＜ 3: Karma system (2) ＞
After acquiring the skill, it was obvious what I had to do.
I immediately looked for a target to attack nearby.
Although there were obviously a few characters nearby, when I looked again, they were nowhere to be seen.
It may be because it is a mountain range with a rough terrain, but it was not easy to find the figure of the character in the tiles of a similar color.
What he found was the appearance of a rabbit eating grass.
Unlike humans, small graphics stand still.
It was the first time I tried to attack a non-character target.
“He’s… maybe he can attack.”
When I found the rabbit, I prepared a lightning magic.
Kwok.
After activating the target by pressing the button, the position of the target was placed on the rabbit.
Then, by touching the target once again, magic was activated.
Kwareung!
A short lightning bolt struck the rabbit’s head.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
The number -15 appeared on the rabbit’s head along with the message that he had used magic.
The rabbit that was attacked immediately fell down with a skull floating in a speech bubble.
The tiles around the lightning strike were also tanned.
There was no chance that the rabbit that had fallen on the ground would get up again.
＜Lightning＞ You defeated the rabbit with one magic shot.
“Damage is 15.”
Lightning magic damage done to rabbits at once is 15.
Considering that I only need to touch it once with my finger to deal 1 damage, it’s 15 times more powerful than a basic attack.
Of course, it can’t fire indefinitely because it consumes a lot of magic power.
Still, it seemed certain that the fingers were less painful.
After demonstrating the lightning magic, I looked around with regret.
“……”
It was confirmed that the ＜Lightning＞ magic can defeat rabbits in one hit.
However, I did not think that I could send it to the character in one shot.
I felt like I wanted to use a character as a target once.
I moved the screen and started looking for possible targets.
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Mountains beyond the mountains. A small creek beyond.And the dense forest that reappears behind it.
Even after looking around for a while, there was no such thing as a character’s appearance.
It seems that the characters I found earlier were the last ones.
Continue to turn the screen and carefully look for traces of the characters.
Then, I felt something urgently and put down my smartphone.
“…my stomach hurts. I’ll have to do it while eating ramen.”
Heartburn that came suddenly while playing a game.
The alcohol he drank yesterday revealed his presence.
Due to the heavy feeling that comes from my stomach, I decided to make haejang with ramen as I regretted it.
I left my smartphone behind and went to make ramen.
When I returned to my smartphone again, it was after I brought a pot of boiling ramen.
* * * * * *
“How can you not see a single person until the bowl of ramen is finished?”
He muttered to himself as he looked at the pot that was completely empty.
As it should be, I still haven’t been able to find any traces of anyone.
It was difficult to find even animals, let alone traces of humans.
I thought maybe it was because ＜Eye of the Observer＞ was still not level enough.
If this were the case, it might have been better to leave some characters behind rather than annihilate the village.
At least the location of the village is fixed.
If you keep flipping through the screen with regret, the long mountain range is slowly starting to come to an end.
As if to reflect the actual mountain range, the mountain range here was unnecessarily long and wide.
Shrek. Shrek.
Busily moving my fingers to flip through the screen, I was finally able to find what I was looking for.
The end of the mountain range that we reached through the screen for a long time.
There he found a group of moving characters.
“One woman. And five men.”
What was seen at the edge of the mountain range were six characters moving in a hurry.
There is one woman who runs away from the front.
And there are five men busily following behind them.
A blood-stained knife was in the hands of the men pursuing the woman who was running away.
It seemed to be the result of the interaction between the characters.
A speech bubble with a crying face floated above the head of the woman who was moving ahead.
“Are you being chased?”
Either way, they don’t look like a group.
Apparently, he was being chased by bandits or bandits who were nearby.
As the AIs were faithful to their respective roles, they seemed to faithfully perform even robberies.
I watched them move with interesting faces.
The woman, who was moving forward, ran while displaying a crying emoticon, but soon found a dead end and sat down.
Even after he sat down, the speech bubble above his head did not disappear.
When the woman running away stopped in front of her, the bandits who were chasing her also stopped nearby and began to surround her.
– (Skull)
A figure who appears to be the leader of the thieves has a skull speech bubble floating on his head.
It was the emoticon that was printed when the rabbit died.
However, it does not appear that the thief who floated the speech bubble is dead.
They seemed to be having a conversation with each other.
And guessing from the current composition, the content of the conversation seemed to mean killing the other person.
“Wow, are they even threatening you?”
They even threaten each other on the topic of AI.
The more I looked at it, the more I thought it was a game that showed the human group well.
It may be a bit disappointing in terms of graphics or billing structure, but the AI alone was not worth the praise.
The thief, who was threatening the woman in front of him, began to move forward with a blood-stained knife.
The grass tiles on the floor cracked, and the distance between the two grew closer.
The moment when the distance between each other has narrowed, leaving only one tile left.
I placed the magic target I had prepared on top of the thief.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
Quarreung!
Lightning struck and the moving thief stopped.
15 damage.
The same amount of damage as when attacking the rabbit was output.
A spinning star-shaped speech bubble floated above the thief’s head.
A character standing still. And the content of the speech bubble.
No matter how you looked at it, it looked like it was hanging on a stun.
Even if the ＜Lightning＞ magic couldn’t kill a character with one shot, it seemed possible to interfere with their actions.
I clicked the button again and used the magic.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
– I used ＜Lightning＞.
Kwareung! Quarreung!
Lightning struck twice more and attacked the thief who stopped in place.
15 damage. And again 15 damage.
The thief, who was struck by lightning twice, collapsed with a skull floating in a speech bubble.
It was the lightning that knocked down the rabbit in one shot.
No matter how strong he was, he couldn’t stand being struck by lightning three times.
The thief hit by lightning turns to dust and disappears, and a new message appears at the bottom of the screen.
– Karma increased by 1.
The new message that came to mind was that karma had risen.
It is the same form as when the village was erased.
You defeated the thief and gained experience.
You didn’t get karma when you defeated the rabbit, but you get karma when you defeat the thief.
What this meant was simple.
You can only get Karma by defeating the character.
The screen in front of the characters gathered was like a hunting ground with accumulated experience.
“…you are all dead.”
I flicked my fingers and looked at the screen.
It was now hunting time.
* * * * * *
With her scattered gray hair fluttering, the girl rushed forward.
Behind such a girl, men of strong physique were chasing after her with weapons.
The weapon he was holding was drenched in blood.
It was the blood that had been slaughtered and stained by the villagers who were blocking the road to protect her.
She bit her lip at the sight of thieves chasing after her.
‘How did this happen… … .’
Eutenia was a baron’s maiden who lived on the edge of the empire.
Even if they were aristocrats, they were not a great family to show off to others.
Her family was not on the rich side, but the fact that it was a harmonious family was something to be proud of.
The village where Utenia lived was also a peaceful and quiet place.
A vast wheat field lined the corner of the village.
And the fragrant smell of grass that tickles the noses of the villagers.
The village where everyone was living a laid-back life was a place that Utenia loved.
Until the knights belonging to the ‘Cloud’ who received orders from the system arrived.
‘High Lost Baron. I will arrest you for treason against the imperial family.’
Her father was taken away by knights from the Islands.
Baron Hirost was arrested for political reasons.
Euthenia continued to assert her father’s innocence, but no one listened to her.
Few people in the provinces listened to the young baron who ruled the village.
Rather, only the rude requests for marriage proposals from the nobles who were targeting her alone came in.
As the letters with offensive content piled up, only distrust and hatred toward humans accumulated in Yutenia’s heart.
‘I can’t ruin the village my father loved.’
Nevertheless, she took her father’s vacant seat and moved busily for the village.
Since childhood, she has been following Baron High Lost and spying over her shoulder.
When it comes to village affairs, he knew better than anyone.
As the villagers had known her for a long time, they believed in and followed Euthenia, a faithful girl.
One day, another knight might be assigned to this small town, but while she was there, I was determined to protect the place where my father would come back.
At least that’s what I was thinking until this morning.
Until the thieves who came to the village slaughtered the villagers and chased after her.
“haha…….”
Yutenia’s breath as she ran forward became harsh.
Tears welled up in her eyes as she walked through the mountains.
it’s tough. And it’s painful.
It was a day that her father, who must be locked up somewhere, misses.
Still, she couldn’t stop walking because the faces of those who sacrificed for her came to mind.
But, no matter how many sacrifices he made, was it impossible to run away forever?
It was a cliff that was lined up like a sheer one that faced Eutenia, who was running and looking ahead.
You can’t run away any more this way.
Facing the cliff in front of her, Yutenia sat on the floor.
“Ahhh…….”
Tears flowed from Yutenia’s eyes, which sat down.
she failed
He failed to save his father, and he failed to protect the place he would return to.
And in the end, even escaping from the village’s enemies failed.
Yutenia burst into tears as she saw herself unable to do anything properly.
He no longer had the strength to move.
I missed my father.
I also missed the villagers who became cold corpses and could no longer see them.
“Dad… Aunt Ena…”
Now she was lonely.
hated people
It was disgusting to even see someone approaching me.
Even so, the pursuers chasing after Euthenia did not disappear.
jerk. jerk.
I could feel the popularity behind Yutenia, who was sitting down and crying.
“Is this the end of the run?”
“……”
“What do you do with this, poor noble lady?”
Yutenia looked at the man in front of her with eyes wet with tears.
A figure of a man with a cut on his face came into her sight.
The leader of a group of thieves who brutally murdered villagers.
That was the man’s identity.