Rebirth Of The Noble Mage Behind The Scenes

"Magic Calendar 3401, Moon of Rain, 26th Day, Night"

"The sky burns the city, the earth shakes, it seems like the end of the world"

"The ring fades, the royal vein withers, the nine floating cities return to the earth, and the magic brilliance dims."

"——A Brief History of the Empire Prologue: The Day of Destruction"

………

Xia Yuan suddenly opened his eyes.

In front of him is a familiar mirror, but the person reflected in the mirror is young and somewhat strange.

She has a standard melon-shaped face, regular facial features, and a head of light black hair that is slightly longer. The pale skin flickered under the flickering candlelight, and the overall temperament seemed a little weird.

He raised his hand in disbelief, and pressed it on his face tremblingly. Looking at the figure in the mirror who made the same movement, Xia Yuan took a deep breath.

"Boom, boom—"

Huge thunder exploded outside the window, making Xia Yuan, who was still a little dazed, tremble all over.

He remembered that at night, the thunderstorm caused a short circuit in the power supply, so he had to light a white candle to illuminate himself.

Three days later—to be precise, two days, 20 hours and 16 minutes later, the game "Mysterious Era", which is ahead of the entire era by an unknown number of years, will release its first trailer.

And began to release semi-public internal test qualifications to the whole society, proclaiming his king's arrival to the entire era.

In this era when mainstream online games are still stuck in VR, an almost unbelievable 98.25% immersive game is a blow to the entire game industry.

The closed beta started a week after the trailer was released, and the major studios confirmed that the promotion was not exaggerated, but an afterthought.

Resolutely began to cancel all other game businesses one after another, and switched to "Mysterious Era" in an all-round way.

When the fifteen-day internal beta ended, ordinary players who had long been envious and couldn't bear it swarmed in. For a time, the price of game materials soared, and countless people became rich overnight relying on this game.

Half a month after "Mysterious Era" was officially launched, the daily activity of all other games dropped to almost zero.

I don’t know how many game company bosses have pulled out their hair because of this, and the wig industry has ushered in a wave of small upsurge.

According to rumors, when "Mysterious Era" first came out, the boss of a major game manufacturer was unwilling to give up and approached the chief engineer of the company's R\u0026D department.

It is hoped that within three months, the principle of the "Mysterious Era" game helmet and game cabin can be deciphered, and similar equipment can be developed.

The chief engineer told him in euphemistic and polite words on the spot: he was living in a dream.

If someone can decipher the principle of that strange helmet within a year, he can take off his ball and give the cracker a head kick!

After hitting a wall in the technical department, the boss still had a little luck in his heart to find a game engineer.

But when he entered the personal office of the chief game engineer, he was shocked to find that this guy was actually lazy and played "Mysterious Era" during work!

Of course, game company bosses will not sit still. They recruited some experts and professors to preach that this game is too real, which may cause serious identity barriers to players.

And with this as a reason, I hope that the family can take action and completely ban this game.

But for unknown reasons afterwards, these 'experts' soon died down one by one, without any impact on the release of "Mysterious Era".

………

Xia Yuan let out a long breath, patted his face lightly, and his brain started to think quickly.

Among other things, we must find a way to receive a quota for the internal test of "Mysterious Era".

Although the files will be deleted after the closed beta is over, only those who are qualified for the closed beta can get the priority to purchase the first-generation game pods that are limited to the world.

The game official has only put 5,000 game pods in Xia Yuan's continent, so there are too many monks and too few.

Except for the 500 places that the internal beta players can purchase first, the remaining 4,500 are not accessible to ordinary casual players at all.

It was booked early even before it hit the market.

The biggest difference between the first-generation game helmet and the game cabin is the limitation of online time.

The helmet can only be online for a maximum of 16 hours a day, while the game cabin can be online for 18 hours. This results in game cabin players spending one-eighth more game time than helmet players!

For Gao Wan who takes this as his career, this is the difference between heaven and earth. And everyone's helmet is bound to their identity, and changing devices to circumvent restrictions is also not feasible.

In addition, there is also a nutrient solution that matches the first-generation game cabin, which is also a good thing, but it is only sold to players who own the game cabin.

It is rumored that the first generation of nutrient solution has some hidden benefits to the human body, and the supply was stopped after only one month of release, and the price increase in the future is even more outrageous than that of a house!

Before rebirth, Xia Yuan was just an ordinary casual player, and his family was not rich.

As a result, he didn't get a place for the internal test, didn't buy the first-generation game cabin, and didn't stock up on the first-generation nutrient solution. All opportunities to make a fortune were perfectly dodged by him.

He didn't realize when he was fighting the boss, it turned out that his dodging skills were so slippery!

Although his technology and consciousness are considered high-end, due to the time limit of the game, he still gradually widened the gap with the first echelon using the game cabin.

This directly feeds back into his income, and as a result, when the lower-priced and unlimited second-generation game cabin and nutrient solution were released a month later, he was still short of cash.

It wasn't until the third month after the game's server launch that he could barely make up what he needed. But at this time, his level has already widened the gap with the first echelon.

Therefore, he also simply let himself go, no longer obsessed with leveling and improving his strength, but lingered back and forth between major famous libraries in the mainland.

Began to study the documents with "background stories" recorded in various places, trying to find clues related to treasures, hidden tasks, hidden occupations, etc.

This type of players is collectively referred to as plot stream players, and there are quite a few of them.

Xia Yuan's logical analysis ability, insight and luck are all good. In the end, he really discovered several hidden missions and relics through carefully collecting and sorting out the information, got a lot of good things, and returned to the first echelon of strength.

This made him quite famous among story stream players, and he was nicknamed "Lucky Silver Hand".

In the process, he also accidentally unlocked a hidden title: [Junior Relic Scholar], when trading unidentified relic items, he can get a 5% price correction.

From then on, a door to a new world opened to him, and the extremely real background story of "Mysterious Age" fascinated him, and he even took the exploration of ancient mysteries as the main task without doing business.

Crack-crack-rumble-rumble--

Another huge thunder blast resounded through the sky, bringing his thoughts back to reality.

"There are still ten days before the release of the internal test qualification, enough..."

Temporarily put aside the thoughts in his mind, looking at the young version of himself in the mirror, an uncontrollable smile climbed onto Xia Yuan's cheeks.

For a moment, his chest was full of pride, and he couldn't help raising his chin slightly. He put his left hand behind his back, and his right hand made a figure of eight under his chin, and he spoke with a lot of emotion.

"The sun and the moon are shining in a heroic manner, and Jinglun is hidden in the belly. Moshang is like a jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world—"

"Crack—rumble—"

As if in response to his words, a huge thunder rang through the sky again.

Amidst the thunder, the quietly burning candle flame suddenly flickered, and the shadows in the room wriggled slightly, as if they had gained life.

Xia Yuan didn't notice the slight changes in the candle flame, but when he stared at the eyes reflected in the mirror, he couldn't help feeling a little impulse in his heart, raised his right hand slightly, and moved his lips slowly.

Speaking of which, it's been a long time since I've done this.

The rain outside the window was getting heavier, with big raindrops crackling on the glass, glaring lightning constantly splitting the dark night sky, and the sound of thunder was endless.

In the dark room, there was a strange and inexplicable scene——

Under the flickering candlelight, a young man seemed to be possessed, making some strange movements in front of the mirror.

The mouth is also chanting strange syllables according to a certain rhythm, as if some ancient and evil ritual is being performed!

"Rock scissors - paper!"

"Rock scissors - paper!"

………

After a while, Xia Yuan finally decided to stop this meaningless action because his right hand was slightly sour to protest.

I didn't lose a game, as expected of me!

As if nothing had happened, he nodded in praise to the mirror, Xia Yuan turned around, and was about to leave the bathroom...

…………

?

At this time, his movements suddenly stopped.

Wait... In the penultimate round just now, when I played cloth...he seemed, did he...scissors?

Thinking carefully about a certain detail before, Xia Yuan blinked, and his smile gradually froze.

Can I still lose in boxing game with the mirror?

It was clearly the midsummer of August, but Xia Yuan felt the air was a bit chilly.

Turning his head slowly, looking at himself in the mirror, tentatively raising his right hand, the movement of the reflection is still synchronized.

Remember it wrong?

He was slightly relieved.

"That's right, how could the reflection move by itself?"

On the coffee table in the living room, on the pitch-black display screen of the electronic watch, the blood-red color forms a line of cold numbers:

[23:59:59]

Although he comforted himself that he was fine, Xia Yuan still decided to leave here quickly.

But just as he was about to pick up the candle, the candle flame flickered inexplicably, and then went out silently! The room was instantly plunged into darkness——

Xia Yuan was shocked, and cold sweat suddenly oozes from his back.

"Boom, boom—"

Just at this moment, a huge blue and white lightning pierced the night sky, accompanied by deafening thunder, and the dazzling electric light immediately illuminated the room.

At this moment, the hairs all over his body stood on end and he noticed a detail: the corner of the mouth of the figure in the mirror quietly raised a strange arc!

As if aware of his gaze, the reflection in the mirror suddenly turned his head! I don't know when the eyes changed into pure black and white, and they stared straight at his face!

Xia Yuan was terrified, and his brain seemed to want to escape like crazy, but his legs remained motionless as if filled with lead.

In the next second, the brilliance brought by the lightning disappeared instantly as it appeared, and the mirror surface and reflection returned to pitch black.

Only Hui Ying's black and white eyes were still strangely clear.

Xia Yuan looked at the mirror coldly all over his body, and as his four eyes met, a distorted and cold flow of information suddenly came from the dark mirror, and injected into his brain along the two connected eyes.

It was an extremely teeth-stinging feeling, as if thousands of little black ants crawling non-stop were drilled into the gully of the cerebral cortex.

The content of the information is only a short sentence:

"At the end of the seven alternations of light and dark, you will come, Unival—"