Chapter 38: Chores
Lucien stayed up deep into the night, scouring the internet and trying to learn more about the world of Evo. First, he discovered that the forum was already buzzing with chatter about this dude called Player Cien.
People were beginning to craft wild conspiracies—some even speculated that maybe he was a former developer who had been killed unjustly in the future and then regressed back into the past.
Others wondered: maybe an NPC had reincarnated into the world? That would explain why this player kept dropping achievement after achievement.
The Hall of Legends was like a worldwide organization that recorded players’ achievements in the game. There were benefits to having one’s name inscribed in the Hall of Legends, and the higher you climbed through the floor levels, the better the benefits became.
Even the game’s reward system and the reception you received when entering a new city could be transformed by being in the Hall of Legends. Being in the Hall of Legends was simply a way of saying your reputation preceded you.
Each floor level of the Hall had seven tiers, and each tier had three ranks: bronze, silver, and gold. No one truly knew how many floors the Hall contained, but the highest anyone had ever reached was the ninth floor level.
The reason the internet was in chaos was because it had been barely a few days since the community first heard of Player Cien, and suddenly he was now in the Hall of Legends—no one had ever accomplished that before!
Most people currently in the Hall of Legends had started entering when they were level 100+. This sparked other wild conspiracy theories that Player Cien knew the secret to rapid leveling—that he knew how to exploit the brutal level-up system of Evolution Online.
Reading through it all, Lucien couldn’t help but chuckle and mutter:
"These guys really think highly of me. It’s infuriating."
There were also guilds and clans putting bounties of as much as one million dollars on his head for whoever discovered Player Cien’s identity.