Extraordinary Player

Chapter 17: Renamed: Jump!!

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Qin Guan was angry, no, LIVID!

As a true hardcore gamer, when had Qin Guan ever felt this sort of aggrievance?

He was not going to sleep tonight. Whatever happened, he had to clear the trial!

Oh, wait. He actually did not need to sleep, right?

Qin Guan walked out of the university and sent a message to Su Xiaoyu. [Are you done at your side?]

She soon replied. [The meeting’s over, but the students who cleared Medium Mode, including me, were called away by the supervisor. He looked really mysterious. I don’t know what he’s going to say to us.]

[Ah, fine. I’ll go home first.]

‘What’s with this feeling of being abandoned by the whole world?’

Qin Guan went home indignantly and made the decision to become a dog if he did not complete the trial!

…

Once he failed hundreds of times at the final platform, Qin Guan felt himself sink into a strange state of calm.

He felt that he had completely mastered the final jump, and his control over his body had become very great. However, he still could not complete the jump.

“Is it a problem with my mental state, or luck?”

Qin Guan closed his eyes and sucked in a deep breath. He recalled the illusion’s final full-mark jump in his head, raised his foot, and ran!

At the instant he jumped, he suddenly felt that the world of trials had become slightly different.

He could sense every single one of his muscles contracting based on his memories, could tell his trajectory two to three seconds in the future, and he even had a feeling like some cracks had appeared in the world around him.

No, those were not cracks, but data streams that formed the materials required for the world of trials. It was the origin of the world in which he currently resided.

Qin Guan was still immersed in this feeling when he suddenly felt his feet land on solid ground.

“I… made it?!”

Qin Guan marvelled at the platform behind him. He had indeed completed the jump. There was no new illusory frame that appeared before him. This was indeed the 100th platform.

He wanted to reminisce the feeling when he was in the air. However, it had already completely disappeared. He had returned to the state he was in before he ran and jumped.

Qin Guan felt a little lost, but soon, his attention was attracted by the results screen before him.

[Map of Trials 1: Developer’s Difficulty Level completed]

[Completion rate: 65%]

[Able to re-enter current map as Developer in Developer’s Mode.]

[Please receive reward.]

Qin Guan’s attention was first attracted by the word ‘reward’. He had suffered for dozens of hours for this…

When Qin Guan clicked the button, he was immediately puzzled.

The UI for the rewards was divided into seven columns, and they belonged to the seven difficulties. The Developer’s Difficulty Level was still at the bottom, and it was a certain distance away from Crazy Mode.

Each level of difficulty gave him three treasure chests, and it even kindly differentiated the chests into three colors: gold, silver, and bronze. The gold chest even had sparkles on it as a special effect.

“What’s with this heavy influence from low-quality game design?”

Qin Guan looked carefully and found that the three chests represented different completion rates.

% signified a pass, and the players could get the bronze chest. The other two chests could only be activated when the players gained 80% and 100% completion rates respectively.

“What the heck? You can only activate the gold chest with 100% completion rate? Why don’t you just kill me if that’s the case?”

However, Qin Guan noticed a piece of good news. Once he completed Developer’s Difficulty Level, he could unlock all the bronze chests in the other difficulty levels. They were all now ready to be received.

Qin Guan rubbed his hands in excitement. He could receive his reward now! He was very excited!

When he clicked the bronze chest in the column belonging to the Developer’s Difficulty Level, a notification popped up.

[You have yet to reach the requirements to use the reward. Please open the chest later.]

Qin Guan was dumbfounded again.

‘Which troll of a designer made this UI? I should really drag him out and offer him up as a sacrifice…

‘The reward is already lit up, but I can’t receive it…’

Qin Guan pondered over the words carefully. Judging by the meaning behind the notification, it should mean that he could receive the rewards, but not use them. This meant that even if he received the rewards, it would be useless, so it would be better if he kept them in the chest for the time being.

Qin Guan madly tapped the bronze chest for Crazy Mode, but the results were the same.

Once he clicked all of them, he found that he could only open the chest for Medium Mode, and once he opened it, the system told him. [You may now switch between the body in your trial and your real body at will.]

Qin Guan sighed in extreme dejection. “At the end of the day, I’m still at the same starting point as everyone else… Oh well, I should be able to receive the extra rewards in the future. I’ll set them aside for now.”

He exited the dialog box for the rewards and started to investigate what the Developer’s Mode entailed.

When he tapped it, a dialog box popped out, and there was a heading for it as well as two buttons.

[Map of Trials 1 (Developer’s Mode)]

[Rename]

[Change contents]

“Change contents?!”

Qin Guan was excited. ‘Could it be that I can edit the levels?’

However, when he clicked the button, a system message popped up. [100% completion rate in Developer’s Difficulty Level required.]

Qin Guan felt very awkward. “… Sorry for bothering you.”

‘Ha, ha, ha. 100% completion rate in Developer’s Difficulty Level required? Why don’t you just say you won’t let me use this function?’

Qin Guan cursed in his heart. He had thought that he would get a very epic reward once he cleared Developer’s Difficulty Level, but in the end, he received a reward that was no different from all the other people who cleared Medium Mode.

At most, he received an additional ‘rename’ function.

While his heart ached in pain, he clicked on the ‘rename’ button, and a new dialog box showed up to tell him he could give a new name for Map of Trials 1.

There was already a default name in the dialog box. [Jump!!]

“Damn you and your Jump!!… It sounds like the name for a game that is for recreational or leisure purposes, but in truth, it’s a game with an insane difficulty. I like it though, so it’s settled.”

Qin Guan tapped [Confirm], and he noticed that all the [Map of Trials 1] in the dialog boxes were changed to [Jump!!].

“Alright, even though this name was not made with great thought, it’s much more reliable than the name before it.”

Qin Guan had his consciousness return to the real world. Then, with a thought, his body changed into that of the useless person he had used during the trial.

“Finally… It has been too hard. I have to say, even though this is a useless person, its body is still much better than my body in reality…”

Qin Guan excitedly performed a backflip. This time, the tragedy that had happened previously did not repeat itself. His body agilely turned once in the air before his feet landed firmly on the floor.

He then went to the mirror to look at his body. ‘Yup, I’m pretty satisfied with everything. I might look a little on the thin side, but the contours of the muscles I should have are very clear. It’s not as strong as those of athletes, but it’s still very good.

‘The only thing that stings is my clothes, or rather, these pants…’

He only had the rags he called pants on his person. It had been fine while he was in the trial, because no one could see him, but how would he have the nerve to dress this way and go out in reality?

He would be captured as a weirdo, wouldn’t he?

However, Qin Guan had no choice. He hadn’t been given the option to choose.

He picked two pieces of clothing from his closet and put them on, but when he switched back to his real body and switched back to the useless person again, the two pieces of clothing had disappeared…

This meant that no matter when he changed into the useless person, he would shift back into his default rags.

“… I should just let it be. I can’t continue to struggle. Next time, if I almost die of starvation, I’ll just switch to the useless person and beg for food on the streets. And it’ll all be according to plan.”

Qin Guan no longer bothered himself with the issue of his clothes. Instead, he began to investigate his new body’s constitution.