Chapter 1127: Separated by a Thick Barrier

"Damn, is it so handsome after changing jobs!"

"Luo Bao's paladin looks good, all golden, with a sacred feeling."

"Believe in holy light!"

"I feel that many people will choose this occupation, and the competition must be very fierce."

"What about the next route? What will it become after advancement, and what are the skills?"

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After tossing for nearly an hour, Miss Luo Quan finally determined her next occupation.

Although the occupation of paladin sounds like it is rotten on the street, it belongs to one of the most common occupations in Western fantasy games.

However, as long as the appearance is beautiful enough, the advanced occupation name is cool enough, and the skill effects are handsome enough, it will always be able to attract players to choose.

No matter how bitter and deep everyone is on the internet, or regard killing and arson as golden belts, and repairing bridges and mending roads as corpses as the golden rule.

But most people actually want to be a kind good person, and their hearts are also filled with hot blood and justice.

It's just that after experiencing the cruel reality and seeing too many evil things where good people don't get good rewards, they become extremely resistant to letting themselves become a good person.

Even so, when encountering the weak, they are equally willing to release their kindness, even if they are not particularly satisfied with their own lives.

This criterion is the same when placed in the game.

Before the server opened, everyone said they wanted to kill in the open world and become a big villain that all NPCs feared.

As a result, when they really entered the game, one by one they swore allegiance to the Dawn Church and vowed to fight for the weak and justice.

This contradictory behavior actually reflects the complexity of human nature.

"I joined the Dawn Church, of course not because the nun sister here is beautiful and has a good figure!"

Fans heard Miss Luo Quan's ridicule and explained it this way.

Under the development of major anchors, there are already dozens of occupations that players can choose from.

In addition to the paladin chosen by Miss Luo Quan, there are knights, archers, magicians, warriors, swordsmen, alchemists, etc.

A player with very good luck, although he chose a human, gained dragon blood after entering the game, awakened the hidden occupation dragon pulse warlock, and his initial attributes were much higher than ordinary players, directly leading at the starting line.

The only pity is that all data of the internal test will not be inherited to the public test.

Now that he has exploded with luck and became a dragon pulse warlock, he probably won't have such good luck after the server opens, which is equivalent to only getting a special content experience for one month.

However, at least he can be cool for a month. Given that dragon pulse warlocks are so rare, if he live streams, I believe he can harvest a lot of fans.

If he can make some fun, gaining 100,000 fans is not a difficult thing.

This is the benefit that a popular game can bring to players. This is just the beginning. Later, as related industries develop, the interest network will become more huge and stable.

Just like Honor of Kings and League of Legends, forming an ecology where anchors, competitions, professional players, and offline peripherals are intertwined.

Of course, this is the most ideal situation.

Currently, the best ecology in the game industry is League of Legends. It can be said that it has everything.

It's just that the planner has been letting himself go and doesn't treat players as people. The popularity of the game has obviously declined, and it is an old game. I don't know when it will be replaced by a new game.

In fact, when eating chicken became popular, there was already a trend of replacing League of Legends.

It's a pity that the producer of eating chicken was stupid enough, the game made mistakes, and the competition was also messy.

Plus the LPL championship in 2018, League of Legends popularity ushered in the second spring, forcibly reversing the situation that was about to cool down.

As of now, there is no game on the market that can see the potential to become the second League of Legends.

Fantasy World has just started internal testing. The enthusiasm of everyone on the first day is certainly quite

But whether she can actually persist for that long depends on the game's subsequent gameplay.

However, judging from the current state, this game is quite replayable.

Miss Luo Quan played for an entire night before finally advancing to the eighth tier, which is the Sacred Warrior.

Fighting monsters to level up isn't difficult; the main issue is that the materials required for leveling up require players to find them themselves based on hints.

For the sake of the show's entertainment value, Miss Luo Quan chose the hardcore mode, where the hints are all riddle-like descriptions. At first, she was completely like a headless fly, searching everywhere! But most of it was wrong.

Plus, with a large group of "armchair strategists" in the chat offering advice, Miss Luo Quan only had half the control over her character, with the other half listening to the fans' commands.

So, after a whole night of trial and error, she finally gathered the materials needed for the advancement.

"Damn it, if I had known it would be this troublesome, I would have turned off hardcore mode."

Looking at her character, whose skill visual effects had become much more magnificent, a trace of exhaustion appeared in Miss Luo Quan's eyes.

She had never been this exhausted after recording a show for a full day and night at Universal, but after playing the game for just half the night, she was already dizzy and lightheaded.

"When this game is simple, it's like a normal online game, but when it gets difficult, it's as absurd as a puzzle game."

"It's quite interesting. When you want to relax, you turn off hardcore mode, and when you want to add some difficulty, you turn it on. It's very free."

"The main thing is that this riddle was indeed a bit too hard. 'Something has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening,' and then it asks us to find its third leg. Who could have known this wasn't talking about a human, but that there really is such a magical creature?"

"Right, right, right. At first, I also thought the third leg was a human's cane, but it turns out this creature isn't human at all; it's the appendage of a Swamp Multi-Legged Insect."

"And if you don't take the side quest, you wouldn't even know such a thing existed; you can't even open the map to the swamp area."

"The quest design is very clever. Please don't design it again next time."

"Haha, this is only the eighth tier. There are still eight more advancement material sets to go. I wonder how hard that will be."

"Luo Bao is in trouble now."

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Fans always have a near-perverted sense of satisfaction when seeing Luo Bao being tortured.

Perhaps it's because her usual image is too perfect; a goddess who is too perfect creates a sense of distance that makes people afraid to get close.

To get closer to the goddess, they want to pull her off the pedestal or see her in a tormented state to achieve satisfaction.

Isn't this just a form of NTR?

One can only say that people's tastes are strange and varied; you can see all kinds of outrageous things during a live stream.

However, Miss Luo Quan herself is not someone with a masochistic nature.

Facing the fans' schadenfreude, Miss Luo Quan decisively turned off hardcore mode and explained: "To give players a 3A-level experience in an online game, the production team specifically added this hardcore mode, making the puzzle-solving difficulty reach a level that is very anti-human."

A considerable number of players enjoy the satisfaction of finally achieving their goal after being tortured N times.

But I don't have this hobby. Leveling up, collecting materials, advancing, and becoming stronger and cooler is my ultimate goal in playing this."

"So, let other streamers go hardcore; I'll just honestly follow the quest hints."

Such behavior immediately caused dissatisfaction among the fans:

"Luo Bao, you're too cowardly. Where is your courage and stubbornness?"

"Even the most stubborn person shouldn't have any patience left after being tortured for a whole night."

"Luo Bao has already done enough. The guy next door, Da Fanqie, chose the Mage class, and to change jobs, he has to memorize ten first-circle spells. He's currently learning Hestian, right?"

"What is Hestian?"

"The Goddess of Magic in the fantasy world. All magic spells were created by her, so the incantations are also called Hestian. If you recite them correctly, you can cast spells; if you recite them wrong, nothing happens."

"Haha, so Mages have to learn a foreign language to advance? This is too hardcore."

"That's still okay. The guy who awakened as a Dragonblood Sorcerer not only has to collect various materials but also has to learn Dragon Tongue, which is much more tongue-twisting than Hestian."

"I changed jobs to Hunter. The Hunter mentor is now making me craft my own bow. I'm stuck on the composite bow manufacturing process and am currently learning how to make a bow."

"This is too hard to handle. Can't you guys just turn off hardcore mode?"

"How could I turn it off! Wouldn't that be admitting that I'm a loser?"

"This is the last bit of human stubbornness. Don't let the natives in the game look down on us, you jerk!"

"Let me be a loser then; I really can't understand these mathematical formulas."

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Just by looking at the chat, you can tell how hardcore the hardcore mode of *Fantasy World* is.

This is genuinely teaching players professional knowledge, not the kind that is glossed over in games, but the kind where you must master it if you want to advance.

Some of the content gave Miss Luo Quan a headache just looking at it; I really don't know how those people managed to persist.

However, the effects brought about by this setting can be considered both good and bad.

Hardcore console players, of course, think that making a game this way is really conscious, the immersion is maxed out, and it's just like the real world.

But players who just want to relax complain that the advancement quests are too difficult, simply impossible for humans to complete.

Of course, these comments were quickly attacked by a large number of game fans:

"If you know it's hard, why turn on hardcore mode? Choosing hardcore doesn't give extra rewards; aren't you just increasing the difficulty for yourself?"

"I just don't want to admit that I'm not good at learning." This is the sophistry of many casual players, which is truly laughable.

By the afternoon, as more and more people played the game, the originally mixed reviews gradually turned into rave reviews.

Once players truly immerse themselves in this virtual world, it's hard not to be attracted by the content within.

Whether you are careful or not, you will be shocked by the beautiful scenery.

Once the gaming experience is up, those parts considered torturous will also be treated by players as a form of enjoyment.

Furthermore, this torture can be completely bypassed. If you choose it yourself, you can't blame others if you have a mental breakdown in the end.

Therefore, in the afternoon, the scores given by major websites for *Fantasy World* all reached above 9.5.

Graphics, modeling, plot, intelligent NPCs, optimization, and freedom—these can no longer be described as industry-leading; the term "epoch-making" is more appropriate.

There hasn't been a game like this before, and it's estimated that there won't be another one for a long time to come.

Unreal Studio spent over a year with thousands of people just to make this test server version.

Unless Miss Luo Quan recruits thousands more employees, it would be difficult even for her to replicate another *Fantasy World*.

"Can you imagine that I can conduct real commercial activities inside just like a merchant?

NPCs will haggle, and you will encounter various emergencies when transporting goods, but as long as you believe in the Church of Dawn, then my friend, the Crusaders will always come to your side at your most needed moment to solve all your troubles.

And these Crusaders are also played by players. They think this is a quest for them to gain experience, but for me, it saved my life and livelihood.

This is the reality I experienced in *Fantasy World*, which other games simply cannot possess."

This is a reflection posted by a player after finishing their gaming session, recording interesting anecdotes from the game.

Because it resonated with a vast number of players, it received over 100,000 likes, many of which were from "cloud players."

Because so many people liked and shared it, the game's official team also quoted this sentence as one of their promotional slogans.

As for the official promotional slogan of the game, it is "Let you feel reality in fantasy."

Just hearing this makes it sound incredibly high-class.

Before this, games could only be games, a pastime to kill boring time.

And the ambition of *Fantasy World* is to create a real world, allowing all netizens to start a brand-new life within it.

If it really succeeds, no one knows what this ecosystem will become.

But without a doubt, this is definitely the most significant stroke in the history of gaming.

And the creator of the game, Miss Luo Quan, after a high-intensity night of gaming, dragged her exhausted body off the stream and woke up after sleeping for less than seven hours.

Checking the time, it was just past three in the afternoon.

Opening the live stream room as usual, Miss Luo Quan first checked the news and then ate the instant rice sent in by Wen Xia.

"We'll play the game at night. Now I need to check the news, otherwise, I'll be out of touch with society." Seeing the chat full of fans asking her to play, Miss Luo Quan yawned and responded.

"Sigh, there really is a thick barrier between us."

"Luo Bao, we are ultimately not people of the same world."

"So, you will leave our social stratum sooner or later, right?"

"Luo Bao has been different from us from the very beginning."

"Thinking about this is truly so sad."

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The sudden "emo" in the chat left Miss Luo Quan stunned.

"What are you guys doing?" Her head was full of question marks.