The Truth of Magic

Chapter 1 Back to the past

"Hey, have you pre-ordered Arthur?"

"Sure, I pre-ordered it half a year ago, okay?"

"The game claims to be fully AI-hosted, and the player dominates the world line. Everyone says it is the game with the highest degree of freedom in history."

"I saw the simulation screen of the trailer before, and I felt that the VR was super realistic."

"Didn't it mean that the game time during sleep can last for more than 4 hours? The longest time before was only 3 hours."

"It's online tonight, hurry up and make an appointment to take me with you, big brothers."

Zhao Xu looked blankly at the college students who were discussing enthusiastically in front of him.

The youthful faces in front of him are all his memories from 10 years ago.

This scene seems to be similar.

His heart tightened, and countless memories in his mind scattered like flying catkins.

10 years ago, "Arthur" opened today.

No one noticed that the curtain of the new era was also lifted quietly on this day, ushering in a truly great era.

On the first anniversary of Arthur's opening of the server, a devastating meteor shower appeared on the earth out of thin air, and all life was turned into fly ash.

However, human beings found that they traveled to Arthur's world after the meteorite rain.

The former Arthur players have perfectly inherited everything in the game.

The upper-level players in the game became the masters among the earthlings in Arthur, and the original earth's forces were shuffled accordingly.

Zhao Xu didn't care about this game in his previous life. He waited almost eight months after the server was opened before being forcibly pulled in by his classmates to refill their class's guild.

His online frequency in the game is also three days of fishing and two days of surfing the net. He has just upgraded from level 1 to level 2 until before crossing.

At this time, the average level of the large army players who entered the game from the beginning of the server was almost level 5, and the high-end players in the front row even exceeded level 10.

Zhao Xu, who entered the game slowly, was only level 2.

But as one of the six or seven billion people on the earth, who has played this game in advance, he is undoubtedly among the upper echelons of the earth's power.

In Arthur, relying on his professional level and the help of his classmates, Zhao Xu quickly provided a corresponding life for his family.

It's just that for the next days, Zhao Xu's luck in his life happened to be overdrawn.

The small town where he was stationed was attacked by a black dragon that came suddenly after traveling for three years.

Hundreds of people were killed or injured in the entire town, and his family members were killed in that crisis, including his new wife.

Zhao Xu's life has since lost its color.

He had just been conscripted by the lord at that time, escaped a catastrophe, but since then he has been burdened with the shackles of revenge.

For the next six years, he spent every moment trying to get revenge.

Going all the way back to the end of his memory, Zhao Xu joined an adventure team to conquer the black dragon.

But before entering the black dragon's lair, the team encountered a surprise attack.

The last impression left in Zhao Xu's mind was the oncoming breath of the black dragon.

With the regret of death, Zhao Xu was reborn and returned to the classroom 10 years ago.

He returned to the moment before the game server opened.

The whole world, including the game development company, except for Zhao Xu.

No one knows——Arthur is actually a real alien.

After time travel, countless people groaned why they didn't play this game.

Even the employees of the game development company, as long as they haven't played the game in their spare time, they will be useless after a year.

After Zhao Xu took a deep breath, he woke up with a start. He quickly took out his mobile phone and logged in to tc's game store to pre-order the game in advance.

As a paid pre-order game, Arthur comes with a hefty price tag.

However, no matter how popular the game is after opening the server, no additional fee items are provided.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu's eyes fell on the pre-order packages in the mall.

Arthur Standard Edition, 299rmb.

Arthur Deluxe Edition, 599rmb.

Needless to say, the standard version, in fact, most players buy the standard version.

As for the deluxe version, there is an extra set of clothing for the player, which is equivalent to spending 300 to buy a skin, and the free clothing cannot improve any combat power.

But Zhao Xu's eyes were not here. One year later, the earth would be destroyed, and all the trillions of wealth would be turned into ashes.

At this time, an extra 300rmb can be exchanged for a costume from another world.

Without further ado, Zhao Xu clicked on the pre-order interface of the deluxe version.

It's just that he was about to go through the iris verification and pay when his whole body was shocked.

He recalled one thing.

Many years later, he came into contact with a high-ranking boss by chance, and heard such a legend from the envious expression in the other party's mouth.

In this game, there are dual elites, that is, dual occupations.

Dual careers allow players to have two parallel career lines at the same time, but their levels do not overlap.

If an ordinary player is a level 3 fighter and a level 7 mage, then he is a level 10 character.

But for dual-professionals, when they reach level 10, they can choose a level 10 mage in the first career line, and a level 10 priest in the second career line.

In essence, they are still level 10 characters, but they only have the professional abilities of two level 10 occupations.

They still only have the health, attack power, feats, and immunity of a 10th-level character.

But with the addition of resources from another career line, it can make them the best among players.

According to that boss, the double elite profession is actually a system that will be fully opened in the future, as a version upgrade to re-attract players.

When the game was launched, a very small number of accounts were opened to test the double elite mode, which is also for the convenience of testing the strength and will be adjusted in the future.

As a test account, its biggest advantage is that you can experience the game for free.

But the price is that after one year, the account will be recycled.

This point is also to avoid the imbalance of the majority of players. As an account that will be recycled, no matter how strong it is, that's it, let alone a deadline.

Even many players who participated in the test, seeing Arthur's increasing popularity, directly gave up the recycled account without ownership and bought the game again.

It's just that everyone didn't know that one year later, before the account was to be recycled, all the people had time-traveled, and the game characters that had naturally become reality could not be recycled.

The one-year period thus becomes permanent.

These accounts are also a unique batch of privileged accounts in Arthur World.

According to the boss, there are very few test accounts that persist until the later stage.

But as long as they survived to the real world of Arthur, the owners of these accounts were all powerful.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu stood up straight away, turned around and was about to walk out of the classroom door, and it would be difficult for him to run away after the bell rang for a few minutes.

"Hey, Brother Xu, the last class of this class, Marxist-Leninist Huang, said that roll call is required, you don't want to die." Roommate Zhang Qi hurriedly called him.

Zhao Xu didn't even take the textbook, he just waved his hand and said, "I'm a little busy beforehand."

Before he finished speaking, his figure flashed out, and at this time, he happened to miss the scattered classmates who came to the classroom to attend class.

After Zhao Xuguai went out, he found a nearby flower bed and sat down. He picked up his mobile phone and called tc's game customer service to inquire about the double elite test account.

Before talking on the phone, Zhao Xu's face gradually became serious.

Before he could go deep into the induction, the customer service rejected him with polite and formulaic language.

The other party said that the issuance of the test account had been completed half a month ago.

All players participating in the test are invited players, and this test is not planned to be open to the majority of players in the short term.

In a word, he is useless, don't think about it.

If you think about it, the double elite test account, no matter how bad it is, even if it is a free trial, it is still stronger than ordinary players.

It is really open, and everyone must have an account to experience the experience first, and will not be subject to the 2-hour time limit of the refund service.

Zhao Xu frowned at this answer.

He is very clear that he is not a high-ranking player.

He only entered the game seven or eight months after the server was launched. Even if he played less, it was only when the players had figured out a mature upgrade routine and someone was leading him. Later upgraded to level 2.

This is the most precious virtual world of the year.

After entering the real world of Arthur in the future, everyone's upgrade speed will slow down a lot.

It is not too much to say that one year is worth ten years.

Zhao Xu is also adhering to the idea of ​​revenge. He survived many times and overdrawn his future life to barely reach level 5. Otherwise, according to the trajectory of his ordinary life, maybe he will only be level 3 or 4 after 10 years That's all.

If he didn't have the blessing of dual elite accounts, even with his 10 years of experience, he wouldn't be in the first echelon of players.

When meeting the black dragon who killed himself like a chicken in the previous life, it was the other party's spit.

He must be of a high enough level to be able to protect his family.

After Zhao Xu calmed down a little, he immediately clicked on the X Fish platform.

On xyu, in addition to publishing their own second-hand discarded supplies, many people have also sold various services and even new products on it over the years, and they can even buy certain commodities.

Zhao Xu directly stated that he wanted to buy the one-year double elite test account of "Arthur".

When he filled in the price, he ignored any detailed discussions, and he just filled in the game price of 599.

It is equivalent to the other party using a one-year test account for a permanent luxury private account, the only difference is that they cannot experience the characteristics of double elites.

Test accounts are not limited to double elite accounts, there are many other types of test accounts, which are no different from ordinary accounts.

So he specifically indicated that he wanted a one-year double-elite test account, which is also the test account with the longest duration.

Sure enough, as soon as Zhao Xu posted it, seeing that he still had enough credit, a private chat was sent over right away.

"Do you want to test the account of the strong race for half a year?"

Zhao Xu, a powerful race, naturally knew that, in fact, this was also the later open content that everyone knew.

The characteristic of powerful races is that they provide more abilities, and it is not surprising that they even top the fourth or fifth character level, allowing new players to make up for the gap with old players.

A major selling point of Arthur is the global server.

It's just that the account recovered after half a year is meaningless.

The account duration is not based on the activation time, but on the server opening time.

Otherwise, he can accept it and give it to his friends.

After Zhao Xu refused, several more private chats came in.

There were even 24-hour test accounts for 10 yuan. Zhao Xu didn't even bother to reply, so he just went to the next one.

"Brother, if you want a half-year double elite test account, just charge you 299."

After Zhao Xu clicked on one by accident, he was happy when he saw the words "double elite", but after half a year appeared, he felt cold again.

There is still half a year left for the Emotional Double Elite.

"The price is very good. If you are not a senior player, you will not be able to receive this invitation account. My half-year period is quite long, and most of them are only three months."

Seeing the other party's reply, even though Zhao Xu didn't want it, he was still patient and slowly set out the other party's information.

The other party sold 299, in fact, because of the double elite account, which is only powerful in the later stage.

The shorter the time, the lower the level naturally, which cannot truly reflect the strength of the double elite profession.

If it can last for three or four years, covering the entire life cycle of the game, then some big guilds will be willing to invest tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars for this kind of account.

After some communication, the other party felt that Zhao Xu didn't want to buy it either, so he didn't say a word in his reply.

In this way, until the evening, half an hour before the server opened at 8 o'clock, Zhao Xu did not receive the one-year double elite test account.

According to the current information, I am afraid that there are far fewer double-elite test accounts than he imagined.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu's phone vibrated, because an X Fish user chatted with him privately.

"I have a one-year account of the dual elite system in my hand, and I also brought a potential point test."

Potential point?

Zhao Xu froze for a moment. He had never heard of this ability, but it didn't matter, as long as he had two elites.

Just looking at the other party's dialogue is actually a hint to add money.

In fact, he would buy it for any amount of money, even if it was hundreds of thousands, he would persuade his parents to lend him such a sum of money.

This is not buying a game account, this is buying a life.

"How much?" Zhao Xu didn't immediately give himself a price.

"1000." The other party directly doubled Zhao Xu's demand price.

"You're exaggerating." Zhao Xu typed immediately.

Although he couldn't help the endless joy in his heart, he still tried to bargain.

If you agree too readily, it will only make the other party suspect that you are selling cheap, and it will only cause trouble.

Next, Zhao Xu pretended to cut down the price, but he didn't dare to cut too much so that the other party would ignore him.

After a lot of bargaining, the final transaction was 800. The process was more exhausting than writing a few high-level papers.

After the other party agreed, Zhao Xu asked the other party to publish the product under his title according to the X fish process, and then he paid in seconds.

There was no accident in the whole process.

Looking at the game activation code sent by the other party, Zhao Xu couldn't help being excited even though his mental age was over thirty.

The uncomplicated string of numbers, the activation code, is his future in this life.