''Brother... You didn't forget my birthday did you?''
A pitiful voice of a little girl came from the other end of the call as Axel's face went sour.
' I completely forgot about it.'
'' Of course I didn't. I will be there on time, I promise.''
'' That's a promise! Also you must stay here for a while when you came back. Mother and father missed you too.''
'' Okay. I will be there on time, don't worry.'' Axel closed the phone as he sighed. ' I really need to spend more time with my family.'
Axel's routine was simple. He would play Alvion Online for 15 hours, eat food, go out for some business talks and repeat. Even though Axel was a bit extreme, most pros that dominated the game would play it for at least 12 hours a day as well. While playing the game there was no need to sleep so it saved a lot of time for the day. Axel hurriedly ate his dinner and went inside the game to not miss out of the opening of second server. Axel wanted to share his excitement with his friends but realised he didn't have much friends from the game or outside the game. He only had enemies or rivals.
[Welcome to the Alvion Online]
[You already have an existing account. Would you like to continue with it or continue a new account?]
'New account!'
[ Creating a new account... Would you like to alter your physical appearance?]
'No!'
Axel didn't feel the need to alter his appearance because he was very famous in the game. There were also naturally many people that used his appearance for trolling or just fun. Thus it was hard to track famous people even if they didn't change their looks. There were thousands of them roaming in one server.
[Please choose your preffered class]
WİTCH
WARLOCK
CLERİC
KNİGHT
ASSASİN
MARTİAL ARTİST
DEVİLİST
ARCHER
SWORDSMASTER
SAGE
...
Axel looked at the class list and was a bit surprised. Normally there were 24 classes in Alvion but Axel saw 2 new classes were added to the game. Axel was interested in those classes but didn't like this new additions too much. Axel already knew all skills and abilites of all classes and had experience fighting against them. New classes meant something new to be studied.
' Choose Spearmaster.'
Axel choose the class he was most familiar with in the end and went inside the game.
[Please Choose a Character Name]
'Ugh.' Axel was never good at choosing names. His old account's name was Axel... plain and simple as that.
'Cheat.'
[Name accepted]
' Since everyone calls me that, it should be okay.' Axel was very casual about names so he just used Cheat as his new name.
[ Welcome to the beginner village]
Axel was stunned as he appeared in a small village. ' İt wasn't like this in the original server. Well, whatever.'
'Status'
Player Name: Cheat
Title: None
Class: Spearmaster
Subclass: None
LVL:1
Health: 100
Agility: 0
Strength: 0
Endurance: 0
İntelligence: 0
Equipment: Common Spear
Free Attribute Points: 30
Skills: Swing, Pierce.
Swing: İf the opponent's strength is lower than the user, the user can swung the opponent away. İf the opponent crashes to a solid ground this skill has a chance to inflict dizzy depending on target's resistence.
Pierce: The spear will move 2 times faster than normal to hit a small area with the tip of the spear. İf target is succesfully hit from a vital area extra %40 damage is dealt. İf a target is hit on a normal area they will be inflicted %20 more damage.
Axel sighed in melancholy as he saw the familiar attribute and skills page. İn Alvion Online people could build their characters any way they wished. Of course there was a meta for everything. Knights would mostly go for more endurance and strenght while mage type classes would go for intelligence. That way they would get boosts from their class bonusses and also they could use their classes skill's effectively. There were some classes that allowed off-meta builds such as martial masters. Martial masters could learn ranged magic attacks as well so intelligence build on them was seen sometimes. Axel didn't go for an off-meta build though. He just dumped his stats as he used to.
Health: 120
Agility: 14
Strength: 12
Endurance: 4
İntelligence: 0
Agility and strength was the main focus of a spearmaster. They were a mid-range class that deals damages and kills their opponents with skill combos. They were also good at fighting against multiple opponents. Their most annoying counter was long ranged magic classes that have crowd control such as warlocks. Normally spearmasters needed a bit more endurance at the beginning for survivability but Axel just ignored it to farm faster and dumped most of his points to agility.
Axel looked around and roamed the town without a hurry. He saw that people were in a panic to grind and get to the next lvl. Axel was not hurried to find a place since he was not interested in farming lvl 1 monsters. He would directly search for lvl 3 and above monsters to farm. Axel roamed around and didn't see any interesting npc that he could get a mission from. Axel wasn't very surprised since Alvion liked to hide most of the missions inside the details rather than to give it directly. After several minutes of roaming Axel finally saw an interesting npc that was acting out of order. A child was sitting at the side of the road crying. Axel went beside him and greeted him.
'' Hey, what's wrong kid?''
'' GO AWAY! LEAVE ME ALONE!''
Axel shook his head. ' I need something to trigger this quest.' Axel immediately left after that. He was familiar with quest patterns in Alvion since he played the game like an addict for years. There were various types of Npc's. There were even ones that would be just like real humans with their own intelligence but this child was definitely a trigger type. Axel left the village and went towards the forest. While walking he also admired the beautiful scenery. He looked at vast mountain behind the forest, the bumpy road, the freshness of air...
' Ah! This is why I am addicted to this game.'
'' Hey, brother! Be careful!'' A lvl 1 Knight player shouted behind Axel but was ignored. 3 lvl 1 slimes has surrounded Axel but he was too disdainful to acknowledge them. A slime furrowed his brows and with a childish voice jumped towards Axel from his right.
Axel used swung without stopping and threw the slime on his right to the one behind him, making them crash against each other. The slimes were dizzied and before they could get out of dizzy Axel slashed his spear horizontally towards his back without looking. Slimes were slashed accurately just above their brows which was their vital point. They exploded after the impact.
[ Killed a lvl 1 slime. 10 Exp points awarded.]
[ Killed lvl 1 slime. 10 Exp points awarded.]
Axel was still walking without turning around. Axel could use his spear with both his left and right hand. That way he could attack behind him without even turning back while just turning his body slightly behind. He would just switch spear to any of his hands whenever he wanted. Abel's spear which was at his right hand at the beginning was now already at his left hand after the move just now. The other slime at the stony ground turned red from green, opened it's mouth and spit an acidic fluid at Axel who was walking towards the forest. Axel slashed behind based on the sound and parried the attack sending it back towards the slime.
'' AAHHH'' Axel was stopped in his tracks stunned and realised the attack he parried was sent towards the knight player's eyes that warned him earlier. Axel frowned as he scolded himself.
' My accuracy dropped after I switched my weapons. This weapon's length and weight is not the same as my old one!' Axel was dissatisfied with himself and left towards the jungle to adjust himself. İgnoring the knight player that was now besieged by several slimes after getting blinded.