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On the front page of Dream Entertainment's official website, the World of Heroes closed beta lottery system displayed the prizes that the tycoons had won.
The biggest winner was Storm!
Super tycoon Storm had 1,942 beta invitation codes. He had drawn nineteen times from the first round of the lottery. Not only did he win the Sky Silk Robe, but he also won half a powerful set.
After Storm had drawn nineteen times, Shi Lei looked at the results and even checked the data himself to see if there were any signs of cheating.
That was because Storm's luck was just too good. The equipment and items that he had drawn could be placed at the top of the list in the first chapter of "The Beginning of the Brave".
As a virtual game world, the World of Heroes naturally had a corresponding level setting. There were a total of ninety-nine levels. In the first chapter of the World of Heroes, only level fifty was available.
Storm's half a set was a powerful level fifty set.
In other words, Storm had obtained the highest-level equipment set in "The Beginning of the Brave" — the Endless Glory equipment set!
Storm obtained the Boundless Glory's Punishment, an extremely powerful blade that resembled a Tang sword. The Boundless Glory's Brilliance was a ring that increased various statuses and attributes. The Boundless Glory's Mark was an extremely beautiful belt that was also abnormally powerful. It came with the extremely rare Sumeru Mustard Seed space in the Hero's world.
There were three other pieces of the Endless Glory set. They were the top: Endless Glory's Tolerance, the pants: Endless Glory's Restraint, and the necklace: Endless Glory's Oath.
Fortunately, Storm had only received half a set. Otherwise, Shi Lei would have interfered.
After all, the Endless Glory set was just too powerful. Normally, the Endless Glory set would only appear in the World of Heroes when most players were level forty or above.
If the equipment in the World of Heroes didn't meet the equipment requirements, some of the equipment couldn't be used. Some of the equipment could be used, but the equipment's attributes would be restricted.
The Endless Glory set was a Legendary equipment. It wasn't restricted by normal equipment and had Legendary power. Even if the equipment requirements weren't met, it could still be used.
For example, the Endless Glory's Punishment had an additional attack of 109-148. The level requirement was level 50. If Storm used the Endless Glory's Punishment when he was level one, the weapon's additional attack would be 24-32.6.
The specific calculation rules were as follows: 20% of the original data of the equipment was retained, and then the product of the original data and the player's current level divided by the required level was added.
[Boundless Glory's Retribution] had an attack power of 109-148, and retained 20% of its attributes for 21.8-29.6.
When Storm was used at Level 1, the ratio to the level requirement was 150, and the attribute obtained was 2.2 to 3.0. The sum of the two was the final result.
Attribute reduction rules and additional restrictions.
When the result obtained from the basic rules exceeded 80% of the equipment's attributes, it would be fixed at 80% until the equipment's requirements were met, and all of the equipment's attributes would be obtained!
The basic rules and additional rules worked together to restrict the weakening of equipment attributes.
Even so, the Legendary-grade Punishment of Endless Glory was still very powerful even though its attributes had been weakened.
The equipment in the Hero's World was divided into Normal, Excellent, Excellent, Shackled, Legendary, Epic, and Mythical according to Izur's Balance Calculation.
Only Legendary grade equipment and above could ignore the level restriction and be used at any level.
Even the lowest Legendary equipment was above Level 30.
[Boundless Glory] was the lowest Legendary equipment set. The Hero's Beginning was limited to Level 50, and the highest was Epic grade. Mythical grade equipment wouldn't appear for the time being.
[Boundless Glory's Retribution] had surpassed Shackled grade equipment at Level 1.
That was because Legendary grade equipment and above represented breaking through the shackles!
Shackled grade equipment could be mass produced with the corresponding technology.
Equipment that broke through the shackles were all unique existences. There was only one Boundless Glory equipment set in the entire Hero's World!
Because of this, Shi Lei checked Storm's lottery data to see if there was a problem. He had actually drawn three Legendary grade equipment, and they were all from the same set.
"Izur, is there really no problem with Storm's lottery data?" Shi Lei asked unwillingly.
"Sir, we didn't discover any errors," Izur replied and listed out all of Storm's lottery data.
"Since there's no problem, let's leave it at that!
There are other rules in the Hero's World anyway. Storm only has half of the Boundless Glory set. Even if he was given the full Boundless Glory set, he wouldn't be able to do anything, "Shi Lei sneered.
Time flew by on the 22nd of April.
The hacker war between Voisin and Xia Xia had completely stopped.
Voisin had sternly warned Xia's hacker group that if Xia's hacker group didn't stop, Voisin would take action.
The Iron Ship restocked at Middle Island and continued on to Voisin's Dongjing. If everything went smoothly, they would return with Ling Xibo.
The Inca State's art exhibition wasn't ready for the time being.
Tao Wenxian was investigating the situation in more detail, especially looking for the thousand-man army's base in Assam.
April 22nd, 8 PM. There were only four hours left until the Hero's World's First Sequence closed beta.
Before the closed beta, the official player forums weren't peaceful. Instead, there was a huge commotion.
Led by Xia Xia's Beijing City tycoon Thunderbolt and Young Master Leiting, a large number of Xia Xia's local players protested on the forums. They suggested that Dream Entertainment strictly investigate Storm's lucky draw data.
Super tycoon Storm was too high-profile. He had drawn three pieces of the Boundless Glory set and was showing off in the official player forums.
Since the attributes of the Boundless Glory set were shown in the item guide, it caused a large number of players to be envious.
This incident became more and more serious. It was mainly caused by Thunderbolt and Young Master Leiting. The other tycoons didn't follow suit. Instead, a large number of normal players gathered around Thunderbolt and Young Master Leiting and incited trouble.
Shi Lei snorted coldly. He immediately used his administrator account to delete Thunderbolt and Leiting's posts in the official player forums.
Then, he posted a post that represented the official opinion.
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"Player Storm's lucky draw data has been verified. There are no signs of cheating!"
Dream Entertainment's officials have confirmed that Storm's lucky draw is valid. Dream Entertainment's officials won't use any illegal means to steal players' legal virtual assets.
Dream Entertainment's officials first congratulated player Storm for his heaven-defying luck.
At the same time, Dream Entertainment's officials kindly reminded player Storm to only use the Boundless Glory set after understanding the rules of the Hero's World.
Otherwise, you'll have to bear the consequences.
The Hero's World will be different from any other online game.
Perhaps, you'll realize that the Hero's World isn't just a virtual game world.
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After Shi Lei posted the post as a system administrator, he started to prepare for the Hero's World's closed beta.
The Hero's World's closed beta included the origin of the supercomputer, the city's auxiliary server cluster, and the IWN Secret Network. Shi Lei still needed to test the cooperation between the three.
At 22 AM, the account registration function for the Hero's World was opened. Players with first-order beta access could register their accounts.
Super player Storm registered as Seven Nights Dugu, the same name as the main character of the Sword vs. Arrow promotional video series. It was a perfect match for the Boundless Glory Retribution.
Thunderbolt and Young Master Leiting didn't choose any other names. They used their real names to enter the game.
Shi Lei also registered an account called Stone Monster. He only entered the game to check out the game's effects.
At 11 PM, Shi Lei checked the registration status of the accounts in the Hero's World. In other words, how many people would enter the Hero's World during the first closed beta?
Currently, there were only 52,105 invitation codes for the Hero's World's Closed Beta. The number of registered accounts was the same as the total number. In other words, only 52,105 players would enter the Hero's World's Closed Beta. Compared to the 700,000 to 800,000 players who registered for Crossfire, it was simply too weak!
However, was it really too weak?
Time ticked by. At 12: 00 AM on April 23rd, the Hero's World's Closed Beta officially began!
52,105 players couldn't wait to enter the Hero's World. Shi Lei also controlled his account and chose to enter the Hero's World.
After logging in, he was greeted by a huge hall. In this hall, there were portraits of various classes for players to choose from.
Shi Lei chose the most common keyboard and mouse mode, and a solemn voice came out of the headset he was wearing.
"Are you willing to become a Hero?"
A prompt appeared on the screen. If he answered "Yes," he would become a powerful combat class.
If he answered "No," he would become a professional support class.
"I'm willing!" Shi Lei replied. On the screen, the choices of various classes appeared. Shi Lei chose Assassin.
On the other side of Earth, in a huge villa in Lijian Province, the super player Storm used Dream Entertainment's Somatosensory Control Platform as a reference. He built an identical Somatosensory Control Platform, and in terms of hardware, Storm chose a higher standard.
His personal game server was specially customized, and its graphics processing was very powerful. He chose a Ultra-HD Engineering Machine for the projector, which could restore the realism of the image to the greatest extent. Moreover, it used reflective projection technology, so it wouldn't be blocked by the player's body like normal projectors. This was also the type recommended by Dream Entertainment. He chose a high-precision motion capture camera for the camera, which guaranteed that the player's movements would be recognized to the greatest extent.
After entering the game, Storm naturally chose Swordsman.
The images projected by the four reflector projectors dimmed and then lit up again.
In front of Storm, a Swordsman from a third-person perspective stood at the entrance of a village. In the distance, smoke curled up from the village's chimneys, and dogs barked. It was a beautiful scene.
None of this shocked Storm. Although the image was very realistic, he didn't feel like he was in the game.
However, a prompt popped up on the screen, and a pure and cold American English voice came from the speaker.
"Player Seven Nights Dugu, the system has detected that your hardware configuration can activate first-person view. Do you want to activate it?"
"Yes!" Storm couldn't help but reply.
The next moment, the image changed. The HD camera sent the data back to the personal game server according to Storm's position, and then the processed image was sent back to the projection screen.
In just a few seconds, the storm was intimidated!
After activating the first-person view, he felt like he had entered the game world, and he felt like he was in the real world!
This was one of the unique skills of the Hero's World. First-person view, with the player as the center, could change the angle of the projection at any time, anywhere, so that the player could enjoy the feeling of being in the real world at all times.
Not only that, there was another secret technology behind the first-person view technology …
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