After dealing with the problem in Blightwarren, John arrived at an open clearing.
There were hardly any players around. He ca to a stop and opened his status panel to examine it.
[John]
[Level]: Level 5
[Rank]: None
[EXP]: 19,500/60,000
[HP]: 100,100/100,100
[MP]: 100/100
[Constitution]: 10,010
[Spirit]: 10
[Agility]: 4,767
[Strength]: 10,005
[Intelligence]: 11,030
[Physical Defense]: 10
[Magic Defense]: 10
[Class]: None
[Talent]: Heart of the Fire God (SSS Rank)
[Soulbound Talent]: None
[Reputation]: 3,700
[Gold Coins]: 420
[Luck Points]: 90
[Divinity]: 13
[Free Attribute Points]: 6,000
[Skills]:
Detect (Basic Skill)
Summon Undead (A Rank)
Ironblood Regeneration (A Rank)
Boulder Fury (A Rank)
Absolute Dominion (S Rank, Growth-Type)
Mana Reflux (S Rank)
Wrath of Flas (SSS Rank, enhanced by Heart of the Fire God)
[Equipnt]:
Soulrender (A Rank, Incomplete)
Flaserpent Ring (A Rank)
[Important Items in Backpack]:
Bluestone Hamr (A Rank)
Heart of Purity (S Rank, One-Ti-Use Item)
[Current Quest]:
Edge of the World (SS Rank)
...
At present, he possessed a total of 420 gold coins.
Converted into real-world currency, that ant he could imdiately receive a full 420,000 dollars.
Even in the city center, that amount would be enough to purchase a high-end apartnt.
And this was rely the money he had earned in a single day.
John glanced at the ti. It was already one in the morning.
There was no point in continuing to clear the remaining quests now. The mont midnight arrived, the castle entered curfew. Even if he finished the quests, he would not be able to hand them in or receive the rewards.
In any case, he would still have ti to continue tomorrow. There was no need to rush through these few remaining hours.
With that thought, John chose to log out.
...
John slowly opened his eyes, and the familiar sight of his rented apartnt ca into view.
As the gaming pod opened, he climbed out of it, his body feeling slightly stiff after lying inside for so long.
He glanced at the clock on the wall. It, too, was already pointing to one in the morning.
Almost instinctively, he raised a hand and rubbed his cheek, hoping to ease the numbness brought on by lying still for too long.
Suddenly, a faint chill brushed against his fingertips.
John focused his gaze and froze.
A ring engraved with the head of a serpent was resting in his hand.
The Flaserpent Ring?
Wasn’t this an item from inside the ga?
How had he brought it back into reality?
John was utterly stunned.
He already knew that, in the end, the ga would completely devour reality and fuse with the real world.
However, in his previous life, sothing like this had not occurred until two years later.
Yet in this life, it had already begun ahead of schedule?
Wait...
If he could bring items from the ga back into reality, then didn’t that an...
Forcing down the shock in his heart, John walked over to the mirror.
The man reflected in the glass was almost unrecognizable.
All the excess fat on his body had completely vanished. In its place was a powerful, well-built physique, every line of muscle sharp and clearly defined.
John slowly clenched his fist.
He could distinctly feel that the strength in his arms had increased trendously.
It seed that the attributes he had gained inside the ga had also been inherited by his body in reality.
After pondering for a mont, John aid at the wall and attempted to activate Flaserpent Ray.
The ring did not react at all.
It seed that skills could not yet be released in reality. Perhaps he would only be able to use them once the fusion was fully complete.
Even so, the physical strength he currently possessed was already terrifying beyond imagination.
With this in mind, John picked up his phone, intending to check whether any other players had experienced the sa phenonon.
The instant he opened the trending searches, countless pieces of news related to CREED appeared before his eyes.
Among them, one rapidly rising hot topic imdiately caught his attention.
[Who Exactly Is Outlander?]
The post was filled with all kinds of speculation regarding Outlander’s true identity.
It seed John’s performance in this life had already drawn the attention of far too many people.
John’s eyes flickered slightly as a sense of danger rose within him.
In his previous life, before the ga had officially fused with reality, he had once been doxxed in the real world. He had nearly fallen victim to an offline attack arranged by the Overlord Guild.
Although the fusion had begun early for him in this life, there was never anything wrong with being extra careful.
John tightened his fist and walked toward the gaming pod.
In order to prevent anyone from forcibly dismantling it, the gaming pod had been constructed using a high-strength, single-piece die-casting process. Its purpose was to protect the teleportation gem hidden inside.
Without professional industrial equipnt, it would normally be impossible to break open the outer shell of the pod.
That was also the reason why such a simple-looking tal box could be sold for the outrageous price of 100,000 dollars.
But for John, tearing it open was no problem at all.
He placed both hands on the surface of the pod and suddenly exerted force.
Creak—!
The pod emitted a horribly grating sound that made one’s teeth ache.
The solid, reinforced cover was forcibly pried open by John’s bare hands!
Inside, a gemstone radiating a deep blue glow was revealed.
It was none other than the teleportation gem.
John reached out and directly removed it. Then, without hesitation, he fitted it into the empty socket on the Flaserpent Ring.
From now on, he would be able to enter the ga anywhere and at any ti, without needing to rely on this bulky tal pod any longer.
The mont the gem was successfully embedded into the ring, a translucent interface suddenly appeared before John.
It was unmistakably the ga interface.
The trading house, storage space, world channel, and nurous other functions appeared one after another.
An expression of delighted surprise surfaced on John’s face.
He had never expected that doing this would actually connect his ga interface directly with reality.
He opened the world channel.
Sure enough, the players inside were all discussing the real-world identity of Outlander, the mysterious new powerhouse who had suddenly risen out of nowhere.
The Overlord Guild had even spared no expense, flooding the announcents with bounty notices.
[Overlord_Dawn: Offering a generous reward! Anyone who can provide a way to contact Outlander himself, no matter the thod, will receive a reward!]
Unfortunately for them, John had concealed himself perfectly.
There was absolutely no chance that anyone would be able to uncover his identity in the real world.
Afterward, John opened his storage space. Rows of equipnt and items were neatly displayed inside.
As he looked at the many empty slots in his storage, a sudden idea occurred to him.
"Wait... the storage function can contain all kinds of items. Doesn’t that an I can use it to store things from reality as well?"
With that thought, John focused on a drinking glass beside him and attempted to store it.
In the next instant, the glass vanished from where it had been sitting.
At the sa ti, a model of the glass appeared inside his storage space.
It really worked!
John was overjoyed.
Without wasting another second, he imdiately began storing every important item in his room inside the storage space.
If he continued staying in this place, sooner or later, the Overlord Guild would trace him here.
Right now, moving to a safer residence was clearly the wisest option.
Once he had stored everything important, John locked the door tightly behind him, dashed downstairs, and hailed a taxi.
"Take to the WJ Hotel!"
The vehicle started moving, quickly heading in the direction of the WJ Hotel.
Even while sitting in the car, John did not remain idle.
At present, he had 420 gold coins on hand. After thinking for a mont, he directly exchanged 100 of them for 100,000 dollars.
Once the Great Fusion began, even the finest underground bunker would be unable to withstand an invasion of monsters.
In his previous life, countless wealthy individuals had been trapped inside their own bunkers by monsters and brutally killed there.
If one wanted to survive, becoming stronger inside the ga was the only true path forward.
Therefore, John had no need to spend too much money on a residence.
Before the Great Fusion began, all he needed was a place where he could live safely and comfortably without having to worry about unnecessary trouble.
And the WJ Hotel, with its excellent security, was undoubtedly a very good choice.
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