Town Of Beginning

After going through several stages such as; account creation and editing of the character's appearance, Ryzen—the name of the character played on Fantasy Star Online—found himself on a city street, precisely near a fountain which is usually a crowded place and is located in the middle of the city.

Ryzen saw many armed people and looked like hunters, knights, adventurers, and others. Then he looked around, saw the beauty scenery of the city in the virtual world for the first time, felt the air touching the skin make him feel cool, then he made a few movements such as stretching and punching the air.

People immediately saw him when Ryzen did that, some smiled and laughed, others disgusted.

"Look, it looks like that person is a new player."

"What did the person do? Is this the first time he has played a virtual game?"

"Looks like he will be a burden on a party party, ew."

Ryzen ignored the words of those people, and realized that there was something like a green ball floating above those people's heads.

"Hmm, is that a player cursor?"

The green ball was called 'player cursor' functions as a marker, that the person is a player, and with that cursor, it will be easier to distinguish between players and NPCs or Non Player Characters—the characters that are set and has its own script to do something.

Ryzen looked up, found the same cursor as the other players, floating above his head.

"Then, check the status ..."

A transparent panel appears when Ryzen wipes the empty air in front of him, it shows a list of buttons that start from; Character, Inventory, Quest, Social, and Settings.

Ryzen pressed the button at the top, Character. After pressing it, a new panel with three button options; Stats, Title and Skill appear in the empty air. Again, he pressed the top button, Status, then the panel changed its appearance.

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Name: Ryzen

Level: 0

Class: -

Guild: -

SP: 0

STR 3, AGI 3, INT 6, VIT 2, LUCK 4

Karma: 0

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The panel shows a statistical character data from Ryzen. From all that is displayed, it is familiar for him to see the identity and strength data in the status panel of an RPG game. What caught his attention was the status named 'Karma' which is located at the bottom of the panel, the status itself has a parameter that has two color variants namely red and blue, bounded by a white line with the number 0 in the middle.

"Karma status, this is the first time I've seen it. If this is related to the meaning of the word karma, maybe this status serves as a measure of character traits?" Ryzen muttered.

After trying to examine it again, he found a question-shaped icon at the end of the karma status. Ryzen pressed it, then a small panel appeared explaining the karma status. The explanation about the status turned out to be the same as what Ryzen had previously thought. Karma here serves as a gauge of the good or evil of a character, Ryzen has zero karma, so the character is included in the neutral group.

"Ah, I see."

Ryzen closed all the panels visible, then re-examined the body and equipment. He only wears a garment made of thin cloth, and wears a breastplate and shoes made of leather.

"Well... What did i expect from beginners equipment," Ryzen said, scratching his head that was not itchy.

Ryzen walked without knowing the purpose of what he's gonna do, when he checked his inventory, he decided to go to the weapons shop first. Arriving at one of the weapons shops in the early city, he saw so many players who were also looking for the best weapons for them to use. Seeing that the place was filled with players, Ryzen decided to look for another store that was more quiet.

"I really don't know what to do first, there is no quest and also the storyline," Ryzen complained.

His playing experience in a game with a different mechanism than usual, really made him confused what to do. Ryzen says something like the storyline of a game, which is usually found in RPG games. However, this time it's very different, in Fantasy Star Online, there is no prologue storyline or initial quest that usually appears immediately when starting to play RPG games.

Because of that, he didn't know what to do, all he could think of was just to go on an adventure and immediately to hunt down monsters, so he decided to go to the weapons shop first.

Ryzen had arrived at another weapons shop, the place was quieter than the first shop he visited, there were only one or two people who visited this shop. Ryzen entered the shop and began searching for a weapon that suited him.

"The weight is just right, but the sharpness of the blade seems to have been rather dull," Ryzen said when checking the quality of a sword forged from silver.

"No, wait, I don't think it's a blunt issue or not a weapon. As long as the damage is big, who cares about the dullness of the sword? I'll try to check the details," Ryzen muttered.

As he has been read from the manual, the way to check the data of an object, that is, simply by focusing on the item to be examined. Ryzen did that, then a transparent panel appeared from the sword.

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Iron Sword

P.Atk 20 ~ 25

Durability: 23/100

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Ryzen almost spouted water from his mouth when he saw the sword data in his hand, never thought by him, that the durability of the sword was very low.

"That explains why the sword has become rather blunt and has jagged like this," Ryzen said while coughing, then put the weapon back.

Speaking of durability or other words is endurance, as the name implies, the word is used to measure qualities such as the sharpness and endurance of a weapon, the higher the points, the higher the attack is given. Conversely, the lower the durability points, the lower the attack.

"With durability like this, the damage done is probably only half of it, why would they sell weapons that have been damaged? Surely no one will buy it," muttered Ryzen.

Ryzen continued looking for weapons, while he was checking other sword-type weapons. Someone entered the shop and took the broken sword that he said, no one would want to buy the sword.

"Hmm, this sword is the same."

"Hey, you!"

When Ryzen was about to put the sword back, there was a high-pitched shout voice. He paused for a moment and tried to check the surroundings, there was no one in the store except him and a female player who was standing near the counter where there an NPC that seems to be a shopkeeper.

"If you think the voice was to call someone else, then you are wrong," said the player.

"So you called me?" Ryzen asked, pointing to himself.

"Of course, who else? There is no one else here, besides me and you," the player replied, with her hands on her hips.

"What business do you have with me?" Ryzen asked again.

"If you don't buy the sword in your hand, come here, give that to me."

"Why? This sword is dull and broken, just like the sword you took," Ryzen said, his eyes glancing at the sword that was kept on the counter.

"Heh! Because I'm a blacksmith!" said the player loudly and proudly.

Ryzen raised his eyebrows and said, "So what if you're a blacksmith?"