VRMMO Brink

Fateful encounter?

"Hey! You there, yes you Mister with the gimpy-weird leg. Uwahh~ your hand looks weird as well. Did you not go to a doctor?"

"What? You were the rudest person I've ever met this month."

"Ehh? So there is one that ruder than me last month? That's new, anyway, I'm Rudy."

"Rudy, from rude right? Just like your name you really do represent your name perfectly. So what do you want?"

"Did you believe in a superpower? Tell you what. I have one of those so-called superpowers and my power is Future Sight. Awesome right? I know I'm awesome from birth. Oi! Don't just walk away while someone is talking. That's rude you know."

What is wrong with this dude? Who wouldn't know that our lives were judged by either the power or the money one holds.

"Rude!? That's super weird coming out of your mouth. What do you want?"

"Didn't I tell you before that my power is future sight and it means I can see the future be it close or far to our present time. You see that traffic light there?"

While pointing at the traffic light projector orb on the other side of the road the chubby looking man said. "Wait for it in a few seconds a bird will crash into the yellow light."

"Okay I'm waiting and what will you do if that doesn't happen?"

*Bang!!*

"See that? Now you believe me right?"

"Yes, but didn't you said within a few seconds? Look at that clock it's been 14 minutes since you said in a few seconds and I feel I'll get your weird-y-ness on me. So tell me what do you want and fast!"

"It's like this; in my vision, I saw you wearing an awesome looking black armor facing a huge black dragon and there is my great self of course beside you standing grandly with an aura of royalty with my retainer and not only that. I see myself in a huge villa watching tv(s) with a beautiful lady. In conclusion, you were the man who would pull me to my future glorious days."

"Dragon? What the hell. There is no dragon in this world or at least in this system. I think you need to get your head check who knows maybe there is a big piece of tumors in your head. Are you sure you were not thinking too deeply about seeing things? Who knows maybe it's just you being a gigolo and scratch that lady and change it into old madam. One more thing, what aura of royalty, you were the embodiment of conman from what I see."

Why are this person and all those bigwigs obsess with the old 2D TV anyway? This fatso is Weird.

"Come on don't be like that mister-"

"What? I don't want to give my name to a conma-n, okay, okay, don't get too close. My name is Oura."

I reluctantly give him my name and with his body getting so close to me plus his stinky breath. Planning to leave after giving him my name yet there is a 'tug' somewhere telling me to listen to him. Is it curiosity? or plain boredom? Anyway, I've free time and no pressuring matters, so I guess it is fine to waste it on this weird dude, amuse me, fatso.

"Mister Oura, of course, there is no dragon in this world but what I'm talking about is the game in the virtual world. You know the hype this month right? And what do you mean by tumors? with one it would kill a person you know, and what would happen if there is more of that thing, inside the head to boot."

"Yea, yea. Tell me your plan I'm listening."

"How about we talk while walking to the central park and we can discuss it there more thoroughly. So the plan is we bought a game helmet for you with my saving and then we can just play as our life depends on it. Even though it really depends on that."

"O--kay, so how much saving did you have? And you still didn't tell me how can we make money from that."

"11 and 489 credits. Well, there is an exchange system gold to credits on their website and it legal though they take 10% of it as a tax. Actually, I heard a different country has its own different tax so I guess it's probably not going to go to the company but instead go to the country or alliance or whatever it is. Yesterday I sell 5 gold for 135 credits already taxed."

"Hmm... the lowest gaming helmet gear is 10k so you would only be left with 1.489 credits and don't forget the monthly bill thingy. I've got no money and that means you need to pay for two which is 1.5k. So did you really think it would work? What would happen if it's not? I tell you this once again. I have no money so I can't reimburse you for your losses."

"It's okay even if we fail I can just go laboring myself for a month and go gambling to raise the funds again."

"What the- you got all that money from gambling?"

"Of course not. All of that is from me playing since the game goes online, but the fund for buying my helmet was from gambling."

We didn't realize that we talk for hours until sunset. Mostly it's about the game or his boastful deeds in the game but from that, I can get a glimpse of what the game truly is. And the game really sounds interesting. I never played or dive into that kind of stuff before but I won't deny an opportunity.

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It is a hot boring Saturday and it's the day the game helmet arrives or it should be. While I was thinking about what would I do first thing in the game. A bell for drone ringing from outside the house.

"Yes, I'm coming."

"A PACKET FOR MISTER OURA. SECURITY VERIFICATION REQUIRE."

As usual, I filled in all the necessary requirement I've had inputted as my security code into the drone. 

"PIN VERIFIED! FINGERPRINT VERIFIED! IRIS RECOGNITION VERIFIED!"

"Thank you."

"VOICE RECOGNITION VERIFIED!"

"YOUR WELCOME SIR. DID YOU WANT TO LEAVE A TIP?"

"No, sorry."

"OKAY. NO PROBLEM SIR. WE HOPE YOU ALWAYS USE OUR SERVICES."

After the drone flies away I took the package and unboxing it with expectation. I mean it's ten thousand credits for one helmet. Let see how beautiful you are o expensive helmet. Well… this thing inside the box doesn't really look beautiful but it's kinda broke my expectation for my first expensive stuff and inside is simply two pieces of items inside, one is the plain-looking helmet aka the portable diving gear and the second one is a metal board. 

Should I use it now or later and where the heck is the guide paper for installing this thing. Is it this board? Did I need to connect it to the power port? Ahh! Heck yeah, now let's put this thing on.

『Welcome! We don't have a database about you so we need to scan your full body. Please wait for a moment:1% 10% 30% 70% 100% Done. Did you want to configure the setting here manually or inside the game sir? All done preparing to dive. Have Fun.』

"Ugh, I felt like I want to throw up, this is ain't a good start."

"Hello Sir, I'm Alte the character fairy and I'm here to help you to create and customize your character in the game. There are 5 available races that you can choose from and you can preview it by clicking on it after you were sure that you want to choose the race that you want to play. Or you can choose Hybrid, with it you can combine the advantages of the races available or even the hidden races but it is totally random. Things to note, you can't only do it once a month and with only three chances available only then you can't play the character you've got if you use it, you won't be able to use your another hybrid random chance. In simple words, the final character you've got is your last chance but worry not you can delete the character and order another diving gear because if you delete your character the gear will be blacklist and unuseable. Another note, you can get a 30% discount if you send back the gear to us. Any other question sir?"

"Nothing. Let me check the available options."

There is 5 race on the board that I can choose from the first one on the list is human and the second one is elves followed by werebeast, orc, and dwarves. I should try each race then, let's start from the bottom one, the dwarves; after I clicked the dwarf race an avatar that looks like me appear with a big ripped muscle but short man the height probably around 140cm to 150cm. Well next is the orc, a big guy with a height that surpasses 2 meters with a bodybuilder physique but when I chose werebeast lots of variety shows up like a weretiger, werewolf, werebear, and so on.

Okay, what about the elves? Elves indeed have variety like werebeast but it doesn't have as much as they only have a few that can only be chosen from, there is; a normal elf, dark elf, wood elf, moon elf, and sun elf others are only grey silhouette with no name on it so I guess it is not available or something I don't know about. The last one is human and the one that shows up is an exact copy of myself with VR this advance I probably need to adapt and get used to it which means less time for me to grind for money in the game.

"Alte I chose human as my race can I get in the game right now?"

"Done! You can't sir, first you need to choose a name for your character, second, you need to choose a type of energy you will use from: magic, rage, aura, aether, etc. and each energy have its own unique characteristics."

"Hmm.. is that so? Vain that will be my name and Aether sound good to me."

"Okay, mister Vain you get 20 free attributes that you can freely distribute for your own gameplay. Did you want to hear the story of our world mister Vain?"

"A summarize would be great."

"Once upon a time the world was shared by the intelligent races, it wasn't exactly peaceful but with a seed of madness everything change. Magic beast become stronger, some individual fall into madness as well. Not long after that mass destruction follows as every race unites for their survival. A touch of Madness they named it. Just a touch from it and you will lose your mind in exchange you will get power and destruction.

No friend, no mercy, no sense of self, only destruction. Little did they know those things happen because of themselves. It manifests from greed, hatred, lust, basically, all the negative energy got absorbed by one person now known as Lord of Chaos. That person was the purest heart chosen by Lady Gaia. he wants to save all he can, then people start calling him a saint rather people hailed him as one. He was the only person that can go to any races without discrimination but one time, he sees the dark side of humanity, their greed, their ambitions, knowing and feeling it was two different things so he left the human and travel to another place without one.

Still, he sees it again and again from different races, then he concludes that those races were the ones that polluting these beautiful homes of his so he decided to exterminate them with his power. So he starts his mission of extermination; with his sight clouded by darkness. Nothing is good in front of him. When he can only see darkness, but a few years after his conquest he sees light. A light from kindness. That makes him start to question his choice again, was his choice a good or a bad one. Then he starts to think, can he just heal the world by taking in all the negatives in the world and purify it. Indeed he was right but, his body can't withstand it so he explodes into particles, one is Chaos and the other one is Order.

Seeds of Order turn into what people know as the world tree while the Seeds of Chaos manifest itself by consuming miasma and turn into a Lord of Chaos. The two are working oppositely yet with the same mechanism. World Tree absorbs miasma and turns it into a magicule, while, Lord of Chaos eat the magicule in the air and release the fog of madness. 

The world tree is in danger or rather the life on the planet will cease to exist if he keeps on accumulating power. Lord of Chaos is an extension of his predecessor desire plus to the extremest side. So you probably know your mission right Mr. Vain? That's it! Farewell Mr. Vain have fun and enjoy your new world while saving our world!"

While watching the movie with Alte narration I come to realize that the meaning of "The higher you were the harder you fall." is applied in the game as well. After Altes' farewell, I appeared in the middle of ruins that makes me feel small. I mean just look at that fallen pillar I don't even reach a tenth of its diameter. 

Oh wow. This game just feels too real. I'm speechless even though it is my first experience it far exceeds my expectations. It doesn't feel like I'm inside the game rather it felt like I've been transported into a different world altogether. The sound of the grass, the winds, even the fishy and metallic smell of the blood seems real. it overwhelms me.

"Wait. Blood?"

『You've been killed by player Domawensele!』

『Did you want to resurrect now? Y/N』

Dafuq. I don't even pass 5 minutes mark yet since entering the game and already get killed. What a drag, but I remember you Dama-something I would get my revenge soon. Sigh. how do I call the menu again? Put some pressure on both palms and pull it for a few inches and the menu shows up. At the top is status followed by relations, probably guild or community, chat, and others. Selecting the relations menu, it gives me a text box kinda thing to search for the name of a player that I want to add.

[King Glory has accepted your friend request.]

[King Glory sends you a message. Do you want to read it? Y/N]

"Hola brother how are you? How's the game?"

"Got kill by someone and it's not even 5 minutes after I'm in the game."

"Lol. anyway go to the bank and put these ID and PASSWORD to get access to the vault that I rent before. Inside there are skills, equipment, and a few miscellaneous items. Right! Don't forget to put your attribute so you don't get killed easily next time. You still remember what effect each one had right?"

Shutting off the chat I start to walk leaving the resurrect point which is just a light pillar. If I'm not wrong Strength for attack power, agility for speed and dexterity, vitality for Life Force and stamina, constitution for physical defense and stamina, while energy|aether is simply for energy I choose which is aether. Adding each of my free attributes I see that the fatigue bar doesn't change so is there something I miss previously or was it made like that? I'm confused.