Church of Isekai -2 - страница 9

Then I heard a voice in my head I’ve expected to hear anytime now. The Old Boss spoke out from his dead Brownie body that I carry on me now next to all of the Energy Crystals. Why? Because being an independent Necro-Creature he has his own Energy Capacity and I can drain him at will. A self-charging Energy Store. An angry sneaky plotting Energy Store who had already tried to overtake my body. Let me install some new restrictions on him before I forget, now that I’m almost his Level. There. Why? Because “Don’t. Anger. Your. Necromancer.” that’s why. He told me, “You’ve suffered from this human filth no less than I did. Why do you care about them? Or is it that you only care about playing your game with these dolls and soldiers?” I replied, “You have gathered so much Knowledge but you forgot that that’s not Science. Science expects you to doubt your outcomes and you never doubted yourself. ‘I read this, therefore it’s True’. We know plenty of bloody tyrants who wrote tomes upon tomes, tractates upon tractates and usually committed atrocities wiping out those who didn’t fit their printed vision of the World. You failed to understand that you are limited, and the World isn’t, therefore you must adjust to the World instead of adjusting your dataset. We call it ‘Confirmation Bias’ or ‘Model Overfitting’. This is why you didn’t just fail – you’d adjusted if you just failed. This is why people are dancing at the sight of your corpse being incinerated. And don’t tell me about my mind control – you had your potions that did basically the same. You thought yourself an Infallible God and this is why you failed. Maybe one day I’ll let you join me and try to partially atone by advising me OR maybe you can be my self-charging energy store. Now, instead of being angry at your schoolmates, you’ll be angry at me until a day comes when I disperse your soul. You are too dangerous to keep around. Now, Good Night,” and I’ve drained him again.

Back in the Cave Part5

The first thing I need to do while the Old Boss is de-energized is to finish reading his soul, looking for his secret stashes and learning from his experiences. I had to make frequent breaks to make sure he stays perfectly empty and by the end, I really wanted to burn him as fast as possible as well as several items in his office after I saw the way he used them. Just as we have suspected, he didn’t have any special ways to communicate with the World Masters who actually run this place. He learned about them fast enough but then basically set into an “evil psychopath” routine. Somehow he even learned that the Masters are happy with him – I suspect there were enough viewers interested in this perverted “show”. If my understanding is correct, the bigger the viewership, the bigger they make the World. Ours is rather small – Fizz the Sprite told us, when we’ve just arrived, that he can fly across our “corral” in less than a half an hour. In fact now, that the Old Boss’ soul spoke to me, I got his map added to mine and indeed we’re a rather small place. They told him about our sneaking away and hiding on the Day 1 by announcing a “Special Mission” to eliminate our hideout at a specific location. That’s when the Drow Team visited us and eventually became a “Necro-Drow Team”. I suspect the World Masters view us as a Video Game and they upped the bets by telling him to hurry up with the System Challenge and even giving him a hint – another Special Mission to train his Backup Assassin Team. To rush the things along, they stopped sending the Random Surprise Big Black Boxes to him and sent one to me – trapped with a deadly explosive. I suspect the World Admins are required to use in-World means to steer the development.