Chapter 10 - Equipment Grades (1/2)
The sudden announcement shocked many players, but it was not because they were the first to clear this dungeon but because three different families from the Legacy was grouped together! In other words, they were cooperating, something that is rarely seen by the public, if ever.
”Holy shit! Three of the top 10 families within the Legacy is actually cooperating to clear a dungeon together!”
”Perhaps they have decided to make an alliance to bring down this Player Yuan?”
”That is a possibility…”
Many players gossiped about the new announcement online, some even making conspiracies. Legacy is a system in the real world — or a real-world ranking so to speak, where professional players fight each other competitively to obtain a rank within the Legacy.
There can only be 100 players in the Legacy, ranked one to one hundred. Being a part of the Legacy brings countless profits and almost no downfalls. Wealth, fame, authority, power — one can obtain all that just by being in the Legacy. Additionally, once a player becomes a part of the Legacy regardless of their rank, their family will also become a Legacy Family, allowing them to recruit talented players to help them remain or climb the ranks within the Legacy, almost like a guild or clan in games.
Countless players, young and old, fight in worldwide tournaments just to obtain the qualifications to challenge someone who is within the Legacy to steal their rank. Furthermore, only one game would be chosen every decade as the focus. Because of this, the rankings would usually have major changes every decade, except for those at the very top of the ranking.
The game Legacy had chosen to be the main focus for this decade was obviously Cultivation Online.
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Moments after the announcement, another one appears above the clouds.
”He's finally appeared, huh.” Lightning Emperor narrowed his gaze at the name on the announcement.
Xiong Lu of the Heaven's Divinity, rank one and the current overlord of Legacy. He is a major figure even in the real world, owning one of the biggest gaming companies out there.
”Even an unsurpassable monster like him could only obtain the lowest grade equipment in this game after so many hours… yet this Yuan…” Fiery Queen sighed loudly.
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”Xiao Hua, what are the grades for equipment?” Yuan asked her after the announcement disappeared.
”Spirit, Earth, Heaven, Divine, each broken into four tiers of quality: Low, Medium, High, and Peak. There are other grades higher than Divine, but there is no need to worry about that since you can only find them in the higher realms.”
”Realm… you also mentioned that before. What did you mean by bringing me to the next realm?”
”Brother Yuan is currently in the lowest realm — the Lower Heaven. Xiao Hua's job is to help Brother Yuan reach the highest realm — the Supreme Heaven.”
”Your job?” He questioned. Why and who would give her such a job?
”Xiao Hua accepted the Supreme Heaven's Legacy, so it became her job to find a successor.”
”...What a deep game.” Yuan looked at the sky, ”How do we get to the next realm?” he asked.
”Brother Yuan is too weak right now and should only worry about getting stronger. After that, we can challenge the Realm Guardian for the access to the next realm.”
”So it's that kind of game, huh.” Yuan became more understanding towards the goal of this game.
”Is there a reward for getting there?” he asked out of curiosity, not expecting anything too much.
”Everything,” she answered after a moment of silence, ”The winner shall obtain everything this world has to offer… so… they become this world's God.”
”Eh?” Yuan totally did not expect such a generous reward. ”Allowing the players to become a God? So the game creators are essentially giving admin powers to those who reach that point? How generous of them.”
”But I have no use for such power, so I will enjoy my life to the fullest and leave it to others to fight for that reward.” Yuan thought to himself. He was content with just having the ability to use his eyes and limbs as he wishes.
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After walking for some time, Yuan finally realized that they were walking aimlessly without a destination. ”Xiao Hua, where should we go now? Or rather, what should we do?” he asked her, who seemed to be the one leading this journey.
Xiao Hua looked at him with a nonchalant expression and said, ”Help Brother Yuan get stronger.”
”And how will we do that?” Although he doesn't really desire strength, it wasn't something he would refuse either.
”That…” Xiao Hua suddenly pointed to the distance where there is an open field, and in this middle of this open field was a large figure at least 5 meters tall.
”That's… a frog?” Yuan quickly blinked a few times nonstop when he saw the massive frog with jade-like skin sitting in the middle with its eyes closed, seemingly sleeping.
”That is a Jade Frog; it has power equivalent to a Ninth Level Spirit Apprentice cultivator.”
”Ninth Level Spirit Apprentice?! I am only a Seventh Level Spirit Apprentice! Are you telling me to go kill myself?!” Yuan nearly cried upon hearing her words.
”Although the Jade Frog is two levels above Brother Yuan's cultivation base, it shouldn't matter because Brother Yuan has cultivated the Heaven Consuming Technique, allowing him to be stronger than most cultivators at the same level.”