Chapter 30: System Update

Shi Fan opened up his eyes after logging outside of the game. Opening up his virtual cabin he immediately checked for the time.

"5:00 A.M huh," Shi Fan said to himself as he is changing his clothes while looking at the clock at the wall.

Opening up his room he immediately searched for her any signs of her sister.

"Strange, Jieun should be awake by now." Shi Fan was baffled. After all, since birth, Shi Jieun was always an early bird. As a baby, she would always wake up and cry at the break of dawn every single time making the entire Shi Household awake as well as setting their entire body clock to accommodate Shi Jieun's incessant crying.

"It must be that she's under space shift." Shi Fan came to that conclusion on why is his sister is still not awake. As he also experienced that same phenomenon when he first arrived on the planet.

Like jetlags that we experience during airplane travels, there is also a term for space travel, that term is called space shift. It normally occurs during traveling to another system as the system's gravity, planet temperature, celestial body rotation, and distance from their neighboring star differ from where they traveled from. As some planets have almost 36 hours for 1 whole day while some are just 15 hours.

Shi Fan's former planet has 25 hours per day while on planet Xenovia is 24 hours per day even though their days differ their yearly rotation is practically the same.

Opening up Shi Jieun's room he sees that she is still sleeping soundly.

"Time to make breakfast." He walked towards the kitchen to start his routine while contemplating on what to cook. He opened up the pantry and as he expected there are at least 30 eggs inside. He angrily looks towards his sister's room and he averted his attention towards the eggs.

Seeing as there is no other choice he planned to do a lot of egg dishes which consist of omelet, scrambled eggs, poached egg as well as his expertise the egg rice. But he remembered that he doesn't have enough Xenovia Rice left for the two of them.

He went out of his apartment and immediately jogged towards the nearest convenience store to buy rice. While jogging the huge televisions at the company buildings are already showing the news of the new system update of the game. They will also add a new forging material which they called "Star Dust". Developers said it will help increase the forging chance when applied and have the chance to gain the "Spark" passive which increases damage to enemies while using fire or thunder type attacks.

"It seems they are now planning on increasing the players taking the Forger side jobs." Shi Fan muttered to himself after seeing the news.

In the entire Emperor Online population, the most populous side jobs are the Alchemists as it is easier to earn money there because forging high leveled equipment is very hard compared to producing high leveled potions.

This is why forging is only the second most populous side job followed closely by merchants. By increasing the number of items that adds forging chance they will be able to stabilize the balance of the three side classes but the most benefitted from this update is without a doubt the forgers.

In the late stages of the game, fire typed attacks are seen to be more powerful than other elements as they also add powerful damage over time buffs. This is why more and more adventurers are opting to change their skills and weapons to fire-based ones to increase damage output. The new material will surely attract numerous players that focus on fire or electric type builds on their characters.

Leaving the convenience store after buying some rice he immediately headed home to cook breakfast. Due to the distance of the convenience store, it almost took him 45 minutes to go back and forth.

The moment he arrived he sees that her sister has now changed her sleeping area from her room to the living area's sofa. If her courters will see this they will be surely shocked that their goddess had this type of behavior. Shi Fan, however, is already used to this as the first time she does after waking up is. To sleep again.

Shi Fan immediately frowned upon seeing her and immediately headed towards her room to get a blanket to cover her up as currently her legs are splitting out wide and her arm is covering up her eyes.

After he was done he immediately headed towards the kitchen to cook breakfast. After cooking and setting the table he strode outside to wake up his sister.

"Hey hey", Shi Fan said while slowly slapping her. Seeing as there's no response the speed of slaps increased.

Shi Jieun sensing the flurry of slaps immediately waked up and looked angrily at her brother before her. "Still sleeping shoo sho," she said while shooing her brother away.

Shi Fan returned back to the kitchen and upon remembering something he looked somewhere and he smiled. "It's 6 AM now."

Shi Jieun that returned back to sleep immediately woke up and sat down on the sofa. "WHAT!"