The ‘Gate’ before them led to a very particular world, one that wasn’t a period in Earth’s history, one that didn’t even classified as being real.
It was a fantasy time-space rupture.
“Leveling, grinding, drops?”
“You start as level zero and your strength improves as your level grows? What?”
“A game world?”
“What do you mean?”
The group who never touched games in their lives looked on clueless.
Du Fei said, “Technically speaking, this world isn’t a period in history, but a new world entirely.”
This Gate was what Thunderstruck Enterprise named Starscape. It was their greatest secret. The job leading the Asia department din’t came without its perks, like being privy to this secret for instance.
He found out about this and was now using China’s entire force to explore it, all under the nose of the general headquarters. Only one with Du Fei’s guts could ever pull this off.
“This world has different rules than reality. Regardless of your power here, you will be level 0 once you enter. You won’t get to bring your power either. Everyone will have a fresh start, even in terms of identity.”
“Identity?”
Du Fei paused, “Just like making a new account. Do you get it now?”
“Yeah.”
“Noobs…” Du Fei muttered.
It would’ve been odd if someone who never touched game knew about them.
Du Fei said, “Simply put, when you get there, your identity and appearance will change. Just like me. After I go in, I will look different, and even if I come to you saying I’m Du Fei, you won’t believe me. That’s what I mean.”
“I still don’t get it.”
“……”
“Never mind. Any more talk is pointless. Once you get in, you’ll see.”
“Sir Du, what do we get from this instance?” Someone asked.
Interest was what kept the world turning.
“Heaps. You can bring items, like the one I know, a five hundred years old God Fruit. Do you know what that means? Eating it will increase your life by five centuries.”
“Is it real of fake…”
“Of course it’s real.”
“There are also all kinds of treasures, mounts. There’s just too many to count. With enough power, you can have anything.“
“I got it!”
Now the crowd understood.
Li Mo figured out something different.
Before he and Du Fei talked about this, Li Mo never even knew this Gate existed.
He had always found something odd. The ancient battleground had some similarities with a game, and barely lived up to one, but the God Realm and a game were too far apart. ‘Why then does the Thunderstruck Enterprise keep calling God Realm Starscape?’
It only dawned on Li Mo when Du Fei came with the news of this Gate.
Many of his doubts would probably clear the moment he walked through the Gate.
When Du Fei came to Li Mo with this info, he suggested forming an elite team to conquer it. But not until he saw some videos did he come with this current idea.
This Gate was a game world and needed a large ‘player’ base if they wanted to conquer it. It was a pipe dream doing it with just a handful.
“Take the report with you, everyone. Don’t lose it. We will set out tomorrow!”
The next day, Experts Alliance’s whole members and Thunderstruck Enterprise China division’s members entered Starscape.
Li Mo was among them.
Whoosh~
After the blinding light passed, Li Mo squinted at his surroundings, an empty space. Ten seconds later, a beautiful angel appeared.
“Greetings adventurer and welcome. I am star envoy nr. 1024, Saiya. Please state your name.”
“Li Mo.”
“Invalid name. It needs to be longer than four characters.”
“Scared_cat.”(T/N: a Chinese meme going viral after Messi botched so many shots in scoring a goal in the Argentina Iceland 1:1 game)
“Confirmed.”
“Please choose a class.”
Saiya presented over a dozen images of classes.
Warrior, swordsman, knight, archer, magician, Daoist, druid, priest, assassin…
Sixteen in total.
“Assassin.”
Li Mo chose it after reading its description.
They had high agility and capable of stealth. Very useful for surprise attacks and running away.
“Name and class are completed. Please chose your destiny.”
A wheel appeared behind Saiya with many characters on it.
Li Mo spotted at a glance: brave, staunch, cunning, sinister, and something about killing. He’d need hours to read them all.
“Choose your destiny, or let it chose you.
“Come, those blessed by the God Aluya, come and accept your destiny!”
Li Mo stood before the wheel noticing a line of words.
Three chances of drawing a gift.
“Oh, so it’s a lottery.” Li Mo exclaimed.
All races, snow people excluded, naturally, had a gift and this game had to be made in accordance with the real universe.
[Draw a gift?]
Li Mo clicked yes.
The rullete spun. There was no trick to choosing here so Li Mo waited a few second before clicking stop.
The wheel crawled to a stop and showed the result with a ring.
[Gift: Cowardice, Level 1: attack reduced by 10%, fleeing speed increased by 10%.]
Li Mo was stunned, “This lame gift?”
Saiya said, “Adventurer, you got the Cowardice gift. It is a great gift, good for running away…”
“Redo!”
Li Mo chose to draw again.
Ding!
[Gift: Impetuous, Level 1: attack increased by 10%, defense decrease by 20%.]
‘The increased attack is good, but what’s up with that lowered defense?’
Li Mo was an assassin that sported paper thin defense. If he had this gift, wouldn’t everyone be able to one-shot him?
Saiya said, “Adventurer, you got the Impetuous gift. It is a great gift, especially for fighting…”
Decline!
Round and round the wheel went.
Ding!
[Gift: Petrified, Level 0: 10% chance to be gripped by fear when attacking, making you tremble and unable to perform actions. There’s a 0.01% chance to instill pity in your enemy. (Not upgradeable.)]
‘What. The. Hell?’
Li Mo was speechless.
A/N: As a litrpg novel, going three hundred chapters without writing the game part can be said to be a new record.
