"Huh? Why did my class information update the moment I logged in? And there's so much of it?"
The moment Ruyi logged in today, a special notification popped up in front of her inside a marching tent at the player encampment on the outskirts of Origin Holy City.
It said she met the standards for selection as one of Data Goddess Rose's chosen, and invited her to join an organization called the "Super Hacker Order." It even gave her a clear quest chain directing her to report to an NPC named Bertie.
On top of that, a "live-action demonstration" video of super hacker combat had appeared on the bizarre virtual UI Ruyi had customized herself.
It was basically a clip of the Sangha Royal Engineers, who had just joined Rose's side, "restarting a Gundam with their bare hands." Ruyi watched it in a daze.
As the only hacker among the players, Ruyi had already crossed paths with Lady Rose back in Chardo Port. During the halfling race quest, she had managed to lead her team to success thanks in large part to Lady Rose's last-minute "divine assist." Ruyi had even received a fourth-generation computation orb core equipped with data divine arts as a result.
It was currently the only specialized fourth-generation orb among the player community. As the forums put it, it was a limited-edition legendary support artifact.
Thanks to the orb's incredible performance, Ruyi—a halfling engineer who wasn't good at direct combat—had made it into the top 100 on the player rankings for the first time.
Her playstyle was "summoner."
But unlike Little Rich Bro, who was a proper summoner, Ruyi mostly fought by controlling all sorts of strange halfling technological devices. Her strongest move was taking full control of a walker or dragon cavalry unit and making it