Ying trudged through the forest, the soft earth beneath his feet a constant reminder of his search. His mission was to find and hunt a beast, so he could exchange for so cash, and maybe get into the city.
But he was more than displeased to announce that he'd co up with an enormous, whopper-sized bag of absolutely nothing!
'.....!!'
"Ugh, what the hell?! I've been searching for at least an hour! You'd think I'd have co across so kind of goblin, thing, or maybe even the cliché wolf monster by now!" Ying's voice echoed through the desolate forest, a mixture of frustration and desperation laced within it.
He'd been searching for what felt like an eternity, and his patience was wearing thin. The fact that he'd yet to co across even the faintest traces of a wild beast disheartened him quite a bit.
"Sigh..."
Ying would've continued the search, he would have continued his journey, but he couldn't. He was a human after all, and humans were bound to feel exhaustion.
With a defeated sigh, Ying reluctantly stopped to rest.
''Damn, Trevor Lavender wasn't kidding around with the sensations. I feel as exhausted as I would have been in real life, had I walked aimlessly in the forest for an hour. Makes wonder how I'd feel if soone... Chopped my arm off, or sothing like that...."
Ying involuntarily shuddered.
In other gas, sensations like Pain and Fatigue were not incorporated, as the developers deed them to be irrelevant and ultimately detrintal to overall gaplay. Moreover, the coding and resources required for that kind of thing were quite complex, as well as expensive.
The only other ga that managed even a little bit of sensational realism was [Berserker Online], and even they only managed a trifling 5% on average for every other primary stimulus.
Cultivation Climax was really different, but was that really enough to set it apart from the rest? Was that really enough to bestow it the title— 'ga if the century'?
No, it wasn't... At least, Ying didn't think so.
Ying sat on an innocuous looking boulder, his gaze wandered to the forest floor. The trees seed to loom over him, their branches like skeletal fingers reaching for the sky.
He shivered, despite the warmth of the virtual sun on his skin. This ga was ant to be imrsive, but Ying couldn't shake the feeling that he was living in so sort of nightmare...
SLAP
''Alright. That's enough pondering." Ying scolded himself, "If I can't find a monster, then I'll just Cultivate." He then proceeded to cross his legs in the lotus position.
His inability to find an enemy seed to have caused him to forget that he was still in a monster-dominated portion of this new world, but just as he was about to comnce the Qi Gathering technique, he heard a very loud 'DING!'
DING!
The noise pierced the sky, it's shattering DING demanding attention and prestigeous authority. Ying looked up to see a flurry of announcents, highlighted on a gold panel, scrolling across the sky, each one a reminder of his own inadequacy.
[WORLD ANNOUNCENTS!]
[Congratulations! Player 'White' is the first to clear the Hidden Quest: Tea Enthusiasts' Dilemma!]
[Congratulations! Player 'White' is the first to obtain a Supre-grade skill!]
[Congratulations! Player 'White' is the first to obtain a Supre-grade Item!]
"....!!"
'T-t-t-three World Achievents at the sa ti?!' Ying raged, 'This White guy sounds like soone whom the gods did NOT forsake! Don't tell I ended up in a weird world that has him as the protagonist!'
Although he did not yet know the rankings or grades of the various things in this world, he could easily tell that the 'Supre Grade' was far higher than his Mortal grade trash.
He instinctively began feeling pressured to cultivate; after all, he was not enthusiastic about getting left behind in the ga at all, let alone this early on.
Ying began cultivating and soon after, his Qi experience slowly began increasing. It was slow, so slow, it was annoying, but as small as they may be, gains were still gains.
[10/500]
[70/500]
[120/500]
At this point, Ying started to feel a little bit of discomfort.
The position he was sitting in was not exactly comfortable. He had to keep his posture straight and legs tightly locked, it was only a matter of ti before his shoulders ached and the muscles in his thighs started to cramp.
[270/500]
[320/500]
Soon, Ying started to feel as though his Cultivation had slowed down.
The minutes felt longer as his spine felt like . For so reason, instead of the soothing sensation that Cultivation was depicted to bring in various novels and webtoons, Ying was being assaulted by a torrent of strain!
[350/500]
[380/500]
'Aaaargh! Damn this friggin' system!' Ying yelled inwardly.
It seed that he failed to... Or rather, refused to believe that his difficult Cultivation was a result of his Abysmal Talent as well as the fact that he didn't even properly understand the entire concept...
''Crap! I give up!'' Ying exclaid before breaking his posture, thrusting himself into the soft embrace of the warm grass, ultimately halting his Cultivation. Even as he yelled, his voice was shrill and full of exhaustion.
[448/500]
'Damn! I only Cultivated for roughly forty-five minutes, just a bit more before my level-up requirent... Damn, is it really going to be like this...' Ying thought as he observed his status from where he was on the floor.
He was close, but the task seed strangely straining on his body.
anwhile, while Ying was busy wallowing in disappointnt, the skies above were going crazy with world announcents.
[Congratulations! Player 'Rubén' is the first to obtain an Earth-grade skill!]
[Congratulations! Player 'Zain' is the first to slay a Body Tempering Stage—Third Realm beast!]
[Congratulations! Players; 'Xiao Li' and 'Autumn' are the first to clear the Cave of Salamanders!]
[Congratulations! Player 'Su-Ming' is the first to clear...!]
The announcents multiplied like wildfire, their gilded letters searing themselves into the horizon.
Ying's jaw tightened as he recognized so nas—being the very famous E-sports athletes that they were—one of which he even knew rather personally... As well as a few which he didn't recognize at all.
Nevertheless, they were all soaring high while he languished in the dirt.
Ying sighed.
It was only natural that there would be so many nas now; after all, the achievents were much simpler at the early stages of the ga. It was later on, during the advanced stages, when the available accomplishnts beca fewer and much more daunting, that the true talents would erge from the masses.
Ying was a bit poignant that he couldn't even achieve a single thing after more than two hours of gaming, but since the day he was born, he had never been one for self-pity.
'Ha! And since when did you start wallowing in the trenches of your own in capabilities? If you want your na up there in those skies, then all you have to do is simple – earn it.'
Ying told himself while getting up, a slight amusent of his pathetic actions evident on his face.
'Yeah, I may not have been lucky to obtain a good Talent, and I may not have a jolly good fortune in the ga either...' Ying dusted his robes and then stood up straight.
'...But I'll take my shitty luck and turn it into sothing even the gods will covet.' He paused, a truly dented smirk creeping up his face. 'Or get devoured by a goblin. Honestly, odds are fifty-fifty.'
Ying chuckled, then set forth. His mirthless grin contrasting perfectly with the pure sparks of renewed determination which glistened in his obsidian eyes. The mission was simple—
"Find and kill, a damned monster."
It wouldn't be long now, before his ardent wish was granted.
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