LUO YAN excitedly looked at the white box with two overlapping ’M’ at the top. It was the logo of Moonlight dia. Inside was the VR helt personally made by the ga company for Arcadia. He opened the box and saw a helt the size and shape of an ordinary motorcycle helt. It was white with a silvery tallic sheen. The overlapping ’M’ was engraved on its left side.
He already read the manual online on how to use and maintain it. When playing the ga, one only needed to wear it and turned on the power button located behind the helt. According to the manual, once it was on, the player would feel a soft tingling on their forehead. That would be the device trying to sh with the player’s brainwaves. The player needed to be relaxed so they could be completely imrsed with the ga.
The helt didn’t need to be attached to a power source because it could be charged beforehand.
Luo Yan couldn’t really wait to play. He wondered if the ga experience would be as life like as he read online. Many of the forum posts he read on Arcadia’s official website said that playing the ga felt so real that it’s like they were transported to another world. He hoped that those posts weren’t just lipservice. Another reason why he was so excited was because today was the released of the new update. According to the official website’s announcent page, a new race was added on the random selection of the ga.
When he played Arcadia back then, there were only four races that a player could choose from. Humans, beastkins, elves, and gnos. But when the ga transitioned to VR, a lot of other races were added. The only problem was that the players wouldn’t be able to choose those races freely. For the first ti player, there were only five choices - the four basic races and a random selection.
Picking the random selection could be either good or bad for the player. It was bad in a way that one might end up playing with a race they didn’t want. While good because choosing the random selection was the only way that one could have the chance to play the other races besides the four ntioned. So of those races he read were dragons, phoenixes, sirens, and so other mythical race as well.
Luo Yan already decided that he would pick the random selection. Maybe he would end up with a cool race.
He was about to put on the helt when he heard knocking on his door. He temporarily put down the helt on his study table then walked towards the door. He opened it and saw Luo Jin.
"Are you going to play the ga now?" he asked. Luo Yan nodded. "Then let’s et up inside the ga imdiately once we entered."
"Wait- Ah Jin," Luo Yan called when Lou Jin was about to leave. "Did you read the ga manual?"
Luo Jin frowned and then snorted. "Of course I did."
[You definitely didn’t, you tsundere.] "Then you know that we couldn’t imdiately et up? A new player will be placed on the origin village of the race they’ve chosen. Then they have to finish a couple of task and reach level 10 before they could travel to the first town - Olkdale. So we wouldn’t be able to et until we both reached level 10 and entered Olkdale."
Luo Jin furrowed his brows. "Then we should just choose the sa race of whatever."
"We can’t because I’m going to choose the random selection. So I have no idea what race I would end up with."
Luo Jin’s brows furrowed even further. "Why would you do that?"
"Because that way, there’s a chance that I would end up with a pretty unique race."
"What races are there exactly?"
"Well, the basic ones are humans, beastkins, elves, and gnos. Then there are others that could only be picked when a player chose the random selection."
The more Luo Jin heard, the more he beca annoyed. Did a ga really need to be so complicated? "Why do you know so much about this ga anyway?"
Luo Yan smiled sweetly at his brother. "Because unlike Ah Jin, I read the manual."
Luo Jin pursed his lips. "Fine. I’ll read the manual. You better wait for at that first town or sothing. And if the quest turned out to be hard for you, just log out."
How could a beginner’s quest be hard for him? But Lou Yan only smiled and said, "Okay, Ah Jin."
"And we both must log out before dinner ti," Luo Jin added.
"Yes, yes," Luo Yan said helplessly. There were only three hours left before dinner. But he was confident that he could still do a lot during those three hours.
Once Luo Jin left, Luo Yan closed the door of his room. He walked towards the VR helt and picked it up. He sat on his bed and searched for a comfortable position. Once he did, he put the helt on and turned on the power.
He imdiately felt the soft tingling on his forehead. Then everything turned black. Soon, words appeared in front of him.
’Welco to Arcadia’.
Luo Yan unknowingly smiled. [Yes, I am back.]
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