It was totally Miu's fault… she didn't explain to him well, she didn't do the one job she was created to do, help new players… well, to be honest, she wasn't cornered or imprisoned by script and codes… she has her own direction, her own will, but she truly did it wrong with Lucius, she emphasized the wrong thing to him that who he was once… and that's why there was that sudden change in his personality.
Like the feeling, the realization of it, that you are in the game that you conquered, that you topped… you are in it with all that you had, the skills, the magic, the whole ass character is you… and everything is real… and Lucius… he accepted the fact that he is in Eldoria as the Last Conqueror.
Not just that, but in Lucius's mind, he felt like he had hit the jackpot and of course, he had. Dying on a hospital bed, he used to dream and think about how great it would be to be transmigrated or isekai'd, just like in anime or manga… and now it actually happened.
The sudden change was undeniable, this wasn't a dreamlike state, he wasn't in a coma.
He was truly dead… and about to begin a new journey.
The same journey he did in the past…. where he was fucking untouchable in Eldoria. His character's weakest skill could wipe out a strongest dungeon boss, his strongest most op skill could defeat a Forgotten God, and combining all of it he killed every other PvP player… even defeated the SunGods guild, full of pay-to-win players.
Yeah, he joined guild wars by himself… he only created a guild to be able to wipe them out… and he did it, he clutched a 30 versus 1.
That's the kind of player he was… he did everything to make the game miserable for others, at least for those players who tried him. And that is exactly why he was the worst one to wake up in Eldoria.
That's whatMiu felt.
A goddess, yet she felt some kind of pressure growing stronger and stronger. What started as a faint, tickling sensation became something that tried to press her body down and there was no way she should be feeling this much aura, this much pressure, from someone like him because well… he wasn't the Last Conqueror anymore.
"A… god?" She asked back as Lucius was still looking down at his hands.
"My character…" He curled his fist again, feeling that sensation that it was all real…"My character was a max-level one with mythical runes, mythical weapons and accessories." He slowly looked up at Miu with that maniac smile on his face. "I… killed every boss, I killed every player that tried me, I even wiped out a whole guild… I topped the global servers… I obtained even the Elixir of Life…. I am a god in this world."
Yeah, she finally understood it, those eyes of his, the pressure he felt wasn't Lucius… no, it was what he was once… the only player ever who obtained items that topped everything in the game, the only player in the whole game who obtained the Elixir of Life.
The player who truly could have been a god in Eldoria, who could have ruled over all races, the almighty being… the one that could have wiped out Eldoria as a whole…. yeah just could.
"Khhhhh—hahahahAHAHA… I AM A GOD!" He looked up at the sky as he shouted, arms outstretched, and laughed… that insane hysterical laugh.
It was not a laugh of joy, but of chaos, wild and untamed, echoing into the clouds… then he looked once again at Miu.
And she felt it even more… those eyes of him was infused with the darkness of the past and that past was the pressure that she felt… the aura of a player with over ten thousand PvP kills, the player who had defeated Lurina's four hundred-thousand-strong army in two minutes, the player who had killed one of the Forgotten Gods… at least in the past, when Eldoria was a game.
"Uhh, Lucius—"
"This is great… I can feel it, I can feel the power surging in me…"
"Lucius!" Miu shouted now and finally got his attention, but that darkness was still in his eyes, the darkness of the knowledge of what power he thought he possessed. "Your character was… deleted."
"Huh…?" Yeah… well, all of the so-called darkness, the so-called power, just disappeared from his eyes as Miu said it.
"What you felt was the past or at least your imagination of it." She said, but to be true to herself, she didn't understand what was happening, nor tried to explain it.
The pressure and aura she felt was truly something enormous, so terrifying and dark that it almost infused her pure being…. maybe it was truly the player who he once was… NoobieBoobie23.
"You are now the character that the developers scripted in the game… and what they scripted in is just a copy of your character without powers." She saw every bit of excitement just vanishing from Lucius' eyes. "Your main character NoobieBoobie23 was deleted, because the developers thought it would be the best idea to honor your legacy… the player who conquered and found eternal peace in the end."
Yeah, that's exactly what happened… the character he had spent countless hours building was deleted by the developers after he passed away. The decision actually caused outrage on the forums, many felt it was a disrespectful move while others argued it fit the lore of the game, as if the character had simply disappeared and was never defeated… like it served as a somber reminder of the person behind it, whose time in the game, and in life, had come to an unexpected end.
But with that, as Miu said, Lucius' power trip ended quickly, but nobody could really blame him.
Like dying and then waking up in the game he had conquered, he was the most powerful, anyone would have a power trip… well, not everyone, some people might have started tweaking out… though he tweaked out on his own, thinking he was a god.
"Though there is one thing that you have." Miu said though she kinda looked like she wasn't sure to say it out loud.
"W-what…?" Lucius asked, becoming stressed, and of course, because he noticed Miu's worried face… a goddess's worried face.
"You are immortal… be happy." She said as put on a cute smile but what followed was silence.
Deep silence… the type of silence you know you are fucked up on a whole other level.
"Please tell me that…" He finally spoke his voice low with a terrified look. "I'm not an Eldoria-type immortal…"
"Well, yes, you are." She answered quickly, still with that fake smile, as if it helped the situation… but hell no, it didn't.
Lucius as heard it just simply fell to his knees and his very being was shaken by the fact of what she just told him… that he is immortal… the Eldoria type one…
I'm was fucked on Earth and even fucked here… haha—
But why? Why does immortality in Eldoria mean everything but a blessing?
The answer is simple, yet complex.
In Eldoria, nothing was immortal. You could defeat anything if you leveled up your character, your gear, if you completed the highest-tier trial chambers, towers, and dungeons, or spent a lot of money—
With one exception… there was a time when immortality was a thing in the game… in an April Fools event.