Chapter 1 Talent Skills

In the online game "New World," pets possess what are known as talent skills.

Generally, they have two talent skills. For those of perfect quality and above, such as Legendary, Epic, and Mythical, they have three.

Talent skills are also ranked.

The highest level is SSS. The Vermilion Bird's three talent skills are all at this level.

It can be said that this Vermilion Bird is the absolute top-tier pet.

At this time, there was also a prompt in the team chat.

[Please choose the owner of this pet.]

This is how CP teams obtain pets in the game. They are always asked to decide on ownership. Before Lin Chen could speak, Liu Mengyao made her choice directly... She gave up ownership of the Vermilion Bird.

"The Vermilion Bird is a fire-magic pet, a perfect match for your class. You should keep it. You can be responsible for the output, and I'll take my Sword Dragon baby to tank and heal for you!"

Liu Mengyao said with a smile.

Lin Chen didn't decline.

The next moment, the Vermilion Bird was assigned to Lin Chen.

Then, a world announcement appeared.

[Congratulations to player Linzhong Chenxi for being favored by the God of Luck while opening a pet egg and obtaining the only Mythical-quality pet on the entire server: Vermilion Bird!]

Mythical quality.

The only one on the server!

As soon as the announcement came out, the world channel, which had been quiet, instantly exploded.

[Songranxiang: 666, the servers are shutting down soon, and you pull out a Vermilion Bird?]

[Professional Hater: What's the point? It's useless. At most, you can enjoy it for a couple of weeks before the servers shut down. New World is inhuman, damn it!]

[Zhuifeng Zhumeng: Hater bro, you haven't quit yet? Didn't see you flame on the world channel today, thought you quit.]

[Professional Hater: Didn't quit, played till the end, don't even have the energy to flame anymore, whatever!]

[Jiang Haihe: Yesterday was lively, everyone was flaming. Today everyone's calmed down, knowing that scolding the planners is useless... But, someone's still throwing money into this game to open a divine beast, I really didn't expect that!]

[Xuemo: Guild Leader Jiang is still playing? Thought your Jianghu disbanded and you quit!]

[Jiang Haihe: Guild Leader Xue is still here too, isn't she?]

[Xuemo: Haha, I'm waiting for the new expansion pack, want to play till the end to see what happens...]

It seems that although the game is about to announce its closure, because this game is too realistic and epoch-making, and has been running long enough, there are still many people like Liu Mengyao who want to play till the very end, even if the servers are shutting down.

Xuemo and Jiang Haihe are two relatively well-known guild leaders in the game.

They rarely appear on the world channel.

Now that many people have deleted their accounts and quit the game, it has become relatively deserted. Unexpectedly, Lin Chen's news of opening a Vermilion Bird shocked them both out.

There was still a lot of discussion about this in the world channel.

But most people were complaining about the New World planners being inhuman.

Of course, many people also raised doubts...

The game is dying, what's the point of opening a divine beast at this time?

Just to enjoy it for a bit and then it's over!

In the end, it's a waste of money.

Lin Chen didn't bother to look at the world channel.

Because he had something else to do.

He was now being targeted by certain people.

Player-versus-player combat is not allowed in the main city, or rather, it's not completely forbidden. It's just that there are NPCs monitoring the main city, and if they discover PvP behavior, the NPCs will step in to stop it, and even attack the party that initiated the PvP.

The NPCs in the main city are all level 180, while the current level cap in "New World" is only 100.

Of course.

Today, the "New World" official website released another announcement.

The first part was an apology, and the second part stated that the new expansion pack was ready and would be launched at 2:00 PM. At that time, the level cap for players would also be raised to 120.

Finally, there was an apology from the entire planning team.

They said they were helpless and apologized for the upcoming closure of the game after 20 years of operation.

However, the reason for the closure was only one sentence: technical reasons!

What kind of technical reason could cause a game that had been running for 20 years to shut down?

Many people obviously didn't understand.

Although Lin Chen was reborn, he wasn't very clear about it either.

However, Lin Chen knew that the game's closure was definitely not intentional by the game company and the planners.

After all, this game was about to invade reality!

What Lin Chen had to do now was to continue to strengthen his strength.

Zhang Chunlin sent Lin Chen another batch of items, including a set of level 100 priest equipment, as well as many enhancement stones. In Zhang Chunlin's words, he was directly clearing out his enhancement stone inventory for Lin Chen.

In addition, there were many talisman and reagent formulas, as well as materials for making potions, and so on!

These things were very important.

Lin Chen's chosen secondary profession was Talisman Master, allowing him to create talismans.

Liu Mengyao's secondary profession was Apothecary.

These materials were relatively cheap.

The really expensive things weren't among them.

Zhang Chunlin separately asked Lin Chen: "If you want to enhance your equipment, do you need Five-Colored Spirit Stones? I can get a batch for you, about a hundred. If you're lucky, there's a chance that the enhancement will trigger a special modifier. It's just, they're a bit expensive, still going for 1,000 each on the market. Also, there are some top-quality treasure maps for sale... Oh yeah, there are people selling Divine Beast Pills too."

"Divine Beast Pills? What's the price!"

Lin Chen immediately became interested.

Divine Beast Pills!

After eating them, they can permanently increase a pet's attributes.

Moreover, they can also allow pets to gain experience and enlightenment!

In addition to their innate talent skills, pets also have enlightenment skills. The Vermilion Bird can't rely solely on Fentian Zhidi (Heaven Burning Earth Scorching) for output. It can't even be relied upon, as the cooldown time is too long.

Generally speaking, pets can gain enlightenment skills at level 20.

However, the skill levels that are obtained from enlightenment also vary.

From E, D, C, B, A skills to SSS-level skills, there are a total of eight levels, corresponding to the pet's quality level.

However, ordinary pets also have a chance to get a D-level skill.

But mythical-level pets also have a chance to get an SS-level skill.

If you use a Divine Beast Pill, then you can ensure that you will definitely gain an SSS-level skill.

So Lin Chen wanted to buy them.

Ideally, he would get five Divine Beast Pills to max out the Vermilion Bird's level and save himself the trouble of leveling it up.

But Divine Beast Pills are generally hard to come by.

"A total of four, the other party wants 20,000." Zhang Chunlin replied.

5,000 each...

Lin Chen immediately agreed!

This price would have been unimaginable before the servers shut down.

They would have been at least tens of thousands each.

Lin Chen quickly bought them.

He also bought all the Five-Colored Spirit Stones.

As a result, he paid Zhang Chunlin nearly 400,000 again.

Next, Lin Chen traded the priest equipment to Liu Mengyao, and then said to her: "Wait for me to teleport you, we'll go to another main city. After we get the equipment sorted out, we'll go clear out the treasure maps first!"

"What treasure maps?"

"Top-quality treasure maps, now only 800 each. I asked a friend to help us collect two hundred of them, enough for us to grind for a day! After we're done, we'll see if we can get a few Divine Beast Pills or Bloodline Pills to increase our combat power, then we'll go check out the Heavenly Palace."

"Okay!"

Liu Mengyao immediately agreed.

Going to the Heavenly Palace with Lin Chen has always been her dream in the game.

The Heavenly Palace is hard to enter.

First of all, you must be able to clear the Nantianmen (South Heaven Gate) dungeon!

This was the most difficult dungeon in "New World" before the new expansion pack came out.

In the past, only the tycoons who spent hundreds of millions in the game could clear it.

But now, Lin Chen only spent a little over a million and already had a set of divine equipment.

The two teleported away together.

Lin Chen did this to shake off those gold diggers.

But unexpectedly, the other party followed them again.

Lin Chen frowned slightly.

At this time, Lin Chen received another private message.

Zhang Chunlin: "Got that +12 staff, I bid up to 250,000."

"Mail it to me, the money's transferred!"

Lin Chen was overjoyed.

The five pieces of the Hurricane God Set were now complete.

"Don't rush, there's another set of things that I think you'll definitely need... Hehe, in-game CP, do you want rings? Jiezi Xumi (spatial ring), no need for me to explain, right?"

Zhang Chunlin sent a screenshot of a pair of rings, with a description of the items.

[Storage Ring, can hold one thousand item slots.]

"How much?" Lin Chen didn't hesitate.

This kind of thing has great uses in the game, but not just in the game.

If the game descends into reality in the future, he will definitely regret not selling storage rings!

"Eight thousand for both." Zhang Chunlin laughed: "Give me ten thousand, consider it a tip."

"Okay!"

Lin Chen was shocked.

Before the server shutdown, this item was more expensive than diamond rings in reality. The highest price was 300,000 gold coins, equivalent to 300,000 RMB each.

But now, someone is selling them for 4,000 each?

Then Lin Chen naturally bought them!

Just as Lin Chen was constantly stocking up on goods, in a company base built in the mountains, some programmers were constantly working overtime, typing on their keyboards. At the same time, the company's executives held another meeting.

This time, all the shareholders were present!

This company is the owner of the largest online game on Blue Star, New World!

At the meeting, several people wearing reading glasses sat upright. One of them asked, "Has it been confirmed that the energy of the Star Stone can only last until April 28th?"

"Yes, sir!"

A man wearing gold-rimmed glasses said, "Our programmers have tried everything, and even invited scientists from all over the world, but there is no solution... The Star Stone, that magical stone intercepted from outer space years ago, has reached the stage of exhaustion."

"It was because of this stone that the "New World" online game was created. Alas! It's a pity."

Many people spoke up, sighing.

The old man at the head said, "Billions of players around the world are now denouncing us! In these last few days, you should continue to do a good job of maintenance and persevere to the last day! This can be regarded as the only thing we can do for the players. In addition, speed up the development of the content inside the Star Stone, and present more gameplay to the players. At the same time, it will also accumulate a foundation for us to develop completely independent games in the future!"

"Please rest assured, Chairman, we will do our best!"