[Regarded as a "Legendary Forever Newbie," cursed to forever remain as level one, will our main character be able to face the darkness that is coming their way?]


Guam Trancid is an introverted, 19 year old teenager, living in the Kingdom of Cloud, but when the new game, made by a company between Gaians and Aethereans, comes out, will he ever stay the same? 

Born with tier-F mana, will he be able to rise above the challenge and rescue the world of Elder Tale? 

Will he be able to overcome his fears and cultivate his secret abilities he has been hiding for a long time?

Will he, bullied and ostracized by people with talent because of his unblievably low mana capacity (F is the lowest rank, which rarely occurs), be able to push through and discover the secrets of this world?

Find out in this sci-fi/fantasy/romance/action novel

Signed: Secret Memories

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Find out...


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An online virtual world has appeared with over 35+ games. It is a dream of many players around the world. However...

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    500 years into the future, space exploration has developed so much that humanity managed to explore the 3 Galaxies. The Milky Way, Andromeda and the Pegasus Galaxy. The Population of humanity reached 2 Trillion up to this point on which it occupied numerous habitable worlds on the 3 Galaxies.

    Those ventures have led to an increase in the advancement of technology. It affected all aspects of life. One such example is the Virtual Gaming World community. Thousands and thousands of individuals have shown their great strengths in the different Virtual Games across the 3 Galaxies all over the years. However, there is one individual who stood at the very peak among these great individuals.

  His name was Quan Shi, he's commonly known as The Emperor of Virtual Reality Games. People said that no gamer was his equal. He's so powerful other people thought he was a cheat. Dominating lands, finishing the hardest raids, endless titles and glories are some of his feats on all games that he played since he started. The strongest person known to almost all gamers so they say.


  When misfortune strikes. Quan Shi vanished for a long time. No one knew what happened and no one knew why. He just stopped appearing on VR games. It happened on the day of the release of the latest game Emperor Online.


  3 years have passed since that day. Everyone seems to have forgotten the incident due to the hype of the game.

Virtual Era, the Year 2538

A 23-year old boy named Shi Fan enthusiastically bought his new Virtual Capsule which costs about 18 months of his minimum wage salary. Seeing the excitement of Virtual Reality Games he himself also joined in on the fun.


      Graduating from college was hard but finding job opportunities is even harder. He was only left with one choice. To play "Emperor Online" and to find a living there by selling items. He planned to do this 3 years ago when he saw the popularity boom of the game. However due to the Samir Schooling Exclusion Law which prevented students who are still below the age of 22 from playing any sort of virtual games he couldn't do so.


  In his pastime, Shi Fan used to browse the forums and news and data about Emperor Online as much as he could, it could be said that almost all of the reported things about the game have already been seen by Shi Fan. He promised himself that one day he will also be one of the reported people in those platforms.

  "Emperor Online". The game that was made by the 3 Galaxies Fortune Companies. It sparked a large change in the Virtual Era on the day of its inception.

   The "Continent" in the game was said to be as large if not larger like an entire solar system and it is even said to be continually expanding every year with numerous updates. Countless empires and kingdoms have risen and fallen over the course of the three years and monarchy have changed like snapping fingers.


   Rare encounters and fortunes have been made possible. Even the poor can become rich overnight just bu playing the game. Numerous herbs and ores are still waiting to be discovered. Numerous job paths were made available for many people. The obtainable great achievements and titles and those names that are well known by the masses which are even more popular than celebrities are what drives gamers into the game.


   The most popular VRMMO with an unshakeable 95% market share. It could be said to be the 2nd World of the Virtual Era. Even those with disabilities can experience the world through their 5 senses as if they didn't have any physical problems. Its realistic experience is incomparable to any existing VRMMO besides Emperor Online.

      Wars that were being waged in different planets have been stopped as their wars were permanently moved into the Game due to the War Coordination Law which says that territories that were won in-game applied also in the real world where the territory is affiliated to.


  This way the bloodshed was averted and unnecessary deaths have lessened. Most of the Credits are being circulated in the game and the living of humanity has improved by a lot in the past 3 years.


    Before entering the capsule Shi Fan's phone rang he picked it up and listened to what the caller is talking about.

   "Yes, master I understand." He respectfully said to his caller. Opening the Capsule lid with a smirk on his face Shi Fan entered and can feel the smooth and cool surface of the cabin. As he closed the lid he began to familiarize himself with the device. Plugging in the capsule's life support system which measures heart rate, blood pressure as well as brain activity.

    Closing his eyes. Taking deep breaths.

    Shi Fan said. "Launch Emperor Online"


      "Acknowledged" A female robot spoke from the cabin speakers.

      A ray of light shone from his imagination. But this is no imagination. It is the process of transferring consciousness from Reality To the Virtual one.


      Then his virtual body pops out in a huge white room. Scanning around Shi Fan can see a floating blue robot that is typing something.
Walking forward slowly the robot noticing his presence looked up.


      "Good Day to you User #UZ9827898"  a male voice came from the robot. Then a
holographic keyboard immediately appeared in front of Shi Fan


      "Please type in your username:" the robot spoke calmly.


      As he was about to type. The keyboard disappeared like a bubble. And the walls of the white room slowly cracked revealing a large crack that allowed something to slip through.

   "Warning: System Intruder Alert," The robot warningly said as his eyes blinked red and then it slowly disappeared as if the entity above him is rejecting his existence.


   "Oh ho? There's really someone here?" a cold voice spoke from the shadow human-like figure that came from the cracks.


   "Who are you?!" Shi Fan spoke while looking up. It's his first time playing the game yet he already encountered a problem. Fearing being stuck in games like those conspiracies he has seen he couldn't help but shiver.


        "I am named Quan Shi. I exist in this nothingness. I'm the beginning and I'm also the end of this world. But now for me to escape these chains binding me. I will need your help." The unknown voice replied to his question.



    Before Shi Fan could speak again. A bright silver light coming from the unknown figure suddenly rushed into Shi Fan's body.



      After that scene, Shi Fan fainted. And his body slowly disappeared from the room leaving no trace like powder dissolving into the wind and the robot returned as if nothing happened before.

About 500 years into the future. The game "Emperor Online" was created to cater to the needs of almost all individuals. It is said to be the greatest VRMMORPG ever created. Played by countless individuals all over the three galaxies on their quest to become the strongest and the most famous Emperors of all time. 

Shi Fan, the protagonists embark on his journey on becoming one of the greatest Emperors, with the help of Quan Shi, his cheat guide that knows everything the Grand Continent has to offer the duo encounters unlikely allies and enemies. Endless herbs and ores that waiting to found. Legendary Treasures! The temptation of those riches and the magic of teamwork. Will Shi Fan be able to overcome the odds and become the strongest Emperor mankind had ever known?





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Knowledge, The most fascinating of all the things which separate Human Beings from the several million species residing on the planet 'Earth'. With Knowledge, one could attain wisdom, and wisdom was the key to the path of Enlightenment. The meaning of the word,'Knowledge', varies from person to person which changes the understanding of Knowlege.
For some, Knowledge is key to leading a luxurious life. For others, it is key to succeed in life and for the remaining, Knowledge is getting advanced. As the creature called 'Human', advanced through millions of years of development, He tried to disrupt the natural balance to fulfill his selfish desires and ambitions.
Human beings started to develop himself further with the help of 'Technology', he became dependent on it such that it gave birth to fulfilling their dreams with the help of technology.
As it had been said, "When ambition and desire mixed with technology give birth to endless thirst to fulfill one's dream to that extent that one could accept his demise to get hold of it for once."



This is what happened when the wish to attain something turned into a desire. People tried to get hold of the Technology and force it to a greater extent which paved the way for two new terms,' Virtual Reality' and 'Augmented Reality'.
[1] Virtual Reality: A simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment and educational purposes.
[2] Augmented Reality: An interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory.
Scientific Organisations from all over the world started to develop and enhance both the type of technological style and succeeded in doing so. As the whole world went through many advancements, many of the Game Development Companies decided to use these technological styles to develop a fully functional game that could fulfill each person's desires and dreams.
Game Development Companies took charge to develop a fully functional Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game [VRMMORPG], The world where the dreams come true. Alas! Game Development Companies were successful in creating the World of Dreams but, they weren't able to create the dream itself.
The old Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Games [MMORPGs] and Multiplayer Online Battle Arena [MOBAs] still swarmed the market and made a better profit than the newly released Virtual Reality Games. Developing a fully functional Virtual Game drained too many resources and wealth which left several Companies bankrupt and many shut down.
Finally in the Year 2026, A fully functional Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game[MMORPG] named 'AlterEGO' came into the international market and the company which developed it, AstroFLT sold several copies of the game and earned a huge profit.
The Release of 'AlterEGO' resulted in the advent of a new age, 'The Golden Age', in the industry of gaming and thus starting the E-Sports World Championship with 'AlterEGO' as it's the central event.
The World of AlterEGO was worth visiting as it offered an immersive experience to the players and the world which was meant to become the dreams of many was called, 'Imperia' or simply 'The Lands of Imperials'.

As his name suggested, Sun Shuai was indeed a handsome guy. 
The only thing that the majority of males despised more than a handsome lad was that if he was also born rich. 
However, although he was born of second-generation wealth, he did not enjoy the usual flamboyant lifestyle nor was he a diligent young man who worked hard to earn a living. Sun Shuai's true passion was gaming.
Although it was not as if he sponsored gaming teams like some of the other young masters, he was still one of the top players when it came to spending on in-game packages. 
Sun Shuai and a few of his friends had just finished a few rounds while they voice chatted, and just as he was exiting the game, he noticed the pop-up window on the computer interface. 
"The latest virtual reality masterpiece, Journey To The Other World, is currently recruiting players for a beta version trial. The number of available spaces is limited so sign up as soon as possible (PS: Dear handsome men and beautiful women, yes that's you!)." 
"I don't need you to remind me that I'm handsome!" Sun Shuai rolled his eyes at the pop-up window, not having the slightest interest in it. 
"What stupid marketing!" 
Several online VR games had been launched during the past two years and Sun Shuai had tried them all. He was not very impressed by them as many of the movements felt detached and the game did not give him the satisfaction of truly being present in virtual reality. 
Just when he was about to close the pop-up window, he suddenly saw something flash across the window that seemed like a GIF. 
It was a pig-headed monster tearing apart a bloody corpse with broken limbs. In addition to the dim lighting, it set the tone of the scene and perfected the gloomy and gruesome atmosphere. For a fan of CG effects, this scene successfully piqued his curiosity. 
This animation was much better than the other crappy pop-up advertisements he was used to seeing. The key was that the pig-headed monster looked extremely realistic with its sharp fangs and rough skin, even the small details like the few strands of hair at the back of its head. In fact, it looked even more realistic than the swine in a game he had played once based on a film. 
"Well, it's not easy developing a game. If the game has at least one-tenth of the CG effects, I'll gladly be the first to pay for the in-game purchases." 
… 
"Bro, you're doing so great! You're the MVP again!" 
In a small district, a fat young man who looked like he weighed over 200 catties was sitting in front of his computer speaking into his microphone in a coquettish tone, "Come on, brother, are you going off so soon? Can't you accompany me for a while more? Remember to add me to your team again! I'll be waiting for you online! Remember to show up!" 
When the person on the other end hung up, the fat young man removed his headset and let out a sigh of relief. "Idiot!" He cursed out, in his normal rugged voice. 
The seat beneath him let out a squeak as he adjusted his fat body. 
A pop-up window appeared on his computer screen ——"The latest virtual reality masterpiece, Journey To The Other World, is currently recruiting players for a beta version trial (PS: Dear handsome men and beautiful women, yes that's you!)." 
"Bah, another trick to get me to download a new game…" 
… 
In an internet cafe, a young lad with long hair who was waiting in line spotted a familiar short figure in front of a computer and immediately rushed forward. 
"You're a primary school student, what are you doing here? Time to go home!"
The young man with long hair kicked the boy's chair in an attempt to chase him out.
Caught by surprise, the primary school student who was about to finish off a double-kill shot wide and missed a good opening. He immediately turned around to glare at the man. 
Unbothered by the boy's angry glare, the long-haired man tugged the student out of his seat and pointed at the sign placed at the entrance of the internet cafe. "Did you not see that sign? Minors are not allowed. Do you understand?"
The student remained silent, his hands clenching tightly in fists. 
"Oh, are you upset?" The long-haired man sneered as he noticed the little boy's actions. "Are you planning how to get someone to beat me up? Or are you thinking of smashing my head on the keyboard dakfjladjadfjdcgbyt…" (TN: The author inserted a word salad in this sentence, it is unclear whether it's a typo or the author's writing style.)
At that moment, a pop-up window appeared on the computer screen. 
… 
"Hello boys, remember to share and like the Rocket Yacht 666!" 
In a live broadcast chat room, a beautiful young girl who was dressed in sequins had just finished a dance and was laughing flirtatiously into the microphone set before the computer on the table. 
The live broadcast session's chatroom at the bottom of the screen was filled with comments such as "Missy, I want to have kids with you", "Missy, you have such long legs and such a small waist, and your skin is so beautifully smooth, "Missy, you're like a Maserati". 
"Alright, that's all for today. Muah, I love all of you!!" 
After a series of interactions, the scantily clad girl blew kisses toward her computer screen, and amongst many of comments begging her to stay and mournful complaints, she ended the livestream. The first thing she did was blow her nose before adjusting the uncomfortable underwear that was stuck between her butt cheeks after her dancing. Then, she reclined lazily into the seat, the alluring goddess image that she had spent hours creating was nowhere to be seen. 
"A trip that you can go anytime, transmigration for any time and anywhere. The latest online virtual reality game Journey To The Other World offers you 100% freedom and accurate simulation, and hereby invites you to join us on this journey! (PS: Dear handsome men and beautiful women, yes that's you!)" 
A dark-themed pop-up window appeared on the computer screen immediately right after she closed the live broadcast app. 
…
"It's time to AFK!" Xu Zhe sighed softly while sitting before his computer. 
Looking at the game character in the computer screen before him, he suddenly moved his mouse across the screen to click on the hearthstone backpack icon to return to the city. The interface read the command quickly and soon, his character returned to an inn. 
Xu Zhe pressed the ESC key and selected the option to exit the game in the menu box. The scene changed and the game returned to the login interface, then he closed the game interface before proceeding to uninstall the game. 
As he waited for the game to uninstall, Xu Zhe quietly lit a cigarette. He had been playing this game for more than ten years now, it was filled with memories of his youth. 
However, he felt indifferent now. 
Perhaps he had already passed the stage of nostalgia, hence why he viewed online games differently. 
"A beta version of the first online virtual reality masterpiece in the world, Journey To The Other World, is being launched. The ultimate combination of the pinnacle of simulation technology as well as interactive technology, we hereby invite you to join us on this journey!" 
While Xu Zhe waited for the game to uninstall, a pop-up window appeared and caught his attention.
"Online virtual reality?" 
Xu Zhe was usually disinterested in pop-up window advertisements. Online chat rooms were the worst, but even search engines like Sogou and ShowDoc had pop-up advertisements in every few clicks. Therefore, it was expected that advertisements would appear while he uninstalled the game. 
However, the words 'virtual reality' piqued his interest. 
Back in college when he was obsessed with MMO game-based novels, he and a few of his friends had concluded that if they were able to try a virtual reality MMO game at least once in their lives, they would be content and would declare that they lived a good life. 
He had tried VR games before. It began by watching the sales attendants promoting the equipment in departmental stores, then he caved in and bought one for himself. Well, it was interesting, to say the least, but it was still far from his idea of entering a virtual reality experience. Not even a little bit. 
In fact, the best experience he had was on a trip with his family and they tried a VR roller coaster at a theme park. That was the closest he had felt to his ideal, and although it felt so real, there was no interaction. It was merely an immersive experience. 
Xu Zhe also noticed the special effects animation in the pop-up window. Judging with his many years of experience playing online games and watching films, he noted that the CG effect was as good as the special effects rendering in blockbuster movies. 
Xu Zhe expanded the window and read a few more lines of the brief introduction to The Journey To The Other World, one of which mentioned that they were recruiting players to try out the beta version. 
"Beta test players? This kind of thing…" 
Xu Zhe bit his lip as he shook his head slowly. His enthusiasm for games was not as great as before, and beta tests were no longer appropriate for a middle-aged man like him anymore. 
However, just as Xu Zhe was about to close the page, he saw the selection box including the options to participate and simply click on the OK button. 
"Oh well, I don't need to pay money to register. Besides, I'm not going to play it anyway…" 
…


After falling asleep on his couch, Meng Yang awoke to find himself trapped inside a cage in an unfamiliar world. Except unlike normal transmigrators, he did not arrive with any form of outright golden finger or hack, all he has is the ability to summon humans from his own reality to assist him in surviving. In fact, in order to summon help, the person being summoned must agree to being sent on an interdimensional trip. When his first attempt to con strangers in using a viral chain message fails, he has a stroke of genius and ends up creating an online login interface for what seems like an online game and it ends up attracting a large player base. All seems good and well except for two things: the players think he's an opinionated NPC, and these players might not be the best thing for the Other World... Will he save this reality from disaster or will he be the cause of its demise?

It's strange isn't it? My life? Oh! Off course how on earth will you be able to know my life! If you want to know my opinion about the life of which I'm the owner, I would say, it's complicated. Yes, it's full of suspense, thrill, adventure and yeah, the most important thing, romance. I love to play games, in my childhood, games were the only thing I cared of. I was not a good student, not at all! I am an otaku, or an anime freak! I'm Taki Suzuno. During my time, online games were very popular. And probably those changed my life forever. Most of the hours in a day, I used to spend them in either playing online VRMMORPG games or watching animes. And those who are not familiar with the word VRMMORPG, why fear? I'm here to decipher, it's Virtual Reality Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. 
        Those games are basically played using a Virtual Reality Gear or a VR device. During those days VR games were made by many companies but at the top of the leaderboard was the CaronStrap. They probably built the highest graphics game, and being a gamiomaniac, I used to purchase each and every games produced by the company. VR world was a different world as compared to our real world. VR can lead to many possibilities in occurrence of a world, particular VR game had its own world with it's own sort of rules and powers which were given to it's fellow players. I even saw some of my friends going crazy over those game's high end graphics. The developers made it look real and we could even feel what was actually going around, quite intriguing, right? It was not kept upto that only, when you were playing the game, your body will be in a sleep mode, basically the CaronStrap send EM waves to our neurons which gets numb just as the way it occurs during while we are asleep. And yeah technology went quite high, why shouldn't it be? After all it's 2120. We are no longer in the old days where only computer's first player perspective games are being played. The thing which I loved the most about VR games is that, you can make all sorts of friends from all over the globe. If you aren't even a social person, who knows the VR world can even change your personality! In short a VR world had infinite possibilities. 
        But one of the possibilities took me away from my world, I mean the real world. At one point of time in my life I forgot what real life really was. I used to get totally indulge into the game. I used to spend hours in completing levels and getting ranked at a prestigious rank. It is like a yarn of many individual threads tangled together, if you pull one string the others used to get their shapes changed, guess that's what happened to me. At certain point, I no longer was Taki; I was completely an unknown person. Frustrated, exhausted and depressed. But still couldn't resist myself from being in touch with the CaronStrap. 
        Now let us be together and find what were the possibilities which were faced by me in real world as well as the VR world. Guess we will indeed have great time in revealing the adventures which I had!

Taki Suzuno, a boy in his teenage; gets too involved in video gamings  and an unseen romance. But the romance took his life to a new level. Weaved into his deep emotions, and challenges yet to come which needs to be conquored. Will he be able to achieve all or loose all... Gotta wait and watch

From 2030-2060, Virtual Reality took the world by storm. The first full-dive game by Narmack Studios managed to be a revolutionary step towards an immense change in the way gamers play. It encouraged gamers from all around the globe to get out of their seats without having to move a muscle. 

Even though Narmack's Virtual Set only supported up to three of the human senses, gamers were brimming with extreme contentment, for this was the first time in history they've visited a world like a video game. After the release of Overworld Virtual Online [OVO] by Narmack studios in 2030, around 2040, another amazing game was dropped by this same studio. A game that enhanced OVO's three supported senses, A game that mesmerized thousands of players, A game that made people hand up their money with no regrets...this game was called...

 Eternal Virtual Online [EVO]!

Eternal Virtual Online was essentially described as a game with infinite levels. But to correctly contradict this premise, there weren't any levels at all. In EVO, the devs made it in a way that encouraged players to make levels for themselves. With the many quests, tasks, dungeons, cultivation opportunities, Systems, and real-life mechanics, this was ought to be an easy feat. Additionally, mature adults, and none-gamers, were more than welcome to EVO. This is because the game was much closer to a second world than an actual game. Upon playing it for an hour, players wanted to spend more time in EVO, and refused to log off. 

Furthermore, none-gamers had the opportunity to enjoy the game as an ordinary civilian without any magic-use, or gamer-like choices. In other words, the game was for everyone.  


Unlike its predecessors, EVO transitioned the game-like environment much closer to real life. In a decade, Narmack Studios had made a considerable amount of money from their previous full-dive game. Fairly, they invested most of this money into EVO. Since a huge amount of the world's population were already supporters of Narmack Studios, a new system was introduced in the new game. 

This System was called the Import Export Currency, Conversion, And Redeem [IECCR]. This game mechanic allowed players to convert, export, or redeem in-game funds into actual money, and vice-versa. Its main purpose was to lure in more players. When this feature was released, people realized that it was much easier to make money with this system, and started leaving their real-life jobs. And to sum this up with the disabled people and gamers who also left real-life for EVO, the majority of the world's population was residing in Eternal Virtual Online.

Some years later, around 2050, the world became a quiet place. With people in pods, empty streets—everyone was running away from their problems in return for an easier life in EVO. Importantly, at this time, Earth was already facing mass pollution, prolonged years of quarantine due to diseases, and many other predicaments, hence the reason why everyone wanted a second chance at life. 

When it was 2050, everyone expected Narmack to drop EVO 2 which was introduced years ago, but every year, they kept postponing the release. And after the most recent postpone, a reckless gamer appeared. Keep in mind that this EVO player wasn't new. In fact, he had several appearances in other games, and he always carried the same username, and similar character designs every time. This player was notorious for 'breaking' games without even hacking, and many deemed him a threat in the great world of EVO. This hazard did things like figuring out ways to inflict great harm unto his opponent's real-life body, and he made the most questionable in-game decisions ever. 

Furthermore, this misfit among all, slowly made a name for himself, and he did whatever he pleased in the game. He was mainly known for his great in-game strength and he always managed to seize the number one spot on the Cultivator's Leaderboard.  Even the game creatures took measures to satisfy the many people reporting this infamous player. And after many temporary bans, this hazard always made a grand return. 

This formidable player...

was known as...

The Game-Breaker...



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*yaaaaawnn~* 

A boy around 17-18 years old yawned as he rose up from the bed and scratched his black messy hair. 
He got up immediately and started to prepare for breakfast. 

Living alone in a condo unit was Lucas Lauwers, now a 2nd year college student at Mapua Institute of Technolgy in the Philippines as an IT student. 

Don't get it wrong, his parents and family aren't dead. Since Lucas is now a college student, he decided to live alone and rented a condo unit near his school. Though, his parents are still the one paying for his expenses as he has no part-time job. 

After cooking a simple sunny side-up egg, he started eating and turned the TV on to see if there's something interesting. 

Seeing as there is nothing, he quickly finishes his meal and start to prepare for school. 

"Hmm...hair ok, clothes.....ok I guess?" 

Lucas muttered as he stares at himself in front of the mirror. 

Reflected on him was a boy with black hair with his forelocks split into two above his right eye and eyes that suggested lack of sleep wearing a dark grey shirt with minimal design, black denim pants and finally, dark grey shoes with black checkers. 

Overall, his looks is as average as it gets, if not, just a bit below. 

Seeing as it won't get better no matter how hard he tries, he sighed and started to go out. 

[[And now let's have a bit talk about gaming-]] 

An adult male's voice rang out from the room just as he was about to go out. 

"Ah, I forgot to turn off the TV..." 

Lucas turned around and started to walk towards the TV to turn it off when he suddenly hears an interesting talk. 

[[A new gaming device has just been released all over the world at the same time! Together with a game only compatible with it, gamers from all around the world started to buy it despite its high price!]] 

[[How much are we talking about here?]] 

[[In our currency, 700 000 pesos!]] 

"Uwahh, even if I want it, there's no way to buy it..." 

Lucas was shocked to see such a high price. 

[[That is high, just what is this new device?]] 

[[Oh you're not gonna believe this.]] 

[[Come on, we're supposed to be news casters here.]] 

[[Haha, that's right, the new gaming device that has rocked the gaming world! [Portal] The world's first Virtual Gaming Device!]] 

*thud* 

The remote on Lucas' hand fell immediately and hit the ground with a dull noise. 

"D-did he just say virtual gaming device!? Then the game he mentioned earlier that can only be played with this device is..." 

[[Together with the game [World Gate Online] this is all the topic gamers now talk of everywhere! And not just gamers, even people who aren't interested in games started to purchase it as well! In fact, I myself am currently playing it and it was like none I have seen so far! You wouldn't believe that world was virtual! The scenery, the people, animals, and monsters looks so real!]] 

[[Oh my, looks like someone just turned into a gamer. Haha, maybe I'll buy one myself and see. But such a high price, I don't think many people can play it.]] 

[[Oh, in that case, they should get this chance! Right now, at the bottom of your screen should display a phone number, just type in your name and address together with PORTAL and your chosen color, and send it to the following number! The 1000 lucky winners will earn themselves their very own[Portal]!!! Winners will be chosen later at midnight! So send your entry now!]] 

"...Even if they say it like it's easy...I don't think there's a chance at all…" 

Lucas sighed in dejection reminding himself how broke he is. 

"Well, it won't hurt to try it at least" 

He typed in his name, address, PORTAL, and chose white as color and sends it at least trying to make it hard for other people to get a chance. 

Since he is going to be late if he continued to watch longer, he turned it off and went out with a dissatisfied mood as he kept thinking how high the price is for that device. 

+ + +



"Hey hey, did you watch the news this morning?" 

"Yeah, finally, a real virtual gaming device has been invented!" 

"I know right!? I'm definitely gonna get me one of those! Even if I have to prostrate to my parents!" 

"Dude seriously? Then prostrate for my sake too." 

"Get your own [Portal]!" 

Two boys of around the same age as Lucas were excitedly discussing about the new gaming device behind him while they are waiting for their professor. 

"I wonder if I can beg my parents for one too?..." 

He shook his head upon the thought as soon as he thought about it thinking he'll only get scold at if he did such a thing. 

It wasn't just the two boys behind him that were talking about the virtual gaming device, ever since he went out of his condo unit, almost all the people around him were talking about it in excitement. Be it on the streets, the school lobby, hallways, cafeteria, or his classroom, he would hear words like [Portal], [World Gate Online], virtual world, etc. Frankly, he was already fed up with it as it reminded him how he cannot buy such a thing. 

After letting out another sigh, someone that looked like the professor came in and the students quieted as they went back to their seats silently. 

Though the class orientation has started, he would still hear his classmates whispering to each other saying things like checking [World Gate Online] later or buying a [Portal] after school. Because of that, his bad mood went on further and he could hardly remember the orientation. 

Since this is the first day of class and the professors only gave the orientation, class was finished immediately and he started to go to the cafeteria to buy lunch. After getting a simple meal which was the cheapest, he looked around to look for free table and spotted a table with his friends on it. Since there were no vacant tables, he chose to sit there instead. 

Even now, everywhere he hears things about [Portal] or [World Gate Online], even his friends were talking about it. Since he was filled with irritation, he didn't hear any of what they were talking about and silently ate his meal until he was suddenly asked by one of his friend. 

"How about you Lucas?" 

"Hm?" 

"Were you not listening? I'm asking whether you have the money to buy a [Portal]." 

Gavin Fastmark, one of his fellow IT student friends suddenly asked him while Lucas shut himself in his own world so naturally, he didn't know what he was being asked about. 

This isn't extortion by the way, Lucas isn't someone that was bullied though he probably looked like one. It seems his friends were also stuck on the same situation as him and were asking if there was one who can buy. 

"Of course not, even if I do, I don't have the time to play it." 

"Haah, I forgot you were the studious type huh? Since you have a bit of knowledge in animes and game, I thought you'll be interested." 

"Of course I'm still interested, I mean, who wouldn't? I'm really curious how they were able to make the game and the device, I wonder what algorithms they used?" 

"That kind of interest huh?" 

"Well, killing monsters is interesting too…but there's no helping it since I don't have money." 

"I know right?" 

They all sighed at the same time disappointed by their own lack of money. 

Though Lucas said what he said, he was seriously interested in playing the game, and he didn't lie when he said he was interested on how it was made, as an IT student, he was seriously curious about it. 

After finishing their meal, they gave their goodbyes and went for their next class. 

+ + + 

School has ended without a hitch, though, Lucas was still in a bad mood as the continued talk about [World Gate Online] around him. As an otaku, Lucas is really irritated over the fact that he can't play such a fantasy like game where he could play using his own body strengthened by the system, using magic, swords, defeating legendary monsters like dragons, he was put on a bad mood as he went back to his condo unit. 

After changing his clothes, he lazed around the unit either by reading mangas, watching animes, and reading light novels to forget his misery. Though his friends know him as the studious type with a bit of knowledge in animes and games, in reality, Lucas was a lazy person who would laze around like so though he isn't that into games but still played a few. For now, he avoided playing games as it will only remind him about [World Gate Online]. The reason why he kept it a secret was so that his parents won't be able to know about it through any means possible. So he created another personality of himself, the scholar, studious, know-it-all type. 

Even as he lazed around, he never forgets to do his homework and studies when there is an exam. So I guess you can really call him a genius to be able to get scholarship despite being actually lazy. Though, he probably never realized it himself. 

After being satisfied, he prepared dinner. Since he wanted to sleep early, he cooked a simple meal and finished it fast, this time, he made sure that he didn't open the TV to avoid hearing news related to [Portal] or [World Gate Online] and went to bed. 

"…A virtual world huh…must be nice to live in such a fantasy like world…" 

After he let out a mutter while staring at the dim ceiling, he finally closed his eyes. What he didn't know, that as soon as he wake up, something unbelievable would come that would change his world. 

+ + +



[12:00 midnight] 

*bzzz bzzz bzzz* 

A small light appeared in the room as Lucas continued to sleep. 

The small light which appeared came from his own mobile phone that vibrated as it received a message. 

New MessageCongratulations!!! 

You have chosen as one out of 1000 lucky people which were given their own [Portal] together with the game [World Gate Online]!!! 

[Portal] will be shortly delivered after 5 hours upon receiving this message!
Thank you for your time and good luck adventuring!

This is not my story. I find this really cool and unique, I posted it in this site to share this to everyone. The Original Author of this story was imaginexbreaker, it was posted in Japtem  and is still in Hiatus.

Lucas Lauwers, an ordinary college student submits an entry for the lottery to win the very first virtual gaming device and game on a whim and wins! He played the game for the first time without any information beforehand and joins a party. The party then encounters a boss level monster right of the bat and he was left alone by his teammates, he stumbles upon a hole and was able to get away from the boss monster only to be stuck inside the cave! Not being able to set the town as his resurrection point, the cave was set as default since he had rested there. With nowhere to go, what will Lucas do?

Update: Thursday and Friday

The specifications of the game were also written with great care. Players will receive tickets for driving offenses, fines for jaywalking, and in the event when the player gets hurt, they'll have to pay hospital fees too.
Of course, one good thing about the game was that players couldn't die, but could faint and recover in the hospital.
This game was designed with helping players feel the void they have in real life, as well as to utilize the biggest advantage VR games have.
Chen Mo left the room and walked around and indeed, everything looked really realistic, and the flaws suggesting that it was only virtual were barely noticeable.
For example, the bodies of the players aren't as detailed as in real life, similar to high quality CGI from his previous life. Although it looked incredibly realistic, you could tell it was computer generated.
This included the walls, tables, cars, street lamps... Although they were also very detailed, it was possible to tell that they were computer generated.
However, it still shocked Chen Mo that it was this detailed.
Of course, despite being named Earth Online, it was just a name, the developers didn't recreate the entire Earth.
Earth Online was just placed in a city, similar in size or slightly larger than GTA 5 in his previous world.
But the resources required to render one virtual city was incredibly eye watering.
After trying out some more features, Chen Mo exited Earth Online.
He didn't exit the game pod however, instead going into another VR game.
This was Zen Entertainment's poster child, and was one of the best performing VR games in China.
Chen Mo also tried it out a bit. The game was essentially a Wuxiao world in a VR environment. Other than the great feeling of being able to walk on air, its combat system as well as playstyle was fairly average compared to other MMORPG.
Chen Mo tried out another seven popular VR games before getting out of the VR pod.
Chen Mo felt tired after having played for around four hours, but at least he didn't have a headache or felt dizzy afterwards.
This was one of the problems of VR games. The players must be completely immersed in the game, meaning that all their senses are cranked up to eleven to take in all the information. Therefore VR games are as tiring as working a day job.
Players might even have to focus even more during key battles or quests.
Therefore, VR pod manufacturers recommend that players play for a maximum of eight hours at a time, taking a break afterwards. The players will face a test to test their cognitive abilities every time they log in. If they were considered to be tired, they would not be able to enter the VR world.
This was designed with the health of the players in mind.
However, this also exposed another flaw of VR games, they are much more taxing on the body than PC games.
Many would be able to play PC games through the night, and many teens would play over ten hours in one setting. They would also completely recover after those sessions after a good night's sleep.
However, you couldn't do that in VR games as it will forcibly close connections. It would most certainly affect the health of the players if they were allowed to play twenty plus hours in one sitting.
This was also a problem that wasn't addressed with current technology, severely impairing the expansion of VR games.
Many of the players would be working a day job, and after their job, they would go back home and do some chores, not to mention the need for a good night's sleep. They might only be able to squeeze out two or three hours for VR games during a workday.
They might have more time on weekends, but not by much, as it gets more and more difficult to have a calm relaxing weekend.
This was another reason people would choose PC or mobile games as their source of entertainment during their free time, because VR games were more physically demanding.
The rich and carefree would have much better things to do, such as planes and yachts, or beachside parties. They wouldn't be spending their time in a virtual world in a VR game.
There were various reasons VR games replacing PC games would still be a long time away.
In other words, with current technology, it's impossible for VR games to replace PC games.
Basically, when VR games came out it was groundbreaking, but everyone slowly got used to it.
Just like when the first triple A titles were released, drawing much attention from gamers. But as triple A titles got more common, they didn't even bat an eye.
---
According to Chen Mo's research, VR games could compete with PC games in these Genres.
First, action games, shooter games(FPS), or fighting games.
These games had a strong emphasis on realism, and were basically extinct on the PC ecosystem.
After all, shooting a gun in a VR game compared to a PC was a completely different ball game.
Second, adventure games.
There wasn't much to talk about, looking at views on PC compared to VR, or rock climbing or surfing on PC vs VR were completely different.
Third, RPGs. These were also quite significant, but with different reasons from the previous two. As RPGs didn't rely on being realistic at all, but rather the social aspect as well as the composition of the world.
A key point of RPGs was the roleplaying aspect, which is why the world they live in were hugely important as well. VR games took a huge amount of resources. Using the same resources, a PC could render a world ten times bigger than the VR world. In terms of richness, VR games couldn't keep up with PC games at all. 
Moreover, many developers would release PC versions of their VRRPG games to test the waters, only continuing development if it was well received. This meant that many RPGs were available on both VR and PC.
Therefore there were quite a few RPGs that were doing quite well on PC.
Fourth, strategy games, and business simulation games. These types of games weren't affected much by VR.
Because there was too much micromanagement required by the player, requiring them to play from birds eye view. Adapting them to VR only made it more satisfying to play, and didn't add much to the gameplay unlike the aforementioned genres.
Moreover, because of how big the investment was to develop a VR game, it would be wiser to make the first few genres rather than strategy or business strategy games.
Therefore, despite being challenged by VR games, PC games still remain competitive, and would likely remain so for quite some time.


Chen Mo liked calling himself a video game designer, despite being a mere video game producer.
After dying one day from work-related stress, he transmigrated into a parallel world as himself, right after he graduated. He was now in the body of his younger self, who also aspired to be a video game designer. 
Will he be able to fulfill his dream after being reborn in this oddly different new world, and become the best video game designer in that world?
Follow Chen Mo on his romp through video game classics as he brings the great games of the past to a whole new world in pursuit of his dreams!
Note: This Novel has been continued as a passion project by its translator. The continuation of this novel will not affect the result of Trial Reading or Voting Pool. 

Virtual helmet!
A virtual helmet similar to those depicted in web novels.
It was reported that Xing Hai Technologies had developed such equipment as early as 10 years ago. It had just never been fully promoted for civilian use. Only in the field of science; and only the few scientists who had attained the Supreme Laboratory in the game 100% Science Lab could acquire the virtual helmet for a better research experience.
Top scientists who had used the virtual helmet all made extremely high remarks about the device:
"God, at the moment I stepped into the Supreme Laboratory, I thought I had stepped into heaven."
"The experience is surreal. It's just like another real world."
"It's just like magic that sends my soul off to another place."
"The helmet is unparalleled. Next to the virtual helmet, all the other VR devices are garbage."
The scientists spoke with various levels of exaggeration and described the virtual helmet as something divine.
Was it really that great?
Many people expressed disbelief. Especially those players who felt that VR technology was already perfected and were already satisfied and happy with it—it was unacceptable to them to hear declarations that VR was garbage.
However, Xing Hai Technologies's virtual helmets were only for the scientific community. There were no more than a thousand scientists who owned the equipment. Ordinary gamers would have liked to verify the claims about the helmet themselves. But they couldn't get one, unless they became a top scientist. Unquestionably, this would mean reaching the highest level in Science—one of the most difficult games.
Was this even possible for the majority of ordinary gamers?
And so, as for the power of Xing Hai Technologies' virtual helmet was concerned, ordinary gamers with no chance of experiencing it for themselves drew conclusions on their own. With the same sort of curiosity, many people stuck their heads into the scientific community just to acquire a virtual helmet get the ultimate gaming experience.
This went on until May of federal sixth year, when a veteran gamer named "Aotian" attained the highest level in 100% Science Lab, spending around five years or so, and got his hands on a personal virtual helmet. That was the first time a professional gamer came into contact with the virtual helmet, which was originally meant for scientists.
After the helmet arrived in his hands, Aotian pulled off a worldwide live broadcast of himself unpacking, installing, configuring, and at last putting on the virtual helmet, hence entering the virtual world. His live broadcast lasted for 11 hours and amassed more than 100 million viewers at peak time.
After he had experienced the virtual helmet, Aotian took it off and held it in his hand. He then sighed and said to the camera: "Compared to this, all the other VR's are trash!"
Wow! The world was made aware of the virtual helmet's greatness.
The whole VR industry became tense. After all, game equipment that could simulate pain, touch, smell and taste was simply unfathomable for them. Just like ants meeting a god, they were trembling in fear. But soon after, the VR industry became breezy once again. They were skeptical about the virtual helmet.
They were still stuck on the same talking points: "why not sell it if you have stock?" Why would Xing Hai Technologies not promote such an astonishing piece of technology as their virtual helmets? Why were they forsaking such tremendous amounts of profit?
Treasures that could not be mass produced, no matter how great they were, would still be no match for garbage. And hence, tranquility and serenity prevailed. The VR empire could at least last for another 30 years.
However, on one day in August of federal eighth year, when Xing Hai Technologies suddenly announced their plans to enter the virtual online game industry and launch a "real virtual game" based on their virtual helmets, it directly triggered a depth bomb effect.
Inside dorm 302.
After reading through the news, Li Dong and the others immediately got excited.
Liu Yichen said, while rubbing his palms together, "This is great. Has Xing Hai Technologies finally had enough of this f*cking VR top up era? Hahaha, marvelous, splendid."
"Yeah. Things were all too calm and smooth in VR over the years. Many companies have forgotten who they are. For the sake of earning money, they've forsaken their initial resolutions, ideals, beliefs, feelings, fairness—everything. There's only one word left in their minds: money." Cai Qinghai clenched his fist.
"A game about interstellar warfare. Isn't this kind of game my specialty? Besides, it is a Xing Hai Technologies game, and we'll get to experience the unprecedented virtual helmet…"
Li Dong stroked his chin while nodding and said, "For our next game, let's choose this upcoming one from Xing Hai Technologies. Honestly speaking, Xing Hai Technologies is an invincible demon lord themselves, but at least they're kinder than other companies and would take care of the interests and feelings of most people."
"Yeah."
Cai Qinghai nodded, "At least technically, Xing Hai Technologies had never disappointed us."
Subsequently, in the City of the Eastern Sea chat group.
Li Dong forwarded the news about Xing Hai Technologies's forthcoming launch of their virtual online game on interstellar warfare, thus informing Mu Wanqiu of the news.
"I know about this."
Mu Wanqiu continued in the chat group: "Lots of people at my school are discussing this game."
"So, are you interested in that game? Want to play together?" Liu Yichen asked.
"Of course. But I'm not sure whether it would be a top up kind of game. If it's similar to those online VRs, and if the virtual helmet is, like, super expensive, I may have to consider a little."
Mu Wanqiu was also from an economically average family. She had not invested much in games. Moreover, she did not wish for a bad gaming experience.
"Um, I don't think that Xing Hai Technologies will make it that way. Games that require heavy top ups will generally not last over five years. Their player base will be like chives. But Xing Hai Technologies is an expert in making long-term investments. They usually look 10 steps ahead of things. Besides, they aren't a luxury brand. Most products they sell are relatively affordable. Maybe you should have some confidence in them," Li Dong analyzed. He had read a book called "Learning from Xing Hai Technologies' Success," and thus knew more about Xing Hai Technologies.
"Hmm. What you're saying makes sense."
...
In the succeeding period of time, Xing Hai Technologies released leaks at two- to three-day intervals, winning the eyeballs of many.
For instance, the name of the online game was preliminarily confirmed to be Galaxy Era.
The game's servers would never stop, unless for force majeure.
The realism of the game world would be 99.9999%.
The virtual helmet's comprehensive simulation degree would be up to 61%.
At present, the total production of virtual helmets had exceeded 10 million sets, and the average production cost had dropped to about 3,000 dollars. With the luxury versions as exceptions, regular versions would not sell for more than 4,000 dollars.
To ensure fairness, the game would not have any top-up system or in-game item market system, but in the future, a player trading platform would be established. Xing Hai Technologies would only draw a small amount of "tax points" from the player's trading activities.
After the above leaks were announced.
All the worries of Li Dong, Mu Wanqiu, and the others had vanished. They were left with only intense anticipation of entering the game.
The VR industry, on the other hand, was in extreme panic. As Xing Hai Technologies did not enter the VR industry previously, they naively thought that the company was turning its nose up on the field and had left them the whole "playground." They were laughing inside, and even thought that Xing Hai Technologies were morons.
What about now?
Once Xing Hai Technologies began to move, they had set on a course to devastate them all. All of them were smelling the scent of demise.


Through a mysterious portal, Chen Jin arrived at this strange place - a post-apocalyptic world where civilization had been destroyed. 

Consequently, he found -

A piece of metal scrap
A robot trash collector
A battleground
A city
A ton and more of gold
A copy of high-tech documents
A...
In short, Chen Jin found a planet.

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