Chapter 53
Schuck did make some sense, but Roland did not entirely agree with him . He felt that he was only making progress faster than other people because of the special hidden talent that he got by luck .
If the special talent was randomly distributed when the character was created, Mage players certainly wouldn’t abandon the opportunity . Chances were that many Mages would delete their characters and create them again and again tonight .
After he returned from the cold drink bar, Roland opened the forum again, only to discover that “special talent” had already become a trending topic .
Many players stated that they would create and recreate characters tonight to get a hidden talent .
Of course, someone asked if their hard work in the past two months would be for nothing if they deleted their characters .
The players who intended to delete their characters declared that, since the game was still in alpha test phase, they would rather try different possibilities .
Roland couldn’t help but frown . He felt that things might be more complicated than that .
Firstly, it was barely possible to create billions of AIs, but the game had achieved it . The AIs were already out there in the game .
Secondly, Roland felt that it was rather “generous” that half a million players were invited for the alpha test .
Any multiplayer game with half a million people online simultaneously would be considered a popular game .
World of Falan, on the other hand, could be played at night during sleep and did not contradict work schedules, so most people were highly active .
Even though not all the players were online, more than eighty percent of them played it every day .
An alpha test that involved forty thousand people seemed too huge .
Therefore, Roland estimated that it was just a promotion tactic . For example, the company might be short of funding, so it decided to collect more funding with the so-called alpha test .
Fifty hundred thousand virtual cabins, fifty thousand bucks for each . If they were sold out, the company could gather twenty-five billion .
The money would be enough to support research for a while .
Roland felt that the so-called alpha test was the actual beta test .
He was of a mind to remind those who intended to delete their characters, but he thought for a while and decided to drop it .
Those people might not listen to him at all . Many players would love to spend lots of money on their game character, like Li Lin .
Besides, what they were hoping to get was a hidden talent .
Roland rested for a while and practiced in the boxing club for two hours . Then, he had supper and read the news, waiting for the game to restart .
He was not in a hurry to find Betta after he entered the game . Instead, he stayed in the magic tower and familiarized himself with mental power .
Soon, a knock came from the door .
“Come in,” said Roland .
The wooden door opened . It was Vivian, who was still rather shy . She glanced at Roland and said, “Deputy chairman, a Golden Son wants to meet you . He said he made an appointment . ”
He’s rather fast!
Slightly surprised, Roland said to Vivian . “All right, got it . Thank you . ”
“You’re most welcome,” replied Vivian with a weak voice .
Roland was not bothered . He walked down the magic tower and found a bearded, mature-looking “young man” in ragged clothes at the gate of the magic tower .
This guy looks so old… Roland asked him, “Hawk?”
“That’s me!”
The young man was obviously fatter than Roland . Excited to see Roland, he shook Roland’s hand and announced, “I’ve finally found a player other than Lance . This game is too huge . It’s barely possible to hang around with friends from reality . ”
That was true!
Over the past two months, Roland had been with Betta . They had never seen another player .
Roland looked around and asked, “Should we find a place to drink and talk?”
“I’m okay with that!” Hawk scratched his head . “But we can’t talk to other citizens . ”
Roland cast Language Proficiency on himself and Hawk . Then he said, “We can now, with Language Proficiency . ”
“Shoot! Awesome!” Hawk raised his thumbs . “You are truly the First Mage . Nobody except Warlocks could cast Language Proficiency before I met you . ”
Roland smiled politely .
Hawk asked again, “Can I bring my friend?”
“By all means . ” Roland nodded . He also wanted to talk to more players and exchange information with them .
Hawk then led Roland into the city . Eventually, they found another player, Lance, in a house that was about to fall . Lance was also in ragged clothes .
A strange stink of feces could be detected .
Roland was stunned to see the filthy, collapsing cottage . “Have you been living in this place?”
“We don’t have a choice . ” Hawk looked at the sky, tears in his eyes . “We don’t speak the local language, and we have no friends . We starved to death a lot when we entered this game! Even this house was our trophy only after we fought a gang several times . ”
Lance, who appeared to be an archer, did not say anything, but his eyes were red .
“You starved?” Roland gasped hard . “What do you eat now?”
“We hunt in the woods . At first, we couldn’t catch anything due to the lack of experience, and we starved a few times more,” said Hawk as if he would rather forget the miserable memories . “Later, we were finally more skilled, but there are few animals around the city . We’ve been too busy looking for food to increase our level . ”
Well, they were truly unlucky!
Roland felt that he was fortunate to have been born in Red Mountain Town, a warmer place .
“Let’s go!” Roland patted Hawk’s shoulder and said, “Let’s have something good . It’s on me . ”
Hearing that, the two men leaned close to Roland and stared at him passionately .
Half an hour later, Roland brought them to a decent tavern .
Inside the tavern, there were a lot of mercenaries who seemed rather brutal .
Hawk and Lance devoured the meat in their hands like hungry wolves . Compared to them, Roland was much more graceful .
Roland was not focused on food at this moment . He noticed something strange when he came in .
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