A young high school student sat inside of a large capsule, the capsule had all sorts of monsters painted on the outside. This youth skipped college just to play the brand new VR game that was sweeping the world.
Earlier in the day, the brand new VR game 'Dungeon Explorers' was released to the eastern region of the world. Millions of players from all over the eastern region connected to experience Dungeon Explorers.
Dungeon Explorers was already released in the west and quickly became the top game. Top players from other games quickly made their way to start playing Dungeon Explorers.
"Dungeon Explorers!"
*Bink*
With a quick flash of colors, the capsule lit up and on the display showed the menu.
'Dungeon Explorers'
Shinzo waited all night waiting for the pre-release copy of the game to arrive with the new GenoSix VR Full Body Capsule. The capsule was very expensive, costing a whole three months of his paychecks to buy it.
Even though the cost was high, Shinzo knew that it was going to be worth it. Ever since the game was released in the west, Shinzo has been studying everything about the game.
He learned the best races to become along with the best classes to choose from. Shinzo was pretty much shaking his whole body when he saw the menu.
"Hello Player, My name is Angela. Starting from today onwards, I will be your personal assistant to help you with exploring the countless dungeon in this world."
Shinzo had a slight smile on his face after hearing Angela speak. The voice was very gentle, Shinzo let out a small breath calming his heart rate from his excitement of starting the game.
"Player, The first thing you need to do is create a name for yourself. Please either type out your name or say it out loud."
Shinzo involuntary moved his hand to his chin and thought deeply about a perfect name to use. In other games, Shinzo used random names that meant nothing to him.
Though, those games weren't as important as this world-class game. After going through a couple of names, Shinzo's face lit up. He finally figured out a perfect name.
'SwordSlayer'
After choosing a name, Shinzo heard Angela's voice once again.
"Player, Are you sure you want to name yourself Mr.Akaki? This name will stay with you forever. You will not be able to change it."
After Angela finished speaking, Shinzo quickly deleted the name he chose. He didn't want to be made fun of by everyone if he actually became good at the game. The name he chose was pretty much every VR novel created.
Shinzo wasn't too creative in terms of creating a name for himself. After giving up creating a name, Shinzo went with the basics.
'Shinzo'
Again Angela's voice sounded in his ears replaying the same message as before.
"Yes"
"Success! Shinzo, we are now going to move to the character creation phase. In this phase, you are going to be able to choose a race and a class to go with the said race."
The area around Shinzo started to change, the original display screen turned into a small room. White walls surrounded the room, in the middle was a person with just underwear on.
"Shinzo, this is the character creation room. In this room, you will be able to create a personalized character for your dungeon exploring experience."
A display of multiple options appeared in front of Shinzo.
'Race - Human, Monster'
Shinzo clicked on Human, the display changed and showed a huge list of Human-related classes.
'Warrior
Intelligence - Average
Physical Strength - Above Average
Mana - Below Average
Dexterity - Above Average
Strong with a two-handed weapon. Very strong one-one.
Mage
Intelligence - Above Average
Physical Strength - Below Average
Mana - Above Average
Dexterity - Average
Uses a wand, Very strong with large groups.
Healer
Intelligence - Average
Physical Strength - Below Average
Mana - Above Average
Dexterity - Average
Uses a wand, Heals members of your party.
Thief
Intelligence - Average
Physical Strength - Average
Mana - Below Average
Dexterity - Average
Magical Swordsmen
Intelligence - Above Average
Physical Strength - Above Average
Mana - Above Average
Dexterity - Average
Uses both magic and swordsmanship, Good at one-one and large groups. Starting Weakness - ???'
Shinzo carefully looked through the list of classes offered. They all looked fairly good, very balanced. Until Shinzo read the Magical Swordsmen.
'What? Everything is pretty much above average? Isn't that a little too broken? What is even Weakness ??? Could it be a hidden weakness debuff that is added to new players?'
Shinzo was very interested in the class of Magical Swordsmen and didn't really read anything about the class when the game was released in the West.
Shinzo moved his hand towards Magical Swordsmen and clicked it.
"Screech" AN: Listen I don't know how to write out this sound. Think of like nails on a chalkboard.
Shinzo's vision started to blur, the white walls turned into red. A sharp pain rumbled throughout his skull. Grabbing his head, a faint voice sounded in his head. Shinzo was in too much pain to hear what it was saying.
'Ahh! Why do I feel so much pain? I thought this game was supposed to be only 30% pain threshold.'
Slowly, the pain in Shinzo's head faded away. When Shinzo opened his eyes he was inside of a large room. He was laying down looking up at the ceiling.
The ceiling had small portions of it carved and covered in small gold paint. Shinzo moved his head and saw two people in maid uniforms looking at him with concern written on their faces.
Shinzo thought in his head.
'Menu!'
Nothing happened, Shinzo looked around trying to find a way to contact the game developers about his situation.
'Menu!'
Again Shinzo tried again to bring up the menu but to no avail.
'Is this a bug?'
Shinzo slowly started to sit up from the bed. The maids were still staring at him like they have seen a ghost. Their faces have both turned into a white shade of paper.
Shinzo showed a slight smile, but that made the maids even more scared. The two quickly moved away from Shinzo and moved into a corner.
Turning his head, Shinzo looked down at himself. His body has completely changed from when he first started to create his character. He was a completely different person, he was quite skinny with bandages covering his chest and arms.
Small amounts of blood were seeping through his bandages. Shinzo slowly lowered his hand and touched his bandages. When his hand made contact with the bandage a sharp pain hit his whole body.
"Tch."
Shinzo let out a small grunt and moved his hand away from his bandages. He looked around once more and knew that he was somewhere else. He wasn't in his VR capsule anymore.
'Boom!'
A large man rushed through a large steel door at the front of the room. The man was wearing bulky armor and had a sword at his waist. The man walked closer to Shinzo's bed and kneeled down on one knee with his face towards the ground.
"Lord, We have a problem."
'Lord? Am a Lord?'
Shinzo looked down at the man, he was on one knee and looking at the ground. Shinzo remembered from novels that he used to read that he needed to say something to this man.
"Rise"
"Yes, Lord"
The man nodded and rose his head to look at Shinzo.
"Lord, A dungeon has appeared."
'A dungeon? Dungeon… Could this possibly be the same as the dungeons in Dungeon Explorers?'
Shinzo cleared his throat and sat up from the bed.
"Where has the dungeon appeared?"
The man frowned slightly, "It appeared in the western part of the town."