Sang-hyeok went to the great library and read hard for several hours. He read a total of ten books, from volume 1 to volume 10 of 'The Way of the Knight'.
The moment I turned over the last chapter of Volume 10, the final volume, the system message I had been waiting for finally appeared in front of my eyes.
You have acquired all the essential knowledge that knights should have.
You have met all the conditions to obtain the ancient knowledge 'Knight'.
Will you absorb the ancient knowledge 'knight' into the empty soul hall? Make your decision in 5 minutes.
If you don't make a choice within five minutes, your ancient knowledge will return to the Book of Chivalry. Of course, if I read 10 chivalry books again, I could get the same system message.
"Absorb."
But now there was no need to worry. Since he came here to get this, Sang-hyeok nodded his head and murmured softly.
The ancient knowledge 'Knight' is absorbed into the first empty Soul Hall.
There are 'three' empty soul halls left.
Woo woo woo.
The ancient knowledge immediately became a ray of light and filled Sang-hyeok's soul.
Sang-hyeok, who obtained the first ancient knowledge, immediately opened the system window and checked the basic abilities obtained while obtaining ancient knowledge and the spirit skills created along with it.
Ancient Knowledge 'Knight'
: The power of knights passed down from ancient times has permeated your soul. Not only does your body become stronger, but your mental strength is also strengthened by inheriting the spirit of a noble knight.
Detailed effects: Knight's Strength (C) [Strength, Stamina, Agility, and Endurance increase], Knight's Spirit (C) [Increases Spirit and resistance to mental attacks], Knight's dexterity (C )[Sword and shield proficiency increases.]
Lesser Sword Mastery [Permanent Effect]
- You can use all types of swords more proficiently.
[Proficiency: 0]
low level triple cut
- Quickly swing the sword three times.
- Cooldown (9 seconds)
[Proficiency: 0]
Block Lesser Sword Face
- Block the opponent's attack with the sword.
- Cooldown (20 seconds)
[Proficiency: 0]
low level assault
- In an instant, quickly rushes forward 4m.
- Cooldown (30 seconds)
[Proficiency: 0]
There were a total of four soul skills that Sanghyeok acquired through ancient knowledge. Although all of them were low-class, the level of spirit skills could be raised by raising their proficiency, so the power of his skills could change depending on how hard Sanghyeok worked.
Of course, in order to raise the proficiency, the skill had to be used frequently. Because the skill itself contained powerful power, it was considered very important in EL's battles.
For example, even if you swing the same sword three times, you can swing it faster and more powerfully if you use the triple slash skill, and even if you block the enemy's attack with the same sword, you can defend more easily and firmly if you block it with the sword block.
Instead, if you use a skill, knights consume a little more stamina, so you can get tired a little faster than if you didn't use a skill, but even considering that, it was much better to use the skill unconditionally.
"These are really nostalgic soul skills."
Sanghyuk smiled bitterly as he looked at the information of the four soul skills floating in front of him.
'Shouldn't I set up the Quick settings first?'
There were two ways to use the skill, but one was to use the skill itself.
If Sanghyuk used the triple slashing skill while holding the sword, Sanghyeok performed a triple slashing action like a machine. Same with other skills.
However, if you use it like this, the pattern itself has become a little simpler. That's why there was a quick setup.
The quick setting was a setting that naturally activates the skill with one's own movements.
To put it simply, if Sang-hyeok swung his sword three times quickly, the action itself would apply a triple slash and activate the skill. This was called a quick setup, but in fact, the quick setup was not something anyone could use.
It was natural for him to have a high VRA, and he had to have a high level of understanding of his skills as well. Under any circumstances, it was difficult in normal senses to activate a triple slash with just three swings of the sword.
So, even in Sang-hyeok's previous life, quick settings were regarded as the exclusive property of pro gamers or some advanced users with abilities comparable to those of pro gamers.
Sang-hyeok was not a pro gamer, but he had a reputation as a secret master who overpowered pro gamers at one time, so he used quick settings as a basis. Of course, after the VRA was completely trashed, he couldn't use the quick setting even if he wanted to, but at least the feeling at that time was still there.
Of course, the difference between using the quick setup and not using it wasn't huge. However, in the world of professional gamers, where victory and defeat are determined by minute differences, the use of quick settings has, of course, become very important.
Sanghyeok took up his sword in an empty lot on the outskirts of Falcon City and started a quick setup. It goes without saying, but the quick setup was done purely by one's own abilities.
In other words, if you do not find a subtle sense that the skill naturally melts into your movement due to lack of ability, you cannot set the quick setting.
Sang-hyuk began to naturally apply the skills he had acquired to his movements, repeatedly swinging his sword or running forward.
In fact, other users didn't even know there was a quick setting. To be precise, when I opened the system window, there was a menu called Quick Settings, so I knew there was a quick setting, but I wasn't sure how to set it up.
After about 10 more days, sensible users would be able to roughly know how to do the quick setup, but it took more time to actually use it properly.
On the other hand, Sanghyuk completed the quick setup of all the skills he acquired in exactly one hour. This was the result of the combination of the difference in experience and the difference in talent.
"Sheesh, I'm very rusty too. I used to be able to complete these low-level skills in an instant."
However, Sang-hyeok did not like this either. Since I lived as a disabled person for quite a long time, I couldn't help but feel that my sharp senses in my heyday had become a bit dull.
"Phew, I guess I'll have to stop here for today."
Sanghyuk had already been online for 16 hours. Due to the Game Addiction Prevention Act, all users were forced to disconnect after 17 hours of continuous access. He had no choice but to take two hours off a day because he was not allowed to log in unless he took two breaks within 24 hours.
After disconnecting, Sanghyuk closed his eyes for a moment. No matter how much Sang-hyeok had been working hard and saving up his stamina, he still needed a minimum amount of sleep time.
As soon as he woke up after sleeping for less than two hours, Sang-hyeok simply tossed a pack of essential vitamins into high-nutrition cereal, poured low-fat milk, and made a meal that didn't taste good but was nutritious. And while eating it, I started to look at various game professional communities.
[Do EL. do it twice It's a real bitch.]
[It's true that Eternal Light is a hit, but honestly it's too expensive.]
[EL It's definitely fun, but it's too difficult. Who doesn't upload early strategies?]
[If you go to Ingames, there are at least one or two strategies posted.]
[There's nothing wrong with in-game attacks. The best thing is to just make your own strategy in the game.]
[Aaaah, I really want to do it!]
[But is this game free PK? Why are there so many people with red eyes?]
[These days, the trend is a bad user.]
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Sang-hyeok read the article and moved to Ingames, which is said to have a lot of strategy.
[How many soul holes do I need to drill?]
[Are there any quests worth getting in the beginning?]
[Where do I raise the initial level? Also, is there any equipment that can be easily obtained in the beginning?]
[Tell me how to obtain ancient knowledge.]
[Does anyone know what quick settings are?]
[What is the penalty for being evil?]
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The situation was not much different in Ingame. There was a strategy, but it was almost a basic strategy, and it was plastered with numerous questions.
"As expected, most of them haven't caught on yet."
Since it was only a week since the open beta service started, it was natural that users had more things they didn't know than they knew.
What was more shocking was the fact that EL's pre-open beta service ended tomorrow.
Of course, even after the open beta service ends, you can continue to experience endless grasslands for free, and you have to pay when you move from endless grasslands to Trinac.
"Come to think of it, the Raonsoft guys... When we started the official service, we didn't even do a single billing package event, right? Wow, now that I think about it, that was a really dumb move... Did you have that much confidence?"
Normally, games had events in one way or another during official service, but Raonsoft started official service as naturally as water flowed.
There were no special events or billing discount events. Thanks to this, they received a lot of criticism, but Raonsopot always adhered to their policies.
There were many people who considered their guts a risky challenge until it was later revealed that there was an SJ investment company with the world's best capital behind Raonsoft.
However, as a result, Raonsoft's non-intervention policy was a huge success. They hardly did any in-game monitoring either.
All they were involved in was monitoring bugs occurring within the game or illegal programs used outside. Everything else was decided by the gamers' free will.
In fact, this was only possible because Raonsoft made the game so perfect. It was clear that if a game with a poor quality of completion had implemented such a non-intervention policy, it would have been ruined unconditionally.
Sanghyuk looked through the Ingames article and poured various vitamins and supplements into his mouth. He was always concerned about his health and physical condition because he didn't want to quit after only playing the game for a day or two.
After taking a break, Sanghyuk went straight into the capsule and connected to EL again. He was also equipped with ancient knowledge and acquired soul skills. And since he had finished the skill's quick setting, all that was left was to hunt them down.
About 10 days after the start of official service...
This was the era of the wicked users. Since then, the top users who have quietly leveled up or made various experimental attempts went on a hunt for evil, and all the evil users were eradicated in about a week.
'If they are eradicated this time, it will be difficult for them to see evil users for the time being... We must finish hunting within the next week and obtain the title.'
Sanghyuk thought that now was the most suitable hunting time.
If I missed now, there was a high possibility that I would not be able to get the title of the first evil hunter.
"Should we start with the Valley of the Ghosts?"
Valley of the Wraith was one of the closest hunting grounds to Falcon City. The monsters that appeared mainly were various kinds of ghosts, but it was a hunting ground that was easy to catch and gave good karma if there was no fear of ghosts.
As a result, it was inevitable that many users would flock to it. At least, EL's world was so huge that even though there were many users, it didn't feel that crowded.
In fact, just looking at the Valley of the Ghosts, it boasted the size of 5 to 7 large hunting grounds in other DN virtual reality games combined.
Even considering that the Valley of the Ghosts was a hunting ground designed for users who were just beginning their journey, it was extremely wide. Near Falcon City, there were 10 hunting grounds similar in size to the Valley of the Ghost, so even though it was an integrated server and the number of concurrent users was rapidly increasing, there was never a shortage of game in the hunting grounds.
All of this was possible because the planet Trinak itself was nearly 40 times larger than the world maps of other games in the first place.
Travelers who appeared in the vast world.
Is it because you are free to do anything? Users started doing bad things first according to their nature(?). The many evil people who were born that way...
However, because the basic penalty that the bad guys had was so bad, the world they were born into could not last long.