The Beginning

2025, Earth,

Billions of people all around the world were waiting for the new Virtual Reality Game Utopia Online to be launched. The newly announced first ever made VR game.

"I can't wait to experience how it feels to be in the game and to try out the interactions with the NPCs and the combat system."

"I hope the server will run smoothly with this many players i dont want to play myself just because it's over overloaded."

"Pay attention when you create your character. Your height and weight may differ from reality and it can cause obstacles in gameplay.

"it was said that in Utopia Online currency exchange will be unavailable, which will lead us to start on the same difficulty, but I bet that some big guys will play around it with offline trading!"

Everywhere you went, you could see advertisements. Utopia was so hyped that some people kept waiting for hours just to buy game pods.

Some guilds went as far to buy buildings and renovate them into a guild building where members can move to for group building and other purposes.

Tick-tick, as the clock kept ticking, the time remaining by the launch finally hit the zero.

People started to logging in and Utopia finally begin. And so is the new era of mankind.

At the start, the immersive interactions surprised many, and they got even more surprised by the combat. Based on the countless praises and reactions, more player tried it out.

A week has passed and as the people experienced how it feels to be unrestricted. More and more people let their hidden nature out in the world of Utopia, which is lead to more worry free and less depressed society in reality.

The people were happy with their frustrations and all the negative emotions vented through it and the number of crimes decreased.

There were multiple cases where people could not differ the real and virtual in mild range. For example, they couldn't handle the stress after feeling the freedom, so they were fired.

The in game currency was so valuable that some player farmed through the whole day to get their silver and gold coins just to sell that and live a life.

Society changed a whole, but the real change began when the first player reached the 20th level. It took a whole 2 months for the first player to achieve it because of the close to impossible solo gaming.

What it means is that players needed to group up to take down the monsters which gave the most xp and item drop, of course, by forming teams the xp was shared. The dungeons simply can't be cleared alone.

But still after 2 months the first player achieved lvl 20, that was when he noticed his in real-life conditions improved. After half a month, more and more player reached the level twenty but not all of them were lawful. 

One of them was a criminal who was feeling his improved physical strength, planned to rob a store. The police officers, whom had dispatched, had witnessed how the man dodged flying bullets and lifted cars like toys. His incredible speed and inhuman strength were a scene which you can only be see in movies.

It was impossible to hide the accident. It caused many onlookers who watched the whole incident to remain dumbfounded. The authorities told the crowd that a crazy researcher experimented on the man with a stolen physics boosting potion and it got out of control. Of course, it was all a cover up.

Later investigations showed results that reaching the 20th level in Utopia Online can have special effects in real life. Further research showed that each status has a different reaction, just like in the game, strength represented might, agility-speed, stamina-fitness and intelligence-comprehension.

They immediately tried to find the game founding company but found nothing about it, what can be more fearsome than the unknown. They used all means possible but still got nothing.

Three days after the search, country leaders received a message that the game's purpose is to help humanity reach greater highs. Then they again searched for the message sender or any information, but still found nothing.

As soon as the result of the investigation come out, the country knew that there will be no results and there will be other troublemakers who will try to commit crimes. So, after careful considerations, they created an organization called The Enforcers.

This group contained mainly famous gamers and players who were ahead of others and were responsible for keeping the other high-leveled ones in check.

The country tried to find out every high-level player's information through various posts and messages in the social media platforms, and they invited them to join The Enforcers.

There were many who were happy about it, but there were also people who felt their increased strength and refused to be under others, or those who just enjoyed being free and unrestricted. Of course, those who decided against joining were warned seriously to not to display their abilities and don't tell other people about it.

Despite all of this, there were still many high-level players whose real identity remained hidden even among the top players. These players created their own guild inside the game and even those appeared who spread the news about the status manifestation in reality.

These guilds helped their members' training by providing information about bosses and good clearance locations in the wild, even cheaper equipments for skilled players.

The country did their best to restore stability and to avoid civil unrest and even reached disadvantageous cooperation with many guilds for it. In this way, guilds abided by the rules.

Another month passed, and the masses started to discover clues about the life-changing significance of the game. On one day a streamer who was a lone player in the game world and did not know about everything, live streamed about his increased physical abilities and boosted about him being a chosen by god, by the time the authorities detected and deleted the post, it was known to more than 500000 people who watched it. Some were skeptical about, but soon it was hyped up and some people who were not at all well-wisher revealed the truth to the crowd.

The country knew that time had come and they cannot keep thing hidden any longer. Since they discovered what the game represents, they kept training and recruiting many players to be part of the Enforcers. They decided to unveil the truth about the changes as most people already guessed it and begin openly recruit players.

Those who were still below the threshold (level 20) could only join the spare team, only officially joining the Enforcers at level 20. Guilds also begin to offer various conditions to those who want to join. One of the most promising condition is being less restricted. which won the heart of many young people.

People who knew nothing about were surprised and panicked about potential crises, but as the Enforcers showcased the number of high-level players they possess and the agreements with the guilds, the storm calmed down and fortunately nothing major happened. Except, that the game or it could be called the second world population increased sharply.

The people in leading positions decided that only those people can be players who can take responsibility for their actions are eligible to play. You can't judge a kid who suddenly got power beyond others and committed a crime when he doesn't even know about the rules.

New rules were made, and they decided that only those who are over the age of 16 can play the game. In order to prepare those who are under 16, they created schools, which heavily focus on learning about Utopia Online and learning about the regulations to live in this new society. This way they can be prepared for the coming new era. 

The era of the Virtual Real game: Utopia Online.