Eternal war online

by Abdiel Amaro

Far different from a simple death game. Three hundred thousand players have been imprisioned inside a universe that knows no mercy. An universe where the line between reality and fiction is too thin. Welcome to Eternal War Online. Welcome to a far future where there is no peace among the stars, a grimdark future where there is only war.

Hey guys, I'm back.

Well, this is not a new chapter of NWNG, it is a story you can find in Spanish in my other account: anderel amaro.

However, while I've been thinking this for a while I still will not fully start it. Im gonna finish first NWNG, which I don't think it will take more than 10 chapters.

Im also working in a muv luv and a tate no yuusha fics, both crossovers with warhammer 40k. oh, and I'm on goblin slayer too.

However, I will be really busy this week with work, so I wont be able to advance in no story.

I will leave his with you. Tell me what do you think. Don't worry, I will keep part of the original staff, but don't expect much romance here. There is no room for romance in the grim darkness of the far future.

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Both Warhammer 40k and sword art online belong to their respective owners.

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The television showed the news of a well-known videogame channel. Such a thing that had been almost lost for some years, but that had been reborn with a very ambitious project.

The Nervegear .

It seemed like a dream, and technically it was. Being able to immerse yourself in a world inside your mind, a world that did not have you tied to the rules of physics. Where one's dreams could come true. The potential of this new technology was almost unlimited.

"... with you the creator of NERVEgear and developer of the game 'Warhammer 40k: Eternal War Online.' Also called by many as EWO! Kayaba Akihiko!" The energetic voice of the presenter was heard as well as a series of applauses from the audience that was enthusiastic about the new project.

"Thank you very much." Kayaba answered by greeting the audience in a polite manner. "An honor to be here."

"Please explain to us why a drastic change in the development of the game was decided. Had not been originally planned to use SAO 2 to release the public?"

Kayaba smiled at the question and looked at the audience. "It is true. We had planned a base world using the same Cardinal system. But after the release of the nervegear a large number of companies also released their own titles. Originally SAO was unique in being the first of its kind. But as time passed we realized that if we wanted to compete in the market we had to renew ourselves."

"Hm, hm." The presenter nodded. "Certainly. Games like Call of Duty Dive or Final Fantasy 28 are sweeping right now. Even so, no one expected you to use a universe like Warhammer 40K. It's a bit bold, since Games Workshop has preferred to continue releasing RTS games or turn based."

Kayaba simply laughed and continued. "My friends at Games Workshop were simply a little concerned about the results of a game of this scale. It took me a while to convince them, but in the end I succeeded."

The presenter continued. "From what has been heard, the game will be able to support up to three hundred thousand players. It is not like this? Can you clarify these doubts?"

"Indeed. You can do it. We have included four factions: The Imperium of Mankind, chaos, Eldar and Tau. All of them with their own sub factions with only a few exceptions. Players will have a vast gallery to choose from as well as a vast space to explore."

The presenter raised a Pad and read the questions the channel used to allow its viewers. "Some fans are concerned about the addition of space marines and Adeptas Sororitas. They think they could unbalance the game. "

"The Adeptus Astartes, as well as other powerful classes will not be available to the player when they connect. Instead, it will be a limited number of only a thousand of them as well as three thousand for the Sororitas. These will be available by lot and may only be presented in this way." Kayaba answered with a smile.

"Are the rumors of the inquisitor class in the game true? If so, it would be a great disadvantage for casual players."

"There are four respective ultra-secret classes to one for each faction. But none can be obtained at the time of initiation. They must be won by the player from specific and very secret situations."

"Something that has caught the attention of the new EWO is its Akashic system . Which is said to be a complete technological innovation. Being able to play with so little time is a dream come true."

"In effect. The Akashic system not only gives an infinite number of missions and new events. Its main attraction is to extend the player's stay in the game. In our minds time can be relative, something that takes advantage of the Akashic system . You can experience ten times the time you spend in real life when you are in the game. One hour would become ten hours."

" Incredible!" the presenter Said. "I could not get a copy, it's a shame. But let's hope that new servers can be opened soon… "

He turned off the TV, it was time for the servers to start and he did not want to miss anything. In one hour he would be sailing on one of his biggest dreams.

Terrence Velmort took a look at the room where he had lived these nineteen years in an unimportant city over Texas. From the age of ten he had become interested in Warhammer 40K to such an extent that it was almost an obsession. He had studied the Lore and learned every paragraph of the book, it was said among the players from the local store that no one else knew more Warhammer 40k like him.

However, he had a problem.

And it was that he rarely won in a game.

It was not that he did not know the rules, after all he had recorded them in his mind. But for some reason the dice used to fail him in crucial events and he ended up taking too complex strategies which in the end ended up entangled him more and more. It was in the small games where he had presented more victories and because he had few units to command. But a game in apocalypse would be a nightmare for him..

That said, it had not diminished his love for lore and had become a kind of scholar who everyone asked when they wanted to remember something, or when some discussion of why Warhammer 40k beat almost all Sci Fi universes.

He did not really care about the world. After getting into a university, he had gone through high and low, but nothing different from a simple normal college student.

He looked at the Nervegear on the bed and could not help but let out a wide smile. He had won the game and the console with his own sweat and tears. He had worked part time and helped more than one in exchange for some cash. He had even painted some models by someone from time to time.

And finally here it was. It had been really lucky to get it. Sometimes he had come to think he would not get it, but he could not just give up, something could happen. And that something had come to him.

He take out his phone and marked a number. After a short time a well-known voice answered from the other side of the line.

"Hey Luke," said Terrence . "Ready?"

"As never before. Finally you decide on which class? You did not stop thinking about it in classes. "

He held willingly and answered. "crusader. That's what I decided. It's better for me. Few units to command and a personal variety of equipment and skills. By the way, thanks for the information. The beta tester is to have a big lead. "

"Nah , not so much. The game is based a lot on the Lore and I cannot make much progress. Nobody did it. "

"I see. Hey, by the way, what class are you going for ? "

"Mechanicus, baby! I cannot wait to put together one of those battle automatons."

"Heh, do not you have enough of that in Mechatronics?"

"Nothing I can shoot, unfortunately."

Both laughed for a while.

"Hey." Luke spoke. "The time is approaching, we better prepare."

"You're right. I 'll see you over there." He ended the call and threw his phone on the desk. He threw himself on the bed and looked towards the ceiling for the last time, on this was a poster of the God-Emperor of humanity.

He place his nervegear and after closing eyes breathed deeply once more.

"Link Start."

He pronounced the words to start the game. And multicolored lights sent him to a tunnel of light. He could feel a kind of vertigo sensation that disappeared in a short time. Once this ended, he could see before him a version of himself in the clothes of an Adept of the empire.

"Welcome to Warhammer 40k: Eternal War Online. Please write your profile name. "An artificial voice spoke welcomingly. Terrence had considered a profile name before entering, and with the holographic keyboard floating in front of him, he wrote.

"Welcome, Trevor Aigner. Please, choose a class in which you can forge your legend. Take into account that once you start this class you will not be able to change it unless you create another profile."

A large number of options appeared in front of him . He chose one at random and saw how his false image in front of him changed his clothes or his physical features. The image of an Eldar was shown in front of him, and although he took his time to appreciate it, he quickly changed to an Imperium option .

Several classes showed up before him. There were from imperial guards to knights and titans. He searched the entire menu more than three times but his hopes of finding an Adeptus Astartes faded when he found none. Then he went to the Ecclesiarchy section and was presented with three options: priest, Frateris militia and Crusader. He selected the crusader option and looked at its stats. It was mainly effective in close combat, but left much to be desired in distance combat. Even so he did not care much, if he could use a couple of gun servitors he could make up for that weakness.

Basic shell armor along with an iron sword and shield materialized around his body. On his waist was a four-shot drum gun and it looked much worn. It was the most basic equipment that could be given to a player who was just starting.

"Do you want to start the tutorial?"

Trevor accepted and an initial explanation appeared. With some images that floated around him. All changed and different came and went.

"The main objective in EWO is to defeat all the main segmentum bosses in the galaxy. Once you have achieved it, you can claim yourself as the champion. But this will not be easy. They are extremely powerful enemies that will not fall easily. As you go up in level may become stronger and control far more powerful items and NPC's.

Please remember that your data slate will be vital to you throughout the game. You can check your data, your level, your inventory, as well as a lot of useful things that will help you on your trip. "

The tutorial ended up showing some mechanics of the game as well as special information for him. He had already read the manual that came with the game, so he was not too misinformed about it.

Once it was ready he gave it to continue and again a golden light enveloped him. In a few seconds his vision changed and instead of that room he was in a kind of square.

As he looked around he realized they were in a city. It did not look like a hive city. Actually, in the distance he could see one. His Gothic style and large size really gave that atmosphere to which he was so accustomed. The view was certainly impressive. The blue-green sky with clouds that reflected the sunlight passed over him. In the distance he saw a huge spire, like a mountain with thousands of kilometers of height and that extended by a whole continent. Even if he looked so close, he was sure the distance had to cover hundreds of kilometers until he reached it.

More golden lights marked the arrival of more players. In the guide he had read about how factions would start their players in different places. He knew the Eldar would be in a Craftworld and the chaos in some hive. The Tau on the other hand would be starting in one of their outer septs depending if they belonged to the regular fire caste or if they belonged to the Farsight conclaves. He searched his map and his calendar and discovered that this world was called Prymha, located on the edge of the segmented pacificus, near the Segmentum Solar.

Ten thrones of gold had been given to him, each one equaling ten crowns of silver. Although it was not so bad, he knew he had to start leveling up as soon as possible. He knew he could buy some better equipment, but given his class as this probably was the first levels, he doubted being able to find better equipment than the stuff in this city, except for explosives and medical equipment.

"Hey!" A familiar voice greeted him. It was his old friend, Luke. He had chosen the Adeptus Mechanicus class and wore a fairly clean and new red tunic as well as just a little shirt on his back.

"Luke, good timing." Let's go to the hills for some prey.

"Agreed. We should also look for a way to get closer to that hive city. I'm sure we'll find a great variety of items there."

They left what was called the 'city of the beginnings' towards the hills where it was said that there were some beasts to be able to hunt.

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María Allende, more correctly named in this game 'Mary' as she marked the name of her avatar. She had always considered discipline was the basis of success. Both her family and employees instilled such thoughts.

That was why she was now arranging the commissar cap that had come with her class. Her steel sword and autopistol were in order and she could see her uniform was impeccable.

The lore was something that had caught her attention since that time she had almost confiscated her son from his imperial guard models. The Codex had caught her attention and after reading a little more, she had secretly been starting to learn from them. And she had to admit that one of her dreams was to be able to incarnate that figure of command and order herself.

So when EWO had been announced she did not hesitated to try the Beta, because she had been one of the ten thousand that had achieved it. Shortly after getting used to the movement she was already commanding a regiment of imperial guards. The first born Vostroyans had been her main option from the beginning and had achieved several things within the beta.

While she was appreciating her sight on the windows reflecting it, someone called her. He looked like a man, someone young in the uniform of a Harakoni.

"Hey, are you a beta tester? Right?"

"What?"

The young man put his hands together in a kind of way to pray for something. "Please! Could you show me the basics? It's my first time in a game like this!"

The question was sudden, but it was not rude. The young man certainly did not have bad intentions, or so she hoped. Besides, from the way he held the automatic rifle, she was sure that his leg would be blown off.

"Hum, okay. But you must follow my instructions. I will not repeat it twice."

"Thank you. By the way, I'm Klein. "

"Mary. It's a pleasure, Klein. "

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Klein could not believe his luck. After being rejected by dozens of girls he was thinking about giving up. He had decided to try his luck with this woman he had found while shuffling along. And certainly could not believe it had worked. And more Still, it was an beautiful mature woman, almost touching what would be a Milf.

"Stop wasting time! It is coming for you!"

A blow shook him from his thoughts and he remembered the shape of the Prymha boar that was going to try to attack him again.

"Aim well! Firm stance! Do not lose your cool or stop shooting until you're dead!"

The boar again turned and headed back towards him. He shot his automatic rifle trying to hurt the boar. But the shots were wrong, like a beginner shot from the hip but in the end the boar managed to connect a blow to his belly which sent him to the ground. His health bar went down to the orange area and was getting yellow. The boar moved away, perhaps because of its programming or because he no longer considered it a threat.

"What are you trying to do? Why didn't you aimed?" Mary asked when she saw Klein's beginner's attempt.

"I thought that some sight would appear as soon as I put my finger on the trigger but I did not see anything."

Mary simply sighed remembering that this was just a rookie. "This is not GGO. Here, there is no support sight or bullet trajectories. This is more real. You must aim to get results. "

She pulled out her solid ammunition gun and shot and killed a boar by hitting it in the skull. Then another, however, this time the bullet reached one of the hind legs and the boar fell while screaming, Mary put a bullet to end its misery. "The system tries to give all the possible reality to this game. If you do not aim properly you will not be able to hit anything, it's even in your stats. "

Klein nodded and adjusted the butt of his rifle over his shoulder and shot a boar placing five bullets in its torso killing it quickly. Klein jumped for joy when saw how he had finally avenged himself on the boar.

"All right. Although that boar was just a practice shot . Take out your data slate and check what you earned."

Klain nodded and pulled out his data slate. This was robust and with a screen covered with metal. It was the basic plate given to all the players. On the home screen there was a tab advertisement, Klain then touched it and on the screen appeared the words: wild boar Prymha LV2 eliminated, copper reward 8 scepters. EXP +12, 28 needed to level up.

"Really? He looked like a boss!" Klein exclaimed in surprise but rather looked more like a child who did not want to get up on a Saturday morning.

"He, he, he... there are things in warhammer 40k that would make that boar look like a cute piglet." Mary said as she approached one of the three Prymha boars that had died and pulled out one of her knives. She cut the flesh of the boar and cut a line through the flesh and skin. The corpse disappeared as if it were ashes that were scattered by the wind.

"Hey? The corpses do not fade away?" Klein asked curiously.

"No, corpses can stay until they rot or loot. Sometimes you can get useful items, but they all leave something. Like these boars, they will be good roast meat. "

"Ah, right. You can feel that you eat in these games and think that you are satisfied. It works in most games nowadays. "

"Yes, although you cannot spend your entire life with virtual food."

"I'm ready! Order a pizza, they will soon bring it." Klein said with a victory pose. Mary just smiled when she saw him giving a touch of humor.

"You can get certain items depending on the enemies you annihilate. These boars drop skin and flesh. The meat can be consumed to recover some health or relieve fatigue. The skin can be sold or processed to make clothes or useful objects."

Mary threw Klein a bundle of rolled up skin. This was still bloodstained, when Klein touched it, could not help dropping it. Mary laughed at the comic scene of the young man.

"You can make a case for your gun or your ammunition." She continued laughing as Klein lifted the skin. After all, he could not refuse a gift from a woman as beautiful as her.

"By the way, Klein. Where are you from? The system allows the communication of different languages."

"Oh, yes. Japan, nice to meet you," Klein said with a classic bow.

"Ara. And to think I can understand you perfectly. I'm from Mexico, by the way."

Klain was about to respond to the hand salutation that Mary was giving him, but he felt a very real pain in his belly. He felt as if someone had hit him with a baseball bat.

"Oh no. I forgot to tell you about the sensitive effects," Mary said with concern. "This game can present real sensations and make you think that you really hurt yourself. You must lower pain levels if you want to avoid feeling it."

Klein opened his data slate and looked for sensitive settings. However, he found something strange. He had found the buttons to change the variations of pain, taste, body sensitivity, smell, hearing, and more But there was no adjustment button. All were marked 100% with no way to change them.

"Hey, Mary. I know it sounds silly, but. How do I change the settings? "

She sighed again and got up. "It is there just below the characters'..." but was equally intrigued. They should be there, they were in the beta. They were a fairly common system and to which developers had prioritized. "I think... maybe it's a mistake. One that will cost the developers dearly. I bet they must be going crazy."

"Well, ah, I guess sprucing up later." Klein said with some nervousness on his face. "Well, I think I'll disconnect for now. But I'll come back later after lunch and a shower." He said again and opened the menu to search the logout button.

"The logout button is not here too." he said as he searched through the menu windows. Mary was a little annoyed, though not really against him.

"It's right there in the options window..." But she could not find it either. She browsed the menu for several minutes without any results. Klein was trying all sorts of things to try to disconnect himself from the game, even trying to take off his helmet.

It was when a golden light enveloped them both and transported them to the town square where they had arrived.

Thousands of players were gathered in the huge square. It was clear that they were bewildered and several asked what was happening. Mary tried to look around and found Klein who was close to her. They were both trying to find out what was going on, when something happened. The sky turned red and it seemed as if the blood escaped from the very clouds. Then the crimson liquid took shape and gave rise to a being. This was giant and imposing, but above all, richly decorated. His red tunic seemed to be made of ruby and the edges were bathed in gold. His face was that of a mask with a human face forged in diamond. He carried a book that floated around him tied with silver chains.

"Welcome all of you to Warhammer 40k Eternal War Online. I am the creator of this game. Kayaba Akihiko." Several players applauded or let hear 'cheers' towards the developer of this game. Mary, on the other hand, had a bad feeling about this, besides having job tomorrow.

"I appreciate that you are enjoying this game." He bowed and continued . "As some of you may have noticed, the logout button does not appear in the menu. This is not an error, I repeat, this is not an error. It's a unique feature in EWO. "

Mary raised an eyebrow at this news. Something was very wrong here. Several players were getting nervous, some of them tried to leave the square only to discover an energy field blocking their way.

"However, I must warn you. Losing all your health points, if the life bar reaches zero, then you will cease to exist forever. And if you are disconnected by force, the helmet will send a pulse of microwaves that will freeze your brains instantly. I have also deactivated the sensory regulation systems. Now you can really live in this universe just as you would in the real world."

Ok, Mary was really worried about that last one. She looked from one side to another looking for a potential enemy.

"Regrettably. One thousand three hundred and sixty-one people have died for disconnecting them from the game. This news has spread all over the world, "he said as he showed windows with multiple news marking them as terrible incidents.

"How is that possible?! It's a virtual reality helmet." Klein exclaimed clearly trying to deny reality.

"No ..." Mary answered. " he internal battery can certainly do that. The system releases radiation, it is slight, but if you increase the power, you would damage the equipment, even so, it would be enough to ..." She did not want to finish saying it.

"But do not worry." Kayaba's avatar continued. "There is a way out of this game."

He raised a finger, towards the sky as if pointing to a particular world and spoke." There are four great enemies in the galaxy. Defeat them all and freedom will be yours. Three of them can be attacked in the order you want, but in the end there will only be one in the segmentum Obscurus."

Mary could feel the skin bristle. She probably did not know all the Lore of warhammer 40k, but she knew there were enemies out there that were so scary that if they had been implemented here ... several players could end up going crazy.

"I'm sure you can find players from other factions on your trip. I have already given them the same news. I hope you can work together to finish this game. Finally, I left you a gift in your box items, see for yourselves."

Mary opened her box of items and found a hand mirror. It was a strange thing in fact, why a mirror?

It was then when a golden light began to surround several players, then many others, in seconds, she and all the others were covered with a golden light that illuminated the whole place.

Even though there were a lot of players in the place, one could easily choose an avatar of the genre they wanted. Although there were some restrictions for the classes, but even so, a lot of 'players' had chosen classes without gender restriction.

But even though more than half seemed to be players, that number dropped drastically. Showing more than one surprise

Mary stopped paying attention to her surroundings and looked at the glass. And to her surprise, the woman in her early twenties who had as avatar, had changed to her real version of 33 years. And certainly, also some parts of the body, her uniform seemed to have shrunk more , and she felt great pressure on her chest and hips.

"Mary?" she heard Klein's voice speak to her after. She turned met a young man who looked like the same Klein, but his lank hair had changed to a shorter and somewhat neglected.

This Klein was certainly surprised, not only by what had happened, but because in front of him was a caramel-colored skin beauty and certainly larger attributes than he had seen before. When he saw her, Klain tried to look away, clearly trying not to make a fool of himself in front of her.

"Klein?" She answered, recognizing the boy who had spoken to her.

Klain tried to pick up a little and concentrate on what was happening. How was it possible that they managed to retransmit their real faces? It is what he was wondering.

"It's the Scanner." Mary said. "The nervegear sends a high density reading device. That could read the features of your face. The question is, how did they managed to discover our measurements? "

"Well ..." Klein tried to say. "When they calibrated for us, they took many measures. Maybe they got it from there. "

Klain put his hands to his head in a clear tone of frustration. "Why? Why would someone do something like this?"

Mary pointed to the giant avatar that had stopped to watch the reactions of its now virtual prisoners. "We'll probably find out now."

"Surely you will ask yourselves 'Why?' 'Why Kayaba Akihiko, the creator of the nervegear, sword art online and Eternal War Online would do something like this'." he paused for a moment while thinking about his words. "My goal is finally completed. Creating Sword Art Online was not enough. It was very small, very limited. Here, the possibilities are endless. Develop this universe to control it ... and now it's ready..."

Mary felt a deep anger develop within her, not only that, there was also fear. For a moment she thought about what would happen if she really died in this world, her children, her husband, her employees... in truth, everything here could end in an instant.

"Being the year 980 of the millennium 41. This concludes the tutorial for the official launch of Eternal War Online. Good luck players. "

After saying this, his body began to disintegrate, as if returning to be only blood, he returned to the sky from where he descended, vanishing in a short time.

Only silence reins the place. A stillness that looked like a balloon about to explode.

And it was a scream that generated the spark that started the panic.

Everyone shouted and claimed a being that had left them. Several were pushing each other; very soon stampede started that could kill dozens. Like a herd threatened by wolves, nobody knew what to do, nobody except for just a few.

"Klein, come with me!" Mary spoke as she took Klein's hand out of the square. Both ran as fast as they could, until they were finally close to the edge of the city.

"Klein, listen to me. We must go to the hive-city as soon as possible." She pointed to the colossal city that saw the skyline of a setting sun.

"Hey? what do you mean?" Klen asked in confussion.

Mary opened her map showing the outskirts of the city and what she had explored, which clearly was not much. She could have bought a map, but there was no time for that.

"This is not just a RPG. The resources are practically unlimited. In the beta some considered that a sector could supplement all the players until reaching level 100. The problem is that the enemies you face... are something different. Their stats are higher than most imperial players would have. And there are so many it is absurd.

"If we want to survive. We must level up as quickly as possible. But above all, get good weapons. And that hive-city is full of those weapons."

Mary kept her map and looked Klein in the eye. "Without weapons you will be lost. Let's go to the hive-city, it's our best option."

Klein was considering going. He did not doubt the current situation was a total emergency. However, still had something to do.

"I... well... you will see, I slept with my friends for a week in the street in line to get the game... they are still there, in the square. They must be clearly scared. I have to go for them."

"Then go and look for them . We must start as soon as possible, so make sure you get them here fast."

Klein nodded at her words and hurried back to the square. Mary checked her gun and sword and again thought of her family. She had to get out of this, not only for her, but for the people she loved.

Out of the corner of the eye something caught her attention. He was a boy, about sixteen years old. He was running along one of the roads to the nearest city, it was obvious that he knew about the game.

He was dressed as a commissar. His cap was fastened to his waist, it was not a complete violation of the rules, but it was probably to run without much trouble.

The boy ran in a hurry, until then from the rocks appeared a wolf. It was clearly blocking his way, marking him as its prey. The boy drew his sword and charged even more quickly. Direct to the beast. With a shout, he aimed the sword in a direct stab at the animal that ran for him with its jaws open and ready to attack.

The sword pierced the jaw of the wolf and with the force of the charge reached the neck and the column coming out the other side. The wolf collapsed from the deadly wound. The boy did not bother to look back and continued towards the city.

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Adam Hevrem, or better known Adumael as written in his avatar could not explain what he was feeling. It was already a couple of hours since that Kayaba had announced that this was a death game and the only way to escape was to finish with four bosses of segmentum.

He could well be desperate for now to be unable to return to the real world. He could think that his life would end once his health bar reached zero.

But on the other hand he wondered. What was so good about going back to the real world? Back to the unfair job where it left nothing to him and he was being constantly humiliated by his boss? To return with that family that only treated him like a bank and in which he could no longer find comfort?

He looked at his hands again, which were holding an Astartes combat knife, which in the hands of a mortal would be as big as a sword. The blade was covered in blood, just like his hands.

And at his feet was the corpse of a mutant. What appeared to be the body of an 18-year-old was lying on the barren floor. His guts were on the outside and a large pool of blood was forming.

He did not remember exactly what had happened. Only this player had tried to steal something of what he had managed to hunt. He had found some gold coins and guns of poor quality, but weapons after all. Better than the improvised spears and clubs used by several players of chaos.

There was something that was not right. He knew he had definitely killed them, yet he did not remember how he had pulled out his guts, but he was sure that whatever he had done did not weigh him as any other person.

No, he could not feel something like guilt. Yes, he was intrigued, how could have done that and be so calm now?. Looked at the puddle that reflected his mirror self, saw a giant of black armor and demonic symbols including a wheel with eight points coming out of the center.

He saw his avatar, saw the chaos Space Marine.

He had been considerably lucky to log in and at the same time he could not believe that he was receiving the avatar of a Space Marine. After selecting it he had chosen chaos. It was not by simple attraction to all that evil that would attract an edgyboy, no, it was more curiosity, as if something called him to all that. Something more than just death and blood, something more than only destruction. There was 'something' in the chaos that called him.

His thoughts were cast aside by a voice he had never heard. When turning around he found three players of chaos. A cultist, a sorcerer and a Mechanicus Obscurus.

"Amazing view."

"An authentic sample of the blood god Khorne."

"A death worthy of art."

The three exclaimed as if appreciating what they had seen in front of their eyes. Adumael did not understand what these three were saying. They appreciated the way he had killed this person and even celebrated it.

"It Is incredible. Just as I had heard. You can really feel the real thing when you kill someone." the cultist Said while watching what was left of the dead player. "Hey buddy. You mind if loot that corpse?" Despite not getting an answer the cultist began to deprive the corpse of everything that was useful. There was a knife and a very poor quality gun with some bullets. The cultist also took away the old and ragged clothes. The body disintegrated in a pile of ashes that remained on the ground.

"Who are you?" Adumael finally asked as he could not understand what was happening. For a second he felt an air of danger over those three, but he remembered he was a space Marine, a demi-god. What could mere mortals do against him?

"We are just a group of Player Killers that were passing by" said the Chaos Sorcerer. "We could not help but appreciate your power to see how you killed that mutant. Actually space marines are as lethal as they say."

Adumael looked at his reflection in the blood. Truly, he saw a giant known as one of the most powerful warriors in the galaxy. His black armor adorned with the mark of chaos absolute and the marks of the dark gods.

It was true. He was a demi god. He was an Astartes.

"Hey." The sorcerer continued. "By chance you do not have a team? It turns out that we are looking for allies. And you are just what we need."

Adumael moved his head side a little and thought a while. In truth, if he could gather subjects to use them as cannon fodder he could survive this game of death in which he was locked up.

"It's fine. But first, I 'd like to know what the name of your team is."

The sorcerer smiled and showed his forearm which was tattooed with the image of a coffin that seemed to laugh in a bizarre form.

"We are laughing Coffin."

[X]

Koinnead passed through the palm of her hand two of her runes, two of the only three that had been given to her after choosing the path of the seer. They were the runes that used [immaterial blow] and [reinforce] these runes, made of wraithbone, were items given to all initiates in the path of the seer in the Eldar race and each had been designed for the initiates and therefore were delivered without any price.

However, after finishing the tutorials to use the runes she had decided to buy a new one. Runes were expensive, but she had made sure to use some of her family's fortune and buy hundreds of extra bonuses on jewelry. If she used her money well she could survive in this game for months in the real world, which would be equivalent to years here.

Of course, she did not intend to spend her whole life hidden in any room. She knew that if she did not start making money and forming influences, would not be able to survive much longer in this game of death.

She kept the third rune had bought well hidden in her clothes. It had cost more than 10 Vidrere jewels, a really exorbitant sum if you considered that this kind of jewelry was the third most valuable in the five-level monetary scale managed by this faction.

She remembered the tutorial to activate the runes. She must pronounce the name of the rune with it in her hand. A circle of magic would appear in front of her as the rune floated to release its power. She had been told that it was possible to use multiple runes and even use them without mentioning their names by activating them by telepathic means. But both skills required a very high level in which she was not yet.

Runes could be used indefinitely as long as they were not overloaded. Some may burn more quickly than others and merge ruining the spell. She had to be careful to use the ones she had obtained. Especially the third one. This had the spell [clairvoyance] and would allow her to detect all kinds of important or useful elements. You could use it to detect enemies or to find a hidden artifact. koinnead could even use it to spy on players and other things. It was a really interesting rune. For no reason should she lose it.

She saw a girl running through the hallways of the great hall. And knew that if this were a real spaceship world, that girl would be punished and locked in some cell to reflect on her behavior. But these NPCs would only come out with a warning about not running in the corridors. Therefore, it was possible that this young Eldar girl was a player.

When Ishe passed next to her, Koinnead spoke with a ton of strong and full authority to which she was accustomed.

"Hey you! Stop ! "

The girl was surprised by the sudden voice that had called her making her freeze where she was. She slowly turned her head until she faced the person who had spoken to her.

"Why are you running?" Said Koinnead. "You do not seem lost."

The girl was panting trying to catch her breath. For a moment she did not know what to do. She was being chased, that obviously could be seen. Especially when a couple of striking scorpions appeared from the same corridor where she had come from.

Both were unarmed, although that was relative when they were using their mandiblasters. One of them spoke.

"Silica- chan Why are you running? Did you consider what we had talked about?"

The girl - apparently named Silica - was now hiding behind Koinnead. As if trying to use her as a wall to escape from her persecutors. Koinnead, not being able to ignore this situation, and being unnecessarily involved in this problem, decided to find out what was happening.

"What are you looking for, scorpions?"

That caught their attention, one of them tilted to the head, trying in some way to measure the situation.

"Oh, a Warlock. You better not get involved in this. This is an issue that we should fix with that girl."

"I would not recommend you to do that," Koinnead said. "You know about our restriction in PK brings the most serious consequences if we kill each other. Do not want to have your souls devoured by Slaanesh, right? "

Both seemed doubtful. Then one of them continued. " Slaanesh? I have no idea what that is. But better for yourself to turn aside before this place gets ugly."

Koinnead sighed as she realized these two were just a couple of casuals who had only bought the game for fun. She resented the fact that someone did not really know the power of the Eldar or warhammer 40k.

"I'll only say it once. Stay away and avoid a confrontation before you both lose points alignment points"

The two striking scorpions exchanged glances and after a few moments both turned around and left.

"Well, I think you're safe now" Koinnead said. "Although I should ask why you were being chased by those guys. But first tell me, what is your name? I am Koinnead. "

The girl, though somewhat trembling, had enough strength to speak. "I'm Silica." She answered, though in a low tone still clearly heard.

"Silica- chan then?" Koinnead said. "Oh I'm sorry. I'm from Japan, so it comes as a habit of my country."

"I'm Japanese, too" Silica said, now showing a sincere smile. "Thank you very much for saving me. They are part of a clan that searches for rare items to sell them. I found this rune and now they want to force me into their clan. "

Silica raised her palm, on it there was a rune. This, unlike the ones Koinnead had seen in the store, was quite different. Not only the wraithbone was of great quality, the detail was beautiful and even had a jewel adorning it.

"Where did you get this?"

It was given to me by a clairvoyant to help him carry a wounded person with the healers. He gave me this as a token of appreciation.

Koinnead could not help feeling envious. A mission hidden in the craftworld, and that had escaped her hands almost made her want to go explore every corner of the ship.

"You'd better keep it with care. I do not know its effects, but try not to go around showing it to everyone."

"Eh... its effects said it is a rune capable of restoring the health of the carrier or all around in a range of ten meters."

That did call her attention, a rune like that had considerable value. There was no doubt that this girl would end up losing it, or worse still, losing her life.

"Ah ... it cannot be helped." Koinnead sighed as she saw the only option she had to help this girl. "come with me then. From now on you will be under my protection. If you want to avoid more incidents like this, then follow me."

"Uh... that's a bit..."

"Better for you to do as I told you. That is a rare rune and the runes only work with their bearer, so unless they kill you they will not get the rune any other way."

Silica seemed to tremble from head to toe when she heard that. She knew it was a death game, but she was so scared she felt nausea.

"Um... okay. I agree."

"A Wise choice. Come then, let me give you a little tour on the great Eldar Lore."

"Hey, Koinnead... can I ask you a favor?"

"Which one?"

"... can I... can I call you Koi nee-san?"

Koinnead blushed a little, but soon regained her composure. "Of course, if you do not mind if I call you Silica-chan. I only have one question for you. How is it that a girl like you bought a game specifically marked for adults?"

Silica laughed nervously as she played with the tips of her fingers.

[X]

He cleaned his pulse rifle again and made sure everything was in order. His blue fingers re armed the weapon, although it took a few minutes to do so.

He really appreciated that weapon. After all, he had finally gotten it after killing some snotlings that were haunting the forest. The captain suspected that an outbreak of orcs had left somewhere in the continent, so they were looking for them.

Now, with level 14, he could finally carry the common equipment of a warrior of the fire caste and could enjoy a greater survival rate as long as he knew where to hunt.

Jau'Nem pulled out his Datapad and checked his status. He lacked 93 experience points to level up, with a dozen snotlings he could reach level 15 and then get a sword.

He had chosen the Farsight enclaves instead of the regular Tau troops. It's not that he did not like them, but the versatility of hand-to-hand combat was better than just shooting. He knew he could not have many engineers of the earth caste, so he had to take care of his armor so as not to damage it too much.

He turned off his datapad and walked through the camp. There was an outpost in this place, already far from the barracks where he had arrived for the first time. The place was clean and tidy, the officers trained the recruits and several fire warriors kept busy doing their chores. This, of course, was part of the artificial intelligence that controlled them. Something really surprising.

However, there were fire warriors who were not doing the same as the others. One group in particular was sitting on some supply boxes. It was about seventeen of them, some spoke about their equipment, other new items they had bought, some ate and other more watching something on their Datapads.

Jau'Nem went to this team he was part of. It was a team because to reach clan rank they still needed to reach thirty members and another fifty to reach a guild.

" Jau, you finally got that pulse rifle you wanted so much." said one of them. Muk'eri, the member most senior among them and the team leader. With at level 18 could now use a fusion weapon in addition to his pulse rifle. He also carried behind him a curved sword in the form of a katana he had bought from a merchant.

"Yeah , that laser blaster was not as powerful as this. I could open an ork's head with this."

Muk'eri laughed and took out a stick that, after turning it, put it in his mouth and began to come out some smoke with the smell of coffee. He offered one, but Jau'Nem rejected it.

The group that was seeing the datapad began to laugh making more noise now. They were talking about something he did not understand very well due to their own laughs.

"Why so much scandal?"

"The new episode of the second season of No game No life." Said one of his commarades while trying to open a bag of chips. "Apparently, Kayaba set this game so we cannot send information. But you can download files from the internet."

They remembered everything Kayaba had said. The man who had locked them in this game. He had left them in shock and they did not know what to do. But Muk'eri had brought them forward and guided them. They were trying to gather as many solitary fire warriors as they could.

"I've seen the news and you're not going to like what's there. There are at least two deaths a week and it does not look like it's going to stop. In addition, the Akashic system is controlling the flow of time whenever access things happen more quickly and can collect everything you see. They say they are trying to find the bastard, but until now nobody has had any luck." He said while taking some fritters to his mouth.

Jau'Nem looked towards the hangar, there it was. The combat suit model XV8 crisis. He needed to at least reach level 35 to pilot one, but that was only the beginning. He wanted to get to pilot those huge XV104 suits. His passion for the Mechas made him want to reach the necessary level. But there was still a long way to go.

"Any new mission?" Asked Muk'eri .

"Wild orks . The NPC found a camp. Most are only gretchins and snotlings . But the path finders claimed to have discovered at least three Orks. It's an easy target as long as we can take them by surprise from a distance. Not everyone has improved their melee skills, so if we are going to do this we need to avoid being close."

"We take the Orks first and then we go for the gretchins. We left the snots for the last." Said the one who was finishing his fritters.

"Exactly." Muk'eri said. "Everyone has standard weapons already, with the pulse rifles we can finish them without much trouble."

Jau'Nem studied the map. The jungle was quite dense. So a withdrawal in case of danger could be difficult. However, it was a good opportunity to level up and get more items and money.

He took out his canteen and drank a good gulp of water. If they were going to attack, they had to do it during the night.