The players went on to complete their first quest of defeating 10 Chickeraptors. The young man with primrose hair walked up to the stack of weapons to choose a sword out of the many different weapon choices.
"Yoon Jin-Ae! Come over here and choose your weapon."
"I'm here Brother Ji-Woon!" The young woman with the same primrose-colored hair as her brother called Yoon Jin Ae ran over to him, easily picking out a long staff with an orb embed on the tip from the pile. Her long hair cascades down to the length close to her elbow joints and her shining amber eyes held grace when she spoke to him. "Ji Woon-oppa, are you choosing the warrior class as usual?"
"Yeah, I prefer using a sword. I'm also curious to see what other sub classes there will be when we reach level 15." The young man named Yoon Ji Woon brandishes a sword in the air before bringing the tip down to face the ground. "Let's go." The two siblings went on to start the tutorial quest.
The players start to get used to their attacking skills and timing, collecting the remains of the Level 1 Chickeraptors they've defeated. Alyseen looked on proudly, noting that the players from another world were quite capable.
As the players continue to finish their quest, a sudden warning appeared.
「 DANGER! WARNING! 」
The alert popped up on everyone's screen, signalizing that a dangerous foe has appeared in the tutorial world.
"Goodness! I forgot!"
Alyseen nearly facepalms herself for forgetting her creature information in this world.
"The danger alert that you all see right now is warning you to prepare for the field boss that will appear in just a moment. Anyone who can strike the final blow and those who participate in its kill will earn valuable material and gold, so don't get left out!"
Her words incite the players greatly.
「 B O S S B A T T L E: ROOSERAPTOR
OBJECTIVES:
- Defeat the Rooseraptor.
REWARDS:
- 50 Gold, Title, Rooseraptor's Beak upon final hit
- 10 gold, Rooseraptor Feather x3 upon participation 」
REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
The Rooseraptor appeared with a flock of chickens running away from the creature, stomping its giant feet to generate earthquakes. It stops when the players are within its sight, enabling an area of effect skill that sends a roaring soundwave.
「 You have been hit with the 'Rooseraptor's Roar'.
- Agility has decreased by 5. 」
An agility-decreasing skill!
For new players, this would be a major disadvantage since their base stats start with 5. Thus, they weren't able to dodge the next set of earthquakes the Rooseraptor made that inflicts a 3-second interval of dizziness. So it would take awhile to defeat the tutorial boss unless they knew the patterns and the timing to make an attack, and that's what happened with the ones who've learnt how to observe from playing similar MMO games.
The Rooseraptor takes two steps to conjure an earthquake before hitting people with a roar that decreases their agility. Then onwards, that's when the players should attack. When the boss get hits with a critical attack, it charges forward to the players obstructing its path and giving them 5 damage. If hit with another critical, then the creature proceeds to use its beak to pounce on a random player if they're near it or on the ground if no one is near it.
Then everything repeats.
Whoooooosh!
CLANK!
"SQUUUAAAAAAAKKKK!!!!"
A swift breeze blows pass each player, seeing a light blue lightning trail sparking to the Rooseraptor. It was a person with jet black hair and ocean blue eyes focusing on the head of the field boss, striking it with a silvery-blue spear.
The girl's appearance zooms into view, her expression changing from battle focus to the look of pure confusion as the background transitions back to the meeting room with the President of Destiny Raid Studios and the girl herself, Claire Nora.
She stares at Chelsea for a moment before patting her hands together and sighing deeply.
"I remember my grandmother passing away two years ago, and that was when I. . .I uh. . ."
Come on Claire, think! How did you even land the journalist job? Even when she tried to think, it's like she just forgot everything about her childhood! When did she get amnesiac all of the sudden?!
"If you have trouble remembering. . .then maybe this will help and after you use this, recollect your thoughts after you've done so. I will be waiting tomorrow for your company's arrival."
Chelsea places a crystal shard on the table and excuses herself out of the room. Once she heads outside, she places two fingers next to her ear to reveal that she had an earpiece microphone to speak to the person on the other end.
"Ronnie, I spared the long details and gave her the shard instead so can you tell our friends to get ready tomorrow? The system you guys found in this girl didn't even make the effort to give her any memories nor make herself aware that she doesn't even have any. It better explain once we get to Dr. Fallon."
The brunette woman glances back at the building behind her and walks away without another word. Back at the meeting room with the crystal shard on the table, Claire felt that their interaction was weird; who even asks someone if they remember their memories? The young ravenette brings her head down to observe the clear quartz crystal reflecting colors of light from her vision, bringing her hand to touch the hard cold surface.
A bright light followed after, a golden trail climbing up her skin through her veins so fast until it reaches her forehead to form a lock breaking apart. When the golden lock broke apart, a blue dust cloud of constellations and stars appeared around Claire as her aura. Her eyes were closed during the start of the process and only when the aura appeared was when she opened her blue eyes shining a shade of green.
"System activate."
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"How are the test results?"
In the darkness of a lab glowing with mysterious items, two shadows of people were in front of a lighted tube displaying a human man in a deep sleep.
"Negative. He's the third one to go into a coma after using the virtual gear. I'm afraid that it's impossible to put someone into Ventus Anima Online with the implemented role of being able to change any file codes without trapping their minds in an endless digital void of the game. If we continue this further, then we are putting our people at risk for finding someone compatible enough to receive the Hacker role."
"You still must find the person for the job. I did insist on having the Hacker role until you all said that you'll demonstrate it to me before trying, so I've been patient with this experiment. If there's not a single person suitable then I will do it myself from all the failures."
The shadowed man said with his deep and dominating tone, sitting in front of the tube without any shred of empathy towards the comatose man inside.
"There is one suitable person."
A woman's voice rings in the dark air as a spotlight shines on the woman's long blonde high ponytail and her mature hazel eyes. She had a fair appearance and an air of a gentle swan between the gawking male scientist and the dominant man in a formal attire with her white lab coat and her hands inside the pockets as she walks towards the two men.
"And who is that, Dr. Fallon?"
Dr. Fallon smirks at the masculine appearance of the long black-haired man, taking her hands out of her pockets to cross her arms.
"It'll be a surprise, boss. If you don't mind waiting longer until the day of the game's release. In the tutorial world, I'd guarantee that you'll be satisfied to whom I have chosen."
The long-haired man who seems to be her boss had curved his lips upwards to her amusing words.
"A guaranteed surprise? Fine. I suppose I don't mind waiting longer to see who's the lucky human to become a Hacker for my game. It better be fun to see, Dr. Fallon."
"Don't worry boss, I'll amuse you lots!"
Her dominant boss stood up with a small chuckle and left the lab room, with Dr. Fallon slapping the scientist's head in irritation.
"If I wasn't here just now, our CEO would've just silenced you and fed you to his dogs!"
"E-EEK! He does that?!"
"Of course not, silly! Better yet silence you and bribe you to keep your mouth shut about our project. I still can't believe that most of our female employees gawk over him and here's one of male employees almost getting nuked by the boss himself. But can't blame you, you're a newbie to our company."
Dr. Fallon sighs and leads the scientist to the table with the virtual gear and third test results. It was the third failure this week and they couldn't risk any more potential victims of their employees for this job. If it wasn't for their boss, she would've shut down this concept long ago.
Luckily, she heard from her long-time friend Chelsea that there was someone she met who was specially perfect for the role. If that person were to successfully get the role, then they would ease her boss well. Georgia trusted Chelsea the most since she knew the crazy story of the Aresina Online team and that whatever they offered was the best outcome for both of the reality and the virtual worlds.
"Let's just hope that this time we'll finally be able to have Ventus Anima Online checked out throughly from the inside."
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= SYSTEM AWAKENED =
= WELCOME TO THE FIRST CRYSTAL WORLD =
= DUE TO A MISTAKE IN THE SYSTEM, YOUR GEM CORE HAS SHATTERED INTO SEVEN PARTS AND YOU MUST RETRIEVE THEM IN VENTUS ANIMA ONLINE TO UNLOCK MORE OF YOUR MEMORIES =
= Mission: Collect seven parts of your gem core that have fallen into the world of Ventus Anima Online =
= Claire Nora must enter Ventus Anima Online by tomorrow and must go back 1 year before the events of the game =
= WORLD ONE: The First Crystal World - The Beta Test Invitation =
= Progress 100% - COMPLETED =
= NEXT: Awakening =