I ran into the forest surrounding my house. By this time the forest would be so dark you could barely see a tree's silhouette three meters in front of you, however the trees in the forest were sparsely populated, and the moonlight made it just bright enough to be navigated. Luckily for me I knew my way around the forest like the back of my hand. I sprinted to distance myself and leaped behind a tree. Luckily the monster ran straight past me without batting an eye.

"Phew, just what was that...?" I said. I then stood up and began to run back to the house, but because I averting my eyes to my back, I bumped into a large furry object. Looking up from my spot on the ground I saw an animal that resembled a wild boar but it was abnormally big. As it stared down at me with its red angry eyes it blew a puff of air out of its snout.

I quickly rolled back on my feet and ran around the creature while trying to avoid its tusks, 'aaand we are back to the chasing game again...' I thought in my head. To calm my state of mind, I took a deep breath and began to think on what to make of this situation as well as keeping my situational awareness. The boar was surprising fast and by judging the sound of its hooves I knew it would eventually catch up to me in a few seconds, but as I was running my watch began to flash continuously. Suddenly an orange holographic display slid to my bottom right field of vision. I thought 'What the hell is this?' The floating orange window started to display words as I kept running to keep my distance away from the "enraged boar". The boar caught up as I predicted, ran past me, and began to charge at me from the opposite direction. The holographic window then read 'to summon your weapon you must first activate your Arkkle to link yourself to the world.' I then frantically searched for an 'Arkkle Device'. My watch started to flash continuously with a blue glow, but before I could activate it, the boar had struck the right side of my body.

After being hit, I was knocked to the ground as the boar kept on charging past me. "Owwww…." After learning from my earlier mistake I then waited for an opening to use activate it. This time I barely evaded the boar as it charged towards me, I took the chance and tapped it continuously hoping for something to happen. Then a second later an A.I. voice announced "Initiating first run." And as if I was being controlled my arms and legs stretched outwards, "Commence mind mapping." After that countless blue orbs of energy appeared before me. A burning sensation was felt on my waist as the blue orbs converged upon it. As the light dimmed it appeared to be my mind reader device that was supposed to be in my house right now. "My….mind….reader?" Then it hit me as if an imaginary frying pan had been thrown at my face. Next a H.U.D. or a 'Heads-up-Display' slid across the top left of my field of vision and it showed a green HP bar, an empty Adr. bar, and a blue AP bar. Next my limbs retracted themselves in without me controlling them and more of the tiny orbs of energy converged to form a layer of light on top of my chest, forearms, forehead, legs, shoulders, and feet. "Mapping complete, armor deployed."

The fading light revealed a lightweight silver grey chest plate that encompassed up to my shoulders and neck, silver grey armguards with dark grey rims near the ends of it, and black boots with silver grey shin guards. I could see my health bar was 7250/10000, and I felt that my injury earlier did not hurt as much compared to the pain a minute ago.

The holographic window then displayed 'to begin combat you must summon your weapon by imagining it's appearance within your mind, or summon it manually from the Arkkle' as a button. I then noticed that the right side of the mind reader was flashing red. Since I did not have a clue what the name of my weapon was, I could only press the summon button on the left side of my mind reader. But then as I looked at the boar since I could see it's name now I thought 'Where is that from?' And because of my hesitation my chest took a direct hit from the boar's short and stout horns, pushing the air right out of my lungs as I was sent flying, and crashing onto a nearby tree. As I got myself back on my feet, I saw my green hp gauge dropped to 3500/10000 "Sh*t". I then focused my mind into dodging the boar's next charge.

As I carefully evaded from the boar's path, it slammed itself into the same tree that I was knocked into, stunning it. I took this chance to press the button on the left side of the Arkkle and instantly the same blue orbs that formed my armor began to materialize into a sword and just like before, this time the A.I. voice said "Sword Vent". I then said "Alright.", grabbed my sword, and began to slice at the stunned boar. As I hacked and slashed relentlessly a health bar appeared on top of it and started to drop. But as I bring its green bar down to about three quarters, the boar recovered from it's dazed condition. I then reacted by leaping two meters back while the boar flailed its head like a drugged maniac. The boar snapped out its wild movements and swung its head towards me. As the intensity of the atmosphere grew, the wind blew a gentle breeze and rustled the grass on the ground. The HUD then displayed 'In order to damage enemies you can either manually attack with your weapon, or activate an attack skill by assuming the skill's stance.' And a palette of four skills slid from the right of my vision field. 'Power Thrust' 'Gale Slash' 'Death Stroke' 'Smite'

"Yeah, thanks for the late notice." I said as I wiped the sweat from my forehead.

"I wonder what's exactly happens if that hp gauge drops to zero?" Then another holographic window rose up onto my HUD and read 'No nearby resurrection shrine detected within a two hundred meter radius.' Which took me a few seconds to understand the meaning of that sentence.

"Looks like it's all or nothing now huh?" I said to the boar even though I was sure it couldn't understand my words. Even though my mind was ready, my body trembling uncontrollably.

Closing my eyes, I concentrated, *Haaa* and assumed my kendo stance. With the sword gripped in both hands, I pulled back the sword with my right hand and kept my left hand forward. In response the boar scraped its left hoof upon the ground and blew out a puff of air from its snout as if it understood my actions. Coincidently the wind blew even harder and rustled the branches of the trees around us. Since I have seen the attack animation from attack skills repeatedly after my many battles, the memories that burned in mind was now brighter than before. The boar took the first move and activated an attack skill, it then charged at me at a much higher speed than before. I then countered it by planted my left hand on the top of its head and vaulted over its body similar to a cartwheel. Since the boar now needed to slow down from its high speed attack I saw my opportunity unleashed "Power Thrust", 'A swift weapon skill, high penetrating power. Cost: five AP'. But what caught my attention was that as my blade was activating the skill it glowed with an orange light and as it cut through the air during the skill's motion it left behind a bright orange trail. The blue AP gauge decreased from twenty to fifteen, but the empty Adr. filled up with five points.

Secondly I activated "Gale Slash" 'releases a green crescent shaped wave that pushes back and staggers the opponent. Cost: ten AP' Again the now the yellow Adr. gauge rose to ten points. Finally I leaped into the air with my sword over my head and unleashed "Death Stroke" 'Powerful chain finisher Cost: fifteen AP' "Insufficient AP. Substitute with Adrenaline?" I thought 'yes'. With both my AP gauge and Adr. gauge drained, the sword gave off a bright golden yellow coloured light in addition to the glowing sword skill trail. The boar let out a miserable squeal as it's body was split into two pieces. *Critical Hit*. As the health bar of the boar dropped to zero from my sword combo I realized now that it didn't bleed a drop of blood. Instead red dust like particles floated into the air from the cuts and lacerations that I inflicted on the boar's body until it's body eventually turned to dust and faded away. "Oh geez, that sh*t was crazy" As I collapsed down to my knees. *ghrg* My mind began to have a head ache as I walked back to the house. Struggling to open the sliding glass door I collapsed to the floor and lost connection to reality. After that the armor and sword faded to dust, but the mind reader again glowed with a blue light and disappeared, leaving behind a belt of seared markings on my waist line. And the words " Basic Combat Tutorial Complete." Was then displayed on the watch.

*Day 0 Over*