Chapter 01: New Start in Emil Chronicle Online

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-My POV-

*puru-puru*

I stirred.

*puru-puru*

'…What is that noise?'

*puru-puru*

'Ugh, make it stop, I still want to sleep.' I turn my body to the side.

*puru-puru*

'…Shut…up…'

*puru-puru*

'Okay, that's it!'

I get up from my sleeping position.

"I SAID SHUT UP OR I'LL PUNCH WHOEVER MAKING THAT NOISE!" I yell.

"Puru!" A blue jelly thing look startled.

"…What the-?!" I also startled seeing it.

Both of us staring at each other.

"…P…Pururu? This thing is Pururu right? Did I really miss that game so much that I'm dreaming it right now?"

Pururu, a monster that equivalence to slime in generic fantasy world or "Poring" in Ragnarok Online if you people are familiar with the game because the dev of Emil Chronicle Online was helped by the dev of Ragnarok Online to develop the game. A blue jelly like body, its shape only consisted of two parts; a head and a body, and those two parts connected by its thin neck. It's also has an eyes in its head, kinda like an anime eyes.

*puru-puru* the noise coming from the Pururu.

"Yup, this is Pururu, same old-same annoying sound." I grab a rock on the ground beside and chuck it to the Pururu. "Shut up."

The rock hit its head.

And now its look mad at me.

"…Eh?"

The mass inside its body transferred into its head, and it change its head into a hammer like shape, and it swung its head at me.

"GAH!"

It blown me back, causing me to rolled several time on the ground.

'It hurt! Why is it hurt?! This is supposed to be a dream right?!'

I stand up.

"You little-How dare you mess with me you Lv.1 weakling!"

"Sword Frenzy!" I point with my finger toward the sky.

But nothing happened.

No light.

No magic sword forming near me.

No casting bar.

And the Pururu is still hopping toward me with vengeance.

"…What?! Do I have no mana?! Is the game bugged or something?! " I look between my finger and the Pururu in confusion. "Whatever! Come here you little shit! Mano-e-mano style!" I am readying myself to fight it barehanded.

I hit it with a straight punch.

It hit me back by slamming its body to me.

Now I kick it very hard.

My kick sends it flying. It bounced on the ground once before it sprawled on the ground, it let out its dying cry and then it start deflating like a balloon.

"Suck it!" I give the Pururu's remain the middle finger.

Suddenly two big capitalized texts and a loud noise came out of nowhere.

The first one, LEVEL UP came out with a golden sparkle circling me.

The second one, JOB LEVEL UP came out with a blue sparkle circling me.

*Tet-to-ro-toooooot~* sounds of congratulation trumpet resounded on my surrounding.

"…Level Up congratulation? Why did I level up? I'm Lv.98. I'm not supposed to level up with only killing a single Pururu….Unless…"

I look around me.

A plain, I'm in a middle of a plain right now. Not far from me I could see that there's a ceramic pavement, and in the distant, I could see a bridge leading to a city with a tall tower in the middle of it. I've seen the illustration of that city, and I also remembered that the name of that city is Acropolis City.

"…No way."

I look around me again. I see another type of monster in the distant, a big green caterpillar monster, a big purple urchin monster, and another Pururu.

"…Crawler and Urchin, a simple monster that serves for the newbie to beat."

'Status.' I said in my mind and a bunch of word popping up inside it.

Ligoya

Race: Emil

Lv. 2

Job Lv. 2

Job: Novice

Status:

STR: 8

DEX: 3

INT: 3

VIT: 10

AGI: 4

MAG: 3

Free Point: 3

"…'Race: Emil'…'Job: Novice'…and 'Ligoya' my username in Emil Chronicle Online, and I'm in it right now."

My head starts to hurt, so I immediately lying down on to the grass.

After pains lessen, I opened my eyes, and what greeted me is the blue sky.

"…This is a dream right?" I move my hand to pinch my cheek. "…It hurt. This is…a lot to take in."

I closed my eyes.

'I don't remember how I got here. Is this mean I got isekai'd into ECO? Probably. Do I want to go back to my original world? Dunno, moreover I've no single clue on how to go back. The fight just now proved that I could level up, just like the game. That mean the only thing left for me to do is to go with the flow.'

I opened my eyes.

"And that just mean it's my opportunity to continue where I left off, right?" I smile. "Restarting from Lv.1? No problem. I'm used to this stuff because I created a lot of new character back in the day. Goal right now is to reach Lv.120 and become a Force Master. FIGHT-O!" I thrust my fist into the sky energetically.

I stand up.

Upon examining my body, I actually went younger, like, 15 years old young, black hair and all of that, and I'm still wearing my usual clothes, white T-shirt, cargo pants, and a pair of sock with shoes on, which is one of everyday attire in this world.

"First thing first, how do I allocate my free point? Do I need to just think it in my mind?" I asked myself. 'Put all the free point into DEX.' I ordered in my mind.

DEX: 3 - 6.

"Good, besides increasing your attack accuracy, DEX is important for Spell User too because it helped them cast a spell faster. I remembered back in the day that I could cast my weakest spell in 0.5 second, but now I probably took 7 seconds to do it instead, which is horrible in my book." I said thinking loudly. "And I shouldn't put the cart before the horse, I'm still a Novice, I haven't even become a Spell User class yet. Let's go to that place shall we."

I go to the ceramic pavement. I follow the path toward the city.

Along the path, I saw other people passing by, a couple of Titania boys and girls, probably have a Spell User job since I only see a staff in each of their hand amidst their normal clothing, and of course I didn't stare them for too long, I don't want to be called rude.

"…Guess I've got to be used seeing this stuff, nobody like a racist kind of person."

To start the explanation about this world, let me explain about the race.

In this universe, there're 3 dominant races that sentient enough to have their own civilization.

Emil race, which is Human, their appearance characteristic just like normal human being, nothing special about them.

Titania Race, which is Angel, their special characteristic is their wing and their halo; they only could float using their wing and couldn't fly.

And Dominion Race, which is Devil, their special characteristic is their wing and their devil tail, Dominion couldn't float like Titania using their wing, so that mean it's just there for appearance purposes.

According to the lore, Emil race were originally the only occupants of Acronia (this world name), were once a highly advanced civilization. However, because of an "incident" their civilization was all but destroyed and much of their history was lost.

Acronia was once a unified kingdom, the capital of the world's leading powers, with Acropolis City as its capital city. However, the Emil civilization had depleted all of the world's resources. In its search for new resources a connection was made to the Dominion and Titania worlds.

These worlds, which were never meant to be connected, were bridged. Complete chaos ensued between the three worlds. Emil entered into the heavens and underworlds, realms never meant for them. From the aftermath of the chaos was the emergence of a new history. There was a great effort to rebuild and regroup as each race reclaimed their rightful spot in the world.

So yeah, in summary, Emil races got greedy, and then they messed up other people worlds, and then everything fucked up for everyone, resulting some of the Titania and Dominion people to be stuck in Emil's world.

Of course those people mad at the Emil race for making them stuck in here, but thankfully, the hatred slowly gone generation after generation, which's why back in the original game, the player could choose between those 3 races for their starting character, the time line where the game started is way ahead of those dark times.

Oka, enough with the info dump. Let's get a quest.

I see a brown haired woman wearing maid outfit behind a counter beside the road.

'Here is one of many place where any player could take a quest, let's hope they're still the same like in the game.' I thought.

I approach her. She also noticed me.

"Hello, good morning, how can I help you?" she greeted me with a smile.

"Good morning to you too, I heard that I could get a quest from here?" I greeted her back.

"Yes, that is correct. When you said that 'I heard', is that mean you're new in here?"

"Yeah, pretty much so." I nod.

"I see, then, that also mean you don't have any membership right?"

"Membership?"

"Yes." she reached bellow the counter and bring out a card. "Here you go." she put it in front of me.

I took it from her hand.

There's a picture of me, and my name.

"Wait-What?!" I look between the card and the lady in panic and confusion, 'I don't remember having someone photo me! I also just came to this world a while ago! 'I thought.

"We, Chronicle Café, always keep an eye out for any potential member." she's 'smiling'.

"…I-I see." I said as cold sweat starting to come out. 'Okay, now her smiles starting to creeps me out. Let's just roll with it.' I thought.

"Now, please look at your card."

I look at my card. Beside my picture and my name, there's another word beside it.

"Quest Counter: 5?"

"Yes, when you want to take our quest, you only need 1 quest counter to accept any of it. As you can see, right now you already have 5, each day it will refill itself by 5 point, but you only can only saved the point up to 15 point. Do you still follow what I'm saying, my dear customer?"

"Yes." I nod. 'The quest mechanic pretty much the same just like in the game.'

"Good. Now here are the quests that you could do based on your level. Remember that you only could take one 1 quest at a time and there's a time limit on each of them." she showed me a clipboard with a stuff written on it.

Lv.1 Food Delivery.

Lv.1 Jerico Gathering.

Lv.1 Urchin Subjugation.

"…Hm, I think I'll come back later after I got more level."

"I understand. But before you go, I've got something for you, my dear customer."

She put her hand bellow the counter and then she take out a blue belt pouch.

"The New Member Gift, inside it is 4 Beginner Weapon for you to use. I hope you stay safe and have a wonderful day, my dear customer." she bows to me.

"Yes, thank you for your hospitality too, maid-san." I bow her back.

"Oh my, ufufufu." she looks surprised and happy with what I did.

I wear the belt pouch, I wave good bye to her before I head on to defeat many monster to level up.

Author Note:

Heyo! Ligoya here! I finally did it! Emil Chronicle Online SI!

I guess this fanfic is some sort of nostalgia for me and a tribute for the game. Did you know that the Japan server, the original server, already closed down in 2017, I just heard the news when I'm making this chapter. Even though I hate them for closing down our Indonesian Server, it's still sad when you hear your favorite game closed down.

About the distribution to the attribute inside the Status, it's different from the original game because allocation status in there hella complicated for me to calculated, so I decided to make it simpler. I'll also do the same with the skill point distribution.