As everyone woke up, some people started to scream that everyone that they knew and loved had passed away and that the end had come. Some people got up and tried to calm the crowd. Among them was a blonde muscular man who managed to get everyone to calm down until we figured out our situation and try our best to survive now.
A week had gone by since then. We realized we had all had a status window like games of our world. My status window was as follows:
Name: Sima Yi
Level:0
Class: Random villager
Health:1
Strength:1, Dexterity:1, Intelligence:2,
Special Skills: None
System prompt: Need 10 gold to purchase a class.
For the last week, I have been working with the villagers to hunt wildlife to earn money to qualify for this so had all the other players, but they had taken different jobs around the town. Some had already collected enough and left the village after accessing it quietly in the middle of the night without informing anyone. Some apparently had even died from the monsters they faced.
"Today I will find out what this world holds" I said to myself as I pressed the option.
System Prompt: Congratulations on finishing your first task.
You may select one of these basic classes based on your stats.
LEVEL UP
Level 1 Fighter
Health: +2
Strength: +1
Gain proficiency with sword and shield.
Ability: Last stand (fight until you
Unlock: Basic Aura (gives +1 boost to all stats when active)
Level 1 Assassin
Health: +1
Dexterity: +1
Mana: +1
Gain proficiency with daggers, bows and crossbows.
Unlock: Shadow magic (Can cast level 0 shadow magic spells)
Spells gained: Basic invisibility (becomes invisible from vision until attacked) mana cost:1.
Level 1 Wizard
Intelligence: +1
Mana: +2
Gain proficiency with staff and wands.
Unlock: basic elemental magic (can cast level 0 elemental spells)
Spells gained: fire bullet (cast fire at an enemy dealing 5 fire damage) mana cost:2.
Seeing the options, I knew fighter was out as it just didn't suit my personality even though the aura effect sounded good. While as a wizard I had extreme burst attack, but I was too weak one successful attack on me, and my life would be over. The only choice that suited me was assassin. I chose the class. Updating Stat information of player:
Stat Window
Name: Sima Yi
Level:1 Assassin
Health:2
Strength:1
Dexterity:2
Intelligence:2
Mana:1
Weapon proficiency: Daggers, crossbows, bows.
Spells: Basic Invisibility level 0
I could feel that I had gotten faster. I walked down to the blacksmith shop to choose two daggers to buy. They cost me 2 gold and I was completely broke again.
System alert: Next class unlock level 5.
It seemed my peaceful time at the village was over and was time to set about exploring the jungles and find out what this world had in store for me.I turned on invisibility and went to sleep on top of a random tree as I forgot to mention that player murdering each other for their gold was quite common here so I had been only going to the village during the day as the village chieftain was a level 5 and people were too scared to do anything then but at night anything was possible.
One of the main reasons I choose assassin was for the first time in a week, I could get proper sleep without being paranoid. I dozed off to sleep with my invisibility on as I heard the familiar screams of players fighting and killing each other all over the village.