[Data analysis has been completed]
Those words echoed in the lonely room where a certain man was thinking on what to do next. This man of course was Yoo Byung-Joon, the creator of Royal Road. A genius recognised throughout the world and secretly the most powerful man as well.
“Two weeks.....hmm....I hope nothing bad happened during that time” Yoo Byung-Joon said drinking some coffee.
As someone late in his life, Yoo Byung-Joon did not really enjoy drinking too much coffee. However it was a habit from his younger days that enforced this act at times where he was thinking solely on an issue.
The AI of Royal Road, the goddess that Yoo Byung-Joon created responded to this man who was talking to himself as usual.
[According to records, the target in question had a couple of 'instances' that needed patching immediately. To be more precise, code 666 has been released]
Yoo Byung-Joon spat out the coffee he was drinking immediately when he heard those words.
“Impossible, that's an event for after an emperor is crowned!”
[However it remains that code 666 has been released]
Yoo Byung-Joon was panicking now. Code 666 was a creature. One of the few creatures that Yoo Byung-Joon had created by his own hands and gave it a certain role in the game. He had saved this one to be the 'final boss' in the after game and as such gave it powers that surpassed even the absolute Gods in the game. Called the Beast or Satan in myths, a creature that defiled Gods.
“What are the protocols for fixing this?” Yoo Byung-Joon asked hoping for the best.
[There are none currently available]
“Sigh....this can't get worse.....”
[On another report, a level 2 event has been activated as well. Also another level 3 event has also been activated along with a couple of level 4 events at once]
Yoo Byung-Joon almost face-palmed himself as well.
There are levels in the events that are scripted to happen in game. They rank from 1 to 10 with 10 being the lowest and 1 being the highest. Rank 10 events aren't even quests while Rank 9 are F ranked quests and ranked 3 events are S ranked quests.
The fact that there are 2 ranks above S ranked quests means they are events that affect more than just the whole continent spanning over to the realm Gods lay.
An example of this was the Legion of Undead which is classed as a rank 3 event since it threatens the whole continent at once if the quest fails or worse. While the continent is affected, the other realms aren't at all.
“Tell me the one which this 'Eden' character is involved in first. I'll have to deal with the others later.”
[Understood, Character Eden has helped Character Alexandra with Character Viv to complete Rank 3 event: Holy Trial which then led to Rank 2 event: Dragon Path, Witch Path and Warrior Path. Also afterwards, there was an abnormality where another Mana Fragment was recorded]
“I see, I see.....so those three are now on end game content while the rest of the players are still stuck near the beginnning.” Yoo Byung-Joon replied sarcastically.
[Also before that, Character Eden obtained a Divine Sword and faced the God Poseidon and later a Kraken]
“...”
With his genius mind Yoo Byung-Joon calculated what would happen if those two entities were to be slain like that out of nowhere.
“This Eden players didn't kill them right? It'll be a pain to place another Kraken or God back into the game if he did.”
Technically players still did not have the power to even deny a God let alone slay one. That would be a Rank 1 or 2 Event for that to happen. But still, the man known as Yoo Byung-Joon could still undo all of that by rolling back time a bit without affecting the players location or stats and fast forward it again so the players won't even notice a difference. It was highly complicated to do even for him so he wished to avoid it if possible.
[Negative, both have escape without issue though it was Eden whom escaped the Kraken in the latter case]
“Ah good, now what about the analysis before we get distracted again.”
[Location of the physical body of character Eden has been found. It is a research facility, what is your desired action?]
“Hmm....”
Naturally Yoo Byung-Joon could not just get a task force to wipe them out, this Eden person was too interesting to let that happen but it was most likely that he was being experimented on with his own permission since it fell under the radar.
“Send someone to take it over.” said Yoo Byung-Joon.
He just had to make sure that this Eden person is not harmed at all. What could go wrong in both game and reality for the negotiations to go wrong?
“Now on the other issues.....damn these Overlords and Divine Saints! Making a mess of the continent like that!” muttered Yoo Byung-Joon under his breath as he concentrated on fixing another problem caused by another group of troublemakers.
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“Well at least these two groups won't meet.....”
Yoo Byung-Joon felt like he jinx himself with those words. He did not know what kind of chaos would occur if even one of these troublemakers would meet.
xXx
“Start the development of the phototype” said Seraph in a clear and calm manner towards the rest of the teams that she had the power to command.
Seraph looked down at the device that were keeping hundreds of people 'alive'.
Out of these hundreds, only a few were able to perfectly regain themselves and adapted to the game called Royal Road. Even amongst these few, three of them stood out the most like signs that they have 'evolved' to a higher state then they had expected.
Naturally 'evolving' wasn't as simple as becoming something the ones cannot understand but rather, their processing power and natural abilities were higher than what normal people can sustain for long periods of time.
Perhaps its due to the nature of the game itself which allowed people to do things that is impossible in reality later on when they were among the top players. Or perhaps its just the natural abilities of these three that has finally restore itself.
“Leader, there seems to be a problem in connecting the 'brain' to the 'body' with subject 65” said one of men in Seraph's team that consisted of a large range of experts.
In this research lab, there were at most a hundred people here at a time looking into the same kind of thing Seraph is.
However Research is slow and the funding is slowly being cut off from the lack of results.
“I'll be there in a bit.” replied Seraph wanting to think alone for a while longer.
Seraph was not one of the leading scientist that led this place. He was one of the ones that lead the lower ranks and took orders from the top.
While the theory was seemingly perfect, no one could understand the different reaction from person to person.
More then half the 'people' brought in could not regain conciousness for the lab to communicate with them.
Out of those who did, 90% of them went insane or worse and disappeared forever.
The very very few struggle to cling onto their very existence.
And there were those who adapted perfectly.
Seraph sighed again.
It was not that having those 'people' adapt perfectly that worried him. It was their personality. Those on top have theorised that the personality of the person and their age had an effect on the success rate of the 'operation'.
Out of those who have adapted, once again three stood out the most.
And every last one of them were psychopaths that even the kindest of those who watched could only call them monsters. Not that they could actually watch their in game footage. There was a strange limitation on that part that the lab has to fix.
Seraph placed those thoughts away for now since he was to led another 'operation'.
This time they were going beyond games and into reality.
They were now at the stage where they can place the minds of the dead into bodies that were 'alive'.
“I hope that we are not treading into poisoned waters....”
Seraph had bad ideas of this but still compiled with his orders.
“Hello.”
Turning around, Seraph saw a young man with a face that seemed natural but forced at the same time. Seraph had bad feelings about this man.
“I am from Unicorn who has connections to this place. May I know where the head of this department is?”
The smile told Seraph that this man knew everything and that there is no escape.
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Author's Notes:
- This didn't include Eden's report for when he was killed by the Phoenix for some reason....it gets kinda boring since it ends up the same way.
- Pretty much some insight on what is happening in the real world. A summary of the current situation is that Eden is dead, revived and placed in a machine for his mind is still alive. Unicorn via Eden caught on and is now taking over them since Eden is an interesting player for the creator at least. This may be a spoiler since I think I wrote about this somewhere in Volume 5 but that's going up as well in a few days time.
- Remember, its daily releases now :)