Li Mo opened his eyes inside Starscape, finding himself in a village center.
His spiritual qi was gone, turned back to an average human. He wanted to get in touch with Du Fei and others, but found he lacked the means.
“Welcome, adventurer.”
A grizzled old man got Li Mo’s attention. He had Beech Village Head written above him.
His own name appeared above him as well. The Scaredy_cat was especially conspicuous.
Try as he might, Li Mo came to regret it as he couldn’t hide his name.
‘It doesn’t matter anyway. It’s just a nickname.’ He consoled himself.
From Li Mo and the village head’s dialog, he earned a tutorial quest to drive out ten piglets from a farm outside the village.
Li Mo ran there.
He noticed in his run that he was the only player in the Beech Village with only NPCs around him.
It was one info he gleaned from the color of the people’s names.
Players had white names and NPCs yellow.
Reaching the farm in question, he saw level 1-3 piglets roaming about. These were the weakest mobs, passive even when a player approached.
Li Mo gripped his wooden sword and charged.
He chopped a dozen times and the health bar swiftly shrank, followed by the death of a level 2 piglet.
Hum~
Ding!
[A mysterious power has permanently increased your Strength by 1.]
This popped up the moment he killed the piglet.
‘The level 10 question marked gift?’
Li Mo chuckled.
He got the level 10 gift, but it was always filled with question marks. It had no name or description. He had no clue what it did, but it was a no-brainer how strong a level 10 gift was.
With the added point in Strength he made quicker work of the second piglet. But there was no notification this time.
Only when Li Mo killed four piglets did he receive another.
Ding!
[A mysterious power has permanently increased your Constitution by 1.]
‘A level 10 gift sure is handy.’
Killing mobs earned him attributes, but had no clue if there was a limit. It would’ve been awesome if there was no cap.
Li Mo killed twenty piglets with on and off notifications of increased stats. When he finally leveled up from 0 to 1, he had gone beyond being a mere assassin.
Hp and Strength grew the quickest, followed by mana, and lastly by Agility, who only went up by a single point so far.
He then went to turn in the quest, followed by completing some others, like delivering messages, killing more mobs, until one hour later, when Li Mo finished the tutorial village’s quests.
“Adventurer, this is but your first step in this world. There are many dangers and mysteries out there waiting for you to discover. If you wish to further your understanding of this world, set forth to Holy City. That is where you will find your calling.”
THe village head happily gave Li Mo beginner gear and 10 copper.
Li Mo left for Holy City.
Two days of traveling had brought him to the city where he finally met some players.
Out of his expectation, however, was that not only were there players from the Experts Alliance and Du Fei’s team, but many other unfamiliar ones.
Players had white names and NPCs yellow, easy to tell at a glance. Everywhere Li Mo went in the Holy City, Li Mo found knights on horses wearing shiny gear. They were players over level 50.
‘Where’s Du Fei and the others? Even if they hunted monsters day in day out, it still wasn’t enough to get them high enough to change the area.’
“Newbie, what galaxy do you come from? State your name. “
A tall player holding a book and named Bernado called Li Mo.
“Milky Way Galaxy.”
“Another one? There’s been so many recently.” Bernado muttered.
“Scaredy_cat from Milky Way Galaxy, your boss is Clauder. All players from Milky Way Galaxy answer to him.”
“Clauder?”
Li Mo heard of him before.
“Clauder is the lord of Milky Way Galaxy. How come you are players from Milky Way Galaxy yet do not even know the name of your boss?”
“Does each galaxy have its own boss?”
Li Mo understood.
The Starscape game was not limited to Earth, available to every other race in the galaxy.
‘Is this the real secret behind the God Realm?’
Li Mo’s heart skipped a beat.
The past him had gone through many unbelievable events, but what hit him hard the most was that every time he thought he was overpowered, he up and stumbled across people as strong as he was.
He fought to the bitter end and came out more dead than alive. He lived so long before all because he had thousands of tricks to save his life.
Li Mo had no clue where did those guys came from. And with Fortune of Heaven and Earth Art’s Soul Searching for their memories working only on targets weaker than him, he had no way to find out either.
‘The chances are, they all came from this Starscape world.’
Li Mo found his conclusion more and more appropriate.
