Newcomer Trial

Biodata

Function and Rules

Entry and participant status

Mission design

• Newcomer Trials are generally rated One Star/Low and center on survival, exploration, or solving the scenario’s hidden rules rather than mandatory combat. 8 26 30
• Main quests commonly require surviving for a fixed period or reaching an Exploration Score of five; completing either objective is sufficient. 6 8 26
• Visitors are placed in relatively safe initial locations. Greater dangers are more likely to be encountered by participants who voluntarily explore. 6
• Death and injuries in a trial normally do not damage a participant’s real body, but psychological trauma remains. Participants nevertheless treat death as a genuine danger. 8 9
• Cleared trial rewards receive a +400% newcomer amplification, effectively multiplying the base reward by five. 8 26 38
• Each Visitor’s first clearance also grants one unique random Newcomer Blind Box draw. 12

Evaluation and rewards

Known Trial Instances

Guides

• Certain veteran users may accept an optional Guide Quest and enter a Newcomer Trial alongside Visitors. 26
• Guides explain the Main God Game, organize newcomers, and improve their chances of survival, though they may also accept the role for its rewards. 26 27
• A Guide receives an additional random 5%–15% of the Universal Points earned by every Visitor they successfully lead through the trial. 26
• Guides do not receive the normal newcomer reward amplification, and Guide Regulations penalize them for killing Visitors. 26
• Li Qingzhi’s Ruined City Guide Mission awarded him 303 additional Universal Points after ten of thirteen Visitors cleared the trial. 37

Creation and Administration

• Trial worlds are formed from cognitive information, fantasies, memories, emotions, and consciousness fragments gathered from the Cluster Subconscious Sea. 6
• The Main God filters this material into coherent dream worlds based on concepts such as apocalypse, zombies, evolution, and biohazards. 6
• Li Yun considers the trials both a selection mechanism and a means of gathering mental energy produced by participants’ emotional fluctuations. 6 11
• The first large-scale trial operation confirmed that intense emotional activity allowed the Main God to collect naturally dissipated mental energy. 11
• Li Yun criticizes overly lethal designs, while the Main God argues that controlled danger activates spiritual traits and improves energy collection. 6

History

The trial system began with silver invitation interfaces appearing before ordinary people in different locations. Acceptance placed participants into an unnatural dormant state, while refusal left no apparent physical consequence. 3

During the first test round, 8,000 invitations were sent; 3,157 people accepted, and slightly more than 2,600 ultimately cleared their Newcomer Trials. 11 Successful participants demonstrated that trial-acquired items could manifest in reality, drawing government attention after the resulting “Coma Incident.” 17 23

By the second round, the Main God had expanded recruitment to 500,000 invitations, with more than 240,000 people accepting. It also began assigning veteran Guides to newcomer groups to increase clearance rates. 27

Later returns to the Main God Platform included participants from numerous countries and cultures, confirming that the Newcomer Trial system had expanded beyond its initially domestic scope. 34