1. Fuck you!

*zzert* the helmet on my desk flared to life

Recently the internet has been blowing up over this new game called "Voltnet." Everyone from toddlers to seniors were babbling about it all for two reasons. Firstly a shit ton of recourses were put into this game from tens if not hundreds of thousands of programmers, designers and scientists to billions of dollars from mega-corporations. Secondly, the game could connect your consciousness to it practically allowing you to live a second life! Tech like this has never been seen before so everyone obviously wants in on it

Placing the helmet on my head I felt my heart thumping through my chest with excitement

-Welcome to the Voltnet-

-the system has detected you are new to the Voltnet and will give a basic explanation. The Voltnet is a large network of different AIs connecting your consciousness to the main server, to get started choose your region accurately as this will allow the Voltnet to connect your consciousness with the server faster resulting in realistic and instant reactions-

Selecting North Americas a new screen appears in front of me

-sending an assistant to help in character creation please wait for a moment…-

A circle covered in runes appears from the floor and a beautiful woman rises from it

"Greetings great hero! I am the goddess of love! Opida! I am here to guide you through creating a physical form! Let's start with your gender! Male? Female? Maybe neither? Or maybe even both? It's up to you!" As she finishes her sentence she giggles slightly as she tells me that it's my decision

"Male please," I said still charmed by her

"So female it is?" she asked

"Yep-" I realized what she said just after I had crossed the point of no return

"Okay then!" She clasped her hands while giggling

"WAIT! THAT'S NOT-"

"Oh! Are you perhaps dissatisfied with my performance? How about I change you to system mode" she made an exit for herself after ruining everything

-Welcome to the system mode of character creation, we apologize that the guidance NPC wasn't able to help you-

"Settings!" I commanded

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Visual

Audio

Help

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I tapped on help and a large screen appeared in front of me. After a couple of seconds, a man dressed in the voltech uniform appeared on the screen

"Hello! This is David from Voltech how can we help you today" the man introduced himself

"Hi, it appears as if your character creation Npc had made a mistake! I was selecting make but she made me choose female!" I complained

"Don't tell me it was Opida…" he sighed as he grabbed his face

"It was"

"Sorry about that, she… is very childish. We'll make sure to reprimand her… anyways we can't change your gender after you have chosen it so you could just delete your account and get another one free of charge or you could keep this character and be given 2x stat growth in a single stat type as compensation"

"…I'll keep this character," I said knowing that the double stat would give me a massive advantage

"Great. The choice will appear at the end of your character creation. If that's all then have a great time using the Voltnet!" The employee said before the screen turned back into the settings menu

Walking through the character creation I decided to make myself look like Ryuko from Kill La Kill

-please choose a username-

"Hmm… if I want to fit the character I need a cool-sounding yet feminine name… wait! The answers are right in front of me"

I typed in Ryuko Matoi before pressing accept

-as an apology for the assigned character creation NPC's mischief you can choose one stat to permanently double in growth-

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•Str (physical potency)

•Dex (flexibility and accuracy)

•Agl (speed and stamina)

•Def (health and sturdiness)

•Int (focus supply)

•Wis (magical potency)

Hidden stats:

•Luk (Drop and critical rate/strength)

•Cha (looks and social skills)

•Per (your 5 senses and reaction speed)

•Tal (how fast you learn and upgrade skills)

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After thinking for a bit I decided that in the long run, talent is what I'm gonna need most so just as I am about to press talent I start feeling disconnected before I fly out of my own body! Looking at myself I see that my eyes have changed to that of Opida

"This is what you get for ratting me out earlier!" She sticks her… my? Tongue out and pulls down her eyelid before clicking charisma

I am then returned to my body but this time instead of yelling at her I just stood there in shock as I was transported to the game world

I proceeded to stand there for 30 minutes before finally snapping out of it

"AHHHHHHH!!!! FUCK YOU!!! YOU FUCKING BITCH!!!!!!" I screamed in rage as I collapsed to the floor