Translator: Atlas Studios
Editor: Atlas Studios
July 1st, the day of the official open beta mode of the Chaotic Era.
When it had still been in closed beta mode, this game had already attracted a lot of attention. Bester Corporation was currently the most famous game manufacturer in the world, and Team Red Fox was the absolute backbone of Bester Corporation. To develop the Chaotic Era until the official open beta mode, it had taken them eight years of research and they had also lost money. However, even though the players were scolding them, they were also increasingly looking forward to it. When the closed beta mode had begun, due to the limited number of players participating, open beta test accounts of the Chaotic Era on the market had skyrocketed to 100,000 Credits. However, there was no market for that…
Fortunately, the closed beta trial had gone smoothly this time and there had been no major system bugs. Thus, the closed beta trial had lasted only one month before Bester Corporation had announced that it would officially enter the open beta stage.
For players, this was undoubtedly a huge surprise. Based on their past experience, many players thought that after the end of the closed beta trial, Bester Corporation would have insufficient funds. This was not an exaggeration. Bester Corporation had indeed gone through this. Although players also understood their attitude of constantly improving, waiting so much was still painful. This time, Bester Corporation was sensible enough to comply with the players’ request, which made countless people applaud them.
Since the news of this open beta trial had been announced abruptly, many players did not have time to prepare. Hence, after Bester Corporation announced the date for the open beta trial, a large-scale craze of equipment and account sales appeared in the market!
The rest of the game manufacturers gritted their teeth helplessly. They knew that this was caused by players who were preparing to switch to the Chaotic Era. The prices of various games had declined a lot. Many high-quality pieces of equipment were also dumped, but most of them were pieces of equipment that couldn’t be sold.
The reason was simple: Nobody wanted them.
Due to this large-scale sell-off, even the stocks of game manufacturers had fallen a lot and some of them had begun to announce layoffs. A small piece of news could trigger big turmoil. This was clearly the power of Bester Corporation!
Fatty was one of the people who did not panic. He clearly remembered the beta time of the Chaotic Era. Thus, he prepared what he needed and got ready for it.
On July 1st, Fatty sat before the controller. After connecting to the Internet, he began to wait.
He remembered that the beta trial would start at noon, but they could enter the queuing system three hours in advance. Because Bester Corporation would only open the first and largest region, there was only currently one server. Thus, in order to prevent a large number of network data applications from overwhelming the server, they’d had to adopt this queuing measure in advance.
Even a powerful server and network couldn’t withstand the link data of hundreds of millions of players. Maybe it would be able to withstand it in the future, but definitely not now…
Once it was 9 o’clock, Fatty logged in.
The projector faithfully performed its duty. In the empty study that Fatty had emptied long ago, the graphics were made up of countless light and dark colorful lights that were projected in the air.
The initial computer graphics were just like before. Bester Corporation’s logo was a huge artistic letter B.
Then, the computer graphics of the Chaotic Era began to play officially. Although they mainly included some action scenes of various classes of the game, it was really attractive. Fatty had seen that countless times before, but he still watched it again with great pleasure.
“The war between the Holy Order Assembly and the Dark Council has been going on for centuries. The reason the war started is no longer remembered. The long-term fighting has already deeply implanted hatred in the depths of their souls. Neither side wants to be ruled by the other. In order to survive, they must fight!”
“However, just as both sides thought that they would continue to fight like this for a long time until the world was destroyed, an accident happened. A long period of elemental chaos ensued, affecting the laws of this space. On a night that everyone remembers, a spatial rift was torn on the Carlos Mountains. Therefore, the Chaos Corps were formed!”
“No one knows where they came from. They only know that they brought endless death and destroyed countless villages and cities, leaving only undying flames behind. On the desolate and uninhabited scorched earth, the demons from the outer realm became the biggest crisis in the Aegean continent!”
“Survival or extermination? Both the Holy Order Assembly and the Dark Council have to face this difficult choice. The choice will depend on you, the newborn hero of the Aegean continent…”
The magnificent computer graphics finally ended with the narration. As Fatty gasped, the log-in page finally appeared.
“Please enter your social security number!” The system made a beeping sound.
Yes, there was no need to specifically register in the Chaotic Era. As long as one entered their social security number, one could enter role creation. In other words, a player could only have one character account.
Through the headset microphone, Fatty reported his social security number and successfully logged in.
“You are currently 124,653rd in the queuing system. You can create a character first. You can only enter the game after the server is turned on.”
Fatty entered the queuing system as soon as it was 9 o’clock. He hadn’t expected that he would rank higher than 120,000th upon entering. This made Fatty feel a pain in the *ss. He silently scolded the many idlers. He had not expected to also be one himself…
Since he couldn’t enter the game, Fatty could only follow the system’s prompts and create a character first.
System: “Please select the camp you want to join!”
When the projector screen switched, two huge signs appeared in the void. One was a golden shield embedded with a cross sword and surrounded by two wheat ears from the side. This was a symbol signifying protection that would put the Holy Order Assembly in order!
The other one was a huge red-purple fanged mouth. The fanged mouth of this unknown creature was wide open, seemingly letting out an angry roar. This was a symbol signifying survival and resistance against the Dark Council!
The two camps could create different characters and classes. Because Fatty didn’t plan to play the Berserker like before, he had to reconsider his choice of camp.
After thinking for a while, Fatty chose to enter the Holy Order Assembly. At his choice, the golden shield symbol turned forward, zoomed in, and then slowly disappeared. As the shield disappeared, the races and classes that could be created under the Holy Order Assembly were displayed before Tang Ji’s eyes.
“The Holy Order Assembly is committed to eliminating the chaos of the Aegean Continent. They long to establish a rule based on kindness and order. They have firm beliefs and faith. Anything that obstructs their faith will be eliminated, including the Dark Council and the Chaos Corps…”
In the Holy Order Assembly camp, there were three races to choose from. Fatty chose Scions, which was right at the front.
Scions, as the name suggested, was a group of descendants of the gods. This was the race with the most beautiful appearance and strongest physique. It was also the race that the players of the Holy Order Assembly chose the most in the Chaotic Era.
[Scions] Available Classes: Warrior, Wizard, Priest.
After looking at the character classes under each system one by one, Fatty shook his head and returned to the previous page, as he intended to take a look at the second race, the Human Race.
The Human Race, the most populous race in the Aegean Continent, had extraordinary creativity and learning abilities. The Human Race was all-rounded, so he could choose all the classes in the Holy Order Assembly Camp, and it was also the race that the players chose more.
[Human Race] Available Classes: Warrior, Wizard, Priest, Ranger.
In addition, the last race of the Holy Order Assembly was the Elf Race.
[Elf Race] Available Classes: Wizard, Priest, Ranger.
In the Chaotic Era, players had to go through four choices to create their character. The first was naturally choosing their camp, the second was choosing their race, the third was choosing their class, and lastly, choosing the player’s class finalization.
For example, if Fatty wanted to create a Berserker from Scions, he would have to choose the Warrior Class of Scions and the Berserker of that class. Then, he could finally complete his creation.
The Holy Order Assembly Camp’s classes were broken down as follows:
Warrior Class: Berserker, Shield Warrior, Paladin.
Ranger Class: Thief, Archer.
Wizard Class: Fire Mage, Ice Mage.
Priest Class: Priest, Grand Priest.
It could be said that the character classes of the Holy Order Assembly were the most orthodox classes of general online games. Nothing was outstanding, but the more orthodox something was, the more popular it was. This was because the players understood these classes, so it was not difficult to get started. Hence, when the players had chosen camps, they had mostly also chosen the Holy Order Assembly Camp.
The Berserker that Fatty used to play was a Berserker of Scions. This time, he wanted to try the Thief. However, after a lot of consideration, he planned to look at the Dark Council Camp first.
Thus, he chose to go back and enter the Dark Council Camp’s screen…