Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes
Chapter 159: The Beginning of Destiny

Chapter 159: Chapter 159: The Beginning of Destiny

But those people, after extensive study, found that the materials making up the virtual helmet were only four in kind: copper wires, circuit boards, silicon, and plastic.

Even the plastic outer shell of the helmet is made in one piece, so it can only be opened by sawing.

The researchers racked their brains but still couldn’t understand how this device could connect users to the virtual world.

.........

In the final hour, the gaming forums were completely ablaze.

Not to mention the forums, just the official announcement itself; each time Jiang Heng refreshed it, dozens of new replies would appear.

Xing Shang: Why hasn’t the server started yet?

Gusha Hero: Have they fixed the bug where you can’t choose your game character’s gender?

Sewer Valkyrie: Same question, add one

Yi Xiangfeng: What is the most comfortable way to position your tongue in your mouth?

...

As Jiang Heng was browsing the forum, a small pop-up window suddenly flickered on the top of his personal terminal’s screen.

[You have a new special attention message. Message from: Little Cat]

"A message from Little Cat?"

Jiang Heng opened the message, which contained only a single line.

"The game is about to start!"

"Oh."

He reflexively typed the stereotypical terse reply meant for men, but just as he was about to send it, his finger paused, hovering 0.3 centimeters from the screen.

Right, my current chat partner is Little Cat Tiramisu.

Recalling their last conversation, Jiang Heng deleted the original reply and typed in a new line.

"Got it."

But a split second before Jiang Heng sent the message, another message arrived from her.

"[Image] Don’t secretly drool over my photo tonight~"

But this time, he didn’t manage to pause his finger in time.

His eyelid twitched, and Jiang Heng quickly exited and refreshed the chat history.

No miracles had occurred, his reply was at the bottom.

Lost again, my prediction was anticipated.

Thinking of how Little Cat would tease him inside the game, Jiang Heng put down his personal terminal and picked up a nearby cup, downing a big gulp of chilled fruit juice.

Bitter drink going down feels like pain.jpg

.........

In the last five minutes, Jiang Heng lay down inside the metallic gaming pod.

He had tried it before, even when the server was not up, one could still connect.

It was just in the form of an observing perspective, appearing in a completely empty gray-white space, with the same ratio of time as reality.

Like an uncontrollable lucid dream, quite boring.

The coolness of the nutrient fluid surrounded him, and his consciousness gradually grew foggy.

Regardless, he was eager and ready to return to that fantastical and wonderful world.

Soon, the light dispelled the darkness. The familiar player character creation space appeared in Xia Yuan’s vision.

"Honorable hero, please begin establishing your identity."

The pleasant system prompt echoed in his ear, and a crystal-like panel appeared before his eyes.

This time, however, there was an independent option behind the ID input box: [Last Dragon Descendant]

This is a benefit of the closed beta deletion, allowing the retention of the game nickname used during the beta.

After confirming to save, Jiang Heng looked at the character creation panel.

Unfortunately, the severe bug where you can’t choose your character’s gender hasn’t been fixed yet.

With practiced ease, he created his character, and everything around him began to fade away, leaving only a series of system notifications sounding by his ear.

[Building synchronization continuum...]

[Injecting destiny line...]

[Temporal synchronization in progress...]

[World synchronization complete——]

[Thank you for playing the beta version of Mysterious Era 1.0, we wish you a pleasant life~~~]

.........

Unival.

After the official start of the beta, players who had long been envious of the descriptions of virtual reality games online finally had their constraints lifted. They couldn’t wait to log into the game at the first opportunity.

At this moment, it was midnight on the Yar Continent, with the gigantic dual moons of silver and purple hanging high in the sky.

In the no-man’s lands such as forests and mountains near the major cities of the continent, figures of players materialized out of thin air like phantoms, curiously observing their surroundings.

-Star Destiny-: "My goodness... it’s truly a full virtual game! I can even feel the wind brushing past my face!"

Oosaki Nana: "The air feels so fresh, and the soil feels so real when touching it!"

Barely Alive: "The rocks on the ground are items! They can be picked up!"

Brave Warrior: "There are wild berries over there! Ugh... so bitter, taste terrible!"

Evil Charm: "Wow, my body looks amazing, yay!"

Yi Xiangfeng: "Get lost, you disgusting guy, you’re making me lose health!"

After the initial excitement, the first batch of players began to look around, searching for the newbie village and task NPCs.

All around was darkness, surrounded by a vast forest and mountains, with nothing else except other players in newbie outfits.

Big and Black: "Where’s the newbie village? Where are the NPCs?"

Bai Xiaobai: "Look over there, there’s a light, seems like a city!"

Flowers Buried Under Moonlight: "It should be the newbie village, why did they spawn us outside? And why is it nighttime now? You can’t see anything around!"

Protector: "Newbie protection zone? Three hours? What is that?"

Tiramisu: "Isn’t it supposed to be 98% realistic? Why can’t I take my pants off?"

Xing Shang: "? What are you doing?"

As more and more players entered the game, the surrounding mountains and forests slowly started to fill up with people.

Humans, Elves, Dwarfs, Beastmen... thousands of players from various races noisily gathered together, causing the wild animals in the vicinity to scatter and flee.

After a moment, some players started to recognize their surroundings and headed towards the gathering places of humans.

Meanwhile, many other players chose to explore their environment, enjoying the marvelous scenery of this virtual world.

Radiant History 2457, New Moon, the 27th day.

Players arrived——

.........

On the northeastern border of the Yiter Federation, above the Silver Sand Sea.

In the clear night sky at ten thousand meters high, an immensely vast and magnificent silver-white Floating City was suspended peacefully in the heavens.

This is the only remaining Floating City of mankind, named[Orasian].

Since the fall of the Ancient Magic Empire, all nine Floating Cities had crashed, and this is the only one that was repaired and reactivated, rising from the land into the sky.

Orasian, which means [Destiny].

The gentle moonlight illuminated this magical miracle, making the straight pointed towers twinkling with runes, magnificent colonnades, and rock-carved magic springs all shine with a mysterious radiance.

In six directions of the city, six slender silver-blue towers stood tall, each reaching a height of six hundred meters and similar in appearance. Through a spiritual power perspective, one could sense the strong Magic Light contained on the surface of the towers.

In the center of these six towers, which is also the central point of the city, stood an extremely large platinum tower nearly a thousand meters high.

A gigantic rune circle made of pure light was suspended in the upper part of the tower, with a huge light ball floating directly above the tower.

These seven towers are the core nodes of the entire city, responsible for distributing the energy supply throughout the Floating City and maintaining the Mystery Lock that envelops the entire city.

As players arrived, at the very top of the central tower in the Floating City, an old mage with a strange translucent spiral beard, with his eyes closed and a figure shrouded in a faint Destiny Mist, suddenly opened his eyelids a crack.

Strangely, his eyes had no pupils, but appeared as a void that shimmered with starlight.

He was the continent’s only Ninth Rank Limit Prophet, Brents, the most mysterious of the three Councilmen of the Magic Council.

"The turning point of destiny has begun——"

A faint voice arose, old and slightly hoarse, echoing mysteriously as if enveloped in fog, yet peculiarly lingering for a long time.

At the same time, he gestured with a light tap in the air, a transparent, faint ripple suddenly spread from his fingertip and then vanished into the void.

"Olvarsha, Veronica, pay close attention to all the abnormal events occurring across the continent in the recent period——"