Meanwhile, somewhere else in the real world;

“Hey You! Did you find out his whereabouts yet?”

“N-not yet sir! He is proving to be very difficult to track sir”

“Goddamnit you incompetent bastards!!! I pay you to find one bloody person and you say he is difficult to track! Isn’t tracking supposed to be your specialty?”

“Y-yes sir I’m doing my best. Bastard cannot catch him himself even being more powerful than me and calls me incompetent, humph”

“I can still remember the day clearly when he murdered my whole family in front of me! We were just celebrating the success of our new experiment when out of nowhere people started dropping dead! That’s when he showed himself that fucker…..AARGH!”

“What was your family celebrating sir? And how did you survive?”

“Humph! Even people like you have forgotten about my family. My family was prosperous since the revolution! We created super-soldiers for the underworld of the whole country. Our products were so good that foreign gangs too came to us for their muscle. When the government bastards didn’t dare go beyond 30% we went up to 60%! Ah! Those were the days”

“But wasn’t going beyond 30% dangerous?”

“Dangerous? It was sometimes downright terrifying what those beasts could do! Beasts, yes because they lose all reason at that point. My family modified some genes so that they obey whomever that holds a particular DNA that made for perfectly loyal solders. All was well until THAT guy came. It was a massacre. Our soldiers all seemed so powerless in front of him.”

“How did you survive the massacre sir? I bet he pissed himself and pretended to be dead “

“That’s none of your business. How can I tell someone else that I had to pretend to be a servant and pretend to be dead? He was double checking that all family members were dead by some methods. Thank god I was near the servant quarters at that time

If I ever find you, you better have killed your family yourself, because in my hands they will suffer. Heh. I’ll make you suffer KIRITO HAKATE. Even though all I know is your name I will track you down!”

In the game,

Logan found himself on a hill surrounded by lush greenery.

“I wonder what’s the tutorial is gonna be about?”

A woman wearing a business suit and a skirt appeared in front of him. He was startled at first and then observed her carefully. She looked to be of Asian descent. She had high angled cheekbones and her complexion was fair. She had pitch black hair that shone under the sunlight. She had curves that he found very appealing. So he was staring at her until she cleared her throat.

Blushing“Cough cough... Welcome Logan to the tutorial phase”

” Yes, thank you. Dude, is this really an AI? how does an AI get embarrassed when i stare at her?”

“Have you ever played games before?”

“Only first person shooters, I haven’t had experience playing such a game before”

“Then I will explain all the necessary details here. First and foremost this type of game is known as a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game (MMORPG).

Usually in such games a player will have to assume the role of a person and follow missions according to a pre-scripted story line.

But in this game there will be no such thing as a pre-scripted gameplay. You can be whatever you want and whoever you want. This game has an open world concept where your actions are not restricted by anything. You can be a sniper, an engineer or a magician or a martial art master. You can go killing the monsters that the system generates or even other people.

But keep in mind that killing other people is not without repercussions.

Your strength is measured by levels. You gain levels by gaining experience points, which is gained by completing missions, killing monsters and clearing dungeons.

But levels are not the only representation of your strength. Your skills and proficiency are also responsible for your strength. You gain skills by doing certain actions or completing certain missions. You start off as classless but you can gain class at level 10.

There are stats that represent various characteristics. You start out with some basic statics. Like:

Strength: This represents the damage done by your attacks, quantity of stamina and your carrying capacity.

Agility: This represents movement speed and reaction speed

Dexterity: This represents the chance of critical hits and accuracy of ranged attacks

Defense: This represents damage mitigation to physical attacks.

Mind: This represents the damage mitigation to magical attacks.

Intelligence: This improves the speed of learning any new skills and quantity of mana.

Wisdom: This improves the speed of improving the skill proficiencies and damage of magical attacks.

Luck: This represents the chance of the best loot dropping from a slain monster.

Vitality: This represents the health of the player. The damage that you must incur to die.

Spirit: This represents the ability to resist mental status effects and recover stable state of mind.

For every rise in level 5 stat points will be given. You will start out with 10 status points each in all stats.

Your actions in the game can affect the whole world or have no effect at all. Missions of difficulty B and above have some effect on the world.

In usual games the non-playable characters (NPC) or the people generated by the system would follow a scripted program and respond in definite ways and not possible of varied reactions. But in this game, all the characters are managed by AI’s therefore they behave and react as real people. The monsters in this game learn from your fighting style as real opponents would do so the same tactics may not be effective repeatedly.

If you have further questions you may refer to the help section.

You can access your menu and status screens by thinking out loud.

Now you may proceed to the starting area of the game.

Good luck”

“That was certainly a lot of information. This game sound like it’ll be a lot of fun. Let’s start now. Thank you”

Logan felt the familiar feeling of teleporting “This game certainly likes to teleport people”