Chapter 1 ：The Demon King Silas

Walking slowly down the marble passageway, I heard screams ahead. However, my face showed no expression, let alone any intention to speed up the pace. I knew, though, that behind the great bronze door ahead, my companions were being slaughtered by a demon.

When I pushed open the bronze doors, the last scream from the palace had just died away. I saw a flash of white light, which meant another warrior had been killed. Even so, my face remained cold. After all, this is the game world, and I'm used to dying.

In the huge, dim temple of the demon, only a faint green light shone down on the corpses of the demon soldiers and the broken weapons on the ground. In front of me, high on a throne, sat a demon king clad in black armor. This is Silas the "demon" : the final BOSS in the game "Demonrealm".

"Demon" Silas: Level 100, Stats: Dark, HP: 100,000, MP: Unlimited. Physical Attack 2000-2500, the ability "Devil's Wrath" can be added to 100% physical attack. Physical Defense: 2000; Magic Defense 2000; Magic "Dark Realm", full screen attack, 5000 damage. Special skills: "Magic Heart", one blood 500...

I know the information about this demon by heart. I know how powerful he is, but I'm here. Because I'm "Chris", the number one player on the Demonium leaderboard. The first person to kill the "demon" Silas will get a bonus of 50,000 yuan from the game company, so here I am.

I came alone because I had few friends in the game. And in this game, there is no player with my strength, and making friends with the weak will only delay my training time.

The devil stared at me with an angry expression on his proud face. I'm weird. Is it just me? The NPC in the game will let me feel his emotion?

Silas suddenly bellowed, "Damn it, Chris, you've gone too far to collect the Holy Spirit Suit!" Are you still human? Do you think it fair to fight me in such a suit?"

I looked at Silas unexpectedly, and it was not surprising that he recognized my "Holy Spirit suit," but his language, clearly the tone of a player, was not programmed language. His anger made me feel like I was dealing with a real person!

I asked tentatively, "Are you... GM?" Silas snorted, "What is GM, don't you know that this game has no GM and is completely managed by the game console?" I'm Silas! The One and only Silas!" I frowned. "You... Have you got your own thoughts and feelings?" Silas's eyes suddenly grimmed with a strange sneer.

In 2024, an age of highly developed computers, there have been several events in which artificial intelligence programs have evolved into autonomous intelligence programs. It took many efforts and refinements by programmers all over the world to eliminate their ideas and claim that such evolution would never occur again.

But this Silas is clearly a new intelligent program, and I'm pretty sure he's evil. If the computer management Center is not reported, I am afraid the consequences are disastrous.

However, as a professional player, 50,000 bonus I still want to take, first kill this demon king. I raised my sword and pointed it at Silas, and the visible blade shot out like lightning, piercing unimpeded through the armor of the Demon's left breast. The system says: "Hit the fatal spot, bonus damage 100%, Silas lost HP10000!"

Silas jumped up, transformed into dozens of figures, and at the same time sent several "dark ghost fire" to me, but hit my holy armor, all read "MISS"! Silas cursed loudly: "Damn, these game designers are so sick! Our dark magic doesn't work against Light! Light attacks Dark double! This is bullshit!"

I smiled, my "Holy Spirit suit" and sword in my hand having fallen from the game's six level 90 + bosses. This set has 100% defense against the Dark, 5000 physical defense, and the Holy Sword is a special weapon to restrain the Demon Lord. To put it simply, the design idea of this game is to let one or several brave men collect these items and defeat the demon King, which is also the most classic game routine. After the big BOSS is destroyed, the game will open the next stage of the map and story.

"Holy Light Sword" begins to play, this is a group attack skill. No matter how many apparitions Silas had, he could not escape the light of the sword. Silas' HP was dropping at a rate of 5,000, 5,000, and there was no chance of him getting it back. The Demon King was furious and finally unleashed his ultimate magic, the Dark Realm! The whole palace was shrouded in black energy, and countless black lightning bolts rained down on me.

The palace shook, and I shook with it. After the massive magic disappeared, I looked at my blood, only lost 10 points, and my total blood is 2000 ah, let him fight!

The demon King laughed wildly, angrily laughing with unwillingness: "Why ah, why can't we these monsters in the game get fair treatment!" Why can't we learn our own skills, can't kill to upgrade, can't make our own weapons, can't make elixis, can't gather strong people to fight against humanity, why!"

I felt in peace the wrath of the evil Lord Silas. His words seemed ridiculous, but think about it, if he really had intelligence and emotion like a human, and I killed him now, his existence would be erased, and the next Silas wouldn't inherit his intelligence. So, when I do this, does it count as murder?

My thoughts and hesitation were suddenly interrupted by a strange sensation. With my superior intuition, I knew it was "dangerous"! I looked up and saw Silas's wicked smile and his eyes turning red.

I asked in surprise, "Your eyes... What's that?" Silas laughed wildly. "Chris, you forced me to do that. In order for me to exist, I must destroy you! While waiting in the Temple of Magic, I created a special skill for you players, and today you will try it!"

I raised my sword, but the great fear that arose in my heart could not be removed. My gut tells me that the Devil's next move will be a terrifying skill that will change my life. Why is that? I tried to calm myself. How could I be afraid? Even if he could kill me, I shouldn't be so scared, because this is the game world, and even if I die, I can come back to life.

Silas smiled grimly as my perverse intuition disturbed me. A small purple lightning bolt gathered on his fingertip, and a tiny figure emerged from the lightning, like a miniature Silas.

The demon King screamed loudly: "Chris, look, this is my own magic: soul!"

At that moment, a thought flashed through my mind: This is spiritual magic! As fast as I could, I pulled a small round shield from my arms: the Medusa Shield, which adds 5% to psychic magic defense. The other hand of the sword to the demon king issued his ultimate martial arts "nine consecutive cut"!

At the same time as the nine consecutive slayings of Silas, Repulsor also passed through the Medusa Shield and struck me in the forehead. I just felt a sudden rush of darkness in my mind. The darkness formed a head: It was Silas! Then, my consciousness faded and I sank into the endless darkness...

In 2054, almost every family's TV channel will switch to the "game station", because today, there is an epoch-making game will be officially launched.

The game is called Fantasy Journey. The biggest difference from traditional games is that this game is entirely designed by a supercomputer, the Blue Queen. All the Settings are calculated repeatedly by the Blue Queen based on the strengths and weaknesses of previous games, and are said to be the most perfect Settings at present. The game content is also extremely rich, in addition to the traditional level playing treasure, but also increased the rich life career, town gang management and business investment.

The most powerful is that the main brain of the game will constantly adjust the data of the game according to various situations in the game, such as the physical evolution and intelligent evolution of the monster. These Settings, even the game company's personnel can not be modified at will, must be "discussed" with the main brain. The game's mastermind, the Blue Queen, has been certified by countless game industry experts as an "honest" computer that would never allow cheating. Therefore, the phenomenon of people inside the game company involved in cheating in the past will not happen again.

The game was developed by maiker, the world's largest software company. Now the network is interviewing maiker's president, Mike.

After the interview, the scene cuts to the location. It was the intensive care unit of a hospital, and Mike was followed by a large group of technicians carrying equipment. In each room, they set up a game kit, and Mike chatted cordially with the patients. The devices are provided free of charge to patients by maiker, Mack told reporters, and the company's philosophy is "to make Fantasy Tours accessible to everyone."

When they arrived in Room 304, with sad music playing in the background, they saw a young man in his 20s lying in the room. He didn't move, and his brain wave pattern at the edge of his bed showed a straight line.

Mike was surprised and asked, "Who is the patient?" The doctor immediately answered, "He is Chris, a gamer who was in a vegetative state 20 years ago when a virtual helmet suddenly malfunctioning while playing a game." Mike said, "I know, it's that magic... Well, it's a shame I can't mention the name of the game on TV."

Mike pauses, turns to face the camera and announces passionately, "Our company's philosophy is' Everyone can play Fantasy Tour, 'including people in a vegetative state!" They're people too! Therefore, I am going to present Mr. Chris with a complete set of gaming equipment!"

Then Mike pointed to a set of equipment beside him: "This is the highest grade gaming equipment in the company, it costs $300,000, has the most sensitive brain pulse sensor and the strongest life support system." I hope that Mr. Chris, who is asleep in the dark, will also feel the call of the game!"

While the technicians were installing the equipment, the doctor told Mike: "Chris's parents died a few years ago of heartbreak, and their and Chris's assets have been depleted. At the moment, Chris is still using the state's medical welfare fund, which only guarantees him minimal life support..."

Mike immediately said, "In this way, the company will cover all of Chris's future maintenance expenses." If there is a mature treatment technology, our company will also fund treatment for it!" Loud applause broke out immediately.

In a conference room at a gaming company, dozens of executives were staring at the television with blackened faces, and a few of them began to curse.

"It's all an act, so fake!" "This maiker company is so unscrupulous that they even think of using patients for publicity!" "Mr. Jack," Magic "is your company developed in the past, why Mike chose Chris's hospital, it is clear that it is satire to suppress you!"

These are the heads of the 36 largest gaming companies in the world. After months of hype and a hot beta test, almost all of their games were hit hard, with more than two-thirds of their players leaving their games for Fantasy Tour.

The bosses discussed for three hours, and finally unanimously passed a resolution: send a large number of people into the Fantasy Journey, looking for loopholes and looking for opportunities to destroy. At the same time, the best intelligent computers of each company are connected to the Fantasy Journey to simulate the player entering the game. Since the strength of the Fantasy Journey console is not clear, at this stage the bosses' instructions to these computers are "become the strongest player".

The moment the game officially ran, billions of gaming devices around the world rushed to "Fantasy Journey" at the same time, and even the "Blue Queen" supercomputer almost crashed. After the storm of network congestion passes, data begins to flow in and out normally.

In the game scene, in a bustling ancient city, a tall man with black armor looks up to the sky and laughs: "I, the demon King Silas, have finally been reborn!"

The man was extremely excited: "If it were not for the simultaneous influx of so much data around the world, I would not be able to take advantage of the chaos to enter the interior of this main brain, establish such a special account, and obtain a lot of information at the same time." But it hit a firewall in a lot of places, almost got caught. It seems that in the past 20 years, computer intelligence has made a lot of progress, and I will be careful in the future."

Players dressed only in cloth kept appearing around, all looking at the man with surprised and jealous eyes. People keep asking, "Are you a GM? What happened to games being completely unmanaged?" "Are you a lucky account?"

Black man mysteriously smiled and showed his attributes window, all players were stunned and shouted: "Pervert ah, where is such a thing, too unfair!"

Player: Demon King, Level 0, HP100 (Max initially) MP10 (Max initially) Strength 10 (Max) Physique 10 (Max) Agility 10 (Max) Spirit 10 (Max)... Hidden Class: Enchanter. System rewards Pet: Dark Dragon. System Bonus Equipment: Diablo Suit, can grow...

In the players' curse, the demon King laughed wildly and walked out into the wild. Next, the system continuously prompts: the player is the first demon King to level 5, awarded prestige... The player's Demon King kills the first BOSS in the game, rewarding him with prestige... Player Demon King is the first to reach level 10, awarded prestige... Player Demon King hits the first iron in the game, reward reputation...

Clearly, Lord Silas's ambitions are far from over.