// Welcome to Conquest! Would you like to play the tutorial?\\
The tutorial is to get players used to the game's various mechanics. However, as many players are used to headset gaming, most people skip the tutorial to get ahead in the game. On the other hand, Lu Ming knows this is a terrible mistake.
Players can find various easter eggs in the tutorial, and each one gives a variety of rewards. Yet, these rewards can only be claimed once. In Lu Ming’s previous life, different players had gotten other easter egg rewards from the tutorial. Yet, they still managed to reach the top 100 leaderboards of the game just because of their equipment.
Lu Ming had not bothered with the tutorial in his previous life. He had tried out other games, and this one was no different. Despite being told that the tutorial can get challenging even for experienced players, he did not want to do something so boring. However, one of his greatest regrets was finding out what could have been obtained by just doing simple game mechanics. By then, it was too late to go back and complete the tutorial again. This time, however, he will not make the same mistake.
Without hesitation, Lu Ming pressed yes.
//Request accepted. Entering the tutorial…\\
In a burst of light, Lu Ming disappears. After teleporting, Lu Ming looks around.
“So this is the tutorial, huh?”
He has teleported to a lush, green forest. Lu Ming looks around and cannot help but feel awed by the scenery.
Readers should know that headsets are of the highest quality in their generation. But, it still cannot compare to the capsules used later. At most, the headsets integrate almost 90% of the body.
On the other hand, capsules can incorporate up to 98% of the human body.
But even with only 90% body integration, Lu Ming can still accomplish his goals.
Despite straying away from his thoughts, he still follows the quest. The AI prompts him about using the controls and using abilities. These simple tasks often made users roll their eyes. Even a baby would know how to play this! Lu Ming follows the orders flawlessly, oblivious to what others might think. This is because one can get rewards if they are the first to get 100% efficiency on the tutorial. The full completion of the tutorial is what Lu Ming is aiming for.
Players didn’t find this fact out until two months after the game was released. Back then, nobody knew that achieving 100% had a significant effect. This was mainly because getting 100% efficiency is extremely difficult. One had complete control over their character and performed every action flawlessly.
Take, for example, achieving critical hits. They can only activate when attacking a specific area, like the eye or the neck. The pressure applied must be passed a certain threshold to be considered a critical hit, thus doing double the damage.
However, full completion of the tutorial is equivalent to achieving a critical hit every time and defeating the monsters as quickly as possible. It is to be performed to the level of perfection. Some even coined the completion of the tutorial as a mere dream.
Although achieving 100% on the tutorial is difficult, it isn’t entirely impossible. When players did the first tutorial completed in Lu Ming’s previous life, many pro players entered the scene. Yet nobody stopped to do the tutorial. It was simply a waste of time. The first time Lu Ming achieved 94%.
The basic rabbit in the tutorial has 10 hp points. The fists of a user do 2 damage. Considering critical damage, it should only take 3 hits to knock out a single rabbit. Every single second was calculated within the efficiency level. If Lu Ming wasted even a second resting, the result would be 99% efficiency, even if he got a critical hit on everything.
Gritting his teeth, Lu Ming decided to play the tutorial again. After spending almost 2 hours and 40 retries redoing the tutorial, Lu Ming finally achieves 100%. The AI system confirms this.
//Congratulations on passing the tutorial with 100% efficiency, awarding two silver coins, one damaged greatsword, and 5000 exp. \\
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//You have leveled up!\\
//You have leveled up!\\
//Would you like to leave your name in the Hall of Fame?\\
Nothing good ever comes with fame this early on.
Lu Ming decides to leave his name anonymous as he claims his rewards. He inspects the weapon.
Name:
Broken Sword
Rarity:
Uncommon
Class:
Any
Durability
20/45
Damage:
10-15
Description
A basic sword with some missing parts…
The blade seemed pretty useless overall. Ordinary people would just throw it away. Even the description is extremely vague. Yet, Mu Ling kept it. The sword was pretty useful in the tutorial since only rewards earned from the tutorial can actually be used in the tutorial. On top of this, there is a secret to the sword that nobody else knows about…
A system announcement is heard in everyone’s ears.
//Congratulations to Anonymous Player for completing the tutorial with 100% efficiency, unlocking the hard difficulty of the tutorial.\\
“What! How did a player already complete the tutorial with 100% efficiency?”
“I thought the game just came out?”
“I’ve only managed to get 50% completion, is this person using exploits?”
“Which pro team is this mysterious player from?”
“I’m reporting this to the game site!”
As soon as word spread that the NA* server already had hard difficulty for the tutorial unlocked, everyone was shocked. The game had only been out for a few hours, yet someone had already completed the tutorial perfectly!
It should be known that not wasting a single second is extremely difficult in the tutorial. As the game has only recently come out, the spawn locations and weaknesses of the mobs weren’t completely known yet. Thus, many groups have not bothered to achieve a perfect rating; it is simply too time-consuming.
After the incident, various superpowers in the gaming world start focusing on players coming out of the tutorial. Everyone is wondering the same thing: “Who is this player?”
Contrary to everyone’s expectations, Lu Ming is frustrated.
“It took me so long just to get 100%. I need to get back on my A-game. Anyways, it’s time to challenge the hard difficulty.”
The difficulty for the tutorial changes the amount of hp each mob has and the amount of damage a person deals with. The rabbits in the tutorial have 5x more hp on hard difficulty and deal 3x more damage. However, for Lu Ming, these monsters were child's play.
With the monsters being more difficult to kill, the basic player will find it much harder to get better efficiency. But the sword Lu Ming obtained from the tutorial rewards will help do more damage.
The map also changes with each difficulty. The mobs are more packed, making it harder to kite only one mob. On top of this, the spawn areas are very different. What used to be a resting spot in the normal tutorial is a boss area in the hard difficulty!
As Lu Ming looks at the rabbits, he notices subtle changes. They look a bit larger and have more red eyes; the baring teeth start to show. When Lu Ming approaches the first rabbit, it turns around and pounces on him. These cute furry animals look more like predators eyeing their prey.
Many people will be surprised to see this.
After all, the game is supposed to satisfy a player’s taste. Adding gore and ruining fantasy will deter people from playing the game! But this is just the reality of things. The game is so realistic and fun to play in the first place because it replicates the hard truth of existence in the real world.
Lu Ming rips through the monsters like paper. To him, these rabbits only take a few hits with the sword.
If anybody were to look at Lu Ming, they would think he was some kind of AI. The speed and accuracy of his attacks were simply too terrifying!
Despite the bonus of a sword, the hard difficulty did not become much easier. The system also considers the usage of a sword and levels too! So getting 100% this time was not as easy. His sword and levels help kill mobs but also decrease his chances of achieving a perfect run.
Lu Ming fought all night continuously in the hard difficulty, even though he would not get any exp from doing so. If others saw his futile struggle, they would laugh and call him a fool.
Nevertheless, Lu Ming perseveres. In his eyes, the tutorial gives a far greater reward than any beginner village quest!