-"That's a fucking status screen!"-
"Oh…", Rei stared at the status screen for a second and realized that the floating texts on a blue-coloured wooden board were what Lucas referred to as a status screen.
However, below it, there were numerous question marks.
[Status]
[???]
Rei, who was mostly illiterate, immediately saw the strange symbols and asked while pointing at them, "What are those?"
-"It's a question mark. Don't ask me anything about it because you won't be able to fit those details in your little brain."- Lucas immediately said in a heavy tone, trying to run away from the useless convo.
Just as Rei was busy in his conversation with Lucas, his eyes suddenly paused on a blinking symbol.
His eyes focused on it for some seconds but before he could get to know it, multiple messages appeared.
None of these symbols went to his head. Even the so-called 'Question mark' was misheard at the start.
Regardless…
-"HAHAHAHAHA!"-
Many more words and symbols had appeared and on seeing them, Lucas began laughing as loudly as possible.
Rei was surprised due to the laughter.
Why? The reason was simple…
[Welcome player #1,478,909,876]
[Type your name:]
[Choose your race:]
[Choose your profession:]
Actually, Rei was now inside the game TLOW!
The headset that somehow swallowed him, brought him here.
Lucas, who had never played the game, knew more than the players!
He almost researched the game to death!
With all the gameplay and little glances, along with multiple information from online, he had become quite knowledgable – but of course, there were many things that even he didn't know but those weren't important for now.
He was happy because he was at leats able to come to the world that he desired so much. He thought that he could play the game that he desired – however, little did he know that he was much more interested in the goblin and this weird phenomenon that had occurred.
Regardless, after seeing the stats and other messages, he realized that the goblin could miraculously play the game.
-"Damn it! You are so lucky… Very lucky…"- Lucas said.
"Uh…?"
"How so?", Rei asked.
-"Because you can play the game that I wanted the most!"- Lucas sighed.
Rei scratched his head a bit due to confusion.
-"Now…"-
-"Without wasting any time…"-
-"CHOOSE A DAMN RACE!"- Lucas screamed at the top of his voice.
The excited scream caused a little bit of headache.
"Why are you screaming!?" Rei shot back.
-"Oh! Well, I can't help it. Quickly tap the [choose your Race] option."- Lucas couldn't care more about what Rei wanted to say and proceeded to demand him to choose.
Although Rei wanted to see everything first, Lucas didn't let him. In the end, he just tapped the [Choose your race option].
[Status]
[Race: Elf (Locked); Dark Elf (Locked); Dwarf (Locked); Giant (Locked); Beast-man (Locked); Demon (Locked); Dragonoid (Locked); Human (Locked); Goblin (Unlocked)]
[Elf - A race that has a high affinity and connection with mana.]
[Dark Elf - Has a high affinity and connection with dark energy and with dark particles of mana.]
[Dwarf - The best craftsman. Even though they are not as good as elves in controlling mana they can enchant weapons to a great degree.]
[Giant - Creature known for its giant height and brute strength. Rather than controlling and using mana, they are proficient in using HP-based skills.]
[Beastman - Half Beast and half human. It has the ability to use the skills related to certain beasts as per as its rank and even transforms or changes into a complete beast form.]
[Demon - Is of many types and is known for using Dark energy, Blood energy, Death energy etc... one of the strongest creatures in The Legend Of Warlords.]
[Dragonoids - Creature having dragon's blood. As their level increases, the purity of dragon blood in them increases due to which they become stronger and gain more skills and traits of pure Dragon and can possibly turn into one after reaching level – 100.]
[Human - Can level up faster at the initial stages than any other race and have the ability to learn skills of any and all classes and races.]
[Goblin - The weakest race in The Legend Of Warlords. They are so weak that even the heat sensation created by the healing potion can kill them.]
-"Haha, would you look at that, while all the races have great definitions, only the goblin race has the worst wordings!"-
-"Haha!"- Lucas laughed a bit, trying to tease Rei.
However, Rei on the other hand was somewhat stunned.
"Huh?"
Looking at the definition of the goblin, Rei's hand started trembling as a memory flashed in his mind.
***
[Two years ago…]
"Ron, did you find anything yet?"
"Yea!"
"What is it?"
Rei quickly dashed towards Ron, yet another goblin. His eyes paused on the glass bottle and a very sturdy-looking sword.
"Rei, listen to me carefully. I want you to survive at difficult times… and that is the reason I want to give you this healing potion."
"This sword might catch your attention since it looks flashy and eye-catching but the healing potion is a hundred times better. Trust me…", Ron said while making eye contact with Rei.
"Ron, I understand. You want the best for me." Rei said as he accepted the healing potion.
Ron was a brotherly like figure for Rei.
While Rei was still too innocent, he always depended on Ron and believed his every word!
However, little did he know that Ron was not that simple.
'I can deceive this punk so easily. Kukukuku…', Ron smirked secretly as he handed over the potion to Rei.
Ron already knew the side effect of the healing potion on a goblin.
As the name suggests, a healing potion is capable of restoring the HP of any individual. Their external, as well as internal wounds, would get healed up to a certain extent – based on the tier of potion.
However, no matter how weak or effective the potions were, a low-levelled monster would never consume them!
The reason was simple – a side-effect of heating was caused every time a healing potion was used.
While this heat was nothing for others, and served as just basic warmth, for low levelled monsters like goblins and slimes, this was more like a death sentence!
Yes, the goblins were so weak that a healing potion acted like poison to them.
Regardless, Ron knew all this and thought that he had successfully managed to trick Rei, but before he could enjoy the trickery, an explosion occurred.