Since i got such a nice response from Talius i decided to post the first chapter today already !
For a lot of people it might seem slow. But that is how i will most likely be doing it. In other stories i often got annyoed at sudden jumps of power that made the MC leap into OP-ness too quickly. It takes time to build up a Dungeon, recruit and breed your little minions and whatever else i will find for him to do. This does not mean there won′t be any time jumps where it makes sense(if we are just waiting for things to grow, that would be boring).
With that i hope you enjoy :)
I slowly woke up sometime later. My vision was completely black and I felt disoriented. I couldn't feel my body move at all and panicked for a moment, until something happened.
My mind drew a blank at first and i could only keep on staring at the blue window.
This just can't be happening ….. a fucking Tutorial ? Really ?
God ripped of our game companies! that's a copyright issue ! Though who could sue a god.
Anyway I decided it was a good idea to take that Tutorial and tried to move my hand to touch the Y but realized that right now nothing seemed to work. So instead i tried to think yes and positive thoughts. My work was rewarded promptly.
My vision suddenly warped into a whirling of thousands of colors until it settled down again. What had reformed before me was a endlessly stretching grassy plain.
Holy shit what's going on here? Where am i now?
Well that is pretty convenient and to be kinda expected of a tutorial. So how do i start anyway?
Well that much seems easy enough, so let's start with ‘Status’
That made sense in a way, as much as anything right now could make sense. Then i guess i should just take a look at the menus other than build first. ‘Skills’
Well those are kinda plain, why can′t i spawn something more interesting ?
So you say but what am i actually to do If i can′t spawn anything useful ?
Gah so in other words i am a babysitter? Just great. Well on another view a King needs his subjects to live. So how am i supposed to take care of whatever if i cannot move?
As that was mentioned I focused hard and managed to slowly move as the screen instructed, a bit forward and turning around i saw a mound of crystal on the grass. It looked like it would be able to reach my hip if i still had my body but it was hard to estimate like this. The nearly transparent crystal structure was glowing with slowly shifting lights of varying color.
Kinda small ? Shouldn′t this be something that feels more epic? like a room full of giant crystals and stuff?
So the bigger i am the stronger i am ?
Well that is simple enough. Though by now i was getting a feeling as if the darn window had a personality of itself ? Nah must be my imagination. As long as it works properly i don't care where my Mana comes from.
Wait, Mana ? Does that mean i can cast spells later on too and stuff?
Oh sweet so i will get some body at least later down the line !
Having clarified that i looked around for a moment. But since there really was only grass here as far as the eye could reach I went on. For now it seemed to be the most interesting to take a closer look at the skills.
Hmm well those sound pretty useful, though the growth one does have a mean downside to it. Nothing comes without a cost.
I pondered as i looked over the skill texts, after a while i tried out spawning plants and insects. I could just select a spawn point for the insects and they would appear directly molded out of the mana. For the plants i could choose an area and they would begin to sprout from there. Along with growth you could actually watch them grow slowly right in front of you.
Hmmh that meant i could rear up some insects from scratch. Would most likely take some time but may be worth it.
Next i wanted to take a look into evolution and servants but both were simply empty.
Which means if i have someone that already is rather good in fighting it will cost less to turn him into a warrior then someone who is just a weak guy that never fought?
Then what use is it anyway to give them a class?
Last I tried my hand a building, which was pretty simple all over. I could construct rooms and make a cave into the ground or tunnels just as i imagined them. Though it seems i had a boundary which was my current dungeon area. Corresponding to what i build my map was altered right away and it was actually a 3D Map which made, building more than one Floor, quite simple. Besides that there were also predefined structures and elements it seems.
Another simple to use thing. That Godking really did a good job on this. Ah just a moment ! How am i supposed to make sure my guys don′t suffocate later on if i dig my dungeon deeper?
Hmmh well that seems like a good deal. After all i might want to use poison myself later on. Then it would be troublesome if i ruined it myself.
For a while i still played around with some of the building and skills to get a better feeling for it. After some trial and error I found out that i could move my view outside my area for about a 100m which could be a bit useful to scout. Apparently i needed to use my Avatar to move outside further than that.
With that my mind went hazy and i lost consciousness again as soon as i had read the text.