By June 21st, the basic premise of the book was probably revealed, and there was a little struggle and modification in between, because this kind of time spent on setting is not very flattering, it takes a lot of effort, and many readers may not like it. But a novel is really the setting of these foundations that determines the big framework, and whether the development of the novel is firm or not depends on whether this foundation is laid well.

So, I'm going to have to complete the second half of this article on setting and conception.

Or continue with the previous question:

4. How to plan the level of professionals?

For a game-type novel, even if it is subdivided into a game otherworld, focusing on a real otherworld, but the level and experience are two settings that are difficult to avoid.

Regarding the level, Diablo 2 is the highest level 99, but probably we can complete the clearance in less than level 50, and the strongest skill can only be learned at level 30, and in Diablo 3, the level is directly limited to level 70, and the process of upgrading is almost very short, focusing on the brush equipment after the full level, and the size of the secret realm.

But considering the appreciability of a novel, in fact, the most important main line is the protagonist's journey of becoming stronger, in the novel, of course, it is the improvement of the level, the skills are more and stronger, the equipment is more and more luxurious, the summons are getting stronger and stronger, and of course, the enemies are getting stronger and stronger.

So I slowed down the level increase, and at the same time, according to the dividing point between Diablo 2 and 3, the explosion of the World Stone affected the improvement of the human strength of the entire world, and made a comprehensive setting.

"In the long inheritance, the strong people of each profession slowly groped for a set of judgments on the level of the profession, dividing the profession from level 1 to 70 into various levels, and those who did not comprehend any skills that were not successfully transferred are collectively called apprentices, and from level 1 to level 10 after the transfer, level 11 to 20 is a junior professional, level 21 to 30 is an intermediate professional, level 31 to 40 is a senior professional, 41 to 50 is the legendary level, and 51 to 60 is the epic level, 61 to 70 is the legendary level, and 71 and above is the legendary god level. ”

The above is the setting of the original text, in order to combine it with the level of Diablo 2, I can understand by comparing the skills, in the game of Diablo 2, every 6 levels is a hurdle, and you can learn higher-level skills, so if the skills of each stage correspond to the level of a stage, every 6 levels can be counted as a rank. In the novel, the level of each stage has changed to level 10, so level 11 of the novel is equivalent to level 6 in the Diablo 2 game, which is considered to be a beginner, taking the necromancer as an example, it is possible to learn clay stone demons. And level 21 is equivalent to level 12, and you can learn to resurrect the skeleton mage (of course, I will make some changes to the skill settings of different levels in the game), and so on.

And level 51 is equivalent to level 30, and then you can learn the ultimate skill of the profession. This level has no destruction shelter in the World Stone, and it is probably the combat power that only the top characters can have.

And after the destruction of the World Stone, the strength of Nefarem, that is, Nephilim, in the human race, is no longer suppressed, and it is easier to break through the level, and the corresponding legendary-level, god-level and even higher level is even the strength stage that the top human powerhouses can reach. In this way, the overall strength is controlled, and there will be no problem of collapse.

As for the strength of the legendary demon gods, angels and even some gods, we will slowly reveal them in the book. After that, the level and strength, we will look at it slowly in the story.

5. How to upgrade the characters?

In order to make many settings more reasonable and realistic, we have to consider the development of this world, before the story line of Diablo 2, the shelter also has a long history, and many human professionals will also face the problem of leveling up.

So how to improve your strength is naturally through cultivation.

Upgrading the level is nothing more than the energy stored by the body exceeding the limit of its own bearing, and at the same time meeting the requirements of the upgrade, in order to break through the level.

And this way of absorbing energy, in the original history, naturally improved little by little through the kung fu of the water mill, just like cultivating internal strength. It's just that in my setting, the warrior class is to absorb the energy of the outside world by operating the battle qi, and condense it into the growth of the battle qi. (As for the name of war qi, some people don't accept it, so think about changing it to fighting spirit and internal strength, which one do you think is better, and you will know that this choice is not bad, neither too oriental, nor does it look like a fantasy or fantasy novel, I think it is probably reasonable)

The mage-type profession exercises its spiritual power through meditation and continues to grow its own magic power. So this is the traditional way to level up for the two big types of professions in this world.

And when the monsters of hell appear in some places in the shelter, and even for some reason (it is not written yet, it will be revealed by a big man later), many monsters do not disappear, but become some kind of energy body, and after a period of time after death, they can be reborn again, (of course, with the different levels of monsters, the time of rebirth also increases accordingly) becomes like a monster that is constantly refreshed in the game, so that there is a new and faster way for professionals in such a special background to level up.

Based on the interrelationship between energy and matter, the life forms formed by these energies will become energy again after death, some of which will dissipate into the world as corpses, and the other part will appear as energy that can be directly absorbed by professionals, and the last part of the energy forms some special energy crystals.

Isn't this energy that can be directly absorbed by the professional similar to the experience in the game, in this real world, these energies can be used to improve the level of the professional in the same way that the professional has absorbed and strengthened himself for countless years.

Such a relatively mature upgrade system has been formed, and in the absence of this kind of hell monster, human professionals can also rely on themselves to absorb natural energy to strengthen themselves and improve their level. When you have a monster with this energy, you can use this way to level up more quickly.

Of course, your experience is full, but it means that you are fully loaded with energy that you can hold, and if you want to break through the level, you will still encounter various obstacles. Some people are talented, these barriers are not a problem, and they can be broken through relatively easily, and some people are not so talented, so they will be stuck in this barrier, and the level cannot be improved. As a result, the level of advancement of the pros here is only a little faster than in previous generations, but it is not too outrageous, and the link of the card will still be stuck. In such an area with monsters, such as Canduras, Lugoin's class only has a slight advantage, and it is not too different from the strength of the class in other areas without monsters.

Sixth, look at the darkness and don't look at the equipment, are you playing us?

In fact, this dark novel has many interesting points in addition to equipment, such as different classes, rich skills, the story behind each force, and of course, there are some important NPC story lines, in fact, there will be many highlights, and even countless people will be fascinated by the cultivation of necromancer's summons (this is of course the highlight, think about the title of our book, the legion, hey, without a group of powerful necromantic troops, can it still be considered a legion?)

But some readers left a message, what about the equipment, I can't see the equipment, the dark has no equipment, can it still be called dark?

yes, how could I have forgotten such an important part, the most prestigious equipment system in Dark?

Don't worry, this isn't to take into account the real world, you can so likely explode a bunch of weapons, shoes, clothes, jewelry, and other so-called equipment after a monster dies.

Monsters don't have a collecting fetish.

These settings don't matter in the game, but they don't make sense in the real world.

What's more, you are a person who is used to using a scepter, how can you replace it with a big knife when you see it, and it is not difficult to use it at all, and your combat power will not be attenuated. It's impossible!

So I'm very proud to have come up with an interesting idea, separating the base material of the equipment from the items with additional equipment attributes, so that wouldn't solve these problems perfectly?

You won't change the substrate of the equipment at will, but the items with additional attributes on it can be replaced!

Remember that the origin of most of the monsters you see now is the energy of hell, and the last part of those last parts is the energy crystallization that monsters turn into after they die.

These energy crystals have different forms, the ordinary ones are demon energy coins, which we simplify into demon silver coins, demon gold coins, and demon crystal coins, which are distinguished according to the size of the energy. In areas with a lot of monsters, it is used instead of currency