Zxel opens his eyes and finds himself floating in a bright blue endless room. No sign of life anywhere, aside from himself. “Well, this is interesting… he murmurs. “Welcome to Elysium!” A loud voice booms over the vast space. “Or, well, the character zone, hehe…” A woman appears out of thin air in front of him. Cute cat ears twitched on top of her head and a tail swayed back and forth behind her.

“REALLY interesting.”

I look over her and grin at the cat girl in shock about seeing a beastman so early, I remember reading stories and games that had beastmen and now I get to meet one in person! Oh, she is starting to look at me strangely, I wonder why. Oh, she's talking again, a little irritated now.

“Mister, can you stop staring at me, please...” She pouts at me pretty upset that I am staring at her. I quickly stop staring because I feel embarrassed. Why wouldn’t I be if I got staring which is considered rude and at a girl nonetheless! I bow deeply and repeatedly to help convey that I’m sorry.

“I’m sorry! I was just thinking how cool you looked. I’ve never seen a Beastman before, personally in games that is.’ I try to explain myself to the ‘Neko,’ which I will start calling her thinks for a bit then finally nods smiling.

“Okay mister, that's enough bowing! We should get going and create your character!” she states and laughs.

Finally, the best part of playing an RPG, making your character which can take hours, YAY!

“Okay, I will have to give you some basic info of the world you shall enter. First is the stats you get,” she starts saying, pacing back and forth with.... Where did she get those cliche teacher glasses and ruler from?!

“Stats are what governs how strong you are, how much HP [Health Points] and HP regen, physical defence, MP [Magic Points], MP regen, max speed, reaction speeds and acrobatics!” She excitedly states, pointing the ruler viciously..

I think she may actually hit me with if she thinks I’m not paying attention or if I get a question wrong..

“The Strength stat is the one that governs your physical strength and a little bit of your HP points. It also strengthens your physical defence. If you get your strength up high enough you could even take a sword to your neck and the sword could break!” She starts jumping up and down like a little kid who just got a cool toy for christmas. How could she be so excited about this? It’s cool, yes to break a sword with your body, but this excited?

“Can we hurry up a bit, I would rather just start playing the game please,” I say quickly to her, getting bored from the lesson, which she doesn’t take lightly. “If you don’t know the basics you won’t survive in the world.” She’s pointing the ruler at me again!

“I will be fine! Can I just create my character already and start playing?” I plead to her in a begging motion and with puppy eyes, which sadly don’t work with how my face looks.

Why must I look like a hardened thug that lived on the streets for my whole life!?

She winces and looks away, slightly scared. “F-fine... But if you get into trouble, it’s not my fault!” She yells at me almost crying. Am I really that scary? For pete’s sake, why does everyone judge me from my looks! “Due to you skipping the tutorial, you can’t pick how you look or modify yourself, however lucky you! Being the 666th player gets the rare Class Demon Lord! Congratulations!” I Just stare at her... Are you kidding me?... Demon lord Class... Why, JUST WHY?!?

“What do You mean I get the Demon lord class! I haven’t even joined the game yet, but I don’t get to modify my character’s looks and I have my Class already picked out for me!” I angrily exclaim to her.

“You forgot that your Race is also selected to be Demon Lord!” She happily smiles at me. I’m So Done with this game..

“Can you explain to me why I got that, please?”

I look at her sullenly in which she responds, “Because you said please. The Demon Lord Class is a Class which allows you, The Demon Lord, to control monsters and demons, allowing them to follow you and become stronger. It's like the Monster Tamer Class but a hundred times better due to having no restriction on how many monsters you have tamed! Another Perk is that your underlings will grow three times stronger than normal and You get skills and Perks only a Demon Lord has! Basically, You're the final boss in any Video game, as a class!” She finally finishes feeling proud about herself saying all that.

“I Said WHY I got it, not what it is!” Why must I get such a...

“Oh, Hmm... Well Because the creator of the game made it so depending on what number you join, you are classified as what number you entered. You are the 666th Person to log in, that's why. The first people joining got the class of kings or the noble classes for several of the playable races.” She shrugs and her tail flickers back and forth while her ear twitches, and it looks like she is withholding information.

“Is there anything else I should know of?” I start tapping my foot while I cross my arms grumpily. “Well... Due to your class, you will probably be hunted down by the other races, and there's already a demon lord in that world who may not be happy...”

I freeze, computing what I just heard from her. I will be killed by the other races, players and NPCs just because of my class and race. Plus the End game boss hates my guts because I’m like another him!

“I’m screwed in this world aren’t I?” I look sadly at her, losing all hope of having a fun time in the game. I wonder if it would be better just to get off now and play a different game...

“Well yes and no. You will get massive boosts due to your race and skills. You will start with Legendary gear at the start of the game, and your stats will look normal but be tripled-- like you have 3 strength stats but it counts as 9. You can fight evenly with three people at a time if you have the same stats!”

I think my eyes just popped out of my head! Did she say “triple” and “Legendary Gear?!” This is cheating; there is no way I will have such great things at the start! But I am being hunted and hated throughout the game even at the start...

Plus I doubt I will be able to train or buy stuff from vendors, and towns will attack me on sight... Pros and Cons I guess...

“Oh last thing!” Stop pointing that damned ruler at me! You're going to poke somebody's eye out! “Due to your race being picked for you as a monster, you get to pick if you will specialize in it or pick it as a sub Race. Sub Races will be weaker, look almost human,can change to your monster form but you level up slower and have to reach certain thresholds to get some race skills and perks,” she says and twirls around all happy again about talking about the mechanics of the game.

“If you specialize in being a pure blood, you level up at a normal pace and are stronger in all stats; however, you have to cast an illusion spell or shapeshifting spell to pass off as human but you unlock all your race skill and perks at the start!” she states proudly while huffing out her chest like she wants to be praised. She really is like a childish cat...

“OK, we shall now set the changes!” She pointed the da- Woah! My whole bodies glowing! This isn’t normal, make it stop please!

after several moments of me glowing, I’m now wearing a black cloak with purple trimmings, with magical runes over them glowing different dark colours such as dark green, purple and red. I’m also wearing gloves of the same material with a demonic rune on my palms. I can feel earrings and Neko gives me a mirror to see that they are pentagrams. I also have black eyeliner and shadow.. Please tell me I haven’t just been pranked by her..

I check the rest of my body and I see boots with demonic wings attached, I lift my cloak to see gleaves which are made of some flexible metal that is glistening like dark silver. it looks like it also has artwork in it. I also have a chest piece with the same design.

I look at her quite happily about my new clothes, before I can thank her.. they disappear and she gives me new clothes which some filthy peasant would wear..

“Wh-what, happened to my legendary clothes?!” I yelled at her and she flinches but continues to smile. How can you be smiling at a time like this, I look like a newb!

She smiles and says, “Don’t want everyone to notice you had special privileges and being a Demon Lord as soon as you spawn, right?”she has such a smug face right now..

“When can I wear them then?”, I sigh looking at her. “Just say inventory and it will show you what you have, you just have to click the image of the clothes or the set and you will automatically equipment! There are also a few other items in your set so do try them when you are in a safe area away from prying eyes!”, She says that while having a mischievous grin.

I wonder if it's more OP gear, hopefully a weapon. fufufufu.. Oh, she's looking at me funny, act natural!

“Anything else?” I say while looking at my nails unimpressed. She sighs and says “Nope, that's everything I think. So, it's good bye then!” She stops for a second and has a dark smile on her face that I would never expect anyone to have.. It's pretty creepy.. “Make sure you don’t die” She says and Everything turns black...