Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1089: Chapter 1001: The Thoughtfully Prepared Gift_1 Chapter 1089: Chapter 1001: The Thoughtfully Prepared Gift_1 Super Tomato descended the city wall and marched straight toward the Imperial City along Heavenly Street, embarking on his official strategy journey.

It took him nearly 4 hours to get to this point.

This time, it certainly cannot be called short.

According to data from Lincoln’s end, the average time it took for the 3000 closed beta test players to ignite the first earth vein fire was around 3 and a half hours.

As a result, Randall, despite it being evening, anxiously messaged him –

“Boss, isn’t this proof enough?

Lower the difficulty please!”

Outside of work hours, he couldn’t see the players’ real-time game screen, but he could see various statistical numbers.

For example, the number of players online, the number of deaths in the BOSS battle, average time to defeat the BOSS, average time to ignite the earth vein fire…

and so on.

And these, were enough to make him anxious.

However, Lincoln just shook his head and replied: “This is because the combat logic has completely changed, it definitely takes a while to get used to, but once the players adapt, it’ll be fine.”

“But to adapt for such a long time, isn’t that a bit too much?” Randall was uneasy, “The difficulty of the later BOSS is much more than this initial one!

If you need 3 hours for this, won’t the ones after take a week?”

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“This is a tutorial BOSS at the start, there are many new things to learn, so it seems difficult.

Once the tutorial BOSS is defeated, it signifies the key skills have been mastered, and the harder BOSSes in the future won’t bother the players for too long.”

“Are you sure?” Randall had doubts.

Yet, Lincoln had full confidence in the players: “Definitely!

We must believe in the players’ abilities!”

Randall sighed, resigned himself to fate, put down his mobile phone, and urged Little Chun to go rest.

Lincoln also put down his phone.

However, he did not urge Little Princess to go to bed, instead, he continued to watch the live streaming with her, filled with interest.

The posture of the three of them at this moment, too, had gone through a considerable change—

Initially seated in the middle of the two, Mavis was lifted up by Lincoln and placed on his lap, Little Princess no longer shied away like before, happily leaning over and clinging to his arm.

Of course, her main focus was still on the live streaming in front of her, especially on the “Gravity” screens.

The test scale of “Gravity” was much smaller than “Dark Soul”, only 500 people received closed beta invitations, however, these individuals, had already provided the three “Lead Developers” present with some key intelligence.

Being friends with everyone, Victoria naturally received special attention—

The moment Victoria logged into “Gravity”, her streaming was broadcasted over by Mavis.

*

The moment Victoria opened her eyes, she was stupefied.

Because the first scene that appeared before her eyes, was a huge, tropical cyclone!

This astonishing yet beautiful tropical cyclone, hovering above the azure-blue Pacific, was unspeakably beautiful.

Unlike her previous experience in Pandora, where she only managed fleeting glances of the boundless forest and ocean while rapidly falling through the stratosphere.

In this moment, Victoria was calmly floating in space, watching the sapphire-blue planet before her slowly rotate.

The massive and beautiful tropical cyclone moved away from the center of her vision at a visible speed, the vast Pacific transitioned from deep blue to light blue, with the Eastern Pacific Island chain gradually coming into view.

Next, was Daxia.

The familiar coastline, the terrain that raised level by level from east to west…were both familiar and strange.

Everything was moving slowly.

But her reason was telling her: to be able to see the Earth rotating at this speed, her current velocity must be astonishing!

Yet, strangely enough, all her senses were telling her: everything is slow, very slow.

This subtle contradiction gave her a very peculiar feeling.

Especially, the planet in front of her was her home planet.

From her time of birth until now, all the places she had visited, all the people she’d met, all her family and friends, all the knowledge she’d acquired, all the experiences she had been through…

Everything happened on this blue water planet.

And the place where she had lived for over twenty years, was just a tiny spot on the continent, so small that it had disappeared from her view before she could even think to spot it.

The shock that this moment brought to her heart was far beyond the fleeting glimpse she had had of Pandora!

So she stood there, speechless, entranced, watching the Earth rotate a full circle before her eyes.

It was only when the lights came on over the dark land, the lights from the thousands of homes in the city brightening the continent, that she finally came to herself before this wonder created by human civilization.

Then, she began curiously surveying her surroundings.

It seemed she was on a spacecraft–which specific one, Victoria didn’t know.

She wasn’t a hardcore space enthusiast.

When rockets were launched, she was the type who would cheer loudly, applaud fervently, and feel proud of the achievement.

But she’s not the type who could explain which thruster or fuel the rocket used, or delineate the rocket’s mission while clapping…

All that stuff was too complicated for Victoria.

Even so, she recognized she was standing on a small platform controlled by a multi-jointed mechanical arm and was inspecting, or maybe repairing, a piece of unknown equipment.

In addition, right above her head, was a … spaceship?

Victoria finally had a rough understanding of her surroundings.

It was then that, like a bubble being popped, everything came to life–

In front of her, or above her, or underneath her–depending on your perspective, the speed of Earth’s rotation slowed down a lot.

Voices from the ground command center, teammates, and..

music?

began to play in her headphones.

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Victoria quickly realized that the game had only just officially started now.

Before this, all those sounds had been muted, and the flight speed of the spacecraft was accelerated.

It was a feature specially designed by Lincoln, sort of like a start-up animation, but the immersion and realism far exceeded the usual meaning of ‘start-up animation’.

Nothing would interrupt a player’s first encounter with space, gazing at their home planet.

If the player wanted to keep watching, they could keep watching, until the end of time!

The game would only officially advance when the player had seen enough, emerged from their flow state, and began to observe their surroundings.

This was exactly the experience Lincoln wanted to share with everyone when he stared down at Earth from ‘Tianzhou 43′ in outer space.

It was a carefully prepared gift.

Largely because of this few minutes’ experience, the game “Gravity” was born.

Seeing the amazed looks of the players, Lincoln felt truly satisfied, and Little Princess looked at him with sheer admiration.

She felt the same sense of awe when she first experienced it.

And this was entirely thanks to Lincoln’s daring adventure to outer space, an adventure where he almost lost his life.

She also knew: After Lincoln returned, he upgraded the space training ‘Virtual Space’ used by the aerospace center!

Admiration was inevitable!

The Little Princess really wanted to grow up already, marry Lincoln, so they could live together every day!

Lincoln knew nothing of this young girl’s eager heart — in his mind, the legal age for a female to marry was still 20.

and Camille Victoria was just going to turn 18, it was still very early.

What he didn’t yet know was: In Daxia, one could get married as soon as they reached adulthood.

Regardless of gender.