This Name Is Already Taken
Which of the four elements—fire, wind, water, and earth—is the best choice? Strictly speaking, each of these four elements has its advantages and disadvantages. Fire has the highest damage but lacks control skills; earth has the strongest defense but is slow; wind moves quickly but its damage is inconsistent; Water Elemental has strong control but average damage.
All four elemental beings live in their respective Elemental Plane and can be summoned to the Prime Material Plane. However, if we had to choose a special element, it seems that the Water Elemental is a bit special because, in addition to elementals, Shaman, and Druid, mages can also Summon Water Elemental. Therefore, the probability of Water Elemental being summoned to the Prime Material Plane is higher than that of other elements.
"Then it's you!" With that thought, Xiao Yu clicked to enter the Sky World and selected to create a new character.
Upon entering the character creation interface, a scantily clad woman appears before you. "Hello, esteemed player, welcome to the character creation interface of the Sky World. Please select the character template you wish to use."
A character template selection interface popped up in front of me.
There are three types of templates: free templates, paid templates, and VIP templates.
Xiao Yu used to always play with free templates, since paid templates were too ordinary and VIP templates were too expensive. Besides, as long as you found the right techniques and had enough time, you could eventually advance. Spending tens or even hundreds of thousands of yuan to buy a character that could be killed by the plot at any time was simply crazy. If the character was killed by the plot, those hundreds of thousands of yuan would be wasted. He wasn't a tycoon, so of course he couldn't play like that. But now he had no choice but to buy one, because his time was limited. If he wanted to level up from the ordinary monster template step by step, a year wouldn't be enough, let alone compete with those tycoon players. It was conceivable that with the start of this event, more and more players would buy the BOSS template.
Therefore, Xiao Yu directly chose the VIP template.
VIP templates are divided into Hero templates, BOSS templates, Lord templates, and God templates. Among them, the God templates are currently not available and are estimated to be a template type that will appear after the expansion.
Xiao Yu chose the BOSS template, which is divided into three levels: beginner BOSS, intermediate BOSS, and advanced BOSS. Moreover, the price varies greatly depending on the BOSS's race. For example, Goblin, even in Goblin advanced BOSS template, only costs 100,000 points. Dragon Clan, a Dragon Clan in the beginner BOSS template costs 120,000 points, while the advanced BOSS template costs as much as 1.2 million points. This is the difference; the more powerful the monster, the more difficult it is to advance, and the higher the price naturally is.
Besides, the Skull-level BOSS template is not for sale; the highest you can buy is the High-level BOSS template. And don't complain about the price. To become an ancient dragon and dominate the game, 1.2 million is definitely a fair price. You know, in some free games in the past, even crafting the best equipment and socketing the best gems would cost more than 10 million.
The biggest advantage of purchasing an upgraded template is that it provides more attribute points and better development. After all, a monster with a normal template needs to level up dozens of times to evolve into a BOSS template. The attribute points gained during this process are far less than those of a player who starts with a BOSS template. Therefore, it's better to evolve as early as possible. If you wait until a very high level to evolve, it's easy to suffer from poor development. If such a poorly developed BOSS enters a dungeon, it's just easy prey for adventurers.
Xiao Yu chose the elemental creature BOSS template, which is considered above average among all BOSS templates. The prices of the four elements—wind, fire, water, and earth—are the same: 60,000 for the beginner BOSS template, 240,000 for the intermediate BOSS template, and 800,000 for the advanced BOSS template.
After checking his savings, Xiao Yu had 260,000 left after buying the deluxe gaming pod. With a determined effort, he spent 240,000 points to buy a Water Elemental boss template for a mid-level boss. The remaining 20,000 was enough for his food and drink for the rest of the year.
To his surprise, the Water Elemental also had a character creation system. Although it wasn't as detailed as a humanoid creature, you could still choose colors, biological features, and so on, making it stand out. He guessed that this was mostly due to the BOSS templates. You see, when he played the fire element, there was no character creation system, and all the fire elements looked like they were made from the same mold.
Xiao Yu selected a completely transparent skin, chose a water mist effect as a feature, and then clicked "Confirm to Create".
[System prompt: Please select your character's background.]
"Huh, character background? What's that?" He glanced at the description and immediately understood. As a monster that serves as a BOSS template, its appearance in the game means it has appeared in the Chronicles of the Firmament. Therefore, it needs a background. After all, a BOSS can't just appear out of thin air; there has to be some explanation. So, a character background is essential.
Character Background 1: You are a prince of the Water Elemental. Your father was a powerful Water Elemental Lord who was killed by Ragnaros the Firelord, in a battle against the fire elementals. As a result, you became an orphan. However, your impoverished origins cannot conceal your noble bloodline. From the moment you were born, you displayed elemental power far exceeding that of ordinary Water Elemental. You vowed to take revenge on Ragnaros and all fire elementals.
Character Background 2: You were once the most powerful Warrior of the Water Elemental race. In a battle, you were killed and lost your memories, but your elemental power resurrected you. Now, you must start from scratch to reclaim your past glory.
Character Background 3: Among elemental creatures, on rare occasions, some very special beings are born from among thousands of elemental creatures. They often possess magical abilities that half of the elements do not have. You are such a Water Elemental. With your extraordinary talent, you are destined to achieve great things. Now, begin your elemental journey.
Character Background 4:...
There were over a dozen backgrounds, but in Xiao Yu's view, they were all pretty much the same. Basically, they all meant you had a powerful background, someone behind you, and were born with extraordinary talents. Xiao Yu decisively chose the first character background: Water Elemental Prince swearing revenge. It sounded very appealing and would be very helpful for his grand plan to become the strongest BOSS.
[System prompt: Background selection complete. Please select your racial talent.]
A list of talents popped up in front of me.
Talent 1: Extreme Deep Cold: Your abilities gain a greater slowing effect when the target is frozen.
Talent 2: Quick Draw: Your Elemental Arrow skill has been increased in casting speed.
Talent 3: Refined Physique: You gain more experience points when absorbing elemental crystals.
Talent 4: Deep Freeze: The Freeze of your Freeze ability is extended by one second.
Talent 5: Big Build: You are slightly larger than a typical Water Elemental.
Talent 6: Marine Life: You move faster in water.
Huh? You can even choose your talents? Xiao Yu was immediately taken aback. He thought to himself, "This VIP template is really awesome. It's like being born with two extra passive skills compared to ordinary monsters." He immediately perked up. Compared to the vague background of the character, these talents are extremely important.
As a mid-level boss, Xiao Yu has two talent points, allowing him to freely choose between two racial talents.
After much hesitation, Xiao Yu chose the talents of Extreme Deep Cold and Big Build.
Extreme Deep Cold has a very good slowing effect. After all, the strongest aspect of the Water Elemental compared to other elements is that it has a slowing skill. And Big Build can increase the size, which is also very important. A larger size not only looks more scary, but many skills are affected by size. For example, the larger the size, the larger the casting range of Frost Nova.
[System prompt: Character talent selection complete. Please name your character.]
Xiao Yu had already decided on a name: Gonggong, the legendary water god. It would definitely sound high-class.
[System notification: This name is already taken. Please choose a new name.]
Oh no, looks like we'll have to change it. How about Poseidon, the sea god in Greek mythology? That wouldn't be bad.
[System notification: This name is already taken. Please choose a new name.]
"Holy crap, no way!" Xiao Yu thought to himself, "This is unbelievable!" Because adventurer names and monster template names can be the same, and there weren't many players using monster templates before, so he had never had a duplicate name. But now, he couldn't use any of them.
How is Elandil?
[System prompt: This name is available. Confirm?]
Xiao Yu, however, nodded. The name was alright, but it wasn't imposing enough. "Right," he thought, "Why not just call him Yu the Great? Yu the Great tamed the floods—that's a good name."
[System notification: This name is already taken. Please choose a new name.]
Nima--
After much searching, Xiao Yu finally found a name from mythology that wasn't already taken.
Azathoth, the chief of the demons in the Cthulhu Mythos, sounds incredibly powerful, but the most crucial point is that it's actually usable.
With his name finally chosen, Xiao Yu entered the game.
PS: Thank you to reader Summoner A for the 10,000 Qidian coins.
PS2: To build up a backlog of chapters for the strong promotion and release, I will resume two updates a day starting today.