Chapter 469 (1/2)

Chapter 469: Chapter 9

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The staff that was responsible for recruiting experience players here were Klein and Egil from Garth City. They were old friends of Clito and wore the uniforms of the Church of Void Mask.

When they saw Clito and Asner coming with Yue, they were surprised. Klein asked, “You two want to be experience players?”

“Yeah, just to play a new game.”

“But… it’s for ordinary people who don’t have adventure experience,” Klein scratched his head and said. “The risks here can’t make you feel bad.”

Klein and Clito were old friends. In Garth City, Clito often visited Klein’s pub. Clito, who had black hair and black clothes, always ordered a bottle of liquor, some vegetables, and sea fish, and sat in the corner to eat slowly by himself. Klein didn’t know him, but he was curious as to why the man was eating so slowly. He talked with Clito first, and then they became friends.

Later, they helped each other many times, and their friendship was good. Klein knew his friend was powerful, so he felt very puzzled that Clito and his wife wanted to be experience players.

“This is a test for ordinary people, you can’t join,” Egil said in a serious tone.

Clito laughed, took a step aside, and ask his daughter to stand in the middle. “Asner and I can’t do the tests, but Yue can. She’s just a trainee magician.”

“I will be strong!” Yue blushed and said loudly. “It’s the principal who asked me to learn all the basic knowledge first. She said that it’s not good for me to learn magic too early. If I learn magic too early, it will be easy for me to go astray…”

That was not nonsense. Yue’s magic talent was very good, and she had an excellent ability to master magic. It would b easy for her to go astray without a good basic foundation of knowledge. Many people admired magicians who could use magic through intuition. But Felix, the principal of the Isuka School of Magic, scolded this idea. She had always emphasized that “the power that is fully understood and mastered can be called real power.” Yue had outstanding talent. So it was necessary to learn basic knowledge first to ensure that she could use her power correctly.

This was good in the long run. Generally speaking, with her talent, Yue should become a good junior magician at her age, or even a mid-level magician. But now, she was just a trainee magician who could only do some easy tricks.

Because Felix had emphasized the importance of basic knowledge many times, Yue was not dissatisfied with her learning progress at all. But when she talked about it with others, she was shy and wanted to explain herself.

Klein was surprised and then smiled and nodded. “That’s okay. Miss Yue, please come here and test this new game.”

Yue wanted to pretend that she didn’t care. But a “new game” was a temptation for most young people in the Republic of Northwest, and she was no exception.

After a moment’s hesitation, she accepted the test. Accompanied by her mother Asner and a female clergy, she changed into protective clothing to ensure her safety and then laid down in a transparent device.

“I believe this game equipment is expensive…” Clito looked at his daughter and said, “The cost is too high. Can it really be popular?” Yue was lying in the transparent equipment, wearing a breathing mask and gradually being flooded with the protective fluid.

Over the past few years, he followed Leon to learn sword skills. He knew many high-end things, and his horizon was greatly broadened, so he knew that this equipment was very valuable. It might be difficult to popularize the game.

“It was not designed to be popularized,” Klein answered. “His Majesty said in the oracle that he would make hundreds of such equipment and place them in every temple. Every ordinary people need only about two or three experiences, and they can be fully familiar with most dangerous situations. There’s no need to experience it again unless they want to play it.”

Clito understood, thought carefully, and then asked, “In that case, what’s the meaning of making this game?”

“The oracle says that it is to correct people’s misconceptions about fear.” Klein repeated Sui Xiong’s words as follows, “Fear is not a threat, but an instinctive response when people feel in danger. It is beneficial and can effectively help people to avoid risks. An experienced risk-taker will never fear easily, and once he fears, he will be careful and even retreat at that time. For them, fear is not an enemy but an assistant. Only those who lack the experience of taking risks, those who don’t know what danger is will be afraid and panic. This virtual reality experience game is to help ordinary people to be truly exposed to danger in order to eliminate those meaningless fears, and to make the attitude of the whole society towards fear better.”

Clito frowned and thought for a long time, but he still did not understand and so turned to his wife.

His wife, Asner’s swordsmanship was not as good as him, but she was smarter than him. Whenever he encountered something puzzling, his first reaction was to ask his wife for help; and Asner never let him down. Her idea might not be the best, but at least it would be more reliable than that of Clito.

This time was no exception. Asner understood Sui Xiong’s intention of this game.

“His Majesty, the Void Mask, wants to reshape the priesthood of fear!” She said. It seemed that others did not understand, so she explained in detail, “Do you remember? More than a decade ago, His Majesty punished the God of Fear and imprisoned him in the Tree of God. Maybe by now the God of Fear is dead, and the priesthood of fear has been lost, so His Majesty wants to change the world’s view towards fear and then reshape the priesthood of fear.”

“Why?” Crito asked.

“I don’t know. Maybe His Majesty wants to cultivate a kind God of Fear. It’s impossible, but at least a God of Fear who would not be in the Evil Camp.”

“Is it good for His Majesty?” Klein asked.

“When did His Majesty do a good thing for “benefits”? Asner asked.

Everyone understood and couldn’t help but laugh.