Chapter 16: Changes in Reality
When Alvin opened his eyes once more, he was greeted with the scene of his living room. He immediately felt something different about his body but before he could investigate further, his nose was greeted with a nasty stench that was coming from his body. He immediately took off his shirt only to see a sticky black substance over his skin.
This substance smelt so bad that he could hardly breathe. Holding his breath, he immediately stripped down and run to the bathroom. He had to stay under the shower for a whole hour before the bad smell wore off.
Standing in front of the mirror and looking at his reflection, Alvin felt overwhelming strength all over his body. He was shocked at the changes that had occurred in his body over a single night.
His skin was as supple as a child's and his muscles felt firmer. Even though his skin looked frail, the energy that Alvin felt within made him feel that its hardness would be unquestionable!
In his memory, he knew that because of the previous Alvin's second failure in awakening, his physical condition had deteriorated to a situation where he was even weaker than normal people. He had developed a lot of complications in his health and even his eyesight had become very bad.
But at this time, these small problems had completely disappeared. His eyesight was very clear, the previous blurry sight was now completely cured. His previously problematic cervical vertebra was also very comfortable now. There is no feeling of discomfort after waking up.
What surprised him even more was that the originally seemingly weak body now had traces of muscle lines. Although it was still very small, but much better than before. His previously very skinny body looked quite muscular now!
" In the game, I had focused a lot on my Vitality attribute increasing it to an astonishing 20 points, doubling the initial figure. Having risen to level 3, all my attributes also increased with my soul reaching an unprecedented 30 points. If I follow the initial 10% - 30% synchronization rate announced by Ares Corporation, should the change be so big? This doesn't feel like even 30% percent at all!"
These changes that had occurred in Alvin's body made him very confused. There should be a reason for such change.
"Right, this feeling, this feeling is like..." clenching his fist and feeling the strength contained within, Alvin seemed to have thought of something, suddenly exclaiming, "isn't this the same feeling as I experienced in the game? After I added those 8 attribute points to my basic attributes, this is the exact same feeling I had..."
That's right; at this point he felt that his body was exactly the same as in the game, as if the body in the game had been returned to reality. He felt all the 340kg strength in his body.
"Can it be that the synchronization rate is much higher than was reported by the Ares Corporation?" when this thought lashed through Alvin's mind, his excitement grew bigger and bigger, " doesn't this mean all the strength that I attain in the game can be transmitted to reality? Then if i keep upgrading, how strong will I become? Won't I be stronger than those Enhancers?"
As these thoughts flashed through Alvin's mind, he couldn't contain his excitement anymore. If he continues to strengthen at his current rate, wouldn't his speed of progress be faster than the enhancers and evolvers of this world?
One had to know that enhancers and evolvers in this world were treated like royalties.
Alvin immediately moved from his bathroom, dressed up and ran to his computer to confirm whether this change that he was experiencing was also experienced by everyone.
But what Alvin had failed to realize was that, when he was logging in for the first time, his synchronization rate was upgraded to an astonishing 100%! At this moment, his body in reality and the game was synchronized; if he strengthens in reality, his body in the game would also be strengthened.
Even though technology had improved dramatically and most people used light brain technology to connect to the network, Alvin still used an old computer because he couldn't afford the light brain technology!
He immediately logged on to the official website that the Ares Corporation had set up for 'The Pirate King' Virtual Reality Synchronized Gaming World (VRSGW)!
At this time, the Ares Corporation had published a lot of information on the One Piece world to allow players to better adapt to this world power system.
['The Pirate King' world power Distribution:
The Strongest force – World Government with more than 170 affiliated countries. The biggest affiliated organization is the Navy which maintains order throughout the world.
Other powers in this world include Pirates, Bounty Hunter Association etc.
Naval power structure:
1. Fleet Admiral
2. Admiral
3. Vice Admiral
4. Rear Admiral
5. Commodore
6. Captain
7. Commander
8. Lieutenant Commander
9. Lieutenants,
10. Lieutenant Junior Grades( 1st and 2nd Lieutenants)
11. Soldier ranks (Warrant Officer, Sergeant Major, Sergeant, Corporal, First, Second and Third Class Private Recruit and Odd Jobs Recruit)
Geographical distribution of Pirate King World: the entire Pirate King World is made up of over 80% ocean. The Blue Sea, which makes up the entire world, consists of one large continent, one long chain of islands, and four seas that make up two larger oceans. The continent is called the Red Line, the big chain of islands is called the Grand Line and the four seas are called North Blue, South Blue, East Blue and West Blue. Players will start off in these four seas!]
As Alvin continued to read on, his heart began to beat faster and faster. His advantage in this world was disappearing with each word the Ares Corporation published.
It wasn't until he read the last world that his heart finally settled down. Even though the information here described the world structure as well as power balance, it wasn't too comprehensive.
For him, the more information Ares Corporation supplied about this world, the less of an advantage he would have. The rest of the information was just the basic settings of the Pirate King World.
Unlike other games, apart from the increase in attributes brought by leveling up, players can also increase their physique (Vitality), strength, speed and spirit (Soul) by exercising like they do in reality.
In other words, in the game, if you want to become stronger, you can not only upgrade your strength through leveling up, but also through exercise, but this exercise takes time, and it is similar to reality. It requires effort and sweat to have reward.
Also, skills gained through exercise and practice is more solid and more practical than learning through the skill book, and the percentage of synchronization to reality is higher.
In the Pirate King World, whether it is physical fitness or strength, speed, and spirit, there are bottlenecks, that is, the limits of everybody. This requires personal willpower and endurance, as well as courage to breakthrough. Of course, the most indispensable is talent which determines when or how long a player take to breakthrough a bottleneck.
as for the level of talent, every player in the game starts off at D+!
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