After selling the dagger to a adventurers guild store and applying to be an adventurer, I had 3gp and was ready to go on a incursion into the dungeon. My Natural magic like Dragon Magic and Elf Magic was more instinctual then learned I could use Magic based on spheres of influence using my natural well of magic my racial ancestry provided. A teacher in magic taught me how to do so, now I have Access to the ice, water and nature spheres that allowed me to manipulate those elements limited by my mana.


    With the knowledge came a new skill called Sphere Control that the more I leveled it up the easier my spheres was to use and the less mana they took.


    I learned that my mana increases with every ten levels of magic based skills in a scaling way. At level ten I get one hundred more mana, at level twenty two hundred more mana and so forth. Another thing I learned is that there is no cap on skills just an ever increasing challenge of reaching the next level, and with my racial debuff of three times slower experience it would be three times as hard.


    When I arrived at the beginner dungeon, which is instanced for learning purposes, I Got a message from my little brother Justin


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Message


    Hey alex did you start in Drendor if so meet me at the Jolly Giant Inn in about an hour </td></tr></tbody></table>


    Dang it I was just about to have my first combat experience well if i go now i''ll have enough time get to the Jolly Giant before he arrives.


    On my way to the Jolly Giant I found myself tinkering with the monster core of a slime trying to identify it i learned that monster cores are hard to identify not for what they are I can see it is a slime core but I can''t see the stats it had in life. I was focused on the core when finally I had an idea what if i synergise the core with the identify skill, could be worth a shot who knows. I held the core up while identifying it and used synergy to find the core gone and an option screen in front of me.


    <table><tbody><tr><td> You have syenrgised a slime core with your body please choose one of the following.


    Acidic Touch


    Your claws become covered in Acid but it is always covered in Acid you also become immune to acid


    Assimilation


    You gain Exp by eating monster cores but lose the ability to gain exp through practice


    you will gain an exp pool that you can spend on skills </td></tr></tbody></table>


    This was surprising though what would I expect it only worked on physical things before why would it work with both a physical thing and a skill. Although what if I syenrgise two skills after all, It did allow me to select a skill in the first place.


    Now on to the choice It was a tough one Assimilation could be a work around for my racial debuff but it could bite me in the butt. who knows how much experience a single core gives or what rank I would need to keep growing my skills. Though the Acidic Touch would give me a better weapon I could accidentally kill someone else if I wasn''t careful. I chose Assimilation though it might make it harder for me in the long run It was better than accidentally killing someone else.


    I arrived at the Jolly Giant to find my brother sort of. I mean it looked like my brother but with fur in select parts of his body he had wolf ears and a wolf tail basically he was a beast kin.


    Justin "Hey Alex you look different without your beard, and with scales claws ,and elf ears."


    Alex "I Don''t Have A Beard???"


    Justin "Surly you didn''t think you would be able to keep it choosing an elf race did you?"


    Alex .......


    Justin "you did didn''t you?"


    Alex "I forgot that elves can''t grow beards."


    Alex "what about you are you ok being a beast kin, you do know they are one of the most slaved race''s in fantasy."


    Justin "Players can''t be slaves."


    Alex "How so?"


    Justin "the system sends players to the jail world if they commit one of the three cardinal sins to other players, slavery, murder, and, rape."


    Alex "Does it protect you against NPCs?"


    Justin "I didn''t think of that."


    Justin "You know me I always wanted to be a wolf man."


    Alex "So what build are you going for?"


    Justin "Ranger I already bought a bow and a pair of swords and picked up the skills for them"


    Justin "What unique skill did you choose?"


    Alex "Synergy. What about you?"


    Justin "Soul Binding."


    Alex "What does that do?"


    Justin "It''s like taming but a lot more potent. I can bind a pets soul with mine and we gain benefits based on the level of the skill. right now if i were to bind a wolf to me it would have the same resurrection as a player as well as sharing exp. The skill levels up the longer I have a soul bound companion. What does synergy do?"


    Alex "I can combine two or more things or deconstruct something."


    Hinyn "There you two are I have been looking around for you."


    My mom said as she approached us or a guess this is our mom she looked like this in her photos when she was young.


    Alex "Mom?"


    Hinyn "yes sweetheart it''s me how are you both doing?"


    Justin "Good, you got to try the cheese cake mom that this place serves."


    Hinyn "Ok lets talk over some food then."


    We went in to the Jolly Giant to find it crowded with other players making me glade I chose a inn that was out of the way. The inn also had a restaurant I didn''t like crowds so we chose a table a little out of the way in corner of the restaurant. Soon a pretty young waitress came to take our orders. I ordered the roasted boar stew and a chocolate cream cake. Both my mom and Justin ordered a cheesecake. After a couple of minutes the two of them were eating cheesecake and my stew was on the way. Mom was the first to strike up a conversation.


    Hinyn "Do you know how long you two are going to be playing?''


    Alex "Forever."


    Justin "I don''t know."


    Hinyn "Remember to take breaks and boys your dogs are in your home server it would be wise to go to them as soon as possible."


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    Alex "Percy there, How?"


    Hinyn "The aliens digitized them so that they would live. Think if they were left alone how long would they live?"


    Alex "Percy not long he too small to compete with the bigger dogs and coyotes. I better go now!"


    Hinyn "Please wait till after dinner ok, you need to eat."


    Alex "Ok."


    After eating my dinner I told Justin to meet me back here in an hour so we could go dungeoneering and promised mom I would visit all of the family. Then I went to my home server to find Percy my dog crouched in the corner of the white room. Once he saw me he came running as happy as he could be. After petting him I experimented with the home server options found that I could Link this realm to the game realm this would turn this home server into a grassland with a log house in it and I could buy upgrades like crafting stations library''s arcane research room training grounds, and resource nodes like mines forest and herb gardens. This would provide an in game benefit but I would be limited by my money no more god like powers here in this realm.


    I decided to do so for the cost of one gold and just like that the world turned into a grass land with a cozy log house in the middle. I then used Identify on Percy to see what his stats were.


    <table><tbody><tr><td> Percy


    Race Dog


    Sub-Race Shitzu Mix


    Health 50/50


    Mana N/A


    Growth Potential Medium


    A Breed Of Dog known For There Great Energy. This Particular Dog Has A Unique Ability To Grow In Strength And Never Die Being One Of The Immortal Beings From A Different Existence.</td></tr></tbody></table>


    I then returned to the Jolly Giant to go dungeoneering with Justin.


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    After Alex left to tend to Percy, Justin and I went to training grounds where Justin had to finish a quest he explained that he already went to his home sever and tended to Colleen and now he needed to finish his quest to get some holy magic spells so he could heal his future companion.


    He was talking to a young priest and just like Alex could''t tell when someone was flirting with him too absorbed in what they were doing. Honestly I''m never going to get grand children am I? After Justin came back he said he was going to meet up with Alex, and I made him promise to visit his other family members otherwise those two would be at this forever never giving a thought that there family was missing them.


    I returned home and decided to check the internet to see if anyone created any websites, honestly I wanted to get to Bestine or Mos Eisley Cantina, I know that world like the back of my hand I could make quite a bit of credit offering cures for the rich people coming in contact with the Wamp Rats or other vermin. That planet was in constent danger and often needed the help of a medic. Soon  would be able to buy a star ship and we could make money bringing passengers to different worlds. I hate this the aliens got me addicted already. I have to remember that no matter what family comes first.


    Soon Hyp Came back From visiting his daughters with half of a funnel cake for me. He always thought I had more of a sweet tooth then I really did but I haven''t had funnel cakes in a while, I thankedhim for the funnel cakes and after I ate we decided to head back to Tatooine.


    Now on Tatooine we arrived in Bestine, I went straight to the clinic while hyp went to the junk yard. Our goal was to make enough credits to buy a star ship by the end of the month. As I arrived at the clinic the doctors there were in a panic with consent traffic of injured patients coming in and out. One tall lanky doctor came to me and said.


    Doctor "If your not injured please leave we have enough trouble fixing these patients without gawkers blocking the hallway."


    Hinyn "I can help I have medical training."


    Doctor "Thank god I need all the help I can get go to the medical supplies room get the stim packs and treat what ever patient comes your way.''


    Hinyn "Yes ok doctor ahh?"


    Doctor "Herbert Doctor Herbert now go we don''t have much time."


    Hinyn "Yes Doctor Herbert."


    For the rest of the day I worked on setting bone knitting flesh and other medical practices. By the end of the day I was bone tired and have made a few thousand credits. I also learned what caused the injures of the men coming in a mine collapsed not far from here.


    I meet up with Hyp and we returned to our home server with two droids chaises and a bunch of parts for him to work on. Though he couldn''t use his own tools for the droids so we bought tools at the grand bazaar. If he could build two functioning droids we could purchase a star ship in about two weeks.


    Now on my computer to see several forums up about the simulations and a few forums about trying to get out of the simulations and taking down our alien overlords. I Was reading a article about nanobot''s and how a medic character can do combat with them when I got a message that my father arrived at the earth simulation. The earth simulation was unique in that citizens could chose to get rid of their immortality and pass away naturally. No doubt he wished to live the rest of his days with mom without us needing him all the time the old worrywart. He never did want to live forever like the rest of the old timers. I guess I better visit him.


    Hinyn "Hon I''m going to visit dad and mom at the earth simulation."


    Hyp "Ok have fun."


    I arrived at their new hos to see mom and dad young again and enjoying each others company with the dogs in their lap and the cat''s at their feet. Wait the cats where are my cats?I looked in my main menu to find my storage two pet crates, with a message saying they were afraid the dogs would hurt them.


    With a sigh of relief I jaunted on up towards mom and pop Mom Was the first to see me.


    Mom "High isn''t this wonderful we are young again, hon do you want to go shopping."


    Dad "Whats the point when you could snap your fingers and get whatever you want."


    Mom "Still sour about being forced in here aren''t you dad?"


    Dad "Of course free will it''s what makes us human if I didn''t want to go I shouldn''t of have to."


    we spent an hour or more talking before I went back home they are stable for now.


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    Do you all want me to add a segment for Justin. Next chapter there will finally be some combat.