Queen's city.
A city with a population of more than 3 million.
All of the 500,000 participants have already gathered here.
After arrival, if not one of the rare rank 1 participants, they would be affected by Queen's charm, to 'Love' her, love her city, and love her daughter.
Everyone would try their best from the first day of arrival to beco a better 'hero' due to this charm.
The first step was mostly to beco a guard, and then advance in rank by completing different 'side quests' in the city.
If they were active enough, they could promote and receive equipnt that high-level guards or even commanders had.
Inside the Queen's castle, in the middle of the city,
All of the participants who, for different reasons, could resist the Queen's charm were gathered.
Because they could exploit many things due to their special condition, Queen herself was always the one to personally invite them as guests to her castle.
And unlike others, they could receive a 'general' title right away, plus all the equipnt a general had.
The condition was so good that no one could say 'no' to Queen's request,
and those who knew how the second planet storyline with 'Queen and demon king' season works,
never even had the thought of rejecting her.
Everyone knew this beautiful Queen was really dark inside.
Rejecting her was equal to going to the 'waiting room'.
But the tycoons, rank 1 participants, and, in this specific season, the bounty hunters didn't mind it.
Just the title of 'General' alone was a big advantage in the upcoming war with the demon king.
They could lead soldiers, who were the chard participants and citizens, and increase their survival chances.
Today, though, inside the Queen's castle, a group of people asked her for a eting.
"What do you an, an extrely dangerous man from the underworld might infiltrate my territory?"
The beautiful lady, wearing a fancy crown and sitting on her throne, addressed the group of 40 people in front of her.
None of these people was affected by her charm.
One rank 1 from the previous season, 30 bounty hunters, and 9 tycoons.
It was rare to see more than one rank 1 on the Second planet, and they were always a tycoon from the previous season.
One of the bounty hunters, who seed to be the team leader, showed his infopad to her.
His infopad was completely different from the normal version that everyone had.
There was a section inside that he could receive ssages from agents outside.
The Queen received the infopad and read the last ssage.
[ - The underworld psychopath completed the first planet's season.
- He triggered the special event and survived.
- The bounty hunter's sun card wasn't used.
- He might arrive on the Second planet at any ti.
- Queen is our insider, ask her for help. ]
"I understand why you bounty hunters are here,
But why did the rest of you co?
My identity as a 'participant' is supposed to be kept as secret."
Said the Queen with a frown.
She was here as the level 3 civilization's insider this season, because it was a good opportunity to use the charm as an excuse, and plant so 'chips' in the bodies of newcors.
She didn't know there was one already inside her own body, too, though.
And now she was exposed in front of the 9 tycoons and the number 1 rank.
The only good thing was that they didn't know what she was doing here,
And the agents only told these bounty hunters to ask for her help.
The team leader of bounty hunters answered,
"That underworld psychopath made a big ss outside.
We are allowed to ask for help from anyone.
Who is better than the rank 1 and the tycoons?
Now our chance for success is higher, and for your information, the 'wish' as the reward is unlimited.
We can even include everyone in this city."
The Queen nodded.
He was right.
There was no limit on the number of participants who could go after this wanted minion.
And there was sothing else, too.
With the chips in these people's bodies, the agents could just erase their mories about her or even their efforts here to catch the criminal.
To show her agreent,
She was going to say sothing, but at this mont, the light in the hall started flickering and then turned off, as if her castle ran out of power.
Looking out of the window, Queen's eyes widened in shock.
The power of the whole city was cut off, not only her castle!
*DING*
And then, with a ding sound, everyone in the hall, including the Queen, received a notification on their infopads.
They didn't know this notification was actually sent to all the participants,
including those on the other planets and even those in the waiting room.
[ - System Alert -
URGENT ALERT: An anomaly has been detected. The total points in the system have exceeded the maximum threshold due to an unauthorized exploit.
CRITICAL WARNING: Point overflow detected. Stability compromised. Imdiate corrective action is required.
SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS: Error source traced to an exploit manipulating point accumulation. The integrity of the seasonal economy is at risk.
ERGENCY PROTOCOL ACTIVATED: To prevent further corruption, all participant points will be reset to zero temporarily. This process will comnce in 60 seconds.
COUNTDOWN INITIATED: Points reset in 50 seconds. Please use your points if necessary.
SYSTEM OVERRIDE LOCKED: All point-related activities are temporarily disabled. Reset in 40 seconds.
FINAL WARNING: Points reset in 30 seconds. Exploiters will face investigation and potential penalties.
CRITICAL TIR: 20 seconds remaining. Data logs secured for review.
SYSTEM NOTICE: 10 seconds to reset. Prepare for recalibration.
EXECUTING RESET: All participant points are being wiped and recalibrated. Please stand by…
SYSTEM REBOOT: Points have been reset. Further investigation is ongoing. Thank you for your patience.]
The more than 7 million participants on all planets,
"!!!???"
What in the world just happened?
....
20 minutes ago.
Outside of the Queen's city.
Little mortal, after more than 5 hours of travel, was still tapping on his infopad at a speed of 20 taps per second while still sleeping.
The only one who woke up not long ago was the notebook.
This seemingly endless straight road was finally going to reach its end.
The notebook 'saw' a big city far away in the distance.
Looking at its teammates, the notebook was speechless.
They were all sleeping, and 'it', the only one awake, was supposed to be 'dead' and act as a lifeless notebook at all tis, so it couldn't wake them up.
Its boss only allowed it to communicate with him in ergency situations.
While the notebook was considering whether their approach to the city was an ergency situation, it saw a bird passing by in the sky.
This not-so-special bird suddenly locked onto a bug that was in the middle of the road and dived down.
The mont it reached the bug on the road, the bird found itself on the path of a motorcycle, with a little boy in a suit riding it.
The notebook, noticing they were going to hit the bird, watched with interest.
It wanted to know if killing by 'accident' would count as a real kill when it cos to its boss, which was an unusual Newborn.
But as if an invisible force interfered, or was it little mortal's instincts that reacted, he changed direction and avoided the dumbfounded bird.
However, because of the change in direction, they weren't on the straight path anymore.
The notebook, which had seen its boss's reaction to avoid killing, looked farther away and beca even more interested.
Now they could see their path leading to a ramp, placed on the right side of the city entrance, which was actually a huge uninstalled billboard.
The curious Notebook, start counting,
< first was the bird, second was the bug, third is this ramp, show more evidence so I can be sure! >
What it was thinking that it needed to beco sure about was unknown.
Either way, it didn't take long for their group to go on the billboard and end up 'flying' above the city.
The guards and citizens who saw soone flying on a motorcycle wondered if there was a need for that motorcycle to be with them, or if it was just today's trend.
This planet's threshold was naturally level 2, so it wasn't strange to see soone flying in the sky.
At this mont, after a *BOOM*, a guard and a random criminal suddenly appeared in the sky while fighting.
Both were close to the path with sleeping Little Mortal on his motorcycle mid-air.
And then,
A spear was thrown by the angry criminal, but the guard dodged it, and it hit the motorcycle instead!
The notebook watched their motorcycle that was now split in half, and counted,
< The spear is four, what's next?>
It was only now that Little Mortal jolted awake and looked around in confusion.
In his half-awake state, he found himself falling from the sky into a water canal.
He was going to dive into the water,
But around 5 ters above the water surface, soone who appeared to be a citizen threw a card into the water, and it transford into a plastic boat.
Little mortal, in his confusion, changed form from diving to landing, fell on the plastic boat, and bounced to the other side of the canal while the two split parts of the motorcycle fell inside the canal.
The notebook counted,
< Plastic boat, that's five.
Give 2 more and make it 7, the lucky number. >
The other side of the canal was a wall with a window on it that Little Mortal was going to crash into.
So he was ready for the impact.
But again, another tily coincidence happened.
The closed window suddenly opened,
And Little mortal, who was going to crash into it, found himself entering the building through the window.
"O_o"
The notebook,
*OUCH*
Little mortal fell on the floor and, after rolling a couple of tis, finally stopped.
The guy who opened the window was speechless,
"Kid, you know this place has a front door too, right?"
And while sneaking out of the window, he shook his head in annoyance and left in a hurry.
But the mont he left, sothing else entered.
It was Little Mortal's infopad that seed to be sowhere in the sky, separated from him,
and had only now arrived here through the window before smashing into a machine.
*DING*
[ Minimum bet has been placed.
We have a winner!
You won 1000 points! ]
Little mortal ignored the voice, looked around, and scratched his head in confusion,
"What in the world is happening?
I was on the road just a mont ago."
And while puzzled, he was going to pick up his infopad,
But his gaze suddenly stopped on his notebook, which was now on the ground.
When he leaned over to pick it up, he noticed sothing written on it that wasn't his handwriting.
[ PFS X7 ]
For others, it might be like a riddle, but for the forr Fate expert, with 'Passive Fate Skill',
And a notebook that believed he was still an expert, it wasn't hard to understand what it ant.
It ant his Passive Fate Skill triggered 7 tis in a row.
Or at least, his notebook thinks that way.
Little mortal who knew about the fallen Fate, frowned, and muttered,
"I wonder how I ended up here?"
His notebook still believed in Fate, and if its guess wasn't true about registering in the event,
Little mortal wouldn't take what it was trying to say seriously at all.
The invisible crystal that understood the aning vibrated.
Lilith, who had just woken up too, went to it and watched the record of what had happened while they were sleeping.
Then she told Little Mortal about what happened and how they ended up here.
Everything that happened in this short period of ti seems to be a series of coincidences that led them here, in front of this slot machine.
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Little mortal, as if he didn't hear her, turned to the machine that had just announced his win.
His infopad was dropped beside it.
Looking around, he found himself in a place like a casino with many different slot machines.
So desperate people were placing their infopad on different machines and praying for 'luck'.
Little Mortal went to the machine that his infopad had bet by itself, 'coincidentally',
and saw it was covered in dust, as if it had not been used for a long ti.
As he was looking at the machine curiously, the sound of hurried footsteps ca.
A mont later, a couple of guards arrived where he was.
One of them asked,
"Did you see a guy coming this way?"
Little mortal pointed at the open window and said,
"I saw a sneaky one running from there."
The guard who asked the question imdiately jumped out of the window,
But the last guard who saw his win on the slot machine said,
"The rules are on the back, don't get fooled by it!"
And left.
The notebook thought to itself,
It believed its boss's Fate skill triggered for a reason, and the reason wasn't this minor chaos, but a 'hidden' one.
......
Ti passed.
In the midst of the chaos, two figures landed in front of the casino where everything started.
The frozen little mortal finally moved.
He only bought bullets and invisibility cards because the card shop didn't have any 'special cards' available.
Everything was simple cards, like what he bought for newborns, and so useless cards like a king card, that only a 'P2W player' like him could buy.
So he tried the second-best option, which was the thing that could affect his special card.
The bullet changers could be applied to any bullet.
So if the bullet, and the gun shooting it, were special, the 'change' would be special too.
But he lost 100 quintillion because of this ga...?
Was it because of greed, or 'justice'?
No one knew.
Looking at the two figures who suddenly ca here, and everyone opened a path for them,
Little Mortal, while still in a 'flabbergasted' state, followed them instinctively.
He was an 'undercover agent' for many years,
so he could recognize 'important' characters that needed to be followed at a glance.
Not to ntion these two.
One wore a crown and a luxurious robe, while the other wore a familiar special equipnt set.
The three walked into the casino and then straight to the first exploded slot machine.
The casino manager, while sweating profusely, ca and kneeled before the lady with the crown,
"Greetings, my Queen!"
And the Queen waved her hand,
"Just tell what the ga and the rules for this slot machine were.
You can leave then."
The casino manager brought out the 'casino map' and, after looking at it for a while, found the machine and explained how it worked.
After that, with the Queen's permission, he left.
The Queen asked the bounty hunter's leader, who slowly brought out a card,
"What do you think?
Is it related to him?"
Seeing him taking out the sun card instead of answering her, the Queen was startled!
She beca vigilant!
The mont this accident happened, they all suspected that a certain psychopath, whom they had just received a warning about his possible arrival, was in the city, making trouble.
So the two rushed over here, and the rest of them went to the other casinos.
And now, when the team leader heard about the slot machine and its rules,
He imdiately made a judgnt and brought out his sun card.
On the first planet, everyone entered with 0 points,
And the bounty hunter's leader had the list of equipnt that the psychopath had.
Except for the special trap cards and his handgun, all of the other cards were just low-level daily necessities.
That's why the first group only thought of being careful of the trap cards and the gun.
But now, things were different.
The psychopath advanced to the second planet as rank one, and not any rank one.
He killed everybody, triggered the special event, and fard all of the available points on that planet for himself.
While it was unknown how many points he had,
It couldn't be low, and it was far more than the usual 200k-300k range because he completed a special event.
Until now, the bounty hunters thought that because of his underworld identity and law, he couldn't activate his infopad.
So to them, it didn't matter how many points he had.
He couldn't use it, nor could the newborns under his command, because he needed to transfer it to them or give them access to his account first.
How could he do that if he can't even turn on his infopad?
Until this mont.
The leader heard about the betting system of this slot machine, which seems to be a 'sure-lose',
and figured out that for the last bet in this slot machine, you need more than 4 billion points.
Who could have this many points on the second planet?
The leader thought there were only 2 possibilities.
One: there is soone with at least 4.3 billion points on this planet, who just bet here, won a 500x prize, and kept betting until the whole system crashed.
Or Two: a certain psychopath sohow gained access to his infopad and did the sa, because it wasn't surprising for him to have that many points.
But there was a big problem now if it was the psychopath!
If his Infopad was on, it ans he has access to the shop!
How many cards could he buy with his current access to the shop?
And what card was the best card to buy for a wanted criminal?
The first thing that ca to his mind was one of the most popular cards,
The invisibility card, which was close to impossible to have here on the second planet!
That's why,
While his right hand was gripping the sun card, he sent a ssage to the Queen with his trembling left hand.
[ Check participants' history, and see if there is anyone with more than 4.3 billion points. ]
As Queen, she naturally had access to the points of the 'registered participants', the quest they completed, the equipnt they had, and other information.
And the Queen, as her frown got deeper, didn't check her infopad.
Why, you ask?
Because she felt sleepy, like the current 'one hand bounty hunter's leader, and five random people farther away.
*phew*
Little mortal, who saw the ssage this 'smart' guy sent, blew the smoke coming out of his handgun.
Now, his handgun was equipped with the '100% silencer' and 'sleeping bullet',
which didn't have any 'recoil' like the normal bullets that would 'force' the handgun out of his hand.
And in his other hand was a sword, which he used to cut the leader's right hand off, to prevent the 'sun card' from accidentally blowing up the city.
Seeing the two 'sleeping' on the ground,
Little mortal brought out 2 invisibility cards and threw them at the Queen and the one-ard leader.
And both of them turned invisible, like him.
He muttered to himself,
"This guy was actually pretty smart.
He figured things out so fast that he could even be a main character in another story!
But here, in this story?
I apologize, the main character role has already been taken by soone overpowered..."
Little mortal sighed,
And while feeling sad for this potential main character that didn't even have the ti to introduce himself,
He brought out his infopad, went to the invulnerability card section, and read the detailed information.
"Let see if this sun card is effective when it cos to invulnerability cards..."
And a mont later,
"Yeah, as expected, it can actually bypass the invulnerability ...
I need to be careful dealing with this card, or any other special card."
Then he looked at the two 'nothing' on the ground, and wondered,
"What's going to happen if I kill the Queen?
Can I take her place?
But I'm a man, so I can't?
And how should I find the other bounty hunters now before they find out their leader is 'sleeping'?
Is there more of them with a sun card?"
Little mortal scratched his head in frustration.
The Crystal was at a loss.
Things escalated too quickly because of a silly notebook delusion of its Boss's Fate passive skill.
And the notebook itself was still waiting to see what the 'real' reason was for the fate skill to be triggered...
Lilith, on Little Mortal's shoulder, said,
"Call out one of your wise advisors.
They can't see the 'invisible Queen' now.
You can go with the previous plan."
Little mortal, as if heard nothing, searched for the two invisible bodies, picked them up, and jumped out of the familiar window.
Not long after, he was under a bridge, with nobody around.
Then he made the two bodies 'visible' again and searched them.
On the bounty hunter, he only found the infopad, and nothing else.
After checking the infopad, he saw that this guy actually sent the ssage about checking points to two accounts.
One was the Queen, and the other one was an 'unknown' address.
The one sent to the Queen was received, because there was a ✓ beside it.
But the one sent to the 'unknown' contact seems to be on the way because there was a spinning hourglass icon in front of it.
As if it was sent, but stuck sowhere on the way.
The Crystal vibrates, saying,
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