Auron abandoned us in Tveirland as soon as he delivered the message. Earlier, however, he warned us that Celes' wrath would be unstoppable even for him, and to try not to cross his path until we were ready.Gina had my back. Celes would go after her, and as bad as I felt for not intervening, I understood that there was no one with a better chance against her than Gina."What do you know of Nirn?" I asked as soon as Auron left us.“It is one of the many planets that recreate video games. This one does it with the saga called The Elder Scrolls . Allsium usually pays this type of tribute to those who had a great impact and marked an era in their time.I knew the saga, of course, but I wasn't very knowledgeable about its history. Creating a planet about that video game spoke volumes and well about the impact it had had on the industry."I don't understand why Dagon and Greek have chosen Nirn," I replied. The prices of the trip are not cheap, precisely.“Five thousand credits isn't much fo
It was early, but it didn't matter, in Nirn the winter was eternal and the blizzards were too violent to distinguish anything more than two feet from our noses. Daggers that stabbed and stabbed mercilessly and made me feel no face or nose, and my hands didn't even listen to me. My legs moved behind a reddish shadow that did nothing more than complain about the slowness of my steps.He still expected a novice to measure up on a polar planet with extreme conditions."If a snow bear comes, you're going to run," he threatened from time to time. Sometimes I'd trade the bear for mammoths, saber cats, frost wolves, giant freeze spiders, ice wraiths, trolls, and even dragons.The problem was, he wasn't kidding.In Nirn we could meet this terrible fauna at any moment, although Gina's tone would make it difficult for them to deal with it. What two Vikings as wardrobes had not achieved, there would be no beast to achieve either.“Where we go? I asked after a while.He had gone from not feeling h
Any adventurer would have set out on any four or five star trail. It was difficult for paths of more than three stars to come out, but we were not ordinary adventurers. We had managed to complete A” and S”rank missions, which were well above our level, and had a brilliant track record of getting into trouble, with known deaths involved. Among them was a clan leader who turned out to be the son of Adam Leproiner, the most powerful man in the world. Allsium was sending me a very clear message, and it wouldn't have been wise of me to turn a deaf ear: we were going to need a legendary path for what was coming our way.So I chose the Path of the Dragon, a path that would make me a master of martial arts and push me beyond human limits. I assumed that I would be able to manipulate the energy that flowed from everything around me and emit waves of energy from any element within my reach. He had to invest the accumulated experience well to acquire abilities typical of the Path of the Dragon,
The Allsionistas came running and surrounded me; they were shouting furiously and seemed desperate. Adam Leproiner had threatened them, so their survival instinct kicked in and they didn't hesitate to locate their prey. But faster were the non”Allsionists, who closed a circle around me, determined to protect me and get me out alive. I imagined that I had become the new symbol of the fight against Adam Leproiner and the Allsionistas. I didn't care about that, although not for less after having been responsible for the death of Justin Leproiner.There were ten people defending me, nothing a mob of hundreds of angry Allsionists couldn't defeat. However, most of the guests left through the main gate, hiding their faces and avoiding any kind of confrontation.We were a bit far from the exit, so we had no choice but to fight and try to move forward."I hope you're not all talk and know how to defend yourself," said one, the one right in front of me. We don't support you so that the party en
Greek was shooting incessantly, who knows how many bullets he had bought on the virtual black market during our short break. Meanwhile, Kody dodged and used his claws with great agility to prevent the purple beast from finishing him off. With no Dagon around, too busy fighting the other beegimus , I ordered my summon to hold the defensive position and avoid taking too much damage, at least until Gina ordered otherwise.The redhead used a multiplication spell, but this time it was massive and up to fifty shadows of Gina fanned out around the beast. The clones disappeared with a single claw, something normal considering that even that beast would wipe out any user less than four stars with a stroke of the pen. The greater the number of copies, the lower the resistance and power of these.Regardless, the Path of the Legendary Kunoichi had a wide variety of resources.He also used his Binding ability , managing to bind the beast's neck with the shadows so that I could hit him with my mitt
Gina hadn't recovered, but she led us out of the crater, to where the green undergrowth rose and the trees stood tall and strong in the hot sun of the planet Ivalice. It was a system full of contrasts where you went from a desert wasteland to a beautiful valley in a matter of seconds.There was a big river, fine grass and the smell of nature, something that came in handy after the smell of rust, sweat and blood that we left behind in the crater. Those nightmare beasts would still have to give us many more headaches; we had killed three, but it was not enough.After seeing the redhead fight and show off her incredible powers, the three of us really wanted to gain experience and learn more skills from our legendary paths."Here we stay," Gina said as she reached a clearing and dropped to the ground."And the begimos ?" Dagon asked. Won't they attack us here?"Don't be naive, big guy," she replied, smiling. There are more monsters here than those beasts. Sure they'll attack us, but they
We spent two and a half days defeating beelgs with paltry pauses between monsters and six hours of rest at night. Moment that Gina took advantage of to go out and find out about real life while we stayed in Ivalice cursing and hoping that all that suffering would be useful for something.We carried, if we hadn't lost count, the blood of sixty begim running through our bodies and armor. We had the tactic so systematized that it even seemed easy, although it was enough for one of those monsters to unleash an unexpected goring or a treacherous blow to complicate our virtuality.Kody's Loving Bear ability a couple of times to come to the big man's rescue. It wasn't his fault, maybe he couldn't defend himself well with the accumulated fatigue, but he also occupied a much more vulnerable position than the rest. Gina knew this, so she didn't hesitate to mislead the beast when she sensed Dagon drop to one knee or go flying through the air. Seeing a guy two meters tall and over a hundred kilos
We ran like never before to get to the main hotel in Tveirland, the one where we had already stayed for a few days when we arrived in the capital of the planet that paid homage to Star Wars and Jurassic Park . Just above it, on the upper log, was the Paladin's Guild Fountain."I'll wait for you here," Gina said. You can hurry now."That's a lot of experience points, ragazza , " Greek said sulkily. My skill tree is labyrinthine, not sure I can do it in such a short time."Rookie bunch..." the redhead blurted out. You can access your skill tree whenever you want, you Italian lout, you should know it by heart!How little he knew us."I've ever looked at it, yes…" Greek muttered under his breath."Mine isn't necessary," I replied. It is a straight line with ramifications that improve and enhance skills already learned.Bear Summons, for example, branched out to learn Loving Bear , Vital Bear , Kung”fu Bear , and Yes Sir . Before you could learn another invocation you had to have all of th
“Are you ready? asked Patrick Cork, stroking his beard."Yes," I replied. I had been waiting for this day for a long time.I was nervous, it was the day of the worldwide launch of Allsium.Millions of people queued at AfroCrop headquarters to have the chip implanted that gave them access to the system.Allsium would go on the market with two game modes.The first was the one I had experienced five years before: stories lasting a maximum of ten days, that is, a year and a half in Allsium. They were adventures of an individual type, everything was created by the experience, fears and dreams of the participating subject.The second dealt with massive virtual reality. Worlds that AfroCorp had created so that all the players in the world could go on adventures and interact with each other. It was something like the evolution of massive online role”playing games, a game mode that would take entertainment to a new level never seen before. Players could experiment, as I had done in Allsium in
It was curious to see how the leaves of the few trees that were left standing in that immense garden were stopped in the sky. The wind wasn't blowing, Gina didn't move a hair, and the black dot that the Leproiners' helicopter had become was still on the horizon. I walked around the place trying to figure out what had happened, wondering if it was the power of a path.What I didn't know was why only I could move."You have pronounced the magic words," I heard a deep voice full of wisdom. I couldn't explain it, but it was like that.I looked around, but I couldn't find the owner of the voice. I drifted away for a bit, but it wasn't long before I was back with Gina.I was astonished to see that there were two people next to her.“Who are you?They were an old man and a young girl who looked very much like Gina. I was blank and not knowing what to say."Wow, we do look alike, yes. “His voice and hair were the same, but the way he gestured and his firmness were not so similar. She wasn't a
I woke up suddenly to the feeling that thousands of ants were crawling across my face. It was Choco with his beak, he drilled me gently to see if I would come to my senses at once.“Shock… what happened?As golden and legendary as it was, the chocobo did not speak.All he let out was a grunt of pain that felt like my own.He had been shot and was on the ground trying to get up without success. He was exhausted, his last strength had been invested in saving my skin.Before he suffered any more, I thanked him and made him disappear.He did not feel the rest of the summons; no sign of Kody, Harpy, Fuego, nor of course Rexie.Losing consciousness was reason enough for the summons to dematerialize. I didn't understand Choco, but I had seen before that the golden chocobo seemed not to be subject to conventional rules."Have you come to yourself yet?" said a voice he hadn't expected.I tried to get up, but I only managed to sit down and had to hold on with my hands to keep from tipping over.
We had been fighting for about ten minutes and neither of us could finish the fight. Punches and kicks collided, dispelling waves of ice, fire, air, and electricity emanating from our pathing abilities. No wonder he was the champion of the battle arena, but given more time I would have been able to reach him in the Novingrad Coliseum.He had never fought anyone so evenly before.My ethereal, fire, thunder, or ice abilities were of little or no use against the power of his blows, which were also elemental charge. We both managed to freeze areas of our rival's body, burn others and shake discharges that left us at the mercy of the other; that when we did not use the power of the wind and we crashed against the walls of that viewpoint that began to be a shadow of what it had been."Looks like martial arts won't end this fight," Jackie Leproiner announced, a few bruises and blood on her face. You were in a hurry, right?"I don't think they'd mind waiting a bit," I replied, wiping the bloo
Chocobo Stampede ability increased his physical strength, speed, and power, as well as making him able to go through anything in his path. Needless to say, the barriers were going to be formidable challenges to his skill.We were going to check it out right away."Kuee!" He yelled when he saw me.The golden aura of his armor and plumage blinded me. Choco had also changed; he was slimmer and even more golden, if that was possible. Its feathers had grown much longer, its crest looked modern, and its beak was fearsome.Riding on it I felt capable of anything."Choco, we're surrounded by invisible barriers, see if you can break them," I suggested.Two steps back and the chocobo stampede began. He didn't know how, but Choco detected the barriers and gave them a peck, not too hard but very dry. He went on from here to there, going around and doing the same thing over and over again; we seemed to be in an invisible maze. I was going to ask him what the hell he was doing, but just as I wanted
I woke up in a dark place of no more than three square meters. A conditioned cell, shackles on the hands and feet and unbearable heat.Five days had passed since we arrived at Gardiners Island in virtuality, more than enough time for our bodies to have traveled from the old continent to New York in reality.“Anyone there? I yelled.The voice was lost in the echo of some facilities that seemed enormous."I'm here Vinci!" Greek replied. It seemed to be in the next cell. Where the hell are we?“Dagon! Are you here? “I asked for.There was no answer."Shit, Vinci, we have to get out of here now!" Greek yelled. I have my hands and feet tied, I can't materialize anything.I discovered that virtuality could no longer be accessed, it was as if that part of my brain had been torn out. The automatism that allowed anyone to enter Allsium had been switched off.Virtuality had passed into history and the New World had arrived.But somehow, I felt powerful.I took a deep breath and thought. In a te
Dagon took hours to recover and be able to walk. The fight against Ryan Leproiner had exhausted him and his healing abilities were slow to heal the severity of his injuries. Dark magic was like poison, eating away at everything in its path, especially wounds. Dagon might have lost his virtuality had he not been a holy paladin, as the damage from the dark was still taking its toll on him. Proof of this was that he could barely stand up.Gina's orders were very specific: we were to travel to New York to meet her at Gardiners Island, a private property that, apparently, was virtually Kurayami's base of operations for the American country. It was far from the big city, so it was perfect to wait for the arrival of the New World.We bought three tickets to New York. In a matter of blinks we reached New London, in the state of Connecticut. From there we had to travel by helicopter to Gardiners Island, where they were already waiting for us. I preferred to travel on Harpy's back, and since Da
London from Harpy's back looked dirtier and darker than ever. Its buildings were empty and any glimpse of art, which was not in short supply in the city, lay in ruins. An insult to history that the system could patch up over time if the New World didn't put an end to Allsium sooner. Security had fallen and, although I knew it was virtual, it hurt a lot to see how your hometown ended up demolished because of the same thing that had destroyed it in reality: human greed."There's something going on down there," Greek announced, looking up at Westminster Bridge.I took a look and ordered Harpy to come down. There was Ryan Leproiner, swelled with pride as he spoke to the masses and railed against the Kurayami rebels.However, as the Italian had pointed out, something seemed to be wrong.Dagon's limp body shimmered and broke into a shaft of light that shot up into the sky. The silence that had invaded us was broken by Harpy's high”pitched squawk.Instead of moving away from the bridge, the
"Any specific strategy?" He started asking someone who was next to me."Leave Ryan Leproiner to us," Greek replied. It's the only thing you should know, capito ?“That? He said strangely while looking at us from top to bottom, like most of those who marched next to us. And who are you?"The leader's shields," I answered with a smile on my face.There was a deathly silence, broken only by the screams of the Allsionista, who had about fifty meters to go to meet us."Are you the fucking shields?" But weren't there four? Where the hell is the leader? “were some of the questions that were heard from the different voices that were raised in the crowd, all of them with the same tone of disbelief.There was no time to answer them, but at least they had believed it. I supposed that no one in Kurayami would dare to proclaim themselves the leader's shield, especially in a situation as complicated as that one. It was funny that everyone still thought there were four, especially when that fourth s