Chapter 529: A Story About E-Sports
Translator: Noodletown Translations Editor: Noodletown Translations
“Tang Family Master, you mean that the spiritual artifacts in this shop lead to a small world which is half-fake and half-real?” Having just arrived, the people of the Qingqiu Family obviously were ignorant of many things in the shop as new players.
They spent most of the morning getting to know the stuff in the shop. They had heard much about the shop, but it was totally different to come here and experience it in person.
For example, the luxuriously-dressed, middle-aged woman, the Qingqiu Family Master, had created a female gunner character and begun her adventures on Arad.
The other girls of the Qingqiu Family didn’t idle around and had also tried the game, submerged in the wonders of Arad and all kinds of strange spiritual spells and artifacts.
Why did the Qingqiu Family Master choose female gunner? She had seen Mr. Fang use the special spiritual artifact which could shoot out laser beams. According to the Tang Family Master, this artifact was still a low-leveled one.
Having entered the shop for only two days, they could get to use such powerful spiritual artifacts and play exciting games such as the Legend of the Sword and Fairy. They had high hopes for their future adventures in the Dungeon Fighter Online.
By now, they had used up their fatigue points.
The masters of the ancient families sat on the couches in the lounge area with instant noodles on the tea table before them. Mr. Fang had treated them to instant noodles and even added a sausage in each bowl, which was quite generous of him.
The large group of disciples of the Qingqiu Family stood behind them respectfully.
“Of course!” the Tang Family Master said, “I’ve studied this kind of spiritual artifacts. They come from a new spiritual artifact system, and the weapon that you mentioned is called a laser rifle!”
He sounded excited, “This weapon attacks by shooting light beams which have great power and speed. We’ve studied this type of spiritual artifacts for some time now and found that their structures can revolutionize our spiritual artifact system.”
The weapons that he had studied for a long time didn’t come from Dungeon Fighter Online but from StarCraft, which had been released earlier.
However, they could only make use of the machines shown in StarCraft; they still had a long way to go before they could benefit from their research.
The noble lady of the Qingqiu Family said, “Tang Family Master, I just used these spiritual artifacts, and it seems to me that they are not easy to research and study.”
“In the virtual reality world, I had neither spiritual artifacts nor my own spiritual essence. All I could do was learn how to use them. I’m afraid that it would be difficult to research and study them.”
Although the launchers in the game were experts of heavy guns, they only knew how to use and improve them; they didn’t have the abilities to design and create guns.
The Xun Family Master shook his head and chuckled on the side, “Daoist Brother Tang has found a way.”
“Oh?” The Qingqiu Family Master said, “I’m all ears.”
“I’ll show you.” The Tang Family Master found a seat, got online, and entered his Character-Selection Interface.
On the screen was a tall and lean man from Empyrean. While wearing a purple windbreaker, he had pushed his goggles up above his forehead.
“This is…”
The name of the subclass at the bottom of the screen was Mechanic.
“The moment I saw the robot that I created move, I felt as if my child was born.” These were the words of a mechanic.
Mechanic was a subclass of gunner, and they come from Empyrean that had advanced technologies.
Etten Industrial Zone hosted various powerplants, lots of large-scale factories and industry infrastructures.
Mechanics were the main force operating the economy in the Empyrean.
Since they hadn’t entered the war, they gave people the impression that they were non-combative people. However, in the battle in ‘Yellow Road’, their robots were only next to a launcher’s cannons and a ranger’s shooting skills. After that battle, mechanics had been recognized as a battle subclass.
The famous mechanics could not only make robots but repair machines as well. Some of them were experts of guns, and other gunners would give them their weapons for maintenance.
According to a legend, three mechanics could work together and make a giant robot.
In fact, mechanics made and modified most of the machinery that their skills required, which meant that they knew lots of knowledge about machinery.
The Tang Family Master told them all the information about mechanics. “In fact, this isn’t something confidential. Since this subclass offers more knowledge on machinery than others, almost half of the people of our Tang Family have advanced into this subclass.”
The Qingqiu Family Master said in surprise, “If so, then the spiritual artifacts such as laser rifles and anti-tank guns will be…”
The Tang Family Master chuckled and said, “It’s not so easy. Right now, we’re still learning the basic stuff from the cultivators of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance. How much we can learn depends on our own abilities.”
“It’s so… amazing!? How about the other subclasses?”
“The subclasses in the game are very complicated…”
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While they were talking about the advantages and disadvantages of different subclasses, most of the players had used up their fatigue points.
However, it didn’t mean that they had nothing to do. Some players who liked battling had found a new place to play – Pungjin’s dojo.
Fighting in the dojo to practice their spiritual spells and combat techniques didn’t consume fatigue points. Besides, some small missions in the dojo could increase their skill points and bring them some extra experience points.
At this moment, the people of the Ultimate West Realm were cheering for Sia as they watched behind her.
Meanwhile, Mr. Fang who didn’t care to join the low-level discussion among the family masters found that he was surrounded by some people.
Lan Yan asked, “You promised to tell us the story of the King’s Avatar.”
Yue Bai and Mu Qing were among the crowd. Mu Qing said in disapproval, “Sir, didn’t you promise that you’ll tell the story when you have time? Can’t you tell us something about the Vanishing Step?”
With his acute hearing, Gu Tingyun heard these girls’ request and immediately sat down in a nearby seat, thinking that this story might contain some information about this shop’s background.
Of course, this was his wishful thinking.
In a corner of the shop, two figures got offline ashen-faced. All their weapons had been shattered, and they didn’t even have weapons to battle in dungeons to level up. It forced them to buy two low-level weapons from the shop to level up, making the process extremely painful.
At this moment, they suddenly paused.
“The shop owner is going to talk about the King’s Avatar?”
“Is it something to do with the information that we need?!”
They exchanged a look and found another corner to sit down. “Let’s listen to the story!”
This time, Mr. Fang began with a new line, “This is a story about E-sports.”
Then, he began telling them his own version of the King’s Avatar which was drastically altered.