The biggest surprise the new version brought players was the virtual UI, which finally felt a little like a real game interface.
It was pretty ridiculous that this cursed game had been running for almost a year before it finally introduced a feature other games had during development. That showed just how unreliable its development team was. Still, given the game's unusual circumstances, they could hold off on interrogating those lazy fools who were either saving the world or plotting conspiracies—in other words, never doing any actual work.
In any case, the newly integrated virtual interface included every function of the Calculation Orb, and the developers had clearly put a lot of effort into the user experience. By the time Lord Murphy and a group of NPCs boarded the scarab carriage the Sanghai Empire had prepared for them and set off for the Greenery Palace, some clever players had already activated the interface's "customization" function.
"I can finally arrange these skills and interface icons however I like, and monster health bars can finally display properly above NPCs' heads. It can even passively and accurately scan a target's six attributes. This is so convenient! No more throwing out a scan every time we meet an enemy. My hands are finally free.
"So, let me check Lord Murphy's stats.
"Holy crap!
"Total attributes: 152!
"His Agility is 40? His health is over 120,000? Even more than Lady Triss? Is this the authority of the man in charge at home?
"And are these six attributes for real?
"They're almost the same as that Sanghai guard's over there, and he's Gold rank!
"He's Silver, and so am I. So why hasn't even my highest stat broken 25, and why do I have a measly 6,000 health?
"This is outrageous!"
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