Chapter 364 A Peculiar History

'System, open up the forum.' Wanting to see if his stats as a Rank 2 class holder would allow him to obtain more information from things he initially thought of as mundane, Valyr commanded the system to bring up the forum, causing a small screen to appear in front of his field of vision as he looked through the bookshelf before him.

"There's still no posts, huh." Letting out a faint sigh as a wry smile gradually crept up onto his lips, Valyr stared at the screen before him, which contained buttons and tabs on its sides that he had become familiar with as an avid forum user in the past. Yet, even though the core buttons and tabs that made up a forum were there, the most important of a forum, the posts, were not there.

"Now that I think about it… do NPCs have access to the World Net?" Closing up the screen as the question from before lingered in his mind, another question of a similar vein popped up into his mind as he took a quick look through the screen that contained the World Net, deciding to catch up on news regarding Greater Beyond now that the beta period was done.

pαndα,noνɐ1,сoМ 'Well, it's no surprise that many people are hyped to try out the game for themselves.' Seeing multiple articles praising the graphics and high level of realism that Greater Beyond offered to its players, a faint chuckle escaped Valyr's mouth as he recalled how he was left in awe after watching a few trailer videos of the game in the past.

In fact, because of those videos, he was not able to sleep properly for the week that followed after the release of those trailers.

Returning his train of thought back to the matter at hand, Valyr closed the screen that contained the World Net before focusing his senses on the various books and documents that were displayed on the bookshelf. Eventually, he found a book that more or less contained everything he needed, becoming certain of it being the case after doing a quick skim over it.

Grabbing the book from the bookshelf, Valyr made his way to an empty table nearby, taking note of how the number of people on this floor, including him, only amounted a number slightly above 10. Placing the previous thought aside, the young man then focused his attention on the book in front of him before proceeding to open it.

"The World of Veldanyr and Its History and Geography."

Skipping over the foreword that the author had placed at the beginning of the book, Valyr was quickly greeted by the sight of a few graphics within the book, something which he had not seen in the books he had opened before, save for the book that went into detail on curses.

However, unlike the crude drawings on the book on curses, the graphics within the book Valyr was currently heading appeared to have taken painstaking effort.

"Veldanyr is the name of the world that us humans live in. There are a total of five continents within this world, all of which are enveloped by two massive oceans." Feeling like he had gone back in time to where he would read the books within the game's libraries for fun, it did not take long for him to get engrossed in what he was reading, muttering out some of the passages every once in a while.

"The name of the continent we are on is called Zaveigest, and this book shall go into detail on the events that had transpired within it. All of these events could be categorized into three major ages: The Age of Darkness, the Age of Uprising, and the Age of Innovation."

By the time he had gotten to the point of the book where it went into detail on the various ages of history that transpired within the world of Veldanyr, Valyr's imagination was working on overdrive, allowing him to vividly imagine the scenes that had happened during those times, which gave him a better idea of how everything unfolded.

As the first age to be explained in the book, Valyr was quite surprised with the events that had been described during the Age of Darkness, recalling that the language used to describe this part of Veldanyr's history was more tame back when he was a player. Nevertheless, that did not stop him from immersing himself, putting himself into the shoes of the humans during this time.

Then again, if one were to think of two words that described the living conditions of humans during this time, then most of them would probably think of the phrase 'living hell'.

The Age of Darkness, as the name implied, was the age in history where humans were treated like beings of lesser importance. Almost all humans during this age grew up under the notion that they would live and die as food for the races that reigned over Veldanyr back then, which were the orcs, elves, dragons, devils, and werebeasts.

As for the humans that were lucky enough to not become the food of the five ruling races, they either became high-quality slaves, playthings, or items of pleasure for these beings. All in all, humans had no say whatsoever whenever it cames to matters involving the world of Veldanyr.

Though, that all changed when the system had appeared.

On one fateful day, all of the humans through the world had gained access to the system, giving them the ability to reach a level of strength that would allow them to match the five ruling races, and even go far beyond if they wanted to. With that, one person had devised a plan that all of them would revolt against the rulers of that time, deciding to gather strength in secrecy and only make their move a year after the system's appearance.

By the time a year had passed, a great portion of the humans had revolted against the ruling races, waging a great war against them that lasted for hundreds, if not thousands of years. This part was the Age of Uprising, the part of Veldanyr's history that piqued Valyr's interest the most.

Aside from the fact that humanity's greatest strategists and fighters had been born during this time, there was a small bit of information that Valyr noticed as he read through this part of the book.

A piece of information that might hold the answers to his question involving the forum and the World Net.

"System updates…"