No one understood Carter like the Moon. 

Due to the current events happening in the present, Carter travels to the past to save the future. She has to figure out her true identity but what happens when Carter realizes that she has been living a lie? After learning that she and her friends had met before, the crew decides to investigate and find out what caused their sudden memory loss but along the way they learn that not everything is what it seems.

Secrets begin to come to the light. True identities are revealed. 

These were their lives yet it all seemed to be one big game. 

Welcome to The Former Games - where even the truths can be a lie.

Book Two  | Sequel to The Chosen One

Her mind ran with wild with theories, stretching on for miles on end, wrapping themselves around her small brain, as she tried to make sense of it all. But Aileene simply couldn't and the further she delve into her own thoughts, the more questions she had. 

How was the book created? 

Was this Aileene from a different parallel world? 

How was the book able to reach her hands? 

Why did the system allow it to exist? Or did the system not know? 

The theories that she could come up with were boundless and she felt lost. Her back was up against the wall and she couldn't help but despair in the fact that her normal cleverness or intelligence didn't help her at all. There was no way left for her to go but forward. She had to finish the novel, the more she read, the more she would understand, right? 

'Vain, in my world was a new and innovative game. It was one of kind in it's debuted genre, something no one had ever seen before. And so when it was pushed into the public's eyes it immediately gains traction, selling millions of copies all around the world in just a day. 

The game market a new type of experience. It was a self-changing game, in which all decisions were made by the player. 

Quests were unlocked by actions of the player, and the actions of the player, itself, were unlimited. Players were to type their own speech, dictate their own actions. Which in turn leaves the effect of the players' actions limitless. 

The program to this new technology was, of course, a secret. Such an ingenious idea. Who would want to have it revealed to the world? That would just make the game lose all its value. 

And the value of the game was really why I brought it. Before Vain, I hadn't played many otome games. It just wasn't my forte, so I didn't delve into the genre much. Though my lack of knowledge wasn't to say that I didn't even know what otome games were. I did play one or two, here and there and I basically knew the essential. So I was better off than most, but not a die-hard fan. 

I guess I didn't have an interest in games in general. I don't play many games and the games I do were all mobile since they were ones that were easy to access. Something simple and mindless. 

This wasn't the case for Vain though. It was a desktop game and it was a first for me to go out of my way for such a game. It piqued my interest, so I decided to give it a go. Maybe I'd broaden my horizon with it, was my thought process.' 

The story was really far too detailed to be something a person inside Vain could write. It disclosed information that sounded reasonably true and could have possibly happened in the real world. But the simple believability of it wasn't any concrete evidence for her to go off of. So from her own small vault of knowledge, Aileene couldn't exactly tell if everything she read was fabricated or if it was an actual real ruminate of a past world. 

Furrowing her brows, Aileene continued reading the book silently. Her mind still trying to decipher every question and theory she had, but her thoughts weren't getting very far. She stagnated in her mission, but the more she read, the more the story hooked onto her and dragged her in further. 

The Aileene within the story had been "transmigrated," her own defining term, into the otome game Vain. Her experiences and past all link to the real world that exist outside Vain and throughout the story, she uses her future knowledge and real-world knowledge to solve all her problems. From every single destruction flag that headed her way, she would strike them down with extreme efficiency. 

This in turn set up a domino effect to things, every action the book Aileene made further changed the original plot of Vain. Good turned into bad, bad turned into good. And so when book Aileene had finally started her years in Austrion Academy, the dominos that had been accumulating through time had started falling. One after another. 

Since the villainess within the book was now kind and good. The world collapsed onto itself and the heroine turned vicious and evil. Though book Aileene didn't let any obstacles stand in her way of success and she stared on at the chaos of the falling dominos she had created, taking her steps in stride. In the end, she was able to overturn fate and earn herself a happy ending, despite her original status as a villainess. 

Aileene flipped over the last pages of the book and sighed, the events portrayed in the books felt very familiar to her as she was reading. But as luck would have it, she simply couldn't think straight. Nevermind pinpoint exactly what her theory was, maybe it was just her tired and muddle-headedness speaking, afterall she had stayed up so late. So much so that her brain had given up its cognitive ability to remember. 

Closing the book and turning to place it on her nightstand. Aileene glanced up at her pale blue curtains, which shadowed beside the hint of light stoning from the slit where the two parts of the curtain touched but weren't completely pinned together. 

Seeing the light, she could guess that it was already morning. And instead of simply staying up late, she had stayed up the whole night. Aileene closed her eyes, finally starting to feel the effects of her timeless endeavor. She couldn't manage her time when she was sucked into the novel. So now she had to face the consequences of her actions. 

Shifting her body to lie down, she shoved all her worries away. When the evening comes, she'd try to decipher her thoughts.

Vain, a new otome game pushed into the public, marketed a new type of experience. A self changing game with all decisions made by the player. 

Quests are unlocked by actions of the player, and the actions of the player, itself, are unlimited. Players are to type their own speech, dictate their own actions. Which in turn leaves the effect of the players actions unlimited. 

No endings are alike. 

No heroine are alike. 

All characters can change.

Hello all!

Sorry for delaying angd long waiting. Many of you gave notices to the plot and I agree with you. The book was proofread and the were lots of changes. I've decided to reload the book from the beginning. 

Those who already read the book, you can miss the reloaded changes. I'll try to update it as fast as possible. 

 

My first glimpse of D&D started from Baldur's Gate more than 20 years ago. Very rare people knew about these games in Russia in 1990s. The first official D&D publication appeared only in 2006, 30 years after it came out in America. By the way, now I look forward to the new Forgotten Realms. 
Honestly, the first game I played was a poorly translated pirated copy. It was constantly keeping crashing on my outdated computer, but I was too fascinated to stop playing it. 
After Baldur's Gate 2 released, I'd managed to meet several like-minded people on the Internet. We made cards on the black-and-white printer and spent many exciting evenings playing the game. There were no more than 30 people in our entire city who were fond of D&D, but all my teenage memories of that period were good memories. 
In August 2006, D&D 3.5 rules were first officially published in Russian. We got a chance to play Neverwinters Night, Baal and received official collectibles. The fan community became huge. I played on the forums, in the icq and irc chats (does anyone still remember about them?). 
Around the same time, I was drafted into the army and was forced to abandon my passion for games. Having returned home and written a small series of books in the post-apocalypse genre, I resumed to my teenage hobby for board games. I devoted them all my time. 
Together with a 30,000 group of subscribers on a literary site, I decided to create a game book that would combine all my past knowledge with my current experience. According to the simplified free-to-use d20 rules, I asked a question at the end of each chapter and wrote the next chapter based on the voting results. For example, once my readers chose a completely unexpected hero class for me. As a result of the unexpected plot twist, I even had to change the book name. 
While facing an important event in the text, I threw a d4 dice for luck, and described the result, taking into account all the characteristics. Later I found out that this approach wasn't very popular with those readers who weren't very much interested in D&D games. However, if you are as big fan of the board role-playing games as me, then I'm sure you'll like the book. You will success in revealing all the secrets of this seemingly simple but multi-layered world.

The God of Light fell.

The Demon Lord rules the world.

Sentient beings were forbidden to develop technology, and people were never able to shift from the steam engine era to the age of electricity and the internal combustion engine.

But as long as you are the Light host, you may hope for the best. Even if your house is burned to the ground, even if you lose your family, even if your overlord sends you to your death. The Black Guard never gives up and continues on his way.

Every word here is true.

And every word here is a lie.

Where is the truth? You can't guess...

Choose what you want..

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After giving instructions to Qing, Fu Yan started to improve the game.
His goal was to give the user the freedom they wanted.
Though games are games but many players want the games to be realistic because they want to able to do things, they can't do in reality.
That's what games are for.
They allow players to escape reality.
Though games are very good for entertainment but they are also criticized because players get addicted to them and they waste their time so Fu Yan was trying to create a game that would be widely different from all those other games available.
His main focus was to give freedom to players to allow them to do whatever they wanted to do in-game though there would be some restrictions but mostly they would have the freedom they wanted.
The second point was to make it a widely different game by giving it a genre of educational entertainment.
This was the other task that he gave Qing to solve.
The idea was to add puzzles in the game which after being solved would give players boast or something similar.
Fu Yan was not the first one to think about this idea. Many Top-level game companies also thought of this point but it was very hard to implement because when one person solve the puzzle, he would tell others and they would solve it by the same process and creativity would end there.
But Fu Yan had something that they did not have and that is "AI". 
Qing would be given the task to add puzzles and in-game educational entertainment.
She was currently gathering data from different sources.
The first option is to replace puzzles every day whether they were solved or not and the second one was to monitor the puzzles data. If one puzzle had been solved 5 times, it would become invalid and would be replaced.
Now here came the tricky part. If one wanted to replace puzzles in a game, they had to release patches for that players would become annoyed because they would want to enjoy the game not download updates after updates for it.
So Fu Yan was stuck at this point and this was also the main reason why his game was not finished yet.
He had already finished the game development book and was ready to return it to the library.
"I should ask Old Shun if there was any book related to this problem in the library that I can read with my level."
After thinking that he went to his bed and laid down.
He swiped on his hand and appeared in the great hall of the library.
Old Shun was standing there, smiling as usual.
Fu Yan also smiled upon seeing him and said.
"I have finished this book and I am stuck on a problem while developing a game so I want to know if there is any technology available that I can use at my level."
Old Shun smiled and asked about the problem that he was facing.
Old Shun gave a book after thinking for some time.
The book was unlike other books which were of normal size because this book was heavy and thick.
Its thickness was that of 3 or 4 previous books combined.
Fu Yan was surprised upon seeing the book of this size.
He looked at the title and a look of excitement could be seen on his face upon reading it.
"The Essentials of Cloud Gaming and Computing(beginer+)"
He knew that with this book he would not have to worry about most of the problems that he might face in future because cloud computing was the core of many technology giants and they were still perfecting it and from the standards of the Library, The technology in this book would be more advanced than that of earth.
After giving him this book, Old Shun said.
"As you can see this is a beginer+ book and its content would be a little hard for you to understand but seeing that you are hard-working and giving your all so I am giving a gift. You might have needed 40 to 50 credits to understand the knowledge in this book but with my gift, you won't be needing them."
After saying that he pointed his finger towards Fu Yan's head and he could feel a surge of knowledge entering his brain.
Fu Yan was confused with this behavior of Old Shun so he asked.
"Old why did you gave me a gift?"
Old Shun just smiled and said.
"You will be the last librarian that I have to train and after this, I would be free from this duty so I want you to become a librarian fast."
Fu Yan was even more confused after hearing this.
"What do you mean by you would be free after training me."
Old Shun explained to him.
"You see we guardian or you can call us workers are different from librarians. We enter into a contract with this library after we fail to return the books we borrow in time and don't have compensation to pay so we become workers for the library for a period of time to pay what we owe and my settlement was a huge because I lost the book that I borrowed from the library so I had to enter into a contract to work for the library for 3000 years or help train 10 librarians so though only 2134 years have passed, I have already trained 9 of them and you would be the last that I have to train. Though we lose our freedom but we have some privileges. We can access books in the library easily and improve our knowledge and we also have other perks but everything in this library follow the rule of equal exchange so you can understand what I want to say."
Fu Yan's mind was filled with questions but Old Shun refused to say more, saying he would answer these questions of his at a later time."
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Galactic Technological Library that is the access point for different races of the universe to exchange knowledge, choose an ordinary boy from the earth as its librarian.
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Of course, everyone understood that logic but to really do it, no one dared to. Doak was an ancient-grade BOSS. Staying back-to-back with him was as dangerous as touching a tiger's private parts.
If he was not careful, he would die without even knowing how. Wang Yu's source of bravery came completely from his confidence in his own abilities.
Wang Yu was stuck so tightly on Doak's back such that no matter how Doak turned around, Wang Yu was behind him and could not be attacked. This scene was out-of-the-ordinary. If they did not know that the BOSS had this special attribute, everyone would think that Doak was insane.
Seeing how Wang Yu had Doak under control, Quan Zhen Sect did not slack off. Spell, arrows and more were sent towards Doak who was spinning around.
After the first round of attack, Doak was stunned by all the attacks and so, he decided to leave Wang Yu behind and continued to advance forward. Wang Yu turned to face Doak and reached out to give him a slap. Doak waved his sword to counter-attack him but Wang Yu turned around again to stick himself on Doak's back once more. 
Once Quan Zhen Sect's skills completed their cooldown, they began another round of attack.
Just like that, Wang Yu was responsible for holding Doak back while everyone else was responsible for attacking him. Whenever Doak wanted to advance forward, Wang Yu will find some way to stay stuck on his back to create an opportunity for everyone else to attack him.
When Doak was less than five metres away from the King of Beast Dijun's head, his HP finally fell to null. He roared in unresignment and left behind a bunch of rare top-grade items which were shining, before he disappeared into a ray of light.
After Doak died, there was still a minute left to the Resurrection Totem. Although they lost control, Sunset Magical Apes instinctively remained on the spot.
At that moment, everyone was not in the mood to bother with the quest item as they did not have it and neither they could get it anytime soon. Instead, everyone's eyes fell onto the bunch of things Doak left behind.
Doak was an ancient-grade BOSS so all the items he dropped were of gold-grade and above, with no upper limit. He might have even dropped an ancient-grade equipment.
"Old Bull, what's there? What's there?" everyone crowded around and asked.
Wang Yu heard them and picked up the items then sent each of their attributes to the guild chat.
There was only one piece of equipment which was a double-handed large sword.
King of Beast's Hunting Blade (Large sword) (Obsidian)
Attack: 380-400
Magic: 180-200
+50 strength
+50 vitality
Hunting: Passive skill. Every three attacks on the target will cause the target to have hunting marks of three colours, red, yellow and blue.
Red mark: Target's movement speed reduced by 30%
Yellow mark: Target's defence against magic spells reduced by 30%
Blue marks: Target's attack speed reduced by 30%
The marks can be stacked.
Reward: Passive skill, target's drop rate increase by 30%.
Haste: Aggressive skill, within 15 seconds, attack and movement speed increase by 30%.
Job Requirement: Warrior
Level Requirement: 50
Item introduction: It is Doak, a bounty hunter's, sword, levelled up by the King of Beast's blood.
It was not difficult to understand the item introduction as this sword was originally a gold weapon but Doak forcefully levelled up so this sword also levelled up to become an obsidian weapon.
Levelling up was just the levelling up of this sword's main attributes while the additional attributes did not level up. In fact, only three was levelled up so it was just an imposter obsidian weapon.
Of course, although this sword was an imposter obsidian weapon, its additional attributes were quite good. The three marks' reduction and blast skill's additions were outstanding. They were very suitable for people like Boson who had the additional agility in weapon battles.
What was the most precious was that this sword had the passive ability to increase drop rates. In this game with low drop rates, such an ability is very rare.
"Hmm… A pretty decent imposter obsidian. Save it for Boson." Wang Yu mumbled as he stuffed it into his bag.
The second item was a skill mastery book.
Beast-taming Skill: Special skill. Player can tame monsters or their young to become battle pets. Required job: Hunter.
"Damn, taming!" everyone exclaimed once they saw the skill book.
Anyone who played online games will know that pets are important to Archers. Regardless of the games, weakly Archers needed their battle pets to deal with their enemies.
As the saying goes, an Archer without a pet is like a Guardian who could not taunt. Although games could not be totally completed, <<REBIRTH>> had never opened the pet system to the public. Archers did not even have a "Pets" tab. In other games, they were high and almighty but here, they were like a handicapped who could only bully those of weaker Pugilist jobs.
In other online games, Archer's Beast-taming books were already highly desired. In <<REBIRTH>>, it definitely was even more so. Everyone in Quan Zhen Sect were veteran players and so they naturally understood how much this was worth.
"If we auction this, it will sell for at least one thousand gold coins." Vainglory greedily asked, "Frost Blade has died and no one is an expert at the market price so we can only guess."
Ming Du looked down on him and said, "Little Chick, you have not seen the world. This very likely might be the only Beast-taming book in this entire game. How could only one thousand be enough? It's worth at least one thousand five hundred gold coins."
"Keke, I'm going to strike rich!" Vainglory was excited.
"Mind your words. We are going to strike rich!" Ming Du corrected him.
"How can we divide this book?" Wang Yu asked Ling Longmeng and Yang Nuo while holding it in his hands.
Archers are split into Sharpshooters and Hunters while advanced level jobs only included for advanced levels. Although Ling Longmeng belonged to the hidden group, she was still part of the hunter-system so Ling Longmeng could pick up the Beast-taming Skill.
Yang Nuo was the heroic hidden Demon Hunter and so she could learn the skills from both jobs, and naturally, she can also learn this skill.
These two ladies were no match for the rest. As warriors too, Crotch Lord and Boson were Thieves, Frost Blade had a lot of good stuff while with Darknorth Fisher, they could discuss with him.
However, everyone in Quan Zhen Sect was short of Archer's equipment. Usually, they would only receive money and very rarely any equipment. Now that suddenly there was something for Archers to use, both of them could use it which made it awkward too.
"I won't have a use for it!" Yang Nuo said after reading the Beast-taming Skill book.
Yang Nuo was a short distance Archer and have always taken things on herself so she had no use for anything like pets.
Ling Longmeng was a very awkward person. Seeing how Yang Nuo gave up her rights, she also said, "I also have no use for it…"
She did not think about how as a weak Archer, how would she survive without a battle pet… 
"Lol… What's wrong with you two? Why are you guys giving it up to the other person?" Fearless was speechless then stuffed the book into Ling Longmeng's hand.
"Why give it to me!" Ling Longmeng said unhappily.
Fearless pointed at Yang Nuo and said, "She really doesn't need it."
"Why?"
"Because they are the same type of people." Fearless pointed at Wang Yu.
"…" Ling Longmeng was speechless and look at Yang Nuo in shock then took the Beast-taming Skill book.


Catching arrows, running up walls, crushing boulders and bending metal, these are but petty parlour tricks in the eyes of a true martial artist. But where can a martial artist stand in an era of material pursuit?

Join Wang Yu, the greatest martial genius the world has ever seen, as he takes on the gaming world of <<REBIRTH>>, where dragons, demons and immortals are more than just legends.

Regrettably, Wang Ling himself actually didn't know that he was on the Heavenly Dao's white list of clients.
The Heavenly Dao white list wasn't made public. Once you were added to the list, it was a secret that only the Heavenly Dao knew.
But whether or not Wang Ling knew that he was a white list client actually wasn't important… When all was said and done, even if he wasn't a white list client, they couldn't defeat him… 
Each of the Three Thousand Heavenly Dao was from a large family clan, and they were divided into numerous little golden people that differentiated between generations by size.
To defeat Wang Ling, if the three thousand Heavenly Dao family clans joined hands… then they might have a faint chance of winning.
A few minutes later, Wang Ling followed the little golden man's instructions and opened the Book of Heavenly Mysteries.
Previously, Wang Ling had written down three questions in the book:
One: Is President Bai, Bai Zhe, dead or not?
Two: Is the angler an inhabitant of the Domain of the Gods?
Three: Where on earth is the Domain of the Gods?
The Book of Heavenly Mysteries answered the above three questions in turn.
Just as Wang Ling expected.
President Bai didn't die back then.
During the summer camp, Wang Ling had had a bad feeling. He knew that Night Ghost Spirit Emperor had absorbed President Bai's soul, and the slap he gave Night Ghost Spirit Emperor when he invaded President Qi's mind at the time had been a little hard.
After that, Wang Ling wondered if President Bai would take that opportunity to make a comeback.
And sure enough, it was as he expected.
This cockroach was still alive… 
So now the situation was a little complicated.
Because President Bai would definitely continue to try and get his revenge. Also, the Heavenly Dao had already confirmed that the angler from before was someone from the Domain of the Gods… 
As for the location of the Domain of the Gods –
The Book of Heavenly Mysteries didn't give a direct answer.
According to the book, Wang Ling had to find the angler and verify the latter's identity first before the answer to the third question could be revealed… 
Wang Ling frowned when he saw this, since the third question was obviously the most important one.
This was the little golden man's first time seeing a frustrated expression on this little master's face, and he said a little testily, "It's like this because you asked too many questions. As for the answer to the third question, the original asking price was very high; this is already a pretty good answer. After all, the mysteries of heaven cannot be divulged[1]!"
Wang Ling: "…"
... 
Elsewhere, Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal and Little Silver were enjoying a dinner of broccoli salad.
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal hadn't been idle while Little Silver was gone. He had been looking into the identities of both the mysterious angler as well as the informant who continued to leave clues on the forum. After the incident with President Bai, the informant had continually shared new information anonymously on the cultivation forum… Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal's instinct told him that there was definitely some sort of connection between the angler and the informant.
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal picked up a piece of broccoli with his fork and put it in his mouth. "Looks like a lot happened at Beast King's Remains this time?"
His mouth stuffed full, Little Silver's words were muffled. "Unfortunately, we were still played. His Majesty Beast King wasn't dead, but had been scammed for over a thousand years…"
"When will you be able to open that box which Beast King gave you?" Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal was very curious about the little black box.
"It's going to take a while to open the box. His Majesty Beast King gave me a set of martial art techniques, and I have to master them first before I can open the box; I need to practice and cultivate them to at least level five first before I'll be able to open the box."
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal sweated. "Level five… You haven't started practicing, have you?"
Little Silver nodded. "No, I haven't; I need to start from scratch. I did consolidate the art's heart sutra on the way back."
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal: "Then… How long will you need to study for?"
Little Silver sucked his finger, a look of deep contemplation on his face. "Cultivating to level one will take two or three days. Based on the martial art's increasing level of difficulty, cultivating to level five will take at least a week, so at the most half a month to a month?"
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal: "…"
Even if it took a month to cultivate to level five, that was already the speed of light… 
As expected, the holy beast race were monsters of the highest kind. Each holy beast could be said to be a cultivation genius blessed by their ancestors… But still the most crucial thing was their long lifespans, and apart from the relative difficulty of cultivating realms, they learned everything else quickly.
Sure enough, if you compared yourself with "Silver," it would only make you angry…
This learning speed was actually very astonishing, but in Little Silver's eyes, this was a basic operation that couldn't be any more ordinary.
It was like a curve wrecker getting 98 on an exam and exclaiming over why two marks had been deducted while you sighed over how they managed to score 98 marks… 
This was the gap… 
A human's cultivation rate couldn't compare with a holy beast's at all.
At this thought, Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal took a deep breath.
He felt that he still had to be like Buddha in his cultivation and have patience.
Old Senior Wang at the Wang family's small villa had already shown him a shortcut on the path to enlightenment — broccoli!
Though, he had already been eating broccoli for almost two months, and had yet to comprehend the meaning inside it…
However, since this was a hint from Old Senior Wang, there had to be some basis for it.
Perhaps he hadn't eaten enough of it yet?
Perhaps he wasn't enlightened enough yet… 
"What have you been playing lately? Are there any new games?" Little Silver nonchalantly poked at his dinner, completely unaware of the internal storm Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal was experiencing after learning of Little Silver's speed in learning techniques.
"Games? I haven't been playing much lately. Brother Silver… games are a waste of time. Originally, to help you to quickly adapt to the human world, I didn't tell you about the evils of playing games. Do you know how many people play until they lose all their money through small purchases?"
"That bad?" Little Silver rubbed his head.
It was clear that he had no idea at all.
"Of course it's that bad!" Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal's expression was very solemn. "You should know, to obtain the legendary gold card, some people will frequently pay a very hefty price: usually, people who look for the meaning of life in a game are often hollow in reality. Brother Silver, you should find something to do that has more meaning."
"Aren't I writing a novel?"
Little Silver spread his hands. "Although I don't write as well as Senior Wang, I actually feel it's not too bad. And in any case, games don't actually cost much, plus I rarely spend money…"
"Then last month, you…"
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal recalled Little Silver's e-bill last month.
The online purchases section took up over sixty pages… 
"Grenade-Throwing, think of it this way: the money I spend on games… can it be as much as I spend on takeout?"
"Er… it doesn't seem so…"
"Then that's fine. As long as I'm not spending more money on takeout than on games, then that's proof that I'm not a good-for-nothing Silver."
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal was taken aback. "…" What kind of devilish reasoning was that?
To be fair, Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal thought that this wasn't all Little Silver's fault.
It was he who had spoilt Little Silver rotten.
It wasn't right to be addicted to games. Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal felt that he had to guide Little Silver back onto the right path as soon as possible.
"I've started prepping for a new project recently. Brother Silver, do you have time to take part? Just nice, you can also gather some source material for your novel," Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal cleared his throat and asked.
"What project? Tell me about it?"
Grenade-Throwing Senior Immortal looked at Little Silver in deadly earnest. "I'm preparing to establish a sect."
[1] The title of another Chinese novel.


As a cultivation genius who has achieved a new realm every two years since he was a year old, Wang Ling is a near-invincible existence with prowess far beyond his control. But now that he’s sixteen, he faces his greatest battle yet - Senior High School. With one challenge after another popping up, his plans for a low-key high school life seem further and further away...
Wang Ling: I just want to eat my crispy noodle snacks in peace...
Father Wang: If you're careless enough to destroy the country, it’s coming out of your pocket money. 
Wang Ling: It’s not my fault that the backlash from punching me kills you.
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Yang Xiao set the time where the Celestial Dragon Chess Game was to be opened, and more and more people showed up at Yujing City. More exceptional people from the Eastern State showed up at Yujing House, and even more cultivators from Yujing City gathered outside. They were all waiting for the day where the Celestial Dragon Chess Game would be laid out, intending to watch the games at Chess Peak.
Liu Zong still had yet to show. Someone claimed that there were signs of him arriving at Yujing House, but no one was sure if those claims were true. The number one among all the younger generations in Xihua Sacred Mountain had indeed acted in a very unpredictable manner. Other than that, the news of the arrival of Ye Futian, the Palace Lord of the Holy Zhi Palace, the sacred ground of the Barren State, spread like wildfire, becoming the talk of the place.
Many sighed and felt pity for Barren State. The Palace Lord of a sacred ground coming for the chessboard left behind by a saint was not something that anyone would have spoken proudly about. All the other sacred grounds in the Eastern State had people of the younger generations and cultivators showing up in general. It was unheard of for a lord to show up at such events, as such lords would have been saints instead.
Only people of the Barren State would have done such a thing, as they were weak for not having a saint among them. Furthermore, it was said that while the Noble Plane Palace Lord sported exceptional talents, he had gone on to play chess in order to get his hands on the item left behind by the Chess Saint. His play style was an extremely appalling one, and that invited further pity from all.
In all of the nine states, the Barren State was one place that was seen to have ceased to exist except in name. The Orthodoxy sacred grounds would not have lasted for many years before they were doomed to be taken apart. However, it was still rather admirable for a Palace Lord of a sacred ground of the Barren State to put his pride aside and venture outside the Barren State. At the very least, the Noble Plane Palace Lord was actually working hard for the sake of the Barren State. It was a pity that while his talents were extremely formidable, his plane was still low, which would make it impossible for him to turn things around just within a few years.
…
At the moment, in the compound of Yujing House where Ye Futian was, he had many books and jade scrolls before him, all of which were related to the art of chess. Many of those books were actually something he had asked Jiu Gongzi to fetch for him from Chess Saint Villa, just so that he was able to read them.
The Chess Saint was the number one chess player in all of the nine states and a group of people who were incredibly versed in the art of chess gathered at Chess Saint Villa. They had diligently put all of the knowledge of the Chess Saint and some special matrixes related to the way of chess onto books or jade scrolls in order to preserve such knowledge for the generations to come and prevent them from being lost down the line.
All were materials that were offered to any cultivator who had earned the recognition of the nine students of the Chess Saint for reading. However, there were few who were willing to spend much of his time on the subject. Most of those people restricted themselves to reading and learning from incredibly renowned chess books. Ye Futian was different. He was willing to read any book there was to be read, so long as it was something related to the art of chess.
It was a habit that he had developed during his days in the Cottage. He had been reading books like a madman in the Book Cave of the Cottage. His teacher tutored him back then by having him read books and learn spells doing so. His teacher also had him learn all spells there were to be learned, regardless of difficulty, and it eventually proved that his teacher had been doing the right thing. A book's true essence would reveal itself after being read over a hundred times, and it worked the same for training.
Ye Futian's mind was practically filled with chess games at the moment. It was as if there was a book of chess etched into his mind and there was nothing he could do to dispel it. It was probably due to him being so interested in the subject for the past few days. It was fun learning new things, especially in Ye Futian's case. He was able to sense the exceptional traits of the art of chess simply from reading the books, and he was then practically addicted to it.
Someone walking by at that moment dumped a book before Ye Futian, who then said, "Are you planning to read all the books in Chess Saint Villa?"
That someone was none other than Jiu Gongzi. Despite having been learning the art of chess from his teacher, he had never gone as crazy as Ye Futian. The books he had read were a small fraction compared to what Ye Futian had read.
"One's innate weaknesses are to be compensated with hard work." Ye Futian smiled and said, "Thanks for the hard work."
It was fortunate that cultivators were unlike common people, whose spiritual aptitude was far behind that of cultivators. That made learning difficult for common people. People at sage levels like Ye Futian needed only to scan a book to comprehend its contents. They needed only to learn how to use their acquired knowledge.
"It's no big deal. It's just that I haven't been able to go see my baby at Qingyu House for quite some time now," Jiu Gongzi said rather dejectedly. "If I knew this would have happened, I wouldn't have brought you up here."
"Well, too late for regrets now," Ye Futian smiled and said.
Jiu Gongzi shook his head and said, "Just what are you, the great Palace Lord of Barren State's sacred ground, like as a person? Are you a horny flirt? Or are you a hardworking student?"
Ye Futian looked like a playboy more than anything else when he was in Qingyu House. Jiu Gongzi had not expected him to be so into learning.
"Me?" Ye Futian smiled and said, "Just a dashing, handsome young man whose talents are like none other."
"Have you no shame?" Jiu Gongzi was speechless. Just what is the skin of this guy made of?
"Seriously though, time is almost up and I wonder if you have any confidence in doing this. You're still the only guy I've invited to our place since I need not worry about matters, given that my brothers and sisters are there to take care of things. I need only to be a playboy and little else. I never had any hopes about you being able to achieve anything before, but I'm starting to wonder if you actually have a shot at this, seeing how diligent you are in studying and all that."
Jiu Gongzi looked at Ye Futian and found something off with his eyes, but then he shook his head and said in a dismissive tone, "And yet, here I am, getting crazed with you as well. My Second Brother invited Liu Zong, Zhou Zichao, Han Jing, and the others. Even if your progress is developing at the speed of a lightning bolt, I don't think you'd have any chance at breaking the Celestial Dragon Chess Game before they do, or maybe, none of us will be able to break the game."
He shook his head and left after he finished saying all that. Just how do I come to have such wild ideas about things?
"Interesting young man indeed," Sage Wanxiang said as he looked at Jiu Gongzi leaving.
"Interesting guy indeed. He is the last of the nine students and it's only natural that he is all carefree and laid-back," Ye Futian smiled and said. Wasn't I the one who kept getting looked after back in the Cottage?
"How have you felt lately?" Sage Wanxiang asked.
"I feel as if I'm ready to simulate the games myself. But then again, I'm, of course, not all that versed in the calculations that you're so good at, Uncle. My play style is leaning more towards judgment guided by my guts," Ye Futian said.
"What everyone sees and feels is different even if they were to learn the exact same thing. There is no need for you to be like me." Wanxiang said, "I broke six games armed with what little knowledge I had about chess. Having now read all those books with you, I've come to the point where I can say I've mastered the way of chess. This allows me to calculate the games in a broader yet pin-point manner, simulating all the changes to take place in my mind. If I keep at it, I'd be able to break even the eighth game, conservatively speaking. My chances of breaking all nine are rather high as well," Wanxiang said.
"I'll try to merge what you have taught me and what I learned myself, and I'll try my hand at the nine games tomorrow," Ye Futian said.
"Alright." Sage Wanxiang nodded. "You may try a different approach, like playing in reverse, anticipating where your opponent will place their pieces, but make it so that it feels natural and see if that gels with what you have anticipated. You should then see how the game changes further. There is no need to get fixated on winning."
"I understand." Ye Futian nodded.
"Hearing you all talk about chess all the time, I kind of feel like I've become a high-level player myself." Zhuge Mingyue and Gu Dongliu walked in their direction with a smile. All of them read books about chess every now and then, but quickly felt doing was rather exhausting. They had decided to invest their time in training instead.
Things that are all about talent like this are better left for our little brother.
"Second Sister, Third Brother," Ye Futian called.
"I know little about chess, little brother, so I can't help you with much. But know that all paths are connected one way or another. The way of chess is also a way at cultivation. A chess battle is like a martial arts battle. Every piece is about attack and defense. If you want to beat your opponent, you'll naturally need to defend against your opponent's attacks while retaliating or attack your opponent with a more explosive move. The one thing you need to do in a chess battle is master how things are in a big picture. As such, your spiritual willpower would be just as important in a chess battle," Gu Dongliu said.
Ye Futian nodded slightly. "I'll keep your words in mind, Third Brother."
"Don't wear yourself out too badly," Gu Dongliu said softly. Ye Futian had little to no rest for the past few days. Training was not simply shutting down all the time. The art of chess was one that was very taxing on spiritual power, and as such, one should have been more alert against shutting oneself off. It would have gotten incredibly tiring when done so in a prolonged manner.
Ye Futian smiled and nodded. "Relax, brother. I like chess anyway."
Gu Dongliu nodded without saying much.
Ye Futian went up to Chess Peak first thing in the morning the next day. The nine games were all still there, and some were even found sitting cross-legged on huge rocks. They had been looking into and challenging the games to prepare for the upcoming Celestial Dragon Chess Game.
Although they knew that they stand little chance at winning, but they were compelled to try, given how they had come all the way there. Furthermore, they got to see the best of the top-notch geniuses to be found in the Eastern State, making it quite an experience.
The old man guarding the game stepped onto the first game and said to Ye Futian, "You have already broken through six games and will start with the seventh. There is no need to repeat all of the games."
He was very displeased playing against Ye Futian that day.
Ye Futian smiled. He looked at how the old man behaved and said, "I deem it necessary to start from the beginning. I look forward to your guidance."
"Alright then." The old man nodded impatiently and then waved his hand without a care. A piece coalesced from the power of rules fell onto the board with a loud thump.
Ye Futian activated Freedom Meditation, allowing him to look into the game with greater clarity as if he was on the board himself, taking charge of the chess battle. He waved his hand and a piece was placed without hesitation.
The old man kept placing pieces and Ye Futian followed suit. Soon, the old man looked at Ye Futian with a peculiar look. Ye Futian did not use that very ugly style he had been using before. However, his skills were very, very shoddy.
As the number of pieces grew on the board, a chessboard seemed to have appeared in Ye Futian's mind. That board was a projection of what he was playing, and it went on to continuously change with future moves. That was a simulation running in his mind.
Ye Futian placed another piece as he waved his hand, yet his eyes were fixed on other spots, feeling that the old man would put his piece there. He turned his eyes at a different spot. As anticipated, the old man placed his piece with a hard thump, building up a powerful force. A precious cauldron went on to pressure Ye Futian's spiritual will, intending to crush him.
Ye Futian lost a moment later, but he did not leave. He instead asked, "Elder, can we have another game?"
The old man frowned, but he continued nonetheless.
"Elder, can we have another one?" Ye Futian repeated again and again. The old man got rather fed up and said angrily, "Your way of chess sucks. Why bother wasting your time and mine?"
Ye Futian did not mind at all, smiling as he asked to continue. He was verifying what he had learned through actual battle.
At Chess Peak, Everyone's eyes were on Ye Futian at the moment. That guy… really knows nothing about playing chess. He is just wasting time there. It was probably the old man with him that day who guided him and enabled him to break through six games consecutively!
　　


In a time when the Divine Prefectures of the East Sea were in great disarray, Emperor Ye Qing and Donghuang the Great appeared to save the day. Under their rule, the prefectures united and all nations as well as  their kings have been controlled. However, the legend of these two great heroes becomes altered when Emperor Ye Qing's name is wiped from the history books after his sudden death. All statues and images of him were destroyed and his name a taboo. Only the legend of Donghuang the Great shall live on.                            

Fifteen years later, a young man by the name of Ye Futian begins his journey in search for his true identity. The legend of Futian was going to be one for the history books.

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Seth found himself into a dim lighted shabby old room. There were dust everywhere. The room didn't appear to be particularly big only around 20 meters square.


In the corners of the room you could even see spider webs but what was more strange was the fact that they here were no windows. 

'I must be in a cellar or a basement' 
Seth thought to himself.

In the center of the room there was an old table with a candle on top of it, which appeared to be the only source of light in the room.

Along the table there were two chairs seated across each other and one of them was taken by an old man. 

The man was wearing a blue robe that covered his hole body. And along with a his White beard and long white hair he was the spitting image of Gandalf. 

A weird version of Gandalf. But he looked similar enough.

"Oh a new visitor. Is it that time again? Come have a seat.

The weird Gandalf talked to Seth in a neutral voice as he gestured with his hand  for Seth to take a seat. Then he continued to speak.

" It been such a long time since I got to speak with someone "

As  Seth walked slowly tours the man while appraising the him, all kinds of thoughts were passing though his head. The most reasonable  thought that came to Seth was that he had been kidnapped by this man.

But the weird Gandalf didn't appear to have any weapons on him or at least Seth couldn't see them. And Seth wasn't tied up either.

As Seth finally reached the other chair opposite to the weird Gandalf , the man started speaking again.

"Now I know that you have a lot of question in your head. Like 'where am I?' or 'who are you?' but those are not the questions that you should ask. 

Sit down. Let me tell everything that I can and then you are allowed to ask three questions. So think well before you ask."

Seth slowly seat down on the chair. All of a sudden he had a bad felling about this situation. 

The moment that Seth set down  on the chair memories rushed into his head. This memories weren't distend memories but recent one.


He remembered a conversation  with a doctor telling him that he had only a year to live.

Memories of him felling sad for himself. How his world got  turned up side down.

And finally the last memory was of him being hit by a car. 

Seth knew that he should be dead but he wasn't. Or at the very least at a hospital not on some basement or whatever this room was.

"You figured it out didn't you?
Well if you haven't figured it out yet, let me tell you this. 'You are dead'. 

The present you is just a soul who has taken the for of your previous body."

The weird Gandalf  leaned on the table where some book that wasn't there before had magically appeared. He had a serious expression on his face.

"I don't care if you believe me or not. But what is going to happen next to you is very real. I assure you for that.

You are about to be reborn into another universe. In a universe with magic.

In this book there are recorded the main races that exist into the universe that you are going to be reborn to.  Choose one of them."

The weird Gandalf said as he pushed the book tours Seth.


Honestly, Seth had no idea what he should think right now. Part of him believed what the man was saying.
Just to be safe though Seth picked up the book and put all the questions he had aside.


He had only three questions to ask so he had to use them in a smart way. Maybe this book would help him figure things out.

=========

The book wasn't particularly thick and if Seth was being honest it was just a couple of pages.

After half an hour Seth had finished reading the book. In it was written exactly what the man had said. 

Information about different races but what was odd was that they were presented to him in a game like way. For example when describing the human race all that was written was this:

# Race - Human
# Lifespan- 60 to 100 years
# Starting Slots - 1 to 3
# Racial traits - all skilled


That wasn't all that humans were. There were more things about humanity that was left out of it.

The second odd thing was that among  races that were listed in the book some were from games and mythology like elfs, dragons, dwarfs, centaurs, fairies, and a lot more.

It was like creating an avatar for a game where you would chose a race and every race had their own  special characteristics.

If that was the case then in this book there was some information that was kept from him.

In fantasy games or mythology you also encounter sub races like wood elf or high elf etc. 

So there were two possibilities. One, those races didn't exist. Or the information about them was held from him.

Either way he had to ask about it. As much as Seth would have liked to ask questions like 'How was this thing such as rebirth possible?' 
'Or where was him?' 

Knowledge of these thing wasn't going to be useful to him. If Seth was going to be reborn into another universe or not he would be able to find out later. 

Until then for the sake of survival he was going to treat what was happening here as real.

So he needed to make the best choice about his race and to get as much information about the other universe as possible from the weird Gandalf. And he had only three questions for that.

With a deep breath Seth asked his first question.

"I see that some of these race recorded in the book are similar to fantasy games but why isn't anything written about sub races or about children of mixed races?"

The man  seemed slightly surprised by Seth question but his tone of voice didn't change as he answered his question with a calm voice.

"Well I have to admit I am surprised that you didn't waste your first question to ask about meaningless things.

As for why there isn't anything recorded about sub races. Well it's because you can't chose to be reborn as a specific sub race you can only chose the race.

For example if you chose human as your race you may be reborn as a   human or as an half human. 
The same thing goes for other races too."

Ok that complicates things quite a bit. Seth thought to himself.

After a few minutes of carful consideration Seth asked his second question.

While Seth could ask question like which race was more powerful or which race had higher survival rate. The problem was that if the weird Gandalf chose to dodge those questions he could do it easily.

"What are the ways that I can learn skills, magic skills?"


"Well there are two ways you can learn skills. One is by having some one of at least tier 4 trainer skill train you. This way of learning of skills takes time. The second way of learning skills is by consuming an skill crystal. 

The same thing applies for magic skills too. But since I am feeling a bit generous today I am giving a tip to you. Magical skills and spells are two different things."

From his answer Seth managed to understand 2 things. First in this new universe the skills were classified by tiers. And the second think was that for some reasons magic spells were different from skills. 

So in a way that probably meant that he couldn't place spells into the starting slots that every race had.

Seth's next question was naturally about the difference between spells and skills.

But he had to ask it in a smart way so that he would get as much information as possible.

"What are the requirements to cast a spell?"

The mans eyes lit up at that question. 

"Oh does that mean that you are Interested on becoming a mage?"

The weird Gandalf asked. In his face he had an expression that suggested that he was intrigued by his question. 

Seth had seen that kind of expression on people before. And most of them would do almost anything to satisfy that curiosity.

"I can answer your question but you have to give me something in return."

"Hahahahaha young human pup do you think you can exploit me so easily. I can tell what you are thinking so there is no need to ask you about it.

Anyway regarding your question earlier. There are three requirements in order to cast a spell. One is to have the magical affinity trait.

The second is to learn the skills [mana manipulation] and [meditation].  And the third requirement is to have a spell model.

With this I have answered all of your questions now chose your race so we can move on"

=========

After 5 hours of rereading the book  about the different races Seth had come into three alternative choices.

The first were the elfs. 


# Race - Elf
# Lifespan - 200 to 500 years
# Starting Slots - 2 to 5
# Racial traits 
[magical affinity]  [ranged weapons affinity]

This option was a good one because he had the [magical affinity] as a racial trait right from the beginning. And they had a long lifespan.

# Race - Dragon
# Lifespan - 10,000 + years
# Starting Slots - 10 
# Racial traits
*[Huge body] [Dragon strength] [Elemental breath] [Dragon scale armor] [Flight] [Magical affinity]*
*[appraiser]*

Out of all the races the Dragons had the most racial traits and had the most starting slots up until now. So being a dragon wasn't bad but still what caught Seth's eyes the most were the undead race.

# Race - Undead 
# Lifespan - Unlimited
# Starting slots - 1 to 5
# Racial traits 
*Due to the massive number of subraces of this race the racial traits change dramatically  from subrace to subrace*

The reason why it  caught Seth's eyes was because of the unlimited lifespans. Undead didn't die from age. 

Seth still remembered the terror and agony of finding out that he would die in a years time.

So choosing the undead race he could become immortal. The only downside of the things was that the undead race had a huge variety of subraces.

He could end up as a vampire, as a ghost or as a lowly skeleton. But either way he would be immortal. 

Seth made up his mind and only said one word to the weird Gandalf.

"UNDEAD"

Death. Something so inevitable yet so easy forgotten. Humans plan on things as if they were immortal. They work hard every day so they can have a better life tomorrow. So they can have something more to enjoy in their lives.

But they forget that when death comes for you there is no tomorrow. All the things that you planned to enjoy tomorrow are no longer possible.

Seth learned this lesson the hard way.

But as the saying goes that the ending of something is the beginning of something else.

As to what this new beginning is for Seth, you have to join him to learn more about it.










Author note: 
Hi guys. 
  Firstly I wanna thank everybody that will be reading this novel of mine. Also is if you have any suggestion or if you find a mistake do let me know in the comment section down below. 

Also any constrictive criticism is welcomed and don't hesitate to let me know what your opinions are.


As for regarding the novel I just wanna make sure you to know that there will be 
NO harem and NO Overpowered MC

I will be releasing 5 chapter a week

Led by head coach Zhizhong Gu, the core members of the national table tennis team went to Sweden for the Swedish Open of the ITTF. Dai Li, as a physical coach, however, could not go to Sweden. He could only watch the games on the live broadcast online.
Seeing the athletes he had trained playing in an international match, Dai Li felt a tinge of nervousness. He was afraid that they might slip up. But Dai Li soon found that this worry was not necessary at all.
Although there were many good players from Japan, Korea, and Europe, no one could escape defeat when confronted with the national team's core players. It was even very difficult for the foreign players to win one single game in a match. If they could win two, that would have been an even bigger surprise.
The singles became an inner competition of the national table tennis team at the semi-finals. As for the doubles, the national team sent only one pair of players each for both the men's and women's matches, both of which partnerships won the championships.
Without a doubt, the Chinese national table tennis team had absolute dominating power over the teams from all the other countries. The last match of the Swedish Open was the final of the men's singles between Anshan Wang and Shuang Pang. Anshan Wang won the championship with a score of 4:2.
The match finally ended, and Dai Li, who had been watching the games live on his cell phone, heaved a long sigh of relief. Then, he found that his system was once again updated.
"Upgraded, finally! Senior phase of top-level coach!" Dai Li couldn't help but be excited.
The last upgrade had been more than one year ago, during the Asian Games. Thanks to the several gold medals won by his trainees in the Asian Games, he had upgraded to the intermediate phase of top-level coach. After that, he had begun a long period of experience-accumulating.
The experience Dai Li gained was closely related to the level of the athlete he trained. The best athlete in the national track and field team was only of A level talent, and the ability value was not so high, so they were not sufficient for the upgrading requirements of Dai Li.
During the period when he went back to the provincial team, he had been training athletes of an even lower level. So, the empirical value points he gained were even less. At that time, Dai Li had believed he might never upgrade again. Things had improved after he went to the provincial table tennis team as a physical coach.
One of the reasons why Dai Li had been willing to join the national table tennis team was that he thought he could gain more empirical value points by coaching these top-level athletes of the world.
It was as expected by Dai Li, as, when coaching a group of athletes of S level talent and ability value of above 900, his empirical value had indeed soared. During his one month working in the national table tennis team, the empirical value points that he gained were equal to those that he had gained in the previous several months.
Meanwhile, the empirical award gained via the competition results of the athletes he coached was also an important key element. Like the Swedish Open table tennis match, the Chinese national team had won 6 medals in the men's and women's singles and 2 medals in men's and women's doubles. These triumphs were all related to Dai Li's coaching. Therefore, Dai Li won tens of thousands of empirical value points and upgraded to the senior phase of top-level coach.
Dai Li knew that there were a lot of chances for the players of the national table tennis team to attend such world-level matches, and that when they went, they would for sure win the championships, even win almost of the medals. For Dai Li, each and every medal would mean another huge deposit of empirical value points.
This is vastly differently from the national track and field team. Actually, there are more world level track and field games than those of table tennis. There are the Diamond League, the Grand Prix, the Super Grand Prix, Millrose Games...They go almost year-round!
But the athletes of the national track and field team, due to their limited performance level, have no chance to compete in those world level games. The highest-level games they go to are the Asian games. So, even if Dai Li could have Li Xue's position, there would still be no way for him to gain so many empirical value points.
…
"I am now a senior-phase top-level coach now. What's the next level?" Dai Li asked.
The system answered, "The next level would be Famous Coach. Upgrading to the next higher level would cost 300,000 empirical value points."
"So many points? It would take 3 or 4 years to earn 300,000 empirical value points through daily coaching, even in the national table tennis team. It seems that I have to have more of my trainees attend more games, and win more championships. This is the only way for me to upgrade at a faster pace."
Dai Li lowered his head to think about the matter. There would be two Opens, the Table Tennis World and the annual final of the Pro Tour. Even if the national table tennis team won all the medals in all of those games, it would still not be enough for Dai Li to earn the empirical value points needed to upgrade.
But next year, there would be more table tennis games. At the beginning of next year, there would be the opens in the European countries, like Hungary, Germany, and Switzerland, then the opens in the Asian countries, like Qatar, Kuwait, Japan and Korea. More importantly, the Olympic Games would be held in August of next year. The four gold medals for men's singles, women's singles, men's team and women's team would certainly bring a huge amount of empirical value points for Dai Li.
"If I am lucky, I can upgrade to be a Famous Coach next year, once the Olympic Games finish!" Hope arose in Dai Li's heart. He even began to rejoice that he had been chosen to come to the national table tennis team. It was an absolutely correct choice. If it had been in some other sports, it would not be quick for Dai Li to accumulate his empirical value points.
"Now it is time for a bonus! Show me what upgrade bonus I have gotten." Dai Li asked in his mind, and the system set the bonus in front of him.
There were two bonus items. The one on the left was a skill book. Dai Li was quite familiar with the appearance of the skill books, so he recognized it at first glance.
On the right, however, was a big album-like book with a hard cover. It was like one of those big photo albums that were popular in the past, and it had a texture of wood grain.
The album was very thick, thicker than an ordinary dictionary, almost as thick as CIHAI, the large-scale dictionary and encyclopedia of Standard Mandarin Chinese.
"My gosh. What is this? it's so big and thick, and made of high quality materials. It must be something good!" Dai Li was immensely attracted by the album, believing subconsciously that it must be precious.
Dai Li took the album and turned to the first page. It was blank, with no words or pictures.
The second page, still blank, with no words or pictures.
The third page, still blank, with no words or pictures.
Dai Li flipped through all the several dozens of pages, only to find that they were all blank, without even a page number.
"What is this? A book of blank paper?" Dai Li was totally upset.
The system's voice sounded, "It is your Athlete Album."
"Athlete Album? What is it used for?" Dai Li asked immediately.
"You may put the information about the athletes into the Athlete Album. Everything about the athlete can be recorded in it, including information concerning physical conditions, skill features, advantages and weakness, experience, on-the-spot judgements, everything. In this way, you may have a detailed database. Even if an athlete is removed from your coaching list, you can still check the data regarding him or her," the system answered.
"Sounds like stamp collecting. But how is it useful to me?" Dai Li asked.
"Of course it is useful! Just imagine, if you could collect all the best athletes of each sport in the world into this one album, how intoxicating the sense of achievement would be! When you are old, you may look at this album and recall all the athletes you have coached. What a beautiful memory it would be!"


How could a poor graduate student without any background or connections become successful? With a coaching system? An upgrade? This is not a computer game, but real life we’re talking about!
 
This will be a fantasy based on reality. Dai Li will fight back against all those who would mock and humiliate him with his astonishing and awe-inspiring training skills. From a nobody he’ll try to become the most illustrious coach in the sports world, so join him in proving to everyone who’s the real master here!

I hung around the mall thinking what can I do to clear the misunderstanding and at the mean time was trying to look for Joelle. I feel  at lost, it feels like I'm over reacting a little when it comes to Joelle. Yes, she caught my attention but that's all to it right? Many girls caught my attention but why am I so concerned? I walked passed a bookstore and  an idea popped into my mind, 'I shall look for a book and figure out how'.

I walked into the bookstore and walked a few  shelf. I do not know how to search for a book!! Should I ask the worker? But I don't even know what book am I looking for. Forget it, just do it my way. I turned around and going to the exit but a girl caught my eyes.

"Found ya." I walked towards the girl and whispered into her ears. "What are you doing?"
"Josh!" Joelle looked at me in surprised
"It's Jon..." Are you for real? She don't even remember my name?
"There.. is someone who has been following me. I'm scared to go out."
"Stalker? Again?" I saw from a far there's a guy who is very suspicious. "Where's Chris?"
"He went home. We parted and I started to feel someone following me."
"Alright, follow me and do as I say."

I grabbed her hand and had her hand cling onto my arm. We left the bookstore and the guy followed. The guy is a middle aged guy dressed in suit. What a closet beast. We walked into the arcade, the place I'm most familiar with. 

"What are we doing here?!" Joelle yelled softly at me.
"I'm most familiar here. Besides..." I leaned close to her ears and whispered, "I'm here, I will protect you. He will not be able to hurt you." I could see her face turning a little pinkish. I smiled, this made me more motivated to protect her. 

I took my arcade card out to top up some money and went to play on some games while keeping a close lookout for the stalker. After 20 minutes he's still waiting at a corner of the arcade pretending to look at people playing games. It's time for Plan B. I pulled Joelle into a photo box.

"What are we...?!" Joelle's mouth was closed by my hand
"Shh, the stalker is outside. Just do as I said alright?" I whispered softly. She nodded her head. "Alright, later I'm going to move my head in front of you to block the camera. I'm going to take pictures and it will look like we're making out alright? The photo will print and the stalker should be able to see it. If the plan works, he will go away. If he doesn't, I'll do something about it."

I tapped my arcade card on the machine to activate. I moved my head in front of the camera and then moved my face close to her face. Joelle looked away with her face slightly flushed. I can feel her breath getting a little heavier. Judging from her expression, she is not used to this kind of stuff, unlike the girlfriends I've had. 

I moved away as I hear footsteps coming close and going away. I took a look outside and saw the stalker walking away. I grabbed the photos we took and had a good look at it. It really looks like we are kissing, wonder if it's possible. I looked at Joelle still slightly flushed face, she's precious to me and I don't dare to hurt her. I sat next to her and smiled,

"See, I told you I will protect you."

I've never been serious, until I saw you with my best friend. What can I do to have you look towards me and not betray my best friend?

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