Chapter 10.5
When I regained my conciousness, I was in the white world again. Back here again when at the worse time of all. However the white world was no longer the white world....it was more of a house now for some reason.
Did someone rearrange this world while I wasn't here?
“You must be Eden correct?” An old man appeared on a screen that appeared in front of me. He had grey-white hair and looked to be around 70-80 years old. However his eyes....his eyes looked a lot younger than his body was, a lot more lively.
“Who are you?” I questioned the strange man in the screen that appeared in front of me.
“Yoo Byung-Joon otherwise known as the creator of Royal Road, to be more precise the creator of the Goddess AI that governs the game.”
[Nice to meet you, I am the Goddess AI known as Versailles]
Another more mechanical voice that was female was heard in the same place as the man known as Yoo Byung-Joon.
“Okay.....” why was the creator of Royal Road here....talking to me....?
“Although those two will be shortly appearing here as well, I might as well enlighten you of what has happened in the real world whole you were causing all kinds of trouble in the game.”
“...”
Well.....I did cause a bit of damage while I was doing stuff.
[Readings indicate that you are now making up things in your mind. Shall I correct your improper recount of the actual events]
“No no no, I rather not remember those stuff right now!” I have a feeling that I would be seriously depressed when this AI does tell me everything I did wrong.
“Besides the light-humour stuff, we have a serious problem here and you're stuck I the position where only you can fix it. Namely those Mana Fragments as you call them are breaking the balance of the game.”
“As the game creator and the main AI of that very same game, couldn't you just delete them or just transport them to me or something?” If this was done earlier than I wouldn't have to run across continents to collect them.
“Not at all. That power has been restricted to the point where even I, who has the highest access to the main core of the system cannot change it. I guess its a fault of making a near perfect AI system to begin with.”
[What do you mean near perfect? I thought you created me to be the perfect AI in your eyes]
“Hey nothing is perfect in this world, even the Gods in the game and perhaps reality are imperfect. We both now that to be true.”
[Isn't that because of your incompetent ability to make a perfect one?]
“Hey! Everything in the game including the Gods in there are controlled by you!”
[I see, all of this is due to your incompetent ability to make me a perfect AI]
“...”
When is this comedy shoot going to end? I mean I feel really sick when I look at this like there is something sickeningly sweet or something in the air. Some more words here and there were thrown before Yoo Byung-Joon noticed I was watching. So much for a world leading genius arguing with an AI he created.
“Anyway some stuff about what is happening right now involving you in the real world. The research facility is now under Unicorn's control and you were transported to Unicorn HQ in Korea as well. The other two have also been transported here as well so you may meet the later.”
I see so I went from Australia to Korea while I was still in the game. Wait a second.....
“If I transported overseas then how didn't I get disconnected to the game?”
“Oh, the capsule we make have a feature which allows it to tap into Unicorn's personal network in order to connect to the game. This way you can even play Royal Road in the middle of the ocean since our network and many others have already span over the world completely.”
“I see, is there anything else you want to tell me?”
“Hmm....yeah, about the existence of the mana fragments and those who came with it. Let me tell you this, they weren't in the game originally at all. There were no models of those 'NPCs' nor a description of them at all in the game database before they came to exist. You're class and title and spells were also not in the game originally as well.”
“Huh? Then how come all of that stuff happened then?” I asked really confused. This sort of irrational stuff only happened in cheap poorly written stories right?
“Well I believe the Goddess AI can tell you more about since it is the closest to the matter itself.”
[It is simple to explain. My databases have been altered to allows these external influences to continue to exist. The history that was in the game as well as several concepts and lores were rewritten to the highest level to the point Gods in the game were affected to accumulated them inside me]
“....”
So.....stuff happened right....?
“Basically you class which is Magic King technically doesn't exist at all. All the possible classes and skills and titles a player can get were already written into the game as you know.”
Yeah.....even games back decades ago were like this. Something that does not exist in the game cannot be gained in a game.
“The most altered part is of the existence of Destroyers that came with the one called llyfr. An existence that was literally the opposite of Gods” Yoo Byung-Joon sighed before continuing, “There was originally only one kind of creature that designed to be able to face Gods equally and they were strong enough and now there's another kind...the balance of the game is really falling apart now. Anyway thanks to this Code 666 was altered to become a Destroyer as well since it was the closest existence that was made to be the enemy of Gods. I believe you met it already under the castle at the North.”
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Existence that was labelled 666 and I met it at the north.....
“Ah! The black liquid man which made me go berserk!”
“Yes him....I had to do a lot of work in order to make sure it doesn't gain its full strength again. I postponed his true event awakening to 15-20 years in the real world. Code 666 was meant to be the hidden boss after the final boss that was way stronger than the final boss.”
I see....there are usually bosses like that after the players reach the end content. Its to keep players motivated to play the game more and more to beat everything. A clear and simple strategy that has been effective for decades now.
“Anyway you don't need to worry about code 666 anymore for now. It'll take a life time in game for it to do any thing significant. The next problem is about the state of the western continent. It lost a lot of power over the last year in reality thanks to you and now I fear that its going to gain or lose too much in the next events that will happen.”
As Yoo Byung-Joon said those words, two flashes of light appeared near me. They were two people whom were dressed in simple clothings. However I recognised them immediately from sight.
“Alexandra? Viv?!” the said out loud.
They both looked at me and Alexandra shouted, “Eden?!”
You got to be joking....I had a feeling....but yeah.....
All three of us sighed out loud....why couldn't we separate even outside the game?
“Well I believe all three of you met in game but not outside the game. Namely all three of you were dead and are now directly connected to the infrastructure that is Unicorn which is keeping you alive.”
“....”
“Now while you are all confused on those words, do you three remember your lives before this?” Yoo Byung-Joon's words felt heavy for some reason.
“Of course I do......?” Alexandra was the first one to be provoked as always. There was confusion on her face as it went pale and as she held in with her hands.
I looked back in my memories as well. There was nothing there before the accident. The first thing I remember is the accident.
My name, family, friends, my life before this was gone.
What is going on?!
“I feared this would happen. It seemed some fools decided that it would be better to cover up their crimes and delete everything before I could get my hands on them. Fortunately I was able to save you three in time with help from some other people who disagreed with their actions. However the storage devices where your past memories are lost.”
“...”
“What is lost cannot be found.”
The three of us.....now called Eden, Alexandra and Viv stood there silent with no hope to regain what was lost.
“However what is lost can be regain slowly with time. This is not the end of you three, from what I see all three of you are pure psychopaths who do what you wish and cause of kinds of destruction wherever you go. However you three are also extremely stubborn to the point that you can deal with being stuck in a computer without a true body.”
“Then....” Viv muttered those words, “What will we do now? We have no goal now. The possibility to go back was the only thing left.”
Yoo Byung-Joon smiled for the first time and said, “There is always something to go back. But first you lot have things to deal with the Royal Road. I believe you have to take care of the 5 Shadow Kings as they call themselves. However I advise you to take 2 years in game perhaps to train yourself as much as possible before facing them. At your current states, you are no match against them even if you can defeat boss monsters higher level than you with ease.”
Yoo Byung-Joon looked at the three of us, all of us look like women but only one of us was an actual woman I hope. It would be creepy as hell if Alexandra was actually a man before.
“Remember this is no longer a game for you but your new reality.”
Geez...it seems all of this became too serious all of a sudden.
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Author's Notes:
- Word Count: 1700~
- Well things just got serious....a bit...yeah I'm not going to expand to story too much to include of the stuff that was said here.
- Oh yeah, I'm planning on a reboot on the Seoyoon's Journey fanfic that I wrote a while back sometime last year. Yeah...I don't want to remember my first attempt to write a fan-fic.....going to put a post there for starters.