“Finally, I can kill this damn opening!” Otiliya could almost see herself soaring through the air.
Shoot!
Swoosh——
The claw on the hand crossbow flew towards the Pterodactyl.
But…
The claw brushed past the Pterodactyl’s claws, making the creature stumble.
“A-le————?!” Otiliya seemed to freeze in mid-air, then…
“This wasn’t supposed to happen——————” She plummeted straight down from the sky.
“Gugga————” Seeing Otiliya performing a high school diving act, the Pterodactyl let out a cry, seemingly mocking her, then flew away.
“Damn game developers, I’ll make you pay—glug glug————” Otiliya plunged into the sea.
【You are dead】
【Your death was glorious, look forward to your next death performance.】
A familiar, eerie laughter echoed.
“Damn, damn it————Who wants a death performance! I was so close, this garbage game, does it even want people to play it? Operating a hand crossbow in that situation was too difficult! Did they consider the player’s fury! Damn it!”
This death was somewhat frustrating. Otiliya stomped her feet in anger. After calming down, she realized that she’d fallen for the developer’s trick again!
Yes, after learning that she could use a hand crossbow to ride the Pterodactyl, she was excited, but she didn’t consider her lack of experience with operating a hand crossbow, and so she made a fool of herself once more.
“Damn developers, damn death mockery! In that situation, shouldn’t the hand crossbow have definitely grabbed the Pterodactyl? Even if I hadn’t aimed right, the system should have automatically helped me aim! Damn this garbage game!”
Although she was calling the game garbage, Otiliya had no intention of giving up.
This fully immersive gameplay was precisely the allure of virtual reality games!
Just one death!
Didn’t games like Dark Souls and Sekiro drive players to the brink of insanity, even making them smash their computers?
Otiliya wanted to try again, but she noticed that the “Yes” option for restarting, which used to be a bright red, had turned gray.
She tapped the “Yes” option, and a message appeared below it.
【You have reached your daily death limit and cannot continue playing.】
“Hey, what’s going on? I can’t play anymore after dying too much?” Otiliya asked in surprise.
【Nightmare World is about to close】
“Wait, I still want to play! Next time I’ll be able to clear it. I’m serious, don’t close it, I still have so many questions—Hey, game developer, I’m talking to you! Come out here————”
But no matter how much Otiliya yelled, there was no response. Gradually, the fog surrounding Otiliya grew thicker and enveloped her. She suddenly felt extremely drowsy and closed her eyes.
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“How was the harvest?” Zhang Xing Yu asked the Nightmare Lord.
“Miserably poor.” The Nightmare Lord snorted.
“Uh… even the poorest has something, right?”
“In a way you can understand, I gathered about 140 Nightmare Force.” The Nightmare Lord said.
“…. What use is 140?”
“With your current game style, a normal player dying once gets about 10 Nightmare Force, but Otiliya is special. She gets about 30 per death, 90 for three deaths, and with some other emotional fluctuations, it totals 140.”
“Well… though it’s less than death, it’s still half the value of death, not bad.”
“Humph, I say, you should adjust the pain level to 100%, or even 200%. With your current 10% minimum (unlocked under specific conditions) and initial 20% pain setting, they can’t feel any pain!”
“No no no, 100% pain is not something humans can play. 200% would be torture! Look at this little girl, if you set it to 100% pain… She wouldn’t dare play the game again after experiencing the feeling of drowning!”
“They’re just a bunch of ants. With me, the Nightmare Lord, here, she’ll play whether she wants to or not!” The Nightmare Lord snorted.
“Alright alright, whatever the case, we’ll wait and see after my plan is implemented. Didn’t we agree on this from the start, anyway? It’s just a blink of an eye for you in your old form, a few hundred years, right?”
“Humph.”
“Incidentally, how much Nightmare Force is needed to pull someone into the Nightmare World?”
“10.”
“The same as a normal person dying once… It seems that dying more and more is useful for strengthening the Nightmare World.”
“Then the pain level…”
“That’s not up for discussion.” Zhang Xing Yu immediately interrupted. The Nightmare Lord roared, but Zhang Xing Yu pretended not to hear, saying, “However, based on Otiliya’s experiences playing these few times, I also feel that we need to do a small update to the Nightmare World… Though I originally wanted players to experience a close-to-real Nightmare World, it’s still too difficult for ordinary people, and they need some way to quickly acquire skills… ”
As he spoke, Zhang Xing Yu looked at the Nightmare Lord.
“Is there any way for players to quickly gain abilities?”
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