《Path of the Ninja》 Chapter I An error of connexion The dream of emeralds, the virtual reality that came out the first January of the year 2055. The MMORPG that totally revolutionize the world of gaming. Ever since the creation of World of Warage from Blizzord, no others game succeeded to dethrone this game. Aian, Clan wars 2, Terran, Blade and Qi, all those popular games couldn¡¯t reach every extension of World of Warage that came out from Blizzord. After the extension of Legius, Blizzord once again decided to join the virtual reality development, Logic-tech and with them, created the virtual reality game called the dream of emeralds. The game exploded the market and was played inside every country. Few years later, others virtual reality games also had been released but none of them could surpass the dream of emeralds. Tonight, Blizzord released the patch 10.0.1 of the game which increased the maximum level by 200 instead of 100 and new continents, monsters, races, contents, and a new raid, the tower of Yllidan, the first raid of the game. Tons of players were awaiting this patch and were all farming their own materials, equipment, jobs, money and every necessary item needed before the leveling and learning information necessary to defeat every boss of the raid. And of course, top players were also preparing for it. Ash Belvan was one of them. Ash Belvan was a 20-year-old, waiter in a small restaurant near his neighborhood. His family was rich, but since he was a problem child, none of his family helped him and he ended living alone in a four pieces¡¯ apartment. Since his childhood, the generation he knows always played gamed. Even his parents and grandparents were playing game and were former streamers who became famous with time. Thus, he was also passionate of games like his family. Finishing his work late, he was really in bad mood. Normally, today he asked for a day-off, but since even his superiors were playing the dream of emeralds, he ended up working overtime and left the restaurant at half past eleven. Waiting inside the bus for his stop, he was writing on Whutsapp to his guild mates, complaining about his bad day. Ash: My superiors added me works and left me alone while preparing for the patch¡­ I ended up working for them for free and I¡¯m missing so much levels today! I¡¯m so mad! Kenny: Lol. John: I also had a lot of meetings tomorrow...I played for only two hours at least. QQ Eliza: You too?! My boss even added a monthly bonus to my salary so I accepted but you got nothing¡­ R.I.P lol. Jorge: That¡¯s why you didn¡¯t log in earlier tonight! I was waiting for you dude! Tell me when you¡¯re online. A lot of texts was appearing one by one from his guild mates. It was an active guild that Ash joined since he started the game and was quite good with them. They even met several times in real life to celebrate special occasion. It was a place where Ash could really feel like himself. He launched his playlist and put his phone back in his pocket, noticing that it was his stop, he left the bus and headed back home. Once he entered inside his apartment, he decided to eat something before playing. He didn¡¯t eat anything until lunch so he was quite hungry. He prepared the rice and started cooking.Unauthorized usage: this tale is on Amazon without the author''s consent. Report any sightings. It was already 23:55 when he finished eating. Since he had work overtime today, he had three days-off and was going to enjoy them. He quickly set his virtual reality machine and log inside the game. He sat on the virtual reality machine and put the helmet. The machine started processing and several messages appeared on the command system board.
23:59:00 Initializing¡­Connected! Account: Ash Belvan.
23:59:05 Updating for the new patch, please wait a moment...
00:00:00 Error! A problem had occured. Restarting the program...
00:00:05 Error! A problem had occured. Automatically connecting to the game...
Ash was at a loss for words. He played yesterday without problem. His guild mates also installed the patch without problem and played the game while he was still working. He decided to report the problem to the support client later, once he entered in the game since restarting the machine won¡¯t really be useful because even after restarting the program, the system still didn¡¯t work. After few minutes of waiting, his body started to shine and he suddenly appear in a bright place. In front of him, a sculpture made in stone that he knows very well. Ash lift his head and look at the 2-meter-tall statue. It was the statue of Master Zek, a legendary character in the dream of emerald. Recognizing the statue, he looks around and noticed that he was at the beginner place! Hepanicked and quickly touch a small icon on the border of his vision, his status, inventory and equipment appeared in front of him.
Name: Ash
Race: Human
Class: Ninja
Jobs: None
Level: 1
Health: 100
Mana: 0
Qi: 0
Chakra: 200
Strength: 9
Agility: 15
Vitality: 7
Wisdom: 4
Intelligence: 6
Endurance: 3
Luck: 13
Ash was shocked! All his stats, levels and equipment had disappeared! He was only a beginner level 1 Only his character remained. He searches the support client but strangely didn¡¯t find the icon. The icon for leaving the game was also gone and his friend list was blank. What the f*ck is happening¡­? Ash couldn¡¯t accept the fact that he suddenly lost everything, he couldn¡¯t send a support ticket and on the top of that he couldn¡¯t even log off! ¡®Is this the so-called death game event like novels stories?¡¯ Ash thought. He couldn¡¯t understand what was happening and why it was happening to him from all of the people on Earth?! Dazzling in front of the statue, a women voice resounded behind him. ¡°You are the newcomer that want to become a ninja right?¡± Ash turned his head and a beautiful girl appeared in his view. She had long dark brown hair attached to a ponytail and dark green eyes with charming pink lips. Her beautiful pink red kimono with black bands was attracting the views of the commoners who stopped after watching her attire. Dumbfounded by her beauty, Ash couldn¡¯t help but gulped. He recognized that women. She was Akali, the teacher of the ninja class which learn you all the basics of how to play a ninja back in the tutorial of the dream of the emerald! Did she just say newcomer? Crap! Don¡¯t tell me I need to really start again from scratch? Noticing that Ash was looking at her with shocking eyes and was remain silent, she continued. ¡°Follow me, I will explain you the academy¡¯s rules on the way, but we need to reach the Ninja¡¯s village first.¡± Without wasting any time, she walked towards the exit of the beginners'' town. It can¡¯t be helped¡­ I hope they will fix the problem fast¡­ Ash sighed and with an ugly face followed the women who¡¯s back was already far away. Chapter II The village¡¯s secret The dream of emeralds was the first MMORPG to succeed to give emotions to the NPC, thus, making it popular amongst the people and shocked the world. Not only that, even the quality of the environment and even the 5-human senses itself were too shocking. One could not realize that he was in a virtual reality if he was sent without knowing in the game. Back in the beta-test, streamers who tested the beta-test was taken aback from the huge differences in quality compared to others virtual reality MMORPG. They explained that the feeling inside this game compared to all the virtual reality games until now couldn¡¯t be found anywhere else. The feeling of the wind, the feeling of hunger, the pain from receiving a hit, everything was so real that all the testers could only note 5 as the best game they ever played. Ash Belvan was also one of them. His parents received the beta-test, thus he also tested the game before it opening. Recalling the beta-test tutorial who was still having bugs issues, he was looking at Akali¡¯s back and followed her for now around thirty minutes. The memories of the ninja school teacher Akali from Ash weren¡¯t detailed. The few moments with her was only on the earlier level, thus, after reaching level thirty, Ash didn¡¯t know what happened to her. The only information he knows about Akali was her level, her serious attitude and few of her skills. The ninja¡¯s village was situated only six kilometers away from the beginners¡¯ town, thus, it took around an hour of easy walk to reach the village. Akali¡¯s pace was fast, so they were faster than usual. It was only after 300 meters away from the village that Akali decided to ask something related to the ninjas¡¯ academy to Ash and slow down her peace. ¡°We¡¯re going to reach the village soon. I¡¯m going to show you around then we¡¯ll register to the ninja academy.¡± Finishing her sentence, she went ahead alone and talked to the guards who were patrolling the ninja¡¯s village¡¯s entrance. Ash who was slowly coming next to them noticed their strange glances. ¡®This is strange¡­ The first time I came there, they weren¡¯t looking at me with those eyes¡­¡¯ Ash was accosted to those hateful eyes from the people since young. He was causing a lot of troubles to the people in his family thus, they were all looking with him with the same hateful eyes for more than ten years. Ash didn¡¯t succeed back in college, so he had been beaten quite hardly by his older brothers, aunts and uncles because of how much troubles he had caused to his parents, making him leave the house after his failure in college and live in an apartment instead. Thus, he secluded himself in the world of gaming because of that, and didn¡¯t meet those eyes hateful eyes not even once until now...Support the creativity of authors by visiting Royal Road for this novel and more. He knows that every NPC had their own values of thoughts depending the player, but it was the first time meeting them since his character had been reset, so they shouldn¡¯t have any negative thoughts towards him. Wondering about what he did wrong to them, Akali lead him inside the village. What Ashe didn¡¯t know in that time, was that it was all a misunderstanding¡­ * * * * * * The traitor fled away with 200 hundred forbidden scrolls of our Valoran academy and why the hell I must to guide a damn newcomer in the village instead?! At first, I accepted master Zek¡¯s request because I respected him, but why me, Akali the Fist of Shadow must to do such a meaningless mission such as guiding a newcomer inside our village? Right now, as we speak, this traitor Zed must be learning all the forbidden techniques and form a rebellion against us, so why are we peacefully letting him go without doing anything? On the top of that, from now on we¡¯re going to recruit and form newcomer to become a ninja? This is really a funny joke, right? As I was thinking such madness thought of the guy who was following me, he was unexpectedly rather calm after noticing all the hateful eyes from the villagers. Honestly, our villagers hated most of people outside the village. Even me, back in the time, when I had been adopted by master Zek¡¯s daughter, Zenith, my adoptive mother. I was still a child and had been found near the village unconscious. At first, it took me more than 2 years for winning their trust and became part of the village¡­ Thinking back about master Zek¡¯s decision of letting newcomers inside the village, I could only sigh and show around. After reserving a room in the inn near the academy, I introduced the newcomer to my friend Kennen and directed towards the observation tower, the only place that can relax me and make me feel at ease. It was a special place for me that the whole village know, it was my favorite place. The gentle breeze, the nostalgia of my first time there and the remembrance of my dear adoptive mother¡­ All these complicated feelings swallowing inside my stomach, the hateful feeling towards Zed and at the same time the unforgivable sin I¡¯ve done¡­ I can¡¯t forgive myself for helping Zed to betray master Zek, even now, the lingering feeling still remained after all this time. You may forgive me, but I can¡¯t¡­ What should I do? What is the correct thing to do? I know it very well. I¡¯m just running away with the thought of now knowing it. While looking at the beautiful sky, footsteps could be heard from behind me. ¡°So, you were there Akali¡­¡± An old and recognizable voice reach me. Turning my head, I motivated myself and spoke. ¡°It was the place where mother love more than anything else that¡¯s why¡­¡± Master Zek, who was also my adoptive grandfather walk next to me and with a sigh said. ¡°It¡¯s time for you to forget the past and live correctly your life¡­ don¡¯t be blinded by the thirst of revenge and just live as you wish. It was my daughter¡¯s wish after all¡­¡± Even though he said those lines, master Zek knows my personality thus, he didn¡¯t insist further and looked at me. Since I lost my mother, He knows that I¡¯m always there when I¡¯m filling sad or reproachful to myself. That¡¯s why today, he knows that I¡¯ll be there. ¡°Don¡¯t take all the blame for yourself. It was also my fault. As a chief leader, I, didn¡¯t lead you correctly and make a foolish mistake to freed my brother Zed from his sceal¡­¡± ¡°Don¡¯t say such foolish things! If not for master Zek¡¯s decisions, our clans could have been destroyed!¡± I know that he¡¯s blaming himself since mother¡¯s death and also punished himself for that, thus, it was heartbroken for me to also blame him. Looking at the beautiful red sky and the sun that was setting, I swear in my name that I will kill you and take my revenge in a thousand folds.