《Dragon Of Coelum》 Prologue Prologue In the year of 2146, another game using virtual reality(VR) was released, its name was Dragon Of Coelum, yes another one, in the past 35 years the technology has jumped by so much that to make a VR game was considerable easy, if you are a developer of course. But this game was special because after this 35 years, this game felt so real, and to Rhys Lam, a boy who was 17 years old, when the game launched, he was feeling lucky and happy, as the game was about sword and magic, his favorite genre! His family was very rich and he didn''t have that much friends, but that not meant he was antisocial, shy or something like that, he just played games the whole day. He had the last capsule for VR games for the best experience, especially for DOC. As soon as he linked his mind to the game, he was greeted with a nice landscape, trees and mountains as far as the eye can see, everything was so green and lively. In front of him was a naked person, short black hair and black eyes, a thin body with a bit of muscles, it was him. He was not fat for the fact that even if he played, the capsule could make him stay without any fat, it could keep the muscles working, but here he look a little stronger. The next thing he did was making his eyes purple, he didn''t want to change that much, he had an avarage look, but he wanted to at least change something. After this he had to select a class, the game had the three basics classes, rogue, mage and warrior, but it had so much branches, and you could even merge classes, the maximum level per character was 100, and per class was 50, and you could unlock a class slot each 25 levels of your character, meaning that you can have a maximum of 4 classes, it can be easy to find classes, but it had common, rare, epic and legendary ones.If you find this story on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen. Please report the infringement. The good thing is that the basic classes could be upgraded without costing a class slot, they just needed to be level 50 but after that you need to level up again, these upgraded ones could change depending on which kinda of weapon the player uses, if it is a bow user, rogue can become a archer or a ranger, someone with nature power like a druid. He thought about it, and chose rogue, he wanted to choose mage, but to level up playing solo it was going to be hard, and if he made wise choises, he could get mage or warrior related classes. And finally his game name, he chose to be Dormin, because his grandfather played a game that the main character had to slay giants and in the end he had turned in to a shadow monster, he did not know the game but his grandfather seemed to be happy remembering the game and telling him about it. And now after 6 years in the game later he became the first elite player, meaning that he reached maximum level on his char using 3 classes, and his status looked like this:
Status
Name: Dormin Character Level: 100 (MAX)
Health: 25300/25300 Mana Pool: 24200/24200
Race: Human
Classes
Assassin Level: 50 (MAX) Sharper Level: 25 Summoner Level: 25
Attributes
Strength 1485
Constitution 1265
Agility 1560
Dexterity 1420
Intelligence 1210
Wisdom 1220
Each level you receive 20 atributte points and each 10 levels 30 in total and begins with 10 points in each attributes. His assassin class is the rogue class upgraded. Chapter 1: Just believe and live! Chapter 1 (Status in Prologue!) Rhys had just logged in the game, he was in the middle of Mawrest Town, a low level city, waiting for his friend to join the game, he was there for a couple hours now and thought if he should go kill some monsters, his friend was very late. Even if the monsters are low level here, the combat of the game still is fun even if they die in one hit from Rhys, monsters in this area are from level 1 to level 5. This game is hard, if you want to level up you need a ton of experience. It took 3 years to Rhys reach level 100, of course he could make it a faster, but he wanted to find good classes, his Sharper is level 25, it is a hidden and legendary class, the same for Summoner but no hidden, Sharper class can be obtained when you merge the Looter class and the Time Mage class, both are rare classes, but you need a specific item, and items are divided in common, uncommon, rare, epic, legendary and mythical. The item is a merge core, it is a rare, epic or legendary item, a merge core can only be dropped from 75+ monsters, and a rare one has a chance of 1/1000 to drop, but a legendary one has a 1/1000000 to drop, and yes, Rhys got lucky and dropped a legendary one, it was not possible merge those two classes together with a rare or epic one, but he did it with a legendary resulting on the Sharper class. After he decides to go hunt, he goes outside the town, from the gate he can see a forest to his left to right, and the middle is a road of dirt cutting the forest. Rhys decides to go to his right, in this forest there are monsters from level 1 to 5. Bunnies with horns, wolfs, boars and snakes 3 meters long can be found. As he enters the forest, he sees the flood of trees in front of him, the forest is already dense even though he didn''t go deep inside yet. Not that it matters tho, he can detect enemies with bloodlust towards him with his assassin class.
Notification
Entering Bariel Forest
After receiving the message, he activates his Detection, a skill that can detect any living thing in a a 500 meters range, and as the skill is level 10 (max level for skills), it can tell where, what or who its detecting. He plans to go where a boar got detected, and uses Appraisal on it, to show the basic information of the boar, after in his sight. After he spotted the boar 100 meters away he uses appraisal on it.
Wild Boar Level 4
Status Effect: Eating Skills:
Health: 120/120 Charge Level 2
Mana Pool: 80/80 Frenzy Level 1
He seems to be eating some grass, and when a monster is eating something, they always loose a bit of reflexes, and i think this can be said to players too.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. The boar has Charge level 2, hes not a new one, to upgrade a skill he has to fight another monster or player, so you can find stronger monster here, but it is rare near a town. He can see the boar from this far thanks to his Predator Eyes, a passive skill that improves sight, as an assassin that helps so much to find his preys. ''Shadow Step'' he says in his mind, immediately he apears behind the boar who was 100 meters far away from him in a cloud of smoke, he could just stay behind the boar, and the monster would not even notice him there, he jumps to the air, and aiming for the back of the boar''s neck, Rhys unsheaths his dark blue dagger with his right hand and slices the neck of the innocent brown fur boar. It makes a clean cut even if the dagger is not long enough, because of the strength and status of the dagger. Dormin''s equipment was all black, made of dragon scales, the shadow dragon Kalir. weapons made from the dragon gives bonus range, and armors from the materials make you stealthier, and if you have the full set, you do more damage when attacking without being noticed. ''Fuck!'' Dormin cursed in his mind when he saw what happened next. After the body fell to the floor, blood start flooding out of the neck and head instead of just make some pixels effects on the place of the cut, the body should have disappeared. Dormin had to look back, he had played some games with gore, but that was to real, even if this game was supposed to be real, this was gross for him, and the smell of iron did not help. ''Did they just updated the game or something, this game is not even supposed to have gore'' He started thinking about what could be the cause of this, he had just logged in a couple hours ago. Nothing about this made sense, and he decided to just leave the body there, he had enough items and materials from monsters of all kind of levels. When he was in the town, he notice some NPCs doing strange things and sometimes looking at him, but he just ignored everyone, just a game imaright? And as the body didn''t disappear, nothing dropped from it, things were making less sense when he starts thinking deeper into it. Maybe his crazy too, but he started getting hungry, it could not be possible, the capsule kept you fed, so as a response to this he took his spacial purse, it looked like a medieval one, from behind in his belt and put his hand inside and takes out a sweet bread, and take a juicy bite. "Oh shiiit, what is this, so sweeet and deliciouuus" Dormin was almost crying in happines, it was the best bread he ate in his life. Finally he snaps out of it, not before he eat the whole thing. Dormin PoV ''Everything is so real! It can''t be right?!'' I can''t think about another reason for what is happening. I must be crazy for being happy for this, being transported into the game''s world. "Hahaha..." What now huh? Maybe i should test if i feel the real pain before i be happy for something i am not sure about it. First lets take a normal knife from my spacial purse, both my daggers are too overpowered to use in me, and lets cut me palm a little. "Mmm, shit, okay it is real... And it is already healed, nice." Seems like i lost 14 health from that, seems good so far, and now lets test if the NPCs now can be normal. Even if the technology is fantastic, the A.I. in this game is not the best one, it is not bad, but if they did a good job the game was going to be the best VR game launched so far, maybe the budget was low... Next thing is to go back to Mawrest Town, maybe something is different there, maybe a Adventure Guild is real now as the game did not have one, but i''ll have to get used to seeing blood if this is all real heh. ''Lets try this, Skip-Step and go!'' Oh my god, so fast, i can feel the strong wind on me, so much more real hahaha, i am really skiping steps like in the game, its like teleporting but after one step at a time. And next thing i see is the huge walls, 15 foot high made of stone. OUCH, good thing i did not break the walls, but now i has some cracks hehe. And no system message huh, another proof, this is really happening... Chapter 2: Stay frosty! Chapter 2 After i cleaned myself for being too dumb, i thought if i could use my Summoner class to find out about this world. This class is a legendary one, but not a hidden one. You could get the class through a chain quest, i was the first one to discover the class as the first to finish this quest, the final part of it, you had to kill the shadow dragon Kalir. As the quest was related to the shadow dragon, i could only summon dark creatures, but every 6 months in the game, a event would be held, and you could win related items to your gameplay. In the fourth event held by the game, i receive an item, a epic Spirit Caller, it was a white stone with dark purple veins. I knew it that was for my Summoner class, but it was still level 7 at the time, i had taken the class a little while ago, and was skeptical about what spirit could come out. In the end i got a good spirit, a sentient one, they are very hard to get, even if my spirit was a epic being, to get a spirit with consciousness was not easy, of course because he was sentient he did lost 10% of his strength, but he could help you in your adventure, even more now! The AI in the game was kind of strange, but here it could help even more. After thinking about it, i decided to do it, but before that, i''ll try and summon another one of my summons, he is not sentient, but he could understand what do i mean, it was like a trained dog if a could explain how he acts. Before doing it, i walked a away the wall and between some trees, i did not want to seem strange or suspicius, but i probably looked like one, i even broke the town''s wall, i think i need to be a little more cautious for sure. After finding a good place there, i aim my hand to the ground and thought. ''heed my call Scavenger'' Its very nice when you don''t need to chant, Sharper class is truly awesome haha. To where my hand was pointing, a purple circle with complex symbols, but with a pentagram in the middle. From then a grey smoke apeared but did not go out of the circle and just stayed inside, after a couple of seconds the smoked transformed into a lizard with wings, or a mini dragon, a foot tall and with his tail two foot long, he was black as darkness itself, with deep purple eyes and a thin black pupils from down to the top of the iris, eyes the same as me but not the pupil tho, me being more handsome but he is cute.Taken from Royal Road, this narrative should be reported if found on Amazon. He is my weakest summon, for me at least. My strongest one is level 80, it is a dark wolf called Nethereyes, because his eyes were crimson red. Now for the status of Scavenger:
Summon: Scavanger Level: 25 (Locked)
Health: 2920/2920 Status Effects: None
Mana Pool: 380/380 Race: Night Lizard
He looks at me with a hint of intelligence in his eyes, he jumps and flies in place, it seemed that he was trying to learn how to fly again, weird. After that beautiful pitiful dance, he flies to my shoulder and scratches his ear, ''now thats more like it my pet, cuteness is justice! but no for lolis, maybe big breasted ones...''. "You can understand me right?" Soon after, i get my awnser with a nod. So is the same as the game, maybe he can be a little more understanding now, but not going to test it right now, so. "You probably are strong, so go catch a horned bunny for me Scav, i''ll give you some juicy meat later.". After my words i could see some water falling from his mouth and he flies high in the air above the trees, and soon dives in deep in the forest from where i came from. He can find me because i am his master, but i did not thought about it if i am seen with a dragon pet, i don''t like rumors, so let me just wait here, eat some meat and go to town. ... Soon i am fully fed, and ready to go to town, ''that rabbit had a good flavour mhmm, even Scav like it'', OK! No more distractions, but i just remembered the spirit i was going to summon, ''*sigh* nevermind, lets do this later''. I put Scavenger in my forearm like an owl, and said "Unsummon, Bye Scav", After the couple of seconds, he turns into a puff of smoke, i think i just wasted my time here, ''oh well, just lets go before i remember something import-useless''. And i began to walk around the wall, my starting point was where i broke the wall, i hope that don''t come back to bite me later. Soon i see the gate, i looked like Mawrest Town, but it had some differences, i am not saying about that fucking huge line of people, ''shit, how do i will manage to enter now, 100% that they will need some sort of indentification, real life sucks''. I probably could just enter without being notice, but let me have some experience of life here. If i just walked in with this armor, i would look like a bandit or something. I decided to changed clothes, i have some in my spacial bag(purse), but with those they will see me as nobles, but is the best i can do. ''Actually i have a black cloak here, it can overshadow my clothes, so this will have to do''. After changing i kept a hidden dagger behind me, on my waist near my spacial bag and walked to the line. It was already starting evening, i feel it will take some time. Finally when probably was about 1 AM, it was my turn. Stay frosty!