This is not an MMO game copy

Just like the underground labyrinth that appeared in the netherworld, creating endless monsters, which will eventually destroy all civilizations and countries on the ground with barbarism and violence, even if the remaining civilizations and countries still have heroes born and entered the so-called heroic age, and waged a long war against the catastrophe, in the final analysis, they cannot truly win and can only continue to linger until some moment in the future when they are completely destroyed by more and more monsters. This is an established and unchangeable inevitability.

Until the extremely bored gods in [Heaven] finally ended their endless slacking off and meetings, and formed a team to seal their divine power and come down to earth for team building.

Then, with the help of the upgrade and monster-killing system created by the gods called [God's Grace], which is actually an ARPG.

An inevitable doomsday catastrophe that heroes cannot truly resolve or defeat.

The group called adventurers (foot men) were forced to turn back.

Over the past thousand years, despicable adventurers (foot men) have come one after another and have conquered almost all the monsters in the world.

Although it was impossible to eliminate all the monsters that invaded the earth, 99% of them were eliminated, allowing civilizations and countries around the world to be rebuilt.

Thus, under the relay of the two eras of heroes and adventurers (foot men), the crisis of the end of the world faded away. After most of the entrances connecting the dungeon maze and the ground were sealed, the adventurer's guild (clan) formed by the gods gathered at the last entrance and established the maze city of Orario. In turn, they turned the root cause of the end of the world into a mine that continuously produced precious resources and carried out large-scale industrial development and construction, inadvertently leading the entire world's technology and development route astray.

Today, this extraordinary system of [favor] based on gods and their clans has fully matured. It has evolved into a bizarre economics centered around Orario, which supports the food and clothing of millions of canal workers. There are even gods who continue to descend from [heaven] to participate in this large-scale team-building activity that has lasted for a thousand years and has not yet come to an end.

The above is the general background of the world of "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?" that Xia Yan immediately searched through his memory after he was able to see the scenery clearly again and found himself on top of a hill in an unfamiliar forest. After confirming that he had entered this "copy" world, he found out.

……

The above is what He had learned about the changes in the lower realm from the mouths of some unfortunate people who were sent back in the recent days (a thousand years) during His long, boring, repetitive and monotonous life in the [Heaven].

But that was all He knew about the lower world.

After all, he had only enthusiastically sealed his divine power and descended to the mortal world to develop his clan, but due to his own poor management or irresistible unexpected factors, his investment went to waste, and not only did he lose everything, but he also suffered a setback. He was either kicked out of the game by his competitors with malicious intent, or his body in the lower world was fatally damaged, making it impossible for him to seal his divine power. As a result, he was forcibly deported by the laws and constraints that restricted divine power. This fool, with his strongly subjective narration, learned about this real-life development game, which seemed to him to be equally boring.

As for that [God's Grace], the so-called adventurers, and even that mysterious dungeon maze...

……

As a member of the domestic anime fan fiction community with a strong presence before the world line changed, Xia Yan actually didn't know much about the worldview of Dicuo.

To be precise, although he had watched some anime and comics of Destiny 2, he was not interested enough to follow the drama or series directly. Even his knowledge of the plot and setting of Destiny 2 came mostly from various fan fictions at the time.

Regarding [God's Grace], the core of the supernatural power system within this worldview, the adventurer classes that derive from this setting, and the dungeons and mazes that have been dug from the beginning and are unlikely to be filled by the end...

……

He had absolutely no interest in it either.

……

He also had absolutely no interest.

Even in the timeline of the main storyline of Dicuo, the extraordinary power system of [God's Grace] has become the only orthodoxy in the entire world. All those who want to gain power can basically only find a certain god to join his clan, and then be granted grace by the other party written with his own divine blood. Then, they will continue to fight, and after accumulating enough "experience", they will return to the clan to find the god who granted them grace, update their own ability values, and upgrade to gain a boost in extraordinary power.

But in Xia Yan's opinion, the extraordinary power system of [God's Grace] is full of various obvious and hidden limitations, and it is simply a sinkhole among sinkholes.

For example: Adventurers who are granted [God's Favor] can only be promoted in battle, but cannot make breakthroughs through their own efforts and talents. They must wait for the god who grants the favor to update their own ability values ​​before they can receive actual feedback.

For example, it is like in a game, after you have accumulated enough experience by killing monsters, you cannot upgrade directly. You have to find the corresponding designated NPC, and this NPC can decide whether to upgrade you based on whether it is willing or not.

Not to mention, there are also restrictions on skills and magic - the former highlights a mysterious concept, with the upper and lower limits of different skills varying greatly, and they only appear randomly after leveling up. Although skill acquisition is suspected to be related to experience before leveling up, the conditions for skill acquisition are still full of uncertainty;

The latter has a limit on quantity, because under [God's Grace], the amount of magic that each person can learn is fixed. In addition to reading the magic book to forcibly inspire and learn magic, it is unknown whether adventurers can learn magic under normal circumstances.

In other words, this is a magic system that is even more shitty than the spell slots in DND. If the magic network at least lowers the threshold for mages to get started, the magic system in [God's Favor] not only raises the lower limit of the minimum threshold, but also kills the upper limit that can be achieved.

In addition, the upgrade system of [God's Favor] is also full of huge dark secrets. On the surface, it seems that every mortal who is granted the favor is standing on the same starting line, but some people have worked hard for decades and still stop at LV2, while others can reach LV5 in just a few months.

However, this huge difference is not determined by personal efforts or talents, but rather by a person's "previous life".

Yes, previous life.

In the worldview of Dicuo, souls have a cycle of life and death. The souls of intelligent beings who died in the lower world will ascend to the [Heaven], then wash away all their past and reincarnate into the lower world again. However, there is a hidden mechanism in [God's Grace], which is the previous life of a soul, which determines the upper and lower limits of the adventurer's grace.

If a person's soul was a hero in the previous life, as long as he is granted the [God's Grace], he can easily surpass the ordinary people in his previous life. Even if he was not a hero in the previous life, but was a princess, priestess or other souls with a high enough social status, being granted the [God's Grace] will make his growth rate and growth potential far superior to other adventurers, which is overwhelmingly unfair.

Moreover, the gods coming down from the Heaven can even 'cheat' in advance. They can mark their beloved souls in advance. Even if they forget their past, the individual after the soul's reincarnation will meet them again in the vast sea of ​​people and fall into their arms again.

At least in the eyes of Xia Yan, who possesses extraordinary powers, the entire [God's Grace] extraordinary power system is full of dark secrets and powers from top to bottom, from inside to outside.

Therefore, he had no intention of trying or touching [God's Grace]...

... Fortunately, the conditions for clearing the "copy" are not difficult. The two suffixes in the copy name, "Dungeon Floor 59" and "Fallen Fairy", are almost obviously the plot of the Dicuo side story "Sword Princess's Sacred Tale". As long as he follows the expeditionary force of Loki's family, he doesn't even need to fight the BOSS alone.

In short, compared to jumping into the pit of [God's Grace] like many fan fictions before the world line changed, Xia Yan was more concerned about how long he could stay in this "copy".

Oh, by the way, there is also the intelligent teammate NPC this time.

Thinking of this, based on his previous two experiences, Xia Yan stopped looking around and turned around skillfully to look behind him.

Then, a beautiful figure came into his sight.

She was a beautiful woman with delicate features and elegant temperament. She had long, smooth hair that reflected a dark blue color in the sunlight. She was wearing a dignified dress. The upper body was a white long-sleeved dress, and the lower body was a black long skirt with high heels. There were bird feather-like ornaments on the decorations of the clothes and on the edges of her ears.

At the same time, her left hand held a celestial globe with two gold and silver orbits, and her right hand held a black rapier with a hilt decorated with golden feathers...

Xia Yan frowned.

After comparing my memories.

A hint of disappointment appeared on his face.

He recognized where this intelligent teammate NPC came from.

But compared to the previous two times, this time the intelligent teammate NPC is obviously much weaker. Not to mention that it is in the wrong world view, even in the game world view where it comes from, it is not a powerful character.

Of course, whether it was the portrait in the game or the real-life intelligent teammate NPC in front of him, she was indeed very beautiful... However, for Xia Yan now, she was just an exquisite vase that was more pleasing to the eye.

"Xingji, Asteria..."

Image: "Astesia", Location: "Images/1742743589-100424595-113145639.jpg"

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I may not be interested, but compared to the endlessly long, monotonous and boring time in [Heaven]...

"As expected, this is still too boring... Zeus, Hera, Hestia, Hermes, Apollo, Astraea... So many of the familiar people have gone down to have fun, so I'll go to the underworld too~!"

Thinking of this, He hummed a song he had made up on the spur of the moment, and transformed into a meteor that streaked across the [Heaven], falling towards the dimension and space-time of the lower realm.

Then, the moment he came into contact with the laws and constraints jointly formulated by the gods of [Heaven], he took the initiative to restrain his own power and essence that were too great for the lower realm, gathered all his divinity, and actively cooperated in degrading himself.

From Him, to Her.

But just as the meteor she transformed into passed through the veil of reality and entered the material world, and in the falling starlight, she was preparing to use the little remaining divine power that would not trigger forced deportation to reshape her body.

——Asteria——

Before she was about to completely seal her divine power, she heard a voice speaking her true name from her own divine omniscience. In the brief moment when her divine omniscience was still effective, she subconsciously cast her gaze over.

then.

"Ah~?"

An accident, a surprise, a possibility that was completely unexpected and predicted by divine power before she came to the mortal world.

Did she see another 'Asteria', a 'self' with a body and memories, but no self?

Then, the long, boring past in which she couldn't even die, and the unknown and unexpected risks before her were instantly weighed against each other in her consciousness.

The result, not surprisingly, was that the latter defeated the former with an absolute advantage.

So, she no longer used the little remaining divine power to create a body for herself. Instead, with the thrill of seeking death, the excitement of the unknown, and the surprise of uncertainty... she actively cast her consciousness into another "self" as quickly as possible.

As for whether he would die because of this?

She doesn't care.

In other words, even if it means death, it is worth it.

And now, she could finally understand why the unfortunate people who were sent back to the Heaven were so complaining and dissatisfied.

After all, compared to the lower realm where one has to seal divine power, abandon divine omniscience, have clear dangers, and may even die... the so-called "heaven" is simply not a place for gods to stay.

……

Asthesia.

After reading out the name of the intelligent teammate NPC in front of you.

Xia Yan didn't have time to do anything.

His expression suddenly changed.

Because at this moment, the originally sunny sky was instantly shrouded in darkness, countless bright stars streaked across the sky, and a magnificent meteor shower fell.

But just as he looked up at the 'change', he happened to see a meteor, or a beam of starlight, falling straight towards where he was.

next moment.

He summoned and sacrificed the Sword of Promised Victory, the sword tip emitting green sword light. He used [Thousand Swords of the Universe] and suddenly split into thousands of sword shadows with himself as the center.

At the same time, a pale golden light appeared behind Xia Yan, and the majestic dragon of time swam freely from the void and appeared. On his free hand, a golden word "Ding" appeared in the palm of his hand.

However, just as Xia Yan was ready to respond and counterattack, the starlight falling from the sky suddenly turned in mid-air.

Then, with his eyes filled with astonishment and bewilderment, he looked at the delicate body of his intelligent teammate, the NPC, and merged into it in the blink of an eye.

Then, Asteria, who had originally had a blank expression on her face, blinked her blue eyes, and the corners of her mouth suddenly raised in an elegant arc, revealing an expression of surprise, shock and excitement. She took the initiative to bend down, lifted the hem of her skirt, and saluted Xia Yan in a very ladylike manner.

As Xia Yan watched this scene, this was the only thought left in his mind.

'What the hell is going on?'

"The intelligent teammate NPC is alive—?!"

The fourth copy: 105. The essence of God is mental illness (4k+)

Smart NPC teammates have no self.

This is a fact that Xia Yan can be sure of.

After all, Irena was like this in the "copy" of the Romanian Holy Grail War. Even though she had the memories of the Witch of Scum herself and could respond appropriately based on the memories of the original body, she did not have her true self at the time.

Even though she was fooled by his logic and took off her clothes to take a bath with him, and he touched and kissed her all over, and even carried her to the bed from behind, at that time, apart from the passive reaction of showing shyness, she had no other active reaction based on her subjective self.

Even if the [Greater Holy Grail] used an incomplete third method, by materializing Irena's soul and exploiting the system bug, and brought her out of the "copy" world and freed her from the limitations of intelligent NPC teammates, Irena would not be able to develop true self-awareness if she did not integrate into Meli's spiritual base.

Moreover, this system restriction does not differentiate between strong and weak. In the previous 'copy', the six monkeys gathered together, even though their strength was many dimensions higher than Irena's, the human-machine monkey still could not develop true self-awareness.

But now, seeing the human-machine Xingji in front of him, possessed by a beam of starlight that had just fallen from the celestial phenomenon, he suddenly 'came alive' and showed a rich subjective consciousness beyond that of a human-machine NPC.

Xia Yan felt unwell.

In addition to being surprised, he also raised the Sword of Promise of Victory in his hand and pointed it at the "living" human-machine Xingji.

Then, thousands of green sword shadows condensed and differentiated from [Thousands of Edges in the Universe] instantly dragged out thousands of streams of light, covering the figure of the human-machine Xingji.

Seeing this, the human-machine Xingji, who had just pinched the skirt with his fingers and stood on tiptoe to salute, suddenly lit up his blue eyes. Without any resistance, he closed his eyes, revealing an elegant smile, and let the "sword rain" composed of thousands of sword shadows cover him.

In just a few breaths, thousands of green sword lights crisscrossed within a radius of more than ten meters with the Human-Machine Star as the center. Countless sharp sword energies crushed all the flowers and plants on the surrounding ground into powder. The air waves and shock waves generated by the torn air cracked the land and rocks.

Driven by his current cultivation level, which is incomparable to the past, Xia Yan is sure that the might of the 'Thousand Edges' sword light catalyzed by his 'Thousand Edges of the Universe' will be so strong in the Romanian Holy Grail War that he will participate in the second 'copy' world. Except for the three Heroic Spirits, Little Sun, Sorry and Heel, who have special damage immunity mechanisms, the rest of the Heroic Spirits will be strangled instantly if they choose to resist head-on without dodging or evading without using their Noble Phantasms.

Be it Spartacus who can accumulate damage and convert it into magic power to mutate his body, or Vlad III who has the blessing of land and fame, or Xiao Mo and Joan of Arc... there will be no exceptions.

After more than three years of experience, Xia Yan is no longer the "quick product" that was instilled by the MMO system at the beginning of the world line change, but a genuine cultivator who can be called a side-door sword immortal.

However, when thousands of sword lights dissipated, the sharp sword energy turned the grass, bamboo and stones in the range into ashes, and left dense and creepy sword marks on the ground, but it did not move the beautiful figure in the center at all, not even leaving a strand of hair behind.

Obviously, the highest priority friendly injury avoidance mechanism for intelligent teammates and NPCs did not disappear just because the human-machine Xingji suddenly "came to life".

This also made Xia Yan's face darken.

He's not a fool.

After getting over his initial surprise at the changes that had taken place in the humanoid Xingji, he immediately thought of that enduring special setting in all kinds of fantasy and immortal works.

——Possess the body.

The starlight that had fallen not long ago seemed to be something like a spirit or a Nascent Soul. Combined with the unusual celestial phenomena that had just occurred, where the sunny, clear sky had instantly transformed into a starry night with a meteor shower, and knowing that this 'copy' world was the title of "Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?", and some of the settings of this worldview...

Facing the sword energy of Qianfeng, Xia Yanbujin was not hurt at all. He opened his eyes as deep as the night sky and looked at his human-machine Xingji with deep affection. He was silent for a moment, and only after preparing himself for the worst mentally did he slowly ask:

"…Who are you now?"

Then, he saw the human-machine Xingji smiling at him, accompanied by a laughter as clear and sweet as a silver bell, and her almost unconcealed... affectionate gaze that was so hot that it made his scalp tingle.

"Who am I? Is there even a need to tell me?"

The human-machine Xingji walked lightly to Xia Yan and said softly:

"Well, to use the term from the Terran continent I remember—astrologer Xingji, I will be serving as a personal guard operator. From now on, I will be at your disposal."