Competition of empires

Technology has had a great advance on earth, countries that were previously divided now formed a planetary federation, which was founded in 2087 with the purpose of expanding to other planets. A lot happened in the process, but in the end they succeeded, they have managed to get to Mars and build cities, soon they plan to go to other planets in the system.

Technology not only had advances in space travel, it also had a breakthrough in other areas.

One of which had a great impact was the area of video games, which had its peak in 2283, implementing considerable improvements.

Currently one of the best known and popular games is ”Competion of Empires ” which was released at the beginning of the year 2294. The game was a huge success in its first month reaching millions of sales. By mid-year the game already had its own professional league in various sectors of the federation.

Today the game has earned a place in the Olympic games.

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January 3, 2321.

In an Internet café, a group of university students gathered to make a report on society.

”Im tired, ” says one of them, pulling the papers aside.

”You haven written anything about your report, ” says another annoyed one.

”You must take it more seriously, its a team effort and its for tomorrow, ” adds another colleague.

”Lets get some rest, this time I agree with him, ” says the other member of the group, ”Why don we play a little?, Lets take advantage of the fact that we are in an Internet café, what do they say? ”

Two of them accepted without hesitation, the other did not have great interest in games, but had to go with the flow to his friends.

”I want to improve my village, maybe Ill even get weird-rank warriors, ” says Larry, the boy who brushed aside homework.

”Wow, wow, you still have a village, I already started to form a city, I even managed to create a magic academy, ” Mario says, mocking his partner (Hes the guy who suggested playing).

”Bastard, my character still doesn meet the conditions to advance, ” says Yan Li, who got upset with Larry.

” What game are you talking about? ” — Pequestion Alejandro.

His classmates were surprised, it was rare to meet a student who did not know the game.

— ”Competition of Empire ”— Responde Yan Li.

”Is it fun? ” asks Alejandro.

—Its a strategy game, construction, adventure and a bit of rpg, it has a lot of interesting things, ” says Larry.

”That doesn answer my question, ” Alejandro replies .

” Youll know if you play it, ” says Mario.

Without letting his partner speak, they took him to computers where the four of them could see his progress and play at the same time.

Alejandro had to be in the middle of the group.

They open the game. Alejandro was the only one who had to click on create account.

A creation screen appears before it.

His friends approach him to guide him.

—At the beginning you will have to create a character, which will be your ruler. First you have to create a personality for your character. I recommend that you increase the socializing parts for easier businesses—Larry says as if he were guiding a disciple.

”Well, if you put it that way, creating a character with a strong personality will make it easier to get strong troops, ” says Mario.

”How about a balance of personality, sociable and strong, ” suggests Yan Li.

”Ill do it my way, ” says Alejandro.

Several characteristics for the characters personality appear on the screen, from crazy to comedian. From the way he chose, his teammates noticed that he tries to make a character like him. They thought about stopping him, but in the end it was his character and decided to leave him.

The creation of the personality took almost 10 minutes, Alejandro took it seriously by making it similar to him.

When I finish with the personality, it was now with the appearance of the character, since I didn want to speed things up, I scan his body with the computer.

All that remained was to assign the initial points to his characters statistics.

***

-Character name: Vernom (Human).

-Level: 1 Experience: 0/1000

-Team.

-Class: No class.

-Guild: No guild.

-Hp: 233/233

-Mp: 104/104

-Skills: No skills.

-Combat power (Attack + Defense + Speed + Intelligence + Endurance): 29

-Leadership ((Perception + Intelligence + Charisma + Ingenuity) /2): 13

– Attack: 4

-Defense: 6

– Speed: 3

-Perception: 3

-Intelligence: 11

-Resistance: 2

-Charisma: 8

-Technique: 2

-Ingenuity: 4

-Head value: 0

-Unused stat points: 10.

***

”Your character has a good statistic in intelligence and charisma at the beginning, ” says Yan Li.

”That will make it easier for you to choose which one to increase— Larry.

”I plan to increase speed and endurance, ” Alejandro.

”Well, if you want to do that, do it, ” says Yan Li.

So I am left with the increase in statistics***

-Character name: Vernom (Human).

-Level: 1 Experience: 0/1000

-Team.

-Class: No choice.

-Guild: No choice.

-Hp: 233/233

-Mp: 104/104

-Skills: No skills.

-Combat power (Attack + Defense + Speed + Intelligence + Endurance): 37

-Leadership ((Perception + Intelligence + Charisma + Ingenuity) /2): 13

– Attack: 4

-Defense: 6

– Speed: 5

-Perception: 3

-Intelligence: 11

-Resistance: 8

-Charisma: 8

-Technique: 2

-Ingenuity: 4

-Head value: 0

-Unused stat points: 0.

***

” Whats next? ” — Alexander.

—Now they follow the startup skills— Mario.

Click next, the game gives a list of 50 initial skills, only four of them can be chosen.

Initial skills are divided into 5 categories: military, social, combat, magic, construction.

Alejandro went straight to magic skills.

1- Passive ability. Mana tax: For every settler in your empire who can use magic your Mp increases by 0.005%. Upgradable skill.

2- Passive ability. Talented Mage: The character takes 5% less time to learn a new magical skill. Upgradable skill.

3- Passive ability. Powerful Magic: Magic attacks caused by the character have a 3% increase in power and 1% in effectiveness. Upgradable skill.

4- Active skill. Summoning: The character summons a creature that has 10% of its power. The creature consumes 10 Mp per minute. The creature will not disappear when the Mp runs out, instead it will consume 100 Hp of the user per minute. The creature disappears when its Hp is empty, the character makes it disappear or the character simply dies. Upgradable skill.

5- Passive ability. Magic Boost: The character receives a 0.1% bonus on their intelligence stat and Mp when going up 1 level. Upgradable skill.

6- Active skill. Magic Shield: The character is surrounded by a shield which absorbs 20% of the damage and consumes 10 Mp per attack received and 5 Mp for every 5 seconds. Upgradable skill.

7- Passive ability. Elemental Protection: The character receives 3% resistance against elemental magic attacks . Upgradable skill.

8- Active skill. Magical Vision: The character can find magic traps more easily. It has an efficiency of 5% (It is an unusable skill until the ”Trap Disarming ” skill is achieved). Upgradable skill.

9- Passive ability. Disciple: The character will have a disciple at the start of the game. The growth of the disciple will depend on how the character trains him. Caution: The disciple can betray you at any time and plot to kill the character. Not updatable.

10- Active skill. Magic Enchantment: The character will be able to enchant the team with magic, he will also be able to embed magic stones in the equipment. Upgradable skill.

***

Alejandro chose all the initial abilities of the magic category without reviewing the others.

***

-Character name: Vernom (Human).

-Level: 1 Experience: 0/1000

-Team.

-Class: No choice.

-Guild: No choice.

-Hp: 233/233

-Mp: 104/104

-Skills: Mana of tax (passive, upgradeable). Talented magician (passive, upgradeable). Magic magnification (passive, upgradeable). Magic enchantment (active, upgradeable).

-Combat Power (Attack + Defense + Speed + Intelligence + Endurance):37

-Leadership ((Perception + Intelligence + Charisma + Ingenuity) /2): 13

– Attack: 4

-Defense: 6

– Speed: 5

-Perception: 3

-Intelligence: 11

-Resistance: 8

-Charisma: 8

-Technique: 2

-Ingenuity: 4

-Head value: 0

-Unused stat points: 0.

***

The creation of the character was about to be finalized, all that was left was to choose the class. By now it was clear what the class would be.

The game begins.

The character appeared in a mountains of snow. Alejandro guided his character to get wood, the character would have to walk a lot to get to the forest under the mountain. His companions laughed at his bad luck.

It was common knowledge that the worst places to start playing would be a desert, an island and mountains.

His classmates suggested opening the inventory and opening the beginners box.

The character walks around the map while opening the box.

***

Beginners wand (mediocre) (1): Increases intelligence by 1.

Discount coupon (5): 10% discount when shopping in store.

Beginner gloves (mediocre): Increases strength by 1.

1 gold coin.

Wooden box (1): Contains 10 wooden logs. It can be used as a warehouse.

***

”You
e lucky, ” Larry.

Everyone nods.

The character under the mountains. I enter a pine forest. Alejandro clicks on the pines. The character begins to hit them with his fists.

His classmates began to laugh.

The characters life began to diminish when blood came out of his fists.

The pine fell after having consumed half of the characters life.

”Can I teach you how to fight the pines? ” says Larry with a mocking tone.

”Don laugh, ” says Mario, ”The weakest pines are epic rank, anyone pure die in that fight, ” he added with a smile.

”Some think its better to use an axe to get wood, ” Yan Li.

The teasing didn stop. Until they saw the screen again. The four of them were surprised.

***

Skill achieved: Wood hit (active). Your fists become as strong as wood. Hitting a target with skill increases damage by 10%. 60 seconds cooling.

Title achieved: You are a trunk. The character cuts trees 40% faster using only their fists and gets 1 experience point per tree felled (experience varies depending on the quality of the wood).

***

A mocking smile is displayed on Alejandros face. His peers had dark faces, they did not expect him to get such an easy title and impressive ability.

Everyone started cutting down trees with their main characters using only their fists, but the title did not appear.

”Maybe it will be, ” Yan Li, ”Maybe, ” Mario added.

—You only get it with a new account— Larrys assumption seemed to be correct.

”Then since theres no information about that title, ” says Mario.

”Maybe there are certain conditions to be met, ” Yan Li.

The trio was thinking about how to get that title, with their characters they could cut down an entire forest in an hour and use the wood to trade. As for Alejandro, he continued cutting down two other trees until his character had an almost empty life bar.

He opened the store menu and bought 2 health potions. Leaving him 98 silver coins.

The group entertained themselves for too long playing that they completely forgot the report, they didn realize it until the Internet café had to close.

They had no choice but to go to the nearest house.

On the way Alejandro says, ”I admit, its an interesting game. There are many things to unlock and it has a great world map, besides realism—

End of chapter.