Chapter 2: Chapter 2: Character Creation

The game loaded almost as quickly as she’d pressed the power button, her senses once again filled as she reached the title screen for the game.

The logo loomed in front of her, backed by various characters adorned in shining armor or flowing robes, elves and dragons and magic flying past as the menu loaded before her.

[Characters:]

> ------------

> ------------

> ------------

> ------------

Apparently you could keep multiple characters to swap between as desired. She knew several people she’d talked videogames with liked to keep alts in other MMOs for playing a variety of classes or roles.

She moved her hand over one of the empty slots and pressed, being rewarded with a satisfyingly grandiose confirmation sound as the title screen zoomed in and faded away, a much brighter series of menus melting in to replace it.

Several options quickly populated in one after another, giving her further menu options for options like her race, listing off various fantasy species, like dwarves, elves, gnomes, and the like, or more detailed options such as hair color and face shape.

She scrolled up and down through the lists presented to her, getting slowly overwhelmed by the bevy of choices to make, eyes spinning in their sockets as she was already having issues picking anywhere to start at all.

At some point of her random indecisive browsing, her eyes fell on one of the tucked away corners of the menus, the corner seemingly reserved for the standard options and alerts and whatnot.

And she blinked several times upon noticing the letter icon being lit up and blinking at her slowly.

She’d not even started playing yet, and she had a message…?

Intrigued, she opened her message list, finding, as expected, exactly one message total filling the inbox.

[Congratulations, and thank you for playing Shadowed Land Argathy!]

If you’re reading this, thank you for joining the official release of our game!

We’ve spent a long time preparing for this day to arrive.

As thanks for those that are joining us, please accept several free items.

Additionally, attached is a voucher allowing you to enter the Release Contest.

– 5x HP Potion S

– 5x MP Potion S

– 3x Skill Points

– Contest Voucher

“Huh. Well, free stuff is free stuff I guess…?”

Preorder bonuses were fairly common place for big releases like this, so she wasn’t surprised. But a contest on the other hand…

She excitedly hit Accept, the items poofing away this screen and transferring to her inventory.

This instantly prompted another notification on her UI to ding at her, clicking out of the now empty messages tab to check the new icon that had appeared.

Sure enough, there was a new banner on her player menu advertising the Release Contest the message had mentioned. A ton of extremely impressive looking weapons and accessories were displayed on the page that opened for it, pages and pages of explanations for the various items available.

She did her best to locate some kind of exchange option next to the various entries to no avail, and scrolled back up again to the front of the page, only to immediately find the reason why.

There was no redeeming her voucher for an item of her choosing. It was all random distribution from among the pool of awards on offer.

Another glace through the list showed numbers next to each item, presumably how many of that item was available in total, and how many had already been claimed. Several of the shiniest looking items near the top were already listed as 0/1 remaining as well.

The bottom of the list had plenty of normal looking items with hundreds of available copies still left… so I suppose everyone would at least get something. Even if a few extra consumables felt pretty disappointing next to a legendary item…

Well, no use worrying about it, right? After all, whatever she got was out of her control.

Nodding to herself, she finally submitted her voucher, a massive roulette wheel popping up and beginning to spin extremely fast.

Each entry was too small to read as the wheel spun, seemingly only getting faster on each rotation, the girl leaning in and clenching her fists in suspense.

Finally slowing down some…

Slower…

Slower…

Even sloooooooooooower…

Waiting on held breaths as it came to a crawl, ticking slowly past each box.

Until finally…!

The wheel stopped completely, confetti bursting out of the center alongside a particularly gaudy popup message and triumphant fanfare.

[ ! GRAND WINNER ! ]

Grand winner…? Did that mean she’d won something super rare?

The popup hung there for a long while until the fanfare finally ended, and popped directly to the entry on the page for what she’d won.

[Shrine Embers] (0/1)

You are reading story The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox at novel35.com

- Unlocks (Kitsune) option at character creation.

- Account-locked.

Additional character options, huh? And one of a kind at that…

Guess that narrowed down her options from earlier significantly.

Smiling to herself about her good luck, she backed out of the pile of menus, and rejoined the character creation screen from before.

And on queue, there was a quiet DING as the race list opened automatically, the newest option writing itself in at the bottom.

She didn’t even bother to check the others, instantly selecting her one-of-a-kind Kitsune option and letting other options automatically fill as it loaded her character preview.

A smallish fox girl greeted her, a tall pair of ears poking off the top of her head, with a pair of equally fluffy tails behind her. She quickly poked at the details menu for them, glancing through the specifics.

[Kitsune]

- Magically adept race, bonuses to MAG, AGI, and LUC

- Physically frail, lowered STR and VIT

- Natural stealth

Magic using race… that shouldn’t be a problem. After all, she usually favored mages in games. Why play with a boring sword if you can throw lightning bolts and raise the dead? She nodded, and clicked to accept.

Next, it pulled up a list of basic classes to start with. Here at least, she’d only have the defaults, so it’d take more thought.

Plenty of options like Knight or Berserker… but if she was going to be weaker in her physical stats, those all seemed even less interesting than usual.

Further down were the ranged options. Rangers and Bards, both toting bows and arrows alongside other gear.

Probably not STR classes, but… also not MAG classes. She kept scrolling her options.

Finally what she was looking for appeared at the bottom of the long list. Various types of magic users, from Clerics to Warmages, each offering a different preferred suite of spells to learn.

None seemed to have much past one or two default spells, usually something small sounding, like Spark Spray or Chill.

So many options…

She scrolled back and forth, back and forth, trying to find any option that felt more interesting than the others…

And then her eyes landed on the perfect class.

[Gloom Mage]

- Status ailment spell focus.

- Low damage, high crowd control ability.

- Starting spells: (Sap), (Shock).

A status class… perfect.

Most RPGs she knew of barely remembered status effects existed all, so for this one to have it as a starting class option all on it’s own meant it must have been very much a supported playstyle.

She’d already selected it in a heartbeat, locking her selection in before her eyes ever caught the tiny little notification present under the class description.

[Caution: Not recommended for solo play.]

A class with no direct DPS of its own was obviously a poor choice for someone intending to go it alone like Monica was, but she wasn’t going to stop and think at this point. After all, she’d rolled a shiny toy for character creation, so she had nothing to worry about, right?

The rest of character creation passed quickly, the system letting her copy her own appearance over into the game, which she only tweaked just slightly afterwards. Bright, fiery orange hair and tails and a minimum height setting (for Kitsune) putting her just under 4’8. Her class option decided her starting clothes, ending up with some simple robes and a wide-brimmed hat for Gloom Mage.

Happy with her selections, she smiled, and went to the final confirmation screen to confirm everything once more, and making sure everything seemed to look correct with what she’d picked.

[Name: Monica]

[Race: Kitsune]

[Class: Gloom Mage]

[Equipment]

- Basic Mage Hat

- Basic Mage Robe

- Basic Mage Staff

[Abilities]

- Sap

- Shock

That all seemed right. She’d spent so long on the rest of her character, she’d decided to just use her actual name for that part. It’d make it easier to talk to people, at least.

Satisfied, she smiled wide and slammed her hand into the Confirm button, and felt light enveloping her as she was whisked away into the game proper finally.

You can find story with these keywords: The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox, Read The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox, The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox novel, The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox book, The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox story, The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox full, The Greatest Mage Is A Harmless Fox Latest Chapter