Published at 1st of July 2025 6:25 pm

Chapter 870: Terms And Conditions

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“Good afternoon, Fifi.” I nodded towards the computer after seeing the message. “This isn’t my first time getting one of Sarah’s game worlds, so I’d just like to ask if there is anything special that I need to know about this one.” Fifi hesitated for a moment at that, before a message appeared on the screen.

When I saw that, my brow twitched in surprise. “Sarah hasn’t started using real souls, has she? I know that she was rather opposed to doing so when I last spoke with her.”

“Thankfully, my afterlife fits your needs quite well. Should I put you in touch with the goddess in charge of it, so that you can arrange the necessary procedures?” The more Fifi spoke, or rather typed, the more curious I became about this new game.

“That sounds more like her.” I said with a satisfied nod. “In that case, is there anything else that you need to discuss in order to get this game set up?”

I lifted a brow at that, but merely nodded my head again. What systems would she be worried about affecting the world outside

the game? “Go on…”

“Define ‘non-standard’ in that context?” I muttered, before blinking and shaking my head. “Wait, you said Programmable Magic?” I asked, receiving a quick confirmation. Something about that name triggered a memory, so I opened up the market.

Sure enough, Programmable Magic was a system that I submitted to the market ages ago, back before I even had my first match as a Keeper. If I remembered correctly, that was a system that Ryone had written among a bulk of others as ideas to put up on the market. Checking through old message logs, I was able to confirm a royalty notice that SarahLasting had purchased this system only a few weeks after it went on the market.

“Sorry, that system came from my world, so I was a bit surprised. That said, I don’t actually use it myself. But go on, what did you mean by non-standard?” There was a brief delay after I asked that, before Fifi went on to elaborate.

I nodded my head at that. “I’m going to be making it purely digital. On that note, though, I do have a virtual network where a significant portion of the population have digital avatars that may connect from there. Will that cause any issues?”

My eyes went wide when I heard that, surprised that Sarah had left a way for gods to be born within the game. “Yeah, my virtual technology is able to let people train, though it doesn’t let them get new systems or anything. Would that still apply, in that case?”

“So Sarah even took into consideration the refund policy?” I chuckled, shaking my head. “No, that will be fine. If people manage to become gods in this game, maybe it will spark more interest. If there’s nothing else, please check the capability of our world’s hardware to make sure that we are able to run your game world.”

“Good. In that case, you can connect with Irena, our Goddess of Death, and Ashley, who will be the one to publish the game in our world. Ashley can also handle any lore-related questions you need to ask, such as if you should incorporate our local gods into the game setting.”

After saying that, I finally stood up from my computer, preparing for my next step. I could not predict when Ashley’s team would be finished with the new update any more than I could predict how or when the world would apply the evolutions to the dungeons and Merkin. In the meantime, there was little for me to do but work on improving myself to prepare for what may come ahead. And now, thanks to Keliope, we had several different combat styles that I could browse through.

Getting Udona to create copies of the information spheres was easy enough, and so I had her transcribe all ten styles onto the terminals of the Sky Citadel. These were arts meant to be taught to the high-level masters of the world, so who better to act as the ones to test them than Tsubaki and the others?

Thinking that, I descended to the throne room of the Citadel, Tsubaki standing not far away. It felt almost weird for her to be standing there, as if simply welcoming home. She offered me a warm smile, letting me know that she was aware I wouldn’t be gone for long. “Welcome back, my Keeper.” She said with a short bow. “Were you able to finish your business?”

“More or less.” I chuckled, standing up from my throne. “Call the others, and have them gather at the library.” As I said that, I began walking to the door, only to hesitate a moment. “And make sure to call Gerard, as well. This could concern him.”

As Gerard was a living spell, the fighting style involving mana could draw his interest. It would be a waste not to get his opinion on it. After I added on that comment, I resumed my steps, heading for the Citadel’s library. By now, Udona would have finished setting up the manuals for the fighting styles.

By the time I arrived, I saw Dana, Lifre, and Gerard all ready and waiting for me to reveal what had happened. It was hard to tell who was more excited about the reveal between Dana and Lifre, while Gerard had a rather deadpan expression on his face.

I gestured for them to follow me inside, along with Tsubaki, and moved to one of the terminals off to the side of the library. “I’d like everyone to settle in at one of these terminals. In order to help facilitate the growth of our worlds, Keliope suggested I purchase some new fighting styles, similar in origin to the Thousand Arms, Ten Thousand Threads that I taught you all before. The manuals to train these styles will have been downloaded onto these terminals.”

As I said that, I sat down at a terminal myself, activating it by placing my hand on the spherical object and injecting a small amount of mana. Upon doing so, the holographic screen appeared, with a message displayed on it.

“...Vivi?” I asked in shock, eyes wide as I saw the silver humanoid appearing below the message.

“...Okay, so we need virtual reality gear to do this.” It was hard to hide my surprise at this revelation, though it was likely something that Udona had set up while I was talking to Fifi. I could already imagine how complicated this was, if Udona decided we couldn’t properly learn it through written manuals.

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