novelraw Chapter 6 : Chapter 6
Chapter 6 : Chapter 6
Chapter 6
After the players finished their initial shock, they immediately realized that this game had enormous potential!
After all—who had not read at least a few novels where the protagonist rises to fame and fortune through a full-dive game and eventually reaches the peak of life?
They had to start completing quests and killing monsters as quickly as possible!
Sain did not even get the chance to finish his lines before the crowd of players interrupted him countless times with impatient urging.
Lightning had already demonstrated what kind of miserable fate awaited anyone who teased (or robbed) an NPC, so everyone lined up obediently to receive quests.
“Hello, Chosen One. I am—”
“It doesn’t matter what you are. Just give me a quest! Any quest is fine. Whether it’s saving the world or exterminating Demon Gods, just hand it over already!”
Sain was stunned with ecstatic joy by such heroic declarations.
But then he remembered that he did not have permission to issue a “slay the Demon God” quest. His mood immediately sank, and he sighed.
He was merely the unremarkable village chief of a beginner village. According to the oracle, the quests he had authority to issue were currently limited to daily tasks below level ten.
Still, the lines that needed to be spoken could not be omitted.
This was his faith.
“Hello, Chosen One from another world. I am the village chief of this village—Sain.”
“Because of the invasion of the Void Demons, we have lost our homes, lost our farmland, and lost our food. Winter is approaching. Brave Chosen One, please help us endure this difficult winter together.”
He immediately issued every quest he could distribute to this ambitious Chosen One.
“System Notification: You have received the beginner quest · Repair the Village…”
“System Notification: You have received the beginner quest · Stockpile Winter Food…”
“…”
More than a dozen crisp system notification sounds rang in his ears one after another like heavenly music.
“So many! There are so many quests!”
When the other players saw this, they panicked.
How could they let that happen?
They rushed forward in droves and began saying similar things.
At first Sain was extremely happy.
But after hearing the exact same speech from one hundred different people, he began to wonder who the real NPC actually was.
Before players officially entered this world, Tata Village—being the very first beginner village in the entire game—had undergone “NPC behavioral training” from top to bottom. As long as a person could speak and walk, they had received the training.
The three-day training left them deeply confused, but that did not matter.
The great Creator had said that they only needed to distribute quests and rewards according to the rules.
During those three days, Sain repeatedly memorized the quest dialogue from the small handbook.
However, as the chief of the beginner village, he held the largest number of daily quests, side quests, and main quests. With so many quest dialogues, it was inevitable that he sometimes mixed them up.
He tried his best to turn himself into a recording machine.
But he had never expected these players to be even more like recording machines than he was.
The other ninety-nine players crowded at the spawn point had all obtained their beta access through Lightning’s livestream.
However, not all of them were Lightning’s fans.
Lightning’s gaming skills were quite good, but his expertise lay mainly in keyboard games and VR games. His ability in full-dive games was still unknown.
As a result, he only managed to form a six-person party, all of whom were major donors from his livestream.
As soon as the six people recognized each other, the livestream chat exploded.
But the explosion had nothing to do with Lightning.
The reason was Cheese Crisp Bobo.
Lightning had rushed through the character creation process.
However, Cheese Crisp Bobo was an absolute appearance enthusiast. She scrutinized every detail with extreme pickiness. The beta test offered discounted stat resets for 9.9 each, and she rerolled more than five hundred times before finally achieving the maximum charm value of ten points.
The class she chose was Priest.
The moment she lifted the wide brim of her white hat, waves of shocked gasps erupted around her.
Although she was far less striking than the succubus girl shown in the promotional PV, she was still a breathtaking beauty who captured hearts at first glance.
Even the plain beginner outfit could not conceal her beauty and vitality. Instead, it gave her a pure and sacred charm—like a lotus blooming from clear water.
The kind of beauty so overwhelming that even the entertainment industry could never portray it had suddenly taken physical form.
The players who had not yet left clutched their chests as their eyes reddened.
If they had known the game would be this realistic, they would have spent any amount of money during character creation to max out their charm stat.
Many players immediately considered deleting their characters and starting over.
But deleting a character meant automatically forfeiting their beta testing qualification.
When the system notified them that they would not be able to re-enter the game, they sheepishly abandoned the idea.
Several female players familiar with Cheese rushed into her arms.
When creating their characters, they had used their usernames from Fruit Station, which were also the nicknames they used in Lightning’s livestream.
They were all major donors who frequently appeared in the chat, so they were not strangers. After exchanging just a few sentences, they were already as affectionate as lifelong best friends.
Besides Cheese, the other two female donors had not pursued maximum charm but still had scores of nine.
The more they looked at one another, the happier they felt.
“Sister Cheese, the three of us just need to perform 《Burning Spring》 well and that will be better than anything!”
And so they happily abandoned Lightning and the other three men to complete quests together.
The livestream chat was already in chaos.
“Wait, that’s it?! The beta slots are already gone?! When will there be more?”
“I don’t care. I want to play right now! @GameDevelopmentTeam Are you at work yet? It’s already 23:30. So what if it’s night? Get up and start working! Even donkeys don’t rest this much!”
“I have a friend who will die tomorrow. Before he dies, he asked me to request a beta slot for 《Legend》 for his best friend—that’s me. Otherwise he will not rest in peace.”
“This must be fake. There’s no way such advanced full-dive technology exists right now. Why am I so sure? Because I can’t play it.”
“Please, I’m begging you. Give me a beta slot. If you give it to someone else, they’ll think it’s normal. But if you give it to me, it will be a blessing. I’ll treasure it forever! I’m begging you! @LegendGameOfficial”
“When Potter was customizing his face earlier, I thought about it too. I already know what face I want to make, and I’ve prepared money to reroll my charm stat. Give me a slot and I’ll send you money right now @GameDevelopmentTeam.”
Lightning did not push the issue.
He simply stared at Cheese Crisp Bobo’s departing figure and kept sighing.
“So beautiful… sigh, truly beautiful…”
The viewers in Lightning’s livestream who had failed to secure one of the one hundred beta slots seemed to find a new outlet for their frustration. The chat filled with messages saying, “9.9 for a stat reset? Even a dog wouldn’t pay for that.”
Lightning’s face turned green.
He regretted it deeply.
If he had known that 9.9 could grant such world-shaking beauty, he would have paid for a thousand rerolls without hesitation!
Strength might only matter for one version of the game.
But handsomeness lasted a lifetime!
Unfortunately, it was too late now.
“Since this is a game, there will definitely be ways to increase charm later. Stop staring and get to work—do quests, kill monsters, and level up!”
Night Arbiter interrupted his sighing.
Lightning and another teammate immediately turned to look at him.
Night Arbiter took a small step backward under their gaze.
“W-What are you looking at?!”
Lightning coughed lightly.
“Hahaha… Boss Ye, didn’t you say last time that you were already thirty? Why are you still using such a chuunibyou name?”
Another donor, Ten Billion Volts, added, “A man remains a boy until the day he dies. What’s wrong with Boss Ye being a little childish?”
However, his teasing tone clearly did not sound like he was trying to ease the awkwardness.
Night Arbiter used that same name in Lightning’s livestream.
But the difference between a digital nickname and the immersive presence of a real full-dive character was enormous.
At that moment, he was so embarrassed that his toes practically curled into the ground.
“You’re laughing at me? As if your usernames are any better!”
After a brief moment of overwhelming embarrassment, the three of them silently agreed never to bring up the topic again.
Lightning cleared his throat and changed the subject.
“Quests. Quests are more important.”
“By the way, how do we check things like the quest panel?”
In previous games—whether keyboard-based or VR—the various interface buttons were usually quite visible.
But a full-dive game obviously could not display floating menus in front of a player’s eyes all the time.
Ironically, their long familiarity with traditional games made them feel somewhat uncomfortable now.
Fortunately, as soon as the question appeared in their minds, both the character panel and the quest panel materialized in front of them.
“Awesome! This really is a full-dive game. When they say you can control it with a thought, they really mean it!”
The three of them happily began examining their character attribute panels.
Character: Lightning
Race: Human
Class: Mage
Level: 0
HP: 1/20
MP: 180/180
Base Attributes (-)
Strength: 2
Constitution: 2
Agility: 3
Intelligence: 9
Spirit: 9
Melee (+)
Resistance (+)
Affinity (+)
Enhancement (+)
Equipment (+)
They were all veteran gaming addicts. With just a glance at how complex the character panel was, they could already tell that the game’s power system would be extremely complicated.
In other words, both the official monetization systems and the equipment trading between players would have enormous room for strategic manipulation.
But instead of feeling the urge to complain about the developers, they all looked eager to try it out.