A Girl's Life in a Gaming World

Chapter 22 - Weapon Selection

"By the way, go pick your weapon already. You are the one wasting our time here. I have finished creating my character, and I can leave this place now." Ezekiel reminded. 

"Wait!! Don't leave me here yet. Help me pick out my weapon first."  Alex then hurriedly turned to Lumiere beside her to pick her race and move on to the next phase. "Lumiere, I choose Human as my race." 

[Human will now be set as your permanent race]

[Do you want to continue with your character creation now?] 

[Yes/No]

"Yes!"

[Moving to weapon selection phase]

A long list of weapons suddenly flashed in front of her eyes. She doesn't know how long the list goes, but she can see at least a thousand different kinds of weapons. 

"Why do you even need me to help you pick your weapon in the first place. Just pick any offensive weapon you like since we already have your father as a tank. Then you have me as your healer, and as for Samantha, let's think of her as support for now since we don't have any information on how beast tamers work in this game." Ezekiel wondered.

With Alex's knowledge on a lot of weapons, she should have no problem using any weapon. 

"I have no idea what to pick..." Alex embarrassedly said. 

Ezekiel then also realized Alex's dilemma. "Why not use a katana again? After all, that's the weapon you used for three years." Ezekiel suggested, Alex's predicament is a little troublesome. But at the same time, if Alex wanted to, she could easily fix her problem. 

"But there are so many weapons I want to try out." She did not expect that the range of weapons she can use is now becoming a problem for her. 

Alex then tried following Ezekiel's suggestion. "Lumiere, can I try using the katana?" Just looking at the long list in front of her, Alex can tell that searching for the katana alone will take a lot of time, so she asked for Lumiere's help.

[Yes]

Shortly after Lumiere answered, a hilt of a katana suddenly floated out of thin air, then it continued forming the katana. 

[Weapon: Katana]

*Weapon Variation: 1000

*Rank Limit: God

*Weapon Stats: +2 Strength, +2 Agility, +1 Stamina 

*Starting Skill: Weapon proficiency, Rending Slash

After the katana finished forming, Alex then clutched the hilt of the katana that is floating vertically. 

Holding the katana in her hand, Alex then formed a stance, gripping the katana's hilt with her two hands, and pointing the tip in the empty space in front of her. 

Before long, the lively atmosphere that usually surrounds her suddenly disappeared and was replaced with a tranquil atmosphere. As the expression on Alex's face appeared to be void of any emotion. 

At that moment, Alex swung the katana skillfully. The swing she made moved at a very slow pace. It took her quite some time to finish just that one swing. After the slash reached its endpoint, a strong gust of wind suddenly arose in the room. 

Alex wasn't able to see it, but Lumiere has seen clearly the dust-size crack of space distortion in the place she had slashed. It was so small no human will ever see it, in addition to the fact that it appeared in mere milliseconds. 

"How... how did you do that??" 

Hearing Lumiere's confused voice stupefied Alex. "Huh? Do what?"

"The force you used in your slash should be impossible with your current stats." 

"Ahhh, I realized that my virtual self is too weak compared to my real self. So I need to utilize all the strength I can use in my body just to make that single swing. That's why the slash I did just now moved like a turtle." 

She doesn't really know why Lumiere suddenly got surprised with that single slash of hers. "I have swung my katana for three years more than a million times already. Even with a weakened body creating a simple gust of wind is pretty simple, as long as I used everything I have." 

"I think anyone who played Guardian seriously used their weapons almost the same amount as yours." Ezekiel butted in, hearing Alex's A.I. being surprised with how Alex used a katana. "Go pick the katana already, since you are still good with it to the point that your A.I. is clearly surprised. That way we can now play the game, we have spent quite some time creating our characters." Ezekiel recommended, seeing that they already spent twenty minutes in character creation. 

"Don't rush... I don't even understand some terms showing in this weapon. Let me clarify some things with Lumiere first. Besides, there are more than one thousand weapons here. I want to try out at least 30 different weapons." Alex then turned to Lumiere to ask a few questions.

"Lumiere, what is the meaning of weapon variation?" 

"Just like the name implies, it is the number of variations your weapon can have. An example of a variation of your katana will be upgrading it to fox race's Silver Furred Katana that will improve your speed and reaction speed. Or a dragon's race Fire Dragon's Fangs created using a fire dragon's fang. This variation will give your strikes fire affinity scorching your enemy with each strike."

"Isn't one thousand variations a little too much?" Alex wondered. 

"Parabellum has one hundred races, and each race will have at most eleven different lineages of their race. So one thousand variations are not too much at all." 

"This game even has lineages? Then what about the rank limit?" With every time she discovers a new interesting thing about the game. Alex can't help but feel excited to play the game sooner. 

"Rank limit is your limit in upgrading your weapon." 

"How to upgrade my weapon?" 

While Lumiere is explaining, Alex tried out another weapon. The scythe in her hand felt just like the katana earlier. To the point where the scythe felt like an extension of her body. 

"You need to gather the required materials that are spread all over Parabellum."

  While Lumiere was still in the middle of its explanation, Alex swung the scythe in her hand. The scythe moved as slow as the katana she used earlier, but the atmosphere this time is full of death.

Alex looked like the grim reaper claiming a thousand lives with just that single swing. 

That power of that slash is almost as strong as how she swung the katana earlier. A strong gust of wind appeared, and a millisecond, dust-sized crack of space distortion appeared after she finished the slash.

"How...."