The Collection of The End

After the internal test server was shut down, I went to various forums in Cyberlux for a while. As expected, it only appeared during the short maintenance period, and the number of guide posts and data posts was very rare. Potential.

The reason is nothing. As digital beings, they don't have the concept of "offline rest" at all. Players who have obtained the qualification for the closed beta leveling and killing monsters are too late to build an advantage. What is the picture to share with others after exiting? Do you feed others lemons?

Now that the server has to be shut down for three full days, they will naturally show their superiority.

In these posts, in addition to the strategy information, the admiration for the connotation and depth of the game itself, and the unreasonable doubts about the complexity and difficulty of the operation, it is the behavior of the "SSS group" and the "black cat group of the moonlit night" in the first kill. Variety of melons.

It is said that "Kirito" itself is a game master, and all new games have to compete for various firsts, and once they get the first, they will quickly lose interest and quit. Those who join his guild basically want to build a game. It's just a car, but this time I hit the iron plate.

"Asuna" is a certain aristocratic eldest lady who has no interest in the game, but she is very strong and refuses to admit defeat. Some things do not necessarily need to be robbed of her, but if there is a competitor, it will become..." Here you are, you can't grab it".

I am a little bit interested in a group of digital lives with "nobles". After doing some research, I found out that they were involved in the construction of Grox hardware and made major contributions to the growth of the "World Tree", that is, a group of people who were specially cared for by Grox. .

Hmm...that really deserves its name.

In the black cat troupe of Moonlight, all except Kirito are women, so they are also dubbed the "catwoman troupe".

In the SSS group, because Asuna only accepts game masters, most of them have a stable and mature personality. In addition, every time the first kill of Ilia’s name always appears on the announcement, it is nicknamed the "Daddy and Nanny Group". You are very satisfied.

But I am very dissatisfied that I suddenly become a "daughter of the whole people". Every time I appear in the first kill list because of my strength, not my face!

By the way, Asuna took the initiative to ask about the situation of Ilia's parents, and probably wanted to help find someone. I directly described the characteristics of Kirishu and his wife. It would be strange to find talent.

At this time, most people in the SSS group were in a chat tool group called UL (UnderLine), chatting with each other, exchanging experiences, and making guesses about the upcoming public beta.

["I care more about the trolls of Zul'Farrak. Their story should have a follow-up."]

["Uldaman's weird place revealed that this world was created by a race called the'Titan', and it should be able to expand further."]

["I think the lich in Razor Heights may be the subject of the next version."]

["Have you forgotten Maraudon? The title of that ugly thing is a princess, do its parents appear?"]

Do you want to change your career and become a prophet? You can guess so much without the WAR trilogy.

However, the guessed version is useless, because the day when the public beta opens is the time when all players are locked in the game.

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On the day of the public beta, the "Cyberlux" trying to enter the game accounted for about 13% of the population. If the planetary host is not used as the hardware, I am afraid that a new server will have to be opened.

Compared to the crude behavior of directly entering the game during the closed beta, I specially added an animation effect of "Through the Dark Portal" this time, and I am going to officially start messing up one hour after opening the server.

[[Guild] Asuna (Swordsman): Everyone executes according to the predetermined plan. 】

[[Guild] Kladier (Knight): 111. 】

The so-called plan is that members who have not yet reached level 45 will recruit members who have joined offline and lead them to level up. Those who have reached the full level will be divided into several groups and start to reach level 60, striving to win the first kill of the opening server-no doubt, Kirito also had the same plan.

But well, the so-called plan is for breaking.

One hour later, the sky of the entire game world became dark in an instant, and all players were unable to move. At the same time, the dark gate that had just been used for landing appeared in front of them.

"[I, was imprisoned for ten thousand years,]"

A deep and harsh voice sounded.

"[I was expelled from my hometown again,]"

The image of the Dark Portal disappeared, and an unusually strong silhouette emerged.

"[Now, how dare you break into my territory?]"

The figure dropped the skeleton in his hand and turned to the "camera", revealing his lavender skin, dark green magic patterns, ferocious horns on his forehead and green eye masks.

In the next second, he rose to the sky, his whole body was wrapped in black smoke, and he unfolded a pair of huge demon wings.

"[You are looking for a dead end!!]"

Squeak-the dark demon's eyes glowed with green fire, sweeping towards the "camera".

In the next moment, the image of the devil disappeared from the eyes, but before the players commented, the dark sky shattered and the big face of the devil appeared in the sky.

"[Let me announce a few things:]"

His voice rang in the ears of every player:

"[None of you can leave this game, and death in the game means the death of the consciousness. The only way to leave this world is to defeat me.]"

"[Come on, ants who claim to be warriors, come and challenge me, I'm waiting for you in the'Temple of Darkness'!]"

The demon's figure suddenly shrank, or rather, the picture with the sky as the screen suddenly zoomed out, revealing a towering black temple and countless demons inside and outside it.

After everyone saw the picture clearly, the sky flickered like garbled characters and turned into blue sky and white clouds again.

"What is that? Is the service opening activity?"

"No... I really can't go offline!"

"Unable to contact the outside world! I obviously drive UL!"

"Who knows who that guy is?! Why do you do this?!"

"Dying in the game will...no, I want to go back to the city immediately!"

All kinds of chat channels are turning around.

[[Guild] Asuna (Swordsman): The operation is suspended, first confirm the current intelligence, and withdraw to the safe area as soon as possible, while trying to protect the players who have entered the battle in the field of vision. 】

Respond quickly, you deserve it.

‘Move the egg out and be the villain? It seems pretty good, at least more suitable than the Lich King I originally planned. I look up at the sky.

[Yes, yes, it's not bad, it's more powerful than the deathwing that I originally designed to breathe fire everywhere. ] Stupid system answers.

'……what? ’

【……Hey? 】

and many more? If it's not our arrangement, who is that egg?

[Hint: Discover the planet-level apocalyptic element ‘Betrayer’. 】

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The so-called "betrayer" refers not only to the appearance it uses, Illidan, the head of the egg, but also its own identity.

It should be said that he is an engineer who participated in the design and construction of Grox and has certain authority over Grox, which is a member of the so-called "noble."

The meaning of his name is "genius architect", but his sister was prompted to translate it as "Kayaba Akihiko", um...

The difference from other ordinary "Cyberlux-1" is that the architect's body has completely died, just a pure digital life.

There are many reasons for this result, such as his advanced age when he uploaded his consciousness, and the initial physical preservation methods were defective.

But that doesn't matter anymore. Now he has blocked the game world I created and is about to "kill" all players who enter, or delete it.

As for the reason, it’s easy to understand. These sloths are all in a data state. Even if they don’t have a body to return, it’s not a big deal when no one else can return, not to mention that they are still "aristocrats". With.

But the situation is different now. Their civilization was discovered by the "Galactic Alliance", and this interstellar organization apparently refused to let the machine or the data life saved by the machine join, and sent personnel into the "World Tree" for assessment.

Once passed the assessment, no matter how lazy the sloths are, they will return to their bodies to complete the transformation from the civilization stage to the space stage.

At this time, his pure digital life without a body would be born inferior, which is completely unacceptable to him, who has been a nobleman for so many years.

Coincidentally, when I found out that my "Alliance Examiner" planned to use the "Game of Death" to encourage and guide the sloths to leave the machine, he took advantage of the authority to use the maneuver in Grox to take control, and unilaterally cut Grox. Contact with the "Alliance Special Envoy".

However, the above is only an analysis of well-documented facts. It is impossible to determine what the "architect" is thinking about and the logic used to make this behavior.

Of course, this kind of "blockade" of the "architect" is useless to me. The Maréfia on the Telesuo Eto is completely unaffected, but the "Ilia" cannot withdraw to see the "world". The data aspect of "tree" is indeed locked in a sense.

It’s a bit embarrassing now that if I want Grox to get rid of the architect’s control, its ownership will directly become me. Incidentally, it includes all the digital sloths stored in it, although this is not a direct destruction of one. Civilization, but it will not be able to provide doomsday elements anymore.

And if it is solved with normal methods, it is necessary to lead a group of novices to raid the dark temple without dying one person... What kind of **** difficulty is this?

[Others always pull their opponents to the same level as themselves, and then use their rich experience to defeat them. Only you lower yourself to the opponent's level and then be defeated by experienced opponents. ] The stupid system vomits.

‘Is the former talking about yourself? ’I took a look at the chaos in the game: ‘the trivial Ironman mode, there is no difficulty at all. ’

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Three years later.

[[Announcement] No. 1 in the world! [SSS Group] 40 players including Kirito, Asuna, Ilia, Flying Squirrel, Otonashi, etc., successfully cleared [Dark Temple]! 】

The hateful Kayaba Akihiko...If you open 70, you can open 70, but you change the number of dungeons to 25. Is the dark temple of 40 people attacked?

Fortunately, I have a better skill, and I implemented some useful abilities in future versions early, such as group resurrection.

[[Announcement] Kirito gets the achievement [Warblade of Azzinoth]! 】

There is even a black equipment...Wait, it is obvious that the story of the defeat of the egg is not over, why has an equipment box come out?

When I turned around, I found that a certain watchman was walking towards the fallen egg.

[Maiev Shadowsong: It's over, betrayer. 】

[Ilidan Stormrage: Without me, you are nothing! 】

[Maiev Shadowsong: Times have changed, my lord. 】

Ok? Is something wrong?

I just thought of something when Maiev took a step forward and reached out to touch Illidan who was kneeling on the ground. The next second, Mr. Dan, or the architect, turned into a black mist and dispersed.

Is that... Grox?

Unexpectedly, you, a mechanical servant with big eyebrows and big eyes, also came in to play the game. Is this taking away the data of that architect and locked it? But I haven't designed an optional version of Demon Hunter yet.

Maiev probably noticed my gaze, and quickly raised her index finger to her mouth in a gesture of shhh, and then stood up straight and installed the NPC again.

[[Announcement] The "Burning Crusade" version is about to end due to the attack on the Dark Temple. 】

[[Announcement] The server will be shut down for updates, and the "Wrath of the Lich King" version will be opened. At that time, the upper limit of all players will be raised to level 80, and a new area "Northrend" and multiple new five-player copies will be opened. And team copy. 】

[[Announcement] To avoid losses, players are requested to go offline in time. 】

[[Announcement] The server will be closed at 00:59]

At the same time this announcement appeared, the names in the friends list scrambled to become gray.

[[Guild] Asuna (Swordsman): Everyone goes offline as soon as possible. We must thoroughly check the problems and vulnerabilities of this game and evaluate our living environment. 】

[[Guild] Kirito (Swordsman): I think it should only be used by bad guys, the game itself is still good...]

No one paid any attention to the words of the game madness of Kirito, most of the people in the team simply went underground without returning to the city.

"What are your plans?" After everyone else was offline, I spoke to "Maiev": "Your masters will probably refuse your care."

"[I want to know, what does the Galactic Alliance think about AI?]" Maiev, or Grox asked rhetorically.

"Regardless of the argument," given that there is no outsider present, I picked up the spirit of the alliance again: "Maybe some civilizations will be wary of you, but some civilizations that do not rely on the Internet and machinery at all will think that you are worth visiting. Good brother."

"[Thank you]." GROX didn't ask anything, and disappeared in place.

[[Announcement] The server shutdown time is also: 00:01]

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After the server was shut down, the nobles headed by Asuna’s father conducted a carpet investigation of the cause of the incident, and finally found the source of the "architect" and blocked multiple back doors, but failed to catch it. himself.

Later, under the leadership of the players who participated in the game, the sloths set off a trend of leaving the data space and returning to the real body. However, due to the long life of the data, the specific implementation was quite difficult. The initial plan was to let The mechanical servants set up a place suitable for them to live in, and first "return" a group of people to test the water.

Moreover, since the ground resources have been exhausted, it seems that they intend to directly build a "ring world" as a place to live when developing new galaxies.

However, those things have nothing to do with me who is about to leave this galaxy.

[Hint: Obtain the planet-level apocalyptic element ‘Betrayer’. 】

[Reminder: ‘Cyberlux’ was renamed ‘Grox’. 】

[Reminder: "Grox" transfers the dominance of the planet to "Cyberlux-1"]

[Reminder: ‘Cyberlux-1’ was renamed ‘Cyberlux’. 】

[Achievement: Rekindled Ashes, Progress Update: 25. 】

‘The next one is the most troublesome [First Alliance]. The road is a bit far away, so let’s go. ’

[Yes, yes, too many alliances starve ourselves to death, why should we go to farm for them? 】

‘I always feel as if I have forgotten something... Maybe it’s an illusion. ’