The Initialization : Phase 012

"G-Good morning Fee." Lamely greeted by Zen as he stood firmly at the terrace door while holding the sleeping elf in his arms. "I c-can explain this..."

"Explain what excatly?"

'She's pissed! She might be smiling but i can feel murderous aura coming from her.' Zen thought as he felt goosebumps at the back of his head.

"Y-You see, i've found this girl sleeping outside shivering in cold." The frantic teen started. "Being the kind and generous man that i am, i offered her to stay here...i-if you don't mind that is."

"I see~ Well i believe ye' Zee but you forgot to mention all the fightin' and flirtin' ye' both had done."

The teen narrowed his eyes.

"How l-long were you standing here anyway Fee?"

The blonde just tilted her head innocently as she put her index finger at her chin in a thinking posture.

"Hmm, i guess since the time ye' said Gutan Morgin? or wus it Guton Morgan...i really can't remember."

"S–So basically since the...beginning?"

"Yep, pretty much." Fiona nodded as she dropped her folded arms and walked forward.

"Why didn't you come out then? it will probably save me lots of trouble if you did."

The blond broker just shrugged her shoulders. "I thought it was interestin' to watch."

Is this girl really an NPC? She's too sadistic for a synthetic being.

"Though ye' were totally cool Zee especially at the end!" The blonde happily quipped as she imitated what the teen did when he was doing his oath earlier. With her hands on his shoulders she said while trying to imitate his masculine voice,

"I Zen Ryusomething do hereby pledge my undying luv to ya and will never harm ya unless when I'm taking your femininity in grace. My sole aim is to make luv to ye' in sickness and in health, for better or for worse until you honor my name to our first child birth. I will uphold this oath up while we share our lust in bed."

"Oi, i didn't remember saying it that way."

Zen wanted to face-palm himself.

She had even seen him doing that? shoot me now please. The teen thought in embarrassment.

"Really? cause it sounded that way to me." Fiona said in her usual tone as she removed her hands on his shoulders. "Anyhow ye' should put princess here in bed. She doesn't look too good and might be running a high fever from the looks of it."

Zen instantly followed her advice and gently placed the burning elf at the bed on the opposite side to his. He put his palm on her forehead to check her temperature.

"I'mma go get some water and some face towels in mah room." Fiona said as she walked away in a swift pace towards the door.

The silver haired elf was sweating profusely now and her breathe's pace even became more faster as if she was having an asthma attack. The blond came back holding a bucket of water and some towels at her shoulder. She also brought a set of her pajamas and eyed Zen.

"Her condition would worsen if she stay in a filthy state like that. I'm gonna go wash her up and change her clothes so can you go outside for a sec Zen?"

The male teen gave her a confused stare for a second but eventually nodded and silently complied.

He waited for at least fifteen minutes until he heard the door opened with Fiona's head peeking out and telling him to come back inside.

Like the blond had said, she had cleaned all the dust and other dirt's clinging on the elf's skin. Fiona had also removed that hideous worn out cloak and the filthy clothes the silver haired elf wore. She was now wearing a yellow buttoned up pajama with floral prints Fiona had brought earlier with her.

With the elf finally cleaned and properly dressed. Her beauty became even more pronounced. Her alabaster skin had returned to it's former dazzling glory and her face became even more radiant in which even made Zen stopped for a second to stare at the sick elf.

"Nasa to perv, put this on her forehead. it will help lower her temperature." The inn daughter dipped a towel and tightly squeezed it. After folding it in a rectangular shape, she handed it to the male teen whom placed the given soaked towel at the center of her forehead.

Zen eyed the blonde with a straight look.

"You know Nasa?"

Fiona suddenly stopped cold as if a deer caught in a headlights.

Neuzer's doesn't acknowledges earth world terms for realism purposes.

"You know I've had my suspicions but that comment had practically nailed my assumptions."

"W-What are ye' talking about Zee." The inn daughter responded in a rather stiff voice.

"You're a moderator aren't you Fiona."

A Game Moderator or more popularly known as GM's.

Mostly they oversee the game through playing the game itself. Moderators compared to normal users had more access to the internal system of the game. Depending on their administration level, some GM's can even invoke high security system calls such as item materialism and player kick/bans.

"I d-don't understand, please rephrase your statement Zee." Fiona evaded sheepishly in a lame robotic tone.

Zen smirked in triumph. "It's already far too late Fee for you to feign ignorance. I've already caught onto your dirt. You've already blow your cover."

Fiona sighed in admission. she had closed her eyes as her shoulders sagged downwards.

"Since when did you start suspecting that i'm a moderator? We had only met recently you know. i don't think my acting was that bad." The blond questioned without the weird accent and with perfect japanese diction.

"On the contrary, your acting was perfect. too human-like perfect in fact. I know Noiz uses the latest advances in technology but i don't think it's advance enough to let NPC's act the way you do." Zen surmised with a lopsided smirk.

"You know the art of flirtation is one of the most complicated human behavior. One has to analyze the obvious meaning within the other hidden double meanings to come up with one true meaning of a simple tease behind the underlying statement, and you responded to all my teasing and flirtations superbly like how a real women would react."

"S-So all that flirting and teasing you've done to me is..." Fiona's lips were thinned as she felt a little bit betrayed.

"Yes one of my reasons is to analyze whether or not you really are a Neuzer." Zen nodded as he smiled mischievously at the stunned girl.

"The other reason is simply because i like teasin' ye' Fee since ye' fly with ma' humor."

The blonde chuckled in resignation.

This guy is unbelievable.

She kept measures to hide her identity but this weirdo that she had just met recently somehow had seen through all of it in just a span of twenty four hours.

"I'm speechless. I know in still new to my job but to be discovered by someone i just met a day ago..." Fiona sighed as she reclined her back at the corner of the bed. Ahh, now she's feeling slightly depressed.

Zen seemed to have noticed her sudden depression. It wasn't his intention to make her sad but since it already happened anyway, the teen thought of a way to lighten the mood.

"Since i'm feeling kind today. i'll tell you what your three blunders so that you won't repeat the same mistake again in the future." The teen stated earnestly while extruding three of his fingers upwards.

"Number one. You act too human–or at least flirt like a real human."

Fiona narrowed her eyes. "Well i can't help who i am you know..."

"Number two. the way you acted earlier when you're caring for her." Zen stated while pointing his thumb to the sleeping girl on the other bed.

The blond girl tilted her head in question. "I don't remember making a mistake earlier unless of course you're talking about my Nasa slip up."

Zen shook his head as he folded his arms.

"Now think back at what happened earlier before you sent me out of the room."

"What about it?"

"You actually managed to change this elf's clothes. It would be easy in the real world but here in Noiz, as far as i know, no one wheter they are a user or an NPC can ever unequipped an equipment of someone else without the owners permission. Unless of course you're someone with a higher system access. You're third blunder—well you already knew that haven't you? Fee you just have to be careful not to blurt out real world terms when your acting as a Neuzer." The teen chuckled as the blond's face grew in realization of her mistakes.

"Well you completely busted my cover, though there's one thing i need to clarify." The blond haired girl responded. Well, since he already knew her identity, she might as well tell the whole truth of the matter.

"Im not actually a moderator you know."

Zen widened his eyes. "You're not? then how did you managed to change her clothes earlier?" He pointed to the girl sleeping on the room.

"Well i actually just ping the system control to oversee the situation and they invoke force equipment change on her."

"i see."

"You see, there's actually no GM account in Noiz."

"You're kidding."

"Do i look like I'm joking with you?"

Zen shrugged his shoulders wordlessly.

"Then please elaborate."

"Well, since this game is a collaboration work of many different gaming companies, the creators had decided not to create an account with administrative privileges so that no conflict of interest would arise between all the parties involved. It would be too risky anyhow and would be dangerous if all the company was granted an administrative rights."

Smart move.

The teen nodded. It would be a total clusterfuck if alot of people were given rights to alter the system. Furthermore, it would increase the chances of someone breaching the security and maybe even reverse engineer the game.

Now that's a bad investment. Another con is that someone might abuse his admin rights and corrupt the system.

"So how do they manage Noiz? i hardly believe that the game was running and doing maintenance by itself." Zen asked skeptically.

"Err, you're halfway correct actually..." Fiona lightly scrubbed her cheeks with her finger sheepishly.

"Meaning?"

"Noiz's central modular control unit is composed by three highly advanced super computers that operates as a partition schematics in which handles Noiz's all operations and work load....The Arch Trinita Module."

"Arch Trinita?" Sounds complicated. Zen mused as he tried to remember the term for future references.

"Named after the three arch angels of Christianity. [Arch:Michael] the core unit that oversees the creation and preservation of all cybernetic material. [Arch:Gabriel] which is the central core that manages the condition and aspirations of all the generated substances and finally, [Arch:Lucifer] which is cranial core that implements the deterioration of all things and elimination of variants that the system acknowledged as a threat to the system. These three acts in unison to be the [Arch:Trinita], Niorehartz prime synthetic game moderator."

"!!!—"

Zen was speechless.

They've let an artificial intelligence modulate the current world's first VRMMO-RPG?

How risky.

Well when put into perspective, it seems better than the alternative which is even more risky and dangerous. At least the cybernetic GM would be impartial and would not abuse the power it held.

"So if this Arch:Trinita is the main GM of this game, what excatly is your job Fee?"

"Well my official job description is a Sentinel. We act as the eyes and ears of Trinita in regards to the player side of Noiz. Although Trinita handles the whole management of Noiz, it still not a perfect system especially in regards to understanding the behavioral patterns of players. There's just too many conflicting variants when dealing with some user based problems. So to lighten up the load, the developers implemented the use of Sentinels."

"So you guys are like the watchdog of Trinita huh?" Zen commented in a light jest which made the blond pout.

"Hmph, i don't like to be compared to a dog but your idea isn't really wrong. We fix the problems that slips through the cracks of Trinita's management." Fiona explained with a stern voice.

"Take for example the case of your elf princess."

"She's not my princess, geez keep your mind off the gutter Fee. Although what about her? I thought this was just a simple case of cold and fever." Zen reasoned as he look towards the sick silver haired beauty resting on the room.

Fiona sighed. "I wouldn't bother Trinita if this was just your normal fever. If this was an in-game cold, a cold potion would be enough to cure her but the thing is, she actually has a fever in real life. Normally, Arch:Lucifer would forcefully dive out players that has high temperature readings on their thermal sensor inside the Virtuodrive they uses."

The blond sentinel reached out her palms as she checked the temperature of the sick elf as she dampened the towel at her forehead.

"However, she seems to be in some sort of'unusual circumstances' where even Arch:Lucifer's force dive-out directive was denied by the Virtuodrive she is using." She continued her explanation then eyed the black haired teen as if implying something.

"I'm sure you're aware of her unusual circumstances seeing as you're in the same boat as her...or should i say, the same tincan."

Zen's hairs on the back of his head stood high in apprehension.

Tincan.

It was a lexicon used mostly by players in regards to the urban legend of a modded Virtuodrive. The term started gaining popularity around the net about a year ago when a famous hacker group posted a thread about a highly modified Virtuodrive that has certain special capabilities compared to a normal gaming pod. At first it didn't gain much traffic since rumors like that run rampant across the net.

However a month later, the group had posted the 'sauce' of the rumor showing hacked confidential government data files. The files contains reports and email exchanges of some high ranking penitentiary officials and few Noiz developers talking about a policy to let criminals play Noiz. The 13GB files also contains a detailed report of a modified pod with has a speed up capability not available in the commercial product.

During sleep, neural connections are accelerated and strengthened. Somehow these machines can even further magnify these subconscious effects by at least a hundred fold and inducing beta blocking synapses to forcefully put a user in a state of REM sleep.

The post had started gaining popularity when a well known legislator exposed to the media a bill he noticed the cabinet had passed that has a certain 'rider' clause added to it. What's even more suspicious was it's passed through a private midnight session in the plenary that thoroughly bypassed the Congress hearing.

It then all went viral when the hacker group posted a new thread about a conspiracy between the Japanese government and Noiz developers. The post indicates that the passed bill had practically gave those scientists the go signal to experiment on criminals as they pleased.

The modded virtuodrive the netizens now dubbed as 'Tincan' apparently uses a different set of core drive.

This core apparently transmits a more complex neuronal codes to the user's amygdala in which lets them feel the actual real cognitive sensations compared to the Quantum V-Core the commercial line use which only replicates about 60% of the actual human perceptions.

If that's not enough to make all of the net's cospiracy fanatics go wild, the post also reports that these "Tincans" seem to have the ability to manipulate the Paleocortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for sorting out memories in the neural circuit.

The hacked reports says that while the inmates are in a state of semi-coma as they play the game, these Tincans stealthily maps their brain's molecular engrams and neural network as it periodically send fake synapses of memory traces to the paleocortex in some crazy experiment to know if the developers can somehow retrieve or modify the generic system consolidation and acquisition of a memory within a persons brain.

Users can still acess the net even while they're in game so Zen had read all of these earlier as an attempt to force himself to sleep. It had the opposite effect on him though and made him more restless.

Well who could blame him?

Anyone would be bothered if they somehow discovered someone could actually extract or alter their memories without them even knowing.

And how did this blond girl found out that he was using these dangerous tincans anyway? Zen thought as he eyed her with narrowed eyes.

"W-What? Just so you know i didn't strip her off or anything indecent you know! I called Gabriel instead to change her equipment."

Heh, she seems to have misunderstood his stare.

"That also confused me. Why did you bother changing her clothes? i know it's dirty and worn out but isn't the dirt just virtual? Since she's sick in real life i don't think it would affect her condition even if her virtual clothes has crap all over it."

Fiona posed as if reprimanding a mischievous child.

"There's a hidden meter called Hygiene coefficient in Noiz. Players that has low hygiene coefficient are more prone and susceptible to get debuffs and fatigue status. Princess here can't already dive out so I didn't want her sickness to worsen anymore by getting more health debuffs." Fiona explained and when the onyx haired teen started opening his status window, she added, "Only we sentinels can see this hidden status panel so you won't find it anywhere in your panel Zee."

"Tch, can i become a Sentinel too?"

"To be frank, i don't really know," Fiona shrugged her shoulders. "As far a i know being a Sentinel is strictly invitational...at least it is for me."

"Oh?Fee you must be someone important in real life to get an invitation like that."

The blond can't help but snicker at his statement. "More like lucky if you ask me. Anyhow look at the time! we should head downstairs or else pops would give me an earful again. It looks like princess here seems in a stable condition so you can leave her for now."

Standing up from his sitting position, Zen gave one last look at the sleeping elf as he closed the door and followed Fiona downstairs.

"Is Old man Grendel a sentinel as well?"

"Nope, he's just your average Neuzer."

"Then how did you manage to become his daughter anyway? You're a user aren't you?"

Fiona chuckled with mischief evident in her eyes.

"Well~ one night pops and momsie got drunk and became horny so they went to their room and had an epic se—"

"I was being serious." Zen interjected with a dull tone as they reached the pub on the first floor. There were already some customers waiting to be served with Grendel taking their orders politely.

"It was thanks to Gabriel. She altered Grendel's memory ta acknowledge me as his generic daughter since it was easier for me ta gather information while working here at the inn." Fiona answered with her fake persona and accent.

"Oh yeah what about Grendel's wife? Surely he must have one since he acknowledged you as his daughter."

Fiona's face turned darkened which is a first for the male teen. It was the first time he seen her look so angry like this.

"She was killed six months ago by some asshole working for the Duke of Genosia." The blond whispered with a hint of venom in every syllables.

"!!!—"

—NPC's can be killed here in Noiz? Zen thought with a surprised face.

"Oh there you are finally! What took you guys so long?" Greeted by the inn owner as he noticed them by the staircase.

"Sorry pops but Zee's princess is upstairs and she has a fever so we tended to her first. i hope you don't mind." Fiona brightened her face as she explained while winking at Zen when the word princess was pronounced.

"Is that so? i don't mind as long as you do your job honestly. She could even work here when she's better."

"I owe you one old man." The black haired teen responded as he give his thanks to the elder Neuzer before him.

They fall into their roles soon after with Zen doing culinary task this time around. Cooking in Noiz seems to be on par with real life cooking. One had to mind the freshness of the food and the duration of the time you cook for the food to turn out excellent.

One's in-game culinary skills also plays a vital factor in determining the outcome of the dish their making. So even if you're a celebrated chef in the real world, you will still find a hard time making excellent dishes if your in-game stats are lacking.

One of Zen's secret hobby is cooking. So far, only his sister and his former trainee had the chance to taste his dishes. He started cooking when the syndicate leader had force him to do menial tasks around the first year he was sold at the gang. The ex-hitman was reluctant at first but he gradually grew fond of the task for it somehow became an outlet to vent his frustrations in life.

There's just something therapeutic when he's chopping chunks of meats or gutting fishes at the kitchen.

Zen's no maestro chef but he was rather confident of his kitchen skills in real life. So he was totally frustrated when all of his virtual testdrive dishes all turned out to be 'Uncomsumables' or warps into a charred charcoal which made Fiona laugh her as off.

Hence in the end, Zen was given the role of an assistant chef. He prepares the ingredients like washing the vegetables or peel the fruits skin while Fiona does the cooking. His real life kitchen skills were useful in these assignments and his culinary level slowly rose to beginner level 2 upon doing these prep work.

After four hours of washing, peeling, grating and other kitchen chores, the customers had finally dwindled down which marks the completion of his work.

Chime!

"Good work Zee, soon enough ye' can handle the cooking tasks alone at this rate." Cheered by Fiona as she humorously smacked him at his shoulder. "What're yer plans for the rest of the day? Work will start again this evenin' so ye' have all this mornin' for yerself."

Zen scratched his head. He was totally spent since he hasn't got a wink of sleep apart from that short two hour nap he took yesterday.

"I'm gonna check on my sick roommate and sleep for abit. Afterwards maybe i'll go around and survey the town and if i still have the time, perhaps i'll meet this Lou Fei person you told me about.."

The blond nodded. "General Fei huh. If you ever meet him, just tell him i was the one who told ye' about his book collections...and I'm sorry again for the book i burned the last time."

"You burned....his book?"

"Hey it wus an accident!" Fiona interjected with an indignant look. "He was teachin' me fire spells before so yeah...i somehow got excited and wham! the rest is charred history."

"...What kind of a person is he?"

"Hmm..." The blond put her index finger at her chin in a thinking pose.

"He's like an intelligent veteran senior ex-navy nobleman. He might be intimidating at first glance but he extrude this calm demeanor that make ye' feel at ease with him. But don't let your guard down since he's a calculating person and seems to have an ability to read peoples mind."

Zen nodded a couple of times while thinking of an imaginary six ft' tall lanky pale skinned old man who is wearing thick glasses with scars all over on his face and has a snobby look while fishing calmly by the lake.

"So in a nutshell, He's a pain in the ass, know it all old geezer huh?"

Fiona sweat-dropped. "I don't know what yer thinkin' but he's prolly isn't like what yer imaginin in your mind."

"Since he's an associate of yours, is he also a Sentinel?"

The blond shook her head as she gave the male teen a puffy glare. "Can ye' not please blurt out that term in public carelessly? i'm working undercover here ye' know. As for yer question, nah he's a bonafied Neuzer but he's one of the few NPC's that has a specialized Conv-droid engine that is solely dedicated to him alone and has an actual operator since he is a Hero-class character in Noiz."

Zen's brow raised at the new term she casually revealed. "What do you mean by having an operator?"

Fiona lightly face palmed herself at her another slip up. "Goddammit Zen, how do ye' even manage to make me feel so relax with ya to make me slip up like that. yer makin' me lose my pride as a pro info dealer ye' know!"

The male teen just lopsidedly smirked as he lightly poked her puffed cheeks.

"Maybe you're starting to fall for my charms Fee~"

"Hah, what charms? all i see is a flirt who thinks too highly of himself." The blond responded with feigned anger as she made a gesture of crossing her arms in frustration.

"Me a flirt? have you ever seen me courting some women other than you my dear Fee?"

She gave him a narrowed gaze.

"Do i need to remind you what happened this morning?" Fiona countered with mocked sarcasm.

"T-That's different you know, i was just trying to h-help her."

Fiona chuckled, giving the male teen a pointed look as she invades his personal space.

"Ohho~ Shall i repeat then in verbatim your undying pledge for all the world to hear? Ehem! I Aizen Ryu—"

"Fine i lose! Geez you sure are scary Fee especially when you're jealous..." Zen interjected with a faux jest. Damn, he knew the blond would milk that incident dry and turn it against him.

"Yeah maybe I'm abit jealous of your elf princess~" Fiona muttered like a cat on prowl. Her cheshire grin more mischievous than normal which gave Zen momentary goosebumps.

"Your stare right now gives me vibes that you want something from me..."

The golden haired girl giggled mischievously as she breached the final defense of his personal space. With their face only inches apart she whispered seductively,

"Maybe i want a pledge of my own~"

The art of flirtation is a complex game.

It's like a game of chess where one has to carefully think of their moves and actions while planning ahead while at the same time react to the sudden changes of the tactics of the other player.

Zen noticed that Fiona, the golden queen had upped her game and decided to take the initiative towards him, the black king.

"W-What kind of pledge do you want?"

An evasive maneuver, it would buy him some time to plan his next attack.

The cat-like girl tilted her head slightly as she looked at him straight into his eyes.

Mischievous blue meets phlegmatic black.

A voiceless maneuver, one of women's famed moves.

"I don't know, maybe something like "I would give my undying love to you only oh dear Fiona" or anything in that regard."

The golden queen seemed to have breached his last line of defense and launched an all offensive move in order to pin the black king into a corner.

"Maybe i will if i hit a home run with you."

A counter.

The blond smirk.

"Can you even reach my first base?"

Black king, check.

"Are you willing?" Zen jokingly asked.

Evasion Successful.

Fiona stared seriously at him as she licked her lips as if she was gonna kiss him but stop midway when their lips briefly touched.

"Are you game?"

Zen returned the stare.

Checkmate.

They stayed still like that for a moment. Both seems transfixed with each other as their chess game of flirtations had reached it's final moments. Soon after, Fiona slowly backed away as she grinned happily with her hands on her waist.

"You're good at this game Zen i admit," She started with a smirk. "But I'm a grand master."

The male teen sighed. "So you were holding back on our previous games?"

"Well duh, of course i would hold back. Who in their right mind would fully flirt with some guy they just met anyway?" The blond girl ended her explanation with a laugh.

"Uwah! what an evil laugh, though you still haven't answered my original question Fee."

Zen chuckled when he heard Fiona clicked her tongue.

"You thought that i would forget it now do you? Well tough luck Fee no amount of flirting could make me forget things easily."

"So all that hard work earlier was for naught? gah i gave up!" The blonde threw her arms in the air as a gesture of frustration.

She was Stalemated!?

This was his aim all along!

The prick probably had seen her underlying tactic of using flirtations to elude him of asking about her slip up earlier. Damn him and his conniving self. Fiona thought with a grudge.

"Fine whatever, i give up reading you Zen. Seriously you're like a black hole of mysteriousness." Grumbled by the inn daughter as she threw him an annoyed gaze which made him snicker much to her further annoyance.

"Ha ha very funny. Anyway, operator was it? Well this is a hushhush matter so don't go telling anyone okay? Some NPC's had a special maintenance personnel solely dedicated to them alone."

"Uh, you kinda lost me. What do you mean by a personnel? Neuzers can think for themselves right? Why bother maintaining them if they can do it themselves."

"Yep. NPC's have their own artificial consciousness. They can think and act even without the help of a real life person. However, hero-class Neuzers like General Fei have bigger responsibilities and roles so they are more prone to encounter complicated situations and problem that sometimes would throw their synthetic cognitive ability into a null loop. Operators are there to prevent such incident."

"So operators can manipulate the Neuzer they are maintaining?"

"Hmm, yeah in a way. Unlike sentinels, operators are commissioned for the sole purpose of the story-line of Noiz. It's like these Neuzers have Split personality. The Operators are the passive while the A.I is the active persona. Although when the active persona encounters a complicated scenario, an Operator just usually takes over and role play their assigned characters."

"Does the A.I remembers what the operator was doing or is it just like those Split persona loonies where they can't recall the things they did whenever their other personality takes over?"

"The A.I can recall usually since it's integrated into their memory banks."

"Sounds like a hassle. Why don't they just let the operator fully take over the Neuzer just lke you setinels. It sounds more practical to me."

Fiona sighed. Opinionated guys be dammed. They ask way too many questions and too curious for their own good.

"You do know that NPC's isn't usually generated instantly in Noiz right? They have their own backstory, their own experiences and their own memory banks solely unique only to them. If we let someone fully take over a Neuzer, conflict of interest will arise on the character since the operator wouldn't know everything about the NPC they controls. Much more so if they are a Hero-class character. their memory banks are six times more bigger than an average NPC."

"Neuzers are not instantly generated?" Zen asked with a dumb look.

"Unbelievable! What're you a caveman? It's one of the basic facts of Noiz. Well the devs could also make an instant NPC's but it will lack depth compared to a Neuzer that has alot of in game experience with memories and connections to other NPC's and users. It's like comparing a person with amnesia to a celebrity pop star."

"Couldn't the devs just make fabricated memories and character background then plant it on the newly generated NPC?"

"They can but those memories will solely be only by himself and no one else since they have to alter the other NPC's memories as well. Take for example my case. It took Trinita three weeks just to make Grendel acknowledge me that I'm his daughter since it have to generate faux memories from my birth up until my twentieth year of age then plant it inside him and the other towners for authenticity."

"Now i see your point but one thing is rather unclear to me," Zen prodded with a conflicted tone of voice. "General Fei is an old man right?"

Fiona nodded. "Yes, even his hairs all white."

"You said that he was not instantly generated but Noirehartz Online only started two and a half years ago. How come he had such an in depth character and already was in his senior years when the game only has three years of activity?"

The blond just snickered at his inquiry. "Zen you're totally a caveman aren't you? Well to answer your question, did you know that the original concept of Noiz is not a MMORPG but a strategic civilization simulation game?"

"Really?"

"Yeah, Reed Misi the main founder of Noiz originally wanted to make an ambitious simulation game where a civilization will start in a tribe consisting of eight individuals. What he then wants is that every NPC born from those tribes will have to make their own genetic unique memories and experiences. However, to make that work, he will need a super computer not available to the public so he planned to sell his idea and ask for support to a popular gaming manufacturer that has the facilities to create such game."

"Tri-Argon was at that time were researching about VRMMO technology and Reed Misi came at the right time to sell his game patent. Argon's top researchers had seen Reed's game to be a good foundation in the VR game they are developing so they provided him support and so Noiz is finally conceived."

The black haired teen nodded while subconsciously yawning. He really wanted to know more but due to the stat penalties, it seems that his body get tired more easily.

"Haha, you're body is more honest than you Zee~" Fiona commented as she tap him lightly on the summit of his head a couple of times.

"I have one last question. Do this town have some Dojo's or training facilities where i can learn Martial Arts?"

The blond made a humming sound before she pointed her finger on a particular place on the map.

"There's a Dojo here on the outskirts of the town. The place is pretty much run down though since the master is quite a picky and didn't take in much students."

Zen nodded.

"That info cost three Helts by the way..."

Fiona stated with a grin.

"I....have no more money."

"Ah don't worry, you could pay me tomorrow when you receive your wage."

"You.Are.Evil."

The blond heartily laughed.

"I know and proud of it. Anyway, that's it for today for your daily Noiz history class. Little boys should sleep as much as possible so they will grew up strong and not give their cute older sister a hard time if they screw up with work cause of sleepiness."

Zen thinned his lips at her comment. "Then are you a pedo older sister? cause i just remember you flirting with your sweet innocent younger brother just awhile ago."

She jokingly punched him in the shoulder. "Hey that's not nice bro!"

"Yeah i'm the obnoxious mischievous younger brother who secretly has a sister complex." Zen joked as he blocked another one of her 'love taps' with his palm.

"Haha, you really should go to bed now Zee cause you're starting to lose it."

The blacked haired teen casually shrugged his shoulders as he turns around and head upstairs.