Chapter 1 - Is this a dream?

"AGHHHHHHHHHHHHH," the young man screamed as we woke up. He was drenched in sweat and had a confused face. This young man's name was Adam, he thought he had died but now he wasn't so sure.

'I'm 100% sure I died...so why am I not dead? Could this be the limbo?' Adam thought as he looked around. 'Nope, definitely not the limbo. This kind of reminds me of my old apartment.' Adam just realized something when he had this thought, he quickly ran back to his room and grabbed his phone.

[8:34 AM Sunday, August 13th 2034]

Adam searched up 'Aspect Explorer Mainquest' on the internet and saw that they were just nearing halfway through the first mainquest.

'This proves it, I came back to the past. That's good, I can change my future and make 'their' future non existent. Those bastards, I'll make sure you guys suffer the same fate as mine if not worst.' Adam thought.

Adam went to his laptop and started typing his plans and checking his savings. 'Currently the headsets are being sold for $5,000 as part of the anniversary sale. I have about $9,000 right now so I don't need to take a loan. This is good, I'll go stock up on food and go buy the headset. Adam grabbed his car keys and went outside to his cheap rental car, it had the brand name of Toyota. Yes, Toyota still existed..for the poor and only sold for the poor.

Adam drove to the nearest Aspect branch store, they had stores all around the world and sold their own headsets. He went inside, got the headset, swiped his card, and left. He didn't want to deal with anything as he would probably lose 30% of his braincells dealing with retarded shoppers. Adam who was lost in his own thoughts accidentally bumped into someone.

"Hey! Watch where you're going man, you almost knocked over my coffee." said the guy

"Ouch. Oh, I'm very sorry about that. I guess I was lost in my own thoughts" Adam said, carefully hoping he wouldn't make this into a huge problem.

"No, its all good. I sometimes do that as well, by the way I'm James. I saw you walk out of the store and seeing you have the headset, any chance you're gonna play Aspect with that?" James questioned.

Adam answered, "Yes I am, I just bought the headset actually and I'm on my way to the grocery stores."

"Well, if you start playing it you can join our guild. We're looking for new players to build up. Maybe you'll make it into the main combat squad if you join..we have tons of resources," James said as he advertised the guild to him.

"Ah, I'm sorry but I'll have to decline..my friend already asked me to join his guild. I'm very sorry," Adam apologized.

"No its fine, I just wondered. I'll see you then," James said as he turned around to leave.

Adam walked back home after getting a month's worth of food. He checked his bank account.

[4,746]

Adam then went ahead to call his boss to resign and also called his university telling them he wanted to drop out. After business was finished he went into his room and put on the headset. His consciousness was teleported into the game, he was greeted by the system.

[Welcome adventurer to the world of Aspect. Would you like to customize your character?]

[Yes] [No]

Adam selected [Yes]. He was going to make his character into a mysterious figure, one that holds many secrets.

[Great, please choose the following sections]

[Hair]

[Face]

[Clothes]

Adam went with black hair, grey eyes, black training clothes with a cap. He then pressed the [Done] button and the system started talking again.

[Perfect choice! Now it's time to choose which place you would like to spawn into. Please choose the following]

[Lazica Kingdom]

[Orindoth Kingdom]

[Empire of Kasmira]

[Thezmaer Kingdom]

[Kingdom of Kithage]

Adam thought for a while, 'If I want to level up fast I would go for Kasmira. However, I want to stay low profile so the top guilds won't come for me yet. The Thezmaer Kingdom holds the most risk = rewards, I can get a good class there along with the fact that not to many people would spawn there. Yeah, Thezmaer Kingdom seems like the best choice as it would help me in the long run.' Adam confirmed as he clicked Thezmaer Kingdom and heard the system's voice yet again.

[Finally, would you like to choose your own character name? If not the system will choose for you]

Adam thought about his name, in his past life he strived for a better future for himself however that future was destroyed by his 'friends'. He decided that in this life he would be something like a error, a bug that slowly eats the predator. He typed his name on the keyboard that was given to him.

[Anomaly]

[Name chosen, preparing to spawn [Anomaly] in Basin City]

[I wish you good luck on your journey, Traveler]

Adam was covered in white light as he was being transported.

'How nostalgic....just wait you treacherous bastards, I'll make sure I destroy all 3 of you.' Alex thought.