Chapter 1: Grey room - this is so cringe 9/6/2020
Tree shadows started to long out again, sun could be seen after cloud passed, barking could be heard in distance, leaves were surfing on wind, temperature was neither hot or cold. He could feel wood of a table he was leaning on. Thankfully dirty window was open so he could see outside. He watched day pass by as he was ignoring his teacher. His black hair got pushed back by breeze. He looked relaxed and calm while watching beautiful day in the last row of tables. His daze was stopped by a whisper.
"Hey Alex, how much time is left until the class ends."
Alex took his phone to check since his best friend just broke his a few days ago.
"Few minutes."
"Hey wanna skip next class, math is just toooo boring."
"Yea. Since math is last class wanna go to cinema? I heard good stuff about that new horror movie."
"Sorry I can't, I don't have money."
"It's fine I will lend you min-"
"Alex, Ace! Stop talking!"
"Jeeeezzz" Ace said with low voice.
They were in high school, both 17 years old, almost about to either start to work or prolong their time chilling at home with excuse of going to university. They were living in capital city of Serbia, Belgrade. It's quite small country with population of 7 million.
"Okay, thanks. First just need to go to bathroom, haha."
"Man this school already smells bad enough.."
"I will just take a piss idiot. You know i actually never had shit in school? Not like you would really care hahaha."
"You are right about that." Alex replied while smirking.
"I Said! Stop! Talking!"
"Sorry, sorry."
"We will see if you are sorry when I call your parent-" Teacher got interrupted by the bell for end of the class.
"Run, run hahaha."
Teacher really didn't care about wasting her time calling their parents, it was just way to threaten them to stop interrupting her. "I don't get paid enough to deal with this shit." Mumbled teacher when nobody was left to hear.
After Ace finished with his daily needs they raced towards the entrance, everybody moved out of the way when they saw them running. They were both above average height, standing at 192 and 195cm tall, Ace being taller than Alex. They were already going to gym together for 8 months so they had fit builds, not too bulky.
"Hahaha, Alex you are too slow mate." Ace was the first one to reach entrance of the school.
"Huff, you are just too fast." Ace trained football for most of his life, he was always fastest in his team even if he was tallest.
After checking time for the bus, they realized they will have to run again, otherwise they would have to wait 20 minutes for next one. They made it in time, luckily bus driver decided to wait a bit at the stop after seeing them running madly towards a bus. After thanking driver they took a free seat at the end of the bus, and few heavy breaths.
"Seems like we will made it to the movie. Huff." Said Ace who was able to catch his breath quicker than Alex
"Huff. Thankfully that bus driver is a good guy. Huff huff."
Alex took out his phone to show trailer for the movie they were gonna watch. But just as they were about to start it, something came into their view. `Huh?' while they were confused, bus suddenly took crazy right turn as they went off the road, just as they were about to go into the lake everything became light grey in his view.
'Where am I, where's Ace? Last thing I remember was seeing.. hologram with teleportation word on it? It said something else too... ahhh i can't remember.' He stopped his questioning as he heard monotone machine like feminine voice.
[You have 45:00 minutes to choose, if class is not picked by then, random class will be given]
As voice that he could hear in his head, which was very uncomfortable, ended, hologram appeared before him.
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[Classes]
■Mage
■Pugilist
■Warrior
■Druid
■Summoner[Rare]
■Bone Manipulator[Rare]
■Soul Eater[Rare]
Innate talent search: 5000IP[42600]
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[Amazing potential! Able to pick two classes]
Balance: 42600IP
Time left: 44:35
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'Rare classes, able to pick two, innate search? I was just on a bus a moment ago why did such a change happen? Did I maybe hit my head when we went off road? But that still doesn't explain how I saw similar hologram before that..."
'I hope Ace is okay... No he is okay, he is reliable, I have to focus on myself now. Current situation, seems like I can pick two classes, probably everyone can pick first four, next, innate talent, probably means my affinity with those classes, it seems like it costs 5000IP, IP is most likely currency here, it's pretty expensive, but if i'm correct this choice might change my future, time is ticking off I have to hurry there will probably be more things to choose considering my balance, first think to do...' Alex was always quick to calm himself and look at the bigger picture, he could only use this at games in his old world, but maybe now he can shine in his full potentional?
"Hey! I want to search my innate talent."
"Affirmative, taking 5000IP from balance. Left 37600."
'Let's take a look at this.' Same hologram as before with some added text came into Alex view.
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[Classes]
[Innate Talents]
■Mage (A-Rank: Increased Magic Damage with lightning element for 20%)
■Pugilist (C-Rank: Increased damage with leg based skills for 10%)
■Warrior (C-Rank: Increased attack speed for 10%)
■Druid (D-Rank: Increased Magic Damage for 5%)
■Summoner[Rare] (B-Rank: Increased health of Summons for 15%)
■Bone Manipulator[Rare] (C-Rank: Increased bone strenght for 10%)
■Soul Eater[Rare] (S-Rank: Increased damage of Machete for 30%)
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[Amazing potential! Able to pick two classes]
Balance: 37600IP
Time left: 43:55
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'It seems like it ranges from D-Rank to S-Rank. Considering it says 'Amazing potentional' being able to choose two classes is probably rare.'
"Say, can I somehow see what each class do?"
"Yes, in your head say name of the class and then desctiprion."
'Soul Eater description'
Soul Eater:
Rare class which specializes in usage of weapons, after killing every living organism they will drop their soul which only those with this class will be able to see and pick. Every soul will strengthen user. You will get weapon of your choice that you will be able to use.
'Bone Manipulator description'
Bone Manipulator:
Rare class which specializes in usage of human skeleton. After gaining this class you are able to use human skeleton in many ways. Main focus is strengthening bones and making them longer and possible to exist human body and attack with them. No broken bones are problem for this class. Able to manipulated bones of others with their permission.
Alex just checked those two since he already knew what others do from their names. He decided to pick his two best suited classes for obvious reasons. He just realized, after looking at timer, he already spent almost 2 minutes just thinking about which class to pick, he needed to hurry.
'What's this... sub-classes? Lightning Mage, Fire mage, Earth Mage... WellI will pick lightning mage anyway, I have best affinity with it.' After picking Lightning sub-class of a Mage he focused his gaze at the line below. 'Machete, Spear, Bow, Scythe, Staff. I'm a bit dissapointed, i always wanted to use spear since i was a kid, no, no focus you got S-Rank which is probably best you can get, you can also pick two classes, come on. Okay so it's Machete than.' After picking Machete suddenly new hologram appeard before his eyes.
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[Shop]
Balance: 37600IP
■Skills
■Human neccesitys
■Artifacts
■Potions
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'Skills open' Alex already figured a bit how this stuff worked. He tried it himself without asking. Just as he expected it worked.
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■Mage
-Lightning
-Fire
-Water
-Earth
-Creation mage
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■Lightning Mage
▪ Spark |2000IP|
▪ Shock |2250IP|
▪ Charge |2300IP|
▪ Amplifier |2500IP|
▪ Speed I |3000IP|
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■Soul Eater
-Machete
▪ Blood |2500IP|
▪ Steal I |3250IP|
▪ Break I |3300IP|
▪ Fear |3500IP|
▪ Strengthen |3850IP|
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-Spear
-Bow
-Scythe
-Staff
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'Prices are from lower to higher. Just cost is showing. I'm not sure if I have time to check every skill manually with description. Hmm... let's go from the end seems like I have more points than what is usually given. Time for skill hunting."