Chapter 8 (1/2)
008 VILLAGE HEAD’S GRANDSON (PART 3)
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Kyle’s face is not the only one to turn green, Village Head’s expression is suddenly not good too. Liang Li Dong’s eyes discovered it but he does not intend to pry. He does not feel any malice from him and since it does not concern himself, he cannot be bothered to care. After all, everyone has their privacy, being too serious is not good. In socializing, if it is not an enemy or a compet.i.tor of interests, there is not need to pry into other’s secrets.
Kyle has already turned into a block of wood, after a while he mutters: “So it takes so much money to be a Mage?”
“Mage is the most resource-consuming Cla.s.s.” Looking at teenage’s expression, Liang Li Dong smiles: “But all this is worthwhile, although typically, Mage is not a match for special close-range Cla.s.s like Blademaster or Anti-mage, they have an advantage that other Cla.s.s do not have…… Mage is a group that pursues truth, those with outstanding talent among them can break the limit of mortals and possess the ability to use Law[1]. If even more outstanding, they may even possess demi-G.o.dhead[2] or become actual G.o.d just like G.o.ddess of Magic! But Blademaster cannot…… If they want to use Law, they will have to s.n.a.t.c.h other’s power by killing those with Law or G.o.dhead but the problem is Mage that can use Law are even stronger than dragons, not to mention G.o.d with G.o.dhead.”
Law is a very special skill, it possesses very strong power or special effects. It is way beyond character traits or Cla.s.s feats.
In the game, people who has the skill ‘Law’ is few. According to statistics, they are all mage-type Cla.s.s like Mage, Magic Swordsman or Cla.s.s that is closer to spellcaster like Wandering Scholar. The requirement to have ‘Law’ that is released later by officials is to gain high enough knowledge in-game and the knowledge must be compatible with your Cla.s.s while knowledge is not gained just by listening, it needs to be deciphered, understood and turned into your possession to be counted and high Intelligence increase the speed to gain these knowledge.
When the rules are released, physical Cla.s.s that made up more than 70% of the gamer population held a large-scale protest saying the officials are bias, the game is unbalanced and then the officials gave a group of data and all the protesters are left speechless.
Magic-type Cla.s.s made up around 25% of the population, physical-type made up around 72% while the other 3% are special support-type Cla.s.s.
Physical-type Cla.s.s only needs to slash slash slash or shoot shoot shoot to level up easily. Mage needs to learn magic to have offensive ability while learning magic requires a lot of money and because the game is too realistic, magic structure modeling is very difficult, learning magic is akin to learning higher mathematical modeling. To even completely a.n.a.lyse the model structure diagram of level 0 magic, depending on the difference of one’s actual intelligence, requires numerous days to more than 10 days and the higher level the magic is, the time needed is longer.
When physical-type are slas.h.i.+ng people everywhere, Mage are a.n.a.lyzing magic model structure.
When physical-type are doing missions everywhere, Mage are a.n.a.lyzing magic model structure.
When physical-type are fighting group battles, city battles, nation battles, Mage are still a.n.a.lyzing magic model structure.
When physical-type are wooing NPC girls or tall, rich, handsome NPC, Mage are practicing the application of new magic.
All magicians died, on the average, 2.14 times in the process of practicing new magic.
When physical-type Cla.s.s have an average of level 14, spellcaster Cla.s.s only barely managed to get an average of level 10.
Magician that persevered to more than level 10 are highly educated people in real life and science[3] students made up more than 90% of them.
When the game first started, magic-type made up 60% of the population but now it dropped to around 24%.
After seeing these data, magic-type players have tears in their eyes out of agreement that Mage is really too difficult. With that, the protest of physical-types disappears. They already work so hard that it is no wonder they can success. Furthermore, physical-types can also gain knowledge, just a bit slower which when compared to the difficulty of Mage learning magic is nothing.
Kyle looks loss and sighs: “Sir, your point is, people like me is not suited to learn magic or swordsmans.h.i.+p, right.”
Liang Li Dong shakes his head: “No, I’m not telling you to not learn swordsmans.h.i.+p or magic. On the contrary, I agree with you learning both abilities. Your ancestor is right, swordsmans.h.i.+p strengthen the body, magic enrich the spirit. I’m saying these is to tell you no matter swordsmans.h.i.+p or magic is not something you can success with just being hot-blooded. You need to continuously work hard and work even harder. The road is rugged and when the going gets tough, you may even question whether your road is correct, are you wasting your life doing something that is unattainable and furthermore doubt your whole life completely.”
Liang Li Dong’s words are hard to accept for a 15-years old teenager but the former is a spellcaster and a spellcaster is the synonym for truth in this world. Kyle believes he is saying the truth and are sincere words. He says in stupor: “Is it that difficult? My ancestor was able to achieve it.”
“That is why he is the Legendary Hero while you are still not.” Liang Li Dong smiles a bit.
is a game close to reality. NPC in it have origins, feelings and their actions are natural and have no difference with real people. Liang Li Dong stayed in the game for 8 years and has seen countless of joys and sorrow, meetings and separation of NPCs. He can still remember clearly the time when he first received quest from NPC, a NPC couple request his help to find their son. Following the leads, Liang Liang Dong found the target near a ogre stronghold with only a head left. When Liang Li Dong pa.s.sed the head to that couple, the couple’s minds broke. It is their only son and they are already too old to have any more children.
Quests in f.l.a.n.g.e Continent are mostly unique. After investigating, he discovered that this couple’s son was an adventure fan and hearing many legends in the tavern, he looks forward to it. After learning some swordsmans.h.i.+p from third rate mercenary in town, he went adventuring…… The ending is obvious. If this world is no different from the game world, the danger is no different too. All the players barely became high level Cla.s.s-er[4]after dying more than a dozen times. The players already had a hard time, not to mention NPC.
Players can revive but NPC cannot, they do not have the chance to try again.