Zectas Volume I: Enigmatic Village of Nanahuatl (2 page)

 

 

Smoke then decided to check his equipment in his backpack. All he had inside his backpack was 1 piece of small meat, 10 loaves of bread, 1 basic knife.

 

 

Smoke then decided to check on his stats.

 

 

"Status Window."

 

 

 

Smoke expected the basic stats to be 10, he also understood that the magic resistance was from him being a dark elf but he didn't realize that it would be 50% resistance for black magic. However what was confusing was this incredibly huge Luck stat. As he suspected from a stat named Luck that fortunate events would be happening to the user. He did just gain 500 Fame right at the start of his game but would would you call being spawned at a remote village as a starting point lucky?

 

 

Smoke equipped his basic knife raising his attack to 3-6. Well at least with this maybe he could manage to take on those horned rabbits towards Coatl City.

 

 

"Thank you for that information sir but I guess I should head for Coatl City."

 

 

Smoke knew that he had to go to Coatl City because it was only in the main cities where you could get a Job Change. He decided to start his journey and went out of the safety of Nanahuatl Village.

 

 

As he stepped out of the village he immediately saw the edge of the forest and noticed that there was about 2 kilometers away from the field. There were some cute and cuddly horned rabbits along the field and noticed that they were just passively digging burrows on the vast field.

 

 

Smoke took out his knife and tried attacking one horned rabbit. He stood behind its back and tried to stabbed its body. The horned rabbit immediately noticed this and stepped to the side and attacked him with its horn.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -5

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -7

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -4

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -4

 

 

Smoke was rattled by the sudden system notifications and the pain that he felt from each attack. It was not the pain of being actually hit by the horn but something like being hit by a pin.

 

 

He started running away from the horned rabbit trying to regain his ground before attacking.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. Backstabbed! You've taken damage. Health -15

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. Backstabbed! You've taken damage. Health -18

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. Backstabbed! You've taken damage. Health -14

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. Backstabbed! You've taken damage. Health -18

 

 

Instead of trying to regain his fighting stance Smoke decided to run for the village instead. His health was dropping ridiculously fast. These monstrous horned rabbits are amazingly fast. They should be called little speed devils.

 

 

Once he stepped inside the safety of the village a magical barrier blasted the horned rabbit away. The horned rabbit didn't receive any damage and went back towards the hole that he was digging.

 

 

Smoke was breathing heavily glad, he was glad that he could run fast enough to escape. He checked his health he only had 37 health remaining a couple more attacks and he would've died.

 

 

He sat down and rested he noticed that when sitting down the regeneration rate is slightly higher than just standing up. He continued resting for about 10 minutes waiting for his health to regenerate completely. After having full health again he found the nerve to try facing the 'monstrous' horned rabbit.

 

 

Smoke realized that there was no other way to kill the horned rabbit but to have dual exchange blows with it. He readied his knife once again and headed out to the fields.

 

 

Smoke spotted another horned rabbit digging a hole. He thought to himself that they must be either looking for food or making burroughs to sleep in.

 

 

Without hesitation he drove his knife towards the body of the horned rabbit anticipating the possibility of it dodging. He finally struck it's body.

 

 

+ Attack hit horned rabbit. Damage 6.

 

 

Smoke noticed that a life bar appeared on top of the horned rabbit and indicated that it had an hp of 30. 5 more strikes and this guys dead.

 

 

The horned rabbit got a lot of hits on Smoke as well.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

 

Not cowering to the pain of being attacked Smoke continued on stabbing the horned rabbit.

 

 

+ Attack hit horned rabbit. Damage 6.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -1

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

 

+ Attack miss horned rabbit. Damage 0.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

 

+ Attack miss horned rabbit. Damage 0.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

 

+ Attack hit horned rabbit. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 10.

 

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -2

 

- Attacked by horned rabbit. You've taken damage. Health -3

 

 

Critical Hit? Wow that had amazing damage. A few more hits and I can finally have this horned rabbit as my first trophy.

 

 

+ Attack hit horned rabbit. CRITICAL HIT. Damage 12.

 

 

The horned rabbit fell dead on the ground. The body slowly faded away leaving a rabbit foot as loot.

 

 

Smoke opened his status window in order to check how much experience he got from killing the horned rabbit. He had mixed feelings when he saw that it only gave him 30exp.

 

 

"Well at least I've gained some experience. Another 200 more horned rabbits and then I can finally be level 1."

 

 

Smoke proceeded on his way towards the city of Coatl. After playing for 3 hours he noticed that it was already night time and he surmised that 1 hour in the Real World would be 4 hours inside ZECTAS.

 

 

Smoke also spotted armored armadillos and tried attacking them. He found out that their HP was 80 and no matter how many times he hit them even on critical hits all he could manage to do was a damage of 1. The armored armadillo would however attack him for 1 or 2 damage points.

 

 

After killing the armored armadillo it gave him 50exp. He then decided to avoids armored armadillo since it took a much longer amount of time just to kill one.

 

 

He sometimes saw a dire fox here and there but knew that it was beyond his level. So he decided stay away from those.

 

 

After playing for almost 6 hours he checked his map. He was only 20 kilometers away from Nanahuatl village.

 

 

"I guess it would take me more than 100 days to reach the Coatl City then."

 

 

Smoke didn't mind though he was enjoying the game so far. He noticed that by anticipating the movements of the horned rabbits he could somehow manage to dodge some of the horned rabbits attacks.

 

 

After playing for so long he felt that his body was some what sluggish even though his health was above 80%. While sitting down and resting. A system notification popped up.

 

 

 

"Hmm. Even in ZECTAS people still get hungry and thirsty."

 

 

Smoke tried eating a piece of bread and noticed that it somehow increased the satiety bar. He also tried drinking the small stream that was near him at the moment. He was glad that he found it because he felt the real feeling of thirst as well.

 

 

"The world of Zectas feels more than just a Virtual reality. It really feels like I'm in a different world."

 

 

So far Smoke had earned 1200exp from hunting the 'monstrous' horned rabbits, found 5 rabbits foot and 2 pieces of rabbit meat.

 

 

Smoke decided to call it a day and went to sleep.

 

 

In the morning Nash woke up and started making breakfast for the whole family. Prepared his younger siblings' lunch for school. Woke them up and told them that he will be heading out to his first job at the small diner. He needed to keep the 2 stable jobs that he has left since the manager at the arcade didn't mention just how much they will pay him for posting his game plays on ZECTAS.

 

 

Nash also thought that it would most likely be less than the amount he got as an attendant at the arcade. He doesn't mind though because he knew that it was just the manager's way of trying to give him a chance to relax.

 

 

In the diner he started talking to the cook about his experience inside ZECTAS. He told her about how everything felt real there. Maybe this was the reason for the mysterious age restriction. Since everything would feel real the player who is too young or too old could be placed in a traumatic situations. Just imagine what you may feel when dying inside the game. That could cause the ZECTAS company some serious lawsuits.

 

 

After working at the diner he took a quick a nap and headed out to the construction site. He was assigned the usual assignment of welding together the top most beams of the skyscraper.

 

 

As Nash was standing on top of the unfinished skyscraper. He felt the longing to go back into ZECTAS he couldn't wait to start his new 3rd job of being a player in ZECTAS.

 

 

Before logging in to ZECTAS he had to make sure though how much he was gonna get paid and how often he should post his videos. This also troubled him since he was still a beginner in the gaming world he wondered if his videos would gather much attention.

 

 

The arcade manager assured Nash that no matter how many views his videos may be he will still have the same salary as an attendant of the arcade and also if the videos do make some revenue he would get a percentage of that as well. With this Nash looked forward to playing ZECTAS once more without the fear of losing his regular income.

 

 

Nash readied himself to enter the pod that would usher him to the wondrous world of ZECTAS and with his usual excited feeling closed the pod.

 

 

Smoke awoke to the place where he had logged off previously. He then smiled and readied himself to take on the challenge of the monstrous horned rabbit once again.

 

 

With the drive to get to Coatl City faster Smoke started to concentrate more anticipating the attacks of the horned rabbit. He got to the point where he could take out a horned rabbit without being hit at all.

 

 

"This will greatly decrease the time needed while resting to regain my HP."

 

 

Smoke continued slaughtering the horned rabbits. After his 200th kill it happened...

 

 

"Wow! My hp and mana practically doubled and there is even an increase in fame as well. Level ups are really amazing. For a sure one shot one kill strategy, I think I'll use 5 points on STR and 5 points on DEX. I can manage dodging the horned rabbit's attack on my own now anyway."