1st Place In The Ranking Is A Villager

Chapter 2

1st place in the ranking is the villager

– Volume 1 Episode 2

2. Virtual reality game Intium (2)

[Welcome to Initium.]

A pure white space where nothing exists except for a large full-length mirror.

It was a customizing space for character creation that arrived first when starting Initium.

Ho-young looked at herself through the full-length mirror in front of her.

It was a face and body that were completely different from reality.

However, as far as clothes are concerned, she was wearing a simple-looking cloth, which was the initial equipment when starting Initium.

As she continued to stare at the full-length mirror, holographic windows were displayed around the full-length mirror where you could customize your character.

It was a simple setting window where you could only adjust the length and color of your hair, and the color of your eyes and skin.

The appearance of Initium’s character basically reflects the actual appearance of the person himself.

No plastic surgery was possible except for the length of the hair or other colors.

Hoyoung honestly worried a lot about this fact.

What if someone recognizes you?

Such thoughts were running through my mind.

What Hoyoung chose as a solution to that was to change the color of her skin or hair as much as possible to erase the impression that she was herself.

Also, let’s play in the starting town where the user’s selection is the lowest.

From the beginning, she was not confident in being among many people, so she tried to start in a village with the fewest number of users.

Hoyoung began to change his appearance by manipulating his settings window.

His skin turned slightly light brown and his hair green.

His hair was slightly long, covering his face as much as possible in a line that was not uncomfortable.

In Initium, it was also common to dye their hair two-tone in various colors.

In severe cases, there were people who used rainbow colors, so green was not a conspicuous color at all.

A character that can be found anywhere has been completed.

[Please set a nickname for the character.]

“Hoya.”

[Do you want to set the character’s nickname to ‘Hoya’?]

“Huh.”

Hoya was like a nickname given to me by a friend I don’t have now.

A list of towns and cities that can be selected as the starting town appeared in front of Ho-young, who even finished setting the nickname.

Next to the village names on the list, user preferences were displayed in a bar graph.

Below it are written descriptions of the village.

Hoyoung could find a village at the bottom of the list.

[Ordo, the village at the edge of the earth]

There was no bar graph next to the name of the village, no explanation under the name of the village, nothing.Does the absence of a graph mean that the percentage of users is low enough that the graph is not drawn?

Hoyoung thought that way and decided to start with Ordo.

After agreeing to start the adventure in Ordo, Hoyoung’s vision changed.

* * *

On the first opening day of Initium, people thought a lot about the town of beginning.

Depending on which town or city you start in, you can obtain a specialized job or a hidden job that can be obtained if you are lucky.

Also, the surrounding monsters are different, so making the wrong choice will eventually lead to character deletion.

People read carefully the description of the village written below the village name, as there could be a week delay between the lead group and the character regeneration.

Among the villages with almost 10 lines of explanations, Ordo, without any explanations, stood out naturally.

Several users who discovered it decided that there was something hiding something that was not explained.

There is something I want to hide, so there is little explanation.

I chose Ordo as my starting town, wondering if I could get a good job or something else.

And the words of those who chose Ordo as the starting town were the same.

The first thing that comes into view is a dense forest of trees.

And in a matter of seconds, he dies of unknown cause.

It was said that even after the waiting time for death passed, he repeated the death of unknown cause as in the first time.

– Hahahahaha really, what the hell is that? i’m gonna die really

└ You’re already dead.

-Don’t hold on, just cask like me and start over. From my point of view, there must be something wrong with Ordo.

-Ordo is definitely a trap hidden by the operators to fuck users.

-Don’t hit the rocks in Ordo, come to Ahesha! ^^ The priests are very, oh.

Protests about Ordo continued to the management of Initium.

However, the management team did not give any answers regarding Ordo.

The fact that Ordo was included in the list of villages of the beginning was something that the management did not expect at all.

It was the dogma of Eve, the AI ​​in charge of general management of Initium, and Eve was not modified.

In the end, it was best to leave it that way.

Time passed and it had been about two months since Initium opened.

Not long after most of the users start to pass on Ordo, the end of the land village Ordo disappears from the list of starting villages with the success of one user’s entry into Ordo.

* * *

In the forest where only trees and grass could be seen, Hoyoung was standing there.

“…what am I supposed to do now?”

Hoya chose Ordo as the starting town.

That means that this place is Ordo or nearby.

As you move, something will come out.

But I had no idea where to go.

All around was a forest, and there was nothing that could be called a road on the floor.

Initium had no other way to determine the surrounding geography except for the search skill and some items, so there was no way for Hoya to figure out his location now.

Still, he couldn’t stay still, so Hoya moved forward little by little.

The sunlight coming through the tall trees created a mysterious atmosphere.

At the same time, I felt something eerie.

Hoya checked his status while walking.

name: hoya

Occupation: None

Level: 1

HP: 100/100 MP: 100/100

Strength: 10 Agility: 10

Stamina: 10 Horsepower: 10

Remaining points: 0

style

skill

Since it was a character that had just been created, the status was shabby.

Had he been walking for a long time?

Nettle juice-!

At the same time as the sharp sound of the wind, I could feel the cold metal on the tip of my throat.

Hoya was startled and felt goosebumps growing all over his body.

When he looked down at the edge of his neck, he noticed that the cold metal felt on his neck was from the sword.

Following the blade of the sword, Hoya’s gaze went up from the hand holding the sword, from the hand to the arm, and the figure of the person holding the sword could be seen.

No, I’m not sure if I should call this a person.

Its face was covered with a veil made of dozens of leaves, and the sword was pointed at Hoya’s neck.

“👌👌…!”

His body hardened on its own.

Hoya couldn’t lift a single finger of his.

Does he have his first death since less than an hour into the game?

Mom would be worried if I got out of the capsule so quickly.

As she spread her imagination like that, the leaves tilted her head slightly and spoke.

“What, I thought it was a subspecies of ent, but it’s not.”

The leaf took the sword and gently pulled the leaf from her head, revealing her face.

“Actually, I didn’t even feel like I was there… Ummm, it’s the first time I’ve seen a face… Ah! Maybe an adventurer!”

The man in front of him shone brightly in his eyes.

“Hey, I didn’t expect to see adventurers here.”

He spoke in a loud voice, then made a momentary look on his face and swung his sword again.

A black branch swung towards Hoya’s back, cutting off the branch of a tree that was rapidly extending from the back of Hoya.

“Kee-e-e-eek!”

The tree with its branches cut down screamed.However, when the man wearing the leaves swung his sword a few times, his body shattered and turned into firewood and disappeared into light.

“Hey… This is getting in trouble. Let’s get out of here for now.”

After hearing the screams of the ents just before he died, the ents who heard the screams would flock to this place soon after.

The man thought so and grabbed Hoya’s wrist to take Hoya out of this place.

It wouldn’t be dangerous, but the man thought it was annoying to be surrounded by gents and deal with them.

widely!

As soon as the man grabbed Hoya’s wrist, Hoya took a step back, waving his hand away.

Suddenly his hand was thrown away, and the man frowned and looked at Hoya.

I felt a little bad.

But looking at Hoya’s face, I could understand why he acted like that.

There were many emotions on Hoya’s face, but the biggest emotion was fear.

The man could simply imagine what his actions would have looked like to Hoya.

A mysterious man, who covered his face by tying dozens of leaves, held a sword to his neck.

Even that was not enough, he swung his sword at himself.

Is there anyone who wouldn’t resist when someone who did such an act grabs his wrist?

Hoya’s behavior was a natural one, out of a defensive instinct.

The leaves were covered in order to deceive the ents.

The reason he held the sword at Hoya was that he was momentarily mistaken for a subspecies of Ent due to the color of his skin and hair.

But Hoya didn’t know that.

“No, please don’t be so vigilant. I’ll explain everything… Ah, Mr.”

The leaves of the trees surrounding Hoya and the man swayed in the wind and made a sound.

It wasn’t a natural wind noise.

It was the sound made by the branches swung like a whip.

Dozens of branches of the already gathered ents were being swung towards Hoya and the man.

* * *

Thump, Thump, Thump.

Hoya’s heart was beating heavy and fast.

I don’t know if he’s an NPC or a player yet.

However, the first person he met after logging in to the game pointed his sword at him, swung it, and grabbed his wrist.

So he instinctively shook off the touch without realizing it, and took a step back.

In the completely unexpected situation, Hoya’s head was filled with only fear.

He was full of fear, but his head was spinning furiously to get an accurate picture of his current situation as quickly as possible.

‘What, what…? What suddenly… PK? …not likely. I look like a beginner at first glance. There is nothing to gain by doing PK……’

As Hoya unfolded his imagination in his head, the man made a face that he knew something and spoke again.

“No, please don’t be so vigilant. I’ll explain everything… Ah, Mr.”

The man abruptly stopped talking and looked around, rolling his eyes mixed with irritation and annoyance.

As Hoya rolled his eyes following his gaze, he felt something foreign.