Project Harudyne Series 1 - Pokemon Ageos Chronicles

Prologue

Humans...they are one of the many wonders of this universe that we live in. We humans have evolved so much over the course of the past few million years. We have been able to survive many a war without being even close to extinction. From the Medieval era...to the Roman era...to the two World Wars of the previous century. We have managed to survive all of them...through technological advances.

The human life is composed of primarily two things: the Psyche and the Anima. The Psyche, the mind, allows us to think about many different scenarios at once. The Anima, the body, then allows us to perform those different scenarios however we choose. Both of these things require a link to each other in order to function and ultimately stay alive. When we die, our Anima no longer exists, meaning it's only a matter of time before the Psyche dissipates. Now, picture this. A type of game that allows a player to transfer his or her own Psyche into an in-game avatar without losing the Anima in any way.

The year is 2011. The popular online Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Role Playing Game (VRMMORPG) called The World crashed due to most of the data being burned in a fire that happened at the creators' company 2 years ago. However, that same company was able to salvage a small fraction of the game's data, and with it they started reconstructing The World posthaste. Jump forward to about three months ago. Game company CyberConnect2 Corporations has officially released the revamped version of everyone's favorite MMO, now titled The World Revision 2, or The World R:2 as most people refer to it as.

My name is Zakari Harudyne. I am one of the many students attending Gloomfield Middle School who play this game. Another player is my best friend, Brice Ravenhold, who is the same age as me and attends the same school as me. My little sister, Lily, is also a player of this MMO, despite not looking like she does. The three of us are always in a party with each other when exploring dungeons and fighting monsters. I am an agile swordsman, an Edge Punisher who can use two-handed swords with just one hand. I was more or less recognized by the lack of armor that I wear. Brice is our sharpshooter, a gun-wielding Paladin whose gun can take many forms - from a simple handgun, to an elaborate sniper rifle. Lily, not wanting to be on the front lines, is our Mage. She can use healing magic and battle magic, but can also use a bow and arrow to conjure her magic into. We call her class an Adept Rogue - a multiclass character with below average stats compared to the individual classes. We also have a fourth member, whom goes by the title of Legendary Flick Reaper. We don't know her in real life, but she has shown her knack for being able to hack and repurpose some abilities within her character. However, we haven't seen nor heard anything from her in at least a month. The four of us are currently not in any official guilds, so we don't have as many supplies as someone who is in one. However, we are also more experienced in the ways of strategic combat maneuvers than they are.

A couple days ago, there was an announcement that The World R:2 would be down for maintenance on November 29th to add a new Raid Quest into the game. They never disclosed the time of day, nor did they explain what the Raid Quest actually is. As such, people got anxious to find info leaks of the new Raid Quest, but sadly there were none to be found. Jump forward once again to today. Me and my party were grinding for experience and supplies for this new Raid Quest, as we did not know the minimum level required to enter said Raid Quest. Each of us was Level 78 at the time, so we still had some other stuff to do before we reached the level cap. But for someone of our skill level, being a lower level than normal doesn't really mean much. However, after we killed our seventh massive group of monsters for that session, parts of the area's environment started to glitch out, almost as if the game's data was being burned to the ground again. After a few seconds, we noticed the ground beneath us suddenly vanish. And after a few seconds of freefalling down the seemingly never-ending drop down, a glitch portal spawned not far from our current position, and we were shortly teleported somewhere in the blink of an eye, no longer in The World R:2 that we were all so accustomed to.