LIGHTNOVELONLINE Chapter 1
Chapter 1: Reborn! Sword and Magic!
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
“News! News! Shocking news! The world’s first holographic game ‘Sword and Magic’ will be officially released tomorrow!”
“Tsk, your news is too outdated. The game helmet for Sword and Magic is already being sold today. The news must have spread all over the world by now.”
“The comment above, did you just find out? You should know that information about Sword and Magic has been actively promoted by the officials of the various countries. It’s the first time in history this has happened!”
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“Many people are guessing that there must be some shocking secret in this game. Otherwise, it would be ridiculous for the officials of various countries to have actively promoted it!”
“Putting that aside, this game offers a high degree of freedom. The GM is controlled by the game system itself, preventing all possible influences from the outside world. This is simply good news for the players!”
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“Ah!!! I want to enter the game right now! I really want to know what’s in the game in advance!”
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“You want to enter now? You even want to know what’s in the game?”
“Stop dreaming! Do you think you’re qualified to know what’s in the game in advance?”
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“You should know that with the appearance of the game, all the major forces in various countries have gone crazy just to buy information about the game world in advance. It’s said that the information about any of the classes in the game has been bid up to 500000! It’s simply inhumane! Perhaps the first batch of closed beta players will announce such information?”
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“It’s impossible! Before the game starts, everything in the game world will reset. Even the higher-ups of the various countries are unable to know the details in the game, so how could those powers possibly know? Those closed beta players will at most have an advantage in terms of character levels!”
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“What? Even the higher-ups of the countries don’t know? Then why are the various countries promoting it? Isn’t this too strange?”
“Tch! Who knows? Everyone says that there’s a big secret in this game. Otherwise, why are all the big forces and organizations from all over the world trying so hard to get in?”
“I do envy those first batch of closed beta players who entered ten days in advance of the release of the game! I’m envious to the point my soul is about to be separated from my body!”
“Never mind. On the day the game is released, I’ll be the first to buy and enter the game!”
“Ditto! I’m going that too! Maybe it will allow us, ordinary people, to turn the tables?”
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Standing on the street, a short-haired youth who was 1.78 meters tall looked at the viral news on his phone in confusion while he heard the various exclamations of the passersby.
“I didn’t expect that I would be reborn…”
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The short-haired youth was Jiang Bai, an ordinary third-year university student.
Three years ago, with the release of the world’s first holographic game, ‘Sword and Magic’, the entire world had been in an uproar.
With the various major powers from all over the world entering the world of ‘Sword and Magic’, it didn’t take long for the game to become the second ‘new world’ apart from the real world.
Countless people entered the world of Sword and Magic and went all out, trying to use this game to change their lives!
However, what everyone didn’t know was that the game “Sword and Magic” wasn’t that simple.
In the later stages, the game would connect with the real world, truly becoming the second real ‘new world’ other than the real world!
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Not only that, everything in the game would be manifested in the real world.
For example, angels, demons, dragons, behemoths, mountain giants, elves, phoenixes, kylins, and all sorts of creatures that only existed in myths and legends would be manifested in the real world.
It could be said that immortality was no longer a wishful dream once one entered the world of Sword and Magic. Even becoming a god was possible!
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The major powers in the various countries had found out about such a piece of information from God knows where, and thus they were crazily trying to obtain information about the game world.
However, this was futile. Let alone the fact that the officials of the various countries did not allow such circulation of information, but they simply had no way of finding out themselves.
The reason why they hadn’t tried to stop the release of the game “Sword and Magic” was because they could not do so at all. That was why they did the opposite and promoted the game widely instead, striving to nurture more high-level players for their respective countries in preparation for the new situation of intense battles that was coming soon!
All this did not have much of an impact on Jiang Bai.
As someone who had been reborn, he knew a lot of things that would happen in the future.
By using his foresight as an advantage, he could become one of the top players in the world!
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Thinking of this, a cold light flashed through Jiang Bai’s eyes!
In his previous life, when the game had just been released, he had unintentionally obtained an extremely powerful inheritance, but under the instigation of his girlfriend Zhang Chan, he had changed his class into a production-type class that focused on defense!
This caused him to have almost no combat ability. As such, he could only rely on Zhang Chan, who had chosen a class that was mainly for combat.
At that time, he had been dreaming that the two of them would help each other and grow hand in hand.
In his fantasies, they would be able to live happily ever after when he had grown and had obtained a huge sum of money by relying on his high-level production class skills.
However, the reality was cruel. Human nature tends to be cold.
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Just as he was desperately leveling up his skills every day, Zhang Chan had already hooked up with one of the members of the Slayer’s Guild. To gain the other party’s favor, she used Jiang Bai as a tool, crazily squeezing him dry of his value.
After the matter was exposed, Zhang Chan cooperated with the members of the Slayer’s Guild to maliciously kill him over a hundred times, causing his level to drop back to level 0. He even lost the powerful inheritance on him due to being killed so many times!
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With this, Jiang Bai missed the opportunity to experience the realization of the game world in reality in the later stages of the game!
This could be said to be the beginning of his tragic experience in his previous life!
Every time he recalled all the things that had happened in the past, his heart was filled with incomparable hatred!
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“This time, since I have been reborn, all those who have betrayed me will have to pay a tenfold or even hundredfold price! In this life, I will ascend to the peak of the world! I will become the strongest person in the new world!” Thinking of this, Jiang Bai’s eyes became clearer as his determination to follow through with the vow in his heart grew increasingly firm!
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He knew clearly that the world of Sword and Magic was not that simple.
Not to mention that in the later stages, the game would become reality, and all the legendary and mythical creatures would descend into the real world!
This also meant that the future could be said to be filled with incomparable dangers!
All the weak would become the victims of the experts from the major forces!
Therefore, before that, he had to become stronger as soon as possible!
At this moment, Jiang Bai’s phone suddenly rang.
He picked up the phone, ad Zhang Chan’s extremely domineering words came from the other side of the phone, “Jiang Bai! Where are you? Didn’t you say that you would accompany me to the brand store today to buy the latest limited edition cosmetics? Hurry up and come over here! To think you made me wait so long!”
“Get lost!!!”
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