18 2 Months Later

Wu Tian reached his hand out and a pan appeared in his hand, this was Chef's Divine Pan that had a 200% damage increase, most weapons have a 50% or 60% but a pan, a nonweapon item adds 200%. Just imagine how Emyprean weapons damage would be.

Wu Tian gave a chilling smirk, Magica was tasked by the Crimson Blood clan to recover the Divine Koi Pill Cauldron because it had the ability to make permanent buff pills but now this masked noob came out of nowhere and Alchemist Freer gave it to him, she has spent 6 months in this stuck up lair without a way to level up and only talking to this freaking AI, but she was level 23 and the noob was level 11 even if her health and mp are lower their stats should be incomparable. She smiled as she could kill this person and take the cauldron and leave this wretched city.

Wu Tian would sadly give her a big lesson, legendary players levels work differently to normal people and even if he was level 1 with his items, titles, and techniques she wouldn't have a chance. Another reason he was going to fight her was that she was trying to take advantage of Alchemist Freer who is his teacher, anyone who disrespects his teacher was asking to get beat and especially one who is a brother of his other 3 teachers.

Wu Tian was taunting her with the pan and he rushed forward, he used his clan's movement technique which caught her off guard. Players who use manual mode is very rare and she expected a robotic automatic player to rush her. She never expected him to actually move side to side not allowing her to get a clear sight to shoot her spell, endless darkness.

In the end, she didn't even get a chance to react as he used the skill Uppercut Punch with the pan and she died instantly, "1050 Damage done, instakill counter: 1"

Wu Tian didn't expect that he would instantly kill the girl, he only wanted to stun her by hitting the top of her chin but he apparently did too much damage.

Wu Tian saw she had nothing useful on her body so he just walked away trying to find a place to train to a high level so he can be ready for when the story of the game starts.

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During the announcement of the game, they said that the first year of the game would be somewhat of a peaceful era, players, in the beginning, would be put into a prefecture in the 7 Clover Empire. People were such low levels because there were no expert level bosses or hard farming areas, there were only low-level raids and low-level farming areas meaning people couldn't level-up past 40. The first year was to get people to learn about the functions of the game, explore the one prefecture and learn jobs and practice mechanical skills. But after the one year grace period was over the story would really begin. The whole continent would open up and the story would actually begin, the first arc was called A New Beginning and the second arc is called Age of Empires. During this new age people can level up way faster than before and professional players can reach levels as high as they want if they spend the time and know the correct strategies.

Wu Tian for the last 2 months of the year training his skills and increasing his cultivation level. Wu Tian also found out that very very occasionally the monsters dropped little orbs called Qi Cores and Wu Tian guessed this is one of the rare drops that only cultivators get. After keeping it in his hands and cultivating he realized that his cultivation was way faster so he also started farming those as well using the Mystic Needle Technique and trapping the beasts. By December 29th he reached Qi Condensation Stage 10:

ID: Martial Asura (Cultivator)

Qi Condensation Stage 10

HP: 2000—3500

Heavenly QI:1500—2500

Soul Power: 500—1300

Bloodline: Volta Wind Dragon Bloodline- Increases body strength, reduces physical damage by 50% and increases elemental affinity with lightning and wind

Equipment:

Martial Soul, Dark Matter(Unknown): Used as the most powerful spirit vein for cultivation and can be formed as a weapon or armor outside the body, the speed of formation matters on the Soul Power and strength matters on Heavenly Qi, due to the absorption of the 5 empyrean artifacts the amount of dark matter you are allowed to use increases and you are able to use the dark matter to summon the artifacts again

Cultivators Martial Clothing(Legendary)- made by Grandmaster Martial Asura, gives 65% Physical and Magic Resistance

(Legendary)Leather Shoes- Shoes that look normal but have groves that allow the Dark Matter to cover and increase the durability, increase speed by 35%

(Legendary) Leather Gloves- Gloves that look normal but have groves that allow the Dark Matter to cover and increase the durability, increase physical damage by 35%

Mask of Asura(Legendary)- Mask made by Grandmaster Martial Asura, can be used to hide the users face and player ID. It also increases visibility in the dark and perception around the user.

Skills:

-Lateral Kick (LV10—LVMAX) The Pugilists has strong leg muscles allowing the user to deal 300% physical damage to the target, causing it to fly. Costs Qi 10.

-Uppercut Punch (LV10—LVMAX) The Pugilist has strong arm muscles allowing the user to deal 300% physical damage to the target, causing it to fly. Costs Qi 10.

-Heavenly Dragon Soul 89 Forms (LV4—LV6) This technique allows cultivators to train the Body, Heavenly Qi, and Soul. It also a powerful fighting technique that can move oceans and destroy mountains when trained to the highest level, causes 560% physical damage, cost Qi 100

-Volta Wind Wing Technique(LV4—LV6)- Allows the user to grow wings on the back that have 3 abilities

Fly(unlocked)-allows the person to run fast on the ground and fly in the sky, Cost Qi 40 per 30 minutes on the ground and Costs Qi 90 for 10 minutes in the sky

Wind Blades- Sends blades of wind towards enemy cutting through anything in its path, damage 300, Cost Qi 50 per blade

Lightning Ball- Sends a ball of lightning towards the enemy and causes 850 damage if it lands, cost Qi 100 per lightning ball.

Mystic Needle Technique(LVMAX)- Technique made by Tailor Grandmaster Josce, a technique that allows even the weakest material to become as strong as a plate of armor. Allows a 45% chance increase to make a legendary item of clothing, it can also be used as a where you throw the needle and trap enemies in strings of threads, strength 1500 HP, Cost None, Soul Power needs to be active

Titles:

-Savior of Volta Wind Village: Gain +50% affinity with NPC's

-First Hidden Class: Ability: increase damage by 200% for 1 minute, 1.5-minute cooldown

-First Legendary Player: Passive: Debuffs do not take effect on the player

Passive: Gain 10% regen on health every 1 minute

-First Legendary Job Mastery: Affinity with all NPC's increase by 100%, any item you create yourself and use it on yourself will increase by 15%

-Legendary Mastery of 4 jobs: All temporary buffs increase time limit increase by 1 minute, all permanent buffs stats increase by 15%

Mastery:

Blacksmith(Legendary): Job that allows the player to create anything you want to create with metal, anvil, furnace, and a hammer, due to the legendary rank you have a 5% chance of making Empyrean items, 45% chance of making legendary items and 50% chance of making epic items.

Tailor(Legendary): Job that allows the player to create any item of clothing they want with the appropriate materials, due to legendary rank you have a 5% chance of making Empyrean ranked clothing, 45% chance of making legendary ranked clothing and 50% chance of making epic ranked clothing

Chef(Legendary): Job that allows the player to cook food with that give temporary buffs or debuffs, due to legendary level food has a 5% chance of being Empyrean level, 45% chance of being legendary food and 50% chance of being an epic food

Alchemist(Legendary): Job that allows the player to create pills and potions that give temporary or permanent buffs or debuffs, due to legendary level pills and potions have a 5% chance of being empyrean level 45% chance of being legendary and 50% chance of being epic

Wu Tian checked his stat and was happy with the results. He shut down the game and climbed out of the pod. Since the 2nd arc started on January 2nd, Wu Tian decided to take a 1-day break and relax. Wu Tian has spent almost every day this year in that pod and although he does do martial arts training every single morning and he was still in his peak condition, Wu Tian still needed to go outside.

It was the next day and he did his morning routine but this time instead of going to the pod to play Wu Tian went outside for a jog for a bit. Most of Wu Tian's neighbors were teenagers doing cheap jobs. The apartment itself was so cheap and Wu Tian was lucky to get the last room available. Wu Tian became friends with one of his neighbors, Luka Baldwin, who also plays Heaven Reach. Although Luka wasn't very good at the game his brother actually worked to develop the game and so Luka had a lot of inside knowledge.

Wu Tian actually learned about the 2nd arc from Luka most players don't even know about it. Today Wu Tian and Luka decided to go out for a movie as it was New Years Day and they both didn't have family close by.

Wu Tian walked by his friend's apartment and knocked on his door. Luka opened the door and smiled "Your so lazy, we were supposed to go 3 minutes ago, give me a second to wear my shoes. Luka looked like a 9th grader but was actually 20 years old, he wore glasses and Wu Tian quickly figured out the Luka had OCD. His apartment was very neat and everything was put in a certain way.

They walked out of the building and started walking to a famous sushi place near-by before the movie. Wu Tian really like Luka, as a kid coming from a secluded mountain place, he wasn't the best at socially communicating as the only ways he knows how to be respectful to elders or punching his fist through the enemies' face. Luka treated him like a normal person even though his Chinese accent was pretty thick when he spoke English. In the mountain, they weren't totally out of the loop and they taught everyone English since it was the main language used almost in all countries and in Heaven's Reach English was the main language used to communicate. Luckily the pods come with a translator and the Version 6 pod has a detachable translator meaning you can take it with you outside. But of course, Wu Tian didn't know that it was detachable and struggled speaking English in the outside world.

Luka started explaining what was going to happen during the 2nd ark, "I heard from my brother that the 2nd ark will contain picking a certain country you want to side with when the war starts, just like in the first arc, based on which country you pick the quests will be different and your story will be different than other peoples. He even told me that if you become a noble with a count status and have 100,000 people in your main city, you can break off from the empire and start your own country, as King.!"

Wu Tian was shocked, how cool would it be to be the king of your own country but of course he Wu Tian wanted to focus on making money and do the story. Wu Tian knew that even if he wasn't the strongest player, he would be one of the strongest players in the game and wouldn't have a problem facing enemies.

After the lunch and movie Wu Tian went home and did a few more practice in martial arts including developing the foot movements of the Heavenly Dragon Soul 89 Forms into his martial arts and relaxed for the rest of the day.

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Early next morning, Wu Tian woke up and did his morning routine, during this entire time he had the face of utter excitement and when he climbed into the pod and the title came up he said "I spent the year training myself in the game to become powerful, now I will be able to show my family that I am able to live with doing 2 of my favorite things, video games and martial arts."

Although most people predicted the top 5 guilds would monopolize the main story, little did they know that it would be one man, the first legendary player Martial Asura!