Chapter 17 (1/2)

Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

Roland bought a piece of freshly made honey bread in Lake View Tavern. He was about to eat it, when the game world paused and turned monochrome.

Twenty-four hours had flown away so quickly. Roland sighed and exited the game. It had been years since he was so addicted to a game. Most games on the market today were too similar. He grew bored of every new game after playing it for several days even though they were all AAA games, because he always felt that he had somehow played them before.

However, World of Falan was different. It was the first immersive MMORPG worldwide. By casting their consciousness away from reality, the players were able to have adventures in an alternate world under a different ident.i.ty.

A world so broad that one might not be able to see the whole of it in their entire life, billions of lifelike NPCs, and a hundred countries of different races… Roland was excited by the thought of it.

He felt lucky that he made up his mind to buy a game cabin. There were only five hundred thousand of them worldwide. People who missed the purchase window had to wait for a long time before Penguin Corporation released the next batch.

After he exited the game, Roland worked out on a treadmill for half an hour as usual. He then had breakfast and checked the forum again.

As he expected, many people were encouraging Penguin Corporation to sell the next batch of virtual cabins. Some were even offering to pay ten thousand more bucks to buy a second-hand virtual cabin.

After reading a few random threads, Roland went to the Spellcaster Section and posted the profiles of Hand of Magic and several interesting nodes. He also announced that players would receive a Backpack when they leveled up. After that, he browsed through other threads.

He never thought that he was the smartest player in the game. After all, many people knew mathematical models. It was just that a lot of Mages, who were highly intelligent in reality, never thought about that before. Now that Roland had opened a door for them, they could certainly walk through it.

As Roland had expected, new threads on spells appeared in the section. One particular thread drew his interest.

“As long as you remember the nodes of a spell and successfully cast it once, you will be able to learn it. I’m a Mage specializing in enchantment, and I only know Hypnosis, Animal Control, and Mind Influence. I learned the chart of nodes for Inferior Fireball on the forum by heart. After dozens of failures, I successfully cast Inferior Fireball, and the icon of Inferior Fireball appeared in my Magic Book. It’s evident that spells can be learned. I’ve managed to record the nodes of Hypnosis and posted them here for you. In the end, respect to Roland the Pioneer.”

The Pioneer… Roland felt rather embarra.s.sed. He tipped the female player named Serena ten forum coins, before he copied the four charts of Hypnosis down.

He then copied the charts provided by another three Mage players on the forum. Of course, he did not forget to tip them ten forum coins each.

Now, he had four new charts of magic nodes. All of them were level-one spells, namely Hypnosis, Strengthening, Ice Ring, and Arcane Bullet.

Roland copied the profiles of the four spells into his game cabin with a flash disk. Then, he realized that his new post had received thousands of bucks’ worth in tips. Looking at his forum coins, he had never thought that making money could be so easy.