Leaving the classroom, Arthur, Isla, and the rest of the class headed toward the place where their first practical lesson was going to happen.
From the main building, they headed down to a lower area built right next to it right above one of the mountain’s smaller peaks. This building was considerably smaller but as eye-pleasing as every other area of the institution. However, the main difference between the two areas was the design.
The entire building was simply separated into several floors, each floor filled with classrooms.
‘Wait, classrooms?’ Arthur frowned while looking around him. ‘This place looks completely different yet at the same time… Looks the same?’ He thought to himself. ‘But… Why are we here? Aren’t we going to practice weapons?’
The students around him had the same confused looks. But, they still walked through the place, heading to the highest floor where their class was. There, upon opening the door, they were met with a surprising sight.
The classroom, while having the same design, did not have seats or tables. Instead, there were rows and rows of FICs lined up perfectly.
“FICs? Wait…” Arthur frowned.
“It seems we are not going to practice in the real world.” Isla finished his sentence, confirming his suspicion.
“Practicing inside the game… Actually, that makes a lot of sense.” Arthur nodded. ‘Training with weapons in the real world is very dangerous and could cause more harm than good. In the virtual world, there was no worry about being harmed or injured. But… These don’t look like the FICs we have.’
The first thing he noticed about these capsules was that they had no actual flashy colors or designs like normal FICs. Instead, they were grey and identical to one another as if they were mass manufactured together.
“Wait, aren’t we going to use our FICs?”
“They’re giving us new ones.”
“But, I won’t use mine? My character is super strong!”
The other students shared Arthur’s sentiment in that regard. They didn’t want to use other FICs.
“Please, take your spots.”
At that moment, the professor walked into the classroom with the usual look on his face. Everyone stared at him immediately.
“Professor, can you explain what is happening?”
“First, each one take your spot, I will explain once we’re inside the capsules.” He said as he opened his capsule and sat inside. The students were confused but nobody dared to question him as they walked to their spots and opened their capsules.
‘Who thought I would ever get into one FIC? Now I got into two. Truly fate can be unexpected.’ Arthur thought to himself as he sat inside and activated the capsule. He was glad that the system was basically the same as his FIC so he didn’t have to search for the way to activate it.
The glass door slowly closed and his eyes closed along with it. A few seconds later, the darkness in his mind lit up and he found himself inside a completely different world. Looking around him curiously, Arthur was quite taken aback by what he saw.
The place could only be described as a massive, square chamber, at least several hundred meters in length and width. Its walls were completely white yet also divided into squares with blue lines like a chessboard. There were no real defining features of this place. A completely blank and empty area.
“What is this place?” He muttered. ‘It does look like some kind of sandbox area. Hm, actually, that does explain what this is.’
Sandbox areas were a common thing in games. A place where the player has full control and can do whatever they want with no limits that the usual game puts on them. In other words, it was the perfect place to experiment, practice, and learn without worrying about threats or consequences of failure.
Slowly, his eyes shifted to his body. He was glad that he had the same body as the real world after the changes. But, he did not see his usual items. Instead, he was wearing a white shirt, brown pants, and brown boots, similar to the attire he had upon landing in the Divine Realm.
“Wow, to the beginning we go back again.” He muttered as he moved his hands a little to get accustomed to the place. Slowly, students started appearing all around him.
“Woah!”
“What the hell?!”
“Where are we?”
Confused voices echoed across the entire chamber as the students looked around. Then, right in front of them, Theodore appeared, clad in similar clothes that didn’t seem to diminish his aura at all.
“Welcome to the ‘Training Realm’. This is a special place designed by Divinity Corp for students to practice their skills and abilities. This shall be the place where everyone will practice their technique.”
“What about our characters? Aren’t we going to use them?”
“There is no need for them. You’re simply to train. So, you are given basic items and basic stats so that you can completely focus on technique and smaller details. DO is a game that requires the player to execute countless micro-actions successively rather than one single action to emerge victorious. In the Divine Realm, you will come across endless types of monsters and many of them are going to be the exact counter to your abilities. What would you do in such a situation?” He asked as he looked at every single student there.
Many of them immediately had a difficult expression as they realized the flaw in their logic. It was indeed true that the enemies in this world are endless and their abilities are endless. Coming across a monster that counters you is way more probable than one would expect.
That is when technique comes into play. Having a perfect technique could turn the battle into a battle of wits rather than pure power, something that gives the player a much higher chance of winning in an otherwise lost battle.
“I see that you understand what I’m saying. Good. Now, if you try to open the menu, you will be able to see that you have more options than usual.” He said.
Instinctively, the students opened the menu. There, they found the usual options they knew and two new ones they had never seen before.
[Basic Weapons]
[Basic Armor]
Tapping on one of them, Arthur found himself looking at a very long menu of weapons, from swords to hammers to cleavers and even more niche weapons like pickaxes. They came in all kinds of shapes and types, fitting basically every single battle style there is.
“Wow…There are even shovels.” Arthur muttered as he skimmed through it. Then, he closed that option and opened the other one.
There, he found light armor, heavy armor, medium armor, helmets, boots, chestplates, and even knee guards.
“There you will find every single weapon and armor you might think of. They are all basic level 1s weapons to make sure nothing can affect the assessment of the student’s abilities. Now, please find the weapon you are most comfortable with. You have a few minutes to choose freely.”
A//N: Sorry, it took me way more than 2 days to upload all 10 chapters. Have been really busy. In any case, the updates will continue normally. Have a nice day.
