Chapter 44 - ARRIVING AT THE BEGINNERS TOWN (1/2)

IN THE game Arcadia, there were four major towns where players could rest, accept daily task, shop for items and equipments, and also freely interact with other players without the worry that they would be PKed.  Players could enter these four towns once they reached a certain level.  Olkdale was one of these four.

Once a player reached level 10, they could freely enter Olkdale Town.  That's why this town was often referred to as the Beginner's Town.  Because there were a lot of new people trying to play Arcadia everyday, this town often had the most traffic.  Not only because of that but because some players didn't really want to further level up, they just wanted to have that VR experience.

These players treated Olkdale Town as some kind of tourist spot.  Because of the realism of the game, all the activities you did inside definitely felt like it was real.  Making it feel like they were not inside a game but was doing these things in real life instead.  One of these activities included eating.

There were quite a number of restaurants in Olkdale, offering different kinds of dishes - traditional Chinese cuisines such as Sichuan and Shandong, also Western dishes like French and Italian cuisines.  The taste was as good as it was in real life.  And because it was VR, no matter how much the players ate, they wouldn't gain weight.  That's one of the reason why Arcadia was so popular to non-gamers.

At this moment, at the very center of the town, someone just walked out of the teleportation portal.  It was an elf with pure long white hair and a pair of blue eyes with golden specks in it.  His lips had a pinkish tint, his skin was white and delicate.  He was wearing a simple shirt, trousers, and boots, covered by a rather elegant white robe with an intricate design of a crescent moon sewn on it.

Almost all the players near there couldn't help but turn to his direction and just stare.  There's only one word in their mind -beautiful.  Even if he's a man, no one could deny that this player was a big beauty.  He looked so majestic and out of this world that they dared not come close.

”Who's that?  Is he one of the game's great gods?” one beginner asked to her companion.

”No, I haven't seen his face in any of the topics on the forum,” answered the other.  Top players were often discussed in the game forum.  If this player was one of those or even an old player, there's no way he wouldn't become a topic on the forum.  Especially with a face like that.  ”I think he's also a beginner.”

Similar conversations were happening at different areas around the portal.

”Is he an elf?  But I thought elves in this game could only have blond hair.  How come his hair is white?”

”Maybe he customized his character so he could be more eye-catching.  He's obviously an attention seeker.  There's no way he could look like that without beautifying himself to the extreme,” sneered by a male player.

Two girls near him heard what he said and immediately refuted him.

”Are you stupid?  You can't customize your hair color in this game.  The hair and eye color you'll have will depend on the race you ended up with,” said one of the two girls.  ”Or did you actually go through a different process when you created your avatar?”

”Besides, even if he did beautify himself to the extreme, the resulting face of his avatar will still be based on his real face.  Do you think that a monkey will look like a human if you just put make up on it?” said the other.

”Ignore him, I think he's just jealous because he still look so normal even with the beautification process,” said another female player near them.