"Where is this?"
Queen Yue looked at the Jurassic World filled with towering trees, giant mosquitoes, and super dinosaurs in a daze. As a Sword Lady born in an instance dungeon, everything in front of her left her at a loss.
"Welcome to the game world of < Sword Lady Online >, respected Queen Yue.
Cashier 0791, pleased to be of service to you. "
0791 smiled, "Your appearance is a little special, I'll need a little help."
After saying this, 0791 stretched out a finger and gently tapped the Sword Lady on King Yue's forehead. King Yue felt his head sink, and then a large amount of information and memories surged into his mind, causing him to fall into a daze.
"What did you do to my Sword Lady?"
Guhan was a little dissatisfied and worried. The Sword Lady that he had painstakingly obtained wouldn't have been beaten silly by 0791, right?
"Queen Yue's situation is a little special."
0791 explained, "She's a swordmistress that was created during the quest. Although she has the physical body and abilities of a swordmistress, she's not a swordmistress that players normally have in the game. She doesn't have the consciousness fragments of swordmistresses.
That's why I gave her a little help just now and injected a small piece of Queen Yue's consciousness into her body. From now on, she's the real Sword Lady. "
"So that's how it is!"
When Gu Han heard this, he couldn't help but feel ashamed. He thought that the plan he had spent 12 years to come up with was perfect, but he didn't expect so many loopholes to appear in the final moments. Especially the consciousness fragment. If 0791 hadn't taken the initiative to inject the consciousness fragment into King Yue, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
The so-called consciousness fragment was a small piece of consciousness and memory copied from the real Sword Lady's consciousness.
In the testing phase of the game a few hundred years ago, the Sword Ladies in the game were just system generated NPCs and didn't need any consciousness fragments.
But very quickly, through testing, it was discovered that these system generated NPCs couldn't perfectly simulate the Sword Lady's true combat strength, especially in the form of a Sword Lady. When they fought, they were no different from puppets and didn't have any spirituality.
This did not have any effect on the sword wielder who was trying to improve his strength in the game and his rapport with the Sword Lady.
That was not all. More importantly, after a long period of existence, the intelligence of these simulated Sword Lady NPCs began to collapse. They fell into a state of mental illness and would even attack their sword wielder.
Therefore, after some testing, the system decided to give up on this NPC Sword Maiden.
However, if he didn't use NPCs, what could he do?
In this world, there were always more solutions than problems. After a long period of research, the system decided to replicate a small part of the real Sword Lady's consciousness and insert it into the NPC Sword Lady's body. The Sword Lady born this way would be equivalent to a clone of the real Sword Lady. It would have the Sword Lady's spirituality and personality, and would not have any symptoms of consciousness collapse.
At the same time, because it was a duplicate consciousness, it did not have any negative effects on the real Sword Maiden. Instead, it had some unexpected benefits!
Therefore, in the game, the Sword Ladies owned by the players were the combination of the system's NPCs and consciousness fragments. The Sword Ladies that appeared in the Instance Dungeon that did not belong to the players were pure NPCs. They were created according to a fixed behavior template.
… …
Queen Yue's eyes lit up. The fusion between the consciousness fragment and the body had finally ended. She finally had a systematic understanding of her current state and existence.
"You shouldn't have fused my consciousness fragment into this body!!"
Queen Yue glanced at Guhan in disdain after the fusion and said to 0791, "This human used despicable methods to obtain this body. You should punish him harshly and not use this consciousness fragment that I purposely split out."
"The body that this player obtained before that didn't conform to the rules and justice has been cancelled. This body was obtained through the toy capsule machine. It's a lawful method that conforms to the rules and is recognized by the system. Respected Queen Consort, what do you think?"
"Toy capsule machine??"
Sword Maiden Yue Wang then saw the remaining purple capsule in the glass jar on the table. "I still refuse to become a sword maiden of such a shameless person. His actions are an insult to my beautiful memories."
"Beautiful memories?"
0791 grinned, "Your main body has never been willing to copy those memories into the fragment. Where did you get those beautiful memories from?"
The beautiful memories that Queen Yue was talking about were naturally the beautiful memories of fighting alongside Kenzu 1,000 years ago.
"I request to contact the main body. This matter must be handled by the main body."
"I'm sorry. After splitting this consciousness fragment of yours, your main body lost its sword-bearer in a battle. She's still lying on the third floor of the sword pavilion. I reckon that you won't be able to contact your main body until the next sword-bearer wakes her up."
"Then I request to contact Lord BAT directly. I will never accept such a person as my sword wielder. Even if I'm just a consciousness fragment, even if I'm only in the game world, I will never accept such an outcome."
"Rejected. You're just a clone born from a consciousness fragment. You don't have the authority to contact Lord BAT directly."
"You …" King Yue's originally cold face revealed an angry red glow. Just as she was about to fly into a rage and teach 0791 a lesson, she didn't notice that a hand was pressed against the crack of her buttocks, holding onto the hilt of her sword.
Thus, the pitiful Queen Yue turned back into a ball of light and gradually shrunk into a long sword in Guhan's hand.
"Apologies, the Sword Lady at home doesn't know any better and caused you trouble." Guhan bowed slightly to 0791.
"It's fine, this is what I should do. I'm serving the players!" 0791 maintained his smile.
"Isn't this kind of service a little too smart for a cashier?"
Gu Han placed the Yue King Goujian Sword behind him, and a Sword Dao appeared at his waist, firmly securing the Yue King Goujian Sword to his back.
"Player Military Governor, you still have one last project to settle. Would you like to begin settlement now?" 0791 acted as if he didn't hear what Guhan said.
"One more project?"
Under normal circumstances, there were only three parts to the settlement: dungeon scoring, basic reward distribution, and the lucky draw for the capsule machine. These three parts had already been completed, so where did this new part come from?
"Have you forgotten?
The Goujian Sword you obtained from the dungeon has been removed, so you still have one more chance to choose a starter Sword Lady! "
After saying that, four sword cases suddenly appeared on the table. It seemed that these were the starter Sword Ladies that Guhan had chosen.
"Why are there four?" Guhan was shocked. "Isn't the starter Sword Lady the Azure Edge Sword, the White Iron Sword, and the Hundred Refined Sword?"
"Player Military Governor, please open the sword case and choose your own starter Sword Lady."
Since I can't get an answer, I'll just open it and take a look.
Guhan opened the first three sword cases one by one. Inside were the three starter Sword Ladies.
"What's inside the fourth case?"
Guhan's hand lingered on the surface of the sword case for a moment before slowly opening it. Inside the case was a sword that Guhan was very familiar with.
"It's this!"
Guhan pulled out the sword from the case. Even though he recognized it at first glance, Guhan still placed it under the sunlight to examine it.
It's that sword.
"Congratulations to Player Military Governor for choosing the starter Sword Lady. You have obtained an ancient sword grade Sword Lady — Qingpin Sword."
0791 pointed out the name of the sword. Indeed, this sword was the one that Guhan had specially taken from Fleeting Time's house to temporarily replace the starter Sword Lady's Qingpin Sword. He had thought that he would no longer have anything to do with the Qingpin Sword after the completion of the starter dungeon, but he didn't expect it to become his first starter Sword Lady.
"Why?
Why did the Qingpin Sword appear in the starter Sword Lady's selection? "
Gu Han's heart was filled with doubts. Other than the initial instance dungeon, the Sword of Poverty had never appeared in any other instance dungeons. He had never heard of any sword wielder obtaining this sword maiden in real life or in the game. It was not even recorded in the "Primordial Sword Record". Other than knowing that it was a long sword used by Fleeting Years Grandma for square dancing, and that it was half a sword maiden, there was no other information about it.
"Player Military Governor, please complete the synchronization with the Qingpin Sword within one hour. Otherwise, your game account will be frozen forever."
Wait!
The Qingpin Sword is a half Sword Lady!
How can the Qingpin Sword become the starter Sword Lady when it can't even transform into a Sword Lady?
And it has to be bound within one hour? Why?
Isn't this a scam?
Guhan raised his head. He wanted to protest to 0791 only to find that there was no one before him.
"System prompt: Player Military Governor, your settlement process has ended. You will be leaving the settlement centre in 30 seconds. You are welcome to come down and try again."
…
"Player Name: Military Governor.
Player Gender: Male.
Player Appearance: Uglier by 70%.
Overall Physique rating: 4 stars.
Profession: Sword Wielder.
Realm: Ancient Sword Wielder.
Innate Sword Element Value: 9 quarks.
Acquired Sword Element Value: 0 quarks.
Game Element Value: 9 quarks.
Estimated Game Element Conversion Rate: 0.0009%.
Title: The King of Yue, Goujian Sword Number One.
Wealth: 106.4 yuan (Youngster, hurry up and spend money … 1: 1 ratio. Honest to all. No surrogates.)
Property: One thatched hut (Do you want a luxurious villa with a waterside pavilion?
As long as you fight, there is nothing you cannot do.)
Status: Commoner (There is no human with a lower status than you.)
Reputation: 300 points (Minor Reputation)
Achievement: One hour
Wielder: Yue King Goujian Sword.
Items Wielder: 100 Sword Element Pills, 103 Sword Mark Dust, Inherent Barrier — Sword Cleansing Pool, Ancient Sword Grade Sword Lady — Qingpin Sword.