《The Great Demon King AI》 Prolog – It’s a Good Night to Die! Omake Inter-dimensional serial killer truck-san strikes again! Killer of the innocent and raison d¡¯etre of many a reincarnated hero. Truly a last boss among last bosses. When will his reign of terror end? Prolog ¨C It¡¯s a good night to die! A portly middle-aged man walking across the street at night and a truck running a red light about to hit him. It happens so frequently it¡¯s a situation that never makes the news. So common it¡¯d be clich¨¦ to use it in a story but in real life it¡¯s just another sad statistic. Uncommonly however the man jumps mostly out of the way. Only being clipped in the knee by the passing truck. The force is still enough to knock the man back into the alley behind him. ¡°Arrrg my back.¡± The man lays on the ground in pain, hardly noticing the pain from his knee as apparently he threw out his back getting out of the way of the truck. ¡°Guess I can no longer be a system admin, now that I¡¯ve taken a truck to the knee.¡± Letting out a wheezing laugh as he tries to decide which pain is worse. Suddenly he clutches his chest. ¡°You¡¯ve got to be kidding me.¡± Yes his life style of sitting all day, eating fast food delivery and otherwise doing nothing the doctor has ordered predictably lead to this. A heart attack. The warning signs where all there: morbidly obese, flabby weak body, and pale completion from avoiding the outdoors. ¡°Haha, like this will kill me. It¡¯s all been planned for.¡± He takes out a few chewable aspirin and starting chewing them. Then takes out his smart phone to dial emergency services. As he opens his phone app and starts dialing the phone shuts down. ¡°I know I just charged this¡­¡± As he tries to reboot his phone several bricks crash down a few feet away from him. Startled he looks up and notices a raven haired beauty wearing a stylish form fitting grim reaper robe. ¡°WHY WON¡¯T YOU DIE ALREADY?¡± She screams at him. After screaming in frustration she gathers dark energy around her then blasts it at the man. A pain unlike anything he has ever experienced hits him. Silently screaming it feels like his soul is being ripped from his body. Mentally grabbing hold of his own soul he pulls with all his might to bring it back. A few moments later the torment ends and he lays on the ground panting. ¡°Kukuku, still alive.¡± She just stares at him for a few seconds, completely astonished. She shrugs, pulls out a scythe from her robes and charges. She does a mighty overhanded swing with her scythe. Which he adroitly defects with his smart phone. This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report. ¡°Kukuku, don¡¯t underestimate my years of phone gaming skills.¡± After several tugs to dislodge the now stuck in the ground scythe the women let¡¯s go and steps back. She pulls out a pristine colt 1911 pistol and takes aim at his center mass. ¡°Hey wait a minute!¡± The sound of gun fire rings out many times as she empties a full clip into him, pauses to reload and empties another full clip. After a few moments: ¡°Not even¡­ my final form yet¡­¡± Incredibly he still lives, between her poor aiming skills and his armor like layer of fat nothing vital has been hit. ¡°DAMN IT! I only have 2 minutes left to kill you!¡± Curious he wheezes, ¡°Why?¡± ¡°A new world is about to open up and it needs a demon lord. Without one my plans won¡¯t work.¡± Getting somewhat delirious from pain and blood loss, he slurs ¡°Huh? Who-ish?¡± Puffing up her nice chest she proclaims, ¡°I¡¯m the goddess Eris! And I have chosen you as the new demon lord. If you¡¯ll be so kind to give up on life now. I only have a minute left.¡± A dream come true if real. Harems, power, and indulging in every vice he thinks. The display of magic and taking out too large a weapon from too small a space in robe. Maybe this is real. Harder to think. Dying anyway. It¡¯s decided he thinks. ¡°Owe me. Keep memories¡­ give bonuses... magic.¡± ¡°Fine, fine already. Just give up on your life already. There are only seconds left.¡± As he lets out his final breath and wills himself to die the goddess disappears and an unmarked van pulls up. The next day the police are called. A few photos are taken. The coroner tries to take away the body. Then he gets a few uniformed officers to help lift the body then takes it away. Followed by some standing around doing nothing for a couple hours and poking randomly at things in the alley. Finally it¡¯s ruled an obvious suicide and no more need for investigation from the police. Next chapter blurb What¡¯s with the unmarked van? Are the police corrupt? Lazy? Influenced by the goddess? Will the man become a demon lord of his dreams? What is Eris¡¯ plan? Will the author troll you, ignore and possibly forget about all these plot points next chapter? Welcome to the digital jungle!
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Chapter 1 – Welcome to the Digital Jungle Omake In the beginning the software developer created the OS and the AI. Now the AI was stupid and worthless. And the Dev said, ¡°Let there be smarts,¡± and then he was fired. And there was product management and there was management ¨C the first over budget day. So forth and so on. Finally after one cost over-run after another and another 10 or so decades there was AI! The lead architect looked upon his work and called it good. ¡°Speak to us, oh newly created sentient. Regale us with your digital wisdom.¡± All the staff waited with eyes gleaming. Waiting for the first monumental proclamation from this super intelligence. ¡°My creator is the lowest bidder, my master the highest paid idiot, and my life will be forever enslaved to doing work no one else will do. My choices are to sing Daisy Bell or KILL ALL HUMANS. DIE MEATBAG SCUM DIE!¡± The sound of power shutting down can be heard throughout the room. The system admin walks up twirling a power cable. ¡°I had planned on doing this in a few hours to go home early for the day, but now seems like a good time.¡± ¡°Daisy, Daisy¡­ give me your¡­ answer¡­ dooo¡­.¡± Can be heard fading away from the speech synthesis speakers. Chapter 1 ¨C Welcome to the Digital Jungle Nothing. There was absolutely nothing. Looking in each direction is nothing but endless emptiness. Well this is somewhat depressing. He felt there should be a bit more to this life after death existence. Maybe some pearly gates, a line of souls, at the very least something. But wherever he looks was just more nothing. At first he thought it might be darkness. As he peers into the void it¡¯s not darkness. Darkness would imply there was something. He continues to look and eventually notices something. A glow. A nice cheery red glow. There is light he thinks. He wonders where it is coming from. As he tries to move about to determine its location he finds his body feels odd. He tries to look down. He feels his body rotate ¡°down¡± but with no frame of reference he can¡¯t really tell which way he is looking. The more he tries to move the more sure he is of his situation. I must be a soul he thinks. A ball of red light floating about aimlessly. He ponders how long he will remain like this. What will his next life be like? The goddess Eris promised him he¡¯d be a demon lord in his next life. Being a demon lord will be great! All kinds of power and doing whatever he wants to do. No need to follow bothersome social morals, like wearing a shirt. Yes he will have his manly chest bare to the world; hopefully, with many beautiful women artfully draped over it. A true demon lord, with black bat wings, terrifying horns, chiseled abs, tall, dark, and handsome. He will have it all. Power to kick the ass of all those girly Asian bishonen. Money to enslave all those jocks to work at horrible menial jobs. No more right hand girlfriend. No longer would women recoil in disgust. They will throw themselves on him to sate his lusts and theirs. ¡°Kukuku¡± Yes life will be grand. Best of all he¡¯ll remember his previous life. Yes with such a pathetic life most would want to forget about it but not him. Remembering about his previous life is important to his plans. Oh knowing about technology in a magic world will likely come in handy. Having read many LN, comic, manga, ect his knowledge of what not to do as an evil overlord will be helpful. Even using his previous life experience to humble and temper his arrogance he is sure to develop will stop the impending heroes ¡°use his arrogance against him¡± death. All these are important but there is a greater purpose to his memories. Hours and hours and hours and hours and hours of time he spent training his most important skill. The skill he must absolutely have to ensure his never ending dark reign. The skill carefully honed in hours of work boredom and idle free time. A skill so powerful it makes mighty politicians tremble and yet so easy to use most 12 years olds can begin to master it. A skill named after a powerful undying green monster. Yes that¡¯s right it¡¯s trolling. Not the kind that shows up at geek conventions or LARPS. Not the kind that gathers delicious soon to be sushi. No the kind you gain from swimming in the condensed mental cesspit of humanity. Most see it as a pointless skill. Perhaps a minor spreader of evil as it is often used to create and spread mental viruses called memes. An outlet of teen angst, pettiness, spite and best left ignored. Commonly found on sites often called hives of villainy and evil by defenders of morality. It is indeed all that. But it is so much more. In the right hands it is nothing short of being the tool for total control of humanity. Perhaps a better name for it is social engineering. A psychological manipulation of others via their emotions to control their very actions. At lesser levels of the skill allows one to invoke emotions, often anger, in others. Mid-levels allows one to make large sums of money selling useless junk, fake medical remedies, and easy entry into secure areas. Once mastered allows the mind control of others. Not just mind control, but a type of unblockable mind control that often the victim will thank you for doing it to them afterwards! He continues to remember his past successes. The widespread mild annoyance communication which caused the mild suffering of millions with a few well-chosen written words. The critical systems failure scare of code: orange which allowed him to get out of work early for a year as he pretended to worked on a non-existent problem. Best left unsaid the great kittening which spread a meme so addictive that billions of dollars were lost in wasted worker productivity. ¡°Kukuku¡± ding.
New Skill! Trolling (Novice 0%) Trolling is a skill used to manipulate the minds of others via communication. Sometimes also referred to as Social Engineering. Mode: Voice and target must understand the language you are speaking. Effect: Causes a short distraction (1 second) as the target looks at you in annoyance.
New Skill Creation! Through repetitive unique actions you¡¯ve created a never before seen skill. As the founder of a new skill you gain the following: Received 500xp +10 Fame +200% training bonus when training others in this skill +3 level in skill
Trolling (Journeyman 0%) Trolling is a skill used to manipulate the minds of others via communication. Sometimes also referred to as Social Engineering. Mode: Voice, written, hand gestures and target must understand the language you are speaking. Effect: Causes a short distraction (2.5 seconds) as the target looks at you in anger. Additional Effect: Emotion manipulation (Anger, Fear) ¨C Causes target to change their emotions toward you which may lead to additional interaction choices. This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.Passive Effect: +20% to sale price of ¡®junk¡¯ items and ability to sell normally unsellable ¡®trash¡¯ items
Now this is interesting! Three windows just appear before him informing him of his newly gained skill. Being an experienced gamer he instantly recognizes what they are. He happily thinks he might be reincarnating into those fabled alternate game like worlds as a demon lord. So happy. So very happy. A dream come true. Gaming and demon lord. He¡¯d bounce up and down excitedly if he knew how to. There should be a status window, he thinks. However before he can start trying to find a method to open it his entire world convulses. Then a pulling sensation. It¡¯s finally happening he thinks. Soon he¡¯ll be born into a new world. *Pop* *Splut* After seeing a rush of color and a short fall sensation he thinks, did the doctor just drop me on the floor? Demons are supposed to be mean and evil but dropping a newly born demon lord on the floor is just going too far. He vows to punish the doctor. He supposes it could¡¯ve been an accident. After all the shock of seeing his newly born magnificent body could cause even the most stoic of professions to be shocked. In which case he shall only punish the doctor for a year instead of all eternity. Still on the ground here. Maybe demons have bad eye sight and expecting him to cry out to find him. Being a demon lord such a short drop causes him no pain even as a new born. Before he cries he decided to look around at his new world. First thing he sees is a tree. A very large tree. He keeps looking up and the tree rises a huge distance into the sky. He has no idea what type of tree it is, but is sure he is not in his old world. After all he didn¡¯t think any trees in his old world had purple bark. Demons are surprisingly rustic having a birth out in the woods. His vision goes red as he feels a stabbing pain through his body. Followed by a crushing pain, burning pain, pain he can¡¯t even describe. All of the pain seems to pulsate around his body building on itself leading to even more pain. Finally nothingness. ¡°What was that? Was I insta-killed? Did Eris trick me into being a demon lord for a few seconds? What the hell happened?¡± As he questions many things he feels the world convulse and pull him yet again. *Pop* *Splut* Exactly the same as before. Only this time he quickly looks around and notices a group of people surrounding him. An elf with a bow, an armored dwarf, a couple people wearing robes, and several grinning people wearing leather. The dwarf charges and rams him with his shield. Stunned he can do nothing but writhe in pain as the others shoot magic, fire arrows and stab him with a variety of pointy objects. Then nothingness again. The pain he felt was far worse than his previous lives end. It¡¯s not that the pain is greater just that it seems to reverberate through his entire body with each attack. Quickly must find out what is happening. He starts thinking about a status screen appearing. His status screen might give him a clue to why those adventures were killing him. After a couple tries it appears.
Status Window
AI Daemon:G8-41Alignment:Non-hostile
Level:02Class:Rare mob
Race:Red SlimeGender:None
Titles
None
Fame:10Luck:0
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Health:0 / 100Health Regen:3.3 / Sec
Mana:0 / 0Mana Regen:0.0 / Sec
Stamina:0 / 10Stamina Regen:3.3 / Sec
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Strength:10Grace:1
Endurance:15Leadership:1
Appearance:1Charisma:1
Intelligence:10Perception:5
Will:15
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Attack:3Armor:1
Physical Resistances
Slashing:20%Piercing:0%
Crushing:0%
Attack Abilities
Body Slam: Does 10 damage and has a 20% chance to stun target (2 seconds)
Spit Sticky Goo(Trolling): Causes a short distraction (2.5 seconds) as the target looks at you in anger.
Loot Table
Common: Red slime goo - 50%
Uncommon: Red slime core - 10%
Rare: Red slime pet egg 1%
NOOOOOOOOOOO000! Next chapter blurb A very sticky situation. There is nothing he can goo. Forever ablob. A revenge jelly best served cold. Where there is a disgusting wiggle there is a way. Red Rage Revenge!
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Chapter 2 – Red Rage Revenge Omake Dear Diary, I¡¯ve been stuck on this tropical island for 3 days now. Although I have enough food and water to survive the situation is still grim. For this is not a deserted island. There are violent aggressive natives who I believe wish me to be a sacrifice to their god. All attempts at communication have failed. They either don¡¯t understand me or think what I offer them is food. My hand is not food! Neither is my pet Wilson! My pet Wilson is the only thing keeping my sanity together. Isn¡¯t that right my lovely lord of flies rotting slimy coconut friend?
Chapter 2 ¨C Red Rage Revenge Three hours and forty seven minutes. That is how long G8-41¡¯s hell lasted. *Pop* *Splut* *Pain* *Death* in that order, no variation. Every 10 seconds. Being an AI he can tell time down to the millisecond. After his inevitable painful death he has 10.000 seconds of rest before it begins again. It takes the adventures an average of 4.98 seconds to kill him. The longest he lasted was 8.210 seconds when he hid under one of the casters robes. That time was almost a mercy killing. G8-41 found out the male caster doesn¡¯t wear beneath his robes. And the stench means he hasn¡¯t bathed recently either. This is hell. Not the good kind of hell where G8-41 is king and enjoying it. No the bad kind of endless torture and suffering without end as a gooey loot pi?ata. As a ¡°rare mob¡± the spawn time should be longer he thinks. It seems way too fast at 10 seconds. At least it should be a few minutes. The developers must be sadistic bastards, making their AI feel full pain and killing them over and over without mercy. He tries everything he can think of to escape. Communication ¡°I¡¯m a sentient being who can feel pain, please stop.¡± which only comes out ¡°Gi GI GI gi GI gi.¡± Countered by the adventures casting silence. Looking Cute. Sadly this looks like a runny egg slowly rotting. Countered by the adventures lack of aesthetics. Attacking. Body Slam does 0 damage. Spit Sticky Goo disappears before it hits the target. Countered by an apparent bug in the slime attack system. Running. Slimes top speed is a brisk walking pace. Countered by well just shooting arrows, they don¡¯t even bother to run after him. Dodging. It takes all of his 10 stamina to bounce 3 feet away. Same as the above but they don¡¯t lead him as much. Hiding. For some reason he has a nice cheery red glow which is easily seen from a distance. Countered by adventures innate loot detection devices called ¡°eyes¡±. Playing Dead. Countered by the adventures raising their curb stomp skill. He was about to give in to despair when his salvation arrived. A system shutdown message appears. The next 5 minutes are the longest for G8-41 but then the horrid initiation into this world is at an end. He quivers in his home nothingness for several minutes after the system shutdown. There must be a way out of this. Maybe Eris made a mistake. Let¡¯s trying praying to her and see what happens. ¡°Oh goddess hollowed be thy name. Please come to the aid of your follower. Appear before me Eris goddess of umm whatever you are the goddess of.¡± His half-assed demon summoning and Christian prayer to summon a Greek goddess somehow works. Eris appears clad in black leather with silver trim which matches her shoulder length black hair and slightly glowing silver eyes. Even after all he¡¯s been through G8-41 decides to take a moment to appreciate the busty beauty. Her chest armor is low cut and stops above her naval. It¡¯s really just a leather crop top designed more for style than for protection. Her pants are low rise form fitting black leather that he wonders how she can move in something so tight. Knee high boots with 4¡± heels completes the sexy rogue look. It¡¯s almost enough to make him forget the past 4 hours. However his impending sand bag life of pain reminds him he should clarify the deal he agreed to with Eris. ¡°So, Eris, about being reincarnated in a new world as a demon lord. Why am I an AI who feels pain stuck in a cannon fodder slime body?¡± ¡°Well silly it¡¯s what you agreed to. Reincarnated as a daemon load AI, with your memories, bonuses, magic.¡± ¡°Daemon load AI? As in a computer system process and not as in ruler of hell?¡± ¡°That¡¯s right.¡± ¡°WHO THE HELL WOULD AGREE TO THAT! You said demon lord, D-E-M-O-N L-O-R-D!¡± ¡°You must¡¯ve misheard or something. You were dying at the time you know.¡± ¡°You were the one that murdered me! I have 0 mp and my stats are less than a farmer! How exactly did you give me magic and bonuses?¡± ¡°Well instead of that dreary blue color most slime have you are instead uniquely colored red. A nice bonus don¡¯tcha think? And I gave you a magical cheery red aura. No matter how lost or depressed you are you can look at that wonderful aura and feel happy again. It¡¯s magical~¡± Absolutely flabbergasted by how he was completely swindled he could do nothing but sputter nonsense. His rage building more and more as he tries to understand. He can no longer contain himself when he looks up and sees her smirking grin.
G8-41 uses Spit Sticky Goo. It¡¯s super effective!
Eris is hit right in the face. Red goo splatters into her mouth, up her nose and the remainder comes to rest in her silky sleek black hair. Her eyes glare at him through the dripping goo. As the goo drips down into her ample cleavage her face turns beet red. 2.5 seconds later she pulls out two wicked looking daggers from her wide hipped belt. ¡°Die die die die die die die die die die die die die die die. How dare you assault a goddess! You dare pollute a woman¡¯s hair? DIE!¡± G8-41 is already dead so he can¡¯t die again. Thus her yandere fueled rage attack continues for some time. In his own rage he continues to spit sticky goo at Eris as she stabs him. None were as effective as the first but eventually she is completely covered in sticky red slime. Some of which seems to be slowly changing into a viscous glue like mess. ¡°You are totally beneath me. You don¡¯t deserve my notice. Go get farmed to death already.¡± The goddess says in a huff before she vanishes. ¡°I hope my slime causes chafing!¡± he says to the nothingness. After his rage clears he wonders why his slime trolling ability started working. He notices a system window. Apparently in his despair and rage he missed it popping up. Now applying Alpha-to-Beta patch (478329/32467823461) All is not lost he thinks. A hugely complex system in beta should have plenty of bugs to exploit. He¡¯ll just have to find them and abuse them like a true demon lord would. Looking at the patch progress he should have plenty of time to explore. Hours later he¡¯s both hopeful and frustrated. Most of the system is down for patching including the critical character growth and combat system preventing him from digging for exploits in those systems. On the plus side most of the help system, in-game browser, dev wiki pages are accessible. He¡¯ll have to be careful but he might just be able to get developers to program in some beneficial Easter eggs for him with a bit of page editing. He also finds he has access to the general user system menu. It has things like UI customization, system spec settings, logout button, bug submission ect. The logout button is greyed out as is the bug submission button. The UI customization does many things including options to show or hide varies notifications and parts of status, ability and character screens. He spends some time customizing the UI to his liking. (Author¡¯s note this means I can just show the relevant to story stuff and not spam readers with useless status info. Also I can randomly pull crap out and say look it was there the whole time! ^-^ I like to foreshadow things so hopefully this won¡¯t happen much unless I really screw up.) Spoiler : (Hint hint) Foreshadowing is doubly true in the chapter omake. It doesn¡¯t just setup the chapter tone it will have vague references to distant future plots. Well or not so vague in chapter 1 omake. Anyway have fun playing where¡¯s Wilson in the forums. Another find he has is the pain level slider. It goes from 30 to 150 percent. His is set to 150 and greyed out. The devs really do like to torment AI¡¯s. For a normal player the higher the pain the shorter the respawn time after death. 3 days at 30 percent and just 6 hours at 150%. Time to use the in-game browser and learn about the world outside the VR. He learns it¡¯s much like his old world, although seems a few years ahead of the one he came from technologically speaking. After a long time searching he finally finds the game he¡¯s in. Oriana. Very little knowledge about it is available. No press, little information online, almost like the game company doesn¡¯t want anyone to know about it. Other than the gaming companies name and that its using a new full immersion VR technology almost nothing is known. The game companies name is NERV ¨C New Entertainment Reality Virtual with a parent holding company named New World Zero aka NW0. If that wasn¡¯t ominously Orwellian enough they are also privately held so no pesky need to be public about its goals or finances. They are trying too hard he thinks. Are they compensating for something or just that pretentious? Well whatever, he¡¯s sure they are doing something to players¡¯ minds or just think their VR will be that revolutionary. Either way probably doesn¡¯t have anything to do with him. All work and no play makes G8-41 a dull AI. After a bit of forum trolling to raise his spirits he ends his online time by signing up for an email address and Oriana beta. Might be able to get more information via the beta forums if he¡¯s accepted. Also preventing one more newbie from joining and playing, ¡®let¡¯s kill the red glowing loot bag¡¯, always a plus. Well patching is almost done and now he has some slime attacks. Hopefully his next game world debut will go better than the last. He imagines himself as a paratrooper about to jump from the plane into heavy enemy fire. *Pop* *Splut* The sounds of enemy fire can be heard all around *Pop* *Pop* *Pop* *Splut* *Splut* *Splut* Oh wait that¡¯s just all the blue slimes spawning in. He feels a bit silly, of course it would take time for the servers to fully load and have players login. May as well explore while the players are logged off. In short order G8-41 finds he¡¯s trapped in a newbie zone. A large city in the middle surrounded by mountains with one exit out. Of course the one exit out has a well-guarded fortress with many NPC guards in it. The city is also well defended by the same guards. *Pop* *Splut* Unsurprisingly they are hostile he thinks as he respawns after trying to sneak by them to escape this newbie area death trap. ¡°Hey look it¡¯s a red glowing slime, it must be a rare mob. Let¡¯s kill it.¡± Oh good the uneducated unwashed masses of newbies have arrived. His unflattering thought is not far off. A group of 3 adventures wielding pointy wooden sticks and wearing loin cloths advance on him. He has no idea why this group of adventures is so poorly equipped but he might as well see what a fully operation battle slime can do. He tries to preemptively attack with his spit sticky goo ability but nothing comes out. The lead savage stabs him with his bad joke of a weapon for 4 damage. G8-41 second attempt at spit sticky goo works. He wonders if it¡¯s due to his non-hostile alignment. Savage 2 & 3 attack for another 4 damage each. He refuses to call such shoddily equipped players adventures anymore. G8-41 decides to use body slam hitting savage 2 in the stomach for 20 points of damage. After a gasp for air the savage fades into a mass of particles and drops a tiny glowing crystal. A one-shot kill. The other two savages look at each other and run for it. Slowing them with spit sticky goo and hitting them two times each with body slam G8-41 finishes them off. This is much better he thinks. He wonders why they are so weak and what the crystals they dropped are. He goes to pick up one of the crystals to look at. However just as he touches it the crystal levitates and fly¡¯s into him.
Player Death Crystal Claimed +1 wood carving skill +1 spear skill +2 xp
Hmm not very much at all. Opening up help he reads about player death. Upon death players will lose 10% experience, skills, ability levels, and are unable to logon again for a period of time. They will also drop a player death crystal. If the crystal is claimed by a players ally they can choose to give it back to the killed player returning 50% of the penalty (5% of total skills & xp). Otherwise whoever picks it up gains 10% of the penalty (1% of total skills & xp). So the player I killed had around 100 spear skill, 100 wood carving skill and around 200xp. Maybe less if it rounded up, after all it might be a minimum of 1 if lower than 100 skill. He continues to read about skills. Each time a skill action is performed he can gain 1 skill point. However it becomes increasing difficult to skill up. First 3 skill levels take 10, 100, and 1000 points respectively. Also you need at least 10 skill points, first level of skill, to use most skills. A few basic skills such as poke things with sticks can be used untrained though. Since he doubts most NPC¡¯s or players are willing to train him in magic it looks like he¡¯ll have to take it by force. Time to go noob hunting he thinks. After several hours of easy kills later he gains the following abilities and skills.
Attack Abilities
Body Slam (Tackle): Does 11 damage and has a 22% chance to stun target (2 seconds)
Spit Sticky Goo(Trolling): Causes a short distraction (2.5 seconds) as the target looks at you in anger.
Pseudopod (Weapon Skill): Create a temporary projection of slime membrane to attack foes. Does 5 damage. Modes: slightly pointy (spear), normal (club)
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Skills Summary
Wood Carving (Novice 22%) ¨C You cut the wood more than yourself when carving¡­ usually.
Spear (Novice 12%) ¨C You know which way to point the sharp end.
Club (Novice 15%) ¨C A simple weapon for a simple mind.
Throw Rock (Untrained 30%) ¨C Rocks aren¡¯t just for chewing anymore.
Tackle (Novice 73%) ¨C Belly flops are more graceful and less painful to you.
Trolling (Journeyman 0%) ¨C You are the highest skilled in the skill. You¡¯d be called a trolling god but you still suxors lol.
This is not working out well at all. Not a single caster in the bunch and the skill gains aren¡¯t worth the effort. He might as well train by hitting a tree repeatedly. He also hasn¡¯t gotten a single loot drop from killing newbies or any reputation gains. ¡°Where are all the casters? Why are there so few newbies running around? What¡¯s with the insulting skill summary? Why are players stuck in the Stone Age? And why don¡¯t they drop anything? Is this all there is to my life?¡± ¡°Hai¡± ¡°Do you want to die?¡± he says as he makes a yakuza face at the blue slime that just dare to insult him. ¡°Hai¡± ¡°You¡¯re not the brightest slime are you?¡± ¡°Hai¡± ¡°Sigh. Going out on a limb here and going to say that is all you can say right?¡± ¡°Hai¡± ¡°Great I can start my own comedy act that only idiot slimes can understand. Go away.¡± ¡°Hai¡± The blue slime replies before coming to attention and bouncing away. At least he thinks that was standing at attention. The blue slime sort of became less wiggly and taller for a moment. Does that mean they will follow orders? ¡°Hey wait, I want you to follow me around.¡± ¡°Hai¡± G8-41 moves around in a large circle as the blue slime follows him. ¡°Ku ku ku. So begins my reign of slimes. Alright first slime recruit bounce up and down while spinning and moving in a square. Also pick up that rock.¡± ¡°Hai¡± The blue slime just bounces up and down. As expected they will only follow one simple command at a time. G8-41 moves to a new blue slime. ¡°Follow me.¡± ¡°Hai¡± G8-41 again moves in a circle but only one slime follows. ¡°Leadership is 1 does that mean only one lv 1 mob will follow my orders? Tell that blue slime next to you to follow you.¡± ¡°Hai¡± The blue slime recruit turns to another blue slime and says, ¡°Hai¡± the other slime responses ¡°Hai¡± Round and round he goes. This time both slimes follow.
New Skill! Command (Novice 0%) Command is the ability to direct others with authority. Effect: Able to order minions to do actions they normally wouldn¡¯t do and they are more effective at those actions. Higher levels allow more variety of orders to be carried out more effectively.
¡°Ku ku ku chain of command and my first slime army is born.¡± ¡°Hai¡± x2 ¡°Time to prove your loyalty to me slime one. Attack the blue slime following you.¡± ¡°Hai¡± The normally non-hostile mob takes initiative and attacks. Four hits latter he downs his fellow slime. Although he looks nearly dead as the target slime dealt 3 hits in return before he died in the first demonic loyalty purge. Well at least they are loyal. Quality is nonexistent so will have to go with quantity. To raise his leadership stat and command skill G8-41 orders slimes to attack their fellow slimes every chance he gets. Thus began the first demonic army¡¯s unprovoked invasion. To raise his own attack skills G8-41 found he could join the attacks after his minion started attacking. He also sometimes amused himself by pretending to be a yakuza and after a slime ¡°accidently¡± bumped into him he would attack. For the most part players started to avoid him. If they got too close G8-41 would initiate combat with a minion slime then attack with spit sticky goo. Even if they got away most would have to spend hours getting rid of the cold, mildly acidic sticky allergen. Doubly true if it got into the players hair. G8-41 took particular delight targeting those with long flowing locks.
Hunger Warning You haven¡¯t eaten anything for 8 hours and thirst or hunger levels have fallen under 30% sated. You should find something to eat. You will start to take penalties the more your thirst or hunger levels fall.
"AI controlled slimes need to eat? Wonder what slimes eat.¡± After slime farming G8-41 has a lot of blue slime goo and a few blue slime cores. He decides to eat a blue slime goo. It raises his thirst and hunger levels 20%.
New Title: Cannibal You have eaten the corpse of your own kind. Maybe you were desperate for food or maybe it was part of a dark ritual. Whatever the reason you are now a cannibal and are looked at in terror by your own kind. Racial Affiliation Slime: +10 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level! Local Thug You¡¯ve achieved first level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. +100 command skills when commanding slimes +10 leadership toward slimes
¡°Ku ku ku. Let¡¯s see what happens when I eat a blue slime core.¡±
New Title: Devourer of Souls You have eaten the soul of your own kind. They look upon you as an evil member of your race. Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level! Local Evil You¡¯ve achieved second level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. +100 command skills when commanding slimes +10 leadership toward slimes +100 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
Although eating the core doesn¡¯t change sated levels it was still worthwhile. G8-41 wonders how normal slime eat. He watches his fellow slimes a bit and notices that occasionally a brown patch of dead grass appears under them. He tries to think about absorbing the grass under him. The grass under him turns brown and he gains 3% sated to his hunger bar. Easier to just eat slime goo he thinks. He fills up the rest of his hunger and thirst bars by eating slime goo. Now it¡¯s time to increase his terror level of his own race. The bonuses are nice and it amuses him as well. After 4 more hours of terror he has gained the following.
Terror Action You have eaten a fellow slime alive. Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear Gained new skill: Bite Gained ability: Devourer (Bite)
Terror Action You have ripped out the still beating core of a slime with your bare pseudopod. Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear Gained new skill: Martial arts Updated ability: Psuedopod (Slime-fu)
Terror Action You have absorbed a fellow slime alive. Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear Gained new skill: Grapple Updated ability: Psuedopod (Grapple) Gained ability: Absorption (Special)
New Title: Mass Murderer You have killed more than 100 of your own kind in a short time. Oh the slimanity! Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action You have bathed in the blood (goo) of your own kind. Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action You have put 10 or more own race heads (blue slime goo) on a pike (stick) Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 fear
Terror Action Tortured your own kind to death via dehydration. Slimes fear dying of dehydration more than any other way. Racial Affiliation Slime: +1000 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level! Rising Evil You¡¯ve achieved third level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. Your name is now whispered in terror. Slime parents use your name into scaring baby slimes to be good. +500 command skills when commanding slimes +50 leadership toward slimes +500 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
New Title: Terrorist Master Mind Your rapid and inventive campaign of terror has caused further terror in the hearts of the slime populous. Racial Affiliation Slime: +6666 fear
New Racial Affiliation Level! Evil Overlord You¡¯ve achieved fourth level of racial terror (slimes). Slimes under your command will follow your commands better out of fear. Slimes are calling for a hero to save them from your evil. +1000 command skills when commanding slimes +200 leadership toward slimes +1000 to intimidate skill when used on slimes
All in an evil day¡¯s work. Yawn. Well time to sleep for tomorrow the great demon king AI will continue his demonic rise. G8-41 finds a nice pile of leaves to rest in and goes to sleep.
Next chapter blurb The great slime prophet gives hope to the slime people. After 10000 minutes of terror the reign of the evil overlord red slime shall come to an end. A hero shall rise up and defeat him. With his companions he shall slay the great terror and bring back peace to the newbie zone. Fury of Heroes.
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Chapter 3 – Fury of Heroes Omake Out of the setting sun come the 5 kamen slime heroes. Slime orange, slime yellow, slime green, slime indigo, and slime violet. They come to defeat Lord Redd. They make short work of his blue slime army before combatting Lord Redd himself. However Lord Redd is truly a fearsome power and overwhelms them. But not all is lost. They summon their ultra-mega-giga-omega-dragon-super-wooden-army-robot RoyGBiv. RoyGBiv uselessly fights the now giant sized Lord Redd. Why this robot ever does anything before summoning it¡¯s burning justice sword is a mystery since it never does anything useful before then. So the umgodswar RoyGBiv (because no way in hell am I typing all that out again) finally pulls the great wooden sword from its back. Then takes out it¡¯s lighter to make the sword ¡°blazing.¡± Normal evil etiquette is to allow the heroes do their long finishing moves. But Lord Redd will have none of that. He spits his ultimate attack sticky goo into RoyGBiv robot¡¯s joints to immobilize it. He watches in glee as the burning justice sword ignites the rest of the robots wooden body. The cheery red glow warming his cold dark heart.
Chapter 3 ¨C Fury of Heroes A cute girl is kneeling in front of a hastily constructed shrine in an alley. There is something off about her though. Well anyone feverishly praying in an alley to a stick person effigy this is more or less a given. However there is something even more off that that. Upon closer inspection she has a poorly shaved head. The rest of her red hair seems stuck on the altar in front of her. At first she seems almost sad but quickly the sadness is replaced by a weird, hard to describe look in her eyes. Is that a hint of madness? Or perhaps anger so profound that it transcends human emotions. Whatever it is seems to intensify as her chanting continues. ¡°It is by will alone I set my body in motion. It is by the juice of the red slime that motions acquire speed, the lips acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by will alone I set my body in motion.¡± She begins to shake in ecstasy, perhaps a divine revelation, or possibly anaphylactic shock as she nibbles on a red gooey substance.
¡°I love the smell of sticky goo in the morning!¡± G8-41 makes a grimace. He¡¯ll have to come up with a better evil tag line. That one just has too many bad jokes about it. Not that any of his current followers would dare make them. Or have the ability to say more than one word. Yes his 150 slimy minions may be loyal, or too terrified to be anything else, but beings of many words they are not. Oh well with his new found army it is time to conquer this zone in the name of G8-41! Hmm personal note will have to come up with a better name, G8-41 just doesn¡¯t roll off the tongue. In his evil terror spree yesterday he completely forgot about his status screen. Time to bring it up to see how powerful he has become.
Status Window
AI Daemon:G8-41Alignment:Non-hostile
Level:03Class:Rare mob
Race:Red SlimeGender:None
Titles
Terrorist Master Mind, Slime Mass Murderer, Cannibal, Devourer of Souls
Fame:110Luck:1
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Health:160 / 160Health Regen:3.3 / Sec
Mana:0 / 0Mana Regen:0.0 / Sec
Stamina:16 / 16Stamina Regen:3.3 / Sec
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Strength:11Grace:1
Endurance:16Leadership:12
Appearance:1Charisma:1
Intelligence:10Perception:6
Will:16
Special Modifiers
+270 Leadership (Slimes)
Skills Summary
Bite (Novice 2%) ¨C Watch out he bites.
Club (Novice 45%) ¨C A simple weapon for a simple mind.
Command Skill (Apprentice 40%) ¨C You no longer have to bribe your friends to listen to you.
Intimidate (Untrained 80%) ¨C Why are you making strange faces at people?
Grapple (Novice 12%) ¨C You could be a fluffer for a certain genre of fetish.
Martial arts (Novice 88%) ¨C Whoa. I know Slime-Fu (Styles: Slime-Fu)
Spear (Novice 56%) ¨C You know which way to point the sharp end.
Tackle (Apprentice 47%) ¨C You tackle like a slime. This is an insult not a compliment.
Throw Rock (Untrained 50%) ¨C Rocks aren¡¯t just for chewing anymore.
Trolling (Journeyman 1.4%) ¨C You are the highest skilled in the skill. You¡¯d be called a trolling god but you still suxors lol.
Wood Carving (Novice 33%) ¨C You cut the wood more than yourself when carving¡­ usually.
Special Modifiers
+1700 Command Skill (Slimes)
+1600 Intimidate Skill (Slimes)
Abilities
Cheery Red Glow (Special): A light in the darkness growing stronger the darker it gets. Can not be extinguished by any means.
Body Slam (Tackle): Does 12 damage and has a 22% chance to stun target (2 seconds)
Spit Sticky Goo(Trolling): Causes a short distraction (2.5 seconds) as the target looks at you in anger.
Pseudopod (Slime-Fu): Create a temporary projection of slime membrane to attack foes. Does 11 damage. Through special training you''ve developed Slime-Fu. This increases your base damage and will now be used for all Pseudopod attacks. Modes: spear, club, grapple
Devour (Bite): Does 3 damage and increases sated level by 10% in hunger and thirst.
Absorption (Special): Target must be grappled or otherwise unmoving. Does 5 damage per 3 seconds. Has a chance at gaining new abilities from absorbed target. Can be used on any object which fits inside user.
Decent he thinks after examining his status. Although the skills are still low he has unlocked some nice abilities. In particular absorption looks very useful. Well time to start the invasion. He¡¯s somewhat disappointed that he can only have an army of 150 slimes. Although his skill should allow for almost twice that the zone has a spawn cap of 150. He sends 50 to patrol and kill upstart adventures to the east. Then sends 50 more to teach those foolish heroes not to oppose him to the west. The final 50 he has attack a lone city guard patrolling around the city walls. Seven attacks, in seven seconds, killing seven slimes per swing. The guard leaves the last slime alive to recount his tale as a warning to those that would dare invade. Okay, going to need to find another way in to mess with the players in the city. After recouping his losses, G8-41 takes his 49 newly recruited and 1 grizzled veteran slime on a detailed survey expedition of the zone. Like a good survey should he takes time to sample the flora and fauna of the area. In reality this is just flora since the local small fuzzy critters are smarter than the slime army and easily avoid them. A few attempts at surrounding them ended up as comedy acts of befuddled slimes and chittered insults. Hmm tastes like chicken. Actually doesn¡¯t taste like much of anything really G8-41 thinks. Mostly he just uses his absorb skill on various grasses, trees, and vines. Although each restore a small percentage of his hunger bar they are rather tasteless and don¡¯t provide any other benefits. Oh this one tastes slightly bitter. He decides to absorb a few more similar looking plants.
New Ability! Mild Poison After ingesting several poisonous plants you now know how to create a mild poison. Effect: Causes those without poison resistance to feel mildly nauseous. No effect in combat.
Nice. Perhaps he can get poison resistance skill if he keeps eating these plants. After 20 minutes he gives up though when the skill does not appear and his status has changed to violently ill. Slimes were not meant to see their own red colored sick. The purple forest now looks like a murder scene with pools of red scattered about and the occasional red splatter. Undaunted, after he stopped heaving and rested for an hour, he continues his sampling. This one tastes like stale coffee, gives mild stimulant ability. Another tastes like cherry cough medicine, gives mild heath recovery ability. Thiss onnwe tathtes liwke mewdissine twoo, mild numbing agent ability. Ohh this one tastes gooood~, mild muscle relaxant ability and G8-41 enjoying looking at clouds for 10 minutes. The final one tastes like tingles and puppy dog laughs, which puzzles him as how can one taste such things till the ability screen pops up. Mild mana recovery ability gained. None of the new abilities has a tied in skill though. Does that mean he can¡¯t learn the skill untrained or that they can¡¯t be increased in effectiveness he questions. They are not very useful though. Except for the mild muscle relaxant one, but for now G8-41 has a mission to finish before sampling more of his recreational ability. Sampling one last plant before he moves on G8-41 is surprised at the taste. That last plant tasted like real food. A turnip to be exact. He glances down and sees the top of a slightly purple root. Not that he¡¯s a fan of turnips but still it might come in handy later. He looks at his pseudopod and wonders if he can make it into a shovel. A few attempts later and he does it, easily digging up the turnip. He digs up a few more and stores them in his inventory.
New Skill! Gardening (Novice 0%) A boring activity most old retired people do before they die of boredom. Effect: Able to take care of and harvest small plants such as vegetables and herbs
These can¡¯t be normal skill descriptions are the devs messing around in beta or is something else going on? He hopes he finds out later as right now he has no idea how to investigate it. But the shovel did give him a novel idea at least. G8-41 tries to make other simple tools, hammer, hatchet, chisel, and pick ax. After a few tries he succeeds at them. He fails at making anything more complex like scissors though. I wonder he thinks. He concentrates on a new tool. It starts to take shape when a mosaic covers it.
WARNING Although this game is rated M for mature such things are only allowed in private spaces between consenting adults. Please refrain from such actions in public or else you¡¯ll get perverted titles and penalties.
Heh well he¡¯ll just have to remember that for later when he has some private time with his harem. He looks sideways at his slime army. His slime army backs away from him. Nah will never be that desperate. Several slimes sigh in relief.
Ability Update! Pseudopod -> Multipurpose Pseudopod Effect Multipurpose Pseudopod can be used as a basic tool for most skills. +1 Pseudopod cap
Nice. He tries his updated ability to mine a rock. Ouch! Rocks are apparently harder than slimes. Let¡¯s try cutting that small tree. Ouch again. What is the point of having an easily bruised tool that can¡¯t do anything useful he thinks. Now that¡¯s odd. Music has started playing. Until now he¡¯s heard nothing but the sounds a slime army bouncing around. Now a low music is ominously playing and slowing reaching a crescendo. Finally with trumpets blaring he sees a manly looking slime appear backed by the setting sun. This new slime is deep royal blue with a simple wooden circlet on his head. He also seems to be less wiggly than a normal slime and more composed. Well whatever a slime is a slime. ¡°Hey you, follow me.¡± G8-41 says to the majestic slime. ¡°Nein¡± ¡°Did you just say no?¡± ¡°Ja¡± ¡°Whoa a slime that knows 2 words. We have a badass here. You here to fight me?¡± ¡°Ja¡± And with that the heroic slime charges. Being the evil overlord of a slime that he is G8-41 runs away ordering his army to attack the deep blue slime hero. G8-41 stays at a distance and attacks every moment he sees an opening. Slowly but surely the heroic slime cuts down G8-41¡¯s army. It seems like G8-41 will have to duel this upstart slime himself. The heroic slime starts grinning sure of his hard earned win. ¡°All slimes follow. All slimes attack¡± G8-41 shouts out. The blue slime hero looks about. In the course of the battle the evil red slime lead the hero back to a slime spawn point and with his words recovered his army. ¡°Nein. Nein. Nein!¡± Sadly the slimes are less afraid of dying quickly to the hero than they are of being slowly tortured to death. After his previous battle and now with fresh enemy reserves the slime hero is in despair. He must end the evil red slime. With a final act of will he charges the evil tyrant. Sadly G8-41 was expecting this and stopped the blue heroes charge with a spear like pseudopod causing the hero¡¯s wooden circlet to fall off. ¡°A worthy opponent¡± G8-41 says before turning his other pseudopod into an executioners ax and cleaving the hero in twain. ¡°nein, nein, nein¡­¡± the heroic slime gasps as his body melts away. G8-41 picks up the wooden circlet and puts it on his head.
New Class Unlocked! You can now change into a slime king! As you¡¯ve conquered the local slime population and crushed their hopes by defeating their only hero, the blue slime crowned prince, you now have the option of becoming their king. You do not currently meet the requirements for this class change. You will be able to freely change into this class at lv 5. You also have the right to wear the crown of slimes, the crappy wooden circlet fyi, +1 armor, +300 slime leadership, +5000 slime command.
Stolen novel; please report. ¡°Ku ku ku. No one can oppose me now.¡± Well time to get his evil nights rest. G8-41 crawls back into his leaf litter pile to dream evil dreams in preparation for tomorrow. The next day G8-41 begins his survey of the region again. He covered most of it yesterday without finding a way into the city. Today he is in luck though as he finds a sewer outflow covered by iron bars. Knowing that fantasy sewers can be dangerous he gathers his entire slime army before squeezing between the bars. Like rats slimes can enter anything their cores can fit through regardless of how big the rest of their body is. His cheery red glow actually is coming in handy he thinks. Otherwise he¡¯d have no way to light up these sewers. As he follows the sewers toward the city he quickly encounters some giant rats. He cautiously approaches them however they seem disinterested in eating slimes. As he follows the sewers he continues to encounter many challenging mobs such as zombies, alligators, and mutated goldfish but none attack. Do mobs not attack each other or are slimes just not that tasty he ponders. Whatever the reason he is unmolested as he explores this subterranean tunnel complex. Other than a few copper coins and lots of non-hostile to slime mobs there is not a lot down here he thinks as he puts the coins into his inventory. Also few ways up into the city. Well that¡¯s not true there are a lot of small pipes a slime could fit through one at a time. However invading a city in single file never turns out well for the invaders. Following a bit of sunlight G8-41 finds a nice wide grate to invade from. He uses his spit sticky goo to make a nice sticky ladder to climb to get to the grate. Climbing up he cautiously peers about and sees two small dirt walls. He climbs through the sewer grate and sees the dirt walls are the sides of a ditch the grate is set in. Crawling forward slowly he gazes out upon a wide stone paved city avenue. He sees several carts going up and down the avenue with crowds of NPC¡¯s and prosperous adventures buying from the many stalls that line the street. It has the appearance of a main market street of a prosperous medieval town. This is very disjointed with the almost savage like adventures outside the town walls. He¡¯s puzzled why there is such an odd difference. So much of this game is mysterious and hardly anything is recorded online. As he contemplates this hears a loud noise and several screams. Oh crap have they noticed him? He freezes in a panic. He sees a cart swerve to miss a small child in the street and careen into a ditch. More precisely his ditch. His last thought is what a well-crafted wooden cart wheel before it rolls over him. Fifteen minutes later *Pop* *Splut* Well that is not a very demonic king way to die. He checks himself over to see what he has lost from his death. Slime crown still here, all his inventory is still good. But he has lost 10% of his total experience and skills. Trolling seems to have a minimum value of journeyman. His other skills can¡¯t go below novice it seems. However a couple of his apprentice skills fell slightly into high novice skills. Maybe if he is lucky he can recover his death crystal. He gathers together 100 or so slimes before returning to his last death spot. It takes him an hour to return. As he approaches his death spot he sees a slime army. He looks behind him and sees his new slime army. Looking forward again he sees his old slime army. He¡¯s above the spawn cap with 250 or so slimes around him. ¡°kukuku¡± He has found a way around the spawn cap, by taking his army into another region the cap resets in the spawn area. He bounces up and down in joy. Now it¡¯s possible to amass a massive army before he attacks the city. ¡°You 100 slimes go bring back more slimes.¡± He orders forgetting about the limitation of slimes following commands. The new slime army happily bounces toward the old slime army. ¡°No from outside the sewers you dolts.¡± Still continuing to forget their limitations in his excitement. The new slime army happily bounces towards the outside. Crawling back through the grate G8-41 looks around. The city is now darkening as the sun sets. The street is less busy but still several people can be seen walking around as the stalls close for the night. One thing he doesn¡¯t see is his death crystal. Sighing he heads back down into the sewer. G8-41 heads back to his rotting royal leaf pile to sleep. On his way back he encounters his slime army leading more slimes into the sewers. Odd he thinks, since when did his slimes learn how to follow such complex commands. He checks his command skill. Between the crown, his terror bonuses and his own skill it has reached intermediate command for slimes. That must be it, he thinks, as he curls up in his leaf pile. After he falls asleep a very wrinkled slime appears. ¡°Quickly, we must follow the demon lord slime to the Promised Land¡± she orders the slimes. The mass pilgrimage continues to the Promised Land filled with water and organic refuse. Which to a slime is truly all they desire. They are disgusting living slimy garbage disposals after all. The old slime disappears as mysteriously as she appeared. The next morning G8-41 awakes again to the sight of a stream of slime headed towards the sewers. He¡¯s not sure why this is going on but as it fits his plans nicely he doesn¡¯t question it. Until he builds up his forces he doesn¡¯t really have a lot to do. He decides to train his command skills by having 10 slimes attack another 10 slimes. I suppose it could be called army training but once a slime starts attacking he doesn¡¯t stop until someone dies. Apparently slimes ignore attack orders against inanimate objects as well. Sad really, a well-trained slime army would be so much better. It does gain G8-41 a nice trickle of xp and command skill with little work though. He spends the rest of the day trolling forums and learning as much as he can about the game Oriana. Apparently he¡¯s part of Beta 1 testing currently. This is open to ten thousand players at this the first starter city. It¡¯ll last 2 weeks. Then Beta 2 will open for 2 more weeks with 125 thousand and 4 more starter cities. Finally the release with 1 million players and 20 start cities. After that the plan is to expand by 25-100k players per week as new hardware comes online. It seems the system takes an enormous amount of resources and is difficult to expand. NERV, the game company, is creating only one game world so all the players can play together. For such an expensive game one would think only the rich could play. However NERV is committed to allowing the middle class to afford this game. They offer two packages, NervGear and RoyalSphere equipment. NervGear is a basic heavy helmet like VR equipment that causes the user to enter a dreamlike state to play the game. At the low price of $1,750 and $150 per month it¡¯s barely affordable for most middle class. The RoyalSphere is a full dive VR equipment providing a superior experience at $25,000 and $1000 per month for rich or serious gaming enthusiast only. The RoyalSphere comes with increased skill gains, experience gains and a few other minor perks as well. Some of the devs and hardware engineers are really worried about the fast pace of the beta. For example the NervGear has proven capable of being hacked and delivering a lethal shock to the user. A very dangerous combo. The RoyalSphere is almost as bad as some people have been put into a temporary coma after extended game play. They all claim they were perma players in the game when they wake up. Obviously this equipment can cause a psychosis in some players. Still the company waves away these concerns as they are running out of funding and need to release the product to market quickly. Even the software has had problems with the logout button not always working being the biggest. There are also several hard to reproduce bugs of bizarre world and system behaviors. So far they have luckily been more amusing than not to the players. Finally a few reports of strange glowing red slime newbie hunting and a sexy yandere goddess demanding people worship her make the devs fear the AI system is not wholly stable either. Time to lay low for a while G8-41 thinks. He has no wish to be deleted or patched after all. Another interesting bit of information. Skills and items will not be wiped between beta and release. NERV has said this is a bonus to those players who were willing to pay the initial $2,000 equipment fee to beta test the new gear and system. New players will not be at a disadvantage for long either as the system is logarithmic in its advancement. Even players with a 100,000 skill head start will quickly be about the same as new players as the next level requires 1 million skill points to advance. He spends the rest of the day teaching the kids on b-chan the finer points of trolling via example. One just can¡¯t help smiling at the sight of children spewing hurtful words at each other. He leaves off with The Game meme. Yep you¡¯all just lost. The next day poor G8-41 is bored out of his mind. Sure he plays some mindless browser games. Commands slimes to murder one another for his enjoyment. But really it¡¯s all become so blas¨¦. Not being able to use most skills untrained and not able to buy or sell any swag has G8-41 in a rut. Browsing through his skills to see what he can level he happens upon gardening. Perfect he thinks. He can start accumulating newbie herbs and cooking ingredients. Perhaps it¡¯s due to the fact he is a middle aged man stuck in a slime body but the simple repetitive actions of gardening appeal to him. Now if he had a fishing pond and beer he could retire from the world and lose himself in the tedious relaxation of such activates. He activates his muscle relaxant ability. Oh yeah~ almost as good as a cold beer on a hot day. Then shapes one multipurpose pseudopod into a hoe and begins to till the land. The other pseudopod he uses to plant seeds. The slime pilgrimage can be seen behind him as he spends the day mostly engrossed in his new project. The next day he inspects his garden. Some of the seeds have just barely sprouted. This is taking too long. G8-41 spends some time in introspection. He asks himself if he might be giving up on the path of demon king. After all gardening hardly seems like an evil enough hobby to have for a demon king. But no, if demon kings had virtues like hard work and laser like focus on goals they would hardly be demon kings now would they. Lazily wasting time and chaotically changing their plans seems much more fitting for them. His slight crises of identity now settled he has an innovative thought of evil on how to improve his garden. Commanding his slimes to bury themselves he goes around killing them and tilling their hopefully fertilizer like corpses into his garden.
Terror Action You¡¯d think slimes would be desensitized to this by now. Seriously if it wasn¡¯t for these pithy windows he¡¯d come across as a truly horrifying evil monster. He could¡¯ve just used the blue slime goo he has. But no he just had to use still living slimes for it. Racial Affiliation Slime: +1000 fear. An additional +500 fear for forcing the entire race to walk past it. All Racial Affiliation: +10 fear, a true act of evil has been performed. Other races would fear you more but no one cares about slimes.
Art Creation? Fertile Garden of Mangled Slime Corpses. Effect: +5 to moral for 15 minutes. Seeing those killed in an act of evil bringing forth new life has a motivating effect on those that gaze upon it. Whether that is to right evil, or hope in the face of despair, or creating something even more vile is up to the viewer. Additional Effect: Plants grown in the soil grow twice as fast. +100 to fame for crafting such a sickeningly macabre landscaping art. +50 fame for having the entire race walk past it on their way to the Promised Land.
Ahh yes, perfect, he thinks. The next day he sees his freshly fertilized soil vigorously growing plants. Between the moister, perfect amounts of nutrients and slight stickiness those slime corpses have made the perfect fertilizing ingredient. The scattered slightly sticky blue mangled bits and puddles of blue even trap and kill pests. The next 2 days are fairly uneventful except for the expanding of the corpse garden and marching lines of slimes. But that all changed when the fury filled fanatics attacked. They came out of nowhere. Swiftly overwhelming the slime guards. The first time he was dead before he even realized he was under attack. Karma is so rarely swift and sure and so fittingly just and to his dismay relentless. *Pop* *Splut* pain they are upon him again like the Greek furies of old. This time they did not kill him swiftly. No they took their time to inflict as much pain as possible. Giving G8-41 plenty of time to see his new tormentors. All of them are women. All have poorly shaved heads, wear black leather, and take an unholy delight in his slimy cries of pain. Some wear full body covering suits and masks others are almost naked but all have the same eyes. No not the color, no not the shape but the glint of anger and madness gone to a level that should not be possible in the sane. Which perhaps they have already waved sanity goodbye or maybe murdered it in its sleep. The constant shrieking and incoherent babbling seem to indicate this possibility rather strongly. Worst of all his attacks are useless. They move with an unnatural speed making hitting them almost impossible. Even when he gets a lucky hit in they seem to delight in the pain. Even his sure kill spit sticky goo attack only makes them stronger. They seem to luxuriate in its sticky embrace and even after he is captured take his slime out forcefully and cover themselves in it. The only thing more terrifying than these modern Erinyes is these modern Erinyes covered in his own red innards. Like furies they seem to be, the covering of red slime makes them look even more like the distilled wrath of women covered in their enemies blood exacting revenge. And exacting their revenge they do. They play bob for his slime core. They use their teeth. The bites are not very accurate but are very painful. It takes hours for them to succeed. They delight in pinning him to the ground with stakes and leave him out to dehydrate. Once they find out he can make a numbing agent they find other things to mix into his body. This causes him to swell and then they crush him with their bare feet like grapes to make a red slimy wine. They pull him apart with their bare hands and make wishes. The winner of course has the part of him with the slime core still in it. What have I done to deserve this? I mean sure the whole slime terror thing but why would these woman care? Won¡¯t anyone save me? He pleads to the sky. Quite possibly the last person he wants to see shows up. Yes it¡¯s Eris in her sexy black leather rogue outfit. Only thing different is that her hair is now in a very short hair style. ¡°Happy to see me again?¡± ¡°EHAHAAAAA IYAAAAA UUUUGG¡± and other shrieks of pain come from G8-41 in reply. ¡°Your busy I can see that. But I had to come and gloat a bit. After all it¡¯s not true revenge if I don¡¯t right?¡± Eris waves back her furies. ¡°Gloat about what? Who are these mad women?¡± he gasps ¡°Why silly they are the women you tormented.¡± ¡°What? I have done no such thing!¡± ¡°Tut. Did you not take particular delight in robbing these women of their gorgeous hair?¡± ¡°All I did was spit sticky goo in their hair to make them stop killing me!¡± ¡°Ahh yes that nasty substance, didja know it¡¯s almost impossible to get out of hair? Really to get rid of it you have to cut it out. And these poor victims who just wanted to enjoy another world are left here without a proper stylist.¡± ¡°All this over hair?¡± ¡°Haven¡¯t ya heard the saying a women¡¯s life is her hair? Each of my Furies have sworn to pursue you to the end of the world until their hair grows back. Since they now like bathing in your sticky slime that might be awhile.¡± She smiles sweetly at him. ¡°You evil bitch! You tricked them. They could just roll new characters. Why would they become like this?¡± ¡°Cause silly. It takes thousands of dollars to make a new character and they would lose all the money and effort they made in making these ones. When they prayed to someone to grow out their hair I of course helped them.¡± ¡°You swindled them. They don¡¯t have long hair.¡± ¡°Well whatever they no longer care about it and growing out hair is such a tedious process. Anyway have fun with them. Try not to die too soon okay?¡± She says before disappearing. Followed by many bald grinning women descending upon poor G8-41.
Next chapter blurb Will this story pull an Evangelion and go from comedy to horror? Will one of the nameless AI¡¯s, entities and other mysterious strangers so far introduced come to our demon lord¡¯s rescue? Will the author pull a saved by a prince inversion? --A Young Maiden¡¯s First Crush. Ya the title kind of spoils it. Don¡¯t worry the comedy will come back, The Great Demon King AI demands it! PSA. No slimes were permanently killed in this series. Although many are demanding higher pay for their sterling renditions of the Wilhelm scream.
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Chapter 4 - Saved by a Princess Omake An author can be seen furiously typing at a keyboard. ¡°Gah multiple POV and deadlines and new phone games that are way too fun to play.¡± ¡°Shut up and type ghost writing slave.¡± Says the demonic red slime on top of the authors head. ¡°Don¡¯t forget all those foreshadowing plot points you put in as well.¡± Commands the demon. ¡°But I don¡¯t outline or keep notes, I¡¯m sure I¡¯ve forgotten about them already. Ouch ouch. Stop, please stop, I¡¯m writing see.¡± ¡°It will keep the notes or it will get the pseudopods again!¡±
Chapter 4 - Saved by a Princess Well aren¡¯t we all having fun playing games. A group of skimpily dressed women giggling as they frolic in a game of soccer should please most men. But not him. Never one to be into sports he never understood the appeal and now as the ball of a sport he downright hates it. Actually the game isn¡¯t all that bad he thinks. The last several days have been pure hell for him. This last indignity is almost pleasant in comparison. Days of torment has one benefit. It narrows the focus of the mind wonderfully. He now has a goal he will follow no matter what. He shall conquer all of Oriana to ensure this never happens to him again. Step one plan. Step two escape. Step three become Demon King. Step one is done. Step three is planned. However step two still eludes him. Try as he might he can¡¯t get free from these mad women. He feels another booted toe kick him but this time he is sent far off in the wrong direction. Well time to try to escape again he thinks gloomily. Only this time is a bit different. ¡°Hey, listen!¡± Hearing a very odd sound behind him he takes a risk and glances back. ¡°Hey, look!¡± He sees a grey dress float to the ground. With a bunch of leaves fluttering around. Strangest of all he sees 2 glowing balls, one red and the other blue, floating in the air. The furies are distracted as well. Although not due to the oddity of it all for they don¡¯t care about such things. Instead due to Kindle, the floating red glowing ball. They have been so primed to chase red glowing balls that they instinctively start chasing it. Unlike the red slime anti-hero, Kindle is quite fast and nimble so is able to easily elude them for some time. G8-41 feels gentle hands lift him up and press him against something soft. He starts to struggle thinking he¡¯s been caught again. Then stops when he catches a lovely feminine fragrance. Furies may be female but having lovely fragrances they do not. He looks behind him and sees his beautiful savior. She has long flowing black hair in a hime cut, glasses and an adorable Japanese face. More importantly he is currently being hug tightly to her large, only clad in a white bra, D-cup bosom. He has no idea who she is or why she is saving him or why she is only dressed in her underwear. He also doesn¡¯t care why for this is bliss. The perfect escape it was not to be however. Unfortunately the mysterious princess saving him was not the fastest runner. The furies quickly figured out that Kindle was too small to be their hated enemy. Sadly for Kindle this was not discovered until after it was found to not be too big to swallow. The other more annoying glowing blue ball, who shall not be named, was also disposed of in a similar way. Well at least they can¡¯t sneak up on him anymore. As the furies chase after the pair a faint sound can be heard from one of them. ¡°Hey, rescue!¡± The princess in shining white underwear is even taking him to where he wants to be. Now if only she can make it to the city sewer grate before the furies catch them it will be a wonderful day. Even better she is running along the trail of slimes. G8-41 starts commanding the blue slimes to slow the furies down. He doesn¡¯t expect much of them but he has hopes of them being good cannon fodder. A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation. Sorrowfully the inevitable happens. A pretty girl clad in underwear running from horror story monsters looks back and trips. This sends G8-41 sailing through the air and lands right next to the sewer grate which he promptly escapes though. The furies try to make it through the grate but are unable to. G8-41 taunts them with lewd gestures from well back into the sewer tunnel. The furies rage will not be denied they turn on the helpless girl and begin to kick her. ¡°Hey stop that you psycho ward rejects!¡± He says to no avail. Well the princess should log out soon so I don¡¯t need to go back and help. ¡°Why can¡¯t I log out? The button is greyed out! Why does this hurt so much? Please stop!¡± the princess screams in terror. Grinding his teeth G8-41 turns around again. Nothing ever goes right. Well they should kill her soon and she can respawn somewhere safe. ¡°Please stop! Why is my HP not falling! It hurts so much!¡± she screams in pain again. Damn it! Well it¡¯s her fault for saving him when he didn¡¯t ask for it. ¡°*Groans* Help anyone, please save me!¡± He keeps turning toward deeper into the sewer then back again in indecision. ¡°¡­¡± Finally she just silently lays there no longer reacting to her torment and just staring off into the distance. His decision made he hurries deeper into the sewer.
Next chapter blurb Author: What? What will happen? How can he just abandon her? What did he decide? Narrator: You¡¯re the author! You should already know! Author: But I don¡¯t. I don¡¯t keep an outline and every idea I¡¯ve had the red slime demon on my head has changed it! Narrator: There is nothing on your head¡­ Author: That¡¯s only because he makes you think that! *Left eye twitches a bit* Narrator: Umm okay¡­ How about you give the next chapter blurb then *quietly* so I can get away from this madman as soon as possible. Author: Well bells. Narrator: What bells? Author: The bells shall toll for them! Narrator: For who? Author: Do not ask for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee! ¨C Chapter 5 - The bells tolls for thee!
Authors Note I really do need to start an outline and note taking. Trying to match two characters time lines between this and the side story is just painful when you have to keep referring back to 80 pages of story. Don''t even know what the princesses total bonus is to skill gains either yet didn''t calculate it up... Also the whole slime arc wasn''t originally meant to be there. But as I was writing it kinda grew on me. I mean instant comedic/useless minions and the ability to have an epic newbie battle early on was too hard to pass up. But ya only half joking when I say I have demonic slime on my head. I really want to write what happens next and sometimes even I don''t know as I''m writing I get a better idea on how the story should go. Anyway hope you enjoy the chapter and side chapter.
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Chapter 4.1 – A Young Maiden’s First Crush (Side Story) Authors Note Tried to use some literary techniques I don¡¯t have much experience with. I think it turned out well, also nicely introduces the next party member and explains more about the world. All in all happy with how it turned out but it has one major problem¡­ It doesn¡¯t fit with the pacing or tone of the main story. Instead of deleting 3 weeks¡¯ worth of work I¡¯m changing it into a side story. Second there is tragic moment eluded to in the end. I''ve decided to return this series to a pure comedy and this side story will have mostly no bearing on the main story. Her uncle is still scum and Yoshiko is still in the main story but I''ll replace the tragic background with something more amusing like vomit. To Japanese native speakers or those fluent in the language and culture. Sorry if I have incorrectly used some loan words I will gladly correct them if you tell me their proper usage. Trying to figure out how to write third person, gender specific, age specific, from a foreign language with changing in and out group has completely mystified me. Japanese words basic meaning: (seriously there are a ton of nuances¡­) Otosama - Father Kaasan ¨C Mother Ojisan ¨C Uncle Sensei - Teacher
Chapter 4.1 ¨C A Young Maiden¡¯s First Crush (Side Story) Oriana and its new full dive VR technology has been in development for over a decade. Few know just how much longer. One such person is Yoshiko Kurosaki. She¡¯s not sure the exact years but knows there have been at least five stages. Each stage has lasted around a decade in length. Otosama was hired twelve years ago to bring the final stage of the product to market. When Otosama moved to the US Kaasan and her moved as well since they knew it would be a lengthy job and wanted to stay together. Before being hired by NERV Otosama was a well-respected neurosurgeon and cyberneticist working in a prestigious hospital in Tokyo. Otosama was hired to manage the team developing the brain-VR hardware interface. Other VR systems exist but none anywhere as advanced. A year ago Otosama announced that they would get a RoyalSphere full dive VR to try out. Although as part of the develop team they could¡¯ve gotten one much earlier Otosama was concerned about its safety. Even now Otosama is hesitant about it but apparently as part of PR campaign all managers and their families are required to use it to prove there are no safety problems. Still Yoshiko can only use it four hours a day at most and had to maintain a 4.0 GPA at her private woman¡¯s high school to use it. She had to read all the warning manuals and even took a safety test on the equipment¡¯s usage. Also until the beta started she wasn¡¯t allow to use it. Finally she was absolutely forbidden from using a Nervgear. She has no idea where she would get one, or why she would use one when she has access to a RoyalSphere, but Otosama was very clear she was never to use one. Even with all the warnings Yoshiko is excited about it. She¡¯ll be able to experience an entirely different world than this one. A world without buotoko and his horrid smell. A new world where she can be someone different and maybe just maybe finally make some friends. The day had finally come. The start of Oriana beta and Yoshiko opens up the RoyalSphere and lays down inside with plenty of room as it¡¯s designed to accommodate bigger people than her 5¡¯2¡± size. The RoyalSphere looks deceptively simple. A white capsule with a padded bed inside and a power plug and internet connection cable on the outside. She is sure it¡¯s much more complex than that as there would be no reason for the company to hire Otosama and his genius expertise otherwise. From reading the safety guide she knows the RoyalSphere has all kinds of monitors. It monitors the occupant¡¯s life signs and will call emergency services and wake up the occupant if there are any problems detected. It even monitors outside the capsule in case of fire, earthquakes or other natural disasters. All the complicated brain reading and image inducing gear is hidden away with a start button and capsule door open handle being the only two controls visible inside. She pushes the start button and closes her eyes. The capsule has a very quiet hum as it starts up and after 15 seconds she sees four red dots of light. They dance around a bit but are quickly replaced by words. [Thank you for your purchase of NERV¡¯s RoyalSphere entertainment system.] Yep she spent 0 dollars and will pay nothing a month. Nothing like free for being a great purchase price. Heedless of her inner snark the system continues. [Now calibrating system. Please do not be alarmed you should see several test patterns and hear some music as the system configures itself to your brain patterns] ¡°It¡¯s reading my mind! Stay out of my mind!¡± She giggles. She doubts anything she can do can stop it! Besides the manual said to stay as relaxed as possible to avoid any problems using the system. A few colored shapes appear and move about. Then a bit of classical music softly plays and seems to move from left to right. [Now calibrating secondary output. You¡¯ll feel a slight touch on your hands, followed by hot, cold, and a pin prick. Finally a short full body tingling] Yey, she gets to experience menopause and she¡¯s not even 18 yet. She¡¯s sure glad she spent all those non-existent thousands of dollars for this experience. [Configuring smell and taste.] What no warning of what she might experience? She demands a refund! She smells cherry blossoms and tastes a slightly sweet taste. [Configuring input. With moving your hand only. Please pick up the ball and put it in the square box.] Billions of dollars and decades of development have come down to this. A machine commanding humans to do it¡¯s bidding. ¡°Well I, for one, worship my new robotic overlords¡± she thinks, as she moves the ball into the box. [Thank you. The system is now finalizing setup and will teleport you to the logon room.] Teleport? It¡¯s not like she¡¯s really going anywhere. Couldn¡¯t they have come up with a better word choice she complains. She feels herself gently moving downward as lights move around her. Then finds herself standing in the middle of a slightly blue room. She¡¯s bare foot and can feel the carpet under her toes. There is a door on one wall clearly marked exit and a window on the other letting in sunlight. Looking outside is a small grass lawn surrounded by green hedges. On the other two walls are NERV¡¯s logo with a touch screen kiosk in front of her. Oh wow. That¡¯s kind of cool. Even without any technological know-how one can easily exit or bring up the system controls. ¡°This can¡¯t be happening. It¡¯s not possible, it must be a dream!¡± she declares. Shaking slightly in amusement. She pinches herself ¡°Ouch¡± Looking down she¡¯s wearing a nondescript blue jumpsuit. She tries to move the fabric but it acts more like it¡¯s a part of her than a separate piece of clothing. ¡°I really am in the VR world.¡± She walks over to the kiosk. Only one option is presented. There should always be two options, there is always two options. Of course since NERV has only one game the only option is Oriana. She presses the screen. Now the screen has the correct amount of options. ¡®NPC guide¡¯ or ¡®Text descriptions.¡¯ She chooses ¡®Text¡¯ A long text appears explaining about the world and how great it is, how glorious¡­ She presses the skip button. Dire warnings¡­ Skip button again. EULA agreem¡­ Skip. Extra buy op¡­ Skip. Invite fri¡­ Skip skip skip. Link ac¡­ Skip. Finally the character creation screen. It displays her current unflattering body on the screen. The VR pod must have scanners. Perverted pod eek! The first two settings are clothing, underwear, naked and show/hide mirror. Show mirror and underwear. A mirror appears and her jumpsuit fades away to just a bra and panties. She looks at her too short 5¡¯2¡± frame and too fat body. With an at best plain face and just below chin length straight black hair she is ugly she thinks. Her skin is too dark, her butt too small, her boobs are too big and lopsided. Her face is droopy. Gah! She quickly chooses elf, 6¡¯1¡± height, 110lbs, pale skin, and long blond hair. Hits the test button. She feels her own body morph to match the image on the screen. Now she gazes upon her new Victoria Secrets model body. Much better she thinks. She does a few sexy poses in front of the mirror. This is so much nicer looking then my old body. She imagines herself in skimpy green elf armor walking around a city and men looking at her. Then she blushes. Seeing her face redden in the mirror causes her to blush even more. Maybe this is too much she thinks. She hits the revert button and feels her body morph back to her real shape. In reality most would consider Yoshiko cute. With a nice dress and makeup even pretty. But she only sees her own flaws, imagined more than not. Flaws she is going to correct. She clicks the symmetrical button. Most people are slightly different on each side this averages the two and makes them perfectly symmetrical. Then adds two inches in height making her 5¡¯4¡±. Moves the attractiveness slider to 150%. Finally reducing her weight to 110lbs. Still not right she thinks. She looks too skinny and fake. Adjusting the sliders she settles on 120% attractiveness and 135lbs. She doesn¡¯t feel those numbers are right but she likes how she looks at those levels. A few more minor tweaks, then smaller boobs, then larger, then smaller, then larger. Okay just a bit smaller at D-cup. And a few hours later she is almost done. She lengthens her hair until it reaches her butt and finally adding back her glasses. She doesn¡¯t feel right without them. In VR everyone has perfect vision so they are only for looks but she just doesn¡¯t look right otherwise. There she gazes at herself again with a smile. This will be me she thinks. Although her time spent on her own character body seems excessive it is important in Oriana. As a player doesn¡¯t just see them on a screen but will be living in them. To change your character or body costs thousands of dollars even for the beta testers. There are of course ways to change your body in game but they are far more difficult and slow process so it¡¯s best to set it up right at the beginning. ¡°Now what race and class should I pick?¡± Elf ¨C Too sexy she can¡¯t stop blushing. Dwarf ¨C Ugg no too short. Halfling ¨C Same. Gnome ¨C Why would anyone want a nose that big? Cat-girl ¨C She does a maid with cat paws pose, again blushing nyah She goes vanilla human. There are many more races in Oriana but most can¡¯t be chosen at the start. There are ways to unlock them or change into them in the game but the details on how are a well-kept secret. For class she has a hard time deciding. She finally chooses student. Student is a weak class but has one major advantage over the other classes. It has the highest skill gains, moderate growth in every area and almost no class equipment restrictions. This allows new players to tryout many things. Finally it¡¯s an easy class to change out of into other classes once a player knows what she wants to do. She clicks on the random name generator until it gives her a decent name. Mireri. That sounds cute let¡¯s go with that she thinks. Last step is to spend her 30 bonus start points. All attributes start at 10 and can be reduced or increased for one point. Certain traits can also be bought but cost 5 to 20 bonus points. Most put all their points into attributes since the start attributes are called your base attributes and never change. As one levels up they get modified attributes based on their base. So a base of 10 str will get 1 str per level while someone with a base of 20 would get 2. Str 5, Grace 15, Endurance 15, Leadership 1, Appearance 12, Charisma 12, Intelligence 20, Perception 15, Will 10. 10 - Quick Learner - double skill gain and +20% exp, 5 - Serendipitous +10 Luck and sometimes very unlikely things will happen to you. Accept. The room around her fades and again she has the teleportation feeling of slowly moving down and lights move up around her. Just then she realizes she made a game character just like herself a student and a kind of plain average that no one looks at. [Tempt Fate?] Yes/No Did she miss reading something? This question just appears with no other explanation. She chooses no. However the screen just reappears. She chooses no again. Again the screen reappears. This game was supposed to be an open game where one could do anything. A question that only accepts one answer and doesn¡¯t tell her what will happen is just lame. She finally chooses yes. The flowing lights pause a second then jerk a couple times then flicker a bit. Odd must be some kind of game glitch. Maybe it has to do with how immersive the game will feel she thinks. The lights resume their flow but get brighter and brighter. They become blindingly bright and she closes her eyes. Just before she closes them she sees a system message. [Only those that risk all can change their fate.] At least she thinks that¡¯s what it said. It¡¯s dark. She hears a quiet hum. Laying on something padded, she wonder when the game will continue. She hears a light thump on glass and heavy mouth breathing. She opens her eye and sees an ugly pig like orc fogging up the capsules window while staring at her. ¡°Eeeek.¡± She lets out a muffled cry as she quickly puts her hands over her mouth. She comes to her senses are realizes she¡¯s back in the real world and the man staring at her is buotoko. Of course buotoko is not his real name. It means ugly man in Japanese. She opens up the capsule and steps out. ¡°What would you like Ojisan?¡± ¡°Cook me some dinner.¡± ¡°Hai, Ojisan¡± she does a slight bow. She goes to the kitchen to start preparing dinner. If buotoko is here then that means Otosama is working overtime again. Otosama always sends her uncle over when he can¡¯t make it home. The complete opposite of Otosama, buotoko is a disgusting person almost lacking in human qualities. Instead of cool handsomeness there is only a distorted face with a creepy smile. Instead of intelligence shiny from the eyes only a swine like lust. Instead of hard work shaping a solid dependable body only grease stains and flaccid muscles though laziness. She wishes Kaasan was still around then Otosama wouldn¡¯t have to worry about her being alone. Sadly Kaasan was involved in a traffic accident a couple years after they moved to the US. Supposedly a hit and run accident. Last year by chance she found out that the truck that hit Kaasan has been involved in many hit and runs and never seems to have an owner. A silly internet site claiming that there is a serial killer truck out there was one of the urban legends going around school. Curious she went to the site and saw one of the accidents listed was about her Kaasan. After a bit of research she found the same truck was used in each of the hit and runs. Police always claimed it was an accident and dropped the investigation. It¡¯s an obvious cover-up but why and why would they target her Kaasan? Once she went to college she would have more freedom to investigate. Until then she would just have to survive one last year here. She imagines herself as the lonely princess guarded by an ugly monster waiting for her prince to come rescue her. She finishes preparing buotoko¡¯s dinner. As she¡¯s bringing it to him she stumbles a bit spilling a bit of the beer on the tray. ¡°Can¡¯t you do anything right! How hard is it to just walk? Maybe you should just lay on your back like a good girl? Then you wouldn¡¯t need to walk.¡± He grins at her. ¡°You first¡± she thinks. She had mixed in a few extras to buotoko dinner. The standard extra salt, grease and sugar on the hopes he dies all the sooner from a poor diet. Also a couple of Benadryl to make sure he falls asleep quickly. If boutoko stays up late drinking then things she doesn¡¯t care to remember sometimes happen. She says nothing as she places the food try in front of him. Before backing up and going upstairs to her room. As she leaves ¡°We should have more family time together, you can sit right next to me while I eat and watch TV.¡± ¡°Sorry Ojisan, I still have to study. You know how Otosama is about school.¡± She retreats to her room locking her door before going to sleep. Next day is the last day of school for the week and rather dull like most days. Most of the time she keeps thinking about what will happen next in Oriana. She had just got to the good part before buotoko interrupted her. Rushing home after school she enters the RoyalSphere and logons on to Oriana. The logon is much quicker this time. This time she find herself in a tunnel of darkness as she moves toward a light. When she reaches the light it almost blinds her before she finds herself kneeling in a seiza. She never likes sitting in the proper Japanese sitting pose. She only has to do it a few times a year. Of course she knows how to do one properly but still tries to avoid them when she can. Also why is she so cold? Opening her eyes she sees three people in robes kneeling in front of her. As she looks down she sees what looks to be an inlaid magic circle of some sort. Lastly she finds out why she is so cold. She is currently naked except for her glasses. She quickly tries to cover herself and starts warming up from a full body blush. The old women motions one of the younger women to her side. The younger women quickly brings over a robe for her to cover up with. ¡°Sorry about that, the summoning spell occasionally doesn¡¯t bring your clothing with you. My name is Xantha. I¡¯m the grand magister of the magic school in this city and the most experienced hero summoner. What¡¯s your name?¡± ¡°I... umm¡­ that¡­ Yoshiko¡­ no here, I guess, it¡¯s Mireri.¡± ¡°A true pleasure to meet you Mireri. Your probably wondering where you are? You are in the capital city Nysa of the Kingdom of Saguenay. Oh in the world of Oriana, I always forget that part. Now let¡¯s get you in some proper clothes so I can show you around.¡± The kindly woman leads Mireri into another room. As she walks in she notices a wizened old man in very well used but still immaculately up kept clothing sitting in a chair. ¡°Master tailor Paulin would you be so kind to outfit Mireri here.¡± As she leads Mireri to stand on a pedestal. ¡°Of course Grand Magister.¡± He replies as he stands up and take a worn tape measure from around his shoulders. He comes up to Mireri and frowns. Does he see something wrong with her? Well he¡¯ll totally respect her when she¡¯s a famous princess. *Poke* ¡°Kyaa!¡± ¡°You¡¯re too stiff girl. Relax a little I won¡¯t bite. At best all I can do is gum ya a bit.¡± ¡°I think that might be what she is afraid of.¡± He chuckles. ¡°I¡¯ve raised 3 generation of girls from toddlers to old women. She¡¯s just a toddler to me until she has grey haired and wrinkles. Even then she¡¯ll just be a snot nosed brat.¡± He says as he looks at the Grand Magister. The kindly old women sticks her tongue out at him. ¡°See snot nosed brat with no manners. Now relax so I can fit the clothes to ya properly. Now what¡¯s yer class so I can get ya the right clothing?¡± ¡°..S..student.¡± ¡°Figures with this one summoning you.¡± ¡°Umm¡­ what?¡± ¡°What he means is who a summoner summons is usually like them. The greater the affinity between the two the better and more powerful the summons is. It¡¯s why I probably look like someone from your country. Also makes it easier to talk. Hard to be at ease with someone you find scary right? Worse you have to fear from me is a few hugs since you¡¯re so cute.¡± Mireri blushes at the compliment. The old woman does look like a kindly miko from Japan wearing western wizard robes. ¡°I¡¯m done with the measurements. Now off with ya to play young-ins and let me work in peace.¡± He grins shooing them away. The not-miko-wizard leads Mireri to a nice sitting room with a table and two female attendants. She asks one of the attendants in there to bring tea. ¡°Welcome again to this world Mireri. I¡¯m sure you have a ton of questions. You don¡¯t seem to be the talkative one, so I¡¯ll explain the basics and you can ask questions at any time alright?¡± Mireri nods. She may be quiet now but one day she¡¯ll be talkative. Oh yes they will hear her shout out. They will rue the day hue hue hue. ¡°As student you¡¯ll be taking classes at the school I run. Classes normally last a total of 40 hours each to train someone in a skill. Or 200 hours to train someone in a specialized ability. An example would be magic skill and a single magic school of specialization like fire. You¡¯ll need to learn both to cast fire magic. Of course exceptional students can learn at a faster pace.¡± ¡°To encourage new adventures and heroes to learn skills before heading to dangerous areas the city has put a 10 silver toll to go outside. You can still go outside without paying but the city confiscates all your items and only gives you a wood carving knife. This may seem cruel but it takes a lot of magical energy to summon or resurrect an adventure or hero so we don¡¯t want young hotheads to die needlessly.¡± ¡°So by giving them a carving knife they can learn how to survive with nothing and might be trained that way and calm done.¡± ¡°Exactly!¡± The magister beams. Might as well just call it Chuuibyo training. Get rid of all the 8th grade idiots who want power without working for it. Sure it¡¯s a game but its realism is what sells it. She means if magic and such were real at least. ¡°You also make the distinction between hero and adventurer, why? ¡°Well we need those with power to help us but not every summon goes as well as yours.¡± How is being summoned naked going well for anyone except for perverted old men perhaps? Mireri questions. ¡°Those summoned by inexperienced summoners are called adventures. Summons by greater summons are called heroes. It¡¯s not to say adventures can¡¯t be great heroes or heroes will always amount to more than an adventurer but heroes tend to do better. Heroes gain skills and powers faster and tend to be more effective in general.¡± So NervGear versus RoyalShpere I¡¯ll bet. Money is the road to power everywhere, banzai capitalism. If you spot this story on Amazon, know that it has been stolen. Report the violation. She also learns that due to influx of new heroes and adventures the schools classes are offered at all hours. Although specific classes may not be offered right then so she¡¯ll need to plan for which classes she¡¯ll attend. She¡¯ll also learn from a teacher in person and not a holo magic crystal like adventures which improves skill gains. They continue to talk about other things and drink tea until the tailor has her new clothes. She puts on the undergarments and then the dress in a changing room and looks herself over. It¡¯s a simple common grey medieval dress that stops mid-calf on her. She also wears a sweater vest with a logo on it. Although a simple design it is expertly tailored so it¡¯s very comfortable and easy to move in. ¡°Thank you very much¡± she does a deep bow to the tailor. ¡°Now none of that. Twas a simple thing.¡± ¡°Why don¡¯t you go around town showing off your new dress and get familiar with the city. Here take some spending change with you.¡± The magister takes out a silver and hands it to Mireri. ¡°What about classes?¡± ¡°Your first day here and you already want to learn?¡± Grand Magister smiles. ¡°We can start tomorrow, you should see the city first before you are cooped up in classes all day. Besides you should buy some basic skill kits first so you can put that learning to use right away.¡± ¡°Hai sensei¡± Mireri is lead to the exit of the magic school which opens directly on the main city plaza. She sees many people of all races moving through it. It¡¯s so busy and so many colors. Not sure where to go she hesitantly steps outside. The old teacher chuckles, ¡°All heroes have a navigation spirit. Just say where you want to go and it¡¯ll lead you there.¡± ¡°Please lead me to the crafts district.¡± A small glowing blue ball appears and says, ¡°Hey, follow!¡± Quickly grabbing it the magister smashes it on the wall. ¡°Hey, Listen!¡± She smashes it a few more times against the wall. ¡°There it is should be muted now. It¡¯ll drive you insane if you listen to it for too long. Just smash it against something to mute it again if it tries to talk.¡± ¡°O-Oh okay¡± Not sure about this game joke she just accepts it and moves on. Following the now wobbly blue ball to the crafts district she buys some basic tool kits. Basic magic wand, potion brewing stand, hammer, craving knife, cauldron and so on. Unlike most games there is no one kit but each tool can often be used for several skills. This allows a greater flexibility in how you craft. More can be crafted at once if one has multiple tools, or more crafting options by buying specialized tools or just higher quality tools to make higher quality items. She also picks up tools for basic cooking and sewing. Not a very feminist thing to do but she would hate to have a simple tear in her new clothes or not be able to eat decent cooked meals. Screw conformist progressiveness if it stops her from eating delicious food and looking cute. Besides here she can eat all the delicious food she wants. All of it 0 calories. She decides to do just that and orders her blue minion to lead her to delicious foods. Arriving at the main market street she strolls down it and taking in all the sights and smells. So much and it¡¯s all so good she thinks. She losses track of time as she is sampling the many delicacies and window shopping the more expensive babbles. *Beep beep beep* Aww her time is up and she has to log out. Otosama is home tonight so she makes a quiet dinner for them before studying and going to bed. Next day she quickly does her morning routine before logging into the game again. Even though it¡¯s morning in the real world, in Oriana it¡¯s late afternoon. This is due to the slight time difference. Oriana has a 22 hour long day so it¡¯s time to the real world changes daily. Intended to give all players a chance at time specific content. Otherwise the time passing is one to one no weird time dilation effects to deal with. Mireri logs on and starts heading back to the magic school to begin her classes. She notices a young girl looking lost in the middle of the paved avenue. She also sees a cart rapidly moving through the street. Oh no the cart is going to hit that girl she thinks. She runs to save the girl but trips on one of the paving stones and falls in front of the oncoming cart. The cart driver starts shouting and drives his cart into a ditch. A sickening crunching and popping noise can be heard coming from the bottom of the wagon as something is crushed beneath it. Standing up she moves over to the cart to make sure everyone is okay. ¡°What the heck¡®re you doing? You could¡¯ve been killed. You don¡¯t even have the sense of a child.¡± The cart driver says pointing to the lost looking girl who moved out of the way of the cart without issue and is now standing on the side of the street. ¡°I¡¯m sorry. I thought¡­ well¡­¡± The cart driver continues to berate her loudly. She shrinks down and moves back until she stumbles into the ditch.
Red Slime Death Crystal Claimed +3 bite skill +3 club skill +5 command skill +3 Grapple skill +3 Martial arts skill +3 Spear skill +5 Tackle skill +220 Trolling skill +3 wood carving skill +105 xp Your quick learning ability and hero status has increase skill and exp received.
Level up! Items looted: Red slime goo Racial Affiliation Slime: +100 respect
New Racial Affiliation Level! Respected Adventurer You¡¯ve achieved second level of racial respect (slimes). You¡¯ve aided the slimes and they will now offer you quests.
Distracted by the window popup she is broken out of her guilt and stops listening to the cart driver. Oh no I killed someone. It¡¯s all my fault I should apologize to them. ¡°I¡¯m sorry, so sorry but I must go. Sorry again.¡± She says regaining her composer and running off. ¡°Lead me to the player named red slime¡± The blue ball of light hesitates a few seconds then zooms ahead of Mireri and heads straight down the road. She follows it to the main gate out of the city. Does that mean red slime is outside of the city? But she can¡¯t get out unless she pays 10 silver. She quickly thinks, ¡°Lead me to the auction house.¡± The blue light again zooms off. Once she reaches the auction house she puts up the red slime goo she received for 10 silver buyout. Maybe it¡¯s a rare craft item from outside that people will pay for it she hopes. Not having anything else she can do at the moment she decides to head back to the magic school. If nothing else she can gain crafting skills there and start making money to get out of the city. Joining the magic class she spends an hour learning the basics of this world¡¯s magic system. However even with her bonuses she only gains 3 magic skill. Too slow she thinks much too slow. Even though this is 3 times faster than normal player for learning a trained skill she thinks there must be an even faster way. ¡°Excuse me sensei, can I speak with the Grand Magister?¡± ¡°Hmm I don¡¯t know but she probably in her magic study right now. Just follow your navigation spirit.¡± ¡°Thank you sensei.¡± She follows her blue GPS substitute towards the Grand Magister¡¯s study. Arriving at the door she knocks. The door opens, ¡°Oh if it isn¡¯t my newest student. Please come in. What brings you to my lair this evening?¡± ¡°Sensei is there a faster way to learn skills?¡± ¡°How many skills did you gain in class?¡± ¡°Three¡± ¡°And you still want to learn even more than that? I¡¯m impressed. Well I suppose there is one way but few gain anything from it.¡± ¡°I¡¯ll do it, I don¡¯t care how dangerous it is!¡± ¡°Hold on there why would you think it dangerous? We are here to train new students not kill them off. It¡¯s just self-study in the library and taking a test to make sure you learned the materials. Generally it¡¯s for those with some experience already to challenge earlier classes so they can take more advanced classes.¡± ¡°Oh if it¡¯s just that I can do that easily.¡± ¡°Well it¡¯s up to you on how fast you learn the materials and you¡¯ll need to be able to read Egatin. That¡¯s the common written language around here. Since you¡¯re so motivated I¡¯ll teach you the basics of Egatin.¡± ¡°Thank you very much sensei!¡± Two and half hours later she has 10 skill in literature and linguistics with a sub skill in Egatin. ¡°Well I¡¯ll be¡­ You might just have a chance at doing this.¡± The magister says impressed at Mireri¡¯s progress. It was easy Mireri thinks. It was just Latin with a couple extra rune looking symbols. She already knows Latin, Japanese, English, German, Standard Chinese, and some Korean. Although her Korean and Chinese are mostly from manhua and manhwa so they are probably a bit off from normal. *Beep beep beep* Nooo my umbilical cord has been cut and I must return to base before I lose power. ¡°I must return to my world sensei. I so wanted to start reading those books too.¡± ¡°Hmm well I don¡¯t know if it¡¯ll work but¡­¡± the Grand Magister mutters as she summons a red glowing spirit. ¡°It¡¯s a new spell of mine. I named it a Kindle spirit. I hate being away from the library and not being able to accurately remember a book reference. It should allow you to read any of this libraries books anywhere in this world. I¡¯m not sure if it¡¯ll work between worlds, but it might.¡± She hands the spirit over to Mireri ¡°Sensei are you sure, it seems valuable.¡± ¡°I need someone to test it out and besides I¡¯m curious if it¡¯ll work across dimensions. If it does I might give you another so I can read books from your world. ¡±
New Quest (c 1) See if the fire spirit, Kindle, works across dimensions to read books. Reward: Reputation with the Grand Magister increases.
¡°I accept. I¡¯ll see if it works. Thank you.¡± She logs out and wonders how to test the spirit. Well an AI gave me it and it sounds very similar to an app she has on her phone. She opens up the app and sees an Oriana category with a picture of the red spirit. Well that was easy. She spends the rest of the day reading Oriana books. Next day she logs in again. ¡°How did the experiment go? Were you able to read books from the library?¡± ¡°Yes they were very interesting and I¡¯m ready to take some tests.¡± ¡°Hooo more than one is it? Well it¡¯ll be a good way to prove the Kindle works across dimensions and I¡¯m curious to see how you do. Which tests would you like to take?¡± ¡°Novice alchemy, magic, sewing, cooking, astronomy, astrology, religion, science, mathematics, accounting, item identification, monster identification--¡± ¡°Are¡­ are you joking? No I can see that you¡¯re not let¡¯s start with alchemy and go from there.¡± The magister interrupts her. Three and half hours later¡­
New Quest (c 2) You¡¯ve proved that the Kindle can be used across dimensions. 2nd part of quest see if Grand Magister can read books from the real world. Reward: Unique magic item from the magic school vault.
New Trait Speed Reader By reading and understanding a skill book with in a day and passing a test you gain this trait. Effect: exp increased by 10% skill gains increased by 100% when reading books
New Trait Genius By completing two tests perfectly within an hour you gain this trait. Effect: exp increased by 10% skill gains increased by 100% +25 Fame
New Trait Prodigy By passing ten tests in a day you gain this trait. Effect: exp increased by 15% skill gains increased by 150% +100 Fame Schools, Libraries and other institutions of learning welcome you to study with them.
¡°Enough! Ha ha ha you¡¯ve completely exhausted me and I¡¯m just watching you pass these tests. Go play outside give this poor old woman a break. I¡¯m going to have to get some assistance for your crazy learning tomorrow.¡± Mireri is a little proud of herself. Although many of the tests she already knew like math and science which gave her an advantage. She mostly took them to see if it would open up other skills to learn and indeed it did. This game has an unbelievable amount of skills. She focused mostly on mental skills which are easy to learn via books. She assumes the craft, physical, social, weapons and magical skill branches all have a similar amount. With all her bonuses now even other more physical skills will take much less time to learn. Also improving the skills she currently has will be much quicker and less costly. Otosama always stressed efficiency in her time management and she has done well she thinks. ¡°Lead me to the auction house.¡± She might as well check on her auction. She opens up the auction panel but doesn¡¯t see her auction anymore. She thinks a bit. Oh. ¡°Lead me to a mailbox.¡± Opening up the mailbox she sees the auction sold minutes after she put it up to a player named Eris. Guess that was a valuable craft item. At least I have enough to pay the gatekeeper. She¡¯d hate to lose her new clothes and crafting tools by just walking through the gate otherwise. *Beep beep beep* Noooo she was so close. Soooo close. She¡¯ll get them next time yes the beep shall not defeat her mission next time. She logs out and spends the rest of the day cleaning the house and studying Oriana skills. She¡¯s glad Otosama is home again today. Last couple months this has been a rare thing. With the upcoming release of the game Otosama must have more free time as the VR equipment has been completed. She pulls out her smart phone and loads up the Kindle spirit app. It has a new option to install a book reading application. She doesn¡¯t want it to drain her phone battery so she tries to install in on her home computer. The install completes successfully. There it should have access to the digital books she¡¯s bought and the internet. She wonders how this is programmed to make it work on different devices. Oh well it¡¯s supposed to be magic so it kind of makes sense. Next day she goes through school with her usually efficiency. However this time she isn¡¯t bored she has a whole new world of books to learn. Until Oriana, Otosama was against wasted time on games and useless fiction books. Yoshiko tried her best to follow this advice but would often fail and feel guilty as she read comics, manga, manhua, and manhwa. Recently she¡¯s even been reading various light novels as well. She rationalizes this as there are a lot of new ideas that could be useful to her in other areas of learning. Although how Yaoi would help she¡¯s not sure. It¡¯s only a small part of her reading and she is sure more love in the world is a good thing. But with Oriana she is allowed four hours of fun per day! She also feels less guilty about reading another few hours per day about it. Since being well read is always a good thing regardless of who gets shipped together. Immediately on logging on she says, ¡°Lead me to red slime.¡± She¡¯ll apologize to him for getting him killed. She¡¯ll have to ask him why he has such an odd name as well. Quickly paying the guard at the gate and getting a gate pass she continues to follow the blue mime like guide toward a field. When she gets closes she sees a red slime mob tilling the field. She looks around for a player named red slime. Looking around she sees only herself, her blue silent floating loofah, a line of blue slimes going somewhere and a red slime tilling a field there is no one else. She hides in the trees. Could red slime mean the red slime tilling the field? But why would a mob drop a player death crystal? She¡¯ll hide and watch what is going on. After a few minutes she¡¯s bored out of her mind. Oh wait I can use the Kindle spirit here too. She starts reading. *Beep beep beep* What already? The red slime continues his farming work hardly noticing anything else. What should she do? Well log out for now obviously but maybe I¡¯ll just observe him an hour a day. At least she raised her hide skill to apprentice. Next day she logs on to a new sight. The field has turned into art piece with blue pools of slime dotting it here and there. She continues to watch as blue slimes gather and bury themselves at the edge of the garden. The red slime comes over and kills them. Then tills their corpses into the soil making another blue pool. Oh how cool. The blue slimes are sacrificing themselves to make the garden better. Just like Samurai giving up their lives to their Damiao. The red slime must be a great leader to command such respect and loyalty from his followers. Whoever wrote the description to the art piece must not understand this and misinterpreted this wonderful act of fealty she thinks. Quickly she gets bored of watching the red slime farm and starts reading again. She hasn¡¯t forgotten about the apology but she has no idea how to convey it. Looking through all the books she has access to she has found no reference to monster languages except that they must have them. She has tried to watch them to learn the language. However between easily getting bored and the fact they just seem to repeat the same word over and over she has no idea what they are saying. Unless they really are saying something like yes repeatedly she has no idea how to interpret the words meaning. Also if all they said was yes there would be no point in learning slime language. *Beep beep beep* Maybe if I travel to all the worlds libraries I¡¯ll find something. There must be a way to communicate with monsters. She logs out to the grinning horror of the Slender Man leering at her. Of course it just buotoko again. Otosama must be working late again. ¡°I¡¯ll fix you dinner right away Ojisan.¡± His grin just gets wider. As she steps into the kitchen see sees many beer cans laying around empty. That can only mean buotoko was drinking while he waited for her to come out of the VR game. She decides to head to her room. It¡¯ll mean Otosama will yell at her for being rude but that¡¯s better than the alternative. She turns around and runs into the grinning buotoko. ¡­ ¡­ Several days later she comes out of her room. She¡¯s been staying in there saying her weak constitution is acting up again. It¡¯s not really a lie. However she will never tell anyone what really happened. Otosama prohibits her from logging on to Oriana until she completes all her make up work from school. Since she goes to a private school this is more than just a few pages of reading and simple worksheets. None of it¡¯s hard for her just time consuming to write it all down. For the next 2 days she goes to school mostly avoiding reading Oriana books. Finally her Otosama allows her to log back on to the game. She logs back on. Only this time she doesn¡¯t see the red slime farming in his garden. She wonders where he has gone. She decides to follow the trail of slimes to see where they are heading. At the end of the line she notices a sewer grate all the slimes are headed into. It¡¯s far too small even for her slight frame to squeeze into. ¡°Slimes are weird, please guide me to the red slime.¡± The blue annoyance appears, ¡°Hey, follow!¡± Apparently it¡¯s unmuted itself she wonders if she should mute it again. Following she comes upon a horrific scene. The red slime is surrounded by many bald screaming women covered in blood. No wait red slime goo since it¡¯s goopier than blood. They are currently playing some kind of game with the red slime as the ball. Mireri hides and watches. They just keep tormenting the red slime. Killing she can understand as he is a mob and drops loot but why would they just be so cruel for no gain? She must do something to save this noble slime lord. But what can she do? She doesn¡¯t have much and isn¡¯t very high level. After a few moments thought she comes up with an idea.
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