Penalty

Aldrich had always wondered what was the nature of RECORD.

What was the reason for its existence? What was the underlying principle of its working? Why the color of the notifications felt sometimes blue and sometimes green was also a question that he thought about often.

So when the sudden notification of ERROR, in menacing red, surfaced in front of him, he couldn't take his eyes off it. Aldrich never believed that there was any being in the world who was truly impartial until the RECORD presented itself to him. So, for it to show ERROR to him could only mean one thing.

Aldrich looked at the red hue of the notification vanishing after it had flashed three times in front of it. And a series of notifications appeared in its place.

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Anomaly detected in the System

Scanning Dreamer's Record…

Dreamer is found to have tempered with Attributes using Unnatural Lifeform in the Dungeon

Penalizing Dreamer…