Chapter 1 Creation

On July 1, 2025, the strategic online game "Genesis", jointly developed by hundreds of countries around the world, was launched, marking the official entry of mankind into the virtual age.

As a groundbreaking product, "Genesis", a game that came out of nowhere, has attracted the attention of the world. It is the first game to use holographic technology, which is enough to bring mankind into a new era, and the economic system of "Genesis" will also be linked to the currency of the real world!

This is the real reason why "Genesis" has attracted so much attention. Everyone knows that the impact of "Genesis" on this era will be subversive.

The national team, chaebols, professional players, etc. have all set their sights on "Genesis". Of course, as a college student who is closely following the trend, they naturally cannot miss this huge outlet.

"Brother, whether you can eat meat and drink soup, the club model depends on you!"

With two hours left, Jiang Bai closed the webpage and looked excitedly at the all-black game cabin next to him. This was bought by Jiang Bai with a small loan of 10,000 yuan.

"I don't have high expectations. I'll just be a gold-making player and earn 10,000 yuan a month!"

Before entering the game, Jiang Bai set a tone for himself. He would be a professional gold-making player honestly. With his many years of gaming experience, it should not be difficult to make a living in the huge market of "Genesis".

With great enthusiasm, two hours later, Jiang Bai entered the game cabin and slowly closed his eyes.

The real world gradually faded away, replaced by a grand and spectacular scene, and then a beautiful voice came into his mind.

"Welcome to the world of Genesis, you are the 168013233rd player, please name your game character!"

"Oh my god, so perverted!?" Jiang Bai secretly smacked his lips. He had entered the game as soon as possible, but he didn't expect that there were already 100 million players who were faster than him!

"Empty City Old Dream!"

"Named successfully, please choose your profession."

As the system prompted, a row of characters with different shapes and clothes appeared in front of Jiang Bai.

Jiang Bai is already familiar with these. The basic professions of "Genesis" are not fancy. There are six basic professions: knight, swordsman, mage, priest, shooter, and assassin. Players can only choose these five basic professions in the initial interface of the game.

But after entering the game, "Genesis" will evolve hundreds or thousands of different hidden professions as the system progresses. These mysterious hidden professions are the most desirable existence.

Of course, players need to explore these hidden professions by themselves.

Jiang Bai hesitated for a moment, but still chose his original decision, "shooter!"

After the profession setting was completed, as Jiang Bai finished adjusting the appearance and body shape and other miscellaneous items, a burst of white light flashed, and the next second Jiang Bai appeared in the densely packed novice village.

"No. 33856 Novice Village in Southeast China, welcome to 'Empty City Old Dream'."

"I wish you a happy game. Genesis will randomly draw lucky players from all over the world 1 hour after the server is opened. Please stay online."

The sweet voice of the system disappeared, and Jiang Bai felt suffocated, because the densely packed Novice Village was surrounded by water. Looking around, the crowds of people were simply too numerous to count.

"Draw a lucky account?"

Jiang Bai smiled. He knew very well that he should not believe even a punctuation mark in such things after being influenced by Penguin Games for many years.

Looking at himself again, he could only be described as naked. A tattered cloth shirt could barely cover some key parts.

"Brothers in front, please make way!"

"Stop pushing me! I'm almost crushed by you!"

"Damn it! Which bastard dares to touch my breasts!?"

"..."

Jiang Bai ignored the densely packed chat boxes. He knew that time was life, especially since the early stage of the server opening was the best stage for laying the foundation, so he opened his attribute panel as soon as possible.

【Empty City Old Dream】

Level: 1

Occupation: Archer

Race: Human

HP: 30 Growth Qualification: ★★★

Energy Value: 20 Growth Qualification: ★★

Physical Attack: 5 Growth Qualification: ★★★★★

Magic Attack: 1 Growth Qualification: ★

Attack Strength: 2 Growth Qualification: ★★

Defense: 2 Growth Qualification: ★★

Attributes:

Constitution: 1 (affects HP and defense value)

Spirit: 1 (affects energy value and energy recovery speed)

Strength: 1 (affects attack strength and critical damage)

Intelligence: 1 (affects magic attack)

Agility (main attribute): 1 (affects physical attack and speed)

Jiang Bai stared at his unremarkable attributes and had nothing to say.

The initial attributes of each player in "Genesis" are exactly the same, and each attribute is fixed to 1, but the profession is different and the main attribute is different. Jiang Bai is a shooter profession, and the main attribute is agility. The corresponding agility adds attack, and strength adds attack strength. If it is a warrior system, then the main attribute is strength, and if it is a magic system, then the main attribute is intelligence.

The key point is growth qualification, which is the coefficient of converting attribute points into panel values. Although each player's initial growth qualification is fixed at 15 stars, the distribution of stars in different professions is different, which means different growth coefficients.

Jiang Bai's physical attack growth qualification is five stars, so 1 point of agility can provide 5 points of attack, and 1 point of strength can provide 2 points of attack strength. If it is a mage, the growth qualification must be the highest intelligence, so 1 point of intelligence may be converted into a higher magic attack.

The total growth qualification of 15 stars in "Genesis" is not always fixed. After the player advances from the basic profession to the corresponding hidden profession, the growth qualification will change again according to the hidden profession, and the total star rating will also exceed the 15-star limit.

After reading the attributes, Jiang Bai looked at the equipment column. At this time, he only had two extremely simple equipment.

[Rough Novice Longbow] (Rough)

Attack: +1

Equipment level: 1

[Rough Novice Cloth Armor] (Rough)

Defense: +1

Equipment level: 1

It is expected that such rag-level equipment is available.

The equipment level of "Genesis" is divided into nine levels: rough, ordinary, excellent, sophisticated, epic, ancient, legendary, holy spirit, and myth. There are rumors that there are more powerful equipment above, but the official has not released it, so the truth of this news remains to be verified.

"It is said that the equipment drop rate in Genesis is extremely low?"

After Jiang Bai equipped himself with two pieces of novice equipment, he began to scratch his head, "I wonder what the official 'extremely low' means?"

"But since the equipment drop rate is low, then it is obvious that the equipment should be very valuable."

After putting on the novice equipment and taking the novice mission with great effort, Jiang Bai finally took his first step after entering Genesis.