Drake opened his eyes and saw he was standing in the middle of a street.
The buildings around him were medieval styled, as the street was just made out of soil and dirt.
He looked around and noticed Players and NPCs walking around minding their own business.
Though there was a major difference between the two, as Players looked round in amazement and curiosity with plain clothing. While NPC's acted normally like real people from a city, some with family or friends, dates and flirting; it felt so surreal.
Drake looked down at his outfit and found out he was wearing the same, a plain white shirt with black colored leather pants.
[Welcome to Aurora Village]
A message appeared in front of Drake.
"Aurora? cool name..." Drake grumbled.
'Interface' Drake thought and the usual blue screen appeared in front of him, but it was slightly different.
[Name: Echo]
[Level: 1]
[HP: 25/25]
[XP: 0/50]
[SP: 0]
[Ember Coins: 0]
[Title: none]
[Class: Assassin]
[Fate: None]
[Fate Rank: No Fate]
[STR: 10] - Strength
[AGI: 20] - Agility
[VIT: 15] - Vitality
[STA: 15] - Stamina
[STE: 30] - Stealth
[CHA: 10] - Charm
[Map]
[Inventory]
[Log Out]
'Thankfully I don't have to say it out-loud.' Drake thought as he clicked on [Map], and a map of the village appeared in front of him on the screen.
"Mhm... the spawn is set too random by looking at the village as it wouldn't be able to hold so many people." Drake mumbled.
He closed the map and looked around once more as he noticed all the Players were trying to find quests or going out of the village to kill monsters.
He put his gaze of the screen again and pressed [Inventory]
[Inventory: Dagger]
[Dagger | Rank: White]
Drake took out the dagger and was disappointed.
It was a regular dagger, but instead of steel it was made out of wood, though it was still sharp.
He looked around and saw players holding wooden swords from either swordsman class or Knight class.
Drake had to put the dagger in his inventory until he bought a holster for it.
He closed the interface and started walking around the city, he figured everything would remain peaceful but he was wrong.
He saw many Players getting their ass kicked by NPC's.
Many Players were trying to flirt and groping female NPC's, but the NPC's just beat the living daylights out of them before calling the guards and having them taken to jail.
Drake just chuckled before he had a thought, "What's the jail sentence?" he asked to himself with a puzzled look, before walking towards the biggest building in the village.
He saw multiple people lined up wanting to get inside and he also saw some arguing with guards.
"Oi! LET US IN!" one of the players that were arguing with the guards shouted.
Though the guard he shouted at didn't change his expression and just looked at the group, "This is the Village Chief's home, those who don't have a pass or permission may not enter."
"Shut up! If you're not gonna let me in then I'm going to go in FORCEFULLY!" The player ignored the guard after shouting and tried going in forcefully but the guard unsheathed his sword and swung it straight to the players neck.
- Puchi!
The player didn't even have time to react as his head flew in the air before landing on the ground and rolled.
[Dead]
Words appeared on the headless body of the dead players, and the body along with the head started turning into pixels before it completely disappeared.
"Jail time and death... I wonder how harsh the penalties for both are..." then suddenly it hit him.
He opened the interface until he found a tab that said [Help], he pressed it and started reading it.
[Death Penalty: Once your Hp reaches 0, you die. Your level will be lowered by 5 levels, and you can't play for a week.]
[Fate Death Penalty: If you have a [Fate] and you die. You will lose the [Fate] but your level won't be lowered and no cool down]
[Result of losing [Fate]: Your [Fate] will return to the game. You can't get the same [Fate] Twice.]
[Two people can't have the same [Fate]]
"Huh, I was right. Very Harsh." Drake mumbled.
"Though it doesn't explain what happens if you die when you're under level 6.." Drake thought out loud before turning around and leaving towards the exit of the village.
As he was walking he noticed most shops are either weaponry or armory.
Reaching the end of the village he noticed two guards.
He noticed they only kept checking on the people entering and not the people leaving, which is pretty usual.
Drake left and started walking on the dirt road, he saw many players running around and a few trying to catch their breath.
As he saw many of them running he decided to try it out too, so he ran to the forest. When he arrived at the forest he wasn't even exhausted, not even uneven breathing.
"Idiots... probably put too many points in strength or special stats and ignored stamina." Drake thought out loud as he took out his dagger.
[Welcome! To Assistant Forest!]
[Level Limit: 1 - 10]
Drake saw the text once he entered the forest.
With his dagger in his right hand he started walking carefully avoiding anything that could make noise.
As he was walking deeper into the forest he noticed a gap in-between trees.
He stepped towards the gap carefully and stopped when he saw what was inside.
4 small animals.
[Baby Wolf]
[Level: 2]
[Hp: 14/14]
He saw four Baby Wolves in total, higher than his level. Though their HP was low so he came up with a plan.
Instead of rushing he held the dagger with three fingers and aimed it at one of the wolf's just between the eyes.
Drake took a deep steady breath as his hand was steady. He pulled it back and threw it with all his strength as he let go of the dagger.
The dagger flew straight towards the Baby Wolf.
The wolf sensed something and looked towards its direction and saw a wooden dagger flying straight at it while a human trailed close behind.
-Puchi
[- 20 HP]
The Baby Wolf fell down to the ground, as the damage appeared above it.
Thankfully Drake ran right after he threw it so within a second he picked up the dagger just in time to avoid one of the wolves trying to bite him, he rolled over and stopped as he was faced with 3 wolves and a pixelated corpse.
Staring at the wolves he was calm as they entered a stalemate.
The Wolves growled in anger as they saw the dead wolf.
One of the wolves was clouded in anger and leaped at him going for his neck. When the Wolf was about to bite his neck as he dodged by turning his body to the side as he stuck the dagger underneath its belly piercing it.
[- 10 HP]
The damage appeared on the wolf as it fell down on the ground hard as it tried getting up.
The two wolves had enough and ran towards Drake together.
Drake knew he couldn't handle two wolves at once with a wooden dagger, so he leaped towards the side where the injured wolf was dodging the two wolves as he plunged the dagger in the wolf's neck, ending it.
[- 9 HP]
Ending another wolf he took out his knife as he saw one of the wolves already in the air aiming for his chest with its claws. He had little time and couldn't do a big movement as he didn't have time so he flicked the dagger in his hand as the tip was facing outward and met the claw head on.
Once they clashed both drake took the most damage as he was blown back straight into the tree.
[- 4 HP]
This time the damage appeared above him as he clashed into the tree, looking up he saw the second wolf not wasting any time either as it was aiming towards his throat with its mouth open.
He rolled on the ground as the wolf made contact with the tree not taking any damage. The two wolves growled at him once more as he was looking at them with slightly uneven breathing.
The two wolves were about to run when they noticed Drake leaping back into the forest disappearing into the bushes.
When Drake entered the bushes he used his stealth as he exited the bushes without making noise, though instead of running he simply hid behind a tree waiting.
He could hear the growls of the wolves as they tried looking for him. Looking around he found two rocks beneath his feet and grabbed them before throwing them in two different directions catching the attention of two wolves as they ran separately chasing both noises.
The wolf who crashed into the tree followed the noise that came by a tree as it ran towards the noise. Just as the wolf was about to pass the tree he saw a dagger aiming towards it, it had no time to dodge as it only let out a yelp before darkness covered its vision.
[- 20 HP]
Drake took out the dagger from the dead wolf's eye before disappearing into another tree as it knew the yelp warned the last wolf.
The last wolf heard the yelp, and ran fast enough toward the noise just in time to see the dead wolf disappear but found no human.
It began growling as it sniffed around, suddenly it felt immense danger from above causing it to dodge to the side as it felt something going through the side of its neck.
[- 7 HP]
Drake saw the damage and clicked his tongue as he landed on the ground as he looked at the injured wolf bleeding from the side of its neck. His eyes were pure white as they contained no emotions, he didn't wait for the wolf to attack this time and leaped at it catching it off guard as he dug the dagger through its temple.
[- 15 HP]
The wolf turned limp before it started pixelating.
"Uffffff~" Drake took a deep breath as he slumped to the ground.
[You have killed Baby Wolf!]
[5 XP Earned]
[You have killed Baby Wolf!]
[5 XP Earned]
[You have killed Baby Wolf!]
[5 XP Earned]
[You have killed Baby Wolf!]
[5 XP Earned]
Finally he noticed he levels up as he looked at the interface.
"Worth it..." Drake said as he stood up, and started stretching.
As he was in the middle of stretching he heard a growl coming from a bush, making him get on the defensive.
Two Baby wolves jumped out of the bush as they growled.
"... Yeah no" Drake said as he turned around and started running away.
The Baby Wolf's started running after him.
"HAHAHA!" Drake let out an excited laugh as he left the forest and started running away from the forest.
He glanced behind him and saw the two wolves were still following him.
"Shit!"