Chapter 322 – Volume 65 – A World Without Heroes (2)
“What are you looking at so intently? Cartoons?”
“No, online games.”
“Online gaming? What is that?”
“Wow, you don’t know what that is? You don’t use a smartphone?”
“I have to write it. I only use it when I contact you. At least when I order something.”
To the boy’s answer.
The girl’s expression changed to look like she was seeing something quite disgusting.
It seemed like he couldn’t understand why he didn’t know this.
“Well, you said you don’t even read comics very much.”
“Yeah. Don’t you just watch girls?”
“It’s different these days.”
However, it was just because the boy’s personality was like that.
The girl quickly understood and moved on.
However, it was a bit disappointing that it ended like this…
“Do you want to try it too?”
“What? I don’t like it. Isn’t it like a cartoon?”
“It’s a game. You don’t hate board games that much, do you?”
“Uhm…”
In the case of Inner Marchen, she didn’t bother to buy it because she hated comics.
She had fun a few times with cards lent to her by her close friends.
She said that for him, the game wasn’t that big of a barrier for a long time.
“Then let’s do something a little bit. Should we meet together?”
“You can meet, but you have to get together to start something, that’s not the case.”
“Huh? It’s not something we play together like a board game? Isn’t it like a game book? I don’t like that kind of thing…”
“You can do it alone, and after you build it up and become stronger, we can do it together.”
“I don’t understand…”
He was dumbfounded by the system he was hearing for the first time.
Still, I nodded and said that I would understand once I tried it.
Following her guide, she got the game installed on her smartphone.
“Is this only for smartphones?”
“No? I just did it on my smartphone while doing daily quests. I like computers when I want to have fun.”
“…What are the daily quests?”
It’s a statement that makes you feel like you’re living in a different world.
The boy sighed, pretended to understand, and moved on.
In the end, he knew from experience that you can’t understand something like this unless you try it yourself.
“It’s a world without heroes.”
As soon as he gets home, he sits down in front of his computer.
He looked at the title and launch button of the installed game.
It was a title that gave a strange suggestion to the icon depicting a very corroded sword.
However, all he wanted was the genre of games.
In that atmosphere, he didn’t pay much attention and played the game as is.
Then, the game started with a very cute-looking slime bouncing animation.
“It’s not the image I had in mind.”
And he was a little embarrassed by the questions he was asked after the game was launched.
I haven’t even started yet, but this is a game that asks so many questions.
To be honest, I was very embarrassed.
“Is this like a self-introduction?…”
Ask your name.
He gave me several options and let me decorate some picture.
He began to embody as much of his own information as possible, as he felt in his self-introduction.
“Hmm, so he definitely looks like me.”
Looking at the results of beauty that, if someone else had seen it, they would have called it completely different.
He seemed very satisfied and pressed the OK button.
Then the game slowly starts talking.
“…It’s annoying.”
At first he thought so.
Do I really need to see all these stories?
It doesn’t really matter as long as I can play the game anyway.
However, within the story, the characters that appear in the game.
Keep calling his name and asking for help, or let the situation unfold.
At some point, I stopped thinking like that.
“…Why do you have such a big request?”
Even while muttering those words.
Suddenly, he handles such requests as if they were natural.
Anyone could see that he was engrossed in the game.
“Hmm. So, this is a world where heroes are no longer designated.”
As if a being called a saint appeared in this world.
It is said that originally, a being called a hero was born in the world of this game.
There is also a saying that at one time, saints were called warriors, so they must be very similar to that.
And in a world that has changed so much.
A threat of world destruction was born, claiming to be the Demon King.
In order to fight that threat, many adventurers are honing themselves.
“There are no heroes, but rather, we, ordinary people, should protect this world instead of heroes?”
Although it was a very boring situation for the main character.
Because the current situation was so ordinary, it was easy to become immersed in the ordinary character.
Because in real life, I was a person who was considered ordinary.
“Wizard, swordsman, cleric. Those are familiar categories.”
And those ordinary people develop their abilities in ordinary ways.
A situation where evil is fought through that power.
And the taste of wiping out the enemies that appear in the process at once with the skills and abilities you have learned.
It felt better than he expected.
In a board game, if you play a card normally and use that card to defeat another card.
Now, there is immediate feedback on the actions of the alter ego that you directly moved.
And the process of confronting an enemy that cannot be easily defeated for a long time, dodging and attacking.
It was structured to make such quick feedback extremely pleasant.
“That’s why I said it was a little different.”
It was much more convenient and fun than the games he knew.
Let’s exclude some strategic elements that require long thought and action.
This system takes into account the sense of urgency and speed that requires quick judgment and action in the short term.
It helped him discover new fun things he didn’t know about.
Of course, if you do sparring, you may get a similar feeling.
Being able to attack your opponent as much as you want without worrying about such things.
I felt like it was much more fun because I felt like I could show my sincerity.
“Magic is fun too.”
And since he was a swordsman in real life, he chose to be a wizard in this game.
Directly using the magician’s skills that I had only seen in sparring until now.
I was able to fully enjoy the pleasure of such a vicarious experience.
Of course, because it is a game, the drawing of the magic circle is expressed as an effect.
You may be thinking that way because you can fly with just one push of a button.
The drawing time was well implemented in my own way, so I was more immersed in it because it felt believable.
“Somehow, this is what I thought my future would look like.”
To be honest, most of the monsters these days are managed and exterminated by the country.
Because only those that can be raised are treated like livestock.
No matter how talented you were and you were promoted, it was difficult to be like this.
Because you can’t taste it like that in real life.
In this way, you can experience the process of defeating monsters and becoming stronger.
It was a very fun part.
“Uh?”
However, while I was happily hunting.
They discover a strange hunting ground.
No matter how many times I attacked the monsters here with magic, they didn’t take any damage.
On the other hand, the monster’s attack was so dangerous that I quickly ran to the other side and escaped.
‘Is this an area with very strong guys?’
However, as soon as I witnessed it, it naturally led to the next story.
He did not feel any unnaturalness in that regard, and reported to his superiors as if he had reported what he had seen directly.
He then confirms that it is a living being modified by the Demon King’s Army, and realizes that unless he is an Auror, he cannot harm or prevent it.
“You were an Auror.”
In fact, even in real life, wizards’ natural enemies were aurors.
Because it is possible to destroy magic with auras, and auras cannot be stopped with magic.
So the protagonist feels dejected as he sees the wizard saying he can’t stop it and leaving everything to the knights.
“Okay, what should we do?”
Forgetting that you are already following the game’s story line.
He sighed.
It felt like I was going on an adventure with the main character of the game.
“Is there some way? Should I change my job now?”
Of course, it’s just as difficult in reality.
Even in games, you couldn’t simply change jobs.
Because it was only possible to grow it completely from scratch.
“There is some way…”
Without thinking much, I moved outside the map.
Naturally, I stop at a book that looks suspicious.
It’s a library I’ve never been interested in before.
Today, one book really bothered me.
“What is this?”
And in that book, there is a continent where fantasy fairies live.
It was written about a mysterious place called the Kingdom of Sherbet.
And the fairies there are very talented wizards, and the story goes that they fought well against knights one-on-one.
“I think it’s blocking the aurors…?”
The illustration felt like that.
It feels like blocking a sword filled with aura with magic.
It would be ideal to avoid using normal magic and counterattack by attacking weak points…
“I guess we can just go here.”
Only then do you realize it.
This game is a world where you find what you want through hidden stories.
Now that you know where to go, all you have to do is find a way to get to that world.
To find the way, if you go around and ask your own questions.
For some reason, a character that hasn’t spoken to me before is talking to me.
It turned out to be very suspicious and attracted attention.
“Was this done on purpose?”
It was so natural that I didn’t even notice it until now.
Every time he gains knowledge of something, the world reacts organically according to it.
Because of that, I realized that I was able to enjoy the game as if this world really existed and as if I was experiencing it myself.
“…He’s a great person.”
Since it was a game, I didn’t even think about the story.
I had never thought of this kind of development as if you were experiencing it yourself.
Because without even realizing it, I was incorporated into the story.
He feels so amazed.
I got a small boat heading to the Shabet Kingdom and was able to move to another area easier than I thought.
And the moment you see the Sherbet Kingdom for the first time, you are overwhelmed by the unfolding sight.
“And…”
A cutely decorated city that feels like dessert.
It was a world of cute fairies where you could scoop it up with a spoon or pick it up and put it in your mouth.
It was the moment when he set out to learn a new skill, looking at a city that was healing just to look at.
“…Uh?”
Suddenly, a huge explosion sounded.
The cute world he had been looking at just now.
It turned into a heap of ashes and began to burn.
