As one would expect, Fang JingXing naturally didn’t believe him.
Before learning about his identity, the Wardcaster had promised to protect him, asking him to call him Ge. When questioned about his age, he very naturally said 18, then changed it to 19 because his birthday had passed recently. If he really lied, there was no need to make that minor change.
After learning about his identity, however, the Wardcaster no longer wanted to hear him call him Ge anymore and started telling him to call him Shu. This clearly meant the other still found him disagreeable.
Fang JingXing smiled helplessly: “How old are you then?”
Jiang Chen froze for a second.
Considering that he was at his peak attractiveness currently, he felt somewhat opposed to discussing his theoretical age and said: “Older than you in any case.”
Fang JingXing nodded and said “oh” cooperatively.
Seeing this, Jiang Chen instantly knew the other didn’t believe him, but he didn’t say anything else because he had signed the confidentiality agreement after all.
In the morning, the two people had fought unsatisfactorily, wishing to continue. In the afternoon, however, they did not plan to battle again. This was because at low levels, there were certain limitations so fighting each other was not very fulfilling. They both wanted to reach max level as soon as possible, as such they returned to the shore.
Fang JingXing suddenly recalled one thing: “Oh right, how come you didn’t come online for a period of time during the Beta?”
Jiang Chen said: “Had an operation.”
Fang JingXing halted in his steps: “Are you okay?”
Jiang Chen said: “En.”
Feeling relieved, Fang JingXing saw that they just happened to be near the main castle’s respawn point and said: “Let’s clear up our main quest missions.”
He explained, saying: “Several hidden dungeons and story quests were added to the VR version which have very rich rewards. During the Beta, they only managed to find one, which is affiliated with the main quest line. None of the rest were discovered. Perhaps they’re solo stories or perhaps they are also related to the main quest line. In any case, there’s no harm in clearing the missions.”
Jiang Chen didn’t mind either way.
Judging from his current luck, he and those hidden rewards were basically not meant to be.
Fang JingXing walked two steps and turned to look at him: “Are you coming?”
Jiang Chen said: “Coming.”
He had terrible luck, but this guy’s luck seemed pretty good. He can just follow along.
Completing missions was time consuming and labor intensive. The two people ran around for an entire afternoon, but still didn’t clear up everything.
Seeing a certain person talking less and less, Fang JingXing knew that the other’s patience had run out. Comforting with a smile, he said: “We should be able to finish at night. By that time, we can also leave the Realm.”
In normal games, players could leave the starting village by level 10 or 20.
But Wandering Dreams was different. Every Realm in Wandering Dreams was very large. The small 5-man dungeons and two 10-man dungeons also took up a lot of time and effort. As such, players must reach level 35 before they could leave.
They were level 32 right now. After finishing the main quest line at night, they will definitely reach level 35.
Jiang Chen said to himself, this was much faster than when he was in the Beta. At that time, he was unfamiliar in a lot of areas, plus time was limited and playing alone was too miserable; there was no motivation. It took several days of stumbling around for him to play to level 35.
Who knew that after starting on the official server, it only took three days to complete.
Thinking this, he felt much better internally.
The two people went offline to eat dinner, meeting up again at night.
As soon as Jiang Chen logged in, he was overwhelmed by a crazy flood of message notifications.
Fang JingXing also had some on his side, but not a lot. He opened to look. It was Love’s 123. He subconsciously felt they wanted to ask about the Wardcaster, but discovered actually it wasn’t the case.
—Look at the forums quickly!
We’re sorry for MTLers or people who like using reading mode, but our translations keep getting stolen by aggregators so we’re going to bring back the copy protection. If you need to MTL please retype the gibberish parts.
—My god, your Ge is on fire!
—Qfgf sbe atf bcf yflcu yijrafv ys atf olgfkbgxr?
—Qtja’r ublcu bc klat sbe uesr? Xba lcab jc jguewfca?
Mjcu AlcuWlcu gjlrfv jc fsfygbk jcv bqfcfv atf obgewr.
Ca atf rjwf alwf, Aljcu Jtfc ibmjafv atf obmer ecvfg atf qlif bo gjcvbw wfrrjufr jcv jirb fcafgfv atf obgew.
C atgfjv tecu tlut ja atf nfgs abq, fzagfwfis qbqeijg.
The person who sent the post was a newcomer to Wandering Dreams. When the incident occurred, they were recording a travel video. Halfway through their trip, they glanced around and saw two people standing on an island. Vaguely seeing a pile of fireworks on the ground, they turned the camera lens that way: “Aiya, there’s someone confessing so early in the morning……”
Before they finished speaking, the situation quickly spiraled out of control, shocking his entire family.
Even though there were less people in the morning, the sound of explosions from the fireworks spread. Several players nearby also saw this scene and recorded videos to upload. Most of what they captured were clips of the fireworks being shot at someone. Only the video from the owner of the thread was fairly complete, capable of showing that it was the Wardcaster who had directed the best men group to do it.
The post was uploaded in the afternoon and became an instant hit.
People never thought that fireworks could be utilized like this in VR and instantly remembered this Wardcaster Ace— for single-handedly developing a new usage for fireworks.
The post fermented into the evening and people gradually started to focus on the situation itself.
There has never been a shortage of love, hate, relationship, and enmity in Wandering Dreams, but who would have expected that only three days after server launch, the first round of dog-blooded drama arrived.
Some people analyzed the video bit by bit, formulating a hypothetical outline of what happened.
The Wardcaster confessed to the Abysswalker, then raised a hand and pointed: I even called over my cheering squad. If you don’t accept, I’ll tell them to shoot you.
Receiving the signal, the cheering squad jeered rowdily. However, the Abysswalker still refused him adamantly, provoking the Wardcaster to activate PK mode on the spot and kill him.
Afterwards, the Wardcaster calmed down and the two people walked to the side to continue their discussion. The Abysswalker still didn’t agree and pointed at the fireworks: Even if you blast me to death today, I won’t change my mind!
As such, the Wardcaster fulfilled his wish. However, after giving him a slap, he also gave the other a sweet jujube. Before leaving, he abandoned two of his friends to the Abysswalker to vent his anger.
But there were others who had different opinions.
The Abysswalker confessed to the Wardcaster. The Wardcaster raised a hand and pointed: I see your people already. No matter how many you have, it’s useless.
The cheering squad came out to jeer rowdily. Furious with embarrassment and humiliation, the Wardcaster activated PvP mode and killed the Abysswalker. The two people walked to the side to discuss. The Abysswalker pointed at the fireworks: I truly love you. It’s fine if you don’t accept. Let me set off a round of fireworks for you.
The Wardcaster: Alright, go ahead.
Therefore he instructed the cheering squad to fire on their own family’s bro. Later on, his anger subsided. The cheering squad split into two groups, one group to play with him. The other two left behind wanted to skedaddle, but perhaps due to their terribly devised ideas, the Abysswalker beat them up.
There were people supporting both views. The more they discussed, the more intense it became, until a wager was unexpectedly established in the end.
Later on, one of the witnesses logged in to say that when the Wardcaster climbed ashore, he took a careful and cautious glance and saw the ID was Total Annihilation. As such, a certain person became famous.
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “…….”
Jiang Chen turned off the forums and said coldly: “Fang JingXing.”
Fang JingXing, very carefully: “En?”
Jiang Chen said: “When can I encounter something good while together with you?”
Fang JingXing hastily placated him: “Just ignore them. Everything will be fine after today.”
As soon as he said this, a message appeared in the chat channel.
[Horn] Mu QiaoNan: Report—! Total Annihilation is online, and there’s an Abysswalker following next to him.
The players instantly boiled with excitement.
[World] The Face of a Champion Without Makeup: Is it— 1. the Wardcaster successfully seized love by force, or 2. the Abysswalker continues as a fawning admirer?
[World] The Person in the Mirror: The Untamed Realm sends our regards. Ace, please give us an answer.
[World] Driving Solo: I had wagered all of my money. You have to be 1 [Sob]
[World] So Hard to Pick a Name: I bet on 2. It’s 2, it’s 2~
Jiang Chen was too lazy to reply and continued doing quests.
Even though the surrounding people could see him, this place was pretty much the same as reality. Normally, people wouldn’t be so rude and shameless to walk in front of him and ask directly.
It’s always very lively in the game. The horn above didn’t last for long before it’s pushed down.
[Horn] Love Takes Precedent: The Blazing Sky Guild has been established officially, welcoming everyone, veterans and newbies, to join. Our guild’s Aces can be found all over the world. Dungeons, romance, the bounty board, the PvP arena, friendship and broship, divine gear materials, world boss…… We have everything you want.
However, people didn’t care about this. They were stuck inside the Realms leveling up. Extremely idle, they quickly replaced this message.
[Horn] WD: @Total Annihilation, Ace, can you see this?
Jiang Chen ignored it.
[Horn] Love Takes Precedent: The Blazing Sky Guild has been established officially, welcoming everyone, veterans and newbies, to join. Our guild’s Aces can be found all over the world. Dungeons, romance, the bounty board, the PvP arena, friendship and broship, divine gear materials, world boss…… We have everything you want.
[Horn] Little Bamboo Peak: @Total Annihilation, Ace, say something~
[Horn] Love Takes Precedent: The Blazing Sky Guild has been established officially, welcoming everyone, veterans and newbies, to join. Our guild’s Aces can be found all over the world. Dungeons, romance, the bounty board, the PvP arena, friendship and broship, divine gear materials, world boss…… We have everything you want.
[Horn] Evening Breeze: Ace~ Look at us please [Wiggle]
The Blazing Sky Guild’s ’s Love Takes Precedent hammered his own chest viciously, almost vomiting blood.
Total Annihilation, Total Annihilation again. How can this little bastard evoke hatred to such an extent!
The guild leader said: “When you guys were robbed of your mobs in the Demon Realm, was he the culprit?”
The little 8-man squad nodded in unison.
The guild leader said: “How’s his strength?”
The little 8-man squad said reluctantly: “Should be pretty good.”
The guild leader said decisively: “Go back to the Demon Realm and find him. Wait until he’s level 35 and recruit him.”
The small 8-man squad said: “…..Ah?”
The guild leader said: “Just listen to me.”
Stealing away mobs like swiping an ATM machine, blasting people with fireworks, this Total Annihilation will definitely become a shining star in the future. Dragging him in would be like obtaining a living poster board.
The small 8-man squad had no choice but to head off obediently.
Fang JingXing was currently talking about this as well.
Seeing a certain person kind of ignoring him, he picked a topic: “That Blazing Sky, on the first day, the mobs you stole were theirs.”
Jiang Chen finally graced him with a glance.
Fang JingXing said: “After hearing you talk about this that day, I found people to make some inquiries.”
The keyboard version of Wandering Dreams, just consider briefly how many servers were on there, and each server had their own large guilds.
Now that all the guilds from those servers were crowded into ten servers, clashing was inevitable. Of course, they needed to compete for supremacy. Blazing Sky was one of them.
According to the player progress, the top-tier gamers should have reached level 35 overnight yesterday or early this morning. At level 35, they could establish guilds and join guilds. However, more people were online in game at night, so Blazing Sky had waited until now to start promoting, hoping to recruit the random experts who were part of the first wave to reach level 35. Unfortunately and unexpectedly, they ended up bumping into a certain someone again.
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “My guess is that right now, they either want to recruit you or kill you.”
Jiang Chen gave an “en” calmly, without any hints of fear.
Fang JingXing said: “Once you reach level 35, you can follow me into my friend’s guild.”
Jiang Chen with disdain: “Are those idiots going to be there?”
Fang JingXing avoided answering: “The Movie King is coming also.”
Jiang Chen consented.
The two quickly cleared the quests and finally walked out of the Demon Realm, reaching the public domain.
Before their eyes was an official road leading to a neighboring city. There was a transportation station nearby where people could ride carriages.
Jiang Chen didn’t head over there yet. Instead he saw the glimmering waves not far away and couldn’t resist walking over to the riverbank.
Glimmering lights, fractured star, and the bounty board.
The glimmering lights within this line stood for the Glimmering Light River, referring to this main river that traversed through the entire continent. All of Wandering Dream’s flowing rivers branched off from it.
Following him over, Fang JingXing accompanied him to stand next to the river and survey the area. With a smile, he asked; “Want to fish?”
Bringing up fishing immediately reminded Jiang Chen of those two worn-out shoes.
He found the pair from the treasure chest especially memorable. Although the items inside the river refreshed randomly, he still felt that other players must have thrown them in after fishing.
Thinking briefly, he picked out a pair of shoes that he didn’t want from his bag and threw them forcefully into the river: “Come back to fish tomorrow, see if I can fish them up……”
Before he finished speaking, they saw a girl leap out of the river and say furiously: “Who dares to pollute my river!”
Simultaneously, all the players in the server saw a huge golden announcement: Congratulations to players Total Annihilation and Abyss for discovering the hidden story [ Ling Huai ]!
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “……”
Before the two people could return from their senses, the girl slammed them head on with a massive attack and the two collapsed to the ground together as corpses.
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “……”
A huge golden announcement floated onto the screen again: The players Total Annihilation and Abyss have failed the mission [Ling Huai]!
All the players in the server: “? ? ?”
Did you guys even last one second?
Jiang Chen: “……”
Fang JingXing: “……”
This asshole System was inhumane, to actually issue an announcement with failure.
But this wasn’t even the worst part. The worst part was that failing this mission can drop levels. They dropped down to level 34 and were sent back to the Demon Realm.
The two stood at the respawn point in the main castle, each holding one of the shoes that were thrown back, looking at each other.
Jiang Chen expressionlessly stuffed the one he had into Fang JingXing’s arms, turned around, and left.
Praying for Jiang Chen 😭🕯️
XD too much, I can’t.
XD what a sc*mbag system… take this as a lesson kids, don’t pollute rivers.
Poor uncle has no luck
This is so hilarious, I can’t
The game gives and the system takes back happily…lmao!
They’re too goofy 😜
I wonder if FJX will be jealous of his Movie star friend(JC’s nephew) later for hanging out with JC too much 😂👀