spell with the staff and next with his hand as he talked.

"Well I could teach you Alchemist and Herbologist professions, but I doubt they will come in handy"

"Wait, you know alchemy?"

He asked amazed as he stood up from his chair.

"I'm at the Journeyman rank at both since I couldn't go travel the land to learn more skills I'm stuck at that rank"

The ranks are the following

Novice(0)

Apprentice(1,000)

Trainee(10,000)

Graduate(100,000)

Qualified(200,000)

Journeyman(500,000)

Professional(1,000,000)

Specialist(5,000,000)

Master(15,000,000)

Archon(60,000,000)

The passing from novice to Apprentice is easy, from apprentice to trainee it needs a little work but the Graduate and later ranks need too much work, thus people first train their professions until trainee and then decide which one to grind first making it into their main class while little by little training the rest.

"If you are an Alchemist, then why should I even bother to learn the profession, We are bound together, at least until you decide to kill me and escape"

She was a bit shocked that her plan was already out but even so he probably would step out of line sometime and then she would kill him.

"By the way I think I will be calling her 'Princess'"

"Suit yourself, She won't care anyway"

Aretea commented.

"Do you have other professions aside from Alchemist and Herbologist"

"Of course I have every respectable adult has at least 5 professions"

"And yours are?"

"Well my professions go like that, fighter,torturer,herbologist,Alchemist and medic, the last I took for the anatomy knowledge"

"What does the torturer profession do anyway?"

"Well it has three main purposes, first is to see how much life the target has left, second to do more precise damage and third to make the pain linger for longer"

"Sounds handy"

He logged out and took a break for a while, before entering the game once more, this time he went for Destros, his character had long been activated.

A flash of light and he appeared inside the capsule in the lab.

He opened his "status" screen.

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Race - Mutated Scavenger

Subspecies - Alpha version

Gender - Male

Level - 1

Physical

Hp 145(health)

Sp 241(stamina)

Tp 100(Tech)

Gene Integrity - 100%

Mind

Knowledge - 0

Charm - 0

Morality - Neutral

Soul

Aura Color - Dark Purple

Integrity - Unharmed

Ki - 1000

Detailed stats

Physical

+Strength - 15

+endurance - 0

+constitution - 2

+Agility - 12

+speed - 3

+reflexes - 5

+Intelligence - 10

+wisdom - 0

+leadership - 0

Mind

radiation resistance - 15

Social status - Outcast

Fame title - None

Soul

Daily luck - (default)

Karma - 0

limit break - Astral projection

Techniques

Scavenging - N/A

Hand-crafting - beginner 4

Digging - beginner 5

Soft walk - beginner 3

Assimilate genes - N/A

Traits

-10% bonus to radiation resistance(race)

-10% better luck(race)

-can carry more items(10 extra item slots)(race)

-Night sight(race)

-Special gene - None(subspecies)

-Regeneration gene - None(subspecies)

-Genebomb gene - None(subspecies)

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He had no hunger but the integrity thing was a bit strange.

Gene Integrity.

Due to a faulty genetic code you must

consume genes of other beings to

survive, killing them in the process

if they are not already dead.

He also had gained the skill gene assimilation that did just that, and two racial traits from his subspecies.

Special gene - None

Biodemons when complete generate a special gene that allows them to

manipulate their structure turning their body into a weapon, as an

Alpha version you start without having one.

Regeneration gene - None

Bioangels gain a regeneration gene from birth that allows them to

rapidly regenerate Hp and Sp, as an Alpha version you start without

having one.

Genebomb gene - None

Biodeads when killed leave behind a strange abomination of their

prior body that attacks any living being in range and is extremely

hard to kill, if its not killed it will begin deteriorating,

losing Integrity over time, You cannot re-log unless its

integrity reaches 50%, it will gain integrity if it kills other

life forms, as an Alpha version you start without having one.

He logged out and searched in the net about the mutants, but it was a bit frustrating. Normally mutants start on a planet no so different from Destros called Chimera, meaning

he was probably the only mutant on the whole of Destros.

There are three species of mutants that normally fight amongst themselves, Bioangels,Biodemons and Biodead.

Bioangels are the most favored race on planet Chimera.

They look strange due to their thin skin, making some of their veins visible through their skin, they can only have light blue or green eyes. But what makes them famous are their three abilities.

Their three abilities are...

First they are almost immortal, meaning their health regeneration

matches that of a troll from the fantasy world, starts at 10hp/s

and can be upgraded to become up to 1000hp/s.

Their second ability mind overload is the most famous bullet time

ability, where everything begins moving so slow.

Last ability is that to regrow lost limbs, even a head is regrown and

unless they lose all their hp points they won't die. Bioangels don't become

Abominations on death but disintegrate in mere seconds like their lost limbs.

Their disadvantages are...

Their need for a weapon to fight and their technology being around

that of the middle ages.They have villages and build castles and forts.

They don't have gene Integrity and instead have hunger and thirst.

Unless you want your character to die you have to work for the community

since there are no dungeons with loot on Chimera.

They won't die from fire,ice and other such damages but if they

stay for long under their effects they will be disfigured with no

way to revert to normal, so better dodge such attacks rather than

face them and be disfigured forever. (Only New order has the

tech needed to repair a character)

The last and worse disadvantage is that in open space they will fall

in a comatose state, logging you outside the game until your character

is rescued,dies or you delete him yourself. So better suicide rather

than go into space.

Biodemons are another favored species of the mutants, mostly because of their abilities.

They have various skin and hair colors dependent on their special gene that varies from A to X, so far no Y or Z genes have been recorded. Their catlike eyes can be red or Yellow.

Their three abilities are...

Gene assimilation, just by touching someone they

can drain Hp and refill their gene integrity.

Special gene, a gene that gives them special powers

like shooting lightnings from their fingers,

polymorph into an animal or even make their skin

as thick as stone.

When they die, they will turn into a mist that will

move towards the closest living thing while draining

any remaining gene integrity they have making them

harder to kill.

Their disadvantages are...

Special genes are given at random so you have to create

and delete your character until your preferred power arrives.

Their special gene uses gene integrity to use abilities,

making them a bit hard to survive at the start of the

game, later as they grind their abilities they spend less gene

to use.

The gene Integrity system itself only allows you to survive for 10hours max without fighting a mob. Good thing is there are a lot of mobs and they give a lot of genes even when assimilated dead.

Food is expensive like fuck, the cooks are profiteering off since they found that some foods can regenerate gene Integrity. Feel Intense pain when gene Integrity falls bellow 10%, just kill yourselves at the moment and start with a 50 again.

Biodead are the least favorable since they tend to die the most and play the less.

Their pale grey skin and the absence of eye pupils make them a little freaky to see.

They can have White,Black,Red or Blue eyes and their hair start are white.

Their three abilities are...

Gene virus , a strange virus that allows them to command

the dead, like some sort of zombie. Can be upgraded but

isn't as useful as it seems because the zombies are stupid

and die easily from a head shot or cut of their head.

Insect manifest, the real body of a Biodead is a strange insect,

which makes biodead to be able to switch bodies to that of

another dead being. Useful only If you can kill a boss mob or

someone stronger than you. If you die you start again

with your original body.

Don't feel pain and they only lose gene Integrity to use

abilities or when in Insect form, making them Immortal

from hunger.

Their disadvantages are...

Gene Virus has a limit to how many undead one can have

and the strength of the being you can control.

Biodead cannot equip weapon or armors, unless you take control

of an already equipped body but you will lack essential skills

of his profession.

Genebomb gene, when a biodead is killed an uncontrollable

abomination with a 100% integrity is spawned in his place of death,

If it is not killed and it's Integrity reaches 50% the

player can log in again, estimated time of that happening

5hours after death, giving you a 5hours ban unless it dies.

If you die of 0% Integrity it will not activate. Genebomb gene can

changes according to your Infested body.

Biodead are so immortal they won't die in open space,

so have a good time floating in space, well at least they

can commit suicide but wait there is the abomination thing

that will appear and if you think you can do the Insect

thing, then good luck waiting 10hours in the open space.

He had no Idea whatsoever where and how to gain the genes, but he knew more things about the situation, Biodemons lose 10% Integrity per hour, while Biodead lose none, but since he has no insect manifestation it's probably the first.

The new order is currently at war with the Mutants, and since mutants have no

technology to speak of or ruins to explore on their home planet,

The New order are the ones on the offensive, Every week a Raid missionis sent to Planet Chimera, each time with some objective they must complete. Large parties of Players gather on such missions, their only problem is the time limit of 2hours, before their life supports supplies run low or a Mutant player that will try to slow them down.

Planet chimera is a 100% radioactive so Humans need the life support device, while mutants begin with a 100% radiation resistance. Unlike his Avatar who had 15%. 'It might just have some effect on the gene' were his thoughts on the topic.

Mutant players can join the corresponding "Defense mission" which always fails in the end due to the inadequate equipment and the low number of mutant players. Lately however there's been some Pro mutant that has succeeded to block one raid and then didn't appear again, some say it was TOBO of Destos but no one knows for sure since he had hid his name.

Normally players have a name above them but when you hide it only three question marks will be shown, so only players in their friend list can see their name, but in pvp Events most players will not hide their names, for more fun.

He saw some videos of that raid's end, there was a large black sludge with tentacles, probably an abomination that attacked anything in range, it was a fortune that they were not controllable by a player, the abomination just swag them wildly around hitting the players that were trying to burn it down with their flame throwers.

The good part though came next, the mutant they had killed seems to have had some strange fire variation of the gene because the abomination begun breathing fire at the players instead. In the end it exploded leaving only flames behind, the players won the fight but lost the war, it was a 20 vs 1 fight and in the end only half of them survived the blast, probably because the players weren't of a high enough level.

He logged in once more inside the game.

The strange thing was that there were more lights, not that he needed them of course. He looked around once more. In reality the lab was one large room with metallic stairs climbing up three of the four walls of the room. From the bottom floor where the specimen tubes and the computer terminals were, each floor had two doors at the sides the last having three if you count the lab's entrance.

The first floor or the bottom one had the capsule and library, the second had the living quarters and a room with a lot of strange equipment. The last two rooms were locked, one needing a password and the other needing some sort of key to enter.

He once again swept through the library to find something readable and then went towards the living quarters.

The living quarters were a treasure trove, there were eight beds or more like four two storey beds, although full of dust they had their sheets and soft pillows, there were eight lockers next to them as well, he looked through the lockers, although they had those strange locks with number password, it was only a matter of time before he found the first password opening the first locker.

Inside there was a white uniform with a large "I" emblem on it, it probably stood for Immortals.

You probably don't know yet but the Immortals are a bunch of scientists who tried to become immortal, in their holy quest they spread mutated creatures throughout the solar system and in the end disappeared, probably died on planet Typhoeas where their traces disappeared, but the reason they became Infamous was because they kidnapped a whole space station with them, mutating everyone on it and throwing them away on some uninhabitable planet afterwards. The mutant were then Cleansed by the Silver force of the new order although there are rumors that some were captured in secret and kept for analysis.

So this was probably one of their hideouts, a long time ago,an at least 1000years old relic of their past. Aside from the suit which smelled like shit now, there was a strange device. he didn't know what it did but it looked like another one of his, it had the logo of the Immortals on it while his was full of dirt. There was also a well kept picture of some chick with glasses called Ellie as he saw in the description of it.

Next Locker was slower to crack but was more worthwhile. Aside from another of those stinky suits and tag there were casual clothes inside, still in one piece if not for the dust, but at least they didn't smell as bad, but what relly made his day was a small letter, at first he didn't give it much thought but then he understood something significant.

Through this letter he could decipher the language of the world and all that just from the first word "Dear someone" he didn't know the name but the first four letters had to be these, unless of course it was a different language, but it was a good start, and the description, Rick's letter helped a lot but that was for later, Now he had six more lockers to open.

five more stinky suits and strange logo devices, he had found another letter and a book with it, this one was described simply as "Love letter". The last locker he opened was entirely empty.

Five hours had passed since he begun opening the lockers, he sat on a dusty bed, that felt a little uncomfortable.

He took all eight sheets and pillow and under the last pillow he found something that looked a lot like the key to the locked door on the third floor, or more precisely was it.

Next he went to try decipher the two letters. To his fortune it was just a simple substitution of letters with gibberish symbols. The system rewarded him shortly after he decoded all 24 letters, and some punctuation marks

-gained reading skill -

Now he would only need the speech skill to communicate with the higher powers

of the world, New Order and the Industrials, not that he needed to.

First he read the Complete letters.

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Dear Ellie

If you are reading this, it means I'm already dead, as much as I would like

to be with you, I've grown old. The others have left to another lab,

some even said they would go to space since our research didn't bear the

desirable results and our resources are dwindling.

Each and every last of them is set on making a being from only one

part of the genome we created, I think they are stupid, the three

genes need to be together in order for the code to be complete.

A pity the prototype capsule is a failure, the mutations are so

severe that the subject needed to to drain the life force off of others

just to survive, I don't want such a life for you, but not all is lost your

mother, I and your husband and my assistant will work hard and sometime

in the future we will be able to cure you of your terminal Illness.

My last hope is that the war doesn't become too chaotic, there were rumors

that they will be using nukes to end the war.

Your loving father

Richard White

PS All passcodes are your birthday

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Just perfect now he had to find when some dead chick's birthday was.

The love letter was next.

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Ellie my beloved wife, I love you so much but the times have changed, I want

to ask you to forgive me but I can't wait for you to return, after the last

experiment, your father announced that he cannot pay us anymore. As much as

I love you, I can't wait and age while you remain young in your cryochamber.

I'm with Iris now but my heart will always be with you.

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Someone's a douchebag but that was a bit unexpected, good they have all died by now.

He had gained one Intelligence after reading the letters.

With the key in hand he went up to the third floor, he had 5 hours of life left and a small amount of test subjects to assimilate. The key fit well and unlocked the room with ease.

The room was mostly empty and only a tubelike capsule was inside. Inside it was Ellie, as he recognized her from the picture. There was a red button on one side of the tube which opened the capsule, she was of course dead.

He dragged her dead body to the mutating capsule downstairs and put it inside, the procedure would take a week but he didn't care, he still had time.

Now he went to the library, the book in his inventory was Iris' diary, why was it in locker, don't ask me ask the owner of the locker Ellie's husband.

There were around forty books in the library, he touched them one by one and all required more Intelligence and wisdom than he had until he reached the last book the one on the table.

-Do you want to learn the Researcher profession-

-Yes- -No-

Researcher was a profession akin to the enhancer in fantasy games, they made stuff work better. While scientist was the more popular profession corresponding to that the Alchemist. Mechanic was the blacksmith of Destros and Medic and doctor were akin to healers.

He pressed Yes since he couldn't do anything else for the moment. The book didn't disappear but he still got the profession. He tried the other books once more since he had become a researcher but nope still the same, he opened the research book and saw there's 200pages of text inside, the description of the book said "Researcher's guidebook".

The first page was boring as it talked about the marvelous world of science but reading this shit increased his Tp so he had to bear with it. He had just finished the prologue and the first skill of the researcher profession was unlocked

(fast reading)

When you read the whole world

moves slower or even stands still.

He did give it a try but he failed to cast it and when he did it ate at his Tp like crazy. The good thing was Tp didn't recharge as slow as Mp did, from his attempt he gained 6 wisdom and 60 Tp but he didn't go for the shelves, he kept reading the book.

If it wasn't for the sake of gaining skills he would have burned it or destroyed the Idiotic book, everything it said was so stupid and surreal that he didn't know to laugh at it or to cry, as he was forced to read it.

(Reading power)

The power to gain extra Tp when fast reading.

0/1000000sp

(improve skill)

(Assemble)

The researcher can create machines by combining

three different components of it.

0/1000000sp

(craft skill)

(Researcher's aptitude)

gain xp when creating machines.

(max 100points)

0/1000000sp

(boost stat)

He looked at his Inventory and the seemingly useless devices had names to them

8x Immortal ID device

3x broken waterblaster component A

2x broken waterblaster component B

2x broken waterblaster component C

2x broken laser pistol component A

1 broken laser pistol component B

1 broken plasma blade component A

1 broken plasma blade component C

8x junkmetal

The problem was that they were broken but that didn't stop him from trying to assemble the two broken Water blasters again.

It didn't take Tp to use but he did completely break an "A" component after his 10th try. He next tried the fast reading once again as his Tp were full and with the third try this time he did it, but it deactivated quite fast. He had now 13wisdom, and it was time he tried the books once more.

He had 2hours left and no books he could read other than the guidebook.

In a hurry he searched around and found a pen, there was nothing he could do if he was teleported outside so he simply begun writing on the other side of her Iris' father's letter, it was a long message but it would do, although his writing was awful and that wasn't because of the game which had announced to him after he wrote the gibberish symbols down on her husband's love letter.

-You have gained the writing skill-

Afterwards he was writing normal english, some of his letters were hard to read but she would understand or he hoped she would.

He left the sheets and junk he carried and packed the books into his Inventory, last thing he did was put the table from the library to the chamber room, and left on it the letter, a white suit, and the tourist clothes, since she was naked and all.

Her picturel the loveletter and diary he hid since he had no room for them in his inventory as well as a shitload of stuff in the living quarters.

Last thing he did while in some insignificant pain was check the computer terminal, but it was locked with a passcode, he put in Ellie and and no, he tried Elizabeth and Eleonora but still nothing.

You will ask why he didn't assimilate the test tube experiments, well he wanted but the test tubes wouldn't open, even if he hit them with his rusted iron staff.

The last few moments of his life he stayed next to the mutation capsule looking at the dead Ellie inside, the machine would probably work since it closed on her as he put her in but ha could always try out passcodes now that the lock worked.

He died and in 10minutes were back in the dessert, he filled his flask, although he needed no water, equipped his iron staff and went to scout the surrounding area.

He didn't go far and a strange creature surfaced from the sand, it was a lizard the size of a dog, it had six legs and sharp teeth. The creature charged at his seeing him as food, but it was wrong. First it hit it's head on the iron staff and then was hit inside with the other side of the staff.

It was stunned for a little while but it was enough for Darknym to get on it's back and begin using his assimilation skill, he hadn't even lost any life but he little by little filled up his gene Integrity.

After defeating the creature he had gained 10 Xp and 19 Integrity from just killing one lizard, later he assimilated its corpse as well gaining another 10 Integrity.

The next lizard, he let it bite his arm as he lifted it off the ground and begun assimilating it. His life drain was greater than the lizard's damage output he could probably kill most same level scavengers with the skill but there was the drawback that his hands turned into some strange mixture of flesh and jelly, only the parts that interacted with the target's flesh.

He went on and fought four more of these lizards and then left for to scout the rest of the surrounding area, there was some strange beast around the surrounding area, it had a large beak-like mouth and from closer it looked like a pterodactyl.

He didn't go too close in because it was a bit too large to his liking. The last thing of Interest was a small ruined house or something.

Inside it was already cleaned of anything meaning there were others who passed through the area but it still had a few things he could use, he broke wood from the window frame took the nylon from his Inventory and made a makeshift Tent, like what they used in the army, now he only needed some rope and it would be perfect. He had 10pieces of 1x1 nylon, and four pieces of wood.

He used 5 pieces of nylon and two of wood, making two of those makeshift tents raising his handcrafting skill another point.

Since it was already dark outside he stayed at the ruined building and begun reading the book. It would have been a calm night if he hadn't seen the lights coming his way.

Scavengers don't need a source of light or so he thought, because as they came closer he saw a group of three scavengers coming his way.

He silently left through the back of the building and climbed on the roof of the building.

-Gained climbing skill-

He didn't know how the skill worked but he preferred the manual way. The three scavengers were camping in the building, he only saw "???" as names for them, they were players. He sat and continued reading his book on top of the building until the rainclouds begun gathering in the clouds.

Setting his makeshift tent he continued reading the guide unlocking the next few skills.

(upgrade simple devices)

Can upgrade simple devices by using one or

more of the same device's components.

(Disassemble)

can turn simple devices into their components.

He was now half through the book, one hundred pages gone one hundred more to go. He closed the book and after one last fast read.

He then tried his "assemble simple device" skill but failed another 10times losing another component, he tried another ten and ten and lost another one, he was lucky it wasn't his last component C. At the next four tries he lost the last component A making the it impossible to assemble anymore, the broken parts didn't leave even scrap metal it just disappeared.

The rain was growing stronger as he looked through a small crack in the floor, he saw that the three scavengers had either left or logged out.

He packed his tent and begun running through the rain towards the broken water tank. By then he knew exactly where to dig for the trapdoor for the lab. He set his tent the best he could in the heavy rain, his hp were low and he was soaking wet or so he felt as he reminded himself it was just a game.

He had gained the sprint skill while running through the desert and his constitution rose a few points.

Endurance is for physical damage, while constitution is for elemental and other special types of damage. He was now under the safety of his tent that sometimes was blown from the wind forcing him to repair it. He had a lot of Integrity left but he could do nothing. It was probably time to go to sleep anyway in the real world.

He logged out and went to sleep. While In the desert of destros three shadows searched for the strange noob that jumped off the roof of the building and disappeared off into the storm. Pkers in the desert.