"What tier is Titiana at?" Vice-Chief Liu asked Yue Jing
Before she could reply, the humanoid being reappered directly in-front of the screen. They saw that it has a damaged armor set and reddish skin. After a while it started speaking.
"Skala Anur, rubento karati?" it seemed to asked.
"....."
"Is that demon toungue?" asked Vice-Chief Liu
Yang Sun answered him instead, "It seems similar to demon tongue."
"Skala Anur, rubento karati?.... Adual lasik trapola..." it seemed to ask again
"....."
"Why isn't Titiana responding?" asked Vice-Chief Liu
Yue Jing checked her screen and answered "I-It seems s-she's scared!" Yue Jing stuttered with amazement
"Titiana's emotional level reading indicates fear and panic." she added with surprise.
Everyone looked at Yue Jing in shock.
"What tier is Titiana at?" Vice-Chief Liu asked Yue Jing again.
"S-She's at Class S!" she answered.
"Something's wrong!" An employee suddenly gasped
Everyone's gaze looked back at the screen, it seemed that the AI unit, Goddess Titiana moved back bit.
"Atel dara kabi... Skala Anur, rubento karati?" the humanoid being asked again, with anger in his tone.
As it finished saying that, the image on the screen changed as it seemed that Goddess Titiana turned and tried to run away.
"Sh*t!" Vice-Chief Liu snapped.
"Kalar!" the humanoid being's voice rang out in the background and the screen went black.
"....."
"....."
"....."
After a minute of silence, Vice-Chief Liu shouted as he gave orders.
"I want this video to be sent to the Investigations Department... Yue Jing, send the audio to the Linguistics team and Titiana's data logs to be sent to the AI Support Department... Wang Lie take charge of the department in my stead, also have a team to salvage Titiana's corpse... Yang Sun follow me, we'll be flying to Hong Kong..."
Vice-chief Liu was about to turn and leave when he noticed that it seemed no one was moving.
"Why is no one moving?" Vice-Chief Liu asked
Wang Lie answered... "V-vice c-chief, is what we s-saw a-a..." he stuttered while hesitating to continue.
"Yes, we might have seen the first "Legendary Class" since the game started... Now get moving and no one, is talk about it outside of this room until we hear further orders from the board!" Vice-Chief Liu added.
"Y-yes!" Wang Lie answered and bowed, the other employees followed suit and started moving.
...
Zhang Shan and Lan Ranyan on the other hand, were oblivious of what was happening at the outskirts of the city, after a few minutes, they have reached the Discovery Testing facility. The facility itself is similar to the other buildings around it with a middle-eastern look, it has a floor area of four Mu, and is three storeys high.
"Shan-shan, you can go over there at the Gene Extraction room for the tests, I'll drop by the Discovery hall to submit my reports." Lan Ranyan said.
"Sure thing, I'll come look for you once I'm done" Zhang Shan replied.
Zhang Shan entered the Gene extracting room as the system prompted in his mind.
*Ding*
System: Welcome to the Gene Extracting room, please lie down at the Gene Extraction Capsule.
Zhang Shan did as intructed and went inside the capsule.
System: Unknown skill gene detected, would you like to have it tested? (Yes)
System: This may take a while to process, continue to lie down for the remaining time...
....
Wang Lie was looking very nervous and grim after hearing multiple reports.
"Brother Wang, the target has met with the Supreme Harmony Guild, who answered the Event Notice..." a monitoring employee reported.
"Target has engaged the guild... guild destroyed."
"Brother Wang, the target has met with Union and Peace Guild... guild destroyed."
" Bother Wang... Tranquility guild engaged... destroyed"
"Brother Wang, the target has met with two high-leveled players ranging at level 75 and 79... players destroyed."
" Bother Wang... Imperial Garden guild engaged... destroyed"
"...destroyed"
"...destroyed"
"...destroyed"
Wang Lie's heart felt heavy every time he heard that a guild or high level players are killed or destroyed in a matter of seconds
"Brother Wang, the target has met with the beta-testers who answered the Event Notice..."
When Wang Lie heard this, his eyes regained it's liveliness, He knows that these beta players are at least level 85-90 and were able to rent out Class S equipment earlier due to the quest they gave out earlier.
However, his hope was utterly crushed. In a matter of seconds when he heard the update.
"Beta-players group ...destroyed"
Wang Lie cursed silently... "F*ck, if this situation continues to go out of control, I'm doomed."
"Brother Wang, it seems that the being is steadily moving towards the city!" an employee reported.
....
Ye Qing and Ye Qian had just finished selling their loot when he recieved a system prompt.
*Ding*
System Announcement: Good Morning Dear Players, the Event "Calamity is Approaching" has started. Your task is to engage the anomaly at these coordinates..." Event Mission Success:
1st Prize: 100000 Selas + Permanent Class S Weapon or armor of your choice
2nd Prize: 75000 Selas + Permanent Class a Weapon or armor of your choice
3rd Prize: 50000 Selas + Permanent Class B Weapon or armor of your choice
Miscellaneous prizes:
Rules:Depending on contribution.
Total Shared Prize Pot. 10000000 Selas + each participant can select a Class D Weapon or armor of your choice.
When Ye Qing saw this prompt, he disregarded it immediately. He was looking forward to meet Lan Ranyan and Zhang Shan.
As they started to walk, Ye Qian suddenly asked "Big brother, where should we log-off to?"
Unlike other games, when a player logs-off from Alternate Realm Chronicles, the Avatar doesn't disappear, instead it goes to sleep, which is why it is important to ensure that you log-off in a safe and secure place. In cases that you are unable to find or log-off accordingly, there is a possibility that your Avatar can be robbed or killed.
In cases of emergency however, like game disconnection or you are unable to proceed with safely logging-off, the system will "drive" your Avatar in auto-pilot, if it's engaged in a fight it would fight to retreat for safety but it may not be successful 100% of the time. If successful on its retreat, your Avatar will then look for the nearest town and head there. This would incur penalties as though, as your account will be suspended in the game with increasing increments to a maximum of one month. Once a player logs-out. The Avatar will enter a sleeping state, thus, other players will see your Avatar in game, sleeping.
Ye Qing gazed atYe Qian with a confused look? "Why do we need to log-off?" he asked
"Dummy! The system sent an emergency maintenance notification, the count-down is has already begun. Where should we log-off?" She asked again.
"Ye Qian answered, "That's weird, the notification I recieved was for an in-game event though... Let's meet up with th others first."
Ye Qian nodded as they went towards the teleporter at the city center
.....
*Ding*
System: Gene Analysis Complete
System: Gene Type - Life Essence
Skill State - Passive Skill
Trigger Factor: When your genes identify damage, it will automatically move to recover any damage recieved.
Skill abilities:
Speed of recovery is proportional to Vitality, Intelligence and Constitution Stats.
Gene Evolution Options:
This gene has the ability to further improve to a maximum of 9 addition sub-skill abilities by devouring other life essence type genes
Gene Properties Limitation:
This gene restricts the user to only acquire a maximum of 8 more Gene Types.
Damage limit: None
Zhang Shan smiled after reading the skill explanation of the gene. It seems that the skill directly provides the abilities that the Spiders have exhibited earlier. However he frowned when he saw the limitations, although he heard that some genes do have certain limitations due to compatibility, he found that his genes could only accept 8 more Main Gene Types.
This was a bit disappointing, given that other users have multiple Gene Types which are definitely more than 10. Being an optimist though, he thought that the 9 additional subset options for gene evolution could make up for this short coming. He believed he would have enough time to plan carefully when choosing to devour more Genes in the future.
*Ding*
System: Gene Extraction Process complete, would you like to submit results to database and have it ranked in comparison to other discovered genes? (Yes)
....Submission Complete....
.....Ranking Results after cross referencing against 1,367,193,659 genes...
.....1st Rank... Class Rank SSS
.....
LanRanyan finished submitting the report on her end and then tried to ask the NPC if it can check the tier of looted meat and scales from the spider.
The NPC was an bald fat old man called Wahab Shaif, he was wearing spectales and a middle eastern garb.
"How much for the identification fee?" asked Lan Ranyan
Wahab Shaif responded, "100 Selas for the scales, 200 Selas for the meat."
Lan Ranyan nodded as she gave the Selas and the loot. Wahab Saif picked up his Monocular and started inspecting the Scales, nodding here and there as he turned it over multiple times. He paused for a while, contemllated and then asked Lan Ranyan.
"Where did you get this?" Wahab Saif asked
"I only paid you to identify the items, I didn't pay you to ask questions..." Lan Ranyan answered coldly.
"Right, right.. hmmpphh..." Wahab Saif nodded and went to the back of his store, then after a while he bought out an old book which seemed to be falling apart due to its antiquity. He checked the scales and the book from time to time, while turning it's pages.
Afterwards, he checked the meat as well doing the exact same thing. He kept silent as if thinking hard and then looked at Lan Ranyan seriously.
"If I waive the identification fee and returned your money, would you humor this old man as to where you got these items?" He asked Lan Ranyan again.
Lan Ranyan calmly looked at him for a while and then said with a blank and murderous face "Give my money and items back."
Wahab Saif backed off a bit, paused, and then laughed.
"Ha!Ha!Ha! Don't be too serious, If you really don't want to tell, I won't push any further." He said awkwardly.
"Based on what I learned, this Scale and meat is most likely a Scale of an Ancient Draco Spider, in Sylvannic Toungue we call it "Ratu Al Draka", however they should have been extinct long ago. Seeing how fresh both of these are, I'd say they were acquired from the beast itself within the last two days." He added.
Lan Ranyan asked, "I don't mind you giving me a history lesson but that's not my question. What tier is it?"
Wahab Saif paused and stopped smiling.
He looked at Lan Ranyan straight into her eyes and said.
"These monsters are the stuff, our legends and myths are made of...."