Chapter 211: Chapter 209: Skipping Class to Play Games!
Translator: 549690339
Millions of players embarked on a brand-new journey.
Being born on Dawn Island, receiving a cloak, learning to fly, and soaring freely in the tender Sand Sea and the gentle morning light.
Viewing murals, searching for the memories of ancestors, and gaining special action rewards.
In this initial level, players learn crucial elements of the game â which isnât difficult, though finding ancestors may require a little more effort.
Lincoln didnât enlarge the map as exaggeratedly as in âTraveler of the Wind.â
Since âLight Encounterâ has a unique sacrifice mechanism, players can sacrifice every week. Each sacrifice means starting from scratch, and daily tasks require players to run through the map repeatedly.
If the map were enlarged like in âTraveler of the Wind,â requiring ten or more hours to run through it, it would be pure torture.
Soon enough, it would give birth to many âDrip Runners,â and even the game mechanism would make it convenient for those who paid to have someone pull them through the entire journeyâŠ
So the map has been adaptively enlarged, but not much. Running through it all would take only slightly longer than the original mobile game.
Of course, itâs the same principle: experts and ordinary players will likely not take the same time to run the full mapâŠ
Even doubling the speed is possible.
Even if âdrip runnersâ were born again, well, considering the approach of running the map, it should be called âDrip Flying.â That would be inevitable.
It is impossible to completely eliminate this kind of thing. Giving players willing to spend money on the game, but not on actually playing, a shortcut is necessaryâŠ
Under these circumstances, when many people rush home at six oâclock in the evening, eager to enter the game, the first players to enter the game are slowly exploring while enjoying the scenery and have already reached the fourth map.
These players are lucky; at least they can start playing right after dinner.
However, Shuihua is not so lucky she still has evening study sessions after dinner!
Even in the afternoon, she watched live-streams until her phone almost ran out of power.
Feeling that muting didnât satisfy her, she sneakily stuck a wireless headphone in her ear under the cover of her hair.
She absentmindedly listened to the lectures and frequently peeked at her phone.
She watched Camille Victoria complete Dawn Island and enter Cloud Wilds.
Camille Victoria flew freely in the endless expanse of the boundless Cloud Sea, leaving long tails behind her.
With support from the clouds to replenish her energy, Camille Victoria frolicked in the Cloud Sea and refused to leave, making Shuihua envious.
She also witnessed Camille Victoria meeting a mysterious, shadowvy player, and the two players finally managed to communicate after sitting down together.
Together, in the endless, constantly surging Cloud Sea, they cooperated to find one Light Dwarf after another, leveling up their wings.
They rang the Clock Tower, summoning a huge and pure white flying creature. Camille Victoria fluttered her wings, flying alongside the beautiful and massive creature to reach the final destination of the level.
The subsequent Rainforest Level, however, was entirely different from the previous, vast and picturesque maps.
There were no more boundless Cloud Seas, verdant grasslands dotted with tender wildflowers, or brightly colored landscapes, but instead, a pervasive sense of danger.
Between the towering giant trees, there were weeds, puddles, and rain everywhere. In such a dim environment, Camille Victoria and the mysterious player searched for Light Dwarves and ancestors hidden in various corners.
Thankfully, strange luminous creatures and flocks of white birds flying through the giant trees lightened the sense of danger and made the scenery mysterious and enchanting.
Camille Victoria got lost again and again during her search, her wings soaked by rain. She relied on the mysterious player to guide her back to the right path.
Until she eventually left the place, Camille Victoria kept saying, âI definitely didnât find all the wings, and Iâll come back for sure!â
As Camille Victoria entered the next map, a system prompt appeared on the screen again: (f)reenovelkiss.com
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Finally, Shuihuaâs class ended.
While she was walking to the canteen with her friends, she continuously admonished herself:
âIâm in the third year of high school, the most important time of my life I must not waste it.â
âIâve already fallen behind because I didnât listen carefully to todayâs lecture; if I donât review tonight, itâll be really troublesome.â
âMy parents are very concerned about my grades. If they catch me asking for a leave to go home and play games, theyâll definitely kill me.â
âNext week we have a baseline test, a crucial time for review I canât slack off!â
Shuihua managed to convince herself throughout the meal, barely tasting her food.
Her dorm mates noticed her unusual behavior and kindly asked if she needed help.
âIf youâre having any problems, just tell us. Weâll help you!â
âReally?â Shuihua hesitated to ask.
âOf course, itâs true!â Her good friends nodded vigorously and looked at her concernedly.
Moved by her friendsâ warmth, Shuihua couldnât bear to refuse their help:
âHelp me ask for a leave! Tell them Iâm not feeling well and wonât be attending the evening study session!â Shuihua made up her mind, and her appetite suddenly returned. She ate her meal voraciously and chugged down the egg soup from the little bowl, forcing the food down her throat. After casually wiping her mouth with a napkin, she got up and left.
This sudden change left her dining companions dumbfounded, and the dorm leader quickly asked her, âWhat are you going to do?â
Shuihua, already running away with her bag, replied from afar, âGoing home to play games!â
The three remaining friends exchanged glances.
âShould we help her ask for leave?â
âOr should we bring her back?â
âŠshe ran so fast, it must be too late to find her now.â
In the end, they exchanged helpless glances and took on the task.
With the addition of this new group, the online player count, which had stabilized at just over 5 million, began to climb rapidly again.
By 7 pm, when most people had finished eating and logged on, âLight Encounterâ finally reached the peak of online players on the first day: 8.2 million players online at the same time!
However, Lincoln was well aware that the fastest batch of players would complete the first clearance of the game tonight, ending their entire journey.
After many players complete the first run and see the full landscapes, there would likely be a wave of players quitting the game.
If there are no special circumstances, it will be hard for this number to break through again.
However, a âspecial circumstanceâ will happen tomorrow a total of 17 million Mirage devices will be available!
Although new players will be divided among three virtual reality games, adding another 5 million new players to âLight Encounterâ shouldnât be a problem!
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