Chapter 1: Like a Mirror
"I'm so dizzy......"
Raven was a little confused by the high fever, and he struggled to maintain his sanity, but his mind was more of a mess.
The view is greeted by the mountains and rivers at dusk, and the water rushing down from the mountains washes the pebbles on the banks.
The river and a dirt road with smoothed cobblestones divide the dense forest in half on the left and right. Looking down the mountain, at the end of the road is a huge city perched on top of the mountain.
City of Gold!
It's exactly the same city of gold as the beginner's area of the game.
Raven was a little stunned when he saw this scene - last night, he was still a top player fighting in the hyper-realistic game "World of Ultron".
He vividly remembered the last scene he saw was under the inky black sky, the wind howling, and countless undead pouring out of the kingdom of the gods of the lich god Visharon: an army of skeletons in tens of thousands, corpse witches gathered in the sea of corpses and bones, bone dragons and bone griffons roaring through the sky......
The undead legions are boundless, like a tidal wave that can dye the entire world white. They have only one target, Raven, who is betrayed by their boss, the god of murder, Hirek. I don't remember how many bones were broken, but in the end, it was the disintegration rays that were denser than the torrential rain that rained all over the world, drowning Raven with no way to escape. The world was darkened by the light that was enough to burn the retina out just by seeing the afterglow......
In Raven's imagination, when he opened his eyes with one last chance to be reincarnated, he should have seen such a scene: a lifeless wasteland, gray-black stone and rock canine teeth intertwined across the wasteland, corpses strewn across the field in the distance, and countless dark blue ghost fires drifting across the silent battlefield. In the center of the field of vision, there will be two light screens playing a wonderful review of your 'short life' in the game.
Then you will see the skeletal face of Jego, the ancient god of death in the game.
Jerk is the ruler of the King of the Dead, a fatalistic deity responsible for keeping track of the ultimate fate of all the dead. He never gets angry, and always maintains his usual indifference and excessive etiquette; The tone of his voice sounded like a shivering echo wafting through a long-forgotten tomb. The only thing that the king of the end of all things cares about and strives for is to keep a regular and orderly record of the fate of the entire world, just as the world is slowly sinking towards death.
Finally, Jerk came up with several options for rebirth......
The imaginary scene did not appear in Raven's eyes.
What he saw was the city of gold, which was supposed to be destroyed by a volcanic eruption in the year 1318 of the Ultron calendar.
Raven subconsciously wanted to get up, and suddenly there was a clear feeling of weakness in his body.
Raven froze—wait! Am I really still in the game?
Even though Ultron World claims to be the most realistic consciousness synchronization game in human history, there are still many places in it where you can see at a glance that you are actually in the game.
For example, there are only a few monotonous waves in a river, for example, the trees in the game actually have only more than 50 shapes, for example, various negative states cause at most visual haze and body heaviness, and for example, the humidity in early spring is only monotonous water vapor and does not smell of all things growing......
But what does Raven see now?
The waves of the river are changing all the time.
There is not a single pebble of the same shape.
Branches that are naturally swaying by the wind
And a somewhat rotten wound on his left hand has attracted flies......
It's all too real, and it makes Raven feel like he's in a hallucination. Raven hoped that this illusion would be shattered when he closed his eyes, and when he opened his eyes again, he suddenly found himself back in the cozy kennel at home.
Hallucinations, did not go away.
It should be said that the imagination in my head is the real illusion.
At this moment, he was lying quietly by the river, letting the river lap his lower body, and a strong tingling sensation came from his left ribs and back. Raven couldn't help but be stunned, and felt it carefully, his back should just be a flesh wound. But the left rib ...... Raven subconsciously propped up his right arm, turned over and touched his left rib, and a heart-wrenching pain interrupted his movements, and he finally couldn't hold back his screams.
In trouble, Raven's experience in the game led Raven to know that he had broken ribs, and that a small section of the broken rib had been inserted into his lungs. Raven was pretty sure he had internal bleeding, and to make matters worse, the internal bleeding was starting to accumulate in his left lung, so he would hang up sooner or later.
No, it should be said that being alive until now is a miracle in itself.
"Goo-" The flat belly let out an unassailing protest at this time.
There was also a burst of high heat coming from his forehead.
Well, mortally wounded, hungry, fever...... It turns out that all the hell is his!
Raven pressed his right hand to his left ribs, groped for the broken bone, gritted his teeth, and with the heart-rending pain, Raven broke the broken bone back into place.
There would have been a terrible scream, and the blood gushing from the lungs choked on his throat. I coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood at once, and my breathing became slightly more normal.
Internal bleeding can't be ignored, otherwise it will still be a death.
Raven began to concentrate his consciousness in his body. Consciously slow down your breathing and feel every pulse in your body that comes with your heartbeat. Slowly, slowly, the perception spreads from the heart to the vicinity of the lungs, and then the mind keeps meditating to tighten the nearby muscles, compress all the nearby blood vessels, force the blood vessels to close there, let the blood there start to clot, and thus stop the internal bleeding......
This is a well-known and difficult legendary skill in the game - self-stabilization.
With a high concentration of will, Raven succeeded. It was also because of the high concentration of consciousness that he ignored a small voice......
The injury has finally stabilized, and the next step is to heal as soon as possible, otherwise the injury will not last long, if it does not deteriorate.
Now Raven finally had a little room to think.
"How did I end up here?"
"Did I get the game system upgrade when I hung up?"
"This kind of rebirth is too bad, isn't it? Didn't the game company swear that reincarnation would only be lowered by one order at most? ”
"Before I hung up the first time, I was a level 109 shadow master, and before the second time, I was a god-level assassin with the fangs of the god who was inaugurated at level 118. The game is based on the total number of career levels, every 20 levels are a level, from low to high are black iron, bronze, silver, gold, legendary, and the holy level that enters the god level, how can my two characters be holy ranks! Reincarnated as a legendary powerhouse, no matter how rotten it is, it should have a bronze body, and it should be immune to the ...... of low-level negative states such as illness and fever."
"How could he be reincarnated as an unemployed level 0 imp in the small village of Arras next to the Golden City?"
Raven muttered to himself. When he spoke of Arras, he unconsciously repeated the name over and over again.
Right! Come to think of it.
His name was Raven, a fifteen-and-a-half-year-old elf boy with pointed ears. For as long as he can remember, he has lived with his father, Robert, and his thirteen-year-old sister, Karin, in the small village of Arras. They were a family of farmers and hunters. Although he always felt that he didn't look like his father and sister at all, this did not affect the harmony of the family in the slightest.
The night before, a sudden army of goblins destroyed the entire village, and my father did not know whether he was alive or dead. The survivors who survived the village took refuge in the village's only church and waited for help. A day passed, and rescue was nowhere to be seen. Last night, the goblins attacked again, and in the second half of the night, the church was lost, and the scattered villagers fled their homes and headed for the safety of their hearts, the Golden City.
While escaping the goblins, Raven and Karin jump into the icy water. Raven lost consciousness in the water, and it was Karin who desperately pulled Raven to fight against the rapids to save Raven. Without Karin, there would be no Raven now.
No!
Wait a minute!
That Raven was actually dead in the water, and Karin only saved his body.
I'm Raven! An ordinary Chinese young man. The surname Raven is not the Western name Raven.
"Nope! Both Raven are you! A magical voice in his heart said to him.
Two very different lives, two memories that are not related, are like putting white milk and dark chocolate in a blender, and after a buzz, they coincide. They have all lost their color, no more white, no longer black, just a mixed brown.
I want to look up to the sky and scold: "It's ridiculous! ”
I never scolded, and no matter how much I scolded, it didn't help. From another memory, Raven finally figured out what had happened: he had crossed over!
An in-game death has sent his soul back to a world that is exactly the same as the world in the game Ultron. To be precise, he entered the frightened, feverish, and weakened body that caused death, and at the same time fused the soul of the deceased Raven's part.
Raven's brain was still messed up and ached terribly, and he clenched his fists with the greatest strength, and could feel his fingernails pricking his palms hard, which still didn't help to soothe the pain in his brain.
He could clearly feel the deceased's fascination with life, his reluctance to his sister Karin, his hope for the future, and his desire to become stronger. What overwhelmed Raven was that now these feelings had become his.
The chaos in my mind began to cool down.
"Raven, the high player in that game, is me."
"At the moment, the young Raven living in the world of Ultron is also me."
Raven began to accept the reality that he was an orphan in Huaxia, with no friends and no concerns, playing games while waiting for the moment when graduation would be unemployed. Seriously, there's no nostalgia. If he were given another choice, he would probably choose to travel directly into the game world......
Hey?!
Suddenly, a thought was like lightning that pierced the dark night, splitting the fog in Raven's mind.
According to the memory of the deceased Raven, it is March of the twilight year (March 1314 in the Ultron calendar), which is the date when the game was first launched. For the four years from 1314 to 1318, the game was officially known as the First Age, and the common name among players was the Year of Turmoil. And the history of the game has been written to the fifth year of the Fourth Age!
If the development of this world is strictly based on the history of the game, then the first four years of turmoil will be followed by a three-year year of destruction, then two years of voyage, and finally the year of war in the new world.
An irrepressible excitement and ecstasy turned into heat and spread throughout Raven's body.
If everything is true, then in the next ten years, Raven will become more prophetic than a prophet, more divine than a stick.
Raven, who had a personal expertise in the game, remembers every step of the game clearly. At the same time, as a time-traveler, no one knows better than him what is going to happen.
From now, there are four years and two months to go before that era of destruction. The thrones of the gods have fallen from heaven to mortal world, and the gods who were once high will incarnate as saints of the holy realm to walk on the earth, seeking to establish the kingdom of gods on earth.
In another three years, the entire Ultron Continent will collapse due to the disappearance of the Supreme God 'Ul' and the withering of the World Trunk Branch that supports the Ultron World, and all the half-planes attached to the main plane of the Ultron Continent will all suffer, including the Heavenly Realm, Hell, the Endless Abyss, and various elemental planes.
The only way to survive is to unearth the floating stone hidden in the continent of Ultron, form a floating continent that can contain the kingdom of God with divine power, carry the believers and the most valuable things up, follow the guidance of the Starry Sky Mother River to travel to the plane, and find another dry branch of the World Tree.
Raven vividly remembers that there were only thirty-six floating continents that had successfully set sail, and that only twelve had arrived in the other world, and that the exhausted gods and their people had to face another group of gods who had sworn to defend their homeland......
Raven was in a trance for a while, he was a master in his previous life, but he was still some distance away from the top players who were leading step by step. It's because the upgrade is too slow and the savings are too small, so he missed the opportunity to ignite the divine fire alone, otherwise he wouldn't have fallen twice.
Now that this life has penetrated into the world of Ultron, and there are no longer two chances to resurrect, is it still necessary for me to do nothing in this life? Is this worthy of a second life in the true sense of the word?
There are millions of thoughts in my heart, but in reality, this second life seems to be about to hang.
To make matters worse, Raven inadvertently recalls the last night and the night before when he was attacked, and he discovers a major problem that feels like a nightmare.
Taking a deep breath, Raven shook Karin awake from the coma and shouted, "Wake up! Come on! Can't stay here! ”