Game start

[15 May 2135]

"I finally got the console. Now how do I start playing..?" Cedric asked no one in particular. He took the console out from the box, set it on the table, and pushed the button. "Console on" projected the familiar female AI voice. Next , he out on the headset, and lastly the visor. "Okay.. now let's do it."

"Game start"

His vision went black. All of a sudden, lights turned on. He was in a tunnel. More specifically, he was falling through a vertical tunnel, a hole. "Ahhh what the hell am I doing!" THUD. He finally landed from that free fall without any pain whatsoever. He was a man , wearing a plain red T-shirt and denim jeans. A prompt appeared on the screen [Change Avatar?] He clicked "Yes".

There, he customised his avatar to what he wanted to look like. A man with black hair, wearing a cool looking shirt, with track pants. He pressed "Save".

Input name : _____

Drex.

[In the spawn]

" D$30k huh... I'll go to the shop to see what I can buy." Drex walked towards the NPC shop. He went close to the shopkeeper, and a prompt appeared [Enter shop? Yes or No] . He clicked "Yes".

He looked at the variety of items in the shop. It had armours, flight suits, weapons, grenades, although they were not rare items. In order to get actually rare items, you have to find them or get them from quests.

"Welp...with only D$30k, what can I buy?" Cedric pondered. At last, he bought a normal sword, some light leather armour , a shovel and a Expandable-Storable bandwagon

(it means you can keep it in your inventory as take it out when you need it instead of actually pushing it around and it can also expand to carry more items , but it has a limit).

[2 hours later]

"This'll get me a decent amount of D$." Cedric said as he looked the pile of Monster carcasses consisting of creepers, crawlers and gothraks. Overall, he was quite satisfied.

Mentally and physically exhausted, he looked around for shady and safe place to rest in the forest for a while. While walking, he tripped over a unnaturally tall soil dune. At first, he ignored it as he thought it was just someone covering up what they dug. But then , he remembered what he bought the shovel for.

He dug the soil repeatedly, but found nothing. On the edge of giving up, he decided to dig for a few more minutes. Clang! The shovel hit something hard. He dug deeper and deeper till he found the item.

It was a glowing metal ball. He took it into his inventory and reviewed the item. Ignoring everything else once he got the information window, he immediately scrolled down to its info and functions.

[Lightning Energy Core]

{Passive - Boosts ASN by 40%} ( Attack-Speed-Negate)

Abilities:

1- {Teleport behind the chosen target in radius of 50m}

Cool down: 15 seconds

[Lvl 1 - Exp 1/1000]

2- {Lightning charge yourself ; anything on player gets lightning charged. Using Lightning charge can electrify and stun enemies to deal extra damage/immobilise them.}

Time of use = 1 minute

Cool down : 2 minutes

[Lvl 1 - Exp 1/1000]

"Damn this is good. I must be really lucky to find this. Is this rare?". Just then , Cedric scrolled up to see the rank of the item.

"LEGENDARY S.E.T ITEM! WHAT THE HELL?! HOLY SHIT ITS JUST MY FIRST DAY!"

S.E.T items are Stats Enhancement Tech, which boosts and enhances one's stats and abilities. S.E.T items also do not take up armour or weapon slots, instead they just need to be activated and kept in inventory.

With this, Cedric felt happy. His progress was just sped up by a lot. He pushed the wagon of monster carcasses to the NPC shop to sell them off for resources and D$.

" Transaction complete sir "

"Oh, yeah thanks bud." [Received D$45k. Received resources - Gothrak's skin, Gothrak's claws and Crawler's horns]

He then went to the upgrade shop. Turns out he could upgrade his leather armour by putting a layer of Gothrak's skin over it. He spent D$5k doing so, and spent D$30k out of the remaining D$40k buying a pair of small twin UZIs and ammunition for them. He was satisfied. No, he couldn't express how he felt, it was more than just happiness.

His goal next : become a D rank player - so that he could start taking quests from NPCs.

But that was for another day. He pressed the [Log out] button at the bottom of the screen.

[Logging out, please wait a moment...]

Cedric smiled grimly.

* as ranks get higher , the difficulty of quests increases but rewards also get better