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Cleo nodded at the praise, though her heart dropped, seeing that their next challenge would be to shoot targets practically at once. That just didn't seem possible for her. How did somebody throw three spears at once when they only had two hands, without a liberal use of offensive magic, which...

She'd never quite been the type of person to believe in the idea that getting angry could make a person anything other than sloppy, but looking at Vesstan and noting his changed demeanor, any showmanship gone from his form and his actions, told her perhaps that her thoughts had been a bit too...

Doesn't seem all that trivial to me, buddy. Just as Cleo spoke, the elf managed to once again fail to hit the target in any meaningful way, merely nicking the edge and failing to even send it to the floor. Was his temper getting the better of him and causing him to perform so poorly, when he'd...

Madison had hit the nail on the head there, Cleo figured as she looked at the arrogant elf. Seemingly he had decided that somehow their performance deserved to be criticized when he himself had done far worse than the two ladies had. It was almost bizarre, the way a person's ego could cause them...

Cleo had to give it to her rival competitor, this woman had a pretty good poker face, looking stone cold at the field whilst preparations were underway for the final round. Cleo herself chuckled when the woman mentioned allowing her to borrow a gun if it were allowed and wouldn't have made...

Joining the tournament had, for Cleo, been about honing her skills in a safe environment and putting them to the test. Whilst her fighting style typically revolved around throwing so many spears that it was nearly impossible to dodge all of them, it was of course important to hone accuracy...

Ah, the sudden wisps of dark smoke didn't seem to be a good sign. Cleo found herself sitting just a little more straight, eyes locked onto the girl's fingers as they released whatever magic that was, if it was even magic, responding subconsciously to the threat that it may or may not present. In...

It's possible that you were never what society would have considered to be a normal person, yes, though I'm not so certain that's inherently a bad thing. Perhaps the game has made you more likely to express those tendencies in ways that will be seen as problematic by a lot of people, but...

The fact that somebody was picking up on the stress meant that she really did need to bury it better, Cleo figured as she breathed out, then breathed in. In for 6, out for 10, then hold for 7. Over and over again, she repeated this breathing pattern, until she began to feel her usual calm...

Cleo shook her head. The idea of spending any time in a tavern made her mouth taste like ash and soot in the worst ways possible. She sighed, cupping her chin with a hand and leaning forward to look into the flames. All she knew was that there was no way in hell that she was going to be spending...

The only way to stop somebody from being changed by the experienced they went through was to stop them from going through those experiences in the first place. Maybe once she logged out today, she would advocate for another blockade of the game? Though considering they'd done it once and now the...

And that was just the most messed up part, Cleo found, as Mizuki mentioned that she'd never died, not even once. That opened the floodgate, the detective leaning back to laugh, as if she'd heard the best joke in existence, whilst tears slid down her cheeks, as if she were sat at a funeral. She...

The more that Mizuki spoke and the more attention the girl paid to her, the more that Cleo felt like she was being threatened and she didn't like it. Hands gripped the shaft of her spear until her knuckles turned white and her teeth clenched in her closed mouth, refusing to say a word but...

You're not wrong. A computer powerful enough to process all of this should be giving off a power consumption reading similar to that of the sun or something equally insane. It really makes no sense that the developers have managed to remain hidden for this long with nobody the wiser or any...

Watching the girl manifest an almost comically oversized war-axe, Cleo took another few steps away as she watched the girl wielding it, moderately impressed that there seemed to be no difficulty in holding it or wielding it, as the girl planted herself firmly and prepared for an overhead swing...

Cleo seemed to simply ignore whatever primal aura that Mizuki gave off, finding little reason to listen to whatever instinctive response it tried to draw forth, sitting with one leg crossed over another as she tossed another piece of wood onto the fire so that the wolf girl could continue to...

Yes, the fact that the developers had managed to overcome the VRSA blockade was something of a major incident and nobody was sure how they'd managed to do it. Frankly it was a bit embarrassing for the VRSA to be run in circles by a group of unknowns that didn't have access to the funding and...

I'd rather not take the game down completely if it can be avoided, because not only was that already tried once and it failed, but there are some genuine reasons that I've heard for people to play it. Some lost loved ones to it, but can still see them here. Some people aren't fortunate in the...

That was definitely one way to word it. They had some different opinions as to whether or not the status quo was good. As to whether or not the things that were normal were good, it seemed they had some disagreements on that, though she had also disagreed privately with some of Vina's points...

She hadn't noticed how much more animated she became when she logged into the game, when she took on the role of Cleo Looker, rather than being Sarah Aern. It was like it was almost a subconscious thing. Not a change in her personality, but something that bubbled to the surface that she never...