Once Max got into the capsule, wich required almost an hour to be put to use, he found himself in an empty room, only to start hearing a message seconds later.
"- Welcome to Nemesis, where humanity's development is only defined by imagination, where no privileges to someone over another until he deserves it
The following are the classes you can chose to start your road, and the starting weapon you will use.
Please mark that your original name is the same as the name used for your character.
Please mark that the weapon you chose will allow you to gain 5 levels in the weapon category's proficiency.
Please note that any future possible epic or higher tiered classes will be related to the chosen class, you have the ability to chose an unrelated class at the price of losing all the privileges your current class provides.
This was absurd but good, the name chosing was a good move but never used before, the weapon choice was somewhat new, as 5 levels were already too good, but the classe chosing was a problem, Max liked to use katanas, but he knew that chosing them would make him have a hard start, leveling up would be slow, he wanted to be a swordsman, but he knew it was the hardest class, it required the user to train a lot in sword arts before being called a true swordman, let alone a sword saint or a sword god, but he wanted to be a magical swordman, wich was different from a magic knight, being a magic knight gave you a huge boost in strength and magic, but the only boost on speed was attack speed, while a magic swordman lacked strength and has more agility,
another difference was the sord used, swordmen used katanas, while knights used two handed swords.
But Max has to chose a basic class, magic swordman was a epic class, wich if evolved can become a legendary class if not myth, it all depended on both levels and tiers.
After some thoughts, Max chose to be a magician, and chose the katana as his first weapon, for a magician was undefeatable if you don't take into account melee combats, while a swordman was quite the opposite, and if combined, the outcome would be great.
Only then did he hear again the hosts voice.
"- Player Max SPARROW chose classe magician and weapon katana, due to completing the character creation, the player will be sent to the waiting room, to wait for the planned speech
Time till the begining of the speech: 38 min"
Well, he forgot totally about that, he even had planned to know a little about the other beta testers and exchange information, after all, not everyone is going to start the game the same way.
Suddenly, a light beam from a little far away began to approach him, or was it just small while it enlarged, while thinking about it, he got swallowed in so much light that he had to close his eyes, only to find himself in a different room once he opened them, and in front of him was a big room, it was so big, just too big, with tables and chairs around the center of the said room, weapon closets around the perimeter , and the rest being a free space.
Suddenly he saw a girl coming his way, she was a little shorter than him but had that kind of cute face little sisters all had, with a small mouth, small nose, round face, big eyes, she seemed to be the kind of cute little sister that was too curious about everything but too naive to know anything.
"- Hey there, just completed your character creation?"
That is weird way of saying would you like to exchange information, not that he did mind,
"- Yeah, took me quite some time to decide,
- Did they ask to both chose class and weapons?
- Yes they did, what did you chose?
- Well, I chose a ranger with a bow, and you?
- For me, a magician class, and a katana
- No, wow, you actually made such a mistake, man you're doomed,
- What, why?
- Well, a magician needs a wand to cast magic, while a swordman needs skills to use his sword, didn't you know that, you actually are a newbie, you gotta have so much luck to be chosen as a beta tester, too bad it won't help you survive the upcoming game.
-Yeah whatever, I know that, but it's my best choice." Max was actually knowledgeable about such requirements, probably even more then Aria, but it was said that Genesis has said that it has added all the skills created from over 20 VR games, it also stated that successful use of a skill for more than 5 times ads it to your arsenal, Wich for lesser and basic skills was easy but not for rare and higher tiered skills, his best shot was to use this to nurture swordman skill while developing his magician character, the problem was indeed his magical skill, without a wand he had to buy one, he had to quickly start training sword skills to acquire money to buy the wand he needed.
And with that, he opened a weapon closet and picked a novice sword
" - Novice sword
A sword used for training, it boosts stamina up to 5 percent while training, the boost is unusable in a fight
The sword is unbreakable during training but will break just due to a normal slash if used in a fight for so it has not stats."
Well that was easy to say, it's for training, nothing but training, so he began to apply the normal stance for slash, a good lesser skill, that can be developed, unexpectedly the slash didn't come out as he anticipated, it was doable but not at a hundred percent success rate, for a lesser skill, that was a shock let alone a rare or even a legendary skill, only after the 13 slash did he acquire his first skill, wich triggered an announcement:
" Congratulations to player Max SPARROW for creating the lesser skill ' slash ' ;
the player will be rewarded with 20 skill points in the created skill and 10 free skill points to use for being the first player to creat a lesser skill"
This made him have all the attention of the world, or in this case, the room, he knew he'd have to give intel, but he wanted intel too, so the first to reach him, a bulk man said:
" - Hey, man, how did you do it,
- I don't give free information, if you have useful information to exchange, I am willing to do business, otherwise I'm sorry
- An exchange, ha? , how about this, I don't have any right now, I chose to start from the middle of the story so I'm yet to know anything how about it, you in? "
While the two were talking others got close to catch anything of use,
" - I can't give you intel now, that will be making blind trust in you, bit if you leave me your contact, I will talk to you once the beta ends, then we can exchange intel,
" - Man, you know I might get to know that by then,
why would I accept that?
- Are an independent?
- Yeah
- Well, I will help you when you desire to creat a new account, while you help me know what's coming, besides my help might make you usefully use all intel you acquired
- Hmm, fair enough, but I need a proof that you didn't do that by accident, I don't want to be robbed eather
- Okay, go sit and wait"
That was Max's last word before he began to train, not even asking for the guys contact or information, but instead of a slash, he began doing a trust, wich was another lesser skill, but this time it took him 10 tries to make it
" Congratulations to player Max SPARROW for creating a lesser skill;
the player will be rewarded 20 skill points in the created skill"
He then looked at the remaining time, 7 minuter for the speech, he then went to the same guy from before, and told him to exchange contacts
"- My name is Alfred AMINOFF, by the way, but, you can add it after the game's official start, my class by then will be a berserker, and I will use axes, that might make your search for me easier later as I will not use a beta tester's account,
- Good, I'm Max SPARROW, a magician with a katana, I guess this has made you more trusting, I have only one thing to say, acquire the most of skill you can, also, acquire the most knowledge possible like what happened or might happen in the future in the game, and how to grow stronger, from my part, I'll help you grow you character, more levels with more usefulness from your part,
and please acquire sword skills and anything useful about magic, I will owe you for that
- Ok, rest assured"
Aside from Max, another man, Francis VALOIS, learned slash too but only got 10 skill points, shortly after, a woman Elisabeth WINDSOR, learned a new skill, shoot, wich got her 20 skill points, aside from them, no one learned a skill.
Only after the time finished did the speech begin
" Hello everybody, Mike Dyson is talking, today we will start the game that will change the world, Genesis, just like in the movie, Skynet is an artificial intelligent computer that will control the game, while you play, thow tomorrow the beta will end, you guys, will bee given a week's worth of game time to play, beware not to die in game, as we don't yet know what are the consequences of that, and behold what you do or say, for there's no NPC in this game, every one of them is a character made by Skynet, and for so, they are interestingly intelligent, also, the best beta tester will be given a life saving information, literally, or for you to understand, a future like information, so you better give it your all, you will be judged by how much you developed your character.
With this I say goodbye, and remember, fortune favors the bold
Let the games begin"
After that a notification popped up
"The game will start in
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2....
1...."
And after that the same light from before came back to pull Max and the others into the game world.