Chapter 1 (The Beginning of a Legend)

Life will go on….

Something big is happening to you…

You will undergo a huge change in life…

After this day your life will never be the same…

For this is already predicted and cannot be changed …

Summer Break

3210 A.D.

My long and boring summer has started. There's always nothing to do in summer break. There has been presently a new game released with a realism of 99% where people can't change their appearance might as well try it out. I put my FMD (face mount display1) and entered the disk "New world". This is the newest type of game that has been famous since the last century improving every few years.

Register here please -

A screen showed up to put in your identification number

#1513798 - Name: _

- Occupation: Student (Second year high school)

- Age: 15

- Gender: Male

And there it goes, I skim through my personal information and then pressed confirm. Please wait until we finish scanning your body.

Loading…

Do you have a load code from the last game "The World"

Yes/No

I press yes and inserted my memory stick in the slot of the FMD and then loaded my last character's name Silber Swill the loaded game is able to move your character name and one bag filled of items from the last game and max 10,000,000 Zenels. Of course not many had that luxury of 10 million Zenels only the few top players had it. My ranking in the old game was 2nd place and the 1st rank was an unknown player who won't share their profile with anyone. Anyways playing hidden is more simple that playing in public. In the last game I didn't want people know it was me so I always wore my cloak covering my existence and not have too many conversations with people.

Silber Swill has logged on

The message of the system always shows up after logging in I equipped my cloak, gloves, boots, rings, necklace, hood, and my twin dagger from my old game and started off as a level one novice again most of my items are ultra rare they are called growing weapons. People could load their character max level is 50 but then starting again wouldn't be so bad. I went to the shop and bought some health potions and went out of town.

Territory A-1~A-3 (Newbie town)

I walked pass new player who is trying to figure out how to play the game some of the people I knew at school but I just walked past them quickly. I reached a hunting spot of level 11 were wolf. Even though my level is one, but my equipments are all first class so killing them won't be a problem. After 10 minutes of hunting I actually reached level 10. I used warp-stone back to town in which newbie don't really use because it's a waste of money but it's consider really cheap for me. I went to the thief hideout and talked to an NPC2 and ask for a job change. A level 10 thief, wearing weapons and armors that are meant for a level 80 character, how rare. After changing to a thief I exited the portal to the main town of Damascus

Damascus (The town of all trades)

I see many people who loaded their character that are level 50 showing off their equipments to others. I walked pass the crowd to a potion shop, I purchased some more health and mana potions and head over to the bank. The bank NPC asked "do you wish to make a new bank account" Yes/No.

Of course the answer was yes, and then I deposited all my money into the bank to not try to show off too much that I'm rich. I walked pass a alley way and met a group of people surrounding a new player, it was a young lady about the same age as me. If I remember correctly she was a quiet person that actually *existed* in our classroom. I walked pass the thugs and grabbed on the girl's hands. I whispered to her "Don't ask any questions just go along with me for a while". Then I said "Oh sorry is my sister bothering you I'm really sorry will you excuse us" One of the thugs the one who looked like he was the strongest out of the three stepped forward. "Look here young man if you don't want a problem leave the young lady here and scram". In this game New World has a system where other players can check your base status and level easily but not equipments.

I would have guessed that he checked my base status and level, I thought to myself. Please just let us go this once. "Oh so your name is Silber Swill right how about it why don't you just scram away and try to level up a bit more, a newbie right there all the same, hahahah" I said with a daring voice "look here *SIR* do you know the rules of this game that if you die once you level down one level do you really think I care if you killed me" He replied "Of course but we have people at every spawning point and we can make you back to level one and keep on killing you on and on is that fun" I said again " SIR this is a warning one more word and I'll PK3 you right on spot. The girl whispered to me *Um…. Its ok I think I can handle it* She was a priest level 21 I would have guessed that she started yesterday when summer break started. I whispered back to her *It's ok Yukiko I know who you are and I don't wish to leave you alone*

The thugs looked at us and shouted "look here were VETERAN form the game The World and level 42 so you should be scared right now" I look him in the eye once would it take a long time to level up to level 42 again from 41 it should be hard" "Are you mocking me you little brat know your lesson" he shouted and swung his sword down. "I used my dagger and blocked it easily. "Oh yeah have you ever knew the person named Assassinator in the forums where they said that he cleared each event alone have you ever thought that it might be me?" "What a joke boys let's just kill them all" All three of them rushed in. I looked back at Yukiko and pushed her backwards behind me and whispered *close your eyes it'll be over in a second* then I used my dagger skills when they were rushing in I chanted quickly "Darkness and light combine together to create the strongest weapon *HOLY STANCE DEMON RUSH* In one blow their hp dropped to zero and teleported back to the spawn spot.

I whispered to her *its fine now next time find someone to protect you working alone will get you nowhere* Then I just walked away. I thought to myself *wow I talked to the most famous girl in our grade a person who never talks to anyone except girls and the person who dislikes all the boys in our school* Anyways I gained a few levels killing high levels but it's going to waste some money repairing these daggers. After going to the blacksmith and repaired my weapon I walked to the gate of the town to the east side where there were levels 24-30 creeps to kill. As for me killing those thugs brought me up 3 levels to level 13 because the rules of the game is that you cannot gain more than 100% exp killing anything that's just too bad.

The Valley of the Death (East coast of Damascus)

Actually with the realism of 99% look quiet scary. This is the training spot for most of the priest and archers where they train alone. Zombies have low movement speed but high attack with my high agility they simply miss me every time so I won't have to drink potion so often. I used the skill *NIGHT STEP* to run past the crowd of zombies level 24 to go fight the level 29 blood zombies. I walked around a while to find a location where there is no one around and started grinding4 zombies. After running out of potions I looked at my experience bar. Level 28 in one day how nice I teleported back to town and logged out.

Back at home (In the morning around 10:00 am)

Its morning at last my friends are coming over today I better keep my stuff away they were coming to do their summer homework at my place. The door bell rung *ding dong ding dong…* They didn't stop pressing it, I ran down enraged and shouted at them when I opened the door "STOP WITH YOUR NUSANCE IT'S ANNOYING YOU KNOW" They just smiled back and said "Sorry to intrude, now let's get finished with our summer homework and go play New world why don't you try it out instead of studying all day Akira" 2 boys from my class Sei and Shun were my best friend since middle school we hang around a lot but they don't know that I'm also playing New world as a new player.

"Hurry up and let's finish our stupid homework shall we" Shun says out "It's not called finishing your homework when you're just going to copy off someone else homework you know" I said to him "Hey, just this once please Akira" Sei says "It's not just this once you know it's every year and it will be every year right" "Come on let's just get it over with" Shun suggested. They just ran up the stairs to my bedroom without a second thought. Why do I have to deal with these nuisances every year I wondered?

I ran up stairs after then and shouted to them "Hey stop messing with other people's stuff like that" Both of them turned around and then faced at me. "Oh Shun did you know last time we came to Akira house I found out where he keeps his stuff" "Yeah you told me about that Sei" "Look what I found Shun" They talked to each other loudly most likely to mock me but I know that they know where I keep my stuff so I don't place my games there. OH! No I forgot this morning I woke up late because of that girl I helped and I left it in there. I rushed in my room and there I saw my two friends looking straight at me. "So Akira what's the meaning of this FMD and this disk of New world I thought you didn't play games" Boy A spoke up. "Oh I just wanted to try it out so I bought it" I said out to hide the truth "If you told us we could help you did you know that we were part of the top 100 people of The World and transferred our character level 50 into the new game we could help you. Why not play with us next time." Boy B suggested. Boy A added "And meet us at the town square at 8:00 pm and don't be late cause were going hunting" Oh why did this happen to me I wondered, I better keep my cloak and equips in the bank before 8:00 pm. I'll log in at 7:00 pm and go find equips at the free market afford-able for newbie and buy a new cloak.

A few hours passed by while Sei and Shun spent their time copying my homework and talking about "New world" where they have found a guild to join and suggested me to join that guild. They also talked about seeing Yukiko in the game but when they tried talking to her she just ignored them. They said that she was in the same guild but worked as a cleric but changed groups every day.

Back at home (In the evening around 4:00 pm)

"Bye Akira and you better come online at the town square at 8:00 pm and our online names is Alfa Knight and Castor Magus you better come" Shun shouted as he left the front gate of my house. What a pain coming over and eating lunch at my place and leaving. I better eat dinner early today. I went to the kitchen and prepared dinner. I lived alone in a rented house near my school; my family was a rich family with my dad as a Lawyer and my mother as a Doctor. I have a little sister who is 11 years old who lived with my parents but I asked them to live near the school so I didn't have to worry about coming to school late. I sat down at the dinner table with a simple prepared meal for two people. After hearing the door bell I knew who it was. I walked to the door and opened it.

"Brother!" my sister yelled out and jumped at me" *crash* I fell right to the ground and then told her next time tell dad and mom to call me before that they are coming home late and I have to prepare dinner for you too. "Ok, big brother, so what's for dinner" she ran into the dinner table it was around 6:00 pm. I told her "Today big brother has to do something so can you leave early" "Ok big brother "She shouted from the kitchen. Then me and my sister sat down and ate our meals. She is really talkative and is really good at striking up conversations" After finishing dinner I told her to go home. "(sister) I'll walk you home today ok" "Yay! Big brother will bring me home today" She shouted. After a 15 minute walk we reached my mother and father's house. She talked non-stop about her school friends and about the new game new world I also kept quiet about me playing the game to my sister, but my mother and father knows. I quickly ran back and took only 5 minutes to reach back home. I look at the watch before putting on the FMD. I said to myself alright it's only 7:00 pm I could finish everything by 8:00 pm. I logged on real quick.

Damascus (The town of all trades)

I placed all the money that I kept to myself in the bank leaving only 2000 zenel which was considered a lot for new players and took out a item that I got from last game's even the hidden bag that only a dozen of people received from the monster hunting event. It hides up to 10 items in the one bag and showing it to other people as a small health potion. It's a really useless item for other people but it's at least useful for me. I hid the 10 items equips I brought from the last and game kept the 99 scrolls of enchantment gold in the bank. To explain this game clearly you have a weight limit in yourself depending on the amount of strength you have and you can stack up to 99 of each item in a slot of you inventory. Your inventory has in all 20 slots unless you buy extra bags to extend your inventory.

It was around 7:50 pm I equipped my new cloak and new daggers I just bought from the shop and leaving me with around 500 zenel. I ran to the town square and met two people around my age equipping full rare set for knight level 50 and a full rare set for mage level 50. So only the top 10 players have the luxury to buy growing weapons or hunt them from bosses I wondered to myself. I ran up to them with my level 28 thief and said "Hi Alfa and Castor" or what their name is in the game. They knew exactly who I was putting the cloak down. "They rubbed my head and said why wear a cloak want to hid the fact your playing this game right" Shun said. "Let's go to the guild hideout first before we start talking" Sei suggested.

Dark shifters (The guild hideout)

I walked in the guild seeing many people who loaded their character that were level 30-70 everywhere and no one lower than level 30 to be exact it's not a mystery where veteran from The World forms a guild like this. I wonder I switch open a browser and searched Dark shifters. The head of guild is the top player in the last game The World and still is the top player in New World. Only the vice captains which are the 3rd and 4th place in The Worldknow who he is. Then Shun walked up to the guard standing on the door of the guild master room it was an NPC guard. Then he said "Moon Light shines on me as I hide in the darkness" The NPC moved away and he told us to enter the room. The guild master sitting on the chair stood up and when the door closed he ran towards Shun

Leaving me alone it's so boring don't you know aren't you a little more happy to see that your best friend is ranked *FIRST* in the game. Shun replied "I don't really care you know we meet often at school and in summer break I meet you in here" Sei said "Hey! Long time no see Jin" "You came too Sei and who's that guy wearing the cloak" Shun took off the hood I shouted "Hey why did you do that" "Oh the nerd of our grade also plays I knew he was your best friend but playing in New World too what a surprise" Jin said. So then they discussed about me joining their guild and giving me equipments and some money as a starter. I don't believe that they actually gave me 500,000 zenel and a rare dagger level 30 also. Then I asked "I heard that Yukiko was in this guild too right." Jin replied "Yeah it's a mystery why she joined but I'm the one who let her join myself I thought that we might get a long but she said she was finding someone who was named *Assassinator* in the old game ranked second" I thought to myself wow she was finding me I didn't think that she would do that.

I walked out of Jin's room then wandered around the hall ways of the guild wearing my cloak. Jin's character was named Naraki so I better call him that from now on. When I walked out the guild hideout I passed Yukiko the ice queen or what she's called in our school and I quickly check her name Chakra? Strange name…. I wondered. Then I walked out of the guild sensing that someone's following I turned around. Oh your from our school I put my hood down. You sit behind me right. Once she saw who I was she said "Akira? I thought you didn't play games" I replied quickly "oh I just started yesterday Sei and Shun forced me to play I better go" She said "Wait were you the one who saved me yesterday cause you look really alike to him" "What are you talking about *saving you* I never did sorry I'm busy" I replied I thought to myself a conversation with the ice queen how great. Then she said in a soft voice "All boys in our school are scum" Then walked away. Then Shun and Sei came out of the guild "Woot! Akira how did you talk with the ice queen for a long time" Shun asked. Sei continued "That's our Silber he's something for sure." "Sorry Castor and Alfa I got to go now I'm quiet busy I can't play for too long. Then I acted like I logged out.

Instead using a town teleport orb and appeared in the town called Rakishi. Rakishi the town of heroes was a town where people gather around and form a party called a hero band people find others around their level and form a permanent group with 4-8 players. It's always busy around these places while people look at other's level and request seeing other people's equipments.

{End of Chapter 1}

1 This idea is from multiple sources (.hack, Yureka, and half prince)

2 Non-playable character controlled to do only certain amount of things

3 Player kill it's a term used for killing someone in the game

4 A term used for killing the same monster over and over again in the same location