The brilliant blonde hair resembling the summer sun caught my eye first.
The amber-like eyes blinked consecutively, and her pale pink lips looked as if they were holding raspberries.
It was Adella, transformed into my figure, or rather, my figure from exactly ten seconds ago.
And I…
– The dorm leader has become Adella!!!
– WakaPya
– OwO
– Is that possible?
– The ultimate in fandom, myself becoming the object of my own fandom, LOL
– It’s insane, LOL
Slightly.
The silver tail swayed up, down, left, and right.
‘So this works?’
Thinking back, the manager with a cat avatar also moved their tail, but I didn’t expect it could move so freely.
Paying respect to the pace of neuroscience development in this world, I examined my transformed body closely.
First, my field of vision was a little lower.
I could see objects really well without aura around my eyes, and no matter how much I waved my hands, there were no afterimages. It felt like having a high-performance camera attached.
I twirled the dagger Adella had between my fingers.
I still couldn’t shake off the awkward feeling.
That’s why when I created an avatar, I didn’t choose an entirely unfamiliar body.
To properly utilize every habit accumulated through experience, it was impossible without my own body.
“Kyah! What is this? What’s going on? Our bodies… have swapped!”
“Can you not act so childish in my body?”
“Huh, could it be… No way, is it you, sister?”
“Yeah. We’ve temporarily swapped bodies.”
“How did this happen…?”
“Listen well, Adella.”
I slapped Adella’s cheeks with my palm. It felt strange, as if I was doing it to myself, but anyhow.
I explained my future plans to her, with her chubby cheeks squished and her lips popping out.
“To calm this situation down, we need to summon Mephistopheles and fight him ourselves. Do you understand?”
“Uh… I understand.”
“However, Mephistopheles can only manifest in certain physical forms.”
If you asked why, I had no answer either. I had already asked the same question to the Wearsoft side. They explained using complex ASI technical jargon, so I memorized the phrases, but it was impossible to understand everything.
If summoning Mephisto involved Adella’s body, wouldn’t it just be enough to save Adella’s consciousness and revert back after clearing it? I suggested that, but I received an answer that it was impossible.
First of all, uploading model data to the ongoing open world was impossible, and even layering it onto existing NPCs was said to be complicated because they could not accommodate all of Adella’s complex code. They claimed there wasn’t enough capacity.
So, I thought, wouldn’t it work to find a model that has high data capacity without dummy data? Upon investigation, there turned out to be just one person who met all the conditions.
The player ‘me.’
From here, the operation began.
“I’m going to hand over control to the Laurel of Death. Then Mephistopheles will likely descend soon, just like the Pope transformed into Baal-Zebub.”
“Are you saying you’ll sacrifice yourself? That’s absolutely not okay! Please… I beg you, don’t do this… Why are you doing this?”
“Adella, listen to me until the end! It’s not a sacrifice.”
“Then what is it? Just because you didn’t explain anything to me and swapped bodies means you’ve already made up your mind in your heart, right? Isn’t that correct!”
Hearing Adella’s crying voice that sounded like she might collapse, I shook my head.
I wiped away her flowing tears and pressed my forehead against hers.
“It’s just a brief transition to another world.”
“Transition…?”
Adella looked at me with a puzzled expression.
“Yeah, with the Laurel of Reincarnation and the Curse of Immortality, I won’t die. I’ll just be bounced to another world.”
From here, it became tricky to explain.
The Laurel of Reincarnation contains the command to send players back to the save point upon game over, and the Curse of Immortality conferred invincibility for five seconds.
How could I make it easy for her to understand? Just then, Adella nodded.
“So I just have to trust you and wait?”
She spoke with determination and smiled solemnly.
Even if she didn’t understand, it was a look that showed her complete trust in me.
As an adult, it wouldn’t be right to betray that trust.
I tightly held her hand.
“I’ll be back soon.”
[RECOVER]
[system: Running recovery wizard trig/0xf29a31.]
[Object ‘Cat of Dawn – Adella’ detected.]
[Forced summoning of ‘Mephistopheles’.]
* * *
[HP: 18391/43750(40500+3250)]
[HP: 8391/43750(40500+3250)]
[HP: 1/43750(40500+3250)]
[Trait – Curse of Immortality (1/5)]
[YOU DIED]
[Trait – Curse of Immortality (2/5)]
[Trait – Curse of Immortality (3/5)]
[Trait – Curse of Immortality (4/5)]
[Trait – Curse of Immortality (5/5)]
[system: Command already processed.]
* * *
The world is being reconstructed.
First, the buildings began to disappear.
Witnessing the spectacle as if a civilization trailer was being reversed, where bricks evaporated one by one from the top, I felt a sense of grandeur.
Next, the green forests and rivers slowly lost their colors.
Just as the ground supporting the bridge was about to collapse, I was floating among the cosmos.
And the universe of this world was truly brilliant.
It was a void filled entirely with white.
“This is what an open world is like. Still, I think the universe looks more beautiful in darkness.”
Fortunately, it was at times like this that having a chat window was really helpful.
– Something… something is happening…
– I can’t understand anything anymore.
– Is this part of the plan, teacher?
– Everything has disappeared!
– Is it a failure?
“Let’s say it’s a kind of trick. The Laurel of Reincarnation targets players, but the Curse of Immortality treats characters as objects.”
-????
– Huh?
– ?
– The pace is too fast, professor!
– Are you playing a different game alone?
“Simply put, the Curse of Immortality is triggered just before health drops to zero. Normally, the curse would end after five seconds, resulting in a death determination, but the object consumed by the Laurel is the player themselves. Since the curse is primarily applied to Adella’s ‘body,’ the death judgment occurs before the curse ends, resulting in two worlds being created, and because I’m still alive, the existing world does not disappear.”
Wearsoft used a multi-stack method in their open world overlapping system.
So, when retrying, instead of collapsing the existing world and rebuilding from scratch, they saved the seed value at the checkpoint, prepped the sub-worlds, and replaced them at any time.
“Let’s say there are five poker cards. If the world Mephistopheles has been summoned into is the spade ace, that card has been pushed to the back. How do we draw that card again?”
– You need to keep drawing until it comes out.
“Correct. I like smart people. So, you just need to retrace your steps from the first part. Since it’s an overlapping world, all the monsters will also be in the spade ace, so there’s no need to fight.”
Isn’t it impressive how we understand each other effortlessly?
No matter how solid a human-made system appears, there will always be loopholes.
Just like how I discovered in my past experience that Asteria’s ultimate dealt damage to the fortress when equipped with the Tiamat item in LoL.
Moreover, in science, the principle of uncertainty exists, and in mathematics, the incompleteness theorem has been proven; thus, there’s no way technology created by humans, merely by incorporating magic, can be ‘complete.’
If impossibility cannot be rigorously proven, it means the opposite is true.
In the end, by pressing the engineers, such a novel idea emerged overnight.
Finally, just thinking about ending this damning game made my tail twitch reflecively.
– Oh my, the tail…!
– LOL
– You seem to be feeling good.
– If what the dorm leader said is true, we might clear it!
– I can only admire this absurd implementation, LOL
[‘CatLover’ donated 1,000 won!]
– Sorry for the random question, Noname, but when you were streaming yesterday, your pronunciation seemed a bit off. Did you get braces or something?
While waiting for the next open world load, I had the leisure to pay attention to the broadcast.
Unable to tolerate the brief wait, they quickly pulled me into another topic.
“No. When did I ever pronounce anything wrong?”
[‘CatLover’ donated 10,000 won!]
– Then could you try saying ‘Next to Hanyang Yanjangjeom is Hanyoung Yanjangjeom, next to Hanyoung Yanjangjeom is Anyang Yanjangjeom’?
This was a piece of cake for me. It’s not even a rune; it’s Hangul.
In reality, the runes used in high-level magic of level six or higher are often so complex in naming that even I get confused if I don’t repeat them aloud.
They are not even characters created by social convention, and they don’t accommodate the human oral structure.
It’s barely a phrase to practice before an interview.
“Hanyang Yanjangjeom next to Hanyang Yanjangjeom, Hanyoung Yanjangjeom next to Anyang Yanjangjeom.”
– LOL
– LOL
– Are you a genius?
– LOL
– WakaPya
– This is a cat, and this is Cats, LOL
– LOL why the hell are you going to see a musical!
– Adella appending ‘nyang’ at the end of her words wasn’t just a gimmick, LOL
└ It was just unavoidable, LOL
– So cute, LOL
“Uh?”
– Everyone, be quiet!
– Shhh!
– Hide, hide, hide!
– Domhwangcha~~~~
“Wait, this is more than I thought…”
The swaying tail straightened, and my ears lay flat against my head.
It was taking too long.
I was going too far back in time.
Though I wasn’t worrying much about accumulating a lot of open world stacks, the world that was just being generated was similar yet different from the one I knew.
The white backdrop had gradually filled with the dark night sky.
A cold wind brushed my arm, and I tightly wrapped Adella’s black cloak around me.
And unconsciously, I turned around to see something solid bounce against my shoulder.
It was a neatly stacked stone wall built by someone.
In a deserted alley of the capital where no one was present, no light, not even a glimmer was overflowing from any homes.
This was neither the Arsteria Forest from the prologue nor Abyss Branch 15 from part one.
It was a world where all the boss mobs had disappeared. So, my plan to hurriedly mark the spawn points of each boss and transition to the next open world turned into mere bubbles.
I had no idea where I was walking. With each step, it felt heavier, to the point where I even had the illusion of being mired in a swamp.
As I wandered down the endlessly bumpy stone road, I heard a baby crying amidst the hoots of an owl.
“Is that… a baby crying… right?”
– This is terrifying…
– Where is this again?
– Isn’t that a cat’s cry?
– No, no, I really think it sounds like a baby crying.
– I’ve never seen a story like this in my life.
The viewers, along with me, simultaneously sensed something odd.
Up until now, in the World of Arsteria, there had been no ‘babies’ or even ‘children’ existing.
When we made our way out of regulations like Adella, the only thing you could find even in the chaotic market were adults or the elderly.
As I tried to dismiss it as just a game allowance, the baby’s cries sounded so realistic that I activated all interfaces as best as I could.
[▶Quest Notification – ON]
[▶NPC Subtitles – ON]
[▶Navigation Helper – ON]
[▶Mini-map – ON]
[▶Hit Effect – ON]
[▶Critical Effect – ON]
[▶Kill Count Notification – ON]
Nothing came up, just as I had feared.
Finally, when I turned on the notification describing the current chapter, I realized.
[▶Chapter Notification – ON]
[Unused Data / A-2 level Management restricted access]
I had entered a world that couldn’t be approached through normal means.
A world forgotten and discarded by all, which could never be found in the story (dummy data).
That was when it happened.
– Behind, behind, behind, behind!
– Dorm leader, something is coming!
– Kyaaaahhh!
It rushed out of the darkness so quickly that there was no time to react.
I felt a heavy impact on my side, and my body began to tilt gradually. If this continued, I would undoubtedly fall.
But just before the impact with the hard ground reached my ears,
All the interfaces faded away, and my vision darkened as if the film had been cut.
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