Raising and extending my right arm, I swiped my fingers down, and the menu opened, the menu that I had already opened more than a hundred times. And like all those times, I scrolled down to the very bottom before letting out a heavy sigh as I saw that a crucial button was missing from its place.
I guess this is really happening.
Scrolling up, I tapped on the inventory button and the inventory window opened. In it, there were two items: a sheet of paper and a box. Tapping on the former, it appeared in my right hand.
Dear player, Astrid
You amongst other lucky few players have been selected to live in [Ultimate World Online]
We have sent you a gift, you can find it in your inventory
Death Penalty: -1 Level and resurrection in the home town
Please enjoy your life in [Ultimate World Online]
Reading the sheet of paper for the second time, I gritted my teeth, crumpled it up into a small ball, rose up from the ground, placed my left foot forward and threw it with all the strength I had.
I am yet to graduate from university! Find a job! Get married! Have kids! Live a full fulfilling life! And you are telling me that I have to live inside a game for the rest of my life?! Screw you! F*ck! F*ck! F*ck! As I thought this, I was angrier than I was in my entire life.
I took in a deep breath through my nose and closed my eyes.
Holding the air in my lungs for a few seconds, my anger somewhat calmed down but it was not entirely gone. I breathed out of my mouth and slowly opened my eyes.
I have to find a way to get out of this game. But as far as I know, the only two ways of getting out of virtual reality, is to either log out or get kicked out. Since logging out is clearly not an option, how do I get kicked out?... I can''t think of anything… I am sure, I will think of something eventually.
Letting out another heavy sigh, I tapped on the box in my inventory. It appeared in my right hand and I pulled the string.
The box disappeared from my hand and notification messages started flashing in front of me.
<<Randomising Gift>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Randomising>>
<<Gift Randomised>>
<<Unique Class: Tyrant>>
<<Base Attributes>>
<<Health: 300, Rage: 1,000, Strength: 10, Dexterity: 4, Intellect: 1, Constitution: 6, Spirit: 1, Wisdom: 1, Charisma: 7>>The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
<<Strength: Increases physical skill damage, physical auto attack damage and physical critical damage>>
<<Dexterity: Increases physical skill damage, attack speed of auto attacks and physical critical strike chance>>
<<Intellect: Increases magical skill damage, magical skill critical strike damage>>
<<Constitution: Increases maximum health>>
<<Spirit: Increases mana and health regeneration>>
<<Wisdom: Increases magical critical strike chance and maximum mana>>
<<Charisma: Increases pet/follower damage, reduces prices when trading or repairing>>
<<Attribute points gained per level: 10>>
<<Do you wish to learn the class: Tyrant>>
<<Sorcerer, Base Attributes>>
<<Health: 150, Mana: 350, Strength: 1, Dexterity: 1, Intellect: 4, Constitution: 2, Spirit: 2, Wisdom: 4, Charisma: 1>>
<<Sorcerer, Attribute points gained per level: 5>>
<<Learning the class: Tyrant will make you abandon your current class: Sorcerer>>
<<Yes>> <<No>>
Tyrant has double the attributes of Sorcerer at <<Level 0>>. And double the attributes gained per level. This is not even a choice. I tapped the button, <<Yes>> and a few notification messages flashed in front of me.
<<Class: Sorcerer abandoned>>
<<Class: Tyrant Obtained>>
<<Skill: Tight Grip Learned>>
<<Skill: Double Slash Learned>>
<<Skill: War Stomp Learned>>
Looking at the names tight grip, double slash and war stomp, I can already guess what they do and what class tyrant is. I closed the inventory window by tapping on the x icon on the top-right corner of the window, scrolled up and tapped on the skills button. The skills window opened in front of me and I looked over my three skills.
<<Class Passive Skill, Tight Grip, You can wield two-handed weapons with one hand. Wielding a weapon in your right hand increases its weapon damage and critical strike damage by 50%. Wielding a two-handed weapon in your left hand increase its weapon damage by 25% and critical strike chance by 75%>>
<<Class Skill, Double Slash, Slash with both of your two-handed weapons dealing 125% weapon damage + 101% Strength + 99% Dexterity as damage with each one, Range: Melee, Cost: 30 Rage, Cooldown: 5 seconds >>
<<Class Skill, War Stomp, Stomp with rage dealing 180% Strength as damage and slows all enemies in a 5-yard radius of you by 75%, Range: 0-5 yards, Cost: 10 Rage, Cooldown: 15 seconds>>
Just what I expected from those three. I closed my skills window, and swiped my fingers to the right. And the menu closed. I moved my eyes to one of the boar piglets.
<<Level 0, Boar Piglet>>
<<20/20>>
I need one more boar piglet to complete the quest. I pulled out my two-handed stick from my back and held it in my left hand as it was my dominant hand and holding it in my left hand gave me 75% critical strike chance from the passive tight grip.
Walking up to the boar piglet, I struck it, and it was an immediate critical strike, <<Critical Strike, -21>>. Boar piglet squealed and it fell down to the ground, dead. It got enveloped in a golden glow which meant that it was lootable, and a few notification messages flashed.
<<Boar Piglet, Slain>>
<<+10 XP>>
<<10/10 Boar Piglets Slain>>
<<Return to claim your reward>>
Bending down, I touched the corpse and the loot window opened.
<<1 Copper Coin>>
Tapping on the 1 copper coin in the loot window, it got looted and I now had 10 copper coins in total. I straightened out and walked back to the quest giver.
The quest giver that I returned to was an old man standing in front of a house between many farm fields.
"I have killed the ten boars you wanted me to kill."
The old man nodded his head. "Thank you, young adventurer," he said and a few notification messages flashed in front of me.
<<Quest Completed>>
<<+100 XP>>
<<Level Up>>
<<You have gained 10 attribute points>>
<<You have 10 unspent attribute points>>
"Young adventurer, would you mind doing another task?"
I shook my head. "Not at all, what do you need?"