Ch.1

My name is Sasaki Ren. I am 16 year old, a high school 2nd year. I have finally got the game that I have been trying to get. Various problems came as I tried to get it, but now finally I have my hands on it. I am holding a game box that reads 'World's Collide.'

'Worlds Collide' a revolutionary game that was launched six months ago in the month of April. Upon its release, it makes a huge impact on world, why, because this game offers full dive virtual reality massively multiplayer online role playing game, in short FD VRMMORPG. To play this game, you need to wear a headset. By wearing it, you can enter the game world and enjoy the world with all of your senses. According to the gamers, they sometimes can't tell the difference if they are in real or virtual world. That's how good this game is at replicating senses. That was the main reason, this game become such an huge success.

I quickly unbox the headgear and wear it like a helmet and lie down on my bed. I closed my eyes and the game begins...

When I opened my eyes, I am in a room that looks like a library. There are bookshelves all around me. A lot of options appeared in front of me.

"Hmm... let's see, first I have to create my character."

I looked at various looks. There are so many options to customize the character. You can even go non-human. It was so confusing for me that in the end, I set my character with the same looks as my real self but just changed my eye color to red and hair to white. Everything else is same as the real me. After that, comes the option to set a name.

I have already thought about this.

"Ace"

[Your name has been set. Now please select a starting class.]

"Starting class huh?"

A list of various classes appeared before me. The list is quite long. I scrolled the list with my finger and began thinking.

"Shall I go with a Sword class like I have always been doing or use a magic class?"

Hmm... ohhh whats this?

My eyes fixed on a particular class, 'Monster Tamer'. I selected it and the class description popped up.

[Monster Tamer:- With this class, you can tame Monsters and make them fight for you. Weak at the begining]

This looks cool. I guess I have decided.

"I will select 'Monster Tamer' as my starting class."

[Now please select the starting area]

There are five locations where you can begin your adventure. I selected the "Azure Kingdom".

[You are all set! Your adventure will now begins]

The floor below me opened up and I fell down. I am now falling from the sky and crashed on the ground. By the way, I am not hurt at all when I crashed. I am in an open area with greenery all around me. There is a road that is made of removing grass where I am currently standing. In front of me is the gate that leads to the Kingdom. I touched the ground with my hand and picked some fallen leaves. I felt the leaves with my hand.

"Wow. This is so amazing."

The feeling is very real. It's like I am actually in the real world. But when I look around and see this location, saw flying creatures and this castle,

"This is indeed the game world."

Okay let's check my status,

{ Ace

LV 1

Exp required to lvl up:- 99

Class:- Monster Tamer

HP 50 MP 30

STR:- 5 INT:- 5

END:- 5 VIT:- 5

AGI:- 5 M.VIT:- 5

Unspent attribute points:- 5

[Skills :- Taming]

}

All of my stats are at LV 5. I have only one skill called Taming. When I checked it's description, it says, 'Can tame a monster that is weaker than you. The success depends upon both the level difference and the current health of the target. Can tame Monsters:-1'

So according to it, I can only tame 1 Monster and only if it's weaker than me. How do I defeat a monster to tame it? I will worry about it later. I moved inside the kingdom through the gate.

[Entered the safe zone]

A message popped up. I am now looking for my friend, who is somewhere in this kingdom. The city is very large. There are many people here.

"Are these all players?"

I couldn't see any name tag on any of them so I am not sure if they are players or npc. As I wander around, I reached a fountain at the center of town. There i notice someone who might be my friend. He looks just like how he told me. A guy wearing armor and a sword on his hilt. He has one hand on his head above his eyes and is looking in all directions. I moved towards him and spoke,

"Excuse me but Are you Shinkai Rei by any chance?"

"Are you Ren?"

He asked in return to my question and we both stared at each other.

"I have finally found you."

"Hm"

We both Shaked hands. He has already told me that he is playing as Warrior as his class which uses a Sword as main weapon. We both talked about the game and he asked about my class to which I replied.

"You really picked Monster Tamer as your first class?"

"Yeah is there a problem?"

"It's just that, in this game that class is considered as the toughest class to manage."

"Why is that?"

"Because you can't tame Monsters that is same or higher level than you. And if your tamed monster died, then all of your progress to raise that monster will be gone and you will become an easy target."

"Are you kidding me?"

I didn't know about that. What should I do? Shall I change my class?

As I was thinking about it while putting a finger at my chin, Rei spoke,

"By the way you can't change your class without spending real money and even that is not cheap."

"Damn it. I guess I will have to use this class."

"Come with me, I will help you level up and tame your first monster."

"Thanks."

I replied while dejected and we both head out of the city.

"Take this with you."

He handed me five bottles made of glass with green liquid inside and two yellow octahedron shape items.

"These are health potions and revive. You may need them."

"Thanks"

I gladly took them and put inside my inventory.

Outside the city,

"So what kind of monsters I can tame here?"

I asked him to which he replied,

"There aren't that much variety here that you can tame with your current level. The only one you can tame right now is a 'Slime'. Other than that you can find goblins here but to tame them, you will need to be at least LV6 since they are mostly Lv5 here."

"I will take a goblin as my first monster."

"Okay I will help you reach LV6. Here I have sent you party request."

[Zero has invited you to a party]

A pop up window appeared before me. I accepted it and joined the party.

I can view his HP at the left corner of my view.

"Party gave an exp boost while killing monsters. Also I will help you."

I received a Lv1 sword from Zero and start attacking some slimes. I slashed a slime and it was pushed back. I slashed it again and again and managed to kill it.

[Exp gained]

A window appeared before me and disappeared right away. Then another window popped up.

[Exp gained]

I looked at the Zero and he has already killed some slimes. I checked my status and notice I need 39 more exp to level up. It decreased to 28 right before my eyes.

I closed the window and readied my sword.

"I can't just stand still and let him work for me."

I ran towards a slime and start attacking it. After striking it for four times in a row, I managed to kill him. As I moved towards a new slime, I start getting Exp earned messages. I looked towards the Zero and he is now killing goblins.

Looks like goblins give more exp than slimes.

[You have leveled up]

[You have some Unspent skill points]

A new pop up appeared in front of me.

I ignored the window and continue killing the slimes. With Zero's great contribution, I soon reached Lv6.

Now we are sitting on the grass fields. I asked the question that I have been meaning to ask,

"Why don't you kill a high level monster? With that I will level up a lot."

"It does not work like that. Various factors affects the exp gain. If a high level party member defeats a monster, the low level one will get reduced exp otherwise it will upset the balance of game and everyone will exp carry with their friends and reach high level. On top of that you can't earn exp if you defeat a monster that is 10 levels higher than you so, even if I defeat a LV 15 monster and you are ten level lower than the monster, then you will not get exp. That's why it took a lot of time for you reach lv6."

"Hmm"

I opened my stat screen

{ Ace

LV 6

Exp required to lvl up:- 198

Class:- Monster Tamer

HP 145  MP 107

STR:- 7 (+5)  INT:- 10

END:- 9  VIT:- 17

AGI:- 7  LUK:- 5

Unspent attribute points:- 30

[Skills :- Taming]

}

"I have 30 attribute points. Hmm where should i allocate them?"

"You should think carefully before allocating points as you can't reset them later. But I can guess what you are going to do."

"You know me too well Zero."

After that he told me about this game,

"In this Game, there is no set goal to do here so, you can do anything. You can become a hero or villain. You can go adventure or sit back and enjoy the game."

"Wow"

"Also unlike us, npc here can't revive if dead, so be careful about it."

"Really?"

"Yes. So be careful."

"I will"

I nodded back and we both chat a bit more.

"Okay then let's go tame a goblin"

We stood up from our seats and start looking for a goblin. We immediately found one and when he saw me, he grabbed his club above his head and start running towards me. I used my sword to attack him. I slashed him and he lost 25%HP. He grunted and swing his club towards me, I dodged the attack and moved behind him and strike him. He lost 25% more HP. His HP bar has turned orange from green. I striked him again and his HP bar became red.

"Okay try now."

Zero spoke and I put a little distance between me and goblin by jumping back. I put both of my hands towards goblin and activated my skill. Bright light appeared from my hands and surrounded the goblin. He looked suprised. A percentage bar appeared as a circle on its head and begin increasing with rapid speed. As soon as it reached hundred percent, the light vanished.

[You have successfully tamed the goblin]

Goblin bowed before me and a new pop up appeared.

[Please give it a name]

"A name huh?"

I think a little and decided a name,

"Ragnuk. That will be your name."

{Ragnuk

LV 5

Class Goblin

HP:- 310 MP:- 100

STR:- 7 INT:- 3

END:- 5 VIT:- 4

AGI:- 5 M.VIT:- 4

Skill:- Club Bash

}

Ragnuk nodded his head in satisfaction and disappeared.

"Thanks for helping me level up and Taming my first monster."

"There is no need to thank me. What are friends for."

He replied with a big smile on his face upon seeing it a smile also formed on my face.

"So wha--"

Waaaa

As Zero was about to say something, a cry interrupted him. A window suddenly pop up in front of us.

[Urgent quest:- Save the girl attacked by goblins near you.

If saved, recieve reward accordingly

If failed, the girl will die]

"Did you too recieved the quest?"

"Yeah. Let's go"

We both stood up from our seats and moved towards the direction, the voice came from. It's exactly how Zero explained me, "Quests can pop up at any time in this game".