Story Arcs (Races: Online)

# **Story Arcs**

Races: Online (VR Smartphone App) is a web fiction story that focuses on Han Jing, it is slow-paced and a singular day can take place in many chapters. The easiest method of dividing the story is through what happens in each day.

It is also important to know that Han Jing is living dual-lives.

Most of the events take place in the World of Creators and some occur on Earth.

# **Days**

## Day 1 - Introduction Phase

This is the prologue arc of the work that introduces the start of the fiction and features the protagonist receiving the Races: Online app.

It is available from **Chapter 1 to Chapter 11**.

While job-hunting for some temporary freelancing work at a PC cafe, Han Jing receives a strange email that announced his acceptance as a beta-tester, while also giving him $1000 as a small bonus. He then downloads the game ‘Races Online’ after confirming that money did actually arrive.

After buying snacks at a convenience store to celebrate, he goes home and meets a stranger at his apartment who had gotten drenched by the sudden rain. He makes a remark about umbrella to which she smiles about before leaving.

Once the game finished downloading, he soon plays the game and finds it enjoyable. Albeit for the fact that he could only start as ‘Human’. He begins his story at Rockfall Village and completes missions, but then a sudden feature ‘Free-Reign’ Mode lets him actually control his character from inside the game.

## Day 2 - Introduction Phase and Magical Academy Arc

It is available from **Chapter 12 to Chapter 41**.

After a series of events, which also involves meeting an androgynous Wood Elf, he discovers that there is a Universal Chat for all Players. It’s where he manages to talk with the Moderator and gains access to logging out. The moment he wakes up, he heads to the bank and withdraws his money. Visiting the convenience store for breakfast, he meets his new neighbor, Chan Lee.

Once he got home and gives a bit of money to his mother, Han Jing returns back to the game where he is hailed as a hero for saving his village. A retired Hero then offers him to go to Kraelonia Academy. He brings a fellow villager along, Timothy, a young man who lost his mother during the Gargoyle Invasion—the guy nearly jumped off the cliffs.

Hitchhiking a ride on the retired Hero’s old cart, he and the others traverse through the lands to reach their destination. After encountering a goblin tribe and then passing out, he wakes up at an inn alone in the Oaken Ashwood Forest. He discovers he’s conquered the territory from the Goblin Player and proceeds to Gather Resources and even gets a trade request from the Wood Elf but is then woken up by his mother.

Han Jing wakes up in the evening and is forced to help his mother cook at the shared kitchen while she chats with a landlord. Given the task to deliver food to their new neighbor, it turns out to be Chan Lee and not a transient one.

After the end of all that, Han Jing sleeps and returns back to the game.

## Day 3 - Magical Academy Arc (Trading and Wyverns)

It is available from **Chapter 42 to Chapter 101**.

Han tries to contact the Wood Elf to trade but he is offline, Han then ends up conversing with the Tiefling, Light and Shadow Elf who tells him that he doesn’t have enough items to trade. And he also discovers that the rest of the Races watched while the Demon Lord sent Gargoyles to attack his village. However, before he could say more, he and the others return back to traveling to the Capital City.

Once they arrive after some trouble at the gates with the guards, they meet up the Headmaster. The Headmaster enforces a special obstacle test for them in order to enroll late into the Academy to prove their skills and the two manage to do so.

Soon, the two enroll in different courses: Timothy’s high level of mana to fit well in Primary Mage curriculum whilst Han takes a Mixed curriculum. The two are then taken to their dormitory at Dewrowan Tower by a Noble student, Sir Leon de Harrington.

Han proceeds to take advantage of the dormitory and sleeps early.

Back on Earth as he wakes up in the morning, Han Jing decides to find work from people that he knows, fully aware that $1000 wasn’t enough money to survive. He visits Mou Gu at his small diner in the residential area of their city, but then heads out to the Heavenly Jade Pavilion to try his luck with Bo Lifen. Neither actually accepts him.

He starts his first day in Kraelonia Academy, late on his first class of ‘Introduction to Magical Theory’ and then fails at ‘Basic Combat Spells’ and whatnot. On his ‘Defense Against Mages’ Class, he finally achieves a new class. Rogue.

After the end of the lessons, he and Timothy both decide to go out and buy other stuff they need in the Academy. The two end up separating during a mass panic strikes the city, Han meeting up with other Players, Timothy meeting a strange girl. Han ends up facing off the Colossal Wyvern with other Players in a special mission.

## Day 4 - Magical Academy Arc (Soul Searching + Hidden Library)

It is available from **Chapter 102 to Chapter 151.**

Once he returns back to earth, Han Jing ends up physically feeling terrible and after sending an email to the Races Online Company, he discovers that it’s not simply Virtual Reality but his Soul ends up taken to another world. It makes him a lot more nervous of playing again when even transferring could end up with his Soul getting eaten.

But in the end, he still ends up going back to the game. Especially after a short conversation with his neighbor at the laundry room about pursuing what one wanted. After returning to the game, he attends class as usual. Later on, he even buys daggers at the Market—he met two men, one old and young who gave him a bag of gold coins.

Han is content but before he could log out, he receives a sudden task by his ally, Wood Elf, to find his daughter and soon ends up discovering the Hidden Library.

## Day 5 - Magical Academy Arc (Others Around Him)

It is available from **Chapter 152 to Chapter 192**.

During his time as simply Han Jing, a sudden thought comes forth and he panics about other Human Players.

The Wood Elf’s daughter is quite patient and helpful with him but is avoided by others for being a Half-Elf, he tries to get her more friends by playing a game of ‘spin the bottle’ and ‘two truths and one lie’.

## Day 6 - The World Around Him

It is available from **Chapter 193 to Chapter 234**.

While deciding to go out of the house for once, he eats at a convenience store and heads back to the PC cafe by chance. He meets Chan Lee with her friend Wang Liquin, the two somehow reminding him of Iola and Timothy. Once he finishes tutoring Chan Lee, he tries to head to Mou Gu’s diner for dinner but accidentally traverses into the Veiled World. He discovers Mou Gu is a Cultivator but then the man wipes out his memory—or so the man thinks.

He returns back to the game.

## Day 7 - Offline Meetings and Unexpected Ones

It is available from **Chapter 235 to Chapter 279**.

The Wood Elf will be visiting Earth and Han Jing is in search for the perfect gift.

Back in the World of the Creators, there are several individuals all converging around Timothy.

Departure occurs between Han, Timothy and even Iola.

# **Time Skip**

## Day 20

It is available from **Chapter 280 to Chapter 281**.

Han Jing has spent most of his time without touching his phone and visiting the World of the Creators. Instead he focused on putting up a business of selling flowers that were magically grown by the Wood Elf... but even this money-earning gig was about to end as the Wood Elf will return back to the Realm of Fae.

## Day 21

It is available from **Chapter 282 to Chapter 306**.

##### Earth

After much conversation and attempts to ensure his safety as he does not have any idea what to expect when dealing with a Mermaid Han Jing manages to get the Wood Elf to stay until the Mermaid's visit. It is there that an unexpected guest drops by—the Demon Lord. She was invited by the Wood Elf to join them on their trip.

##### **Creators' World**

###### Han POV

After several days of simply focusing on his flower-selling business, Han Jing returns to the world and discovers that he has leveled up drastically as he remembers what Han did during the course of his absence.

###### General POV

The whereabouts of Timothy and Iola are now revealed.

###### Owen POV

The man continues to undergo observation to the observations he has about Han.

###### General POV

Han joins some of his classmate for drinks in one of the local pubs in Gloria City and encounters both the city's guardsmen and those of the more unsavory parts of the town. Return of Doug.

## Day 22

It is available from **Chapter 307 to Chapter 337**.

##### **Earth**

It's finally the day where Han Jing takes Odele on a tour around an amusement and fulfill his end of the bargain. There are a lot of small shenanigans that occur as the sole human tries to navigate the Mermaid, Wood Elf and Demon Lord without gathering attention from the World and its inhabitants.

**Creators' World**

The Capricious Nature of Mornings (Secretary)

The report on the thugs attack came into the city and the Secretary takes notes of one of the students being involved with the three fugitives.

A Friend of Her and Her Father's (Ellynn)

Ellynn starts wondering about Han's friendship with her father.

Daily Dose From The Local Grape Vine

Kai visits and informs Han of news.

It Happened Again (Han)

The Guardsmen come to question Han about his knowledge but he comes across the Blacksmith area instead.

## Day 23

It is available from **Chapter 338 to 351**.

Earth

Before Owen confronts Han Jing and he offers a reply, he is woken up by Faeran because it's the day where he finally leaves. It is also where Han Jing trades with Dai Song Lan at last for the pearls and then heads home. He enters the Veiled World and encounters ghosts and even the 'cat' he saw before.

He is confronted by Mou Gu as the guy realizes that there is something wrong with the flowers that Han Jing sold.

Creators' World

Han wakes up in Professor Carnus' class and then goes about his classes.

## Day 24

It is available from **Chapter 362 and ongoing**.

##### **Earth**

Han Jing wakes up with a sore neck and comes back home to see that his family is still around. He is then forced to get lunch with his father and saves his father from getting run over by a truck.

Creators' World

Owen Liddell recruits Jeanne to confront the fugitives. (Who are interested in reuniting with Han for dating purposes)

Elliot Primrose attempts to play off as a beggar child and gets captured.

Earth

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