Dusk Chronicles

Chapter 3

As he finished talking and was about to stand up, Perot suddenly grabbed his hair.

The middle-aged man was extremely cruel, the tip of their noses almost touched each other, and the pain of having his hair pulled made Melyan almost cry.

‘What's up? Have my pain settings been reset as well? The character of this person is also very rude.’

"Hey, you don't not know yourself, pretending to be possessed also has its limits."

Melyan had no time to reset her pain, and she subconsciously raised her hand to push the man.

However, the moment he raised his hand, his entire body felt like it was being hit by something hard.

This is not a holographic game.

This is the real world.

My hands in the real world can be lifted.

Although the two are very similar, but to prevent too many people from obsessing in cyberspace, the game company deliberately controls the differences between the two, making as much difference as possible without ruining the game.

Melyan felt a change in his mind, and messy memories flooded into his mind.

"***!"

He rarely let out dirty words, and then fell unconscious again.

An hour later, on the main road not far from the manor.

Melyan, whose face was half swollen, gathered with a team of miners. Most of them were adult youths in shabby clothes. His thin body within the team felt very strange.

"Isn't this a fool from Yeju city, a thin person like him still wants to mine?" A middle-aged uncle who lost his front teeth sneered.

“Already, don't talk much, Hans.” Perot, who was in a good mood helped Melyan.

Adding one person meant that the competition became even tighter. Only a few miners came here because they were cheated, and most of them still dreamed of making a lot of money by mining. After all, the folklore about poor miners who obtained gems underground and then made a lot of money and became knights came from the Kansa region.

Melyan shook his head with a wry smile, he felt these people were so stupid as to still believe in the folklore.

He already knew the current situation. There was good news and bad news in front of him. Although it is said to be good news, it may have a slight element of optimism in it.

The bad news was that he seemed to have come to a world very similar to the Twilight Era. Unfortunately, so far, he had not even found an educated person here, so was unable to gather any information. The only conclusions he could come from observations on the environment and their language. Because he was a scholar who understood many languages.

The good news is that his body came from a healthy teenager. Although life fell for seventeen years, and died of fear, but his body was still healthy, and of course this body was hundreds of times better than his paralyzed body. Moreover, it seems that the entire system of the Dusk Era teleported here following his consciousness.

Could this be time travel, a literary theme that was supposedly very popular 60 years ago.

After being slapped by Perot and ridiculed by the middle-aged man, his mind finally came back clear. He quickly got used to his new body, the curiosity of his new life immediately dispelled the sadness in his heart.

At the same time, as a scholar, he did not respond to the toothless uncle's provocation named Hans.

In the previous game, he chose a human character born in the Turing Empire that was southeast of the nearby Wrangler Plain. The weather there is very warm and humid. At that time, the sea god Calypso was still not at odds with Yisu, the current ruler, and the sea clan still had not switched to following Yisu, either, so that the shrimps and crabs who do not know themselves often attack the seaside villages.

Low-level monsters that look like seafood are also one of the beginner tutorials for players born in that seaside fishing village. As a scholar, since childhood he had been sent to the city to learn how to work for the owner of the city, Lord Knight. So he felt very uncomfortable with the current dry and cold climate.

Ice-cold air irritated the nasal cavity, he forced himself not to think about whether he would freeze to death here or how stinging the smell of sweat was coming from this ignorant, rude farmer. He raised his spirits and decided to make friends with them first.

“Kak, were you a blandong before? Why did you become a miner?” He asked by approaching a man with a red nose and brown blonde hair.

The man's thick cloth hat was covered with wood powder, there were many saw-scratches on his hands.

"Yes, my home is in Bee town, the forest around there is gone, so I came here to try my luck."

“Sorry, may I ask what time it is? I mean what era is specific now?” Melyan continued to ask.

The Blandong gave him a surprised look.

"What year is it now?"

"You should ask this question to the priest in town. Looks like the Year of the Leaf. I've forgotten."

"New Leaf Year" Melyan said involuntarily.

"Yes, right."

He thanked the blandong, took a deep breath, and forced himself to calm down.

The Faith Calendar of 774.

Also known as the New Leaf year, the first small expansion part of the first major expansion part of the Twilight Era, "The Sprout Era".

It was also the first year of the game.

Only the wisest and most self-disciplined disciples can begin their path to becoming witches.

"Era Sprouts" is the first expansion piece from the Twilight Era, game time spanning 774,777 years in the faith calendar, 2 years in real life time, with a level limit of 60.

In addition to the year 777 which is called the first year of twilight, the remaining three years, the year 774 is called the New Leaf year, the year 775 is called the Flower Luster year, and the year 776 is called the Acuba year.

Before the showdown between the old gods and the new gods, and interfaith battles broke out in 777, players had three years to raise their levels, enrich their inventory, and raise their levels, and strive to become a follower of the epic hero as soon as possible, then participate in the next expansion pack, "The Determination of the Dead".

At the beginning of the first expansion pack, the game's producer announced that the highest level limit was 80, and said that this would not change until the game was closed. The players who had tried their best to train to level 60 were only warriors who stood up and supported epic heroes in battle, such as legendary swordsmen of level 80 and legendary mages. They actually participated in the god battle of level 8590 was after two and a half years later, when the large-scale expansion pack "Ragnarok" was launched, the level limit was also opened to level 80 at that time.

That is, before that, epic heroes were always the main theme, and others were just figurant roles. Therefore, Melyan's role as a scholar who knows a lot about the biography of each character began to play an unimaginable role.

However, the scholar remained only an additional profession, since now that he had possessed a new body and new attributes, he would naturally choose the fighting profession he had wanted long ago.

Fighting is a man's romance.

Among the complex and diverse professions of the Twilight Era, there was one profession that affected his heart the most and that was the magician.

"I want to be a witch, even the ugliest and dumbest witch, as long as it's a witch."

This sentence was written in a prominent place in the magician area of the gaming forum. This sentence was considered a classic by all magicians, this sentence also revealed the helpless voice of Melyan at that moment.

In addition to its special status, unlike most "click and send" games, in the Twilight Era, it takes luck to become a profession of witch, first of all is intelligence.

This intelligence has nothing to do with IQ, it is determined randomly at the time of character creation by throwing dice. Intelligence determines the speed at which a character learns magic, the success rate of bewitching, attack power, power recovery and everything related to magic.

In the early stages, each player's strength, intelligence, and physical endurance are 5. Knowledge is a unique attribute of scholars. If not satisfied with the specified character, the player can roll the dice to re-select the other 4 characters. Generally, high strength according to the warrior type, high agility according to the thief type, high intelligence according to the magician type, and high physique according to the knight type.

Among them, the profession of a witch was the most special.

For the other three, if players are not satisfied with their attributes, they can change them through in-game practice. Basically, once the beginner tutorial is complete, the attributes will be increased to 12. Intelligence can only be determined randomly, and cannot be changed.

Hence, it was extremely difficult to become a magician in the Twilight Era.

It's obviously unfair, but Valve's company did it on purpose, they even purposely said that "people who choose the profession of witch might cry more strongly" to ridicule the players who thought that they were lucky to get the profession of a witch. As a result, his words offended both magician and non-magician players alike.

But then, his development was beyond everyone's expectations. After going through a simple beginner tutorial, the players who entered the magician academy in various places were completely in tears.

They all complain that this is the worst gaming experience ever, a complicated formula and magician hand movements that can't be solved with the help of games, as well as the punishment of bewitching failures caused by various disturbances in combat, loss of proficiency, and loss of level. All these kinds of inconveniences made them miserable, and the stronger the magic, the harder it was to master. Faced with this difficulty, most people choose to delete the account number and retrain it. During that time gaming companies sold many account cards.

As soon as the news came out, the sound of shouts of injustice was indeed much less, and no one else was clamoring to choose the profession of a witch. Therefore, in such a calm environment, the magician players who survived and secretly trained themselves achieved admirable results with their own efforts.

For Melyan, being boring was not a problem for him. There is no profession more boring than scholars in this world. In addition, scholars and magicians are two professions that have a high level of commonality. Other professions such as blacksmiths and swordsmen, hunters and archers were not suitable for him who used to work as a scholar. There are many famous magicians of Rokhan, both players and non-player characters who have undergraduate status.

For example, Wynn Garcia, the principal of Morrowind, is a legendary wizard and senior scholar, and has a lot of research on the Elf language.

The only thing bothering him now was that the "intelligence" attribute of his body was now simply not enough to become a magician.