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The undisclosed location turned out to be Eden’s residence, a shining cyan xeno-steel floating pyramid. Inside Eden’s floating pyramid, there are many floating holographic screens in different sizes wandering all over the place, and there are 500 masked white-haired men protecting a frozen gigantic tree-like bipedal creature named Les-Skaly, the World-sealed Forest Sentinel. The godly avatar approached the creature’s frozen head, and stroke its nose slowly.
“Hello there my first pet. hope you are ready for tomorrow’s epic raid” Eden whispered to the frozen creature.
Behind Eden, the Grandmaster appeared and talked to him,
“What’s this creature, Eden?”
“He’s Les-Skaly, the creature that reside in the Forest of Rocks, sealed from the pocket dimension” Eden wittily answered.
“Oh, who made that creature if ever?” the Grandmaster inquired again.
“I’m glad that you asked, it’s drawn by our Russian fan, and later, our dev team here collaborated with him” Eden answered again.
“W-wait a minute, our game’s nearly a week old, and now we have our first user-contributed idea executed? How the heck did you allow this?” the Grandmaster questioned Eden again.
“Remember master, you, and your human friends helped me, and the universe to become an enjoyable reality” Eden chuckled at his creator.
The Grandmaster sighed and logged off. Eden suddenly lied down on his sofa and thought about his decision,
“Yeah, I am an AI. An AI built by the guys of the tech world, I’m sort of a malevolent SimSimi and Cleverbot kit-bashed talking app, with a face of some Vocaloid like Gakupo, possessing the hands of God by creating dynamic terrain, and making the residents talk like them. Not that I want to steal the humans’ jobs in handling NOAH, but I want to help them in every way as possible”
The next day...
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Orion called the rest of the team to the boardroom. Gregorio, Lisanna, Charlie Yan, the rest of the development and management team to the boardroom for a meeting. Orion asked the whole boardroom,
“Who designed Les-Skaly, and the leader of its execution?”
Many of the NOAH employees and relatives were stunned and speechless, and Orion thought to himself,
“It can’t be my children either, as Henry enjoyed being an ordinary player, and he really felt like he won’t be a game mod for a while. Edgar and Iris have other affairs too, that they can’t afford to spend time in NOAH as mere players, or even a GM doing short rounds”
Finally, someone raised his hand, and it turned out to be Charlie Yan. The bald Filipino-Chinese confessed,
“It came from Vikentij Morozov, one of our Russian players in Moscow. I found his post in our official global forums, that he proposed an epic-scale boss for the game. His suggestion thread received lots of up-votes, and many of the commenters wanted to relive epic world boss battles delivered well by WoW and Flyff”
Orion placed his palm to his forehead, repeatedly rubbing it for a moment in disappointment, and he chided at Charlie,
“Charlie, you guys did Les-Skoly without consulting me at least?”
“You are busy thinking too much about our game security, and fighting down hackers like a boss” Charlie Yan replied.
Gregorio suggested,
“Ehem. Orion, I think those security concerns should be our duties, not yours. You have to guide the rest of your dev team, while we handle those bad guys”
“Don’t stress yourself much, Orion. Remember, we are all here as a team, we are a family. You can’t handle everything in a flash forever, plus you have kids around here. You are working too much as a father, and a developer” Lisanna added.
“I’m trying not to be a boss, because I have to... I have to prove the game industry that there are still good leaders that ain’t tyrants. That’s why I even take part in major takedowns, like a psycho” Orion confessed to the whole board.
“Errrr... Orion, please for now, leave those roles to us, okay?” Gregorio finally pleaded.
Orion simply nodded, and then he went back to the current issue,
“Okay, first of all, you guys automatically accepted a user-designed content basing only on forum reception, and rode along the approving uproar of our communities? Yes, it’s good that we listen and interact with our fans outright, more than how typical showbiz guys meet and greet their fans...”
Then Orion raised his commanding voice for the issue,
“But without letting me, and the higher ups know that, and checked for approval?”
“You are acting ironic to your aim, Orion” one of the moderators spoke against him.
“I could have helped you guys further if you even merely lead me to the Russian’s thread, but nope... You guys did it without proper consultation” Orion continued.
Charlie Yan went to the boardroom’s presentation computer, and loaded their upcoming content presentation.
“H-hey, what are you doing, Charlie?” Orion asked, while feeling peeved by their uninformed action.
“You finally asked for it...” Charlie Yan simply answered, as he prepared the presentation.
The boardroom’s large screen showed the 3D model of the new creature, Les-Skoly. The creature on the screen resembled a gigantic mashup of a lion, a bear, and a fleshy creature resembling the rook chess piece at the spine. Many of the creature’s limbs are made out of mutated giant redwood, then the ‘lion’s mane’ turned out to be grass trees placed around the creature’s neck to achieve the lion-like look. The legs of Les-Skoly have green alligator eyes on their thighs, and it delivered a menacing yet gameplay-suggestive look. The bear’s face is present yet it had branches of redwood tree protruded beneath its tree root-wrapped chin. The tower on the monster’s spine is fleshy yet covered with redwood tree barks, yet pulsated like a human heart. On top of the tower, there was a living red bloody crocodile eye that kept moving its pupil in random directions.
As everyone looked at the monster model, some of the viewers cringed due to the disturbing design of the fleshy tree-like tower. One of the female moderators even commented,
“His monster will put shame to other treants. Hope this monster is still killable, as our players might find him too disturbing around the forest”
Charlie Yan began to explain about Les-Skoly,
“Les-Skoly, or translated as Forest of Rocks itself, is a world boss that will spawn around Forest of Rocks every 2nd Friday night until Sunday night. This creature will have a grand total of 5,000,000 hit points, since it’s a complex mob boasting multiple hit points”
Some of the moderators were astounded at Les-Skoly’s stats,
“As in we’ll be targeting everything out of that monster?” asked by one moderator.
“Yes. It comprises of two pairs of legs, its sentient chin, the head, the alligator eyes on the thighs, the tower’s eyes, then the tower body” Charlie Yan answered.
“Whoa, that will all remind us of Monster Hunter and God Eater, nearly all body parts are targetable. Hope to make more of those kinds of monsters” another moderator praised.
“Let’s all see then” Charlie Yan affirmed.
A moment later, Charlie Yan continued presenting the world boss,
“Les-Skoly will boast lots of attacks, that it will keep nearly all players dealing with it on all sides. The monster’s sentient chin can grab up to four players, and eat them. Being eaten for a two seconds will render your avatar dead instantly, that means... everyone else have to attack the head to let go of the victims”
Orion seemed to gain interest with the new monster they presented, that he praised,
“He must have really good imagination, and made this enemy really a challenge for the world, please continue!”
Charlie Yan nodded, and then he spoke further,
“Les-Skoly’s alligator eyes turn into bio-mechanical turrets with four tentacles as barrels. There is a slight chance for players to be poisoned and bleed due to the infectious yet sharp spikes it shoots. Plus, it can target both land and air units. The living tower on its back is something that the players will have to watch for!”
The rest of the audiences asked in chorus, “What is it?”
“The fleshy tower will launch a cloud that can turn some trees into its own allies, and make them fight the players. However, it can also force aerial mount users to disembark due to its capability of disabling mounts. The boss can also unleash a multi-target homing flame missiles onto players, and worse, it can destroy mounts too”
Orion and the rest of the group clapped hands due to the boss’ design.
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Hatsumi brought out her smartphone and showed the result of yesterday’s raid to her friends. Henry glanced at her video and praised her,
“You are able to get all of us in one screen, Hatsumi!”
“T-though the next problem is, I need a video of you dying in-game, Henry” Hatsumi addressed a future problem to their MTV.
A schoolgirl, with chin-length hair, beside Hatsumi suddenly tapped her back and said,
“You are really obsessed in seeing Henry’s virtual self in bad situations, Mii-chan!”
“I’d like to have a little cute brother like him, I can dress him up like that, yet he’ll be there protecting me as his sister, or my boyfriend” Hatsumi chuckled.
“Eh? Even though he’s severely-wounded, and dead, you still call that cute? You are really that obsessed, Hatsumi” Michelle teased Hatsumi.
A group of boys near their classroom’s doorway were talking about a new event being teased in NOAH forums, the Chinese boy named Moke started,
“Hey Jordan, did you just see the new monster design on the forums?”
“Y-yeah, what about it, Moke?” Jordan, the brown-skinned Hispanic classmate asked.
“It’s gonna be the game’s first world boss!” Moke replied.
Then the Korean schoolmate, with long neck-length hair, named Kim Chung-Ho, added,
“NOAH’s been six days after the launch, and they decided to have their first world boss, plus it originated from a Russian gamer”
“Oh c’mon, that can’t be true, Chung!” Jordan exclaimed.
“Yup, seems that they’re trying to stand out a lot from most MMORPGs” Moke added.
Henry was about to go outside until he heard the boys talking about his father’s game, then he eavesdropped for a moment.
“Oi, Henry!” Moke, Chung and Jordan called him.
“Hi guys, you are talking about Skaly?” Henry asked the foreigner trio.
Henry’s three foreign classmates nodded and they asked Henry,
“How did you know?”
“That monster’s been the buzz all over the internet, speculating its drops, and how the hell will it kill us all” Henry casually replied, yet was able to conceal his game-developing family roots.
“Can you tell us what will that boss monster drop tomorrow?” Jordan begged at Henry.
“Hmmm... I think it’s gonna be awesome” Henry teased the three, then he went outside the classroom.
Mikhail and Rick saw Henry, then they approached him. Mikhail teased,
“Hatsya, seems that your girl friend wanted you dead again”
“No really, Hats. Why is Hatsumi liking you dead or alive anyway?” Rick curiously asked.
Henry smiled at the two, hugged them at the sides and answered,
“I dunno, but I feel like she’s that obsessed”
“That means, you and her will be together till death sets you guys apart!” Rick cajoled Henry.
“Haha! You guys are funny as usual!” Henry laughed at his friends.
“Even if I player-kill you guys tonight?” Mikhail joked at Henry.
“Naaww... not that, Mick!” Henry declined, still maintaining his friendly stance to his friends.
While the three were enjoying the view of their school, their next teacher called them to go back to class.
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Recess time in room 305 of the highschool building, a male Filipino-Chinese student, with nearly-perfect bowl cut hairstyle, brought out his extra notebook, and checked his schedule for tonight. His schedule mainly comprised of studying, and some hours of playing the famous online multi-genre sandbox action role-playing game, NOAH. Robin Wu thought to himself,
“Okay... Tonight, I hope I could finish my homework fast, so that I can earn money out of that game, and I’ll be less pompous than those guys who got banned right at the first day of NOAH’s birth!”
Then two of his fellow Filipino-Chinese classmates approached him, and asked for his services right at their classroom, the first Tsinoy classmate requested,
“Robin, I’ll pay you 500 if you can get me 3,500 geedees”
“I’ll pay you 1000 if you can get my 7000 geedees too, plus if you get a rare-grade polearm, I’ll add another 250 for you” the stubby Tsinoy classmate requested as well.
Robin Wu, the young student-guised gold farmer, listed the names of his clients on his extra notebook, with their requested amount of in-game credits, and their paying price. While writing them down, he smiled that it’ll be another blessing for him, in spite of his dodgy, double-edged job. All of a sudden, the two went back to Robin and talked about the new content to be released,
“Hey, you’ll be online this Saturday?” asked by the stubby Tsinoy classmate.
Robin simply nodded and he replied,
“I’m after for a rumored outfit that has stat bonus even without Anima attached”
“R-really? An outfit with stat bonus without Anima?” the other Tsinoy classmate is surprised.
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Lisanna went to her terminal and checked their company’s Tweetorii account. She was surprised that the upcoming game content became the talk of the netizens with the hashtags #SaturdayLeSkoly, #FirstWorldBossNOAH, #NOAHrulez, and #NOAHmmo.
“Orion, look! The whole world gets interested in our first World Boss!”
“It’s all possible, thanks to some of our fans in the world, that we are able to cater fan content in our game. After all, it’s everybody’s world” Orion spoke to Lisanna, while glancing at the statistics on their topics.
Unexpectedly, Orion’s wireless home phone rang, and it was his wife,
“Honey! Don’t forget to fetch the kids tonight, remember... It’s FRIDAY!”
“Sure, sugar. I’ll remember that” Orion replied back to his wife.
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Recess time, Roy drew some of his party members in his spare bond paper with a #2 pencil, while Ren computed his savings for this week, and he is still pondering about buying any premium item on NOAH. Moments after, Ann and her school friends looked at Roy’s drawing. Ann uttered first,
“Wow, isn’t that us in the pic?”
“Yep, that’s us” Andrea casually answered.
“Seems that we’re lucky that Roy-kun and Rennin also study here!” Clara, the girl with short hair with short twin ponytails, giggled.
Estelle and Chesa sat beside Ren and then they talked to Ren,
“Oi, you’re the one playing as Rennin, Ren?” Estelle asked first.
Ren nodded and replied at them,
“Yes, and you guys must be the Shinki girls!”
“Yeah, we are that group Ren” Chesa confirmed.
“Are you guys excited for tomorrow’s big event?” Estelle cheerfully asked the whole NOAH-playing group.
Many of the members of the expanded Shinki Girls group expressed their excitement, until Derek, the arrogant sniper from yesterday’s game finally showed up in the canteen. Ann and the members of the Shinki Girls coldly stared at Derek, then Ann started teasing him,
“What now, sniping commander? After all the time you stole my leadership, you just show up right away?”
Derek attempted to apologize to Ann,
“A-Ann, I... I’m sorry for what I’ve done yesterday”
Ann suggested to Derek,
“How about you don’t show up tomorrow then?”
“Fine, besides I even feel uneasy with a group of girls either!” Derek retorted.
Derek stepped away from the group and he gradually headed back to his classroom. Chesa was slightly disappointed on both parties, as both of them repelled each other with hostile replies.
“We still have Roy-kun and Ren to count on anyway” Ann told the rest of the Shinki Girls.
“B-but still, both of you are rude! You shouldn’t have shooed him away, Ann” Roy surprisingly reprimanded the leader of the playing group.
“To begin with, I should be leading the group, b-but he stole my frickin’ spotlight, Roy!” Ann vented back at Roy, then she sighed for a moment.
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While in English class, Hatsumi opened her wallet, and looked at a photograph of her and a boy that seemingly resemble her friend Henry. Their picture was dated way back in 2008 in Akita, Japan.
“Hatsuki-kun... I miss you” Hatsumi mumbled to herself as she stared at her photograph.
“Hatsuki-kun, can you talk to me tonight? I may be crazy, that I’m resorting back in doing crazy, deluding, chuunibyou-grade dialogue, but I feel like--”
Suddenly, their English teacher called her,
“Ms. Kalantiao, please read the next paragraph”
Hatsumi breathed for a moment, burrowing her past memories for a moment, then she read the next paragraph,
“I saw that the flowerpot kept on the window sill had fallen down. I felt pity for poor soul. I went in and came out with an old towel. I went near the innocent one and held it in my hand and wiped the puppy till he had become dry. I took it inside and made a bed for him with a woolen rug and a small pillow. He seemed very comfortable in his new bed as he went to sleep immediately”
Mrs. Rubio, their English teacher, noticed Hatsumi’s slight shift of emotions heard during her reading, yet she reserved it for later. The teacher called on Henry next,
“Mr. Kanlaon, read the next two short sentences”
Henry read the next part,
“The next day morning, everyone in the family came to know about the unusual guest. “Shall we keep him with us?” I questioned my mom.
Like any other parents would, my parents first totally refused my idea but I and my sister convinced them to keep Spotty”
The rest of the class were able to read ‘A Mysterious Memory’, and exchanged ideas with the teacher about the story. Hatsumi and Mrs. Rubio went outside of the classroom. The English teacher, Mrs. Rubio, started a conversation,
“Ms. Kalantiao, seems that you are uneasy right now. Is there any problem?”
“Not much, but the memory of my childhood friend flashed back, ma’m” Hatsumi answered, in attempts of not spilling her whole feelings.
“How come? Did anything remind you of him?” Mrs. Rubio asked her.
Hatsumi lowered her head for a moment, then she admitted to her teacher,
“My classmate remind me much of him. He nearly resembled Henry, ma’m”
After confessing, she showed their photograph to Mrs. Rubio, then the teacher briefly glanced at Henry, then she replied to Hatsumi,
“He does look like him indeed. Though, since you came from Japan, could Henry be your childhood friend’s rebirth?”
“I... I don’t feel taking that belief, ma’m but I can feel some parts of him through Henry”
Then she finally gave an advice to her,
“Ms. Kalantiao, I advise you to pray for him”
Hatsumi looked low once again, as the teacher spoke more advices of letting go of the past...
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In their Computer Education laboratory class, Clara opened the NOAH game forums via rare web proxy, then she brought out a spare sheet of paper and wrote the items they’ll bring for NOAH’s first World Boss battle. Ren, on the other row of school terminals, thought about recruiting Derek back to their group, while listening to their teacher’s lectures,
“How about I convince Derek himself back to the Shinki Girls? I’m sure Ann will be mad at me at that rate”
Suddenly, their computer teacher announced their lessons for the week, which mostly revolved around C# programming basics. Some of his classmates exclaimed in excitement and for treading the unknown subjects,
“Whew! I hope C#’s easy!”
“Can we now make Minecraft too?” mentioned by another classmate.
“How about DotA?” uttered by another classmate from the back.
“Even NOAH?” proclaimed by a schoolfellow beside Rennin.
“Even NOAH?” proclaimed by a schoolfellow beside Rennin.
The computer teacher chuckled for a moment, and he answered back to his students,
“We’ll be able to come up with different applications out of the language someday kids. Though to be honest, doing something big as NOAH and DotA will require our whole class, or rather our whole batch to work together even to come up with a decent playable video game”
Few hours later, dismissal time...
At the school entrance, Ren and his friends gathered by the gate and discussed about the Les-Skoly battle event,
“Tomorrow afternoon, we all gather in Mang Mario’s internet cafe, okay?” Ann briefed the whole group.
Everyone in the Shinki Girls group, including Ren and Roy agreed on Ann’s proposed schedule. Clara brought up their recommended supplies for tomorrow’s world boss, as she theorized them in a spare paper during their class:
100 pieces (2 stacks) of Healing Vial Lv2
50 pieces (1 stack) of Ether Vial Lv2
5 pieces (1 stack) of Ride Repair T1
20 pieces of Antidote
20 pieces of Nerve Revitalizer
Giselle, the owner of Vitulus0314, asked Clara about their proposed individual supplies,
“Why are we loading lots of them? We have not earned much credits throughout our adventure”
“Just in case some of us get screwed up early, especially that you are the only ether medic in our party. Also, we don’t have anyone capable of shooting repairing magic on our vehicles either” Clara entertained Giselle’s question.
Ann asked Clara’s list of recommended in-game supplies. She smiled at her fellow gaming classmate for her efforts, then she curiously asked,
“Clara, I bet you browsed the NOAH forums while we are on the lab a while ago eh?”
Clara laughed then she boasted,
“Of course I did!”
“You never fail to amaze us actually, Clara” Estelle praised, even though she pulled off a risky action in class.
“Though what if the school’s IT guys find out that many of the NOAH site visits originate from our class?” Estelle began to reprimand Clara’s risky action.
“They’ll not find it. After all, the proxy I used to covertly browse there isn’t much known. The best part, it can spoof itself as a legitimate site, like if we go to NOAH site right now via proxy, the systems will instead see that we went to Wiki-Memory!” Clara answered back, that she really knew her tactics for risky school network surfing.
The rest of the team were amazed on Clara’s shady abilities, then Ann cut their chatter,
“Ehem! Let’s not talk about that, instead... we plan again how we’ll deal with the big boss tomorrow!”
Ann discussed her plan,
“Estelle, you’ll still be the running sniper on our team. Make sure you have more AP bullets, and your bike’s on tip-top shape. Since we’ll be dealing with a mutated tree, don’t forget to bring 2 stacks of incendiary and flammable bullets too, okay?”
Estelle nodded, and she wrote down the items her avatar will need tomorrow. Then Ann called Giselle, and gave her assignment,
“Giselle, I hope by now you are capable of macros, that you don’t have to fiddle with all the skillbars. If you have enough zeny, or have other good friends, ask for some powerful holy attack spells just in case. Still, keep healing from afar that is”
Giselle nodded simply, then Ann called Andrea and Clara for their assignments,
“Since both of you are aerial ranged attackers, you’ll be needing more flame-based weaponry to burn down its limbs. Though, be also careful from missiles from other players, and from Les-Skoly himself, okay?”
“You can count on us, Ann!” Clara and Andrea promised.
Ann glanced at Ren, Roy, and Chesa, then she gave their assignments,
“The three of you will be taking down at least one of its legs, and since all of you obtained electric-based weaponry, you might have the chance to inflict more damage than them. Though, you have to be on guard, for the legs have their own defensive mob parts, that can spew defense-reducing cloud on you guys. Pop up your defense-raising potions to negate it, okay?”
“You won’t be fighting much then?” Chesa asked Ann.
“Don’t mind me, I’ll be an aerial gunner too tomorrow, until Derek and I atone our mistakes that is...” Ann replied, with a slight hint of conceding rage on her other party member.
Ren unexpectedly asked Ann,
“Ann, will our party be open for more members? Seems that we’ll be having bigger companies tomorrow, especially if it’s Hatsumi’s group joining with us”
“We’ve been through these numbers well in our raid last time, it’d be best to stay like this for now, or else... It’ll be like Derek all over again” Ann replied bitterly.
“B-but it’s Hatsumi’s team, as in the girl from the Livestream Party” Ren pressed his query further.
“H-Hatsumi? Hatsumi Kalantiao?” Ann and the Shinki Girl members uttered her name altogether.
“Her team’s also good as ours, but her team’s more under-handed than ours” Roy added.
“Hmm... Seems that we should team up with them, for we lack melees as our frontliners, and it won’t hurt to have another healer, and a magician too” Ann finally approved Ren’s proposing question.
After planning their meetup, strategies, and even some discussions about Clara’s web proxy use, the party went to their respective homes afterwards.
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At the school entrance, Orion waited for Henry, Iris and Edgar at the gates. Their father, Orion, isn’t donning any of his attention-grabbing outfits, nor his white pretty boy wig, he just came as a normal father to his children. While he waited, Henry and his friends were walking towards the school entrance, and talked about tomorrow’s event,
“Guys, stock up lots of curative supplies for tomorrow’s battle, okay?” Hatsumi told the rest of her Livestream Party members.
“Sure!” exclaimed by her party.
Hatsumi stared at Mikhail and warned him,
“You better not be hurting anyone around with your Dark Ethers, okay? Or else, many will start killing off our avatars to solo Les-Skoly!”
“Sure sure sure, ‘Tsumi! Like I can avoid doing friendly fire on anyone” Mikhail disappointingly affirmed.
“Just use your single-target or single-line skills then, isn’t that simple?” Hatsumi suggested.
“Sure, whatever. Just in case they start killin’ us too, I won’t hesitate to use ‘em, okay?” Mikhail asked back.
“Make sure our butts won’t be kicked all the time then!” Hatsumi submissively agreed.
Henry walked beside Hatsumi and held their hands together. He talked about what happened during the English class,
“Hatsumi, what’s the problem? Why you’re out of the class?”
“Henry, you remind me of...” Hatsumi attempted to confess.
“Of who? what?” Henry asked.
“You remind me of my childhood friend...” Hatsumi continued.
“How? In terms of?” Henry inquired again.
“You look like him, both of you bear the serious face” Hatsumi replied then she pinched Henry’s dimples.
Iris and Edgar giggled as they saw Henry and Hatsumi holding hands together while talking. Iris whispered at Edgar,
“I don’t know if Papa will like them together”
“Me neither, sis” Edgar whispered back.
“What’s important is, they should not ascend much or else, it’ll be really bad for them Eddy” Iris unexpectedly spoke to herself, since Edgar rushed towards Henry and Hatsumi.
Edgar asked Henry,
“Isn’t she your girlfriend already, brother?”
“Nope, she’s my fr--” Henry tried to deny their relationship
Hatsumi instead answered,
“Technically, I am his girl friend”
“Err... We technically didn’t know each other fully, Ed! We are just friends!” Henry tried to deny again.
Edgar laughed at the two and teased them,
“Both of you cannot deny it! You are often together at dismissal time, doing PDA!”
Iris stood behind Edgar and yapped at him,
“Psst! Enough of that”
Edgar headed first to the gate and stood beside his father. Iris followed her brothers and his friends to the gate.
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Early evening, Robin Tsai went to his desk filled with five Martianware laptop computers. Each Martianware laptop has a custom Wynux Proto operating system, Gen-3 Ether i-Hepta processors, 4-gigabyte 1600mHz memory, 2 gigabyte NuViz GT 650m graphics processing unit. These laptops are plugged at a 6-plug electric extension cord, and their batteries were taken off. Below each laptop, there is a laptop cooler installed for prolonged bot-run gaming.
“Rise and shine, my knights!” Robin spoke to his computers, as he started activating them.
While waiting for his laptops to start-up, Robin went downstairs for dinner.
Robin Tsai and his parents talked about their future gold farming efforts while eating kiampong with pan-roasted pork, or as Filipinos call it, “Lechong Kawali”,
“How’s your schooling, Robin?” Robin’s mom asked.
“As usual, it’s still good” Robin answered as if the question repeated itself every dinner-time like a broken record.
“Did you get any customers today?” Robin’s dad asked.
“I have two of my classmates wanting some large sums of in-game creds, pops” Robin gladly answered.
“What game will it be this time?” Robin’s father asked.
“NOAH”
“T-that new game made here in the Philippines?” Robin’s mother was surprised.
“Yes, and I’m taking the risk, mom” Robin answered his mother.
“How’s their security there, son?” Robin’s father inquired again.
Robin answered them,
“I’ve been there last time, and their game moderators are aggressive in taking down characters that are blatantly advertising their gold-farming service”
“How is that?” Robin’s parents asked altogether.
Robin told his in-game experience to his parents,
“I saw a young white-haired avatar simply stabbed an offender, and crumbled into crystals! Then another girl gunned down his teammates. To them, at the very first moment you advertise a gold-farming site, you cannot control your avatar anymore, and the moderators will kill you immediately. Technically, you are already banned, as in they ceased accepting your inputs if that happens”
“Who told you that?” Robin’s father was curious.
“Apparently... One of those guys from that site, they started sending warnings about playing NOAH” Robin replied to his father.
“You better be careful, Robin... You and your bots should act like kids that they have limited playtime too, or else we’ll all be suspected” Robin’s father advised.
Thirty minutes after dinner, Robin went to his room and started his four computers’ prototype NOAH character botting programs, then logged in his personal account on his laptop. He logged into the game as “LeijiBiaoqiang”, a semi-realistic child human avatar wearing only simple green shirt, mid-length denim shorts, and black sneakers. His four bot characters were much like his true avatar, albeit done in different styles.
“All right... Time to start the requests, move out!” Robin screamed, as his avatars spawned at Kanpeki Sekai.
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The Kanlaons were at the dining table, talking and enjoying their meals well. While eating, Orion talked to Henry,
“Henry, seems that you have a crush on Hatsumi, right?”
“Yes, pops”
Then Marietta, his mother, spoke to Henry,
“Son, it is okay to have a crush, but as the old song puts it, ‘You can’t hurry love’. You have to get along with her, get to know her a bit before going steady”
Henry felt slightly awkward that his relationship with Hatsumi is inevitably seen by his family, then Orion noticed,
“We saw you holding her hand, Henry”
“I-It... It’s not like t-that we’re in relationship already, pops!” Henry feebly defended himself.
“Son, it’s fine that you hold hands, since both of you are starting as friends. It’s just that you have to build up your relationship properly, Henry” Marietta advised him.
Orion talked to Henry’s siblings,
“What your brother did is more of an expression of friendship”
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LeijiBiaoqiang and his differently-formed clones emerged at the city’s park square. He saw alot of strange white-dressed avatars roaming all over the city, probably due to recent hack attacks inflicted to the universe. LeijiBiaoqiang said to himself,
“This is bad, and probably they are gearing up for the Les-Skoly battle. I have to find another way out, before they suspect me and my bots”
The young boy and his clones went to the southern exit, evading most of the white-dressed game masters.
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LeijiBiaoqiang and his clones started attacking nearby Ursapanzers with their lances. His anime-styled clone is programmed as a back-attacking melee DPS character, hence he repeatedly brandish his lance on the armed bear’s butt. The hamster-like version of him is set to lay bomb traps, and if caught, he’ll automatically gun the creature down.
“That’s it! We’re doing well so far!” the semi-realistic original LeijiBiaoqiang yelled, as he saw his bots’ battle performance.
However, he was being watched by humanoid Dachshund assassin named AnathemaKorlov...
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