Chapter 124: A ssage
Eldrian failed to concentrate in any of his classes, constantly thinking of how he could possibly change the spell module for Frost Needle. Realizing that he could not truly change it unless he was able to enter the magical abyss. But he could change the way his mana worked inside of the spell module.
Knowing this he ca up with as many theories as he could, even going so far as to sketch them during class. When the day finally reached its end Eldrian had a stack of papers, the ideas sorter from easiest to most difficult to apply.
Using the magical abyss was dead last in the pile. Eldrian had no idea how to enter it without the Magic Crystal.
Rushing ho with his stack of ideas, Eldrian found himself stopped from logging in. His play cooldown yet to reach its end.
With nothing better to do Eldrian turned to the forums, looking for others who might be using magic. He quickly gave up as all the other players simply relied on the system to give them skills and spells. None of them even understood how the spell modules worked.
To keep himself busy he turned to the general threads, looking at what the rest of the gaming world was up to. He had long been kicked off of the level ranking, his recent leveling up placed him into the top 100 of Phallos again. But compared to the true leaders in the ga, Eldrian was far behind.
The highest level player was currently level 8, nearing 9. More than 200 players were over level 8.
Seeing their levels Eldrian felt certain that these people were all good at fighting. From the fight yesterday he had learned just how much XP one could gain from combat. This only worked if you managed to not die, which ant if you were a soldier or martial artist you would be able to fly through levels.
What's this?Eldrian asked as he found an interesting post, this player claid that he had maxed out the required Tier 1 spell usage. Yet he was unable to learn Tier 2 spells.
The player also made no ntion of needing to cast Tier 2 spells, rather it gave the player an entirely different way of reaching Tier 2. Through a challenge.
Eldrian had to learn and successfully use Tier 2 spells to reach Tier 2, reading this post allowed him to realize that his information was actually spot on. Though he might be able to skip the Tier 1 part, Eldrian felt he would likely reach that just by training his control. Making it obsolete if he could skip it or not.
The challenge this player had was to solo kill a Tier 2 monster. Absolutely no assistance was allowed, this certainly made it really hard for normal players. Especially when this monster had to be the sa or a higher level than the player.
I totally understand why he felt cheated.Eldrian felt the player was justified, he had spent a week to grind out the spell usage, only to be stopped by sothing he could not rush. This made sense but was certainly a large bumr for the player.
Are better players already going to start standing out? Eldrian wondered as he finished his browsing. Having ended his browsing by looking at the company thread where they posted any updates and news regarding the ga.
They had seemingly been placing far more ti into the ga than when they had just release it. This was the impression all the players had as they found that there would not be an update every other day.
These updates were not major, simple interface tunning or patching any errors they found. Tunning how logging in and out worked, informing the NPCs about how players existed, or sending new rules on how players may and may not be treated.
Things like that.
For most players it felt weird, the company was deadset on not changing their ga to make it a long-lasting ga with millions and even billions could enjoy. Rather they had shut down sales while suddenly tuning it as if they expect it to beco the best ga in the world.
Eldrian felt conflicted when reading through the update. Not because of the update, rather because of all the updates. Like other players, he did not understand the Miracle Corporation. The company had made it clear that they would not change their ga, rather their world.
Yet here they were trying their best to improve it. The forr irked Eldrian, often leading him to curse the company. Yet the latter made him happy and left him questioning their reasoning. Ultimately leaving a weird taste in his mouth.
Oh, I have a ssage.Eldrian stopped logging out once he saw this notification.
Opening it and reading through it he found that it was from one of the ga developers. Asking him if he had thought about sharing his data with the company.
The developer went into detail about why they were following up on this, sothing which Eldrian had thought was more ant in passing. Having completely forgotten about it.
Here the sender of the ssage made it clear that they valued Eldrian's cooperation and wished to affirm it. They ntioned that more than Eldrian previously experience, he was also the only High Elf who had managed to use magic.
This made them want his data even more, and while they could technically simply take it. They wanted to have Eldrian's help.
None of their ga testers had ever co close to doing what Eldrian had. Which told them that Eldrian had so kind of talent that most lacked. That or he had extre luck, in both cases, they wanted to use his data to make sure that the uniqueness of High Elves would not cause any problems.
Naturally, they did not co out so straightforwardly to Eldrian, rather speaking around the real subject.
"We are working on developing the next stage of our project, and while ANW might not be kept up forever. We believe the technology we develop will. It will be universal, the start of sothing great. Allowing us as humans to reach a new plane of living."
"We are currently working on developing a better way of entering the gaming world. If you agree to share your data then we would like to also offer you access to the prototypes, and naturally the final product."
"This new way of entering the ga will enable you to the ga for an entire day, to never miss anything in the ga. We would naturally also want to use your data from using the prototype, allowing us to better improve the final product."
"If you agree we will send a representative to discuss with you how much we can pull and what you want in return."
Eldrian was speechless, staring quietly at the screen after having finished his read. His first thoughts were on what he should ask for, but quickly turned to being able to ga for an entire day. No longer having to log out.
Knowing that he could not take too long to think this over, Eldrian replied that he would like to discuss this more. Neither agreeing nor disagreeing. The company's aim seed all well and good, but Eldrian wanted to make sure there would not be traps. The contract everyone first signed had had a trap.
As soon as he sent his reply, Eldrian switched of his pc and logged into the ga, finding action right off the bat.
"He's back!" Floyd shouted even before Eldrian could shake off the groggy feeling which ca with logging in.
"Thank Dioktis. Haru, get ready!" Terlas shouted as the flight of an arrow followed his words.
Confused Eldrian looked around trying to make sense of what was happening. The darkness of night foiling his plan and instead only causing him to beco even more confused.
"Make sure not to leave the array!" Andreas shouted as he disappeared past it. Eldrian wanted to question just how he could shout that and do the opposite. But he could feel that it was not the ti for jokes.
Shaking his head to force himself awake quicker, Eldrian pulled out Grace and headed to the front where Sabrea was standing. Her sword ready and her breathing steady, total focus all over her face.
As he took his place, with enough distance to use his spear, Eldrian was glad that the circle Floyd had made was over 20 ters wide. It gave them enough space to actually fight, it was even bigger than most sparring fields.
Did they expect this, or did they simply air on caution? Eldrian wondered as his eyes finally settled to the darkness, allowing him to see the faint glowing eyes of sothing.
"Can soone tell what is coming?" Eldrian asked in frustration, he could not even tell if the mass moving towards them was humanoid or beastlike.
"Yania." Cadriel shouted from the back during a short pause of shooting.
"The hell is a Yania?" Eldrian asked just as one of the beasts jumped into the light and lunged for him. Only to be stopped by an arrow which quickly ended its life.
"That is!" Sabrea shouted as she slashed at another, "Don't let your guard down, they are fast bastards."
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