Chapter 4: Reality Does Not Equal Quality, But the Other Way Around
「Long ago, Gods were walking throughout the lands alongside humans.」
Ahh, is this the prologue to the ga?
「The great, Gods spun life across the universe, and once their task was done, they disappeared without a trace.」
「Ti goes on, the Gods that remained perish one by one, we take off to the stars as they intended us to do, and thus the great web of life continues to spin……」
………………
「Now, we live in tis –– SKIP. The heritage from the Gods –– SKIP. History and ruins –– SKIP.」
「…… Skip.」
I read that in the instruction manual.
I skipped the whole prologue without giving it much thought. Then I felt that my avatar was regaining its consciousness. I try to look and move around, getting a feel of my new body since its physique and height were different from my real one……
I was inside of a dense forest…… No, I knew what it was in reality. Like in every ga from this genre, it was one of the low level exploration zones, the so called “Starting Points”. The purpose of such zones was for the new players to get used to the control sches, fight so monsters, pick up so of the basic items and obtain so EXP points. The small details varied from ga to ga, but the overall premise was more or less the sa.
「First of all, I need to understand my current situation.」
As I say that I open the status screen.
PN: Sanraku
LV: 1
Job: rcenary (Dual Wielding, Swords)
9000 Mani
HP (Health Points): 30
MP (Magic Points) : 10
STM (Stamina): 20
STR (Strength): 10
DEX (Dexterity): 15
AGI (Agility): 10
TEC (Technique): 15
VIT (Vitality): 1 (2)
LUC (Luck): 30
SKILLS
– Spin Slash
– Knuckle Rush
Equipnt:
Right Hand: rcenary Blade
Left Hand: rcenary Blade
Head: Mask of Bird’s Eye (VIT 2)
Torso: None
Legs: None
Feet: None
Accessory: None
Paper thin defenses and extraordinary good luck. Two swords for dual wielding on the otherwise half naked body. So start for a hero.
「Right, now that I’ve got that taken care off, let’s try how the character’s movents feel……!!」
And after I do that, then what? Since I had my weapons on I should expect to be attacked at any mont, so it would be a good idea to see how the battle controls work.
「Amazing…… My body moves so smoothly.」
It was a matter of enough ti to develop things properly. In the early days of full dive technology the character movents tended to be rather slow and awkward, but the way my avatar moved in this ga it was very close to recreating the movents from reality.
The system was also separating one’s consciousness from one’s real body to prevent it from any movents during gaming sessions, but it was certainly a bit weird to know that even though you were moving inside of the ga your body was still.
「Gigi!!」
「Oh.」
You would think that the future champion of ShanFro would need to battle a mighty foe, such as a dragon, for his first real battle.
But in reality, the things that appeared right in front of were about the size of children and nearly as loud and obnoxious……
「Goblins?」
「Gugagigi!!!!」
Goblin…… A kind of Mob that always appears in the gas with fantasy setting, smaller and weaker than a Player Character. Of course there were many variants of them with various stats and skills and difficulty level, but the core concept was always that it was a monster that could be used to obtain so EXP points early on.
I watched the Goblin stare at before it eventually broke into a rush, coming straight at .
「…… Ho.」
「Gyah!?」
I dodge the goblin’s rush and watch him getting carried forward with his montum before eventually hooking its leg. In so gas weaker monsters would die even when the slightest contact with the weapon or body of the player was made, but in this case there was no damage being calculated for that action of mine. However, the physics seed to be working fine and the goblin landed on the ground face first.
「How about a double strike…… Onto the ribs!」
「Gyaaah!?」
Since it was virtual reality the action itself was greatly simplified to just two blunt hits that didn’t really dealt any damage. So for a little while I was using this here goblin to try out various things I learned in other VR sh*tty gas, wanting to see if I would be able to recreate the sa actions in ShanFro as well. When I finally cut the goblin with my sword there is a large wound on its stomach, but instead of blood a geyser of red pixels shoots forth instead of blood. The goblin’s HP bar continued to decrease and eventually it reached zero, forcing it to dissolve into a mass of small polygons and eventually disappear.
At first when the monsters would die players needed to ransack their bodies for drop items, but after it was deed too graphic, it was a general consensus that the dropped items would be left in the field after the monster’s death.
At the dawn of the VR technology there was this serious rant that “Video gas distorts the sense of values in young people”. If I recall correctly, in so regions it was reaching such extres as banning gas completely or at least “Needing to educate both children and parents from a very young age”.
Around that ti I was so busy growing corn on my little farm and then having it destroyed by the various cataclysms that would co through my farm.
「The drop is…… Oh.」
The dropped items were the only things that were left from the pixelated goblin.
It was another simplified chanic, for when you touch the chest or item that dropped out of a monster’s corpse it would be automatically transported inside of your inventory.
「Fumu…… Goblin Hatchet, huh?」
It was a two-handed weapon, which ant that its required dexterity was cut in half. …… Oh well, you could say it was a signature weapon dropped by goblins in gas.
It’s not like I was going to use that as my main weapon, but it was a good thing to have it as a back-up one, just in case and to be on the safe side.
「I wonder if you can get hungry in this ga? Maybe it is sothing of a hidden parater in the system……」
I needed to hunt so monsters in the future and see what kind of things they would drop.
…… Aah, this is probably one thing that sh*tty gas and Godly gas tend to have in common: grind.
It was a feeling that you would rarely get to experience in life: this exhilaration and rush of endorphins thinking about what to do next.
「But most importantly, let’s not forget to enjoy ourselves!」
Saying that, I took a step into the dense forest, looking forward to spot any kind of goal I could follow.
By the way, it was really probable for the character to start half-naked like that, you know?
Mostly because of the fact that selling items at the character creation screen was way better than selling it at the shop or at a blacksmith’s.
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