===Aella===
She read the notebook the mysterious hooded man gave her, and it didn't seem too complicated.
The first thing she had to do was decide on a class. To do so, she needed a tutor for the class she wanted to take. All the tutors were NPCs, who seemed to be people designed by the System to act in the game.
Unfortunately for Aella, her options were only three: Warrior, Rogue, or Mage.
The Mage class would allow her to use Air Element and other Elements she could never use, but it sounded too dull.
Both Warriors and Rogues were to fight up close, with the former focusing on pure force while the latter on speed and accuracy.
Ultimately, she chose the Warrior class as she liked the tutor and his big sword. She had actually had some private sessions with him and tested the limits of his stamina, which were quite impressive for a human. But she had to remind herself that he wasn't an actual human but something they created with their technology, but she was impressed with how real everything felt.
She messed around with him for two days, but she had mastered all his skills in less than half a day. The System still considered her a level 1 Warrior, but she had more Skills than a level 10 Warrior.
Normally, the tutors taught the players a new Skill as they leveled up or completed Quests, but she had her way of persuading him otherwise.
In the end, she had to leave to challenge the first Dungeon.
The first was the only one she could challenge by herself, as after that, she would need to form a party. But she was sure that she would find a solution at that time. Persuading people to do what she wanted was one of her unique qualities.
She reached a cave entrance and was ready to enter; a system panel also appeared as an invisible barrier preventing her from entering. It seemed like she had to pick some options, so she did in a hurry to let herself start. She needed some action with her new greatsword she "borrowed" from her tutor.
She wondered if the tutor would mind that she took his sword, but it was just of rare quality. It didn't seem that powerful, and the book said that rare was the third quality out of the fire for an item, after common and uncommon, meaning it shouldn't be that hard to find.
She got teleported into the cave system with no exit behind her, just the way ahead. She had her blade in hand, but she walked relaxed like she was taking a walk in the park. Stones were thrown at her, but she deflected them with her blade at ease and made them return in the same direction they came from with even greater force.
Screams of pain were heard as the creatures who tried to ambush her emerged. They were small creatures the size of a young adult human, but they looked nothing like humans.
They had a long snout but were a little more reptilian than doggy-like, and their whole body was reddish. They had a reptilian tail and just wore loincloths. Most of them seemed to have a slingshot and a pouch, and they had some stones in them to act as ammo.
Some even had stones shaped to be pointy and act like daggers.
She used one of her Skills, Appraise, and the System told her these were called Kobolds and had question marks next to their names.
Aella knew that this meant their level would be there, and the question marks were because they were higher than her by more than 10. She was still level 1 and didn't level up in any of the monster fields outside; she just came here right away.
Some of the Kobolds were injured, as they were the ones who threw stones at her and got them deflected back to them. Some had injuries to one of their eyes, which should affect their combat capabilities.
Aella moved quickly, using one of her Skills called Charge to give her an extra speed boost. Even with the skill, she moved nearly twenty percent of her real-life speed, but she moved quicker than these creatures could handle.
This battle was over by the time the first body hit the floor.
Her trinket was yellow, meaning she had enough of her true power to trigger the System to look for her. However, it seemed she had to reduce the amount she could use.
She continued battling with no break and even tried to get a taste of the blood of these creatures. Kobolds weren't among the Magical Races, so she wondered how they tasted.
Maybe their face looked a bit like the Dragon Race's, but Aella had met none of them in their actual form, as they used to keep a human-like appearance in every meeting.
After consuming their blood, she didn't notice any change. It wasn't as good as human blood, but it wasn't too bad either. It was like water, suitable for managing her thirst but not overdoing it. She had some blood in the game, and even if the taste wasn't as good as in real life, it still tasted good, but it didn't help her recover as much as the real thing.
She read in the notebook that dragons were part of this game and wondered how close to the real thing they were. She looked forward to meeting one and maybe even fighting them. Since these weren't actual dragons, she wasn't breaking any council rules.
She started mainly using her Charge Skill to move quickly toward them, even if it boosted her to move in a line. She also used Fury Slice, one of the last skills the Warrior Tutor taught her.
She had to keep using them, and with each successful use of them in combat, they would earn exps on their own and level up.
But the skills of someone could reach up to their level as Players +4, meaning as she was level 1, they could at maximum reach level 5. She had used them in training enough to get the handle on them, but because it wasn't actual combat, she had earned no exps to them.
The skills could also reach the maximum level of 100, and the user had a chance to evolve that skill, but that was not supposed to be easy. But she had to be level 96 at least to do that, so she didn't worry about it for now.