010 The Age of Magic and the Magician

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During the day, Duan Qing had nothing to do at home, and when he didn't decide to play games before, Duan Qing once did a job ghostwriting for others on a certain media platform. Based on previous experience and wild conjectures, I wrote some incomprehensible comments, which disturbed the direction of public opinion and earned some money for rations. In addition, he helped the chef before, and the livelihood of being a security guard in the janitor's home, and with the thrift on weekdays, he also saved a lot of his wife's money for his use.

But that woman didn't become his wife in the end, so he now has the capital to squander.

Lie in the game pod and browse various platforms, watch videos, be a flooding party or a bystander party, or go out for a casual walk, take a walk, and think about the life you want after the tragedy called the breakup. Having said that, in the past few years, he has been busy in this corner of the world, and he has rarely seen the things around him, and this period of relaxation has really made him reacquaint himself with the appearance of his life. For example, the steamed buns with a façade on the street in front of them are delicious; There is a square behind the community where he lives, and there are many people who go to exercise at night; Three miles away from the community he rented, there was a small river, but the water was not clear, and I don't know what year it was left over; And the fast-food restaurant he used to pass by when he was busy, and it seems to have closed recently due to an accident......

Although the technology of this era has been extremely developed, there are still things that should exist in daily life, after all, there are still many people who like to go shopping and buy things, and there are more people who like to be foodies.

But as he walked down the street, he watched all sorts of people pass by him. the hovercar that shuttles by, the fashionable girl wearing sunglasses in the driver's seat; The young woman who was holding the hand of a child and pointing around, and occasionally a man of a similar age could be seen around, like a family; On the phone with others, office workers in a hurry, and old people walking through the garden with their hands hunched behind their backs...... Whenever he sees this, he can always feel that he is detached from the world of virtual games, and really feels the reality of real life.

Then I feel lonely, then I feel sad.

"Maybe this life will go on like this...... "Although he has struggled hard over the years, wanting to start a family, marry a wife and have children, draw a line with his past self, and draw an end to his future at the same time, but the hard work of the past three years and the extremely realistic abandonment of his ex-girlfriend have made him more or less have a sense of isolation alienated by the real world.

Thanks to the experience of the past few years, Duan Qing did not easily give up looking for the support point of life, and for this reason, Duan Qing is still confused about his future life.

Fortunately, compared with the distractions in the past few days, Duan Qing has gained more in "Free World".

In fact, in the few tests that went out at dusk on the first day, Duan Qing had already been upgraded by one level, after all, the position of those Wuha was deliberately pulled there by Iron Ambition, and in terms of level alone, it was stronger than those hares at the entrance of the village that practiced for novices, and naturally had more experience.

However, Iron Ambition once solemnly and proudly said that the first dozen levels are easier to practice, because the experience required is relatively small. After reaching a dozen levels, the amount of experience required will increase exponentially, and that is a great time for players to stabilize their strength and go out on adventures.

To put it simply, if you can't rise, you will find something else to do.

A sixth-level player talks to you about more than a dozen levels or even later, and knows a lot about the things in this world, for Duan Qing, there are naturally doubts. Duan Qing also asked about this matter cryptically, but the reply he received was a little surprising.

"Haha, because I've played it."

I thought I would get a reply like "I've checked a lot of information, I've read a lot of guides", or even "I'm a genius", but it turned out to be reasonable and mundane: Iron Ambition is a veteran player.

In fact, in many games, especially online games, there will always be a group of such people. For various reasons, such as not playing well before, tired of playing your profession or graduating perfectly, and wanting to experience other professions, because of a version update, you suddenly find that a certain profession is very easy to use and strong...... Then they will decisively abandon their previous profession, practice a trumpet and start over, and use their veteran gaming experience to quickly make themselves stronger.

Of course, there is a more likely reason for this: I couldn't play it before, so I had to delete the number and repractice...... Fortunately, the steel ambition belongs to the former.

"Although I am not a master, but during the time I played before, the level was also considered the first echelon. But it's a double-sword route, and although it's cool to play with two swords left and right, I always feel that it's not my own style......"

When Iron Ambition replied, he scratched the back of his head and looked embarrassed: "If you go farther and farther, I guess you may regret it later, so I ......" He scratched his neck with one hand, and made a "click" sound in his mouth: "It's over." ”

Seeing Duan Qing's eyes looking at the great man, Brother Tie was probably even more embarrassed, and hurriedly put a POSS: "Sure enough, the big sword is a man's romance, hahahaha......"

Sure enough, he is still a single-celled man...... Duan Qing's eyelids drooped.

In the past few days, Duan Qing has still been able to fight monsters and upgrade, casually mixing a few levels, and at the same time, he has also learned to take the monster's corpse to the village to exchange for some survival supplies, and at the same time engage in relationships. For example, Aunt Ferma at the entrance of the village once gave herself a few water bags; Uncle Usher, who was on the street next to the blacksmith, laughed and exchanged a few burritos for himself, and excitedly asked himself to patronize his business more in the future; The grocery store in the small square in the center saw that he was pitiful, and gave himself some cloth bags to hold things--looking at the boss's treacherous face, it must be impossible to have anything valuable...... Of course, there was also the blacksmith, who was probably the strangest relationship among the villagers Duan Qing knew.

Every time Duan Qing passed, when the blacksmith saw him, he would put away his usual kind face and sit on the side to drink water expressionlessly. But he didn't rush Duan Qing away, and sometimes he didn't refuse to chat with Duan Qing, talk about the life in the village on weekdays, talk about the situation on the mainland, and even talk about some experiences and experiences about the battle - of course, this was not because he wanted to recognize an apprentice, but because Duan Qing deliberately guided the topic.

However, every time Duan Qing wanted to bring the topic to the blacksmith's past, he would keep silent and throw Duan Qing out.

There are still valuable gains, and the most noteworthy thing is that he gave all the wild wolf carcasses he had hunted in the past few days to a hunter, and then the hunter gave him a hunting knife.

Yes, with Duan Qing's current level of adaptation to the game, the lone wolf on the grassland in the north of the village is already a piece of cake for him, and he has the sharp weapon given to him by Brother Tie in his hand, which is much stronger than the Raushzi hunting knife given to him by Orion.

【Hunting Knife (Normal)】

[Weapon Power: Weak]

[A knife for hunting, which can be used for a variety of purposes such as cutting, cutting, cutting, chopping, and stabbing. Of course it can be used for fighting, if you don't mind its length. 】

As mentioned in the introduction of the weapon, the length of this knife is very short, about ten centimeters long, but the sharpness still makes Duan Qing more satisfied, and the system gives this weapon a power evaluation, which is the same as the rough short sword in his hand, which is enough to show the attack power of the knife. But even so, Duan Qing still let it be pinned to his waist and never used it.

And not everything was so smooth: Duan Qing was troubled in another realm, and that was attribute points.

Through those brief exchanges with Iron Ambition, Duan Qing could still roughly guess that there were still many genres or gameplay in this game.

He opened the character's attribute panel many times, observing the four attributes, and from time to time looking at the two short bars of life and physical strength, thinking about what mysteries were in them.

Now he is also level 6 and has gained 5 points, but he has not added any of them because he has not ...... Decide your future career.

There is no such thing as a profession in this game, at least not the names given to you by the system of warrior, mage, priest, archer, gladiator, thief, etc. However, there are still distinctions, in addition to the active classification of players in private, there are also differences in the organization of the free world, that is, the House of Warriors and the Council of Mages.

-- Just look at these two names to see what the two organizations do.

After all, there are combat professions on this continent, and there are many of them. Compared to the general sword and wizarding world, this world has almost all kinds of cold weapons, and there is also that field that many players dream of: magic.

When the free world was open to play, many players were very excited to find that there were intelligence and spiritual attributes among the attributes after they were born, because it showed that there was a legal system in the free world. The thought of being able to experience all kinds of gorgeous and magical spells in a virtual online game, imagining all kinds of enemies being wiped out under the bombardment of their gorgeous magic, all kinds of players who like to be mages are excited.

And now, a few months later, there are very few French players - and this is what Iron Ambition as a veteran player introduced to him - and the reason is naturally that the French class is weak.

As for the reasons for the weakness of the legal system, in addition to some factors of the profession itself, the historical background of the free continent also has a deep influence to a certain extent.

According to the background setting of the free world, there was an era of magic flourishing in this world a long time ago, when magic skills were very mature, magic technology was also very developed, and the development of all fields in that era was almost inseparable from the help of magical energy. The most powerful forces in the continent at that time were almost controlled by the most powerful mages. The social status of people in that era was almost always judged by the level of magical skills...... In short, it was an era of magic rule, and it was also a hellish time for "untouchables" with bad magical talents.

Of course, the strength of those "untouchables" who are not gifted enough is not enough to support them to overthrow this era, and the demise of this era is caused by themselves.

The decline of the Age of Magic, the content recorded in the existing history books of the Free Continent, can allow various scholars to study for most of their lives, because there are too many things worth studying and introspecting. However, if we summarize the reasons for the decline, the current general theory on the continent is: the overuse of magical elements in the magic age, which led to the collapse of the elemental balance.

A classic case of exhausting and fishing - when Duan Qing flipped through those materials, the first thing that flashed through his mind was the opinion.

Maybe it was because of the overdevelopment of magic technology at that time, or maybe it was because of the sloppiness of magic technology in the utilization rate of magic at that time, in short, after the magic era, the content of various elements on the continent became very low, and all kinds of powerful magic lacked the support of the elements, making it difficult to use, and even many legendary magic were lost...... As for the other magical feats, magical artifacts, and even the various buildings and facilities that represent the glory of the Magic Empire, they have disappeared into the passage of time.

Of course, if you ask the historians who have studied the history of the Free Continent the most deeply, the answer they give is that the large number of large-scale wars at the end of the Age of Magic, and the misuse of strategic magic in them, caused irreversible damage to all aspects of the elemental balance, and this is the main reason for the current lack of elements.

Those who come and go for archaeology all day long can come up with some evidence for the above conclusions. For example, the remnants of the Age of Magic and the wreckage of the Magic War left around the world after the Great War, there are still many places that are still being discovered and excavated; The loss of all kinds of mature magic systems in the magic era, the loss of many spells and technologies, and the level of spells in the continent still has not reached one-tenth of that era; There are also demonic creatures that appear around the world today, and many scholars believe that they were affected by the catastrophic wars of the Age of Magic......

All in all, it was a great era of great magicians, and under the influence of that great era, magic elements have become very scarce in the free continent now. So now it's almost impossible to be an invincible mage.

However, the group of mages still exists.

Among the current forces of the natives of the free world, including empires and principalities, there are still many people who use magic to fight. Some of them spontaneously joined forces to inherit and disseminate magical knowledge and systems, conduct research work and spell experiments, prevent the decline of magic, and set up organizations similar to the clubs to exchange information and help each other in the restoration of magical knowledge and systems, while maintaining the authority and interests of the mage community. And the broadest alliance that these people, or mage professionals, have united is the Mage Council, which was formed hundreds of years ago.

Inspired by the establishment of the Mage Council, the unofficial organization of the Warrior's House has also appeared on the mainland, obsessed with the research of various cold weapon skills, and even the grandmasters from all over the world who are good at their bare hands have successively registered their names in the Warrior's House for the maintenance and development of various melee professions. These two alliances were gradually accepted and tolerated as they continued to develop, helping nations and civilians alike, and then gradually forming the current structure that most resembled a professional system on the free continent.

Later, these things began to be studied by players who entered the game.

Although Duan Qing was somewhat interested in these historical aspects, he was most concerned with more practical issues, such as whether the mage had a future or not...... Earlier, Iron Ambition, a self-proclaimed veteran player, answered this question.

Here's how he replied: "Magician...... Very weak. ”

Brother Tie still used a generous tone, as if he didn't care about his next slanderous words: "Judging by the mage players I've seen...... The attack ability is average, and you also need to chant spells and moves, and there are very few skills that can be comprehended, and with your own spells, you can't play any tricks, and what's even more tragic is ......"

"They're too brittle!"

"It's not a literal brittle, after all, there is no effective way to increase health in this game, everyone rushes up to fight, in fact, they are all killed after two hits, but the mages ...... Running slowly, the body's reaction is slow, there is no life-saving skill, there is no way to deal with the attack, uh, at least the mage I have seen, casually encountered a strange situation such as ADD ah hatred transfer ah and knelt down, not returning the hand once, completely unable to adapt to this treacherous world......"

"Sure, there may be some strong mages among those pros, but I haven't seen them before...... Say you want to be a mage? Don't think about it, boy...... Do you really want to play? Okay, your tangled expression betrayed you, return that short sword to me, and when the time comes, you can't think of opening the deleted number and retraining it, isn't that short sword a waste...... No, if you want to use a mage, you still need any melee weapons, so you should return it to me, I'll keep it as a souvenir......"

Thinking back to the scene at that time, Duan Qing twisted his face as he did at that time, it was a sense of powerlessness when encountering Tang Seng's noise.

However, for a self-proclaimed veteran player, the mage profession is still quite attractive, and in the words of a former professional gamer, soaring in the sky is every virtual gamer's dream.

"Mage, ......" Duan Qing at this time, like those professional fans of the legal system at the beginning of the game, looked at the attributes of intelligence and spirit, as well as the "+" icon behind the attributes, and unabashedly revealed a curious light.

“...... Why don't you give it a try? ”