SO WHAT IF IT’S AN RPG WORLD!? - Volume 1: Part 1

Part 1: Life in the Beginners’ Village

Prologue

“Hello, this HP potion costs 5 gold, thank you for your patronage.”

“Can’t it be a little bit cheaper? After all, I already bought 30 of these HP potions here already…”

“Hello, this HP potion costs 5 gold, thank you for your patronage.”

“Hey, the moment I buy items from you, you become an NPC. Weren’t we chatting merrily just a while ago?”

“Hello, this -” “Ok, enough!”

I moved back a step, Uncle Kane’s forced smile disappears, and returned to normal.

Of course, by ‘returning to normal’, I meant returning to how a person normally behaves. “Hi Fir! Are you happy with the goods?”

“... It’s ok, see you later.” “Remember to visit again!” “Yes~”

I nodded and left the shopping district.

What a joke! I’m never going back there again!

I must find a way to leave this starting village, and reach the next town, or else these people will really drive me crazy!

My name’s Lin Fir, and of course, it’s not my real name. However, the moment I came into this world, I have already forgotten my actual name. Lin Fir, this weird name had become my new name.

However, other than my name, the rest of my memories are intact, and thus I’m a little confused.

Ah, this place is called Raya Continent. However, what’s laughable is that I could not find anything similar to that of a map that would allow me to view this entire world.

Actually, to my surprise, this place is called Beginners’ Village.

At the same time, the residents here are all weird. Usually, I can speak to them normally, but whenever we engage in specific conversations, they would turn into NPCs that could only repeat the same sentences.

This is horrible, absolutely horrible! Just where in the world have I landed onto! “Hey, want to earn some small cash? Do you know how to leave this village?” Just when I was lamenting, a voice called out to me.

I turned around, what I saw before me was a girl who was not even my chest-height. She wore a black light armor, and had two short swords on her back. The girl with the shining white twintails furrowed her eyebrows as she looked at me.

“You’re not the same as the rest of the NPCs that can only stay in the same place, are you?”

Chapter 1: This Violent Girl is Scary!

“Oh my god! So you have been using that wooden club outside the village to grind levels when you haven’t even picked your class? Unbelievable! It’s difficult even for a swordsman without any skills! To think you managed to get to LV 3 with only that wooden club, unbelievable…”

I can’t take this anymore… She hasn’t stopped talking the moment we met, I wonder if she was a parrot in her previous life.

“I already told you, I never saw anything similar to that. The moment I came to this world, other than my own inventory, my status bar and level, and also others’ HP bars and levels, I saw nothing else.”

In fact, the moment I opened my eyes and saw HP bars and names above people’s heads, I

thought I was dreaming.

Until I pinched myself, and confirmed I felt pain, I finally understood it was all real. Also, the HP bar on top of my head was small, after all I was only LV 1.

“And? You didn’t even accept any quests and went over to grind on wild chickens? You, just…”

“It was about… 50, was it? I sold the chicken meat I obtained by killing them, and bought about 40 HP potions. My inventory could carry 99 of the same item in a single slot, so it's not much of a problem.”

“You sure have some perseverance…” Like I need you to care!

In any case, the wild chickens disappeared the moment I killed them, so I did not receive any psychological trauma.

This girl with a load of rubbish to talk about was Aliyah. Like me, she suddenly appeared in this world, and she was a LV 6 Fire Dual-Swordsman.

She had been here for more than a week. After completing the Beginners’ Village’s quests, she had been wandering around the village to find a path to the next village. However, the entire area was surrounded by mountains. There were no exits at all.

While on the other hand, this is only my second day here. I took an entire half a day to understand this world, and another half a day to kill those wild chickens that endlessly spawn.

When Aliyah could not find anything, she ran back to the village and found me in a pained expression, so she came to grab some extra help.

“Over here, I’m the senior, if you don’t know anything, just speak up~” Aliyah confidently said.

“Yes yes, senpai~”

As I said that, I rubbed her head.

Of course, she immediately slapped my hand away, and my HP actually decreased! “Hey hey hey, don’t be so rough, my HP…”

Out of the 300 HP that I had, with a single slap, it dropped by 50! Too violent! This girl was too excessively violent!

“Hmph! It’s your own fault for wearing cloth armor. Change into light armor already.” “I don’t have the money to buy that set. That kind of thing isn’t cheap.”

“Again, it’s your fault for only killing wild chickens~ They don’t drop any equipment~”

“Equipment?”

I stared at Aliyah in disbelief.

“So you’re telling me, by killing some monsters, they will drop equipment… like shoes?” “Yes, just like that~”

Aliyah shrugged her arms.

“What kind of weird system is this? Or are you telling me that these monsters have such a good appetite that they even store equipment in their stomach?”

“Please, just stop.”

Aliyah’s face began to dull.

“Most of my equipment are monster drops… gross…” “The equipment might even be their gallstones… AH!”

A heavy punch landed on my chest, and I ended up flying. Ah, my HP bar became empty!

Seeing the value on my right corner turned to 0, I was scared to the point that my face turned green.

“Are you trying to kill me!? You murderer!”

“Don’t worry, even if your HP bar is empty, as long as you don’t receive a killing blow within

5 seconds, you won’t die. Even if you die, as long as you’re within this village, you will revive in the cathedral. So, there’s absolutely no need to worry~”

Seeing how she was so relaxed, I wondered if she did a lot of experiments to find out these rules…

However, just as she had said, after 5 seconds, my HP began to slowly recover.

“Don’t look at me like that, you know that some NPCs will enter a certain state after engaging them in certain conversations right? If you’re playing a game, where would you usually go to receive a quest?”

I pondered for a bit, and then looked at her. “The village elder.”

“Correct~”

Damn it, even though her attitude is like this, when she smiles, she actually looks quite cute.

Chapter 2: Of Course, You Still Need to Complete Quests in an RPG

The village elder’s house looked stylish from the outside, but since there were no special signs placed outside, I didn't take much notice of it.

However, when I opened the door, the furniture inside gave me a surprise.

To think there would be someone that place their house furniture in this manner… Was this really the village elder’s house or was it a guild hall?

“Don’t just daze at the door, idiot! This is only an NPC’s house, there’s no need to wait for people to get the door before you enter, is there?”

“Hey hey, that’s completely not the problem here! How is this the village elder’s house!? This looks totally like a guild hall!”

Aliyah was not bothered by it at all, rather, she gave me a ‘you sure are bothersome’ look. What, because she stayed here for so long, she had already adapted to this weird world? “What is it that you two need from an old man like me?”

Just then, a white bearded old man, that looked exactly like how a typical village elder should, walked out with a walking stick from a room behind us.

Other than the name ‘Western’ and the LV 1 label above his head, there were no sense of discomfort.

“Receive quest!”

Aliyah, impolitely, said out loud.

“Aliyah, shouldn’t you be more polite when speaking to an old man?”

“That’s why I say you’re stupid! How does this look like a real human being to you!”

She was right, the moment Aliyah said ‘Receive quest’, the old man’s body stiffened up and stood still. A white speech bubble then appeared above his head, just like with the grocery store owner earlier.

A series of quests were showed, where the top few were marked with crosses. Looks like these were already completed.

This… Even though I did not want to admit it, my desire to drop a tsukkomi is overflowing. I must resist, this is not a place to randomly blurt out a straight comment…

Aliyah picked out some quests from the list, and then walked over to me and flung me over.

Yes, she did not pull me over, but instead, she grabbed onto my hand and threw me over to the village elder.

The numbers ‘-78’ appeared before my eyes, and I angrily stared at Aliyah. However, she only gestured me to hurry up, ignoring the expression on my eyes.

This girl… her personality is so screwed up.

When I looked over to the quest list again, the previous completed quests underwent a change. Earlier they were crossed out, but I could select them again. However, they were only LV 1 ~ 3 quests.

When I chose all 3 of them, the rest of the quests greyed out.

“Did you see that? This is this world’s weird quest system. You can only accept quests that are below your level, and the amount of quests you can accept is limited by the value of your level. Since you’re LV 3, you can only accept 3 quests at most.”

Aliyah haughtily said as she raised up her chest, and then grabbed onto me as she headed to the door.

“Hey hey, what are you doing!”

“I’m bringing you to where you can complete the quests! These quests are renewed in only

7 days, the faster you complete them, the better right?” “Are we just going to leave without saying anything?” “Do you think NPCs will care!?”

The moment I moved 3 meters away from the village elder, the speech bubble above the elder disappeared.

“See you later!~”

When I left the house, I said this to the elder.

The elder smiled as he nodded, I guess he heard it.

“Wait, even if we grind levels like this, there’s no point. Weren’t we supposed to find a way to leave this place?”

“Ah, even without you reminding me, I know that. However, I don’t have any hints for leaving this place at all~”

Aliyah let go of me, and turned to look at me.

“I checked all the houses here, and I found nothing useful. This place is surrounded by steep mountains, and there’s no way to dig into them and climb all the way up. What else can I do?”

“Have you tried completing all the quests?”

“Yeah, I’m only left with 2 incomplete quests. That’s why I’m telling you to hurry up, so we can leave this place together!”

“Is that so…”

Seeing how she was so desperate, and how she was tired of explaining, I could only nod my head and followed her outside the village.

Chapter 3: There's No Explanation on How to Leave the Village at All

“I say, how did you come into this world?”

After killing the 3rd batch of wolves, I looked at my inventory that automatically fills up, and then raised my head and asked.

“Hmm~ I wonder…”

Aliyah used her short sword and stabbed into the corpse of the wolf, the corpse disappeared and changed into a piece of wolf leather.

“I only remember I was playing a game until I fell asleep that night, and in the next morning, I found myself waking up on the grassland outside this village. What about you?”

“I…”

I racked my brains to recall, and then said.

“I only remember playing with some of my online friends. We were clearing a dungeon…

and then I can’t recall anymore.”

“Is that so… In any case, simply put, we crossed into a different world, didn’t we?” “Crossing worlds… Although I read such light novels before, but to actually experience it

myself is not something I can simply laugh about…” Likewise, Aliyah gave a similar expression.

“You’re right. Also, I don’t even know what I had to do. I just subconsciously started to grind levels and complete quests… Games had really stuck into me, huh… in a bad way too.”

Wait a minute…

You’re telling me this girl is also a gaming addict? She don’t look like that sort at all! Looking at her cute appearance, it’s almost impossible to believe she’s the indoor type! “What? I have a feeling you’re looking at me with an unbelievable expression.”

Seemed like Aliyah felt what I was thinking, as she said unhappily.

“No, it’s just that… I’m the same. I don’t even know why we’re sent here. In usual scenarios, when the world is in danger, people are summoned from a different world in hopes they could save the world. Or, we may have been accidentally sent to this world. Currently, we have no idea why this happened to us at all.”

“Yeah, and what’s most important, is that we don’t know why the world is like this. No

matter how I look at it, this world is just a normal RPG world. If my memory does not fail me, I have never played a game like this before. How about you?”

“Me neither.”

From the looks of it, the reason why we’re here was not related to the games we played before. Then, why were we here?

Oh well, there’s no point thinking about this if we could not find this answer.

“In this kind of situations, we can only do what we can do, right? Although I don’t know whether we will age in this world or not, but given the nature of regular games, our speed of leveling should be much faster than the people in this world. And then, maybe, it will trigger some weird event.”

“Then, why are we not able to leave this place?” I pondered for a while, and then said.

“After playing so many games, I conclude there’s only 2 possibilities. First, we have not triggered the necessary event, and second, we have not reached the level requirement to leave this village.”

“Level requirement? The hell? Unless we have to gather all 7 dragon balls to open a portal?”

“No, no, no. Although the scenario is wrong, we don’t use those 7 balls to open a portal, do we?”

“We don’t really need to mind such things, do we?” “You’re the one that started it!”

I helplessly shook my head.

“In any case, it's becoming too hard for us to level with just the monsters outside the village. Though these monsters are no longer a threat, we should think of a way to leave this place for now.”

That’s right, before we know it, we have already cleared this entire area several times. I was already LV 7, and I needed 6400 EXP to level up. Aliyah was already LV 8, and she needed

12800 EXP to level up. The strongest wolf here only gave 20 EXP. If we want to level up here, it would be too long.

Of course, another reason was we were too lazy, after all, it was getting boring. “Hey, why don’t we try burning the village?”

“Hah?”

“Well, you see, after all this is a fake world, even if we burn it down, there’s no problem, is there?”

This girl… what was she doing in the real world? Was she involved with the underworld?

“Hey hey, this is a RPG world right? Hence, even if we try burning the buildings, they won’t actually… burn… right?”

Argh!

Before I managed to finish, the house beside me began to crack open. Numerous sword slashes were seen on the walls. The entire house became several pieces and crashed down in a blink of an eye.

This was Aliyah’s Secret Skill, Shredding Blade Slash. “Look, isn’t this…”

“Run!”

When the entire place was still covered in smoke, I grabbed onto her and fled the scene. “You idiot! Even if the villagers’ AI are like those in a RPG, but if you were to talk to them

regularly, they are just like regular people. In other words, they have their own consciousness! Once they realised we destroyed their place, who knows what will happen!”

“Then what else can we do…”

Suddenly, Aliyah’s name turned from white to black. There were also new added words beside her name.

[Evil] [Low Profile] [Village Destroyer]

Hey hey hey! What is this? She actually received titles! “Did you receive anything?”

“Yep. There’s also a pop-up saying I completed a route, and I could choose to leave the village.”

Aliyah clicked some stuffs in the air, and said.

“I see, not only does this village allows you to choose your class, but also sets us up on our future routes. But the problem is, we don’t know what are the requirements to unlock them. If I were to peek into a girl’s bath, I wonder if I would receive the pervert title.”

“If you were to actually unlock those titles, don’t tell anyone that I know you.” “Hahaha, we can talk about that later.”

After running to a safe spot, I released her hand and asked, “So, what are you going to do now?”

“Mmhmm, This is actually interesting. After receiving these titles, I also unlocked various attributes. My Evil attribute raised by 3 points.I think it will affect my position in the evil forces… My Sneak Ability also raised by 2 points. The higher it is, the harder it is for people to notice me. Finally, the Destroyer attribute says… I would receive EXP from destroying structures…”

“Hey hey! That’s incredible! I see, I don’t care who designed this world, but this is actually pretty interesting! Aliyah… Eh? Aliyah?”

When I was talking, Aliyah transformed into streaks of light and disappeared before me.

“That girl… left the Beginners' Village? Sheesh, to think she would leave before saying anything.”

Reluctantly, I walked over to the village elder’s place.

Just when I reached there, I saw several people standing at the doorstep, and the elder was among them.

“Oh, if it isn’t Fir? You’re just in time! We seem to have some trouble.” “What’s wrong?”

When I was about to walk over to the village elder, an arrow flew across my face and landed behind me.

“This is…”

When I look over to the source of the arrow, I saw a villager aiming his bow at me. “What are you guys trying to do…”

“Tch, you guys were the only two that came to this village recently. That house earlier was destroyed by you guys, right!? What are your motives? Spit it out!”

At that moment, the names above all the villagers turned red. Without a doubt, they had all turned into my enemies!

What the hell! I wasn’t the one that did it in the first place! So why are they pushing all the blame onto me!?

In that instant, a screen appeared before my eyes.

Titles Unlocked: [Kind] [Whatever Goes] [Scapegoat] Kind attribute increased by 5 points.

Resistance increased by 5 points.

The accumulation of Crime points, with effect immediately, will be converted to EXP. Do you want to leave the Beginners’ Village?

Seeing the entire crowd of villagers approaching, I immediately chose to leave. After that, I was enveloped in a white light.