Chapter 19

On the village road, Roland looked at the magic staff in his hand .

Magical items were very expensive, but Falken still gave him the staff . Was it a reward when his intimacy with the NPC surpassed a certain threshold, a prerequisite of a certain quest, or simply a choice that Falken had made as a human being?

Roland’s puzzlement was quite understandable . After all, he was now in a game .

According to common sense, since he was in a game, the item should be related to a quest .

Yet, Roland felt that it was not so simple . Both Falken and other people in the village impressed him as living souls with their own emotions, instead of NPCs . Although they were merely artificial intelligence according to the promotion of the game, Roland did not feel that they were any different from real people .

Was he really in an immersive game?

Or was it a real world with human beings in the flesh?

3Those people even had their own languages, customs, and history .

Could a game team have come up with so many things?

2Roland found it unlikely . If they were capable of that, they could’ve been hired by think tanks to infer the history and future of the whole world .

It was extremely sophisticated stuff .

Yet, the window of the system popping up before his eyes convinced him that he was only in a game .

1Name: Mini Sapphire Magic Staff (Excellent)

2Attributes: Casting Concentration +2, Magic Power Regeneration +1

Introduction: A rather common staff, but can be used for a lifetime if maintained properly .

Then, he looked at his own body, and another translucent window popped up .

Name: White Magic Robe (Excellent)

Attributes: Magic Power Regeneration +2

Introduction: An unattractive long robe, which is likely the very first gear for apprentices .

Roland sighed . He did not know how other players viewed the NPCs in the game, but as for himself, he could not consider the human-like NPCs as experience for him to level up as he did in other games .

2However, it was not a problem for him to kill the bizarre wildlife .

5The maple forest was right up ahead .

Roland looked at his staff and his longsword . Taking a deep breath, he walked into the forest slowly .

4As he pressed deeper and deeper, the woods became dimmer and dimmer .

The quiet here was occasionally interrupted by the chirping of birds from unknown corners .

Roland stepped on a thick carpet of rotten leaves, which crackled under his feet .

He smelled a strange smell of fermentation .

Despite knowing that he would be resurrected if he died, Roland inevitably felt scared in such an environment .

3He walked forward prudently and stayed on full alert . Even the tiniest noise would make his heart palpitate . He looked at the sources of the noises, and they were mostly caused by uncanny creatures .

This special feeling of fear and anticipation reminded him of Resident Evil 2, which he played when he was seven .

5It was both thrilling and enjoyable .

After another three minutes, Roland noticed white, broken spiderwebs at the bottom of the trees around him . He also heard the rattling sounds from ahead, as if someone was churning leaves with sticks .

1It must be the giant spiders .

Roland squatted and took a soft breath .

A giant, crimson spider emerged in the darkness slowly .

The spider did not seem to notice him, but Roland’s heart was racing as the spider approached . He remembered a famous line he read on the Internet .

Hesitation meant failure . A lion always tried its best even though it was only catching a hare!

Concentrating all his magic power, Roland launched a big blue fire ball the size of a basin .

6After shooting it out, Roland immediately ran back and crouched .

The fireball grew larger in size as it flew on . Soon, it reached the giant spider .

Most animals were scared of fire, and the giant spiders were no exception .

The fireball collapsed rapidly at first, before it exploded at an extremely high speed .

The sound and flare of the explosion suggested that a bomb had just been detonated .

1Before the giant spider realized what was going on, it had been consumed by the furious flames .

Then, fire and smoke rose like a tiny mushroom .

6Even though he was outside of the range of the explosion, Roland was flung away by an enormous blast .

7He was lifted with a pile of dry leaves and fell to the ground . Then, hot air brushed past his head .

Thankfully, the leaves were thick enough to prevent him from being hurt .

1Then, he struggled back to his feet, only to be rendered speechless by what he had caused .

Before him was a gigantic pit, with dark red magma flowing at the bottom . The trees nearby were burning and cracking . A stretch of land at least half the size of a football field had been razed to the ground by the explosion . Many trees leaned away in radial circles .

18Within the blast radius, nothing but a few tree trunks that had been reduced to charcoal could be seen .

Such power… Roland collapsed on the ground .

His magic power had been used up . The power of the fireball was much greater than back when he was in Red Mountain Town .

It was probably because his level had improved, and because the staff had enhanced his power!

1In any case, the power of the spell was beyond Roland’s imagination .

It was hardly possible for a melee class to do the same at the beginning phase of the game .

1He didn’t think Warlocks could achieve this, either .

It was said that the power to cast a spell for a Warlock was fixed or set to a certain ratio that could not be changed .

1It meant that… if compared to cars, Warlocks would be the AT ones, and the Mages would be the MT ones .

11As everyone knew, the best cars for racing were all MT ones .

Roland moved his body further away from the site of the explosion . He did not have much strength left .

Thankfully, it was rather damp in the forest, and the fire did not spread out but started dying out .

3Sitting still, he enjoyed the dreadful scene that he caused in fascination and satisfaction .

It was truly exhilarating to possess such a destructive power .

What couldn’t be done in reality could be achieved in the game . In this world that was almost entirely vivid, he could do things that he couldn’t imagine in the past .

The Mage dream he had when he was a little kid was now fulfilled .

Roland chuckled with ambitiousness and determination that he hadn’t felt in years .

A fantasy world of swords and magic was always the greatest romance in every boy’s heart .

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