Harem Reborn - Chapter 264

[Day 1/1825 on The Godless Green Earth A.I World]

RTS? How the hell was I supposed to do that? That was played from an overhead view and I remembered that we had talked about creating a world like this, but had thrown the idea out after smashing our heads into a wall too many times. The problem was getting a proper look at things and all the different moving parts.

“How does it work? I don’t need all the details, I know you probably worked very hard on it and would like me to experience it for myself.”

“That’s my boy! Good! Okay! …I can’t explain it.”

I stared at him blankly and Mikota started to laugh. I wanted to be mad and threaten him again, but I understood what he meant. Somethings just had to be experienced, when no amount of explaining with words can properly depict the idea; an ineffable experience.

“Good, I was worried I was going to have to sew myself back together there. You understand that it is something that must be experienced, but that isn’t important right now. The fighting is not the main part or goal of this game, the girls are and all of the rest of the race of Gialazsaur,” Gripton explained.

“See, and this is the part I don’t understand. How are humans a threat? The Gialazsaur would have decimated them if I hadn’t been there. So, how are they a problem?”

“What you fought and killed was an evolved Gialazsaur, and the more they evolve the more reckless and incoherent they become. You need to help stop them from evolving, Mikota was close, so you should understand it somewhat. You will not have to sleep with Gialazsaur, but your children will be the key, so the girls are your number one priority.”

“Well good to see no matter where I go my job is always the same, breed and make fake babies and save the world. Standard Dave stuff, right?

“NO! THIS IS NOT THE SAME! THESE ARE MY CHILDREN AND I HAVE NEVER ASKED YOU TO DO ANYTHING FOR ME BESIDES GIVE ME THESE WORLDS. I NEED YOU TO TAKE THIS SERIOUS FOR ONCE!” Gripton thundered at me, making me take a step back, and Mikota cringed in my arms, hiding her face.

Well, this was new.

“What are you talking about? This is a game, if they die then…”

“No, this is not Reborn, Dave. This is The Godless Green Earth that I built to train A.I. and it should have been a peaceful world, but I made a mistake. I gave the human NPC I created a small boost using a micro A.I. to help them be more sentient. This is what we had wanted to do, rather than the just plain NPC that we hated so much. Everything was fine, I had even created a special layer to keep the children safe, but I wanted to see the effects of life and death on a permanent level for the human NPC so I could see how it might work in reborn, but the catch was that it was only made to target the Micro A.I. program, not my children.”

“So then they drilled down and what? The game broke? Just take your A.I. out and reset the world and change the settings, right? But that’s not right or you would have done it…and if your children were in danger you would have already done this yourself if you could. I don’t get it, what piece am I missing?”

“The game altered somehow, and now I have lost all access to the game, I can’t even get to the files. Literal walls block me from getting to it, so the only way to reset the world is to finish it, but that was never meant to be done. I didn’t put an end, it was supposed to be a constantly changing and evolving world, now the only way I can see to end it is to remove one of the two races because it is built as an RTS, that is the only obvious way, but I might not be right,” Gripton explained, getting a very tired expression on his face.

This was hard to take; now that I understood what was going on, I also understood Gripton’s anger at my flippant dismissal of the world and the people in it. He had never been less than happy or crotchety, nothing in between unless he was with his girls. A.I., that was great and would make the game so much better after this was all over, but that wasn’t here or there for this world.

“You said our pregnancy is going to be important, why?”

“I put a safety net to recycle the micro A.I., using a life and death rotation. This way when one died it would remain on the world in the form of sparks in gems on a great pillar below the crust. The pillar isn’t important, the trapped sparks are. If the Game ends before they can be received, the ones left will get cleaned up with the reset, lost forever.”

“This all happened because of him right? I should have been here before the calamity happened; another failing on my part.”

“No, you have done everything you could, Dave! No one could have been crushed so many times, and still, have the metal to get back up! It has been murder for me to watch you all, being able to do nothing. My only connection to Reborn is Hyde, and I helped him as much as I could, but I was forced to use a game avatar in his head with the same kinds of restriction and blocks and the others. I was also forced to lie to him, and that was hard, but you know your brother, once you’re in the circle, there is no getting out!” Gripton laughed, finally showing some of his usual light.

“Okay, I get it now, and I will take this seriously. I will get the population booming again, and figure out the rest. Now, for my final question. How do I get to Tequila?” I asked.