"1)\an9}Town of Minami Japan Server Town of Minami City/ No Monsters PVP Permitted Skill Use Restricted Entry Restrictions/ Yes Exit Restrictions/ Yes" "Eighteen cases of EXP pots left." "Those damned adventurers... 1)\an7\fs18}Magic Circle Linked Path Train Iron-Steel Train" "They say what they really wanted to make was a flying machine." "They're so greedy." "an adventurer who gave us People of the Land the iron-steel train." "Watch your mouth." "Captain of the Royal Guard." "You're supposed to keep an eye on this?" "You always get the crappy jobs." "So where's Miss Nureha?" "Not here yet." "Locked up in her room again?" "What does Indicus intend to do with that princess?" "right?" "You think someone could actually replace her?" "You're right." "It's been two years since she left the Tea Party." "Who knows what she's doing now?" "She's heading straight here." "I met Kanami on the China server." "She's..." "Kanami's back in the game?" "Yep." "And the scary thing is that she hadn't changed a bit." "She was exactly like she was with us." "She was as much Kanami as ever." "Just after the Apocalypse" "I went to the continent to gather information about this world." "Using Soul Possession to possess a white horse." "And there..." "This is so great!" "So much adventure!" "Lv. 90 No Guild" "Froggy-nardo!" "It's not Froggy-nardo." "It's Leonardo!" "And I found Kanami." "Go East!" "Go East." "There's no end to them." "I told you." "This is a raid-rank event!" "The number of Daylight Shades exceeds two thousand." "right?" "Awesome!" "I can't finish any of them." "What kind of party is this?" "A gap has appeared on the battlefield." "What?" "Froggy-nardo!" "I'm not Froggy-nardo!" "We have to go on foot?" "Huh?" "You're KR?" "I thought you were a horse someone sent." "You haven't changed a bit." "and quit the game?" "I got back into it in Rome." "And now this happened." "And?" "What are you doing on the China server?" "Heading to Japan!" "To Yamato?" "it isn't that way." "Why?" "right?" "I want to know why it happened." "Kanami says it might have something to do with the Novasphere Pioneers." "The twelfth expansion pack for the MMORPG Elder Tale the Novasphere Pioneers." "It's true that we were sent to this world right after it went live." "But why Japan?" "Japan is in the East." "on May 3rd." "it was only implemented on the Japan server?" "Right." "she had companions." "I miss giga-meat." "Lv. 90 No Guild an assassin who'd used fairy rings to come from the" "America server and couldn't get back." "he'd just joined the party." "Do you desire healing?" "a cleric Kanami had met on her travels." "Lv. 90 No Guild" "I just want to eat some pizza." "And Erius Hackblade." "What?" "The progenitor?" "Lv. 100 Redbranch Knights" "A hero who belongs to the Redbranch Knights one of the thirteen orders of knights who maintain order in the world." "blue-blooded progenitor." "he's even on the Elder Tale package." "But all the progenitors supposedly disappeared." "Just like the Izumo Knights on the Yamato server." "anyway?" "I suppose." "That makes sense." "we continued our journey." "1)\an7}Sekek Village China Server Aorsoi:" "Zhympity Field/ Monsters Present PVP Permitted Skill Use Permitted Entry Restrictions/ None Exit Restrictions/ None" "And on our way..." "Quick timeout!" "Froggy-nardo?" "!" "Kanami?" "A boy..." "What's going on?" "His status..." "What is he?" "Froggy-nardo!" "he'll kill someone!" "Erius!" "Throw him here!" "Understood!" "Arms of the fairies of the black night..." "Night Splash!" "You threw him too far!" "Oops." "Coppelia!" "He's a Person of the Land." "A non-player character." "I can kill him with Assassinate." "Don't worry about it." "He's only a program!" "Froggy-nardo!" "Don't worry." "I just stunned him with Paralyzing Blow." "Kanami?" "His status was displayed in two layers." "What was that?" "Has this ever happened before?" "Yes." "One day people who'd been acting completely normally suddenly turned into beasts." "We call them the plague demons." "We don't know why they happen at all." "1)\an8}Plague Demons" "So much mystery..." "We can do it." "If we gather all the information we can find and if everyone wants to see something new." "a trader will be visiting the village." "We need information and supplies." "So we wait until he shows up?" "Yep!" "mister!" "Why are you green?" "Why are you a frog?" "This is the sign that I'm a hero!" "A frog ninja is a symbol of the most courageous hero in the world!" "I don't get it." "What's a hero?" "Is it yummy?" "Jeez..." "This is why I hate kids." "I guess there's no point in getting upset at NPCs." "So one of the mares came after you in the stables?" "Don't laugh!" "KR?" "Shut up." "Well?" "How's Japan doing?" "Is anything interesting going on?" "{\cH000B13\3cHDFE1DB}Stop playing around" "Shiro is?" "Evidently he's at the core of some organization called the "Round Table." "someone else leads it." "That's my tour guide!" "my lord?" "I just felt like someone gave me an impossible task." "you couldn't start a new skill while still using the last." "I can do cancels and combos!" "Do you require healing?" "I'm fine." "what do you think about the Novasphere Pioneers?" "I've been told it was applied to the Japan server." "Then what about the Japan server?" "it's been plotted as a high priority." "like?" "My master is like daybreak." "Huh?" "the sun is racing forward." "It has just now set." "at 0438 the eastern sky will begin to brighten." "the sky is dark." "it begins to turn dark purple." "Then bluish purple." "Then azure." "the sky turns increasingly blue but there is still no light." "Because the sun has not appeared it's still dark." "But no one sees that blue and doubts that the sun will rise." "That is what my master is like." "the trader's caravan arrived." "Lv. 90 Rakurou Wolf Brigade" "My name is Chun-Lu." "I'm a wanderer with the Rakurou Wolf Brigade guild." "I was unable to protect the other members of my caravan." "What happened?" "Give them the fate of all who are inferior." "The truth of all solutions." "I'm sorry." "it would be our job to escort you." "It's fine." "It's fine." "too." "The Rakurou Wolf Brigade has defended the People of the Land on their travels since the Apocalypse." "Yet..." "No one blames you." "But..." "But we come back to life." "Because we're adventurers." "You don't need to get upset just because an NPC died." "The Rakurou Wolf Brigade right?" "Yes." "We're going to try a ninety-six-man legion raid." "We're heading for the pillar ruins known as Tone's Grave." "That's where the nole live." "There are four thousand enemies." "A team of level 90 and above adventurers shouldn't have any problem with that." "That sounds so cool." "too." "We cannot leave the Corridor to Heaven behind." "It's fun to hurt tokens who have no idea what they are." "We are the same." "Wiped out?" "The Rakurou Wolf Brigade raid team got wiped out." "That layered status and a black dragon were seen on the battlefield." "Parallel one..." "Kanami!" "A nole army is heading through the zone we just passed!" "Five hundred of them!" "They're heading for the village we stayed in." "and eat those who come close." "they're moving en masse in search of food." "Nice!" "Nice!" "Five hundred dogs is a lucky sign!" "You can't get this excitement in real life!" "Huh?" "No shortage of enemies!" "So much excitement!" "Huh?" "twice!" "Are you planning to defeat the nole army moving toward the village and then go to Tone's Grave?" "That's my KR!" "You get it!" "Are you stupid?" "Didn't you hear how that legion raid was annihilated?" "with no information." "So we won't do any brawling." "and run." "Perfect game!" "We are champions!" "what information do we have?" "right?" "And how are we supposed to use it?" "KR." "I can't!" "It doesn't matter whether you can do it or not..." "Then what does?" "There's a need for us to go." "What do you mean "a need"?" "A reason I can't say aloud." "Why do all this for People of the Land NPCs?" "I agree with Kanami." "Not simply because I owe her a debt." "I am a progenitor." "I have had a duty to protect the People of the Land since the thirteen orders of knights around the world were born." "Yeah..." "That's right." "too." "The same as a Person of the Land." "What will we do with the villagers?" "will you go let them know?" "Got it." "I will go with you." "We can't win!" "There's no reason for you to do that!" "either." "I am one of many MMORPG farming bots created by a Chinese money-laundering group." "Didn't you go with Kanami and the others?" "Something was bothering me." "what did that girl tell you?" "She was a farming bot." "Not a player." "She was just an AI that only existed in the game." "I healed eighteen People of the Land." "I blessed forty-nine." "I don't know." "I was thanked three hundred and nineteen times for this act." "What would he do?" "The unbeatable ninja hero." "I know what he'd do." "I've known from the start." "He'd go." "That's interesting." "truly interesting." "Are you KR?" "Lv. 90 Plant Hwyaden" "That's right." "How?" "What did you do?" "Swap Teleporting." "Castling." "Servant Caster" "Swap Teleporting Castling" "It's an emergency escape method that swaps the caster and their summoned creature." "Caster Servant" "Which means..." "I just teleported to this server from Japan." "I'll go with you." "Why?" "I know too." "I liked him." "If that hero is going to show off his new power too." "my friend the red dragon!" "Awaken from thy garnet slumber and fly through the sky!" "Spirits of pure water and shine across the battlefield!" "Aqua Thousand Rain!" "Leonardo?" "I can see Tone's Grave from here." "Wait..." "Hey!" "That's amazing." "That's a full- or double-raid rank..." "The black dragon Chun-Lu was talking about?" "Someone's riding it." "They're the bad guys." "huh?" "Oh?" "More adventurers." "Models without power." "could you keep the black dragon away from Coppelia and Kanami?" "Yeah." "Perfect." "Cowabunga!" "Froggy-nardo!" "That was awesome!" "Let's go!" "human." "My God." "Lv. 89 Rank/ Normal" "Lasphere level 89 a normal-rank monster." "Lv. 89 Rank/ Normal" "Level 89 normal rank." "His name is Paps." "So you read my name." "That is the special ability of these solutions." "A genius... survivor?" "Eri-Eri!" "They're all slippery!" "It is a strange combination survive." "I'll eliminate you." "This is wonderful!" "This is joyous!" "Shut up!" "Parallel One!" "swapping it with her own status and using it to take damage for her?" "Then I'll use the gap between the charge and the motion..." "Parallel Plot!" "So this is pain?" "Or is this an ache?" "More crimson than twilight redder than a lycoris flower!" "A deeper red than a rose..." "Did your companions fall?" "Stop it..." "Why do you not shut down?" "Shut your mouth!" "about the People of the Land." "You are all dolls puppets without will only personality software." "There are no fairies." "The progenitors and the People of the Land are all false." "false thing." "You must shut down." "shut down your timeline." "no!" "Don't be stupid!" "Eri-Eri is real!" "He's right here!" "we're going to have a lot of fun." "Don't take him away from me." "You're just a tire-tube man!" "I don't know what happened after that." "Worrying about it is a waste of time." "She's as terrible as ever." "I told you it's terrifying how little she's changed." "Miss Nureha!" "Miss Nureha!" "Lady Nureha." "That's right." "You need only smile with that pretty face." "Did you tell Indicus this?" "Nope." "either." "won't it?" "Preparing to deploy magic circles." "Linked-path adjustment complete." "Ready to go at will." "It's time to start a war!" "To the East!" "the thing all beginners desire." "Minori and the others go on a quest to get the materials for it." "Carrying five people both nervous and excited about a world they've not yet seen the carriage sets off." "Next time:" "Setting Off." "Setting Off" "I have friends to run with me."