Ashe stepped out of the gaming pod, his imaginative and prescient a bit blurry. It wasn’t till he wiped his eyes that he realized he was crying.

What a depressing day; he had been scolded to the purpose of tears.

Regardless of acquiring a sophisticated account, Ashe had no expertise in commanding high-difficulty raids. The truth is, he hadn’t even tried a high-difficulty raid earlier than. So, he determined to look at how others performed their raids first.

Along with his fully-achieved and present model max-geared character, he simply blended into an Excessive Raid group.

Within the sport Epic, high-difficulty dungeons are categorized into Excessive Raids, Phantom Mode, and Final Mode. Excessive Raids are the higher restrict for normal gamers. Phantom Mode can solely be cleared by skilled gamers with years of immersion, whereas Final Mode is unique to sorcerer gamers able to conquering it.

Ashe thought that even when he couldn’t deal with Final Mode instantly, clearing an Excessive Raid shouldn’t be a problem. He even learn guides and confirmed his character’s tactical position, planning to clear an Excessive Raid in a day after which lead a crew to pioneer Phantom Mode.

Then he spent the complete day absolutely experiencing the curse tradition of the Gospel Kingdom.

With regards to cursing, the Gospel and Blood Moon Kingdoms every have their distinctive types. The Blood Moon Kingdom, devoid of oldsters, typically targets race, gender, and training for exact, seamless, and particular person discrimination. Conversely, the Gospel Kingdom, the place virtually everybody has dad and mom, circles round maternal kin, extending to an all-encompassing barrage of curses involving one’s ancestors.

Apparently, probably as a result of the Gospel holds a faith-like standing in society, it typically turns into the principle topic of insults. Whereas Ashe himself didn’t thoughts, Gospel individuals would possibly get deeply offended by remarks like, “You’ve been deemed a bottom-feeder by the Gospel for all times,” or “The Gospel decrees that you just’ll be caught with an unsightly associate.”

In abstract, not solely did Ashe fail to clear the Excessive Raid, however he was additionally berated by his teammates.

The digital video games of the Gospel are certainly enjoyable however equally difficult. In these consciousness-immersive video games, gamers should manually management their characters to carry out tactical maneuvers. Actions like actively dodging injury zones, turning to keep away from gaze assaults, and positioning accurately to share mechanic injury all must be executed whereas sustaining offensive output.

In outdated holographic display video games, these operations can be thought-about considerably difficult. In spite of everything, all complicated actions might finally be carried out with only a keyboard and mouse.

However within the new period of consciousness-immersive video games, these operations are explosively tough. Ashe both targeted solely on dealing injury with out observing the enemy’s standing or received so engrossed in dodging dungeon mechanics that he uncared for his teammates’ standing.

Each second required full-body coordination, and if he stumbled over uneven floor, it might instantly spell a crew wipe.

To not point out, being in first-person view restricted the participant’s visual field, making it unattainable to collect all the mandatory data. He would possibly even collide with teammates, resulting in mutual disaster-something Ashe skilled a number of occasions that afternoon as he inadvertently sabotaged his crew.

Nevertheless, amid this near-masochistic issue, Ashe found that the high-difficulty dungeon enemies… resembled data creatures from the digital realm!

Or relatively, the enemies’ expertise, attributes, and fight types appeared to be closely impressed by data creatures from the digital realm. As an example, the “Excessive Chopping Carp Overlord Lord” they battled that afternoon was clearly an enhanced model of the Blade Fish Dragon.

Although Ashe and his crew might deal with the Blade Fish Dragon as simply as kicking a ball, after deeply experiencing the Excessive Chopping Carp, Ashe felt their technique for slaying the Blade Fish Dragon might nonetheless be optimized.

Furthermore, as a result of data creatures within the digital realm are so various, there theoretically isn’t a one-size-fits-all resolution. But, the crew methods summarized in Epic’s high-difficulty dungeons might apply to virtually any situation: spreading out, gathering, dealing with away, taunting, luring… In comparison with the mature and detailed crew fight techniques in Epic, Ashe and his crew appeared like a prehistoric searching household, counting on tacit understanding and rudimentary indicators like “I’ll go,” “Don’t transfer,” and “You go over there.”

Ashe shortly realized that these high-difficulty dungeons considerably improved his command expertise. Nevertheless, he was puzzled: why did others additionally play these self-torturing high-difficulty dungeons? They couldn’t crew up within the digital realm…

Then it dawned on him: precisely, as a result of they couldn’t crew up, after getting crushed up by data creatures within the digital realm alone, they needed to get their revenge in actuality!

You trampled on me at this time, so I’ll carry seven brothers to trample in your grave tomorrow!

One purpose the enemies within the sport have been modeled after data creatures from the digital realm is that it was straightforward to repeat. Another excuse was that such enemies might ignite the wrath of sorcerers with none want for backstory! The precept is likely to be just like having fly pictures in urinals.

Nevertheless, Epic was not a sorcerer coaching sport. Sorcerers might at most achieve a tough understanding of information creatures’ assault patterns from the sport, however the fight expertise throughout raids was largely useless-firstly, their private fight energy was far inferior to that of in-game characters. In any Kingdom, the variety of manufacturing sorcerers far exceeded that of battle sorcerers. Secondly, raid methods have been based mostly on crew cooperation, however within the digital realm, they have been undoubtedly solitary figures. The digital realm’s grand exams didn’t give them any likelihood to attach.

It simply so occurred that solely an examinee like Ashe, who might type groups by loopholes, might extract precious dishonest expertise from high-difficulty raids.

When the maid handed by, Igor immediately pulled her into the room.

Ashe was dumbfounded, following in to shut the door—weren’t Con Artists supposed to make use of psychological solutions or hypnotic gazes? Why did he simply seize her? I might try this too!

Nevertheless, Ashe shortly realized he couldn’t—initially, the maid was a bit panicked, however when she seemed up and noticed the Con Artist’s face, which might even appeal a Moonshadow Elf, her cheeks immediately turned purple, and she or he lowered her head, saying, “Do you want one thing?”

Ashe waved his hand in entrance of her face. Why did she say “you” as a substitute of “you all”? What about me?

The maid was a twenty-year-old human feminine, with barely pointed ears, probably as a result of certainly one of her dad and mom was an elf. She was stunning, with a very shapely bottom.

Noticing her hungry gaze in direction of Igor, Ashe realized he had been mistaken. The earlier scene of numerous residents watching him on the road had been so impactful that Ashe subconsciously didn’t regard the individuals of Vamora as strange individuals however relatively as impartial mobs with yellow names.

However in actuality, aside from being joyful and energetic every single day, they have been virtually no completely different from strange individuals. They might additionally drool over a good-looking man and get offended when somebody was dangerous at a sport and couldn’t carry the crew.

Because of the hole between outsiders and locals, Ashe not often noticed their regular aspect.

“You understand who we’re, proper?”

The maid nodded: “The patriarch instructed us. You’re Miss Annan’s servants and likewise visitors of Senhaeser.”

Igor mentioned, “Truly, we aren’t Senhaeser’s visitors. We’re Senhaeser’s clansmen.”

The maid and Ashe have been each surprised, although Ashe’s expression was hidden below his black cloak and masks, so the maid didn’t discover.

The maid shook her head: “That’s unattainable. I can acknowledge any member of the Senhaeser clan.”

“We’re undercover brokers despatched by the patriarch to infiltrate Annan’s circle and steal the Dolan Household’s secrets and techniques,” Igor mentioned. “However Annan could be very crafty. She would by no means belief anybody from the Senhaeser clan. Nevertheless, the patriarch additionally doesn’t belief outsiders, so she organized for us to bear an Exorcism Ritual, quickly severing our ties with the clan and Vamora. After a number of layers of disguise, we lastly earned Annan’s belief.”

The maid was skeptical: “You’re individuals the patriarch trusts? However I bear in mind the patriarch doesn’t belief males a lot.”

Igor sighed: “You’re proper. The patriarch certainly doesn’t belief males, which is why I was the patriarch’s shut confidante.”

Each the maid and Ashe have been shocked, with the maid displaying a fancy expression: “Do you imply…”

“For the good achievements of Senhaeser, this sacrifice is nothing,” Igor mentioned, tucking his hair behind his ear and revealing a sorrowful look that evoked pity. “It’s simply that it’s been a very long time since anybody cared for me…”

The feelings conveyed by the Con Artist have been extremely persuasive, and the maid virtually instantly believed him. She then turned to Ashe: “And you might be…?”

Ashe glanced at Igor, who winked at him.

Though Ashe didn’t know what Igor was planning, it was clear he needed to associate with it.

“I’m additionally somebody the patriarch trusts.”

“However the patriarch wouldn’t belief a person,” the maid mentioned, trying suspicious. “Are you additionally the patriarch’s confidante?”

Ashe realized he couldn’t use Igor’s excuse. Igor might depend on his very good performing expertise and becoming look to tug it off, however Ashe didn’t meet the standards in both side. He needed to fabricate an identification that match his persona—

“In concept, Annan might be thought-about my daughter now.”