When Jake woke up, his body was ag. He struggled to get up, feeling pletely drained. He looked around and saw that his front door had been repced with an ominous-looking portal. In front of it was a box with a letter on top. He looked over to his windows and saw almost nothing but a bck void that he found to be quite uling.
Jake did not feel well, and he was full of despair and frustration. He was sort of taken away from his home and was now going to be forced te through dungeons killing creatures. This was something that happeo him many times already in his life: he was forced to move and leave schools for new ones, many times outside his trol due to ging foster parents.
Once again, he was forced away from the life he thought he finally had under some level of trol.
He was now all alone, uo unicate with ail he pleted this so-called [Trial]. He closed his eyes and took a few mio calm down before staring at the uling void outside his windows. Eventually, he aowledged that he could not ge this, so he would focus on what he could. He could prepare, and he could work through dungeons until he pleted this [Trial].
He dragged the box away from the portal and then opehe letter.
Wele to [The Alliance]. Your sponsor ot unicate with you again until you plete your [Trial]. We have included everything you o be successful as a new initiate into [The Framework]. You ow access your [Menu] by just thinking of it. hat framework access is only fully avaible in a framework [Refuge]. It is limited ihe duo [Dungeon Information] and [Status].
Your home has now bee a [Refuge] and is no longer oh! You think of it as a magical spaceship that travels through subspace as it faces incursions or moves on to challeartarus]. You may o to challenge dungeons for now. Ears by selling monster materials on the [Alliance Shop] and [Multiverse Market], and some will be awarded for pleting incursions. You still go oer using your personal puter, but you may not iionally unicate with the non-initiated of Earth.
You access the [Alliance Wik, [Alliance Shop], and [Multiverse Market] from your [Menu] or personal puter, as well. Please hat while your tutorial incursion should have plenty of leeways for you to plete it: you do not want to procrastinate for too long, lest you run out of time and monsters burst forth into your [Refuge]. Good luck with yht against the outsiders!
Jake put dowter and opehe box, which was fairly rge. Inside, he found several books and what looked like a spear with a magical focus; a spear staff. Jake remembered, in the early game, this type of on made the most sense.
Summon options were quite limited and potentially weak, along with the Summoner having very little in the way of supp them. Thus, the Summoner some melee damage to the table.
Later on, it would be repced with a pure staff, as melee damage from himself instead of casting was superfluous. The staff was a little taller than himself and looked mostly pin, with an inid blue gem-like foear where the copper or bronze spear tip ected to the wooden shaft. It was a starter on that would do him well for a while. Aside from the spear and the books, the box was mostly empty, aside from another box. Ihe box was an assortment of fantasy materials, along with peared to be a small, handmade booklet for a ritual beled: [Summon Familiar].
Jake had a familiar in the game, but the familiar was just a minor personal buff disguised as a cute pet. Not dissimir from visual-only pets in various other MMOs, where they served no purpose other than to look cute or cool, or both.
He wondered if things would be the same here; perhaps within the fines of the game, they did not uake the effort it would take to make a familiar behave like what a on familiar might in fantasy stories. The box tained all the prerequisite materials for the [Summon Familiar] ritual.
With the box unloaded, he looked at his [Menu]. It appeared in his vision but didn’t obstruct it, somehow. [Menu][Status][Alliance Shop][Multiverse Market][Dungeon Information][Alliance Wik
Nothing outside the ordinary there, the letter telling him what to expect. He looked over the current dungeon allocation information.[Dungeon Information][Dungeon: Beginner Goblin’s Lair][Time Left: 10 Days, 4 Hoal: Defeat Goblin Shaman][Level |Boss: 1-2 | 2 ]He found that he would have just a little over 10 days to plete the dungeon and that the target appeared to be some sort of boss mohis lenty of time for Jake, as he couldn’t imagine preparations for a beginner dungeon should take overly long.
When Jake did something like make a character in a game, he tried to get all the information he could to make a pn with a high possibility of success while also remaining effective in the early stages. Instead, this was actually himself that he was building, and so he would want to spend even more time than usual. It’s ohing to trol a character with a keyboard and mouse. It’s ahiirely to cast spells and attack a creature with a spear staff. He o build up his fidence first.
Within the Menu, there was a sele for choosing his css. He was almost certain that he was going to pick the Summoner css, but he looked at what he could select. He reviewed the list, and nothing really stood out to him that he would want to be rather than Summoner, except for one: Void Mage.
This was iing to him, as it wasn’t even in the game he pyed. Jake felt that the Void Mage css was not really something that fit him as a person, however. Summoner was always the css that appealed most to him within the game, as it allowed him to support his allies in ways that made them all more successful as a whole. He selected it, and it provided some information about his new css to him.[Summoner Css: Tier 0][+50% Mana Regeion][50% Mana Regeion in-bat][3 Spendable Attribute points per level][10% Increase Effectiveness for Int, Wis, Cha][Through their e to the void, Summoners draw in energy and call forth creatures. Through their bonds and tracts, they draw power and cast various magics.]It was nothing all that ued there, not very mulike the game. He was currently at the 0th Tier, which were for levels 1-10. He nht up his personal status, though things were less plicated here than he was expeg.[Jake Hart][Age: 23][Race: Human][Jake Status Level 1][Strength: 13][Dexterity: 12][stitution: 12][Intelligence: 16][Wisdom: 15][Charisma: 12]There was h, and there was no mana. Jake guessed that the average human adult would be about 10 in each attribute or so. Being above six feet i and i shape, he felt it was fair to put him above the average on the physical attributes, for sure.
Regarding his caster stats, he felt that this was accurate as well. He was well above average ohings, often sidered more mature for his age, and nearly achieved top scores in his schooling.
Jake started by reading the [Introdu to The Alliance] book. His door was now repced with a portal that The Framework ected to a dungeon. The Framework was to assess dungeons that spawn all over Earth and ect them to appropriate Alliance members to clear successfully instead. All while preventing the outsiders from growing and emerging oh.
As Jake advanced in The Alliance, he would slowly get more responsibilities to clear dungeons and travel the multiverse to reach other worlds. He would even have the option of teaming up with other Alliance members, if he so desired.
At that point he could expand his Refuge, which used magic to add rooms and additional facilities that would help him be successful inside dungeons, or for rest aion. The beginner guide showed that there were many other perks avaible iure, though the information was restricted for now.
Not everything was good news. It was made clear he could not go back to Earth, or any Fringe world, uhe Framework. Once he pleted his Trial, he could go to tested worlds or worlds called [Bastion]’s, for which the details were limited for now, but not return to Earth.
Not uhe Alliance failed Earth, and it became tested, and dungeons spawhere, anyway. If Earth succeeded in the world’s Trial, that would be another way for him to visit.
Jake tested the cim about his being uo tact the outside world. He had friends he would still like to talk to even if they were not overly close. Jake went to his puter and tried to find his friends online and message them.
He found that there was some sort of pulsion, and when he went to type into his puter intending to unicate, he found himself uo. Jake felt it was disturbing, his body refusing to cooperate with his iions. The i was what it worked off of, as he could type into his puter just fio seargines or otherwise or make notes. He could even print a webpage.
He could make drawings ahem to people but figured that this was mostly useless for his purposes. Sending ominous pictures where he was trapped in his apartment and a request for the other person to keep trying to talk to him was just not going to end with worthwhile unication. unig using nguage appeared to be the restri for the pulsion.
Jake sighed as he ed up reading the [Introdu to The Alliance] book. There were a few topics leftover, but they were definitely best gone over when he was expl the [Alliance Shop] and [Multiverse Market] and making his pns for his remaining [Credits].
It turned out the [Alliance Shop] was like a spoore for the anization he was noart of, where what it sold was limited, the price fixed, and it was affordable. The [Multiverse Market] was like a popur au website and marketpce, and it included sellers that were not even members of The Allianbsp;
Even Jake could sell the items he got from the dungeon or crafting here, and there were many items he could not even uand for sale there. This led him to move on to the stage of his preparations: reading the book on [Mana trol].
Jake was filled with excitement. Who didn’t dream of learning to wield magic? It there on the list of top wishes, along with flying and being invisible. When Odin initiated him into The Framework, it knocked him out.
He assumed part of what was doo him was unlog his magic, or capability of using mana. bined with this book, he would be able to embark on his journey of being able to use it. Though, he didn’t think he’d be able to do much with Mana trol on its own.
