Chapter 256: First to Advance

"How is that possible?!"

Hearing the world announcement, Go Minam who had always maintained a very good temperament could not help but have his expression change greatly.

How could it happen so quickly?

Clearly, in her previous life...

As a regressor, Go Minam knew that her existence would definitely cause some butterfly effects, but this tiny flutter of wings should not have been enough to make someone step into the supernatural realm so much earlier.

It had to be known that in her previous life, most of the highly skilled players who later became famous were actually not among the first group to step into the supernatural realm.

The first group of players to step into the supernatural realm were those who had first reached Level 10 and chosen Full Datafication. Among the highly skilled players, however, at least half of them had chosen Semi-Datafication.

On one hand, they did not trust the Age of Apocalypse, while on the other hand, they had confidence in themselves. Every one of them chose to cultivate and step into the supernatural realm on their own rather than relying on the game.

In her previous life, Go Minam had heard that there was no difference between the two choices in terms of superiority or inferiority. It was simply that one was easier at first and harder later, while the other was harder at first and easier later.

However, this only applied to levels. There seemed to be some hidden secrets involved as well. According to rumors, some highly skilled players who had chosen Full Datafication had revealed that they regretted choosing Full Datafication.

Go Minam did not know what hidden secret was involved. In her previous life, she had only been an ordinary player. However, Ashfall had experience as a game planner before the game descended, and after the game appeared, they had remained one step ahead at every stage. The strategy guide they had written specifically for the "second-generation players" born after the apocalypse was still very worthy of players’ trust.

They had mentioned in it that if someone had some talent in a certain area, they could consider choosing Semi-Datafication and persist for half a year. If they felt that it was not suitable for them, they could then apply to the game to switch to Full Datafication. It would not delay them for too much time either.

After all, players who chose Semi-Datafication still had one opportunity to switch to Full Datafication, while players who chose Full Datafication could not make the reverse choice.

Of course, this applied to newly initiated players. Most of them had resources provided and supported by their parents, so naturally, they had plenty of time to make mistakes and learn from them. However, the players who entered the game when the apocalypse had just descended were all part of the first batch. They had already stepped into every trap the game had set, so naturally, they had no opportunity to make mistakes and, even more importantly, no chance to regret their choices.

But Go Minam did.

In her previous life, she had chosen Full Datafication, but in this life, she did not plan to do the same.

Among the top ten players in her previous life, only one was a player who had chosen Full Datafication, and that player’s ranking was not even particularly high. This ratio alone showed the difference between the two paths when it came to high-end combat power.

Therefore, even though Go Minam knew that she was not like those highly skilled players who had no special talents, she still planned to take the path of Semi-Datafication.

Having mediocre aptitude simply meant that compared with geniuses, she needed to consume more resources and put in more effort. With the memories of her previous life, she was confident that she would not lack resources. She also knew which classes did not place much importance on aptitude and instead valued resources more. This was what made her determined to take this path.

Therefore, she did not care about Ashfall’s lead.

Because Go Minam knew that this was only temporary. The threshold of stepping into the supernatural realm was enough to trap the geniuses on Gaia who were encountering cultivation and the supernatural for the first time for a very long time. It would be more than enough for her to catch up and surpass them, and then maintain her own lead.

After all, even a genius, without a teacher, without fellow cultivators with whom they could communicate, and relying only on their own understanding and the cultivation manuals provided by the game, would need to experience constant failures before they could figure out the correct path.

But what had she just heard? How could Ashfall possibly have stepped into the supernatural realm so quickly? Where exactly had something gone wrong?

Clearly, the Sea of Quanta had not yet been drawn over by the Age of Apocalypse, so all players were temporarily unable to come into contact with supernatural powers.

Even Go Minam had needed to "sacrifice" the enemies she had made in her previous life, relying on them along with special materials to form a summoning array and ignite a "path" before she could use this shortcut to reach the Sea of Quanta.

Because of this, nearly all the resources she had accumulated over the past few days had been completely exhausted.

In her previous life, she had relied entirely on the system to level up and had never really placed much importance on cultivation techniques. She had simply used the system’s one-click function to cultivate automatically.

During those days when she had been constantly struggling just to survive, she naturally had no mood to memorize every strategy post, hoping that one day, if she were ever reborn, she would be able to use them. As a result, she was now in the same state of feeling her way across the river by touching the stones.

Or rather, she had not even tried cultivating independently yet.