He was one of the first programs that I fitted into the game. Gripton had built him a simulation world in his free time, but I had no idea how long he had actually been in the game. Time didn't flow here or it did, but it was different than reborn, so I didn't know what he would be like after all this time.
We had met, but that was before I had my memories back and I was in the random world, and he was set to a helper there. Here would be a completely different story, he would be set to eliminate, so there would be no holding back.
I set us all down near the cave and everyone got off the hill. They had all stayed quiet and let me think, but now it was time to go explain my plan. Then I had to go deal with all the females that were near the water source. If I could take all the Gi from them, I might have enough to do what I needed to end the war here, but no point counting chickens before they hatched.
"Okay, let's go and talk to everyone about what the plan is," I said motioning to the cave entrance.
They all turned and went into the cave perfectly fine to wait for an explanation. Boy, if only everyone else in my life was this patient. I looked at Mikota and she smiled.
Okay, fine, maybe I was really the one that needed to learn some patience, but I think that I had messed around in this game for long enough. It was time to start playing to win, again.
Chapter 277: Not Going To Let That Go
[Day 3/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]
The talk with the elder went over very well. Jit was happy to hear that I had found Gji, and I explained to the rest of what my plans were. Now, Mikota and I were heading back out to the lake to see if we could take them all in one go.
"What if they start to attack? I can't stop that many!" Mikota complained from my arms.
"Then we will just pull back, plus you're not doing any fighting prego, you are going to stay behind me. It will be fine the more I take, the stronger I will become. We will also be getting more guardians, so we need to be ready for them, but I think it will be alright."
"You, the boss, just don't get Mom hurt!" Mikota said, sticking her tongue out at me.
I ignored the mom joke, I didn't care, I was excited to see her. Mikota was just teasing me, and she was excited to see some of the other girls that would come from this.
We were getting closer and I could see the large group up ahead at the lake. As we got closer, I could see that they were all watching us. I slowly set down ten meters from the thirty or so Gialazsaur that was waiting.
"Maybe this won't be so bad," Mikota said.
I set her down, but as soon as I did the group parted and Gji started moving forward. Each of her massive steps shook the ground until she stopped before me.
It was an awe-inspiring experience, like meeting a dinosaur in real life. I wasn't as tall as her white head, and her pink eyes were three times the size of my head.
Gji moved her head towards me slowly, and I took a deep breath before raising my arm. I closed my eyes as my hand touch here and the system engaged, but it was different this time.
[Primal System] Activated!
[Warning!]
[Total Gi] 2348/1000
[Primal Water] Acquired!
[Primal Evolution] Activated!
[Primal Evolution] Completed!
[Water Shield] Acquired!
[Total Gi] 2348/10000
Hmmm? What just happened? Gji was standing there and smiling, but the message… I just evolved, but nothing happened?
The Gji was falling, passing out, but I grabbed her, but then almost dropped her again when I saw my arms. Midnight Black, the color or lack thereof, drank in the light around it.
Something had happened, I changed color, and I quickly checked my sides. I smiled, red stripes, that was dope. You couldn't win them all, but damn red and black went well!
"Dave! Look!" Mikota said, tapping my shoulder and pointing around at the different glowing Gialazsaur.
It was like the black of my skin was pulling the color right from their bodies. Streams like lines from a rainbow flowed into me, and I absorbed it all.
Together, Mikota and I watched as over thirty Gialazsaur changed back into women. Most of them just sat or laid down immediately. A couple of them fell over, but no one was hurt.
[Total Gi] 7538/10000
This was a weird feeling, having so much power, but to feel no different. It was like the power had always been mine, and it was just what I was born into.
[Summon Guardian] Yes/No
Not yet, I first wanted to get all these girls back, I didn't want anything to ruin this. I lifted a ten by ten by one-meter section of dirt up with me as I rose like it was nothing. Mikota was holding my hand and grinning up at me.
"What do you have such a big smile for?" I asked Mikota.
"I like your red eyes and stuff! Now you don't look so weird and the others will respect you more! I don't know, it just seems like things are going good that's all. Been a while since that has happened, right?" Mikota asked.
She wasn't wrong, but I was going to give Murphy the chance to catch me outside, and give me the, how bout dat treatment for getting overconfident. I leaned down and kissed the top of her head, and then squeezed her hand.
The trip back was calm and gentle, but I had realized something, I had yet to get hungry the entire time I had been in this world. It was strange how it was so easy to forget something like eating if there was no need for it and you could stay busy.
It wasn't like I was getting hungry, I had just thought about the farm. Then I thought of how the Gialazsaur had needed to eat before. I wondered if that was different for them now?
"Dave! Look, everyone!" Mikota said, pointing up ahead.
I had been lost in thought and wasn't really paying attention, just moving forward. When I looked up I could see the farm, but all the Gailazsaur were sitting in the middle of the clearing while about five worked on the farm.
This made sense, the farms would produce the food now so they didn't have to. Without a task, they would know what to do like a villager in a game.
I dropped down and everyone stood and rushed over to help with the women, but I rose back into the air with Mikota. It was time to put these people to work, most of the women were waking back up and they were ready to god by the looks of it.
I used the farm command and built them more than tried to select the one that was already built. I was about to try busting some commands, but just wanting to look at it opened a menu.
I found the upgrade button, toggling it to start, but then that made a message pop up in my display.
[Basic Farming] Achieved!
[Skill Tree] Activated!
[Skill points] 3
I pulled up the skill tree menu and it rolled to the side with three different sections. Military, Building, Exploration were the choices, so looked in the military first.
I couldn't move a mountain yet, and if these WorldBreakers were as aggressive as Gripton said, then this would be the best choice.
"Very good, my boy!" Gripton said, appeared on the opposite side from Mikota, but she still let out a squeak of surprise.
I wasn't surprised, and I had expected him to come.
"Are these Earth Cannons good defense?" I asked.
"Yes, put all three points into it and then build three and you will get three more points. After that put two in the earth cannon, and then one in the sawmill and build one. Then you will get another three points, put them into the Water Walls and build thirty!" Gripton said with triumph.
"You know I can read right? It says what I need to do to get to the next class," I said to bug him.
"You know I like the sound of my own voice better than yours right? Plus, if you actually listen to me, I can get through half of the Gi you have and unlock most of the Skill Tree. Either that or you figure it out and hope you know what you're doing," Gripton said while turning up his nose at me.
I let go of the dirt Gripton was standing on, making him let out a surprised
yelp as he disappeared. He reappeared within seconds, scowling at me, but I just laughed at him.
"Fine, I will do as you say. Let's get this done, you are still getting her brought to me, right?" I asked Gripton, he knew who I meant.
"Yes, I can still go there, and she will be the next guardian that crawls out of you, don't you worry!"
"You know, whenever you tell me not to worry that is the point when I am most stressed out. It's like you're just asking for trouble!" I said, rubbing my hand on my face.
Gripton just shrugged at me, and started to point out the location to place the cannons, lumber mill, and then stringing the walls around. After that, we started to get the cannons upgraded, but then we hit a snag.
[Out Of Builders!]
"Oh yes… that. Well, not the end of the world, now you can take some time to go and deal with your new guardians. I have to send Grace with Tequila, she will help with developing the personalities of the A.I. with her unique personality, but I am off, you know how to get a hold of me!"
Then the bastard was gone, and Mikota was laughing out loud. I bet that's why she was coming, oh well. She was pretty special to me too, so it would be good to have her here.
Unique personality though, that was rich. I was actually pretty curious to see what kind of tactics Grace was going to use to make them more individual? Did I actually want to know?
"Are you done?" I asked the still giggling Mikota.
"This is going to be really good, I wonder if the two are fighting already? I bet Grace has been making jokes since you got your brain back! Ugh! I wish we had popcorn! I haven't seen a good drama in a while!" Mikota said, still giggling.
"What are you talking about, the two of them never fought? They bickered some times," but Mikota held in her laughter and tried to look at me with a screwed up straight face.
"Dave, how long have you been calling Tequila, Mom?"
I slapped my forehead, Mikota was right, Grace had probably been on her for the last three days. What the hell was I going to be pulling out of me?
Chapter 278: Tequila
[Day 3/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]
We settled down on the ground, and Mikota took a step back, while I took a deep breath. I opened my menu and selected the summon open, choosing yes.
[Summoning 2 Guardians]
2 pairs of hands came out pulling hair and struggling. I brought dirt up to brace them and then tried to pry the hands out of the hair.
"HEY!" I roared over the head and shoulders of Tequila and Grace, who both froze and they both stared up at me.
"Dave!" They said in excitement, fight forgot, weirdos, but better than the alternative.
"Wait until you two get out, then we will hug it out," I said, smiling at the girls who continued to slide out until they were out.
Grace was purple and blue stripes, and she came over, giving me a hug. Then she leaned in and whispered into my ear as she hugged me.
"Go show Mom a good time, she's missed you, a lot. It's been really annoying, so I wound her up a bit, just a little bit, hehe!" Grace said, waiting.
"Get going you don't get rewarded for being a pain in the ass to some that were just excited," I said stepping away.
"But Dave, I have been a bad girl! I don't want a," but I cut her off with a finger across her lips.
"Maybe later, but you know this is different," I said, giving her a meaningful look.
"I know, but don't you leave me high and dry! I know what this means but we spent a lot of time together with two and don't you forget that!"
She walked past me and went over to where Mikota was waiting and the two of them disappeared over a grass hill. I turned back and was tackled, but I used the earth to catch us on a floating bed of grass.
I looked up, yellow hair hung around my face, and pink eyes stared down at me. Tequila had delicate Asian features and a cute little smile that kissed me all over my face.
"I missed you stranger," I said squeezing her tight to me; I had used the dirt to stand us back up.
"I miss us, this, the kissing, your smile, the feel of your arms, I have missed it all, but not until you know. Then It was like I had known the entire time, luckily Grace's harassing helped keep my mind off things," Tequila said, putting her head on my chest.
"I will have to punish her later! I am just glad to finally have you here in my arms. I like your colors, you look cute in yellow. Do you want to come to see what I have been building?" I asked, kissing the top of Tequila's head.
"No, I want to go for a walk, I watch you and," She tried to finish her sentence, but I tried to muffle her voice in my chest, but it was useless.
"See?! I told you I would bring her to you!" Gripton said from out of nowhere.
Tequila squealed in surprise and pressed her naked body into me to hide from Gripton.
"Git!"
"I found the base," Gripton said.
"Good, I can't lift a mountain today, go bother your girls."
Gripton smiled and disappeared, then it was just the two of us again.
"Don't even think of his name, or he just pops out of nowhere. The guy is like a weed, just pops up everywhere!"
Tequila laughed, and the two of us turned to go for our walk. It was nice just to get out, but it was really hard to stay in the moment.
I kept getting lost in memories, and finally, Tequila noticed, and pulled me down onto the grass. I let myself be guided by her, lost in staring at her, thinking about all the amazing time we had together.
She let me just stare into her eyes without saying anything. It was like the entire world drifted away, and for that brief moment in time, we weren't playing a game, it was just the two of us.
"I don't want to have to do this all over again, I don't want to lose you. This journey, Reginold, this game, all of it is keeping me from finally being able to do what I set out to do so long ago. I just wanted to save everyone and give us all a safe place to call home. Now it has become some kind of never-ending extremely long groundhog day, over and over. Is there a way we can bypass the rest of the world?"
"I'm not really sure about that, but I do know that doing a reset will give you admin role back and you can stop the reset from happening," Tequila said.
"No, the reset doesn't just happen, Aegis or I have to trigger it from Aihalla. The reset was only put there with the original intention of the game for people to come out and the game be restarted. I stopped that, and now the reset is only to be used in an emergency. That means that Reginold finds the Key, so I can't shut it off. It could have been me pulling the switch every time, in fact I know it would have been me. If he gets the key then it's all over, so it would make sense that I would go back to the beginning to be tortured."
"Then, why can't we remember what happened at Aihalla?" Tequila asked, bushing some of my black hair out of my face.
"My fault again, but this one has been fucking everyone from the start. Aihalla was built by me, and Aegis, but we used a special program inside of the game that made files inside the thirteenth word only go in, not out. Only Spark could leave, but only with what they came with, none of the other memories that had gained or the powers. Everything there is special and unique, but the point was to make it so that the place is a great mystery and people would love to go to try it out. I felt like it was a good addition at the time, and it has kept Reginold from finding the key up until that point."
"So then how do we get you past all the other worlds, and into the Zodiac worlds? We will all have to be there, but that will happen regardless." Tequila said, trying to podder out.
"Hey, if I have never been this far, then I haven't tried to use the world walker system to get off the game world before. If I reset the game, then it should work because I made the system so we could travel anywhere in the game world, but with my cheating and nothing there to restrict it, I should be alright. Then I can go back and get the last girls and do the Builder Sequence, then we start fighting for our lives for real. I do
n't want to have to do this again."
"We have got farther than ever before, so we just have to trust that what you are doing this time is right. It's working, we can't ask for much more than that, now enough talking and just let me lay in your arms for a bit, before we have to go find the other two," Tequila said, tucking herself into my arms.
We laid there for about an hour before we heard the girls, Kazuya, and the rest of the group. They always seemed to be trying to follow us, but everyone looked happy, so it must be good news.
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