Game of the World Tree - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Final Preparation
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations

In Li Mu’s opinion, every moment of the 10-minute-long promotional film could easily cost a great deal of money. The company must have been so rich that it dared to squander money like this…
If Li Mu was going to give a mark for the promotional film, he had to give it 99 marks out of 100. He took off one mark, lest the company might be too proud.
Scenes, personas, music, special effects… All were absolutely at the top of the industry. People could even watch it like a movie.
No, most movies were not even at this level…
And he was also very curious about the so-called thought-accelerating technology.
However, unlike other netizens, Li Mu did not immediately become enthusiastic about the game after watching the promotional film.
On the contrary, he was very composed now.
“The promotional film is terrific indeed, but… can the game really be like the promotional film?”
Numerous facts had proved that many games were greatly exaggerated as virtual reality had just become popular nowadays.
Although the promotional film of The Kingdom of Elves had a great effect, it did not mean that the game was really like the promotional film.
Li Mu closed the web page of the promotional film and ran the search engine to search on the spot. Sure enough, he found that The Kingdom of Elves had already triggered wide-ranging discussions on various social network sites.
Obviously, a promotional film of such high quality, combined with a mysterious new technology, had already attracted the attention of netizens.
Li Mu was actually in such a state, too. He was also very curious.
Regardless of other factors and although he had never heard of this game company, he could tell that this work was absolutely great!
After all, the company had apparently spent so much money as if they were burning money from hell. Li Mu supposed that the cost was even higher than that of many virtual reality games that were already for sale.
Under the circumstances, he decided to rethink it. He felt that even if worse came to worst, the game would not be too bad…
Moreover, he was deeply interested in that “thought-accelerating technology.”
In addition, since the promotional film of The Kingdom of Elves had already triggered public opinions, it was the best video material for his live-stream at the same time…
Thinking of this, Li Mu nodded.
“This game deserves a try.”
Then, he clicked the game’s link to sign up.
The web page changed again, leaping to the official site of The Kingdom of Elves.
The official site was crude as if an amateur had carelessly made it. Li Mu seriously doubted whether this was the same company that produced the promotional film with special effects.
Although it was crude, it contained all the essentials, including discussion forums, message boards, and profile fields.
Li Mu glanced at the site and clicked the link on the homepage to sign up.
The scene changed, leaping to the web page for signing up.
“Welcome to sign up for the pre-OBT of The Kingdom of Elves on June 1.”
“For the sake of your game experience, please fill in your identity information and other related facts. Thanks for your cooperation…”
Li Mu was not surprised at the requirement to sign up.
As virtual reality games were highly enchanting, the government had made regulations one year ago that people had to sign up to play games with their real names. 1
He quickly finished filling in his information and clicked to sign up.
“You have signed up successfully! You are the 515,494th player to sign up for The Kingdom of Elves. Thanks for your participation!”
Li Mu opened his mouth slightly as he saw the number.
“Wow! More than 500,000 players have signed up… It’s too exaggerated…”
“Can the server operate well?”
Servers of virtual reality games were much more powerful than those of ordinary Internet games!
He was a little surprised and then continued to read.
“The quota of the first batch of the pre-OBT is 300. Within one week, we will choose randomly from those who have signed up. Please regularly check your emails and messages.”
“Thanks for your understanding and support!”
Li Mu was left speechless.
“300? Are you joking?!”
At this moment, he wanted to smash the keyboard.
His expression changed and Li Mu drank all the coffee in one sip.
“It does not matter. If worse comes to worst, at that time, I can borrow an account to play the game.”
Most of his anticipation was now gone. Li Mu shook his head, closed the web page, and went to hunt for his other prey…
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Time flew.
In the forest of elves, in the ancient world of Sagas.
Nearly a month had passed. Now, the World Tree was different from before.
Although most of the branches were still withered, some branches below and at the top were already imperceptibly green.
Eve did not do it on purpose. As He revived, the World Tree instinctively started repairing itself.
Although this process was slow and the World Tree was still dying, He could recover slowly without doing anything as long as He had time… 1
But the process would be too long. It could take tens of thousands of years to be in His prime again without outside help.
Of course, Eve would not wait. After all, who knew whether strong enemies would come for Him.
These days, He ordered the oak guard to clear all the threats in a 10-kilometer radius, in preparation for the pre-OBT of the “game.”
In the future, this place would be the elf civilization’s base camp.
Meanwhile, He spent three points of divine force to build a protective fence, covering the largest area within His control–a 10-kilometer radius so that outsiders could not see the change the World Tree was making.
This was only because Eve was at His weakest in this period of time. He had to take steps to ensure that He would not be disturbed before He reached 100 points of divine force.
When His points of divine force reached 100, He could formally rid Himself of the dying condition. Meanwhile, He could create a manifestation and use His abilities more conveniently as well.
Glancing at His condition, Eve sighed.
“I still have 11 points of divine force… I hope that The Kingdom of Elves won’t let me down.”
Because Berserker, the oak guard, destroyed a band of orc hunters again, He was able to maintain His points of divine force beyond 10.
Nevertheless, the constant appearances of orcs made Eve vigilant.
Eve was already sure that there was an orc tribe near the forest of elves. Although this orc tribe could not be counted as powerful among many orc tribes, it was so close to the forest of elves that it was a threat indeed.
Furthermore, behind the orcs there was one of the World Tree’s chief opponents–Ullr, the god of winter and hunting. 2
Unfortunately, Eve now only had control over a 10-kilometer radius, and He only had limited power. Berserker alone was too weak to exterminate the orc tribe in one move…
“Perhaps I can give this task to the first batch of players after they come and upgrade to a certain ranking…”
“The ranking of one is still too low. At that time, I can first help them break through the stage of apprentice through assignments and upgrade to rank 11, Low Iron…” 1
In fact, according to Eve’s strength, it would not cost many points of divine force to directly give players the power ranking of 11. But in order to prevent the players from dying easily, He still decided to fix the players’ power rankings to one after they came here and after they were resurrected.
At least, it would be the case in the beginning.
“In this way, those people should appreciate their lives? And it will also be easier for me.”
The range of the players’ activity was much larger than Eve’s. He did a test and judged that now the elf bodies He created could connect with Him within a 100-kilometer radius. The link would sever if the players strayed farther from Him.
Sure enough, His believers could connect with Him in a more distant place. This was because a faith path existed between believers and their god could connect them.
But as an individual from the blue planet, Eve did not expect His fellows to provide faith for Him. After all, this was only a game for them.
According to Eve’s plan, a 100-kilometer radius was also the largest range of the first players’ activity. In order to prevent the players from getting lost, He had already preset a mechanism for connecting the players with the World Tree whenever they went out of the range and delivered them back forcibly.
In addition, the range of the players’ activity could expand with the increase in Eve’s power. If He achieved mighty divine force, He could even enable the players to walk freely in the whole world of Sagas!
Then, Eve filled His consciousness into the space of His godhead again…
After doing a test on the operation of the game system in His mind, Eve felt that there was no problem. His attention concentrated on the center of His tree crown again.
300 oval balls of light, flickering faintly with an aura of life, hung there.
They were the first batch of bodies He created.
Since the bodies were mature and the mechanism for resurrection was preset, He would decide on the players next and prepare to welcome the lovely people!
Eve was very satisfied. He connected with the Internet world of the blue planet again and started choosing the players who showed potential to be exploited.
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