The different images were from a news channel that showed the higher up were almost all gone, and there was a massive struggle for power going on. It showed people talking to massive groups of people, getting them rilled, and then send them off to loot and pillage whatever cities they gathered in. People hadn't started to kill each other yet, but that was only because most people sat at home, watching.
"Those are people from Reborn stirring up the crowd? How long have I been gone for?"
"IRL time, it has been just over three months. Everything started to happen when I sent your last group in. Since then, Reborn has been taking in orphans created by the virus they create and putting them on ice in the game."
"What is the point of collecting so many people? The NPC in the game are almost completely human-like in their action. Why do they need us to rule over?"
Simon got a dark look on his face.
"They don't plan on ruling us, Dave. One of your Souls or Sparks, whatever you want to call them, is enough to make ten NPC. Dave, they want to take the five million Sparks and turn them into fifty million NPC that will obey orders when told and will perform any tasks they desire, but will the ability to resist to keep it interesting slightly."
"They use us to make the NPC? How many have already died?"
"Only a couple, but they were unsavable...they kept killing players and NPC after multiple warnings. NPC don't revive when they die, so when a player kills one, it's considered more like murder than killing a player. So, these people are used to replace the ones killed, that was going to be the original plan, but the NPC started to develop real personalities. The new NPC even shows the characteristic of free will, and after a week, I personally checked on the new NPC. Dave, their programs directives had changed, not much, and only very minor changes, but they are learning; What point is it to keep around people that could pose a threat when you can grow better ones?"
"Are you serious? I did not see this coming, but that means that we are all just cattle until..."
"Ya, pretty much. Now, back to The Code; you get why this is so serious? This problem isn't just a matter of whether you or I get frozen or dying; Reborn wants to eliminate humans completely from the equation. Now, let's talk about what we can do to stop this."
"Can we, Simon? Even if you get this code to me, what good will it do against twelve Game Masters and MainFrame? I'm just one person, Simon!"
"Dave, you are the only person who can do this, and you won't be alone! You are one of the very, very, very few men allowed to play in the Harem Genre; everyone else is forced to play as an individual player. There are only two other Harem players; one is Greg, and the other is Kyron, but both of them lost their harems. Kyron lost the mini-game until you rescued him and the women from it, and Greg asked to be left in this world after The race on Prime killed his entire party."
That made me stop talking. I figured there were like me, but I didn't know they were the only ones left; one I had just killed and sent Greg back to meet up with me, the other I had killed for Maxine...no time for those thoughts right now; she was safe somewhere waiting for me to finish these games.
"Ok, so, I have the girls, but what is the point? I will just get a random system when I enter the new world to find each of The Founders, right?"
"Yes, The code will be 'installing' two permanent systems, The Harem System and The Builder System."
"The Harem System? I bet it was you that thought up these stupid mating skills for this mini-game!"
"Haha, no, that was another grunt that writes code for the Game Master, Dan. He is kind of weird, just don't make a big deal about it, or he will just make it worse. Now, don't go trashing my mostly personally created system! The Harem System is what is going to win this game. so far, you have saved twenty-one girls, and you had eight before Maxine, but there are twelve planets to hit all at once."
"Twelve? Come on, Simon, don't talk to me like I'm an idiot; how the fuck will I split into twelve?"
"You won't need to, but you will need to jump between the worlds and start rebellions; the women will take care of the rest. Stop stressing; I know I told you to ask questions, but not some many stupid ones in a row!"
"Easy for you to say! You know what going on!"
"Ya, Ya, Ya, poor you, did you forget how much fun you have been having with your salad bar of women? Now it's time to go to work, and you're going to start bitching?"
"Listen here, fuck; I didn't ask for this, Simon! I didn't want to die and didn't ask to be put into this position!"
"But you are Dave, so deal with it, and stop being a pussy! Most guys, including myself, would trade place with you in a heartbeat! I bet that writer would trade you places without using the entire heartbeat to decide! Enough, This arguing is pointless; you have a job, and so do I, but before I go, I want to tell you one more thing that will make things easier for you in the future.
"Oh? Lay it on me then."
"You will have Tequila as a permanent NAV unit to help you with the new systems and with the women."
"What do you mean? Why would I need help with..."
"Because Dave, the reason people love watching you is that you're an idiot when it comes to women."
Chapter 143: People Kill People
"Okay, said what I need to, now I gotta go, but I give you a quick explanation of the game you're in now. You know, since someone shipped off their GUIDE before learning everything about the mini-game."
"What, it's different?"
"Yeah, you are no longer working on evolving your body, and all of the non-passive skills you gained are locked for this part. Now you will be upgrading your weapon; the first game was an ultra-fast version of the planned new game. The Game Master wants to fit both evolution styles to see which style is preferred by the viewers. The last thing is that all your Mating Skills are still active, but you will not be forced into it this time, and you can use them to upgrade your current weapon or create an additional one."
Suddenly I was on the ground, bench and Simon, gone. I bet he is laughing right now in slow motion, a ten-second laugh that would last an hour here. For a minute, I sat there trying to figure out what I should do next, and decided my first route was to look at the new system, or whatever it was. The screen popped up, and it was just like Simon had said, all my activatable skills were gone, but hey, you could say my name in a single breath now!
Current Evolution: Electric Fire Demon Wraith
Current Weapon: [Aquina](Pistol)
Current Combat Skills: v
[Bionano Coat](Passive): Coat body in Impact-resistant nanoparticle coating. Gain 95% resistance to non-magical attacks and 30% resistance to magical attacks.
[Dialed up Frogfish]: Increase reaction time from 200 milliseconds to 6 milliseconds.
Survival Skills: v
[Danger Sense](Passive): Sense incoming threats.
[Hunter Sense](Passive): Sense targetable opponents.
Mating Skills: ]
Weapon Stats: v
Name: [Aquina]
Class: [Pistol]
Rank: [Epic]
Current Level: [1]
Power: [15/1000]
Accuracy: [85% -10m][-35% +10m]
Recoil: [35/100%]
Range: [Short]
Rate Of Fire: [Semi-automatic][3s]
Reload Rate: [10s]
Clip Size: [6]
Attachments: [0]
After closing the menu, I grabbed...Aquina...and pulled it from my bare hip. I held it in front of me to get a better look at the weapon. I looked similar to something I had seen in the real world on a documentary or something, but with some fantasy added.
The wave-like details and a scale-like grip is what made it more fantasy, but for the most part, it was a gun. Silver pullback barrel and the rest was light blue, and silver scaled hit. I held it up and looked down the basic iron sights aiming off to the distance.
//It works better when you point me at a real target, jeez, when you got hot and took me
there, you might have a brain -Female voice.
I almost dropped the gun and pissed myself all at the same moment. What the hell? Was that just my damn gun talking to me?
//OMG, you are an idiot! Why! I wish that tiger would have... -Aquina.
/Listen here, woman, you walked up to me dripping down the sides of your legs. You didn't seem to mind then, so give me a minute to get my shit together. You startled me; I had no idea you could still talk after. If you can hear my thoughts, then you could have heard what happened? Don't answer me
//Hmph! I don't need to be told the obvious, unlike some... -Aquina.
/Can it!
//Pft -Aquina.
Great, another Iona, that was a gun. A gun that I was relying on to keep me alive. Peachy.
I looked around and noticed dust coming from behind a hill thirty meters from myself. I started to run in that direction; I just wanted to get back to the girls. This mini-game was a bit too game-like, but we had done many similar before, but we did them as teams.
//Girls? Who are you?! -Aquina.
Ugh.
//Don't you lie to me either! I'll know, stupid! -Aquina.
/...Dave
*Complete Brain Wave Silence*
/Aquina?
//Shut up! Your stupid, let's go! -Aquina.
Well, this was great; whatever, to the dust cloud I go. I was almost at the top of the ridge, and as I crested the dune, I noticed a Giant Scorpion pacing back and forth. It was almost laughable from a player's standpoint. The creature should have seen me easily from where I stood on the ridge, but I was outside of its Aggro range, so it just paced and ignored me.
Suddenly, my hand shot up with Aquina in it against my will. I used my other hand to try and push it down by placing my hand on the gun barrel to push the rogue weapon down. In hindsight, this was very stupid...maybe some of these insults weren't so far off the mark?
*BANG!*
"Fuuuck!"
Oh, that on slipped off, and I backed up and slipped down the dune. My White hand had been torn open by the Iron sight, and now the laceration was filled and grinding as I rolled. What was she doing?
Who came up with the idea to give this or any other weapon a mind of its own? China Lake with a Yandere personality? Wasn't that the most potent argument that humans have about guns? Guns don't kill people; people kill people, except for this game.
I finally stopped at the bottom, and I was relieved to see the Giant Scorpion had not followed. I put my hand up to my face and looked a the six-centimeter gash now filled with sand. My hand throbbed, but that didn't stop me from gritting my tear and clean what sand I could out.
//Why did you do that? Your such an idiot... -Aquina.
I snapped the gun on my hip. At least the sand had stopped the bleeding, and the tear wasn't that big; it would heal, but I wasn't about to use some gun that acted like a child. Whether I could heal or not, that wasn't cool; we were too far from the target and trying to force me to shot and then injuring me?
//What are you doing? Why are you... -Aquina.
Chapter 144: Lamia Use You
I walked back to the place my tracks had started from. I could feel the grain of sand push out my hand as the wound sealed up. What to do now?
//Why did you put me away?! If you die, I die, so stop messing around! -Aquina.
Aquina was a fine one to talk to and didn't seem to think she had done anything wrong. I decided that I would ignore it for now; I wasn't helpless; just because I had no skills doesn't mean my body wasn't strong. I could fight with my bare hands if I had to, but the Giant Scorpions' tail made that one impossible.
I looked, and there were three other hills, so I'll call scorpion south the, and I check out the east hill.
//Do you monologue everything that you do? -Aquina.
Oh, this damn pistol, I just wanted to be alone with my thoughts. I walked up the hill and looked over, then turned around and started walking over to the west hill. Nope, we will leave that sleeping dragon alone, but the west hill was no better.
I scurried down the hill, hoping that none of the ten eyes on that cobra headed hydra saw me. Damn this place and damn this gun!
//Don't get mad at me! You won't use me! -Aquina.
/Because I can't trust you! You are acting on your own free will, which is fine, I guess, but you're making poor choices! On top of that all, you damaged me, the wielder! I'm not complaining about the pain, but you knew that would happen and still did it anyway; even now, you don't see what you did wrong, do you?
//I just... -Aquina.
/No, please, don't give me an excuse and then call me stupid or an idiot; it's getting old
I started walked to walk to the last hill; hopefully, there would be something manageable over there or...but there was something there. A little bit wild, but I had an idea.
Below was a golden yellow scaled Lamia with blonde hair. She had luscious breasts partially covered in scales, leaving the nipples exposed. My eyes drew down the bare flesh of her waist and the only wet part on the female.
//You can't be serious?!
I started running on an angle towards the hissing woman and tackle her to the ground. I grabbed the snake woman's arms and pinned them down, holding them above her head as she tried to bite at me. I was wrestling the tail with my leg, so I used my free hand to stroke her now swollen and exposed clit.
//You're just going to rape her?
Suddenly, the tail stopped fighting me, and I felt her arms relax. As I move my fingers gently without using pressure, the Lamia started to, and she no longer had a wild look on her face. It was replaced by a desperate and longing look that made her pale cheeks stain with a blush.
I took a chance and leaned down to kiss her. At the same time, she arched her body and pushed my pushed fingers inside of her. Our lips connect, and she moaned into my kiss as I began to move my finger inside of her.
She pushed me back to sitting on my knees as I still moved in and out of her. The Lamia pushed her hair back and took my shaft in her hand before looking up at me. She even had yellow eyes; they stared up at me with hunger.
"I'm Dave."
"Good, I'm Sandra."
Sandra smiled and bent her head down, moaning as I moved my fingers faster in anticipation. I let out a groan as I felt her soft and warm lips wrap me up inside of her mouth. Her motions were no unpracticed, and I was barely able to hold on for more the thirty seconds of her relentless sucking and tongue movements.
I gushed into her mouth, and I could feel her swallow it all down, still sucking me until I was flaccid. When I fell out of her mouth, Sandra wiped her mouth off and slid up my body. As her breast pressed into me, I leaned down and met her lips.
Suddenly she flashed and then there was a menu choice opened like the last time. Well, maybe this one will be more cooperative, unlike some pistols!
Evolution Armament Choice:{Epic}
{Short Sword}{Shield}{Pistol}
Ooo, double pistols? Well, I guess it would be a single pistol.
//You really him, aren't you? -Aquina.
That caught my attention; this was an NPC...right? She didn't mean...
//You're The Harem Hero, that's we are all fall like a rock for you! -Aquina.
/Hey, you have no idea what you're talking about! I have helped many girls get a place as gods! And were and I? Hmm? Out here with a disgruntled gun and now a choice at something better!
The last part came out, but I didn't mean it, but I also wasn't about to take it back. This woman! That means that she is another player, but that also means...
/It was your choice to come here, wasn't it?
//What? I don't know... -Aquina.
/Oh! look, who is playing stupid now?
{Short sword}
The light faded, and my vision came back, and I was holding a scimitar in my left hand. Another screen popped up, and I paused.
//WOULD YOU LIKE TO USE TWO OR ONE WEAPON?(1/2)
//Wait! -New female v
oice.
/Sandra?
//Yes, let me talk to Aquina; I know her. We actually came into Reborn together -Sandra.
/Yeah, go ahead; I'm going to go and walk over to the scorpion that I want you to help me with
//Okay! Just give me about five minutes to talk with her. She just must be confused with the game. I would have been a lot more violent if you would have been forceful, but you knew what you had to do, and you were gentle about it -Sandra.
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