545 A Catgirl Never Bends (2/2)
After all, one had to perceive the special perks or talents of one's class in order to become a Master.
However, the players didn't have to. They could reach level ten as long as they had enough EXP.
Also, different from the NPCs, the players couldn't choose special perks and talents until they reached level ten.
Roland nodded. ”Yes, I made a breakthrough during my magic studies earlier.”
”Let's see what special ability you've got!”
Alfred's mental power unfolded like a thick net and enshrouded Roland. After a gentle touch, the tentacles of mental power retracted.
”You chose body of magic power.” Alfred was rather surprised. ”Why didn't you choose Super Magic Conductivity or Magic Penetration?”
”Because I'm not short of attack power,” Roland explained. ”Survival abilities are more important. Also, the more magic power I have, the more survival abilities I'll have.”
Alfred found it hard to understand Roland. In comparison, he preferred ultimate destructiveness.
But of course, as a Legend, he also had enough abilities for him to survive battles.
”Everybody has different thoughts. I won't ask you to change anything.” Alfred smiled. ”Someone betrayed the Monochrome Magic Tower and seems to be hiding in a city of hybrids named Brown Sand City in the east. According to the Monochrome Magic Tower, it's a cunning vulpera. It will be best if you can catch it alive, but it doesn't matter if it's dead—although you'll receive less reward from the Monochrome Magic Tower.”
Roland looked at the system menu and soon received a quest.
Quest detected: The Monochrome Magic Tower's Traitor (Excellent)
Do you want to pick it?
Of course he did.
Although it was only a blue quest without much EXP, it was still better than nothing.
Alfred was happy that Roland was willing to listen to his commands. Didn't it prove that Roland had some sense of belonging toward the Red Magic Tower?
That was a good thing. He should work harder.
Leaving the Great Elder's office, Roland returned to his manor.
This wasn't a difficult quest for him, because the vulpera wasn't even a Master yet.
So, he simply dropped the quest for now and took a rest in the manor while he waited for the server to shut down.
Two hours later, the game was shut down on schedule, and Roland was ejected out of the game world.
He crawled out of the virtual cabin and read posts in the forum.
Now, there were fewer posts that were cursing him.
The players didn't like the server shutdown, so they vented their fury on Roland.
But their fury was mostly gone after their catharsis. Besides, it had already been stated that the open beta test would begin when the boundary of laws was reached, and someone would've achieved that sooner or later even without Roland.
Since nobody was throwing profanity at Roland anymore, Betta's post was upvoted to the top again.
Many players left replies to his post.
”Damn it! You're asking us to build a city for you for free? Are you a fraud or something?”
”What fraud? This is exactly the trick of the real estate business.”
”S*it. Are all the members of F6 as unscrupulous as him?”
”I don't know if F6 are unscrupulous, but I do know that Betta would not only have the city built for free but he'd even make a fortune out of it.”
”Then let's not help him at all. F6 will have to build the city on their own.”
”My friend, we all support you in this. We really do.”
”I think I'm feeling the vibe of a cynical troll.”
”Be more confident and drop 'I think.'”
”I didn't know that the Divine Noble could get a territory. I'm planning to delete this character and create a new one.”
”You're giving up the character that you've worked on for two years so easily?”
”What's the big deal? I'm just a casual player. I'm only level two. I don't feel regretful to delete this character.”
”Since the open beta test is starting soon, more people will definitely be joining the game. It will be great if you level up with those new players.”
Starting from there, they deviated from the topic and began to discuss other things.
”I don't think it's possible. The number of goods on the page where we buy the virtual cabins online is zero. I remember that our virtual cabins were sold half a year before the alpha test, but there's no news on the new virtual cabins now that the beta test is taking place.”
”There are three days to go until the official beta test. Patience.”
”It's obvious that you're never been in the game sales business. A necessary tool to play the game such as the virtual cabin has to be marketed at least three months before the beta test. Can you expect all of them to be delivered to the players within three days? So, I think that maybe there won't be more virtual cabins even though the beta test is taking place. These 500,000 cabins might be all.”
”Is that possible? Why would Penguin Corporation refuse the easy money?”
”What if this game doesn't belong to Penguin and it's just what they want you to believe?”
”Can you tell me more? I think there's something more to this game too.”
”I'm a programmer in Penguin Corporation. I assure you that nobody in Penguin Corporation knows where the servers of this game are located. Even the devs and ops have never seen them.”
”My friend, watch out for yourself. Post 'protect him' to drown his message.”
The replies behind were all ”protect him” so that the man's original reply wouldn't be noticed.
Seeing that, Roland immediately opened the online shop for the virtual cabins and found that the number of goods available was indeed zero.
Scratching his chin, Roland found it quite weird.
The beta test was already underway. Were the devs really not going to release any more virtual cabins?