Chapter 4 (1/2)

Translator: Atlas Studios

Editor: Atlas Studios

July 1st, the day of the official open beta mode of the Chaotic Era.

When it had still been in closed beta mode, this game had already attracted a lot of attention. Bester Corporation was currently the most famous game manufacturer in the world, and Team Red Fox was the absolute backbone of Bester Corporation. To develop the Chaotic Era until the official open beta mode, it had taken them eight years of research and they had also lost money. However, even though the players were scolding them, they were also increasingly looking forward to it. When the closed beta mode had begun, due to the limited number of players participating, open beta test accounts of the Chaotic Era on the market had skyrocketed to 100,000 Credits. However, there was no market for that…

Fortunately, the closed beta trial had gone smoothly this time and there had been no major system bugs. Thus, the closed beta trial had lasted only one month before Bester Corporation had announced that it would officially enter the open beta stage.

For players, this was undoubtedly a huge surprise. Based on their past experience, many players thought that after the end of the closed beta trial, Bester Corporation would have insufficient funds. This was not an exaggeration. Bester Corporation had indeed gone through this. Although players also understood their attitude of constantly improving, waiting so much was still painful. This time, Bester Corporation was sensible enough to comply with the players’ request, which made countless people applaud them.

Since the news of this open beta trial had been announced abruptly, many players did not have time to prepare. Hence, after Bester Corporation announced the date for the open beta trial, a large-scale craze of equipment and account sales appeared in the market!

The rest of the game manufacturers gritted their teeth helplessly. They knew that this was caused by players who were preparing to switch to the Chaotic Era. The prices of various games had declined a lot. Many high-quality pieces of equipment were also dumped, but most of them were pieces of equipment that couldn’t be sold.

The reason was simple: Nobody wanted them.

Due to this large-scale sell-off, even the stocks of game manufacturers had fallen a lot and some of them had begun to announce layoffs. A small piece of news could trigger big turmoil. This was clearly the power of Bester Corporation!

Fatty was one of the people who did not panic. He clearly remembered the beta time of the Chaotic Era. Thus, he prepared what he needed and got ready for it.

On July 1st, Fatty sat before the controller. After connecting to the Internet, he began to wait.

He remembered that the beta trial would start at noon, but they could enter the queuing system three hours in advance. Because Bester Corporation would only open the first and largest region, there was only currently one server. Thus, in order to prevent a large number of network data applications from overwhelming the server, they’d had to adopt this queuing measure in advance.

Even a powerful server and network couldn’t withstand the link data of hundreds of millions of players. Maybe it would be able to withstand it in the future, but definitely not now…

Once it was 9 o’clock, Fatty logged in.

The projector faithfully performed its duty. In the empty study that Fatty had emptied long ago, the graphics were made up of countless light and dark colorful lights that were projected in the air.

The initial computer graphics were just like before. Bester Corporation’s logo was a huge artistic letter B.

Then, the computer graphics of the Chaotic Era began to play officially. Although they mainly included some action scenes of various classes of the game, it was really attractive. Fatty had seen that countless times before, but he still watched it again with great pleasure.

“The war between the Holy Order Assembly and the Dark Council has been going on for centuries. The reason the war started is no longer remembered. The long-term fighting has already deeply implanted hatred in the depths of their souls. Neither side wants to be ruled by the other. In order to survive, they must fight!”

“However, just as both sides thought that they would continue to fight like this for a long time until the world was destroyed, an accident happened. A long period of elemental chaos ensued, affecting the laws of this space. On a night that everyone remembers, a spatial rift was torn on the Carlos Mountains. Therefore, the Chaos Corps were formed!”

“No one knows where they came from. They only know that they brought endless death and destroyed countless villages and cities, leaving only undying flames behind. On the desolate and uninhabited scorched earth, the demons from the outer realm became the biggest crisis in the Aegean continent!”

“Survival or extermination? Both the Holy Order Assembly and the Dark Council have to face this difficult choice. The choice will depend on you, the newborn hero of the Aegean continent…”

The magnificent computer graphics finally ended with the narration. As Fatty gasped, the log-in page finally appeared.

“Please enter your social security number!” The system made a beeping sound.

Yes, there was no need to specifically register in the Chaotic Era. As long as one entered their social security number, one could enter role creation. In other words, a player could only have one character account.

Through the headset microphone, Fatty reported his social security number and successfully logged in.

“You are currently 124,653rd in the queuing system. You can create a character first. You can only enter the game after the server is turned on.”