Chapter 12 (1/2)
”Secret alpha tester No 44 Time elapsed: 317 hours, 18 minutes Cessation of neural activity confir dispatch of disposal team”
”Secret alpha tester No 62 and No 71 Tiout fro transport to the collection facility”
”Secret alpha tester No 99 Signs of e”
The 7th research center wasthe alpha test subjects within the MMORPG, World of Yggdrasia Monotonous announce out, one after another
At the 100 hours an to reach their first evolutions, the number of survivors plummeted
It was the 13th day since the start of the experiment Seven subjects died froetative state after their outs
”Oh , a bunch of them at once” Brian said, bemused
This man was the deputy director of the 7th research center The actual director was an ex-politician appointed to the position through a revolving door, and so the facility's leader was effectively Brian himself
His secretary-cuists proposed the following theory to explain for the occurence: these particular subjects had chosen to start with derae, their avatars lostthe bare basics, due to their shapes and range of s The mental pressure compounded with the Disconnect to elevate their distress and fear, and this could have quickened their collapse of the psyche”
”Right So did the doctorsto thethe subjects out and stabilize theirthe action feedback frorammed movements for monster avatars as soon as possible”
”So only iating the limits of mental stress that the human mind could handle was one of their purposes, that was true, but not the o into a h operation of the avatar would be near optiate how much mental stress resulted from what actions, it was most efficient to push the subjects' minds as much as possible Nearly 40 had dropped out after just 13 days, despite the original plan calling for half a year At the saained was coress
The project's next test subjects would be actual soldiers Partially to prepare for theed to acquire test subjects with no official presence in society, Brian planned on squeezing every last drop of science froht, aren't there still a few stable ones?”
”Yes, Deputy Director We retain seventeen relatively stable subjects However, thelow, far away from human civilization, only barely active”
”Well, we can't have that Ideas to deal with the proble depart the testers' locations to the local adventurer's guild in-game, plus several online foru?”
”Yeah, that's good Keep it up That reminds me, what happened to the berserkers?”
”Over half have been killed by beta testers 6 subjects had deteriorated intohunted by humans”
”Any of them stable, active, and evolved?”
”Yes Their stabilities varied, but No 01, No 08, No 13, and No 17 have been actively entering coe, the rank-up,” the secretary said She looked at the screen showing the surviving subjects and continued, faint admiration in her words ”The first twenty-three truly lived up to expectations Only five had dropped out, and it looked like they'd been ood use of their inborn abilities”
The elves had left for a new land, and the boy had given uardian spirit of this forest
But I was a demon, not a spirit And I didn't even live here!
[Shedy] [Race: White Ghast] [Low Deases An intelligent spiritual lifeforic Points: 303/303] 3↑ [Total Combat Power: 333/333] 3↑ [Unique Skill: Reroll] [Racial Skill: Fear] [Simple Identification] [Humanoid Form (Crude)]
Oh, whatever… I'd have to drop ht, picking that fight was a pretty harebrained idea, but it turned out well in the end I got so ame
I was quite sure I had reached the top of the food chain in this forest by now Even killing black caterpillars only gavefro all that, I supposed killing humans really was theaway because of the new skill I got from the rank-up…
[Racial Skill: Fear] ・A passive skill of the demon race Terrifies the weak
… the hell did that boy not run away frouiseskills was to see me, wouldn't they feel the fear?
dalance it ht seem useful for combat, but it only worked with enemies so weak as to be inconsequential in the first place, and anything I wanted to hunt would just run away from me
I supposed I really should leave, then
But it'd be really aard to pop up in front of the boy again after that tearful goodbye, so I traveled in the other direction Those elves cleaned up everything belonging to the slavers I killed All I had was the usual cloak andfor a while reaffirmed , otherwise the discoI felt was just the brain's hallucinations, but reality's never as easy as you'd like
But, well, I didn't need to crawl along on the ground any didn't provoke the sense of disconnect too badly, and ood thing in choosing the Ghast
At least, it was a lot s
…could I ever return to a noret in so too, but those rabbit ears just did not go away
Fine, let's leave [Hu
Got a bit faster, too I crossed forests and mountains at a poalker's pace, and three days later, the scenery finally changed
The thick, glooht, open woodland of needle-leaf trees Far away, a hue doot even further away frohtly increased nals, so in that elven forest Might be perfect for me as I was now
I started to nal was rather fast, but stoppedThen I saw it