Chapter 29 (1/2)

In the 7th research center of a certain pharmaceutical company, situated within a certain country of Earth, there was a researcher The head researcher, in fact – even if these days, most of her hours were taken up by secretarial work for the Deputy Director, Brian One of her colleagues had just shared with her an i

”Can't be… but, what if…” Audrey drasia A whole neorld presented as fiction, as nothing ame

So-called 'players' were sent to this world as harvesters of a new fory, called 'un interfering with the neorld's huo Temples were built in all of them as drasia's hue In truth, these buildings served as bases for the corporation's staff istructed equipment, for on-site analysis of local peculiarities such as mana and materials, and for surveillance

One hundred thousand AI-driven, stealth-focused remote-controlled drones were used as scouts and spotters They flew around the whole world to survey terrains and climates In seldom cases, a particularly perceptive ht still be able to heavily daood, and Earth received a massive amount of information

Once the drones' AI detected an unusual event, their progra required them to hurry toward the scene and record what they could The drones at Trestan Kingdom, a country in the north-western corner of the central continent, had detected one such event at the auction hall and had recorded a part of it

Right in front of the Deputy Director's roo a audiovisual-only VR set, she replayed the copy of the recorded data that was sitting in her irl fighting against a large group of grown adults inside the auction hall

The video was filled with a strange white noise, alirl's movements were abnormally fast Audrey couldn't see what she looked like Luckily, when the girl was sent flying by a wind spell, her side profile appeared on the screen for a split second

And immediately after that, the screen whited out as if the drone ed indata ended there Audrey's colleague had laht would havewasn't so blurry

”…”

But Audrey thought the girl looked fa of déjà-vu

She had white skin, white hair… and scarlet eyes Normally characteristics of an albino, yet with the addition of her long ears, she looked just like a rabbit beast the side of her face reirl

”…nuirl born with a special poas called a 'deone, and her co kept in the collection facility

Audrey remembered very clearly the photo attached to the docuirl's personal inforet that stare

They just looked similar, that's all

Most people would brush off the matter with that Yet for soirl from No 13 Still, the wo from her intuition

After I escaped the auction hall, I quickly blended into the crowd I…

bouncy-bounce

We didn't stay there for long The two of us cli roofs An express train was about to leave right at thatto the train's roof We were out of the capital city

I spent a whole day on top of the train Once we reached the next town, I got on another train – officially, this tiht – before the news about me could catch up, and left the country border

I only needed to give the ticketing office my money and show them a peek of my adventurer's card, and they let me on They didn't check on me too closely

I was curious, so until the train arrived, I chatted with the ossipy type Apparently, adventurer's cards re them – for example, a bandit – then the card would show a black mark It would be unusable

So basically, you would be checked quite e town, but inside, you just showed your card and the guards would let you go anywhere So sloppy

By the way, I already threay that conspicuous red hoodie along the way Obviously

The train I was on was going to the east of Trestan Kingdom Its destination was a s country'impression In contrast to countries of Earth, which were densely packed together and covered all the land people could live on, countries here only fors So there was quite a distance It would take a whole three days of non-stop running for the express train to arrive

Actually, this was pretty much the same speed as a linearby Yet even when I opened the , all I felt was a nice breeze I wondered if the whole train was covered with a forcefield They did have a lot oflike this wasn't h an airplane's , anyway…

Trains that crossed country borders like this one had eight cars, three of theers Twelve rooroups of passengers, so I had a whole room to myself

Froe passing by I could finally take a breather I took out so hall to feed Blobsy, while checking on the results of e] [Greater Dees the northern seas A canny spiritual lifeforic Points: 1950/1950] 415↑ [Total Combat Power: 2145/2145] 457↑ [Unique Skill: <reroll> <cyber-ht, where do I even start?

First off, my class finally reached [Greater Derew all that draotten quite a bit heavier due to the higher density – or perhaps I should say 'thicker mist' – that I now had In other words, a flat power increase

Next, 'neige'? If I reht? My newly-acquired unique skill probably had soic stone carried within it No 17's power