Chapter 85 The Stingy King
"God's Grace Continent?"
"A Western fantasy role-playing game in a different world. Players will play a brave man summoned by the king and go to a different world to recruit partners to defeat the devil..."
Early in the morning, Liang Xiaodong, who had just boarded "Star Emperor" and planned to conquer the road to immortality and find writing inspiration, suddenly saw an official announcement.
The announcement is simple.
The main purpose is to inform all players that Tianba Studio has developed a new game, which is now available for early access. Interested players can click on the link to browse more details.
Liang Xiaodong originally wanted to cancel the announcement.
How busy he is!
After getting inspiration from "The Road to Immortality", he still had to work hard to write words to satisfy the dissatisfied readers.
But he glanced at the announcement and suddenly became interested in this RPG game called "God's Grace Continent"...
What a coincidence!
Before transforming into an author of fairy tale novels, Liang Xiaodong first wrote Western fantasy novels.
He still remembers that his debut novel "The King of Special Forces in Another World" depicts a different world of swords and magic. At that time, he loved reading Western fantasy novels.
Elves, orcs, succubi and dragon knights are all his favorites.
The emergence of the ancient sacred book "Coiling Dragon" inspired his creative enthusiasm, so he got excited and started his career in writing online articles.
The game introduction description of "God's Grace Continent" reminded him of the Western fantasy novel he once wrote, so he became interested and wanted to see what this game was like.
Codeword?
Why code? Wasn't it just updated yesterday? Why update today?
Liang Xiaodong ignored his thoughts and even stopped playing the road to immortality. He clicked on the link in the announcement and found the game "God's Grace Continent" on the steam platform.
The game is in early access!
There is no official version or deluxe version. The only optional content is a 57-yuan early access trial version.
"Early access?"
Liang Xiaodong was a little hesitant, mainly because he had never bought a game in the early access stage. He heard from friends that early access is easy to get into trouble, and many games are semi-finished products.
Do you want to wait for the official version?
He took another look at the official announcement and the "release date" of the official version given by the Steam platform.
The official version will not be released until June, so we have to wait three months, which is too long...
Moreover, the early access version is cheaper than the official version. According to the official description, the official version should be priced at 68 yuan, which is a full 11 yuan more expensive!
"Forget it, buy first as a courtesy."
As a veteran player of "Star Emperor", Liang Xiaodong still has a good impression of Tianba Studio. He thought that 57 yuan was really good, so he simply bought it and put it in storage.
The game is about 4.76G and will be downloaded and installed in a short time.
[This game is in the early access testing phase, and some game content has not been unlocked. If you encounter any problems, please contact us in time through the built-in feedback channel...]
As soon as I opened the game, before the initial UI was loaded, a window popped up on the screen.
Liang Xiaodong glanced at it and didn't take it seriously.
During the early access phase, the official added a feedback channel in a prominent position on the game interface to facilitate players to provide screenshots or game bug information.
This is not the point, and Liang Xiaodong doesn't care about it. He only cares about whether the game is fun. If not, he will initiate a refund.
Do you really think that 57 yuan is not money?
"Let me see, a new beginning, old memories, game settings..."
Once you enter the game, you will see the UI interface of a regular stand-alone game. As the name suggests, a new beginning is a new game, and old memories are the archive interface, which is easy to understand.
After changing the game to window mode so that he could join the book club group to peek at readers' chats at any time, Liang Xiaodong created a new file and entered the game.
The screen slowly fades to black.
A line of words appeared: You woke up...
The screen brightened, and the protagonist of the game, a brave man who traveled from the modern world to another world, slowly stood up from the magic circle.
The hall is magnificent, and the decoration style looks a bit like a medieval church. There are a group of guards guarding the surroundings. There is also a gray-haired magician in a white robe and holding a staff in the crowd.
Tap tap tap!
The sound of rapid and dull footsteps came, and the king, who was wearing gorgeous clothes and a crown, walked in with his entourage.
Temple Mage: "Your Majesty, the legend is true, we have really summoned a brave man!"
King: "Great!"
Everyone was very excited, and the king even walked up to the brave man and asked about the brave man's situation.
The brave man had just traveled through time, his mind was in a state of confusion, and he didn't know anything about the king's questions.
Before the hero could clear his mind, there was a commotion outside the door. It turned out that the devil learned about the hero's summoning ceremony and sent monsters to destroy it.
In a panic, the king was taken away by the guards. The temple mage added a Buff to the brave man and handed him a long sword, indicating that it is your turn to perform, and this bad old man like me depends on your protection.
What to do?
I have no choice but to bite the bullet!
Brave VS Demonized Wild Boar, the first battle officially begins...
"Turn-based?"
After taking a look at the battle interface, Liang Xiaodong quickly figured out the general gameplay. After all, he has played many turn-based games, has never eaten pork, and has seen pigs running away, so he is not a complete novice.
The difficulty of the first battle after time travel is still very low. It basically gives players a novice tutorial to adapt to the fighting style.
"-57!"
After being bitten by two wild boars, the long sword slashed at the demonized wild boar. Soon the demonized wild boar turned into a puff of smoke and dispersed, and the battle ended.
[Get 5 copper coins, brave sword]
After the battle, Liang Xiaodong counted the harvest and found that the rewards were extremely stingy. Only 5 copper coins for such a big wild boar? Equivalent to 0.5 silver coins and 0.05 gold coins?
The brave sword sounded mighty and domineering, but in fact it was just like what the village chief called "the best sword in the village." The attribute dog shook his head when he saw it.
Forget it, it's better than nothing.
After beating away the demonized wild boar, the old temple mage told Liang Xiaodong that a terrifying demon king had appeared in Shen'en Continent and invaded the kingdom and abducted the princess. As a brave man, he needed to learn about the situation from the king.
Standard main quest!
There was nothing to say. After Liang Xiaodong got used to it, he went along the corridor to clean up monsters and miscellaneous monsters, raised the level to level 3, and met the king in the side hall of the palace.
The king was very angry and gave him a start-up capital of 10 gold coins. Then he waved his hand: Brave man, go defeat the devil and save the world!
"Good guy, it's hard for me to do things for you if you give a king such a small amount of money!"
Liang Xiaodong looked at the 10 gold coins in his backpack, full of contempt for the king.
You asked me to save your daughter, but I only gave you so little money and sent her to be a beggar? Can you be more generous when asking for help? The majestic leader of a country only has 10 gold coins in his pocket?
How shameless!