Second Life: Welcome to Gaia

Chapter 6: The first kill

'Now I finally can read the game news.' Ye Yan walked to the City Gate while looking for useful information on the forum. The way to look at the information on the forum and the character information are totally different. In the latter, you only need to concentrate and the data would appear in your mind; but the information on the forum or others, like item description, the players will need to effectively read to increase the realism of the game. People can't know their bone density or how many liters of blood there are in their bodies just looking at it and it's the same about the character information.

As the saying goes, 'Time is money', so Ye Yan wasted no time and rushed to the Adventurers' Guild before, or else he would be stuck in there for who knows how long with so many people logging in the game now. Second Life has more basic stats than most of the games that he played before. But the old console games can't compare with a virtual reality ones.

With the game release, the forum managers posted some of the game information. The system is controlled by a god A.I. but the forums are still being managed by CyberTech employees. Future updates totally created by the system would automatically send their basic information to the company so the managers could post it on the forums.

First, players can start the job change quest at level 2 but they can just finish the last step at level 5. To start the quest, players will need to go to the Adventure Guild and look for an NPC called Qiao Qiuyue after completing at least two quests. The NPC will give a letter of recommendation and guide the players to the location where they will apply for the job change quest and each class will start their job change quest at different locations.

When a player reaches level 20, the specialized job advanced quest will be available. Each region will have an exclusive class besides the shared ones. Players that want to job change in another region will have to apply for an exchange with the Mayor so they will be teleported to the others region to do the quest and will be teleported back after completing it. The Yan Empire has four exclusive classes: Cultivator (fighter, swordsman, thief, and archer), Magic Cultivator (mage, doctor and fighter), Luminous Dancer (thief, doctor, and swordman), and pill master (merchant and doctor). After the job change, the players would keep their original skills and new ones specifically for the new classes, making a wide variety of character builds.

Regarding equipment and stats, it reports that characters can equip 14 items: headgear, body armor, pants, footgear, belt, gloves, bracers, pauldrons, cape, bracers, one amulet, two rings, and one relic. Some equipment will have slots for gems and runestones. Equipment of platinum rank or superior can be enchanted. The equipment has durability and when it reaches 0, it will be broken. Only items of rank adamantium or superior can be repaired.

Some attributes like charism and attunement can't be increased with equipment. Basic movement speed begins at 6 km/h and can only be increased with agility.

Strength: increase a character's physical damage. 1 ATK and 0,5 max weight capacity will be added for every point invested.

Agility: increase a character's evasion or flee attack speed and movement speed. 1 Flee, 0.05 ASPD and 0.5 movement speed will be added for every point invested.

Intelligence: increase a character's magic attack, max MP (mana points), and magic defense. 1 MATK, 5 MP, and 1 MDEF will be added for every point invested.

Vitality: increase a character's max HP, physical defense, and magical defense.10 HP, 2 DEF and 1 MDEF will be added for every point invested.

Dexterity: increase a character's accuracy (hit), critical chance, critical damage, and reduce cast time. 1 HIT, 0.2% critical chance, 0.5% critical damage, and 0.5 cast time reduction will be added for every point invested.

Constitution: increase a character's max HP, stamina, defense, magical defense, and weight capacity. 3 HP, 2 STA, 1 DEF, 0.5 MDEF, and 0.5 weight capacity will be added for every point invested.

Resistance: increase a character's resistance. 1% resistance will be added for every point invested.

Faith: increase a character's magical attack, magical defense, evasion, accuracy, and miracles and hexes damage. 0.5 MATK, 1 MDEF, 0..5 FLEE, 0.5 HIT, and 0.5% miracles and hexes damage will be added for every point invested.

Attunement: increase a character's slots for skills, spells, miracles, or hexes. 1 slot will be added for every point invested (max 30), 1 slot will be added for every 3 points invested (max 50), and 1 slot will be added for every 5 points invested.

Lucky: increase a character's critical chance, critical damage, and drop rate. Can influence quests. 1% critical chance, 2% critical damage, and 20% drop rate will be added for every point.

Charism: influence your relationship with NPC and quests.

Note: The character's load impacts the movement speed. Between 25% to 50% of max weight capacity, decreases movement speed by 10%. Between 51% to 75% of max weight capacity, decreases movement speed by 25%. Between 76% to 100% of max weight capacity, decreases movement speed by 50%. Players can't run or battle with a weight above 100%.

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'I will have to remember everything .' Ye Yan sighed. "Yunfan definitively will bug me to help him. He always says that too much information gives him headaches." His friend is very good at battle in-game but always has problems understanding more complex information, which is really strange because he is good at using skills combos and the like. Sometimes Ye Yan doubts if his friends really have difficulty with complex information or are just lazy. 'With this info, I now know how to distribute my stat points.' That previous news just mentioned the main attribute of each class, probably for players do not feel lost when they are required to distribute their points in the tutorial.

Ye Yan equipped his beginner's dagger and looked at its attributes. 'Not bad! My attack power is now 21. Let's see how the slimes in this game are. I need to release some stress.'

He took 20 minutes to get to the East Gate with his speed of 6km/h. He tried to run from time to time too but it burns his stamina really fast. After 30 more minutes of walking, he finally got to the area with slimes. This place is a vast flat land with some widely spaced trees. There are slimes of different colors scattered across the field, blue, red, yellow, green, white, brown, pink, and purple. The slimes look like a ball of phlegm, slimy and sticky, mostly the green and yellow ones. 'It's really disgusting! I didn't know we could feel like throwing up in a virtual reality game but I'm almost doing it just by looking at them. I will keep to the blue, red, white, pink, and purple ones.' Since young, Ye Yan has a weakness in disgusting things, upsetting his stomach every time he saw one. He has to thank his parents for that.

Ye Yan drew his dagger and begin his attack on a [Red slime].

[Red Slime] (Normal)

Level: 1

HP: 50

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"What the fuck!" Almost all his attacks couldn't hit the monsters. As the FLEE of the slimes is higher than Ye Yan's HIT, he is having a hard time trying to attack them because they keep jumping and dodging. It looks like he is trying to hit a fly with a chopstick. Luckily they have Def 0, so each when it did hit, they took -21 damage and only need three hits to kill one.

System: 'You have killed a [Red Slime]. 1 exp gained!'

"Fuck! I will need to kill 300 slimes to level up." Ye Yan rage has reached max level when he discovered that he would have to stay near the disgusting slimes for a long time.

He started to imagine the slimes were those hateful rich kids of his high school and started a rampage.