Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

Ark, I became an NPC in the online game

Author: Meow Leaf

Summary:

"Ark" is a new-age MMORPG with 80 million online users worldwide at its peak.

The background of the game, Terra, is not Holy Terra, but just Terra, which is thirty times the size of the Blue Planet, with a vast land and rampant natural disasters.

The player Xia Yuan accidentally traveled back to the time before the server was launched, but his identity changed from a player to an NPC.

He has all the functions of an NPC. In the eyes of players, he is a mysterious businessman, a dream mentor, and a man that female players can never get in their dreams.

He is a spiritual mentor of Terra, a fake priest, a dreamer, a thinker, a reformer, a philanthropist, a loner, a seeker, an explorer, a pioneer...

“Let players have fun playing games while making the most of their money.”

Jeston once said, "I dare to take two or three punches from Saria, but I dare not take a punch from Xia Yuan. Even if God orders me to do so, I will go to war with God."

Arturo said, "Xia Yuan's desire makes me want to play in front of him for three days and three nights."

The patriot said, "Your ideals are also real."

American five-star operator MacArthur once commented, "He only needs to make a slight move to occupy the entire Terra Daily Hot Search column. When I saw Xia Yuan on the battlefield, I knew it was too late to retreat."

Terra Fire

Chapter 16: years old, a student

"Brother, we have gained a lot this time. We have captured a lot of Laterans from the battlefield. If we exchange it for ransom, it must be at least six figures in gold coins, right?"

"Hush, keep your voice down, let's go back to the village first. The main force might take advantage of us for picking up bargains. We need to sell these hot commodities as soon as possible. If no one comes to redeem them, we will just kill them."

Xia Yuan opened his eyes slightly, and what came into view was the yellow sandy ground and the gray-blue sky. The soft bed and head-mounted game console that made him feel comfortable were gone. What he smelled in his nose was the smell of yellow sand and the stench of feces, and there was a gust of wind in his ears.

Xia Yuan was sure that he was not participating in any of Bear Grylls' wilderness survival games. He rubbed his eyes and tried to sit up straight, but the pain in his body was warning him.

“Hey you, you’re finally awake”

Xia Yuan found someone talking to him and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu. Wasn't this the beginning of something? No, he was going to be beheaded soon?

He looked at the "person" who was talking to him, and was almost blinded by the dazzling white light above the other person's head.

Not a human, but an angel?

"How come you are on the battlefield at such a young age? You shouldn't be old enough to be drafted, right?" The angel with his hands and feet tied up asked in confusion. Even in this captive situation, he showed his strong curiosity. "You didn't sneak out of the academy, did you? I have to say you have bad luck."

Xia Yuan had a headache.

He had just been asked to level up for a client, which was nothing more than a repetitive but dangerous job of cutting down wood for materials dropped by Sarkaz mercenaries. He was also somewhat aware of his position, and he had been wandering around the edge of the battlefield where Sakta and Sarkaz were fighting, picking up missed monsters...

His mind was still on the scene where he logged off after completing all the materials. The game "Ark" has been running for about five years. Could there be new bugs?

Even in the account I created myself, there is no Sakota race?

Just as he was about to move his hands and feet, the tight feeling made him grit his teeth again in pain.

This pain feels wrong.

Xia Yuan is also an old player of Ark. The pain setting of Ark is usually only 10%, which means that if you are hit head-on by a Sarkaz mercenary, you will only feel numbness, and will not feel gnashing pain.

Xia Yuan tried to break free, but to no avail.

The pain and the information drilled into his mind.

"I traveled to the Ark?"

Ark is a full-stealth massively multiplayer online game. The Sword Art Online-style games that used to appear in anime are no longer a dream. The servers are listed all over the world, and at its peak, there were 80 million people online at the same time.

The background of the game is Terra, not Holy Terra, just Terra. This planet similar to Earth is thirty times the size of Earth, with vast land and natural disasters. The latest generation of full stealth gives players the most realistic five senses. Countless players and guilds of all sizes play in the game to earn gold and play dungeons. It is not a dream to sell a set of top-quality equipment for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The popular game attracts players who spend money on equipment, so it is natural that ordinary civilian players should be treated equally. For this reason, there are no means of spending money or gift packages in the game. If you want to be superior to everyone, you can only rely on hard work or buy equipment from other players. "Ark" opened professional competitions in its first year of operation, which requires strong competitiveness and technical skills. Players are naturally attracted to professional leagues and professional players, making this game more and more popular.

Xia Yuan is a live streamer. His strength is not low. He ranks 17th in the Chinese rankings. There was once a professional team that wanted to recruit him, threatening that if he didn't go to play professionally at the age of and become famous, he would stay here as a small live streamer. But Xia Yuan didn't choose this path. He was a lazy person by nature, and being a live streamer was still very relaxing.

He usually uses a third-person perspective to broadcast the game process to his fans. But a dual-wielding player once said that watching others play MMORPG is the most boring thing. So in addition to being a broadcaster, he also started to do power leveling, earning gold and weapons. The income is not bad, and with the tips from his fans, he can support himself in a month.

"Brother, what year is it in Terra?"

"1086."

Xia Yuan calculated in his mind, isn't the year 1087 the year when the closed public beta begins? He still has some impression of 1.0 Terra Spark, after all, this is the first time a player descends into this world.

In version 1.0, the Tower of Babel, the predecessor of Rhode Island Pharmaceuticals, had just been established, Ms. Sicily had not yet gained power in the distant land of Syracuse, the huge integration movement had not yet turned my broken body into a raging fire, and Christen of Rhine Life had not yet taken the first step towards the starry sea.

Drawing on the format of Yamaguchi-san and Fei Fei Shisi, each update of this Ark will give players the power to travel to a brand new area and experience an unprecedented adventure.

Players who love fighting can be active in the PVE or PVP battlefield, craftsman players can go fishing for equipment, and casual players can play RP to form a Terra sightseeing group to appreciate the beautiful scenery of Terra. It can only be said that everyone has their own different way of playing, and everyone loves the multiple options of this game.

It was quite relaxing when I was playing it, and I truly traveled through this land of suffering... Is there still a chance to remake it now?

As for the random events of being captured by Sarkaz mercenaries while wandering on the battlefield, the Sarkaz mercenaries that Xia Yuan had previously killed were calculated based on a village as a unit.

[Warning, your health is too low. Warning, your health is too low.]

A red warning suddenly appeared in front of Xia Yuan, and he realized that his unconscious struggle was deducting his few life points.

If his HP was completely gone, he would probably be thrown off the truck and become a nutritious meal in the desert.

Dark blue panel, start!

A black and white panel suddenly appeared in my sight, looking quite heavy from the times.

[Name: Xajuan Lzem]

[HP: 6/40 (bound)]

【MP: 30/30】

[Race: Sakota]

[Template: NPC (378 days, 11 hours, 45 minutes, and 14 seconds until the start of the closed beta)]

【Level: 1】

【Experience: 0】

[Main occupation: None]

[Secondary Occupation: Student Lv1 (5/50)]

[Skill: Not learned yet]

[Skill Points: None]

[Attributes: Strength 2, Agility 2, Endurance 1, Intelligence 5, Spirit 2, Charm 7, Luck 1]

[Allocated attribute points: 0]

[Characteristics: None]

[Talent: Genius - Increase learning speed by 15%

Gunsmith's Hands - Gain a 1.5x bonus to dexterity when making firearms.

[Class: Sporadic]

[Evaluation: You don't even have the strength of a one-star operator, not enough to be cannon fodder. The passers-by on Terra are more terrifying to you than the natural disaster, and even more terrifying! ]

Thankfully, the panel is still there.

But Xia Yuan was stunned. This was an NPC template, not a player template? The 1.0 public beta would not be launched for nearly a year?

As for the surname Lanshem, he had never heard of it. He had played Ark for many years in his previous life, but he had never seen this surname when doing related tasks in Lateran. He was probably an ordinary NPC.

Now Xia Yuan will die if he is killed, and the player will only be counted down for a second at most when he is killed.

He thought quickly. The key point now was that he only had one life. Without such a thing as a resurrection coin, he would really die if he was killed.

Although he is an NPC, having a template means that he can grow and increase points like a player, which is good news for him.

Going back to five years ago, does this mean that the players he was familiar with in the past will appear again? Will professional players and professional guilds still exist as in the past?

Xia Yuan sighed, his current situation was indeed somewhat dangerous. After regaining the original owner's memory, he knew why the original owner appeared on the battlefield. Curiosity killed the devil, he looked handsome but was actually a little rebellious in his bones. He felt bored at school so he sneaked out of the city alone. Before he reached the front battlefield, he was discovered and captured by the lurking Sarkaz mercenaries.

Another piece of bad news is that these Sarkaz mercenaries are waiting for Lateran to send someone to redeem them. Usually the person who does this is the Lateran Notary Office - after redeeming them, they still have to pay a certain amount of fees to the Notary Office.

This was also the routine operation for players of the Sakota race in the previous life who were captured by the Sarkaz.

Xia Yuan is an orphan. It's a blessing for him to be able to live in the holy city of Lateran. If he is asked to pay more money... it would be like risking his life.

The Sakota race was popular for a while in the previous life. Players who chose this race were all FPS game enthusiasts. They dreamed of shooting on the battlefield with AK47s, but to go to the battlefield, they had to go through a lot of mission assessments, and there were also attribute requirements for the weapons they equipped. Players who wanted to have fun directly had to face the novice village, a period of college life and assessments from the notary office.

In addition, the players of the Sakota race soon realized that they had just been born without the power to leave the Lateran area. Outside was a land of suffering, and inside was the paradise of Lateran. It was unrealistic to want to cross the map when they were new. If they wanted to obtain supplies on the road and get more Chikara, they had to pass the assessment to obtain certification from the notary office. After the attribute level reached the safety line, they could walk on this land of Terra as a messenger or something else.

Compared to the Sakota race, players who choose the Sarkaz race are melee players who like to punch until flesh and sword bleed. They sneer at the performance of Sakota players who need to use guns to fight. Do you know that fists are faster than guns within five steps? Do you know the tradition of the Yuanshan family that the body is more useful than the gun?

In addition to these players, there are many mages who like this race. After all, this race is the most susceptible to Ore Disease. The Ore Disease that the Terra natives are terrified of is naturally a piece of cake for the Fourth Scourge. The effect of hanging a permanent debuff is that you can cast spells anytime and anywhere. Isn't this much more fun than using a staff? Brother, this thing is more useful than a magic wand!

Xia Yuan’s previous large race was not one of these two.

Thinking about the time-travel novels he had read in his previous life, if he didn't mention the golden finger, there would always be a beautiful girl falling from the sky, right? There would always be a harem around, right? But now, all he could see was yellow sand, and in front of him were four armored demons. It was hard not to feel disappointed.

It’s a pity that the players are not here. If it is set that players can be reborn after death, this is the horizon of record.

Now it seems that for Xia Yuan, it is more like a life-or-death Sword Art Online.

The truck stopped with difficulty, and dozens of Saktas on board were all driven off. They dragged their tired bodies and walked forward listlessly amid the sneers of the Sarkaz.

This is a gathering place covered with yellow sand. In addition to the simple wooden houses where the Sarkaz mercenaries live, there is also a shabby tent camp where the prisoners stay.

"Hehehe, you guys don't want to get oripathy, do you?" The mercenary escorting them laughed strangely, "If you don't want to, just obey me!"

The Sarkaz and the Sakota have a feud, as can be seen from the never-ending battles. The relationship between the two sides is like water and fire, and there is no peace.

However, these hatreds did not affect the Sarkaz mercenaries' desire to make money. What's more, these Sakta did not kill the members of their mercenary team, and there was no deep-rooted hatred. In this case, they might as well make some extra money.

The Sakotas were escorted into a shabby and leaky tent. The shackles on their hands and feet were removed. It was obviously a luxury for them to defeat the fully armed Sarkaz mercenaries with bare hands without guns. The mercenaries did not regard them as a threat. They left after throwing down their dry food with a rough shout.

On the issue of unity, the Sakotas were very united. Xia Yuan also got a piece of dry bread. He chewed it hard. The taste reminded him of a baguette that could kill people. It was so hard that his teeth were about to break.

The blood volume, which was originally in danger, gradually increased due to eating and reached more than 20 points.

In his previous life, he was still a newbie when he was doing Lateran-related missions. He coveted Lateran’s gun rewards and was captured. However, his captors were not Sarkaz mercenaries, but Sarkaz players who joined Kazdel.

In this vast land of Terra, players choose their favorite race and profession and live a life as if in a different world.

His eyes moved around and he quietly observed the levels of the people around him.

[Lance: Level 25 Status: Captured]

[Noel: Level 20 Status: Captured]

Xia Yuan remembered that the level cap of 1.0 was only 30. At that time, players were trying to figure out how to play in the vast land of Terra. The most common tasks they encountered were just doing odd jobs, looking for cats, and killing a few Originium bugs. In the end, they ended up fighting an irregular Lateran squad on equal terms.

This is normal. 1.0 players have just arrived at Terra and are still exploring everything. They do not have the strength to be actively invited to join by any faction during this period. The only thing they can do is to complete the miscellaneous tasks provided by the faction forces to obtain loyalty points and a certain amount of currency from the faction.

Lateran's loyalty points can be exchanged for pistols and gun blueprints - they do not sell assault rifles that can fire rapidly to the outside world. This type of continuous-fire firearm can only be manufactured by gunsmith players after exploring blueprints.

The character that Xia Yuan controlled in his previous life was an assistant whose secondary occupation was gunsmith.

Players with the Gunsmith sub-profession spend a lot of money because they need to accumulate experience by burning parts and blueprints, but at the same time, Gunsmith players are the most profitable profession because they can earn hundreds of thousands of Lungmen coins by selling a gun.

Therefore, the poorer the gunsmith is, the richer he becomes.

Chapter 2: Andorn's Damn Charm

The main professions set in the game "Ark" are: Vanguard, Sniper, Guard, Warlock, Heavy Armor, Medical, Special and Support.

Each profession has its own advantages. During the 3.0 era when the game was the most popular and had the most players, each profession could fight alone in the PVP professional arena.

In addition to single-player PVP, the professional league has also developed team competitions, that is, each team has twelve people, competing on a map. At this time, the choice of profession is very important. There are sharp knife teams with vanguards and guards, and there are turtle shell teams with heavy armor, medical assistants and other players.

And there are also subtle divisions of secondary occupations within these main occupations.

There are many kinds of sub-professions, and a person can have countless sub-professions. The existence of sub-professions can provide players with considerable attribute bonuses and combat bonuses. For example, Xia Yuan remembered that there was a rare sub-profession, which was a sub-profession called the Competitive Knight King in the Casimir PVP League. Only a few strong people could have this sub-profession.