Chapter 3: First Batch of Players
Hang Yu ordered, “Move up the internal testing of ‘Twisted Three Kingdoms’ to eight o’clock tonight. Early-stage population is quite precious; we must ensure quality and standards. For the first round, release only twenty slots... try to select professional gars, e-sports strears, or hardcore veterans with specialized skills, and heavy net-addicted youth with extre grind habits.”
“Yes!”
As an intelligent super-divine relic, the Heavenly Dao Cube’s capabilities were no less than a supercomputer’s.
Whether it was creating an official ga website in an instant or investigating player profiles, it could do so with ease.
Carrying out this command was not difficult at all.
After closing the operation interface,
Hang Yu decided to first familiarize himself with his territory.
But the mont he walked out from the stone house’s main entrance, he was instantly stunned by what he saw.
The firmant was filled with dazzling, colorful stars.
Brilliant nebulas ford nurous vortices, big and small, numbering at least dozens to hundreds.
They looked like lively, surging, turbulent currents, brimming with madness and distortion, resembling a hyper-fantastical oil painting, sowhat reminiscent of Van Gogh’s famous work “Starry Night”.
The territory’s terrain was high.
Thus, the view was broad and open.
Hang Yu looked forward from the highest point.
There were rugged, magnificent mountains, eerie and tranquil forests, a andering river weaving through them, and vaguely visible ruins of dilapidated structures.
In the distance, mist resembled a dark red curtain, surrounding the entire area from all sides.
It was simply breathtaking!
Was this really the Three Kingdoms world?
Hang Yu felt that the scene before him gave him a sensation similar to opening Elden Ring for the first ti twenty years ago, except the shock and awe now were thousands or even tens of thousands of tis greater.
After all, no matter how well a video ga was designed, no matter how precise the modeling, it could never completely replicate reality.
And no matter how large a screen or how high its resolution, it could never compare to the imrsive feeling of being physically present.
Currently, Hang Yu’s territory had only a small village.
Besides the Lord’s Hall, there were just four wooden huts and a warehouse, but every building had its own attributes.
【Crude Abyss Barracks】 ×4, non-graded buildings, territory population limit 25, the place where the territory’s citizens resided in the Abyss. Entering these barracks allowed citizens to accelerate their recovery.
【Crude Abyss Warehouse】, non-graded building, could provide one hundred cubic ters of shared space, with added effects of preserving food and reducing the energy loss rate of extraordinary materials by 5%.
Hang Yu also noticed a layer of walls around the small village.
【Crude Earthen Wall】, non-graded building, all units crossing the wall would have all attributes reduced by 5%, up to a maximum of 20 points.
It was not hard to see.
Every territory building possessed special functions.
As a fledgling lord, Hang Yu currently only owned these few things. Through the Lord Core, he could build new structures or upgrade existing ones, eventually developing a massive territory and commanding billions of citizens.
Everything was ready!
Now, just waiting for players to descend!
…………
Blue Star.
Around eight o’clock that night.
Zhao Rui put on his virtual gaming helt and officially started tonight’s work. His task today was to review a virtual reality blockbuster called Eternal Empire.
This ga, developed by a world-class company, had cost over two billion and taken eight years to complete — a next-generation VR masterpiece.
With overwhelming advertisents and promotions, it was undoubtedly one of the most anticipated gas of the past year.
“Still four hours to go!”
Feeling bored with the wait, Zhao Rui casually opened the forum of the gaming platform “Starsea” to kill so ti.
Unexpectedly, a private ssage popped up at that mont.
【Congratulations! You have been selected for the first round of internal testing for ‘Twisted Three Kingdoms’!】
【The first round of internal testing for this ga will begin precisely at 20:00 on July 16, 2043!】
【Please activate the ga as soon as possible. If not activated within 24 hours, we will consider the qualification forfeited!】
Zhao Rui was stunned for a mont.
Only then did he rember that he had casually registered for this ga around noon out of boredom. He never expected that its internal test would start so soon.
Lousy company, didn’t even advertise.
If this junk ga beca popular, he might as well stand upside down and have diarrhea!
Although Zhao Rui had zero confidence in this Twisted Three Kingdoms, considering Eternal Empire would only release in another two hours, and he had nothing better to do anyway, he thought he might as well check out what this ga was like.
The authorities had been cracking down hard on false advertising lately. If this ga turned out to be a fraud, he could report it and maybe even earn a reward.
Click to download!
Ga size: 963GB!
Zhao Rui almost laughed out loud when he saw this.
This ga, at 963GB, was completely absurd in size — it was simply... too small!
A ga not even reaching 1TB dared to claim one hundred percent realism?
Did the developers even understand what virtual reality gas ant?
For a ga like this, just the resources consud by modeling and rendering alone would be astronomical!
Ding!
Download complete!
With current internet speeds, a nine-hundred-gigabyte ga was downloaded in just one minute.
The ga icon for Twisted Three Kingdoms was an ancient and mysterious stone door.
The ga had no hardware requirents at all — any standard gaming helt or pod could run it.
There was no need to spend a fortune buying high-end or customized helts.
Zhao Rui shook his head again.
It was common knowledge that the better the ga experience and the higher the realism, the stricter the hardware requirents.
At present, the most realistic VR gas on the market all required purchasing custom equipnt from the manufacturers, costing at least hundreds of thousands.
There was no way standard gaming helts could compare.
Despite all his complaints, since he had already downloaded it, he figured he might as well log in and take a look.
Zhao Rui activated his gaming helt and officially launched Twisted Three Kingdoms.
Instantly, everything before his eyes went black, and a sensation of weightlessness enveloped him. Then he found himself floating in the void, facing a colossal stone door towering a hundred zhang high, grand and majestic.
“Holy shit!”
“What’s going on?”
“The modeling... actually seems kind of impressive!”
Zhao Rui noticed that the stone door before him was not only towering and grand, but its surface was also covered in intricate patterns and all sorts of ancient reliefs, seemingly recording epic tales and histories from the Three Kingdoms period.
Could it be that the developers spent all their money just polishing the login screen?
Just as this thought crossed his mind, a voice sounded in his mind.
【Please create your ga ID!】
Zhao Rui blurted out, “Black-Eyed Rui Bro!”
This had always been Zhao Rui’s online na, well-known across major video platforms and gaming strategy groups. He was used to using this na in every ga he played.
【ID creation successful!】
【Please choose your starting class!】
【Abyss Warrior (available), Abyss Ranger (available), Abyss Warlock (currently full), Abyss Monk (currently full)!】
A big question mark appeared on Zhao Rui’s face.
Two classes were already unavailable? Did classes have a quota system, and the slots were snatched up by other internal testers?
In all his years of gaming, he had never encountered such a thing.
After hesitating between Warrior and Ranger,
Zhao Rui eventually chose to beco an Abyss Ranger.
Because based on the characteristics of the Ranger class — similar to rogues or assassins — as a technical hardcore player, this type of class that demanded high skill was obviously more suitable for him.
Next ca the character customization stage.
A human silhouette appeared before his eyes.
Zhao Rui could adjust various paraters to modify his appearance.
Of course, these adjustnts were confined within a limited range.
As a video blogger, he habitually created trollish character designs for codic effect.
In the end, he crafted a grotesque male character: only one ter fifty tall, skin-and-bones thin, skin dark as coal, with protruding ears, a spade-shaped face, and two tiny scraggly mustaches.
【You have completed character creation. Would you like to enter the ga imdiately? Yes/No!】
“Is that even a question? Of course, enter!”
The mont Zhao Rui made his choice, he saw the tightly shut stone door suddenly split open with a glowing crack. Then, driven by a vast, mighty force, the door slowly swung open, revealing a brand new world before his eyes.
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