Chapter 9 - First Death
[You have missed the target] A voice rang in my head.
"Dang it!" I yelled out as I waited for the smoke to disappear.
As the smoke had disappeared, I saw the two-horned rabbit that was looking at me intensely.
*Screech*
The two-horned rabbit screeched as loudly, then it looked at me with its red eyes.
I was planning on reloading my musket but I got bewildered when I saw the two-horned rabbit start running in my direction.
I stood up and ran as fast as I could. And the two-horned rabbit chased after me.
After a while of running around, I just remembered that I had a melee class skill.
I shouted the skill name, "Bayonet charge!"
As soon as I shouted the name, a glowing blue blade appeared in my musket's muzzle.
[Lvl 1. Bayonet Charge activated]
'With this, you're dead.' A thought came to me.
I stopped from running and quickly turned around to face the two-horned rabbit.
"Ahhhh!" I shouted in pain.
The two-horned rabbit had already stabbed me in my stomach. Without defending myself, I was knocked back and fell on the ground.
-20 HP
I grunted in pain, "The hell, that hurts."
I glanced at where the two-horned rabbit was and it had jumped aiming its horn at me.
I dodged the attack as I rolled over. I stood up from the ground and to my shock I was perplexed by what I just saw.
"You've got to be kidding me." I said with a shocked face.
The 1 two-horned rabbit had multiplied, I counted them.
"1, 2 ,3 , 4 , ...13" I sighed, "Were you calling your friends when you screeched earlier?"
I planned on running away but I remembered that these small creatures were much faster than me.
'Well, let's just finish this.' The only thought that I had at that moment. I positioned myself and aimed my blade at the two-horned rabbits.
At that moment, all the rabbits rushed at me and one of them jumped and aimed its horn at me.
*Clang*
I had deflected its horn with the blade of my musket. And then I shouted another skill.
"Heavy strike!"
I charged at the rabbit but then it had anticipated my attack and it dodged.
My attack missed again and at that moment, another rabbit had stabbed me in my back.
-20 HP
"Ahhh!" I shouted as I felt pain on my back.
I lost all the strength on my feet and lost balance resulting me falling to the ground.
At that moment, all the rabbits had approached me and started stabbing at me.
-20 HP
-25 HP
-23 HP
My vision slowly darkened with all the damage the rabbits had dealt.
Seconds later, my vision really just went dark.
A notification had appeared.
[You have died... You are forcefully logged out and can only logged in again after 24 hours]
I opened my eyes and the next thing I knew, my consciousness was back in the real world.
I grabbed the VR Helmet and wore it off, then I also opened the capsule door and got out.
As soon as I headed outside, I quickly fell down on my bed and recalled what just had happened.
I felt frustrated not because I died, but because I was overconfident and underestimated my enemy.
'Just because I had killed a herd of one-horned rabbits, I was overconfident.' He thought to himself.
'I couldn't even use the gun even with the help of the combat assist system, what kind of marksman I am.'
Thoughts just poured out all on him as he was recalling the time he was beaten to death by the two-horned rabbits.
At that moment, someone knocked on his door.
"Come in!" I yelled out.
The door opened and his father Ren Blakely appeared.
"Did you just finish playing?" He asked.
"I died." I replied.
His father had a shocked face, "Ohh, then you don't have anything to do in the meantime?"
I looked at him, "Yes, why?"
"Well, we could have our little chat. If you want someone to talk to."
I just nodded and dad approached me sitting on my bed.
"How was the game?" He asked hesitantly.
I hesitated to reply, "W-well, I guess it was okay."
"What class did you pick?" He asked again.
"Marksman."
His dad's face shined brightly, "That's a great class."
"Eh!?" I loudly said as I had a shocked face, "There's really nothing great about it. Me and all the other players who had picked the class are just rumbling about how bad the class is." I complained.
His dad had a confused look, "Why do you say so?"
"Well, everything about it is just plain ridiculous." I exclaimed, "I died because I picked the marksman class. I should have just picked another class." I said with a saddened face.
"Have you even tried learning how to use a gun?" My dad asked abruptly.
"N-no, why should I?" I answered with a confused look.
"Well, you see Second Life Online is indeed a game, but I think you should also look at it as the real world." He then stood up, "I'm going now. I still have a lot of work to do."
He left my room after saying all those confusing words.
I recalled what he had just said.
"What did he mean?" I asked myself with a confused look.
"After leaving with just telling me all those, you confused me more!" I shouted as loud as I could.
Then at that moment I just recalled what dad had asked me.
'Have you even tried learning how to use a gun?'
"That's it! If the system does not make me a good marksman, then I should learn how to be one." I shouted with a bright look on my face.
I quickly got up on my bed and went to my computer, and turned it on. After it was turned on, I browsed on the internet for a couple of hours studying everything about guns, specifically the musket.
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After leaving the room only saying a few words, I barely closed the door and eavesdropped on my son Yoshi.
"After leaving with just telling me all those, you confused me more!" Yoshi shouted.
A moment of silence had erupted. Then it got noisy again as Yoshi had shouted loudly.
"That's it! If the combat assist system does not make me a good marksman, then I should learn how to be one"
Yoshi quickly stood up and hurriedly went to his computer and open it.
"I guess you already have the answer." He said with a grin on his face as he closed the door.