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Coincidentally, among the staff responsible for recruiting experience players here, there are acquaintances of the Crito couple, Klein and Agil from Gars City. They also wore the uniforms of the Church of the Mask of the Void, and they looked decent.

Seeing Clito and Asner bringing Yui over, they were stunned for a moment. Klein asked in confusion: "You two also want to be experience players?"

"Yeah, let's try out a new game."

"But... this thing is for ordinary people who lack adventure experience to experience adventure." Klein scratched his head and said, "The adventure experience it can provide is not even entertainment for you."

Klein and Clito are also old friends. When they were in Gars City, Clito often went to his hotel to play. Clito, who has black clothes and black hair and is somewhat similar to his teacher back then, always orders a bottle of the lightest wine, gets some healthy vegetables and sea fish, and sits in a corner to eat slowly. Klein didn't know his identity, and was curious about why this man looked so good-looking and ate so well. He struck up a friendship with him in a roundabout way, and after a while, they became friends.

Later, the two parties helped each other several times, and the friendship was considered good. Klein knew very well what his friend was capable of, so he felt very puzzled.

"This is a test project for ordinary people. You don't meet the requirements." Agil is more serious, with a business-like look.

Kelito smiled, took a step to the side, and asked his daughter to stand in the middle: "Asnar and I don't meet the requirements, but Yui always meets the requirements, right? She is just a trainee mage, and she has not yet broken out of the category of ordinary people."

"I'm just laying the foundation!" Yui suddenly blushed and defended himself loudly, "It was the principal who asked me to learn all the basic knowledge first! She said that with my talent, it is not good to be exposed to magic too early, and it is easy to lose. On the wrong road..."

This is not nonsense. Yui's magic talent is very good, especially his control over magic power, so it is easy for him to embark on the path of casting spells entirely by feeling. Many people admire this path, but Felix, the principal of Isuca Magic School, scorns this path. She has always emphasized that "the power that can be fully understood and mastered is the real power." For children with outstanding talents like Yui, she pays more attention to the education of basic knowledge to ensure that she can stay on the right path.

This is certainly a good thing in the long run, but it makes Yui start a little slower than other magicians. Generally speaking, with her talent, she should be an excellent junior mage at this age, and may even be close to the intermediate level, but so far she is only a trainee mage, and only knows a few entry-level tricks.

Because of Felix's repeated emphasis and careful teaching, Yui was not dissatisfied with her learning progress, but when talking about this in front of outsiders, she still couldn't help but feel shy and blush, and hurriedly defended herself.

Klein was stunned for a moment, then smiled and nodded: "That's no problem. Miss Yui fully meets our requirements and can come and test this new game system."

Yui wanted to pretend not to care, but "a new type of game" was very tempting to most young people in the Northwest Republic, and she was no exception.

After a little hesitation, she accepted the test qualification. Accompanied by her mother Asnar and a female cleric, she put on the protective clothing required to ensure safety, and then lay down in the transparent instrument that looked like a huge cylinder. .

"I always feel that this game equipment is too..." Clito looked at his daughter lying in the transparent cylinder, wearing a breathing mask, her body gradually being submerged in protective fluid, and said with some worry, "The cost is too high, really. Can it be widely spread?”

In the past few years, he has learned swordsmanship from Leon, and has been exposed to high-level people and things, and his horizons have been greatly broadened. The cylinder and the equipment inside it are worth a lot of money. It is not easy to popularize it!

"It was not originally intended to be popularized," Klein replied. "His Majesty's oracle said that He would personally make hundreds of sets of such equipment and place them in temples everywhere. An ordinary person probably only needs two or three experiences. You can become familiar with most common dangerous situations, and after that... unless you are those who want to seek excitement, there is no need to experience this again. "

Only then did Crito understand. He thought for a while and asked: "In this case, what is the point of making this thing?"

"The oracle said it was to correct everyone's misunderstanding of 'fear'." Klein followed the script and repeated Sui Xiong's original words, "Fear is not a threat, but the instinct of people when they feel danger. Reaction, it is beneficial and can effectively help people avoid risks. An experienced adventurer will never be afraid easily, and once he is afraid, he will be more careful and even retreat directly. For them, fear is not the enemy. It is a helper. Only those who lack adventure experience and have not been exposed to enough dangers will be randomly afraid and panic. This virtual reality experience system allows ordinary people to be truly exposed to danger. , eliminate those meaningless fears and improve the attitude of the entire society towards fear.”

Crito frowned and thought for a long time, but still didn't understand what His Majesty the Mask of the Void meant, so he had to turn to look at his wife.

His wife Asnar's swordsmanship is not as good as his, but her brain is much more flexible than his. Whenever he encounters something he cannot understand, his first reaction is to ask his wife for help. And Asnar has never let him down. Her ideas may not be very good, but at least they are definitely much more reliable than Crito himself.

This time was no exception. Asnar thought for a moment and understood what Sui Xiong meant.

"His Majesty the Mask of the Void is going to reshape the priesthood of 'Fear'!" She exclaimed. Seeing that everyone didn't seem to understand, she had to explain in detail, "You all remember, right? More than ten years ago, His Majesty punished Fear. God, imprisoned him in the sacred tree. Now that he has probably fallen, the priesthood of fear has been stripped away, so your majesty wants to adjust the world's view of fear and reshape this priesthood. "

"But... what's the use?" Crito asked.

"I don't know exactly about this. Maybe His Majesty wants to cultivate a kind person - this is unlikely, but at least it should be a god of fear from the neutral camp."

"Is this good for Your Majesty?" Klein asked.

"... When has our Majesty ever asked such a vulgar question as 'benefits' when doing things?" Asner asked in return.

Everyone thought about it and couldn't help laughing.

His Majesty, Mask of the Void, always does things unexpectedly, and using the theory of profit to analyze him will only make you dizzy.

This is not to say that His Majesty is unpredictable and difficult to fathom. In fact, anyone who has met His Majesty knows that He has an easy-going personality and is easy to get along with. Even if you joke with Him, He will only laugh and not get angry.

However, He is a jellyfish after all.

After all, the way of thinking of jellyfish is different from that of humans.

This is the conclusion reached by many scholars and counselors in the world who consider themselves smart after being slapped in the face by Sui Xiong's bizarre ideas and practices countless times.

His Majesty the Mask of the Void is completely different from other gods. He has a unique way of thinking that cannot be guessed by common sense. Fortunately, one thing about Him is certain after all - He is a god of the good camp. No matter what his ideas are, he will never harm others. Even if it is critical, he will only harm those who are vicious and vicious.

This has been confirmed by His countless achievements in the past.

Unless others seek death to cause trouble for Him, when He takes the initiative, the evil ones will definitely suffer, with rare exceptions.

Of course, He sometimes does some puzzling things, and even when fighting evil, many of His ways are confusing, but in any case, the ending is good, and that's enough.

Yes, in this world, whether it is people or gods, after all, they only look at the results and do not care about the process.

Everyone laughed happily when they thought about this.

But in the virtual world, Yui couldn't laugh at all.

She never expected that this virtual reality experience game would actually turn her into an ordinary adventurer. Together with a few friends, she would go explore a castle that was said to be haunted.

Yui is afraid of ghosts!

There was no need to repeat this three times, because the more times she said it, the more scared she became.

She didn't know the reason herself, but she was just afraid, afraid of the dark, and afraid of ghosts.

Principal Felix said that this was because she lacked real adventure experience. Once her magic skills are complete, she will be arranged to practice with a reliable adventure team for a period of time.

"I was afraid of these things back then, but after more experience, I was no longer afraid," Felix said.

But Yui doesn’t want to “experience too much” at all!

Such terrible things, such terrible things, are too many to experience once!

"If I had known that this place was haunted, I wouldn't have come..." She couldn't help but mutter, "What's there to find out?"

"I know, but we are short of money." A companion with a short bow heard her complaint and sighed, "If we don't make some money, we will sleep in the wild."

"And this mission is relatively the safest." Another priest holding a metal staff said, "After all, although this place is haunted, there have been no human lives. In comparison, whether it is to exterminate wolves Or expel the goblins, the risk is too high and not suitable for us rookies."

Hearing this, Yui's face turned even darker.

That's right, their adventure team is composed of a group of "trainee" level rookies.

Apprentice Knight, Apprentice Ranger, Apprentice Warrior, Apprentice Mage, and Apprentice Priest.

All are trainee level.

What is "traineeship"? That is to say, this person has learned some skills corresponding to a certain profession, but he has just started and is still far from being proficient.

Being an apprentice knight means that he can wear a full set of armor and wield weapons, and he will definitely not hurt himself, but his companions should stay away from him, because they may accidentally hurt him.

Being an apprentice ranger means that he can use a bow or crossbow and hit an average of one shot every two times at a distance of twenty to thirty steps. He may also have learned a little fur tracking technology.

An apprentice warrior means that he knows how to use long and short weapons and shields, and can defeat a wolf or a goblin one-on-one, that's all.

Yui himself is a trainee mage. He knows a few tricks and can play a minor supporting role, but his direct combat effectiveness is about zero.

The trainee priest is almost the most valuable of all trainees, after all, he can already heal. Moreover, the priest himself also has certain melee capabilities, so he will not hold back the entire team.

Yuyi thought about it and found that he seemed to be the weak link in the whole team, and he was the one who held them back...