Chapter 3: Kagami Misunderstands?

Kagami operates the bracelet terminal and opens the menu. This type of command menu was seen often in SciFi systems of anime and movies that appeared in space; It was only able to be seen by the person in question. To others, it would only look like a person were staring into space.The history that Kagami had chosen from the chronological table using the menu displayed its contents, however Kagami stared only at one figure as she had lost the capability for speech.

It was the place where the newest event had been written.The second prince was born on arc calendar April 23, 2146 in the Mirstone Kingdom. .He was named [Atolzade].

It was so.

It was not the content that had astonished Kagami. Though the [Mirstone] Kingdom was not familiar, it could have been some small country that a player had founded somewhere. The problem rather, was the number of years.

When she checked the current time in a bit of a panic, what was displayed in the upper right corner was Arc calendar 3:12 PM, May 12th, 2146.

This was a strange thing no matter how one thought. This because 30 years have passed from “now”. Reexamining the history, she found that events she had not known anything about were there.

And a decade before as was mentioned before, on June 24, 2136, the three god defense war broke out.

Kagami at first thought that it was incomprehensible. If there was an upgrade, it was supposed to have been written in the chronology. As a test, when she went back to the oldest point of the chronology, it was September 1, 2112 when Arc Earth Online officially started. The decoration was written grandly.

Even the two upgrades were listed. However, she did not see the description for an upgrade that should have only occurred yesterday. Although Kagami knew that there had been an update only a year ago, she nevertheless looked.

If this was not because of an upgrade, In Kagami’s mind anxiety welled up at the same time as this thought.

If this was not the result of an upgrade, then what was the taste and smell of grass?

She then looked up and closed the menu,

“I will not finish it, but can I get some water?”

She called out to the commander who was staring with great interest at the Dark Knight she had summoned.

“Hmm, oh its good.”

When she received the wine skin containing water from the commander, she poured the contents through her small lips to her throat. The water was lukewarm containing a dose of salinity to wet the tongue.

“Here is the water. Thank you.”

She returned the wine skin, and place a hand on her throat. It was obvious that taste and thirst were not a part of [Arc Earth Online].

Still, something is wrong. She felt anxiety that the five senses are too realistic Although it was possible to drink recovery medicines before, as far as taste and thirst went, something felt off. However the current situation was nothing but vague, it was impossible to keep up with.

Even when taking off one’s robe or putting it on, the feeling of cloth rubbing against the skin is a reality.Up until the present VR technology was in the research stage with the five senses. That said, in its own way electrical signals and electromagnetic pulse can be reproduced, to the extent that a person could feel it in VR, but the feeling of pain was suppressed with a limiter.

Now for the current situation, it is too realistic. As one would expect, not revealing a single word about the advancement of technology is not possible. That is to say that the rapid advance of technology that was just produced recently, should not be possible to be reproduced here.

While Kagami was calmly thinking about this, he dismissed the theory he had made at first about the upgrade. In VR, the reproduction of this is still impossible.

When she drew an impossible conclusion it was immediately discarded. It was highly unlikely that it was reproduced to that extent.

However, from the current situation, it was not possible to deny it completely.So this really is reality.This had been the kind of thing of urban legends, whispered ever since full dive type VR games came out with VR technology. The reasoning was that the game world was real and that it existed slightly apart from the real world. And that any player could be caught in that world.

Of course Kagami had not believed such rumors, however she has imagined it. And the current situation was very similar to what she was experiencing right now. She shook her head to deny it as a chill ran through her spine. She looked towards the heavens as she banished such ridiculous thoughts.

It may just be a bug but she concluded that she would pay a minimum of attention to it when Kagami stopped thinking. The answer would not appear even if he thought further.” Commander Graia, a hobgoblin hideout has been discovered, who is this person?”

When the group that searched the forest returned, in an instant their smiling facial expressions retreated and tension remained. That was because standing beside the commander called Graia was a knight with a strange appearance of red eyes and shiny black face.Although they realized that the black knight posed no danger to everyone, they could not help but be vigilant, as its existence had an overwhelming feeling which intimidated them.

“Ah, this black swordsman here is……… what this ojou chan here summoned. Feel relieved because it is not harmful.”

“Is this a summon skill? It was also a very rare class wasn’t it? Then is this guy an armor spirit? Although he had the stories …….he did not think that it would be such an air of intimidation,

[Mhm, I was also surprised when I saw it for the first time.”

After that, Graia explained the situation to the group that came back. The hobgoblins here were defeated by the Dark Knight. The girl was alone voluntarily and she had no companions. Therefore he would call back the platoon that went to search.

While the knights were having such an exchange, Kagami noted the respect that existed between the two.They were saying that summoners were a rare class. Certainly speaking, only a small number of people sought to gain this class. By the way, the most common one was that of the warrior monks. It was a class that dealt with the art of recovery and support. It was easy for many to understand why it was such a popular class.At the time that class skills were chosen, there were good skills available at the start. If the magician had [Magic: Flame], then warrior monks had [Monk Skill: Heal] as well as [Monk Skill: Protect],The initial skills of the summoning class was called [Carved Seal of the Contract]. This was the skill that allowed you to summon spirits with which you had defeated, it was not a skill that had any attack strength. And this summoning skill was misunderstood to be an advanced technique. This was the most common cause for the lack of summoners.

It was not that difficult to defeat a spirit. If you were able to ask an acquaintance or even employ a mercenary. However, in order to form a contract with a spirit one had to naturally do it alone. Players had to pledge not to use 100% of a spirit’s stamina.Of course Kagami went through the same road. She had bought a large amount of medicine, a large amount of explosive-base items, and had fought an armor spirit for two hours on an [Ancient Battlefield] and just barely managed to contract with the thing. It was the Dark Knight, she had a deep attachment to it not just because it of its convenience or that it was her first summon, but because it had become a companion she had spent a long time with.

However, this was not something anyone could just do. Those who had hunted for the basic knowledge of the class on the bulletin boards tended to avoid the summoning class because of the degree of difficulty involved.

That said, that does not mean there are no summoners. Or rather it was that Danbalf yearned to paint over the negative perception the summoning class had. There were those players who saw his heroic sagas on the bulletin board and chose the summoner class.

However the two knights of the company talk in such a way that they had just seen a summon for the first time. For some reason summoning skills were in relapse and became unpopular again. This was not a situation Kagami could ignore as someone who had reached the peak of the summoner class.“Speaking of which, I did not hear the name of ojou chan. I am Graia. Graia Astol.

While thinking about the huge task that lay before her, that is re popularizing the summoning class, Graia had asked for her name.Kagami felt uncomfortable at that question.

This commander’s conduct would be commonplace in reality.To ask the name of another person.One would introduce himself.It was natural when interacting with someone for the first time. In truth she was quite willing to introduce herself.

However, this was in game. By examining an object an avatar’s sight, it is common sense that the other party’s name would be displayed overhead. If there was a need to ask for one’s name it would be to ask about how to call someone. (I think it means how to pronounce the name idk)

Graia gave his name. It was not a lie because when Kagami examined him, his name displayed as Graia Astor. In this way it was readily apparent that a name can be seen immediately without asking for it.

Calling to mind certain assumptions, Kagami attempts to test them out.

[ You can just check it, do you not understand?”

Hmmmm……. Although I am sure that at your level of skill, ojou chan would be famous, I am not able to remember your appearance. I am sorry. Is there one among you know who this is?”

To the commander’s question, everyone shook their head side to side.

“Hmmmm, I see………….”

Kagami heard that among some players, there are apparently those that think it was rude to investigate without the other party’s permission. If you tell such a player to investigate then they will.

Although it can be said that by simply examining Kagami who had her appearance changed so much, people should still know the name Danbalf as it was the name of one of the most important figures in the Arkite Kingdom. However there are only so many people that could have such a famous name.

This is Simple.

Skill change.