Chapter 3 (1/2)
Chapter 3
GG Chapter 3
OCTOBER 7, 2017 ~ MANDARIN
Is this an illusion? Is this a dream? No! It’s reality!
More seriously, I’m really sorry, guys, I had a hard time taking care of this, B1G1F, and real life all at the same time. The good news is that since I dropped B1G1F, I won’t have to worry about releases for that anymore. The bad news is I’m still going to be busy even though that won’t be an additional issue.
I also have a bunch of shorts I’ve had to put on hold for a while and one is even Korean! More on that when I get that far, hehe.
I know this is really irresponsible of me, but I can’t seem to only work on one project without burning out quickly, so I’ll be doing a few teasers on the side. I plan to somewhat regularly (ish?) update one of the teasers with an additional chapter when I can, but I don’t think I’ll officially pick anything up until I’ve finished up GG, simply because I’ve found I’m extremely fickle about projects.
So, for now, I hope you enjoy the teasers (when they come out) and this lovely chapter that took forever!
Changes:
Jewel Excavation changed to Jewel Extraction
“Blacksmithing” skill changed to Equipment Forging
剑侠 (Censors.h.i.+p’s character cla.s.sification) changed from “swordsman” to “wanderer” because 剑客 also exists, apparently. It also was “wandering swordsman” for a while, but hopefully not too many people read it as that.
Slight changes in naming of the Healer Job Cla.s.ses (took out “The” from “The Cla.s.sic of Herbal Medicine” because it works better as a job cla.s.s name).
In-game currency changed to “gold” because this translator is a noob and doesn’t always read properly T^T
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TL: Mandarin
TLC: Queen, Piroton, Juzi (partial)
Editor: TwilightEmpress, Qwaztop
Then, A Beautiful Chance Encounter!
One week after Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO went offline, «Myth»’s closed beta system shutdown, and the nearly three month-long summer vacation finally ended.
At long last, Ning Xin could proudly step through the entrance of T University while under constant nagging from her parents.
Although Ning Xin’s dorm room was a double, the roommate she’d heard about didn’t report to school on the first day. Since they didn’t show up, Cla.s.smate Ning Xin unrestrainedly turned T University’s Building 13, Residence 5, Room 201 into her own little fiefdom!
It was a bit lonely living alone, but there were also advantages! At the very least, her gaming wouldn’t disturb others.
Soon after beta-testing ended, the game entered its official phase of operation. Since the server queue never went under 4 digits day-by-day, Ning Xin understood clearly just how successful «Myth»’s marketing was. Despite the game recently opening two new servers, Ning Xin’s server, Youluo Fantasyland, was still at max capacity. As a result, she always had to wait at least an hour to successfully log into the game.
What was the first thing to do after logging in? Of course it was to look at the changes since she last played.
In the first place, she was a young level 45 Spiritual Pivot who hadn’
t switched out of Beginner’s Equipment, even after all this time. On top of that, her broken attribute and cultivation point distributions still hadn’t been fixed by the system. Actually, only the originally neat friend interface had changed, becoming even more organized than before.
Xiao Yudi’s name was greyed out, and Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO had already disappeared from both her friend and master-disciple lists.
The official game required a cellphone message for verification now, since the beta had ended. Without a verification number, the system would automatically delete your account after a month.
At first, she thought that Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO had only gone offline temporarily out of anger and that he’d be back after he got over it, but who would have thought that the master would really abandon his own character so coldly and ruthlessly?
As for the Imperial Edict Divine Scroll that Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO had given her before he left, Ning Xin had been keeping it in her storage. Since she’d start to miss the original owner whenever she saw it, she never took it out and had planned to return it to him when he came back. But now, it seemed that Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO had thoroughly cut himself off. She was afraid that their master and disciple relations.h.i.+p had already reached its end.
Looking inside her storage at that glittering golden Imperial Edict Divine Scroll, Ning Xin quietly sighed in admiration and right-clicked it to study it.
Ning Xin was unable to inherit Not Afraid of Censors.h.i.+p XXOO’s great skill. However, since he had left behind this rare book, how could she waste it so carelessly? Thinking this far, Miss Ning Xin once again embarked upon the glorious path of digging up things and harvesting resources.
Health was constantly being reduced and recovered slowly, meaning that herbal medicine was essential for survival. People would definitely kill for it!
Ning Xin made her plans very straightforwardly and thoroughly.
Health is lacking, can’t attack, and low defense that is just like a small piece of brittle leather. I can’t attack, and I can’t defend, so I may as well play a war of attrition! To begin with, now that she learned how to gather herbs, she could make her own products and then sell them herself without wasting anything. If I can’t defeat you, I’ll take medicine until you die!
Although the road was complicated and the course was difficult, the prospects still looked bright!
However, one hour later, Ning Xin found that her strategy had more or less failed.
First of all, even though she had learned to gather herbs, she didn’t know how to make medicine! Couldn’t she just swallow the raw ingredients for health? Unfortunately, the GMs had prevented this.
Secondly, when it came to the idea of taking medicine to restore health and keep the monster from killing you. . . well, it wasn’t as if the monster would wait for you to take medicine. As a result, wouldn’t the screen just fade to black and white, forcibly sending you to the Yellow Springs1?
In the end, Ning Xin could only come to a bitter and distressing conclusion.
Despite studying Herb Gathering, she still hadn’t ensured her own life. If she fought people and killed monsters, it wasn’t certain that she’d remain uninjured.
What was a tragedy, what was a disaster; after all, she, Ning Xin, was the system’s biggest joke!
Though the road is long and there’s no end in sight, I shall continue on.
The revolution has yet to succeed, so we all must continue to work hard.
For once, after Ning Xin reflected on her painful experience, she finally believed that she understood it clearly.
Fighting monsters to level up was pointless; gathering herbs was the true path.
To level up or fight monsters, you need equipment. Where does equipment come from? Blacksmithing!
To raid instances or act as a support in fights, you need protective gem talismans. Where do protective gem talismans come from? Gemcrafting!
To PK or attack a city, you need pills. Where do pills come from? Herbalism!
Thinking to here, Ning Xin had an inner revelation that finally brought peace to her heart.
Who doesn’t kill monsters? Who doesn’t level up? All of you will have to rely on me later.
If you can’t be the vanguard, be the rearguard.
If you can’t be a warrior, then at worst you could go into logistics.
In any case, the present Ning Xin had found her place in the game, and she strode on a glorious path towards her future with her head held high.
As a result, Miss Ning Xin decided not to repent in the end, completely abandoning the thought of levelling up, and put her heart and soul into developing her own path of excavation.
The Ning Xin at that time still didn’t know that it was, in fact, already too late for her to reverse her fate as a crafting enthusiast, and had been too late before she even set foot in Myth’s initial launch.
After all. . . who let her be such a natural fool?
In reality, in a game, there is no lack of crafting enthusiasts. They aren’t fond of levelling, they don’t like PKing, and they are happiest when doing their own thing, relying on business to survive. However, it was common for these people to only do so for the sake of acc.u.mulating astonis.h.i.+ng wealth, as they hoped to become the G.o.d of Wealth.
However, Ning Xin was a stubborn child in the end. She wasn’t in it for the fame, for the benefits, or for the money.
Who could have known that «Myth»’s future number one ranked G.o.d of Wealth, a first-rate manufacturing expert that had maxed out every skill, had initially only relied on mining to comfort her heart after it was broken by the GMs at the time.
When someone asked the first-rate manufacturing expert how she had walked on this path of no return, Ning Xin was very calm.
[Recent] Ning Xin: Because I couldn’t kill the monsters by the road and just died and died and died, I could only turn my sorrow and indignation into energy for excavation.
Naturally, all of this came later.
Today’s Ning Xin was the most unremarkable out of the many invisible players.
Everyday that she went online, her plan went like this:
Mining ore——extracting jewels——gathering herbs.
Gathering herbs——extracting jewels——mining ore.
In a continuous cycle, doing this over and over again.
One day, Ning Xin opened the crafting skill interface and a group of astonis.h.i.+ng numbers appeared:
Ore Excavation rank 99 (highest rank 100)