I wrote this story because I always see stories about characters and adventure and monsters and sorts, but never about how it began. How is it to be a beginner and supposedly live a life on Maple Island until you are strong enough. Please comment about stuff that you liked and disliked about the story. Thanks.

Blinding light…
The sound of dice…
She feel awakened, as if energy has been given to her by the gods…
She opens her eyes. Lush green grass greets her. She sees a girl sitting on the grass, talking to someone. Someone holding a hatchet…
She realizes that she is wearing a necklace. Engraved on the silver, it says ‘Talim’. Drawing her sword from her backpack, she walks towards the girl on the ledge.

“Hi there, my name is…” says Talim.

“Oh, a newcomer eh? My name is Heena. I need you to do me a favor. Get a feel of your sword, and then head over there. I need you to get Sera’s mirror for me. If you do, I’ll give you something.” It sounded like she has said this many times before
“Okay…”

So Talim walks over and climbs a ladder to see another girl doing her laundry.

“Hi, um, Heena over there asked me if i could get her your mirror, is that okay?” Talim asks.

“Oh, that lazy girl can’t get it for herself? Here you go. Tell her i want it back.” Sera replies.

Talim walks back and gives the mirror to Heena. She takes it and presses a button. Suddenly Talim feels different. It was a small feeling though, so she moves on through some bluish portal shooting out of the ground . She then finds a guy named roger standing on a floating ledge. As Talim walks by he says,
“Hey, hotness. Can you give me some of your time?”

“What?!” Talim shouts.

“I’m Roger, and I stand here helping cute girls like you use items. Here lets have some fun. Yaah!”
He leaps down, pulls out a golden sword and in a flash he jumps back up to the platform. Talim realizes that she’s cut on the leg.

“Hey! What the hell was that for?” She shouts out.
He pulls out an apple and 3 bottles containing a red fluid.

“Eat the apple to heal your cut. The potions are a presents. Don’t forget me!” He flashes a smile, but for some reason he sounded like he has repeated that sentence many times.

Talim moves on through the portal, and sees a girl in a bunny suit, making poses.

“Hey there”, she says. “Can you do me a favor? My name is Nina.”

“Why does everyone want me to do favors?” Talim thinks to herself.

“You see that house over there? My little brother is in there. Can you ask him what he wants for dinner?”

“*sigh* Sure.” Talim replies.

Talim walks into the house and sees a kid there. He says two words, “Mushroom soup”. He looks tired. She walks out again and tells Nina that Sen wants mushroom soup. Again, she feels as if she is stronger.

She walks on to find some guy named Todd teaching some people how to kill monsters. And there they were, small, spherical, one-eyed monster floating around. It moved of its own accord but it seemed that it couldn’t hurt anyone. Talim pulls out her sword and slashes at the round thing until it disappeared into nothing. She felt stronger, as if the monster gave her dexterity enough to jump around and kill more. After killed 8 spheres, Talim felt strong. Like this was what she was born to do.

She walks on until she sees someone named Peter ahead.

“I saw you fighting over there,” he says. “You look very capable.”

“Thank you, I think,” Talim says back.

“Here, take this.” He waves the air.

Suddenly blue light comes out of nowhere, surrounding Talim. She was being bathed by the blue light energy, for it indeed was energy, as Talim felt stronger. Words lighted up in midair, made by the blue light.

“LEVEL UP! it says. Even though I am still weak, someone notices that I became stronger.” she thinks. Around her, others make their way to Peter, eager to see what he said for them.

Talim went through the portal, and took a small gasp at what she saw.
Snails. Everywhere. People all over the place, holding Wooden Clubs, Hatchets, and Swords. And not just people. Little mushrooms, different colored snails. Two portals, each leaving to a different town supposedly.

Time to get some experience.