only monsters

"The demon data has been reduced exponentially, and the structure of the wilderness has collapsed."

"The demonic data individual spreading across Terra has entered a violent state and is following up to record the data."

"Haijia has reached 4214 types of contact with evil spirits, and new monster types are being generated."

"The data development of Yan, Wang, and Cosiche seriously deviated from the established route. Is it normal?"

"A large-scale disappearance of beast master data has been detected. The current game content has completely deviated from the plan. Please be sure to give instructions!"

"...Director, what should we do now?"

Generally speaking, running a game does not require the entire department to be in full swing, but the testing time does not exceed half an hour, and then suddenly the final trial of civilization in the last chapter of the main line begins...

That's another story.

"What else can we do? Just continue." Mulseth still had a smile on his face, but in the eyes of the current employees, this smile seemed a bit hysterical and neurotic.

"But the expected test..."

"It was originally just to test a result. Since I dared to introduce those data, it is only natural that there will be such a violent reaction. Let's keep operating like this! The doctor is also looking forward to the test results this time!"

"Ah, yes, yes!"

After receiving the confirmation from above, the employee who made the report ran steadily, leaving Muirseth to turn his head to look at the screen in front of him again.

The originally planned colorful game world has lost 30% of its content within a few minutes.

Originally, the entire wilderness of Terra was so vast that it was even divided into several areas. However, it was destroyed one after another, causing the remaining evil spirits scattered across the continent to go into 'fury', or to be more precise. , it was their existing connection that made them immediately feel the fear of annihilation.

They're crazy.

The price is that while the pressure on the front lines fighting the evil spirits everywhere increases sharply, some small-scale or even sporadic evil spirits scattered everywhere also begin to expand aggressively.

The chain of situations caused by this is not just a tornado of the butterfly effect.

end.

In other words, the return of the myth arrived amidst the continuous sounds of Warnings in the production team's office.

Like morning bells and evening drums.

Perhaps the only people who can 'hear' this bell are those who can only be summarized by two digits.

That is, the existences mentioned repeatedly on the screen.

And between these two figures, there are even many foreign objects that were forced in.

The three-headed dragon in the polar regions, the huge strange bird hiding in the volcano, the giant horned snake swimming in the ocean, the beast from the meteorite that should have been waiting to develop... But among them, there are also some things that are related to them. The elements of Terra are so consistent that they merge with each other without distinguishing each other's existence.

It's like at this moment, one of the most eye-catching multi-faceted screens like a guard monitoring is being seen by the 'audience' outside the test hall - the headquarters of Rheinland Life.

A pair of huge horns that are much longer than the average Caprini (goat) man.

It is ferocious, with a beast-shaped face that is comparable to the most terrifying-looking Wendigo among the Sakaz.

Robust, with a human body-like torso and limbs, only the legs are anti-jointed, and the hands and feet have strength and agility.

There is also a long tail that is as agile and powerful as the long tails of the Safra (lizard) tribe and the Fidia (snake) tribe.

They all seem to be covered with lava and overflowing with flames. Their appearance is somewhere between the scabs of severe burns and the hardened iron and stone armor, forming the appearance of the giant beast that is passed down from generation to generation among the Balrog clan.

Ifrit/Ifrit
Originating from Arabian folk tales of gods and monsters, most of these images appeared in the polytheistic era before the rise of Islam, and were accepted and adapted by Islamic culture.

But what really allowed their image to be carried forward in the Holy Federation of Terra in later generations was the countless versions of game works.

For example - Final Fantasy.

[Now playing: "Find the Flame"]

"..."

In the symphony of thick male war roars that only Eri Taoko and Ifrit could hear, a golden line floated across the upper left corner of their field of vision with the name of the music signed "Boss Appearance Unique BGM Switch".

But all this was something that Olivia Hemmer, who was standing beside the two of them, could not see it.

She just watched the giant beast's stretch with extraordinarily horrified eyes, watching that the flames around it would naturally trigger a fire alarm without any special action, and then the automatic fire protection system would be fully activated, and the nozzles of all ceiling pipes would be in full operation.

But it can't extinguish the flames that are burning, expanding, and devouring the building.

Dig dig dig dig deeper/groping, seeking, searching, searching, hiding the truth deeply Dig dig dig dig deeper/searching, searching, searching, finding, the truth of the world

Delve delve delve delve deeper/whimper, sob, shed tears, cry, frustrated person

The passionate shouts and sad and cruel eulogies were not heard by the brown-haired, golden-eyed researcher with glasses, but he seemed to understand the pain and struggle of the giant beast.

She was frightened, but the fright was not caused by the ferocious shape or the scorching wind and waves, but by what she murmured in her mouth:
"Impossible...impossible...the Balrog fragments used as data can only be activated by extreme negative emotions. How could she..."

"It's difficult, could it be..."

The simple treatment we just had...

Did he already give that child such great despair...

Unable to stand, her legs were shaking and she knelt down on her knees. Olivia had not yet established as deep a relationship with the other person as she had with the prototype, but she still came here only to heal the other person. She could not bear such a possibility.

"Did your treatment give that child such great despair...? You look like you think so..."

"..." She turned her head blankly and looked at the black-haired young man who had just been pulled out of some kind of gel in mid-air, changing from translucent to full color as he walked.

Looking at his crescent moon fluttering in the hot wind, eyes filled with admiration and admiration, Olivia only felt more puzzled.

But I heard the junior who seemed to be very popular with the teacher said in surprise: "Guinea Pig-kun?"

Teacher... She subconsciously looked at the black ash covered by hot water on the ground.

Her teacher is now everywhere.

Naturally, Ifrit didn't pay attention at all and stared at the intruder in front of her in surprise: "Aren't you the Omer from before? Where did you come from?"

During the previous volcano investigation, Ifrit had also seen this young man through the screen.

She is also quite envious of the opponent's monster powers that look very cool and suit her aesthetic.

"I came here following the abnormal movements of the evil spirit, and I happened to be planning to take a look at her first," he said, looking at Suzi who snorted and turned his head, but also turned to glance at Olivia who was aside. , "But why don't you drag Miss Hemmer away first?"

"You go ahead and pull her, I'll stop her."

"Oh?"

The unexpected answer made Omo look at this older girl who was roughly the same age as him in surprise.

"Is this why you chose this place?"

"Is this important?" Ifrit frowned as she kept staring at the giant beast that had not yet made any move. She did not expect that the other party would be so timid at this time.

But he also heard the other party say:

"It's very important. If so, I will follow your instructions honestly."

"Ah! That's why I'm here! Come on!"

"Okay, it's a bit perfunctory, but it doesn't sound like a lie." Omer nodded slightly and snapped his fingers.

"So Tachyon, let's take this...um...Miss Hemmer away from the battlefield here."

"It's so annoying, you don't need to tell me."

"?"

Ifrit glanced at him in surprise. She didn't expect the other party to obey his instructions so honestly. She saw the two pushing Hemo backwards into a black mist as tall as a human figure, and disappeared in the next moment.

She turned around again, facing the beast whose appearance was both familiar and unfamiliar to her, but whose emotional fluctuations were still so unbearable.

"Okay, don't cry, now I'm here to bring you all this peace."

I came back, looked at the vote count, and found it was barely safe. It was time to play the game that I had been missing for a month in jail in my hometown! I’ll talk about it tomorrow even if it’s full!

By the way, sorry.

Sadako did not appear on the screen as a certain book friend wished.

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Also, the lyrics of this chapter are translated from a section of the Xindaya translation version of Dearest_Ningky, a B-station up.