Once again there was just silence as he stared at Miu, who had just told him that he was in Eldoria, the game he had played. It didn't make any sense at all, at least, not until he realized it.
He accepted the invitation.
Everything came together like a puzzle, but maybe it was the worst thing that could have happened… not for him, but for all of Eldoria.
"Was I isekai'd… like transmigrated into the game?
"In short, yes, in long, no." Miu kept smiling as said it. "You were written into the script as a memorial, but the script became reality, as well as the game, and now you are a character in Eldoria, a character in the endless journey."
Yeah, she said exactly what he was actually thinking, like the mangas and anime he had read and watched when he was able to.
How absurd that is for several reasons and at the same time how exciting it is, absurdly exciting.
"But Eldoria wasn't a VR game… like Sword Art O—"
"Just accept it." Miu said again, raising her voice. "You are in the game as the Last Conqueror of Eldoria! You are real, you are Lucius!" She shouted with joy as she spun around once again, but she didn't realize what she had done with it.
For a moment, Lucius froze, not just because he saw Miu's fat ass again, but because it was now an entirely different situation than before… he was entirely different as a faint smile appeared on his face.
"I am… in Eldoria for real…" He whispered as he looked down at his hands, clenching it into a fist and feeling his nails dig into his palm, the pain was as real as everything around him.
And with that acceptance came something Miu did not expect.
"Can you… say the last part again?" Lucius asked as he slowly looked up at her and she felt his eyes were filled with something that she could name nor understand.
"Last Conqueror of Eldoria… that is title of you or at least was, but—"
A historical laugh… he just laughed, and with it, he changed into something entirely different from how he had acted just a moment ago.
In his eyes, there was no confusion anymore, only the acceptance of something far greater than he had ever imagined happening after death.
"So…" He suddenly stopped laughing and, now with a wide smile, looked up at Miu. "I am a… god, right?"
It was totally Miu's fault. She didn't explain things to him properly. She didn't do the one job she was created to do… to help new players. Well, to be honest, she wasn't cornered or imprisoned by scripts and codes anymore. She had her own direction, her own will, but she truly did it wrong with Lucius.
She emphasized the wrong thing to him, who he once was, and that is why there was that sudden change in his personality.
Not just that, but in Lucius's mind, he felt like he had hit the jackpot.
He was truly dead and about to begin a new journey in his favorite game that he had dominated.
Or maybe not even a new journey, but the same one he walked in the past, back when he was completely untouchable in Eldoria. Even his weakest skill could wipe out the strongest dungeon boss, while his most overpowered skill was enough to defeat a Forgotten God.
And when he combined everything, he slaughtered every other PvP player and even wiped out the SunGods guild, those pay-to-win fucker all by himself.
With all of this, Miu knew where she had gone wrong. "A… god?"
"My character…" Lucius 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 server. 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, over all the almighty beings… 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 and she felt it even more. Those eyes of him were 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… I feel it—"
"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…?"
Well, all of the so-called darkness, the so-called power, just disappeared from his eyes in a second.
"What you felt was the past or at least your imagination of it." Miu continued, but to be true she didn't understand what happened or how it happened.
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 just a simple man right now and nothing more."
Lucius' power trip ended quickly, though nobody could really blame him.
Like dying and then waking up in the game he had conquered, the game where he was the most powerful, anyone would have a power trip.
"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 Eldora type one.
"P-please tell me you're not talking about—"
"Fool of Death." Miu interrupted him, that same fake smile on her face once again shattering Lucius's entire being.
A Skill or more so a System that was a curse, then anything else.
The only time immortality was a thing throughout Eldoria was the Fool of Immortality or more known the Fool of Death. The murderer, who thought killing innocent lives, who thought listening to monsters and the corrupted darkness would lead to immortality… but it was an April Fools event.
"But that wasn't immortality." Lucius whispered as looked at her. "It was just an event that was forced by the developers onto a player. He was untouchable only to the NPCs and nothing more."
Yeah, basically the whole thing was that the player who got the title couldn't level up or do anything in the game, but only one thing. Kill NPCs while on the other hand those who hunted him down got rewards. And well, it had an awful passive that forced the player to kill NPCs, because if he did not, his account would be deleted. Basically, the player was immortal to NPCs, at least until he killed them, but if he did not, his account was deleted.
"That is immortality." Miu said as she sighed.
"No, it's not." Lucius said again as she didn't get why Miu was saying it is immortality… somehow it all went past his head, yeah the key fact about the whole situation.
"Once again you are forgetting where you are." She said she outstretched her arms."You are in Eldoria, and everything living in Eldoria were NPCs once… do you understand it now?"
Yeah, he finally got it, he finally understood it. "F-Fuck me…"
"The Fool of Death is you, Lucius, and with it your journey waits ahead." Miu said as she still smiled… smiled at the straight desperation that went through Lucius as he realized more and more what it exactly meant. "But it is time now, I send you down to Briminia, and from there it is you who decide what you will do."
"I need to kill to not die…?
"Kill to stay immortal… if we think about it, it is an endless circle of bloodshed… that is the Fool of Death."