Volume 1: The Fall of the Dragon and the Twilight of the Empire
Prologue: Crossing over and the background of the mission
Standing in the bustling streets of Constantinople, he began to launch himself into a daze.
What's going on? Am I travelling across the world? Or am I trapped in a game that I can't get out of?
Solomon: A Song of Iron and Fire, a globally popular fantasy RPG holographic projection online gaming game, and he was a professional gaming player for this game, he had inexplicably appeared here.
This world, was almost exactly the same as the Iron and Fire game world.
The only difference was that there were no players in this world.
Without players, the facilities related to players were naturally all gone, such as the upline area, safe zone, and resurrection area.
That is to say, if one dies in this world ......
might be really dead.
This NPC body of his, named Ask Lepius Achilles, was a noble NPC in the imperial capital of Constantinople, and his occupation was a high school history teacher at the local noble school.
Due to the rich inheritance given by his ancestors, his family is also very rich, a veritable rich second generation.
Later he was hypnotised by some female vampire and lost his normal sanity. Within a few short months, his parents were murdered, the family property was taken over, and the entire house, including the butler, maid, manservant and a dozen others, were all transformed into vampires.
Only he himself was left alive to bleed and drink for a house full of vampires every day. If not for the fact that the original owner's body was still strong, he would probably have died a long time ago.
One night, the vampire mistress decided to expand her hunting range, so she sent her maid to convert her next door neighbour again.
The neighbours were a family of three, husband and wife living alone with their daughter. The maid vampire had an accident in the process of giving her daughter her first embrace, waking the master of the house and screaming. She then panics and kills the two men and lights a fire at the scene and flees in a hurry.
The fire was quickly extinguished by the fire brigade of Constantinople, and the angry vampire mistress killed the maid as it nearly affected her own mansion.
What no one knew was that the neighbour's youngest daughter, Peggy, had been turned into a vampire and thus was not completely burned to death.
She crawled out of the cemetery on the night of her burial and wandered the streets for a few days before meeting a player and issuing a revenge quest.
The person who received the quest was a guild player, and immediately reported it to his guild at that time.
The senior management of the guild analysed that this matter should be reported to the church first, on the one hand, they could use the power of the church to kill vampires, on the other hand, they could also take benefits and reputation from the church.
So the church immediately sent out a team of Iron Armoured Holy Riders and joined hands with the guild players to exterminate all the vampires of this one family.
Only Asker, as a compelled ordinary human, was not slaughtered by the Church and the players in the process.
After the mission was completed, the church sold Aske's mansion to the players' guild as a reward for reporting the vampire incident. This guild thus became the first guild to have a residence in Constantinople, attracting a large number of players.
After the entire process of the quest was published on the forums, it caused a sensation and worship from players across the entire service. For a time, countless guilds in Constantinople were searching for traces of vampire NPCs, werewolf NPCs and witch NPCs.
The poor NPC, Asker, miserably lost all of his possessions and loved ones, and could only live on the streets as a beggar. Every day, he also had to be tried and harassed by countless players, asking him:
"Do you know any other vampires?"
"Doesn't your wife have any siblings or anything?"
"You're actually a vampire too right?"
Eventually this NPC, after being constantly zapped, finally went completely insane and was killed in some accidental street gang clash.
Although the plot of the quest in the previous world was like that, it certainly wouldn't go that way nowadays.
Because there were no players in this world, Peggy's quest wouldn't be picked up by anyone, and the Church wouldn't be aware of the existence of vampires anytime soon.
More importantly, he himself, an e-sports player with a professional level, certainly wouldn't sit around and wait for death when he was familiar with the mission plot.
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A Song of Iron and Fire, the best RPG holographic MMO of 2077, is set on a certain magical-historical medieval-like planet and depicts an epic of war in which the continental kingdoms are at war with each other for a variety of reasons. The work clearly borrows from the power setting of Warhammer (cold weapons against hot weapons), the worldview of the Cthulhu system (the more powerful, the crazier), the feel of the Souls series (full level kills are just a s***h away), and the everyday sticky models of the Maiden Scrolls (swords and magic vs. girls). Wonderfully, such a sewing monster-like game, actually a move at the same time won the Cologne and E3 game awards laurels, won STEAM's annual best-seller list first.
Author's note:
The protagonist's name can be called Ask, Askew, or Asker.