《Rivers of Niflheim Online》


 Chapter 0 - P1 - 10 Years Ago

    10 Years earlier


    *Slam*


    The judge slammed his hammer to make his declaration known


    ¡°I hereby sentence Victoria and Alexandra Crawford to life imprisonment¡±


    Around the room was an air which could start a tornado, take for instance the Defence Attorney and the defendants they were devastated, sad and all-around gloomy. While the prosecutor was rather happy and the plaintiff even more so. Though because nobody chased anybody around a tornado would not occur but a strange air was made, an air which would make you wonder why such the mixed feelings?


    It was because nearly the whole ordeal was rigged. A certain girl had done something to annoy a certain powerful politician. The woman had a one night stand with this politician but the politician wanted more, he wanted a family.


    This is where the problem had arisen the woman has already got a husband so cannot have a relationship with the man. And as people who have power do, he got annoyed. Oddly enough not at the husband, no this was not jealousy for the husband but sympathy for the husband and anger at the woman.


    The politician devised a plan over many weeks to get back at the woman to no avail. Until something started. A string of murders which all the victims are single males started to happen. The series of events came to the knowledge of the politician and he had her accused of the murders.


    The politician had her at the scene of the crime with a weapon, a victim, and the police before she even knew about it.Unauthorized use of content: if you find this story on Amazon, report the violation.


    So as per usual rumors spread about it being a hoax and she did not really do it. All in the room taken in to consideration it was mostly half and half. One-half rather sad and able to shed a tear and the other with eyes as wet as a barren wasteland.


    Why would half the room cry it was simple. She had a son and he was 8, yes you may think ''boo hoo its nothing for people to cry about is it?'' in normal cases you probably would be right but everyone knew what the judge was about to say.


    ¡°All duties for taking care of the child will go to the father of said child and the mother will not be able to see and talk to her child lest he be tainted¡±


    For you see the prosecutions are taken very seriously deeming any criminal to be mentally unfit to do not very much at all so all rights for taking care of children were taken away. Then taking extreme measures to making sure anyone which could be influenced by them is taken away. In this case it was only her son, if she had been older her grandchildren, nieces and nephews would have been taken away from her also.


    The politician did not have a black heart though, he knew if he accused her normally she would be executed but in this country a rather odd law was in place that protects anyone from execution if another family member by blood is sentenced with them.


    This rather odd law stemmed from an old story about a nobleman standing up for a commoner of the capital who had been accused wrongly. The nobleman could not get executed for he was far too important so the execution was called off. Over time a rumor surfaced that the two were in fact related by blood though this was after the nobleman had married into the royal family so it is now seen as an attack on the royal family if someone is executed with a family member bound by blood sentenced with them.


    Somehow the politician made sure that the younger sister of the woman would be trialed for the same reason as the woman so she would not be executed so she may live the rest of her life lamenting about what she had done.


    As the two got escorted from the courtroom the woman could not look her husband and son in the eye. She just looked past them as if they were any other member of the audience attending.


    This made the man hollow inside he now knew that his wife cheated on him and was convinced that it was with many other men. He couldn''t believe what was said but it was confirmed by his wife not even looking at him for one last time...

 Chapter 0 - P2 - During the Many Years

    For the first year of our protagonist''s mother being imprisoned the father was very clingy towards his son trying to comfort him and himself. Though the feeling of discomfort could not be dispelled from his heart for you see the child was androgynous and would be sometimes mistaken for a girl, this reminded the father of his wife.


    His mother always liked his hair long, she thought it suited him. It was black hair that covered half of his back and seemed not to ever grow much more than that. He was pale for he could never really get a tan no matter how long he was outside in the sunlight for. He had facial features that was more attuned to his mother than his father, they were more subtle but made him look better than most girls his age.


    The only thing the son really got from his father was his emerald green eyes which could have been the only reason the father had not resented the child for being born to the woman.


    But the father was not strong willed enough to be okay with this tragedy that had beset them. After the first year he started to grow cold against the child. It was not that he started to be abusive against his son, he just was apathetic towards life.


    The child knew that his father was having a hard time and wanted to help his father in these times of need. So the child decided. He would study harder at school, he would get into a good college and then an even better University.


    The next few years his father acquired a drinking habit which kept him from his sorrow. Though effective he was becoming too drunk to cook and would have rather bad hangovers nearly everyday. He was still working but he would never get another promotion because his output was only on an average level and borderline bad at that after he got his drinking habit.


    After a few years the father could only afford for him to go to a school which was not too far because it was not a prestigious school at all so costs to go were relatively low.


    The next few years were full of hardships for the child and his father. Mainly finance hardships, due to his fathers now rather serious drinking habit the two would sometimes go without meals. Though it''s not like it mattered all too much about food. The father was too drunk to know he was hungry and the child had some friends that would give him some food at times.The narrative has been illicitly obtained; should you discover it on Amazon, report the violation.


    The child would not get too much food from his friends though because they did not know of his situation so could not help him because they did not think he needed help. To be completely honest the child didn''t think they would help even if he did ask them, being at the same high school meant either they want to keep a low profile or they were poor and there was not much in the way of crime in the city.


    The child gained three good friends in the first year of high school two boys and a girl. One of the boys was a very energetic outgoing person that you could see die before he was defeated by anything.


    The other boy was a more reclusive person that had a darkish aura about him but thought everything was cute from bunnies to hyenas nearly everything was cute in some way.


    Lastly the girl, she was the type to have a crush on any boy with short blonde hair, blue eyes, and a slender stature be it real life, books, television shows or video game characters.


    The child always tried his best to seem happy and normal but he was rather sad on the inside over an assortment of different things; poverty spanning all the way to how his skin colour wouldn''t change.


    Nine years after the imprisonment of the child''s mothers imprisonment he was not doing so well with finance and barely could afford to go to college but then it happened. His father finally got fired.


    Not like his father cared, he pretty much had already gave up on life after that day nine years go. What little money they had left was dwindling at a fast rate so as a last resort to keep living the child bought clothes and cosmetics as a way to keep money flowing.


    After he found he did not look like a man after applying makeup and wearing female clothing he went to the side streets, the corners and the red light district looking for a chance of survival. Fortunately, he did find a job which paid rather well. Though it was a brothel he did not mind it all that much if it was his only means of survival.


    The next year of college was rather hard to keep his school life and private life separated, though he managed. He could pay the rent and go to college while his father lazily ''looked'' for a job.


    The boy did have a few rather *cough cough* close encounters with the two male friends at his workplace but somehow they did not notice, though that did not calm the child''s mind.

 Chapter 1 - Did you hear?

    It was lunch time for our protagonist and he was sitting with his friends in a local Fast Food Restaurant named ''Friendly Finn''s Fantastic Foodstuffs and Feasts'' which they would go to on a weekend if time allowed.


    *Our Protagonist''s POV (Earl Crawford (Earl as in the name, not the title))*


    ¡°Did you hear? ¡­ Stupid question of course you did!¡± - Ivor (Energetic Male Friend)


    ¡°What...¡± - Drew (Gloomy Male Friend)


    ¡°The new 99% realism game is coming out tomorrow! HOLY SHIT I CANT WAIT!¡± - Ivor


    ¡°Watch your profanity... Anyway who cares, its just a stupid game anyway¡± - Freya (Female Friend)


    ¡°But Freya, I heard that there will be a race of blonde hair, blue eyes only...¡± - Drew


    Freya''s eyes lit up at the words of the latter part of the sentence


    ¡°Where, How, What, Why, and When?¡± - Freya


    We all just chuckled at her obsession with those sort of men.


    ¡°Calm down, it comes out tomorrow. Your family is very well off and we all have been saving for months you know. We can get the consoles today and the game will be able to be played tomorrow, okay?¡± - Me


    What I said was not a lie, I had been working extra shifts and coming home later to get this game. I just hope that it works just how they say it does... I mean it is a government project so it should be all it was hyped up to be.


    I mean it is sort of strange that the government so much money on something to help with the sufferers of the recent epidemic of a disease that causes severe photodermatitis* so they can''t come into contact with sunlight.


    Perhaps a rich man''s child got infected so maybe they are funding it. Who knows...


    ¡°So, what are we waiting for huh?! We have to get there to get it so we can get an early night to rest so we can play all day tomorrow!¡± - Freya


    We all nodded at her last comment even though it came from a whole different train of thoughts.If you spot this tale on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation.


    We walked to our local gaming store that had shelves and shelves of high-tech goods and terabytes of happy pills.


    Me, Drew, and Ivor all pre-ordered ours so it was cheaper in the long run because you could pay in installments; so it was just a case of collecting our goods. While Freya called her Butler to come and pay for it.


    We all agreed to go home afterward because it was getting rather late, sadly I still had work to do though so I went to my workplace instead.


    I got changed in the small locker room they kept for the boys who work here. It was skimpy and would hardly cover my love but at least the customers knew what they were paying for.


    It took me servicing three people before I got to go home with enough money for the week.


    I got back and saw my father passed out on the couch with the tv still on and a half-empty bottle in his hand. I turned everything off and put the lid back on the bottle and put it on the counter in the kitchen.


    I fell asleep and slept for around 10 hours until about 11 o''clock to play the game. My friends and I did not agree when we would come on so I thought 11 was an ok time to start.


    I put on the headgear which ran off brain waves altered them and fed them back into your head first putting you in a coma-like state and then starting to run the game.


    I was standing in a small, black room with an exact copy of me on the other side of the room. A voice rang throughout the room saying


    ¡°Welcome to Rivers of Niflheim Online. Character creation process starting...¡±


    ¡°Starting life analysis¡±


    Hmm? Why is that?


    I''m no law student but do we not have a privacy law...


    ¡°Life analysis complete. Remodeling avatar based on analysis...¡±


    Err what?


    ¡°Remodeling complete. Please choose a name. Do also note that names must be either affixed to a gender or gender-neutral. Example: You may not call a Female Elf Archer Keith¡±


    A screen popped up with my status


    Name: ______


    Job: Tavern Owner


    Race: Succubus


    Gender: Female


    Base Health: 4000


    Base Magic: 2000


    Base Strength: 74


    Base Intelligence: 68


    Base Charisma:804


    Base Dexterity:97


    Base Luck:200


    Racial Traits:


    People Person ¨C Your presents will charm the people around you to be open to the power of suggestion. 50% Better prices and +5% per second battle health regen for party members.


    Dependant on life ¨C Being alone will bring all of your stats to 10 including health and stamina if you are alone (50-meter radius) for 1 hour.


    Special Traits:


    Defender ¨C You may only attack those who harm you or a party member. Base stats are 10x when attacker is another player, 3x when normal, or elite monster, 5x when boss monster or 40x when world boss monster.


    Confirm


    Wait I''m a girl?


    Why... Can I change it?


    ¡°Changing character model costs 30,000 of out-game currency.¡±


    Okay, that''s a no then.


    I mean it''s not all bad. I have red skin with black hair which goes halfway down my back and horns growing towards the back of my head, with a face and body most women would die for with a large bust, a tucked in waist, plump behind, and I''m quite slim despite this.


    I type my name as Alexandria and then click confirm.


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