Dying In Real Life Is Another Way To Play - Chapter 33 4x

Looking at the main screen of the Game Monitoring Department, Vice-chief Liu asked.

“Is Vitiana the only AI unit that was able to change her User profile name at will?”

Yue Jing answered “The original Titiana had not shown such capabilities, however, Vitiana has been directly copied from the last known AI configuration of the original.”

“When did this anomaly occur?” Vice-chief Liu asked

“I’ve noticed this two days ago and observed if it was just a glitch in the system, after verifying that it remained permanent up to today, I decided to inform you, Vice-chief.” she answered.

“That does seem to be very peculiar, let me try to call Professor Yue, his team may know more about it…” After saying this, Vice-chief Liu dialed his smart phone and waited for Professor Yue to answer.

“Hello Vice-chief Liu, what seems to be the matter?” Professor Yue’s voice sounded from the other end.

“It’s about Titiana’s copy, she seemed-”

“Do you mean Vitiana? That is to be expected, she is a sentient AI after all with her “root” source directly from T.I.T.I.A.N.A.” he said interrupting Vice-chief Liu

“Wait, do you mean unlike the other pantheon gods, Vitiania, like the one before her, are full sentient AI’s?” Vice-chief Liu asked again while the Game Monitoring Depatment heard it and were shocked as well.

“Yes, in fact, after the original Titiana was created, the other Full sentient AI’s were given this privelage as a test.” he answered

“Do you mean there are others as well? Why haven’t we seen them?” Vice-chief Liu was surprised, panicked and annoyed for not being informed about this.

“Your restriction level is not yet on that level, however since you found it out, you can check on them… But do avoid making unnecesary contact with them, they seem to act like innocent children though and would want to explore the world. Just leave them be, to grow on their own.” Professor Yue reminded him.

“What are there user profiles?” he asked.

“Look for Prastia, Zendria and Orlios, these are the “root” AI units of “Prometheus”, “Olympus” and “Othrys”.” He said after which, Vice-chief Liu wrote their names and signaled one of his staff to check it and display on the main screen.

“Wait, I have one question, if they are the root AI’s do they have control over their counterpart servers?” Vice-chief Liu asked

“No, they don’t, we aren’t that stupid. At most, they only have understanding of how their servers work and could affect very minimal with the way their hardware’s capabilities can provide.” Professor Yue said.

“I see, well, that at least doesn’t complicate things.” Vice-chief Liu gasped in relief.

After a few more inquiries, Vice-chief Liu ended their call. He then checked the status of the 3 sentient AI’s and identified that tbey were scattered to different directions.

After checking their profiles, there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary, as such he let it be.

The next thing Vice-chief focused on was the “hunt” for the three Royal demons. The last time he reported this to the higher ups, the directive was locate and capture them at all costs. Up until now, no leads had been found aside from them being identified.

Yue Jing was monitoring the players when she noticed the player count suddenly decreased by one.This has only, happened once before and that was when Zhang Shan died.

However when she checked, she was very surprised as this players last known location before she went off grid was already in a place that was supposed to be out of the range of the babel towers. Seeing this anomaly she raised this issue to Vice-chief Liu.

Vice-chief Liu asked to pull up her last known information on screen and checked. The other team members looked as well.

User: Ye Qian

Gaia Information:

Current Image:

Current Race: Human

Resonance: 30%

Location: Wilderness, 248 miles Northeast of Hal Toria

Skills: Improved Athleticism (Master), Bow Mastery (Max), Medicine (Beginner), Survival (Advanced), Farsight (Master)

Abililities: Natures Call(Master), Elemental Arrows (Max), Constricting Vines(Max), Commune with nature (Master), Dark Vision (Medium)

Genes: Human, Carandon

Last identified to be with Ye Qing, Lan Ranyan and Leito Alcantara

“…..”

After reading the information, Vice-Chief Liu asked.

“Is this the same Ye Qian from the “Royal One” incident?”

Wang Lie answered “Yes Vice-Chief, she’s the same person, her last known asssociates were also there aside from Leito Alcantara.”

Yang Sun raised his hand and reported, “Vice-chief, Sir the three people that she was last known to be with, are part of the “Pantheon Watch List”. Juggernaut, Snow Queen and Legion.”

“I see… Yue Jing, pull up on the main screen the user profiles of the three PWL’s” Vice-chief Liu ordered.

Yue Jing nodded and projected them all on screen.

User: Ye Qing

Gaia Information:

Current Image:

Current Race: Human

Resonance: 55%

Location: Wilderness, 248 miles Northeast of Hal Toria

Skills: Improved Athleticism (Max), Bloodlust (Master), Body Strengthening (Master) Sword Mastery (Master), Resilient Skin (Max)

Abililities: Endless Resolve (Max), Aura of the Rage Dragon Marduk (Master), Intimidate (Max), Overbearing Stance (Master)

Genes: Human, Rastran

Last identified to be with Ye Qian, Lan Ranyan and Leito Alcantara

User: Lan Ranyan

Gaia Information:

Current Image:

Current Race: Human

Resonance: 64%

Location: Wilderness, 248 miles Northeast of Hal Toria

Skills: Improved Athleticism (Master), Wind Magic (Min), Earth Magic (Min), Fire Magic (Min), Water Magic (Advance), Nature Magic (Min), Time Magic (Max) Orb Mastery (Master)

Abililities: Time Regression (Max), Time Agression (Max), Spatial Warp (Max), Aether Phase (Max), Space Manipulation (Master), Spatial Sunder (Max), Aura of the Time Dragon Tiamat(Max)

Genes: Human, Demi-Human, Alkorian

Last identified to be with Ye Qing, Ye Qian and Leito Alcantara

User: Leito Alcantara

Gaia Information:

Current Image:

Current Race: Human

Resonance: 49%

Location: Wilderness, 248 miles Northeast of Hal Toria

Skills: Improved Athleticism (Master), Un-armed Mastery (Max), Nimble Hands (Master), Acrobatics Mastery (Max)

Abililities: Lust Pheromone (Advance), Gluttony Pheromone (Advance), Greed Pheromone (Advance), Sloth Pheromone (Advance), Wrath Pheromone (Advance), Envy Pheromone (Advance), Pride Pheromone (Advance) Aura of the Dark Dragon Jabberwock (Max)

Genes: Human, Gallen

Last identified to be with Ye Qing, Ye Qian and Lan Ranyan

Seeing this, the people in the monitoring room were silent and read the descriptions.

Vice-chief Liue asked “Fan Gou Xing, these dragon auras are not really from dragons right?”

Fan Gou Xing answered “Yes Vice-chief, once a player reaches level 80, their Avatar bodies can emanate magic particles that improves their body constitution and alignment with their skills…”

“The players themselves can name the skill and it was due to Team Leader Scarlette’s naming sense that the trend of calling these phenomenon were known to be and branded as aura’s named after Dragons.” Fan Gou Xing finished her statement

“Okay, at least we know that these people have yet to meet a dragon type monster and kill it…. My next question is… ” Vice-chief Liu paused and continued

“How the F*ck. is the Snow Queen called the Snow Queen if her skills doesn’t even have any indication of Ice or Snow?!? And what kind of mage only has basic knowledge of the five elements?!?” He said in a bewildered tone.

Fan Gou Xing answered “Vice-chief Liu, that’s something that’s confusing me as well… I really don’t have any answer to that.”

“Yang Sun can you cross-reference the gene database and see what you can find out about her “Time” abilities?” Vice-chief Liu asked

“I already checked on it Vice-Chief, it seems that she didn’t submit any information to the Gene Rankings causing it to be unknown until now.” Yang Sun answered

Vice-chief Liu looked at Yue Jing and said ” Yue Jing, weren’t you supposed to track these three after the “Royal One” incident? Why haven’t you reported this peculiarity?”

Yue Jing stood up and said “Vice-chief Liu, you only mentioned to monitor them and nothing seemed to be out of place, I am not that familiar with the million of genes and thought it was normal for a discovery type player to name their skills in accordance to their fancy”

Vice-chief Liu nodded in understanding and thought for a while before speaking.

“Okay, it seems that these people were the last to see Ye Qian. This is both peculiar and intriguing… Yue Jing, can we try to remotely force them to log-off?”

Yue Jing nodded and tried to send the commands. “No luck Vice-chief, it seems that whatever trick they are using, only allows nueral signals to be synchronized, any additional commands ends up as null”

“I see, it seems someone was smart enough to mimic how the “tower of babel” works.” Vice-Chief Liu said and then started thinking

“Yue Jing, send orders to the Pantheon of Hal Toria, ensure that all of them are to be dispatched… While you’re at it, try to inform the Bug Deleter or Kingdom Destroyer team in the vicinity as well to provide support, command tactics are, disable and capture…”

“Have them note that Legion is there, so have them tread with caution… Legion is the only person in this current group that had been truly successful in wiping out a Pantheon before.”

Yue Jing nodded and went back to her station to complete the order.

“Vice-chief, I’ve been thinking, is it possible that they are in that place right now because they are looking for Zhang Shan?” Wang Lie asked

Vice-chief Liu nodded and said “That’s what I’ve been thinking too… I’m not worried about them meeting Zhang Shan, I’m more worried with what would happen to the company afterwards. should the “secret” be revealed for everyone.”

“Vice-chief Liu, I’ve confirmed the number of people moving in, 9 Pantheon AI units with an ETA of 28 hours, 3 Kingdom Destroyer Team members with an ETA of 32 hours and 6 Bug Deleter Team Members with an ETA of 30 hours are near the vicinity.” Yue Jing reported.

“Good, now we wait…” Vice-chief Liu said.

After a while the whole room was silent. as three Countdown timers appeared on top of the Main screen, each representing the groups thatare closing in at the four players.

Vice-chief Liu started reaching out to different department heads, Professor Yue, Chief Zhao and Chairman Guo regarding the upcoming contact with the “Royal Demons”.

A bit later, reports started coming in from the Vanguard team, the Pantheon AI units.

“…..”

26 hours on route: Pantheon AI units reported regression of Nueral signal, Pantheon units adjusted their signals to continue receiving commands.

“…..”

20 hours on route: Pantheon Units engaged with a few monsters at around level 40-50

“…..”

10 hours on route: Pantheon units reported, observation regarding the regression of signal appears every 10-15 miles

“…..”

5 hours on route: Pantheon units reported abandoned campsite, possibly a player made camp

“…..”

1 hour on route: Pantheon units reported traces of fighting… surrounding areas have been decimated…. Secondary target Leito Alcantara, located… Secondary target released. Reason of release: Leito Alcantara is too weak to be bothered with.

Note: “As God’s, it is beneath us to worry about Ants”

“….”

Game monitoring Department: “…..”

“What the F*ck is that kind of reporting?” Vice-chief Liu asked “Command the Pantheon to capture him”

Yue Jing answered ” I already did Vice-chief Liu, thrice actually…”

“And?” Vice-chief Liu continued to ask

“I don’t think its appropriate to show on screen” Yue Jing said

Vice-chief Liu felt annoyed and said

“SHOW IT!”

Yue Jing shrugged her shoulders and said “As you wish…”

Yue Jing projected the command transcript and response of the Pantheon Team leader.

…..

command: capture Leito Alcantara as directed by Vice-Chief Liu

Pantheon Units: No… Leito is like a piece of shit

command: capture Leito Alcantara as directed by Vice-Chief Liu, no negotiation.

Pantheon Units: No… Leito is like a piece of shit tell Vice-Chief Liu to come down here and eat this piece of shit.
for visiting.

command: capture Leito Alcantara as directed by Vice-Chief Liu, this is a direct order, not a request

Pantheon Units: No… Leito is like a piece of shit tell Vice-Chief Liu to come down here and eat this piece of shit. Or… he can come down here and we’ll shit on him.

….

Vice-chief Liu was red as an apple with shame and anger when he finally decided to command “Tell them to proceed on route.”

Wang Lie raised his hand, stood up, and said “Vice-chief Liu, I think it’s one of his abilities that caused the Pantheon to think of him as shit.”

“No shit!… go shit-… sit down and shit-… Shut up!” Vice-chief Liu was so enraged about the response as he yelled at Wang Lie

Wang Lie looked down in shame after being reprimanded and shat-… sat down.

The Game Monitoring Department went back to focus and waited.

“…..”

30 minutes on route: Pantheon units reported a demon battalion on route to same location

“…..”

25 minutes on route: Pantheon units reported obliteration of an armored demon battalion unit. Battle field report: Level 20 armored Blue Demons; Resistance Level: Weak

“…..”

15 minutes on route Pantheon units report Blue Demon Settlement in view, no signs of primary targets

This time Yue Jing stood up and announced “Vice-Chief Liu, the players Ye Qian and Lan Ranyan are now off the grid as well, their locations are currently unknown.

“…..”

10 minutes on route: Pantheon Units report Three Incoming Winged Demons, no signs of primary target

“…..”

0 minutes on route Pantheon Units report confirmed sightings of Zhang Shan, Titiana and Carnalia, no signs of primary target

“….”

Video Rendering in process:

Live feed projection in 3… 2… 1…

After the long wait. The Game Monitoring Team finally saw the three Royal Blood Demons.

“Yang Sun, start streaming the video to all departments.” Vice-Chief Liu ordered.

“Streaming videos” Yan Sun confirmed live stream

As Vice-chief Liu looked at the screen, he signaled Yue Jing to relay his message to the Pantheon Unit leader for Zhang Shan and Titiana.

“Zhang Shan, Titiana, come with the Pantheon units, we’ll fix you back up the way it was, so you can play again” his exact words mimicked by the Pantheon Leader

Zhang Shan shook his head and said “No… Sorry but thanks for the offer!”

Vice-chief Liu signaled Yue Jing and spoke.

“Why, don’t you want to be back on earth?”

Zhang Shan was silent for a while and said

“Do you know why I had to wait and prepare for One year before playing ARC?”

Vice-chief Liu signaled Yue Jing and spoke.

“No, please enlighten us…”

Before the three of them disappeared with a sonic boom… Zhang Shan paused for a while and then smiled from ear to ear as he said

“Explore, Expand, Exploit and Exterminate!”