Evan had searched that forums for data pertaining to death and stat losses.

Apparently, defeating mobs had a random chance of regaining lost stats due to death. After leveling up, lost stats can

No longer be recovered.

Evan immediately logged in to HCO and started grinding. After a few hours of repeatedly slaying foxes, he was able to

regain the stats that he had lost. Horizon was suddenly disconnected.

Evan had tried reconnecting, but was unable to. After checking the HCO forums,

he saw comments that were similar to what he had experienced.

They were also unable to connect to HCO.

DarkEden had announced that because they had released the 100000 new HCO capsules.

As the 100000 new users had logged in, the server underwent an overload, And the HCO servers had crashed.

They were currently trying to fix the issue, and apologized for any Inconveniences,

And that they would announce if anything had occurred, and when the servers should be back up.

With nothing to do, Evan resigned himself for college preparations.

College would start tomorrow, and Evan was only half prepared.

After cooking for his sister and showering, Evan had studied for a while then he went to sleep.

Checking the forums after he woke, HCO was still offline.

Atlas college, Evan had earned a half-scholarship after applying to community projects and

submitting online works.

Entering Atlas college, Evan had found his Tech and TI class.

Evan sat by the left side near the middle of his class. Behind him, sat James.

Evan was bullied and picked on by James since middle school,

Evan never knew why James chose to pick on him, except that James was a by all means, a jerk.

Earlier within the hallways while being insulted by James, Evan had found out that James was dating

a beauty named Kate. Evan held a certain contempt for Kate after Kate had accidentally insulted him.

James and Kate had been dating for a while. After meeting Kate at a party, James had developed an interest in Kate.

They had become acquainted with each other through many parties, after many attempts by James to woo Kate,

Kate gave in and had started dating James. After they both decided to join Atlas university,

Kate came to meet James at Atlas when the college opened its doors.

When Kate found James, she realized that James was bullying a man,

Before she could close her mouth, she had accidentally insulted the young man.

"James, why do you waste your time talking to someone like him?"(Kate)

Kate had meant this as a way to stop James from bullying the young man, but

She realized that her comment was an insult towards the young man.

James who saw Kate, pushed Evan, and smiled towards Kate.

"Hey, Kate"(James)

After greeting each other, Kate looked back, but saw the young man was no longer there.

Feeling guilty, Kate decided that she would have to apologize to the young man later.

"Students, Quiet down please, class is starting." (Professor)

As the students gradually ended their conversations and quieted down, the class professor started again.

"Hello, We will start this class by introducing ourselves, I am your class professor, Professor Duncan"(Prof. Duncan)

When the first student came up to introduce their self, they made a statement about HCO

"Hello, my name is Jason, I play a game called Heaven's Calling Online, if anyone else plays it,

Add me, my name is "KingOfSoul." (Jason)

After the mention of HCO, the entire classroom started talking about it.

Soon after, it became the norm for the introductions.

It seemed like the 100000 HCO capsules that DarkEden had sold was no joke.

The everyone in the class seemed to have started HCO.

There were also several comments about the crash.

"Hello, my name is Kate, nice to meet you, I play Heaven's Calling Online, and my name is SereneKat"

Tch. Evan mumbled to himself. "It seems Jame's girlfriend is in my class."

Since it was Evan's turn to introduce himself, Evan reluctantly went up.

"Hello, my name is Evan, nice to meet you."

Evan introduced himself as quickly as possible without seeming rude, then returned to his seat.

Kate noticed the young man, and took note of his name. Evan.

She would find him later and formally apologize to him.

As the lecture ended, Evan grabbed his materials and left first.

As Kate saw Evan leaving, she quickly packed her stuff, then tried finding Evan.

Kate looked around, she was unable to find Evan. She told herself that she would apologize the next time she saw him.

Returning home, he checked with his sister to find out if she needed anything, made lunch, then silently ate.

Checking the forums, as soon as Evan saw that DarkEden had announced that the HCO servers were back up,

He immediately logged in.

As Horizon looked around, he noticed that he was somewhere else. This wasn't here he logged off.

Horizon quickly checked his stats. He was back to Level.1.

Horizon logged off quickly and checked the forums.

The first thing he saw was that DarkEden had announced what happened.

He missed the notice the first time because he was only paying attention to see of the server was online or not.

What he missed was the change labeled at the top.

Because the HCO map became corrupt, they had to delete it, and in its place, a entirely new world

Was now set as the main. The only things that seemed to stay the same were the skill masteries.

All items, Levels, and other statuses had been reset.

The comments on the forum included varying opinions.

1. DestinedOne- I think it's nice that the world and stats were reset, now we can all start at the same pace

2. BrazenFist- STFU! You're only saying that becaz you didn't even have the game before yesterday. All our work went to hell.

3. GrapeUrMum- Ha! Must suck you you noobs >:3 Get Rekt

4. BrazenFist- @GrapeUrMum I'm going to kill you in the game when I see yur lil punk ass.

5. FlyingTurtle- I agree with @DestinedOne, I think that it will be more fair to all the players.

6. Smashurface- WTF?! I LOGGED IN AND ALL MY F*CKING STUFF IS GONE! THIS IS TOTAL BULLSH*T!

7. Yunosuke[Moderator]- Please watch your language, @Smashurface.

8. Smashurface-

9. Smashurface[Banned]-

10. dArKDeAtH- This kid's a frickin idiot...

11. Yunosuke[Moderator]- Warned, and then Banned.

Logging in, Horizon decided that he would look around. As he stepped forward, a new interface appeared.

[Please Select Your Kingdom- [Runa] [Faer] [Kaer]]

It seemed that because the old world was destroyed, he would be able to select a new location to start in this new world.

After a short while, he chose the Runa Kingdom.

A few things had changed. The kingdoms were far larger than the towns, the architecture seemed more advanced,

And the trainers that assisted class selection could be used once someone reached level 5.

His starter equipment was the same ones that's he had started in the old world with.

Most of the players from the old world had already seemed to have run off, leaving behind only the new players,

And the players that were recruiting to make parties and/or guilds.

Horizon was invited by a party of 4. After a slight hesitation,

He decided that at level 1, partying wouldn't hurt to start with.

And so began the true start of HCO.

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These things take so long to write...

Whatever. Here you go.

I must say, After you get started, it becomes a lot easier to write.

Compared to the earlier chapters, this seemed to be the best, and the easiest to write.

Leave a reply of what you think, and if there are any holes or mistakes, or maybe say Hi. Thanks for reading!