Royal Sorcery Academy. Only those who had reached 13 years old this year and were related to nobility were permitted to enroll into the academy. The majority of noble sons and daughters would enroll into this academy. It was an education establishment with the longest history in Claydale Kingdom.
The New Year holidays were over. Akito felt that the atmosphere in his part-time workplace was a bit scary.
Hanged inside the store was Pandora’s poster that wasn’t really related to a small supermarket in a residential area.
The illustration depicted players standing in front of a vast field. The promotional line on the poster was 『The New Box Garden』.
Three days remaining until the game resumed.
During the New Year holidays, it g...
2022-12-14 07:59:02 +0000 UTC View PostWhen it was December, after the Christmas was over the preparation for the end-of-the-year immediately began.
The students who chose to do part-time work couldn’t return home during this time of year. Those who chose to do part-time work in order to live alone were the busiest exactly while the others around them were having day off.
But, they also were still student.
As expected they would still be given holiday between the end of the ye...
2022-12-13 07:38:04 +0000 UTC View PostHajime and co teleported in front of the entrance of the great dungeon that was located in a corner of Gruen Great Volcano’s peak. The first one to raise their voice was Myuu who had just almost fallen into darkness.
「Waa! Amazing nano! The sky is so vast nano!」
She was being carried by Remia while trying to grab the sky by energetically lifting up both her h...
2022-12-11 14:55:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhite Christmas.
Akito missed the last train after he finished watching the movie.
It was because he didn’t check the movie’s running time beforehand.
Akito, Maya, and Yakumo had dinner in the hotel’s restaurant. They would stay in the hotel today.
「President, sorry. This hotel’s price is surely really expensive isn’t it?」
Maya talked with the receptionist that they wanted to stay overnight. She was told that there wa...
2022-12-10 06:30:06 +0000 UTC View PostChristmas Eve.
Akito and Yakumo were wearing santa hat at their workplace. They handed a cake to a salaryman who stopped by here on his way home.
「Thank you for your patronage.」
The salaryman carried the paper bag. After this he surely would go home and presented it to his child.
After the customer left the store, Yakumo spoke her impression after seeing the content of the customer’s bag.
「It was the newest type VR machine jus...
2022-12-09 05:11:33 +0000 UTC View PostTwo weeks passed since the fact about the new reactor was discovered.
Akito’s part-time workplace, Mild was shiny from all the Christmas decorations.
Even when he walked through the city, there wasn’t any atmosphere of a world that had just overcome a grave danger.
Rather the real world was busy to prepare for the coming Christmas.
Akito checked a box of cake that had just gotten delivered.
「There’s nothing wrong with the delivery. I was worr...
2022-12-08 07:21:29 +0000 UTC View PostFive dragons were circling the sky.
Just defeating one dragon had needed uncountable efforts from the players.
Now there were five of such dragons. The Selectors could only be dumbfounded when faced with such fact.
Someone said.
「Has anyone contacted the outside? Are they not finished yet!?」
A female player shook her head.
「――Three hours. They said they want us to buy three more hours.」
Putting it simply...
2022-12-07 07:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostAt the graveyard behind the shrine.
Ponsuke was looking at Mariela and Alfie who wouldn’t listen to him and keep following him.
Their expression was serious, but what they were holding was a whip. There was a golden whip and a silver whip that looked like it would feel really painful if someone got hit with them.
They used up all the job and skill points that they had saved up with much effort to become tamer. Ponsuke looked dejected in front...
2022-12-06 08:26:00 +0000 UTC View PostHe woke up inside the shrine.
The stained glass of the ceiling was sparkling. Ponsuke pressed his hand on his chest from the pain that assailed him there.
He was feeling raw pain that wasn’t limited at all by the game’s restriction. He was feeling unpleasant sweat trickling down on his body.
He stood up from the stone bed and looked around.
The players with their head hanging down were most likely the Selectors.
They had died many times. 2022-12-05 08:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Author’s note: Can you believe it? Next month, is going to be new year already……
At the last day of the Tortus trip, when the sun was rising to the summit. Hajime and co could be found at the great desert Gruen. Fernir was flying through the copper colored world.
「This is amazing. It’s like a different world……」
「Oo? Nagumo Shuu! Koichi-kun! Look over there! Is that...
2022-12-04 09:58:32 +0000 UTC View PostThere was land and sky like in Pandora.
The space there didn’t look like that kind of environment at all. A large quantity of monsters gushed forth there.
The virus countermeasure that was going to remove the infiltrating foreign substances looked like they had such form to the Selectors.
Normally such a sight would be impossible.
But the Selectors were perceiving them and dealing with them.
Ponsuke was wielding a weapon that looke...
2022-12-03 03:43:12 +0000 UTC View PostInside the room.
The sounds of lives could be heard from outside.
The sound of car, the voices of children, the chirping voice of bird.
Various sounds could be heard but, Akito was looking up at the ceiling inside the room.
The tablet that he was given was made so it couldn’t connect to any network. The data inside it also couldn’t be copied.
The data that he received also included the classified document regarding the new reactor.
「...
2022-12-02 03:36:05 +0000 UTC View PostThe World of Discernment.
In a decaying city.
Mariela was leveling up and gathering materials together with Nanako, Sierra, and Guruguru at a mountain of rubble that was a metropolis in the past.
Mariela drew her bow and fired her arrow. It hit a monster that looked like a box of machine.
Right after that an explosion occurred and dealt a large damage.
「That’s amazing big sis!」
Guruguru became excited. He was also a hi...
2022-11-30 08:14:28 +0000 UTC View PostAn old man stepped into [Fantasy].
The old man with well trained body was standing straight. He was wearing a brown coat and a hat. His atmosphere was different from others.
He looked more youthful than his actual age.
This old man gave off the impression of a gentleman.
Was he perhaps entering the wrong restaurant?
The restaurant staff held such doubt.
「Excuse me, I have friends here waiting for me. I am――」
He intr...
2022-11-29 06:20:23 +0000 UTC View PostAt the station.
Akito checked the location of the restaurant where they made the booking using his smartphone. He then looked at the time and confirmed that he still had time.
Mariela and Alfie had also messaged him that they would arrive not long after.
「It’s a bit early but let’s head to the restaurant.」
Then an announcement played at the station.
The announcement said that the train that Akito should be riding on w...
2022-11-25 06:58:46 +0000 UTC View PostAkito was on the way to school. The breath he exhaled became white in this weather.
He was holding a smartphone with one hand while reading a message.
He could exchange message with Mariela and Alfie in the real world now. It made him felt a bit strange, but it also made him happy to exchange message with them like this.
He sent his message and put back his phone into his pocket.
Akito arrived at school and headed toward his seat. He s...
2022-11-24 08:37:54 +0000 UTC View PostThw World of Discernment.
It was the world of human that was developed using steam machine.
Trains and tramcars ran through the capital. The humans were dressed in suits or dress. The buildings were made from bricks. Pipes were laid out on the buildings and steams gushed out from there.
There were a lot of workshops here. The upper limit of player level was set to be at 100.
It was a world that was created to be the base of players at the &...
2022-11-23 08:01:06 +0000 UTC View PostThe homepage of Pandora’s Box Garden
A new article about the development staff was added there.
It was about the large scale event that was hidden in the Capital of Temperance.
The article touched about the activation requirement for the event would be impossible for MMORPG and the comments from the developer about what went behind the scene.
The event developer said.
『The event itself was formed after the World of Greed was liber...
2022-11-21 08:38:25 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s note: Sorry that it’s a bit late!
There were more than ten demons whose eyes rolled back and fainted in the demon king castle’s throne room.
After that parent and child demons fainted, the people who in the past got left behind from entering the holy precinct heard the commotion here and came running one after another. That caused the damage to spread in succession.
Thei...
2022-11-20 11:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostCapital of Discretion.
It was a human capital where steam machine was developed.
The NPCs there were wearing suits and dress. The capital had an atmosphere that made them felt the era vaguely.
Street lights were lined up and steams were rising to the sky from all over the city.
Items that couldn’t be created until now were produced in factory using the power of machine.
The moment Ponsuke and co entered the Capital of Discretion, a...
2022-11-19 08:29:48 +0000 UTC View Post――Four o’clock in the morning.
Akito woke up like usual and looked toward the VR machine at the corner of his room.
Yesterday, he told Mariela and Alfie that he might not login, but he still woke up at this time regardless of that.
Today was Sunday.
The internet was filled with topic about the defensive battle at the Capital of Temperance, and yet Akito wasn’t feeling good at all.
He simply stood up and headed ...
2022-11-18 08:50:42 +0000 UTC View PostPonsuke after he got stomped by the earth dragon.
He recalled various things while feeling the sense of weightlessness before the revival.
『The previous queen risked her life――』
『Please come back no matter what.』
Shela’s words.
And then her sad expression.
(Perhaps, this event is……)
An unpleasant imagination sprouted in his mind. There had been that kind of uneasiness inside him since the start.
Perhaps Sh...
2022-11-17 08:00:38 +0000 UTC View PostA monster so huge it looked like a mountain was approaching the Capital of Temperance.
Ponsuke’s group prepared a new encampment on the route that the earth dragon would pass.
They were looking at their stolen encampment that was within visible distance.
A small gnome with beard growing on his face, Lighter was giving instruction to the people around him. They had completed the encampment very quickly.
Looking around, they coul...
2022-11-16 07:55:52 +0000 UTC View Post「Oi, did you hear?」
「The defensive battle at the Capital of Temperance right? I’m at the Capital of Love right now so I’m hesitant to join.」
「You’re still at that kind of place?」
The inside of the classroom was full with Pandora’s rumor.
(Even though the topic didn’t come up this much before.)
The topic of Pandora was flying all around in the classroom compared to before. Akito was talking with Riku there about...
2022-11-15 13:52:42 +0000 UTC View Post「LET’S GOOOOOO!」
A large shield at the left hand.
And a great sword at the right hand. Ponsuke slashed at a field boss with those equipments in hands.
He had investigated where the boss would appear――pop up, and then he lied in wait for several days.
Other players were also targeting that boss. Ponsuke’s party finally encountered that boss just now and launched an attack.
Mariela ran through the grassy field while firing arrows...
2022-11-14 07:11:00 +0000 UTC View PostAuthor’s Note: Just when I made a quip The temperature difference is too extreme I’ll catch cold! and I really caught one. Everyone too please be careful.
Putting that aside, in this chapter the story about the treatment of the demon race come up but, this is after story so while everyone might be tired hearing me saying this every time, please remember that the story is based on th...
2022-11-13 15:42:14 +0000 UTC View PostAt a café located in the Capital of Temperance.
Ponsuke entered there and had a conversation with the information broker while sitting back to back.
But talking like that was clearly troublesome.
「Is there a point to this?」
The information broker took a sip of his coffee and enjoyed the taste.
The sunlight from the window fell on the two as he enjoyed talking back to back with Ponsuke. No, he was drunk in the atmos...
2022-11-12 07:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAt the real world.
Akito was watching the news through the monitor in his room.
『Then for the news today. While the envoy from the moon returned――ah, the image doesn’t appear. Can you turn it on? Eh, you can’t? Eee~, then let’s continue.』
The female announcer who was reading the news read it out even while the situation around her was a mess.
The moderator and the commentator also laughed. The news program was continuing in su...
2022-11-11 04:52:10 +0000 UTC View Post「Hou……so you got scolded because you got caught staring on breasts. That’s only natural isn’t it?」
Fitness club.
Akito was receiving coaching there by the sensei. He was also consulting to him about various things.
He was imitating the sensei’s movement in front of a mirror while talking.
「Please don’t change the topic. How should I put it, it was just admiring how well made the game was because they looked so real. It was ju...
2022-11-09 09:04:11 +0000 UTC View Post