It was finally time.Now, located in my own private area, the temperature of the room is overall cold so as to reduce my energy ption to the maximum. With a subdued aura of ay & excitement. My hand slowly gnced across the smooth pink surfay VRDP (Virtual Reality Dive Pod) for which I lovingly crafted all for this moment.It was a pletely beautiful piece of tech that used a lot of principles that would only be uood in a few hundred years if not for me; of course I also used some stuff I gathered from the future. There was truly nothing like it ience whether discussing past or future - with this I would be able to maximise my time in the game. A major plus was the fact that I do not require oxygen, food or water which allows for me to throw away that pointless stuff and include some more purple LEDs instead. There were tless different facilities with one of the most obvious ones simply being the ability to reach a higher level than average patibility with the game character. Obviously there would be a disect between a mind using a new body. Different levels of pods slowly began to be developed to teract this as much as possible; my own masterpiece reag at least 97% synisation.Although higher sync rates gave another… Be.Included in the long list of features was the ability to fully link up with the web. Keeping up to date on matters of the outside world is actually far more difficult than one would initially assume - one has to remember that it is not simply a game. It literally throws the user's sciousness into a new universe.Your standard EM wave method is not going to be very effective in crossing the gap; thankfully I was a genius like no other. More specifically I mao someply my own system to create a sed bridge between the me ihe game and the me outside the game. ging the prior one athway into something which would allow information to pass bad forth. From there it was very simple to send ands to the pod which obviously already had a e to my own servers.There was no way I would trust those shady i service providers with direct access to my mind hence why I had already developed my owwork of servers across the world. The amount of shell locations I possess ot be uated. bihat with a couple simple AI’s to run scrutiny security into what I’m pumping to my mind? Well now I simply have nothing to worry about when it es to data colle or the safety of the data that I’ve collected.

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  Of course I also ected it to Furstin’s database and other resources. I even decided to increase my power by releasing these high-tech pods onto the market - if ering them pared to my own masterpiece all in order to give me an advantage. Pying fair? That is for losers.“Are you ready boss?” My security captain finally brought me out of my gratutory spiral.Currently I (as well as the squad in charge of following me) was located right in my bedroom as it was the easiest room to secure. In addition, me being here, allowed them to also make sure that no peeping toms mao sneak into the bathroom. It would undoubtedly be annoying to have to silenyone who mao see my shining knight.Since I clearly could not defend myself while in the game - it only made seo have the squad form a security since I wasly as if I had no ehat would salivate at the ce.*cough* Not so Uates of America.*cough*“Those yankees really did not appreciate me interfering in their precious ons market…” Mumbling to myself as I turowards my security guards. Not saying anything else but merely satisfying all their questions with a small but fident nod.From there I reached out to press a button hidden on the underside of a crevice from which LEDs did their job; pressing the button caused a light hologram of a simple finger outlio appear. Along with that an angelic voice, of which I modelled from my memory Jesse, called out to me. “VRDP M.ARC Is Awaiting For The User To Authenticate Identity.”Hearing that made me smile as I reached one of my thumbs to slowly pull off a very thihe funny thing about being a spirit is… We do not naturally possess finger prints.Pressing my now bare finger against the hologram caused it to have a rotating symbol of “Void” - like a singur circur inky brush stroke - before it finally gave a tle *ding* to firm my identity. I just put the fake fingerprint on my finger as the pod hissed. Slowly the various moving parts worked together to have the top slide open from the top and bottom.Soon a fortable foam seat was revealed which I obviously let myself sink into as the processing unit behind my head began whirling. A sound that brought an intrinsic satisfa. It only took moments for the device to once again close (this time with me inside) as my vision was filled with sky like visuals.That bined with the chime-based white o make a calming chamber.“Do You Wish To Reveal Desktop?”“No need… Boot up Love Heart Online.” …“Boot Up Failed; Error Report States ‘One Miill Scheduled Release’.”“... Then boot it up when it is finally avaible.” “Affirmative.”

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  Now was the time for real.Within the clouds ed the bubbly bright pihat proudly excimed that I was now in the closed beta of Love Heart Online. Whoever thought such a cutesy i logo as well as a name fritty, realistid almost wless game was… Well they were sadistic to put it briefly.“Wele To Love Heart Ohe Game of ge!Anything Is Possible In The Worlds of Love We Have Gathered Together For You To Explore; As Long As You Have The Luck, Talent And Gumption Required To Make It So.”A cheery girlish voice - while previously taining a bit of robotiess - echoed throughout the cloud filled vacuum for which I found myself located, not that I was surprised, having already expected all of this I remained pletely silent. Awaiting for the voice to tih her expnation. Something she seemed more than a little excited to do as her voice again echoed through the “sky”.“Every User Is Rewarded With A [Chaos J. Crate] Upon Signing Up To Love Heart Online However, As A Closed Beta Tester, You Will Be Gifted With A Sed!Do You Wish To Open T-?”“NO, FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS UNHOLY, NO!” I had heard about those cursed and sadistically predatory loot boxes as they were something that everyoh foamed at the mouth for but also feared above the gods themself. Each box allowed ohe ce for a pletely random reward. It could even grant ohe ability to cut down the heavens with a mere thought; however more often than not it robbed the fool of what he valued most.When I say they were sadistic I meant it quite literally.While other “surprise game meics” could at most grant a shitty reward… The worst “reward” I have seen recorded was a little known case where someone “won” -100% soul strength. Apparently his body just fell like a sack of potatoes on the ground after releasing such a breath screech of fear that those watg couldn’t help thinking they imagi.There is no way, unless I am literally forced at (something superior than) gun point, that I am ever risking my pns by opening one of those horrofic-“Are You Sure?”“Yes I am very sure…”Letting out a sigh at the fit-“??????~????s??????????????????????????? ???????????????????n????????? ???????????W???? ????????O???? ???????u???O??? ????u?????????d?????O??? ????o????┴???? ??????????u??????????M???? ?????????o???N???? ????o????p????? ????n????o???????? ???????????????n???S???? ???n????o?????????? ?????????????????????”I couldn’t help clutg my head because, what the actual fuck, my head is absolutely killing me upon hearing whatever archaisehat just came out. It was still the same sweet voice yet seemed to tain a level of slyhat could not be produced by the most advanced of AI’s. Not to mention I couldn’t uand what was being said… Likely meaning it was plete gibberish.heless I felt some i behind that balderdash.“Let me pick my starting world already!” I didn’t care enough about it to actually ge any of my pns just because of some weird glitch that occurred within this new system.“Your Avaible Options Are:-Phallen; Pne World, Cultivation Focus, 90Z Popution, Resources = Average, Rank 5 World…”“Brio Axis preferably on the Prearran ti” I already knew what I wanted so there was no particur reason to wait around for the system to go around naming them all. Plus, if I wao know all the details, there is no doubt they will be uploaded in a few days. The professional gamers sadly mostly ended up on my world and ended up on my ti due to its advantages but I could get a nice head start then exploit those very people.In front of me appeared that familiar world that I dreamed of for so long.“Now You Choose Your Race.”Life was never fair so her were the races. They had several different ranks, on top of different bonus, which allowed them to gain a different amount of attribute points per level:

  Mortal Rank:Red = 1 APBlue = 2 APPurple = 3 APEarth Rank = 5 APSky Rank = 7 APImmortal Rank = 9 APHeaven Rank = 12 APDivine Rank = 15 APThere was also a rumoured “True” rank however that had only been heard in whispers through in the game in rumours, The guilds theorised that the bosses of the job towers or the chief gods of the divine pantheons possessed such a rank. Their theory stemmed from the fact that the sed “Mother” had the title of “True God” whio oed even after her death. Though sihis was just something evero ‘npcs’ knew little about it was impossible judged impossible that mere pyers could actually achieve such heights.That was only if they could get access to powerful enough npcs to even hear of the rumours of a level above the sacred divine.I only learhrough diving into the deepest depths of HERO.When one first es into the game (like me right now) they will be assigned a race that they could also ge before they chose a world. I was the outlier since I asked to choose a world first. There was a small problem with choosing a race though; nothing in the world came for free. While races were free to choose such as human or that of a house cat - those were only races that were ranked as Mortal (Red). Through luck there were those who happeo naturally have a higher ranking race assigo them. Anything above the mortal rankings was so rare it may as well have been sidered impossible as, even 10 years into the future, 70% of all pyers sat within the mortal rank.At the time the game first came out I found the statistics to be even more appalling with the highest race ranked recorded for the first two years being only within the Sky.To add insult to injury - you ot just pick which race you want to be but have to manually enter a gacha pool to obtain the race you want. There was no mercy to the paying er and seemingly less to the free to py casuals who didn’t care.Thankfully there was another way to make up the differeween those with money and those without sine's character rank didn’t stay pletely stagnant. Whether through pletely ging one's race rading it into a higher tier one was actually able to improve their character rank. Often it required rare items that the various guilds hoarded to themselves including needing a Rosetta stone for race ges. That could only be obtained from one pce out of all those different worlds…The very pce I desired to monopolise~!

  “I may o spend a lot of money but let's see what race I have been giv-” Race: Dark Matter Spirit ([in of Eldritch] + [Phenex Mantis] + [Primal End])Rank: Divine“Should have expected that… Well at least it was easy~!”Although that was some very iing information; also seems like this system is more well learhan my useless BITCH. I do not know what to do with this information but at least I now know a little bit more about my in and I say with certainty… I am more impressive than I gave myself credit for!“What if I…”*ヨ尺ヨヨ~廾丹山**CRACK*“ㄩ卄ㄖ卄…”