Over the next while, Lin Yu began a battle of wits with the input method.
At first, Lin Yu wasn't used to inputting text with his mind. He also tried changing the input method, such as conjuring up a keyboard, but it didn't work.
Nothing worked. When it came to entering text, the panel seemed to accept only mental input.
After discovering he couldn't conjure up a keyboard, Lin Yu began getting used to mental input.
At first, Lin Yu still wasn't used to it. Seeing the essay thousands of characters long in the name field, he covered his face.
Who could have known that mental input would turn every thought he had while thinking of a name into text?!
After seven attempts, Lin Yu finally got the hang of mental input. First, he mentally ordered it to stop entering information, then he began thinking about what name to use in the game.
Invincible Tyrannosaurus Warrior
War God
Heavenly Emperor
Looking at the "This nickname already exists" message on the panel, Lin Yu went numb.
Naming himself had taken Lin Yu more than half an hour, only for every nickname he could think of to come back as already taken. He gave up entirely.
Whatever.
Next, Lin Yu entered a random nickname: I'm Just Passing By.
When Lin Yu tapped confirm, the panel displayed a message saying the name had been registered successfully.
Looking at his nickname, Lin Yu covered his face, feeling somewhat speechless. All the nicknames he'd thought carefully about had been taken, costing him more than half an hour, yet a nickname he'd come up with at random had gone through on the first try.
Now that he'd chosen a name, Lin Yu was ready to continue creating his character.
Looking at the race selection panel before him, Lin Yu fell into thought.
There were so many—far too many. The race selection offered an overwhelming number of choices.
The major race categories were humans, demi-humans, humanoids, magical beasts, nature spirits, undead, giant beasts, and divine descendants.
That was right: humans had an entire major race category to themselves here.
Lin Yu had originally thought there wouldn't be too many races. But then he opened the magical beast category, and the sight of over a hundred densely packed race classifications left him numb.
Opening any one race classification revealed dozens of more specific races to choose from. Even the same race had options with different inclinations. It was ridiculous. After a quick glance, Lin Yu closed the magical beast category.
Next, Lin Yu opened the demi-human, nature spirit, undead, and other race categories one after another and gave them a quick look.
Fortunately, the other major race categories didn't have a ridiculous number of choices like the magical beasts did.
After quietly breathing a sigh of relief, Lin Yu began opening the races one by one and browsing through them quickly.
Time slipped by unnoticed. After spending nearly an hour, Lin Yu finally finished looking through every major category except magical beasts.
When he reached the giant beast and divine descendant categories, Lin Yu discovered that none of the races in either category could be selected. He tried clicking on the dragon race in the giant beast category, but the panel told him he lacked the necessary permissions and couldn't select it.
Could it be that only players who bought the limited supreme edition game cabin can choose them? Lin Yu wondered.
What Lin Yu didn't know was that he'd stumbled upon the truth.
Just then, Lin Yu noticed that an envelope-shaped button in the upper right corner of the panel was flashing.
He'd been so busy looking at information on the various races that he hadn't noticed the button in the upper right corner at all.
Looking at the flashing button, Lin Yu raised his hand and tapped the envelope.
The instant his finger touched it, the button scattered into points of light.
The next moment, all the points of light flew into Lin Yu's hand and formed a sheet of white stationery.
Seeing that the transformation had finally stopped, Lin Yu raised the sheet in front of him. The contents immediately drew his attention.
Aside from a long stretch of nonsense from someone claiming to be a developer and some information about the game, the sheet only described the privileges deluxe edition players possessed. After quickly reading it, Lin Yu had gleaned only a little useful information from the long-winded text.
It explained the talent rankings, how to allocate points when leveling up, and the rules for attribute growth.
Talent ranks, from lowest to highest, were E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and SSS.
There was also a type of special talent that existed outside the talent rankings.
As for the attribute growth rules:
The game's main attributes were strength, constitution, agility, and spirit. Each time a player leveled up, all attributes increased by 1, and the player gained 5 free attribute points.
Below were some of the rules concerning attribute values shown in the letter.
Strength: physical attack, speed
Constitution: maximum health, defense, stamina, maximum qi
Agility: dexterity, reactions
Spirit: maximum mana, spell power, mental resistance
After reading those, Lin Yu turned his attention to the description of deluxe edition privileges below.
[Deluxe edition player privileges 1. Chance of obtaining high-grade traits and talents ++++ 2. When selecting negative traits, instead of receiving them completely at random, players may specify which negative traits to receive. 3. When selecting positive traits, instead of receiving one completely at random each time, players receive five random trait options and may choose one. 4. Each time a player selects a positive trait, they may select one positive trait that is guaranteed to appear. 5. Instead of receiving a random talent when drawing talents, players are presented with five talent options and may choose one. 6. Randomly receive five special talent synthesis methods and ten talent upgrade methods. Special talent synthesis methods (Heaven's Jealousy of Geniuses, Evil Demon Devouring Body, Mortal Body, Divine Mind, Troll Body, Destined) Talent upgrade methods (Genius, Thick-Skinned, Power to Break a Thousand Armies, Exceptional Cunning...) 7. When choosing the mixed-blood mechanism, instead of randomly retaining the bloodline traits and talents of the corresponding races, players may actively choose the corresponding traits and talents.]
Looking at the contents of the envelope, Lin Yu fell into thought. So talents could be upgraded? He really hadn't known that.
Now that he knew the deluxe edition player privileges, Lin Yu began thinking about how to make use of them.
The first thing Lin Yu considered was synthesizing special talents. After all, the deluxe edition privileges provided not only the methods for synthesizing special talents but also some of their panel information. The numbers were genuinely ridiculous. There was just one warning afterward: obtaining any special talent came at a cost.
That line bothered Lin Yu. A cost? What cost? Spell it out! Don't be a riddler!
Clearly, the panel paid no attention to Lin Yu's inward cries.
After looking through it, Lin Yu gave up when he found that he really couldn't find out what the cost of special talents was.
Lin Yu was definitely going to obtain special talents.
As for how to obtain them, that would take some careful study.
The first thing to look at was traits. After reading the special talent synthesis methods, Lin Yu found that all special talent synthesis required traits. Some needed positive traits, some needed negative traits, and some needed both.
Lin Yu also saw that one special talent synthesis method actually had a prerequisite: the special talent Mortal Body, Divine Mind.
To synthesize Mortal Body, Divine Mind, he actually needed to possess the special talent Heaven's Jealousy of Geniuses first.
Since he wanted to obtain special talents, he had to obtain the corresponding talents and traits.