Fantasy Star Online's
12. Spearsman Official
The examiner stood up slowly while still raising his hand upwards. Ryzen breathed a sigh of relief, then lowered his weapon, at the same time, the examiner kicked the stalk from Ryzen's wooden spear and threw it deep into the edge of the arena.
"What the-?!"
While his eyes were fixed on the thrown spear, then when Ryzen turned his eyes back to the front, a fist suddenly was already in front of him. Fortunately, with a hundred percent reflex due to luck, he was able to avoid the fists hovering at him.
The examiner retreated a few steps after his impromptu attack failed, then grabbed both of his hands in a defensive position like a fist fight.
'This NPC is why?!' inner Ryzen.
While Ryzen was puzzled by the situation, the four people watching the match could only laugh because they knew something like that was going to happen.
"Well, shit, the habit of Cagor nu rumorkeun tea."
"Heeh, the eel."
"Ceuk in the forum mah, eta NPC sabenerna tea in install AI program, right, his?"
In their statement, it can be concluded that the NPC that is a tester for Ryzen is a program installed with AI (Artificial Intelligence) or called Artificial Intelligence installed on a computer system. They do not act according to the program data, but rather they will move automatically according to the wishes of the program that learns on experience, if spelled out, instead, The NPCs within Fantasy Star Online were already like ordinary humans living in their own worlds. All of their actions were decided based on their own decisions, not from a set script like NPCs in general.
On the other side of the stands, Laiten scrunched her forehead while stomping her feet to the floor. She also knew it was going to happen, and, feeling upset, she finally decided to tell Ryzen.
"Be careful, he is an NPC with artificial intelligence," cried Laiten, his voice echoing in that sealed arena.
Hearing the loud noise while deep in thought, Ryzen's entire body shuddered as it entered his ears.
'AI, huh? now I get it, Ryzen's inner.
Ryzen also immediately put up his original empty-handed fighting horses and not principled to any fighting style. Seeing this, the examiner laughed out loud until he rolled over.
"Eh?!"
"What the fuck?! Bhaha!"
Ryzen scratched his non-itchy head, 'What is it? could it be that he was laughing at the way my horses were?'
Not only Ryzen who was surprised by the attitude of the examiner who suddenly laughed, Laiten and four other people were surprised, too, that was the first time they saw the examiner who was often called Cagor laughing out loud.
Until a few minutes later, finally the NPC called Cagor by one of the four people watching it, stopped laughing. He rubbed his tears out from his endless laughter, he looked at Ryzen for a moment and threw a badge at the start of the match.
"I acknowledge your techniques in spear play, although indeed your movements are still like a beginner, but at least you use your brain to fight as well. Congratulations, you passed the exam and have officially become Spearsman" the NPC said.
"Oh, I see." Ryzen replied briefly.
"But, well, let's be honest ak-fufufu! yuu-fufu!" The NPC cleared his throat, trying to hold back a laugh, then he continued, "I-I mean, a Spearsman doesn't just rely on a spear to attack, always remember to use your other limbs to attack as well. Therefore, I suggest you to practice that empty-handed combat technique of yours!"
"Oh? okay, I don't think that's a problem."
"Good, then, I congratulate you again."
In the stands where the four people who dariitadi watched his match were on a scratching head before leaving the arena. As for Laiten, he jumped into the arena from the spectator stands.
"Don!!" exclamation Laiten.
Plaque!
Laiten slapped Ryzen on the back loudly, heard from his bouncing and echoing voice in the closed arena. Even Cagor the examiner who was still there and watched the orange-haired woman slap Ryzen, to his surprise.
"Aw, what's my fault?!"
"Your fault is because you are wrong" said Laiten.
"Eh??" Ryzen was puzzled by the sentence spoken by Laiten.
"Oh, is he your friend?" the NPC asked in a conversation.
"Ah, yes, his name is Laiten, he's a blacksmith" Ryzen replied.
The NPC looked at Laiten from top to bottom, making Laiten uncomfortable by it. Then, Laiten immediately hid behind Ryzen and secretly pinched him instead.
"Aw, aw, aww!!" ryzen.
"ah! I remember, were you a student of the old man?" asked the NPC, now aimed at Laiten.
"W-how did you know? are you a stalker?!"
"setal-what? well, anyway I know, because I always order equipment to the old man, and it just so happened that I visited once and saw you were focused on making a race—waiting!"
"???"
The NPC looked like he was reaching for something inside that small bag strapped around his waist.
"Hey, we better get out of here, right away" whispered Laiten to Ryzen's ear.
"Why?" reply Ryzen slowly.
"I have a bad feeling about this."
Without a moment, Laiten immediately ran away from the arena with Ryzen whom she had forced to pull with her. Meanwhile, the cool NPC reached into his small bag, finally almost done with his business.
"Well, here."
He pulled out a long spear with a unique spear-eye shape, as he finished taking out the entire part of the spear that somehow could exist in a small bag, he looked back at the two people. But, after looking in that direction, he already did not find the figure of the two people.
"Where'd it go?"
....
Laiten and Ryzen were in the vast Class Center lobby, where there were very few people, now filled with players and NPCs. Most of them were gathered near a long wooden plank plastered on the wall to the right of the exit.
"What are they doing?" Ryzen pointed at the crowd.
"Oh, that. They seemed to be searching for a suitable quest."
"Quest's? ah, you mean like a quest board?"
Laiten nodded. Then, he was suddenly moody, Ryzen noticed it and immediately asked him how he was doing.
"Why?"
"Ah, sorry. I have to logout, congratulations on being Spearsman. Yeah, see you later, bye-bye!"
A second later, when Ryzen had not had time to reply and ask further, Laiten had already disappeared and only left the polygon particles floating in the air and slowly disappeared into transparency.
Ryzen could only take a breath, then minimize what he would do next. Considering his goal was to earn money in the game, but did not know how to—at least for now—by so, he decided to do some quests displayed on that long quest board.
***
In a clean room, a cool breeze through the open windows and a bright view of the city, can be felt in the room that looks like a room for hospital patients. On top of his bed, someone was turning around while wearing a VR-Gear on his head that had just been turned off.
"Ah, you're done playing?" ask the nurse who was in charge of that room.
"Yes...."
The reply sounded slow and weak, though little could be heard the spirit behind it.
"Your face looks bright, is there anything good going on while you're playing?" ask the nurse again while helping her patient rise to a sitting position.
The man who had just risen from his lying position and was now sitting there, looked at the face of the nurse who was taking care of him. His skin as white as snow, his eyes large and yellow gives the impression of someone who has a cheerful nature, his face is arguably beautiful, but rather than being beautiful, a more suitable word is cute. Has long grayish hair up to the back, and a slim body and height that is not more than 170 cm, can be seen from his posture even though he is sitting though.
With all the above description of the appearance, it can be concluded that the person who was the patient there was a cute girl, who was smiling to the nurse who treated her.
"Yes, I finally have a friend" said the girl.
