Chapter 202: Chapter 203: The Player’s First Arrival (Major Chapter)
Green City Life Temple.
The Life Goddess, as the only great being in Glory that is simultaneously worshipped by the evil, neutral, and good camps, has temples that are the most nurous and commonly seen in Glory.
Even in the Bottomless Abyss, a place of Extre Evil, one can find the presence of the Life Temple, a divine being who reigns above both good and evil.
In Glory, the most common phrase humans say—”Praise the Goddess”—is in reverence to this revered Life Goddess.
At this mont, inside the Life Temple of Green City, on an altar that was seldom used.
Swoosh~
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A faint light flickered.
Then a young figure dressed in sackcloth appeared inside the temple.
The female priests and priests around saw this figure and their faces imdiately displayed wide smiles.
An adventurer from an Otherworld had arrived.
Glory Light slowly opened his sowhat murky eyes, and what he saw was the snow-white ceiling above him, carved with bas-reliefs praising the Life Goddess, filled with a uniquely religious flavor.
His gaze slowly settled, and a look of surprise appeared on his face.
“This environnt is so realistic, it’s hardly any different from what ‘Glory’ advertised…”
His heart stirred, he slightly propped himself up to a sitting position, and the touch of the cool stone altar beneath his palm surprised him even more.
This sensation was fantastic.
Glory Light was the ID he often used in gas, and being selected as a beta tester this ti was also by chance; he had never even experienced this legendary virtual ga with extre realism offline before.
Now, entering “Glory” and just a few details had given him a shock; this real feeling was incomparable to other trash gas.
A virtual ga achieving this level was an absolute piece of high-tech.
With a curious gaze, he turned his head to look around.
This dium-sized chapel with hundreds of fixed wooden seats on the floor and carvings on the snow-white walls around celebrating the divine.
All the decorations bore no significant difference from dieval European chapels.
At this ti, around him were more than a dozen priests in priestly robes, both n and won, looking at him curiously.
Among them, an elderly priest with snow-white hair and a kind and amiable face stepped forward, seemingly having sothing to say to him.
In Glory Light’s eyes, all these priests had a faint glow about them, especially the old priest in front of him, who looked like he was wearing clothes made of fluorescent lights.
It was suffused with an indescribable sanctity.
“Young man, are you the adventurer from an Otherworld?”
Priest Mite looked at the seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy with a bit of curiosity. He had received a divine revelation from the Life Goddess last night that today an adventurer from an Otherworld would be born in the Life Temple. All the clergy had to be ready to receive him.
The Life Goddess’s temple in Green City was extrely vast, and this smaller side hall was his responsibility, so he was already waiting.
Glory Light didn’t seem to hear Priest Mite’s question, his nose slightly twitched as he caught a whiff of the faint scent of jasmine.
Looking at the old man in front of him with curious eyes, the wrinkles on his face, the vicissitudes in his eyes, were laid bare before him.
He could even feel every breath they took and the dust in the air that floated with it; this was simply not sothing a ga could do.
“This ga is incredible; I haven’t actually traveled through ti, have I?!”
Priest Mite’s frown deepened, and his forehead wrinkled more.
Because he couldn’t understand what the other was saying.
“Young man, are you the adventurer from an Otherworld?” With no other choice, the old priest repeated his question.
Glory Light only then heard the old priest’s question clearly, but it was no use because he found he couldn’t understand at all.
“Elder, what are you saying?”
“&*%%￥￥##&*?”
“Elder, can you speak Chinese?”
“**%…*##@!&*HOY*UG?”
“What the fuck, what is this crap, we can’t even understand each other??”
Glory Light’s mouth twitched viciously; he very much felt the urge to curse.
Did it need to be so realistic?
Different languages too; what was he supposed to do now?
Glory Light and the old priest stared at each other, both speaking words neither could comprehend.
“Young man, don’t you know the common language of Glory?”
“**…*…%￥#%??”
“Young man, where are you from?”
“*￥%###￥%#…”
Finally, the old priest, with an expression of speechlessness, cradled his forehead and stretched out his hand to place it on Glory Light’s head.
Glory Light watched as the old man placed his hand on top of his head and imdiately felt a chill down his spine. This NPC couldn’t possibly be wanting to silence him for good, could he??
Then he saw a faint glow appear in the hands of the old priest, and his head felt cool as if he understood sothing.
“Young man from another world, can you understand now?” The old priest spoke again, and Glory Light almost burst into tears.
I’ve got a Husky… Does this ga have to be so hardcore that I have to go through all this just to understand?
“Old man, I can understand now. I can understand, thank you for your help.”
The old priest looked pleased, “Young man, you’re welco. It is the blessed command of the Goddess to help you.” He then added with so regret.
“However, I just used a Second Circle Spell, Language Comprehension, which only lasts for three Sunshine Hours. After the ti passes, you will still be unable to understand .
Young man from another world, if you want to live in the Main Plane of Glory, you still need to learn our language.”
Glory Light’s face changed, mmp, now I have to learn a language?
I can barely recognize all 21, uh, 22 letters of the English alphabet, and now you want to learn the language of the ga?
“Old man, I…”
“Young man, you may call Priest Mite, I am an Interdiate Priest of the Life Temple.”
Mi Te interrupted Glory Light’s words, with unmistakable pride on his face.
Interdiate Priest of the Life Temple?
Glory Light imdiately rembered the information released on the official website; the Life Goddess was one of the most powerful Deities in Glory, on the sa level as the Death God.
She is revered and worshipped by all living things, even Undead Life holds respect for the Life Goddess.
“Priest Mite, you can call Glory Light.”
“Glory Light? That’s a strange na. Only those of you from another world would use such a na as a moniker.
Young man, can you tell about the Otherworld you co from?”
Mi Te was especially curious about this because, due to his power, he might never be able to step into another Plane in his lifeti, but that didn’t an he didn’t yearn for other Planes.
“The world I co from is called Earth…” Glory Light didn’t think much of the other party’s question and directly answered.
But what he didn’t know was that as soon as he opened his mouth, the air fell silent, and no matter what he said, his voice couldn’t be heard by others.
However, in Mi Te’s ears, he heard sothing different.
“The world I co from is from the Lost Plane…”
But Glory Light was unaware that what he said was different from what Mi Te heard. After babbling on about how hard it was to win the internal test on the official website and how lucky he was, he concluded with “… and then I arrived in Glory.”
Mi Te looked touched. “Young man, I didn’t expect you would be from the Lost Plane; I understand your origin now.
The ancient wars caused many Planes to separate from the Main Plane of Glory. Perhaps the great Life Goddess sensed you needed help, which is why she allowed you to descend into the Main Plane again.”
Glory Light was dumbfounded. What lost plane? I was talking about Earth.
“Priest Mite, I said I’m from Earth.”
Mi Te looked puzzled.
“I know you’re from the Lost Plane.”
“I an Earth, Earth!!”
“Why so worked up? There’s no sha in coming from the Lost Plane.”
“I…”
Glory Light suddenly ca back to his senses, mmp, this must be so trick of the ga system.
Even Earth is censored by the ga, how extre.
Well, Lost Plane or not, it doesn’t make a difference.
“Priest Emi, I’m really not interested in learning a new language. Could you teach how to use this, uh…”
“Second Circle Spell: Language Comprehension.”
“Yes, yes, that’s the one. Can you teach Language Comprehension?”
Hearing this request, Priest Emi looked sowhat disdainful.
“You need to be a Level 5 Spellcaster to learn Second Circle Spells, Glory Light, you’re just a commoner now and not eligible to learn spells.”
Glory Light’s face looked sowhat displeased.
“Do not worry, when your spell expires, you can co to ,” smiled Priest Mi Te, his expression clean and pure, “Under the Goddess’s crown, the oracle has commanded us to help you as much as possible.”
“And what about after that month?” Glory Light sharply caught the ti fra ntioned.
“After one month, each casting will require a silver puck.”
Glory Light was stunned for a mont. The official website provided an explanation of the exchange rates for gold pucks, silver pucks, and copper pucks, but he didn’t know whether the value of a silver puck was considered high or low.
“Lord Mi Te, may I ask what I can do to assist you?”
After understanding the other party’s words, Glory Light imdiately slipped into player mode.
For a player who wishes to level up, grow stronger and earn money, what could be faster than taking on a mission?
Mi Te shook his head, “Glory Light, you are too weak, even weaker than an ordinary citizen. Co back when you have beco a professional.”
Mi Te’s rciless words left Glory Light slightly embarrassed, but as a player, how could he afford to lose face?
“Lord Mi Te, please help transform into a Priest. I am willing to beco a follower of the Life Goddess…”
However, Mi Te’s words once again made Glory Light feel the hardness of this world.
“No, Glory Light, becoming a Priest requires a talent that I sense you possess for casting spells, but it doesn’t et the requirents of the Life Temple. You cannot beco a Priest.
Perhaps you should look outside, a warrior’s profession may suit you better.”
Upon ntioning the word ‘warrior’, Emi’s face showed a disdain that Glory Light failed to notice.
Those brutish barbarians have always been looked down upon by spellcasters.
I need a talent to beco a Priest?? Glory Light deeply felt the malice of this world.
Isn’t Priest a starting profession?
Mage, Priest, Archer, Thief, Warrior… those were the five, weren’t they? Why don’t I qualify??
He wanted to make a retort, but the calmness in Mi Te’s eyes made him abandon the thought.
“Could you give so advice?”
“Young man, you can find a job outside to support yourself; maybe then, consider becoming a professional.”
Mi Te had not asked for any more valuable information, and by now he had lost interest in this adventurer from the Lost World, waving his hand to shoo him away.
The Lost World is a plane that lost contact with the Main Plane in the ancient wars; though they are called planes, most are weak entities, rarely holding anything of value.
Over the years, many Lost Planes were found, but most were barren. Emi mistook Glory Light’s lack of knowledge as coming from an insignificant plane.
And since Glory Light’s casting talent was poor, it naturally extinguished Mi Te’s interest in further entertaining him.
On hearing Emi’s tone, Glory Light walked out of the church with a sulky expression, and he glanced over his attributes.
Glory Light
Level: 1
Profession: Civilian
Reputation: 0
Skills: None
Status: (Understands Language)
A blank slate in all attributes, whiter than the test papers he handed in during exams.
“That’s it? Not even a tutorial for beginners?”
Stepping out of the splendid Life Temple church, Glory Light wore a blank expression on his face.
Standing in this city, he didn’t even know what to do next.
“MMP, isn’t this too hardcore? Who am I? What am I doing? Where am I going?”
By the ti Glory Light stood on the main streets of Green City, the bustling scene made him instantly forget what he was supposed to do next, staring greedily at everything around him.
The city in front of him had a standard dieval European style, with steeples adorning most buildings, and statues of giant dragons or angels above rooftops, circular stained glass windows below.
The walls lining the streets were mostly painted with colorful, vibrant murals.
It was rich in cultural flavor, sothing that could only be accumulated over ti.
Glory Light’s eyes radiated with intense delight, feeling as if his eyes weren’t enough to take it all in.
On the spacious cobblestone streets, citizens dressed in grey linen moved cautiously, their eyes numb and lifeless, only showing emotion in the presence of Nobles and weapon-laden rcenaries, though it was rely fear.
Warriors decked in grey leather armor swaggered by street corners, heads held high with pride, drawing sidelong glances from the small traders in the shops and passing civilians.
Nobles riding tall horses wore luxurious attire, patterned with various gold and silver threads, partly open sleeves, and cultured neckties exemplifying the depth of Noble heritage.
Each scene was brimming with the charm of the Otherworld.
Under the sun’s radiance, my skin felt a burning sensation, while the distinct sour stench of a sewer pervaded the surroundings…
All these sensations left Glory Light’s expression indescribably thrilled.
“Holy shit, this is what a real virtual ga is like! The previous ones were crap, no, this is an entire world!”
After looking around for a good while, Glory Light reluctantly withdrew his gaze, but in a blink of an eye, his complexion soured.
He suddenly rembered that he had no idea what to do now…
This was a completely open-world, and it left him feeling lost, accustod as he was to gas where you’d be bombarded with endless tasks upon logging in.
Just then, the chatter of two civilians in grey tunics, their skin darkened from the sun, reached him.
“Did you hear? The Crimson Mage Tower is recruiting Mage Apprentices again. You thinking of letting your kid try out?”
“Man, I’m jealous. They say you get 20 silver pucks every month just for being a Mage Apprentice…”
The bewildered Glory Light saw a glimr of hope and approached with a wide smile, interrupting their conversation.
“Excuse , do you guys know where the Crimson Mage Tower is?”
The two, initially startled by the sudden appearance of Glory Light, quickly wore a smug expression upon seeing that he was just another commoner like themselves.
“A new refugee?”
A refugee? As handso as I am? Glory Light was furious on the spot, but upon seeing the two, each with arms thicker than his thighs, he decided to let bygones be bygones.
“No, I am an adventurer from another world. Do you two know where to find the Crimson Mage Tower that’s recruiting Mage Apprentices?”
An adventurer from another world?
The two gave a look of disdain.
Doesn’t even know the Crimson Mage Tower? These refugees are getting dumber.
“By the Goddess above, now even refugees dare to call themselves adventurers?
A Level 1 commoner adventurer? Hahaha, that’s really surprising…”
Glory Light, watching the scorn in the two NPCs’ eyes, felt as though he had received a fatal blow.
Believe it or not, on my first day in the ga, I was actually mocked by two commoner NPCs!!
“MMP, if I don’t show you the power of a player today, you won’t know how many eyes Lord Ma has!”
In anger, Glory Light charged at the two civilians with a holy assault.
Three minutes later…
“I’m wrong, sirs, please not the face, ah, ah ah, not the face…”
“Stop, stop, I give up, I give up!”
“Dad, I was wrong…”
After being dragged into an alleyway and roughened up, Glory Light finally escaped with his life from the hands of the two bystander NPCs.
Feeling the aches all over his body, Glory Light was overwheld with sorrow.
What the hell kind of shitty ga is this? I, a noble player, can’t even beat a random NPC.
“Do you see that tower? That’s the Crimson Mage Tower, tsk tsk tsk, lots of Mage Apprentices being recruited there these days, you could let your son try”
“Heh, Jie Li, you don’t know yet, do you? My son was chosen by the Crimson Mage Tower just yesterday…”
“Praise the Goddess, you are really lucky”
Just after crawling out of the alley, Glory Light’s spirit imdiately lifted upon hearing the conversation between the two passers-by.
“I must have revenge!! You two damn bastards, I will show you how formidable I am.”
Glory Light suddenly turned his head toward the tower so three blocks away, with crimson walls and a twenty-plus blade tall, pointed-top round tower.
So this is the Crimson Mage Tower that recruits Mage Apprentices?
Priest Emi once said that I have a talent for casting…
Moreover, on the official Glory website, Mage is ranked as the number one profession.
“I will beco a mage, I will have my revenge…”
The furious Glory Light, with two panda eyes and wearing tattered linen clothes, headed towards the crimson tower.
Lide had no idea at the ti that the arrival of players was not as he had imagined…
The beginning for these dumbasses could be called Hell difficulty.
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