After returning from the Lake of Necromancy, Bai Xiaowen's experience points had climbed to 58% of level 5. Although the special treasure space can't be excavated for side quests, Bai Xiaowen has pushed down more bosses, and the combat experience given is naturally very rich.

Bai Xiaowen estimated that if he broke into the spirit realm one or two more times, he would be able to rise to level 6. His upgrade speed is two or three times that of college students of the same age, and there are many outstanding hero professional college students who have only been promoted to level 6 in their junior and senior years.

Bai Xiaowen was not in a hurry to break into the spirit realm for the time being, and after returning from the Necromantic Lake, he planned to rest for a while.

Of course, the rest here is not to sleep every day, nor is it to lose the mind of the girl to her plaything, but to settle down, consolidate your foundation, and prepare for the next exploration of the spiritual world.

The so-called foundation refers to the strength in addition to attributes, skills and equipment, mainly referring to combat specialties, but also includes skill LV.

has telepathic abilities that can share the memories of the combat specialties of summoned creatures, and Bai Xiaowen's combat specialties are not bad. However, the skill level is a lot behind, and now he is more than half of the awakened person level at level 5, and most of his skills are only LV3, and he has only been promoted to LV4 by relying on the title bonus of the strongest scholar, which is really a bit low.

Know your shortcomings clearly, and then you can improve. In the time after that, Bai Xiaowen mostly soaked in the psionic training ground, practicing his skills hard. In his spare time from training, he would also practice the melee routines in Kusanagi-ryu ancient martial arts, and explore the combos that best suit him.

The New Year's Day of Lingyuan 97 came, and Bai Xiaowen's first semester at Jinghai University also came to an end.

The virtual battle company sent an invitation letter inviting Bai Xiaowen to shoot a promotional video for the 97 version of the battle platform, and the director of the promotional film is named Bart Kelvin, who is a well-known figure in the film industry and a China expert.

Originally, Director Kelvin asked Bai Xiaowen for at least a week - this is a bit incredible for Bai Xiaowen, who only appears in the promotional CG for 1 second, but Director Kelvin's reason is that Bai Xiaowen has never had experience as an actor, and this week is mainly used to make up lessons for Bai Xiaowen.

After all, Director Kelvin is just an ordinary person, and if he is an awakened person, he will never have so little confidence in Bai Xiaowen.

In the spirit world itself, it is a process of role playing, and if you lack acting talent and cannot impress the spirit world characters, it is impossible to change to a hero profession and achieve such dazzling achievements. In other words, Bai Xiaowen's achievements in the spiritual world themselves show that his acting skills are not weak.

Bai Xiaowen did not argue with Kelvin's contempt, and only made a request, that is, to ask Director Kelvin to take a look at his audition.

As a result, Bai Xiaowen was exempted from a week's acting class. And Director Kelvin is also very single, and frankly said:

"You are a natural actor, with the appearance of an idol and the connotation of a powerful person, if you are willing to devote yourself to the film industry, you will become a household name in three years. ”

Of course, Bai Xiaowen will not be an actor and devote himself to the film industry, but Director Kelvin's words also gave him a wake-up call. If you have the opportunity, a few cameo roles in movies with characteristics should be very helpful for increasing world popularity.

In fact, many well-known awakened people, especially those in Europe and the United States, are quite fond of starring in movies, such as Super Cup regulars, the main player of the Rolling Stones, and even starred in a series of superhero movie protagonists - of course, Mr. Boulder is an investor.

It can be said that half of Jushi's A-level world popularity comes from the big screen.

This is probably one of the reasons why ordinary directors are respected by the awakened, right? With this idea in mind, Bai Xiaowen and Director Kelvin left each other's contact information.

Then there is the production of Bai Xiaowen's character template.

It should be noted here that when the character template is made, it will not subdivide the equipment skills, equipment enhancement effects, and combat skills, but all of them will appear in the "skill list" of the character as the available skills of the character.

Of course, experienced players will still be able to identify which skills belong to the Awakened One's combat skills, which skills belong to equipment skills, and which ones belong to enhanced special effects after getting a character template.

One of the easiest ways to identify this is to look at the cooldown. The cooldown time of combat skills is the shortest, the longest is ten minutes, twenty minutes, and the shortest is only one or two minutes or even ten seconds, while the cooldown time of equipment skills is often timely, 12 hours, and 24 hours.

In addition, when a combat skill is upgraded to LV4, there will be additional effects, which tend to have more descriptive text than equipping additional skills, and the effect is also more powerful.

For example, Bai Xiaowen's deterrence will be used as an independent skill, the incidental skill of sharkskin boots: water floating, which will also be used as an independent skill, and the enhancement +4 special effect of sharkskin boots: sprint, will also be used as an independent skill, and all three will appear in the skill list, accounting for a skill column.

At a glance, the cooldown time of deterrence is only 4 minutes, and the effect is still so strong, it must be that the combat skill has not run.

The cooldown of Water Float is 19 hours and 12 minutes, and you will recognize it as an equipment-attached skill, and the cooldown of Dash is time, which also excludes the possibility of combat skills, and this effect is usually seen in the enhanced effect of the shoe, which is not difficult to distinguish.

However, there are exceptions to everything, and if you take Bai Xiaowen's Hero Class-exclusive equipment Black Soul Stone's additional skill "Return of the Dead" as an example, it will be difficult for players to identify.

Bai Xiaowen hid the Black Soul Stone, so the skill of the return of the dead needs to be split into more small skills:

Summons Skeleton Blade Shieldman No. 1, a skill.

Summons Skeleton Knife Shieldbearer No. 2, the second skill.

......

Summons the Skeleton Knife Shieldman No. 6, the sixth skill.

Later, there is also the summoning of the Shadow Assassin, the seventh skill.

Summoning the Bone Demon Sorcerer, the eighth skill - here the Bone Demon Sorcerer is the evolved information, because Bai Xiaowen can't scan the skeleton mage's information, and the customization of the character template is subject to the instant scanning of the psionic camera. Bai Xiaowen can hide some information, but he can't tamper with it.

There are also vampire Kitts and voodoo suture fat boy in the back. In other words, after Bai Xiaowen hid the newly added summoned creatures such as ghosts and skeleton warriors, as well as the zombie doctor on standby in the Kane plane world, his "Return of the Dead" skill was still split into ten summoning skills with a cooldown of 12 hours.

This is also the reason why Bai Xiaowen hid the Black Soul Stone when he scanned the data on the Awakened Battle Platform before, but he was able to scan summoned creatures such as the Skeleton Knife and Shield Hand - it was not the Black Soul Stone that was scanned, but the Skeletal Knife and Shield Hand and other summoned creatures.

As long as the psionic camera detects that Bai Xiaowen has a certain summoned creature, it will enter "Summoning XX" as a skill into Bai Xiaowen's skill list. Moreover, the psionic camera will also automatically recognize, and only "permanent" skill effects will be recorded, and if it is a creature summoned by the prop, or the buff status of the prop, it cannot be recorded into the character template.

The 10 summoning skills split by the return of the dead, compared with the skills of "summoning angry claws", players want to distinguish which is a combat skill and which is an equipment skill, and it is still a little difficult, because they are all very powerful. This is because the Black Soul Stone is too strong as an exclusive piece of equipment for the hero class, and this is a special case.

In the end, including the skills attached to the equipment and the special effects of equipment enhancement, Bai Xiaowen's skill list has 32 skills! Compared with other hero class intermediate awakened people, it is nearly twice as much, and this is still the case that Bai Xiaowen has reservations.

After the successful customization of the character template, it is finally winter vacation.

The promotional CG for the 97th version of the virtual battle company was officially released a week before the Lunar New Year.

Bai Xiaowen was also very interested in the CG of his first appearance, and deliberately watched it on the Internet.

The CG opens with a starry background, and in an instant the starry sky transforms into a deep eye, and then the camera pulls back, and a man with hair covering half of his face and leaving only a deep eye appears - a classic character of the virtual battle platform, "Star Sorcerer".

The sorcerer spread his palm, a crystal ball rotated slightly above the palm, and then the camera zoomed forward, and the crystal ball appeared in the scene of two girls fighting fiercely, under the robe was the looming skin, the frost master and the ash archmage, two surging energy balls of ice and fire shook each other.

After the explosion, the black fog evaporates, and the scene quickly switches to night, the camera is up, a bright moon hangs high, and three black dots seem to jump out of the bright moon, getting bigger and bigger, turning into the image of three black-clothed nightcrawlers - another classic character, "Phantom Assassin", who seems to have three people, but in fact he is just one.

Several classic characters have been circulating for decades, among which the oldest astral is said to have been in the first version of the virtual battle version. Decades have passed, and the archetypal Awokens of these classic characters have become legends, rarely appearing in front of the public.

The role of the awakened people promoted by the virtual battle platform is no longer the above-mentioned ones, and the reason why there is still a place for these people in the CG is to respect their historical status and improve players' recognition and enthusiasm for the new version.

Subsequently, one by one the characters who were pushed appeared one after another.

The "noble son" with red wine in his hand and elegant demeanor; the "Roaring Tianzun" with his muscles almost breaking through the vest and his hideous face staging a big show of exploding clothes; and the "beautiful witch" with a slender posture, wearing a black veil, and eyes like a flood of autumn water......

Nearly ten highly promoted characters, presented in a primary and secondary manner, the prototype of each character is a high-level awakened person, at least two or three appearances, or take a chic route, or a macho style, all of which are impressive.

The characters that appear later are relatively brief, they are all several people in the same frame, sharing a frame. Of course, even with such a picture, the awakened people who participated in the shooting still designed a look for a long time, striving to highlight their own style and compete for more attention in this precious appearance time.

When Bai Xiaowen saw this, he wanted to laugh a little. He remembered the non-famous stars who "rubbed" the red carpet in the Common Era...... However, Bai Xiaowen thought of himself, and quickly put away his smile, standing in his position, it seems that he is not qualified to laugh, if the awakened people are not for the sake of world popularity, will they fight so hard?

After dozens of characters flashed, the CG also reached the later stage, and new characters began to appear.

"Come out!" Li Shuyi next to her said excitedly.

The picture suddenly turns to a dark wind. A lone figure in a cloak sat on top of the mountain of bones, with only a giant wolf snuggling up to him. At the foot of the mountain of bones, a skeleton crawls out, its eyes burning with soul fire, raising its sword and screaming! The picture is quickly pulled back from the close-up of the near angle to the far perspective, and the tall voodoo stitch and the mysterious necromancer are all flashing, creating a feeling of thousands of troops.

Although the playing time is only a second, it is enough to be impressive. Bai Xiaowen smiled: "It's pretty good." ”

Li Shuyi was a little unsatisfied, dragged the progress bar forward, and carefully watched the one-second animation of Bai Xiaowen's appearance, and then let the CG finish playing, and commented with a smile: "The new character in this issue, you are like a villain big demon king." The newcomers in the back are all several people in the same frame, a bit like warriors who form a group to challenge the Demon King......"

"This is thanks to Sister Zheng's negotiation skills, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to enjoy the treatment of an exclusive one-second animation, so I can only be in the same frame with other newcomers. Bai Xiaowen was very satisfied with CG, and the virtual battle company dutifully complied with the contract.

In the newcomer template signed by the virtual battle company in this issue, Lin Haoyang of Tsinghua University, Ouyang Heng of Yanda and other CUAA league powerhouses have been selected. They're already graduating season and are about to leave school to sign an official contract with the Grand Guild and play in the Pro League. It is normal for such a rising star to receive a signing invitation from a virtual battle company.

Qi Ruifeng's luck was a little worse, originally with his record in leading the national top four last year, it was entirely possible to get a signing invitation from the virtual battle company. It's a pity that in this year's qualifying tournament, he was abused by Bai Xiaowen and his popularity plummeted.

The virtual battle company turned to sign a contract with Bai Xiaowen, which can also be seen as Bai Xiaowen stepping on Qi Ruifeng to quickly ascend to the position. was invited to sign a contract in his freshman year, and Bai Xiaowen was definitely "exceptional".

is such an exceptionally invited newcomer, and the weight of the publicity CG exceeds that of Ouyang Heng and other newcomers. Bai Xiaowen can get such treatment, Sister Zheng is definitely indispensable.

On the day the promotional CG came out, Bai Xiaowen invited Sister Zheng to dinner together.

Actually, you can't call a treat. Sister Zheng pursues singleness, and after the broker contract was signed, she has been living in Bai Xiaowen's house in Chihuo District for convenience.

Bai Xiaowen went home after the holiday, he lived with Li Shuyi, Xiaojun and Sister Zheng, and there was a life assistant He Zhiqing to worry about food, clothing, housing and transportation, and everyone ate at the same table every day. The so-called dinner invitation is just that Bai Xiaowen called He Zhiqing and ordered to add a few more dishes that Sister Zheng likes to eat and celebrate in the evening.