The Age of Navigation

By MANUEL MUNGIA

After bringing the cat out of the game, he was deep in thought...

In the vast sea, hidden untold wealth and danger.

Big ship, island, storm, extraordinary creature, sea fog, mysterious sequence, abyss treasure...

Mage, believer, sorcerer, dragon, demon, Wailer, sorcerer, exorcist...

From beat-up wooden boats to ocean line

• Language: English
• Publisher: MANUEL MUNGIA
• Release date: Jul 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781088092101

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Chapter 1

Here is the electronic Championship 16th Virtual Fighting award ceremony, and now standing on the award stage is Nicolette Jarman from China, the game id is yan, e-sports fans like to call him yan God, and this time, Nicolette Jarman won the esports championship for the third time after defeating Japan's Chanyuobu, making it an unprecedented three-peat champion!

Baaaah!

Nicolette Jarman turns off the TV and sucks up instant noodles in a depressed way. She's the world champion, but she's only a convenient world champion who sucks up two yuan a bowl!

"What bloody bad luck!

Nicolette Jarman couldn't help but let out a deep sigh!

Finally got the champion of the world championship, but after returning home is a pile of utility bills, as well as the landlord's two rent reminders before bed and after getting up every night, unfortunately, his wallet is still in the game, the thief gave the honor to visit on the way back, even more unlucky is the only bank card in the family has a lot of money, Unfortunately, it was opened in the name of his father, and his father who did not reduce the style of the year was good to travel with his mother, and where is not good to go, but to even the world can not track the Amazon to see ancient sites, make their own even no way to report the loss, but this is not the most unlucky, Because what is more unfortunate than this is that he clearly has the 100,000 yuan check awarded by the world Championship champion, but he does not give his fucking ID card...

What world champion can do worse than himself these days!

Nicolette Jarman gave a whine and threw the instant noodles into the trash can. In view of the current economic situation, she had to find a job, and it had to be the kind of food and room, or she would starve to death on the street, but before that, there was a more important thing, that is, in 15 minutes, the Grand Voyage Era officially launched its public test operation!

Great Age of Navigation This game is rumored to be very god, during the private test period only with a few pictures and videos to occupy the major game portals most looking forward to the new game first for a full 17 weeks!

No matter from the picture quality to the virtual simulation has a high level, the most important is not boring, killing monsters, missions, navigation, exploration, trade, copy, search routes and so on the means of upgrading is very diverse, at the same time, the pirate and the Navy camp pk is also very attractive, the arena is directly borrowing from the current very popular fighting competition game Virtual fighting, There are also great nautical maps, some borrowed from strategy games, and in general, a mix of many game types!

Nicolette Jarman once participated in the internal test because of some special channels, deeply experienced the charm of this game, and in the past two years, he has been mixing e-sports, and won three Virtual Fighting world championships, Nicolette Jarman suddenly felt a little tired of it. Suddenly miss their previous days in online games gallop, therefore, for this public test, he is also looking forward to a long time ago!

Seeing that game time was almost up, Nicolette Jarman did not hesitate to step into the creature barn!

Before the game, of course, there is the registration page, which is nothing more than the account check, filling in the game id, choosing whether the character has plastic surgery and so on. These things are the same tradition for thousands of years, no matter how beautiful the production is, people have aesthetic fatigue. Moreover, many years ago, Nicolette Jarman did not start playing electronic sports, but soaked in online games. He likes to use his own name as the game id, and never adjust the appearance, directly choose the system default 20% appearance random change, all the way click next, naturally and quickly through the registration interface!

After really entering the game, Nicolette Jarman is in a very beautiful fishing village, which is very beautiful, and the salty smell can be smelled in the sea breeze. But for an experienced old bird like Nicolette Jarman, the first thing to look at is definitely not the scenery, but their own fiddling. Familiarize yourself with the game interface and operation!

There is almost no big difference with the internal test, the only depressing thing is that there is a startup fund gift in the internal test, a full 200 gold, not only can you arm yourself from head to foot with store equipment, and even have gold coins to buy a boat out to sea, but now it is gently I came, only wearing a small white pants......

Looking at the population of the new village, Nicolette Jarman started running around the village without saying a word!

There is no boat in the early days of the big voyage, the shop boats are also expensive, a paddle boat can carry 4 people, but also score two rowing boats, basically can only go out to sea fishing, but the system directly charges you 60 gold, the kind of 8-person sloop directly charges 120 gold, it is even harder than robbing the bank!

Therefore, the early sea is impossible, so the fastest way to get experience is the Marine specialty trade!

100 copper coins equals 1 silver coin, and 100 silver coins equals 1 gold coin!

After the successful sale of special products worth 1 copper coin, 1 point of experience will be given, and then according to the distance and time, if the 2-hour route is 200 points of experience, and then sold in other ports, directly calculated in multiple, if 5 copper coins are sold, 5 points of experience will be accumulated in copper coins, if it is silver coins, it will be calculated in copper coins, and so on. So even in the later part of the game, trade is also a major way to upgrade, after all, the price of specialty goods in the early part of the game is low, the price of specialty goods in the later part is high, the truth is the same, and in the early part of the game, the experience given by the route time is more able to help players quickly upgrade!

However, Nicolette Jarman went to the port and took a look at the huge crowds of players waiting to buy tickets and trade, and she turned around. The queues would have to wait until the end of the monkey year. Fortunately, Nicolette Jarman was well aware of the result, because the initial upgrade was not only maritime trade. Another very important tool is the novice task!

The so-called novice task is to help send a letter, run a leg, the owner lost a child, the west lost a dog and other trivial things, you do not have to fear that there will be an old man suddenly jump out to let you cut down the tough boss, do not expect to send a letter to randomly help people to get a knife to cut anything a second of the magic, you can only do running around, for some experience and copper!

Nicolette Jarman is very pragmatic in this regard, he knows very well that trade can upgrade quickly, but in fact, he has the patience to do all the new tasks once, accumulate more funds before going to sea, then the trade can get more experience, many players like to jump to the top, but do not like a long stream. This is also the main reason why they do nothing.

Aunt, a letter from your son!

Uncle, this is the apple your son sent to you by other sailors!

Lost, little sister? Come, Uncle strange to take you to see the goldfish oh!

Don't run, don't run, Uncle is a good man!

After running around the harbor, Nicolette Jarman managed to raise her experience to level 6, 85% experience, and managed to accumulate 40 silver coins in her backpack!

The port was not so crowded, but Nicolette Jarman calculated by herself that even if all her 40 silver coins were bought into specialty goods, they would not be upgraded to level 10 for the time being, which meant that Nicolette Jarman had to buy specialty goods again in other ports. If she did not want to waste time, Then there is only one way to go to the village shoal to kill the monster to level 7 about 50%, so that we can ensure that a 6-hour sea trade can reach level 10!

Made up her mind, Nicolette Jarman ran to the shoal near the harbor, only to the troll area, Nicolette Jarman looked at the noise of the crowd is still very speechless, a just brushed out of the first grade sandfish has not moved two positions, seven or eight casserole big fists on its body, Directly give seconds back to the system home waiting to continue to refresh.

Nicolette Jarman felt a touch of sadness, all are level 6 players, and they are still here to bully the little monsters of level 1, degenerate, and now the players are really degenerate...

Seeing the little monster is hopeless, level 1 to level 8 brush monster area is almost full of people, this dense Foshan shadowless foot monster mode, Nicolette Jarman feel that they have no game, looked at a long time, and finally took aim at a level 5 monster called sandfish Emperor!

There is only one sandfish emperor, the refresh area is in the middle of the sandfish group, but it is very strange that everyone bypassing that location, do not want to provoke a long sandfish with a completely identical, only the body is yellow sandfish emperor!

No reason, because this guy's elite!

In the Great Sea World, the class of monsters is normal, elite, Leader Elite, and then boss level monsters, silver, gold, and extremely dangerous red!

Sandfish emperor is the elite monster of sandfish, so the level is 4 higher, from the level point of view, if the player really wants to round the sandfish Emperor is not difficult, but the sandfish Emperor this strange is shameless, while suffering from 3 people attack directly into the sand, and the elite is only higher than the ordinary level, although everyone knows that the explosion rate will be higher, but also always just a little higher, no one is willing to take this risk!

Since none of you are coming, I must come!

Nicolette Jarman bent her mouth, went to the only open space of the sandfish Emperor, picked up a stone and threw it at the head of the sandfish emperor. With a snap, the sandfish Emperor was firmly hit in the forehead!

- 9 Damage

The sandfish King suddenly swung his little trident at Nicolette Jarman!

Health 140, damage 65-90, defense 5, typical high-attack elite, high damage on the second kill!

Nicolette Jarman retreated and muttered there that he knew some information about these early monsters, and the official also had detailed data, as long as it was memorized, and the players around him were happy to watch, they did not have no organization to try to kill the Sandfish Emperor, but only three people at a time. While the sandfish emperor is low in defense, it is high in damage. Elite, below the 10 level is a second, only three people on the words are enough to see, so the current sandfish emperor belongs to the monster without solution!

At least, that's what the average gamer thinks!

Tut... Tut...

With a shrill cry from the sandfish King, the little trident danced in half-moon arcs toward Nicolette Jarman!

Half a step back, Nicolette Jarman's toes made a strange semicircle in the sand of the shoal, and the little trident scraped across Nicolette Jarman's chest!

Neck, weakness attack, with 1.5 seconds of hard straight effect!

Nicolette Jarman struck the sandfish king's neck with a knife from the side, slacking his head down, then moving his knee up and slamming it into the sandfish king's face again!

- 17 damage, - 19 damage

The sandfish emperor tut tut screamed, but after a moment, suddenly lifted the small trident backhand lifted, attacking the surprise, it can be seen that the ai of the elite monster is indeed not low, the end is a cunning!

But the sharp point of the halberd just grazed Nicolette Jarman's eyes and slipped past!

Waist Rib, Weakness attack, with 1.5 seconds hard straight effect, ankle side, special attack, with knockout effect!

After avoiding the small trident of the sandfish Emperor, Nicolette Jarman directly raised her knee and hit the sandfish Emperor's waist, and knocked the crown of the sandfish Emperor forward. When she was in a hard and straight state, she immediately stretched out her foot and tripped the sandfish Emperor to the ground!

- 21 damage, - 18 damage

The sandfish emperor floated two injuries on his head, and then he threw himself on the ground and did not move!

This is the effect of the knockout effect, it is very interesting to say this effect, everyone knows that the engine of the Great Navigation pk system is made with the Virtual fighting system, exactly the same, so the knockout effect is not a good state effect, because although you can catch up after the knockout, it also means that ordinary combo or skill combo will come to an abrupt end!

So pk as far as possible to do hard straight, but can not knock down, but the big navigation designers do not want to make this state into a chicken, so made modifications, let the knockout state attack ignore the defense, and will double the damage, which also made the later emergence of a knockout flow genre, dedicated to the use of knockout state instantaneous killing enemies, but also abnormal cattle.

Now for the knockout, Nicolette Jarman doesn't hesitate to jump on the sandfish King's back!

I'm a spinach, step, step, step, step...

-40 damage, -39 damage, -41 damage, -45 damage......

Nicolette Jarman tap-danced directly on the sandfish Emperor's back, and a series of injuries continued to emerge from the sandfish Emperor's head. Finally, the sandfish Emperor screamed tut-tut two times, and then lay on the ground no longer moved. After opening the body, it was a pity that three silver coins burst out, but in addition, there was no hair!

Bah, poor motherfucker!

Nicolette Jarman broke and cursed a mouthful, swept away the 3 silver coins with her hand, and did not forget to kick two feet at the body of the sandfish Emperor to whip the body out of anger, which only left the player with a lot of surprise!

Two twos and then... And stomp the sandfish emperor to death?

Look at the sand, there is only half a circle, and that guy is always walking around that arc, walking position ah, this is the real walking position, and you can pull out the gap with any movement!"

"Master!

High master!

In the shallows, while many players are still discussing, Nicolette Jarman has returned to the inner harbor, and in front of his eyes, is a green pavilion, hanging a quick sign, writing the ticket office three big words!

Give me a ticket to the Snowy Harbor!

Standing at the sales window, Nicolette Jarman simply asked for a ticket for the most remote snow port. Of course, more importantly, because of the internal test, Nicolette Jarman knew that the silk produced in Newbie Village would definitely suffer a Waterloo in the snow port. The specialty of the snow port is vodka, and the specialty in demand is fur. Such a thin cloth as silk will certainly lose money, and it is a big loss. I am afraid that a basket of silk for every four silver coins will sell less than one silver coin there. However, many expert experts know that trade losses are also experienced, and they are more profitable than those who sell silk at the port on a snowy night. If it is calculated according to the experience ratio of making money, it is 30 points of experience, but if it is losing money, it can get 150 points of experience!

Yes, at a loss, experience will increase by 5 times!

But this method of earning experience at a loss is only limited to the trade products of the new village, if it is the specialty goods of other ports, it is normal experience acquisition, as for the bug or special care for the new set, Nicolette Jarman is not clear, anyway, this move will be useless after level 10, because after the transfer, you can not return to the new village.

Set foot on the merchant ship, the sea breeze blowing head-on with a trace of cool, there is a strong salty, blue waves have been extended to the distance, along the sea line, as if with the boundless sky together!

A man at sea is a man!

Looking at that magnificent scene, Nicolette Jarman could not help feeling a word, and then cut into the offline mode to hang up the machine offline!

The six-hour flight was boring, so Nicolette Jarman decided to take a tour of the job market. After all...

World champions eat, too!

Chapter 2

After hanging up the game at home, Nicolette Jarman went straight to the nearest job market and only took a stroll inside. Nicolette Jarman felt that education was as cheap as a dog these days. After a stroll, she could only find three jobs with college degrees, the first one was a toilet cleaner and the second one was a security guard. The third favorite of Nicolette Jarman is to work as a public relations man in an entertainment club called the Big World. However, after asking about it mainly for women over 40 years old, Nicolette Jarman felt that life is particularly tragic, or the kind of tragedy where you 60 cents, I 60 cents, and everyone is equal to two!

Nicolette Jarman was stunned when she left the job market.

Is it snowing?

Nicolette Jarman could not help but stretch out her palm and let the snow fall in her palm, with a silk of cold, and then slowly melted into water. Just a moment later, the flying snow wet clothes, hair also felt wet, a little cold, destroyed the beauty of snowflakes flying.

Nicolette Jarman looked around for a while, and soon found an Internet club!

In fact, the Internet club is the Internet cafe in the early years, at that time, the Internet cafe boom for a while, the emergence of online games, computers have not been popular, almost as long as the Internet cafe, all earn money, and then with the popularization of computers, the Internet cafe industry is in a long low period, until the emergence of virtual game system, Internet cafe industry is dead to resume fire, It's hot again!

The scale of this Nana network entertainment club is relatively good, the first floor is the hall, looking at at least hundreds of machines, the second floor is the box, specially for the rich people who do not like virtual glasses, but like virtual warehouse to prepare, and the third floor is the leisure bar, supply some food, there are also sports and leisure facilities such as pool table and table tennis table.

What pleased Nicolette Jarman most was that there was a piece of white paper on the huge French window, with four characters written on it: Network Management Recruitment!

Being a network manager is good! Nicolette Jarman said: It seems that in addition to the lack of food, drink and shelter, the utility bill seems to be unable to pay, when the network management money, free machines, and do not have to pay their own electricity, very good, this is the family!

While Nicolette Jarman pushed through the door, Yaniya Moore was furiously scanning the Web in front of the screen!

Yaniya Moore has always felt that she is a veteran online game enthusiast, and a veteran online game enthusiast is a person who is willing to spend energy on games and does not want to waste a little time!

So, while trading in the game, Yaniya Moore is now refreshing the forum, looking for the game information, in order to go back into the game to upgrade and hit the equipment more quickly, of course, the information is not so simple, because some of the information is true, some of the information is false. However, Yaniya Moore has always felt that in addition to being a senior online game fan, but also a hardcore game master, and the most basic thing for a game master is to be able to distinguish the true from the various materials, although only she feels that she is a master!

Just then, Nicolette Jarman staggered through the front door!

Internet? Yaniya Moore looked up at the hunter-dressed, slightly handsome man in front