《Merchant Contract》 Monologue Gramea Tech build by single person, heralded as genius, as second Einstein, as the real world Tony Stark and many other moniker, his name is James Yang. The company start from small garage company locate in his house in San Francisco. For 10 years, it then turn into one of those gigantic giant of technology company. Every years there would be always big improvement of technology they released. The Technology field Such as CPU, memory, data storage and some software are making print in history. But a journey is not always sweet, someday it would definitely come to end and usually it would tasted bitter. Without notice, one day emerge board meeting to decide to take CEO position from him. Even with his 10% of share, he can''t overrule the decision. Many belief, he would use his share at least to get position in board but the decision he made, make quite shock to many people and company as well, because he sell all remaining of his share. 3 years later he make deals with military to do some project. The project purpose is to make military personnel training got less in time but give more effective result. Some ask are the project about super soldier, but he denied it right away and made statement that it would more applying the deep immersion system of virtual reality. That news are like wildfire wide spread like no other day, because total immersion of virtual reality is still novelty and now James Yang the super genius would work on it, hype across the world are incited. But some people are still skeptical about the experiment result because after few decade of other project related to virtual reality, there are no big achievement such stated on many popular science fiction novel. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience. Summer 2042 like any other season before the Gaming World Technology Conference are held. But one company that make headline sink any other achievement made by other company. GT Tech announce that they already achieved on making second generation virtual reality machine. They are already available and they can be ordered. The official news stated that the 1st machine that military used are cost around $100.000 and now the 2nd generation just cost 1/10 from the first one. You can buy it with $3000 and 10 years of subscribing to the game or just use credit card and voila it done. And those year James Yang made another mark in the history. Prolog At one corner of the world, a certain man is crying nonstop. His name is Michael Santoso. He is now crying like a baby not because he sad or lost something important, but he is very happy or excited to be correct because one of his biggest dream come true today. Deep immersion system of virtual reality are already made. When he was still younger, he like to read many novel or light novel to be exact. And virtual reality are prevalent theme among any other. The theme he read is quite broad, it ranged from reincarnation to other world, high fantasy with reincarnation, transported to another world, magic are real in real world and off course virtual reality. Some of light novel that he read and gave him deep impression are Sword Art Online, Legendary Moonlight Sculptor, Overlord, The Amber Sword, Forgotten Conqueror, Irregular High School Magician and Slip Hero. He was dreaming that someday, he would be able to played the virtual reality and go to adventure inside the virtual world too. Right now, his age are 54 years old, divorced 2 years ago after 15 years marriage and his son would go to college this years. Right now, he is working on government education agencies. With his subordinate, he supervise the last project on his career because he would submit early retirement this month, even his retirement are schedule to be happen just next year or in six month to be precise. His strategy are making some excuse like accelerating the regeneration on the agencies so younger generation would be able to get the experience earlier or if that not working he will thinking other thing that would be popped up of his head later. Probably he would got nagging from his superior but he would endure because his dream would be achieved. From 24 years of works in government institution he already amass quite a sum of fortune, he co-founder a multimedia company with his brother. It wasn''t much, but at least it can give his son fund to finish his college and still can do some stuff. What make he worry are result from his shady income. The tip he got from company that win government auction project. The sum not that great, but it always give his a headache whenever he think about it origin. So he put it on overseas in borrowed name. He pray he would never caught because he used some affiliate firm from renown law firm that deals with those stuff daily. He think he would never use those fund but if emergency arise, he would take those fund then pay some fee to affiliate firm and the source of fund would be clean. If nothing happen, he would just donate it to government later. He isn''t proud because of it and he just go with the flow. Even he can''t boast that he do great job on his institution but he at least do acceptable jobs. This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there. But before retiring, he would has to secure one virtual machine first. Using all his resource from money, status and off course his connection, he was able to get one of the first batch of second generation virtual machine. With all those hustle, he payed some small fee to his acquaintance that dealing with his request, and wait for a week for the package to arrive to his address. In the meantime he would collect some information that available about the game. The official name for the machine is to long so the community gave it nickname capsule it derived from it shaped that like tube. The information he got are scarce, some are from official teaser video that have 10 minute duration and other are from some first user that lucky enough to be able to play the game on exhibition in game conference. There are other source about earlier version and it came from military personnel. From their testimony, the first generation are taste like hell. Because sometime it give side effect like pain level that are too high or sometime give us nausea and other are delay in our response because our body action isn''t synchronize with our brain yet after enter virtual space. But the following year, the experience they''re describe was 180 degrees from before. It was like bliss and all side effect are gone. And the good news, the overall result from experiment is satisfactory. This group are one of few group that bought it straight away when the capsule are available. Not too useful but it give small glimpse about the virtual world. From the first user, they mention that the game background are a virtual world called ATLAS and the player first spawn place is city called Valhalla. It''s located in immortal plane, it is not known if other plane existed. The ambiance got from video teaser and discussion from first user that the world technology represent medieval technology but a lot modern resemblance can be found and fuel all of those technology are magic. There no manual and you can do almost anything in city from train, do some odd job, reading in library, cooking, gathering resource or just stroll in the city to appreciate the scenery. People don''t know what their action would effect their class in the game later because they don''t have time to seen what next. Other are dubious information without confirmation from other player. Uhmm, the urge of impatience spurt within him, because the first batch capsule would be delivered one week from the payment confirmation. The waiting is killing him inside, but he must endure. Because, his long live dream will become reality. Chapter 1 X X X X X Michael POV One month have been already passed, next week my resignation will be in effect. On this weekend, there will be gathering with my superior and other colleague. We chatting until late night, some topic about my resignation and other about what we have been through so far together. We always help each other in thick and thin situation. You can say, we are brother in arms in this agency. This circle has been already made from long time ago and no one know from when it has been establish. The baton has been relayed from old generation to new one. If you want to uproot it, you will need a revolution. My successor has been chosen. I hope that he will do a good job. In this field, if you''re greed is too large and uncontrollable just to fill your vanity than you''re destined to be doom. A lot of my colleague already go to jail for their deeds. In the midnight, i bid my farewell. Some of them invites in second round, but i insisted to reject their offer. We already quite old so we must take care of our fifty years old body. Even with the advent of stem cell therapy that make people still looks younger but a lot still died in their 60 or 70. Some speculate it is the god will and some other said they just reach their expiration date. I believe that it is already written in our genes, so how hard we make our body healthier and younger but it still wouldn''t be able defy programming on our genes. Walking on sidewalk, i feels the wind in summer night touch my skin. I feel a chill and hoping that i wouldn''t catch a cold. Quickly, i call a taxi with app and few minutes later a taxi already waiting me. i open the passenger door and lie down there. Access my phones for the destination and the taxi moves smoothly, i don''t any bump on the way. I praise many advancement technologies that help our life to lives easier. Arrive at my house then looked at my watch, it already passes midnight. Then decide to sleep right away after brush my teeth. "Michael..., Michael..., are you home?" My sister in-law calling me in Sunday morning, is there something happen? Lazily, I try to wake up and try to answer the call. "Yeah, I am home. is there something wrong?" I ask with my hoarse voice. Ahem. I was too much drink last night. It makes my throat dry and my stomach quite upset. Later, I must make and eat some hangover soup to ease my throat and stomach. "Ah nothing wrong, but there is package for you." Gathering my focus, I stand up and sprint to front door. Open it and I welcomed by the two people from package delivery company. I also see my sister in-Law beside them. "Hmm, does the package send today?" "Yes, it does sir. Are you don''t get the email notification?" One of the delivery man answered my question. Taking my phone on the couch then open my personal email. After searching email based on company name, some list shows up. It true that I get the email, but I never get the notification. I am changing some setting in my phone in order to activate the notification of my personal email. I must turn it off at a sometime before. I let them to set up my capsule and put it on the living room. My house is quite spacious, thanks to the minimum furniture. Yeah, simplicity is the best. After the installation is done the worker explain general usage of my capsule. I ask some question but they too have minimum knowledge about the game. I gave them some tip after the clean installation they done. Not wasting time, I open the lid right away. The Nano bed technology is give modern vibe. I don¡¯t know if the bed is same with the military used. The lighting is dim to not give strain to the eye. What stand out inside is the helmet. It covered our head completely and had a dark visor when it used. Based on the worker explanation, it was already set up and can boot normally. There is no other anomaly on power supply or the internet connection, so it would connect to the server smoothly. There would be no side effect if it used normally in accordance normal usage listed in the manual. The maximum spartan used is 2 days, if someone abused the usage, they would force to logout and unable to login for 2 days. It has function that left you sleep in deep sleep state. We can set it up while on the game or when we logout, so our brain will get the best rest available. The recommendation for our sleep is 5-8 hour, same as our normal sleep cycle. We can sleep in game but the result may vary from one person to other. And when you died on game, you will unable to login for 2 days too. I think, it was a procedure that set up to counter abused usage. The time dilation is 4 time than normal, it said it speed that our brain can work normally for long used in game. After some consideration to get maximum result, I decide to play from 17-18 hour. I would have had 2 break, to do small exercise and prepare some simple balanced meal before and after the game. Then, i would have sleep for 5-6 hour in deep sleep state function. Sitting on the edge of capsule then putting the helmet on my head. After lie down on the nano bed, some music playing in background when the lid closed. On my visor play some video like virtual google, don''t you said it just like that. Wasn''t it, it just like other virtual machines then. The bed adjusts to my body shape then I felt like my body sink deeper into the bed. After that, I hear a woman voice. The tone is pleasant, make a nice feeling when you hear it. "New user detected. Are you ready to login?"I answer the question quickly. "Yes." "Understood. Please wait for moment, for your body to be ready for deep system immersion." As my consciousness slip away, I close my eyes and then white light come to me. It is really bright that I must used my hand to cover my eyes. But, I quickly realized that I shouldn''t be able to use my hand to cover my eyes, because it would hit the visor. Am I on virtual world now? Wow, that quite fast and I grateful not disappoint quickly and take off my helmet. After the bright light ended, I arrive in some grey room. The shaped is cube and when move around, I always end up in the middle of the room, quite amusing. Suddenly, there are another bright light on my right but not bright as before to covered all of my vision. There stood a man quite young. His looks indicated that his age around 30 years. That on my standard, because with the latest medical advancement, we could look like 20 old years longer and stop at 30 or 40 old years on our final year. Off course those treatments isn''t cheap, but many people ready to take those treatments. And, I was one in those million. The government officer gets many benefit and those treatment one of them. Then that guy spoke to me. "Welcome to ATLAS adventure. My name is Serverius, the governor of virtual world." "Ahh, Sorry for my late response. My name is Michael." "Can I ask some question?" "Off course, you can." Such a mind blowing when they said that the NPC is looks like to human. Their expression is so vivid and I must agree to them. There is no difference when you converse with other normal people. I don''t know if out there had others AI. Probably true, maybe one of government secret project already achieved it but I don''t think it would available for the public. because the negative sentiment of AI still strong even for this era. Hmm, maybe I can got some game insight from him. "So, how the the game works, can you explain it?" "You must find that by yourself." I got some answer but not satisfying. What a headache game mechanic. "Then what the meaning from my question if there is no answer." "Haa.. ha... Here, there is nothing I can inform you. You must find yourself something you want in ATLAS, either from inhabitant of the world, books, relics or any other means. Is there any more question?" So it depends on us to unravel the information in this world. Yeah, information is always important for advancement. It is not rare if people will gather and tried to sold that information. But, because there is no way to prove it without tried out, you must find reliable source or you would have got a scam. Hopefully, I would find a dark gamer or stumble upon information where I can find trusted information. There is no benefit in dwelling with more question with him. At best,I would got some general if not dubious answer. "So what we must to do next?" "Then we proceed to character creation. On default the character would be representing your actual body and you only have 3 option to change. Off course if you wanted, you can change other with additional package you can buy separately." What a blasphemy. But, I understand logic behind it. There maybe someone out there that have not confidence in appearance or maybe just want to be more beautiful or just as random as want to create character that unique different from other user. And with the limited option to change it, those people must have bought those optional. In the end booth are happy, both side got what they wanted. But, I don''t play the game just for appearance or to became center of attention, but if there are merit on it why not. "Is there any benefit from those option?" "There is none, except from height that will give more reach. And each race would have minimum and maximum value on those option. Like example, Human height on default would go from 160 cm - 180 cm. If you want go lower or higher, you must use optional package." This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. And what with this sales act, it gives me some irk feeling. I do understand that they must get more sale and why not when you can hire something that you don''t need to pay it because it free one of the resource. Hmm, is there any option to give us boost from start. There always people who want to win, even if they must pay for it. I won''t do it excessively, but I want just to get head start from other. And I also have limited resource, not some of billionaire to able spare luxury thing. "Is there any package, to give us boost on our stat from beginning?" "There won''t. The stat would have same value for initial stage, but they would had their own racial trait. For example, I would open character creation to give you some insight" In front of me, now standing my avatar. It looks like yourself. It just like when you standing in mirror, except right now I see it in 3D. And beside it, there is some graph showing stat distribution. Below it, there is some racial trait and their information. I try slide the screen in front of me to change the race. Basically, there was 5 race, start from human, elves, dwarfs, beast man and lizard man. The stat is strength, agility, dexterity, vitality, endurance, soul defense, soul capacity and soul force. Hmm, after some time I got understanding. Basically the stat divide to two group physical and magical. It interesting that intelligent and wisdom not included. In standard game trove those stat would in magical department. When I think it, it gives me some silly thought. Without my notice, I giggle and small tear form in outer side of my eye. "Michael, Is there something funny?" "Oh, not really. I just stumble upon some funny fact." I can''t hold myself and laugh uncontrollable. I fall on my knee then lie down on the floor. I laugh move from left side to right side and rolling and rolling. Then, I share my view with Serverius. "If magician have intelligence and wisdom stat. When they level up they would put stat on it. When they don''t act intelligence or show some wisdom, it would be contradiction with their stat." "Ha... ha... Yes, indeed. Those are funny fact, indeed." I try calm myself and think some option to maximum my avatar effect. "Ah, Sorry. It''s okay now. I choose human race, the height is 180 cm. And give my body more muscle slightly. And last one, I want change the hair style." My height isn''t that high. Its only around 170cm and my body is lean. So, I made little improvement to get maximum effect from default option. If my height is too high, it would give us some trouble against some foe that have lower height. Except if you have mastery over melee range weapon like spear or similar, it would give you advantage in range. I want to add some change to my appearance but after some thought it better to made my avatar average. It would give me easier time to stay low far from people attention. If i were some important person from some renown guild maybe it would give some try. It would give effect to my presence and even our charisma to other player. But i think, i would do more solo than party. if those activities too hard to do myself, I would tag along to some party later. After those resolve, I confidently finish my character creation and ready to plunge to ATLAS. "I am done, so send me to ATLAS now." "I am very sorry but the server is not open yet. You must wait for tomorrow morning in 8 o''clock for your country time zone." It very disappoint unable to login to the straight away. But i have benefit too, i would clean house and prepare some meal and do some light exercise. Then to do some proper preparation for tomorrow. "So what time is now ?" "You logging here for around thirty minutes, so in real time it just barely through 8 minute." "Can we change this room. I think, it too gloomy now." "Yes we can, but there would be another charge. Don''t worry, this charge is one time only. The price is $10 per theme. And there would be charge for complementary package such as interior and other option." Yes, sure. There would be some more, the capsule and subscription fee is already killing me. And now is must buy other thing. "Is there any adult entertainment here?" "Yes we have. But there are some contract and other requirement that need your inspection and need to be fulfilled." I am dying here. But after some consideration, it better to fulfill your desire that are impossible to achieve in real world. Yeah, maybe it better that way, but I don''t too sure about it. I would just leave that matter. "I think that I would choose smiting, dojo, sewing, sculpting and outdoor training." "Please wait for moment your order being processed." The bright light appears one by one from my left to right. My dull room changed to compound of several productions based job that I have been requested. I don¡¯t think that I would change to master craftsman over one night, but I would do some basic and level up along the way. Then, I make some alteration from the default package like smith is more western oriented. The dojo not only have bamboo sword, wooden sword and katana, I added some saber, short sword, long sword and rapier. The sewing place has manual and simple automatic machine. And the sculpting area have all diverge from older time like carving and modelling but also welding. and I am also order some basic tutorial from all of them. "The total of your purchase is $150, and the billing will send to your email." "Okay. Then, first I will try sword fighting." I set up the alarm to 12 o¡¯clock. Even, if I will immerse in training I wouldn¡¯t skip my lunch. has four times more time to exercise is a really big advantage. After trying learning footwork and tried some slashing, I do some real practice against shadow opponent that I activated in other package. The first match against noob level, I got some fifty-fifty change on winning and losing. After, I chose higher skill then I beaten badly. After 20 minutes¡¯ practice there would be 10 minutes¡¯ recovery and review on the battle I done. It was a nice feature because it will give insight and how to improve. After tried all sword I have, I move to sewing place. Trying many sewing technic and tools, but also different material from cloth, leather and do some simple broidery. Unexpectedly, the sewing activity not to boring like I thinking before. Even the result is unpleasant but because time flew fast before I knew it, it was nice experience. When the lunch time arrive, I log out and prepare some simple cooking. With the help of automatic appliances all done at least eatable. I am eating and ordering some longsword, rapier and katana for training in real life. I decide not dive straight away but doing some chores and set up order for daily necessities and my sister in laws called me for dinner later in the evening. I am continuing my activities in virtual after I done preparing my stuff. In smiting, I am trying to make some ingot and trying to recognize the result. After that, I am trying to do some simple knife making, result in many failures. Even when succeed the result is horrible, if not brittle sometime it was some and easily bend after trying to cut or throwing. Then, trying some wood sculpting resulting some prehistoric figurines with dubious representation of human body. Maybe I could have classified in abstract style. Ha.. and maybe some people will buy it in tremendous sum. After take bath I go to my brother place and have dinner together. My sister in laws cooking is superb. The taste good and the dish she make varied a lot. I can see in my brother face some troubled expression he has. ¡°Have you must to retire early, Michael?¡± ¡°Yeah. I have.¡± ¡°Yes, it true. But we don¡¯t something still can happen in future, you know.¡± ¡°Don¡¯t worry, I still have some benefit from the pension.¡± ¡°Hahh. Then take care for your health.¡± ¡°Off course.¡± ¡°Uncle, can I borrow it later?¡± ¡°Sorry, but I will use it frequently and there would be no break in between if no major happen.¡± ¡°Father, see it. I told you to bought it before. Now I can¡¯t play it with my friend.¡± ¡°Sorry son. but the queue is unbelievable, I already order it but it was on 4 batch so you must patient at least for month.¡± ¡°Haah.. one month.¡± With defeated face my nephew lost his appetite. I am sorry, even if it was my son request I would have denied it. ¡°Is it very that good, Michael?¡± ¡°Yes. It is. You can do not only gaming but other thing like gardening many flower from different region in one place. Or do some cooking there without buying real stuff.¡± ¡°Hmm. It looks like it would give us nice experience. I think, I would try it later.¡± ¡°Yeah. You must.¡± After the dinner, I am take shower and to dive in again to my capsule. Trying to do some more practice and set up deep state sleep on game. I set my alarm to 6 am in morning to prepare everything. I am doing faster from before but the result is not much improved. If the theory of 10000 hours¡¯ is correct. With just 4 month of real world time, I will get better result. After many training is done the alarm is ringing and I logout from my personal space and go in to deep state sleep. Chapter 2 The sound of alarm wake me up. Looking at the clock, it still 6 am. There is no difference between sleeping here or in normal bed. my body even feel more energized. The deep state sleep totally beneficial. I think insomnia would be only in history now. Changing my pajama to tracking suit and put it on the bin, my autonomous appliance moved it to washing machine to start washing it. The pinnacle of technology now days is autonomous machines that make our live easier. Some will argue that it was one way of government to try to control us, but there always catch in everything. For me, this technology is convenient. I don''t need to think to clean my house, to washing my cloth or to cooking a meal, even it can be live safer. Imagine if you live alone and got heart attack then autonomous will contact nearest hospital and medic will come to rescue us. And there is many other benefit which i can''t say one by one. The pro is outweighs the cons and for me that end of discussion. Preparing the meal with autonomous, it gives me strange feeling. Because my generation is transition before autonomous become wide spread and sometimes i miss feeling work it together with my ex-wife. Haah, there is nothing can change true nature of human relation, but depressed of spoiled milk will do anything. Set up the option to message me when the cooking done, i am readying myself to my light exercise. The cool morning breeze touch my skin. It such long time that i do an outdoor exercise again. Usually i gone to local gym to do 1 to 2 hour simple workout. There are many other that jogging here in the neighborhood. This residential are one area that many middle class live in, so many of them are aware of healthy lifestyle. From young to old, from man to woman, I see a lot of them doing jogging. some of young are used revealing clothing, ahh sure it pleasing for man eyes. Arrive at park, I am doing some relaxation movement then going some round of run. When message from home come in, i am straight way back home. Opening the door, I can smell the nice scent of the meal that I prepared before. Taking towel and wipe out the sweat on my face and body. Then put my tracking suit on the bin so my body can cool down much more faster. Digging on my meal, take gulp after another, the taste is quite good. I wonder how the machine can cooks better than me. I get such defeated feeling. Turn on the TV, I am searching for news on the net regarding ATLAS but nothing new come up. Quickly taking shower, so i can make my body feel fresh after jogging and ready to dive in. After dive in, I logging to my personal space. Looking at the real world time, i got still some time for training. I think for now, i will concentrating on my footwork and sewing skill because it was my best skill i can learn so far. Set up the alarm, i am starting to learn as best as i can. Then a window appear in from of me. It say it is some little tutorial of using menu before going to game. It can be trigger several ways, you can just called it or hand gesture but basically just think to called it the window will appear. It convenient ways . There is five tabs in menu, It shows us information from Status, Equipment, Inventory, Option and Login or Logout tab. I try to change from one tab after another to familiarize with it. "The server will open in few moment, before that you must set up account name and ATLAS name. What name do you choose?" No need long time, i choose my usual name in game."FreedomAce for Account name and Michael for ATLAS name." "FreedomAce for Account name and Michael for ATLAS name, Are you sure this correct?" "Yes." "The server is ready. Do you want to login?". I take a depth breathing and said"Yes." "You''ll be transferred to ATLAS and may your dreams came true." What nice encouragement from sweet young woman voice but the light is so blinding. Is it mandatory to do those damn bright light. After the light subsided, i am standing in the middle of plaza. Many other light appear and player shows up one after another. Some in daze, admire the scenery, building, NPC and smell of fresh air. The air is very refreshing and not have pollutant, even in grain. You would only get this kind of air if you not going to mountain or forest. Some other move scattered in many different ways. Maybe trying to get ahead of important information for themselves. Some other looks like checking their menu, i decide to open my menu too then checking for my Status.
Status
NameMichaelRaceHuman
Level1Gendermale
Money0 Gold 0 Silver 0 Copper
Health100Stamina100
Health Recovery0.1 / secondsStamina Recovery0.1 / seconds
Mana100Fatigue0%
Mana Recovery0.1 / secondsFatigue Recovery0.01% / seconds
Strength10Soul force10
Agility10Soul Defence10
Dexterity10Soul Capacity10
Endurance10Soul Flow10
Stamina10Vitality10
Title
n/a
Occupation
n/a
Skill
Activen/a
Pasiven/a
After satisfied looking on status, then i checking the inventory. What i found there is only a canteen. Going out from menu, i see four bar Health, Mana, Stamina and Satiety. I deeply sighed. Because from the start, we must do survival test. Moving to fountain, there is stood statue of some renowned figures. I assume that way because his armor is so splendor. Closing in, I can see that the sculpting quality is superb. The sculpting detail, proportion and engraving are so good. I bet the sculptor preparing this very meticulously, because i can''t find any defect. The equipment it used are the best quality that you can get. Many user will use this image as their final form for knight based character. But, the cape turn me down. I know a lot of people would say that it was a romance to used cape in role play but for me it meh.
The Statue of Hero W''rn Hywt
One of 10 great defender of City of Immortal in 2nd Demonic Spirit Invasion happen 1200 years ago. Originated from kingdom D''mot, one of 3 great kingdom in the west at the time. He was able to make one small kingdom to rise to challenge hegemony in saturated west region. Many field flourish in his reign, specially the navy. With his navy many, he secured trading route on the sea that origanated from east to central sea or vice versa. Not many able to withstand his power that blessed by god of war aria. Wether the war happen in land or sea there many record of his winning. A case of literary theft: this tale is not rightfully on Amazon; if you see it, report the violation. Invited by Angel Spirit, he with many king and hero make second Great Alliances to repel Demonic Spirit. Immortalized by Demetrius of Alopece from Mycenaean for his huge contribution. But, it was also the cause of the fall D''mot Kingdom. Because he was one of pillar for his country, whe he gone many conflict inside and outside weaken the kingdom. Artistic quality Magnum Opus Artistic value 121,916 Bless of Goddess Aria For a day your health rise for 33% and health regeneration rise for 30% For a day your mana rise for 24% and mana regeneration rise for 18% Stamina uses and fatigue accumulation lower for 30% Your leadership rise for 34%
For your appreciation and enjoyment of fine art, your got 609 art stat
hmm, some nostalgic mechanic here. It follow historical system used in LMS. But, i wouldn''t follow weed footstep here. Maybe for real world sculptor or related art jobs that goal is doable. But for everyday user, it would be really hard. Need determination and hard work to achieve this level. Not only time but also the cost is possible high. I do some scuplting workout in my personal space but it was not my main purpose. Finnish admiring the statue, I taking out the canteen and dip in the clear water in the fountain. I try to drink it immediately. The taste is superb, really refreshing with every drop of water in our throat. I wish that i could drink this water in real life.
Blessed Water
For duration of 1 day, yours mana rate recovery increases for 30%. Carefully, even thought the water was blessed but excessive drinking would cause stomachache.
A notification is show up. Very interesting, the water flowing here is blessed. I check my status again. Before my mana recovery rate is 0,1/s, after see the statue up to 0.13/s now the rate go up to 0,17/s. Right now, the result is negligible but later with this buff will give big differences. I am decide to ask NPC for simple task or quest. Not just asking some random NPC, I must ask some reliable source. And reliable source in beginner city is a guard. Observing the surrounding plaza, i am trying to find for the guards but not avail. But I finds some people with a high level armor. Are those guys guards in this city? Maybe yes, the city wasn''t called city of immortal that don''t have those shiny armor. To clear my doubt, i approaching one of the guard and asking them. "Excuse me, sir. My name is Michael. Can i ask some question because i am new here?" "Yes, lad. Off course you can ask me. It a pleasure to help other adventures. And you can call me Statham." "Ah, thank you very much, sir Statham. What i want to ask, is there any works that would give some money or maybe food here?" "Haa... ha... No need to call me sir, just Statham." "Ahh, yes Statham, So, is there any jobs suitable for me?" "Hmm. There is no job that will give you money here. But if you want works here, you would get token instead. You can use it to trade with something you want. The most easy jobs that would give you sufficient token for a day is in the west gate. There you will find wall construction. If you go there and ask captain Morgan to take the jobs you will get some token. Just said, Statham send you. He would accept your request." "So can which direction is it ?" "West is in this direction. Just follow the road and you will arrive at west gate." "Thank you, Statham. I will go there now. See you later." "Yeah, see you later too, Michael." On my journey, i see random player get scold by NPC. "What a quest? With those meager power you to get quest. First you must train your body and soul to achieve hero level then ask me again, kid." "Ehh... Sorry. So what i must do then?" "Why not help me with this goods. Move it to the warehouse on back of my shop." With gleaming eyes and smirk on his face, the merchant openly exploit that player. You must careful with your action to not get scam. I don''t know if the reward from that merchant would enough compared the player effort. I sigh deeply, and pray that player would be okay. I can''t just meddle into another person problem. If those don''t give good payback then goodbye. Step a side from the street, i am searching a suitable place. On gap between building that not many passerby, i doing some warm up movement. Many onlooker seeing my action with weird expression. some let it by, other look musing by it. After finish all movement set and stretching movement a notification show up.
Warm up
Novice 1
For set of movement you do, you would get less muscle injury. Muscle injury rate lower for 5%.
Stretching 1
Novice 1
For set of movement you do, you would get less muscle injury. Muscle injury rate lower for 5%.
Combo
Its very important for people combatant, farmer even housewives to do some warm up and stretching before they doing their chores. For combo you done, you would get less muscle injury. Muscle injury rate lower for 15%.
I get two skill. So my movement recognize as two different action. I don''t know the difference. I just do those movement, because that was what my elementary school teacher teach me. I even compress it in order to be concise. Hmm, doing some actions to create combo to give bonus point. I thinks, i must doing a lot of experiment to find more mechanic in this game. And there is level on my skill. So when i level up the skill the effectiveness would increase too. I don''t know if this skill would useful later, but it was still a good information for me. After that, i am running until reach the destination. I trying to evade some passerby. More notification show up. But i just dismiss it. After the west gate looks closer, i lower my speed and lastly walking leisurely. In my observation, after running for entire 20 minutes, my stamina decrease rapidly. Now the level is on 20%. After walking around 15 minutes a reach west gate. It really humongous, each gate width around 20 meters and the height around 40 meters. Really awe inspiring structure and how they did this marvel. With those many information just for brief moment i play, it quite overwhelming, but it was also exciting. I can''t wait for more for my next adventure. ### Sorry for late update. i lost my last week draft and got sick in saturday and sunday. Hopefully you enjoy this story too.