Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 1287: Chapter 1160: The Gift Must Be Cool!

Chapter 1287: Chapter 1160: The Gift Must Be Cool!

The birthday of Daxia’s Princess was, of course, celebrated according to the traditional calendar.

Princess Victoria was born on the first day of the fourth lunar month in the guisi year, which corresponds to May 10, 2013, on the Gregorian calendar.

And 18 years later, the first day of the fourth lunar month strangely fell on xinhai year’s Xiaoman, the equivalent of May 21, 2031, on the Gregorian calendar.

Indeed, it was only Several Days away.

Lincoln had not just thought of this but had previously asked Camille if she wanted to celebrate her solar calendar birthday.

Although the Little Princess was very tempted by the idea of moving in 11 days earlier, she steadfastly rejected this suggestion.

Since she had received much love and privilege due to her status as a Princess from an early age, she felt she should adhere to the many rules that came with it.

Even if she were to give up this status later, many intangible restrictions would follow her for a long, long time.

——For example, she couldn’t get tattoos, indulge in alcohol, or live a life of unrestrained pleasure and wild revelry—like that of the god of wine—a lifestyle that would forever be out of reach for her.

Fortunately, the education she received and the concepts she developed from a young age made many things come naturally to her, and she didn’t feel like they were restrictions.

But it was also because of her smooth sailing life, where she never lacked anything, that made it difficult for Lincoln to prepare a gift for her.

As Camille majored in art, Lincoln considered: Should he build an unprecedentedly massive museum in the virtual world, copy every famous piece of artwork, and place it inside as a gift?

But he quickly realized this was a bit odd.

——If he really did that, would that count as the largest-scale art forgery ever??

Others have their coming-of-age celebration, and you give them a museum full of knock-offs?

The Netizens would mock him for a lifetime!

The act itself wasn’t bad, but it sounded too strange to speak of.

Adding more art museums, providing artistic nurturing and aesthetic training to the users would be good, but as a gift…

better not…

After that, he thought: Should he get her a mech that was unprecedentedly massive, powerful, and cool?

After all, the Little Princess had also learned Driving.

However, this idea lasted even shorter than the previous one…

Then after that, he considered: Should he give her something powerful?

Such as a [Ring of Dominance] that could take down the Internet of an entire city area in an instant.

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This was his new creation, essentially an electronic virus based on secondary artificial intelligence technology, with multiple gears that could be adjusted.

At the lower gears, it could invade, search, and deceive.

At the medium gear, it could usurp Authority and dominate various smart Equipments.

At the highest gear, it could achieve an effect almost like an EMP Bomb, but silently and without leaving any traceable evidence.

Lincoln had encapsulated this thing into a ruby ring that could be activated by pressing the gem.

He named it —— [Ring of Dominance].

It was a bit juvenile, because it was made just for fun, and he hadn’t even tested it — because with Mavis around, there was simply no need for such a device.

It was just that while researching Secondary Artificial Intelligence, he made some discoveries and couldn’t resist making it just to see.

Of course, the [Sub-level Artificial Intelligence] technology was complex and profound, and his discoveries were far more than just this.

However, this gift was also kind of weird.

Besides giving Camille a scare, it probably wouldn’t have any use since she didn’t plan on becoming a hacker…

After all the thinking, Lincoln still didn’t have any good ideas.

In the end, he couldn’t help but shake the Little Princess’s hand and ask, “Do you have any Wish you want fulfilled?”

“Ah?” Camille was enthusiastically Pulling Lincoln for shopping when she didn’t expect to suddenly hear such a question.

But the Little Princess was clever and quickly understood Lincoln’s dilemma: He was fretting over a gift for her coming-of-age ceremony.

The Little Princess didn’t respond with generic remarks like ‘whatever you give, I will like’, as that equated to no answer, doing nothing to solve Lincoln’s trouble.

So touching her chin with her finger, she thought for a while and then answered, “I don’t have a Wish, but there’s something I really want.”

Lincoln’s eyes immediately lit up: “What do you want?”

“The three brooches you gave me, they aren’t quite enough.”

“Not enough?” Lincoln was taken aback.

He had originally given Camille three brooches based on [Counterattack Technology], featuring a Little Fire Dragon, a deer head, and a green leaf.

But one of these should have been more than enough, so why weren’t they sufficient?

“Broken?”

“No, how could it be!” The Little Princess shook her head repeatedly, “It’s just not that convenient to match with clothes.”

“Oh, matching,” Lincoln understood.

“Right, it would be great to have more styles.”

“No problem, I’ll make some more for you when I get the chance,” Lincoln readily agreed.

“Mhm,” the Little Princess nodded.

Lincoln’s expression relaxed.

He knew what to give her now.

Seeing Lincoln let go of his concerns, the Little Princess was also very happy and cheerfully pulled him along as they ran forward.

There was a juggling performance ahead.

—That wasn’t an NPC, but a real person performing, and players could reward them with Cloud Dream Points, which was akin to giving them money directly.

Camille, brought along by Lincoln, was becoming increasingly fond of lively scenes…

…

In the evening, the Little Princess kept her appointment and started live streaming again, joining in the excitement with Lincoln.

Despite falling seriously behind other anchors in terms of progress, they easily soared to top popularity.

At his girlfriend’s request, Lincoln stopped slacking off and seriously played the game with her.

With this change, the two of them immediately picked up speed.

Lincoln didn’t need to mention it, for having live streamed before, everyone knew he was an experienced veteran player, but the Little Princess’s level of play was still quite surprising.

The difficulty of the earlier Demo wasn’t high—in fact, there was almost no difficulty, and since Lincoln had always been dragging his feet and slacking off, no one thought much of it.

But as the difficulty gradually increased, the two of them, described as a cat and a dog, still managed with ease; whether in jumping games or puzzle-solving, nothing could stump them.

Only then did everyone finally realize—

So the Princess was a game expert?!

For a time, the live broadcast room became even more lively…

*

During the day, Lincoln had planned to work through the night after the live stream ended and Camille left.

But after the live stream ended, seeing that it was already late, he couldn’t resist the urge to slack off and lay down.

Not until the sun was high the next day did he drag himself up to make Camille’s gift.

Of course, it wasn’t just a set of brooches—that would be too simple and not quite impressive enough for an annual gift.

The gift he planned to make was going to be much more awesome, he decided to name it—

[External Avatar]!

Sounds super powerful, doesn’t it?

And in fact, this was going to be an ultra-refined Realistic Robot that could be controlled by brain waves to achieve an effect similar to “incarnation.”

Here was his thought process:

Why did the Princess need a brooch?

Because she wanted to go out without being photographed.

So how could she go out and attract the least attention?

—Of course, by using another body to go out!

Flawless logic!

Let’s get started!