Initial Accounts

Mu Lan and Beng Zeng were extremely excited. They had exactly 3 hours left to create their accounts. They were so excited that time seemed to stand still.

"Hey Mu, we have 3 hours left to create our accounts. What do you want to do in the meantime? How about browsing the internet and checking out some cute girls?" Beng Zeng teased.

A smile appeared on Mu Lan's face when he heard Beng Zeng's question. He remembered well how his friend was always interested in girls. But no girls ever paid attention to Mu Lan and Beng Zeng. They were known as the skinny and fat duo. Mu Lan quickly responded to Beng Zeng's question.

"Beng, you remember those books I had you buy? Let's learn some martial arts from them. That way, instead of looking at girls online, we can look at real ones. What do you think?"

Beng Zeng immediately replied, "I already look at real girls."

Mu Lan tried to convince Beng Zeng. "But they don't look at us, Beng. We're the skinny and fat duo. Girls avoid us wherever we go. We don't even have a single girlfriend, and every time we approach a girl, we get rejected. Don't you think girls look at us with mockery?"

Beng Zeng responded sadly, "I guess you're right, it's time for us to change."

Mu Lan weighed 40 kilograms while Beng Zeng weighed 100 kilograms. Girls really didn't show any interest in them. One was too skinny, the other too fat. At their age, girls could be truly ruthless. All they cared about were rebellious and muscular guys. There were exceptions, but even they didn't give them a second glance.

Beng Zeng asked, "So which book do we start with?"

Without hesitation, Mu Lan answered, "Ancient Martial Arts." Modern artificial intelligence had really done a great job creating that book. The other one was based on the words of a man from an old martial arts movie I watched. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." I can't even imagine what AI has done with this book or what kind of knowledge it contains for us.

Without wasting any more time, they opened the "Ancient Martial Arts" book and started practicing. Thanks to modern technology, they could easily understand the book, but putting it into practice was the challenging part. After memorizing the entire "Ancient Martial Arts" book, Mu Lan gave it to Beng Zeng. While he was memorizing it, Mu Lan picked up the "10,000 Kicks" book himself. The first sentence of the book immediately caught his attention. "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." He wasn't remembering wrong.

Without wasting time, he also memorized this book. Meanwhile, Beng Zeng was memorizing the other book. Since Mu Lan had more experience, memorizing was easier for him. For him, the credits they spent were definitely not wasted. These books were worth every credit. Mu Lan felt like he could accomplish anything, but his body couldn't keep up. Knowing how to solve this problem, he quickly got to work.

Beng Zeng finally finished his first book. He immediately asked Mu Lan for the other one. "Mu, I've memorized this book. Can you give me the other one to memorize? These books are really priceless. I'm still amazed that something like this exists. How did you find out about these books and tell me to buy them? They're truly amazing."

Mu Lan, drenched in sweat and out of breath from practicing the techniques in the book, turned to Beng Zeng and said, "Take it from the table."

Beng Zeng picked up the book from the table and turned to Mu Lan, "I'll start practicing the techniques soon, you keep working, Mu."

After about an hour of practice, Mu Lan felt incredible. His body was working well thanks to his previous life, but he was exhausted; his body wasn't fully trained yet, so he was conditioning it now.

Beng Zeng came over to Mu Lan and said, "Mu, we have 2 hours left to create our accounts. You've been practicing for an hour. I've just finished memorizing the book. We're really blessed to have these books. No one will be able to stand in our way now. I'm going to start practicing now, work for an hour or two, then take a bath. I'll probably be sweating like you when I'm done."

"Huff, huff, okay, huff Beng, I'll huff take a bath too, huff."

After working out for another hour and a half, Mu Lan, completely exhausted, headed for the bathroom. As he was walking, he caught eyes with Beng, who was also drenched in sweat. Time had flown by. "Hey Beng, we have 30 minutes left to create our characters. Aren't you going to take a bath?"

Beng Zeng quickly replied, "Whoa, Mu, time flew by. These techniques are truly incredible. Tomorrow morning, our first priority is to get in shape. We're going to start running tomorrow; no one will be able to stop us. After that, we'll head to school."

Mu Lan agreed and entered the bathroom. Since there were two bathrooms in the house, they could save time. Their parents were currently covering their expenses, so they were living it up. That's how they managed to rent such a house.

After a 25-minute bath, Mu Lan came out, and Beng Zeng followed shortly after. They had 5 minutes left to create their characters. Mu Lan and Beng Zeng grabbed their devices and went to their beds. The device was shaped like a helmet. But the other feature of the device was that even while you were sleeping, you stayed connected to the game. Thanks to this device, millions of people were playing games instead of having regular dreams at night. The device could even connect to the internet. This way, you could browse the web while inside the game, even quickly check various news. It was a revolutionary invention.

Putting on their helmets, Beng Zeng and Mu Lan entered the game and were now waiting in the game's lobby.

Time Left to Create Character: 2 minutes.

Time Left to Create Character: 1 minute.

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Time Left to Create Character: 1 second.

As soon as the time ran out, they clicked the creation button. They were directed to the Character Creation screen.

In the game, your appearance was identical to your real-life appearance, with only minor adjustments like hair color and eye color, which made it a bit harder to be recognized. Of course, if you didn't want to be recognized—after all, thanks to this game, everyone was starting to chase fame.

Mu Lan clicked on the archer among the 5 main characters. He entered the name he would use in the game, "God Slayer," and then clicked the confirm button.

[Character Successfully Created.]