Mortal Online has many, many different races you can choose from. Elves, Beastkin, Vampires, Demons and many more. I tried almost all of them except for vampire and demon thus far and well. Dark dragon and fox kin look okay. Even Catkin was alright but still did not feel me. I wanted a new me. While yes, appearance was one thing but I also wanted something that would help me change my sluggish personality as well. 

    “Maybe demon?” I never thought of being the demon race before. I was not sure just how I would look. “Mix my real features with the demon race.” 

I watched as my face twisted and turned, and then…. Something I never expected to happen. “What the hell!? Why am I so hot!?” I had to admit the me before me was really beautiful. I was never one to care about the opposite sex, to begin with, nor did I pay much attention to the same sex, but the girl in front of me really made me wish I could hug her to sleep. 

    I gulped as I reached out to touch the mirror in front of me. “Let’s go with this….” 

“Are you sure?”

The voice once more echoed throughout the room. “Yes,” I replied firmly. If everything was truly as it should be. Then I need to find that damned item that will help me keep my appearance! 

I now had to choose my character name which I just used my normal one since it would be annoying to be called something different outside the game as well. Once it was accepted, my status screen appeared in front of me.

[Name]: Zoe  
[Race]: Demon
[Level]: 1   
                              
[Health]: 60/60
[Mana]:     50/50 

[Stats] 
[Strength]:     5
[Dexterity]: 5
[Intelligence]: 5
[Vitality]: 6  
[Mind]: 5  
[Charisma]: 4  

[Skills] 
[Sword Mastery]: 1/99  
[Magic]: 1/99
[Shadow Step]: 1/99 

    “Hmm? If I remember right. These are based on race and the user's real-life stats so that they can start off with their real abilities plus a little extra. So am I really that weak in real life?” I couldn’t help but purse my lips. But thinking about it. It does make sense. I mean, what do I even do all day? I eat, sleep and game, with the occasional outing to go to work. Gah, I realize now I should have also been working out the past two months. It did not dawn on me until now. But well, whatever. 

“Now then… stats are set. So is race. My skills are Sword Mastery, Elemental Magic, and Shadow Step to start….. If this is like my dreams, then I can pick up a few extra skills in the starting area of Erune. But they are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Each one is a special skill you need to work hard for.” Thinking back to my dream, there was a player who was able to get an infinity storage unique skill. Such a skill was godly when things began to merge.  

“Please Select a starting location.”

The voice once more sounded through the room. At the same time, a world map popped up in front of me. While most races had their own starting areas, you could pick which place you wished to start at. I glanced at the map real quick before taping on Erune. 

“Are you sure this is where you wish to start?”

“Yes.”

“Character Creation completed…. Now transferring Player to starting area Erune. Welcome to Mortal Online Zoe. Please have a wonderful journey…”

As the voice, which I would hear quite a bit and would later be known as the world’s voice, finished speaking, my vision turned black.

The sounds of birds chirping. The smell of morning dew. The sounds of a busy market were all too familiar to me. As I opened my eyes and looked around, I found myself in the town center of Erune. Everything was just as I remembered from my dream. Even the NPC’s voices as they yelled out to the passerby. I felt very conflicted. The character creation could have just been a coincidence, but this was undoubtedly not that.

I slapped my face to snap myself out of my daze. “I need to do what I need to do first.” 

There was a saying that the early bird gets the worm. Well while most of the time this saying was wrong, it was very true in this sense. I knew how to get all four extra skills. And if one knew how to get all four, they would notice that each of their quest lines was right next to each other. Once the quest was picked up, no one else could take them, and as long as you completed the first part within forty-eight real-world hours, you were golden. This meant that if I quickly picked up each of these quests now before anyone else, I would be able to get all four extra skills in one go.

My first destination was the back alleys. The first extra skill was a Sword skill called Mirage  Sword. It allowed you to create two copies of your sword for a whole thirty seconds. Each time you attacked, the two copies would also attack. It was like attacking three times with each strike.

To get this skill you needed to find a group of thugs and take them down. It would then start a quest line where you had to find the thug's hideout. It was a three-part quest, but it was easy if you knew what you were doing. Luckily, I knew where everything was.

While the mixture of nature and human architecture was quite the sight, I had no time for sightseeing at this time. My destination was the back alleys. However, I do wonder why so many people are staring at me. I was wearing the standard newbie gear, brown shorts with a white tunic and brown vest over the top, along with a starter sword on my waist. My black, reddish hair rolled down to my waist, and I could feel the two new objects on top of my head, which should be my red horns. But this did not explain the blatant stares. Something I was not used to, and to be honest, was making me want to hide under a blanket.