Prologue

Earth, 2042, university dorm.

[Xeno] - [Do you guys want to experience a fully immersive game that is 100% real?]

Looking at the group chat message, Lucas wanted to laugh.

A couple of years ago, the technology that could read brain waves and allow people to play in their dreams had come into the market: VR technology.

All kinds of VR helmets were released back to back on the market. There were various kinds and each of which promised to provide a 'real virtual world' experience!

Since the major breakthrough in virtual reality technology, games using this as a selling point have been springing up like mushrooms after a rain. The largest game platform "Skyfall" has an average of more than ten or twenty new games released every week.

However, when the players actually experienced those games through this 'VR Helmets', they soon found out that the promises and the hype were all bogus, and they were all trash like the technology from a decade ago.

With a bunch of bugs and a few other models which failed in in-game control stability, most of them were mere brags!

And most Virtual reality games are difficult and costly for developers to produce, and the profit cycle is too long. There are also thresholds for players. Some games require customized helmets or even game consoles to play, and the cost ranges from 30,000 to 20,000 Pesos to several million.

The most important thing is the game itself is also hard to describe.

Various major manufacturers are trying to make a big deal under the banner of immersive game experience, but the game experience they can produce is still far from being able to restore reality. At present, several stand-alone masterpieces with good reputations can only achieve 85% immersive games at best. The realism level is 20/20, and the game experience is not good because of too many bugs.

But this brother actually dared to guarantee 100% real simulation!

Really?

[Astron_The_Knight] (Administrator): [Your not Joking right]

His nickname in the group was Astron_The_Knight.

[Xeno] - [I mean the real in the literal sense. Sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste… all are the same as the real world. The time flow of the game world is 1:1 with the real world, and the time difference is about 12 hours. Because the technical principle is an interference with the dream, so playing the game is equivalent to sleep.]

The nickname of the person who typed out this lines was Xeno.

This serious one-character nickname seemed incompatible with the group name "The Trolling Creators Club", so the people in the group would occasionally call this person "Xenomorph" or "Alien X".

[Hawk_Tuah](Administrator): [What kind of fantasy setting is this?(⁠o⁠_⁠O⁠)]

[Barney_Is_A_Dinosaur] (Administrator): [Sounds like the genre of virtual reality games in the Webnovels.]

[One_Eyed_Ghoul](Group Owner): [Haha, do you mean those VMMORPG were the game became reality ? I liked this concept when I was in school.]

[Simp_For_Makima](Administrator): [This kind of setting doesn't make sense, right? If it is 100% real and became reality, I will already be one of the top rankers in the world]

[Barney_Is_A_Dinosaur](Administrator): [Brother, you are too serious. If you want to talk sense, when the game will merge to reality you will already be dead for being stab by a goblin]

[Hawk_Tuah](Administrator]: [True]

[One_Eyed_Ghoul] (Group Owner): [+1]

[Astron_The_Knight] (Administrator): [+1]

The topic quickly went off the track.

Although The Trolling Creators Club was a game group, members rarely discussed games as seriously as today.

Especially a "game" that is totally impossible at all and was completely imagined out of thin air.

However, even if the topic had completely gone off the track, the initiator of this topic-that was, the brother named Xeno, still stubbornly pulled the topic back.

[Xeno] - [I mean if]

[Xeno] - [If there is such a game, would you like to play it?]

[Simp_For_Makima](Administrator): [Why not? A 100% realistic game, why not try it, you know what I'm talking about. (⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠)]

[Hawk_Tuah](Administrator):[+1, but about the setting you mentioned, I still have a little doubt. If game time is equal to sleep time... Isn't it more reasonable to apply this technology to work?]

[One_Eyed_Ghoul](Group Owner): [Damn, are you a Demon!?]

[Barney_Is_A_Dinosaur](Administrator): [Then I prefer sleeping ಠ⁠ω⁠ಠ]

[Phoenix_Prima]: [Chatting such an unrealistic thing in a group, don't you guys want to go to bed?]

[Mr_K_rabs]: [LOL^⁠_⁠^.]

More and more people began to go online in the group.

Some people were still watching the screen with great interest even though they hadn't sent a message.

In a game group of a hundred people, there were usually about ten to twenty active group members, and occasionally two new faces of "he knows you, but you don't know him" would pop up. Only after asking, did they know that they had been lurking in the group for years.

The brother named Xeno ignored them and continued to immerse himself in his own world.

[Xeno] - [In fact, the company I owned is developing a fully immersive virtual reality online game.]

The lively group chat was quiet for a short while.

But soon, a series of new messages popped up simultaneously as if they had made an agreement in advance.

[Sponge_The_Bob]: [Holy shit!]

[The_Squid_With_A_Ward]: [For real?!]

[Mr_K_rabs]: [Brother you are awesome! I almost believed it. (͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ]

Lucas felt that this guy must be trolling.

A fully immersive virtual reality online game?

100% real?

Nonsense.

Just like Brother Hawk said, if this kind of technology really existed, would it be used to make a game?

Of course, he didn't agree with using it directly in the working field. In his imagination, if there was such an advanced technology, it would definitely be used in the military field first.

How awesome it was to train special forces using this kind of technology!

The man named Xeno didn't speak anymore but sent a website.

Lucas opened it casually and found that it was actually an official game website.

The pages of the official website were not well made, and it looked like they couldn't afford to hire an artist for some artworks. The empty pages had no content, only three lines of words.

[100% real virtual reality game-"Arcana Online"]

[Current number of applications: 0]

[Apply: Yes/No]

Lucas smiled.

'So this is what all this is about. It turns out to be an advertisement. It must be some kind of dodgy site.'

However, the number of applications was real enough.

"Fine then, I will see what kind of game you are."

Holding the mouse, he clicked yes.

However, to his surprise, the expected registration page did not pop up, and there was no change except for the number of applications changed from 0 to 1.

"This broken game doesn't even need to register an account?"

Lucas was at a loss. He was not sure for a moment whether this thing was considered an advertisement.

Was it a virus?

It was also unlikely.

Nowadays, even antivirus software was about to retire from the stage of history, so how could he get viruses by clicking YES and NO on a website?

Not to mention he was using his own computer, he was not afraid of this stuff.

________

[Number of applications: 13]

Looking at the numbers on the background of the web page on the computer screen, William, who was sitting in a room, breathed a sigh of relief and released the mouse that he held tightly.

"Is this all right?"

The answer to him was two lines of text that appeared in front of him.

[Host has met the activation conditions by gaining player applications!]

[The Supreme Guild System is now activated!]

"Finally…"