FANTASY LORDS ONLINE
Inspired by: Sword Art Online (Anime)
Crossover: SAO with my characters in it, and my own version.
Idea: Imagination. Literally.
Fact: Everyone still looks Anime-ish, ok?
Backstory
Romeo Gustav Delrim, a 15-year-old British-French boy who was a fan of Horito Makasu's games, his company was a success in 2018. 25 games of his got sold out in just 4 days! In 2024, he announced that he will make a virtual reality game with a head console that will send you into the game. The Beta got released at E6 in America, where Horito Makasu is. Romeo was one of the 100 Beta-Testers to play the game. Two years later the game was finally released, the game was expensive with the head console, yes, but Romeo had enough money to buy it. 4,000 pounds was it in the United Kingdom, and 590,000.00 Yen. The numbers looked it was a lot, but it was less if you convert them in your own money from where you're from. But anyways, Romeo bought it and wanted to try it out, the full game. His brother, Gunter doesn't like videos with sort of it. He is 11 years old, also British-French. Gunter and Romeo's parents died when Gunter was 2, they were raised by their Aunt Mercy Delrim. She took care of Gunter and Romeo very well, until Romeo became 14, she started to work harder, being a Pharmacist does take a lot of time away for some reason. But 3 weeks before the present, Romeo takes care of Gunter now, their Aunt disappeared one day. Not a note was there, no text, nothing. No one knew where she went. But right now, Romeo will keep his brother safe, Merlon Gunter Delrim. When that time Romeo got the game, he started to play it. And that day, starts now…
Chapter 1: Fantasy Lords Online
Romeo's P.O.V
Finally, the Virtual Reality game that Horito Makasu made! Oh, I just love his games! Fantasy Lords Online is the best game that could ever exist! Of course, I only played the beta version at E6 in America, I'm so lucky I met him when we were on vacation to America. So, I plugged the head console inside the power strip, and put the console onto my head. I laid down on my bed and turned the head console on. A screen popped up, I put my username and password into the box and logged in. Another screen with letters popped in front of me, it said: "Start the game? Yes. No." I replied: "Yes! Start the game." The screen disappeared and showed me a loading screen. It started to show numbers when it hit 100%, the game was sending me to the game. The numbers were going faster, faster than the light! Until I landed on a stone floor. I was in the game! Amazing! I saw more people coming to spawn, hundreds, thousands of players who were excited! I looked into the sky and said: "Well then, let's play!"
I swinged my sword to an LVL 2 Swine, killed by my LVL 5 Flashrender. I was already Level 7 in 1 hour, knowing the ways of this game when you were a Beta-Tester before the full game, helps you knowing the techniques of Fantasy Lords Online. I'm a Knight and a Mage, having two classes is a brilliant idea, sadly you can only pick two classes. Seems fair to me. I opened my quest list and looked at them and said: "Alright, let's see. Get to level 10 to play Roni Tan's quest. Alright, let's do it." I closed the tab and turned my sword around my hand, ready to hunt more Swines. I started walking around to find them and kill them. I noticed two Swines just ahead of me. I sneaked up to them and hid behind a small bush, I peeked out in a corner to see their levels. "Level 3, both. Great." I said reading them above the Swines. I can defeat them with just one swing. I ran up to the two Swines and swinged my sword to them. 2 Kills with one swing! The Swines disappeared and gave me the victory logo. "Heh, close to level 8, just 3 more EXP." I said looking at my Level bar. I put my sword back in my sword bag and continued looking around to find more Swines. Sadly, I couldn't spot any Swines now, but what I did spot was a player killing Swines too, I think. Seeing his swing but not the enemy could mean he is also farming. I walked up to the player nicely and greeted him, "Hello, player! You're farming too?" The player turned around and saw me. It was a boy. He replied: "Huh? Oh, yeah! How'd you know?" I answered back: "Well, seeing blokes killing Swines means always they are farming, just like me." He chuckled a little and said: "Heh, you got a point there. Names Charles, Charles Bunkhert." "Romeo Delrim, friend." I said. A friend notification came in front of me, looks like I made a new friend here. I pressed the accept button and became friends with Charles. He looked happily, so did I. "So, want to farm together?" I asked. He nodded yes. "Well then, let's go."
It's been 3 hours since we're farming, we've got to know about each other a bit more in those hours. Charles is a little clumsy sometimes, but he is still good with the sword. He is also energetic and athletic, and he also can become serious if something bad happens, like my brother. "Hey, Charles, you got any siblings?" I asked. He replied: "Yes I do, a sister. She 6 and I'm 15." "So am I." I said. He chuckled a little, we continued walking around to find Swines to earn EXP. "Romeo, can I ask you question?" Charles asked. I answered: "You can, what is it?"
"Are you a Beta-Tester?'
"Yes, how'd you know that?"
"Well, seeing you attacking the Swines on the same spot must mean you're a Beta-Tester, right?"
"Charles, a lot of people attack on that spot! To be honest, everyone in the game finds that out!"
"Really? Damnit, I'm always the slow one!"
Hearing Charles say he's a slow player kinda hits my feels, I don't like people putting their own faults on them. I don't like that. I put my hand on his shoulder and said: "Charles, don't blame yourself. Not everyone is better then you, I was just like you in the Beta. So, cheer up a bit for me, will ya?" He looked at me and grinned. A smile came on his face and said: "Thanks." It's starting to get cold a little here, so I opened my inventory and equipped my red jacket. Charles also opened his inventory and equipped a jacket. "Nice jacket." I said complimenting Charles. "Yours too." He replied back. We were heading back to the town when we became level 15, it was enough for us to do some quests. As we were walking, we started to talk about something. I asked: "Any ideas what you want to do?"
"Not really, but I am thinking about taming a healing dragon one day, I like dragons."
"Heh, me too."
"What about you, Mr. Delrim?"
"Don't call me Mr. Delrim, Charles. Just use Romeo."
"Alright, Romeo, what about you? Any ideas what you'll do?"
"Well… I'm thinking about making my own guild and name it DragonHearted. It sounds so awesome!"
"Ooh, I like that! Sadly, you need 2000 coins to make your own guild, how much do you have?"
"1200 coins, pretty close to it. You?"
"600…"
He was a little disappointed for not using the weak spots on Swines. Attacking their weak spots lets you earn more coins. I got an idea for the both of us. So, I opened my inventory again and pressed Charles's name and pressed the trade button. "Do you want to trade some money?" He replied fast: "Really? Sure." I put 500 coins on the trade, and Charles put two potions that he wanted me to have. "You sure you don't want to keep the potions?" I asked. He replied back: "Nah, I've got enough. You need some potions too. Being a Knight and a Mage is pretty hard, isn't it?" "No, it actually isn't, Mage class is actually for world 3 to 7." 'Ah, okay." Charles sighed a little. I pressed the accept button to finish the trade, so did Charles. "Welp, first time trading in this game." Said Charles after receiving the coins. We both closed our inventory and continued heading to the town. It was fun farming EXP with someone, so now we will do quests. Having Charles in my group gets things faster. 2 is better then 1, am I right?
We arrived in the town named: Lasville. Weird name, I know. But not the worst. We walked towards an Inn where we decided to rest. "Alright, Lasville's Inn, let's rest for a bit, Shall we?" I said. Charles nodded in agreement. We walked inside the Inn and bought a room for ourselves. Not expensive, if you ask, it was like 200 coins. We got to our room and opened it. The room looked very medieval, like Lasville. Two beds for each other, a table with a vase that has a rose in it, and an apple with one bite in it. A bit weird, but it's just a normal apple. "Wow, this looks beautiful!" Charles said happily. "You know, my family owns a house that has rooms like these, summer houses are fantastic!" He continued. He walked towards the left bed and sat on it, it felt really comfortable. "Blimey, the beds are comfortable!" I said. Charles put his sword bag next to his bed and sat on the bed. "You're from England, right?" He asked. I nodded yes. "Huh, nice, my parents are going to London next week with my sister and I. We could meet up in real life!" He said. I replied: "That's a very good idea, mate. We could meet up on the Paddington Station, aight?" "That's a good idea, how do you look like in real life?" Charles asked.
"Well, red hair, mostly wear the 10th Doctor's outfit from Doctor Who, 178 Centimetres tall, and a guitar on my back just in case to make money on streets. I love doing that."
"What's Doctor Who?"
"It's a Sci-Fi Serie, it's hard to explain how it goes, the show is very complicated. It's like when you watch it, you get it all, but you can't explain how it goes. But you still know what it's about! It's an amazing Serie!"
"Should I watch that Serie?"
"Definitely, it will change your life in a good way."
"Alright, I'll keep that in mind once I'll leave the game."
We continued chatting for a while until we decided to rest to get our Game-Energy full again. Luckily it only takes 1 hour to get our Game-Energy back up again. The higher level you are, the longer it takes. 500 stamina on Level 15 is a lot for Floor 1 to 3. Being Level 1 with only 10 stamina takes a long time to get higher, but each level you'll get more. Level 1 to 10 will get you to 100 Stamina, Level 11 to 20 will get you to 1000 stamina, Level 21 to 30 will get you to 2000 stamina, and so on. It was 16:24 PM, I woke up on that time. It was close to dinner, but still have enough time to play the game with Charles. I got out of the bed and sat on a chair, grabbing my sword and a piece of cloth. I cleaned my sword with the piece of cloth I bought, I did have to buy something that keeps my sword clean. I heard Charles waking up by his loud yawn, geez, how loud can he yawn? "Yawn, what time is it?" Asked Charles. "4 PM, precisely 1 hour to get our Game-Energy up." I answered. I cleaned the last bit of dirt off from my sword and was all clean again. Charles got out of his bed and grabbed his sword. "Shall we do quests? We can't stay in this Inn for too long." Charles asked. I nodded in agreement and stood up. We walked out of our room having all our stuff in our inventory and started doing quests, Roni Tan was the quest I wanted to do now. Charles wanted to do Vandi Rellito's quest. "Alright, do you want to do it together, or alone?" I asked. Charles asked the same question to me but with a smug face, "Do YOU want to do it together or alone?" "Your choice, I don't really care if I'm with someone or not doing quests." I replied back. There was silence for a minute until Charles answered: "I think we can do our own quests, we're a higher level then we needed to be to do our quests. So it will be a bit easier for the both of us." I nodded with agreement of his answer, and said: "Well, good luck." "Good luck, too." My friend said. We started walking into the direction we needed to be. Charles's quest is in the west, and my quest is in the south. "Allons-y then." I whispered to myself.
I was almost at my destination to get Roni Tan's message to be delivered in Warlington. Kinda far, but I can make it with my horse. I also haven't got Warlington on my map yet, new city for me then. And my map too. A came across a board of the town where I'm heading to. "1 Kilometres away from Warlington. Ah, finally!" I said reading the words on the sign. I was close to Warlington to complete my quest, well more of a part of the quest. I have to get back to Lasville to fully complete Toni Ran's quest, which is very annoying because one: I do not have teleportation rocks with me. And two: Even if I have a Teleportation rock, I still can't use it when I have a pet. Very annoying that you can't teleport with a horse.
I've arrived in Warlington, the town of Mages. They say if you're a Mage and live or move into Warlington, you'll have a very good time there. So I think Warlington is something for me. I got off my horse and grabbed the leash of Riley, that's the horse name. I started walking on foot towards the bar called: The Maging Pub. Funny name, but also cool. I walked over to a pole and tied the leash around it. "So, be a good girl, Riley?" I asked. I gave her a pet on her side and walked into the pub. It was busy inside, but I need to find Sandel Vangooren to deliver the message. "Sandel Vangooren! Is Sandel Vangooren here?" I yelled trying to get his attention. Everyone went quiet and a man stood up. "Yes, that's me. What do you want?" He said. I walked up over to him and said: "A message from Roni Tan, he said it's important." I gave him the envelope and he grabbed it. He opened it and started reading it, "Mr. Vangooren, I have found the key to the unburied chest we have found 2 weeks ago, you will claim the chest as your own. No need to worry about me, I was more into the adventure then the chest, so keep it, keep it all! But tell me what was in the chest, I do want to know what you got. From Roni Tan." He grabbed the key inside the envelope and said: "Well, thanks, delivery boy. Tell him he's a great friend." I noticed a smile on the NPC's face, and that makes me a bit happy too. I replied: "Will do, Sandel." I turned around and walked out of the pub. "Roni Tan's quest 90% cleared." I said looking at the log floating in front of me. I closed the log and walked towards the pole where I tied my horse around. But when I walked towards it, the horse was gone. "Ah, shit." I said. I realized it got stolen by someone. I don't know who stole Riley, but I will find out. "Whoever stole my horse, is in serious trouble!" I yelled. Suddenly a horse ran passed me, and quickly turned my head towards the horse and realized that was my horse. "OI! BRING MY HORSE BACK HERE RIGHT NOW, YOU LITTLE NUTTER!" I yelled very loud to the thief. The thief got out of the town and ran away with my horse. There goes my happiness, I'm now all angry. "Double shit!" I cursed to myself. Now I need to take the long way around… Walking.
"Goddamnit! Why did this happen to me, why me?! Couldn't it be someone else?" I said talking to myself. "I loved riding horses from town to town in games, normally I don't really mind people stealing horses in games, unless it's in Fantasy Lords Online!" I continued talking to myself. I was so angry I could just kill anyone. Luckily, I saw a Swine on the road, free EXP for me. "Hello there, Swine." I said grabbing my sword to kill the Swine. I started sneaking up to the Swine and put my sword in the air, readying my attack on the weak spot. Just before I hit the weak spot of the Swine, the Swine disappeared. I was confused whether that was me who killed it, or it just despawned. "How did that happen? I didn't even hit you!" I said. I was very confused, until I hear a voice coming from the right. I looked at the bush and saw a man with a bow pointing to the spot where the Swine died. "Oh, you're the one who shot it, didn't you?" I asked loudly. "Yep! Did I make you angry?" He asked. "Nope, someone else already did. And that was a thief!" I answered back angrily. "Sucks for you, bro. What did they stole?" He asked while walking towards me. "My horse, my goddamn horse! Now I need to walk from Warlington to Lasville to complete my quest." I answered.
"Damn, sorry to hear that. Names Thomas, Thomas Brown."
"Romeo Delrim."
"Heh, cool name."
"Thanks, mate."
"Oh, are you British?"
"Yeah, of course I am, you're American, right?"
"Yep, I am an American."
"Heh, I've got a chap that is American too here. His name is Charles Bunkhert."
"Charles Bunkhert? That's my friend! Wauw, I didn't you knew him. Where did you meet him?"
"I found him farming EXP just like I did. We both got to Level 15 there."
"Cool, so if you're his friend, want to be friends with me too?" He asked. I accepted his offer and send him a friend invite. He pressed the accept button and became friends with me. "Welp, looks like a made a new friend here. Welcome on board." He said. I chuckled a little and said: "Absobloodylutely! Want to walk to Lasville and have a drink with Charles, I'm pretty sure he has done his quest by now." He answered: "Sure, bro. I would love to have a drink. Don't forget to quick save just in case." "Huh? Oh, yeah! Blimey, I haven't quick saved in 2 hours! I'm sometimes a wazzock." I said. I opened the settings and pressed quick save. I noticed something weird I didn't saw, there was no log-out button. "That's weird, there's no log-out button here." I said. Thomas noticed it too and said: "I see it, that must be a bug for some reason." I had a feeling that there was something wrong, I don't know why I think something is wrong, but my whovian side started to show. Suddenly, the bell from the spawn that could be hear from 9 kilometres away. It only rings when the server is about to shut down. "The bell of Spawn, the developers must've found it too!" Thomas said. Thomas thought the developers will shut the server down and get us out of the game, but I think something evil has happened. "Thomas, I have a bad feeling about things like these. I don't know why I have these feelings, but when you watch Doctor Who, things might start to feel like it if you think like The Doctor." I said focusing towards the north where the spawn is. Thomas was confused of what I meant and asked: "I don't get it, what do you mean?" "I don't know, it's just sometimes happens when things like these feel a bit Doctor Who-ish, companion gets trapped by sort of things, but this time it's real life. Sort of." I felt something on my hand, it was the teleporter that will send us to spawn. "Thomas, we're about to be send to the spawn, get ready." I said acting like The Doctor. We got teleported to the spawn and saw people wondering too. It was my first time to get teleported, so I got a little dizzy now. "You okay, Thomas?" I asked Thomas. "Yeah, you?" He asked back. I said I was a little dizzy, nothing bad. I heard people talking about multiple things such as: the log-out button, why we are here, and the server shutting down. "What's going on? I was close killing plants an get me to level 20!" yelled a man somewhere. "Did something bad happened?" "Takani, what's going to happen?" "Did anyone else noticed the log-out button not in the settings?" "Who found the log-out button? I don't have it in my settings!" I looked around with a focused expression on my face. I saw more people getting teleported to spawn, it was the same amount in the begin. People are started to get scared, getting a little panicked of what's going on. Thomas did too, but I knew something was going to happen. Not entirely, but a little. "Guys! Look! There's an error in the sky!" Said a man pointing to the sky. Everyone looked at the sky and saw, I did too saw it. "Ah, so it was an error. Nothing to worry about, Romeo." Said Thomas. I looked at him and said: "I'm not so sure, Tom. I have a bad feeling." After I finished my sentence, more errors came in the sky, warnings too. The sky became all red of those, until it was full of it. "Okay… That's a little too much." Said Thomas. "Oh, lord! What's that?!" "Is that blood?!" "Oi! Someone's dripping red stuff from there! Wait, are there people up there?" "I'm scared, I'm very scared!" "This is too much!" I heard people seeing red stuff coming from the red errors and warnings above the sky, the red stuff slowly became together as one big giant ball. It became bigger and added more rounds until it became a big floating body in the sky. "Holy mother of Gallifreyan's citizens, who the hell is that?!" I asked very loudly. "GREETINGS, PLAYERS! I AM LORD MANCHASTOR, OR KASCHOR FOR SHORT!" said the gigantic man floating in the air. "YOU MAY ALL WONDERING WHY I HAVE SUMMONED YOU HERE, DID YOU NOT? AS MANY OF YOU KNOW, THE LOG-OUT BUTTON ISN'T IN THE SETTINGS. IT IS NOT A BUG OR A GLITCH, THIS IS HOW THE GAME WORKS! YOU'RE ALL TRAPPED IN THIS WORLD, MY OWN WORLD! I ALWAYS WANTED TO HAVE MY OWN WORLD FULL OF PEOPLE LIKE YOU, TO LIVE IN. AND NOW MY DREAM HAS HAPPENED." Lord Manchastor said. I knew something bad was going to happen, and I knew who he is. "I AM ALSO THE CREATOR OF THE GAME, HORITO MAKASU! THE MAN WHO CREATED FANTASY LORDS ONLINE FOR THE WORLD. IT HAS BEEN FUN WATCHING YOU ALL PLAY THE GAME AND NOT REALIZING IT, BUT NOW I WILL HAVE TO TELL YOU THIS. DEATH IS VERY DIFFERENT HERE, IF YOU DIE IN THIS GAME, YOU DIE IN REAL LIFE. AND IF SOMEONE TAKES YOUR HEAD CONSOLE OFF OF YOU, YOU WILL DIE IN REAL LIFE, BUT CONTINUE LIVING IN THIS GAME. A NOTIFICATION WILL BE SEND TO YOU IF YOU DIED IN REAL LIFE. PEOPLE TRIED GETTING THE ONES WHO HAVE THE HEAD CONSOLE ON OFF THEIR HEADS, MULTIPLE PEOPLE IN THE REAL WORLD DID THAT. AND THEY GOT 1000 PEOPLE HAVE DIED ON THE SAME DAY." He continued. I knew it, it was Horito Makasu! His quotes weren't normal as I thought, I always wondered what he meant by them until now. "BUT THERE IS ONE WAY TO GET OUT OF THIS WORLD OF MINE, YOU MUST FINISH EVERY WORLD THERE IS, FROM 1 TO 100!" "What?! That will take years to do that!" "This is outrageous! You can't do this!" "Get us out of this game, right now!" "My cats will eat me if they don't get their food! And I do not want to die like that!" "You can't! You just can't trap us here! We have families to take care of!" People were screaming and yelling to Lord Manchastor. I was furious too, but I didn't yell or scream. I stared at him like The Doctor stares at aliens when he is going to defeat them. "AND NOW I WILL GIVE YOU THESE, FOR SOMETHING THAT WILL HAPPEN WHEN I'LL DISAPPEAR." Lord Manchastor said. We received mirrors in our hands, I don't know why but we held it all. "FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, FANTASY LORDS ONLINE HAS CHANGED FROM BEING A GAME TO LIFE AND DEATH WORLD! ADEUS, PLAYERS!" Said Lord Manchastor disappearing in front of us. The errors started to disappear from the sky and showed the light again. "Okay, now what? What do these mirrors do?" I asked. I started to feel something in my body, something I can't explain. "The hell? Romeo, you're glowing!" Yelled Thomas pointing it out. I noticed the glowing from my body, Thomas started to glow too. Everyone was starting to glow! "Oh my god, what will ha-" I got cut off by pain I got, so did other people too. I held my arms around my stomach, gasping for air of what just happened. I slowly raised my head in the air and looked around, everyone looked so different now. "Romeo? What happened?" Thomas asked. "I don't know, Thomas. It seems people got turned into different people." I answered. I turned around and saw Thomas looking different. "HOLY SHIT WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!" Thomas and I said in unison. I still had the mirror in my hand and got the idea of what Lord Manchastor meant. "The mirrors!" I said. I put my mirror in front of me and saw myself, my real-life body in the mirror. "Oh my god, no! No! Impossible!" Said Thomas noticing himself in the mirror. "He changed our avatar into our real body!" Finished Thomas talking. Everyone noticed their faces too in the more, it was silent until they started to panic very hard. There were screaming, crying, yelling, and panic in every direction you look at. Of course, Thomas and I didn't. Thomas a little bit, but I certainly wasn't. I turned around and said: "Thomas, I don't like saying these words, but it seems I have to. Thomas, we have to survive to get out of this game." "Those words can be said by everyone, you know." Said Thomas. "Yes, I know. But it felt like I had to." I replied back. Thomas sighed and started walking out of the spawn. "Tom, where are you going?" I asked. "Going to survive, remember? Let's meet up in Warlington again, seems like a good place. To find people to help us." He answered. The brown-haired boy who was Thomas continued walking out of the spawn and was going to Warlington. I took a very deep breath and started walking to the other way, nothing will get me stop… Until, "I'm too young to die! I'm just a child yet!" It was a girl's voice, and it was a child. I stopped walking and turned around and started looking for the girl who said that. I noticed the little girl who said it and started heading towards her. I arrived at her and got on my knees. Of course I'm bad with situations like these, but I might succeed if I think straight. "Little girl, don't worry, no one's going to hurt you." I said. The little girl slowly raised her head towards me and asked: "W-Who are y-you?" I replied: "My name is Romeo Delrim, and I promise to you nothing will get you killed." "Are y-you going to protect m-me?" Asked the girl. "Yes." I replied fast. Okay, that might be a little wrong. I think I just said I'm going to protect her, but she's just a child, so I guess someone need to help her. "Can I-I trust you?" Asked the girl in a soft voice. "Yes you can, little girl. Yes you can." I answered. I'm going to protect her, it was a bit weird just going to a random child and tell them they'll be protected. But since this is a life and death, someone clearly had to defend her and help her to survive. "O-okay. Sniff." She grabbed my hand and stood up, and held her hand and said: "Keep in mind that I'm always there with you, okay?" She nodded and said in a soft voice: "T-thanks." I asked what her names was and answered: "Fumi, Fumi Amelia Ayami." I realised she sounded British when she said her name, so I ask: "Are you British?" She held my hand tight and replied: "British and Japanese, sir." "I'm British and French. Guess we're both English in our team." I said. I knew something like this would happen, but I doubted. But now, I have to keep my mind on 8 words: This isn't a game, it's life and death…
A SURVIVAL GAME THAT EVERYONE IS TRAPPED IN.