For a moment, the world was completely White.
After a bit of waiting, sounds can be heard, and the White started to grow darker and darker.
It is now Completely Black. It is, however, very noisy.
Slowly, LacX opens his eyes, and finds himself in a small town. Well, he says small, but the town was actually Extremely Huge.
Large Buildings, A ton of Stall Vendors, and many other buildings that LacX didn't know.
'Where is anything? Where am I exactly?' Suuco takes a quick look around him and finds a Map.
[Welcome to Stella Town]
LacX stands for a bit and wonders why the Town was named "Stella".
Anyways, looking at the Map, the town really was huge. There seemed to be almost 100 Buildings.
'Isn't this more of a City than a Town?'
Reading the Labels, he finds one that shows directions to the "Adventurers Guild", which was for people who wanted to do Jobs for the people who couldn't pay a lot of money.
As LacX walks around looking for the guild, he sees 3 things.
There are Very many Stalls.
A Pop-up Window appeared, informing him of something.
There were only Humans as far as he could see.
'I heard that there were more races. Maybe in other towns... wait, a window?'
Looking at the window, it read,
'New skills? Already? Is this okay? If so, then I should test these new skills later.'
LacX finds a big building with the label [Guild] on a Sign over the doors.
Walking in, he sees that the big building actually had 2 Sections. Ine Section was for the built-in Tavern, while the other was for the Adventurers and Guild Requests, as well as the reception.
LacX walks up to the reception, while also looking around, as well as looking at the requests. There are quite a bit of F-Rank Requests.
"Hello, here to reguster or put in a request?" The Receptionist is a young lady with short. brown hair, and wearing the guild uniform, which was black and white, almost like a buisness suit, but with some other parts changed.
"I would like to register please" LacX didn't know what to think of the Guild, or if he had to pay some sort of fee to register.
"Yes, please wait one moment." The Receptionist goes under the front desk and grabs a fill in sheet, and what seemed to be a Crystal Ball.
"Please fill in this form, and afterwards, please place your hand on the "Appraisal Orb."
LacX does as he is told, and fills in the sheet.
[Name : LacX]
[Age : 18]
[Race : Human]
[Job : None]
[Weapon : Daggers]
[Nickname (Optional) : ]
[Party Name (Optional) : ]
Since the last 2 were optional, he left those blank.
"Okay, now please place your hand on the Appraisal Orb." The Receptionist files the form, and moves the orb forwards.
LacX puts his hand on the orb, and feels a warm sensation, as well as a light vibration. After a few moments, 2 Windows showed up in front of him.
[Level : 1] [0/100 Exp]
[Stats]
"Wow, other than your Agility, your stats are suprisingly low. Not that it's a problem of course." The Receptionist looks at LacX's stats with a slightly worried face.
The other window, however, was not from the Orb, but from the system.
[Daily Copied Skills : 1/3]
'Wait wait wait, hold on. I got a new skill? How? And "1/3"? Is this from my "Copy" Skill? Isn't it F-Rank? What sort of cheat is this?'
"Um, excuse me..."
With a jolt, LacX realizes that he was ignoring the Receptionist.
"Sorry, I was just thinking of something, don't worry about me." LacX decided to check up on his skills later, when he isn't around so many people.
Slightly concerned, the Receptionist walks towards a small tablet, which seemed like an ancient tablet in museums.
After putting the Appraisal Orb on top of the tablet, the Orb stops glowing, and after lifting the Tablet, there is a Bronze colored Card.
"Here is your guild card. My name is Lina, and I'm this guilds Receptionist." Lina hands LacX his guild car, which only had his Name, Job, Party, and Rank, which was labled "F-Rank".
"The Bronze Card represents the lowest rank for a Guild Member. Going from rank F to S, the materials change like so:
Rank F : Bronze
Rank E : Silver
Rank D : Gold
Rank C : Diamond
Rank B : Emerald
Rank A : Platinum
Rank S : Dragon Crystal
And you can rank up by completing 5 Quests of your Rank, and 1 Quest that is 1 Rank above yours."
'Dragon Crystal?' "May I ask, what is a Dragon Crystal?"
"Don't worry, that is a very common question for beginners. A Dragon Crystal is a type of Magic Crystal that grows near the corpse of an old dragon. They are extremely rare, so they are only given to the Top Rankers. Currently, there are only 6 S-Ranked Adventurers. As you can probably tell, it's not easy to become a top ranker."
With the explanation finished, LacX was about to go grab a quick quest, until he suddenly hears a slight ringing. A pop-up appears with the current time, being extremely early in the morning.
'Wait, already? And when did I create an alarm? Was it auto generated? Anyways, I gotta find a place to log out and hide the headset from Suzu.'
LacX finds a small Inn. Apparently he was given a small amount of "Starting Cash" from the system. The System can apparently work like a Bank. No Inventory though, you need the skill for that.
Laying on the bed, LacX logs out.
[Logging Out...]
He closes his eyes, then the world goes white.
After a moment, he regains consciousness and gets up while taking the Headset off. Suuco puts the Game back in it's Case, hoping not to lose it, and puts the gear back into the box.
Suuco wakes up earlier than Suzu so that he can make Breakfast.
Just as he finishes making brealfast, Suzu walks into the room, clearly tired, probably from playing games again.
"What game was it this time?" Suuco prepares a plate, and prepares a few questions to wake Suzu up from her daze.
"I think it was... I think..." She dozes of in her chair before finishing her question.
With a slightly loud *Clank* of Plates, and a glass of Orange Juice, Suzu snaps awake again.
"Eat, then get ready for school. If you don't, then I'll bombard you with infinite questions to wake you up." Suzu only wishes he was joking.
Compared to the other times she pulled an all nighter, the worst was probably a month ago, where Suuco hid her games all around the house, as well as the Manga and Anime that she had on her shelves. For a Family of Hardcore Gamers and Weebs, that was probably the worst thing for Suzu. By the way, Suzu only had about a fourth of the stuff that Suuco had, which was still suprising for a 6 year old.
After Breakfast, they both get ready for school, one more reluctant than the other, remembering the chase from yesterday, and they both head off.
Suuco's school was in the direction of Suzu's, so they got to walk together.
As they talked, Suzu headed for her school, which was to the right, and Suuco heads left, where his school was. Both Schools were about 2 Blocks away.
Finally making it to school, he almost bumps into the group of bullies. Luckily, he was used to walking around quietly, from sneaking into his grandfathers Manga Collection, and somehow managed to walk by unnoticed.
As he makes his way to class, another cliche occurs. Turning the corner, he bumps into a female student, who he hasn't seen before.
"Sorry, are you okay?" Suuco extends his hand. In that moment, he notices the tears in her eyes, and the papers on the floor behind her. Not too far through the hallway, was a small group of girls, giggling and walking away.
'I see...'
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Yay, new chapter.
Even though it takes a few hours to write this, It still felt like I took an entire week... __('-')__
Anyways, I thank anybody who decided to read this, despite my boring explanation in "Intro : Part 1".
If that bore you, please say something, and maybe I'll update it to a "better" version.
I had fun.
Not gonna lie, every time I finish a Chaper, I just feel like making even more, but I'm restraining myself.
If you want more than 1 Chapter a day, then maybe I can do that, or maybe I'll just be a lazy bum and play video games instead. :D
Anyways, I have said it before, and I'll say it again.
Thank you for reading "SMO".
I really don't have much to alk about, but since I'm here, might as well explain some things.
The "Copy" Skill had the most Vague explanation on the planet.
It can straight up just "Copy" Skills. The way the skill works, however, will be explained in a couple of chapters.
After this Chapter, I will put up the first [Character Sheet] for LacX, telling you all of his Stats, including the HP, MP, and SP. The SP is "Stamina Points", for those who were wondering. The Sheet will also give the descriptions for the Skills that LacX has, like the new "Appraisal" Skill that he got.
Anyways, look forward to that, or don't, your choice, not mine.
Thanks again for reading, and have a good one.