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6. What? Cake?
6. What? Cake?
“Also, I forgot to ask, but what about my character's race? Since we had to skip the character's customisation, I never had the chance to select anything...”
Hearing Chester’s question, Fortuna nodded her head in understanding and answered.
“That is something you will find out in time, but you don’t need to worry for now, you will have a high affinity to magic, so you won’t face any issues.”
With a look of contemplation, Chester mulled over Fortuna’s words and decided to think about it later.
Fortuna cleared her throat and moved on to the next step.
“So, next is your character name. Oh! Just for reference if you wanted to keep the same name, your name on Earth has been changed to Aurora.”
Hearing Fortuna’s revelation, Chester held his head in his hands.
“I don’t know if I should be feeling happy that you gods were so well prepared or utterly distraught...”
Looking at Chester’s pitiful figure, Fortuna tried to raise his spirits, speaking in a tone containing a hint of excitement.
“Would it make you feel better if I said that I picked out your name?!”
“No. it would not. It’s the fact that having a name like Aurora once again drives home everything that’s happening.”
With a slightly disappointed look that she didn’t get a compliment for her effort, Fortuna brought them both back on topic.
“So, will you stay with the same name for your character or choose something else?”
Getting his mind back onto the topic at hand, Chester rested his fist on his chin, deep in thought. After a minute, he finally answered.
“A slight change will help conceal my real-life identity for a time, so I will select a different name for in-game.”
Falling back into his thoughts for a short time, Chester let his memories drift back to the female characters he had created in the previous MMOs’ he played, searching for a suitable name.
“In one of the previous games I played, I had a female Valkyrie character that I named Astaria... let's go with that.”
With a nod in approval of Chester’s choice, Fortuna once again snapped her fingers and all the class icons vanished.
“So, a few points you should know before you get going. Firstly, you will be stuck in the game for 3 days while your body and soul are modified.”
Crossing her arms, Fortuna continued, her serious aura finally feeling quite imposing to Chester.
“As I said earlier, you don’t need to worry about your life outside, everything has been sorted for you, the only thing will be taking over your family and its assets.”
Sighing, Chester exasperatedly retorted.
“For the third time... I should receive an award.”
Stifling a laugh, Fortuna suppressed her outburst and finished off her parting advice.
“You should also be careful for the next 3 months, you will understand why when you return.”
Saying so with a wink, she put her hands on her hips.
“Well, I shall be leaving, so enjoy your second chance! Oh, and time here has been paused for you, so you don’t need to worry about starting late.”
“You could have said that sooner!” Chester exclaimed, exasperated that he could have taken more time to deal with this roller coaster of emotions and life changing events before having to rush around the world of Caelus Online.
Flapping her wings, Fortuna started to ascend.
“May the blessings of fortune be with you.”
With those parting words, Chester’s vision turned black again.
After experiencing another short period of weightlessness, Chester opened his eyes. He found himself standing in the middle of a large medieval village, comprised of a large number of wood log cabins. There was a scattering of trees around the crude wooden wall that Chester could see in the distance. Looking around, he could see a number of villagers going about their daily work, one middle-aged man was chopping firewood, while another older man was sitting on a barrel behind his market stall smoking his pipe.
A nostalgic feeling washed over Chester, along with a slight stumble.
Wondering why he lost balance, Chester looked down to see his, now her, chest. Two bumps protruded from his chest. Seeing this, his mind went blank. He could somewhat escape the reality of his situation before, but now fully experiencing everything, the reality struck and there was no easy way to avoid it.
Muttering in a sweet, melodic voice tinged with sadness, Astaria expressed her condolences to her fallen comrade.
AGI: 20
DEX: 10
INT: 20
WIS: 20
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[Equipment]
Common Shirt
(N/A)
Common Trousers
(N/A)
Worn Leather Boots
(N/A)
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[Resistances]
(+ To Expand)
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Charisma: 10
Luck: 550
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Karma: 100,000
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[Skills]
Staff Lv 1
Short-sword Lv 1
Magic Arrow LV 1
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[Titles]
-The First Immortal Warrior-
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Looking at her stats, it mostly looked as she expected. Firstly, between all of the different races, all the base stats were around 10 with a slight discrepancy of 20 points which will have been allocated depending on the race’s characteristics. For example, an elf would start with 16 points in DEX and 17 in INT and WIS, while the rest were at 10, while a dwarf would have 16 points in DEF and 17 in VIT and STR while the rest were at 10.
Thinking about the fact that she had 35 additional points instead of just 20, it was clear that the body the gods had created had some sort of innate benefit or it was because of her unknown race.
“Huh... this sort of stat advantage should not appear for a couple of weeks.”
The only way in the first 3 months to gain additional stats points outside of levelling up and general quests was through gaining unique titles or through unique quests. Each unique title that provided stats was hard to achieve while unique quests were hard to find. So, to have 15 more stat points by the two weeks was equivalent to 5-7 titles or quests.
It was unlikely that Astaria would gain any other benefits like this before the Great Upheaval arrived as the game was inherently balanced, with the main advantages coming from having a higher level, using better equipment, and being more skilled.
Thinking back to her stats, she was quite pleased. Astaria’s INT or Intelligence increased her mana pool by 10 for every point added, and WIS or Wisdom increased her spell damage, power, and range. As a mage WIS and INT were her main stats, so for them to have 20 points already was an incredible start.
The additional AGI or Agility helped Astaria when using her staff and sword in close combat, while the additional VIT or Vitality would give her a little more leeway in how reckless she could be while fighting being able to take more damage before dying.