One month passed by in a flash and there's only one day left till the release of Into The Metaverse. Everyone is required to buy the capsule created by Xena Company exclusively for Into The Metaverse. It has temperature control features, body and mind stabilization features, physical and mental monitoring 24/7 for health issues, Emergency medical treatment, and many more other features. Which convinced people to buy it even more.
I also took a part time job as a trainer in the gym I was training to save some extra money for the capsule. Even though it's been a while since I last trained. I still have the training deep rooted in me. After I joined the gym and worked out for the last 6 months I got a hang of it. My body has even returned to shape again and I am almost close to my old self now. So I took the part time job as a trainer and trained some people. It was mostly some young girls though.
Anyway, it was enough to buy me the capsule and it came to my home just now. The delivery men were taking it down from the cargo car. They will set it up soon and tomorrow I can finally play the game.
The next morning after I woke up I immediately entered the capsule and connected to the Into The Metaverse game. Surprisingly there was no headset, you just have to start the capsule and sleep inside the capsule and you will be able to play the game. I started the capsule and tried to sleep. I instantly fell asleep! The bed like seat was really comfortable and immediately after I turned on the capsule my body started loosening up, my mind started relaxing and I fell asleep...
[Welcome player! Choose a display name.]
"Mr. Necromancer!"
'Even though I used my real name last time. I now know what I am going to do so I also got a new in game name.'
[Display name available.]
[Mr. Necromancer is set as the display name]
[Do you want to change your face design?]
"Not really, maybe dark green eyes would be cool."
'It will match with my necromancer class.'
[Choose a class!
-Tank
-Warrior
-Magician
-Archer
-Thief
-Blacksmith
-Physician
-Herbalist
-Merchant
-Cook]
"What?? there is no necromancer???"
[Starter Class is limited but you can get a chance to change your class in the future]
"Hmm then I choose the Merchant class I guess."
'Other class doesn't seem so interesting to me.'
[Analyzing…..]
[Analysis complete]
[Profile Preview]
Display Name: Mr. Necromancer
Real Name: Louis McKay
Family: Will be randomly chosen
Title: None
Class: Merchant
Innate ability: None
Strength: 3~9
Endurance: 2~8
Vitality: 8~14
Dexterity: 5~11
Intelligence: 6~12
Luck: 12~20
HP: 15× Vitality
MP: 10× Intelligent
Attack: 5× strength
Defense: 3× Endurance
Agility: 5× Dexterity
[Confirm?]
'Woah, it got my real name even though I haven't put it in? And this system interface really feels different from Fantasia. I can't choose what I want from get to go. There's even a family system? What's this family system for? Wait a minute…. Will we actually have a family inside the game? So there will be some origins of the player! You won't just be popped out of nowhere and instead be born in a family? Interesting. There is also another new function: innate ability? After comparing other classes it seems like merchants have higher base luck stats compared to any other class. Also, I noticed the max stat point of a specific attribute at level 1 is 20. So I can get max luck stat if I am lucky.'
"Confirm."
Suddenly a message popped up in front of me.
[We have been waiting for you Louis McKay, thanks for supporting the Fantasia game for so long and also joining our new and updated game Into The Metaverse. As a thanks for all these you will be rewarded with any one item you wish from your old inventory that will not break the balance of the game early on.]
[Choose an item!]
Hmm, I fell into deep thought. There were many good items. Many that break the balance of the early game but even if I exclude them there are still many good items. I can't really decide which one to choose.
At the last moment, only one thing came to my mind and I don't know why I felt like choosing it.
"Heart of the Immortal King!"
Even though it sounds very cool and powerful. It's actually one of the most useless items in my old inventory. I also chose it mainly because of the cool name lol. But after playing Fantasia for so long I guessed this item to be a quest item but the story and content wasn't available at that time. So I hope it will be available now.
Suddenly a light flashed and when I opened my eyes I saw something scary moving in front of my face. I jumped back and straightened my body only to see a wine bottle on the table.
'Sigh I got scared just from some reflection?'
Just now I think I was drunk and slept on the table hugging the wine bottle. And I actually got scared for a moment seeing my own reflection on the bottle.
Anyway, after I sober up I checked my surroundings. The room was really spacious. There was a big bed, a book shelf, a study desk, and a round table where I was sitting right now. There were also many candles in the room.
It seems to be good to be real for a beginning scene. This place should be really expensive. I checked the outside view through the window and there was even a small garden in front of this place. If my guess is correct this place should be a mansion or a high end inn. I was really happy with the starting scenario. I sat on the bed waiting for the plot to progress.
"....."
But there were no changes even after waiting for a while. I thought there would be some screen play or story background but there doesn't seem to be anything like that. So instead I tried to open my status bar.
"Status." I called out loud.
Suddenly there was a sound and a system notification in front of me.
[Welcome player]
[There is a new quest in your quest tab. You can find it in your quest tab for more info.]
[Status]
Display Name: Mr. Necromancer
Real Name: Louis McKay
Family: Grandson of Gold King (S)
Title: Disgrace of the family (Unrated), Worthless son (Unrated), Expelled (Unrated)
Class: Merchant
Innate ability: none
Coins: 6284 gold coins
Strength: 6
Endurance: 8
Vitality: 8
Dexterity: 11
Intelligence: 11
Luck: 16
HP: 120
MP: 110
Attack: 30
Defense: 24
Agility: 55
Stamina: 100%
Woah I actually got an S grade family and my stats aren't so bad either. Even though It's not as I wanted it to be, it's not like everything goes your way. Also just as I thought every player gets a family background in this game. It's really interesting and a new concept in the gaming industry. But what's with all these titles....?
[Disgrace of the family] (Unrated)
You have disgraced the family time and time again. As a result, the family head is really disappointed in you. You don't hold any right in the family and your influence in the family is as little as nonexistent.
Effect: Reputation -200, Influence in family -100%
[Worthless Son] (Unrated)
Your parents are really disappointed in you and lost most of their love and care for you as a result of your behavior. They favor your siblings more and have almost abandoned you.
Effect: Parents favor -100%
[Expelled] (Unrated)
You have been expelled from the family because of your recent behaviors. Your grandfather gave you a test as your last chance to prove yourself.
Half an hour ago inside the headquarter of Xena Company, a supervisor received the reply of Louis' decision. He checked all the items that can break the balance of the early game and didn't find the requested item. So he agreed and sent the item to Louis' bag. But one thing he didn't understand was that even though he was a supervisor in Xena company he can't think of any item named Heart of the Immortal King but there was actually such an Item in his previous inventory.