Chapter 3 - Haggling (1/2)

Chapter 3 – Haggling

Nie Yan glanced back at the clock, it was already half past three Conviction’s game servers were open fro—sixteen hours total In this way, it wouldn’t be a hindrance to the coame time was more or less equivalent Hence, it e disparity in level compared to the rest of the player-base In addition, Conviction’s Virtual Reality technology exceeded perfection As a result, it gained increasing popularity, eventually becoradually transformed into an absolute necessity in everyone’s life

This was the world that had becoy; it had become a perfect system Five months later, Conviction would co virtual currency with the real world econo into huh rate of player retention, the player-base was able to grow to a tre consumption of Virtual Reality in the rest of the world The a Conviction every year was so astronomical, it was to the extent that it surpassed the aence of nureat nueted the professional garoup had established a presence in Conviction Following the establishment of his father’s business—after the coan participating in Conviction’s rising popularity He put up a large suh in the end, due to suffering a crushi+ng defeat, it resulted in the coht to ruin This allowed Cao Xu the opportunity to seize even e… Nie Yan absolutely wouldn’t allow such a situation to occur again

Establishi+ng an early presence in Conviction was essential, and it was crucial that he mustn’t fail Nie Yan needed to first help his father by paving the road ahead Only when his father begins injecting funds into Conviction, will he be able to establish an uninterrupted chain of funding and take the first steps towards success This would prevent any proble in the future

Nie Yanthirty dollars By the ti five o’clock

After putting on his helmet, he calmly waited for Conviction to boot up

Twelve radually illu the ti, echoing through his ears The tune felt fa he’d heard countless times in the past He never felt any particular attachely pleasant to his ears

「System: Do you wish to create an account?」

“Yes!”

「System: Please select your country」

There were three factions you could choose frohteous faction who guarded the light This faction consisted of the Viridian (Ge-lín-lan) Empire and Satreen (Sa-te-en) Eoverned by an Elder Parliament The Satreen Empire, on the other hand, was a nation formed from the alliance between dwarves, beastuarded the darkness; it was ruled by a tyrant who reigned over both the devils and undead For people who didn’t enjoy conflict, there was a third faction which was neutral and ruled by the irenic giant tribe

In the past, Nie Yan had chosen the Tempest Thief class of the Viridian Empire, which meant he was also quite familiar with the landscape of the empire Furthermore, he ell acquainted with the Tempest Thief’s skills and class quests If he had chosen a different starting nation, then the superior advantage he had gained fro reborn wouldn’t be worth much in the end

Nie Yan held a special type of affection for the Tempest Thief class After all, he had dedicated nearly a decade of painstaking effort into it The Level 180 Thief represented the height of his glory

When he considered all these factors, he selected the Teain—just as he had in the past

「System: You’ve chosen to start in the Viridian Empire」

「System: You’ve selected Tempest Thief as your class」

「System: Please name your character」

(涅)Nie(炎)Yan

“Nirvana Flame!” Nie Yan chose the sah these words were pronounced in the same way as his real na of a phoenix entering nirvana and being reborn

「System: Successfully created character name The character Nirvana Flaame auto Then, the system would conduct minor alterations to the face of the player’s character Under normal circumstances, the appearance of the player’s character and the player’s actual appearance were vastly different It would actually be quite difficult to recognize a player in real life However, the actual beauty or ugliness of the character was ame

Nie Yan opened his statusand took a look at his own stats

These were the base stats for every type of Thief in the beginning of the gaave five stat points and one lance at his statusWhen he had chosen the Tempest Thief class in the past, he had added one point in Strength, two points in Dexterity, and two points in Physique in order to make himself more durable In turn, it caused him to have a very weak attack power and slow attack speed during the initial stages of the ga to level In reality, thieves never required a lot of HP at the start of the gaht about this failure and all the time he had wasted, Nie Yan couldn’t help but drop his shoulders down and sigh ain This tiain

This tith and two points in Dexterity He had concluded this was thehabits of his previous life He took another glance at the statusafter allocating all of his stat points