The full name of Wandering Dreams was called “The Land of Wandering Dreams”. It narrates stories that occur in this fantasy land.
Same as Jiang Chen had exclaimed upon his awakening, the game has been in business for more than 30 years without falling out of popularity.
Actually there were a few years where it was on its last legs, but then the development team changed, which finally managed to revive it from the dead. Then it survived smooth sailing all the way up to now.
Within these 30 plus years, the number of servers the game launched has already exceeded 100. The number of players, who have sacrificed their lives, spilt hot blood of passion, and experienced love, hatred, friendship, and grudges within the game, were even more numerous.
Once the virtual reality version launches, the scenery, which was only viewable originally through a screen, will instantly become a sightseeing landscape that could be visited in person. No Wandering Dreams player could resist this kind of temptation.
Furthermore, as the first completely virtual online game in the world, it already contained a ‘want to go in and check it out’ kind of attraction. Even die-hard fans of other games couldn’t remain completely indifferent to this.
Veteran players who have accumulated experiences for decades, new players who have switched games, curious bystanders…… It goes without saying how many people are expected to play, not to mention the launch date was set on a weekend.
The game company clearly has conducted research and predictions, that’s why they launched 10 servers simultaneously within China. Nevertheless, the game still froze briefly on launch day.
As soon as it reached 9 o’clock, all ten servers exploded, filling up in an instant.
With the advancement of technology, ‘queueing to log in’ was already a thing of the past.
Little kids today couldn’t even imagine the scene of hundreds of thousands of people queuing up before them prior to logging in. However, they’ve experienced it now for the first time. Ultimately though, it’s not like the past. Presently, they only needed to wait at most 1 minute before entering.
The development team’s inspiration for names came from planets this time.
For example, after some basic editing, the water planet also known as Mercury and the fire planet also known as Mars were reborn as ‘Mercury Reflects Fate’ and ‘Mars Illuminates Dreams’. Dragging out all eight planets as guests, and then adding the sun and the moon, the ten servers were set.
The servers existed in the form of ‘doors’ that were lined up according to the order of planets.
Jiang Chen stood in the void and quickly scanned the names. Then he turned his gaze towards ‘Mercury Reflects Fate’. With the confidentiality agreement, if he wanted to still play Wardcaster, he’d have to stay far away from his previous ID. The ‘chen’ word in Mercury just happened to make up for that subtle hint of displeasure.
As such, he walked over and pushed open that door.
Behind the door was a room. Players needed to create their characters, which included class, ID, height, appearance, clothes and adornments, voice, and more.
When playing the beta, Jiang Chen was very casual. Besides class and ID, which needed to be entered manually, he chose default for everything else.
Now he needed to play officially so he couldn’t be that casual. Otherwise, he’d have to spend money in the future to change.
He finished creating his character according to his preferences and then pushed open the other door in the room.
The brilliantly shining stars receded rapidly around him. He was frozen inside a pitch-black tunnel for half a minute before the view opened up in front of him. He arrived in the demon realm.
A cacophony of sounds instantly washed over him. Captain Jiang, who had been alone desolately for more than a month inside the beta, stood at the spawn point in a moment of daze.
The originally deserted and uninhabited, completely silent realm was now filled with people and activity, buzzing with noise and excitement— instantly switching from a street 3-4am in the middle of the night to a popular scenic spot during the Golden Week period of National Day. Those pitiful and lonely NPCs, who everyone ignored previously, were also smothered under the ocean of people, not even a shadow in sight.
The world chat channel scrolled down rapidly as well.
[World] Great Era: Amazing. It really feels like wind is blowing on my face!
[World] Treehouette: Ahhhhhhh oh my god, the Wisteria in the demon realm is so beautiful [screenshot]
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[World] Kite with Broken String: Damn there are too many people, I can’t even find the road.
[World] Disobedient Fox: Che, look at the cherry blossoms in our Untamed realm [screenshot][screenshot]
[World] Promise You a Lifetime: Me, male, an elite player, with 8.5 looks. Here to accompany a pretty girl. I can help you level up and fight mobs. Collecting bounties in the arena will be a cinch.
[World] Invincible Warrior: Report—!!! The Untamed’s ears are not only visible now, but can also be touched! There’s a fluffy sensation!
[World] Negative One Meter: Keep bragging you. If you really were an elite player, would you be lacking in leg accessories?
[World] Uncle Is Here: Being young is so nice.
[World] I’m a Dumb: Oh damn!
[World] Tomato and Eggs: Oh damn ! ! !
[World] Demon Bodyguard: Oh damn those ears! I can definitely accept that! Looking for an Untamed partner!
[World] Promise You a Lifetime: Me too! Untamed beauties, check me out!
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The mobs here were all level 8. A three level difference wasn’t that difficult and gave a lot of experience when killed, not to mention the area was quiet.
Elite players pretty much had the same idea.
When he came by, there were already a dozen people at the lake.
Although this wilderness area was small, there was still room for him to walk, so he selected a mob and started to hit it.
The Wardcaster’s first single-target skill did not do a lot of damage. It was far less efficient than the Warrior and Swordsman. Killing took time.
Jiang Chen moved around using his footwork and slowly whittled down a small mob. Right as he was about to kill it, the Warrior on the side threw over a skill and killed his mob.
He asked: “What’s that for?”
The Warrior didn’t answer. He picked up his weapon and continued to fight other mobs silently, clearly in a rush to level up.
Jiang Chen also knew that since the server just launched, kill-stealing mobs was inevitable. He decided to spare the other this one time and selected another mob.
Yet when the mob was about to die this time, the nearby swordsman suddenly took action and killed his mob in two simple hits.
He raised an eyebrow.
The lakeside wilderness area was split into two sections by the forest, one was larger in size, the other was smaller.
He looked at the 8 people in the larger section and then looked at the 6 people squeezed together in the smaller section. Thinking for a moment, he hit another mob, noticed that it was stolen again, and said to himself, just as I thought.
These 8 people formed a squad and very likely knew each other.
They wanted to occupy this wilderness area and prevent other people from playing here, but didn’t want to say it out loud directly to seem too unreasonable. Therefore, they used this kind of silent mob-stealing method to force others away.
Since they didn’t want to make it public, dealing with them was easy.
Jiang Chen stopped targeting the mobs and wandered around leisurely by the lakeside.
He had an extremely accurate grasp of HP and attacked from tricky angles, capable of eliminating a mob’s remaining health with just one hit.
After walking around in a circle, he eliminated six of their mobs and leveled up twice consecutively.
Captain Jiang deeply felt that this was much faster than killing mobs himself, therefore he made another round and continued to indulge himself.
The small 8-people squad: “……”
Jiang Chen said: “What are you guys standing around for? Keep attacking.”
The 8 people fell silent for a few seconds and turned towards him collectively.
Without saying a word, Jiang Chen turned around and ran.
The next second, the small 8-people squad enabled PK mode together and charged right at him.
The surrounding players: “……”
As soon as Xie ChengYan walked to the lakeside, this was the scene that greeted him from afar.
He saw 7-8 people running forward menacingly, all the way into the forest.
They obstructed the path of the figure in the frontmost position. From Xie ChengYan’s perspective, he could only see the person’s head and guessed roughly that the group was hunting that one guy.
The corner of his mouth twitched: “What’s going on? The server just launched and everyone is busy leveling up, yet there’s someone who has already acquired such a steady wave of hatred. Did he dig up the grave of someone’s family ancestor?”
Fang JingXing said with a smile: “Stole another person’s mobs, probably.”
The night after the beta closed, a group of them gathered to discuss where they were each going.
At that time, Fang JingXing was feeling depressed because of a certain Wardcaster. The word ‘Fate’ in ‘‘Mercury Reflects Fate’ struck him inexplicably, so he decided to join this server.
Meanwhile, Xie ChengYan just happened to finish filming and returned recently, so he came in search of Fang JingXing, wanting the other to help him level up.
They also entered immediately after the server launched. However, the Movie King had pretty high demands for his appearance and spent quite a while in the character creation room before he felt satisfied.
Xie ChengYan glanced over there once more and clicked his tongue, saying: “To steal that many people’s mobs in one breath, that’s pretty amazing.”
The ‘pretty amazing’ Captain Jiang effortlessly threw off the people behind him. Seeing he was almost level 9, he switched to a higher level area and started to advance properly.
Playing all the way until 11:30am, he got offline to take a stroll and waited for lunch.
After the meal, he had to take a lunch break as usual before he could play. Concentrating wholeheartedly on leveling up, he continued to play intermittently and successfully reached level 15 at night.
Carrying a dead-weight, Fang JingXing only reached level 15 by this time as well.
Level 15 could be considered the upper-middle tier of players at this point. Not to mention, they were qualified to enter towns within the demon realm. He didn’t need to worry about getting surrounded and obstructed by fans. As such, he made sure his equipment was working properly and started to live stream.
The fans instantly went nuts.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!”
“Husband!!!”
“Husband, you’re here!”
“I practically missed you to death!!!”
“Husband, you finally started a live stream!”
“Face! I want to see your face!”
“I also want to see your face!”
The comments could be embedded directly into the game. The transparent screen on Fang JingXing’s right hand side was rapidly flooded with the message of “Want to see your face”.
He smiled saying: “See what face? I’m wearing glasses right now.”
The fans refused to accept it, saying that they want to see the glasses as well. They also reprimanded him for disappearing for more than half a year.
Fang JingXing said: “I was busy.”
As if the fans would believe his justification. They still wanted to see his face. Gifts filled the entire screen.
Fang JingXing smiled: “How about this, same rules as usual. Let’s play a game. If I can randomly select ‘reveal face’, I will show you guys.”
Saying this, he opened a raffle program, which contained various little tasks inside. They were all relatively easy to complete so it wouldn’t be too embarrassing or shameless.
With a light click, he saw a row of words: Pretend to be a cute newbie.
The fans cried instantly and started to throw a fit, rolling on the ground screaming.
Fang JingXing said with a laugh: “Don’t act spoiled. This is the one.”
To match a little better, he even changed his voice, switching his original setting to a teenager’s voice. Raising his head and looking around, he suddenly saw a Wardcaster. He recalled a certain scoundrel and subconsciously walked over.
At this time, Jiang Chen was just about to head into a dungeon when someone suddenly blocked his path.
He looked at this familiar class and thought to himself, it’s not coincidentally that guy right? But recalling that he had switched his ID, he calmed down again.
The next second, he heard a teenager’s voice.
“Ace, this is my first time playing. Can you show me around?”
It’s the scene from the sypnosis!! I hope they realize who they are quickly! 😆
Also, that 8 people squad sure is shameless! Stealing other people’s kills and having the audacity to get mad when their kill is stolen! 🙄🙄
+1
+2 the nerve!
+3 Really shameless!
jiang chen has quite the knack for pulling aggro lmaoo
Fate … hahahahaha! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️
ah! ah! ah! we’re about to see d@ddy grind the BOSS to the ground!!
Yeah, amazing second chance!!!
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