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The game that Aoi enjoyed playing was a typical MMORPG, called Taoist Ascension.

This game was like many of the other MMORPG games, were you created a class based off of a set group, though it all revolved around Cultivation rather than the typical Fantasy based ones.

You had the Warrior class, which was the Sword Cultivators. They would be the ones who dealt the most damage and were more attack based in game play. When playing this character, you had to focus mostly on your attack output while also raising your agility to be able to move fast enough to land hits on the opponent.

There was the Defense class, which was the Array Masters. They would be the ones who focused on maxing out their defenses and would set up protection arrays around their party members. It was up to them to make sure to defend against high aggro NPC's or other players. They had to focus on not only maxing out Defense but learning the different Array skills needed to help other members are their parties members.

Then their was the Healing class, which was the the Pill Masters. They focused on creating pills or other such healing items. Though they were set as a healing class, they could also create pills to assist in attack or defense of other members of the party.

This class also had a hidden ability that most users didn't understand due to the poor favorability of playing it. This hidden ability was a secret skill that could be unlocked during an event challenge. This skill wasn't announced and only a few healing classes got it, though most avoid leveling it due to the cons that came with it. This skill allowed a Pill Master to have attack power.

The draw backs were that these attack skills had a harsh cool down and would greatly affect the Pill makers ability to function in a team. Most players couldn't find a way to make this skill usable in a game.

This however was the class that Aoi enjoyed, as well as this skill. He had spent a lot of hours honing the cons and pros to it, so that he more or less knew the correct game play for this skill to work. The only issue was because this skill was rare and most didn't know about it. Whenever Aoi would attack in a match, many players would call out at him for doing the 'wrong' thing.

Many times Aoi would carry the team despite their protests, and still comment about how he wasn't playing the game correctly. Aoi ignored them, and just enjoyed his time playing without a bother.

At this time, as Aoi had finally finished leveling his stats. He glanced to the side to see a comment from an older party member, calling for assistance. Aoi paused for a moment before responding. After his comment, he began to head to the meet up point.

The fist thing Aoi saw upon arriving, was a group of players that he'd never played with before, aside from the one past party member. He was one of the few he'd agreed to playing a second party with.