[DN Doujin] Professional Reaper

"Death is a taboo and mysterious topic no matter when and where. Human beings cannot escape from death, and will face it eventually. What kind of landscape does the afterlife have? On the Soul Continent, there are a huge number of race, they are called by the adventurers - Death!

As souls blessed by the Goddess of Life, when adventurers die unexpectedly in the Soul Continent, their souls will appear in other parts of the continent due to their short-term loss.At this time, the god of death wearing a black cloak and a black hood covering his face will appear beside the dead and lead their souls back to the right place.

Perhaps in the eyes of many people, this huge race is more like a leader than a god of death.But in the face of those heinous and murderous villains, the gods of death will also hold their sickles high and send the sinful souls into the cage of the afterlife! "

——From "Reaper" in the setting collection of "Soul Continent"

When the online game "Soul Continent" was first launched, it was unprecedentedly popular, and all kinds of physical stores and online distribution channels were overcrowded.What's even more exaggerated is that even if the client is installed successfully, some people still can't enter the game after queuing up at the login interface for 24 hours.You know, in order to achieve the feat of "one server for the world", the game company's server requirements can be said to be higher than the sky, but it still fails to surpass the enthusiasm of the players.

Let's not talk about the game experience effect, just say that "Soul Continent" has prepared a setting for each NPC, and also promises that all NPCs are the most intelligent, which is enough to prove the sincerity of the game developer up!In order to let the players of "Soul Continent" experience the most comprehensive journey in another world, the game party even gave up the most simple and direct resurrection point setting, and developed a huge NPC group called "Reaper" to resurrect players, filling "Soul Continent" The void of the afterlife.

Because each god of death can only receive the soul of one player at a time, the number of NPCs in this group of gods of death is the largest in the "soul" continent.At the craziest time, the number of Grim Reaper NPCs increased by one every 3 minutes, which barely met the operational requirements of the game.

No one expected this game to be so popular...

It's as if no one could have predicted that such a miraculously popular game would experience a nightmare decline in just one year...

Reaper 5971 is simply insignificant to this huge race, but because of the intelligent setting of the game company, he, like other tens of thousands of Reaper brothers, will learn from the adventurers who frequently come into contact with them, Slowly learn something that does not belong to the NPC field.

When No. 5971 was just born, her ears couldn't hear any sound, her nose couldn't smell any taste, and her mouth didn't even have the function of speaking, let alone the sense of taste. Apart from darkness, there was still darkness in front of her eyes.In fact, at that time, number 5971 didn't know what five sense organs were like, all he knew was the initial intelligence and the most elementary behavior ability given to him by the system.

As a god of death, whenever a player dies, the system will automatically issue a summoning command to all gods of death, and the one who responds first will become the guide of the soul.Of course, if there is no Reaper to respond, the system will automatically give birth to a new Reaper NPC.

It didn't take long for No. 5971 and other Reaper NPCs to realize that this repetitive and boring work was not useless to them.Every time an adventurer's soul returns to their body successfully, it seems that there is something extra in the guide's body. At first, it is like a drop of water falling from the sky, and then the second, third, and fourth drops... Something is accumulating in Death God's body...

In the end... nothing happened!

No matter whether it is No. 5971 or other numbered Reapers, no matter how hard they try to answer the call, no matter how much power they have accumulated in their bodies, they are still Reaper NPCs without five senses, without any change...

As a result, the Grim Reaper NPCs gradually learned a new human emotion—giving up!

In the dead and dark world after death, more and more Death NPCs no longer respond to the call of death. Sometimes they just move their bodies slightly, and most of the time they don't even move lazily.

The reason why No. 5971 is so special may be that his intelligent program is always slower than others. When Dabo's Reaper gave up the lead, he still kept in mind his "Reaper" duty setting , Diligently guide the souls of adventurers among a group of newly born juniors.

Until one day, the last drop of water fell into the "full pool", and then the unknown energy originally accumulated in the body of No. 5971 suddenly overflowed crazily!In the blink of an eye, there was a loud bang like an explosion in No. 5971's mind, a glare of light was suddenly caught in the dark field of vision, various breathing sounds suddenly came from the dead world, and even the damp smell of the soil in the world after death made him feel ashamed. Can smell it!

At that moment, No. 5971, who was curled up and sitting on the ground like the seniors and juniors, suddenly stood up, catching the pitiful light and scenery of the afterlife world with those new-born eyes!Being able to upgrade the five senses in the afterlife world is actually really lucky for No. 5971. If he upgrades in the process of receiving the soul, his eyes may be directly blinded by the outside light!

Is it because of the gathering of those unknown forces in the body that changes have occurred in him?At this moment, the upgrade of the five senses seems to have led to the upgrade of No. 5971's intelligence and database. He made an "ahhhhhhh" sound of unknown meaning in the afterlife world, dancing and hoping to share this secret with other death NPCs!But they are still the same as before, unable to hear, see, or feel...

After going crazy for a while, No. 5971 sat back on the ground again. Even if he could see and hear, this dark afterlife only had all kinds of heavy and depressing breathing sounds.This kind of depression became the driving force for 5971 to avoid the afterlife, and the so-called avoidance is nothing more than the fact that the Reaper NPC, who was the first to upgrade his intelligence, started a dedicated and crazy introduction work!

It's just that, from that day on, the introduction work of No. 5971 was no longer monotonous. He adapted to the sunshine of the Soul Continent and fell in love with the feeling of bathing in the sun.He will observe every soul he receives, and he will observe every NPC he passes by... However, maybe because he knows his special relationship, No. 5971 always habitually prevents others from discovering his special The dark robe of the god of death obviously also played an excellent role in covering up.

In fact, the change of No. 5971 is not a miraculous thing like a system bug, or even just one of the game's settings for "Soul Continent".The biggest reason why the game party and players are so enthusiastic about this game is the so-called "highest intelligence" promised by the game party in advance!

According to the promise of the game party, every character in "Soul Continent" will grow step by step like the player's level, and will eventually become a fully intelligent second world that is almost the same as the human world!The village chief, who can only issue tasks, may suddenly set off to search for a second spring in the distance one day; players can bargain with monster bosses for drop rewards; bribe the god of death, maybe you will have the super hang of infinite resurrection!

Such a magical game world attracts countless players, but the biggest prerequisite for the formation of such a world is that you need to give this game and all the NPCs in this game enough time to upgrade!

And what the game side lacks the most is time!

Just one year after the release of "Soul Continent", a super technology that has always been stunned and completely sluggish from the inside to the outside was born. This god-level technology that originally only existed in the world of novels appeared in such a red fruit three times. In the real field of vision of metahumans, its name is - holographic virtual online game!

For a keyboard game, no matter how powerful its growth potential is, can it really beat the charm and temptation of holographic simulation online games?The answer is undoubtedly no!Compared with practicing micromanagement with a mouse in hand, compared with cutting down and killing in another world, the player chose the latter without looking back.The adventurers disappeared from "Soul Continent" one by one...

Faced with such a situation, the best choice that the game side of "Soul Continent" can make is to give up "Soul Continent" and join the team of holographic online games with the smart upgrade technology in hand!The complete decline of the client game market is already foreseeable with the naked eye.

No matter how turbulent the three-dimensional world is, No. 5971, who knows nothing about it, still completes his work dutifully every day.However, with the intelligence of number 5971 at this moment, he can already feel a series of changes in the world he lives in.The team of Reaper NPCs has not grown for a long time. Sometimes he can complete all the pick-up work for a day with a single Reaper. The merchant NPCs whose intelligence has started to upgrade begin to frown because the goods cannot be sold...

On the day when the once overcrowded main city of "Soul Continent" completely turned into a dead city, No. 5971 was still working diligently, but this time he seemed to become an exclusive guide for adventurers.Perhaps at this time, No. 5971 should call this adventurer "the last player in the Soul Continent".

No. 5971 is no stranger to this adventurer who persevered to the end. He knows that this person's occupation is a thief, and he is the kind of strange guy who worked hard step by step from a poor novice to the pinnacle of "Soul Continent".When this person was still a weak adventurer, 5971 had picked him up many times, and he was always resurrected countless times in a short period of time, just to try various tactics against the enemy, and then use the weakest strength to defeat the enemy in front of him. The most powerful enemy!And this time, the NO.1 among the thieves is doing a crazy and helpless thing, that is, without T, no output, and no milk, to challenge the most advanced player in "Soul World" at this stage alone. Monster Boss Yanlong!

Sometimes, No. 5971 had to admit that he had learned a good quality called "persistence" from the thief in front of him. Even though he knew that there would be no need for the death NPC to exist in this world, he had been persisting in his work.

When No. 5971 once again led the thief's soul forward to the body, the language database he upgraded again not long ago allowed him to understand the whisper of the thief in the soul state——

"Hey, let's end here, it's time to give up."

"Why did you give up?" No. 5971, who spoke human language for the first time, had a slightly hoarse voice, but it was enough to hear the elegant tone and deep magnetism.

The author has something to say:

I haven't finished writing the trivia before time travel (┬＿┬) but... as long as it's less than 500 words, I'll finish the explanation!