34: Chapter 39 Forum 34: Chapter 39 Forum Midnight, in a darkened bedroom, Li Cheng sat in front of his computer desk, his face half-illuminated by the screen.
After gaining the Summoner status, the player forum, which was originally filled with vast blanks, sprouted new content in his view, including registration options.
Due to the sensitive nature of the Summoner identity, no mobile verification was needed for registering an account; just typing in an account na and password sufficed.
Li Cheng scrolled through the forum with his mouse wheel, perusing intently.
Like many anonymous forums, the player forum did not feature signature files, avatars, personal space, or even fixed personal IDs.
Every 24 hours, the forum server assigns a new ID—usually consisting of 14 alphanuric characters—to each new user for the day.
IDs in older posts remain fixed.
This setup protects each user.
Others cannot use old posts to pinpoint or track a specific user over ti.
The forum contained nurous sections, large and small, including player strategies, hot product recomndations, miscellaneous talks, and black market exchanges.
Smaller sections included subculture, emotional life, music and book recomndations, and gaming-related topics.
[Epic guide!
Professional gars teach you how to safely get through the newbie phase]
[Newbie help needed, European Heavy Industry, Protheus, FBI—three guilds offered deals at the sa ti, which one should I choose?]
[Killing field dangerous area coordinates overview, includes common experintal species and security guard movents]
[For sale: “Mountain Village Corpse” Chu Reni’s bathwater, five bottles…
Drink it and you’ll see ghosts, I tried it, it’s real.
Limited quantity, order fast, free shipping, 300 Ga Coins, price negotiable]
[Found strange stockings in my husband’s car, wanted to catch him cheating at a hotel, but found out at the hotel that he beca a newbie player three months ago and chose the Magic Girl power system, now I’m so confused and tired and numb]
Li Cheng browsed through, gaining quite a bit of knowledge and insights but also scrolling past lots of insignificant filler posts.
Particularly that one about the husband turning into a Magic Girl—the plot was dramatic and blatant, reading till the end only to find out it was a damn ad!
A company selling the original flavored stockings!
Well, not ordinary stockings exactly, but equipnt wearable by both genders featuring extraordinary attributes.
For instance, wearing fishnet stockings could enhance Agility, cotton socks made players cold and heat-resistant, pantyhose reduced curse attacks, and so on.
However, this kind of publicity was rather shaless, reminiscent of Zhihu’s elite select and web ga advertisents style.
Li Cheng massaged his temples; despite its maturity, the player forum still couldn’t avoid such vexing content.
Indeed, the ultimate purpose for players is to hawk goods, and the endga for forums is filler posts.
“Fortunately, browsing the forum wasn’t entirely fruitless; at the very least, I now understand how to estimate current strength through the player panel.”
He mused internally, calling up the system panel and opening the Summoner information section.
The Summoner information contained na, age, race, current level, along with Summoner number and player nickna.
The number was a long string of alphanuric characters, assigned by the killing field, one per person, unchangeable.
Even if a player was killed by a non-player, the qualification would transfer, but the number wouldn’t pass on to soone else.
The nickna was chosen by the player himself, mainly used for adding friends, remote communication, and transferring funds to other players.
Through the forum’s informative posts, Li Cheng learned that nicknas could be duplicated with others and could be changed in the future, so there was no need to fuss over it, he casually entered[Ant].
After confirming the nickna, the attribute column beneath the player information automatically updated.
[Ant]
[Lv1.
Experience Bar 0/100]
[Strength: 8](Level of a top weightlifter)
[Agility: 8](Level of a top sprinter)
[Intelligence: 6](Talented)
[Constitution: 7](Level of a professional marathon runner)
[Perception: 6](Perception level of a professional hunter)
[Charm: 6](Handso)
[Equipnt Column: None]
[Backpack: None]
[Skill Bar: None]
[Ga Currency: None]
Lv1, indicating Li Cheng’s current level.
Players can gain Experience Points by completing tasks in the killing field; with each level up, the Experience Bar’s limit increases by 100 points, and awards one free attribute point.
For an ordinary adult, without specific training, all attributes except Charm and Intelligence would be at 5 points.
Here, attributes weren’t just simple data as in online gas about how much power one could output, but reflected the overall physiological condition of the Summoner’s body.
Strength attribute correlated to muscle strength, bone density, and basal tabolic rate.
Agility attribute related to neural reflex speed, body coordination, and muscular burst power.
Constitution attribute referred to basal tabolic rate, body recovery rate, and adaptive capacity to environnts.
Intelligence attribute included mory, cognitive ability, computing capability, and logic skills.
Perception attribute involved observation capability, alertness, and even mystic elents like intuition, sixth sense, or clairvoyance.
A single free attribute point, placed on any attribute, could cause significant changes to an ordinary person, no matter how seemingly futile the trait of Charm—
In the eyes of others, a player who enhanced their Charm attribute would maintain the sa appearance, but their deanor and speech would beco more pleasant and charismatic.
“An ordinary person has each attribute at 5, but excluding Intelligence and Charm, my panel showing impressions would make it seem like an individual who has leveled up nine tis.
Of course, this is theoretical.”
Li Cheng stroked his chin; theory was theory, and practice was practice.
Since he had so level of extraordinary power early on due to the infection from the Master of Insects,
other players could also obtain certain advantages through various ans.
For example, a player might take muscle-building drugs daily, vigorously train, raising Strength from an ordinary person’s level of 5 to a professional weightlifter’s 7, then use a free attribute point to reach Olympic-level 8 strength.
The personal gain from this, compared to moving from 5 to 6 points, was significantly greater.
Or perhaps, early in the ga, a player might take out large loans, approach Gen-Sys Biotech to inject them with the Captain Arica Potion, aiming to maximize the usage rate of newbie attribute points.
These strategies could bring substantial enhancent effects during a player’s newbie phase.
But according to summaries from so strategy posts, players who acquired extraordinary powers early on using such thods also face subtly increased task difficulty—there wouldn’t be a scenario where a Lv1 newbie suddenly becos Godzilla and beats up caven.
After scanning the attribute column, Li Cheng looked at his empty equipnt and backpack slots, pondered for a mont, and took out the remaining Insect Lord Blood Amber and golden arrows he had collected from that ink-colored spider.
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