Divine World Online (2nd edition)

V1 Ch3 - AVATAR CREATION

Once Mike was comfortable in this tattered bed, he initialized the VR gear and put it on. Closing his eyes as per the instructions of the manual, he felt a tingling sensation as the system accessed his mind. When he opened his eyes again he found himself in a small room covered completely in white with a gold gilded door across from where he was standing. A sweet disembodied female voice greeted him.

"Welcome to the Divine World Online's System Gate. Brainwave and body scans show that you are a new player. Would you like to create an avatar?" The voice said.

"Yes"

"System scan completed. The subscription detected in the VR Gear is Gold Level with a lifetime contract. This grants you three gifts for being a Gold member in your first avatar's account. No bank account attached to you has been detected. Please fill out the form so that a bank of your choice will be attached to this account, for all your trading and earning convenience."

"I don't have a bank account." Mike sadly replied shaking his head slowly. Being an orphan and working at a small convenience store, while earning minimum wage has never given him any reason to have a bank account.

A small table laden with a pen and paper appeared out of nowhere in the middle of the room.

"Don't worry. Please fill out the form on the table with the name and location of the bank of your choosing, then we will send it to the bank and their system will automatically create an account for you and you will be able to use it by the time you start playing."

Nodding at the statement of the voice, Mike went to the table and filled out the form, naming the bank closest to the store so that he could access it at any time. When he was done the paper and table disappeared.

"Thank you for filling out the form. You can get your Debit Card from your specific bank by the next working day."

In front of Mike, a circle on the floor glowed with some floating and slowly spinning mannequins.

"Let us proceed with your Avatar Creation. Please choose your gender."

"Male" all but the male mannequin disappeared. A ring of light swept Mike from head to toe, scanning his body and then the mannequin transformed and started to multiply in many copies of it.

"Please choose your starting race."In front of Mike now appeared several floating and looped animated humanoids wearing simple clothes that looked like him and two arrows floated next to them, one pointing to the left, the other to the right.

Curious, he touched one of the arrows and the image of the humanoids changed into another set of races. Panning through the different races he took notice of the fact that they copied his body down to the last detail, from his small height of 5'3", his plain face, dark brown eyes, and messy hair down to his thin lightly muscled body. The only difference is whenever he panned through the different races some parts of his image changed.

Panning for several minutes he finally found a race he wanted. Each of the races that appeared had a label floating above their heads. The label that appeared above the head was Ancient Human.

"I choose Ancient Human." Mike said and the other races disappeared leaving only the Ancient Human image of him behind. It looked exactly like a human, except it had white streaks on the hair.

"Would you like to make any changes to your appearance?"

"Yes."

He can't change the clotting but he wanted to change the overall color theme. He remembered that his parents once brought him to one of their travels and he saw a performance dance in native clothing, their clothes many vibrant colors but red and black reigned over the others, later at the hotel was playing cards with his parents until the rain passed and he remembered the dance when he picked up 2 cards, 8 of clover and hearts, the colors stuck with him for long but up until now he never had a chance to choose the colors of something.