Records Eternal or Records, a virtual reality massive multiplayer role play game or VRMMORPG for short created by Regis Entertainment. In 2025, VR was released to the public while many VR games were made none of them could compare to Records. Released in 2031 it had the top realism rate at 91% along with the theme of magic and swords like many RPGs it became very famous overnight. The reason for its fame was because of three reasons.
1. Simple controls – unlike other games of the time magic and techniques, were activated thoughts which was until that point unimaginable. The team that developed Records had some of the leading neuroscientist and engineers come together to dive deeper into the process of the brain syncing with the Virtual Image System which was a helmet that intercepted brain waves and used them to move the body in a space that was equivalent to a dream state. After 6 years of research, the team discovered how to link the subconscious of the brain to the VIS helmet those allow no lag in movement and a deeper level of control. With this new level of control, people could now use thoughts to control things inside the virtual environment. Of course, it was limited by the game makers still it was revolutionary for virtual space.
2. realism – with having a realism rating of 91% that put them at the top of the rankings. Many people were drawn not only to the gameplay but the scenery. After breaking the 90% barrier thing like the feeling of the wind on your face or the smell of a campfire were possible to experience inside the game.
3. gameplay – Records was beyond anything of its time because Regis Entertainment had made a breakthrough in the VR experience that no other game had, allowing them to pioneer many concepts that at the time were only theories. There are many examples, because of the better controllability in the game, players could do complicated movements and interact with the environment on a whole new level.
For 10 years, many have tried to stand equal or even surpass Records, but all failed. Sadly though after 10 years the software of the game was becoming too difficult to update thus becoming obsolete in the gaming community.
However, Regis Entertainment knew this was coming so they began to develop a new game. It was called Tower to Heaven.
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“Alright Folks, this is what you all have been waiting for, the Match between the raining 2 vs 2 champions Team Holy Sin, The Queen of Spells The Ruler of Offensive Magic, as well as rated in to top tthree beauties on REcords forums, The High Sorceress Lil Angel. Along with her brother and teammate The Terrifying, Nightmare inducing, The Nightmare Spear Master Greed Demon, and ladies he’s single!” [Announcer]
In a massive coliseum the crowd roared and stomped their feet causing the ground to shake, the reason because to figures were making their way into the arena.
Lil Angel looked to be 5’10, wore a dazzling blue mage robe, and a hood that covered her face giving her a feeling of mystery. A long red braid of hair came out from under the hood, the braid reach just below her ample chest. Her slender body curved nicely attracting many of the male gamer’s gazes.
Greed Demon really looked to fit his name, at 6’1 he was slightly above average in height. With this shining gold armor that looked fit for a demon having skull shaped chest plate and spikes coming out from his shoulders and back along with a golden mask that covered only the upper half of his face that had two 4 inch long curved horns. An arrogant smile shone on his face and a pair of cold eyes glinted with a murderous light. Shoulder length wild red hair covered part of the mask and added to the savage aura coming from him.
Both of them had awe inspiring weapons in their hands. Lil Angel’s was a staff made of pure white wood with a large rough cut red jewel floating just a few centimeters away from the end. The jewel had four small jewels orbiting it each at a different angle. The wood had a carving that looked like an ancient language on it that gave a faint blue pulse every other second.
Greed Demon’s weapon was a 5-foot long crimson spear. The blade of the spear came out of the mouth of a terrifying dragon. The blade looked to be made of blue fire that gushed from the dragon’s mouth. Just below the head were 2 small wings that stretched out to form a guard. The shaft of the spears was made in the image of a dragon’s body coiling around a rod of metal making the body the shaft itself.
Both Lil Angel’s Yggdrasil's Branch and Greed Demon’s Dragon God’s Divine Spear were 2 of 8 Transcended Tier Weapons. Both items could be impossible to obtain since only 4 of the Transcended Tier Weapons have found owners while the other 4 may never be seen.
Why? Because Records’ servers will be shut down In 2 hours when Blood, Metal, and Magic’s servers will finally be open to the public.
To celebrate the new games release as well as honor Records memories, various matches between the top players were being held. The final match of the day was between Team Holy Sin and Team Twin Dragon which consisted of the Heavenly Dragon Igneel and Bahamut. Both were Dragoons with were a heavy armored class that excelled in middle ranged and close combat. Just like Greed’s Nightmare Spear Master Class they were a spear wielder, unlike the Nightmare Spear Master class which was a unique class that can only be obtained by doing a very long and complicated quest line, the dragoon class is a basic class. This meant that Greed and Lil Angel, who also had the unique class High Sorceress, it undoubtedly gave them an edge.
The Twin Dragon team had matching full body armor one being white the other black. The helmets looked like western dragon’s head had devoured their own heads, through the effect of the helmet even with the dragon’s mouth being open a black fog blocked others from seeing anything more than their glowing red eyes. Their armor was obviously a set, it looked like hundreds of tiny eastern style metal dragons were wrapped around their bodies’. Their weapons matched as well both being spears with serrated blades and a long piece of cloth that flowed from the base of the blade. The one wearing black, Bahamut, his spear had a blue cloth and the blade gave off a faint white light, while the one wearing white, Heavenly Dragon Igneel, his spear had a red piece of cloth and the blade gave off a black aura.
“Now then are both sides ready!?” [Announcer]
Four heads nodded not taking their eyes off their opponents.
“Then let's count down 3…2…1!” [Announcer]
“Fight!” [Announcer + everyone in the stands]
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As a bell rang to signal the start of the fire both teams stood still observing the other. After a moment Lil Angel and Greed Demon turned to each and unexpected scene accord.
“Rock, Paper, Scissors SHOT!” [Lil Angel and Greed]
“Nooooooo” [Lil Angel]
“Hehe and the big brother wins this one!” [Greed]
“No fair, you cheated!” [Lil Angel]
“How do you cheat at Rock, Paper, Scissors!?” [Greed]
“I don’t know, well whatever those guys are weak anyway.” [Lil Angel]
“What was that!?” [Igneel]
“Bitch I’ll show you whose weak!” [Bahamut]
Hearing Lil Angel calling them weak ignited a flame of rage in their hearts charging her with terrifying speed. Greed step forward to intercept them and activated
Igneel and Bahamut’s characters started run around the arena while screaming. Greed creating the opportunity closed that gap between him and Igneel in an instant. Thrusting out his spear a black veil covered the blade as it pierced Igneel through the chest causing two red damage numbers to float up over his head.
4520
6250
The audience was frozen, the second hit had crit cause the total damage to reach over 10000 which was no small feat to do with just one attack. The attack just now was call
That one move had drained a little less than a third of Igneel’s HP, having recovered from the fear debuff he panicked and swung his spear. Greed swayed to the left while leaning back to avoid the attack, in the next moment he pushed off the ground performing a back flip to avoid Bahamut’s spear aimed at his back. While rotating in the air he faced Bahamut Greed stabbed with his spear inflicting 3000+ damage to Bahamut taking more than a tenth of his heart away.
Landing Greed looked at the 2 enemies sighing he planted the end of his spear into the ground and leaned on it.
“Can you guys at least put up some sort of fight this is my last fight in REcords, so I want to have some fun.” [Greed]
The two dragoons trembled with rage, to be looked down upon at their level was mortifying.
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Greed’s POV
God, why did I have to be stuck with the checkerboard duo here! Sara got a tough team last time and what do I get weaklings.
I looked at the two looks like they were planning something, well not like it will make a difference. Finishing their little strategy meeting the two ran to the opposite side of me. Both their spears glowed with a green light, seriously they plan to use HAAAAAAAA The two let out battle cries as they ran forwards attempting to stab me with their spears. Ugh, this is boring. I stood there until both spears had pierced my body, my actions or lack of action shocked everyone. “What, why didn’t he dodge!?” [Spectator] “Did he just let them win!?” [Spectator 2] “No way Greed Demon would never let anyone beat him!” [Spectator 3] Then everyone gasped seeing that I was a few meters away completely unharmed. The reason for this was I used Both dragoons turned to face me and stiffened, I was pointing my spear at them while it was completely covered in red flames. They both tried to run out of my range, but it was to later. “Hahahahaha, take this my favorite finisher I laughed as the torrent of flames rushed forward at a speed that made it impossible to dodge and quickly swallowed my opponents. The river of fire continued until it slammed against the barrier protecting the stands. The barrier trembled and from the force of the impact the coliseum shook. Screams were heard as the fire roar threating to destroy the wall of magic. Though that was impossible, the barrier protecting the stands is an immortal spell so no matter what hits it the magic barrier will not break. When the fire extinguished a minute later what everyone saw was a blacked trail leading to the edge of the arena. Along the trail was 2 bodies charred and half turned to dust. Silence fill the Coliseum, many of these people had seen me fight before and already seen my < Apocalyptic Fire Stream of the Dragon God> skill. Still it was terrifying none the less. I turned to look at the Announcer that was standing on a higher platform staring in a daze. The reason wasn’t my finisher but the fact that Team Twin Dragon was in the top five 2 vs 2 teams in the Records Pro Circuit ran by VPG or Virtual Pro Gaming. He had witnessed many fights some even similar to this one, but even had he seen two top 5 teams fight and have the match be so one sided. Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere. “Hey you know those guys are dead right, I mean I’m pretty sure burning someone until their bones and ash kills them, but I could be wrong.” [Greed] My sarcasm brought the announcer back to reality or virtual reality and he quickly answered the winner. “The winner is Team Holy Sinner, Lil Angel, and Greed Demon. They have again protected their title as the best duo in Records for the 327 time in a row. These two will now remain undefeated for all eternity as this was the last 2 vs. 2 professional matches in the Records Pro Circuit. Now do the champions wish to saw anything to your fans this is your final chance.” [Announcer] I took the mic from his and took a deep breath, exhaling in an exaggerated manner I spoke with a serious tone. “Kids, stay in school!” [Greed] I then handed the mic to my sister who quickly grabbed it and with made a serious face along with a stern tone. “Wait one hour after eating before swimming.” [Lil Angel] . . . “Alright now let's be serious!” [Greed] “But, I was serious.” [Lil Angel] “Ignoring that random comment-“ [Greed] “-Hey!” [Lil Angel] I continued to ignore my pouting sister and spoke in a heroic voice. “One year from now we will return, but next time it will be in Tower to Heaven’s Pro Circuit until then-“ [Greed] “-Let the Fight Never End!” [Lil Angel + Greed] Ending with Records Eternal’s slogan we both quickly logged off before we were surrounded by annoying fans. * Sara’s POV I took off my VIS helmet and walked pasted my brother, Will, who was just taking off his helmet. The two of us lived in a one bedroom apartment complete with a bathroom, kitchen, and living room. My brother sleeps on the couch while I sleep in the only bed, even with my protesting he told me as the younger sibling I should have the bed since he was older he could handle sleeping on a couch. It not that we are poor that we live here it’s because he don’t need more than this. A place to sleep, food, water, and a fucking powerful internet connection is all we need to live. Still, my brother goes out of his way to make my life as comfortable as possible and I find that I have to remind him to treat himself everyone once in a while. He’s a total Sis-con, but I guess the reason for that is when we were little our father passed away when we were still very young. Even though there are 2 years differences in age, he was forced to take the roll of my protector in our dads place. Will is only 21 so making me 19, I graduated from high school two years ago since I was above average in all my classes. I was staying in the dorms that my school afford since 5 years ago are mom also passed way. Thankfully, with the help of are relatives that were kind enough to pay the school for housing we were able to both graduate. At the time, Will and I distanced in a way. We still saw each other every day and chatted, ate together, along with everything else like normal but 3 years ago I notice my brother being weight down by many things. He was never a person that was good at social interactions since he was young, even though he won’t admit it he is someone that most girls will instant fall for with his good looks. The thing is he has never had a girlfriend always saying that love like that is a waste of time. To avoid unwanted attention he covers his face with his messy hair, so unless he moves his hair, no one actually knows he was good liking. Anyway, I’ll let the mysterious narrator give a description of me and my brother. * Narrator’s? POV Sara Vancross, 19 years old, waist long free-flowing red hair and gentle dark green eyes. She stands at 5’10 and weighs 142 pounds with a medium sized frame. An excellent curved figure, not large by well-sized chest and well develop butt. Long slender white legs and elegant slim arms, altogether she looked like someone carved her out of marble and brought her to life. She wore a pair of hot pants and a yellow t-shirt that had gamer life in black letters that looked like they had been spray paint on. Will Vancross, 21 years old, messy shoulder length red hair that covers his eyes. At 6’3 with a large frame and weigh close to 200 pounds he didn’t look like a pushover. Pale skin that was a shape pinker than his sister, lean with nicely toned muscles anyone that knew about fighting knew that Will could throw a punch and take one in return. Always praised and despised for his cunning and ruthlessness his moto was “Do whatever it takes to reach my goal and step on though who try and stop me.” * Will’s POV “Hey you cooking something, I’m starved.” [Will] I wondered over to the kitchen to find my sister, Sara in her favor purple apron with a heart embroidered on it with the words “Cook with Love” under it. She was making pasta with a red sauce filled with tons of vegetables and meat. “Yeah it will be done it 15 to 20 minutes since we still have an hour and a half before the server opens I thought we would have time for a hearty meal. After all, the amount of time we are going to be playing we need to fill up.” [Sara] Ah, my sister is so thoughtful it’s wonderful to have her around. While I excel at cleaning and house chores, if I did the cooking neither of us would make it to the next day. So I feel lucky my sister can cook at such tasty food. “Alright, it ready.” [Sara] “Yeah, thanks for the food.” [Will] After eating, we both took turns washing our bodies and putting on clean clothes. Finally with only 10 minutes to spare, we put on our VIS helmets and set them to rest mode. Rest mode was a feature that came with Tower to Heaven, it put the user’s body into a hibernation of sorts allowing their body to rest while they play. The new feature got great reviews since now people that put in a long day at work can rest their body while having fun in the game and the next day they feel rested and refreshed. “Alright let’s do this!” [Will] “You remember the 5 classes you are supposed to take and the starting village we are going to meet at, right?” [Sara] “Yeah, don’t worry, I remember.” [Will] I gave her a “know it all” smile and she sighed. “Alright just check because last time we started a game, you ended up on the other side of the continent and it took us 2 weeks to meet up.” [Sara] “I have no idea what you are speaking of my dear little sister.” [Will] “Don’t use sarcasm on me, idiot!” [Sara] “Gasp sarcasm I would never, you have offended your brother I demand an apology!” [Will] “How about you put on your VIS helmet we get playing before I hurt you.” [Sara] Feeling my danger senses tingling I quickly put on my VIS helmet and started the linking process. * Will’s POV The wind blow on my face and a sweet fragrance drifted in the air. I stood looking down from above the clouds, a vast land could be seen in the cracks between the layer of white. Suddenly my view turned around and there stood a women in a pure white summer dress with long golden hair that gently blow in the wind. I couldn't see her face except for a beautiful smile. “Young one, I speak to you with the last of my strength. Please grow strong and climb the tower so that you can cleanse the heavens before it is too late.” [???] Her voice was sweeter than honey and flowed like a gentle stream, it was utterly captivating. Without warning, I start to fall backward, shit shit shit! This feels like I really am free falling. Luckily I can’t barf or my dinner would be falling next to me right now. My view changes again to look down and I nearly pass out. Damn I’m bad with height and looking down just makes this 100 times worst. I continue to descend, breaking through the clouds I see the land which seemed weird almost like it was moving. As I feel further and the distance to the ground became closer I realize that the ground wasn’t moving, it was a mass of humans and monsters of various shapes and sizes fighting what could be describe by any other word other than abominations. The creatures were pitch black and looked to be made of countless kinds of bodies, but they had no stitches or scars so it looked like the animals that made up their bodies merged together to create the horrors. As I wondered what they were a deep voice boomed and told at of what was happening. “For eons the gods had used the Heavenly tower to descend to the mortal realm bringing their blessings and treasure to those that they deemed worth. For a time, mankind prospered free of the fear of starvation and illness. Thanks to the gods blessings the fields were full of nutrients that made the crops grow healthy and in abundance. They gifted man with treasured scrolls that held knowledge of medicine that cure many diseases saving countless lives.” [Game Narrator] “Well isn’t that just all gumdrops and rainbows, now I guess the plot is coming.” [Will] The scene change to a black space with the only source of light was the image of a stone wall with the carving of a beggar. “During this time of peace, one man's greed took the better of him.” [Game Narrator] The image changed to show a carving of the beggar following a group of people that glowed with a golden light. “One day when the gods were ascending the tower the man followed them almost getting caught more than one.” [Game Narrator] The next image was of the made standing at an open door looking at a vast landscape with a clear sky. “The man having finally reached his goal was overjoyed, he believe a land of riches and power lay before him and stepped into heaven.” [Game Narrator] This time the image changed to become a short cutscene of the beggar taking his first step and where his foot touched turned black and began to spread. The blackness changed into horrors similar to the ones I just saw. “Unfortunately, mortals were never meant to step on the sacred land of the gods. The man’s sinful soul corrupted heaven giving birth to abominations that ravaged beauty and devoured the peace of humanity.” [Game Narrator] Again the scene changed to seven mages held their hands above their heads towards the entrance to the tower. “to save themselves, humanity brought the most powerful magic users of the time to seal the door so that the corruption could not reach them.” [Game Narrator] This time there was no image the only thing that came was darkness. “Now after 500 years the seal beginning to crack, you must enter this vast world and grow strong. For when the seal break you must fight and push back the corruption and climb the tower to cleanse the corruption that has blackened the land of the gods. You are one of the many that have been gifted the Light of Hope, by the last remaining goddess Titania. With the Light of Hope you can banish the corruption and heal heaven to its former glory.” [Game Narrator] Suddenly a light flashed and a large wooden door was before me. It slowly creaked open and light flooded in causing me to squint. “Now go, Young Hero, push back the corruption, ascend the tower, and restore heaven to the gods.” [Game Narrator] Light from the door enveloped me and pulled me in and for a second I heard the women’s sweet voice, except this time it was like listening to a bad TV with static. “Please save me!” [Titania]