Siva (Volume 7) Immortal Ascension

Chapter 022: Assassination and Espionage

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Chapter 022: Assassination and Espionage
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In a meeting room, Gaia, Scion, and a Grand Elder Pistareen wearing a placid face was in a contingent formation in front of a single chair with a petite and overly "childish" looking girl seated in it.

Looking at her made Scion feel that she's staring at a doll... she wasn't pretty but her enthusiasm level and grinning excitement was just blightly warming.

Perhaps it was just her inner kindness or just the plain ole Mandy's natural thoughtfulness and her consideration of others, but she felt she wasn't any dangerous just because she couldn't feel any trace of ill-intent coming from her enthusiastic eyes.

Their eyes met, of course, and ever since earlier, the girl who addressed herself as Julian had never once frowned despite the pressure emitted by the two leaders of the two of the largest organizations in Terroa. She only stared at Scion as if trying to burn her image into her brain.

"You're really pretty..." she said, her half-swooning voice made it clear she was appreciative of her.

Pistareen and Scion were both Mavens, a race of tall people, while Gaia was a female Elf... an even taller race than the Maven.

Gaia was just the same height as Scion but for the Elves, she was already considered short —Female Elf short.

Sion blushed then looked over at Gaia who wore a seemingly amused expression while she studied the girl seated on the interrogating chair. Naturally, she wasn't bound by any rope or anything.

[Who are you again?]

Gaia asked softly and her voice was layered with that half-teasing and half-alluring voice that could charm just about anybody, even of the same sex.

The only man in the room, Pistareen, had to use special methods to resist this 'spell of truth' that the Oracle had just sneak-used at the girl.

"Julian!" she exclaimed, charmed, "I haven't even registered for a whole name yet!"

[Is that so? Then why are you looking for Sir White Knight with such sense of urgency?]

Perhaps it was beyond Science... but even Julian, the obviously former [Julia] who was chased by the world by a "Mission" given by the same Gaia who was seated in front of her right now, was unaware that she was being led to be honest by Gaia's very weird spell that obviously doesn't exist in the game until this very moment.

It should be remembered that there are no direct spell that can affect a target —or plainly [Targeted Spell] in term— in the entirety of RPG: Terroa. So, with that defense, the fact that Gaia was actually using one right now is proof that she was an NPC.

Julian, of course, didn't sweat the complicated stuff as she just treated it as something game-ish.

But if other players were to experience it, or rather and perhaps, maybe, if scientists were to actually see a mere NPC "controlling and influencing" the train of thoughts and emotions of a [player], they'd be shocked and horrified by the implications of it.

What if an NPC with an evil AI-algorithm were to use such a method as well?

The answer to such a question was frightening.

Thankfully, the subject of the spell didn't care at all and only cared about her goal... while the other player in the vicinity, Scion, doesn't have enough game-knowledge or plain and actual "care" about this topic to actually spend brain energy to process the significance of it.