Chapter 81

Inside this thread, Roland clearly indicated the city he was at, set a time limit—best that they arrive in two days—and requested a priest who at least knew Lesser Healing and Abolish Poison . Of course, the more supporting spells the better . First come, first served .

Once the thread was up, it became a popular thread in less than a minute .

Roland randomly refreshed the page and a large number of posts appeared .

“S*it, I can only say, the strongest mage Roland proves himself again! To actually open a dungeon, as far as I know, this should be the first player who unlocked a dungeon in the game . ”

1“It might not have been unlocked by him . It should just be said that he’s the recruiter . After all, he’s famous on the forums, it’s easier for him to recruit party members . ”

1“Is no one curious about who the other three people partying up with him are?”

“I have white skin and beautiful looks, love to wear gothic style dresses, and can pull out a large weapon . Please take me as a mistress . ”

4“Upstairs, why is it you who’s driving off1 again . ”

“Driving off what, how come I don’t understand! (smirk)”

“Roland, if the dungeon drops have any good physical class equipment, this principal will reserve it . You name the price . ”

“Oh, sh*t, respect to Lord Principal1 . ”

“Oh, sh*t, respect to Lord Principal . ”

1“+1”

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Instantly, there were nearly two to three hundred copy-and-paste replies . Roland thought that this would continue, but in the end, someone forcibly stepped in and broke off this process .

“Roland, if there is magic equipment, this beautiful dancer will also reserve it . You name the price as well . If you want, I can also send you a signed poster, one with special benefits . ”

1The avatar of this post was Fan Six Hundred Million, with an authenticated name in gold .

Although Principal Huang was very famous, Fan Six Hundred Million was even more well known and also a beauty .

Beautiful women had prerogatives .

Once this post went up, the entire thread’s popularity exploded .

First, a huge group of players expressed that they also wanted signatures, and then someone replied how much they worshiped Madam Fan Six Hundred Million . However, for some reason, the posts became quite uniform in the end .

“I really want to become a member of the cavalry squad . ”

“I really want to become a member of the cavalry squad . ”

Then, in less than ten minutes, over ten thousand posts of this were in the thread .

Moreover, the repeated posts still continued .

These two celebrities really knew how to jack the popularity of a post . Roland clicked his tongue at this . If it were anyone else who saw that celebrities replied to their own post, they’d probably be on cloud nine .

However, Roland was quite composed . He didn’t follow celebrities and didn’t have a good impression of the entertainment industry . From his perspective, these two celebrities were just newsjacking—if they truly wanted to reserve equipment, they should have just privately messaged him and not posted directly .

Of course, this wasn’t disadvantageous in any way—at least it allowed his thread to be viewed by more people .

Then, he opened the back-end of the forum and found large amounts of system notifications as expected .

He first looked at the system notifications with tips . The tips that came from the thread on the insights of Language Proficiency barely surpassed ten thousand yuan .

There were roughly two thousand people who gave tips… an average of five yuan per person .

Although the money from tips was still quite a lot, there were clearly a lot fewer people donating .

This meant that the number of mages still continued to decrease . Roland remembered that at first there were nearly ten thousand people who gave him tips, though the average tip at the time was only around 1 . 5 yuan .

1This was mainly because magic was too difficult to learn . Even for Roland, who had the advantage of a hidden specialty, he still had to stay inside the Magic Tower to derive spells, having almost no time to stroll outside and enjoy the game .

Those players without hidden specialties who didn’t learn advanced math probably progressed not even half as fast as Roland in learning magic .

It would be natural for them to feel frustrated .

Under normal circumstances, the scarcer a class was, the more important it was .

if it were anyone else, they might hope that they were the only mage in the entire world .

However, Roland clearly knew that mages, a highly technical class, needed more people to better develop and progress further . With more people, there would be more schools of magic that emerged . The compiled insights and experiences of everyone would be able to push the mage class rapidly forward .

In the neighboring warrior forum, there were various strategy guides and all sorts of types of warriors—agility type, physical charm type, balanced type, physical intellect type, and so on .

This resulted from different combinations of attributes, and after that, there were even schools of sword techniques .

Currently, apart from the basic military sword arts, the learning prerequisites and instructor NPCs for other advanced military sword arts were also discovered . Many people had already started to learn them .

There were even fortified sword arts from reality like Wudang Swimming Dragon Sword, Mount Tai Goose Descending Sand Sword, and so on .

Moreover, the types of weapons were also different, and even with the same sword arts, the effects were also slightly variable .

There were also sub-branches of the warrior class . For example, a shield warrior, a magic swordsman, a battlefield commander, a berserk warrior… if these sub-branches were all listed, there would be a dozen more names .

Finally, there was a difference in specialization… The specialization that each person chose was different, resulting in different fighting habits . The same class, and the same sword arts, and the same weapons would unleash different effects .

This was truly like a hundred flowers in bloom .

The majority of warriors were quite frank . Whenever they discovered something fun or had any insight into something, they would publish this enthusiastically and wait for other players to compliment or boast about them . If they were wrong and mocked, at most they would just shoot their mouth off, forget about it afterward, and play the game enthusiastically again, killing small monsters .

Since warriors were so vivacious, they had the highest population and took up almost 50% of all players .

On the other hand, on the mages’ boards, there were only one or two people writing about their insights and experiences .

Out of all the pinned and featured threads, over half were Roland’s handiwork .

One could imagine just how much the popularity of the mage class had dropped .

What was even more lamentable was that in the community of warriors, there was already a small group of elite level-five players who could select a subclass .

On the side of warlocks, there were also a few players who selected a subclass .

On the side of mages, Roland assumed that he was probably the most advanced at level four . The majority of other mage players were all still at level two .

On the mages’ message boards, he saw many disheartened posts, lamenting that the mage class wasn’t one that people could easily play .

Warriors were traveling everywhere, killing monsters, embracing women, drinking wine, leading a luxurious life, and leveling up just by bragging .

Whereas mages were calculating and deriving magic models every day, scrunched up in a small place without ever seeing daylight .

Their temperament and image became gloomier and gloomier .

Many mage players said that if they couldn’t learn a certain spell in a certain amount of days, they would delete their accounts and change to another class .

Roland felt somewhat dispirited from reading this . He turned off his computer and rode a public bike to the miaodao club in the suburbs .

Breakfast had already been made . Seeing him arrive, Night Tide Sands ladled a bowl for him .

Even after eating the hot steaming noodles and drinking the tasty herbal soup, Roland’s mood didn’t improve much .

Standing on the side, Night Tight Sands peeked at him and then placed down her bowl and chopsticks and ran off . Shortly, she returned with a comb of bananas, distributed one to each person, and said, “Noodles for breakfast isn’t enough—supplement with some vitamins . ”

Roland ate the banana, and his mood became slightly better .

Yes… bananas were a happy fruit, some elements inside could make people happier .

After throwing away the banana peel, Roland stood up, went to the storehouse to acquire his own wooden miaodao, and went to the large shed to find Qi Shaoqiu .

“Just directly teach me the sword routines,” Roland said seriously . “I want to learn faster . ”

1Night Tide Sands carried a bucket over . She wanted to spray water on the cement ground to do some cleaning . Upon hearing his words, she almost let the water spill out of the bucket .

Qi Shaoqiu took a glance at his younger sister and said expressionlessly, “No, we’ve accepted your money, so we have to take responsibility to teach you properly . Get the basics down first!”

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