Chapter 57: Early end of session (2/2)

Reputation instead influenced the general opinion of you, but this was overruled by almost every other kind of reputation, especially those that were more focused to an individual or party, such as fah you raised your reputation, if an NPC had a negative reaction to you, it wouldn't ih reputation Reputation only really affected the perception of you from those who had yet interacted with you There were cases where your reputation did affect even those who had a pre-established opinion of you, but these were typically due to a special title or extre to sit around and chat, or in Merlin's case, sit around and be whispered about by everyone in the building, Merlin left the uild Now on the street, he noticed he only had a few minutes left before the server was shut down There wasn't enough ti down information about the noble the priestess called Sir Redet aithout

Before he did so, he noticed so that the clothes featured in the store they were harassing were nothing eneral consensus ast the nearby NPC was that the players were obnoxious troublemakers

Merlin easily identified the players as LordKyle and his two goons, although it seemed they had some different equipment this time around LordKyle himself had a crude leather breastplate with a tattered red cape, it looked to be a goblin drop,

Clearly being left alone to bully defenceless players had inflated his ego, and he was now giving a similar treatment to NPCs He would be shut down eventually, but a few ideas sprung up in Merlin's e in the near future

A red alert box appeared before hi off now

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[Message from the devs!]

The server will shut down in fiveout

The server will forcibly disconnect those who do not log out in time

Thank you

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"Syste hiout, to which he responded with yes

He received the fa away as his body was reame and thrust into the endless black void used as the lialy white rooain vanished into darkness as he slapped the power symbol on his arm and confirh Arthur's body, waking hiht position before opening, revealing the facility He waited a fewthe capsule

As he left his capsule, he noticed one of the developers pacing back and forth with a nervous expression plastered on his face, it seemed to be especially bad as there were several holes chewed into his pencil He didn't sees, instead constantly checking his watch and then his phone

Arthur could guess that he aiting for a response from the developer ent back to the lab to disconnect Gaia from the mainframe, and his nervous erratic behaviour was because he feared the possibility of losing Gaia Although backups werewas expensive and hard to replace

A wave of nausea washed over Arthur, followed shortly after by a sharp stabbing pain in his head as a memory surfaced As his attention was drawn back to the developer as pacing around the room, Arthur's vision split, there was suddenly two developers, one following the actions of the other with about three seconds difference

Arthur watched as the developer's projection bumped into a table, followed by his physical body three seconds later which sent a handful of pens and pencils onto the floor And as the developer's projection began pacing back, not paying any attention to its surroundings, it suddenly tripped on one of the pens, falling forward and s a small pool of blood to form under the projection's unconscious body