Mages Are Too OP

Unseen ceiling.

Roland opened his eyes and saw that diagonally above his head, there was a huge female stone statue. The black rock surface seemed to have a faint green light flowing, but when he looked closely, he could see nothing.

He sat up and found himself lying on a blue stone platform just now, a bit like a ritual platform used for sacrifice in the Middle Ages, with a cold and rough surface.

There was a peculiar fragrance in the air. He looked around and found that a bunch of strange grass was burning under the goddess statue not far behind him. It looked a bit like wormwood, but at the edges of the leaves, Some more serrations.

wait...the taste?

Does it really taste? And tactile? Roland touched the sacrificial altar again, feeling the roughness and coldness on its surface, and then sniffed it hard. This time, he not only smelled the strange scent of burning grass, but also smelled the stone buildings in the air, with the slightly astringent shixin smell.

Is it really a virtual online game, not hypnotized? And it's so real... Roland looked at his hands, white and slender, which fit the image of a spellcaster.

He pinched his arm again, there was pain... but it wasn't obvious. This is not surprising, after all, before entering the game, the official announcement has already said that the pain in the game is only one-tenth of the reality.

Roland stood up on the stone platform and looked around. This was a stone building, a goddess statue, a sacrificial platform, and several rows of neat stone chairs in front of it. Judging from the layout and furnishings, it should be a small church.

Jumping off the sacrificial platform, Roland looked at his body, wearing a set of gray-brown linen clothes, very rough and uncomfortable. He wore a pair of ugly linen shoes on his feet, the soles were extremely thin, and when he stepped on the ground, he could feel the ice cold and biting.

It's very real... Roland sighed and stroked the sacrificial altar. The real stone feel, and the particles on the surface of the stone can be touched with his fingertips, which is no different from reality. He did not expect that the game is really a real virtual game as advertised by Penguin, rather than the inferior VR product that deceives the senses.

When did my country have this kind of exaggerated black technology... and it was the first Penguin company to apply it to the game. Roland sighed in his heart, the virtual cabin of 50,000 yuan was not bought for nothing, it was indeed worth it.

When he was about to continue observing his surroundings and getting used to his new body, the old wooden door of the church opened.

In the creaking sound of the dead wood, an old man with a hunched waist walked in. His eyebrows were long and white, and slanted to the edge of his thin cheeks. He was also wearing a white robe with a blue tree embroidered in the middle of the robe.

Before entering the game, Roland went to the official website to make up for the basic knowledge of this game world. If I remember correctly, this dress is the standard dress of the God of Life, which is generally only worn by priests of the Temple of Life.

When the old man saw Roland, he was startled at first, and then he looked relieved.

A short expression changes, whether it is the muscle movements on the cheeks, or the eyes of his own, they are no different from real people, not like the NPC of the game at all.

In previous VR games, no matter how realistic the characters are, the expression changes have always been a flaw in the behavior of NPCs. Even if muscle texture capture is used, no matter how rich the expressions of NPCs are, when switching expressions, it will give people a kind of uncanny valley. Feel.

But now, Roland feels that he has met a real person...it can't be another player.

He quickly dismissed the idea. He was the first to enter the game. It is impossible for players to become a priest so quickly, and the most important thing is... players can only enter the game in the image of a young human, and in front of them is an old man in his twilight years.

But the other party was too real, even if the other party didn't speak, but just stood there quietly looking at him, Roland felt that the other party was a real person.

Eyes, standing, the tightness of the skin when the muscles are pulled when blinking, age spots, the skin that is yellow and has no moisture, and even the old man's temple, which is faintly jumping due to the flow of blood.

Roland is not a professional in game production, but he has played a lot of games, from the Pac-Man in the past to the current boutique VR games. Even if the current games can make the appearance of NPCs come to life, they still Missing the most critical inner.

soul!

Just standing there watching this old man gave people the feeling of a living person, a living person with a soul, not a cold data NPC in an anthropomorphic skin.

Is this a guide NPC? The game's official website doesn't say that there is a guide NPC... Roland, who was suspicious, took the initiative to talk to the other party: "Hello, old man, what is this place?"

The old man across from him was stunned for a while when he heard Roland speak, and then he also waved his hand and slowly spit out a language that Roland had never heard before.

Even if he doesn't understand it, Roland can hear the meaning of the other party's words from the other party's demeanor. It must be like this: I don't understand what you are saying!

I go! Roland felt a toothache, and then he scolded the production company of the game in his heart. They are too pursuit of perfection, have they really set a different language for the NPCs in this world? If the introduction on the game's official website is correct, there are dozens of human countries and dozens of different races in this game world. If each country and each race has its own language, how much work is this?

If this is the case, what Bumfrost game company and what Biyun game company are all shivering little cute newcomers in front of the big penguin.

Inwardly scolding, Roland thought of a way. He remembered that when he created the game characters, he had learned a second-level magic for himself in advance: proficient in language.

Because he has played a lot of sandbox games before. In the game, everyone uses the same language and text, but because of the game settings, players from different countries or different camps in the game communicate, if they do not understand The language skills of the other country, or the lack of language skills, the text you see will become garbled, and the sound will become 'beep beep' when you hear it.

The rich gaming experience played a role, which made Roland feel lucky. He exhaled the system in his heart, and it was a little jerky at first. After all, virtual games and VR games are a bit different, but soon he found the magic book option with ease. Opened the magic skills inside, found a language fluent, and locked it with the mind.

Then a strange number line graph appeared in front of me, with many blue nodes on it.

A blue node like a starting point starts to light up, and then a red light bursts out towards another node. The speed is very fast, in the blink of an eye.

Is this the spellcasting roadmap?

When Roland was thinking of this possibility, he saw that the red silk thread between the two nodes suddenly vibrated, and then the frequency of the vibration became faster and faster. As the vibration got faster and faster, Roland felt more and more pain in his head.

what's going on?

Roland has been playing games for 20 years, but this is the first time to play virtual online games. He has no experience at all, and he doesn't know how to deal with such a thing.

A few seconds later, the red thread was finally interrupted by the violent vibration. Before that, Roland's head was so painful that it was like being stabbed into the scalp by a needle, which was unbearable.

At the moment when the red line was broken, Roland's consciousness was ejected from the game's body, and then he was surprised to see that after a crisp sound, his game character's head exploded.

The headless corpse fell heavily to the ground, and the screen of 'mosaic' splashed everywhere.

Roland's consciousness was transparent like a soul. Standing next to the corpse, his face became numb because he was too surprised, and he didn't know how to react.

The old man's hair, face, and clothes were covered with 'mosaic', and he opened his old mouth with few teeth, with a sullen expression on his face.