All dark magicians knew that forbidden magic of the "Dark Magic: Army of the Undead" type was only aweso-looking but actually pretty useless.
The reason was very simple. Whether it was the "Resurrection of the Dead" that used corpses as materials to revive, or the "Summoning the Undead" that directly summoned from the demon world, the ones summoned here were toys with almost no IQ, dull and stiff. Even a child could outrun them. They had no fighting power.
They weren’t even cute.
The thousands of corpses that Yang Qiu summoned from the swamp didn't even have a spiritual fire in their eye sockets. They relied entirely on the magic power provided by Yang Qiu to move as slowly as an army of geriatrics. As soon as Yang Qiu took away his magic power, the corpses fell to the ground in a crash.
Of course, Yang Qiu didn't expect this cute skill to be of any use...all he wanted was the corpses.
Next, Yang Qiu rolled up his sleeves, squatted in the middle of the pile of corpses, and picked out the intact bones one by one. After working hard for several hours, he was able to pick out more than 300 relatively intact bodies.
Then, he injected magical power into these more than 300 corpses, so that these corpses of different shapes lined up in rows and followed the undead horse back to the birth point.
Next, there was another big challenge - to process the simplified spiritual imprint and the simple teleportation array that could only be used to teleport non-living people into these corpses.
It was impossible to require players to play the ga without wasting ti and not die even once. Could you be called a player if you didn’t waste ti? Could a ga that didn’t allow you to waste ti be called a ga?
But even if Yang Qiu found this Tarantan wasteland, which was once an ancient battlefield, as a playground, there would not be so many complete corpses to use, so he had to consider what to do after the players died.
Forget about the magic circle that could teleport living people. He didn’t have the money for dinsional magic! He didn’t have the materials! He couldn’t afford it! Empty wallet!
The magic circle for teleporting non-living people however was simple...just modify the summoning spell used by the caster to summon the demonic servants. Well, this teleportation array modified from summoning could not work on dead things, because dead things could not respond to summons.
In short, after the player died, the modified Spirit Brand Core, which served as the "resurrection point," would send out a resurrection (teleportation) call, and the player would naturally be able to respond, which solved the resurrection problem.
"It's a good idea... but with two formations added together, the ntal energy consud will double!"
Halfway through, Yang Qiu discovered another big problem. The education level of the people on Earth, or in other words, the young people in China, was relatively good, at least better than the natives of the magic plane.
According to the evaluation standard that Yang Qiu figured out himself, if a magic apprentice's ntal power was at least eighty points, then the average ntal power of Chinese young people was about forty points, which was 30% higher than the natives of the magic plane.
As for the reason, Yang Qiu thought it was because the spiritual world of Chinese youth was relatively complete, and they had established a worldview of "believing in human beings more than gods" since they were very young.
This was not just random speculation, Yang Qiu had solid evidence - you had to know that to beco a magician in this plane, the first hurdle to entry was "the caster must never pray to God."
Young people from Earth who did not believe in gods and believed that man could conquer nature had been consolidating their spiritual foundation from an early age. Although there were no magical rules on Earth, no matter how strong the spiritual power was, one could not beco extraordinary.
In short, the relatively high average ntal power of the youth group gave Yang Qiu the confidence to develop the earthlings into "different world ga players," but if the double-layer magic array engraved on the "ga character" consud more ntal power than the Chinese youth could bear, then he could not continue playing.
If players felt exhausted and exhausted after playing the ga for a few hours, would they suspect that there was sothing wrong with the ga? Would they refuse to log in? What’s the point of talking about sustainable developnt?
Yang Qiu held his head in his hands, thinking hard.
"Wait!"
"Players only need to return to their resurrection point when they die. There is no need to keep using summoning magic... er, resurrection teleportation!"
"The resurrection transmission is only activated when you die, and a death penalty is added... Yes, a death penalty! If you die, you will be forced to disconnect and cannot go online for half an hour Earth ti. If you rest for half an hour, you can definitely make up for the energy consud by the resurrection transmission!"
After coming up with a solution, Yang Qiu happily continued working.
Finally solved the problem of death and resurrection...more problems were exposed.
"Forcing players to play... uh, forcing players to stay online for a long ti requires a nurical reward chanism with tily feedback. Otherwise, players will have no sense of accomplishnt and will quit the ga. In other words, we need a level chanism!"
"There's also the class system... Without a rich class system, the ga will be the sa no matter how you play it. Once the novelty wears off, players will get bored and abandon the ga!"
Realizing that if these problems were not solved, the ga would not retain people even if it was launched, Yang Qiu had to stop working, return to Earth, and go to internet cafes to study a large number of ga comntary (complaint) videos.
After going back and forth like this, it was more than twenty days later, Earth ti, before the exhausted Yang Qiu finally worked out a "ga chanism" that would barely work and turned more than 300 skeletons into suitable "ga characters" for use.
Next, Yang Qiu was faced with the super difficult problem of how to turn the motorcycle helts ordered online into a "magic VR helt."
It was not difficult to engrave the spiritual imprint, but the trouble lay mainly in the USB system that could be connected to the computer host. The USB flash drive system installed in the helt was not a high-end device. It was just a simple audio and video transcoding system and an operating interface so simple that even an elentary school student could make it by following the tutorial.
When players played gas, they would definitely want to take screenshots, record videos, or even live broadcast. How to transmit the video and audio to the earth through the consciousness channel and decode and compress it into video and audio that could be played by the computer really made Yang Qiu's intestines twist and turn.
Magic could not solve this technical problem.
After much thought, Yang Qiu decided to resort to cheating: buy a server and use the space-ti rift to achieve a physical connection; the screenshots and recorded images taken by players would be uploaded to this server at the designated location of the birth point. After exiting the ga, log in to the official website of the ga through the VR helt to download it.
In order to avoid increasing workload and raising costs, Yang Qiu decided that not all players would be able to take screenshots and shoot videos freely in the future. They had to make certain contributions before they could do it, and then he would install a shooting device on the applicant's "ga character."
Uh...actually it's a cara bought online, the kind that can only store data without connecting to the internet.
Forget about live streaming, the ti flow rates in both worlds were different and could not be synchronized!
During this period, due to insufficient funds, Yang Qiu had no choice but to buy a set of bone china handicrafts from a supermarket on Earth, and then ride out of the Tarantan Desert on horseback to sell them to a country noble.
It was October of 2019 Earth ti. Yang Qiu, who had worked hard on both sides and finally completed the "opening" work, scheduled the ga's opening day during the National Day holiday.
Early morning of October 1st. Yang Qiu purchased a computer through an account opened with an identity purchased online, and rented a house in the suburbs to house the server. The first thing he did after logging in was ssage his sister through a social dia account that he’d used back on earth as a teenager.
He had worked very hard to rember the password of this social account for half a month. He had no choice but hurry with the contact, as his missing person notice had been posted on the streets.
In the chat, after being assured that he was alive, he was fucked to death verbally by his sister and beaten to a pulp by his mother.
After racking his brains to calm his family, Yang Qiu also sent a magic VR helt to them. His sister didn't like playing gas, not even mobile gas, but he still wanted her to see the results of his work after "running away from ho" for a month.
After leaving a ssage for his sister, Yang Qiu opened the official website and checked the ssage board.
Because he didn’t have the magical system assistance, it was impossible for him to apply for a ga approval number, he couldn’t do any public promotion, and he couldn’t openly put up a link to sell helts, he’d get arrested as an illegal distributor in a day.
So, Yang Qiu just kept to himself and didn’t do anything unnecessary. He bought a domain na and created an official website. The hopage contained a row of extrely concise and clear large characters: “Alien World” - the beta version of the first non-profit independent VR ga developed by an individual in China.
Yang Qiu had no idea whether putting up an independent ga sign could bypass the firewall monster, but as long as he could trick players into logging in as quickly as possible, it didn’t matter.
On this extrely simple official website, Yang Qiu posted a few fabricated introductions to the ga background, a few real-life footage of the Tarantan Wasteland and the "Undead Birth Point," and his carefully produced "Undead NPC" battle video. Ten days ago, he had secretly created a small account and participated in forums, discussion areas, and Tieba activities where all types of hardcore players gathered, and secretly promoted the ga.
The result was obvious. Hardcore players were very pessimistic about "independent VR gas." No matter which discussion forum Yang Qiu's small account posted in, it had never been welcod. Either he was ridiculed or simply ignored.
But we have to say that there are still a lot of bored people in the world. Although Yang Qiu’s posting account was ridiculed very badly, there were still many players who “had nothing to do anyway” who followed the post to find the official website.
Then, the official website, which was not even as sophisticated as the Penguin Space for middle school students, discouraged a large number of these bored and annoying people.
In the end, there were only nine people who had the patience to endure the extrely embarrassing hopage, were attracted by the extrely realistic promotional video that seed like a blockbuster movie, and filled in the closed beta application information in the application column at the bottom of the official website with a half-believing and half-doubting ntality, and paid 188 yuan for the helt materials and postage.
In other words, including the helt mailed to his sister, Yang Qiu had only ten players.
On the official website, there were only nine applicants on the closed beta list. These players who paid for the helts themselves all sympathized with the developers. In the past few days, these nine people would log in to the official website from ti to ti and post one or two awkward but humane consolation ssages on the ssage board, such as:
"I'm so hungry. I should have known this would take ti.”
"Did the producer use all the money he swindled to shoot promotional videos? There's no need to do that. It's better to save so money for instant noodles."
"I'm too embarrassed to ask for a refund. Forget it, I'll just use this helt as a safety helt."
"Is the producer still here? Did the investor beat you to death?"
"Making independent gas is a dead end, why not join in a livestream in won's clothing?"
...etc.
Yang Qiu remained calm about these reactions.
It was indeed annoying that only nine players were willing to buy it, but if you changed your perspective and interpreted it as nine people on Earth willing to take the initiative to beco his anchor points - the feeling would imdiately be very different.
After appreciating the few new sexy words added to the ssage board today, Yang Qiu calmly posted the server launch announcent on the official website and sent launch reminders to the email addresses left by nine paying players. Then he sat down quietly and waited for the ti to arrive.
The server launch announcent was posted at exactly nine o'clock in the morning.
At 9:20, Yang Qiu, who was cosplaying as a ga developer in a computer room with only one server, suddenly opened his eyes. In the spiritual imprint matrix composed of 300 mass-produced inscriptions that he created, one inscription was lit up.
Then, the second, the third...
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