Author’s corner: HELLO HELLO! SOME MORE REAL LIFE THIS CHAPTER!
ANYWAY, today is a rather short chapter with only 3000 words because if I went on, I would probably have to stop in the middle of something, so I thought that it was just fine. Tomorrow and after probably won’t have any updates. If something, maybe a SS or something of the like. BUT, with some luck, I might convince myself to write something on the few free hours I have and manage to make a single normal chapter in these two days. We’ll see.
ALSO, 42nd PLACE ON THE BEST RATED! IT’S LIKE A DREAM COME TRUE! I MEAN, REALLY, THIS IS PRETTY MUCH A WRITE AS I GO STORY! HOW THE HELL DID I GET SUCH A GOOD RANKING?
ALSO(2), I have the feeling there is something more to tell you guys, but I can’t really bring it to mind… Hmm…
ALSO(3), OKAY GUYS! IT'S JUST OUT! (Insania x World gate) Online Cross over! Give it a look!
Cross over here!
Have a good read!
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“It said that, for being deeply related to someone who voluntarily uses the title ‘The Mad’ or other not having previous titles, she earned the title The Sane one.” Cygnas explained to us a bit awkwardly. “It makes so that, any negotiation held through her grants all the good bonus of the title The Mad, without any of the bad ones.”
I blinked a couple of times. Is this the game’s way of telling me that I truly am crazy? And does this mean that I will take Aura with me to make the negotiations for me?
Let’s not worry too much about it, shall we?
Since I was about to log out, I turned to the girls, seeing Hanbei laughing out loudly. But for some reason Yuu’s ears had drooped and she looked jealously towards Aura.
“But… I… Shishou… Longer…” I heard her muttering sullenly before turning her head away, pouting.
I smiled a bit awkwardly before gently petting her head, trying to appease her. She kept pouting even after some time, but the two wagging tails kind of gave away her true mood. But I thought it would be better to keep quiet.
“Well… Now that all is gone and done… I guess that I’ll log out for now, and should be back after a couple of hours.” I said after some time.
Yuu’s mood took a clear turn for worse once again, as her tails dropped down suddenly and she turned to me with slightly upturned eyes.
PLEASE! DON’T LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT! I WILL FEEL GUILTY EVEN IF I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG!
After somehow managing to break away from that super-effective move that could take down even the strongest of the monsters, I took some distance from Yuu before she could land another blow on me and said.
“I have to log out because it’s been a long time after lunch already, and I really need to eat something right now. As well as take a nap, which wouldn’t be a bad idea.” I told them. Yuu nodded weakly after some time, and Hanbei had to gently pat her in the back. “Then, I’ll see you guys later for the dungeon.” I told them just as I chose the option to log out, but…
“Just a moment!” Cygnas said a bit hurriedly while staring at the air.
I stopped and looked at her with a raised eyebrow, but she simply lifted her paw as if telling me to wait. Me and the girls looked at each other confused and I shrugged when they started to inquire me about what was happening. I was as much at loss as they were.
“Wait for it…” Cygnas said. “Just one more moment…”
“There!”
We hereby announce the first Update of Insania online!
V. 1.1.04316cDue to many requirements, there are three major features in this updates. You can see a brief overview of the updates in here, or you can select the window for more information.
Super-realistic battles:From now on, players may chose to remove the blessing of the goddess at the cathedrals. By doing so, they will be prone to being affected by more realistic battle-mechanics, which involves from broken bones to bleeding, but these measures will also be applied to your enemies.
Some fictional measures will still be kept, as we don’t want level 1 players killing a lvl 300 dragon just because they managed to land a lucky-shot to their eyes. This IS still a game with progression, you know?
We will be fine-tuning this feature real time, since we have no real previous data, so forgive-us for any mishaps we may have with this feature.
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Parenting D-lutes:Taking your young child through a tour on Insania so he/she can have some fun fighting monsters? Or simply so you can travel to interesting places?
This feature allows parents to have better control of their child’s D-lute, as having direct access to their menus, as well as granting better methods of localizing them! So you can feel a bit more at ease while you play with your child!
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Insania APP:As some noticed, Insania have a real-time translating program, so it’s not strange for your new friends to be from different countries, so keeping in contact with them outside the game may be a bit difficult. But with the new App for your cellphones, you can take advantage of the real-time translation while chatting with guild-members and friends, even when logged out!
The APP also have other functions, like checking the conditions of active pets, direct access to In-game forum, and much more!
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I blinked surprised with the window that popped up and slowly took my time to read all of them.
The Super-realist feature was actually interesting. It seemed to increase the overall difficult of the fights, but it also opened a whole new book of interesting strategies that I could apply to my hunts. I must say that I felt tempted to chose that feature immediately. But I had a dungeon run planned for a short time ahead, and I REALLY don’t want to learn more about it through the hard way. But it would be the very first thing I would do after coming back from the dungeon.
After crafting my new weapon, of course.
Hmm… Thinking about it, what weapon will I do? I think I’ll change a bit from the usual Sword and shield.
Anyway, the second feature was mostly for parents and children who play together, so it didn’t matter much for me. But I guess it would be interesting to tell my father about it. He DID say that he was thinking of playing together with miniature apocalypse.
That’s my sister, by the way.
And the third feature? Well, really neat actually, this way I could keep in contact with the girls even when one of us is offline.
Or so I thought, until…
“What is an App?”
Me, Cygnas and Hanbei fell face-first into the floor when Yuu innocently made the question.
I finally understand what anime characters feel when they hear something ridiculous.
Hanbei took a long and deep breath as she prepared to explain it to her, but before she could even say something, we saw a flash of light coming from the cathedral behind us. Followed by louds sounds of surprise and worship.
Me and the girls were overtook with curiosity and we went back to the cathedral. All the while, Cygnas tails were wagging happily behind her, as if she knew what was happening.
Well, no wonder.
When we got to the cathedral, the whole area seemed a lot darker than before, but we could clearly see the priests kneeling on the ground, turned towards the altar where the single pillar of light shone upon it. And it wasn’t all, there was the figure of a person slowly descending from the skies.
That person had a strange and serene grace to it, that simply wasn’t something that any normal person should have. Her silvery hair was flowing gently, even when there wasn’t any kind of wind blowing in the cathedral. A gentle white aura came from all around her body, but it was discreet enough so we could still get a clear look on her face.
But how should I say…
For me, all this grandiose simply didn’t match the Cygnas I know. I stole a quick glance to the silver furry fox at my side who was naively wagging her tail and felt that this fits her a lot more.
“Oh, Grand Goddess Cygnas. What would make the maker of all come down to this unworthy place?” Preet asked, standing at the same distance as the other priests while not daring to look down.
Cygnas gave a mystical and gentle smile while looking towards the priests, and took one of her hands towards the middle of her chest before speaking.
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“You think too low of this wonderful cathedral, Preet.” She said, her voice echoing through the whole cathedral with a serene tone. “I came here, because soon, some of my chosen will come, asking for you to remove a part of my blessing from them.”
Ooh, so there is even a mini event for the patch?
This is awesome! I must admit it.
But…
This serene and mystical atmosphere was bugging me a whole freaking lot.
I made a quick look around, and noticed that everyone, but the girls and me were looking directly towards the ground while kneeling. I smiled mischievously when I noticed that neither of the Cygnas were looking at my direction, and opened a window, made random error window and started crumpling it into a window-ball.
The goddess Cygnas floated down from the altar and approached the minotaur, who visibly flinched in worry.
“My goddess, why would the Chosen want to remove your wonderful blessing?” Preet asked confused.
“Oh, Preet. The chosen have their own reasons for doing this, so please, do not resent then.” She said in a calm and gentle tone.
Meanwhile I was taking position to release my best straight-window-ball.
What? Serenity? Grace? Mysticism?
I don’t care. I want to have some fun here! And I’m feeling a bit mischievous.
Right before throwing the window-ball, I gave fox-Cygnas a light nudge with my feet just to get her to notice me. When she turned to me, her face clearly became shocked and she tried to jump and stop me. But it was far too late, for the ball was already on path towards her other self.
The ball landed straight on her forehead. And although I did see her mouth making the shape of someone shouting in surprise, no sound at all came from it, so she must have muted herself at the last second. But I still got to see her spinning a couple of times in the air, stopping upside down and looking at me angrily.
The girls looked at me with a mix of surprise and shock while fox-Cygnas grabbed me by the chest and shook me back and forth.
Preet probably felt that the sudden silence was strange and started to lift his head slightly, but Cyg managed to blink herself back to her previous position and state just as his gaze landed on her. She gave him a gentle smile as if nothing had happened, which made the bishop look down ashamed of daring to look directly at the goddess.
“So, let me teach you how to remove that blessing from them so when they come, you can realize their wishes.” Cygnas said while extending her hand towards him, and making a pillar of white light appear around him.
By then, I had already done another window-ball and threw it at her. What can I say? It’s fun to tease her!
“And with this, I hope that you may be able to help with any kind of wish the Chosen may have.” But she was ready for me this time. Right when the ball left my hand, a window-stick appeared in her hand and she spun while swinging the stick like a baseball bat.
I didn’t even have time to dodge the window-ball and took it straight to the face, being sent flying a few feet back and out of the Cathedral.
She didn’t even change her intonation while swinging the bat!
I looked at the silver furred fox standing on my side looking smugly at me.
YOU WIN THIS ONE!
Ashamed by my defeat, I immediately logged out after standing up and giving my goodbyes to the girls.
…
I took out the D-lute from my face and slowly stood up from my bed. My body felt a bit strange from staying in the same position for far too long, so I stretched myself a bit for some time before getting up. A quick look at my watch and I saw that it was around four o’ clock, and taking in consideration that my breakfast was somewhere around at five or six, I don’t remember, it was more than time already for me to have a lunch.
No wonder I was this hungry.
I went to the kitchen and put on a pre-made lasagna on the microwave before leaving for a quick shower.
After having my late lunch, I made some quick calculations and decided that I would have to log in again around midnight or so if I want to get in time for the dungeon, or around ten o’clock since I wanted to improve my stock of items before leaving for a long time.
Anyway, that is something to worry later.
Firstly, I took my cellphone and let it downloading the Insania App while I called a contact.
“Hello, Little Richard!” What? Did you forget my name already? Rude.
“Booh, dad.” I gave him my usual greeting. “So, did you buy the console already?”
“Oh, yeah. I got home half an hour ago and was about to call you to see if there was something I need to do to install it.” He told me through the phone sounding a bit excited.
“Nah. Just plug in the power and put it into your head. Everything else is really well explained when you turn it on the first time.” I told him while sitting in my bed. “But this isn’t what I called you for. You see, since you are taking portable disaster with you…”
“Hey! Don’t say that about your sister!” He said, but I could clearly notice he wasn’t serious.
“Sure sure. As I was saying, since you are taking ragnarök junior with you…” I heard some laughter coming from the other end of the line. “There seems to be a new system to help parents with their children. So I thought you would be interested and maybe take a look at it.”
“Oh, I see… Is there one to help keeping animals in line?” he asked jokingly.
“Nah, I asked and there isn’t anything like that for me.” Yeah, one of my many nicknames in the house is animal.
“Oh well… That’s a shame.” He said in a good mood. “So, how is the game now that you played more of it?”
And here is where I started to tell him of my adventures. From the beginning, to hunting lynx, crafting, the blazing tail, Aura and so on. He seemed specially interested in the races of the game and how the class system works, but he didn’t make many questions. After I finished telling everything I could think of, I suddenly remember of something.
“Oh, also, do you remember when I told you that I would get an acquaintance to help you in the character creation?”
“Oh. Yeah. What about it?” He asked surprised. “You actually found someone?”
“Yup. You see, when you login into the game, there will be a girl with silver hair…”
“Silver? As in white?” He stopped me confused.
“No. Silver silver.”
“And a girl?”
“Yes…” I don’t like where this is going…
“So, you got yourself a new girlfriend?”
I KNEW IT!
“Nope.”
“Shame…”
“Anyway, she’s an A.I. and she’s my friend. So just tell her that you know Wargon and she’ll give you a hand.”
“You… Are friends with an A.I.?”
“Yep. Is there a problem?”
“… None at all…” He said in an expressionless voice. “So… Did you meet ANY girl in the game?” He asked me mischievously.
“Actually… Yes, I did.”
“… Really?” He asked me
“MIND BLOWN!” I mocked him while laughing.
“Okay, so is SHE your girlfriend?”
“…No.”
“You hesitated!”
“You are just imagining things.”
“So, when will you bring her to show me?” He’s ignoring me. I’m pretty sure about it.
“Look, there is probably no way she will come here because she lives in jap…”
I stopped when something came to my mind. Thinking back at the question they made me when I was at the cathedral… They wouldn’t, right?
“Sonny?”
“…”
“Richard? Are you there?”
“They are coming…” I said while face-palming myself.
“What?”
“The girls… They are coming to Brazil…”
“Girls? Coming to Brazil?” He asked me confused.
I sighed loudly before telling him about Yuu and Hanbei, how I met them and what I could from our talks. All the time my father was laughing at me, leaving me a bit embarrassed.
“So, you got yourself a girlfriend from japan out of all places?” He said tauntingly. “Is she pretty at least?”
“… If she is just like in the game, then yes.”
“Aren’t you lucky?” He taunted me once more but stopped suddenly when I heard another voice coming from near him. “Anyway, I’ll go now, because there is one little girl here who really wants to play her new game. See you in the game, I guess.”
“Yeah… See ya.”
After I cut off the call, I went to check on the newly installed app and quickly opened it. After typing my login and password, I started to fiddle around with it, searching for all of its function. I soon found the access to my friend-list and could see that the girls were still online, as well as the dungeon group. Argento and Red Hurricane were the only ones who were off.
Also…
Cygnas arbitrarily added herself to my friend list.
And if one day I find her offline, I know there will be something really worrisome happening.
I left the app alone for now and quickly set up an alarm for eight PM, and laid back in my bed, falling asleep after a short time.