My portable gaming girlfriend

Everyone got up early the next day. We set off towards the hills that glowed mysteriously at night, and Shen Qing, who had a serious wake-up mood both in virtual and real life, was very unhappy and walked at the end alone.

The hill doesn't look very far from the base, but that's an illusion. In fact, this section of the road took us 1 hour, as the saying goes.

Climbing all the way along a natural uphill road, after a vertical distance of several hundred meters, we finally saw the scene of the top of the mountain.

"This, this is..."

I stared dumbfounded at the white marble building in front of me. It was a huge white hall like the Greek Parthenon, and the white light shining inside the hall shot straight into the sky. There is no doubt that that is where the night's light like a morning star lies.

"Go in and have a look."

The boss was the first to propose.

We walked into the white hall carefully, and saw a high platform inside the hall, on which stood a woman—no, it couldn’t be said to be a woman, it was actually a statue about our height.

The sculpted woman's eyes are lowered, her beautiful and holy face looks like a goddess who has fallen into the mortal world, her fluttering clothes and long hair are lifelike, as if she is really standing against the wind.

And the light is emitted from her body, passing through the circular hole above and straight into the sky.

No matter how you look at it, this is not an ordinary statue, and it must have a great relationship with this island.

"A beautiful statue."

Sakura looked up at the statue in admiration.

"——I will record all the magic I brought from the heavens on this stele, hoping that it will be inherited one day..."

Shen Qing approached the statue without fear of death, and began to read the words on a stone tablet under the high platform.

"This is a stele where you can learn magic!"

Shen Qing's uncontrollable excitement was expressed through her words, and it was really rare for her to have an opportunity to express her emotions. I thought it would only happen when she met Su You's victory in the competition and her family's affairs.

I began to read this stele carefully - there is no need to worry about the language problem, for the convenience of players who use various languages ​​to read, the game automatically translates the text into the player's language.

"The name of the magic... Fireball, Ice Shield, Thunder Arrow... what, such a common name."

"Isn't it enough to have a magic name that is simple and easy to understand, otherwise what name do you want?"

"Hmph, at least it shouldn't be like this."

Shen Qing bluntly expressed her dissatisfaction with the lack of secondary school.

"Is there really magic in the world? Can I learn that fireball?"

"No, there is no magic in this world, it's just a game..."

Sakura is unexpectedly interested in magic. Rather, her setting of liking to study has flared up again. When she encounters this kind of magic stone tablet, she will be attracted to her attention, and she can't help but fall into the state of a master.

but……

Fireball can be upgraded to Advanced Fireball, and Ice Shield can be upgraded to Strong Ice Shield. Such magical names with random adjectives really reflect the perfunctory of the production team.

Aside from these, there are a total of 5 series of magic on the stele. In addition to the three elemental systems above, there are also light-based magic and spiritual-based magic. The former is mostly used to heal wounds, while the latter is used to control monsters.

The name of the upgrade is basically adding various modifications before the original name, similar to the name of the character evolution of some animations. Only the name of the ultimate magic at the bottom is different - in addition to the ultimate magic of elemental magic, there is also a soul shackle and a seal of light.

"Please grant me the ability to cast fireball..."

Fireball, as the name suggests, is a magic that releases a fireball to make the opponent burn. Of course, the most basic fireball technique is very weak, and even throwing it out will be affected by gravity and show a parabolic trajectory...

If you want to learn a certain magic, you just need to press your hand on the stone tablet, and then recite the corresponding 'spell' on the stone tablet. This is quite common, just like Shen Qing in front of you.

There was a burst of red light on her body, heralding the completion of magic learning.

"Fireball!"

To use magic, you only need to call out the name of the skill, which even I can't complain about.

A flaming small fireball flew out from Shen Qing's palm, followed a parabolic trajectory and landed on the ground 10 meters ahead.

Well, it does seem to be affected by gravity...

"Huh? Is this a fireball? It's amazing~"

The one who was most impacted by the matter of magic was Sakura who was staring at the fireball dumbfounded.

It’s still the same reason, as a girl born and bred in the reality department of GALGAME, not only did Sakura not leave Yuying Town before meeting me, but there is no such thing as magic in the world view. Although I have seen movies about magic in my storage space, it is the first time for her to use magic in a virtual space.

"Ayuan, I can also learn magic, right?"

Then Sakura grabbed my hand as excitedly as she saw the waves for the first time, her passion for the fireball was no less than that of Shen Qing...

"sure."

As an AI with strong computing power, Sakura's fireball must be 100% accurate.

But in fact I think too much.

boom--

Although I deliberately created a grand atmosphere, what I sent out was really just a small fireball. Even if I accurately hit a tree not far away, only a piece of scorched black was left on it——

"Ayuan..."

I heard Sakura's hesitant voice——

"How can I hit the target..."

Things were pretty bad on Sakura's side, her accuracy was next to zero. From her feet to 5 meters behind the tree, scorched black traces are printed on every place on the ground like random dots, but all of them perfectly avoid the tree, a typical human body stroke master... …

It seems that I can't take her to play FPS games in the future, especially the type with friendly army damage.

"You asked me how to hit the target, how should I answer this... just aim and hit it."

I reluctantly replied Sakura.

"Well...my accuracy doesn't seem to be much better. It seems that I'm more suitable for other magic."

Tianhai Liyin's side is also a mess. I thought she was a beautiful girl game master, but now it seems that she is a real rookie who can't even throw fireballs accurately, so why did the always wise Boss Su You choose her to join the team? Bewitched by beauty?

I shook my head, Boss Su You's feminine pink is not lacking in beauty.

And it's not unfounded for me to suspect that Liyin is a master of beautiful girl games. There are several top-ranked beautiful girls in the Brawl Arena—for example, Mysterious Red, who has often appeared in professional competitions in the past year and has never dropped out of the top 10. The beautiful girl [Xiwu], although she didn't show her whole face, she was recognized as a beautiful girl by virtue of her figure.

"It won't be able to help Ah Yuan in this way... Fireball is really difficult. Sure enough, the 'fragmented' indiscriminate damage power is better to use..."

Sakura's pupils are gradually losing their brilliance, it's too bad, she can't let this kind of emotion grow.

"Okay, okay, you can help me if you major in healing magic! You don't need to use that!"

Seeing that Sakura's condition is getting worse, and Tianhai Liyin was confused when she heard this sentence, I quickly stopped her from continuing, indiscriminate damage... that is a dangerous thing that breaks through the system limit and even hurts players. She must not be put in that state again until she and the programmer figure out what's going on.

"Hmm, healing magic is really suitable for Sakura~"

Fortunately, Tianhai Liyin didn't go to the root of the topic just now.

"Hey? What does healing magic do?"

The topic changed, and Sakura also woke up from the bad state.

"It refers to the magic that can heal others. In this game, it is a kind of light magic. When used to illuminate, it can also cause damage to monsters in the dark."

"Well, let me demonstrate the healing of light to Sakura-san—"

Seeing that Sakura was still confused, Tianhai Liyin pulled out the copper sword on his back and cut it on his right arm without any hesitation—the pain of this game has been adjusted down hundreds of times, and the damage is almost Nothing. It's just that her unhindered self-mutilation still makes me feel a little uncomfortable. Do you always consider phantom pain when doing this in VR games? Are all the beautiful girls these days so bold?

"Well, the wound is there, and then you can cast spells like this—"

Tianhai Liyin covered Bobo's bleeding right hand with her left hand, and chanted a spell, only to see a ball of light emerge from the palm of her hand, and then the blood on her right arm slowly stopped flowing——

The wound healed at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Wow, it's amazing... Is this a healing spell! If you have such a spell, can you help A Yuan?"

"Of course."

Being a "healer" is more suitable for Sakura's personality on the surface.

"After all, this idiot looks vulnerable to injury or even death, right?"

Shen Qing on the side still didn't forget to take the opportunity to taunt a few times, I even think she's targeting her more frequently than before... What's going on?

In fact, in the general sense of role-playing games, the protagonist often has several responsibilities-tank (meat shield), DPS (output), healer (or auxiliary). In the era of VR games, RPGs are not so limited in the choice of these occupations, but these necessary responsibilities have not changed much.

Tanks are responsible for attracting the enemy's attacks for the team. Generally speaking, the defense has high blood volume, while the healer needs to restore blood for everyone to dispel the curse, or put some restrictive spells to stumble the enemy.

"Then, I'll just act as the healer! Everyone in the team will leave it to me, and I won't let up at all!"

After listening to my explanation, she did not hesitate to assume the role of the healer.

"Liyin, what spell do you major in?"

Obviously Li Yin is a new member, but now the relationship between Sakura and Li Yin seems to be better than Shen Qing, it can only be said that her personality is much easier to get along with than Shen Qing. At this time, Sakura was also the first to ask Tianhai Liyin——

"That's a problem... Attack spells are not suitable for me, how about spiritual spells?"

Spiritual spells are said to be spells that can control some animals. After reaching a higher level, they can even control wild monsters, but I can't think of any use for this spell.

"Why don't you practice the ice shield."

I suggested to her this way, after all, this game must have a person as a meat shield character.

In the current team, Shen Qing is obsessed with fireball, Su You is a melee type, so...

"that……"

Tianhai Liyin had a hesitant expression...

"Of course you are here to be the meat shield, or do you want the rookie girl, your game girlfriend or the boss to be the Tank?"

Shen Qing, who heard our conversation, told the truth mercilessly - in the end, I'm the only one who wants to be a Tank? No, I still have to hold on...

"Aren't you considering putting down the fireball technique and taking the initiative to take on this responsibility?"

"Not consider."

Shen Qing's attitude is very firm.

No, I don't want to be a tank, I just want to be a shooter. It's not normal for me to be a tank, if there is a tank in our organization...

"Tank is not necessary, but it is really difficult to do without Tank, are you sure it's not appropriate?"

"If I can, I'd still like to use a gun..."

I expressed my wish.

"Haha, making a gun in this game is very troublesome. Before you make a gun, the responsibility of Tank is on you. Come on."

After Su You finished speaking, he patted my shoulder, with a tone that you can't refute after the decision has been made... I don't really want to be beaten, I always feel that people who like to play T have a potential tendency to shake M.

But if it is the order of the boss, there is no way.

With neither experience nor a shield, I just undertook this arduous task-carrying monsters with my body.

Reluctantly began to learn the ice shield - the elementary ice shield is very fragile, even a little cold for me who is still wearing the initial single clothes, but this level of ice can at least resist the gnawing rabbits... to a certain extent superior.

Afterwards, I tried to lift it left and right and stretched forward. White mist appeared from the palm of my hand, and the white mist condensed into an ice round shield in the air. The ice shield can also completely cover my head.

The defense is not bad...

boom--

The sudden impact on the ice shield caught me off guard and took half a step back. If I read correctly, what hit my ice shield was a primary fireball——

"The defense is not bad, it can withstand a low-level fireball."

"I said that in order to test the power of the fireball, you can attack my ice shield without even saying hello? If I just retract the magic, I should be seriously injured by now, right?"

"Anyway, it's okay to die in the game, why don't you just die quickly——Fireball Technique!"

"You tell the truth!"

This guy Shen Qing didn't say hello and took me as a target. The continuous fireballs made me have no time to reason with her, so I raised the ice shield back and forth to block it. I have to say that she is much more accurate when using magic than when using a sword, and she can hit me accurately almost every time, so I have to concentrate on resisting.

So the sound of bombing lingered for a while... Seriously, why did it target me so much? Did she care so much about the boss match last time?

After at least 30 fireballs, we both ran out of magic.

"Huh...you are really tough, so what if you get hit by me, you don't look like a man."

"I'll be GG if I get hit! How could I be beaten to death by you? What does this have to do with men!"

"Tsk, you're a virgin because you're stingy. Shouldn't dying at the hands of a beautiful girl be the goal of you nerds?"

Shen Qing glanced at me unhappily, obviously she was out of breath due to exhaustion of magic power.

"Don't set such tragic goals for others, and I'm not a nerd, and I don't want to die under the hands of a beautiful girl like you!"

Should I say that she is overconfident, or not humble? I have never met anyone who claims to be a beautiful girl in reality. Although Shen Qing is indeed a beautiful girl...but I can't see in her the virtue of humility that has been handed down from this country since ancient times.

It's not even as good as Sakura, a girl who was born in Japan... Sure enough, it has something to do with family education, right? A crazy girl who only pretends to be a good girl in front of others.

While thinking about this, I didn't notice a much smaller fireball hitting my face.

My vision turned red after feeling a very subtle shock of anxiety...

"Hey! There are also surprise attacks! Didn't you run out of magic power!"

"I always feel that you are thinking about something that makes me very uncomfortable, so I threw it to you with the magic that recovered a little just now. Didn't you die? What a pity."

The use of magic requires a lot of magic power, and the magic power will slowly recover only when no magic is used. Of course, there is another way to drink the magic potion made by alchemy.

"You guys really have a terrible personality!"

"You don't need a virgin like you to admit me."

Afterwards, Shen Qing, who was satisfied because she successfully hit me, never answered the question again, and I, who was blown into an explosive head by the fireball technique, became the practice target of Sakura's healing technique.

As for the beautiful girl on the other side...

"This...these fireballs..."

The voice comes from Amami Rine who has been watching our battle or that I was beaten unilaterally...

"The accuracy of firing fireballs is super high, and almost every shot hits! Can I ask for your experience?"

She looked at Shen Qing enviously.

"A Yuan, your hairstyle is so cool!"

Sakura is concerned about another thing... Do you like this afro?

"Um……"

Shen Qing didn't feel well here either, she calmed down her breath a bit——

"There is no trick. What I have to say is to practice more? After all, we are not AI. They can achieve a very high accuracy rate through calculation. It is much more difficult for us to aim manually."

"Huh? Is that so?"

After hearing this, Tianhai Liyin was thoughtful.

"It's true that practicing more is the only way."

Su You also agreed with Shen Qing, because she got the idol's approval, Shen Qing showed a smug smile that she thought no one would see...

"...Ayuan, can we go over there? I have some questions to ask."

Sakura suddenly pulled the corner of my clothes and pointed to a secluded cliff far away from everyone, where a sudden stone and a few trees formed a natural barrier, a very ordinary scene.