Game Dev: 21 - Chapter 02 Despair

"I survived…" Amoura sat on the dark floor while breathing heavily in disbelief of what had just happened.

When she was trapped in the castle in front of those lunatics, she was shocked to find that they started to argue about how they were going to kill her!

That giant woman was trying to convince the others to let her take her to her castle and torture her, while the man with the hat wanted to torture her in a show-like manner.

Finally the woman named Mãe Miranda did something that shocked Amoura, she spread 4 pairs of black wings and declared that the man with the hat could kill her however he wanted.

Amoura was desperate about this, but the man soon started a countdown making Amoura's heart race again.

Looking around, she was surrounded by zombies and there was only one way to escape.

When the man's count reached 4 seconds, Amoura didn't think twice and jumped into the only hole behind her.

With the count down to zero, the zombies started running after her, and Amoura accelerated even more at the speed she was running.

With her hands tied, she couldn't fight these monsters, and at that moment, louder than the noise of the zombies trying to devour her, was the noise of her heart in her chest, which was beating so hard that she was even afraid of having a heart attack. .

Apparently this path had already been made exactly for her to escape and have fun, since the whole place was full of traps.

Fortunately just when she thought she had no way to escape, Amoura found a small space and took cover as a chainsaw came towards her.

Thinking quickly, she used the saw to cut through the metal bar that held her wrist and was finally free.

Now, without the noise of zombies or any of the lunatics talking, Amoura understood that maybe they thought he had died.

The only thing she could think of at the moment was. "I Survived?!"

Her heart was almost out of her mouth from the despair she felt. The realism of this game, with the frightening way that those people, or monsters, were acting, made Amoura really scared.

"I need a break…" She said as she continued to sit on the floor to calm down. After considering her situation for a while, Amoura felt she needed a break and logged out of the game.

[WTF, I almost fell out of my chair with worry!]

[Amour, are you okay?!]

[I need some water!]

[My heart is beating fast!]

Not only was Amoura shocked, but viewers of her livestream were also shocked by what had just happened.

As Chapter 01 of the game was basically a calmer and more peaceful place, players and viewers had gradually gotten used to it, but when they arrived at the castle and saw such a sudden change of pace, many people could not keep up and were in shock. !

The unluckiest streamers even lost their save from 'Insane' mode because they didn't realize they had to race the man in the hat countdown and died.

Others didn't take the opportunity like Amoura to break their shackles and got their hands stuck in the metal, having to leave the castle unprotected.

Fortunately, as soon as they left the castle, the game returned to its former calm.

Amoura, who had rested for 15 minutes, had finally calmed down and logged back into the game.

When she walked out of the castle with a shotgun in her hand and finally stepped onto the white snow on the village floor, she was finally able to relax.

"How I missed this village… before I felt this place was like hell, but compared to that castle, this village is like heaven!" Amoura said as she bent down and hugged the icy snow on the village floor.

Walking along the short road that apparently led back to the village, Amoura, who was already lost after so many twists and turns in the tunnel under the castle, was shocked at the path she was following.

Instead of heading in the direction of the familiar village she was in earlier, she realized that the more she followed that path, the closer she got to the castle.

"Damn… I'm going to the castle…" She soon realized her confusion. She hadn't been hugging the snow in the village a few moments ago, but the snow in the space between the castle gate and the real castle. "I haven't even entered the castle yet and I almost died in the game or had a heart attack in real life, what's inside this castle…?"

Amoura's voice was very uncertain, and not only was she surprised by this, but the reaction from the viewers on the livestream was priceless.

Her livestream, which had peaked at 3,000 viewers when Chapter 01 was released, now had nearly 6,000 people watching her play.

Among these people, unlike before most were F-Rank or E-Rank Players, now most were ordinary people or even some D-Rank Players!

The Rank F and Rank E players who normally watched her play, were now almost all busy playing Chapter 02 on their own, or completing Chapter 01 in order to experience Chapter 02 on their own.

The story of this game was so interesting that they didn't want to get Spoilers on Amoura's livestream, and not only did these players not want to get spoilers on the livestream, but even ordinary people from Sandstone Bay found out about this game through their Player friends and decided to watch it for themselves. see how it is.

To the surprise of these ordinary people, unlike the other games they had already seen where the Players just stood there swinging a sword from side to side, or shooting a bow at monsters that ran past, in Residual Devil, (The name of the game was changed to avoid copyright issues.) everything they were seeing was completely new.

The conversation those monsters had was so realistic that within minutes of the game they already felt that they were there, experiencing it personally, and when the man was trying to kill Amoura, these viewers felt that they were the ones who were almost dying in her place, doing with people with a weak heart even having to calm down while watching so as not to suffer a heart attack.

[It's a good thing Sandstone Bay doesn't have a castle, otherwise I wouldn't even go near it.]

[You're lucky, I'm a Rank E Player and my scheduled mission for tomorrow is in an abandoned castle outside the city! Do you think I'll have the courage to go? I'm already thinking about what excuse I'm going to use to miss it, even if I have to pay a fine, the money is not worth my life.]

[Friend of the previous comment, I only have one thing to say to you. "F"]

[F]

[F]

[F for respect!]

Reading these people's comments, Gabe was laughing his ass off. He had already been very scared while playing that part of the game in his previous world, and in this world these people were experiencing it in such realistic virtual reality, it's surprising that Amoura was still playing.

Looking at player data with Game Developer authority, Gabe found Amoura's profile and began analyzing her data.

From the amount of fear she was feeling, the amount of skills she absorbed from the game peaked very high.

Not only in shooting skills, but also in escaping skills that were quietly developing.

Unfortunately, escape skills are not measured with virtual tests with numbers that exemplify the level, because if that were the case, Amoura would probably see that the improvement in this aspect was frighteningly high.

"It's better that Players have a problem with monsters in the game and learn to deal with it here, than something like this happens in real life and they have no experience." Gabe said to himself with a smile.

Amoura, who was approaching the castle with uncertain steps, realized that there was a carriage parked at the entrance of it.

Clutching the shotgun she'd found on the way out, she approached very alertly, trying to see if anyone was there.

When she got within closer range, the carriage door burst open, startling Amoura to the point that she nearly threw out on instinct.

"F*ck!!" Amoura screamed in fright as she looked at the man who had opened the carriage door.

Seeing that it was a man there, Amoura should have been a little less worried, but the man's appearance did not reassure her.

This man apparently weighed at least 300 kg (660 lb), a frighteningly high weight for an apocalyptic world like the one they lived in, where the available food was not as plentiful as in Gabe's other world.

Seeing such a fat man, Amoura was almost certain that this man was a monster and continued to point the gun at him, ready to fire at the slightest sign of threat.

Looking at Amoura so scared, the man laughed. "Athena Winters, don't be scared, I'm just a simple merchant."

Hearing the man speak to her in that way, Amoura's fear lessened a little, but she was no less alert and continued to aim the gun at him.

"How do you know me?" She asked.

"How do I know you? Everyone worth their salt has heard of you, a heroine in search of her daughter, but it's true that the castle raises suspicions." He replied.

"Yeah, you too…" Amoura replied with narrowed eyes.

"Haha, I'm just a humble merchant. Forgive my manners, you can call me Duke. Weapons, ammo, ointments, whatever you need I'll get you."

"Weapons?" Amoura became more alert and continued to aim the shotgun at Duke.

Duke just chuckled as he explained. "Don't be so afraid, I only seek profit, as long as you have enough money, not only can I sell you weapons, I can also help you improve your weapons, increasing the rate of fire, reloading speed, ammo capacity, and most importantly, I can help you improve the damage your weapon deals to more powerful enemies."

Initially Amoura thought that Duke was just an ordinary merchant, but when she heard him talking about weapon upgrades, her attention was hooked, but when she heard him saying that he could help her upgrade her weapon to deal more damage to enemies more powerful, the first thing she remembered was the trouble she had in the last mission she participated.

Her weapon didn't do as much damage against Rank E monsters as it did to Rank F monsters, she knew that this was a very big limitation that she would need a lot of time to improve, and a lot of money, but hearing the possibility of improving her weapon's damage weapon in the game against more powerful monsters came a doubt in her head.

'If I can improve weapon damage here, maybe there's a way to improve that in the real world as well?' Amoura wondered in surprise.

Not only was she surprised by this, but other livestream viewers were also surprised by this possibility.

Ordinary viewers didn't see much of this fat man's statement, but Players who were watching this, or who were playing the game and met Duke, thought the same thing as Amoura.

If this knowledge can be learned in-game, it will have a huge impact on the lives of Rank E Players!

Even if this cannot be brought about, if the game makes weapons powerful enough to deal more damage to Rank E monsters available, even if the Player has to invest a stone of Mana in the game to bring one of the game's weapons to life, in the end the player can still come out in profit!