Competition of empires

— A certain college classroom—

The four of them had red eyes from spending the night making the report that they were able to finish on time.

”Luckily we finished the report, ” says Yan Li.

”It only took us a few hours of sleep— Mario.

”A low cost, Id say, ” Larry.

—Id rather stay up doing something I like than doing homework. Next time lets finish the task on time—Everyone agreed with Alexanders words.

”Come to think of it, you were entertained by the game we showed you— Mario.

”All I did was cut wood the whole time— Alejandro.

”Its the first time Ive seen someone get experience from hitting trees— Mario.

”Don forget the part where he was almost killed by a pine tree, ” Larry added.

—With skill and title you need fewer hits, so health no longer drops as much as at the beginning— Alejandro.

”Its a useful long-term title, and the skill is also good, too bad you
e a wizard, a fighter could use it better— Yan Li.

– What if you trade it for a wizard skill? – Larry suggested with bright eyes.

”I thought about keeping it, it seems very useful in hand-to-hand combat and it wouldn hurt to have such an ability— Alejandro.

”If you look at it from that point, you
e right— Larry —Pass me your id, I haven added you as a friend. ”

”Don forget us, ” Yan Li.

”This one. We don have computers, ” Alejandro said.

”Use the phone, ” Larry.

Alejandro was forced to download the game on his phone, instead his companions looked at the holographic screen that came out of the phone seriously, with headphones on, at first they were calm without making noise, then they began to shout at each other, this confused Alejandro.

They noticed their friends confusion. They explained that it was possible to play in this way thanks to the headphones, which were responsible for sending the signals from his brain to the phone, they explained that it was like using a control, but this would be his brain.

”I know. My question is why are they shouting? — Alejandro.

”These damned people took advantage of me and used my squad as bait, ” Yan Li says annoyedly.

”Thats nothing compared to what you did to me, ” Yan Li is left with an expression of ignorance at Larrys words, ”Don play innocent. Remember when you teased a guy who already had an empire formed and told him the location of my village which was erased, along with my character to save yourself—remembering the massacre of that day makes him feel a little like crying.

”Sorry, ” Yan Li says with an insincere tone.

”Calm down. To be fair, Larry will first choose his dungeon loot —Mario.

Yan Li had no problem accepting the idea. Alejandro looked at his classmates screens and noticed some differences. They explained that they are features that will appear as you go.

—For example— Mario fakes his voice as if he were about to teach a class— So far you have only been able to get wood, so when you go to the menu and enter the part where it says resources, only the wood you got will appear, but you will notice that it is the only material that appears, this means that a new material will not appear until you find or buy it.

Yan Li interrupts —To simplify it, only the resources you have will appear and when you have nothing it will disappear as if it had never been, if you do not have it does not appear—.

—Wow, its like real life, a good example would be money— Alejandro was becoming more interested in gambling. Your phone starts ringing. The game has finished installing.

Sign in and put on your hearing aids.

The next thing surprised him, apparently the game is still active, even if he is not playing—Hey. I have a problem—I couldn believe what his eyes were looking at on the screen.

His friends look at the screen. The trio could not hold their laughter, to the extent that other classmates wondered the cause, they invited them to observe. The students who looked at the screen began to laugh.

No one could believe what was happening.

On the screen you could see how the character was being tortured in a prison by some rabbits.

”Where do you hide the carrots? ” — They were the words that came out of the torturing rabbit every time he hit the character.

Alejandro knew he had to do something, his mind thinking at high speed. I look at the small prison, it was made of wood, I saw that there were chains on the body of the character which were buried. ”I have the advantage of height, maybe not in strength and rabbits live in burrows so it is preferable to go out stealthily, but if things get complicated there will be no choice but to fight, but since I fight against rabbits, kicking it ? ”

”The last time you closed the game you left your character banging pine trees, check if he hasn leveled up, ” Larry suggested .

Alejandro couldn believe Larry had a clever suggestion. He opened the characters status window.

***

Character name: Vernom (Human).

-Level: 3 Experience: 237/1300.

-Titles: You are a trunk (Information). Enemy number one of rabbits (Information).

-Team.

-Class: There is no choice.

-Guild: There is no choice.

-Hp: 36/310

-MP: 0/120

-Skills: Tax manna (passive, upgradeable). Talented magician (passive, upgradeable). Magic increase (passive, upgradeable). Magic Enchantment (active, upgradeable). Wood blow (active).

-Combat power (Attack + Defense + Speed + Intelligence + Endurance):44

-Leadership ((Perception + Intelligence + Charisma + Ingenuity) /2): 15

– Attack: 6

-Defense: 8

– Speed: 7

-Perception: 5

-Intelligence: 13

-Resistance: 10

-Charisma: 8

-Technique: 2

-Ingenuity: 4

-Head value: 1000 silver coins

-Unused stat points: 6.

***

Alejandro is surprised to see the new title in his character. Your peers observe the value of your partner.

”What did he do to the rabbits during the night? ” – Mario asks with a serious expression.

”See in the information in the title, maybe you have some information— Alejandro.

***

Title: Enemy number one of rabbits. Because you have been destroying the home of rabbits and invading their territory they consider you their natural enemy. Resistance to rabbit attack -50%, when a blow of yours strikes a rabbit its power decreases by 50%. By eating rabbit meat you gain 10 experience points (experience increases if you are a rabbit with high rank in a tribe).

***

”This is definitely worth gold, ” Mario.

”Shut up. Ill put everything on offense— Alejandro. It seemed the most reasonable action, now it remained to see how to remove the chains.

”I want to see how you crawl for your life, ” Larry.

”What did you say?! ” — Alexander.

”Youll have to crawl, because its all a rabbit hole, I was surprised to see that the prison was made for people, so they had to build it when they captured you— Larry.

”Its not humiliation enough, ” Alexander.

”Lets forget your escape for a moment. Pass me your ID— Larry.

Alejandro added the three as friends. I ask them if they could help him escape from the outside, they didn think it was a bad idea to try.

By surprise they realized that it would be useless at least for their character to survive a month being tortured.

They started giving suggestions.

”You have to see our advantages and disadvantages— Mario.

”Hes in prison, that means he can use his equipment and even if he comes out of the burrow if he doesn go to the warehouse, hell lose his equipment, not to mention the money, which should also be saved, ” says Yan Li.

”Looking closely at those rabbits they seem to be high levels, I estimate level 15 maybe more, ” says Larry.

”In case I don mind leaving those articles. And from what I see the coupons are the only ones I can use— Alejandro.

”But you don have coins— Mario.

”And if I use four coupons to get a skill, so far I think its the best option— Alejandro.

—It will have to be a skill that does not require Mp, while you are chained you will not be able to use magic— Mario.

”I have no choice, ” Alejandro.

”Wasting coupons like that is a shame, ” Larry says bitterly, ”He looks for an escape skill. ”

He opens the store menu, goes to the skills section, looked at the catalog curiously, thought of buying a strong skill, but the store gave him a notice ***Transaction declined***.

They explained that there are certain skills that cannot be fully obtained with coupons. A little disappointed uses the search filter for skills.

He thought that maybe some of them could get them, but he was disappointed, he had to realize that only common skills could be obtained with only coupons – Its a scam – He acquired a skill.

***

You have successfully purchased the following skill.

Novice fugitive (active, upgradeable): Small prison chains can stop you. You can free yourself from chains, ropes and open the doors of prisons. Impossible to free yourself from chains, ropes and open doors of prisons of level 3 or higher.

***

”I hope Im lucky, ” Alejandro activates the skill. The character starts to move his hands in a weird way, the health bar drops a bit when the character breaks his hands. I manage to free himself successfully.

”Take the chains with you , you can use them as a weapon, ” Mario suggested.

The character grabs the chains.

***

You have grasped an object with your hands.

Chain of the enemy of rabbits Level 2: Any being that is chained loses all its Mp.

***

He orders the character to crouch, orders him to hit the door with the chain, the door falls easily.

– Gain experience by breaking down the door— Alejandro.

”Also to free yourself from the chains, but since they are buried you will not be able to take them with you, so use the door— Yan Li.

”A magician using doors to fight, I would never have imagined, ” Alejandro says with a smile.

—Its the great thing about the game, there will be things that you would not imagine and you have to be creative to get out of different situations— Mario.

The character holds the door, now that he came out, it can be seen on the screen that he can only go to the right. Crawl with the door in front. He encountered fourteen tunnels. So many options made him doubt, he made a mark on the way he arrived, in case the tunnels are connected. I chose the nearest tunnel on the left.

When the game was getting interesting, the master comes to the living room.

”Bad luck buddy— Larry.

”You were so close, ” Mario.

—I will review the reports throughout the class. You can do whatever you want, but don make too much fuss, ” says the teacher.

I pass by the seats to pick up the works. Seeing one of his students playing is surprised. I understood that Alejandro had no interest in video games —You seem to have fun— says the teacher with a friendly tone.

”Its an interesting game, I was lucky that it allowed us to play, ” Alejandro replies.

”Oh. And what do you have to do in the game? – Curious question the teacher.

”Now Im escaping from a rabbit hole, ” Alejandro replies.

”Thats new, ” The teacher ends the conversation with these words.

Alejandro focused on the game again. Crawling in the tunnel he found two other paths, so far he has been lucky not to meet a rabbit. Again he chose the one on the left.

The rabbit hole seemed to be huge. One of his priorities was to find a map.

When crawling for almost a minute, some voices can be heard. Two figures in armor could be distinguished, they were two rabbit soldiers, who seemed to guard a door. There were some possibilities, it could be a kitchen, a library or a warehouse.

Since there was no way to attack from the sides, he had to use the door in a different way, he made him put the door horizontally to take advantage of his reach.

Order the character to attack, the rabbits notice. They were not nervous, the attack was coming at a very slow speed. The two rabbits draw a few small swords, pounce towards the enemy fiercely.

One went above and the other below. Alexander makes Vernom turn the door to hit both rabbits. The rabbits jump back, Vernom slowly approaches, one of the rabbits attacks again, Vernom pushes the door, the rabbit jumps, then the character spits at the rabbit that was in the air causing it to land badly, this annoyed both rabbits.

Taking advantage of the fact that the rabbit was distracted for a moment, the character uses the ”Wooden Blow ”. The rabbit flies out backwards. The blow was effective, the rabbit would not enter combat again so soon or so it seemed, he slowly stopped, a potion appeared on his paw.

By drinking the potion the rabbit recovers completely.

This match was causing him great stress, he didn expect him to use potions—Surrender—Listen to a classmate watching her play.

”If I do, my character will die, ” Alejandro.

”True. Let me help you, ” says the companion.

”Do you also play it Claris? ” — Alexander.

—Its a fun game, but I like to play it more in virtual reality, its weird when I play it with my phone— Claris.

”I understand what you
e saying. I prefer to play it in VR too, but I must say that playing it in different ways gives you different experiences—Larry joins the conversation.

Start the game, a screen showing an empire is displayed, Larry was surprised, he told his friends to see, Alejandro didn have time because he kept fighting with rabbits.

Claris asked for his ID, but as Alexander was busy his friends gave it to him instead. The two become friends.

The help Claris would give him was simple, he used one of his items to transport his own little warriors to the location of Alexanders character.

20 little warriors appeared around him.

Claris —They are at your disposal, now give them orders.

***

”Damn porcupines, well finish you off ! ” — One of the rabbits shouts furiously.

More reinforcements arrive from the rear.

The porcupine soldiers followed the orders without hesitation.

***

On the screen it was observed how two porcupines attacked the caretakers of the door, while the others along with the character of Alejandro resisted the attacks.

The porcupines quickly finished off the guards. The character opens the door, orders the warriors to come in.

Few rabbits managed to enter, Alejandro locks the door while the porcupines quickly take care of the rabbits.

”So far, so good, ” Alejandro wipes the sweat from his forehead.

End of chapter.