A Core Ship From The Start
Chapter 1088 - Chapter 1088 749

Chapter 1088: 749 Chapter 1088: 749 When Duanmu Huai woke up, it was already early morning.

“Yawn…”

Yawning, Duanmu Huai walked out of the bedroom and into the living room, where he saw that Mash and Medea were already awake.

“Good morning, MASTER.”

“Hey, morning. Where are Lorena and Sakura?”

“Miss Lorena took Sakura out for morning training nearby, so there shouldn’t be any problems.”

“Yeah, I thought so too.”

Hearing Mash’s response, Duanmu Huai nodded and then plopped down into a chair, while Medea hurriedly brought him a cup of tea.

“Thanks, Medea.”

“You’re welcome.”

As Duanmu Huai thanked her, Medea smiled slightly and sat beside him. Meanwhile, Mash also came over, looking worriedly at Duanmu Huai.

“MASTER, about Miss Sakura… what should we do?”

“It seems impossible to send her back home now. If it really comes down to it, we’ll just take her back to Chaldea…”

Duanmu Huai sighed helplessly, considering Tokiomi Tohsaka’s idiotic ideas. If they sent Sakura back, he would just find another family to sell her to. If it really came down to it, they would just have to bring her to Chaldea. After all, Chaldea was a big place and surely could manage to care for a child.

“So for now, that’s the plan. Let’s go, CASTER, and tell me more about that Innate Barrier; I plan to practice it a bit more.”

“Of course! MASTER.”

Yes, after being tricked by RIDER with an Innate Barrier originally, Duanmu Huai had specifically asked CASTER about what an Innate Barrier was. Then RIDER told him it was a type of magic similar to imaginary conceptualization that uses the user’s mental landscape to replace the real world, enclosing the entire space within a small world-like egg.

Of course, although called magic, it was not only magicians who could use it; someone like RIDER, who was as burly as Duanmu Huai and clearly not a magician, could also use it, right?

After hearing CASTER’s explanation, an idea suddenly popped into Duanmu Huai’s head.

In that case, could he create a similar Innate Barrier? According to CASTER, an Innate Barrier is a landscape that exists in one’s memory. So, if Duanmu Huai could recall his experiences in the game, might he be able to project the game into reality? Could he create a Universe-scale Innate Barrier? Wouldn’t that make fighting the Chaos Evil God more convenient?

After all, according to CASTER, the biggest problem with an Innate Barrier was the consumption of magic power. That meant, as long as he had enough magic power, creating a Solar System-sized Innate Barrier wouldn’t be a problem, right?

Then, when fighting other enemies, couldn’t he just summon a Galaxy of player fleets? Since Duanmu Huai was mainly a vanguard in the game, he naturally knew many fellow players with powerful fleets; for Duanmu Huai, the biggest issue was facing the Evil Deity alone, clearly underpowered. But now, hearing CASTER’s explanation–he could entirely create an Innate Barrier and replicate all those players who had joined him in raids against the Evil Deity, making it possible to fight, right?

Although Duanmu Huai was not a professional player and hadn’t participated in professional tournaments, there were many powerful players in the raid teams. Some were even stronger than professional players; even Duanmu Huai’s skills, if he went professional, were considered first-rate. It was just that not everyone liked becoming professional players just to entertain others.

Duanmu Huai knew a Judge Player from the Mechanic Religion whose skills surpassed even the strongest Mars Mechanical Sage in the professional league, but the player was from a wealthy family. According to him, why bother joining a league and selling his dignity when he could do whatever he wanted in the game and show off as he pleased?

So, the saying that “experts hide among the common folk” isn’t just for show, especially in the gaming realm. Many devote talent, energy, and money into gaming, possibly even more than some professional players or teams, but they simply don’t want to compete in tournaments. According to them, gaming is for leisure, not for suffering through it as a job.

A third of the players in the Bounty Hunter Union, which Duanmu Huai was part of, had professional-level skills, but they just couldn’t be bothered to work in that manner. If the Bounty Hunter Union were to fight a professional league, it wasn’t certain who would win.

In fact, there had actually been a fight.

Since it was an online game, professional players needed equipment, and this had to be obtained through regular channels in the game for league use. So many rare items were coveted by professional players. Once, a player from the Bounty Hunter Union had obtained a particularly powerful rare item, which then caught the attention of a favored team in the league, and their leader stepped forward wanting to buy it.

That player definitely refused, and then the professional team got annoyed. They felt entitled, asking for the equipment as a favor to the player, and when he refused, they threatened to take it by force.

Then, they got thoroughly trashed right on the spot.

Could they accept that? After returning, the professional team’s PR issued a statement explicitly criticizing how the Bounty Hunter Union couldn’t see the bigger picture and wasn’t willing to contribute to the league. They tried to buy his equipment with good intentions, yet he refused to sell, suggesting that if they lost later, it would be because of some selfish player’s union…