In response to Winston's words, Ayame sighed, "Even us players are also forced to participate in this death game. The game announcement had already informed us that dying here will also lead to death in the real world."
"The game announcement had mentioned that Aspro created this game. He should be an existence higher than us mortals since he could create such a realistic game world and even force us players to participate in it."
Hearing Ayame's praise, Weiss didn't go out of character and still maintained his acting, "Aspro can be considered as our creator as well. If not for him, I and the rest of the NPCs wouldn't have existed. So I don't have much malice towards him, unlike you players."
"Of course, that didn't mean I forgave him for letting us suffer in this hellish world. However, I already obtained an advantage over most NPCs just by knowing of my existence as an NPC in this game world. I am not certain what I will do after I meet my creator."
When Weiss mentioned those to Ayame, he wasn't worried that his acting would be exposed later on.
Even if other players continued playing this game, Winston's character design was the same as how he acted it out.
Even if Weiss didn't control Winston, Winston would act the same as what Weiss was currently doing. The E-grade two pistols as well were already a game item that Winston had and it's not exclusive to this game server.
Weiss had created similar NPCs like Winston to make the game more fun. Otherwise, it would be too boring if the game was too easy.
In the future, Weiss guessed that other players might team up with Winston if they were considered by Winston as "worthy" to be his companions.
However, being labeled as "worthy" was quite a high requirement considering that not everyone was as powerful as Ayame and as useful as Kayden.
Weiss had paid special attention to Kayden and Ayame and he could consider them as the future of Blue Star. At least, these two would be useful in fighting against the otherworld invasion in the future.
So no matter what, Weiss had already planned to make Kayden and Ayame win this death game. As for the third player, Weiss hadn't found anyone as dazzling as Kayden and Ayame.
Weiss could exploit all of these loopholes because they weren't loopholes in the first place. The system wasn't as strict as he expected and as long as he didn't hoard the game items such as stealing the game items of those game winners, he wouldn't be penalized by the system.
At most, Weiss could manipulate and choose on which players he wanted to win, and the system wouldn't care if he did that as long as three players won Zombie Survival Online and received their rewards without Weiss stealing their rewards.
Furthermore, this game session had better rewards than the next game sessions since the players in this game server were forced to participate in this game. The improved rewards were compensation provided by the system which elevated the quality of rewards or game items that the players would normally receive.
'Kayden and Ayame are one of the best players that I have seen so far. Even after using my authority in the game to spectate other players, none of them had Ayame's monstrous stats and combat skills and none had also obtained a special event item, unlike Kayden.'
'It's only been an hour since the game started yet Kayden and Ayame are already ahead of others. Even if I don't control and use Winston, Winston would still form an alliance with them. After all, with the programming I had instilled in Winston's existence as an NPC, he would only form an alliance with the strong and capable as well as those who were trustworthy.'
'This is the first ever game session of Zombie Survival Online so there aren't any META strategies yet for completing this game. However, special event NPC and locations will remain the same so players could exploit them in the future and I intended it that way.'
'In most cases, if players are rejected by Winston to join his team, they would likely take down Winston and covet his E-grade special event item. These two pistols have increased attack power and even a special ability of 50% chance of not consuming any ammo.'
'But compared to other special NPCs, Winston isn't the strongest and he just seemed strong due to his two pistols. However, zombies would soon mutate in the future and they will be immune to firearms.'
'However, zombies will only mutate a week from now so zombies that are immune to firearms don't exist in this world yet.'
Although Weiss occupied the body of Winston, he hadn't augmented any of Winston's capabilities. Even the superb gun marksmanship he had was already programmed as Winston's main ability.
When the zombies mutated and became immune to firearms, Weiss wasn't worried that Winston would become useless in the late game since humans could also evolve in Zombie Survival Online.