Aurora doesn't think that she can tell anyone about her talk with Nova just now. Even in a world where magic exists, people might still think she is crazy. If someone saw her just now, from their point of view, she must have looked like she was talking to herself.

All of this makes her feel tired. There's a lot to unpack from that talk. She has decided to take a rest for now.

While she is walking towards her room, she looks around. The sun has already set, yet she sees people still busy. Teachers and workers are moving and working quickly, fixing broken buildings. Sometimes with magic, sometimes directly using their hands.

Some people even greet her when they notice Aurora passing by. It seems like she is getting more popular because of Lyra's actions.

Looking at the broken building, Aurora wonders about Nova. Were her nightmares so bad that she decided creating destruction like this was acceptable?

That still sounds like a stupid decision, but Aurora feels like she must be prepared for the worst, whatever that nightmare was about.

Nightmares, predictions. That's kind of funny because Aurora has faked having the power of future sight before. Then who knows, this might end up becoming one of her future sights too.

But even if Aurora believes her, Nova barely told her anything about it. She left out so many details, especially what is going to attack them, which makes it hard to prepare for anything.

"You look like you have a lot on your mind," someone said. "Did I come at the wrong time?"

Aurora looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was Dante.

Aurora weakly smiled and said, "Yes, and I hope you didn't add more to it."

Dante laughed and replied, "Sorry, but that's outside my control."

Aurora sighed. "I guess so. Then what happened? What can you tell me today?"

"It's about the second prince," Dante said. "After his plan failed, the royal knights chased him to the border of the elf kingdom. When he crossed the border, he was protected by the elves, and it seems like he successfully made an ally there. The problem is, the elves used a weird weapon on us."

"A weird weapon?" Aurora asked. "Like what?"

"It wasn't a bow or anything like that," Dante explained. "It creates a loud explosive noise, can be fired from a distance, and is super fast. It shoots some sort of metal balls and forced our knights to retreat and abandon the chase."

Aurora blinked in disbelief. "What?"

She wasn't sure yet, but that... sounded like a description of a gun.

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A gun in a medieval fantasy world? That wasn't possible, right? Aurora thought. But if it really exists somehow...

"Is that normal?" Aurora asked, looking worried. "Does elf technology always have something like this?"

"As far as I know, not really," Dante said. "This was definitely weird. Not to mention, the elves are supposed to be really proud of their archery skills. While that new weapon is still a ranged weapon, I thought their pride would get in the way of innovation like that."

Aurora's mind was racing. Not only about this weird weapon, but even the concept of elves was bothering her. In the game "The Wicked Villainess of Ruin," there were monsters, but other fantasy races like elves and demons didn't really exist.

The focus of the game was on the interaction between a small circle of characters, mostly inside the Magic Academy, and the world outside the kingdom of Avalonera was never properly explained.

Obviously, an elf kingdom was never mentioned in the game, not even in leaks or datamining.

"What's the name of the elf kingdom again?" Aurora asked.

"You don't know?" Dante looked at Aurora weirdly.

"What?" Aurora said.

"Sorry, I always feel like you know everything," Dante said. "So it's kinda weird for you to not know something."

"That's just normal," Aurora pouted. "I'm not a freak. Of course, I don't know everything."

"Okay, sorry, sorry," Dante said as he laughed. "It's the kingdom of the elves, Evermist."

Aurora was stunned. The name was familiar to her. Not exactly from "The Wicked Villainess of Ruin," but from somewhere else.

Dante finished his report, and Aurora then hurried back to her room.

"Welcome back, miss," Lyra said as she saw her master was back.

"Lyra, bring me the world map right now!" Aurora said.

A little surprised, Lyra replied, "Okay, miss. The world map, right? Please wait a moment."

Lyra has learned not to ask too many questions when her master suddenly asks for something unusual, especially when she looks like she's in a hurry. She will find out herself later anyway, or better yet, Aurora will explain it herself.

Lyra quickly gets out of the room while Aurora sits on her chair, looking anxious.

Aurora's reaction to the news was reasonable because it meant someone else had transmigrated to this world besides her. Not only that, but this person had decided to use their knowledge from the modern world to bring guns, of all things. Plus, the name of the Elf Kingdom couldn't be a coincidence.

Why guns though? Aurora wondered. Does this person want to create a war or something?

Aurora remembered Nova's prediction. Does this mean the danger that Nova was worried about is coming from this?

Lyra came back with the map in her hand.

"Here it is, miss," Lyra said as she put the map on the table.

"Okay, thanks," Aurora said, immediately studying the map.

The kingdom she was in, the setting of "The Wicked Villainess of Ruin," was called Kingdom Avalonera, and it was right in the middle of the continent. To the north, where the second prince had run away, was supposedly the Elf Kingdom of Evermist. Surprisingly, it was smaller than she anticipated.

"What do you know about this?" Aurora asked.

Lyra looked at where her master was pointing.

"The Elf Kingdom?" Lyra said. "Not much, I'm sorry. All I know is that the kingdom has been in conflict with a human kingdom called Salamanra for over a hundred years."

To the left, Aurora saw the kingdom Lyra was talking about. Salamanra, that name is familiar too.

Aurora gulped.

Aurora's favorite genre of games might be dating sims and visual novels, but it doesn't mean she hasn't played any other types of games. And that name... That was the setting, the name of the kingdom, from another game she had played before.

It was an FPS game called [GG: Gunslinger Goddess]. You played as a female army member who dominated the battlefield with her gun expertise. It wasn't a super unique FPS, but it was a good one. Until later, the developer released a weird DLC based on an April Fools' joke. Instead of the modern world, the setting was changed to a medieval fantasy world. Instead of guns, you had to use a bow. And your job was as a human knight, to eliminate all the elves with their own specialties.

The kingdom of the Elf Evermist and its enemy Kingdom Salamanra came from that DLC.

This meant Aurora's assumptions were wrong all this time. This world wasn't just from [The Wicked Villainess of Ruin] game; it was actually a mashup of several games. And people from this world, like Dante and Lyra, found this fact to be natural. They thought this world was always like this.

This deeply troubled Aurora because, besides those two kingdoms, she noticed several familiar names on the world map from different games.

She counted and it seemed there were seven game settings on the world map:

Her dating Sim game, [The Wicked Villainess of Ruin]

The DLC from the FPS game, [GG: Gunslinger Goddess]

A tactical RPG similar to Fire Emblem, [Demoness Monarch of the Eternal Night]

A stealth and thief game, [The Phantom Huntress]

A fighting game, [Martial Arts Maiden]

A puzzle-making game, [Puzzle Empress]

A fantasy racing game, [Speed Freak Uta]

Judging from the appearance of guns inside the elf kingdom, Aurora predicted that there was a transmigrator for every game setting.

So seven games and seven transmigrators, including herself.

With so many unknown factors, it wasn't surprising that the future could be extremely bleak and chaotic.

"This is... going to be hard," Aurora said unhappily.

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