Chapter 013: Only 4 weeks passed.
Sien then begin his explanation about the the things they should and not do while they were working together, he also included his plans on it such as their formation when fighting, information gathering, guards at night, and so on. He also told them that he woul be missing for a few hours everyday as he needs to log out, though he didn't said the last part to them, he only said that it was a man thing and they shouldn't care about it.
Princess Veronica and co made sure to listen to his words properly as the reputation of her and them as her guards depends on him.
There's also a times that they voice out their "opinion" about something they're unhappy about, Sien made sure to listen to their not likely complaints and change his allocation of things so that a fight won't breake internally from their group and will make their journey to the end of the underground labyrinth more smoother.
When they're done on their preparations, they set foot on the 2nd underground floor and started their adventure as a team composed of a human with his summons and a Princess Elf with her royal guards.
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More than a month now have passed since the game Paradise Worlds launched, the players of the game made a world breaking discovery about it and it was all over the news now.
There's one player who uploaded a video of him in the internet from inside of the game first, there he told the viewers what kind of special trait and how much he improve throughout the time he played the game since 4 weeks ago. He also included a lot of things in it about the game that made the viewer counts reached more than half a million.
Some people who didn't play the game voiced their opinion by commenting on his post that his progress was only edited and the game wasn't as good as it should be but a lot of people who played the game also voiced their own by countering what the people who didn't play the game said.
Then as they were arguing about if the video were fake or not, another video came from the same player who uploaded the first video but this time he's not inside of the game but in real life.
He was standing in front of a lake were there's still some other people walks by. He then entered the lake until his knees was wholely submerged in to the lake and a few seconds passed the lake became frozen, yes!, it became frozen!, the people nearby watching what his doing started to run away like their life depends on it, even the man who's holding the camera ran away as he let go of the camera that fell to the ground and the one who froze the lake was the player who uploaded his first video about how realistic the game is.
This video made him famous overnight after he uploaded it the internet and a lot of people saw the video in different parts of the world, good thing he hid his face with a mask, if not things wouldn't be too good for him.
It didn't stop there as he once again uploaded a video freezing a whole parking lot this time with a few different cars still in there. The witnesses about his action started to comment on his video about how they saw him freeze things in a blink of an eye.
The discussion about this kind of phenomenon become more intense until a different man in a different country far away from the first man uploaded a video. This man don't freeze things up but he burns them, the viewers can see how he turn several rows of trees with the thickness of a 2 grown man back with each other and almost 6 meter tall in to ashes.
After 6 days pass when the first man uploaded his video freezing the whole lake, many different peoples around the world started to upload their own video with them demonstrating their superpower like the superheroes in a movies have.
The world were put in chaos for the entire week and still no sign of stopping because of these phenomenons happening around the world. When the government of different countries started to investigate what is the cause of the sudden appearance of the superpowers of the peoples, they can't believe what they found out. It turns out that all of this happening because of one game!.
A Virtual Reality Game called 'Paradise Worlds' that can give the players a superpower once they reached a certain level and awakened themselves after, the awakened players of course doesn't have anyone to stop them from wrecking havoc, they can use their new gained powers however they like and the police can't do anything to them as guns doesn't affect them at all even high caliber guns can only do a scratch on them that will easily heal after a few seconds.
Each of the country's higher-ups of course immediately made their move to suppress the distribution of the gaming capsule for the game but they were one step behind of the citizen of each of their country as they have already seized more than 90% of it because of the players who first awakened themselves spread to the internet how they gained their powers and also even if the government confiscated a lot of gaming capsule, it doesn't mean anything for the awakened one's, as they can enter the game even if they didn't logged in using the gaming capsule.
With that being said, the government of each of the country can't do anything at all from this situation and the only solution they got is to also play the game and awaken themselves so that they can regained their power as a government. If they didn't do this, the government will surely crumble to the ground and no one would care.
For the past few days, the world was in a chaotic situation at all, a lot of people dies here and there because of someone's rampaging around while others were fighting each other for the sake of helping normal people.
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Sien then climb up from his gaming capsule in a refresh looking state. He then walk to his own fridge to get something to drink and then walk to the rooftop of the building where he lives in.
There he sat in one of the built-in chair and relax his body as he look at the scenery in front of him. Right now, Sien knows the world was in complete chaos as more and more people started to awaken themselves as the time goes by, but this chaos won't last long at all.
When 10% of humanity awakened themselves, a dungeon would start to appear in reality, that's the time when humanity will work together again with each other.
「The chaos that humanity facing right now was too far peaceful than the chaos we would face in the near future.」
Sien can't help but mutter those words while thinking the past, although there still wasn't a 1% of humans have awakened right now, it would only take more than a week or so for the percentage to reach 10 because a lot of players still raising their levels right now, and some were even already doing an awakening process.
The first appearance of a dungeon is something Sien needs to prepare for. In his previous life, awakened humans set aside the warning that the system gave them when will the dungeon appear, only after a dungeon expansion happened that they realized the situation that they didn't care about at first was too dangerous for all of humanity including them if left alone and don't plan for a countermeasures against it.
Sien already awakened himself a week ago, a day before someone upload their video about having a superpower. Sien doesn't really pay attention about the outside world at all, and even if he did, there's nothing he can do to change the situation. Sien can only wait for the dungeons to come out so that humanity would once again unite with each other.
He also already finished clearing the Carlos Underground Labyrinth and got what he went there for, he's also done helping Princess Veronica for her mission, he even go as far as escorting them to their kingdom but he didn't dare enter and only bid his farewell after deciding when he will get his rewards from her.
As for the potion he needs to bring back the lost vitality of Prince Andrei, he have already brew it and ready to use now thanks to Princess Veronica's right hand Superior Elf as she helped Sien to complete the process of making the potion after they killed the main floor boss of the 7th underground floor.
The process of clearing the whole Carlos Underground Labyrinth become even more easy after the Superior Elfs increased their levels to 40. They only have a level ranging from 8-10 including the Princess but when they hit level 40, their power explode like a volcano, they easily solo kill a monster 10 levels higher than them in a few minutes.
Sien was so surprised about their sudden power up that he forgot that he's much more powerful than them to begin with. When Sien and co killed the Main Boss Monster of the labyrinth, Sien finally collected what he needs from the labyrinth. First is increasing his level to 40 and immediately perform an awakening ceremony, his level reached 46 after a week of escorting the princess.
Then he collect the ingredients he needs for restoration of Prince Andrei's lost vitality and last but not the least is the complete version of the [Drop of Void Dragon's Blood] he got by killing every Main Boss Floor Monster on his own without any help of anyone, the [Vial of Void Dragon's Blood].
This precious item is the item Sien needs the most, this is also the reason why he attempt to clear Carlos Underground Labyrinth by himself just to get this one precious item because this particular item where it's still only a drop of blood already can make anyone who intake it turn their own bloodrace in to a
By collecting more of the drops and merging them will make the probability increase, collecting all of the 8 drops and merge them will make the probability reach a whooping 100%. In his previous life, no one has been able to collect all of them when the players who got the drops still at the growing phase and they only able to collect 1 or more for their own use.
But only 1 out of the few players who attempted to convert their bloodrace in to a
With Sien's knowledge of where the precious items and opportunity resides in the game, the strongest bloodrace he knew throughout his time collecting information when he's still working for the Red Dragon Inc. was none other than the
Sien's heart started to beat faster as he thought of how much powerful he will become once he reach that level, he didn't even noticed that he already finished the coke his drinking as he keeps daydreaming about it.
He only stopped after a while as he stood up from his seat and then entered the game just by think about it. After a player were done with his awakening, he can enter the game with or without the gaming capsule just like what Sien did, a month ago he forgot about that fact as he never become an awaken person and use the gaming capsule provided by the company he works with for 25 years.
But after realizing the fact that he can enter the game even with a gaming capsule, he still didn't dare to after his awakening is done. He first let himself get use to his new body and strength before he entered the game with his own body because if you die when you entered the game without the gaming capsule you're dead forever unlike when you entered the game through the gaming capsul, you'll be resurrected in the nearest town or city when you die.
After a week of getting used to his new body and power, he's now confident that he can survive any kinds of life and death situation tossed at him.
*Ding!*
〈You have entered the game without a gaming capsule connector. Please be careful when engaging a combat against different types enemies. May luck be with you.〉
Sien is still in the eastern part of the GreenWood Forest where the Superior Elf Kingdom resides, only the distance between them were several kilometers away as the Superior Elf Patrol Guards would attack anyone they saw who went near their sacred place. They won't even listen to any opinion you told them as they launch an attack at you without mercy.
Sien can't risk to antagonize the Superior Elfs right now or else he would be wasting the time he spent gaining and raising the favorability of Princess Veronica and co towards him. Although Princess Veronica assured him by saying that none of her kind will attack him, not all would listen to her words as they would be prioritizing the safety of their own kind than trusting someone like him an outsider from their clan willingly just because the princess told them to.
He can only take things slowly as he progress his relationship with the Princess and once he's confident enough of his power then he prove to them that he's powerful enough to put their trust of him.
Sein then looks around and found a small cave where he can hide for a while, when he saw that there's no monsters or anyone nearby, he brought out a bottle made of glass with a beautiful design carved outside, inside is a black yet not so black liquid, if you look at it properly, you can see a star like lights blinking like a star in the sky at night. This is the [Vial of Void Dragon's Blood] that Sien painstakingly worked hard for a month just to get this item.
*Ding!*
〈The Vial of Void Dragon's Blood can be used to change your bloodrace from human in to a Void Demi-Dragon. Do you want to use it?.〉
Sien said yes as soon as the system notification appeared, he's been wanting to convert his bloodrace since he got the item but he can't as the Superior Elfs are still around, he can't let them know that he would change his bloodrace, he wants to let them think that the Sien they met previous already have with this kind of power but only didn't use it.
This kind of power were like something that the High Council of the Superior Elfs wanted to have in there hands, if they knew that he got it while working with the Princess in a labyrinth they would for sure demand to have the same precious items to their hands to have. Although Sien can give a different kind of item to them with almost the same caliber by clearing another labyrinth, there's now way he would let them blackmail him and work for them for free.
*Ding!*
〈Converting Bloodrace in to Void Demi-Dragon. Please bear the slight pain you'll receive in the process.〉
〈Convertion will be done in 60 minutes.〉
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The moment the system notified him about the slight pain he would feel in the process, Sien's whole body suddenly emits a dark light and this lights started to remodel Sien's entire personality and after the appearance of the dark light, Sien felt that the system saying he'll only feel a slight pain was a lie as he's already in the ground grasping for air as he felt pain like drilling even to the deepest part of his soul.
Sien can't do anything as he lay on the ground and endure the pain all over his body that feels like that would kill him at any moment if he won't fight it. Sien have already felt different kinds of pain in both reality and game but this is the first time that he felt so helpless against the pain.
When he awakened last week, the pain he felt that time was 3 times weaker than this one as he can still breath properly and stay in a sitting position through the process of his awakening but now, he can't think like he normal do, even breathing become a hard thing to do for him as he desperately grasp for the air, same goes for his two eyes that can only see the walls around him in a blurry state.
The good thing about his situation is that, the more the time passed, the less the pain he feels but the reduce rate of pain was still negligible from the pain he's feeling.
This one hour time of conversion process becomes the longest time that Sien felt for his entire life, he's already in the verge of death after a few minutes in the process, thanks to his perseverance and will that he manage to hold on until the end. To the one player who successfully changed their bloodrace to this one, Sien wanted to kill him for not stating about something like this was included in the process.
*Ding!*
〈Conversion to a different bloodrace is now complete.〉
〈Congratulations!. You have succeeded on your attempt for converting in to a Void Demi-Dragon and become a first player to do this feat. Rewarding First Bloodrace Converter title.〉
〈You have now become the first Void Demi-Dragon player. Unlocking Void Demi-Dragon's 3 skills and Dragon Power stat and First Demi-Dragon title.〉