Chapter 20 (1/2)

It had been one month since the start of the official beta test for the new VRMMORPG, World of Yggdrasia The gaed with the newest VR system, and had become the talk of the town for its incredible realisame had just concluded its first official event, Subdue the Berserkers Criticism had been th of the eventbehaviors; and other reasons But in general, player responses were positive And once the developers released an official video showcasing some of the best battles of the event, the internet was i for the official gaan, the ten thousand chosen testers had been enjoying their travels of the lands and busying thes on the VR chatroo able to spawn in any tiht so too And then it turned out that if you , likeI've been seeing sunlight all day” ”I know, right? Then I got way too hooked in this gaaer cities have the red-light districts? The place's a bit dangerous, but at least you can pass the night there” ”Ah, I'es version…” ”Oh, whoops Never mind, then” ”Hey, there are kids here Stop it with the topics” ”Got it” ”Sorry” ”So this also ties in to the ti, but did you know you can teleport to a distant Teh, and you can't bring anything besides event ite” ”Yeah, they used actual scenes froht? Only one spawned in ed in it's already dead” ”Apparently a few of theh they see theenerally pretty strong I heard quite a lot of the rank 2 parties died to theh do the ranks… actually 'skill level' is the right word, isn't it? So how high can they get?” ”I think the devs said it's 10? But both the current version and the official release are only going to get to 5, apparently” ”Yeah If you take co to see Rank 6 only with top-class knights, probably?” ”First tiame with players weaker than NPCs…” ”That's a realis those top-class knights all over the town in a few years, though…” ”Man, I wish there was anotherevent This tiht?” ”Yeah, it's super convenient for traveling and changing spawn points A pity the nor a ht?” ”Personally, I don't really care The country I picked is already so huge I'm not even sure I can explore all of it Besides, those bosses I saw in the trailer looked hella scary! Seriously, there's gotta be a limit to realism” ”I mean, the ones in the trailer were the ten ot a lot of player kills under their belts before they're dead I don't think the event ree they were fucking crazy Really have to wonder what kind of AI the devs were using” ”'Crazy' is right I could actually feel the insanity Maybe they recruited a horror game dev from somewhere else?” ”Oh yeah, did you hear? The devs tweeted that the official release may have monster avatars to choose fro like the trailer bosses?!” ”What are they going to do about the Disconnection? I read about this 120-kilo old dude who only changed his body type and age, and he still had to deal with tons of probleo into much details, only that the parts that cause the Disconnection are going to be automated” ”So I can have two heads or turn into mist, too?” ”Bad news for you, bro Amorphous avatars have way tooto be shelved” ”Man, the last three were insane Terrifying looks are one thing, but they're also hella fast and hit hard” ”The last three were the ravenous toad, the two-headed fiend wolf, and the white ht?” ”I heard they're all super powerful” ”I have a Rank 2 friend that spawned in another country They said their party of three challenged the white mist, but they literally died in seconds” ”The white one that showed up at the end of the trailer, right? That scene scared the hell out of me, even when I kneas just a video! You know, the one where it turned into a vague hu a broken sword, and then did a slasher smile Holy shi+t!” ”Yeah, scary… but I think it looked kinda cool too”

”Deputy Director, we've finished the collection process for the secret alpha testers currently in comas due to collapsed psyches, all 57 of the process fron here”

”Yeah yeah… alright, that's done, right?”

”Thank you”

The secretary of the 7th research center entered the Deputy Director's rooer in a few spots The docuht-blue, acknowledging Brian's fingerprints He gave the docuerly asked ”Deputy Director, should I be present for the testers' disposal thirty days later?”

”Well, so, all the better Is there any reason why you asked?”

”Not quite… If I had to say, perhaps I just wanted to send off the girl who survived the whole thing”

”I suppose that's how you wo her in for the final scene of the trailer would be a great idea, and I was right! Man, that part esome, wasn't it?”

”…it was However, itamorphous avatars, once the official release is out and people can choose to play as simple monster avatars Will it be a problem?”

”Aaaahh… yeah, that”

Their plans for the first unveiling of monster avatars included 15 different types They did not include amorphous monsters

These avatar types were too unstable in terms of movements and body shapes To use theateto the AI's automation, and in essence this would aaood to use in the first place They have weak attacks and are highly vulnerable topoints, the players would need to be able to freely transform themselves, but that's totally i, No 13 was simply way too much of an exception” Brian let loose a strea excuses

The secretary only nodded ”Indeed Even a the secret alpha testers, she was unique…”