Why the bug I wrote became a core gameplay mechanic?!
Chapter 175: Sky Swimming and BUG Sword (Three more updates, asking for monthly votes!)

Chapter 175: Chapter 175: Sky Swimming and BUG Sword (Three more updates, asking for monthly votes!)

"Huh? How did I end up in this place all of a sudden?"

Wang Dawei was a bit confused, as the character he controlled, Li Huanzhen, was swimming in the moat of Jiangdu City.

Jiangdu City is a very large box-garden checkpoint, divided into several districts, and is a scene that will be repeatedly used in the game "Ascension."

There are rivers running directly through the city districts in Jiangdu City, and players can swim in the rivers to quickly shuttle between the various districts.

However, the city walls of Jiangdu City are already the boundaries of this area, and under normal gameplay, players are not supposed to be able to cross them!

If you can’t climb the outer city walls, naturally, you can’t get into the outer moat either.

Yet at this moment, through a series of random manipulations by Wang Dawei, with a casual kick against the wall during a grappling hook flight, he inexplicably clipped into an area of the city wall without an invisible barrier and fell into the river!

"How should I get back?"

Wang Dawei was somewhat dumbfounded. He tried swimming upstream, but obviously, there were no grappling points on the outer city wall. After a couple of hopeless jumps in the river, he could only dive downstream.

As he swam on, Wang Dawei noticed something was off.

He actually swam out of the moat, and even out of the normal gameplay areas!

Afterward, Li Huanzhen maintained the swimming posture, continuously swimming into the air and getting farther and farther from Jiangdu City!

"What the heck! How could there be such a BUG?"

"I could tolerate the texture and model errors before, but how could I clip outside the map?"

Wang Dawei was shocked, feeling both annoyed and amused. He was about ready to quit the game but then stumbled upon such an outrageous BUG.

"Brother David, where are you?"

"Brother Long, I have no idea!"

Wang Dawei didn’t even know where he was or how to describe it.

At this moment, he felt like he was in a void, but he could see many familiar scenes, such as the majestic Jiangdu City, the Monastery of True Words built atop a mountain peak, and the mysterious and secluded Crane Valley, among others.

"Ascension" is a seamless large map, with all the scenes connected, and the overall scenery is quite rigorous, with the edges of each scene fitting tightly together.

Li Huanzhen swimming in the air looked a bit like an immortal, yet also a bit like a lunatic.

"Now it gets rigorous, with so many model and texture errors inside the scene, but the outside, where no one sees, is made so meticulously!" Wang Dawei couldn’t help but complain.

At this time, the character he controlled, Li Huanzhen, was obviously in a BUG state, freely moving through the air and underground.

However, Wang Dawei also dared not get too close to bodies of water or the edge of the map; he was worried that these places might change the status of Li Huanzhen at this time.

Once such a BUG becomes ineffective, trying to reproduce it might not be so simple.

Unknowingly, Wang Dawei swam near the Monastery of True Words again.

Even though the game’s map is large, it is actually all box-garden structured, rather compact overall. What would normally take about fifteen minutes to traverse in the normal gameplay can be reached in just two minutes in this sky-swimming state.

"Huh? Isn’t that the illusion of the old monk?"

Wang Dawei instinctively swam inside and found that the illusion was actually hidden within the mountains of the Monastery of True Words. Under normal gameplay, it is utterly invisible and can only be reached via the BOSS mechanism, but in a sky-swimming state, one could directly reach it from underground.

Swimming above the scene, Wang Dawei carefully controlled Li Huanzhen to step on the floor of the illusion.

However, the next second, Heilong shouted in surprise.

"Huh? Brother David, why did my screen go black?"

Before the two could react, they had already reappeared in the grand hall of the Monastery of True Words!

At this moment, the hall was ablaze with fierce fire, but within the flames, the body of the old monk became indistinct, as if existing in a state between life and death.

Wang Dawei took a couple of steps forward and found he could still talk to the old monk!

But obviously, the old monk was in a BUG state, showing only intermittent text and some gibberish.

Between the gibberish, keywords such as "Life Navel" could occasionally be glimpsed, seemingly part of the previous storyline dialogue, but under the effect of gibberish, it became entirely different.

The flesh under the old monk’s cassock lit up with flames again, and the screen still showed the monk’s lines, but it was all garbled and indiscernible, except for the last phrase, which was barely distinguishable.

"????The real is also the illusory????"

Then, the game unexpectedly popped up the dialogue box for choosing the Relic Sword again!

Wang Dawei was even more astonished, and this time, he tentatively clicked on "Huan."

Unexpectedly, the game interface did pop up with a prompt indicating the acquisition of "Huan"!

Wang Dawei hurriedly opened his backpack to check and found that there really was a new Relic Sword in his inventory, but upon closer inspection, he discovered that this "Huan" seemed different from the "Zhen" he had obtained at the start. It had no item description, just a jumble of garbled text and question marks.

"What do these question marks mean?"

"Did the developers not write a description for this item? Or is there some kind of bug in the game?"

"It’s impossible that they didn’t write an item description, right? This ’Huan’ can also be obtained through the normal game progression, can’t it?"

Wang Dawei was somewhat perplexed.

Heilong was still confused about what was happening: "Brother David, what’s going on here?"

Wang Dawei quickly asked, "Brother Long, didn’t you get a new Relic Sword?"

Heilong looked bewildered as he opened his backpack to check, "No? I still only have one Huan."

Wang Dawei then asked, "Does your ’Huan’ have an item description?"

Heilong nodded, "Yes. ’This ominous blade exists between the realms of reality and illusion, forged from the spine of a high monk who was consumed by Buddha’s fire. The bearer has chosen the world of illusions, thus the inscription ’Huan’ on the blade, which is the true name of this sword...’"

Wang Dawei interrupted him, "Alright, Brother Long, I got it. But what about this ’Huan’ of mine? Why does it lack an item description? Could it be that these are two different items?"

With their doubts, Wang Dawei and Heilong left the main hall of the Monastery of True Words again and went outside to find some weak monsters to test the sword on.

In the game, players can’t change weapons, but they can equip multiple skills.

The Relic Sword itself also cannot be used directly as a weapon, but it can be equipped in the skill slot. Then the player can freely unleash its corresponding martial ability. Likewise, various martial arts skills books obtained by players work the same way.

After upgrading the Relic Sword using various materials, what is enhanced is the skill’s damage output.

Wang Dawei was shocked to find that he could actually equip both "Zhen" and "Huan" Relic Swords in the skill bar!

He could then unleash martial abilities using LB+ABXY or RB, RT combinations, or by selecting from the skill wheel with the right stick, depending on the player’s own button and control mode settings.

But no matter how it’s set up, both skills could be used quickly and in succession!

Wang Dawei first used "Zhen" and found that its effect was the same as before.

But when he used "Huan," his eyes widened in surprise.

Because there was something off about this sword—its damage was significantly higher!

It was almost more than three times the damage of "Zhen"!

Heilong was also shocked, "Huh? Brother David, what’s happening? Are you cheating? Why is the damage of your ’Huan’ so much higher than mine?"

"Are you mowing the lawn here?"

He took out "Huan" and unleashed its martial ability, and sure enough, the damage was only about a third of Wang Dawei’s.

Moreover, Wang Dawei’s "Huan" not only had higher damage, but the spatial rifts it created were also larger, sending away more enemies.

And when fighting elite monsters, the damage was ludicrously high!

Wang Dawei was astonished, "This is... a divine tool for skipping class prepared by the officials!"

"But I can’t figure out, why would there be such an item in the game?"

Heilong fell silent for a moment, "This is obviously a bug, right? The item lacks a description, and the damage is abnormally high. Plus, since this game is made with the All-encompassing Engine, which is already riddled with bugs..."

"If this isn’t a bug, what else could it be?"

"It’s probably a test item the project team forgot to delete."

Wang Dawei shook his head, "No, Brother Long, how could it be a test item? Testers have special tools for testing, with features like flying, invincibility, one-hit kills, and the like. What’s the point of hiding a weapon in the game?"

Heilong was also starting to doubt, "Then... maybe it’s just some developer’s sick joke? Or maybe he’s so bad at the game that he snuck in a weapon to help himself get through? That doesn’t make sense either."

"Hey, it’s probably just some inexplicable bug. After all, the game is filled with all kinds of bizarre bugs, nothing surprising there."

Wang Dawei stroked his chin, his eyes gradually turning sharp, "No, something’s very wrong!

"At first, I too thought this game seemed to have a lot of bugs, but upon closer inspection, maybe they aren’t bugs after all?"

"What if sky swimming and this bug sword aren’t bugs, but are actually part of the game content? It’s not beyond the realm of possibility!"

"Haven’t you noticed that these strange bugs seem to have some special connection with the game’s storyline?"

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