[Watch out for this continent''s races, most aren''t friendly with humans!]


    But before he could even observe any further, he heard the exmations of all the others around him, after all he wasn''t the only yer!


    "Wow! This is so realistic!"


    "What in the hell, how can science even exin this? This game is definitely created by a higher being…"


    "Let''s team up!"


    "Maybe I can kill myself without the fear of dying now…"


    "HEY, DON''T TOUCH ME, I CAN STILL FEEL IT!"


    All around Alex were other yers, both men and women, each of them wearing a set of gray clothes, the oldest seemed to be in their 50s and 60s, while the youngest might be only 14 to 15 years old.


    Alex looked down, and just as expected, he was also wearing the same gray clothes: this was the basic outfit for new yers after all.


    The clothing didn''t give any attribute points though, which made them extremely weak, and everyone would soon enough change them once they got their hands on something better.


    Other than the clothes though, each yer was carrying the respective weapons from their sses/professions: assassins had daggers, archers had bows, priests had crosses, warriors had swords, summoners had nothing, but it was because they could already summon a level 1 beast of their choice.


    And as for Alex, once he looked down, he noticed that in his right hand was a mage staff, meaning that he had truly be one.


    [Wee to ''Novice Vige 666''!]


    [Novice Vige Assessment: Reach level 10 and defeat the boss to be able to ess the first city, any novice vige that doesn''tplete this task within a week (in the game) will be wiped out.]


    Green scenery and flower scent were all around the now panicked yers in this novice vige (yes, there were thousands of other viges as you might expect), small buildings and houses located in their surroundings to help them out.


    "Hm…" Alex hadn''t been in this ce for so long that he didn''t really remember, but surely his memories woulde back once he explored a bit.


    Alex noticed that there were many buildings made of wood and rocks in the vige.


    But, the most surprising feature of all in this vge was… the presence of another race.


    They looked like humans, but they were taller and had silver-colored skin, literally.


    They couldn''t really be human when you looked at them from this perspective, and their ears were a bit pointy, not as long as elves though.


    ''NPCs,'' Alex mumbled.


    In "Universal Descent", NPCs were one of the main features, and this game was in fact so realistic that if you didn''t see their appearances, you truly wouldn''t be able to differenciate a conversation between a human and an npc.


    Once the ''first stage'' ended, you wouldn''t even be able to call them NPCs anyway.


    But no matter what the other yers tried to do tomunicate with these beings, they wouldn''t answer no matter what, as they didn''t seem to care.


    They just took a look at the yers and then pretended that they didn''t exist.


    "ANSWER ME, YOU LITTLE SHIT," a grumpy strong man with a horrible personality tried to forcibly pull one of the silver-skinned humans, but he was immediately pped by it, sent crashing against one of the houses.


    Boom!


    The man died from the impact, and his body disappeared in a speck of blue light.


    "…" everyone knew they shouldn''t mess with these things now if they wanted to reach level 10 and not get wiped out.


    The only inhabitants of this vige that spoke were the shop owners, but nobody had money yet, so once they noticed these yers weren''t possible clients, they kicked them out.


    ''Low reputation,'' Alex mumbled.


    [Reputation] is one of the systems in this game too, and you will only be able to trigger special events when increasing your reputation among some races, thus gaining favors from them.


    So in the end, all people (and Alex) could do was to try and kill monsters to level up.


    To do that, Alex along with his low-level mage staff received a single skill: Fireball!


    It was the lowest-ss skill that you could get from the mage ss, meaning that it was level 1 and could only deal around 9-11 magic damage to the mobs outside the vige.


    ''I can''t get quests yet, need to aim for the secret one to increase my reputation.''


    It was important to keep your reputation with the NPCs high in the beginning.


    And they do not forgot about you, meaning that the man who tried to hurt one of the silver-skinned humans would have a hard time adapting.


    It was only the [Novice Vige] though, so not important, although if you really wanted to leave it you would definitely need to be stronger.


    The vige has four entrances and exits: north, east, south and west.


    Alex chose the east, it didn''t matter much but he liked that way.


    When he arrived at the east entrance of the vige, Alex saw arge area of ??farnd outside.


    Various crops like wheat, corn and more were nted in the farnd.


    But among these crops and the dirt, Alex noticed that there were many [Demonized Rats] moving, eating the crops as they found them.


    These big ck rats were about the same size as dogs, with scarlets eyes and sharp teeth.


    He also saw that many yers were currently fighting these level 1 monsters, the scene was truly out of this world.


    "Team up to fight the demonized rats!"


    "Come and fight the rats together, they''re too strong!"


    [Your plete'' status window is avable.]


    ''Oh, right,'' Alex nodded.


    [ID:] FateBreaker


    [Level:] 1 (0/100)


    [upation:] Mage


    [ss:] Apprentice Mage


    [Talent:] Extraction (SSS)


    [Health Points:] 50 (Vitality x 10)


    [Mana Points:] 70 (Spirit x 10)


    [Speed:] 4 (Agility x 1)


    [Magic Damage:] 7 (Spirit x 1)


    [Physical Damage:] 3 (Strength x 1)


    [Magic Resistance:] 7 (Spirit x 1)


    [Physical Resistance:] 5 (Vitality x 1)


    [Attributes:] Vitality 5; Strength 3; Agility 4; Spirit 7.


    [Skills]: Fireball Level 1; Deal 10 points of damage to target + 100% of user spirit to target; consumes 10 mana; 3-second cooldown.


    [Attributes Points:] 0


    [Skill Points:] 0


    [Equipment:] Low-Level Wooden Staff (Common)


    [Strength Evaluation:] 0 Star


    His attributes and status window was pretty much the same as in his previous life, except for the fact that he was now a mage, and also that his talent was now SSS.


    But before Alex could begin fighting… he needed to do onest thing.


    He headed toward the exit, but instead of passing through, he went to the side, an old and frail-looking silver-skinned human resting against the wall.


    Most people passed by him since they feared being hit and killed by these things, plus they were extremely unfriendly, but Alex knew better.


    "Hello?" he spoke to the old man.


    "Oh?" and he opened his eyes, "It is rare for someone to speak to someone like me…"


    "I do not judge, sir, you seem distressed, need help with anything?"


    Alex perfectly knew that this very same old man was his key to sess, as he was the one that gave the beginner quest of this entire game.


    "Now that you say it," the old man rubbed his chin, "These demonized rats have been destroying our crops, would be very useful in one of you could get rid of… let''s say, 10 of them?"


    "Sure."


    Ding!


    [You have triggered the F-Level novice vige quest: The Beginning Of it All. Kill 10 Demonized Rats and in exchange your reputation among the vigers will increase by 50!]


    "Get rid of those and I''ll pitch in a good word for you," the old man said before going back to his original position, resting against the giant fence.


    A yer''s reputation among viges/race can go from 0 to 100.


    0 means that they are neutral with you, and the more tasks you do, the more it increases, the max being 100 which meant they are favorable and agree to speak or help you out.


    This beginner quest would already fill up this bar by half!


    On the other hand, reputation could also go in the negatives, if it does, then it bes increasingly harder to go back to 0.


    Attacking one of them for no reason for example would result in -100 reputation, which means they would be hostile, some of them even trying to kill you on the spot.


    Having nothing else to do, Alex immediately passed the threshold of the vige''s exit and entered the first area: [Demonized Farnds].


    "Kill it!"


    "FUCK, IT BIT ME!"


    yers were struggling, and that was normal: the monsters in this game were insanely difficult to defeat if you didn''t have the proper technique, and as none of these people had ever fought monsters in their lives, even the strongest among them would die in one to two attacks max.


    [Demonized Rat]


    Level: 1


    HP: 40


    Context: Originally ordinary rats, they were corroded by ck magic energy, thus bing violent and bloodthirsty.


    These things were the first monsters in the game, but they already had 8 agility points and their strength reached 7 points too, meaning that they were faster than most of the yers, each of their [Strike] dealing 12 damage.


    "Alright, here we go," Alex sighed as he raised his staff, aiming it at one of the lonely rats that was eating crops.