After lying on the bed for a while, Lin Xiao put on his clothes and went out, ready to grab some delicious food, probably as a celebration for acquiring first place in the placement test at the end of the month.
He called a taxi via the taxi-hailing application. When he opened the door, a silver-white aircraft stopped at the entrance of floor 123 on his building.
The house he was staying in wasn’t where his family lived, but an apartment that his parents bought for him in Dongning City. There were a total of more than 500 floors, and he lived on the 123rd.
In this ultra-fantasy and ultra-sci-fi era hundreds of thousands of years from his last life, tall buildings like this were everywhere. It was nothing surprising at all.
The planet Lin Xiao was currently in was still Earth, but he didn’t know if this was hundreds of thousands of years into the future of the Earth which he lived in his previous life or another Earth in a parallel universe.
On one day some 200,000 years ago, the Game of Deification appeared out of thin air. At that time, everyone thought it was just an ordinary game, but as the first player of the game became a God and unlocked the mystery of the game, only then did people learn that this was no ordinary game, but a real Game of Deification.
Players log into the game, establish a Divine Realm in subspace, develop their Divine Realm, invade the crystal shells in the Chaotic Void Ocean on the other side of subspace, plunder resources, fight for their religion, seize Godhead, and at last accumulate tremendous force onto themselves, achieve supreme Divine Power, and become a God among Gods.
By the present era, Divine Realms had slipped into all aspects of civilization. After graduating from 12-year elementary school, all citizens would participate in a comprehensive assessment, including theoretical knowledge, psychological tests, and so on.
Those that were eligible would acquire a one-time opportunity to establish a Divine Realm. For those who succeeded, naturally, they would become an official player in the Game of Deification and enter a middle school that specialized in bringing up Gods.
For those who failed, they wouldn’t get a second chance. They could only attend an ordinary high school, learn all kinds of professional knowledge, and after they graduated, becoming an ordinary person was their only option.
Hence, in this ultra-fantasy civilization, not everyone was a God. More than 90% of people were still ordinary people, living together with the players of the Game of Deification.
Gods and mortals were naturally divided into classes. It couldn’t be avoided. The ruling class of the Federation was all Gods, and mortals had almost no chance of entering the ruling class.
However, this was an ultra-modern civilization after all. The slogan of the Human Federation was that all beings are equal.
It was inevitable for Gods to have privileges, but it wasn’t that ordinary people didn’t have the chance to alter their fate. The Federal Constitution stipulated that any descendant of ordinary people was eligible to participate in the annual comprehensive examination. As long as they passed, they would have the opportunity to establish their own Divine Realm.
Whether they would succeed was another thing, but the opportunity would be given to everyone.
Many of the Gods nowadays were born ordinary humans hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years ago. Whether one could become a member of the privileged class depended entirely on their own ability and luck.
Because of the existence of the rising ladder guaranteed by the constitution, even if the class privileges of Gods were obvious, the structure of civilization was still as stable as Mount Tai.
Lin Xiao was very lucky in this lifetime as he was directly born into the privileged class. The most intuitive privileges were——
Tuition was free, and he would receive a large sum of living allowance on a monthly basis. Even taxis only cost half the price, not to mention other priorities.
For instance, mating privileges. Should he and an ordinary person woo the same lady, his success rate would be 99% higher right at the very beginning.
The aircraft passed through the high-rise buildings of the bustling cities and came to a thousand-story skyscraper. On the central wall of the huge skyscraper there was an extremely large light screen that had the poster of an impeccably delicate goddess on it.
Lin Xiao was very familiar with this beauty. Her name was Leng Qingxuan, one of the 10 great entertainers of the Human Federation. At the same time, she was a true Goddess with intermediate-level Divine Power who had the Divine Role of Dance, Femme, Talent, etc., and a level-12 Godhead.
Each of the federation’s ten great entertainers had Divine Roles in areas such as music talents and were at least True Gods.
In this era, having beauty alone but no talent wouldn’t propel one to fame.
The aircraft entered this million-square-meter building, passed through a very long passage, and stopped at a berth similar to a high-speed rail station.
After payment, he snapped his fingers, and a flying board hung in the slots on the edge of the platform flew over and hovered below his feet. He stood on it, and the flying board automatically ventured forward in the air.
Flying out of the platform, a prosperous commercial street could be seen. At a glance, it was full of humans and colorful neon lights.
Lin Xiao familiarly made his way into an alley beside the street. The inside was a snack street. He found a shop with the sign ‘Second Brother Beef Noodles’ and sat down. When the cook who was making noodles saw him, he smiled and pointed one finger. “Same order?”
“Please.”
He looked around. The shop’s business was doing pretty great.
After a short while, a large bowl was placed in front of him. He picked up the chopsticks and stuffed a large piece of hot vermicelli into his mouth.
“Delicious!”
The piece of beef was half a palm long, and it tasted fresh and delicious. Since Lin Xiao had discovered this shop, he would visit once almost every week.
After he gobbled up this bowl of vermicelli that was as huge as a tiny basin, he wiped his mouth, made his payment, greeted the cook, and left.
He then wandered on the streets for a while. Those on the bustling street were mostly ordinary people. There were very few divine beings like him or even demigods. The commoners would occasionally bring their entire families to have fun in these streets.
These were all people that had graduated and entered society who could not become a demigod and thus were stranded on this plane of this crystal shell. Their only option was to find a job in reality and place their hopes on their next generation.
Basically, those that had the potential to become a demigod or were already a demigod would seldom linger in reality. Most of the time, they would remain in the plane of some crystal shell amid the Chaotic Void Ocean. In modern terms, those places were called the Outer Domain.
Just like Lin Xiao’s parents. They were now in a plane of crystal shell AX-14. That was the plane where his family’s fortune was built up, which also served as the family’s default plane in the Chaotic Void Ocean. The two True God elders of his family would be in that place all year round. Most of the humans were also in that plane cluster.
When Lin Xiao was a child, he overheard a conversation between the adults. He heard that his family was currently assaulting a massive plane with several indigenous gods. He didn’t know if they have managed to capture it.
These issues were still quite distant from him. At this stage, his main task was to study hard. Only if he failed to enter university would he return to his family’s plane, use his family resources to become a demigod, and then work for the family.
Lin Xiao was only in the tenth grade at present. After the class distribution in eleventh grade, if his performance was as good as before, showing that he had the potential to become a True God, he would obtain the family’s funding and acquire a large number of extremely rare cards to improve his strength.
This was the benefit of having great backing. As long as one could showcase their potential, resources would find their way to them.
This was very important to Lin Xiao. After all, even with the cheating system, if there was no card in his hands, he would be like a great cook with no ingredients to work with.