"Why am I here? What happened?"
The recent events left me confused, even more, the only thing I know for sure is that I magically appeared in this Abyss Esque world after the mysteriously cold female voice read off some familiar loading screen lingo, looking around
I saw that I had become a "Barbarian", Which I recognized was one of the game characters. The rusty hand axe appeared in my right hand and a battered junk-like buckler in my left. It didn`t take long for me to subconsciously understand my status in the game.
In the next second, a high-tech-like blue screen popped up in front of me out of nowhere.
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Player: Isaac.
Class: Barbarian.
Level: 1.
HP: 50/50.
Exp: 0/1000.
Str: 30.
Dex: 11.
Agi: 10.
Int: 22.
Vit: 20.
Accuracy: 150.
Endurance: 90.
Gold: 10.
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"So, this is my status in the game... isn`t my status high for a level 1 newbie?"
"So, I`m in this game world… And Barbarian? NOOO! At least let me be a Paladin." At this moment an armored man rushed over.
"Greeting, young warrior… I`m not surprised to see your kind here. Many warriors have traveled this way since the recent troubles began No doubt you have heard about the tragedy that befell the town of Quivira Some say that the Lord of Terror walks the world again...." The man just went on and on with his dialogue. My Jaw dropped at the moment.
As one of the original fans of Abyss, I could immediately recognize that this man was Toriko, an NPC (Non-Player-Character.) From the {Rogue Encampment}He will tell those lines every time to the players.
I still observed him while listening to his lines. Neither his movement nor his facial expression felt like an NPC, If I didn`t recognize this man, I would have thought that Toriko was a real person. Even the heat that he exhaled while speaking turned into the white fog in this cold air. I even felt the moist sensation from it.
"I`m not sure if the NPCs in this world would have any sort of intelligence? I remember that the NPCs in the game had some sort of intelligence."
After Toriko finished speaking his long speech, I purposely asked a few questions.
"Hey, what's your name? your father's first name? which city were you born in?"
However, Toriko didn`t bother answering me. He just walked away after he finished speaking.
He left me in my place clueless, so after thinking for a while, I decided to go find another person that should give me the first quest. Priest Tursek is also the leader of the camp, so I have to find him to know what`s going on,
While walking on the streets, I find them very quiet and lifeless.
I passed through a few tents and fences and finally reach the camp,
Priest Tursek was standing outside the camp. There were lots of weirdly shaped bottles and jars surrounding the tent. I was quite far away and could already smell the strange odors coming from them.
Tursek, who was wearing a black priest robe was standing in front of the tent. I walked over and a Blue question mark appeared above Tursek `s head.
"Hello young warrior, I`m Tursek, High Priest of the Brotherhood of The Vagrant Base I Welcome you, traveler..." he started to introduce himself, the same as in the original game.
As I was expecting after he finished the conversation, he gives me the quest.
"The Blood land of Monsters.", kill all the creatures in the blood land, at {The Cunning Caves} just outside the plaza of the {Rogue Encampment}. It`s exactly as I remember it be. a yellow button was projected on my left vision.
I pressed the button and a detailed description came up.
It looked like there were not any other choices, so I accepted the quest. Not like I`m going to refuse it or anything.
After trying to organize my thoughts so that my words appear more sophisticated. "Honorable Tursek, may I know more information about this place."
I need to know if they have the same intelligence as the game or not, I also hope to get some clues why did I appear in this world?
"Young Warrior, you have to complete your first before you can know more..."
That answer surprised me, they have intelligence, because that is something that wasn`t scripted, so that showed that in this world NPCs had their freedom. and that they aren`t some pro-programmed codes.
I wanted to ask more, but Tursek turned around and went into his tent.
I tried to follow him but was blocked by a mysterious force and couldn`t get within 3 meters of the entrance.
"looks like I`ll have to complete the quest first"
After failing to get any answers from a couple of other NPCs.
I walked out of the gate that was guarded by a female rogue and stepped into the dangerous {The Cunning Caves} where a ton of cunning monsters were lurking around waiting to kill their prey...
[Warning!! Player Isaac, you have entered {The Cunning Caves}. Killing monsters will grant you unexpected rewards... But if you fail your quest You will receive some mysterious penalties.] Said the mysterious voice.
I recognized it as the voice of the system that appeared in my mind earlier. It went by so fast, that I only heard the first couple of sentences.
The Laughter was filled with gloat, however, compared with before the cold machine-like tone, this time it`s definitely more like a human.
while I was walking in, (Quill rat) Appeared.
I just swung the axe in my right hand chopping its head, I killed it with just one swing, the blood got all over my body. I throw up after feeling nausea from the gore, after that some gold coins appeared in behind the dead body.
So, I leaned forward and touched it with my hand, the coins were in a pouch, the coins appeared in my storage. After that, another one (Quill rat) came.
After four hours of swinging my axe.
"Gacha!!"
I chopped the thirtieth (Quill Rat) with my axe. A white beam of light came down from the sky and embraced me.
"Yeah, finally level up."
This is not the first time that it happened, and I was expecting it. It`s really comfortable in the light, All the bleeding wounds from the fighting monster closed and healed within three seconds. After five or six seconds, the light disappeared.
Two dark yellow buttons appeared in front of me. On the left one was labeled {Attribute Points.} and on the right {Skill Points.}. These are the rewards each time after leveling up. I then Opened the {Attribute Points.} menu first.
Every time after I level up, there will be five points for me to improve my physique. I then Distributed three points to [Strength.] and two points to [Vitality.] without thinking. those were a 'Barbarian' primary attributes.
After that, I opened my {Skill Points} menu and distributed the one point I got from my level up to [Weapon Mastery]. I`m now level five 'Barbarian'. All my twenty AP were distributed to {Str} and {Vit}. And out of my SP, three were distributed to {Weapon Mastery.} and one to {Howl} a war cry skill.
Every time I level up my Hp increases by 10 and when I add one point to {Vit} my Hp increase by 5. The reason I did this was that this is the real world. As a player, I get injured and wounded from fighting the monsters. I don`t just lose health, I even think I feel one hundred percent of the pain. What is worth mentioning is that everything in this world is real, even the monsters, they are not codes. Their screams, spawning blood and chopped up bodies were so fucking irritating that it gets on my nerves every passing second. I had quickly acclimatized to the situation. I had gone from being nauseated from the gore that I was throwing up after killing my first monster, to becoming cold and indifferent despite the carnage that was left in my wake. All the heated monster blood on my body made me feel like enduring a test from hell. After only a couple of hours, I really had become used to this. I think I`m turning into a cold-blooded killing machine, even thou
I don`t know how long passed since I was in that state when the last moment in front of me died screaming in its own blood. Beams of golden light fell from the sky shined up every corner of the cave. Shortly after, the familiar voice of the system speak in my mind. [ Congratulations player Isaac. You have completed priest Tursek quest and passed the first test of the Abyss world, now you have to return to the camp, and receive your rewards from Tursek….] Ting! "Another level up huh?" That was the moment that cleared my mind. I breathed heavily and glanced at my surrounding, and I was really surprised after finding out the monsters that I killed. Even the boss of the cave {Corpse fire}, was dead on the ground. A pile of gold coins and various items was lying around the mess that I made. "Did I go crazy?" After thinking about what happened, I didn`t believe that what I saw here triggered my deep anger.
If someone looked at me at this moment, he will probably say that I`m but a homeless guy, judging from my ripped shit, as well as my torn pants. "What the fuck is this?" I felt a little bit scared. All the stuff that happened to me made my nerves a little bit weaker, I feel as though I`m close to having a mental breakdown… I looked down and upon close inspection, I realized that the clothes that I was wearing were a little bit small for my size. When I was stretching, I easily tore Open the small clothing… "What's this pitiful quality? Who makes such clothes for a king?" The wind breezed through the palace, and I felt the chill, well I was almost naked... "Shit, I have to find something to wear." I glanced around the palace and found a wardrobe-like piece of furniture. I opened it up and found that there was much luxurious clothing in it. I picked out a fitting dark blue shirt and black pants. I put them
I was trying to show off in front of the guards, but who knew that there was no one guarding my palace? There were no guards at the king's palace? Really? The palace was just so quite. As I kept walking. I saw some heavily wounded soldiers sleeping beside the palace`s main gate. And another two soldiers beside them One of the tired soldiers who were sleeping woke up when he heard my footsteps. "Why didn`t they go to the church to recover and get some medicine?" "And where is the queen, Princess Azura, and my fiancé" I asked the soldier one of the soldiers. "Your majesty, shouldn`t you be recovering." The tallest soldiers said to me. "No need to worry about my health, just answer my questions…" I said. "Forgive me your majesty. We are here to protect your majesty by the orders of the queen, and the wounded soldiers didn`t want to go to the church." "The queen, Princess Azura, and the future queen is resti
Her powerful swing forced off all the close enemies with the closest one not even having time to react before Felena chopped his head. None can stop her, she has a daughter in her home, she must not die. Death wasn`t an option for Uwineian soldiers…. Right now there was only kill. There was no kill or to be killed, only kill. Smash! Crush! Bang! Clank! Weapons armour and bare knuckles were colliding. Spurting blood, and detached limbs had painted the picture of hell. Boom! Felena smashed the sword and the enemy in front of her off the walls. She looked up and the ladder was right in front of her. She swung the axe once more to back off the approaching enemies.. Dang! Dang! Dang! She sprinted forward and smashed all the hooks of the ladder. "You guys shall die. Rest In Hell!" For them there was no peace, peace shall not be an option. Felena kicked th
Right at this moment, another shadow comes near Her."You too will follow your brothers." The new enemy said and laughed like a manic, and throw his rapier near her head...Everyone was expecting the death of Felena, as no one was in a position to save her.She just closed her eyes and waited for death to come near her.She had no regrets."Sorry Mia, you will have to depend on yourself." She said with tears in her eyes before fainting on the ground."Hey, dumb ass! Try and dodge my ultra-concealed weapon!"A confident voice rang from the other side of the battlefield.However, even thought the enraged rapier wielding man didn`t hear it, he felt something was aimed at the back of his head. An object was flying at him fast.He was surprised, he had to pull back the rapier and black whatever was flying at him.Pu–––The 'concealed weapon' was slashed in half, and red liquid splashed onto his
Today was the fourth day. "This little castle has a complex terrain that could frustrate any invaders. If it wasn't for this dangerous moat and that firm defense wall, I would've already conquered this castle for father, and the queen and the princesses would've been my toys already…" On the bank of the Zulia moat, a knight wearing a full suit of black armor with a silver mask grumbled. The silver mask had a ferocious demon carving on it and only covered the top half of his face. He was on top of a pitch-black warhorse, which was itself tall and sturdy, emanating the image of a majestic beast. The horse also wore a ferocious suit of armour, with only its legs and eyes exposed. An enigmatic force surrounded him, like a magnetic field. Behind him, nineteen other knights stood in silence. They were all black armoured and on black horses too. They also wore the same devil-styled mask as well but in black rather than silver. With the spiked armour
Everyone on the battlefield was shocked again by my strength.I`m so powerful, yea keep praising and hail the mighty me…..I enjoyed their stares and looks.The morale of the soldiers of Uwineian was boosted by the new 'reinforcement'. Their hope of winning increased dramatically.On the other hand, the enemies was scared to death by my power.No one in their right mind wanted to face me.But I didn't stop there. My next move had maximized the power and effect of individual heroism on the battlefield."The king's soldiers, rise up and battle! For our kingdom! For our fathers and mothers! For ours wives and children!"After my successful attempt at destroying the siege ladder, I raised up mydouble-handedd gigantic axe. With the soft glow of golden light from the sunset encompassing my armour,My roar was like that of an invincible god.Suddenly, an invisible, yet vehement force spread from my roar. Like a ts