15 minutes before the countdown for new players to join, a young man who had just picked up a package from his workplace’s reception was making a phone call to his family while holding the box.
The scene wasn’t strange, but what he said on the phone was sowhat odd.
“Mom, don’t worry, I’ve confird that dad really isn’t having an affair, and he’s not doing anything sketchy.
Really!
He’s just playing a ga, that helt he wears lying in bed every night – yes, it’s not so ‘massage device’, and this isn’t a scam, don’t worry. I’ll be able to join him in the sa ga soon.
I promise I’ll talk so sense into dad!
I guarantee!
But you have to promise that when he wants to go fishing and such in the future, you won’t stop him, he’s under enough pressure already.”
After much persuading to calm his anxious mother on the other end, he sneakily returned to his office. Seeing ti was almost up, he quickly opened the package and leaned back in his chair to find a comfortable position, then put that “unbranded” black helt on his head.
【Ding! Biotric scan complete! Reality Realm ga hardware binding complete. According to your ga ID and test application sequence, you will gain access to Reality Realm in 2 minutes.
Countdown will begin!
Please take a deep breath, prepare yourself to enter a completely realistic ga and ensure you can fulfill your duties as a ‘tester’.】
A note popped up on the VR-like interface of the black motorcycle helt-like gaming hardware, making the young man who had just received the helt blink.
He had already locked his office door to ensure he wouldn’t be disturbed. Given that he had already beco the logistics engineer at the vehicle R&D center where he worked at such a young age and had great prospects in the company, no annoying superior would co to “put pressure” on him with only 30 minutes left before getting off work.
His ga ID was “Vomit Sauce”.
Well.
This ID felt a bit weird for his gender, but he had entered it casually at the ti, who knew his application would be approved on the first try? He even thought this ga was just a non-existent joke back then!
If he had another chance to choose, he definitely wouldn’t use this na to start his life in the ga.
“Could it really be because of dad’s influence?”
Vomit Sauce grumbled internally.
His busy lifestyle and diligent personality developed since childhood ant he rarely wasted ti on recreational things like gas. If it weren’t for his parents’ recent “family conflict” over this stupid helt, he wouldn’t have broken his own rules to get involved.
However, he didn’t believe his father, who had been self-disciplined for most of his life, would beco addicted because of a ga. He felt this argunt stemd more from the old couple losing the novelty in their relationship after living together for most of their lives, causing them to beco irritated with each other.
“Dad, please don’t cause trouble for . Although I’ve lurked in the forums long enough to confirm this ga really exists, don’t get yourself caught up in so weird pyramid sche.”
Vomit Sauce watched the countdown in front of him tick down to zero while grumbling internally.
Then light filled his vision, like seamlessly transitioning into a gentle light filling his retina, he saw dim nebulae across the sky and a strange planet rapidly approaching. But before he could look carefully, a sensation of weightlessness ca over his spiritual level. ṝÂＮốᛒΕ𝘚
Like a falling star entering the ground, his consciousness found a second ho in the shell woven by the dancing spirit energy lines in the ga. After one sharp breath, Vomit Sauce opened his eyes.
What greeted his sight was a very dark-styled do and weathered carvings on the walls along with strange mythological story-like murals.
His pupils constricted at this mont.
Damn!
So this is 100% reality?
It felt exactly like transmigrating to another world, he could clearly feel his hands, feet and limbs as well as all five senses, causing him to instinctively sit up from the cold stone platform.
He panted, trying to steady his breathing and calm his mind.
Then looking down at his constantly moving fingers and hands, he clearly saw that faint scar on his palm, which he got from an accident when he first started working two years ago.
They could even copy such details?
With an engineer’s mindset, Vomit Sauce imdiately began pondering how this unscientific thing worked, naturally to no avail.
“By the Holy Light!”
Just as Vomit Sauce was shocked internally, a strange shout made him turn his head, only to see a bald burly man jumping up and down on the spot before kneeling on one knee like a priest or pastor with his hands raised to the sky.
He shouted excitedly:
“You’ve really manifested! We’ve co to another world, a place of trials prepared by Your will for the Torrent Knights!”
Vomit Sauce was shocked.
He felt sothing seed wrong – brother, are you sure you’re really a player and not a civilian from another world? You’re way too into it!
And why are you preaching in Chinese?
With that heavy accent, your Holy Light would probably cry if it heard you.
“Damn, Uncle Fording’s symptoms are getting worse. I heard he got himself a set of knight armor and keeps it at ho, wearing it out for walks randomly, even fighting with his wife because of it?”
“Right? We’re just RPing, but he’s really gone crazy with it.”
The quiet complaints from two little players nearby made Vomit Sauce blink. He went over and asked:
“Are you guys together? What’s wrong with this guy? Does he really believe in this stuff in real life?”
“Uh, Uncle Fording is a firm materialist, he’s just… uh, how should I explain this to you?”
A handso guy with long hair scratched his head, and after a few seconds of hesitation still couldn’t find the right words to describe his companion, so he could only shrug and tell Vomit Sauce concisely:
“He’s just a drama queen!”
“Uh, that explanation is unexpectedly casual yet unexpectedly convincing.”
Vomit Sauce laughed and extended his hand, saying:
“Hi brother, I’m Vomit Sauce.”
“Oh hi, I’m Legendary Hero.”
The two young n of similar age shook hands. By now all 140 people from this batch entering the ga had logged in and were moving around in the midnight chamber. Legendary Hero looked around and proudly told Vomit Sauce:
“Both of our Torrent Knights’ advance teams with 80 people have arrived. Brother, are you solo? Want to join us? Though you’ll need to give yourself a ‘nickna’, since ‘Vomit Sauce’ really doesn’t sound like sothing a Holy Light believer would use as a nickna.
It really breaks the imrsion.”
“Uh, never mind, I’m actually here looking for soone. Gaming is secondary.”
Vomit Sauce laughed and politely declined the hero’s invitation.
He was anxious to find his father now. After witnessing firsthand the 100% reality this bizarre ga claid, Vomit Sauce roughly understood why his father would be so addicted.
Looking at this situation, what man wouldn’t be fascinated?
“This place has too much yin energy, I think we shouldn’t stay too long.”
Vomit Sauce walked forward, but after just a few steps he heard a superstitious guy nearby telling another tall man:
“I just took a quick look at the feng shui, this ghostly place is the most inauspicious of the inauspicious. Anyone who buries a coffin here is bound to have problems!”
“Did you really need to say that? We’re in a nest of ‘evil spirits’ right now.”
The tall man sneered and said:
“Still talking about burying coffins? This is where a group of vampires live, maybe they just like the feng shui of such extrely inauspicious places! Look! Those four girls over there are so pretty, they seem to be a team!”
“Girls? Where are the girls?”
The last short chubby man in this group of three suddenly poked his head out, looking in the direction the tall guy was pointing. Indeed, the 4 girls among this batch of 140 people had already attracted many people’s attention.
With varying heights and builds aside, these four girls gathered together all had quite a cold, serious yet heavy and helpless aura.
It was as if others ca to play the ga, while they ca to “work”.
Vomit Sauce could confirm this point, because he had the sa aura when dragging his tired body to work every Monday.
“Ahem, my warriors!” Just as the new players were whispering or looking for their teams, a spirit ritual that had been set up earlier was suddenly activated.
As the deep voice echoed, crimson mist dispersed, and with dramatic Blood Wings flapping, Lord Murphy and Grand Duchess Tris appeared as “vampire lovers” before the new players for the first ti as “main quest NPCs”.
The old players waiting around the midnight chamber had grown calluses in their ears from hearing Lord Murphy’s “entrance speech”.
It was all just for Transia blah blah blah, for the Crimson Citadel blah blah blah, for the Blood Vulture Clan blah blah blah, but this was the new players’ first ti seeing such a handso vampire as Lord Murphy, so they listened very attentively.
After finishing the pleasantries and self-introductions, Murphy suddenly changed his tone. Under the gaze of 140 new players and so old players, he said solemnly:
“Thanks to the assistance of warriors from another world, Transia has defeated the gnoll plague on this land. This is a great victory. However, as heroes who answered the call, your warrior’s journey is not just in the realm of killing and conquest. I believe you should take on more important responsibilities.
Construction!
An undertaking that brings as much sense of achievent as destruction, it represents order and future, bringing light and prosperity. It shall be accomplished hand in hand by all survivors on this land!”
“Ding!”
Under the surprised gazes of all the old players, a new quest was triggered on their Computation Beads. The new players didn’t have Computation Beads so they didn’t understand the old players’ excitent, they were newbies who didn’t know what the update of a “main quest” represented.
Honorary Knight Typal, who was preparing to “pick up his bride” at this mont, looked down at the floating text on the Computation Bead. Due to Administrator Alpha’s previous reminder, he read very carefully this ti:
【Main Quest Chapter 1 “Dawn of Transia” Phase 3 ‘100-Day Grand Construction Campaign’ has been updated!
Quest Content: With the rich spoils of war obtained by Lord Murphy’s warriors’ strikes everywhere, the gnoll threat that plagued Transia has been eliminated. The submission of the Countess of Seicob and the winged cavalry has finally allowed Lord Murphy’s reputation to spread across the land of Transia.
This is an undeniable great victory!
However, hidden beneath the victory are risks that cannot be ignored. The Crimson Citadel’s rule currently remains superficial. There are still many refugees troubled by the aftermath of war waiting to be gathered, and there are still villages far from governance that do not know Lord Murphy’s na.
Rule that cannot penetrate deeply is like duckweed without roots, and this is a situation that Murphy and his followers cannot tolerate.
More importantly, as autumn deepens, winter is coming to Transia. If these poor souls cannot be brought under protection before snow covers the land, what the lord will lose is not just manpower, but also the prestige he has painstakingly established.
Therefore, after the gnoll disaster ended, Lord Murphy and his regents decided to launch a large-scale territory construction campaign over the next three months!
The focus of all Transia will shift from combat to the restoration of order, which undoubtedly requires the wisdom of warriors to participate.
Quest Objective:
Basic Goals:
Through completing various tasks issued by NPCs, using thods such as recruiting refugees, developing comrce, accepting prisoners, building settlents, collecting resources, etc., make Transia’s registered population exceed 200,000 in the next three months, and complete the initial construction of no less than 15 settlents and the Crimson Citadel urban circle.
Advanced Goals:
1. No less than 10 player-led functional guilds, with NPCs accounting for no less than 30% of guild mbers.
2. Raise Crimson Citadel’s prosperity level to ‘Stable’.
3. Successfully put Transia First National Armant Factory into production with independent military industrial production capacity.
4. Kadman People’s Army mbers exceed 4,000 with certain organizational level.
5. Restore Seicob Winged Cavalry’s establishnt to over 1,000 personnel.
6. Number of testers passing the Black Iron Trial exceeds 800.
Quest Reward:
1. Regardless of whether basic goals are completed, the main quest will automatically update to Chapter 2 after the 100-day construction campaign ends. However, if basic goals are completed, the player group will enjoy preferential logistics treatnt at the start of Chapter 2.
2. For each additional advanced goal completed, players will enjoy one more “permanent buff” in Transia territory when Chapter 2 begins.
3. If all advanced goals are completed, it represents the completion of functional testing of the ga. The “closed beta” phase will end early and enter “internal testing” phase.
Ti Limit: 100 days.
Note!
1. During the ‘100-Day Construction’ campaign, testers’ daily ga ti increases by 2 hours.
2. As this storyline progresses, new feature ‘Player Stronghold’ will unlock. When stronghold function unlocks, managent rights of different strongholds will be granted to player guilds that perform best in this campaign according to their functions.
Developer Note!
Managing stronghold construction is a very complex and tedious process that will consu lots of player energy and ga ti, and cannot be completed alone. Therefore, the developnt team does not recomnd non-administrative players to challenge this gaplay feature.
Developer Note!
The stronghold feature is test gaplay by the developnt team to expand “ga freedom”. Many strongholds will open in later ga progress, so player groups that don’t get managent rights need not be anxious.】
ow King: 【??? The dev team thinks this ghost ga’s freedom isn’t enough? They’re even frantically increasing their own workload? Hey, you guys are getting more and more stubborn in places you shouldn’t be working hard on!
Also I think our ‘Big Bird Spin Spin Spin Team’ can definitely shoulder running a stronghold!】
Lumina Yanghen: 【facepalm Brother ow don’t you think you already lost when you said your team na? If I were the dev team, I definitely wouldn’t choose you guys either. You’re utterly defeated just by the na!
This is dieval Online not 2077 with all those monsters and spirits.】
Precipitation Niuniu Is Not Afraid of Difficulties: 【Well said! Not to ntion anything else, even if they really gave you a player territory, Brother ow, do you think those few people in your team can handle all those regulations?】
ow King: 【I can learn! And I think I can learn it!】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Learn my ass, you’d cry for help just drafting a contract, what big talk are you making? Let tell you guys secretly, Brother Alpha contacted earlier, insider info says one of the two strongholds opening later is a military stronghold.
Hehehe, who else but among our current player base?
Rember to call ‘General Joy’ when you see in the future, understand?】
ow King: 【Got it, General Stick. When you beco a great military commander give a colonel position, dog kowtowing, woof woof together!】
Onboard Joy Stick: 【Get lost! You illiterate are such bad luck. Tch, don’t forget what we agreed on earlier, let’s go participate in the winged cavalry training first, see you at the ruins of Seicob City.】
ow King: 【Yeah yeah, we’ll talk then.】
For a mont the old players were all cheering over the triggering of the new quest. Their obvious joy made the new players look confused, but needless to say, everyone had spent ti on the forums, so they naturally knew this must an new quests had been triggered.
Hey, major storyline right after entering the ga?
These developers are pretty nice.
Vomit Sauce thought so, but he didn’t forget his main task and began searching through the crowd.
Whether doing quests or enjoying fun, he had to first find his dad who was hopelessly addicted to the ga. If he couldn’t find him, this family conflict would escalate.
Just as Vomit Sauce was looking around in the crowd, Bulldozer Man Charging who was strolling past outside the crowd suddenly froze, then nimbly ducked back, looking with uncertainty at Vomit Sauce’s cultured and intensely curious face in the crowd. After confirming, Brother Bulldozer imdiately ssaged Half Off With Full Coverage who was still casting lines with his “mysterious fishing buddy”:
“F**k! What ti is it and you’re still fishing for your damn fish, co back quickly! Your son has co looking for you all the way into the ga!”
“Who? Who did you say? Say that again! Who ca looking?”
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