Chapter 1: The Return of a Goddess
Connect to Royal Road
YES/NO
“Yes.”
“The scan on your iris and vein has determined that you are Erica Silverwood an unregistered user. Do you want to create a new account?”
When Erica was connected to Royal Road, the first sound that reached her ears was a feminine voice.
“Yes.”
”Welcome to the new account creation miss Erica, My name is Vera one of the sub A.I under Versailles control. I will guide you trough the entire process.”
Every employees and people who were associated with Unicorn Corp had their scans data stored in the main data base for security measure, not just iris and vein but also fingerprints, bone structure and DNA, this was done because many people wants Royal Road technology and they would do anything to get it, not only gaming company that want this technology but also goverment, military, NASA, and aiso many underground organizations, they will pay for really high price for whoever that can gave them this technology even the price in the blackmarket had reach over $ 564.000.000,
“So you mean, you are working under Versailles ?”
“Yes, we the sub A.I were created to support Versailles”
“How can that be?, I thought that Versailles was the only A.I that manage Royal Road,”
Royal Road was a game that did everything by itself. Any and all actions that the players did in there were automatically coded into a reaction by Versailles. Versailles was the name of the main A.I of Royal Road and her name also used as the name of the continent that the game took place in, She was created by the creator of Royal Road to maintain and manage the game.
“Yes. You could say that we are just parts of the main A.I, just like a human who
have four limbs, the main A.I also have four sub A.I, so basically we are one.”
“Alright then. I would like to create a new account”
“Select the name of your avatar.”
“Aria.”
“Select your gender from male, female or neutral.”
“Female.”
“Royal Road has forty-nine races. You may select your race from the primary twenty-nine.?”
“Human.”
“You may alter your appearance.”
“The way I am.”
“Your account has been activated. Your stats and class shall be determined while you are playing Royal Road, and because of your status in Unicorn Corp. you have been granted with an additional of 30 stats points and one wish will be granted.”
“One wish...”
She played Royal Road because she didn’t have anything to do in the real world, she only went to school once a week because her class was a special class for gifted children, so most of the other days she spend it with reading books in the library but a few days ago she finished reading all the books stored in there, and even if she wanted to work, her mother already done most of the works so she didn’t have much to do, she thought about it for a while.
“Okay then, are there any class that will let me read a lot of books.”
“Yes. I have two hidden class and one forbidden class,”
“Forbidden class? Did Royal Road have such a clsss ?”
“Yes, Royal Road have forbidden class, actually this clsss was not meant for players, Only NPCs with special status that had this class, if you convert to this class the NPCs will treat you like one of them, not as a player”
“I don’t really mind that, which one of them that can let me read more books?” She had a lot time to spend, so the more books to read the better.
“The forbidden class. Do you want to convert your msin clsss to this clsss ?”
“Yes.”
In Royal Road you could have 3 classes, the first one was main class, you could convert into any type of classes (combat, support or production) with additional of 50% bonus of class advantage, for example, mage class profession usually would get class advantage of +20% mana pool but if you convert your main class you would get +50% of additional of class advantage, so if your main class was a mage your class advantage would be an additional of +30% mana pool, your skill mastery would be 50% faster and could reach Grandmaster level of skill mastery, the second one was sub class, you could convert into sny type of classes, get an additional of +20% class advantage and can only reach over to Master level of skill mastery, and the third one was hidden class, in this last class you could only convert into secret/hidden
class and wouldn’t get any additional of class advantage but in return you could reach over to True Master level of skill mastery.
“You can can convert your main class when you are in game and because of your class, your race has changed. And you cannot choose your starting city,”
“Okay”
“Do you want-- ”
“No thank you.”
“You will be sent to your starting city, good luck and welcome to Royal? Road,
With a flash of light, Suddenly she appeared in front of a tower surrounded by forest. There were no other buildings exept for the tower, the tower was very big and high, it has about 250m diameters and made of very sturdy dark grey stone, There was a really huge wooden door about 5 meters high and 4 meters long, she tried to see the top of the the tower but couldn’t see the end of it,
Where is this ?
Suddenly she heard a sound like a bell.
*Ting*
“Yes” A bright golden light suddenly enveloping her entire body, she felt something changed inside her.
"Open Status Window."
She was speechless when she saw her status window, her race and class gave her insanely stats and advantage for level one player.
No wonder that no players could convert into forbidden class, this class is basically cheating, a player that become a god. Even if my class power was still in sealed status, my race already gave me more than enough advantage to become the strongest player in Royal Road. Are gods in Royal Road this powerfull ?.
She was deep in thought when she heard another sound
“Ting!”
So I was in my own class realm, let’s just go inside the tower maybe I could find someone there.
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She walked towards the huge door but when she got close to it, she felt something strange coming from the door, she tried to put her palm to the door and then suddenly a bright golden line appeared on the surface of the door, the line spread out very quickly covering the entire door creating some sort of runic symbol, when the runic symbol disappeared the door was slowly move by itself.
What was that? Is that some sort of seal ?
She walked slowly into the tower, she kept walking along the hallway and saw before her was a huge room filled with thousand shelves of books.
“Ting!”
She walked deeper into the room, when she reached the center of the room, in there she found a book floating in the air inside a circle of light, the size of the book was just like a mid-size normal book with golden cover, she walked over the circle of light and grabbed the book that was floating in the air and saw the runic symbol in the front cover, it was the same symbol as the symbol that appeared in the huge door. She opened the book and start reading.
“Ting!”
“Ting!”
“Open Skill Window.”
Even my skill mastery had reached the top level, this class was really insane, I should becareful not to let anyone see my status window.
In Royal Road there were a few levels of skill and magic mastery, from Beginner – Intermediate – Advance – Master – Grand Master – True Master, it was usually very hard and need a very long time to reached True Master level, but because her class she reached it instantly.
The book in her hand begun to move and jumped into the air starting to float again.
“Welcome back, my lady.” The book was starting to talk like a butler.
“.....”stared
“Um. My lady are you alright?”
She was startled because the book suddenly talking to her, because of that she couldn’t react in time to answer.
“Who are you?, no more importantly what are you?” She stared at the book with curiosity.
“.....So you really don’t remember me, I am very sorry my lady, it seems that your memory was erased when you sealed yourself. let me introduce myself my name is Babel.”
My memories was erased? what the hell this book was talking about, I have my memories perfectly fine.... wait didn’t Vera said that I will be treated like NPC by the other NPCs, is this what it means. I am not Aria as a player but I am Goddess Aria as a Npc.
Now that you mention it, my character name was the same as the goddess name in that ancient history, did the game change the goddess name to my character name ?.
“Babel?. Is’t that this tower name.”
“Yes, I am the Babel tower and Babel tower is me, we are one existence, let’s just say I am the book version of Babel Tower and I have been your servant since I was created.”
“You said before that my memories was erased, what happen to me when I was disappeared?”
“You sealed yourself using a few combinations of forbidden magic and secret techniques, it was the same magic that you used to seal this realm. It might be fine for you to use it once, but at that time you already exhausted most of your power to seal this realm and the side effect of using that magic twice was...” Babel didn’t finish his sentence.
“I am very sorry my lady, if at that time I could do something to help you, your memory...” from his voice Erica could feel a deep regret.
“It’s okay. What happen to the war ?”
“Ah yes, after you disappeared Odin and Loki went to an all-out war, Odin defeated Loki and imprison him at a hidden dungeon, the gods who follow Loki were scattered around, hiding themself and waiting for a chance to strike back.”
“So, the war isn’t over yet.”
“Yes, and if the other gods find out that you are back....”
He is right if the other gods find out about this, they will force me to join their faction or destroy me. What should I do now ?
“My lady there is only one way to avoid the other gods.”
“How?”
“Mortal World realm.”
Royal Road was divided into three main realms, Uppeworld realm, Mortalworld realm and Underworld realm. Upperworld realm was a world where gods live, in this realm a god could create their own realm or territory, Mortal World realm was a world where human, elf, dwarf and many other mortal races live, and Underworld realm was a world where the dead live. Erica had read this before in the general history of Royal Road.
“What about it ?”
“We just need to move this realm to Mortal World realm.”
Erica eyes were widen when she heard that, she also had read that Gods were forbidden to Mortal World realm, if they went to Mortal World realm they will lose their divine power.
“Well, that’s maybe the only way to avoid the other gods, but is that even possible. Even if it’s possible won’t I lose my divine power?”
“It will be fine. Since you sealed this realm, I had been researching for a way to avoid being in the same situation as the last time, where you must sealed this realm and yourself.”
“Alright then, when we move this realm ?”
“I am afraid we must move now, I have sense about 50.000 holy aura and 2 divine aura heading towards this realm, I guess that when you release the seal of this realm, the other gods must have sense it and send their army to attack this realm,”
“Sigh” I guess, I am the only player that was chased by an army of 50.000 on their first day of playing Royal Road, Ugh... this class really makes me crazy, I am starting to regret converting into this class.
“What are you waiting for? Lets do it now.” She didn’t want to be killed or get thrown into a dungeon on her first day in game.
“Yes my lady.”
