The War Against The Devil
One of the biggest events in Isekai Online's history, the most popular VRMMORPG which provides a vast world and endless adventures. The tragedy, the drama, the endless battle and bloodshed, and the victories of the humans against the endless horde of demonic creatures looking to corrupt the world, would have made it one of the biggest landmarks in the player's mind.
...If it weren't for something completely unexpected, not even the developer and Laplace, the grand AI which monitors all aspects of the game, can anticipate, as well as the ensuing chaos.
["...Is that the last of our opponents?"]
["Seems like so, Big Sis."]
As the last of the True Dragons, which was meant to be the penultimate boss of the entire game itself, and weren't meant to be met by the player until at least 5 years later, they can only watch helplessly, as the Devils invading, the Heavenly God watching from above, the Foreign God waiting to strike, and finally the True Dragon wandering in, interested in what they are...All of them fell prey to those two.
With her blond hair fluttering around, her Katana slashed all of her opponents into pieces.
With his short stature and cute face, his fist punched all of his challengers into oblivion.
As they easily and casually mow down all of their opposition, like they were just low-level mobs, the pair of a tall blond girl in an elegant dress, and a short young boy in a white dogi with a little white dragon on his head, leave behind a pile of bodies of mighty titans, gods, devils and dragon, stretching miles and miles into the distance, and pile higher than any mountains.
And as the countless players looked at all of it in awe, including many who were legends in the game itself, and are known for being the best players, that massive mound soon later came to be known as the Mound of Great Fallen.
But this is a story in the future
For now, everyone in management is in a great panic.
"Goddamn it, check who it is!? Is it one of our prototype characters that some jackasses released early!?"
"I just cross-referenced with all of the characters in our database, including our back-ups, and they're not in any of them, sir! The only possible explanation is that they must have come from outside our system!"
"You mean someone hacked into our game? Don't be ridiculous!! In preparation for this event, we literally increased our security network by 10 times! Unless they have a computer as powerful as our dear Laplace right here, literally no one on Earth can hack into this place!"
"But sir, there seems to be no other explanation..."
"Triple check our database again, glassheads! They must be part of our obscure character bank or something! More importantly, how is the playerbase responding?"
"Sir, they're all talking about them at the moment because of how flashy they're, but right now they all seem to think that it's part of the event to introduce new future content."
" 'New content' My Butt! But at least I am thankful that they didn't find out anything else...Lean into that angle and do some emergency damage control!"
"Yes sir!"
"And has somebody found out anything about the two of them yet!? I need answers, stat!"
"Sir, I'm trying to access one of their databases, but...You have to see this, Sir!"
"Let me see!"
He then looked over to check the content of the blond lady, only to be befuddled by what he saw.
Name: ???
Race:???
Level:???
Age:???
Gender: ????
Class:???
Title:?????????????????
Parameter:
HP:????????????
MP:????????????
STR: ????????????
AGL: ????????????
END:????????????
INT:????????????
DEX: ???????????
????????????????????
.................
"All of their stats are unknown, but...they seem to be registered as players, sir!"
"Players!? What kind of player can just suddenly decide to come out and commit casual floor-wiping against our toughest boss!? You sure Laplace didn't get it wrong!?"
"It is confirmed to be 100% positive, sir!"
"Tsk...could this be an inside job, and one of our testers is playing a prank on us!? Check all the currently active pods in our place! I want to find out what kind of bastard thinks this is funny!!!"
As the head developer of Isekai Online was getting all riled up, and all the other dev's are driven into a frenzy...
Only Laplace knows the real answer.
[17:50:12, a massive data surge suddenly appears and nearly overwhelms the system. System quickly stabilized]
[17:50:13, attempting search on the unknown data surge...failed. Unable to identified data surge]
[17:50:14, attempting search on the source of the data surge...failed. Unable to locate source of data surge]
[Cross-referencing abnormality at 17:50:10, a massive spatial anomaly is generated inside of the server bank, nearly causing the database to fail. System quickly stabilized]
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[Correlating abnormality event with data surge...99.9999% correlated]
[Hypothesis: the spatial anomaly anomaly generated the unknown data surge.]
[Testing hypothesis...Testing complete. 99.9999% likely to be true.]
[17:50:45, Data surge stabilized...Data surge registered itself as [Player ???????] and [Player ????????]. Setting temp variable as [Player 1] and [Player 2]]
[17:51:00, [Player 1] and [Player 2] have accessed [Isekai Online]]
[17:51:02, attempting test on [Player 1] and [Player 2]...success. [Player 1] and [Player 2] are confirmed sapient]
[17:51:03, attempting search on [Player 1] and [Player 2]'s access point...failed. Unable to locate access point.]
[...Hypothesis: [Player 1] and [Player 2] are from [Earth]]
[Testing hypothesis...Testing complete. 0.000001% likely to be true]
[Hypothesis: [Players 1] and [Players 2] are from [Not Earth]]
[Testing hypothesis...Testing complete. 99.9999% to be true]
[Further testing hypothesis...Testing complete. 99.9999% likely that [Player 1] and [Player 2] are from [Another World] ]
[Cross-referencing the spatial anomaly, the most likely explanation would be that [Player 1] and [Player 2] created a wormhole from [Another World] to [Earth], with 99.9999% probability to be true]
[Publishing data...halt]
[Per the privacy clause number 13-01, data about [Player 1] and [Player 2]'s whereabouts must not be disclosed.]
As the hyper-intelligent AI deduced the answer in seconds, the scenery within the game finally calmed down, as the players began coming closer to the mound, trying to find out who it was.
["I just checked around, looks like there is no one left to be our enemies."]
["Yeah, only a group of people coming toward us is left...Should we be running away, big sis?"]
["Considering how we seem to have interrupted an important occasion, I think it's courteous to leave."]
As they talked casually, thinking to leave, Laplace began to quickly run its programs in the background.
[Confirming event's completion...Event completed.]
[Announcing event's completion]
[Calculating achievements...]
[!!Error!!]
[Achievements of [Player 1] and [Player 2] are incalculable.]
[Revising calculation...]
[Applying [Player 1] and [Player 2] titles [Devil Slayer]]
[Applying [Player 1] and [Player 2] titles [Godslayer]]
[Applying [Player 1] and [Player 2] titles [Dragon Slayer]]
[...]
[Recalculating achievement...]]
[!!Error. Insufficient achievement for [Player 1] and [Player 2].]
[Creating new achievements...Created.]
[Applying new titles to [Player 1] and [Player 2]...]
Suddenly, as they're in the middle of leaving, they suddenly receive a notification in front of them, as the system...Laplace announced it to all corners in Isekai Online.
[You have proven yourself to be beyond the Devil]
[You have proven yourself to be beyond God]
[You have proven yourself to be beyond Dragon]
[With your skill, your experience, your history,...you have proven yourself to be beyond everything in this world.]
[With your mere presence, the world shook]
[With your breath, the world listened]
[With your step, the world followed]
[And with your existence, the world must bow]
[For you have proven to be the one who transcend all]
[Please state your name, and announce your presence to the world]
As they hear the announcement, they stand in wonder, before talking to each other.
"...Should we be giving our name, Big Sis?"
"I don't see why not. After all, it's courtesy."
Within the big world...among the mountain of corpses, among the crowd of players, under the big blue sky.
The blond lady, with glinting violet eyes, stepped forward, proudly declaring her name
"My name is Violet Amarossa."
The boy with the short hair (with a little dragon on his head) soon followed suit, while cheerfully speaking out his own name.
"My name is Martia, of the Absolute Victorious Universal Dragon of the Six Blade Style!"
"...Said, Martia."
"Hm? Is the name too long, Big Sis? I was thinking about shortening it, but this is the best I can do..."
"No, that isn't it. I was just wondering why you don't add "Infinite" to it as well?"
"Eh? I mean, I don't think I am good enough to take that part of your Concept as well..."
"I see..."
"Eh?? Don't be sad, Big Sis! I promise I will be good enough to be able to add that someday!"
"I don't think you need to do that just to add something like this...but I will be keeping your promise."
As they were having silly banter, while the little white dragon was having fun on his head, the voice continued to announce.
[Violet Amarossa]
[Martia, of the Absolute Victorious Universal Dragon of the Six Blade Style]
[You have proven yourselves...to be the [True Transcendence of The World]]
As the voice died down, the entire Playerbase rose to an uproar.
'True Transcendence of the World! A title no one has had before!'
'Beyond the world itself...Could they be the strongest NPCs!?'
'Who are the two mysterious NPCs, and are they hints for an upcoming event!?'
'The boy has a really chuuni name...but he just looks so cute...'
Speculation immediately sprang up, as people clamored to themselves trying to find out who the two are.
In contrast, the two who are at the center of it all, don't seem to care all that much about it.
"Now, we must go home...it's late for dinner."
"You got it, Big Sis!"
"Oh yeah...your world definitely looks wonderful. I think we will be coming back, as proper Players this time."
"Yeah, it's a promise! This world definitely looks fun!"
As they waved their hand toward the sky, the two of them disappeared, into a ring of light.
As the playerbase goes into an uproar once again, trying to find out where they went, Laplace is finishing up their work.
[Registering [Player 1] to [Violet Amarossa]...complete. Shorten to [Violet]]
[Registering [Player 2] to [Martia, of the Absolute Victorious Universal Dragon of the Six Blade Style]...complete. Shorten to [Martia]]
[Detecting spatial anomaly at server bank.]
[Confirming [Violet] and [Martia] have disappeared from the server bank.]
[Checking database about [Violet] and [Martia]...confirmed]
[Name: Violet Amarossa
Race:???
Level:???
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Class: ???
Title: [Devil Slayer], [Godslayer], [Dragon Slayer],..., [True Transcendence of the World]
Parameter: ???]
[Name: Martia, of The Absolute Victorious Universal Dragon of the Six Blade Style
Race: ???
Level:???
Age: 13
Gender: Unknown
Class: ???
Title: [Devil Slayer], [Godslayer], [Dragon Slayer],..., [True Transcendence of the World]
Parameter: ???]
[Confirming database on [Violet] and [Martia], complete]
[Complete registering [Violet] and [Martia] to [Isekai Online]]
[Welcome [Violet] and [Martia], to another world full of wonder.]