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Chapter 1: An easy decision 

On the morning of the first day of 2225 after the west celebrated the new year, Joon-Woo was happy because it was his last semester to finish college and start a new stage in his life dedicated to teaching, as he still had time before going to class he turned on his laptop to see the news about the game Andromeda, everyone was talking about the virtual reality implemented in that game, it was not so new if you only looked at the graphics of the game, what was really curious was that the game generated missions in real time according to how the players interacted with the NPCs, According to the previews shown it was said that players would shape the game according to their decisions could create a paradise for all or only for players exploiting the NPCs, or unleash terror throughout the universe of Andromeda, the corporation to nuncio three days ago that could be triggered holocausts caused by undead, an attack of insects, heat waves, the decline of the era of lizards, a new ice age and more but always stressed that everything depended on the player.

Joon-Woo today wanted to confirm the release date of the game for this reason entered the internet to access the information he wanted, it did not take long to achieve its goal and discovered that the game would be released in 15 days, as well as the physical and intellectual abilities would influence the capabilities within the game, you could select 50 humanoid classes, 350 non-humanoid species that is to say you could select monsters as your player avatar among the monsters that will be able to play were the wolves of wind, fire, snow and dark wolves, apart from them you could select the yetis creatures that were ideal for living in extreme winter climates these rasas, which have a myriad of advantages such as resistance to cold, enhanced senses, The disadvantage was the non-cooperation of these races for this reason the humanoid races are being suppressed especially the humans who rule half of the habitable lands the other half were ruled by the other humanoid races and only in deep forests or places of difficult access there is space for the intelligent monstrous races is for this reason that the conflict does not cease in Andromeda each race wants supremacy over the others.

The lore of the game was also published which said that the Andromeda continent is in a relative peace because the different factions of the world received a message from the creator gods calling for peace and to strengthen each of its factions to await the arrival of the children of destiny that will form and shape the world and therefore each race must support their heralds.

According to the Andromeda Corporation the humanoid races do not have much difference in basic statistics when starting the game but you have to choose wisely your starting race and where to appear because that will affect the development of the character because in case of choosing the human race in an elven or orc territory will only bring death.

In Andromeda each avatar of the player has 10 lives if these are lost, the user severa forced to create another avatar from scratch ie if your avatar was a human level 100 and die 10 times you have to start creating a new avatar that could well be a cyclops or giant if you wish but you will start at level one.

Hence how difficult it would be for the users to rule this chaotic world without losing the lives they have.

Joon-Woo reviewed the lore of the elves because he decided that this would be the race with which he would play and his hometown would be the silver city a medium city of the moon elves, the moon elves were a mutation of the forest elves, they had sharp senses for exploration such as sight, hearing and smell far superior to humans but their population was low because the reproduction rate was very inferred, hearing and smell far superior to humans but their population was low because their reproduction rate was very inferior to that of humans. They were also beautiful in general, with white hair, blue or blue eyes, height of 2 meters on average, elitist and proud, they valued what they said and never went back on a promise, honor is engraved in their blood, they despise cowardly and treacherous behavior.

Silver elves have a code of honor which they call Elder code: first to be fair is essential the actions of an Elder must be done thinking if it is fair or not this does not only include war actions but also in trade and life.

Two courage one must be able to risk one's life if necessary, facing danger and fear with the most important thing of every creature lived determination no matter what. 

Three ruthlessness. Years of combat have taught the Elder that benevolence to one's enemies is cruelty to oneself and one's own, therefore one must not show weakness or compassion to the enemy. 

Fourth respect must be earned, the enemy deserves respect yes but not all enemies are honorable so it is essential to know to which opponent to give that respect.

Fifth Honesty the word of an Elder is sacred everything that one promises must be fulfilled even at the cost of life in case of failure to comply one can leave the village in disgrace or go through the trial of the forest that was nothing more than a suicide with a minimum chance of survival the trial is to go through 20 battlefields without taking any life, as well as two years in the forest without any weapon other than those that can be made in the forest. 

And finally the honor the Elder's pillar to keep the honor clean for them and their families but the honor for the Elder is something that only they can decide.

Besides that the value of the faial for the Elder is of utmost importance since one lives with the family and dies with it that made the forest and silver elves extremely problematic when it came to fighting they were terrifying so not many forces provoked them because they live in relative peace. 

Joon-Woo read this description of the Elder codes, very similar to the bushido of the samurai, but unlike them, he was sure that the silver elves would be warriors with great integrity and that was what he wanted to be, In his life he had had everything but he never weighed that he was honorable but he wanted to be so without thinking much he chose them as the main race for his future avatar he closed his computer and went out to run and then go to the University and at night to work to buy the game he could have asked his parents for money but he decided he wanted to be like the silver elves an Elder so he had to earn his place among them from the beginning and that included buying the game and the console on his own.