Am I dreaming?
2: What the!?
Am I dreaming?
Whoosh!
The late night wind blew through, and Kai, who was only wearing a T-shirt and shorts, shivered on the spot.
“Ugh, it’s freezing.
I should’ve just gone home and waited..” He glanced at the road ahead.
“God, I hope that girl wasn’t lying to me.” Back at his rented room, he wrapped himself tightly in the blanket and warmed up quite a bit.
But after waiting for half an hour, there was still no reply on his phone.
“Damn it.
Don’t tell me I actually got played for nothing.” Fuming, Kai tore open the fancy gift box Rou Nin had left behind, wanting to see if he had really been fooled and if this piece of junk was worth millions.
When he opened it, sitting right at the center of the packaging was a small card, its color brilliant, gleaming like a diamond.
Kai’s pupils trembled at once.
“A Link Token!?” He sat down on his bed, his face full of surprises.
“A Mystic Link Token?” He unconsciously reached out and touched its cold and smooth surface.
He hadn’t even gotten a good look at it yet, suddenly, a sharp pain shot through his palm.
Then the token flashed with light and vanished right out of his hand, into thin air.
The next instant— DING!
“Welcome to — Ancient Realms..” “Verifying identity….” “Identity confirmed.
Level 1 Ordinary-Civilization resident of Earth— Kai, age 19….” DING!
“The unalterable bind is complete.” “As the dedicated protection server for Earth has not yet officially launched, you may choose to pre-build a character now.” Hearing this string of system prompts, Kai found it unbelievable that he was now standing in the middle of a starry galaxy so real it defied reality.
He pinched his own cheek and felt the faint stingy pain, exactly like in real life.
Just then, he remembered that he was here to build his character first.
The moment he made his choice, another prompt sounded in his ear.
“Based on the cultural history of Earth, this newly created server offers a total of eight mainstream classes…” “Namely — Spirit Blade, Fading Shadow, Divine Wastes, Mystic Wing, Army Breaker, Ethereal Note, Sky Dragon, and Starweb!” As the system explained, one by one, the traits and strengths of each class were displayed.
And every single model was shown wearing Kai’s own face.
Kai chose the coolest, most effortless-looking class, the one with the highest skill ceiling among the physical ranged classes — Mystic Wing.
DING!
“Class Mystic Wing selected successfully.
Please create a character name.” “Mmm, okay then..” Kai was very excited… “Darkplotter, naah it’s too outdated the author has already used it.” After racking his brains for a whole five minutes.
He finally picked one.
“Spectral Blaze” “Character name created successfully!” “Notice!
Ancient Realm does not allow appearance edits — your model will be built using your true likeness.
However, you may choose the system’s complimentary Transformation Mask to protect your privacy.” He couldn’t change his face?
Kai had actually been hoping to bump himself up into some devastatingly handsome specimen.
Sure, in real life he stood at 5’10” with features decent enough to pass, but who’d complain about being made even more perfect?
DING!
“Detected: player Spectral Blaze is bound to a Heaven-tier Rare Link token.” “You have one free draw each for a Potential and a piece of Special Equipment.
Use them now?” “—”…WHAT!” Hearing this prompt, Kai’s whole body jolted like he’d been struck by lightning.
“Hea…
Heaven-tier!?
What dog shit luck.” ( Dog shit luck here means, suddenly you step on dog shit on the road…..very good luck!) Mysteriously the Tokens were divided into five levels or ranks, namely heaven rank token, earth rank, black rank, yellow rank and green rank.
The green and yellow ranks were the most popular, with 90 out of 100 people using them or we could say common ones.
It was also said that owners of link tokens above yellow level who enter [Ancient Realm] for the first time will have a chance to draw a lottery.
If they draw something good, they can be much ahead of others As for the most precious Heaven Rank and Earth Rank, that was absolutely limited editions and very rare.
No one has ever disclosed what owners of heaven-level and earth-level link tokens can gain after entering the game, but it must be extraordinary.
The Link Token Rou Nin had temporarily pawned off on him was actually Heaven-tier?!
The odds on that had to be worse than winning ten lotteries back to back!
With an incredibly excited and dreamy feeling, he said, “Use it.” DING!
“Congratulations, player Spectral blaze— you’ve drawn the peerless, one-of-a-kind Potential: Soul Reaper!” “Congratulations, player Spectral Blaze— you’ve drawn the Special Equipment: Universe Quiver!” [Soul Reaper!] : (A one-of-a-kind, unparalleled Potential!) (Each attack has a 5% chance to sever the target’s soul outright, resulting in an absolute instant kill.
Every subsequent attack on the same target raises the probability, until Soul Reaper triggers at 100%.) (This peerless Potential can be leveled up.
Currently Level 1 /10,000.) …
[Universe Quiver!] : Special Equipment!
(Bound to Spectral Blaze.
The item is Upgradeable.
Cannot be dropped, traded, or destroyed.) Function: (Unlimited Level 1 Spirit Arrows.
Each Spirit Arrow carries an additional 10 points of true damage.) Ping!
Potential: Devour (Each skill manual devoured permanently increases the owner’s stats.) “Holy f**king shit.” The Soul Reaper Potential alone meant Kai could ignore any target’s defenses entirely and just insta-kill them outright.
If he pushed his attack speed to the max and stacked the probability high enough, even a boss wouldn’t survive.
This was like a god-tier Potential and the best part was, it could still be leveled up.
As for the Universe Quiver, it was basically a legendary artifact in its own right — unlimited Spirit Arrows can be used.
And now paired with his class, Mystic Wing, that meant infinite output, no resupply needed, ever.
And lastly the additional Devour ability of it was like Kai could eat skill manuals for permanent stat boosts.
It was basically a built-in cheat code, letting Kai grow stronger and stronger over time.
DING!
“Time remaining until the Earth’s new server launches: 4 hours, 37 minutes.
Please log in only after the server officially opens.” The moment the message finished, Kai was booted out of the game.
His mind had barely settled back into reality when his phone rang.
He picked it up and it was Rou Nin.
She was a little angry.
“My people went there with the money and couldn’t find you.
Where the hell are you?” Remembering that he’d already used up her Link Token and that thing had turned out to be an absurdly rare Heaven-tier item.
Kai felt somewhat troubled, but still tried to remain calm “Humph, it was freezing out tonight.
You really expect me to just stand there like an idiot waiting for you?” “Anyway, forget the million.
I’ll just take the thing you left with me as payment.” He expected that the other party would be furious after hearing what he said.
But Rou Nin just tossed out a casual reply.”You sure you want to take it as the reward?
It’s only worth two hundred fifty thousand star coins.” What!
Only two hundred fifty thousand?
Kai froze for a second at that.
But it clicked fast enough.
Earth-tier and Heaven-tier Link Stones were as rare as one in a million and had always been hidden inside ordinary-looking Mystic-tier Tokens.
It was impossible for anyone to tell the real grade until it was actually used.
She probably had just assumed that it was a common Mystic Link token.
Even if the woman might’ve been cold, but at least she wasn’t trying to scam him.
She’d even bothered to warn him it was only worth 250000 star coins.
Little did she know Kai had just landed the deal of a lifetime.
She kept her voice level.
“Ok..
Ok fine, whatever works for you.
You found my cat for me, I owe you one.
Call me if you ever need a favor.” The line went dead the second she finished talking.
Meanwhile, Kai.
He was now the proud owner of a Heaven-tier Link token, a peerless Potential, and the Universe Quiver.
For the rest of the night it was too wired for him to sleep now.
All he could do was wait for eight o’clock to hit, so he could dive straight into Ancient Realms and finally turn his flavorless, mediocre life around.