The Era of Gods Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Cheating System Activated

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“Psss…”

He heard the sound of a slight pressure release. The white cabin door of the Divine Realm Connection Cabin opened. A soothing cloud of white mist gushed outward, revealing Lin Xiao, who had just opened his eyes.

He stretched out his hand to remove the circlet made of translucent crystal from his head, rubbed the center of his eyebrows, and carefully placed the circlet in a special storage space in the cabin.

This was an auxiliary device that specialized in soothing one’s mind and buffering mental stress. Its main function was not only to allow him to establish a link with his Divine Realm in subspace, but also to alleviate the perceptual disturbance caused by the hundredfold time flow difference between the overworld and subspace, while also stabilizing his mind in the meantime. It would help a new player like him who had just established a Divine Realm to not lose himself amidst the illusion created by Divine Power.

After all, when someone like him, who was just an ordinary person before awakening to his Divine Nature, came into contact with Divine Power and Divinity for the very first time, without such assistance, they could easily go astray amid the potent energy brought upon by Divine Power.

Back when the Human Federation had first discovered Games of Deification, complete auxiliary facilities were non-existent. At that time, people were often negatively affected by Divinity and Divine Power, and thus, had their personality altered drastically, while some who were not firm enough would simply get themselves enslaved by the power of Divinity.

The time period where Lin Xiao had traveled to was very favorable. At this time, after tens of thousands of years of exploration and development, mankind had already invented a stable Divine Realm Log-in Cabin. Human civilization had also already established a firm foothold in the Chaotic Void Ocean. Powerhouses were abundant among the species as hundreds of thousands of Gods cracked down the many crystal shells amid the Chaotic Void Ocean and conquered countless planes and even crystal shells.

Traveling and reincarnating in this glorious era where the ultra-fantasy civilization was at its zenith, Lin Xiao was pretty satisfied.

He was also quite satisfied with the family which he reincarnated into. His parents were fine and alive, he didn’t have siblings and was the only child, and despite his family line having many branches and a meager amount of internal disputes, they were harmonious in general, without many arguments that were utter nonsense.

After all, their ancestor, a True God who had ignited his Divine Flame, was still alive. The lifespan of a God was unlimited. Before this ancestor of the family perished, the younger generation would have no shenanigans to think about, nor would they be able to fight even if they wished to.

Exiting the Log-in Cabin, he washed his face and heard a ‘ding’ sound from the Divine Realm Log-in Cabin. After wiping his face, he walked to the Divine Realm Log-in Cabin, pressed a button gently with his finger, and a screen popped up in front of him:

The transcript of the 38th combined class of the current semester of Tenth Grade, Third Class of Dongning City No. 5 Middle School is as follows——

Student Lin Xiao:

Personal Performance: 6.2 points.

Spawn Performance: 4.4 points.

Overall Rating: 5.5 points.

Overall Evaluation: B-.

Class Ranking: 25.

Year Ranking: 252.

Teacher Review: Above average in personal combat performance. Spawn performance, fail.

The transcript was very formulaic. Lin Xiao glanced at it and shrugged. He was already expecting this. The Spawn he had chosen were indeed a little awful.

Half a year ago, when he first established his Divine Realm, he already knew that this would be the outcome, but he had no choice.

Everyone’s first spawn could only be a low-level race. With the Divinity of newbies, they couldn’t bear the weight of a powerful race, and thus, could only wait until they become stronger to opt for a replacement with a stronger race.

The reason he chose Murlocs wasn’t because his Divine Realm was filled with water and that Murlocs have an advantage in the waters.

When he first established his Divine Realm, there were only 50 Murlocs. The half-year that he had been playing had been equivalent to more than 200 years in-game, since one day in the Overworld translated to about a year in the Divine Realm. The lifespan of Murlocs was about 20 years, and, generally, they would be able to reproduce at about two to three years after they were born. However, even after so long, there were only 107 Murlocs. Over the course of more than 200 years, their total growth rate was only at 100%, which was remarkably awful.

The main reason was that the Murlocs were too weak. Although the initial races of all students were very weak, Murlocs were at the very bottom in the power hierarchy.

Their weak nature, coupled with the casualties from weekly combined class, and his failure in getting his hands on a card that could speed up reproduction, meant that he remained in the same miserable state even after half a years’ time.

However, what made him even more speechless was that his performance in the class was still at the average level, as he ranked 25 out of the 50 students in his class. Throughout his year, which had a total of 500 students across 10 classes, he was even able to maintain his ranking at around 250th, which meant that his performance was relatively stable half a year in.

Rubbing his chin, Lin Xiao closed the panel and brought up the other message behind it.

It was a group notice from his class teacher:

“Prepare for your placement test next Monday. This will be the last placement test of the current semester. After this will be the finals that will redistribute your classes for the next semester. All of you know what this means. This is your last chance. Please ready yourselves during this final month.”

Placement tests were held once a month. Generally, the class teacher would prepare all kinds of Monster Cards to release monsters of a certain difficulty level to invade a student’s Divine Realm, which was similar to the combined classroom Lin Xiao had just finished, just with more or better monsters.

Placement tests had a certain risk factor. Any slip-ups would lead to heavy losses to one’s Spawn within their Divine Realm, which would thus affect their future development.

On the other hand, for some outstanding students, this would be a great opportunity. As the students’ enrollment rate would affect a teacher’s performance appraisal, teachers would usually give various rewards to the students who performed well in combined classrooms. The same went for placement tests.

Of course, Lin Xiao hadn’t received a teacher’s reward for more than 30 combined classes since he enrolled. Even at his best, he was ranked 19th in the class. He had only received verbal encouragement from his class teacher.

He solemnly dismissed the screen. He wasn’t worried about the placement test, but the final exam that would happen in a month.

High schools of the Human Federation implemented a hierarchical system. Things were still normal during tenth grade, but in eleventh grade, classes would be redistributed according to the results of the tenth grade’s final examinations, which were the so-called Regular Class, Top-student Class, and Elite Class.

Without a doubt, the Top-student Class and Elite Class would receive more resources and better teachers.

As for the Regular Class, teachings would naturally be conducted in a casual manner, which basically meant that the students would be on their own.

Even though Lin Xiao had a cheating system, he attached great importance to this class distribution. He didn’t want to be assigned to Regular Class. If that happened, his life would become difficult even with the cheating system.

It wasn’t that the cheating system was weak, but… if he could get into Elite Class, why should he go to Regular Class?

This was no fantasy novel. Should he make himself a ridiculed wastrel in the beginning and then rise up with his cheating system and embarrass all his enemies?

He wasn’t that free to do so.

Hence, in this placement test…

He plunged his mind into his own consciousness. At the center of his consciousness, which resembled a starry sky, a crystal cube exuding a faint brilliance was moving around randomly. In the obscure darkness, a progression bar had been loaded to its peak.

“I hope that it loads completely before the test!”

Before his thoughts settled down, the progression bar in the dark reached the very pinnacle. Subsequently, the crystal cube that was constantly spinning around in the starry sky of his consciousness bloomed in infinite light like a sun traversing the starry sky.

“My cheating system is finally activated.”

Lin Xiao almost burst into tears. After waiting for seventeen years, this thing was finally ready for use.

He stretched out his palm at the very first moment. A speck of white light flew out and quickly drew a cube made of light on his palm. The projection of the Creation Cube.

Well, he didn’t know what the thing’s real name was, but because of its function, he called it the Creation Cube.

As its name suggested, the cube had powers similar to creation itself. It could decompose, refine, extract, merge, reorganize, etc., anything that was placed into it. It wielded the power to completely change the nature of anything in the world.

Lin Xiao hadn’t known how to use it when he first got the cube, but after he entered the Game of Deification and established his Divine Realm, he immediately understood how he could make the most out of the Creation Cube.

“Damn this thing. I have to give it a try.”

He would never have the patience to wait until the next time to test it. He turned around, went to his room, opened up an alloy safe that was embedded into the wall itself, and took out three crystal cards from it.

These were cards unique to the Game of Deification. They were a 3-Star Resource Card, a 3-Star Ability Card, and a 2-Star Ability card, all of which were ordinary cards.

3-Star Resource Card—— Fertile Black Earth Soil (Uncommon): Transform a piece of land into fertile black earth with a length and width of 60 meters, and a thickness of 4 meters.

3-Star Ability Card—— Thrust (Common): Restricted to piercing-type weapons. Charges towards the attack target at immense speed, causing two times weapon damage and a guaranteed piercing effect.

2-Star Ability Card—— Excruciating Pain (Common): Your attacks will inflict 15% additional damage. Has a small chance to trigger the Bleeding Effect.

Among these three cards, the first 3-Star Resource Card had been given to him by his grandfather when he first established his Divine Realm. Unfortunately, the Divine Realm he selected was by the sea. Besides, Greymist Murlocs weren’t good at farming. Hence, he had a 3-Star Resource Card that was pretty hard to come by, but he couldn’t use it anywhere.

As for the two Ability Cards, one of them was given to him by his grandmother while the other one, from his female cousin. But he felt that using them on such a weak race as the Murlocs was a bit wasteful. In addition, he had already known the function of his cheating cube when he first got it. Hence, he figured that he should save them first, and when his cheating cube was activated, he would break down these two cards and merge them into an even more powerful card.

Thusly, they had been left aside to collect dust inside the safe, waiting for this very day.

He eagerly took out the three cards. After some thought, he took out a crystal wrist binding from the drawer of his bedside table and pressed his finger on it. A screen popped off, and after a moment of pondering, he moved his finger around the screen and wrote a message:

“To my wise father and my gentle and lovely mother. Your son has recently thought things through. He doesn’t want to work hard anymore. Your son hopes that his beloved mother will transfer the red packet money that he has kept at her place over the years to him.”

After reading the message, he edited it again to make it sound more respectful, signed his name contently, and got it delivered.

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In less than five minutes, there was a reply. He tapped on it, and the screen popped from the surface of the wrist binding and turned into a projection of a woman in a light blue starlight dress.

The woman looked similar to Lin Xiao, at a seven or eight out of ten. She looked delicate and graceful like a young girl. Looking at Lin Xiao with a doting face, she said softly, “Xiao, have you thought things through?”

“Yes, I did.”

This person was Lin Xiao’s mother, Jin Yunzhu, a demi-god whose Divine Role was Rainy Season and Growth. The ‘her’ at present was a projection of her soul. Her real body was now on a plane group of crystal shell AX-14 where members of his family would usually reside.

Like all mothers in the world, Jin Yunzhu still very much doted on Lin Xiao who was her only son. Over the years, she would always prepare a gift for him on his birthday.