< Amor-Cordis - 1st PoV >

  If someoo ask which day was the most important oo my future success; I would have to say it was not ohat defined my early years as a human.Instead I would say it was the end of them.A little fusing to uand for most, yet given the text that I have, it is hardly a strange ao the question. In faeone would likely call me a fool or liar if I went for any day of my life. Whether it s what happens iure or past. This day didn’t e as a surprise to me at all though. Quite the trary since I knew well that the broader points of the day would occur, even if some ued situations did occur during it due to some error on my part, but I shall ret the events just so we’re all in agreeme all starts in an alterure at XXX5 where the entire world as we k had long ged to be ruled by tless kratocracies. That ge occurred due to a little known game called Love Heart Online which, despite its name, was not a fluffy romance visual novel but the most advanced & brutal VRMMO to ever exist. In fact it was quite the bloody game if one sidered the level of detail; eveais that one could sider belonging to a smut franchise did occur within. It did not take p a single world either as there were tless different worlds that one could just e inth the game o to slowly level up their power, different races gaining strength at different rates while different csses gave different boo those wielding them. The important part was that all the strength gained by the game character… Wasn’t the strength of the game character but your strength as well!Many were scared at first. Yet sidering they ged into their game avatars helped make some instant celebrities ht; none more joyous than those wealthy people who ied into the game early whether through iing into the attached virtual currenaking a guild.There were still those less than pleased due to either making their character into some sort of funny looking joke, being a feral rad those that were just from a stereotypically ugly raoheless, there was never going to be any pensation for those unfortunate enough to not take the game seriously at the start.This was because the new world created by the guilds was a cruel one.In a world where many were given superpowers it was hardly shog that many chose to abuse those powers for their own gain. Among those, there were a rge group that simply resorted to devious means in order to gaih & infamy. Just as believable were those who desired more power since more power meant longer lives with less difficulty. The modern world could do nothing to stop those vilins that run amok while - as if to add insult to injury - the monsters from the game started appearing in real life. With this being the case the people could only rely on the pyers in order to try to maintain what modicum of a normal life they had.Of course, there were attempts to trol the pyers by the govers yet many of those pyers were youths who had been “put down” by the current system. When those ‘old men’ - that they always heard bad news about - began trying to leash them… Well, it only made sehey weren’t receptive, so they became something more akin to vigihan employees. pared to the old ailing govers the different businesses were much quicker oake of the ges, sp many of the powerful guilds if they didn’t have those of their own. Obviously those who already had their hands in the game were eveer at this; allowing them a huge head start.Given ten years time of game influeng ‘real life’ and now those govers do or (if they do) it’s as a shell that has no choice to bow their heads to the guilds. Those guilds split the world into their owories just like in the game world but with even more ‘freedom’ sihere were no overpowered npcs who would tell them “no”. There were attempts by govers to tact the moderators or eveor of the game so they could potentially help trol the situation by ‘moderating’ reality... That failed.Unfortunately, few guilds could cim to be filled to the brim with righteous members with many members using their power to abuse free agents as well as “normies” as they called us. I used ‘us’ iionally as I had also never pyed the game in my first life. My reasoning was that my mommy had told me that my first life would best be filled with suffering so I could unleash that as potential in my sed ce.As an obedient boy I obviously listeo my mommy’s words thus (even after she firaining and teag me) I willingly went into a poor orphanage. From there I didn’t attempt to better my situation leading to me living the life of a regur orphan in a poor neighbourhood. It was more easy than not for a child to have their lives ruined by their enviro with nearly no hope for reform.There was no way to ehe game if I struggled to even afford enough water to live, thus no way I got to bee a pyer, leading to a chaotic time when the monsters first came. Life was er from there yet I still mao live to the age of 28. Not particurly old - especially noeople could live for hundreds of years just by ging race - but certainly lohan one would have expected.But enough about that; it’s time to stop with the sermon and iime to go into the most important day as well as the st as a mere mortal.I was just gazing out the window of one of the stro guilds that came out of the game; the infamous {HERO} guild. In fact the windoiping - overlooking the magnifit marble tower like out of those Greek inspired stories - beloo one of their members. A rather high ranking member at that.They had a huge variety of race-ge items allowing them to bee one of if not the biggest guilds even just in terms of capital. This was thanks to the fact that they happeo pick the world as well as area with [Rosario Stones] needed for race ge giving them a monopoly on su important item before it came to light. With that it was easy for them to trade for race-ge & upgrade items, easily letting them eat a rge k of the tral Europeaory starting from the capital of the world, taking ermany thus solidifying themselves.Evidently, they wouldn’t have been successful with just that as it would be likely that people wouldn’t let su important item get away, yet a few factors eheir stranglehold.A major one was the fact that (for the vast majority of the people ihe game) no one had any clue of the importance of the stohis was due to how the identification skill worked “only with the information the pyer had gathered” thus to most they were just regur stones. Even if the truth was known most would assume there would be another source due to them being easy to find there - in addition to stant healing/respawning of the veins. They were also founded by the you lord of the very people who ran the Vagen pany as well as family, giving plenty of capital to i, letting them shoot ahead. By the time anyone knew what was happening the guild already had a huge lead yet people still argue to this day when they realised the true value of the sto also helped that their engineering background gave them eveer advantages wherue worth of the game was discovered. Not to mention; they already had spent quite a lot of time as a military tractor so had plenty of relevant blueprints to work from.One may sider it good that I was w for such a prestigious guild, however…“What is a stupid sve like you doing!” A loud voice called out behind me before I found my little body being thrown to the side by a powerful sp. This hit was of course from the fat Lux-Elf who owhe manor where I was forced to work; some time ago a member of the guild took i in me for my pure white skin in bination to my short stature.Acc to them I erfect trap so, to py a practical joke, they forcibly made me sign a svery tract using their obviously superior physical power. I wasn’t that opposed si gave me more ces to gather information for my sed ce (just like mommy told me) but that person ended up giftio my current ow first he believed I was a cute little girl and was very displeased when he woke up - hung-over with a powerful migraine - only to find out that I was not.Sihen he’s pretty much found any reason he to hit me - not that I mind that as it means he alss me everywhere. Thanks to this, I have gotten about all the information I wanted as well as had the eet someone special.A beautiful voice called out before I even hit the ground; finding myself ihe soft vanil sted embrace of a very literal angel. “You shouldn’t be so harsh to a alone a poor little mortal who you’ve probably forced into your service!” She spoke with utter disgust with the man while a warmth flooded through my ag body to subdue any pain.“I wish I could do more for you than this every time we meet…” That sweet voice whispered gently with obvious pain within her voice which seemed to eclipse anything I had ever felt. This didn’t surprise me anymore as this woman was ohat I knew well as she was from another, although smaller, guild that became famous for their just personalities bined with their overwhelming power. In particur she was a holy padin called Jesse Harper. Only a year older than me.She, as well as a lot of her guildmates, had all attehe number one academy within the world that was built upon an artificial isnd in the pacific o called Frux. Even with all that had happeo the world the academy mao remain as a pce of education as those alumni tio protect it as a pce of equal opportunity.They thus heir guild Frux; the highest ranked socially as well as in terms of individual strength with each member pretty much being a ranker in the game.“Tsk the piece of shit decided to e here himself but preteo be a girl and seduced me yet I still let keep the job!” The plump pig retreated heless he made sure to snder me while he was at it. Two uild members that came with the opposing pair didn’t even try to keep in their mog ughter at their guildmate's poor excuse. Oh shaggy blonde hair with blue eyes, typical ‘hero’ looking type, approached us with a smile that somehow mao mix ‘egotistical prick’ & ‘ikeman’ together perfectly. “Please five him, you know how people like him get, best just to ugh it off hahaha.”Although both him and the pretty bruch (while gring at Jesse) ughed off the fat elf’s vicious as; my sweet angel obviously tio frown.These jokers were both friends of the head of HERO, thus embers just like the fat elf who also ended up ughing like the suck up he was. Being embers also meant they were all rankers with the ikeman knight being the stro as well as most popur within the guild due to his ‘dashing good looks’ and ‘bright personality’. Personally I wao reato his skull and tear out those eyes that dared to look at the o woo iure…Or the past?Reination and such present a lot of problems ologically, I suppose?