It’s the first day of the year 2140,where people come to celebrate not only new year but also the day when the whole world changed.

Going back 40 years when all the leaders around the world came together to form only a single nation and named it EARTH, and also created one city named KOSMOS.

Kosmos replaced all other big cities and every different part was divided into areas. It's a sunny day in the area 017 where we can see children playing in the parks, people dancing, just enjoying the day and the busiest part of the area was in the center of where there is an old Cafe  owned by an old couple famous in the whole of Area 017.

The cafe is well known in the area because of its coffee and food. Old recipes of the vintage foods with the delicious aroma of coffee in the air makes people wanna stay more because it helps them relax and reminds them of the past world. The food is famous not only because of the vintage recipes but also the preparation that is handled by one chef named Dard Teofila a young 20 year old tall chef with dark hair and dark complexion who had a hard time growing up with the name Dard. He would often get bullied so he started introducing himself as DT. The only one who knew his full name was LEO HIRAM.

The guy behind the amazing aroma of coffee  another 21 year old young tall Barista with Hazel eyes, Long Dark hair, Muscular build  and with a scar under his eyes, he was well known for the coffee and no knew his name every other co-worker Called him The Hooded owl because he always come to work in the evening and is gone before anyone comes in the morning,  Leo has been working at the Cafe for over 2 years alongside Dard. They have been together since they were children and as they were alone they had only themselves to look after each other. They were like an inseparable pair of brothers who were working for over 2 years saving up money to buy just one thing.

The Kosmos 4250GX, a gaming helmet created by the NEECO GAMES! Which would play the most awaited game of all time The Lost World!

The game was considered to change the whole gaming industry as it was the first ever game which teleports you to a Virtual Reality world where everything seems real, neeco games also stated that this game could be considered as another opportunity that life is giving you.

Leo and Dard had nothing in their life to lose so they decided to give this new opportunity in life a chance. After the pay day Leo went straight to the sport center of Kosmos to place an order for the helmet. Seeing a notification pop up on the holowatch confirming the order placement of the helmet leo went home.

After a day the helmet was delivered on his window by a drone. Excitedly he received the package and opened it straight away as soon as he took it out he could see the black colour shining exterior with a hint of white in the middle and also had a huge N placed in the middle representing the Neeco company.

He quickly wore the helmet in his room as Dard was in the other and received the package , and was also ready to wear it. Leo wore the helmet and the voice of an AI lady was heard .

“Scanning Data in check, DNA status Male 21,Leo Hiram registered as New user of The Lost World!”

Welcome to the Lost world, a bright white light engulfs Leo and sends him to an open area where he could choose the Region he wanted to spawn too. Leo and Dard had read too many beta manuals on The Lost World which clearly started spawning and starting the journey in the Eastern Region had better rewards, without thinking further he chose the Eastern Region, so did Dard and they both were sent to a White River City.

After logging in and being teleported to White River City, An notification screen pops up in front of Leo’s eyes.

“Hello Adventures Welcome to the Lost World. I am the tutorial instructor Liam. I will introduce you to the  four main categories and twelve main classes. Please choose the class that will fit u best.”

With a wave of Liam's hand all the four categories and twelve classes pop up in front of Leo.

The twelve classes were categorised according to the four categories.

Warrior:- Shield Warrior, Guardian knight and berserker.

Weapons specialist:- Swordsmen, Assassin and Gunner.

Healer:- Cleric, Druid, Oracle.

Mage:- Elementalist, Summoner, Cursemancer.

The warriors are specialized in defending against monsters, Weapons specialists focused on the physical damage, Healers focused on the healing and mage were specialized in the magical damage output. Each of the categories had their own style of battle which was one of the important selling points of the game The Lost World.

Leo chose the swordsmen class without hesitation, whereas Dard on the other hand went with Guardian Knight. As soon as Leo completed the selection of class, Liam spoke “Job selection complete, choose a name for your character.”

Leo chose “X” as his name.

“Naming Successful, Do you wish to change your appearance?” asked Liam. Leo replied No and kept the same appearance. “Confirmed no changes in appearance, we wish you happy gaming!” having said this Liam disappeared with a snap of his fingers leaving Leo standing in the White River City of the Eastern Region.

Leo rushed to the training ground when all other players were rushing to NPCs hoping they would receive a quest, some were even going outside the city to grind on monsters. The training ground was empty when Leo reached there. Dard also on the other hand went to find NPCs that gave quests.

Training ground was a place top right in the corner of the city so not many people know about it, even if people knew no one would wanna come to the training ground when they could finally live like the fantasy world and enjoy themselves. Leo wanted to get to know the sword he was holding.

Leo had a Bronze Armor with a bronze Sword, those were the basic equipment all players received at the start of the game. Leo pulls out the sword and starts swinging in the air without any form or any grip he was swinging in the air like a novice would suddenly Leo could hear someone laughing by the corner of the training field.

Leo ignored the laughter and continued what he was doing, suddenly behind him stood a huge man with a sword hanging from his back and a beard, he had an aura which could send a chill down the spine that is what Leo was feeling . He immediately realised that’s a NPCs.

The NPC spoke “Your form was shit and the way your hips were they were not in the correct position so you didn’t get enough power on your strike” he adjusted Leo’s form and then instructed him to swing the sword in a certain manner. “Now try swinging your sword but also move your feet along the direction you want to move so move and swing that will give you enough power and you can see your enemy move behind because of your sudden movements. Now imagine someone and swing your sword.”

Leo had only one person to imagine and try it out. Leo wouldn’t have listened to anyone instructing him he is a type of guy who wants to do it his way and he always succeed. But Leo listened here without any hesitation because of the chills he would get if he tried and ignored the person right in front of him. That’s how intimidating Aura was of the bearded guy right in front of Leo.

Leo imagined Dard holding a sword and swinging at him. Leo started blocking the imaginary attacks Dard was implying on him and Leo was patient enough to wait for a chance suddenly his imaginary Dard sword became slow and Leo found an small opening that’s when he decided to move and it was time Leo would be on the offensive. Leo imagined him on the attack and had a smirked face which showed he was enjoying being on the attack. Leo kept swinging and moving repeatedly doing it for the next five minutes and that’s when the imaginary Dard went down and Leo had a sword by the neck of his opponent.

Seeing that the bearded man smirked and spoke “ I am Elijah, A Platinum rated Swordsmen” Every category had a tier starting from bronze moving up to silver, Gold, Platinum and ending with Diamond. White River City is one of the small cities compared to the other cities of the Eastern Region, so finding a platinum ranked NPC in a small city was difficult. Leo replied “Hello sir, I am X”.

Elijah said “good now that the introduction is done I will move on to the important part I would like to train you, will you accept it?” Leo spoke “ I will be honoured to learn from you”. Elijah started teaching Leo the perfect posture for him to swing the blade and instructed him to swing 5000 times everyday if he misses the posture even once he had to start again from zero. When Leo heard this he was shocked but he started doing it anyways he was also worried how long this training session will last because he was also worried that other players who found quests and were out in the wild will be growing stronger daily while it has been six in game days.

Days in the game are the same as outside 24 hours but in game 48 hours that means two in game days is equal to one day in the outside world. Leo has been logging off after finishing two in game days and swinging 10000 times to sleep and replenish his energy before logging in again he drinks an energy drink which helps him to keep his body in shape and in energy.

Now it has been 15 days in games Leo has been doing nothing besides swinging his sword. Leo has been doing great There have been no mistakes in his posture for the last couple of days. Suddenly Elijah appears right before him and tells him to stop and take a break.

Leo was so focused that he forgot to open up his attributes panel with a wave of his hand his attribute panel opened up.

Character name :- X

Affiliated Region :- Eastern Region

Title :- None

Class:- Swordsmen

Level:- 1

HP:- 100/100

Physical Attack Damage:- 124

Defense:- 45

Attack Speed:- 87

Movement Speed:- 102

Basic Attributes:- Strength 25, Agility 17, Endurance 19, Intelligence 22, Luck 10.

Weapon Mastery:-

One handed sword Mastery +10 (attributes will rise once the player reaches silver by 5%)

Two handed sword Mastery +5 (attributes will rise once the player reaches silver by 5%)

Swordsmen Talent:- Every sword related skills proficiency increases by 45%.

Skills:- Slice Requirements Sword. Additional 15 damage, cool down time 4 seconds. Skill Level 1.

All the swordsmen starts with basic attributes but Leo’s attributes didn’t seem normal, he was astonished and confused. Elijah saw his confused face and explained to him it's because of his swinging which increased his speed which helped him in increase of agility and also build up muscle helps him in increase of his strength and damage output, his intelligence increased because of how fast he learned the swinging technique.

Once Leo was done resting, Elijah came up to him and said “X are you ready for your training reward?” Leo replied “YESS”. “It's in that house by the river.” Elijah said pointing to a house just outside of the training field. Leo came up to the house and knocked on the door. Before he was leaving for the house Elijah also said the reward is inside but if u cant find it and u come out of the house empty handed u cannot again go in the house again.

Leo waited for few minutes if someone would open the door but seeing as no one was opening Leo decided to go in as soon as he entered he could understand why no one opened the door because the house was empty from the inside except for the broken furniture’s Leo searched the whole house he couldn’t find a reward chest or anything like that.

It had been over five hours since Leo came in the house all he could find was dust. It was nighttime in the game the house was broken so there was no electricity inside the house, it was pitch dark, so Leo decided to open up the window as he was about to open up the window he could see a small light coming from under the couch. He moved the couch away and could see a small trap door it was small but could fit Leo easily, Leo used all his strength to open up the trap door.

As he opened up the door he could see there was a tunnel under the house, Leo wanted to see where this tunnel would lead him to so he jumped in the tunnel through the trap door.

As soon as he jumped there was a notification sound only he could hear “Congratulations, Adventurer you have discovered a secret tunnel, Follow the secret tunnel to receive the reward!”.

Once Leo heard the notification sound, he continued on the path which led him to an area which had nothing but only bones lying in the area. Looking at the skeletons Leo felt as if he is in some real trouble, once scouting the open area Leo saw another path now this pathway didn’t have much lights like the other pathway but lit enough for Leo to walk through it as the pathway was reaching its end Leo could see a purple light coming through the end. Leo followed the light which led him to a treasure box with purple light emitting from it and purple smoke coming from behind.

As soon as Leo touched the treasure box, the smoke stopped and the light got brighter and once the door was opened the purple light emitting completely vanished and all Leo could see in the chest was an old tattered paper, a purple-colored sword, a skill rock and a black coat with a hood.

The first thing any Swordsmen would do is to pick up the weapon so did Leo but he couldn’t figure out anything when he checked the sword status all he could see are questions marks, so he understood that he is not that level to use them, so he picked everything up and stored them in his bag and went the way he came back from.

As soon as he climbed out of the cave and looked back down he saw the trap door disappear as if it was never there. Leo rushed out of the house and went to find Elijah but he couldn’t see Elijah anywhere, he asked around to the other place if they had seen a guy like Elijah everyone denied saying there was never a guy like Elijah to ever be there.

Leo was confused he instantly opened up the forum section of the game to find about Elijah but surprisingly there are no NPCs in the game named Elijah. Leo was shocked and confused first thing he decided to do was to go in a inn and book a room and look at the rewards properly, he couldn’t do it before because he wanted ti get out of the broken place. As he was about to leave he turned around to look at the house and maybe checking the house again for Elijah , maybe he is there Leo thought to himself, as he turned to look at the house he couldn’t see the house anywhere as if it was never there at the first place.

Leo confused, started walking to the inn, he went to the room and sat on the chair and laid out all the rewards on the table in  front of him. He picked up the old paper all he could see was a regular paper with nothing written on it. Then he picked up the coat and wore it as soon as he wore it a notification sound popped up. “Do you want to equip the Dark Coat?”. Leo replied yes, as soon as he said yes another notification sound popped up “You have equipped the Dark Coat, all other players won’t be able to see your profile or any details about you”. Leo was astonished not because the other players couldn’t see his level but also the coat raised up his defense and attack power but the thing that attracted Leo’s attention was his increase in agility there was an increase of about 50%agility while wearing the coat. Not only that but the coat also gave Leo a chance to change it into any type of clothes choice he wanted but it had only one use, Leo without even blinking decided to go for a long hoodie so the Coat changed its form to a long black hoodie just like Leo wanted.

Next he decided to pick up the Skill Rock, skill rocks are small rocks that fit in your hands and to acquire the skill one has to break it with their hands and as it breaks they receive the skill and its information. Skills were divided into 4 ranks Basic, Rare, Advance and lastly Legendary. Basics were White colored where Rare were Orange Advance were Blue and Legendary were Golden. Leo took the Rock and applied strength in order to break the stone and acquire the skill but nothing happened, the stone didn’t break Leo kept applying more pressure as time passes and after using most of his strength and stamina the rock had a crack on it and it broke as the skill was acquired as soon as Leo received the skill, he could hold the shock he received after reading the skill info.,

Skill: - Eagle Eye (Mythic Rank)

Equipment Level: - MAX.

Using Eagle Eye, the owner could see the opponent’s stats and skills and all the information about the opponents.

Non-Droppable.

Non-droppable represents that once a player dies the player's equipment drops but the non droppable equipment does not drop even after the player dies

Leo was happy with the non-droppable part but the rank Mythic and the max level was what caught Leo by more surprise and as it could help Leo detect anything it was worthy of being a Mythic rank. Leo could understand what Mythic rank was maybe it was a rank which would be introduced later in the game that would be after legendary rank and the color of Mythic rank was Red.

Now that Leo acquired Eagle Eye, he could finally Look at the sword that had question marks when he tried to look at the information about the sword. He picked the sword and used an eagle eye to look at the sword.

[Shadow Blade] (Legendary Rank.)

Attack power: - 124

All attributes: - +50

Attack speed: - 70

Attacks have 20% chance of dealing 2× damage, having 10%chance of reducing opponent’s damage.

Equipment Level: - 0

Levels can be increased by feeding the sword 10 basic equipment’s. (Can be Evolved).

Additional skill 1: Doppelganger. Can create a doppelganger and it will have 50% of owner’s attributes. You can control the Doppelganger. Time limit 1 minute.

Cool down time: 10 minutes.

Additional skill 2: Shadow Bind. Binds the opponent and reduces the defense by 100%. Time limit is 10 seconds.

Cool down time: 30 seconds.

Additional skill 3: Multiple slashes. The slashes keep coming one after another and more slashes more the damage will be. Time limit is 20 seconds.

Cool down time: 5 minutes.

Looking at the attributes of the sword Leo thought this weapon was nothing more then God’s weapon. Leo finally thought he could fight off the level 30 monsters in the wild easily.

Now he kept the sword on his waist and he took the last paper that was left on the table. Now he had the Eagle Eyes he could use them to look at the paper after activating the Eagle Eye he could see some writing on the paper. “Tear the paper to use it.”

Leo tore the paper and just like the rock the paper vanished and a notification popped up.

“You have Unlocked the Hidden class Shadow Master”.