บท 20: Chapter 19

It was around noon so Allan didn't get back into the game, instead, he went to the fridge to get something to eat.

After preparing a simple meal, he sat down and began to eat while he watched the forum on his phone.

After another week with the game in circulation, there was new information about the game worth checking out.

The highlight was about the orcs, finally, the players knew what the bloodlust debuff did, and as Allan expected it wasn´t good.

In Idle Online there are three moons that, according to the game's mythology, represented the three great gods, a white moon that represented Alumos, a purple moon that represented Zenebra, and a yellow moon that represented the progenitor of both.

It is said that while their descendants were entertaining themselves by creating life on the planet that Gaia made, the three great gods, who were interested in the creations of their children, decided to have a small competition between them, giving rise to the three moons that are seen from the planet.

Alumos made use of the creation of his son, Solos, so that the sun would illuminate his moon when it was not seen in the sky, giving it a pale white color.

Zenebra, on the other hand, decided that her moon would shine with its light and used her energy to make it shine in the night sky with a purple touch.

It is said that it is the brightness of the violet moon that gives power to the orcs and makes them acquire immense strength and desire to attack everyone who crosses their path and destroy everything around them when they get angry and that it is precisely due to Zenebra's moon that the orcs were about to reign on the continent, however, this was also the reason for their defeat.

That is why, once a month, when the moon is at its peak and the orcs lose control, they lock themselves in their houses and bind each other with chains while they wait for the arrival of the new day.

Returning to the players, when the moon appeared at its peak, they began to lose control of their characters and attack each other and started to face the enemies in front of them no matter how tired or hungry they were. At the end of the night, the number of orc players who were not dead could be counted with the palm´s fingers.

On the side of the dwarves, people discovered why the game description said they were master craftsmen although there are no bonuses for learning the skills they are typically known for, such as blacksmithing- The reason is that the dwarves have developed their own method of crafting. A learning method intended to teach other dwarves.

If another race tries to use the methods of the dwarves to learn their abilities, they will be unable to do so.

While Allan was searching for information on the dwarf race, he discovered that the dwarves' training methods had limits on height, strength, and other standards that can only be met by this race.

This has made those players who have chosen the dwarf race, while they can learn the dwarf skills and apply them to the real world after adapting to them, would not be able to continue their training or improve those skills outside of the game nor teach them to other people who do not choose the dwarf race.

Although this caused initial discontent among the players who chose the dwarf race, all those voices disappeared when they discovered that they were able to learn skills faster than the other players.

As for the elven race, the players who chose this race were very unhappy.

First of all, the elves specialize in magic and archery, although they also have other abilities, they only use them in an auxiliary way.

Probably the players of the elven race are the only ones who have come into contact with ways of learning magic since the game NPCs consider magic as a gift granted by the gods and in some cases a sacred art that only the 'chosen ones´ can learn, that means, those individuals from noble and powerful families who do not wish to lose this privilege won´t teach magic to anyone of lesser status.

Elven magic is extremely difficult to learn, to begin with, all magic that the elf race possesses is written in Ancient Elvish, a language that players are unfamiliar with when entering the game and must learn on their own.

For those players who managed to decipher a few chapters of basic magic books and tried to learn it on their own, most ended up dying.

It turns out that to learn magic you need a teacher to guide you in the learning process, otherwise not only the time it would take to learn magic would lengthen indefinitely, but it would also entail danger at every moment that could be fatal.

In addition, elves are a very proud race, and for an elf to accept a player as an apprentice requires a very long chain quest and various tests that show that the one who passes them is qualified to be accepted by a master.

That is why, although players of the elf race can learn magic before, none have been able to cast a spell yet.

This caused the players to split into two groups; those who decided to abandon magic and learn other skills, and those who tried even harder to learn magic thinking that they will be extremely overpowered in the later levels.

In addition, players are already beginning to discover how to gain skills in the game, this is due to a video uploaded by several people with skills gained in the real world who tell about their experience in the game.

One of the most prominent videos is that of a young man who has been practicing kendo for ten years.

In the video, the swordsman shows his swordsmanship in the real world, then appears fighting monsters with a long sword. using what he learned in the real world.

At the end of the video, the player shows his fencing level as Kendo intermediate swordsmanship level 4.

This has caused disappointment for people who thought they could learn the skill by abandoning traditional methods, but there is also a portion of the public who were glad it was this way and wanted to play the game themselves.

Finding out that game skills are learned in the same way as in real life, some people think it would be more efficient to focus on a skill outside of the game and use a capsule to take advantage of the 1:4 time difference to speed up the process. while studying through virtual courses taught by people who already know and specialize in such skills, instead of jumping into the game and trying their luck.

Even so, it is evident that with this news, society's opinion about Idle Online has changed positively.

After observing the lives of other players in the game on the forums, Allan realized how extremely powerful the initial races are, all but the human race.

Why was the human race selected as the initial race despite being so weak?

Allan believes that the human race hides some secret or unique ability that makes it, as he put the description 'one of the main races of the continent', yet so far, he has not discovered anything that makes it stand out from the other races.

One has to note that the human race is the only one of the initial races with such a description, not even the orcs that were about to conquer the continent have that phrase in their description. What makes the human race so special?

As much as Allan thought about it, he couldn't conclude.

After he finished eating, Allan washed the dishes and climbed into the capsule to continue his training, this time alone.