Job Change Mage

Once home, Chen Yi willed the panel open.

Chen Yi

Stamina: 4

Strength: 3

Intelligence: 5

Agility: 3

Spirit: 10

(A Normal Person's maximum value is 5.)

Skills: None

Soul Energy: 0

Deduction: Insufficient Soul Energy.

This was Chen Yi's belated cheat, a Base Stats panel.

Though he had no idea where the panel had come from, he instinctively knew how to use it. The feeling was quite strange.

Soul Energy was a special form of energy produced when the dissipating soul and fortune of a Strong person combined upon death.

Chen Yi did not know how "Strong" was determined here. Did it mean someone truly powerful, or an Enemy he personally considered powerful?

On his way back, Chen Yi tried hypnotizing himself into believing that insects and ants were Strong, then stepped on them.

The Soul Energy remaining at zero showed that it was useless.

Nothing happened that night, and soon the next day arrived.

The school organized the students to enter the Gate. Calling it a Gate was inaccurate—it was merely a Door Frame, dark red in color, roughly eight Meters High and four meters wide.

Since the middle of the Door Frame was empty, they could see the scenery behind it. Yet the students who walked through did not emerge from the other side.

Wang Zhanbo, standing beside Chen Yi, was not very enthusiastic. Apparently, he had had a disagreement with his Parents yesterday.

He gloomily brushed up his bangs. "Yi, do I look like a Melancholy Male Protagonist?"

"No, no. This isn't melancholic enough. How can I make it feel more convincing? Otherwise, I always feel like I'm not the protagonist."

To be honest, even after living a second life, Chen Yi still found it hard to understand the chuunibyou worries of this age.

But men always liked to express certain things through jokes.

Chen Yi patted his shoulder. "Have you made up your mind?"

"Yeah..."

Wang Zhanbo spread out his palm, then clenched it into a fist. "My parents want me to set my Realism to zero and just work hard enough to reach level 9. The most important thing is staying safe."

"I don't blame them. That's how they got through it back then too..."

"But I want to take a chance. I don't want to leave behind as many regrets as our old class teacher."

"Besides, if the Game World lost a protagonist like me, wouldn't it be boring?"

A chuunibyou youth did not need comfort from others. Instead, he asked Chen Yi, "What are you planning to do?"

Chen Yi merely smiled. "If you're the protagonist, how could the protagonist's friend possibly hold you back?"

The chuunibyou youth was delighted and declared him teachable.

Soon, it was their class's turn to enter. Chen Yi stepped through the Gate and arrived in a blank space.

This was where Blue Star Players entered the Gate for the first time and loaded the Game System.

Unlike ordinary Players, Chen Yi's Game System did not load smoothly. Garbled Text appeared directly before his eyes, and he could no longer sense the instinctive panel.

Chen Yi stood there with an unpleasant expression. Fortunately, the panel recovered after a while.

"The panel..."

Chen Yi

Profession: None

Constitution: 4 (related to HP, armor, and resistance)

Strength: 3 (related to Physical Attack and carrying capacity)

Intelligence: 5 (related to Magic Attack and five-sense perception)

Agility: 3 (related to Movement Speed and Attack Speed)

Spirit: 10 (Mana Points and spiritual perception)

Talent: Fire Affinity. (Increases mastery of Fire Skills and Fire elemental damage by 10%.)

Skills: /

Soul Energy: 0

Deduction: Insufficient Soul Energy.

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The panel's text had become somewhat dim. Clearly, it had conflicted with the Game System during loading just now, and his cheat had not won very smoothly.

The advantage was that the panel originally loaded by the Game System had been absorbed by Chen Yi's cheat, allowing him to see More Comprehensive information.

"Boom! Boom!"

Before Chen Yi had time to think, several enormous statues appeared out of thin air from the ground.

The statues held different weapons, each representing a profession;

Warrior, Mage, Cleric, Archer, Assassin.

Without hesitation, he chose Mage. He would listen to the panel and Eat Full Meal.

Chen Yi walked up to the statue with a Raised Staff and placed his hand on it.

The other statues vanished one after another, while the statue representing Mage lit up. A flood of information surged into Chen Yi's mind.

Fireball! Basic Meditation!

These two skills were also loaded onto the panel.

Fireball: Costs 10 MP

Summons A Fireball, dealing 100% damage.

Basic Meditation: No cost

Meditate while out of combat to recover 5 MP per minute.

At the same time, a stream of energy appeared in his mind. This was Mana gained by skipping the meditation process of a Mage apprentice.

Finally came the choice of Realism. Chen Yi directly dragged it to the maximum. This was his choice.

He still remembered what his old class teacher had said: without madness, there could be no life. If he wanted to surpass those who were not even on the same starting line as him, he could only fight for it.

Besides, now that he could finally make Fireballs for real, who would still play virtual reality?

The moment he made his choice, Chen Yi felt dizzy. When he came to, there were already quite a few people around him. They were Players who had arrived before him.

"So this is the Game World? It looks just like reality."

"Is anyone else set to 50 Realism like me? I'm suddenly a little scared."

"A four-man team is recruiting. We'll set off once we're full. We still need a frontline Warrior."

"Brother, want to team up? What profession are you? We still need a Mage for backline damage."

These Players were all young, their faces full of excitement, as though they really had come to play a game.

Someone invited Chen Yi, but he politely declined, saying that he wanted to look around by himself.

This Novice Village was numbered 101101. Chen Yi had long heard that Novice Villages were actually replicated programs, but he still found it rather novel.

The village was not large, with only five NPCs: Auntie Wang, who sold food; Pharmacist Li, who sold potions; Master Zhang, who sold weapons; Boss Xiao Hua, who ran the inn; and the Village Chief of the Novice Village.

These NPCs cyclically repeated the same lines and occasionally handed out the same quests again.

Chen Yi had thought it would be like in novels, where NPCs were people with only their souls remaining or played by Real People. He had not expected the Game World's Novice Village to be so perfunctory.

Holding the staff he received for running errands and accepting Auntie Wang's rabbit leg quest, Chen Yi headed toward the Rabbit Plains west of the village.

Rough Staff (Limited World)

Quality: Gray

Physical Attack: 2–3

Magic Attack: 2–5

Evaluation: Perhaps it is only slightly stronger than a tree branch by the roadside.

After picking up the staff, his stats improved slightly.

Physical Attack: 3.2–4.8 "(Strength 3/5 + 1) * Weapon Attack Power"

Magic Attack: 4–10 "(Intelligence 5/5 + 1) * Weapon Attack Power"

HP: 100% (The physical body cannot be completely Datafied.)

MP: 100 (Spirit * 10)

Although he did not know what "Limited World" displayed after the Weapon Data meant.

Having a weapon gave him some confidence.

After leaving the village, Chen Yi tried using a skill. He did not say the name Fireball aloud; reading it out carried a certain amount of embarrassment.

Following the knowledge that had appeared in his mind, he constructed Fireball. It took him 10 seconds to complete the spell structure, and as his Mana was consumed, a flickering fireball appeared before him.

It flickered because the spell structure had not been conceived perfectly, making the fireball unstable.

Chen Yi hurriedly flung the fireball out. It struck the ground at a fairly fast speed, and with a boom, the earth was scorched black.

Although Fireball was much more difficult than Expected, the feeling of possessing power still left Chen Yi exhilarated.

At the same time, a question arose in his mind. Why had the school not taught any Combat Ability at all, instead teaching only subjects like language, history, and mathematics?