Into the Woods

*Pssh*

I get out of the game cabin after finishing my character creation and stretch for a moment. Thankfully everything went as planned and even a little better than expected with it all.

Thinking about all the time I have till the actual game launch, I decide to get some exercise. After changing I go to the apartment gym, which is the main reason I chose this apartment. I walk into a state of the art gym with everything I could ever need. To start out I jumped onto the treadmill and ran 5 miles (~11 Km). I continue with practicing my martial arts. After this I went into a private practice room for personal use I rent out every month. In this room on a rack there is a wooden practice scythe, which I've been practicing for the last two years. I started training shortly after the announcement of Ingenuity to have a good foundation when I start. After two hours I finished up my workout and training and head back to my apartment.

For the rest of the day I don't do all that much other than checking my stocks. I play games and read the new updates for some of my web-novels. Time passes and it is finally time for the game to launch in about ten minutes. I go to the second room and jump into the game capsule and launch the game.

-"Welcome to Ingenuity Online Tess Cryo, game servers will come on in 9 minutes."

As I wait there the tension keeps building and I just can't wait to start playing. Finally the game starts a beautiful cut-scene plays displaying the whole world.

I look in awe as I see huge mountains, plains and forests from all across the game. It was a beautiful scenery and massive world, the biggest I've ever seen. When the cutscene ended I was standing in the city square of my starting village, Roselake Village.

I start to look around and get my bearings straight, once I do I head towards the village gate. I reach the village gate after walking for several minutes. I finally reach the guard post at the gate and walk up to a guard.

"Hello sir, how are you today?"

"Tch, finally, someone who's mother raised them correctly. Everyone has just been demanding I give them quests, what the hell is that supposed to even mean? Enough with my rant though, what can I help you with young lady?"

"I was wondering if there was anything that I could help with?"

"Well now that you mention it there have been a lot of wolves in the forest recently, if you could kill five wolves and bring back their pelts as proof I'd reward you nicely."

-*Ding* "Quest Recieved"

Wolf Hunting- E grade Quest

-A gate guard has requested your assistance in helping with the wolf problem, help him out by killing 5 wolves and bring back their pelts as proof.

Reward: 50 Exp, and 50 Copper

"Thank you, I'll be on my way to get that done then."

After properly saying goodbye to the guard I left to test out my skills in the forest. Just as I reach the forest I put on my Lightning Boots. When I look at them I see very light moving patterns of lightning moving around on them, which would basically be non-existent unless you look closely. Then I pull out my Conduit Scythe looks relatively normal with the exception of the blade. At the end of the shaft lied an extravagant curved blade made of a strange white metal.

I get into a moving crouch as I stalk through the forest. Every step I take is carefully placed so as to make as little noise as possible. Unfortunately I don't plan on getting the skill otherwise it would be more effective. While I move I identify plants and trees but all of them are relatively normal.

After searching around for several minutes I find my first mob to test my skills.

Bobcat- Lv 3

HP- 150

"This should be a good target" I think to myself. I speed towards it catching its attention and it pounces to attack. Just after it jumps I activate Lightning elemental conduction, and lightning steps. With the sudden increase in speed I arrive as the bobcat is mid jump and slice at its neck.

Critical Hit!

-72

-36

-36

-18

After that attack I get one more quick hit and the bobcat went down.

-"Congratulations player Tess Cryo for killing Bobcat 10 Exp obtained."

I reach for the Bobcat and a loot window pops up. I notice a grayed out option for skinning, that I assume gives higher quality mats, but I'll ignore it for now. I loot the bobcat and receive some low quality bobcat fur as well as meat and put them in my inventory.

"Man that was easier than I thought it'd be. I guess that's what it means to start out with epic quality equipment." I thought to myself, feeling bad about those who didn't make it into the rare bracket, let alone epic.

Putting that though in the back of my head, I continue moving through the forest. Over the next 45 minutes I continued with this pattern until I killed ten bobcats.

-"Tess Cryo has leveled up."

Finally the level up happened.

"Open Creation Mode"