"L-lord balls? You don't recognize ? It's ! Luck!"
"Luck!?" Ren blurted out, caught entirely off guard by what he was seeing in front of him, a creature that was all too familiar to him yet moving in totally different ways than what he was usually programd.
A small, slightly glowing figure around the size of a middle finger. His short, deep, purple hair slightly spiked, his eyes that were a mystical uniform colour matched his hair and complinted the soft, almost feminine-like features of his yellow, slightly glowing face. He flapped his almost see-through matching purple fairy wings in the air wearing absolutely no clothes, his private parts fully missing from where a normal person would usually have them.
It was a custom fairy NPC that he always created on every play-through of the ga he had ever done, one that proved to be extrely useful every ti, yet not one that he expected to see in his new playthrough of the ga.
"Lord Balls! I'm so happy you're finally awake! I was so worried about you!"
His voice completely caught Ren off guard.
Firstly, he usually had all of his party mbers on mute, that was if he had any, so he didn't have to listen to their ramblings and pre-programd voice lines over and over.
And secondly, he had never heard an NPC ever refer to him by na. It was always "Hero", "Traveler", "Young Wizard", Etcetera, but never specifically by na.
'Damn, they must have really updated the AI He sounds so good... And why is Luck here? I thought I started a new ga. Is this the new starting cutscene? Did they put my own custom character in the ga as an homage to !?'
Ren couldn't really contain his excitent, a clear look of Joy on his face.
"Ummm Lord Balls? Are you okay? Can you talk to ? You've been asleep for 2 days I was so worried about you But don't worry! I made myself useful while you were asleep!"
Luck's tone was very joyous and worried at the sa ti, the emotions on his face very expressive, which made Ren inwardly nod, taking in everything, not speaking a single word back at the NPC ahead of him.
"Ummm Lord Balls?"
"Can you please stop calling lord balls!?" Ren blurted on instinct before sighing to himself as it was just as effective as talking to a brick wall, thinking nothing of it as an NPC wouldn't be
able to respond to such a command.
"Oh I'm sorry Would you rather call you by your full na? Lord BallsDeep69?"
"NO! That's even worse!" He instinctively responded once more, before taking a step back as he ca to a sudden realization...
'He responded!? What!? He responded!?'
Usually, NPCs only respond to very direct commands, or prompts given by the ga to tell the player to say what he needed to say, like multiple choice. This was the first ti he had seen such a thing.
'Did they program realistic AI in the ga? Just like in all those novels and ani? Can I now have a full-on conversation with an NPC?'
He felt his excitent well up, even more, everything seed almost too good to be true, him not sure how the developers could allow such realism in the ga.
"Umm So Lord What would you rather call you?"
Ren's eyes grew wide with a massive smile on his face. He finally had the chance to change his own na.
He had thought, no, more like fantasied about it many tis about a cool, fitting vampire na to call himself but simply never received the chance to use it. And, after years of contemplating, he had ultimately narrowed it down to 1, simple na
"Alucard Call Alucard"
Luck's slightly worried and confused face looked up brighter than ever.
"Alucard! Lord Alucard! I like that! I like the new na lord! I was worried that you were going through an identity crisis,"
Ren ignored the part about the identity crisis as he felt a great sense of pride now being referred to as Alucard, which was his favourite character in all vampire dia and sowhat of a role model to him in so sick, distorted way.
"So, luck What can you tell about where I am now? You said I've been asleep for 2 days right? You must have done so sort of exploring right? You also said you got so work done too?"
It felt sowhat odd talking to an NPC, yet the fascination of the new update got the best of him as he wanted to test the limits of this new AI.
"To be completely honest. I have absolutely no idea where we are and how we even got here. All I rember is that you and I have been on many adventures together and I feel so sort of loyalty to you that not even I'm fully sure of I did do so exploring, but I wasn't able to go far since the nearby village was being raided by rcenaries or bandits, so I was only able to explore the nearby forest ahead."
'Amnesia A classic start to any new tale! Oh! And a Village raided Noted! Maybe a side quest, might even be part of the main quest too!''
In the ga, there was no proper quest or notification when a player was told sothing, so it was up to them to keep track of anything important said to them.
"And what did you make yourself busy with?"
"Oh! Here! Co outside! I spent the last 2 days retrieving good armour pieces from the bandits and soldiers that fought for the village a few days ago! They are very heavy for soone small like so it took a really long ti to do it I hope you like it!"
Luck seed to be holding in his excitent, like he was proud of what he had accomplished as he flapped his wings and flew out of the cave with haste, Ren following suit, making sure to avoid any spikes or pebbles protruding out of the ground as he learned his lesson the previous ti.
As he exited the cave, the light of the moon fell down on his face, the fresh wind breeze hit his face once more, the slushy feeling and texture of the mud under his feet entirely different from the previous rocky ground as he could not help but stare at the forest ahead of him with complete awe and fascination, almost like it was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen in his life, a scene so real and majestic that he only imagined it in his dreams, almost shedding a tear from its sheer beauty
'Wow'
Ren had never in his life felt freer as he, in his still naked body stared at the forest ahead, taking the best, deepest breath of his life his addiction seemingly never going to end as he was quite literally high on air.
He was stood at the entrance of a seemingly endless forest that spanned far as his dark vision eyes could see.
The heavily swaying trees affected by the howling wind were of completely foreign, unknown origin to him, noticing 3 or 4 different species that looked sowhat similar and distinct in their own ways.
The vegetation was rather compact and shot out high up into the illuminated pitch-black sky enabling cascading light from the bright moon to bounce between the rich green leaves; this allowed for a variety of saplings to flourish in the thick layer of leaves below where several types of plants and flowers grew.
On top of that, what sold the beauty of the scene even more was a massive hill in the distance with a waterfall protruding from it, the sounds of the water crashing clear to his ears despite the massive distance.
Yet, despite all the beauty and grandeur, he could not help but notice patches of burnt trees and greenery, that along with an odd, rather disgusting stench coming from sowhere close to him that he had only just noticed yet did not dean or take away from his experience at all.
"Lord Alucard! Co here!"
Suddenly, his mont of pure bliss and freedom was interrupted by a small, almost child-like sound, making him turn around only to see Luck once again, hovering over a set of rather disgusting, bloody leather armour and daggers laid directly beside a black rock not too far from where he was standing.
"Co here! It took a while to get it here. I hope that you like it!"
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