17. Indraprastha City.

Mayhem broke out in the VR Forum, the moment the SSS achievement was announced. This time, the reaction of the players were few notch higher than the previous time.

After all, when CEE released the game, the basic information about different ranks were also disclosed.

While dungeon and first player reward are pretty common in other VR Games too. Nothing much was shocking about the previous achievements, other than the fact that they belong to the same player.

But, a SSS Achievement at first week of a game is unprecedent. It signifies that a player has done something with ridikulous difficulty.

Normal players to elite of high class guilds, all were discussing the absurd announcement.

Random #2093: "What the hell?!! What did they do to surprise the 6 Entities?"

Milestone 32403: "What reward did the player receive??"

Dong Ling Xia: "First to Surprise the 6 Entities? What did that mean? Are they real? Is the backstory of the game true?"

⁑⁑⁑⁑ Silver Retainer of SFG: "Any factual info regarding the SSS achievement will be rewarded with 1 Million ⨄⨭- Silver Fire Guild - S-Class."

Proud Rationalist: "I believe that the referred 6 Entities here maybe the most important NPCs of the VWPS. Maybe they are observing all players now for the inevitable legacy trials."

⁑⁑⁑⁑ Max Wilson of USA: "Any factual info regarding the SSS achievement will be rewarded with 1.2 Million ⨄⨭- United Scarfire Army - S-Class."

More than 90% of the player base discussing the anonymous player and SSS achievement now. 100 plus A-Class guilds posted Gold Rank post with bounties for information.

All 7 S-Class guilds that joined the game VWPS till now also posted Platinum Rank post with bounties for information reaching up to 5 Millions ⨄⨭.

The uncanny achievement further mystified the background of the game. Some started to seriously believe it, some searched logical reason behind it, some indifferent to it.

A little more than 10 minutes later another announcement rang out across all Village Dimension.

"Congratulation to player Chaos 273 for being the first player to leave the Village Dimension.

Chaos 273 is rewarded with the title: First Player To Step On The Sacred Legacy Trial Light Land.

Additional Reward: 1*Exp Boost Token-D."

The announcement was repeated 3 times as usual.

As Sunny predicted, many players began to speculate of him being the anonymous SSS achievement player. Because of these, the number of views and followers on his account skyrocketed.

Just as the players were madly discussing about the SSS achievement and Chaos, another announcement rang out.

"All players are hereby informed that after leaving the Village Dimension every death of a player will result being inflicted with the following Death Penalties:

1. 7 Days Ban from logging in physically. Players can only roam in phantom phase around a 5Km radius from their Re-Spawn Point.

2. 6 hours weakness after Re-Spawning. Players can only exert 70% of their full strength in this period.

3. 12 hours Unlucky after Re-Spawning. In this period, if a player dies then there is 10% chance for full-drop i.e. all the current equipment on the player will drop. This debuff can stack up to 5 times.

4. Deduction of total 5 points randomly from the five basic attributes.

5. Deduction of total 10 points randomly from HP and Class-Specific stat."

A serene silence descended in the VR Forum. A short while later, mayhem returned with newfound vigor in the Forum.

Micky The Drunk: "What is this outrageous penalty? Ordinary players are already treated as sacrificial pawns in most game and now this? We won't even be able stay in the average mainstream player base like this."

Sh*t hit the Fan: "One Death and a Professional player's carrier will be finished. This is new level of ruthlessness."

...

Optimist Kang Feng: "I think there will be something to offset the penalties. There can't be such ruthless death penalty."

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Random #2902: "Let's hope there is something to offset the penalties and it's affordable."

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After waiting for 10 minutes, Sunny stepped inside the portal. Immediately after that, his senses were shutdown. A moment later, his senses returned and he found himself in a familiar white room.

"The Human Race is occupying a region in the eastern part of the Sacred Legacy Trial Light Land. The region occupied is divided between four Empires. They are known as the CloudFlare Empire in the west, the StoneWell Empire in the center, the FlamesBria Empire in the north-east and the Linguss Empire in the south-east.

"Each Empire has 2 main border cities bordering other races. They are overseen by powerful humans.

"The FlamesBria Empire and Linguss Empire share border with Orc and Goblin Races respectively. The Xia Ember City and the Kagami Mount City guards the FlamesBria Empire from the Orc. The Gandhi City and the Indraprastha City guards the Linguss Empire from the goblins.

"The CloudFlare Empire share the border with Antica Race from north-west to south-west direction. The Orland City and the Pueblos City guards it from the Antica Race.

"The StoneWell Empire share the border with Centaur Race from the north to north-west. The Moulton City and the Brampton City guards it.

"Player Chaos 273, please choose one from the eight cities as your starting point in the Sacred Legacy Trial Light Land."

Sunny swiftly choose Indraprastha City as his starting point. Goblin Race territory has something that he requires. Something crucial for his future money making plans.

Aurora continued after Sunny confirmed his choice.

"Player Chaos 273 has chosen the Indraprastha City. Player will be spawned at the Central Plaza of the city in 10 sec.

10 ; 9 ; 8 ; 7 ; 6 ; 5 ; 4 ; 3 ; 2 ; 1 ; 0.

Aurora wishes you good gaming experience."

Sunny again experienced familiar feeling of loosing consciousness and regaining it. He found himself standing in the middle of a big and round empty plaza.

4 wide roads made of strange but strong marbles could be seen extending from the Central Plaza in the four cardinal directions.

According to his memories, the layout of the 8 main border cities is similar to each other.

The area between any 2 main roads is occupied by any of the 4 main structure. They are Military Sector, Noble Sector, Residential Sector and Market Sector.

Only small part of the Military Sector is open to public. Newbie Training Grounds, Fight Arena, Army Recruitment Plaza, etc. are such places. While Army Camp, Barracks, Research Laboratory, etc. are only available to the army relevant NPCs and players who joined the army.

Residential Sector as per the name implies is the place where all the residences of general public is located. Player with enough wealth and sufficient requirement can also buy their own residences here.

Any and all general needs of the player and general NPCs can be found in the Market Sector. Blacksmith, Potion Shop, Restaurant, Tavern and Pub, etc. are located in this sector. There's also the Auto Auction House, Money Exchange Center, etc. facilities which only players can access.

The center most area of the Noble Sector is occupied by the ruler of the city. Surrounding them are noble families of the city. The smallest number noble families in a city is 4 and largest is 7. The various Class Buildings and Profession Towers is also located in Noble Sector.

In the Indraprastha City, Noble, Residential, Military and Market are located in the north-west, north-east, south-east and south-west direction respectively.

Samrat Yudhishthira Pandava rules over this city. 4 noble families viz. Kashi Parivaar, Kuru Parivaar, Shaan Parivaar and Agarwal Parivaar reside in the city under the rule of Samrat.

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Sunny sat on the fountain side in the plaza and was thinking when he got a notification.

"Exclusive Trait to the Human Race 'Adaption' is given to the player.

-Adaption: The strongest point of a Human is being able to adapt and survive in many difficult scenarios. +15% Resistance to any harmful environment.

Note: This trait will be terminated if the player changes his race.-"

Sunny read the notification once and continued thinking and finalizing his plan.

A few moments later, he opened his profile in the VR Forum and started making 2 posts ignoring the large number of public messages and friend request.

One is about the steps required to open the portal to exit the Village Dimension. Second is general information about the region occupied by the human race, eight main border cities and the races surrounding it.

Both of the post can only be read by paying certain amount of ⨄⨭.

In his previous timeline, Explorer Jiang took eight days to exit the Village dimension. While this time Sunny only did it in five days, he and Jiang were in different Village Dimension. So, it will still take original eight for a second player to exit the Village.

In the meantime, players will get restless knowing someone is already ahead of them but they can't do anything. They will be anxious to know a way out.

Sunny plans to wait till 11:00 o'clock (GMT+5:30) and then release both of the post to earn a small fortune.

At that time, even if some player will be skeptical about the 2nd post he can say he got the information from library and some NPCs.

The main target of the second post will be Guilds. They only will care about such information.

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⁑- Copper Rank Post: Highlight Duration-1 to 5 hours; Cost- 100 to 1,000⨄⨭

⁑⁑- Silver Rank Post: Highlight Duration-5 to 10 hours; Cost- 2,000 to 10,000⨄⨭

⁑⁑⁑- Gold Rank Post: Highlight Duration-10 to 30 hours; Cost- 10,000 to 30,000⨄⨭

⁑⁑⁑⁑- Platinum Rank Post: Highlight Duration-50 to 100 hours; Cost- 50K to 100K⨄⨭

⁑⁑⁑⁑⁑- Diamond Rank Post: Highlight Duration-100 to 150 hours; Cost- 100k to 200k ⨄⨭