Shocking the World.
Meanwhile... at the other side.
yes, the world is in chaos.
[☆WORLD ANNONCEMENT☆]
[Congratulations "(Annoymous)" for being the first player to self-create a skill!]
[Congratulations "(Annoymous)" for being the first player to self-create a skill!]
A sudden silence descended upon every player who looked at the massive announcement.
"BROOOO, I STILL HAVEN'T LEARNED A SINGLE SKILL, YET THIS PLAYER ALREADY SELF-CREATED ONE!"
"Ban that guy!"
"Who is it???"
"We need to report the player, he is cheating!"
Thousands of players shouting and yelling could be heard from everywhere in the game world.
The news channels and forums are exploding with the sudden announcement.
...
At the outskirts of Reran Grass Forst.
"Huh" said a female voice in disbelief.
The owner of the voice was staring at the massive announcement in sky. She is Luna Runeheart, the one who August met on his way to Reran Grass Forest.
Luna after a while finally regained her compussere and stared at her fairy companion.
"Elsa, how-" her words got stuck in her throat when she looked at the green-white haired and green-eyed fairy who usually has a nonchalant and cold expression, but right now has one with absolute disbelief.
"Impossible.." muttered the fairy named Elsa.
"Elsa?"
Elsa turned her small head and stared at the light- brunette haired woman and said in a cold tone, but carried a hint of disbelief.
"Impossible."
"What do you mean impossible?"
"No human, no.. no living being is capable of creating a skill on the first day."
"That's a fact."
"Is it that hard that to create a skill.." asked Luna in disbelief and shock.
"Yes, creating a skill takes many many months, maybe even one-two years, but that's only for geniuses.."
"What-..."
...
At a random location faraway from Levia Town.
Four players could been staring at the announcement at the sky, like eveyone else in the game.
If August was here, he would regonize them from the Chat Group - The Boys, he just joined.
"Bullshit.." x4 shouted all of them weirdly at the same time.
...
Cortex Company HQ, CEO Felix Pentex's Office.
Felix is currently sitting on a comfy chair, while he staring at the screen in front of him and listening to his assistents report.
"Felix, what do we do?" asked a mature female voice who is Felix's assistent.
"Nothing." replied Felix calmy.
"But the world need an answer from us.." said his assistent.
"Claire, I don't control the game, the game controls itself."
"Even if I could, I will not lay my hands on it.."
"Arghh, but the media Felix!?" said Claire.
"Well, just say that the player didn't cheat.."
"Alright..."
A few minutes later, a sudden announcement dropped in the Game Forums that attracted everyones attention:
[Admin Claire: The player who self-created the skill has been reported to not have been using any cheats or exploits. He created it all by himself.]
This message stopped many people from accusing August for using hacks and exploits. But there are always some brave or stupid people in the world.
[Riceman: Liars, you don't want to admit that your game is not cheat-proof or exploit-proof]
[Dinodead: Yes, Riceman is right!]
But another message appeared that shut everyone up..
[CEO Felix: I will ban anyone permanently that continues this pointless talk..]
...
...
...
The red sun fell to sleep, while the bright moon awakened. The night sky looming over both the game world and real life.
A figure could be seen sprinting away from Reran Grass Forest. It continued it sprint before arriving at Levia Town.
Yes, the figure is August, who has finished collecting all the required herbs aswell aswell leveled up to Level 3.
It has been a few hours after the grand announcement, but the talk about it still hasn't died down. Even though many other 'Firsts' have been announced in different cities or kingdoms, but none can even overshadow the world announcement.
He could hear the same talk everywhere he went. He didn't show anything on his face, but inwardly he grinning from ear to ear. Meanwhile Seraphine was quiet and silent the whole time, she still seemed to be speechless and shocked after that event.
When he saw the sign 'Renia's Herb Shop', he entered inside and saw the same cashier from before. He walked to her and said in a simple tone:
"Hey, I'm back with the herbs."
"Oh, thank you, thank you."
He gave 21 Bloom Flower and 18 Rainscent Flower.
[You have completed Collect Herbs Quest]
[You have gained 138 XP and 40 BRONZE Coins]
[You have leveled up]
Quickly raising his XP Bar from around just five to the next level..
'Level 4...'
August went outside the shop and went into the closet Inn called Ben's Inn. He bought a small room for 4 BRONZE Coins for 2 days, and stepped inside the room.
He looked around the room and saw, one single bed, a small bathroom, a table. It was pretty small, but that was enough for August.
He opened his inventory and took out a white chest. The moment it appeared in his hands, the chest glowed with divine white light, filling the entire room with white light. August had to close his eyes for a moment.
Luckily the inclosed room closed off any light from escaping, because it would disasterous if someone saw it. Humans are curious and greedy beings.
|| L E G E N D A R Y R A N D O M C H E S T ||
[Type: Random Chest]
[Grade: Yellow-Legendary]
[Random Chest that contains an random item ranging from any 'Yellow-Legendary' graded item]
[Open]
"This is.." Seraphine after a long time of silence, quietly muttered.
"Yes, this is a Legendary Random Chest!"
Seraphine sucked in cold breath, even though she is royalty. In her lifetime she hasn't seen something so divine.
"Open!" August said.
Swooosh!
A powerful divine white aura and light spread. After a second of two, the light and aura disappeared and what replaced the chest was an scroll.
A new set of messages appeared in front of August's eyes:
|| D I V I N E V A U L T ||
[Type: UNIQUE Passive & Active Skill Scroll]
[The one who owns this skil has the power to open a gate to the player's personal divine vault. Marked items in the vault can be controlled through its will]
[Note: The Divine Vault and the Inventory are separate storages]
[Learn]
August stopped breathing for a second, this is a freaking UNIQUE item. He also another UNIQUE, which is the UNIQUE Title "Govornor of Time", meaning that he got two UNIQUES.
UNIQUE is a word used for items, weapons, titles that only exists once and only one, meaning no one except him can have Govornor of Time or Divine Vault.
August instantly learned the skill, he learned the skill usage and information in a blink of eye.
'I will test this skill tomorrow when I get the chance..'
He laid on the medium-sized bed and closed his eyes to relax for a bit.
'But this should be enough for today..'
He opened his eyed and looked at Seraphine who was also lying on the bed beside him.
"Seraphine, I'm going off now. Cya later.."
"Oh, mm" Seraphine nodded her head absentmindely, still proccessing the things that happened today.
After that he went out and logged out.
...
August regained his consciousness and took off his helmet. After that he went out of his room, while he walking, he glanced a nearby clock and saw it nearing half past 7.
He walked downstairs and saw his parents and little sister watching the TV screen in the living room.
"The CEO of Cortex Company, Felix Pentex has confirmed the self-created skill player has not cheated or exploited!"
He could hear a female voice that sounded like a reporter in the news.
"I'm back.." said August.
"Hmm." nodded his father.
"The food is in the fridge August." Helena, his mom suddenly said like she read his thoughts.
"Alright."
"August, have you seen the world announcement in the game?" While he walking to the kitchen, Alice suddenly asked.
"Hmm oh yes." answered August. But inwardly he was saying 'I know, because the player is Me!..'
"What do you think about it?"
"Nothing special?"
"What do you think about the player who created the first skill?" Alice asked.
"Hmm, I think that player must be talented.."
"Duh, that's normal. But I'm asking why?"
"I don't know, and why are you interested in the game now?" August suddenly asked, quickly switching topic.
"Because you play the game.." Alice straightforwardly answered without blinking.
"Yeah yeah.."
After that short talk, he went into the kitchen and opened the fridge. In there he saw a plate with meatballs and potatoes. He took it out and put the plate with the food in the microwave.
Waiting for a couple of seconds, he took the food out of the microwave and started eating it.
"Num~.."
While he was eating, he was scrolling on his phone through the Game Forums.
[Pinned; Welcome to ASCENSION° Online! Click on this post to read the guide and information about the game.]
[Pinned: Announcement from Cortex Company about the "Self-created skill Player".]
[Highlighted: The game is so realistic! It's really like a new world.]
[Rising: Who is the Skill Creator Player?]
Many posts were about the launch of the game, meanwhile some rising posts about August himself, were gaining more popularity by every second were flooding the top pages.
Feeling curious, he clicked on the announcement made by the Cortex Company about him, while he was reading the post and the comment section. Inwardly he was laughing his ass off..
Suddenly while he was scrolling through the posts again, he noticed something that caught his attention.
[Highlighted: What if the game world is real and exits somewhere?!]
He remembered the very same post that got posted in the forums on the first day of launch. But he decided to give it a read:
[My name is Henric, I have a theory.. What if the game world is real, like eveything is real including the NPC's, monsters, dungeons and etc. Maybe it exists somewhere in space...
Reason 1: Because the game feels TOO real, too good to be true. We haven't even entered the VR era yet, but someone already made a full fleshed out VRMMORPG...
Reason 2: The game can read my thoughts, they say its brainwaves. But that seemed too futuristic to be true...
....
...]
August couldn't help but agree with some of Henric's theories, because he played the game longer and have more experience.
There were many attempts to recreate another Full-dive VR Game, but every single one of them failed to recreate it, none were even close to the finished product. Eventually everyone gave up on this project.
After eaiting his meal, he walked to the living room and watched a superhero movie with his parents. Because it was the weekend, they had some family time together. When the movie finished, they went to sleep.
August walked in his room and laid on his, slowly his eyelids closed and his breathing slowed down, drifting away his consciousness..
...
...
...