Chapter 1422 - 1418: Becoming the Arena Boss
Wendy Starling hurriedly took a sip of water, eating the dry food brought by Chloe Winston. Before she could speak, the mechanical male voice echoed.
"Welcome to the Medieval Arena, here are the game rules. Each player please choose a holographic device, verify identity to enter the Arena, and start the gladiatorial game. Players begin with an initial score of 0, win a match to gain 2 points, lose a match to lose 1 point, all scores are cleared daily. Please arrange game time reasonably, do not get addicted to the game."
After the mechanical male voice finished, the hall suddenly quieted down, no sounds could be heard anymore.
"These are the game rules? Didn’t mention the conditions to clear the level?" Desmond Wood was dumbfounded and said.
"Exactly, once I and Charles Taylor entered this level, we kept on gladiatorial fighting in the game without knowing how to pass it. Charles Taylor said that no matter what, we must become the boss of the Arena. So he’s constantly accumulating points." Wendy Starling said while eating the snacks brought by Chloe Winston, eating so quickly she almost choked.
Chloe Winston handed her water and asked, "Is this holographic technology?"
"Yeah, this technology is seriously impressive. When we put on the helmet, it feels like we’re entering a virtual Arena, can see our own image. Before fighting, we need to set various values ourselves, then watch our virtual self duel with beasts or humans. Although we don’t physically participate, there are neural pain sensations, one-tenth as real, if the virtual character gets hurt, we feel half-dead painful." Wendy Starling, speaking somewhat chaotically, but Chloe Winston still understood.
Today’s technology ultimately cannot enter the true holographic era. Whether it’s the 3.5D game developed by Constantine Stewart or this so-called holographic device, they can only rely on system-generated virtual values to construct a virtual character, but this is already a remarkable progress.
No wonder Century Park, Constantine Stewart invested a billion.
"I’ll go try it first." Ke Lian heard them talking nonsense for a long time, already somewhat impatient, spontaneously chose a holographic device, put on the helmet, entered the virtual Arena, then like Charles Taylor, closed his eyes, oblivious to everything outside.
Wendy Starling could see that Chloe Winston and Ke Lian definitely had friction, but watching the live broadcast camera, nothing could be asked.
In the live broadcast room, this time six guests were in the same level, the live broadcast room was almost bursting, WinterWarm cp fans all crowded into Chloe Winston’s live broadcast room, while Charles Taylor’s fans and WarmWhite cp fans all went to Charles Taylor’s live broadcast room.
"This show completely refreshed my outlook on variety shows, really too too too too 666666666."
"Holographic technology? Holy crap, this Century Park is awesome, this advertisement is going against the heavens, begging for opening hours, I want to organize a group to visit."
"Whimper whimper whimper, feels so hard, I’m not as smart as the young lady, feel like I won’t pass through."
"Century Park’s official Weibo said, the variety show chose the six difficult levels from Century Park’s high-difficulty levels, Century Park has over 100 challenge levels. The publicly open ones are low to medium difficulty levels. By modifying the difficulty, there can be over a thousand gameplay modes, Weibo is exploding."
"I give this wave of advertisement full marks."
"Am I the only one concerned about how Miss is passing this level? What is Mr. Ji doing?"
"Has anyone gone to Mr. Ji’s live broadcast to see it, holy crap. Clearly the same level, but feels like they are doing two different tasks."
"The male god is truly handsome to the point of storm crying, only a pity he’s not someone from the circle, this is probably the only variety show Mr. Ji participates in, whimper whimper whimper."
The picture in Constantine Stewart’s live broadcast room is drastically different from Chloe Winston and the others. Slave Master Asger’s life naturally differs from the Arena’s slaves.
Before the live camera, Chloe Winston chatted with Wendy Starling then planned to personally explore the Arena.
She put on a metallic helmet, sat on the sofa chair, verified identity, and entered the virtual game.
She has played real 3.5D games with Constantine Stewart, so she is not unfamiliar with such virtual projections. The interface pops out an ancient arena, with slaves chained and locked in stone-built houses, the Arena’s guards fiercely whipping the slaves, driving them to duel.
The interface pops out a dialog box: Slave 4023 enters the Arena?
Chloe Winston clicked yes.
The system continues to pop out a dialog box: Please choose an Arena.
Below are three choices, Arena Zone 1, Zone 2, Zone 3.
Chloe Winston directly selected Arena Zone 1, and immediately the Zone 1 Arena ranking list popped up. Zone 1 has one thousand slaves, as player scores are cleared daily, while the virtual world only requires the slaves to battle three times a day. Death means removal from the list, hence the highest score is 6 points, from a virtual slave who won all three matches that day.
Chloe Winston found Charles Taylor’s name on the ranking, he also entered Zone 1, currently has 2 points, fought 4 times, two wins and two losses. At the end of the ranking list is a red warning: Warning! Player’s body is in extreme condition.
Chloe Winston closed the ranking interface, then system prompts: Arena will open in five minutes, ten slaves against a tiger, players please prepare for battle.
Duel with the beast? Chloe Winston hesitated for a moment, then clicked on her character interface, found many Attributes with plus-minus signs, immediately decreased Intelligence value, increased it on Agility, reduced other values to the minimum, focused solely on piling Agility and Strength, then selected bow and dagger as weapons.
Five minutes later, the Arena opened, Chloe Winston found her image had turned into a female warrior, carrying a bow, a quiver with default ten arrows, a dagger strapped to her waist.
The guards opened the iron gate, driving ten slaves into the Arena, Chloe Winston felt a shift in the scene, she was already standing in the Arena, countless Slave Masters atop the podium, when the iron gate released hungry tigers after three days, a wave of enthusiastic cheers erupted from above.
Knowing it’s a game, she still felt a deep sense of crisis, feeling small, life on the brink.
The slaves spontaneously grouped together, clustered, watching the beast continuously approaching, clenched the weapons in their hands tightly.
The tiger let out a low growl and charged forward, Chloe Winston already drawing her bow, firing the first arrow, the immense impact causing her right arm to faintly strain. She had no time to think more, swiftly fired the second arrow. The charging tiger got shot in the hind leg, letting out angry cries, charged into the circle, killed a slave, then straight towards Chloe Winston.
Chloe Winston, with all Attributes piled into Strength and Agility, narrowly avoided the tiger’s massive claws, fired the third arrow, then the fourth, dodged while shooting. The beast was completely enraged, shot twice, bit her left leg, tearing off a piece of bloody flesh.
Chloe Winston was flipped to the ground, body agonizing, while the tiger already opened its bloody maw at her. She instinctively pulled out the dagger, relying on high Agility and petite frame, lifted the dagger, rushed towards the tiger, went directly under its belly where it was most vulnerable, sliced open a long bloody cut, then got pressed down by the tiger.
Arm strained by bow shot, shin bit off a chunk, dagger’s impact shook her shoulder slightly pained, Chloe Winston, pressed under the tiger, felt blood dripping onto her face. With all her might, pushed away the dead tiger, a thunderous applause and shout erupted from the stands.
The system’s icy voice sounded: "Slave 4023 won, earned 2 points, currently has 2 points, 1 battle, ranks 145th in Zone 1 ranking."
Listening to the system, Chloe Winston knew it was virtual projection, still wiped the blood off her face, her right hand kept trembling, shin also ached, hadn’t snapped back from a life-or-death duel. Virtual projection too vivid, she felt an instant near death.
Living in modern times, damn lucky!