It's been almost 2 weeks since the ga ca out, most people knew about it by now, even the grandma living in the countryside. Heck, so people even used the capsule to et up with their family mbers who live far away from them, making the video ga an interdiate between them. After all, even people with disabilities were able to experience the life of normalcy through the virtual character they made. Miko never thought soone's childish dream could benefits a lot of people and be looks upon positively by the society. It almost makes her forget that Kousuke is a peculiar senior with beautiful harem by his side.
After finishing her food and paying for it with so of the gold coins she earned through completing quests, Miko exits the tavern-like restaurant and heads to the alchemist store to restock her potions like every players after a successful hunt. The ga was pretty imrsive in the fact that injury does hurt like hell, there's no pain reception settings like in fiction, so potions are very much important even if one is not combat oriented player. However death here is not the end. Fortunately there is a revival chanism that player could respawn in the last saved location, at a cost of so percentage of EXP and small drop of durability from any equipped armory.
Even Miko with her cheating eyes have tasted death a couple of tis in this ga. After all, not every party started on good terms from the beginning. As she walks through the crowd street, Miko occasionally ca across players of different races like Demonkin and even Demiwolf. However, the rest of the players are all humans. Of course this was within reasonable developnt if one considered how much the developer seems to be especially biased toward the human race. Despite different races offer differ benefits, they all have sothing in common, and that is each of them have at least one flaw/weakness tied to their chosen race. Such as vampire and their weakness of sunlight and silver weapon.
Does it stop players from picking races other than human? It doesn't, however, it is true that they might have to put up with so suffering early to possibly mid gas before they could fully enjoy the privileges of chosen race. But unlike them, human race have no imposed flaws. They were even granted so benefits, such as experience boost for limited ti in early ga, and most importantly, an additional stat called Adapt—it didn't seems to do much at first, and most players couldn't even understand what it does just from the flavour text alone. However, only few reckless players could sll that this stat could be a ga breaking one and choose to invest heavily on it.
The ga even gives the players a big clue that only the human race could later change into half-human, the other half being other races of their chosen. At this point, it would be stupid to pick other options, unless the player themselves have already decides from the get-go to beco sothing else. After all, it's just video ga, there's bound to be players who still went ahead and pick the worse possible race like Goblin, because they can. Miko rembered the shock she felt upon running into such a peculiar player, the players around her even thoughts a monster had sohow stepped into the safe town due to bug or sothing. But the natag above their head proven their identity as players.
It didn't take long before Miko approached the entryway of the town and stood behind the short line until it was her turn, and handed over her ID card to the guard. It takes a few seconds before she passed the checkpoint and was allowed to leave. It was rather strict but that's what the full imrsive experience looks like. She begins jogging her way through the road until the pathway was split into two, only then did she went straight in the middle, charging into the forest like a reckless person. Before long, she ca across a sign nailed to a big tree, warning anyone from advancing any further but she ignored it. However, that wasn't the end of it.
"..."
As Miko progress deeper into the forest, one sign appears after another. Each ti, it gets progressively worse, almost comical even. At first, the warning looks very convincing, like the monster marking on the tree, the strangely fresh excrent and carcass. But that stopped completely and the sign changed to emoji instead. It was a rather strange-looking humanoid creature with snake as the head. It put up a palm forward as if telling the lost wanderers that they shouldn't be here at all. However, that too quickly turned into the cute chibi version from realistic. At this point, she simply rolled her eyes at this sight.
Soon after, she saw a man-made cave under the mountain cliff. She pretends not noticing the twitching skeleton on the ground near the entrance. Not just that, there are countless broken/fragnts weapons litter everywhere, giving off a rather ominous impression, as if sothing evil lurking deep inside the cave. Miko didn't show any sign of fear at all as she begins walking into it. Sensing her approaching, the skeleton on the ground were about to launch itself up until it froze midway before slumping back like a disappointed puppy.
"...Seele wasn't lying about the whole dramatic flair." She muttered softly. As Miko begins descending down the stairs, she recalled the matter at school a few hours ago. Seele had told her that her brother, Kousuke wanted to et up with her later. Not at school, but inside the virtual reality. It was a rather strange request, after all, it's not like they didn't go to the sa school and live so far away. Still, she decides to check it out anyway and followed through the navigation after putting the coordinate on the map. It was what led her here.
Finally, after a few minutes of descending, Miko stood before a tall door with strangely detailed depiction of giant demon against a group of humans embedded on it. 'He really went all in for that evil boss the for this huh?' she thought internally before putting her hand on it, and slowly pushed it open. Once there was enough gap for her to slip, she did exactly that rather than pushing the door completely open. It was pretty heavy for her build.
"I see. Thou art mine first intruder."
Darkness reigned within the chamber until a deep, reverberating voice shattered the silence. Blue flas erupted along the walls, torch after torch igniting as if answering his call, flooding the room with an unholy light. At the far end of the hall sat a lone figure upon an ornate, imposing throne.
Goat horns crowned his head, and where the whites of his eyes should have been lay only black voids, pierced by burning crimson pupils. One glance was enough to make fear seep into the bones of any who dared et his gaze. This was no re demon. He was the Demon Lord.
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