As my new name implied, I rushed through the character setting. I wasn't even sure which I chose as my starter class. Since I had to only level up to level ten to travel through the higher level hunting ground, I wanted to advance as quickly as possible.
I opened the character menu. Fuck this shit. In my earlier selection, I just skipped through the settings so I was stuck with an useless class: A tank. Well, it wasn't that useless as I claimed, but for me who specialized in classes which would never close in on a prey willingly and preferred to blast others into oblivion from a safe distance, it was nothing but a pile of shit. I had no experience in this regard and my barely passable knowledge on tankers considered the simple facts that they often had low damage skills, preferred high defense and HP while taunting monsters right at them. Their high endurance of monster assault was their specialty. But I hated melee battles. As a mage or any other sorcerer class, one could use magic or other forms of energy to attack enemies while close combat or even waving or striking any kind of weapon directly at monsters was uncalled for. So how should I learn even basic attacks? And at the beginning of the game, any skill was nothing but a shiny button one could pressure for a shiny, useless lightshow.
I hastily looked around for the class switching NPC but found none. What a big load of poo. Sigh. With a heavy heart, I summoned the beginner sword and looked at the rusty, maybe even dull blade of the beginner sword. Let's get to raise new highs of deaths per character. I thought and tried to remember my killing and death statistics from my old character.
The slow movements made me miss my former class even more. Before I could lament myself any more, a small white rabbit hopped out of the bushes a few meters in front of me.
"No!" I yelled and tried to run away, but the rabbit got me with one of its paws and I died.
The albino rabbit was at level 5 and an elite in the weak hunting ground. My luck was truly rock-bottom to meet it directly. Maybe it was bad karma from killing the [apprentice guardian of the forest] a few days ago. It felt like that encounter was ages ago, while in the real world just half a week had passed.
I was respawned at the reincarnation point. Luckily I couldn't lose either money, equipment or experience. The beginner equipment remained in shape until I would reach level 5. After that, it would magically vanish into thin air.
Since I still needed to level up, I had no choice but to enter the woods surrounding Bronning again. This time, I went in the complete opposite direction. There is no chance that I will encounter another elite, right? My luck can't be that bad.
At least I managed to kill one rabbit by throwing my sword in a fit of anger at it. After two hours I chased and tried to kill countless fiends. But they were too fast or agile. My level was still at 1 and if I didn't think of a plan to level up, I would never leave the beginner zone.
While hunting, I ran very far away from Bronning. If I don't return with a single death, I wouldn't be able to look at myself in the mirror.
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[From here on, very disturbing content follows. Who cannot handle gore, please skip this part.]
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"I will triumph over those damned rabbits!" I screamed and then fought myself through a patch of bushes. But instead of a peaceful clearing with sunshine and flowers, devastation greeted me. A crater of a width of multiple meters eradicated both gras, flowers and weed equality. At first, I looked at the unusual crater curiously, but then I felt a ping of hurt on my neck and stared at the splatter of blood and half-eaten guts. Between the remains of the assumed NPC a sudden sparkle caught my attention.
I closed in and found that the person's shattered purse must have been filled with coins. Beside the usual copper, silver and bronze coins, one especially stood out. A single platinum coin beside the body. I shivered. This was no NPCs corpse. It was my corpse. The remains of Mystyval Ru-ná laid there, right in front of me.