Chapter 31: Titles and Rewards
ăScenario Completed. Calculating rewards.ă
ăExperience Points obtained: 1,500, Game currency: 15,000ă
ăItems/Equipment obtained: Eyes of Hatred, M1911A1 pistol, chefâs knife, baseball bat, flashlight x2ă
ăCompleted/Accepted missions: 5/5ă
ăSpecial Ending reward: Time Lordâs gift. Please receive it lateră
ăSpecial: Hidden mission completed: 0; Deciphered Worldview: Time Loopă
ăTerror Value Spikes: 0 times, Highest Terror Value: 0%, Average Terror Value: 0%ă
ăYour Terror Rating is: Completely Courageous. Qualified for additional reward; please choose in a momentă
ăSkill Points obtained: 300ă
ăBonus Experience from Skill Points: 3,000; Game Currency: 30,000ă
ăReward for clearing Scenario: 80% increase to base Experience: 1,200ă
ăCalculation Completed. Please continueă
(Using the contents of this Summary as an example: the batteries in the flashlight and the bullets in the pistol are all small consumable items under Superior quality. Placing them inside a utility item or equipment does not take up extra space in the Inventory. The pipe wrench wasnât obtained in the Scenario and was not taken into calculation. Items that fall under these circumstances will not appear in the Summary briefing.)
âThe reward for deciphering the Worldview is really ridiculousâŚâ Feng Bujue thought to himself. âNot counting the extra 240, the Skill Points I got during the whole Scenario was only 60 points.â
âJue Bro! Iâm rich!â Wang Tanzhi shouted excitedly across the Team voice channel, âI suddenly leveled up to Level 10! Game Currency is also over 20K!â
Feng Bujue instinctively knew when he heard Lilâ Tanâs excitement that his friend gained between 60 and 150 skill Points this Scenario. He replied, âSaw it. The Team list also displays Levels.â He also saw Long Aominâs friend request while looking there and accepted it saying, âDonât forget to accept Long Aomin Broâs friend request.â
âYeah, I already accepted,â Wang Tanzhi answered. âAdd him to the group.â
After a few hand gestures, Long Aominâs voice sounded through the voice chat. âOh, you twoâs levels have doubled; Feng Xiongâs even Level 11.â His level was the same as Feng Bujueâs: Level 11.
There will definitely be someone whoâll ask, how did this sort of thing happen? Letâs take a look at Feng Bujueâs character details thus far:
Game Username: Feng Bujue, Level 11, Experience: 1350/11000.
Skill Points: 430, Game Currency: 51,500.
Specializations: General: F, Equipment: F, Investigation: F, Fighting: F, Shooting: F
Inventory 7/10: Marioâs Pipe Wrench, Eyes of Hatred, chefâs knife, baseball bat, flashlight x2, M1911A1 pistol.
Login Space 1/30: Puzzle Piece: Monkey.
Everyone look at his Experience Points. Thatâs correct, going from Level 11 to Level 12 requires 11,000, not 1,100 points.
Thriller Paradise increases Experience requirements every ten Levels just like a flight of stairs. Level 1 to 2 requires 100, then 2 to 3 requires 200, and so on. Level 10 to Level 11 requires 1,000, but after reaching Level 11 the player will see a sudden staggering leap (in EXP requirement).
Besides the 1,500 experience points Long Aomin got for clearing and the 1,200 as a reward, he also got a little more than a 170 Skill Points (Sometimes Skill Points obtained during battle will be accurate to single digits). He also got another 4,500 experience points during the clearance calculations, but once he leveled up to 11 he got a fright. Unexpectedly, he was still short 7-8000 to Level 12.
The two chatted for a bit and told Wang Tanzhi a little bit about the circumstances regarding experience points after Level 11. Soon after, it was Long Aomin who first remembered to ask, âOh, by the way, what are your titles?â
Feng Bujue answered without thinking, âCold-Blooded Headshot Psychopath.â
The other two were left speechless, and the group fell into an awkward silence.
Several moments later Wang Tanzhi forced a hollow laugh and commented, âActually this System is quite reasonable. All of your attacks were aimed at the head⌠also your behavior was also pretty cold-blooded.â
âWhatâs your title? Shrieking Spoiled Rich Heir?â immediately quipped Feng Bujue.
âHow could the game have spoiled rich heir as a kind of title?!â
âThatâs right⌠Spoiled Rich Heir is inherited, not earned,â Feng Bujue retorted.
âMy Title isăPanicked Sneak AttackerăâŚ.â Wang Tanzhi was disinclined to continue talking nonsense with him and quickly announced his title to put an end to it.
Feng Bujue muttered to himself irresolutely, âHn⌠this one title fully describes one who has attained the high standard of having an absolute-panic-mental-state plus having an inability-to-fight-head-on fighting style⌠The System really did use only one needle to draw blood.â [1]
âThis is one needle? More like one blade! This kind of Title will only draw contempt from strangers!â lamented Wang Tanzhi.
âThereâs not much difference between strangers disdaining you from the moment they see your title or from the moment you let out your high-pitched helpless and pointless shriekâŚâ declared Feng Bujue.
âHa haâŚâ Long Aomin chuckled before mediating, âActually Wang Xiong you donât have to be too worried. Itâs possible for your Title to change after each run through a Scenario. Just when we finished that one, my Title changed. Right now itâsăSquad Defenderă.â
The three of them exchanged a few more words, before Long Aomin expressed that he himself had already been online for a long time and intended to go offline to rest a few hours. After resting, heâd login later using the sleep mode channel during the wee hours of the morning.
Wang Tanzhi, on the other hand, didnât want to play anymore today and didnât intend to get back on again in the evening. Counting the Novice Tutorial, heâd already continuously played through four Scenarios: continuing would just be self-torture. Feng Bujue also expressed that after he finished going over his items heâd go offline. He wasnât so tired that he couldnât play anymore; he was just consciously controlling his own leveling.
The closed betaâs level cap was Level 20. From a non-professional playerâs point of view, they donât have to be too concerned about power leveling. Once the total number of players in the closed beta that reach Level 20 exceeds 10%, closed beta will end. After which, service will close until the System is fully upgraded to the official version then Open Beta.
Thriller Paradise had long since attracted numerous game studios to participate. As mentioned before, on the first afternoon of closed beta, Feng Bujue was able to find a few guides posted by approximately Level 10 players on the forums right away. Evidently, most of these articles were from the hands of professional game studio members. These people, however, are professionals and when playing games had strategies and divided labor accordingly. In games like this, thereâs definitely two work shifts. One group, starting from when they rise at eight in the morning, will immediately go and run through the game in sleep mode. The other group will follow in running the game but struggle in awake mode. The groups then switch shifts every eveningâŚ
According to the relevant legal provisions in the year 2055, there is a strict limit on the time a player can spend online in the Game Cabin; the time spent logged in during awake mode with the mind connected to the gameâs reality must not exceed ten hours. Because sleep modeâs time ratio is 1:10, the time spent connected to the virtual reality must not exceed eight hours. The general recommendation is four hours or less. If the upper time limit is reached on both modes within twenty-four hours, the player will be forcibly disconnected and wait until after the next twenty-four hours before they can go online.
In other words, altogether a person in one day can reach eighteen hours with their mind linked to the game. This is divided into ten hours of awakeness and eight hours of sleeping. Changing Game Cabins is useless since all mind connection networks will not accept the citizenâs ID number. These are all regulations set by the law, primarily for the consideration of the userâs health as well. During the initial stages of the invention of mind connection games, there were people who would continuously stay connected except during the times they needed to eat or use the bathroom. Because of that, they basically all suddenly died or suffered irreparable brain damage in the end. Of course, these deaths cannot be blamed on the Game Cabin or the game. For example, as early as half a century ago during the period the fourth generation computers were popular, there were many sudden deaths in internet cafes. Who can these deaths be blamed on?
Once a few words of farewell were spoken to Lilâ Tan and Long Bro, voice chat ended and the team disbanded. Feng Bujue then opened the elevator door and turned to enter the equipment retrieval space.
Just as before, two glass pillars appeared in that room. There was already an item suspended inside the glass pillar on the left-hand side; it was likely the thing the Time Lord sent as a gift. If they hadnât previously got the sealed-the-Demon-Gate ending, then naturally this reward wouldnât be here.
Feng Bujue first took one of his two flashlights and deposited it into the Login Space, freeing up his inventory space to 6/10, then went to grab that suspended item. While cleaning up his inventory space, he glanced at the menu to look at the special ability title would give him. This ability was displayed above the Skills Bar and did not take up space in the Skills Bar.
ăName: Cerebral Concussionă
ăAblility Type: Passiveă
ăEffect: 30% chance to cause dizziness when using blunt objects to attack the headă
ăRemark: It doesnât matter if it doesnât explode with one hit, just put in more effort. Itâs just a head after all.ă
This Title Ability was pretty good, and, in any case, itâs a passive and doesnât use Stamina. It also complimentsăMarioâs Pipe Wrenchăand ought to be pretty useful when confronting low-leveled monsters. But, if he ran into some powerful monsters, non-humanoid monsters, incorporeal ghosts, or BOSSes and so on⌠then Iâm afraid that Feng Bujue wouldnât have an opportunity to use a blunt object to attack the head.
Feng Bujue arrived in front of the first glass pillar fairly quickly. Suspended inside was a small glass bottle half full of sand.
ăName: Slowing Quicksandă
ăSpecial Effect: Break the bottle and the speed of all monsters within one hundred meter radius will decrease tenfold. Lasts for one minuteă
ăRemark: Inside this bottle is some lousy Time dust. But if you are besieged by a giant horde of monsters, a bottle of this stuff might be able to help you escape.ă
This is a valuable consumable that actually has strategic worth. Do Lilâ Tan and Long Bro each also have oneâŚâ deliberated Feng Bujue as he arrived in front of the second glass pillar.
ăPlease select your additional reward: One, Randomly draw one equipment corresponding to your Level; Two, 50,000 Game Currency (Max Limit); Three, 4,000 Experience Pointsă
At Level 11, the worth behind this Terror Value was undoubtedly reflected; âCompletely Courageousâ gave three choices for one reward. Game Currency given was up to 50K. Leaving Equipment aside, that âincrease experience by 40% of the current limitâ certainly seemed too impressive at his current level. [2]
In theory, as long as Feng Bujueâs disorder was not cured, no matter what level heâs at, he only needed to go through two Scenarios and succeed in surviving to basically level up.
But precisely because of this point, Feng Bujue was even more unwilling to choose Experience. He was still a little worried that his forever motionless Terror Value would draw the attention of the game corporation whoâd think he was hacking or something. So if he could stay low-profile, then heâd stay as low as possible; he didnât want to level up too fast anyway.
Thus, he selected Equipment once again. Although he wasnât lacking any weapons at the momentâhe had both long and short rangedâhe was lacking more on the defensive end of things. He hoped on drawing a reliable armor.
[1]Same as hit the nail on its head, but that ruins the joke later.
[2]Heâs talking about how the offer for 4000 EXP is 40% of his current EXP requirement (11000) at Lvl 11. He was offered this before when he was Lvl 2. but back then 40% of current EXP limit amount was out of 240. so he wouldâve only gotten 80 exp