The next mont, Lao Chen noticed that countless glimrs of light seed to seep through those vertical pupils.
He felt his consciousness suddenly plunge into a world of pure white, and then rapidly fall at trendous speed...
Just like falling off a cliff in a dream, he startled awake amidst overwhelming panic.
Afterward, he found himself in a world shrouded in complete darkness.
In front of him, there were five versions of himself:
One wearing sturdy and simple leather armor, with a sharp yet sowhat heavy iron sword in hand;
One with two daggers, squatting in the corner with a cold expression, who suddenly vanished the mont he saw him;
One with a hunting bow slung over his shoulder and spiky gauntlets on his hands;
One wearing a monocle, holding a book and reading under the moonlight;
One holding sothing that was constantly changing, wearing a smile full of warmth.
...Is this, character selection?
Lao Chen blinked in astonishnt.
Holy shit, have I cross over?
Lao Chen instinctively looked at the one dressed as a warrior, then he found his perspective shifted, transferring into that body.
Feeling the weight of the longsword in his hands, he was certain this wasn’t the weak body he just graduated from being an internet-addicted youth.
This ga, aweso!
He couldn’t help but exclaim in admiration.
Now Lao Chen sowhat believed this might actually be an "alternate world ga"...
[Do you confirm the initial class - Swordsman?]
[Warning: Once the initial class is confird, it cannot be changed!]
It was at that mont, Lao Chen saw a line of prompt flashing before his eyes.
"No, no, I do not confirm," he quickly said.
Suppressing his praise for the ga, he focused his attention on observing the re five classes available.
...Warrior? Thief? Hunter? Mage?
What’s the last one?
A random class?
The ga’s initial classes are a bit too few...
Without much hesitation, Lao Chen directly chose the class that looked like a mage - it was his habit in gaming, to always pick the mage class whenever it was an option.
[Do you confirm the initial class - Wizard Apprentice?]
"Confirm!" Lao Chen shouted loudly.
Subsequently, everything before his eyes disappeared. His view rippled like water, and a floor-length mirror erged.
The mirror was shrouded in darkness, except for one line of text:
[Please na your ga character]
[Warning: Once the na is confird, it cannot be changed!]
"...Longjing Tea," Lao Chen replied.
His usual gaming ID was "Longjing Tea Drinks Longjing Tea." But considering the contract he had seen earlier, he decided to pick a shorter, less odd na.
As for the three characters of Longjing Tea, they were his last bit of stubbornness.
The mirror surface rippled again, and then displayed the initial attribute panel for Lao Chen - or rather, Longjing Tea:
[ID: Longjing Tea]
Human, Male, Level 5
Health: 100%
Attributes: Strength 5, Agility 5, Constitution 5, Perception 8, Willpower 5
Free attribute points: 2
Common Experience: 0
Occupation overview—
Wizard Apprentice LV5: [Healing Touch]（Favored by the Idol School）, [Turn Stone to Mud]（Favored by the Shaping School）, [Prohibit Movent]（Favored by the Decree School）, choose one.
[Please confirm your initial panel]
...What kind of rules are these? D&D? Doesn’t look like it?
What effects do the different attributes even have? Why doesn’t it say?
Longjing Tea hesitated for a mont.
He regretted not taking Kade’s words to heart. He should have asked for so strategy guides before entering the ga... Now he couldn’t exit anyway. Damn planners...
First, he added the perception attribute to 10 points.
His gaming instincts told him not to distribute points evenly... Focusing only on the main attribute might not be the best strategy, but it definitely wasn’t the worst.
As for the three spells below, he indeed looked at them for a very long ti.
Fortunately, the spells did co with descriptions:
[Healing Touch (Instant): Curse your dominant hand, giving it a temporary ability to slowly heal minor wounds.]
[Turn Stone to Mud (Instant): Curse your gaze, making the "stone" you look at quickly turn into a similar "mud."]
[Prohibit Movent (Instant): Recite a Decree, preventing all targets that hear it from moving; the effect is doubled on targets directly looked at; the effect is doubled on targets pointed at with the finger.]
A close-range touch heal, an unstable group control with stable single target control, and... a spell for digging traps?
Based on Longjing Tea’s common sense about the ga, healers were definitely in short supply. The ability to heal would directly increase the squad’s margin for error.
But the problem was—
If this really was a real world, then damn it, the bosses weren’t stupid—did you think you were the only one who knew how important healers were? Wouldn’t the bosses know too?
Wouldn’t they just co straight for the healer?
Without hesitating for too long, Longjing Tea chose the spell from the Decree School.
Not for any other reason, but so he could fight back when he was targeted.
...He also wondered whether mages in this world could use weapons other than magic staves.
If they could, he wanted to arm himself with a gun.
Yes, he had seen it—guns existed in this world. And he just happened to really know how to use guns, and to assemble them...
Although they were antiques, the general feel shouldn’t be too different.
To control the incoming assassin and then take fixed shots at him—just thinking about it felt aweso.
Moreover, Longjing Tea intuitively sensed... the strength of these three spells seed inconsistent.
The one from Decree was clearly stronger than the healing one, and Turn Stone to Mud was just too weak.
Could these be randomly obtained? That seed unlikely, didn’t it?
Could it be... my talent?
Before Longjing Tea could ponder for too long, the ripples in front of him disappeared again.
What reappeared was himself in a robe, holding a thin book in his left hand.
He looked down and found that although he had never seen this script before, he could understand the title:
"Prohibit Movent: The Use and Selection of Restrictive Spells"
Imdiately following, new text appeared before his eyes:
[Please make so minor adjustnts]
[Warning: Only beautification is permitted, and the beautification limit must not exceed 50%]
Seeing these two lines, Longjing Tea fell into deep thought.
After two long hours of face tweaking, he finally pulled the 62% beautification bar back to 48%.
"Feels like 50% isn’t quite enough..."
Longjing Tea smacked his lips, still feeling sowhat unsatisfied.
He had originally wanted to add so muscles for himself. But perhaps it would affect his attributes... He only made himself a bit more robust, carved out so abs, and the beautification bar imdiately shot up to 70%.
Once he stopped trying to add muscle, the beautification bar’s increase slowed down a lot.
"WDNMD, when they say beautification they really an just beautification..."
Longjing Tea finished tweaking his avatar.
Then two lines of text erged in front of him.
[Return to the Material World]
[Enter the Land of Mist]
...I better log off for now.
I’ve already spent two hours on this...
Although he really wanted to check out the ga, Longjing Tea, with his good self-control, convinced himself to log off right away.
So, he clicked the first button.
When he woke up again, he found himself lying on the table, covered with Kade’s slightly greasy jacket. Kade, anwhile, was sitting on the sofa with his legs up, drinking tea, playing with his phone, and snacking on pastries—presumably brought over by his secretary.
The first thing Longjing Tea did was check the ti.
...Two and a half hours had passed, huh?
About the ti I spent on tweaking my avatar...
So, ti is one to one?
"How’s it going, Beer Chen?"
That’s when Kade said with a grin, "I gave you my only invitation code, isn’t that thoughtful enough?
"Co on, call ’Daddy’!"
"Call you ’Daddy’ my ass! We’re even now, just cancel the debt you owe !"
Old Chen, a bit flustered, shook his hands and rushed to gulp down a glass of water.
Then he hesitated for a mont and said softly, "But still... thanks, Cap."
He was truly grateful to his old captain for opening the door to a new world for him.
"It’s nothing."
Kade said seriously, "Chen, you just get us a contract with shorter streaming hours, it can have a lower salary. It’s those strears that Old Goose ntioned to you before..."
"...Alright, alright,"
Old Chen hesitated for a mont, but agreed, "I’ll sort it out tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? What about today?"
"Let’s go have a al together later. I’ll take the opportunity to get so tips from you on opening moves..."
Old Chen chuckled, "Then I’ll go ho and grind in the ga."
"...It’s only four o’clock, you know?"
"Damn, I’m a director, and getting off at four is already being damn considerate, alright!"
He yelled out loud, "If it weren’t for waiting for you..."
"Hmm? What you’re saying is..."
"...I would definitely be working hard here! It’s all your fault I got distracted from work, impacting the efficiency of our platform. So co on, call ’Daddy’ to make ands."
Old Chen declared with righteous indignation.
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