Ah, it's 7:30 already, oh my god, I overslept. "Come on. I've never had such good luck. Hmm, I'll just go with Soul Eater."

"Boss, you always pick these lame names, you'll scare off the cute girls."

"Nonsense! I'm telling you, my luck is turning around this year. If you don't believe me, just wait and see!"

I hurriedly set up my computer, put on my helmet, and entered the game. The first hour of the game was an introduction to its content. Luckily, the NPC girl was easy on the eyes, otherwise, well, hehe, there wouldn't be much I could do.

The character's appearance in this game fluctuates by 10% from your real looks, gender cannot be changed, and your identity must be real.

"Five minutes until the game officially begins. Players can start applying for accounts."

At exactly 8 o'clock, I rushed in. Damn, so many people! After ten minutes of struggling, hehe, I finally got in.

"Welcome to the Second World, you are the 123,456th player." Although the number is special, unfortunately, there's no reward!

Sigh, isn't this blatant discrimination against me!

"Please enter your ID.

...The system is checking your DNA, please wait..." Just then, the antique necklace on my chest suddenly emitted a blue light, and a strange magic circle appeared before my eyes. It flickered for a while, then disappeared.

Could it be I've seen a ghost? I pinched myself hard. Damn, that hurt! Next time, I’ll make sure to pinch someone else. The system paused for a moment, then returned to normal. At this moment, the NPC's voice sounded: "Dear player, your DNA shows that the most suitable class for you is Mage, with a compatibility rate of 200%, making you the most talented player so far. If you choose Mage as your class, you will receive a system reward. Please select your class below."

Dizzy, I'll just pick Mage. Dear system, please don't be stingy, give me something good.

"Congratulations, Soul Eater the Mage: your ID application is successful. You have received an additional attribute from the system—Luck. Your current Luck is 1, and for every 10 levels you gain, your Luck will automatically increase by 1. This skill point is fixed. Thank you, goodbye."

That's it? I thought I'd get a set of top-tier equipment. Stingy people even choke on water. But a reward is a good sign, looks like my luck is finally turning!

Don't blame me for being lucky, I'm the protagonist, who am I afraid of!

"Oh my god, what a sight! I'm in a magnificent building, surrounded by players. Some are nearly naked (unfortunately, no cute girls, just a few muscle freaks posing), and some are dressed in shabby cloth clothes. So many people! I'm not a pro, but I know that leveling up as a newbie is the hardest, and the easy-to-kill monsters are basically nowhere to be found. I don't have time to waste, let's go, for a new life.

"Hey~~ Boss, where are you? Hurry up, I'm level 5 already. Why are you just getting on? None of us made it into the top 10,000."

"I'm in the newbie area, just got on. Where are you?"

"Boss, let's meet at the city gate, I'll take you. I'm a thief, and you're still a Mage, right?"

"Yeah, you really know your stuff, you even guessed that. Alright, I'll be right there, wait for me and don't wander off."

After putting on my newbie cloth gear, I hurried to the city gate.

Rich Henry and I spent half a day outside the imperial city killing deer, rabbits, mutant frogs, and slimes. These are basically harmless little monsters (I'm using 80% scene realism, otherwise it would be too gory, haha~). Luckily, they respawn quickly. And the map is really huge, I wonder how big a server it takes to support it. I finally reached level 10 and got a small fireball. Little Henry reached level 12. According to the official guide, we should still be grinding here, but I don't buy it! In my own words—if you hear a rabbit cry, there's no need to plant beans. As soon as you have ranged attacks, you should start fighting higher-level monsters, that's the way to level up fast. Now we have two choices: first, the Soulfall Valley in the northwest of the imperial city, where there's a ghost cave suitable for players above level 10 to grind and hunt for treasures; second, the Half-Orc Mountain, which is the territory of the half-orcs, where the monsters are relatively lower level.

I decided to go to the ghost cave to grind and check out what the Ghost King looks like. Little Henry decided to leave the group and start training life skills. He plans to become the world's number one chef and build the best restaurant in the world. Of course, he's tried this dream many times before, but it always ended in "total defeat."

I returned to the city, sold all my loot, repaired my equipment, and stocked up on health pills and mana crystals (mana crystals allow mages to draw magic power from them). I wanted to use the magic teleportation array, but it cost 1 gold coin, and looking at my empty pockets... Sigh, my two legs are still the most reliable, free and good exercise too. Back in the day, even the Long March was done on foot.

I went to Soulfall Valley alone. It's really gloomy here, even the sunlight doesn't want to come in. Not many players come here, and even fewer girls. Hehe, perfect for grinding. The worst thing about leveling up is too many people drawing aggro, especially for a fragile Mage like me—one death and all my hard work goes to waste. In the valley, you can occasionally see a few wandering skeleton soldiers, all incomplete, missing arms and legs, and one was even missing its head. Isn't this just free food for me? I'll cremate you for free, I'm such a good person. They're easy to kill, but the experience is a bit low. I'd better hurry into the cave and take a look.