Goblin Hunting

Many doctors came in, and then a series of boring examinations followed.

Ianna-nuna is watching over me, shedding tears next to the doctors.

The doctors took my blood in turns, shone lights into my eyes, measured my blood pressure, and performed various other tests.

After the tedious examination was over, the doctors continued their explanation to Nuna, and Nuna nodded with a serious expression.

When all the doctors left, Anna-nuna approached me.

,Arang-a, are you okay…?”

Nuna asked me as slowly as possible. Are you okay?

I’m okay. Am I okay? I don’t know. I inherited all of Arang’s memories and emotions, but the real Arang is dead.

,Arang-a…?”

Seeing Nuna about to cry again, I hurriedly opened my mouth.

,…Yeah.”

Arang’s emotions remaining in my head were hoping that Nuna wouldn’t be sad.

,Arang-a…! I’m, I’m so glad. I’m, I’m really glad…”

Anna-nuna hugs me and sheds tears. Even if I’m a young girl, to be able to hug me so easily, is Nuna that strong? The moment I thought that.

I realized again that I have no arms or legs.

‘Well, if I don’t have arms and legs, my weight will be almost halved.’

Moreover, I’ve been lying in bed for a long time and my mind is dead, so my body is emaciated, so my actual weight is probably less than 20kg.

Perhaps my thoughts were too long, Anna-nuna put me down and said in a flustered manner.

,D-Do you want to play a game? Should we do it right away?”

Ah, is it because I’m not reacting at all? If this were the original me, I would have reacted somehow, but is it because I merged with Arang, or is it because I haven’t spoken for a long time, it’s somehow difficult to speak.

,…No.”

After Nuna calmed down, the first thing she did was communicate.

First of all, Arang’s memories and emotions came in, so I was able to talk to Nuna naturally.

To the extent that I recognize Anna-nuna as my older sister. It’s not quite sticking to my tongue yet, but I think time will solve it.

Anyway, I properly confirmed my memories while talking with Nuna.

Arang seems to have received a lot of love from her family. A wealthy family, a harmonious family, and everyone is a good person.

Arang, who lived a happy daily life under such a family.

,Thank you. Arang-a. For waking up again.”

,…Yeah.”

,Your parents are coming now, but it seems like it will take some time.”

,Ah…”

,Then, do you want to play a game?”

,…Yeah.”

I turned my head and looked at the huge machine on my bed.

Originally, I knew that virtual reality access devices were simply like chokers, but the one on my bed now is as big as a refrigerator.

If I recall my memories, this access device is said to be one of only five in the world. It’s also known as the deathbed machine.

It blocks the nerves in the neck so you don’t feel pain, and even if there’s something wrong with your body, you can act like a normal person in virtual reality, like me.

It is said that this access device, which can be said to be the culmination of the best technologies in the current world, was obtained solely for Arang.

Anna-unni, no, Nuna carefully laid me down and put the eye massager-like device connected to the access device on me. And she also put a choker-type device, the same as the original access device, around my neck.

The pitch-black vision soon turned into a pure white space.

I thought I would go straight into the game, but an empty white space greeted me. I was wondering what this was when a hologram appeared in front of me, showing countless game titles.

Among them, Legacy of Raid, which was at the very top, was listed as the most recently played.

I immediately clicked on the Legacy of Raid title and ran it.

Before long, I returned to the plaza where I first regained consciousness.

I quickly ran to the plains I had gone to earlier. It’s amazing. It’s definitely a virtual world, but I get out of breath every time my stamina decreases. They even implemented this?

When my stamina reaches its limit, my body now vibrates. As if I can’t move any further here.

I stopped when my stamina reached its limit.

‘Huh?’

When I stay still and try to hold my breath without breathing, my stamina doesn’t recover.

,Puha!”

I exhale and catch my breath in the most comfortable position a person can take, and my stamina recovers.

‘Amazing.’

This situation, where I’m actually running and getting out of breath, not just clicking away on a keyboard and mouse, is so exciting.

Managing my stamina, I arrived at the plains. There were more people hunting goblins than before.

I went to a relatively less crowded area and approached a goblin that was standing alone.

Unlike before, I drew the sword that was attached to my waist.

I run towards the goblin who hasn’t recognized me yet.

The power that started from my feet rises up and is transmitted to my hands. The moment I try to swing my sword, a strange sensation dominates my body.

It feels like it’s telling me to do it this way, guiding me in a certain direction.

As I entrusted my body to that flow, the sword cut through the goblin’s upper body.

Seogeok!

10!

The sense of impact that started from my fingertips and spread throughout my body was tremendous. Moreover, the number visible above the goblin’s head. It was damage.

It was obviously a shabby and pathetic damage, but that wasn’t important right now.

Such a simple and boring play of attacking a level 1 goblin after starting the game gave a different level of fun in virtual reality.

,Kkiiiiiik!”

The goblin, who wasn’t dead, swung a dagger at me.

Before I could even recognize it, my body reacted first and twisted my waist. The attack missed by a hair’s breadth.

I was startled. Even though it’s clearly a virtual world game, I felt a murderous intent.

I stopped thinking and swung my sword to kill the goblin in front of me. Once again, a strange sensation dominated my body, and as I complied with it, the sword crossed the goblin’s neck.

Seogeok!

16!

The goblin’s head flew off and disappeared into particles. The damage is 50% different from before. Is it because I cut the neck, which is a vital point, instead of the upper body?

This is fun.

The senses I’ve never felt before and the battle in a realistic situation gave me the excitement I felt when I played a game for the first time, no, even greater excitement.

How can catching a level 1 goblin that comes out as soon as you start the game be so fun?

There will definitely be raids later… How fun will those raids be?

==

She woke up. Arang came back to life.

Since when was it? Since when did Arang, who always made her family happy with her bright face, get sick?

Despite pouring in a lot of money, they couldn’t stop the disease, and they had no choice but to amputate Arang’s arms and legs. Because if they didn’t, Arang would die.

The always bright Arang lost her bright spirit as her arms and legs disappeared, her body weakened, and she became more and more painful, and eventually became a doll that didn’t react at all.

The best doctors in the world gave up, and there was no way to cure Arang.

As time passed endlessly, I learned about the virtual reality access device that Arang is using now, and I obtained the access device in the hope that she would regain her former self even a little.

I had her try various games, but Arang didn’t do anything at the starting point. She didn’t even lift a finger.

While I was saddened by this, I received a call from a friend.

He said that he was having fun with a game these days and asked if I wanted to try it too. When I looked up what game it was, it was a very famous and popular VRMMORPG genre game called Legacy of Raid.

Just in case, I installed the game on the access device and forcibly connected her. As expected, Arang was just standing still at the starting point.

Shaking my head, I went to the bathroom for a moment and came back, and something had changed.

The screen, which had been just standing still in the starting plaza, had clearly changed to the plains, and on the screen, a goblin was standing and Arang was holding a sword.

She moved. Arang is moving.

The moment I confirmed that, I urgently called Arang and forcibly pressed the logout button.

As soon as I released the access device, Arang turned her head and looked at me.

Arang, who hadn’t moved for several years, looked at me and then screamed and fainted.

Doctors came and examined Arang.

She wasn’t cured yet, but it was definitely a good thing that she had regained consciousness, her senses had returned, and she was reacting.

The problem is that you don’t know when and how it will get worse again.

After the doctors left, I approached Arang so as not to startle her and tried to talk to her. Arang was only giving short answers like “yes” and “no,” but that alone made me so happy.

Because I’m talking to Arang.

While I was talking, I realized that Arang wasn’t focusing on the conversation but was paying attention to something else, and I realized that it was the game.

Since it would take some time for her parents to arrive, I asked Arang if she wanted to play a game, and she nodded and said yes.

And that answer was the loudest voice of all the words she had said so far. Of course, that voice was also very small.

When I think about it, the reason Arang regained consciousness was thanks to the game Legacy of Raid.

First of all, I thought that the priority was to let Arang continue playing the game that she was interested in before she got worse, so I put the access device on Arang.

‘I need to make it easier for Arang to play the game.’