An alarm goes off with the clock reading 7:00 A.M. we can see a hand searching for the snooze as their phone also goes off it appears to be a phone call that reads "Mom". As the hand finds the alarm and turns it off another grabs the phone and answes it.
"Hello?" Said Zack.
"~GOOD MORNING!~ Its time to get up dear its your first day of the spring semester." said Mom.
"Yes Mom." Said Zack still tired.
"Okay dear I love you call me later today okay Bye Bye." Said Mom.
"Will do Mom love you." Said Zack smiling.
Zack thinking about how blessed he is to have such a loving Mom wondering what happened for him to be so crazy himself.
"I must get it from dad huh" Zack thought aloud.
As Zack is thinking about his unhealthy mentality his phone chimes with a reminder saying "New Age Today".
"Sweet I really hope this game lives up to its claims." said Zack.
"New Age become playable at 4 pm today worldwide so until then I have classes to attend lets get ready and have breakfast." Said Zack.
(Mental Image for Zack I guess.)
As Zack is showering you can see that he has dark brown hair with brown eyes and a mostly grown beard still patchy in some areas. He is 5'11 (so close to the magic number) with a wide build but not super buff.
He is average in looks he is ugly by any means but he is handsome either.
After Zack showers and does other self hygiene be make breakfast in his apartment which consists of eggs and toast coated with grape jelly. By the time Zack finishes all of this his phone alarm goes off indicating that it's 8:30 and he should start walking to his 9 am class which is about a 15 minute walk from his apartment.
*Time Skip*(yall here for a game novel not this school bull anyway)
Zack finally gets out of his 2 pm Biology class Bio 112. As Zack starts walking him his phone rings with "Diego Blast"Zack's best friend.
"Wassa Zack you ready for tonight Mister Big Bad?" Said Diego.
"Sure am my loyal henchman." Zack said smiling.
Zack and Diego have been friends since they were young infact both Zack and Diego's families have known each other since Zack's and Diego's Grandfather's served together during Desert Storm.
As children they shared similar interests like big battles and playing Heros vs Villans. When they were old enough to play online games they were drawn to pvp because it felt like more of a challenge than killing monsters with simple mechanics.
"So Zack what you wanna do in New Age Zack? They said there are infinite possibilities so that means every player will have unique builds so pvp is gonna be fun." Said Diego.
"I don't know yet I'm really interested in the crafting part of the game they said that you can make anything so I want to see how true that is." Said Zack.
"Okay well I'm gonna go for a One-Shot build hehe. Just thinking about deleting people sounds fun." Said Diego.
"Well I'll message you tonight when I get on if we spawn near each other we can party if not I'll see you at the capital city at level 10." Said Zack.
"Roger doger Zack well see you I'm gonna try to find me a cute college girl then ~bye~." Said Diego.
"There he goes again trying to be a playboy." Said Zack aloud as he reached home.
When Zack got home it was 2:30 and Zack was hungry so he made him a cup of ramen as a snack until dinner. While eating he watched some videos on YouTube about New Age. When he finished eating and relaxing it was 3:45 pm so Zack started to get ready to launch New Age.
At 4 Zack launched the game by saying nothing ( nope no cringe vocal start bs here just Mental bs) he just thought about launching the game.
As Zacks concusness slipped into the Vr world he saw a white world.
"Welcome to New Age mortal. My name is Creator the world soul for Yarshal the world of New Age. I'm here to help create you body to inhabit while in Yarshal now please fill out this form or click random if you dont want to be bothered with creating yourself but i warn you there are no redos unless you fully reset your account." Said a white sphere of light.
This screen appeared.
Name: What you go by.(changeable)
Race: What you are.(Changeable)
Alignment: Your affiliations.(Changeable)
Traits: Both positive and Negative things about you . To obtain traits you spend currency where negative ones give points and positive ones take points. Start with 5 points with 10 slots to use or leave blank(Unchangeable)
Filled out form
Name: Zack
Race: Goblin (+1 to strength/Agility/Stamina and +2 to Intellect/Spirit per level)
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Traits:
1. Innovative thinker(2 points)- When creating something new chances of success are increased by 20%.
2. Blood Crazed(-10 points)- When you see or smell blood you enter a frenzy which makes it difficult to tell friend from foe.(Friendly Fire On)
3. Genius(10 points)- learning speed increased by 100% and Experience by 5%.
4. Frail(-5 points)- Max HP decreased by 15%.
5. Dexterous(4 points)- all hand related activities have an additional 20% to success.
6. Crazy(-3 points)- Your are considered crazy. Harder to build relations with NPCs without the Crazy or Saint Trait. -25% to reputation gained but 50% with crazy NPCs.
7. Crafting Heart(2 points)- You start with the Crafter subclass.
8. Explosive Enthusiast(2 points)- You love explosions. All Explosive Damage you deal is increased by 15%.
9. Adaptive(1 point)- all elemental resistance increased by 5.
10. Scavanger(2 points)- Foraging yields more loot. 5% increase to loot gained.
"Done." Zack said with a smile excited to see how this build plays out.
"Are you sure this is how you want you character sheet to look?" Said Creator
Zack clicks yes and then a character model appears in front of him with a scale that lets him customizes his character.
(Zack in-game character image I guess)
Forest Green Skin with a Black Mohawk along with Bright Green eyes. His build is small and fit. He is 3'11( Short King Status)
After Zack is done making his character he is asked to confirm again which he does.
Then Zack is brought to Village 109776. He is equipped with a novice clothes and a wooden sword.
Stat Sheet( only time I'll use until he levels if he gains a new skill or something I'll just explain the skill and that's it)
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Name: Zack
Level: 1
Race: Goblin
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Class:None
Subclasses: Crafter(1/10)- Basic crafting class
Health: 85/85
Mana: 100/100
Experience: 0/100
Strength: 10
Agility: 10
Intellect: 10
Stamina:10
Spirit: 10
Passives: Goblin Cunning(Racial)- Creations do more damage(15%) but are prone to exploding(5%).
Traits:(listed previously)
Skills: None
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As Zack was looking at his stats more and more people were spawning in of all kind of races. Because Zack chose Lawful Evil as his Alignment he was spawned into a village in the Demon Nation the Evil Faction of New Age.
"Welcome Otherworlder's to Cain Village there is plenty to do around the village so get to work." Said Village Elder who was an old imp.
Zack sends a Message to Diego through his friends list telling him which village he is at to which Diego responds with village 109865 both of which are in th Demon Nation so they decide to meet up when they make it to the Captial City at level 1p.
Zack knowing that he can't really talk to anyone here and get favorable dialog decides to just hunt some mobs and other players in the wild.
Players and Monsters both give Experience related to there level in New Age but killing players affects your in-game reputation(name appears red and good aligned NPCs lose favorablity)and alignment(good drops to neutral then to Evil and lawful drops to netural to chaotic).
Duels do the opposite as they are agreed upon they increase reputation and alignment. Killing Players of opposite alignments doesn't affect alignments.
Zack leaving the village enters the Forest of Death(level 1-10). Inside he finds chaos as there are players everywhere attacking each other and the monsters its a total bloodbath.
[Blood Craze Activates]
As he is looking around everyone's names become red for him which indicates that they are enemies.
Zack not wanting the smoke at this level decides to look for another hunting zone. If only it was that easy as Zack was leaving an Orc walks up to Zack blocking his path.
"Where do you think your going?" Asked the Orc clearly looking for a fight.
Instead of answering Zack hits the Orc with sword in the family jewels.
[-20 HP critical]- Orc
This sudden attack below the belt makes the Orc fall to his knees as he feels his family jewels crack. Instead of waiting for the Orc to recover Zack continues to wail on the Orc until he dies.
[-10 HP]- Orc x8
[Killed Level 1 Player +10 XP]
Others seeing what Zack did were cautious of him. Not everyone though as there are always idiots who overestimate themselves.
As Zack is leaving again after killing that Orc 2 more Players start to follow him. Zack doesn't realize until he gets to another hunting zone though where he starts to prepare for their ambush by baiting them to attack him while he is fighting a monster.
Zack squares off against a killer rabbit a level 2 monster that inhabits this forest. As he is fighting it he kites the monster but since he isn't use to his body he does mess up now and then.
[-7 HP]- Zack x3 (21)
[-10 HP] - Killer Rabbit x 12 (120)
[Killed Killer Rabbit Level 2 +15 XP]
[1 Killer Rabbit Horn]
[3 Copper Coins]
As soon as he finished killing the rabbit the two players attack him with a pincers attack which Zack evades by ducking which causes the two players hit each others weapons which cause them to both recoil leaving them open to a counter. Zack decides to focus the Elf on his left first. Deciding to see if anywhere else can give a critical Zack decides to go for the Elf's left eye which he hits.
[-14 HP Critical]- Elf
This causes the Elf to scream and cry while clutching his eye. Seeing his friend in so much pain scares the other Elf causing him to drop to his bottom trying to flee.
Zack continues to test things out on the elf who was abandoned by his friend.
"Interesting so the whole head is a critical zone and the groin is too. I wonder if torture is allowed here?" Said Zack.
The Elf hearing this starts crying harder while begging Zack to stop.
"Please stop I'm sorry I'll give you my gear please let me go." Said the Elf
"No I don't think I will." said Zack as he started to record his gameplay so he can have a record of what is and isn't allowed on this game.
After 15 minutes the Elf was automatically disconnected from the game as his device read that he was in real danger.
"Ah man I just started breaking fingers man." Said Zack disappointed.
[Killed Player Level 1 +10 XP]
[Aquired basic skill- Touture[1/10]: While extracting information from an enemy through physical means you have an extra (5% per level) to aquire information you want.]
"Cool so you can aquire skills through actions that's awsome I wonder what else I can learn?" Said Zack.