What is my name, who am I? He lay shirtless on the snow, frost tickled his skin and sour snow filled his open mouth. He slowly

  got up, his joints creaking with the sudden exertion. His eyelids cracked open, revealing a light sun and a barren land filled with

  snow. Where am I? How did I get here he said as began to remember what had transpired - the escape, the enforcers, death...

  Am I, dead then? Is this the afterlife? He began laughing hysterically, at least the miners are safe he thought. Then as if mocking

  him, a blue light suddenly decorated his vision. 'Welcome to the New World' it said and then a voice rang out in his head. "This

  world also has been taken over by the Mirror, please go to help to learn all the instructions." He did not freak out then, no the

  mines had made him harder than that, instead he went over what he could establish by this - In the mines, every miner daily was

  given half an hour to play 'Caster' - a MMORPG that basically was only there so that the constitution of the WWG(World Wide

  Government) was not violated. From what he could make out, something eerily similar played out when the game was started,

  after an introductory message was displayed, the players were directed to the help section where the several commands of the

  game were shown. This 'New World' as the 'Mirror' called it was doing the same. Flabbergasted, he clicked on the help section.

  Instructions -

  1- This world has been taken over by the Mirror which engages all of its members into a New World which is like how your world

  originally was, except it has been differentiated into different biomes that is - all the people who were living in the deserts are now

  living in one huge dessert and all the people who were living in cities are now living on barren stone(The Mirror has demolished

  all structures so that it is a similar environment for all people). All the people in their respected biomes cannot cross over to other

  biomes. the barriers separating biomes cannot be demolished however all people are able to cross over to other biomes, once in

  1 year.

  2- Each of you are given a status which tells you your attributes, race, class etc. In the firsts hour of the New World you will be

  allowed to change your race. However if you fail to do so before the one hour is over, it will be assigned to you randomly.

  Endurance governs stamina and constitution. Strength governs strength and recovery rate. Dexterity governs speed and perception.

  Charisma governs magic to certain classes, it improves your looks and also improves social interactions with monsters. Spirit governs power

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  and speed of magic. Your class will be given to you on the basis of your experience in the original world and will be unique for

  everybody. The given class will be permanent for most people while others may come across a way to change it.

  3- The purpose of this is to prepare humanity for the Championship and to bring out the strongest of mankind. To avoid

  distractions for adults, children cannot be harmed by anything, nor can they harm anything until they turn 18, which is the time when this

  protection will expire. The starting of the first championship is in 50 years, if no champion of humanity wins the championship for

  300 years. Humanity will be eradicated. The Mirror will see to that.

  Iyre's eyes far from being scared, hardened. If this was the survival of the fittest, then he would come out on top. Anyways, first

  order of business- Status, he commanded.

  He grinned, while working in the mines was not the best of things to do, he was sure it meant that his base physical attributes

  would be extremely high. Now for his class -

  Last but not least his race, he chose to view this last as he was not sure which class to pick, but he also did not want to get a race

  assigned randomly so here were the options -