Hit The Road, Jack! : Hit Here’s Your Prize - It’s More Work!
In the end, it took Jack way over a few hours to create his own small island. Indeed, it took him unnecessary four days and three nights to do so.
[ - phew!]
Jack had slept quite little these days. Not getting any gold for four days was quite a hustle.
His mind was used to at least roll on his gold pile for a quarter of an hour or so.
- You done honey?
Elicia had logged on her second account - her player one. In front of Jack was a small elf, around 1,50cm tall, with red hair and purple eyes.
[ - Yeah, just finished adding the last piece of foundation…]
After finishing his first islet, Jack had a bad feeling. Indeed, as soon as he logged off and expended some leisure time, his island was ravaged by storms, strong winds and tornadoes.
Those obviously weren't capable of toppling it over, but it drifted quite far away from its original place - and inside a piece of main level 80 land.
One must be aware the main level 80 meant that the player had reached at least 800 levels on his occupation levels - such as 80 levels in pyromancer, 80 levels on mage, 80 levels on swordmaster and so on…
Another World had no fixed limits to main levels, but the devs had only developed skill levels up to level 100 - and reaching anything above level 30 was extremely difficult, as skill levels were obtained by using the skill over and over again, and not by obtaining exp - which was used to evolve monsters or buy improvements on one's stats and special powers (up to a limit defined by the players' main level).
So, people able to reach a main level of 80 were very, very few.
Indeed, in the whole world only three people had such a level, and they were the epic-ranked shut-ins who lived solely for the game - indeed, all three of them had special neurosets with tech which was even better than the one Squeam employees had, just so they could change the fluid on their chambers faster.
It wasn't but the norm to see one of them expend 22 hours in the game, logoff for 2 hours as the fluid was changed, and them login again.
Of course, nothing is perpetually infinite. Eventually the devs would run out of ideas about how to improve the skill levels and main-level max-leveled players would appear, but that would be in the far future…
As for Jack…
He was constantly bombarded by dozens of level 80 mobs, in a barrage of destruction that rivaled, if not surpassed, the one he experienced on the Goblin Empire.
Due to some "luck" of his, a "mysterious" storm got his island away from that zone a few hours later, but Jack had learnt his lesson - the Adms weren't happy about his sloppy work, so all he could do was to ask help from Elicia - which promptly gave him the idea to melt the seabed to allow for his island to be fixated on the bottom of the sea.
Then, after that, she helped him re-model the land in order to be able to receive a max-level dungeon from the admins - and that meant building something at least as impressive as his original island, since his original plan of making a mountain and digging a cave wasn't worth of even a lowest-leveled one.
It took them four days, but it was done in the end.
- Now, all you have to do is to learn a bit of nature magic and then, as soon as the forest and swamp have grown a bit, you'll be able to convince the people upstairs, so…
At that moment, Elicia felt a gush of wind behind her.
[- I can't do it! I can't endure this anymore!]
A tear-eyed dragon king flew away at top speed. His destination was, of course, impossible to know.
- Why, you…
Elicia facepalmed herself.