It has been a week and two since I set the city, which was a safe area, to the same setting as the normal area.

Urabe watched the players battling the monsters over the monitor sipping a pet bottle shaped dokpe. The unique medicine-like flavour spreads in his mouth, and he grins with satisfaction.

Around him like that, a dozen men and women who have come in white seem busy working. "Experiment" is already in big trouble. The hobby of "Boss" has been derailed several times, but I think I can get the results I expected soon. But 'experiment' is only 'experiment'. If we get results, we have to move on to production next. Thinking of the sight in his head when the production went well, Urabe takes Docpe's sip off his mouth and smiles.

Asakura stares at Urabe's back, laughing all alone, looking at the data from the experiment.

- Putting the human spirit into the body of a crop completely different from its original body.

It was considered difficult with VR technology at this stage.

When the physical condition is very different in the real world from the virtual world, it prevents the physical body from moving well. The user's body must be scanned in advance in Dream, which is a console so that it is tall, skeletal, or they do not differ significantly.

However, Asakura and the others had almost succeeded in the experiment.

Adjust the human spirit so that it has no problem getting inside the monster's body. It took a while to make this adjustment complete, but it has been successful as a result of trials and errors. And put the adjusted spirit into the flesh of a monster, a mass of data that does not exist in reality.

Initially there were experimental bodies that would be unable to move and those that would storm around without control of the body, but now almost all of them are operating properly.

And not just to move, but to find a better way to use the borrowed body, Asakura and the others decided to let the experimental subjects fight the players. Many individuals were defeated more easily than regular monsters, but some of them were used.

A week in in-game time.

It looks like we can get better results from the data we've got.

All the researchers, as well as the 'boss', participate in this experiment. It won't take another week until we have enough data.

Urabe, the administrator, relaxes to see how the players are doing, even though all the researchers participate.

But Urabe has already finished her norm, and there's nothing wrong with being relaxed.

The fact is unnecessarily obnoxious.

Asakura makes a critical toothpick while ensuring that she does her work.

"Even so, Nine Dragons, you're still strong. It's the actual" final area "where they are, but in a few days we've been in the area, we've reached the far end."

Not that Urabe talks to anyone, but squeaks watching the monitor. The researchers around him don't look at him like that and are quietly working on it. Though physically sensory time is clouded by 'time control', they have been repeating experiments in the game for over two years now. Their spirits have become tough enough to say they are already insane. There is no shaking of fine dust or concentration in this matter.

Urabe pointed her lips at what no one responded to, but still wouldn't stop talking.

"Whoa, wow. Boss, the room is currently open. I think I'll be able to find my boss room by the end of the day. Oh, no, wow. Wow. One, you make me want to send praise as a game lover. This is it. That's why it's a shame. Unfortunately, the Dead End boss can't be defeated."

Urabe looks at the monitor as she speaks with complete regret.

Twenty-ninth offensive area The Dead End is the final area.

There is no falsehood in his words that he spoke so.

Because there are only twenty-nine areas in this world. No, there are actually thirty areas at once. However, players cannot enter the thirtieth area. Because the thirtieth area is now home to Urabe and the others, this research facility.

The Dead End boss monster is the gatekeeper that guards the entrance to the facility. And that gatekeeper's HP will never be less than 1. I mean, Boss Monster's HP doesn't go to 0. No matter how much you attack, no player can defeat the boss.

Urabe said nothing about the fact that their previous efforts would return to nothing.

"Uh, lamentable, lamentable, bearded."

"Hey, shut up. Shut up."

Asakura yells at Urabe singing out in a wild voice like a musical. Other researchers don't give a shit, but Asakura can't ignore Urabe's voice.

"Ha."

Come on, get used to it, Urabe laughs at Asakura with her nose. It was when Asakura gave an angry look at it and tried to get up from the chair.

Putung, and.

All the monitors on the spot disappeared. On the contrary, all the functions that were monitoring the players present in this facility were stopped.

"Ugh, uh, hey, baba"

"hey... what is this..."

Urabe, who has been relaxed until now, also jumps out of the chair in this emergency and functions in an attempt to restore the system. But no matter what you do, the system never recovers. On the contrary, I couldn't even figure out why this was happening.

Urabe and the others are on the move to restore the system.

One, Asakura had a cold look on her face.

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Five meters or so of dragons are walking bipedally toward the Dragon Emperor's Palace, sounding like the sound of Zun, Zun, and. Its entire body is covered in scales like red, squared armor, and you can easily imagine it being highly defensive. Red smoke is rising from the mouth where sharp fangs grow like blades. The scale-covered tip lifts a sharp, pointed tail and looks down at the smaller humans blocking their way with cloudy eyes.

"Dragon Emperor" Meteodragon.

Called by players as cheat dragons and others, the dreaded dragon of disaster. A unique monster that supposedly exists only one on the game, not a boss monster. Its fighting power is stronger than that of the emerging area boss.

The defense is very hard and the attack hardly passes. The attack is also very aggressive and the brace attack is powerful enough to attribute a wide range of ashes. And it moves faster than you can imagine from that giant.

"It's a brace attack!"

When the Meteodragon breathes heavily, a flame-wrapped meteorite is fired from its mouth. Players equipped with shields step forward and guard the meteorite as it completely burns down the building that is being half-destructed by the battle in response to the cries of the Some of them appeared to be Arthur.

Having received the meteorite, they have a distressed look and gradually retreat behind them. They watch their HP diminish with horrible momentum. Their HP was halved and the meteorite finally misted as they scattered red flames around turning yellow.

Those in the tank squad who finished the role fall back with a look of fatigue. Such a mismatch with them, they storm the Meteor Dragon. Heated by meteorites, they move on not to tread on the ground where the guzzles and melt. Among them was also a mix of Arthur, who defended the meteorite as a tank. Finish preventing the meteorite. No, he took a healing pill and immediately turned to attack. The players around him who know how tough he is no longer surprised.

"Damn...... If you think you've cleared up the monster, you can't believe that such a bucket of monsters are coming out... it's a mess."

"But just now, there was a report from the Nine Dragons that they reached quite a bit deeper into the area, so this battle could be over soon."

Doroua talks without looking at each other's faces as she runs toward the Meteor Dragon.

More than two hours have already passed since the battle against the Meteodragon began. The Meteodragon's HP is currently entering the red zone. Still, that momentum never weakens, and tough armor doesn't accept half-baked attacks.

"Hahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!"

Use the Overlay Slash, which is based on two names of its own, running the lead and reaching the Meteodragon. A bastard sword surrounded by silver light is slammed by the armor of the Meteodragon with furious momentum. The Meteodragon of Boulder is also stubborn in this attack. Retract the scale-covered foot one step back.

Relentless of such a Meteodragon, he unleashes his next attack. Her figure was beautiful, but she had a horrible look on her face that I could tell from those who knew her was outrageously grumpy.

The cause is acorns.

To be exact, it's a player who called Akatsuki a "hipster". He was dragged away and taken somewhere, but that didn't seem to keep her in the mood. That's a hundred and eighty degrees different look from the look on your face when you're talking to Akatsuki.

"Whoa, hey, hey."

"Absolutely."

Looks like it, Drua pulls her face together and joins hands on the Meteodragon with her heart. And they also activated their skills and slammed them into the Meteodragon.

The gully and its HP shredded, eventually reducing it to a point called a dot. * Shakes up the bastard sword in an attempt to stab a stop.

- And Putung and all the sights were painted black.

For ten minutes more than this, the world of Blade Online is engulfed in darkness.

The end began.