Inside the World Tree's Consciousness Space.
Joshua floated above the Consciousness Space. Below him lay Long Blade Wasteland, a leveling zone for Alliance players from level eighteen to twenty within World Rift.
World Rift had been open for a full day. The first wave of Grind God-level players had already reached level twenty and begun forming parties to level near this wasteland.
A pack of Gnolls occupied this place. They were not particularly strong, and a single player could easily kill one.
"Foya keeps urging us to level up so we can challenge the level-twenty dungeon. She's already level twenty-two... no, twenty-three. Doesn't your sister need sleep?"
Ciri floated beside Joshua, continuously using a virtual mouse and keyboard to control her in-game character.
That character was directly below her: a Tauren chieftain from the Horde...
Who knew how Ciri had managed to run all the way from the Horde's Main City to the vicinity of the Alliance's Main City at only level ten.
Joshua swore that he had not given Ciri's character any cheating tools. When the servers had opened this morning, Joshua had still been asleep. When he woke up the next day, he found that Ciri's character was still a Horde Tauren—except she had somehow run from the Horde's Main City to the vicinity of the Alliance's Main City and casually killed several low-level Alliance players along the way.
"Ciri, if you want to ride Foya's coattails... no, if you want to play with Foya, you could just make an Alliance character."
Joshua watched the Tauren chieftain below, who was halfway through leveling when she ran into another Alliance mage preparing to attack her. Ciri pressed a skill hotkey, and arcs of electricity instantly flashed across the Tauren chieftain's hands. After a burst of thunder, the human mage