'So they went all out as promised,' the relieve in my heart propagates within, allowing this emotion to quickly be repced by a sincere satisfaction.

  The game creators had promised the pyers an immeasurable difficulty.

  Me alongside the other 1000 pyers had signed a non disclosure contract over the game contents. Thus, all the newbies knew, was the little and roundabout information from the trailer.

  As I focus on her, a list of options appear. I follow up by choosing the party invitation. Everything's through the management of an eye contact.

  The way everything is synced turns this game world into a masterpiece.

  "If you join me, I'll help you out!" My shout reaches out for her and it takes no time for her light red eyes to notice me.

  In them, I see twinkling as if she's about to cry. Still, she's able to focus on the yes, causing a party between us two to form.

  "Good choice," I commend her for the effort. Running with a potion on my left hand, noticing how the slime has overwhelming health for the weakest floor. To my momentarily surprise, a crown symbol next to its name.

  "Use your potion on the monster!"

  With panic on her face, she reacts slow, yet manages to pull off what I advice. Her gesture drowns the red liquid on the 100hp monster, causing its tentacles to dissolve, leaving her body alone. Instead, it squirms like a pudding as if it feels a great amount of pain. In a few seconds, I notice its health bar dropping to 50%.

  "My turn! Get back!"

  She walks backwards upon my call, falling on her round ass a few steps away from the slime.

  "Take this!" I use my potion on the boss managing to kill it in a few seconds.

  System: Your party has sin a boss on the first floor. A portal will now appear.

  Notification: You've received 50 experience for your share on defeating the level 3 dark slime.

  One piece of information I learned in the alpha test, was that this game provides experience based on the damage the pyer does.

  "Are you okay?" My eyes find her, a scared girl whose face looks rather young unlike the curves of her body. For some, a deadly combination, for the slime, a plentiful meal.

  She brushes her dark hair out of her face returning it behind her ear and over her back.

  "I am now," she lets out a smile. "Thank you for your help."

  "Not a problem."

  "I didn't expect that to work."

  "Yeah," I start to turn around hoping to go my way.

  "Say," she pushes a strand of her hair forward from behind her ear.

  "Hum?"

  "I attacked it with this sword but it dealt no damage. How did you know a health potion would work?"

  "Ah. Well," I rub my chin with my free index finger. "That was a dark slime. They're weak to the light element, healing spells, and potions."

  "I should have paid more attention to the trailer," she sticks her tongue out, clearly embarrassed.

  "Not a problem. You would end up learning about it."

  "This I remember," she points at the portal, a blue arrow by her feet directed at the way out.

  "That will lead to the next floor," I add hesitantly of progressing further knowing how hard things will be. How many deaths y in wait. And the diverse obstacles the creators reserved for us all.

  "Shall we?" She gets on her feet.

  "I'll stay."

  "Really? Aren't we supposed to climb?"

  I walk closer to the corpse of the slime getting hold of a tiny dark shard, storing it in my inventory: specifically, a shard tab.

  "Only death awaits those who rush the tutorial. But if you want to go, I won't stop you."

  The girl looks at the slime she almost died to. "Alright. In that case, where do you want to go?"

  I look sideways, "which side did you come from?"

  "There," she points to my right.

  "Then we go left. The pce behind me where I started only had one hallway."

  "Oh! Same as me!"

  I keep my knowledge from the tutorial to myself, both to make her think by herself, and also to avoid getting unwanted attention.

  "Let's see what else we can find." I point at our feet. "With the blue arrow, we can find this portal whenever we need."

  "Sure. Sounds good!" She smiles happily. Her embarrassment and fear already a thing of the past.

  Side by side we walk through the hallway. I watch over her touching the air.

  "Need help?"

  "It's alright. I'm just about done."

  "With?" And just as I ask a name shows up above her. "Alice?"

  "Me?"

  I watch her pink eyes roll up as if looking for the spot that I noticed.

  I open my own status and fill it with a name to my liking.

  System: Do you wish to put your name in the rankings?

  'You can.'

  System: Decision registered.

  "There," I point above my head.

  "Ra-ziel? Is that your name?"

  "Correct," I avert my gaze from her curious and alluring rubies.

  "I've never heard of that name."

  "I've heard of yours." A recollection of an old fairytale my mom used to read.

  "I'm sure you have," she lets out a giggle.

  I click my tongue at the sight ahead, a firepce with some surrounding trees. A level one kobold embraced by the fme warmth, eating what looks to be a piece of meat from the fallen deer next to it.

  My eyes grasp Alice's health bar being completely full once more.

  "All yours."

  I watch her gulp as she looks at the naked brown creature filled with fur. The head looks like a hyena but acts like a human being, holding the meat with hands while gnawing at it with sharp teeth.

  I hear her next to me, breathing deeply, holding her sword with both hands.

  'She has some guts,' I hide my approval of her behavior hoping she won't turn into a disappointment.

  Alice takes a few steps forward and then runs in its direction like a arrow just shot, flying true to the target.

  I grip my knife, hiding behind a tree.

  'Show me what you got Alice.'

  The girl presses her sword in the creature's direction causing the steel to pierce through the hairy body.

  To my surprise, the kobold chokes on its food, therefore, finding itself unable to shout, neither to have a proper reaction. The blood sprays from the open wound but Alice removes her sword and strikes it again, this time on the back of its head.

  I watch at the kobold health bar completely depletes signaling the end of its life.

  System: You received 5 experience due to little contribution on the kobold kill.

  "I did it?" She remains there a bit confused, hands a little shaky.

  I sense footsteps approaching, causing me to ready my knife as I become one with the tree glued to me. As soon as the silhouette passes by, the tip of my knife pierces its throat.

  A pained moan follows and the arms rise, but I don't give an opening. Instead, I stab its torso close to where I believe the heart to be, once, twice, and finally thrice. Our eyes meet and I realize it then, I just syed something other than a kobold.

  System: You've earned 10 experience points for sying a pyer named RobinFromTheHood.

  A cold smile surfaces on my face, both from how funny the name sounds and the pleasant free experience he gives me.