"Alright you three, it's time for you to get into the game." Mom said once we were all done with our food.
We would need around 15-20 minutes to setup once in the game, and the academy takes that into consideration, but we still do need to log in as soon as we can.
I went up to the game room in our house and located my pod that had been waiting for years to be used.
The pods would allow us to be protected during our dive into the game, and also provide everything our body would need to evolve in the real world just as much as we do in the game. My pod had to be specially made because of my rare species, but I wasn't sure just how my parents knew they needed to do that. I didn't think about it much and just accepted it as I did with much of the knowledge they imparted to me about my race. I had yet to see any books or anything else that contained any knowledge about slimes, so I just assumed my parents had a secret library or something with information not available to the public.
I stepped into the rectangular, metal container and laid down. Our pods were located in order of age, so Lilian was stepping into her pod beside me on my left, and Seban was sitting in his pod on my right.
For the first time ever, the whole Astor family would be logging into the VR game together.
"Good luck my children, and work hard." Dad said.
We all nodded to him before we closed our pods.
I laid back on the comfortable padding and pressed the only button within the pod.
The top closed down on me and I was covered in darkness.
'Log in.' I said inside my head.
Ding!
[You are logging into VR for the very first time. Would you like to confirm your decision? Yes/No]
'Yes.'
[Commencing initial launch of VR]
[73%]
[100%]
[Completed]
[Close your eyes, relax, and enjoy your stay. Good luck!]
After reading that message, my eyes closed on their own and I had the same feeling as I would when going to sleep. All thoughts seemed to evade me, and my consciousness drifted away.
Almost immediately, the sensation was stripped away from me as fast as it appeared.
I was now standing in what looked to be a beautiful garden with many different types of flora in it. There were yellow, blue, red, pink, purple and many other colored plants. One would think the colors would clash with each other, but somehow everything seemed to fit.
"Welcome to VR!" A woman said.
She was sitting at a tea table on a patio that was in the middle of the beautiful garden that seemed to span for as far as I could see.
The woman was just as beautiful as the garden she sat in.
She had long, auburn hair, bright green eyes, tanned skin, and a perfect face. The long green dress that went just past her knees matched the color of her eyes well.
"Hello Maruma, my name is Rhea. Come sit." She said while gesturing to the chair in front of her.
I nodded my head and went to sit down.
I wasn't freaked out about this situation because my parents explained to us in detail what would happen once we login and get to the academy a long time ago.
"Let me pull up the rest of your file and we can get started."
She then started making hand gestures in the open air.
I knew she was using the menu system and looking at holographic screens, but it still looked extremely odd from my point of view.
"Okay." She said after a few seconds.
"Looks like you will be attending the Royal Academy as per the code included with your nanobots."
The nanobots I got injected at the Center were specialized nanobots for me that were bought by my parents, just like other parents do for their children. My nanobots contained code within them that gave the academy I was signed up to be in.
The Royal Academy is the most prestigious academy within the world of Vendar. Only royal families and those of extremely rich families are allowed to attend the Royal Academy. Being one of the princes of our world, I was obviously granted attendance to this academy just like the rest of my siblings.
"Here is your stat sheet, and it looks like your class was already chosen for you. I will give you a few seconds to look over it, just let me know when you are done." Rhea continued.
[Title(s): N/A] [Name: Maruma Astor]
[Species: Slime]
[HP: 250/250] [Mana: Infinite]
[Rank: 1] [Level: 1(0/100)]
[Class: Elementalist] [Subclass: N/A]
Stats
[Stat Points: 0]
[Strength: 1] [Agility: 1]
[Vitality: 5] [Stamina: 1]
[Intellect: 5] [Luck: 5]
Skills: (Absorption) (Regeneration) (Form Shifting)
[Friends list]
[Shop]
[Social]
[Log out]
'Sigh.' I could only sigh in my heart at my pitiful stats.
I always knew my physical stats were low, but not this low. A value of 1 meant I was in the bottom 10% of the inhabitants of my world.
It would have been rare if I had a value other than 1 because of how a slime's anatomy works, but it was still disappointing to see.
I focused on the class that was assigned to me next. Most people would get to choose their class, but not me.
All slimes were forced into the Elementalist class because of our low physical capabilities and how our mana system works. I would have the opportunity to get a hidden or unique slime class once I get to the real VR game, but that would be hard to do so I'm not betting on it happening.
[Elementalist]
[Elementalist are similar to Wizards and Witches, but use their mana externally instead of internally. When wizards form spells they do so within their bodies then shoot them out, while Elementalists form spells outside of their bodies through movement.]
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