The Lucky One

System notification: Congratulations! You have been selected as a player skill mentor and can choose to teach the C-level skill – Merrick Saber Technique.

Notice: Please set the player level and required gold coins for the teaching process.

Congratulations! Setup successful. You have become a player skills mentor.

Unexpectedly, the one-armed swordsmanship master and skill instructor who was originally the protagonist only became in the second act has arrived ahead of schedule the moment he entered the city.

The player panel now features a new function – skill transfer.

Of course, there are limitations to the skills taught; it can only be Merrick Saber Technique.

Furthermore, there are no specific requirements for teaching this technique; Lister could even choose not to pass it on to anyone.

Seeing that more and more players were gathering around, Lister put away his panel and quickly led his team to the Evergreen Inn in the inner city.

He then changed into ordinary clothes and went out of the city alone to check again.

Before he could grasp the general situation of the world, Lister even lost the will to learn the passive method, which he had once treasured.

While keeping the public chat open, he left the city once again.

The area outside the city remained deserted. Apart from the occasional caravan and the few monster spawn points listed on the public chat, Lister couldn't encounter a single player.

Once inside the city, both the inner and outer city were bustling with players, creating a lively atmosphere.

This prompted Lister to look up the announcements from the previous closed beta test.

Small tips won't be saved for long, but big announcements, especially bug reports, will be retained indefinitely.

It wasn't until he encountered the first bug, number 001, that Lister began to understand what was going on.

The so-called "BUG No. 001" is that he created an NPC character in "Divine Revelation" in advance using an alien life form.

Lister read the restoration report given at the time word for word again.

"A new player character, Lister Merrick, has been created and is yet to be named. In real-world interaction zones, this NPC will automatically gain access to player-defined communication and trading functions; all other functions will be permanently removed!"

Most of the content in the text was roughly the same as what he had in mind.

The only thing that Lister didn't quite understand at the time was the term "real interactive power zone point," or rather, he didn't think about it much at all.

The system only considers the areas that the player can actually encounter as the so-called "real-world interaction areas".

In retrospect, this "real-world interactive area point" should refer to the current inner city of Jiangling Prefecture, which is the base camp during the first Expansion.

According to his memories from his previous life, each scene has a unique location that serves as the main city or birthplace.

Players will spawn in this area after resurrecting: Jiangling Prefecture in Act I and the Kingdom of Lucian in Act II.

New players who join the game in Act II will officially begin their game journey in the Kingdom of Lucian.

Could it be that the world of "Divine Revelation" I'm in is more than just a game?

Was he, this alien life form, actually a real life form, and not the "cyborg" he thought he was?

The actual game belongs to the "Divine Revelation" universe, and involves interaction between the Earth Federation universe and the game within a specific region.

Lister had no way of knowing about this "real interaction area" and could only make simple guesses based on his existing knowledge.

But in any case, some of his inner doubts were finally resolved, and his unknown unease was largely dispelled.

Now, the focus is more on further exploring this world after the Open Beta, especially understanding the rules within these "real-world interactive areas".

Based on his past experience, players cannot actively attack NPCs within the base camp, which is the "real interaction area".

Lister himself didn't try it, but some players posted about it on the forums, saying that even attacking NPCs with their skills was impossible; it was truly unusable.

As for players attacking each other within the base camp, the movement restrictions will disappear, but at a great cost.

Attacking will result in being marked as a red name and will be hunted down by the city's official forces. Killing the attacker will also cause both you and the attacker to lose levels, experience, and even equipment.

Therefore, players usually arrange duels outside the city, and rarely engage in self-destruction within the city.

Lister is now curious about is the consequences of NPCs attacking players in a "real-world interactive area".

After all, his current status is that of an NPC, so he is naturally more concerned about the consequences of violating this rule.

In his previous life, he had heard of players deliberately angering NPCs and then being killed.

But no one really knows what the punishment will be for NPCs.

Once again back in the outer city, Lister was dressed exactly like the locals.

Wearing a gray linen coat, no players scanned him anymore, preventing the previous crowd from gathering.

Walking through the crowd, with his information hidden, he continuously scanned and selected the "lucky" players.

No one can help him navigate these information systems; he has to try them himself.

Since player deaths only result in a loss of experience points and don't involve actual, pointless killings, Lister wouldn't feel guilty about it.

Or rather, his bottom line was never high to begin with.

When their own interests and survival rules are involved, they can even kill someone without feeling guilty.

Just then, a familiar-looking person with a familiar ID walked past him.

He was about 1.8 meters tall, wearing a beige light armor top, a pair of beginner trousers and a pair of iron leggings, and a pair of blue plate armor shoes.

He had a D-grade, high-quality longsword hanging at his waist, level 11.

Although it looks quite out of place overall, in today's outer city beginner area, it already looks like the standard setup for expert players.

This man was none other than the mortal enemy of the "War God of Jiangling Prefecture," and also the "Love of a Lifetime (Qi Lü)" who held a significant position in the "Green Nourishment Group" and whom Lister had set his sights on.

At this moment, he was walking smugly to the default team-up area by the city gate, recruiting game thugs under the name of "Green Nourishment Group".

The thought of the substandard nutritional paste I ate in my past life...

The "lucky one" that Lister had chosen in his mind was instantly found.

There's no time like the present; his strength is such that players don't need to worry too much.

He walked past "the Love of a Lifetime" in a few steps, drew his sword, slashed it horizontally, and left.

His movements were fluid and swift, without the slightest hesitation; before anyone around him could react, Lister had vanished.

Thanks to his passive abilities, even with a trash weapon, his damage output is astonishing.

Not to mention that he was only killing a level 11 swordsman.

The player "Love of a Lifetime" was originally posting messages recruiting teammates on the system's public chat.

But the next moment, a sharp pain shot through his body.

In the blink of an eye, a warm and holy white light appeared before him, and he stood there blankly in his initial resurrection zone.

It wasn't until I saw the notification on the system panel that I had been killed by player "Chen Xinhe" and that my level had dropped by one that I belatedly realized what had happened.

After all, he never imagined that someone would kill him in the city, and he was completely unprepared.

He was furious and deleted the recruitment message for teammates that he had prepared to post on the public chat.

Loudspeaker: @Chen Xinhe, and all the people who sent you to kill me, just you wait! My "Green Nourishment Group" will never let you get away with this!

Lister had already reached the outskirts of the city. The players around him had disappeared, and all that remained were a sparse line of natives queuing to enter the city.

Upon reopening the public chat, the first thing I saw was the loudspeaker message, "My Love of a Lifetime."

He closed the message and instead opened a series of system notifications.

"Warning: You are hereby given the same penalty for violating the Players' Guidelines by attacking in the neutral zone..."

Following the light red notification, several Crimson system notifications appeared.

"Warning: Penalty failed, unknown error occurred, reported to mainframe."

"The mastermind has taken over Sector 11."

"Judgment: An alien life form initiated an attack on the player. NPC: Lister Merick; Player: Chen Xinhe. Punishment failed; unable to punish the alien life form."

"File entry: Open Beta Bug #1047: Real-time Interaction Faction Zone, Alien Lifeform Kills Player."

"Under repair: Fixed. The system has permanently reassigned the penalized character to Chen Xinhe."

System notification: Player Chen Xinhe has had 10,000 experience points deducted.

System Announcement: Player character Chen Xinhe is wanted (red name) for 7 days.