Roland had just bought a freshly baked honey bread from the Lake View Tavern and was about to eat it, when the game world paused and turned black and white.
Time flew by so quickly. 24 hours had gone by in a flash. Roland sighed and exited the game. It had been years since he was so addicted to a game. In the current gaming market, there was too much homogeneity. Any new game, no matter how exquisite it was, could not be played for more than a few days. Because no matter how much he played, there would always be a sense of deja vu.
That was why games were too homogenized.
However, World of Falan was different. It was the first virtual game in the world, and it had immersive technology. One could have adventures in another world as if they had another identity.
A world map that was too vast to be explored in a lifetime, billions of simulated NPCs, and hundreds of countries of different races. Roland couldn't have been more excited just thinking about it.
Fortunately, he gritted his teeth and bought the game cabin. There were only half a million of them worldwide. If he missed it, there was no telling when Penguin Corporation would produce the next batch.
Roland exited the game and played on the treadmill for half an hour as usual. After washing his face and rinsing his mouth, he had breakfast and read the forum again.
As he expected, many people on the forum were suggesting that Penguin Corporation sell the next batch of virtual cabins. Some of them were even planning to buy the cabins for ten thousand more than the original price of fifty thousand.
After reading a few random posts, Roland clicked on the Spellcaster section and posted the profile of his Hand of Magic, as well as a few interesting links, as well as the information that leveling up would give him a space bag, before he began to browse other posts.
He never thought that he was the smartest person in the game. After all, a lot of people had learned mathematical models. Many Mages who were smart in reality just hadn't figured it out yet. Now that Roland had opened a door for them, they could naturally walk out of it.
Just as Roland had expected, there were indeed new posts about spells in the forum, and one of them caught his interest.
"As long as you can remember the node diagram of a spell and successfully cast it once, you'll be able to learn a new spell. I'm an enchantment mage. I only know three spells: Hypnosis, Animal Control, and Influence. I saw the node diagram of the Inferior Fireball spell on the forum and memorized it. After dozens of failures, I successfully cast the Inferior Fireball spell. Then, the icon of the Inferior Fireball spell appeared in the spell book. It's obvious that spells can be learned. Apart from Inferior Fireball, I've also memorized the node diagram of Hypnosis. I'm posting it on the forum for everybody to learn and to pay tribute to the pioneer, God Roland. "
Pioneer or something … Roland felt that his face was burning. He tipped the female player named Serena ten forum coins and copied the map of the four nodes of Hypnosis.
He then copied the node map provided by the other three Mage players on the forum. Of course, he also tipped each of them ten forum coins.
Now, he had four new maps of magic nodes. They were all level-one spells: Hypnosis, Strengthen, Ice Ring, and Arcane Missile.
After copying the profiles of the four spells into the game cabin with the USB flash drive, Roland found that his new post had received thousands of yuan in tips in less than twenty minutes. Looking at the new forum coins in his account, he had never thought that it would be so easy to make money.
Then, he left home on his bike and had a great time with his friends in the cold drink bar. At night, he crawled back into the virtual cabin and entered the game.
In the next few days, Roland mined in the morning and spent the afternoon and night by the lake, learning new spells with the maps of magic nodes he got from the forum.
Roland didn't know how difficult it was to learn new spells until he practiced them. It was not like the spells that were already in the magic book, where the system would automatically provide a spatial map of magic nodes in his consciousness for reference as long as he cast it.
The new spells didn't have anything. One had to construct a space of magic nodes with magic power and fill the space with the correct magic nodes with one's consciousness.
It took Roland a long time to construct the spell node models with the magic power node patterns that he had copied. It took him more than ten hours and dozens of failures before he succeeded. Then, he would be considered to have learned a new spell, and the icons of the new spells would appear in the magic book.
Then, to be proficient in spells, he would have to test and deduce the effects of the magic nodes on his own.
Several days later, Roland's magic book had four bright gold icons. After mastering four more spells, Roland reached level two. However, he wasn't very happy, because he realized that there would be fewer and fewer Mages in the future.
Because the difficulty was too high. Learning a new spell required an excellent sense of space, good mathematical logic, and enough patience. All three were indispensable.
Although Roland knew that many people were smarter than him in the game, not all smart people would become Mages. After all, there were many classes in the game, and everybody had their own preferences.
Among the Mages, there would be more people who weren't as good as him. When they needed days or even weeks to learn a spell, their patience would gradually run out.
Some people couldn't even learn new spells because they didn't have a good sense of space or logical thinking. Even if they managed to learn level-one spells, there would be more difficult level-two, level-three, and even level-five spells in the future. Would they have the patience to learn them?
When these people saw that Warlocks and Priests didn't need to memorize spells and could cast powerful spells with just a thought, and that as long as they reached a certain level, new spells would naturally appear in their magic books, they would become more and more unbalanced, dissatisfied, resentful, and other emotions would appear in their hearts.
Then, they would go to the forum and suggest that the development team lower the difficulty.
However, Roland didn't think that it was possible.
Another day passed in the game. Roland logged out of the game and opened the forum, only to find that the Spellcasters section had indeed exploded. A lot of Mages left comments on the forum, saying that if the development team didn't change the game settings and lower the difficulty of learning spells, they would delete their accounts and return their virtual cabins.
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