VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"Do you wanna know what happens to you?"

"Hmmm?"

He was gulping down the food like a pig right now, with his face covered with some sauces and spices… which was a cute sight to her who was used to seeing him eat with all that etiquette and manners.

"Gu knuw wha happen ta mi?"

"Are you really the Elio I know or are you doing some kind of role playing? I'll tell you it's not working if you think that's the case, alright?"

"And here I thought you'd like it."

She knew it, actually. But she had been enjoying this Wild side of him for a while now.

It sure was fun seeing him like that, at least.

"I love it. Keep doing it, and just answer my question."

He was quite good at acting as well, so it would have been difficult to tell the difference between a pig and the current him if she didn't know him better.

"Gus muaam~."

There wasn't even food in his mouth this time and yet he was able to produce that funny voice. He was amazing with this little things, at least.

"Hahaha."

She laughed, then she looked at him, and he smirked, which made her laugh a little more.

"Bastard."

But she liked this.

She was still angry at him but since he hadn't slept yet, she couldn't vent her anger out just yet.

"Anyway…"

Taking a deep breath and remembering how this was just acting from his side, she sighed and looked at him with a new interested look.

"You know how it feels to have actual strength now, right?"

Interlocking her fingers and placing her chin on it, she enjoyed the funny nod that Elio gave her at that question.

"But, do you know how much time and effort it requires for one to gain that kind of power?"

He was blessed by a Divinity and was able to use only a fragment of their Authority.

What he had gained was only as much as what his physical and mental bodies were able to handle, even a fraction more than that and he would have exploded himself and destroyed the estate that they were so desperately trying to protect.

"You were able to do what you wanted, making any thought you had into reality through the power of that blessing… something the true path striders or, the Truth Chasers as we call them are able to do with their skills and the Power of the Truths that they follow.

The power that you used is something that they only gain after slaying countless beings for years and years, by having a kind of talent that could not be defined with logical reasoning, or by having such deep understanding of that world and what they are doing that it would allow them to access the Origin of the philosophies that make up that world."

Simply put, the power that he used was something that was not something someone who hasn't even achieved their first awakening should have been able to possess.

"You just got a free pass to use that power because of that blessing, and it was fine till then, just that the power had terms and conditions applied to it."

It wasn't like this in most cases since blessings were meant to be a special gift by those Higher beings.

It was different from a stigma where they make that individual their own, or mark them as something that belonged to the Truths that they governed.

But then again, most of the things that happen with him are strange or unusual. As she knew, that blessing which was supposed to help him achieve one of his genuine desires was also somehow meant to aid him in his growth.

"Did you hear any weird voices before the blessing activated, El? Something similar to what we hear when we just start the game?"

"Gumting gimilar… ho! I gid gear gumting gimilar!"

He was cute when he did that, even though he looked filthy doing it.

"Did it say something about Plausibility? Calculations maybe?"

"Hmm?"

He nodded once again, and as he did, a helpless sigh escaped her mouth.

"What's up? Is it serious? What happened to me-, the game body of mine?"

It seemed like she knew something about this as well, and it seemed concerning.

"You…"n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

She looked up at him, who had wiped out his filthy face for now and was looking back at her with a serious, worried expression.

"Well, it's rare but, there's this phenomenon where people who suddenly receive excessive strength for a small period through whatever means experience a Backlash in proportion to the strength difference between their current self and their strengthened self."

He certainly remembered seeing a strange Red window about backlash or something.

"This backlash happens through the Plausibility correction where the System calculates the entire plausibility difference and sets a backlash that'd perfectly offset the plausibility that was lost during the moment they gained those temporary superpowers."

"Then…"

"It's random what happens to those people suffering from this kind of backlash, but one of the most common phenomena that occurs in this scenario is an abrupt random spatial transfer."

"…?"

"And it seems like that happened with you as well."

Her words were pretty simple so he understood them perfectly.

Just that… what she was saying made sense, and confused him at the same time.

"You were out for nine hours real world time after suffering from backlash but you were alive, so wherever you've ended up in, doesn't seem to be that dangerous of a place.

Though, your vitals were fluctuating all the time you were out, so it seems aside from a spatial transfer, something else also happened to you."

She told him how he had vanished from right in front of her eyes, as well as how she was monitoring his data in real time right after that had happened.

"There are cases where people's accounts get permanently deleted, or though very, very rare, there are cases where those people turn into a monster and have to live as a monster without any control over their actions for the rest of their life.

Thankfully… it's just a spatial transfer this time."

A sudden influx of strength is always followed by consequences.

While freedom is a birthright of every sentient being, one could not say the same for an abstract concept like Power.

Not everyone was as Lucky as that Dragonslayer (Rank-2) of the unified rankings. Not everyone was destined for greatness like those TWO.

Elio was lucky to face only a simple rebound like that. But still…

"That means we've been separated… right?"

"Damn right we are."

He wasn't with her anymore.

And wherever he was right now, the chances were greater that it was no simple place according to what that Blessing, had wanted for him.