From Player To Npc Chapter 3: The New Life

'Little brother?!?' [Aanum]

Aanum had a little brother, not a sister, and he didn't have any siblings in the ga.

'If only could see my status maybe i....' [Aanum]

As he thought of it, a white window, sa as the ones in the ga, appeared in front of him. Even if he was currently with eyes closed and everything was dark; this window was clear as day to see.

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STATUS

NA: Shingi Maki

CLASS: None

RACE: Half-Human Half ????

HP: 5/5

SP: 2/2

STR: 1

AGI: 1

END: 1

INT: 10

CHA: 2

CONDITIONS: Incapacitated

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'What the heck?!?' [Shingi]

Everything in the status was not making sense. The NA wasn't either of his character or his actual na, and it set his CLASS to none. His stat's values were less than even when he started the ga. Even a level 0 NPC would have most of his stats at 8-10 value, but all except INT were lower than that. Also, he encountered no one having a CHA stat in all the years he played the ga. STR (Strength), AGI (Agility), END (Endurance), and INT (Intelligence) were the main stats. They could never have access to any other except those. So hidden stats existed, but the system never ntioned them or showed their value.

His RACE was strange. There were different races in the ga, and there were Half-Elves or Half-Orcs, but that was a rare case. His one half being unknown to him or the system was sothing he had never heard of happening in the past.

More strangely, his HP (Hit Points) and SP (Stamina Points) were too low even for his stats. Both increased by the END stat. Each point gave at least 10 HP and 5 SP.

After a little ti thinking of why his current situation was like that, Incapacitated active condition caught his attention. He focused on it to check if more information would show. As he thought about it, a new window of similar design as the other but little smaller and yellow color appeared in front of the status window.

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CONDITION EFFECT (INCAPACITATED)

Description: While under this effect, you have no access to control your body, and you can't use any Skills, Items, and Active Abilities. Passive abilities are still in effect, but so may have a lesser effect.

Source: Curse (Never-ending Sleep)

Duration: Until cured

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'Never-ending Sleep?!? Why it has to be that?' [Shingi]

Never-ending Sleep was sothing that players could never learn. He hasn't encountered or heard about any monster or even NPC that could use it, but he knew about it since there were quests that were ntioning it, as also there were a few quests you had to gather materials to make a cure for it. Even if the curse was a Basic Grade, its treatnt was hard to make. Other than that, there was no other way to stop its effects. So people said that it should be of Master Grade curse.

Under the curse's effects, one was in a coma kind of state. The body affected by the curse was growing in slower than the average state but, after ten years, no matter what, the user would die if not cured.

At that point, he heard more steps that were a little heavier than the previous ones of the 'sister' of his. He could tell the cause of his heightened senses and experience of all those years in the ga that two people just entered the room he was in. He could hear sothing else hitting the floor together with one of the two steps. That person was using a walking stick or sothing similar, so most likely an older person.

As the two of them seed to go, one at his left and one at his right side. He heard so lighter steps from a little distance away, probably from the girl from before. This ti she stayed where he estimated the door of the room would be.

And so, as the two people's steps stopped, he started hearing so words coming from the person at his left. From the voice, he could understand that it was an old lady. The words she was saying were of the Edhergo's Kingdom's ancient dialect, the North Kingdom of Enerias. This dialect was common among the magic users.

'She seems to say so prayer to Mother Nature' [Shingi]

Even if he wasn't a magic-user, he had studied the ga's story and the chanics of mages in the degree to be considered a high-level mage. At least in theory.

He could understand enough to get the general structure of the spell she was casting. It was a ritual that has a beneficial effect on the target.

All he could think that it would be was the cure for his Never-ending Sleep, but he couldn't be entirely sure.

As ti passed, after a few minutes, he felt a liquid of different tastes, so bitter, so sweet, administered to him by the person at his right. The person at the left started repeating the prayer again and again, which seed to be of 4 phrases repeatedly and each ti increasing her voice volu a little.

Shingi could feel his body being slowly surrounded by an energy that made him feel warm and comfortable.

And so after a little less than 10 minutes, the voice stopped speaking, the energy started disappearing, and then a white System window appeared for Shingi.

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Conditions for the MAIN QUEST: ROAD TO LIFE were fulfilled. Will you accept this quest?

YES / NO

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'MAIN QUEST?!? Am I this lucky this ti?' [Aanum]

While playing the ga, the players could gain various quests, each having its rewards. Most of them were available to all users. So could be obtained at specific tis per user or had a cooldown until it is available again. But the rarest ones among them were the MAIN QUESTS. Those are quests that would appear at any point. Still, the reason was unknown. Once accepted by one, it's impossible for anyone else ever to receive it, even if the one failed to complete it. But the MAIN QUESTS difficulty was of a high degree, but the rewards were worthy of it. The few people who had to succeed on one had all beco a great power in the ga, as they had brought significant changes in the ga.

Even knowing the dangers of this decision, he was never one to be a coward in the ga, and without a second thought, he picked to accept the quest. Fortunately, just thinking the commands were enough for the system to work.

And so all the tiredness suddenly left his body, and his eyebrows weren't as heavy anymore. And so he slowly opened his eyes. There was so natural light coming into the room by an open window nearby. His eyes, being closed all that ti, had to take so ti to adjust.

"Little brother!" [Young-girl]

As he was waiting for his sight to get more precise, he felt soone hugging out of nowhere. And then his view beca clear enough to see his surroundings better. He was in a small bedroom and was resting on a two-person bed, but the mattress seed to be parts of bedrolls more than an actual mattress. He noticed the girl who was hugging him and could tell that she was a teenager, maybe around 15. An older woman of a short statue kept herself up using a quarterstaff at his left side. At his right, there was a well-built man who looked to be around his thirties and could tell being of a low-class civilian by his clothing alone.

What caught his attention was a big mirror over a desk a little more at the left of the man at his right. The mirror had nothing weird, but what he found strange was his reflection in the mirror. It was the sa look he had when he was a young teenager in real life. The only difference was his eyes, which from the black color he had, they were instead dark red.

And as ti passed, the girl who seed to cry a little didn't seem to get to the end of the hug, making things a little awkward.

"Annoue, that is enough. Your brother just woke up and needs so ti to adjust. Prepare so food for him. He will need it. I will stay here with your father, and the three of us will join you soon." [Old Lady]

And so, with so hesitation, the girl known as Annoue stopped hugging Shingi, cleared her tears, and hurried outside.

After seeing her leaving, the Old Lady turned towards Shingi with a joyful smile.

"Hello there, my na is Aneta Greentea, and I am the Mayor of this small village. I just helped you to wake after a long ti. I am sure you have many questions; that is why I am here." [Aneta]

Speaking with Mayor, Shingi learned a few things as he could ask about what has happened while he was away, and she seed to answer his question like reading an open book. Although there were limits to her knowledge, he could put a few things together himself.

First, he was in the ga's world. His current body was under the effects of the Never-ending Sleep for the past nine years. His father ca across an adventurer, who most likely was a Player that helped him to gather the materials for the cure. In return, his father, the local blacksmith, gave him a craft of his at the adventurer. Fortunately, the mayor was a capable Alchemist who had developed in her research a ritual that would have a chance to cure the curse.

Also, he learned that expeditions at the tower were uncommon events for the last ten years for the public without permission. The only people allowed to pass its entrance were people of the Dark Guild, and only they could permit others to enter.

Shingi has encountered them in the past. The Dark Guild was a group of players trying anything to profit over others, and most ways were involving hacking. Although their power in the ENERIAS TOWER ga seed to be very little, he knew these people over many other gas. The system's security was of another level than usual gas, so hacking it was nearly impossible.

'Could it be that Light and Dark were part of them?' [Shingi]

The way they killed him wasn't following the system's rules, so the Dark Guild being behind it sounded logical, but then why he couldn't think the reason. But they stopped players from entering the tower that only should have drawn the developers' attention long ago. Still, if even they did nothing, that is sothing quite frightening.

The worst piece of information that he learned was that his in-ga character hadn't appeared in the last ten years. His na was quite famous in the ga, so his disappearance affected others, and many discussed it. Of course, that was because his reputation was over the charge in most towns in Edhergos so that most NPC would have heard about him.

'Ten years in the ga ans two years have passed in real life. What happened to my body in that ti?' [Shingi]

He was aware of the capsule's capabilities; after the shocks, he felt sure that his heart stopped. Before he learned of being gone for two years, he thought maybe people found him on ti and got him to a hospital, but he was confident that nothing could hold him for that long. He even thought the command to the system to see if he can log out, but there was no answer in that command. He still had access to his status window. Now that he woke up, other than that the Incapacitated Condition got removed, nothing changed.

'So I sohow got trapped into the ga?!?' [Shingi]

It seed to be the case, but he rembered that he got banned by the ga. However, it should be impossible since his account was of high access, a little under a moderator. Even a ban of a serious matter that would be permanent for others would be temporary for him to so degree.

'Now that I think about that, the worst my account could get other than a permanent ban in the ga would be up to two years. So could it be I have been trapped two years ago but didn't have access to the system until today?' [Shingi]

Thinking like that made sense, but why he was now controlling an NPC's son was unknown. But he didn't care about it. He had a fresh start and sothing important to look over.

His MAIN QUEST.

And so he gave the command for his quest window to open, and he opened the info window of his MAIN QUEST.

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QUEST - ROAD TO LIFE

Task 1: Earn an NPC class

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The quest had a long list of tasks, but only the first one was available to see what it was.

Every player started with a class, and it wasn't rare for NPCs to have a class, although there were NPCs with no class but no players with no class. And that was the case cause for both to earn their class; they needed a tutor. Still, in the player's case, the system was doing most of the work, at least for the first class of the players, making it a matter of minutes or at worse few hours for one to earn his class. anwhile, that wasn't the case for NPCs. If the System did not design an NPC with a class, earning one wasn't easy.

A few Players who desired NPC bodyguards were helping so NPCs with the potential to earn suitable classes for their needs. Still, all of them needed many resources and ti of weeks or even months. And that to learn the basics of their classes, further developnt needed more resources and ti. It was close, as it would be to train one in actual life. Hence, few players preferred it cause as they didn't seem to be much stronger than other players. Most tis seed to be weaker unless they had crazy potential, and that was a rare case.

'So I guess I am considered an NPC now. I guess this will make things more interesting.' [Shingi]

A fla of excitent was burning in him. He felt a little bored over the ga lately cause of the limits of his character. He was a Warrior-type character so that he couldn't use any magic other than the ones being part of Artifact or trinkets. They didn't seem that fun or had to be saved from being used in case of ergency. That is why he spent that much ti in the tower lately to find these ergencies.

'This ti, I am going to follow the road of Magic and beco a figure stronger and more amazing than before.' [Shingi]

With his stats having INT being the highest, it was more suitable for him to beco a Mage. Still, his stats were so low that even an apprentice Mage would destroy him even without using magic. But as he thought of that, he rembered sothing, and he reopened his status window and looked over it once more.

'My level isn't there.'

Typically, players had a level. Even when beginning the ga and had no class, you started at Level 0. But NPCs don't have levels if no class. So said that they don't have a limit of growth either that's why a few people started training them but seeing the slow rate of growth of them, they thought that even if it was the case; it wasn't worth the costs.

After he stopped gathering the information he needed, he started heading over to where his sister went., his father got him there, as his body was weak. So weak that he couldn't even walk by himself. Even if he looked to be a young teenager, his power was close to a newborn, maybe even weaker. But he could tell that this won't stay like that.

For now, even eating by himself was impossible. Fortunately, he could muster enough power at his mouth to eat but still needed so help to cut the food, which Annoue seed to be more than happy to help. She even tried to feed him like a baby and a young mother, which made things even more awkward for Shingi. After seeing Shingi sitting at the table, Aneta left, saying her goodbyes as it seed she had other businesses to take care of.

And so the first day of Shingi's new life begun.