Lilim Heritage Online 176 Vol 2 Prologue

In Lilim Heritage Online, one day in-game was one hour in real life.

It had been four months IRL after Misha parted with Mia, and the game progressed for almost eight years in-game.

Maou Mia gazed at his new colony while he was floating in the sky. Below him, ten thousand giant ant monsters were busy constructing a concrete fortress, surrounding a tower, which was similar to the Babylon tower in legends.

Twelve female figures were flying behind him, looking at the construction site as well.

While they were watching the work ants quietly, Lilith pinged Mia with her private messages.

[I will release the game to the public tomorrow. Prepare for an influx of players.]

Mia nodded, "No casual player will appear in my world, right?"

[Correct. You will only see PKers, criminals, hypocrites, MWG agents, and a bunch of greedy bastards here. No mercy to these fools.]

"What about the casual server? Is the setting the same, or is it different?"

[The casual one is a copy of your world. However, it won't be influenced by you or me. It will be just a fantasy world to be enjoyed by all. Also, it will be a fake game with AI NPCs. No real-life or real people involved.]

"How about permanent residents? Will they join this game?"

[They won't come. I'm driving them away to other "Real" dimensions, so they won't get involved in our affairs.]

"Good. When can I transfer my guys to my dimension?"

[Soon. For now, take it easy and kill all these players for me. Keep grinding and training. Get stronger if you want your revenge. Right now, you won't stand a chance against Samael and Gabriel.]

"… How far until I reach them?"

[Very far. After all, none of them are humans, including your grandmother. Well, she's not even your relative from the very beginning.]

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Min Uriel sat in front of her son and her daughter-in-law, the parents of Mia, inside an office of Mia's father.

Mia's father was a handsome man with white jade skin. He had no mole or a spot on his body as if he was a fictional character or an android. However, he was a real living being with blood and flesh.

He had a crew cut silver hair and red eyes, which resembled Min, but there was something different.

Two white dragon wings were resting behind his back. He folded them so that they would not get in the way.

On the other hand, his wife was a blond hair Asian woman. Her face was similar to a female Korean idol with a plastic surgery, which was identical to 3D Asian game characters.

A small mouth, a sharp nose, oval face, smooth skin, and busty body made an ideal body to be desired by all gamers and anime enthusiasts.

Similar to her husband, she also had two dragon wings, folding behind her back.

The three were watching the LHO game intro movie with a grimacing expression. They did not expect that this game would have spread to their galaxy.

Moreover, the main villain character in the movie was Maou Mia in his half-monster form!

The movie retold Mia's story during WW III. Instead of a war between overminds and mutants, it became a war between all the coalition of humans and mutants against Mia's armies. He commanded his monster ant army to invade the world while his supporters stole all human's ion cannon satellites to use them against the alliance.

All hi-tech satellites were destroyed by mankind in retaliation, but they were not enough to stop Mia.

After all anti-ICBM satellites were destroyed, Mia launched over a hundred stealth missiles from Shelter 87 to every part of the world, destroyed all human settlements and civilization, clouding the earth with radiation the nuclear winter.

Without a supporting base, giant ants, blood golems, sandworms, small hydras, man-eating trees, mutated snakes, and monster wasps slaughtered every living being they found.

Mutants joined forces with the remaining humans to fight back against Mia Army. The movie showed that they could repel the endless ant troops and resisted against the nuclear winter, but they ran into boss class monsters.

A twelve-headed hydra appeared and killed everybody.

One brave demi-hydra pilot took a Prometheus mech and bypassed the hydra. He reached Mia, who was also piloting another Prometheus.

Mia's robot simply swung his lightning blade, and the brave demi-hydra's mech was cleaved in half. As for the pilot, he pressed a random teleportation button and escaped from the fight.

Without someone to stop the grand hydra and Mia, the situation became hopeless as monsters dominated the world.

Still, a goddess descended upon the world and created a sanctuary for mankind. She teleported all survivors onto the island, which is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The goddess hinted that she had left a weapon to fight back against Mia and his monsters on earth. Unfortunately, she violated the higher-order and the laws of the celestial beings, many other weapons landed within the monster's territories.

The name of the goddess was … Lilim.

Then, a logo of Lilim Heritage Online appeared, ending the intro movie.

Mia's father bit his lower lip as he looked at Min.

"Mistress, will this affect our vessel? Mia is also a character we created to be our representative for the next Heaven Festival. If he has become a villain in that game, won't it affect your reputation in our real world?"

The father asked Min, but he addressed her as "Mistress" instead of "Mother" or "Mom."

"I have no idea. I don't know what Mia and Lilith had intrigued, but we can only trust him on his judgment."

"Can you bribe the admins to transfer Mia to our galaxy? Like how Misha get Shurka to our side?"

"I've tried, but Medusa said that Mia and Lilith had formed some kind of agreements, and she couldn't interfere with it."

"Even someone in your rank, mistress?"

"Sorry. I have no power to veto their decision. We're playing their games, and we are merely admins, not the developers. We are powerless here."

"…"

Mia's mother frowned and muttered, "Mistress, do you think Mia knows what we are?"

"I doubt it. If Mia had, he would have asked us to take him to our real world, or he would have gone ballistic because of our existence."

"I don't think he would have been mad. We were with him since we have created his character."

"His real body has been stolen by Misha, though. Mia has become an independent existence or a new NPC in this world now."

"Still, what should we do to get him back?"

"… Leave him be. Maybe he has his reasons. Let's treat him as a teenager in puberty and wait for his return. By the way, has anyone manage to contact Mia in-game?"

"... I'm sorry."

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The masked LHO game company and all alphtesters got messages from Lilith.

[I'll release the LHO game to the public soon. Alpha testers will be transferred to the hardcore server, while civilians will be sent to the casual server. All mining companies, PKers, dimension criminals, military officers, and MWG staff will also be in the PVP server as well. But there will be a few exceptional individuals that will have the right to join the casual server.]

[Secondly, all mining companies in my game worlds will have their characters-in-game deleted. To mine the resources in my dimension again, you can only mine it in the LHO hardcore server. As for other games, you can't take any item from those games into your world.]

[Third, all progress of alpha testers in the LHO game will be reset. Even if you go back to the hardcore server with your old account, you will have to start over.]

[Fourth, you can't inherit your real skills, and status attributes into a casual server game. To use your real world's abilities in-game, you have to join the hardcore server.]

[Fifth, only items in the hardcore server can be brought over to your dimension. So, if you farm in the casual server, you won't be able to take anything outside of that world.]

[Sixth, death in casual server won't result in real death. You can be respawned as usual. However, mortality in the hardcore server is permanent!]

[And lastly, your VIP status is the only thing that gets carried over along with all items in VIP inventory. Hooray!!]

Many government agents and mining company shareholders were infuriated. Several insiders, nobles, and high ranking officers invested in VRMMO games to mine resources from other worlds. Now, their profit streak was over.

Many naïve investors filed documents to sue the game companies, which refused to compensate these greedy businessmen and nobles.

The Milky Way Government suffered the most damage from the lack of otherworld's resources and income. Within the next few months, they would not be able to upkeep their military expenditure. As a result, they began selling their diamonds to fill their accounts.

Complaints and dissatisfactions sparked rumors. Then, an angry noble leaked the secret to the public media, telling them about the VRMMO's alternate world secret.

Civilians already learned about this rumor since the day Lilith had interfered with the game worlds and broadcasted her voice throughout the Milky Way Galaxy. At first, MWG managed to cover the news outbreak, sweeping this piece of news under the carpet, telling everyone that it was a feature of many VRMMO games.

Four months ago, many people interested in joining VRMMO games. Still, when they learned that they might die for real had they died in-game, all of them gave up pursuing a gaming career.

The trend died down for four months as ordinary people forgot about this information.

Now, the rumors resurfaced, and the gaming trend came back.

An hour later, news stations investigated into the matter and found the trace of this scandal.

An uproar followed along with the new game's fame, which was about to be released to the public, Lilim Heritage Online. Gamers from various VRMMO games around the Milky Way Galaxy, who knew about item transfer features, revealed their secrets of success, which attracted more naïve civilians.

With the increase of interest, another noble, who wished to gain fame and face, revealed more secrets about Lilith's recent messages.

These changes brought a new sensation of critics and reevaluation of VRMMO games, run by the mysterious entity. Aside from the high ranking officers in the government, no one knew what the true identity of Lilith was.

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