Launch of the Game

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1 hour later.

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Another hour later.

90%

"Seriously? It was 25% and now it's 15%? i'm going to sleep."

2 hours later

"I slept 2 hours it's should be finished now. *yawn*"

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"SON OF A *CRACK*" He screamed while throwing his empty cup of tea.

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"After waiting 4 hours the game is finally installed" Ethan took the Glasses and put them on his head. He pushed the on button on the side of the glasses and then he began to feel sleepy and soon enough he fell unconscious.

When Ethan opened his eyes, all he saw was white. Pure white, he was in a room with a chair and a table but the room was pure white.

"Hello User 321354, i'm Aria an AI designed to help you create your Character. Firstly, let me tell you that you can not change the appearance of your avatar too much or change your sex. You can only alter your hair and eyes color and eventually change your body a little." Ethan stared at the AI for a moment before nodding his head in understanding.

"Good, secondly, I will explain how Arkadia works. Unlike, most if not all MMORPG, you have to aim your attack. Arkadia is a realistic MMORPG, to kill a monster you have to, either aim for vital organ or drain his health bar untill it reaches 0%. Like in the real world, when you fight someone if you aim only for the arm or other parts of the body without attacking places that could be dangerous for a human, the person you are attacking will end up either dead if you managed to cut him a lot of time or caused internal bleeding by hitting hard enough, or unconscious. Attacking vital organ or the head will result in instant kill for the head and critical hit for vital organ" Ethan, once again nodded his head in understanding. 'It isn't that hard, it's like real life.' He thought.

"Thirdly, you will be given some skills, but the principal function of Arkadia is that every player can create their own skills, and you must rely heavily on that."

"Now, if you say 'status', your character page will open" Aria's page appeared before her and one thing Ethan noticed is that he could not see what was written on it. "status" Ethan said and unsurprisingly his own character page appeared before him.

[Status:

Name:-----

Race:-----

Level: 1 0/250 exp

condition: Good

Health: 100%

Mana: 100%

Strength:-----

Dexterity:-----

Vitality:-----

Agility:-----

intelligence:-----

Skill: none ]

"As you can see, most of your page is empty, that's because you have not finished creating your character." Aria said while Ethan was observing his Status. He lifted his head and looked at Aria. " Now that you know the principals functionnalities of Arkadia, are you ready to create your character?"

"Yes."

"First things first, please pick a character name."

As he was thinking of a name, Ethan felt as if he was drawn towards one, and unconsciously said: "Ghost" Ethan didn't know why it was the first name that came to his mind, but it was and right now he chose to not think about it.

"acknowledge, user Ghost. Now, in Arkadia, a lot of different races exists like the Elves, the Dwarves or even the Beastmen. And in each of these races, different species exists. Please choose a race from this list."

[Race:

-Human

-Elves

-Dwarves

-Beastmen

-Undead ]

"Explain Undead race" Ethan asked Aria, he thought the undead race would be different from the other races and he wasn't wrong. "The Undead race is one of the harder starting races. Unlike the other races, the undead doesn't have stamina or vital organ for most of them. To destroy an undead you have to destroy it's core or for a vampire it's heart. But they are weak to light and silver for some of them"

Ethan nodded and decided to ask about the beastmen. In his opinion, the beastmen should have enhanced hearing, sight and even smell. So it should be the dominant race chosen by the player, At least for the pro player. "The beastmen have enhanced senses but they aren't many of them. Most of their tribes lives in unfriendly environment"

'Guess i'll just be a normal human' As Ethan was thinking that he clicked on human and another page appeared before him.

[Species:

-Galmor: The Strongest of the human race, they are generally bigger and taller and are stronger.

-Varian: The Jack of all trades, they are neither good neither bad in any area.

-Awoken: The awoken are not born but created. Using dark magic, the human race managed to enhance themselves but at what price. ]

While Ethan was reading the description of every species, Aria was looking at him and from time to time, she was looking at her watch on her wrist. "What is the price of the Awoken?" Aria was surpised by the question. Not that the question was irrelevant but because no other player asked what the price was. They all thought it was somekind of background of the race.

"The price is a curse, every member of the awoken species are cursed and every curse are different. Sometimes the curse can be passed down in a familly but if there is no blood relation between 2 people then their curse will be different." Ethan pondered a moment on her explanation before clicking on awoken.

"You have chosen awoken as your species. A random curse will be assigned to you"

[Curse:

-Lycanthropy (Legacy) ]

"You are now a human Awoken cursed to be a werewolf and never sleep." Ethan was surprised by the curse he got. 'being a werewolf doesn't sound too bad' He thought as he lifted his head to look back at Aria. "What does the Legacy means?"

"All will be explained in due time." When she said this, she had a smile not friendly at all. When Ethan saw the smile, something in his mind snapped. Aria stopped smiling and asked: "Do you want to alter the appearance of your character?"

Ethan, who was still day dreaming said no. Aria then got up from her chair and left the room while saying: "Good luck in this world Mister Ghost". After she left, a new page appeared before Ethan eyes, it was a map of the world. Funny enough, the world of Arkadia is like the earth, the continent are the same, only the country and the borders are differents. The starting city he could spawn in right now is called Draknar and is situated where Paris on earth is supposed to be.

After not having any other choice of city, he clicked on Draknar and his body began glowing white, before disappearing from the white room.

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[Welcome to Draknar, Awoken]

Ethan opened his eyes, and what greeted him was light, natural light coming from the sun. He looked around him and saw a lot of people admiring the city, other running around and some selling things at their stands. Ethan continued to observe the world around him until he got a notification.

[Quest:

-First step:

As a new adventurers in Arkadia, you need a weapon to defend yourself but you also need to know the world that you are in.

objective: Go see the knight captain Cauldr 0/1

reward: weapon (rank E), 500 exp.

failure: none ]

"My first quest mmhh" Ethan or Ghost inside the game, closed the quest window and brought up his status.

[Status:

Name:Ghost

Race: Human (Awoken)

Level: 1 0/250 exp

condition: Good

Health: 100%

mana: 150

Strength:10

Dexterity:10

Vitality:10

Agility:10

intelligence:15

Skill:

racial:

-Push lvl 1/100 ( Send a shockwave forward) 5 mana

-pull lvl 1/100 ( Pull the target towards you) 5 mana

-Hypersense lvl 1/10 ( in 1 meter radius, you sense everything) 1 mana / seconds

Curse:

-Lycanthropy (Legacy) lvl 1/1 (at night, you can transform. every full moon, you will be forced to tansform. You can not sleep.) ]

Ghost looked at the skills he got from his race and was quite satisfied with those skills, they can be useful in every situation. He began to make his way towards a group of knights that were patrolling the city. Their armor were impressive, completely silver and full plated too. "Excuse me. Can you show me where the knights captain is?"

The knight that turned around sighed "another one asking for the captain? How many has it been since this morning? The knight captain is right there." He said as he began lifting his arm and pointing in the direction of a tavern. "thanks" Ghost didn't spare a second glance at the knight and began walking towards the tavern.

As he was approaching the tavern, he could heard some noise coming from inside and when he was standing just outside the door, something hit him hard and sent him flying backwards a couple meters. Just as he was getting up he heard someone talk.

"Oi, you think you can come here, insult me and order me around!?"