VRMMORPG [Brink]: For The Money

After Oura back to his room, Eve began to fiddle around with the headgear. Less than a minute she's done with her preparation and began to search for a comfy position on her favorite couch.

『Welcome! We don't have a database about you so we need to scan your body. Proceed? Y/N』

She instantly said yes. Because she's not yet fully dive she's in a state of semi-awake and still has full control of her body. It doesn't mean that when you're fully dived you won't be able to move your body but usually, you need a stimulus of sorts. And that doesn't work for those who dive with 100% immersion set in.

That was one of the few reasons why the company had an emergency protocol built-in. it only comes for free for the first three months and later on, the user need to prolong it by paying the insurance personally. Nevertheless, society always had their caste, be it from dark ages to space ages, the rich and the poor are always like a coin with a different side on each side it can't be eliminated.

Of course, their services are entirely different. The rich can buy the capsule or pod for diving in and it has a nice protection already based on its structure of how it's built and the material used on it. Ironically the rich don't really in need of such a feature because they can just buy sets of droids to protect them or pay bodyguards to do the job.

『Thank you. The scan will begin shortly after 'Beep' and finish after 'Beep'. Please wait… Done! Did you want to configure the setting here manually or inside the game mam?』

"I'll do it inside thanks."

『Proceed… Did you want to go into a fully manual setting or semi-manual with AI help? ...done! Preparing to dive. Have fun.』

Then she began to feel her body lighten. When she opened her eyes, she stands at a white place bleak of any blemishes. The surroundings white wasn't hurt for the eyes rather it makes any who looks at it felt warm and cozy.

"Hi mam, I'm Aleta the character fairy as well your guide while you here and I can help you with anything. I think? Did you want to edit the setting first or create your in-game character?"

A fifteen-centimeter fairy pops up three meters away from where Eve standing on. The fairy indeed startles her a little.

"Ohh, hi. I'll go with creating my character first."

"There are 5 available races that you can choose from and you can preview it by cl.i.c.k.i.n.g on the window in front of you."

"Aleta can you make all the races appear if I choose it as my character as well as their pros and cons."

Five life-like model quintuplets appear standing circling Eve in the middle. Eve looked to her right and there stand an elementary school kid, age-wise, with a calm but cheerful demeanor. The model stands at 141cm. The model Eve stared at was a race of dwarf.

Eve's gaze didn't leave the face of the little girl. Her eyes may seem like she's staring deeply at the little girl's face but her expression proves otherwise. She's smiling at the moment then frowning at the next second. Clearly from her expressions she was reminiscing of her past, her naive and innocent self.

"Aleta you can take this one out." said Eve without looking at any description of the dwarves race. She usually like to read history or biography of any species/races out there that exist even ones that already extinct from the past. Yet she didn't even take a glance at the description containing their history to the specialty of the said dwarf race.

Eve instantly rejects the Dwarf option because it had an exact resemblance of her childhood-self.

Then she looked at her model that stands 2 meters tall, stands proudly with her big canines protruding out of her lips giving the savage vibe whilst being expressionless. And don't forget her compact body muscle. She's totally like a war maiden or Freya herself.

Eve can't help but let out a smile.

At the side of the Orc, model stood another proud person, an elf to be exact. Standing at 185cm tall with a slender body and a pair of long ears.

On another side is a human version of her current self and instantly ignores it and moves on into the last available race she can choose from, a beastfolk.

"Why is it only elf and beastfolk that has variant?"

"Because of their lifestyle and way of life are a bit different from each other and some of them are enemies even though they are from the same race. An example is a light elf that would always fight against dark elf. And if you choose a variant of the said race when you go to their community or village, high chance you will get attack or just get denied entry if you are lucky. Actually, Orcs had variants as well but they live in 'horde' and there is no problem of persecution of variant from the orc, they are the proudest race that stands, known to any enemies and friends alike."

"Then what about a mix? Or what was the term again…?"

"Halfing mam. Yes, there is an option for that as well mam but I don't recommend it. You only got two chances and you won't be able to choose again after your first try. So you must stay with whatever shows up at your second chance or wait for 15 days for another chance but you still won't be able to go back to the previous five available race. Or customize it to your liking."

"Sounds good to me."

'After all what can go wrong?' Eve thought in her mind.

"Confirmation received. You may choose a ratio for your mix. Be warned the weakness or strength will be random, the more races you put into the mix the higher your chance to get their weaknesses with less strength of their species. If you put two opposite elements there will be a high probability that the mix will die. For example, if you put a light elf and dark elf together into the mix there is a 98% chance that the mix will die. But, if you succeed, their strength and growth rate are at 7 to 8."

"Growth rate? Please explain it to me in detail."

"Yes, mam. Growth rate is a rating given to each race. It can be called as a chain to bound the whole said race but it's not absolute. The simplest way to explain it is as a free attribute obtains per level. This here is a list of growth rate of the five available races: human 2-3, dwarf 3-5, beastfolk 2-5, orc 4-5, and lastly elf with the highest growth rate at 4-6."

'Hmm… so humans are super weak here as a race is, individually. While elf had the highest growth rate. I guess humans got nerfed here or are there a reason for it?'

"Aleta why is human had the lowest rating while the elf had the highest of all races? Won't that make the elf reign supreme of all races?"

"Mam, Goddess Gaia gives humans a thing called 'Job' to help them and whilst the elf has a higher rating they had a low birth rate as a whole. Even though the other race lower rating than elf but it doesn't mean they are weaker than the elves. An orc would always win in a one on one battle against elf at the same level, even though the elf should have a higher attribute because the orc had higher raw strength while high defense while the elf had agility and high reservoirs of 'force'."

Waiting for Eve's reply, Aleta gazed at Eve face, waiting for confirmation.

Eve nodded and a window appears in front of her. It lists all the available races to its variants.

After thinking about her choice for a moment she made her decision with 20% of light elf, 20% of dark elf, 30% of orc, 25% of human, and lastly a feature only available for halfling, a hidden race capped at 5%. Of course, she won't miss her chance by choosing the hidden race.

Cl.i.c.k.i.n.g confirms a loading bar appears replacing the previous windows.

Then after waiting for approximately five second another window pops up with a big 『Failed.』 word and a try again option.

This time she made a little bit of alteration to the whole recipe. As follows, 22% of light elf, 22% of dark elf, 30% of orc, 21% of human, and 5% of the hidden race.

Again another loading bar appears but it yet finished even after five seconds passed. Whilst waiting for the mix to finish, she feels nervous and unconsciously licked her lips over awaiting for it to be a success. After all who doesn't want to hit the jackpot? It only finishes after eight minutes.

Afterward, a window appears and replaced the loading window. 『Success.』

"Congratulations mam you've success against the odds."

"Thank you, Aleta."

A woman with long purple hair and pink eyes stood in front of her. The woman stands at 177cm and a tight body muscle. She had a pointy ear for humans but not long enough to be called as an elf. But the most eye-catching of this woman is a straight single horn 10cm long sticks out of her forehead. Not only that, the horn had a bloody red color.

"Aleta I choose this one as my avatar."

Her vision turned black for a moment then she feels... different. She moves her hands, looks at it and moves her body around. Putting her hand on her face she touches her horn with her fingers and she felt a smooth texture of the horn sliding unobstructed through her finger.

"Alet--" she stopped and felt her mouth somehow feels extremely different than she used to. She had two pairs of big fangs inside her mouth but it wasn't protruding outside her lips like the one Orcs had, rather it wasn't noticeable from outside.

Putting her finger in her mouth she began to feel the fangs and teeth in her mouth. The fangs had a similar look to a vampire in movies but bigger and studier.

"Yes, mam?"

"What is the rating of this halfling or should I say variant? And give me a mirror while you are at it."

"Yes it is a variant from a race call Shura but we don't have this variant on our database. As the one who created this variant, you have the right to name this variant. And the rating of this variant is 7-8."

Eve with a full body-length mirror in front of her begins posing. After a few minutes of posing, she said. "I'll name it Valiant Shura."