Whoa boy, we have ourselves a doozy of a release. If you guys don’t appreciate a good info dump or something like that, sorry. I will try and speed on through this with multiple releases today. BUT! I would suggest reading this all the way through since it has important information you really need to know! If anything sounds too confusing, let me know in the comment section.

Thanks!

Made an UPDATE, he was first in the country, not continent. Messed it up.

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“…ick him up…ver to the ch…ock him tight. Make sure he can’t get out.”

…Huh? What’s going on? How come it’s still dark?! Eh? A towel?! And why are there ropes?!

“This is a tutorial!”

“More like torture! What’s going on?!”

“Are you really going to just repeat yourself? It’s me, Navi.”

“Heh? Umm…Oh, the Pixie! Wait, was that really your name?”

“NO! You gave it to me! You named me after a stupid videogame fairy! And now I can’t change it!”

“Sorry. But why cover my face?”

“Because your mistress here might get ideas.”

“I keep telling you, I’m not a pervert! Just because I was desperate, I get this fucked up Ability?!”

“Rebecca? What happened? Are you okay?”

“Yeah, I am fine. Why do you ask?”

I can tell from her voice that she is genuinely surprised and confused with my question.

“You died. Because of me. Remember? I was asking if everything is okay with you.”

“Oh, thanks. I’m fine. In fact, I am more than just a regular zombie, thanks to you.”

“Oh? So you leveled up as well! What are you? And what’s your ability?”

“…”

“I can hear those dots!”

“…”

“She’s a Succubus and her Ability is Perverted.”

“How so? What does the Ability do?”

“No, it really is called Perverted. That’s the name.”

I can hear Rebecca’s sobs. I told her this would be bad. But a Succubus in videogames always has high magical power, right? Doesn’t this mean she might become really strong?

Wait…how did a zombie become a Demon?

“It’s a special prerequisite for evolution. All of your zombies evolved. Judging from their previous actions, when they reached level 2, they changed. Some stayed Undead while others became Spirits or Demons or something else.”

“What about Lucy, Chance, and David?”

“They aren’t your Units. They aren’t even officially your friends.”

“Really? So how do I change all that?”

“Look, I have a lot to tell you and I need you to be able to remember it all. Also, in order to teach you, I need to know what you know. So start from Day 1.”

Sounds boring as shit. Oh well.

“Shit. Day One, huh. I woke up around 11 o’clock thanks to the doorbell. I opened the door to see a small box. Inside was the monitor.”

“That’s how you got yours? My family found ours on our beds mysteriously.”

“Oh yeah…speaking about that…Do you remember last night?”

“I don’t think so? I just remember the night before and then the pain of dying. Why?”

“Umm…I am terrible at keeping secrets, so I am just going to tell you and get it over with here and now. I asked about your family. When you were a zombie.”

“…”

Fuck, those god damn dots!

“That wasn’t nice.”

“I…I feel bad about hurting your feelings, but to be honest, I don’t regret it. I know that makes me sound selfish, but I now know you better.”

I can feel Navi’s feet angrily tapping my shoulder. I can practically imagine her standing there crossing her arms in frustration at being interrupted.

All of a sudden, she jumped off. I was then promptly smacked across the face. I may have had a towel around my head, but it still hurt. Geez, is she a fighter, not a mage?!

“Is that what you wanted me to do?”

“Eh?”

“Did you want me to retaliate? Hurt you?”

“I’m not a masochist! I just thought you should know! Damn! I can’t tell what you want!”

“I want to thank you.”

“What the fuck?!”

I am so confused! What the hell?!

Why is she laughing?! I don’t fucking…know…

“Hahahaaa… look. You are an idiot.”

“APPARENTLY!”

“Pfft, even now, you don’t realize you helped lift me of a burden.”

What burden? Giving her power to protect Sarah?

“You relieved me of being alone. I only had Sarah and I couldn’t just unload all my fears and worries on her. That’s not right. But now, since you know, expect me to come crying whenever I get sad, okay?”

I…really? That’s it? I guess she couldn’t talk to me before, since she barely knew me…She probably thinks of me like a younger friend. Of course, that changed two nights ago…

“Helloooo, this is the part where you assure her she always has a shoulder to cry on from now on.”

“Oh. Uhh, yeah! You can come talk to me whenever and about whatever you feel like! Wait, which direction are you?”

“Hahaha…”

“Hey, why are you leaving? Navi! What’s going on!”

I hear a small slap…Did Navi just facepalm? What did I do wrong?!

“Whatever. You are a difficult case for me. So, as you were saying, after receiving the monitor, what did you do?”

“Umm…nothing for three days. Well, I downloaded plans for machines, details for electrical contraptions and such…you know, easy ways to remake modern conveniences.”

“So you could stay lazy.”

“…Yeah.”

“You can’t do that now, you know.”

“I know. I have to protect Rebecca and Sarah. Heck, might as well add Lucy, since she has no family of her own. You know, I haven’t really talked to her, yet.”

“You can increase your approval rating later. Continue.”

“Umm, I went outside and pretty much got immediately turned. Because of that, I received the Tragedy Ability.”

“No, because you were a lazy shit and died as soon as you left the safe confines of your house, you were awarded the Title of Most Pathetic.”

“Hey! If you already know, then why ask me?!”

“To hammer it into your head! Because you died in such a way, you received a reward from completing a hidden Mission. Because you completed a Mission, you went onto the broadcast. The broadcast is like an announcement strip in an MMO game.”

“Oh. Hey, can I see now? Since Rebecca left?”

“Fine.”

I felt the rope loosen and I removed the bindings to see the little Pixie sitting on the windowsill. Wait, how did she do that from over there? She had her feet hanging off and looked extremely cute.

“Thanks. Now, upon waking up, you killed another Ability Holder while he was trying to kill Lucy. You received another Reward. Two, actually. One for saving a Human, and another for killing the first Ability User in this Region.”

“There’s that Region thing again. It sounds more important now. How big does a Region get?”

“Well, to sum it up, seven Regions can fit into Texas.”

“Wow. So there are six other Regions here?!”

“Well, they don’t follow borders so there are actually more like 10 within the state border lines, just not completely.”

“Wow. And I’m the first to become a Noble on the country?! That’s insane!”

“Well, to become a Noble, one has to fulfill certain requirements. Usually, a living person gets Puppetmaster. Unfortunately, Humans will hunt them down because of the threat they hold.”

“They can control zombies, it’s a pretty OP Skill.”

“Not when they’re alive. Then they control other Humans.”

“Damn.”

Navi got up off the windowsill and stretched, raising her hands high up into the air like a little child. Her body looks really mature, but she seems like a little spoiled girl. She fluttered her wings and flew onto the bed before grabbing some of the blanket and making herself a comfy place to lay down. She is really lazy too, huh?

“To become a Noble, one has to have an ability to create underlings. This includes things like Necromancers and Liches like yourself.”

“Eh? I’m a Necromancer?”

“And a Lich.”

“Wow! Why?”

“Because of your lazy actions, the only real thing you did was turn people into your followers. There were only two people you killed and they were both Variants. You also killed those zombies at the beginning, but they didn’t count for anything.”

“Oh. So what does this mean, being a Lich and a Necromancer?”

“You are a natural leader of Undead. You also can summon Undead, making you a really efficient person. Lucky you.”

“Hehe, must have come from saving Lucy, huh?”

I only said it as a joke, but Navi actually sat up and looked at me wide eyed.

“You realized?! Really?!”

“Realized what?”

She calmed down and saw that I was just joking.

“Ahem. Lucy has the Ability to bestow a Luck Bonus to three people at a time. She picked you, Rebecca, and Spot. It was because of this that you survived that idiotic mess with the zombie hunters.”

“Dang, I have to thank her.”

“You do. I am actually surprised she managed to obtain the Title of Lucky. I mean, that’s not even a hidden Mission, it’s a Special Mission. You have to have been born under a special star to win those. I guess she must have had one too many lucky breaks so now she can share her luck with others.”

“Wow.”

“Okay, moving on. You went out and set up your fancy little gadgets to live an easy life. After finding out you needed zombie minions, you see the news. You hop on your stupid scooter and go save the day.”

“I have been meaning to ask that. How did something I want just show up? Don’t tell me it was Luc, she just got her Ability! I doubt she would have noticed how to use it!”

“Oh, but it was her. It was just her luck that you came and saved the day again. And so that’s what happened.”

“I don’t know if I can get more surprised…Why is it that eating mac and cheese decreases my hunger while most other food doesn’t?”

“You got some of it right. But to be honest, I think it was because cheese is a dairy product that carries all sorts of stuff in it. It is spoiled milk, after all. I wouldn’t know, it’s weird. But zombies don’t have to worry about hunger, since even if it was full, they would move faster. But since you are a Variant, I don’t think anything would have happened to you.”

“Oh.”

“Anyways, you gathered the Amigos and got minions. This and killing those zombies rewarded you with a Level 2 Bounty. Because you killed Wallace, you had already earned the Level 3 Bounty. But there was a system in place to make sure no one just popped up several Bounty Levels more than necessary.”

“So by earning the Level 2 the normal way, I automatically went to Level 3? What does this have to do with me?”

“This was when you became a BOSS.”

“Oooh…”

“And then you took care of more bandits and helped make two more Ability Users with Chance and David. Nothing happened to you here since you still didn’t kill anyone. But when you went and”

“Hold on, sorry for interrupting you again, but what’s with the Daily Tragic Show? That isn’t fair!”

“It helps show where a BOSS is. Soon, that zombie wolf will become a BOSS and show up on there too.”

“Oh, so like an update.”

“Yes. We’ll continue with that in a little bit. After that, you had a pathetic moment and fled away. It was here that you leveled up again.”

“How?”

Man, she looks really comfortable. I am getting sleepy again…I don’t want to work! It’s boring! It’s tiring! I don’t like being mocked!

“Then don’t be so pathetic. Now you obtained six wonderful Ability Users. You should have died right there, but ‘luckily’ the people were too disorganized. This was when you went to a Level 4 Bounty. After that, you went and did the dirty with that crazy lady, thereby making her into a mistress. This completed all the necessary requirements to become a Noble.”

“Wait, what? So for my Controlling Ability, I had Puppetmaster. For my mistress, I had Rebecca. But that’s it? Nothing else?”

“You had to be Level 4, have a specific amount of minions, and have three Abilities.”

“How many abilities can I have at most?”

“Three.”

“Huh?! Doesn’t this mean I can only be this strong?!”

“No. After becoming a Noble, you gain access to the Domain function and other functions as well. It’s part of the perks of obtaining a Level 5 Bounty.”

“How many Levels are there?”

“Ten. And you are right now a C Rank difficulty. Difficulty Ranking goes to SSS from F. Well, F is more like a regular person. A Level 0, if you will.”

“This is a lot of info.”

“Yeah, and we haven’t even gotten to the main part!”

Noooo…