"Thanks for the hard work." I say with a smile on my face to the last employee to leave, to which he also responded happily. After seeing him leave the store, I finally sit down and relax with my eyes closed.
"Nii-Chan is not the time to relax, you promised me that you would play LLILI Online." A younger voice comes to my ears is a voice I have heard for many years, so it is unmistakable.
"Do you want me to play this game so much, Satoru?." I ask as I give a light laugh and open my eyes. In front of me was Satoru, 12 years old, with slightly purple hair and eyes, he inherited a lot from our mother unlike me who inherited only his eyes, my hair belongs to our father.
"Of course, you finally managed to deal with the whole situation at the store, you promised me that after that you would stop for a while and what is the best way if not playing a game?" Satoru had a winning smile on his face and I really couldn't disagree with him.
I also understand his mild anxiety, perhaps due to a small feeling of guilt that he has, it has been 4 years since I was given the responsibility to care for him.
I get up from the chair while I spread Satoru's hair.
"Okay, okay, come on Satoru, you won this one." I see how excited Satoru runs to the stairs towards my room.
Yes, we live in the same place where I work, in fact this whole place is my property the bottom part of the house is a restaurant, while the top part is where we live.
From today on the restaurant will be under the command of my neighbor. Of course I am still the head of everything, but the responsibilities will now be on this neighbor who is like a relative to me and Satoru.
When I got to my room and opened the door the first thing I saw was the big mess that was on the floor Satoru was already in the middle of an struggle against the cardboard.
"Hey, calm Satoru doesn't need this prey, the game will only start in 2 hours." I sigh with the mess my room has turned, normally Satoru would be more calmonon, was I the one who should be anxious here.
"You are very carefree Nii-Chan two hours is a short time, you didn't even read the game manual I'm afraid of what will happen as soon as you enter the game." I get slightly tense. In fact I haven't had a chance to play a game for a long time, it would be a lie to say that I don't have a bit of a will, but compared to Satoru I can say that I'm simple.
What Satoru was opening now is a package that arrived today, it contains the latest Virtual Reality equipment which is actually just a helmet. I know very little about this technology, but I remember a discussion on the internet about being stuck inside the game Satoru was also very irritated by the announcement of this helmet, even today I don't understand why.
As soon as Satoru whitedraw the helmet, he and I were a little curious with the product in front of us.
"So this is the most recent... He is very handsome, isn't he Nii-Chan?." The helmet was a matte black and as Satoru personalized it, the helmet came with some details in dark purple so the helmet was very beautiful.
"You spent 20% more ....." As beautiful as the helmet was, the pain I feel in my heart at the price I had to spend on it will never disappear ....
"The time has come Nii-Chan." Satoru was looking at me brilliantly, I didn't have the courage to refuse such happiness.
"Ahh ... Right, right." Accepting my destiny, I lie down on my bed while I put on the helmet. At least I know all the details necessary to start everything.
"There I go, Satoru." With a nervous sigh, I start the helmet. I soon felt my conscience wane, the last thing I heard was Satoru's 'Good Luck'.
I stayed in that pitch only for a few seconds, when I recovered I was in a place that looked like a room, it was totally white and a mechanical voice played in the background.
"Welcome to LLILI Online, this is your first time here, synchronizing data. Complete, successful synchronization." The mechanical voice spoke several things, but I only thought about its first words.
"Character creation started." When I realized I was already creating my character.
"Starting character modeling. Remembering that physical changes are limited." I remember Satoru commenting on something like this, that physical changes are limited by the difference between the game and reality, only the appearance that the game gives more freedom to the user, but still has its limitations.
Anyway, I don't think I need to change my appearance, so I chose to continue as I really am.
"Character appearance completed. Below is a brief explanation of the classes. As in all RPGs and MMORPGs a class will be essential for the player's enjoyment, but in LLILI Online you will only be able to choose your official starting class after leaving the initial village, until then you will be free to use the initial classes freely ..." Finally one thing I remember, most of the games in which I played had these elements so the longing ended up getting a little right.
As I understand it, the starting village is the tutorial, where you are free to change your class, each class has an initial skill so it's up to the person to look for the class that best suits them, Satoru said that the starting village goes up to the level 10 and has a 1 hour cooldaw in the class change.
"Moving on to the character's attributes. While in the Initial village you are free to change your earned attributes with each Lvl, everyone starts with 5 points in each status, the statuses are."
Force
Resistance
Agility
Intelligence
Wisdom
"Players have 5 free points in each level to use. You will start in the starting city Lv 1, so you can allocate your 5 starting status points." So as in class, until we leave the Initial village we are free to change the attributes and there is a 1 hour cooldaw too. Well, let's add the 5 initials points I have for now.
I added 2 in strength, 2 in stamina and 1 in agility, my favorite class is the wizard, but to start I will use the sword to understand how the game works.
"And finally your character's name." Yes, the most important part of a game, the name of the character ..... I must say that I am one of the worst people to nominate... At least Satoru thought of one cool name for me.
"NumberZero." I said and typed my name.
"Name accepted. Congratulations on your character successfully completed, 1 hour and 5 minutes to go before the start of LLILI Online, would you like to leave or see the introduction of the game that will start in 5 minutes?." It seems that it took me longer than I imagined, Satoru must be anxious to see the introduction of LLILI Online. Well, there's no reason not to see it, I'm sure if I leave Satoru will be very angry with me.
"Releasing character movement." As soon as the system said that I felt like it was coming back to my body, as if I were totally free to do what I wanted. The room that was once white turned black again, but unlike the total darkness it was a pleasant dark.
As time went by, I kept moving to get used to the virtual body that I now controlled, even without having entered the game, I can still say that the immersion is incredible.
It didn't take long for the 5 minutes to end and soon an event started. A short story about LLILI Online was introduced, incredible videos were passed, explanations were given ... It was practically an event instead of an introduction the remaining 1 hour flew by and finally there were 10 minutes to start LLILI Online the last piece was shown.
"I am LLILI-Chan, your support for LLILI Online." I can imagine the turmoil that the world must be making with the introduction of LLILI-Chan she is really cute, white hair and blue eyes managing to change to her child and adult format I must say that she became everyone's Waifu.
Anyway, the last 10 minutes have passed and finally.
"Welcome to LLILI Online." LLILI-Chan's cute voice rang in my ears as a flash happened in my eyes.
The flash came and went so fast that I was surprised, but more surprised than that was the sensations I received as soon as I entered the game.
The air, the smell, the touch ... The feeling of being alive, the feeling of having entered the game ..... It's really incredible ..... But I didn't have time to appreciate all these welcoming sensations, several white particles began to appear crowding the place where I was, a feeling of suffocation was what I felt at that moment ....
This reminded me of the time I took the train and the crowded bus, is very uncomfortable.
I must have been touched at least 3 to 5 times in this turmoil ...
As soon as I managed to separate myself from the crowd, I ran into a black-haired man, he has some dark circles in his eyes. The difference between him and everyone else was the chic outfit, this soon confirmed that he was an Npc.
"Hello, my young foreign, you are the first to speak of all the foreign who came here." The Npc with dark circles commented, that surprised me, I expected a certain intelligence but I didn't imagine it would be so high for him to achieve a difference between me and the other Players.
Looking back and to the side I can see the congestion that was going on no one could walk, some seemed to want to get here and the shouting that was going on was surprising ... I was lucky enough not to be among them and able to find this one Npc.
"Nice to meet you Honorable Noble." Realizing the type of clothes the man had, I didn't think much and called him the first flashy and polite thing I thought.
"Hoho, that most polite foreigner, I was lucky that my first meeting was with you. How did you just get here and you don't know the place, how about taking a look around the village and then tell me what you think of it?" The man said that and if it weren't for the dark circles that the man had I am sure I would only have good thoughts about him, but his dark circles is strangely somber gives a slight impression that the man may have something behind him.
Before I can continue with my reasoning, an alert appeared in front of me.
"Mission!. You just met Lynch, he is a wealthy merchant who came from the city of Oluap to live in Oas for a while, he has great impressions of the village and wants to know someone else's opinion. Visit and get to know the important points of the city of Oas, meet all your merchant and important people. Reward, 1 silver coins and 100 XP. "
A quest. I didn't think much and soon accepted, I didn't expect to get a quest right away and the reward seems to be very interesting, 1 silver coins and 300 XP. From what I heard about Satoru it takes a little time to go up from lvl to LLILI Online, only from Lvl 1 to 2 1000 XP is needed and it is tripled every Lvl.
As soon as I finished, several people started running towards Lynch, so I quickly left.
The time it took me to talk to Lynch was enough to decrease the number of people in the area, at least now I are able to walk.
"So this is LLILI Online." My excitement was growing, I think it was a good idea to be persuaded by Satoru to come and play this game.
"Well, I dont's have time to lose, time is money." I know that several people are eager to accept a battle quest and run to kill monsters, that is certainly the pleasure of the game, but I have no prey, I will take the missions that I can and that do not need combat for now. With the amount of player it will be a problem to complete combat missions.
While walking to a point in the village of Oas, I try to check my inventory, to open it was strangely simple.
And in the inventory there were only simple things, like cloth clothing that gives 0 defense, weapons, but can equip only one, some bread and water.
It seems that bread and water increase the speed of regeneration of stamina and mana. My inventory also marked the amount of money I have, which at the moment is 100 bronze coins.
Having finished looking at my inventory, the first thing I do is equip the sword. Despite the desire to try the bread and see what it tastes like, I thought it best to keep it for now, I will have the opportunity later.
My second stop after entering the game appeared to be the blacksmith. And that blacksmith did with the image in my head.
He is giant, full of muscle, a big beard, messy hair and a bit paunchy. Some players were talking to him, perhaps to get some mission.
Soon it was my turn and I also got a simple mission mission. Aliais had something that caught my attention about what the blacksmith said after saying that I was sent by Lynch.
"Lynch is a nice guy, but he always seems to be hiding something." That smelled like curiosity, something I want to explore later.
The mission that the bearded blacksmith named Briger gave was to get some rabbit teeth, materials dropped by the rabbits, as I had already decided not to fight for now, I continued to visit Oas village and as an example my conversation with Briger, I always comment that it was Lynch who asked me to visit the village to see what they had to say about him. With that I heard several interesting things and received a lot of Quest.