Chapter 10：Town of Beginnings (1/2)

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Tan-tan… Tan-tan-tan…

The background music changed as soon as I went to ”Open World” mode. I had to admit, this game had lots of great music—especially the mellow ones. Upon entering, I was asked to either edit my avatar, create a new one, or skip and choose a ”job”. I still liked the avatar I created so I just went ahead and skipped.

”Swordsman.”

”Mage.”

”Thief.”

”Archer.”

”Acolyte.”

”Merchant.”

I stared at the screen mulling over what to choose. But after a few minutes, my inner girly self decided with the job that had the most beautiful costume—Mage. The Acolyte's costume was cute too, but it was too demure for my taste. I preferred the Mage's sexy but stylish, and magical-looking dress instead.

On the next screen, I was given a bunch of freebies including a low-level wand. Then it asked to proceed to a certain portal which I did, and the screen loaded to another page.

”Wow!” I gaped upon seeing the open world. There were a bunch of players everywhere!—and with weird usernames.

”ABC-123”

”acertainhumanbeing”

”0_0”

”Asdfgh”

”LaLaMon”

Indeed… such weird usernames. I was under the impression we're supposed to use our names—like real names. Or if someone wished for privacy, then maybe some other generic human name, you know? But looking at them, some even had numbers on their names, and some were just emojis? I raised my eyebrows in shock. And here I am who named my avatar ”Senara Lee” like my real name. I felt so stupid. Maybe this was how it's supposed to be.

Aside from the weird usernames, I noticed that some had better costumes than the others, better weapons, and other stuff—probably high level players. Then, there were those standing close to each other in a group. Ken mentioned those to me. Was it guilds? Or a party? I forgot. Anyway, I walked on towards the gate leading to town.