Chapter 3: Aiwas Moriarty

Chapter 3 Aiwas Moriarty

Now, the shadow demon summoned from the ritual is in the shadow under Aiwas' feet.

He sat in a wheelchair not because his legs were sacrificed and he could not move. But if he stepped on his shadow, he would immediately wake up the shadow demon and materialize it.

This wheelchair was what Aiwas asked the old housekeeper for after he woke up.

Because now, his [Shadow Affinity] level is too low.

The shadow demon belongs to the upper demon. The shadow affinity must be at least level three to control the shadow demon, and level five to merge with the shadow demon. Before that, he can only extract part of the power of the shadow demon to use "superpowers". Although the shadow demon will not hurt him, and even protect Aiwas based on the contract, he is completely unable to restrain the behavior of the shadow demon.

From this perspective, the demonologist who contracts a low-level demon is like walking a dog; Aiwas is like a dog walking a man.

How to seal the shadow demon is not something that "Aiwas" should know. It is a memory from another world.

Aiwass Moriarty, Daotu, Demonologist, Kingdom of Avalon... This is the world in an MMORPG game called "The Ring of Tail".

This game is published and operated by their company "The Faceless God Studio".

Although it is called "their company", the output of this game has nothing to do with Aiwass, because he is not a staff member of the R&D post. He is a new human resources manager, commonly known as HR.

Three years ago, Aiwass resigned and became unemployed. Because he was stuck in the non-compete agreement, he couldn't find a job in the same field... and was dragged into the pit by his best brother.

That brother is the game copywriter of this company, who kept repeating the Amway in his ears every day, talking about the many easter eggs he designed.

In the end, Aiwass couldn't bear it, and at the same time, he was in a game shortage, so he contacted and played for a while, and felt that it was indeed a good game. The disadvantage is that it is quite liver-but it is good to kill time when you are unemployed at home.

Later, I heard that "The Faceless God Studio" was recruiting HR, and Aiwas happened to have passed the restriction period, so he directly submitted his resume and came for an interview.

As a result, he was still handing over his work, and just because he was crossing the road to reply to a message on the way to work, he was sent to this world by a dump truck.

... If he had known that he would cross to this world, he would have asked more about the company's internal information, or read more plot discussion posts on the forum!

This was the biggest mistake.

Because Aiwass is essentially a hard-working player who doesn't pay much attention to the plot and doesn't care much about the characters.

Although he learned a lot of secret settings, character backgrounds and future main stories that ordinary players don't know when chatting with friends, and also listened to some early plots from the group. But he has never been concerned about the main story, but the side stories of various characters are much more interesting.

Aiwass entered the game from the 0 era, and just after passing the first group boss, he used the main story book to complete all the old main stories up to the beginning of 0 with one click. Not only that, he skipped all the plot animations that could be skipped on the way to upgrade and at the beginning of the dungeon. Those that really couldn't be skipped were also fast-forwarded by left-click, left-click, left-click, left-click.

As a result, now Aiwas can't remember what the early main story was. On the contrary, he was more impressed by the later plot, because the plot of the main storyline group was quite good. Even if you didn't watch the previous plot carefully, you can guess the general situation through the plot of the group that cannot be skipped.

At the beginning of the main storyline, "Evans" appeared.

In the winter of 1890 in the Libra calendar, he was kidnapped and taken to the altar for a ceremony. The "player" passing by accidentally broke the barrier that drove away passers-by and saw the cruel sacrifice scene. In an emergency, he pretended that he had reported it to the Supervisory Bureau and was leading the griffin knights of the Supervisory Bureau, and directly scared away the two people.

Aiwas was rescued from the ritual altar by the "player", and then invited the homeless player who had his wallet and identity card stolen to eat, drink and rest in his home.

After that, Aiwas will go to school with the player, grow together, and continue to investigate the case together. It turns out that the case got bigger and bigger, and even involved the high-ranking officials of the kingdom...

Because Aiwass was in mortal danger, his sister Yulia suddenly lost control - under the catalysis of the blood crystal, she became "Phantom Demon·Butterfly of Flame", the first eight-player boss.

That was also the first phantom demon that players saw in the game.

Her body curled up into a ball, wrapped in the amber-like transparent butterfly chest and abdomen, and the butterfly wings made of flame essence protected her. Because the dungeon level is low, this eight-player dungeon is the easiest to get in the daily random dungeon, and Yulia has to fight three or four times a week on average.

Because Yulia didn't want to hurt Aiwass, she was a classic entry-level boss with no mechanism and no desire to attack. She fought whatever came out and hid. Even if the level is high enough, you can barely pass the level by just attacking the body without paying attention to the mechanism. If you eat the main story book after defeating Yulia, you can get some appearance rewards.

In the end, she was killed, lost most of her spirit and shrunk into a flame butterfly, and was contracted by Aiwass to become his first familiar. Aiwass used this method to preserve her spirit, hoping to find the legendary "Insect Amber" master who mastered the resurrection technique and revive her.

In the main line of version 0, Aiwass has mastered new abilities. Aiwass, who was able to seal theoretically unkillable phantoms into cards and equip his familiars with enhanced equipment, finally received a great enhancement unique to him.

Then he no longer accompanies the players to complete the mission, but becomes a plot killing method to end the phantom boss in CG.

"……elder brother?"

Just when Aiwass thought of this, he suddenly heard a childish voice.

He was suddenly startled.

Haina, who was excitedly chatting with Aiwass about "Sherlock and Reasoning", heard the voice and turned around subconsciously.

I saw a little girl standing silently at the door.

"When you woke up yesterday, I happened to be sleeping. After I woke up, you fell asleep again."

She had just woken up in the evening, feeling a little aggrieved and a little shocked and said: "Brother, why are you...in a wheelchair?

"——Who is she?"

She was wearing the same pure white plush pajamas as Aiwass, her silver-white hair reached her shoulders, and her crimson pupils were reminiscent of roses. Her facial features are delicate and soft, reminiscent of a white cat or rabbit. It's a completely different type from Aiwass's dazzling handsomeness. No matter the eyebrows, hair color or eye color, it is enough to prove that the two are not related by blood.

If we want to talk about the similarity between the two, it is the same sense of illness and frailty.

She has a similar sense of frailty to Aiwass, but it is more obvious than Aiwass.

The girl's skin is somewhat sickly, almost transparent white. When she stood at the door, she would unconsciously hold on to the door frame on one side and tilt her body slightly to deflect her center of gravity and reduce the pressure of standing up straight.

——What a cute girl!

Haina's eyes lit up.

It was like seeing a cute pet. She wanted to get close to it, but she was worried that she would scare the pet.

"It's okay, Yuri. It's just temporary. This is Senior Sister Haina. I have something to ask."

Aiwass smiled and called the girl's nickname just like in his memory. But I don't know why, but I always feel that this title is a bit awkward and awkward to pronounce.

It's like calling friends by their nicknames instead of calling them by their names for a long time. One day when I suddenly called the other person's full name, I always felt that it was not the other person's name.

After being in a daze for a moment, he slightly opened his arms towards Yulia: "Come and give her a hug."

"……Um."

Yulia walked over obediently. Just like waking up from sleep, there is a sense of powerlessness that makes people worry about falling.

When hugging Yulia who was leaning over, Aiwass suddenly fell into a trance for a moment.

At this moment, he was hugging Yulia, but she seemed to be another "Aiwass".

As the memory of "Aiwass" in this world, after receiving the prophecy of the future, he suddenly felt some kind of fear.

Yulia will turn into a monster...and then die.

——At this moment, Aiwass’ memory overlaps with reality. Completely fused together, the memories of their dual lives became clear. It's like a person who is sleeping in a daze is suddenly awakened by a nightmare, and then finally knows whether he is in a dream or not.

Two days after coming to this world, he finally realized that he was not dreaming. But really traveled through time.

Came to another world.

However, he also clearly realized another thing - that is, the plot is different now.

There is absolutely no Contracted Shadow Demon in Aiwass in the game.

Because this time the ceremony was interrupted by the player, it was not carried out successfully at all.

And this probably means that there are no "player characters" in this world.

In an epic fantasy game, players usually play the role of one-time saviors; if the game is an online game, then players usually play the role of continuous, high-frequency, low-fault-tolerance saviors.

Every major version has to save the world.

...Then he would be in trouble.

Because the "player" is set to be the blood descendant of the "Snake Father" who once controlled the "Way of Transcendence" and was one of the Nine Pillar Gods. Because of this, players can have "experience points" and "levels" and can continue to become stronger without any threshold or talent. In terms of settings, players actually did not arrange the game or form a team. Instead, they defeated all enemies alone.

But Aiwass, although he is also an important player, the world-destroying disasters such as "Falling Sky Division", "Disaster Dragon" and "Shadow of Avalon" cannot be accomplished by "strong" people in the conventional sense. Defeated.

Aiwass knew that something would happen to the Kingdom of Avalon in about half a year.

Although he didn't remember the main plot clearly, at least he could remember key points such as version changes.

What he told Haina was not a lie. The Kingdom of Avalon will indeed encounter disaster in more than half a year, and it is closely related to the demonic ritual incident they are experiencing now, which no big shot cares about.

But now, Aiwass still has a chance to change everything.

Change everything——

He hugged Yulia tightly subconsciously, and the girl keenly noticed something: "Brother?"

"……nothing."

Aiwass smiled calmly: "That's right, I had a long dream yesterday...I dreamed that Yulia left me."

However, at this moment, he suddenly felt a sudden tightening of Yulia's body in his arms.

……Um?

Aiwass's heart moved slightly.

As if trying to cover up, Yulia suddenly asked: "Brother's wheelchair...how long will it take?"

"About...a year?"

Aiwass said, looking at the old housekeeper beside him: "Is that what the doctor said?"

"Yes, Master Aiwass."

The old housekeeper asked without hesitation: "So, do you want to take a break from school for a year? Anyway, I have already taken a break from school for three months."

This is a lie.

And it’s both sides.

There was no doctor who put Aiwass in a wheelchair. Aiwass asked for it. Those demonologists who have contracted with the Shadow Demon will use this method to seal the Shadow Demon when they are still unable to control the Shadow Demon.

In addition to using a wheelchair when moving around, you should also try to avoid strenuous actions and slow down your movements to lower your heart rate - these are conventional methods to suppress demons.

In addition, you can also take some drugs that suppress the heart rate to put the demon sealed in the body to sleep.

"No need," Aiwass said, "I will go back to school after this incident is resolved."

"...Is this incident resolved?"

Haina realized something belatedly.

She instinctively realized that at that moment...Aiwass's attitude seemed to have changed.

She was quite familiar with that feeling.

Haina, who was still ignorant in her freshman year, thought she was still a genius in that remote town. As a result, in the final exam that year, I passed the astrology study, which can be said to be a cold sweat.

But it was precisely because of this that she became serious and realized that she was far from as good as she thought in the most exclusive school in the Red Queen District of Glass Island in the capital. At least...she is not a pure genius, but a genius who works hard.

With the same attitude of studying casually as before, she might fail without missing classes... Now she can graduate with the seven-petal flower seal representing perfect marks, precisely because of Professor Moriarty's words back then. The red three-petal flower seal that represented "passed" woke her up.

For ordinary students, this is the mark of being released from prison, which is worthy of cheering and celebration; but for the proud Haina, it is like a slap in the face, which is so hot that it makes her silent and her mind goes blank.

Aiwass gave her this feeling at this moment.

When I saw the transcript, I felt as if I had woken up from a dream——

"Yes, I want to participate in the investigation."

Aiwass suddenly became serious: "Since they will kidnap me once, there will be a second time. Without clearing out the group of cultists, I can't leave the house peacefully; similarly, I can't wait peacefully at home for someone I might The results of the investigation are unacceptable - so I will also participate in the investigation."

Hearing this, Haina was a little embarrassed. This is undoubtedly an allusion to the extremely slow investigation efficiency of the Supervisory Bureau.

The Supervision Bureau is very particular about "rules". Everything must be reported to superiors and standard procedures must be followed for everything. This is the rule of the knights of the Senate.

Because they could find almost nothing, they even had to ask for the help of detectives. The "Sherlock" Haina mentioned before is a detective who has become quite famous in newspapers recently.

Shylock graduated from Wangli University of Law many years ago, but did not choose to enter the Supervisory Bureau, Law Court or Arbitration Hall. As a result, he is now a special adviser of the Supervisory Bureau. His investigations are not bound by various regulations of the Supervisory Bureau. He has solved several major cases one after another, and his status is actually much higher than that of his old classmates who joined the Supervisory Bureau after graduation.

"If Miss Haina can't make up her mind, you might as well report my words to your boss and ask for his opinion."

Aiwass crossed his arms and said calmly: "Anyway, according to the rules, you have to submit all the contents of this conversation to your superiors, right?"

For some reason, Aiwass at this moment reminded Haina of the interviewer from the Supervision Bureau.

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