TNG Vol. 16 Side Story Part 1

 

The Dusk of Majesty.

For those living in THE NEW GATE’s world, this day was like a bolt out of the blue. Large scale tectonic shifts and similar natural disasters. Of course, the Rokuten guild’s NPCs were affected too.

Oxygen and Hydro, servants of the “Red Alchemist” Hecate, braved the tremors in the “Fifth Daze Garden Romenun”.

“Aaah! Our precious prototypes!”

“This place shouldn’t shake even a bit during normal earthquakes…!”

The whole building shook violently, first vertically, then horizontally. This continued for a good while, at an irregular pace.

Not only the medicine prototypes on the desks but also tubes, dishes, balances, and other tools came crashing on the floor.

The racks were specially reinforced, so their contents were still safe at least.

Tremors that made it difficult to even stand up continued for one whole day.

“That was really violent…”

Oxygen stood back up. Because of the long tremors, his hair was all messy and he had trouble standing straight.

“Agreed. Not only is Romenun built to withstand quakes, but also suppresses tremors. Despite all this, to experience tremors of this scale…I suppose it’s enough for smaller cities to be completely destroyed.”

Hydro reflected on the tremors and went to look outside. From Romenun’s location, it was possible to see the nearest city in the distance.

Using sight boosting skills or items, it could be possible to see the state of the city walls and their surroundings. There was also the need to check the state of the area around Romenun.

“…well well, I did think that something unprecedented happened, but…what is going on here?”

Hydro looked outside the window, then laughed wryly. Afterwards, she shrugged and sighed.

“Ahaha…really, there’s nothing to do but laugh.”

Oxygen stood next to Hydro, carefully avoiding the broken prototypes and materials.

The edges of his lab coat touched the ground, so avoiding them did not mean much, but that wasn’t a concern at the time. He laughed hopelessly, then sighed like Hydro.

The scenery outside the window was completely changed.

The guildhouse itself was still intact, but the various plants that were growing around it were gone. What remained was but a desert wasteland, a ravaged land filled with cracks.

“The vast forest that extended all around the guildhouse is gone, and there’s a lake over there too. But…how could the mountain disappear too? I suppose this is nature’s power.”

Oxygen looked in another direction, then exhaled, impressed.

Romenun was located in a mountain range, about 30 kemel from the nearest city.

No matter where they looked, however, the city was nowhere to be found. The ground level had probably sunk deeply, as Romenun’s position was much lower than before.

“Are you saying that a phenomenon like this was caused naturally? Easy there, Oxygen, did you accidentally inhale a prototype during the tremors? The mountain disappearing is not an illusion.”

“The possibility isn’t zero, right? That was a joke though. Not even our mistress could do something of this scale. The only cause I can think of is the “management” the mistress once told us about. But the scale is completely different this time. This is not just a new dungeon appearing out of nowhere…”

“I’m glad you are still sane. So then…”

Hydro was about to start discussing what they should do next, when she noticed something and stopped mid-sentence.

Oxygen did not say anything about it, and they continued looking at each other for minutes.

After about five minutes passed, they opened their mouths at the same time.

“This is too strange. I cannot find any explanation.”

“This is too strange…a lot stranger than the scenery out there…”

What they noticed was not something external, but something related to their own bodies.

Something so shocking they almost forgot about the violent tremors they just experienced.

“Why can we—”

“Why can we—”

“Why can we talk so normally?”

It was so natural that it took time for them to notice.

The behavior limitation that always accompanied them had disappeared completely.

 

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ncdxero88

Schnee explained before, that they were living their lives like watching a movie of themselves. They can hear, and experience everything that happened during the death game, but does not have autonomy of their own. Schnee said that she remembers everything since the game switched into survival mode. So they’re actions are warranted. They’re having autonomy for the first time in their lives.

Daiz71

Thanks

Mio

Thanks for the chapter desu~

They think it was management? This is too strange, even for them. Also, the terrain would have to be updated bit by bit rather than all at once due to it’s supermassive size.

Some crazy programming would have to be done for Oxygen and Hydro to behave this way, or the two are behaving this way because the programming—the behaviour limitation, was removed.

I want to see the reactions of the other long lived beings, like those Sword people living in the mountains or Tsaobath.

Marcio Hoglhammer Moreira

They must have gone through the same process as Schnee, they are no longer simple NPCs.
Thanks for the translation.
Saudações BR ^^

Seinvolf

Thank u always for ur great work…
^^…

lycopene322

Maybe, the level of programming logic implemented by the management was like
From: Manual terrain development
To: AI Driven, base on the data of the management

Juampass Zelev

Thanks for the chapter

Paps

Thanks for the chapter, interesting….

karaage

LMFAO

Wolf_Lord

Thanks for the chapter on a good story. 😊

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