"A Level 2 slime... really?"
The level 2 slime was not attacking Art's character, it was just moving around him.
"Wait, doesn't this game have voice recognition and activation?"
Art stopped what he was doing and plugged a set of headphones on the PC.
"Status."
The transparent panel appeared, with all of Art's stats and skills.
"Put max stats on STR, DEF, and DEX."
[Converting remaining status points into STR, DEF, DEX.]
[9999 Status Points have been given towards STR]
[9999 Status Points have been given towards DEF]
[9999 Status Points have been given towards DEX]
[Title Acquired.]
[Immortal Providence, Superhuman, Unbreakable, Vision of the Gods.... (100+)]
"Time to see what happens if I flick a level 2 slime with max STR."
Art's character comes closer to the slime and touches the slime, Art flicks the slime's gel and it immediately scattered and shattered the core.
"Expected that."
[Slime has dropped (Slime's Toxin 1x)]
Art turned around the PC and returned to Ramiel's area.
"Ramiel!"
Ramiel was blasting her music through her headphones, so Ramiel can't really hear much.
"What!"
"Do you need anything?"
"I need a new house, a nice fireplace, and a new set of-"
"No, I meant anything to eat!"
Ramiel is feeling embarrassed and starts to turn red.
"To eat? I could go for some chocolate ca-"
"No sweets."
"Aww~"
Art turns around and heads to the door, glancing back at her before leaving.
"I'll just buy a large-sized pizza for all of us, you good with that?"
"Aight~"
....
Art is at a pizza place and is currently in line to order a Large Hawaiian Pizza. While waiting he checks his phone for any updates regarding announcements.
"No announcements, how long has it been?"
He turned off his phone and kept it in his pocket, he decided to watch the television news at the waiting line.
The news reporter is talking about the news.
"Reports today show that an unidentified flying object in the sky was spotted, according to the government it was merely a jet, but I don't think it's a jet."
"Wasn't that debunked as a hoax?
"It was? then it's a hoax!"
The news reporter coughed.
"There have been increased in the rise of riots across the city, the police is currently attempting to stop them defensively in the front lines."
"The protestors are throwing random objects at the police, from flower pots to Molotov cocktails!"
"That sounds bad, how will the government deal with this?"
"As of right now, there has been no official statement from the government."
The people in the Pizza place started talking about the riots that were stated in the news.
"Those idiots will be arrested soon, why did they even participate."
"I heard from my cousin who works on the police force, the people were asking for more freedom... whatever that means."
"It's not even a case..."
As Art watched the people talk about the riots, the employee at the front called Art's number order.
"Number 14, Large Hawaiian Pizza!"
Art raised his number and showed it to the employee.
"Here."
The employee takes the number and hands out a wrapped pizza box to Art.
"Thank you."
"You're welcome."
Art is walking towards the company building, he got a call from someone.
"Who is it now?"
It's the chairman. Art hurriedly answered the phone and continued walking.
"Yes, chairman?"
A heavy voice was heard from the phone.
"We will be releasing 'Last Resort' in December, just before Christmas so we can ride that wave of people on holidays."
"Good idea Mr. Chairman, do not worry most of the progress of the game is finished as it just needs some polishing and bug fixes."
"Right, Mr. Art there have been leaks of the game being released online, was it your doing."
Art smiled as he was talking to the chairman, he expected this kind of question.
"Yes, I leaked photos of the game online."
"Why did you do that? depending on your answer, I might fire you or send you to court."
The chairman said in a serious tone, Art could feel the pressure from the phone.
"I will tell you later."
"...."
The phone became quiet.
"I will visit you in your office, I am currently walking to the building since I went to buy pizza for the team."
"Just tell me no-"
Art hung the call before the chairman could say anything.
Art sweats a bit from what he had done.
"That was probably a dumb move.."
Art arrived at the building and went back to the area on floor 78.
When the door opened, he was greeted by a tall man. He wore a black suit, had black hair and he was handsome looking, he laughed at Art.
"You're late again."
Art sighs, and shows that he was holding 3 pizza boxes.
"I just bought pizza for all of us, also I'm earlier than you."
The man started wheezing at art.
"You? Early? Naaaah you're lying!"
"If you don't believe me, go ask Ramiel."
"I can't, Ramiel is sleeping at her desk."
Art facepalms himself.
"I was just out for 30 minutes and now she is sleeping?"
The man chuckled at Art.
"I can understand, the room here is cold to the point it makes you sleepy."
Art goes inside the room along with the man, Art sees Ramiel sleeping soundly at her office chair.
The man whispers to Art while showing a smile.
"You should prank her, heh."
"Alright then."
Art got closer to Ramiel and dropped the Pizza boxes directly next to her head.
"Ramiel, wake up."
Ramiel somewhat opens her eyes, though they are sleepy eyes.
"Art.. is that you? ... ouuughghhhh~ I don't wanna wake uuuuuppp~"
Art pats Ramiel's head and pokes Ramiel's cheeks.
"If you don't wake up, no pizza for you~"
In an instant Ramiel's sleepiness was gone and she stood up as soon as possible, she went from sleepy to hyperactive.
"Pizza? Where?!"
Art points at the boxes of pizza boxes on Ramiel's desk.
"Here."
Ramiel grand the top pizza box and ran out of the room
"Yay~"
Ramiel left the room, only Art and the man was left.
The man gave a pat on Art's shoulder.
"Did you really just let her take an entire Large Pizza, how many slices is that?"
"Like, 12 or more slices."
"That's a lot."
"It's fine, she was the one responsible for the majority of the development, it's the least I can do."
The man changed from a cheerful expression into a serious expression.
"Sir, the Chairman is calling for you to his office."
Art's face turned grim and hesitated.
"Okay, I'll follow you."
Both the man and Art went to an elevator, the man pressed the 99th floor. outside of the elevator lies only a singular door.
The man knocked on the door and asked permission to enter.
"He can enter."
The man turned around and faced Art.
"Good luck in there, and don't get fired."
Art gave the man a weird look.
"Okay..?"
Art enters the room, there lies the chairman behind the desk as he looks below the building from the glass while placing his hand on the glass.
"Art, you violated the NDA agreement. Do you have anything to say about it?"
"Not at all."
The chairman sits in his chair as he gives cold gazes toward Art.
"So, tell me. Why did you leak footage and gameplay to the internet when I specifically told everyone not to leak anything?"
Art inhales deeply while looking at the environment around him.
"Mr. Chairman, I believe it would be better to leak minor information about the game."
The chairman crossed his arms and legs and continued staring at Art.
"Interesting, explain to me why."
"You see, a major part of the world wants to see the game that was sponsored by 8 countries, so it would make sense that people would be interested in seeing the game. Furthermore we allow free exposure by 'leaking' some high-resolution gameplay and mechanics, it would allow people to speculate about how the game would work."
"..."
The room was deafeningly silent.
"Uhh.. sir?"
The chairman stood up and slowly approached Art.
"kekekek.."
The chairman started laughing.
"Hahahaha! As I expected! You did not do that purely out of foolishness."
The chairman gave a friendly slap on Art's back.
"I don't know if that's a compliment, but I'll take that."
"Good to know that I promoted someone like you as one of the main pillars of our company."
The chairman gave a good laugh to Art, then art realizes something. He was sure that he notified the marketing department that he would do it and got full permission, they said that they would notify the Chairman about it.
"Chairman, didn't the marketing department already notify you about it?"
"I did, I just wanted to give you a small prank!"
Art showed an annoyed face and was clenching his fist.
"Yeah. A small 'prank'. Okay."
"Calm down, calm down. I wanted to talk about something else, that's why I called you here."
Art calmed down and took a seat on a sofa.
"Alright, what do you need?"
"Basically, we are thinking of making the game VR."
"Virtual Reality?"
"Yeah, the company wishes to make it both a VR game and a PC game."
Art got up on the sofa and complained to the chairman in anger.
"You never told me about this!"
The chairman scratches his head as he continued explaining to Art.
"We can't do anything about it, this decision was made by the executives of the sponsoring countries. They said they will be the ones to pay for the Virtual Reality sets, so we have nothing to lose either way."
"The game is not even finished yet!"
"Oh about that, the progress of the game is also currently being implemented in another branch. They will be the ones to transfer the game to VR, and you will manage the PC versions."
"Won't the game be ruined then, since the game was optimized for PC only?"
"They said that the sponsored VR sets had some features that will have the same feeling as PC."
"What then, how would the game server work? Will we separate VR Servers and PC Servers?"
"In a way, yeah."
"This is bullshit."
The chairman sighs and drinks a cold water of glass as they continued arguing.
"Look I'm sorry, I don't control the direct actions of the sponsors."
Art felt frustrated knowing the fact that the decision was not notified to him
"Ugh.. nothing we can do I guess."
"I suppose."
"By the way chairman, what were the so-called superior VR sets called again?"
"I don't remember the full name, but it was something like 'Augmented Virtual Reality Prototype 3', though I don't know what it fully means."
"Fine."
"Don't get too mad, I have not announced it yet. It will be announced in a week since the prototypes are still being implemented, so you're the first person to know about this."
"Okay then."
"That's all, dismissed."
Art walks away from the chairman and grabs the door handle.
"Right, before I leave. When will the open beta test begin?"
"Ah, the beta test? It will begin in a week or so depending if all goes well."
"A week... coincidently about the same time the VR Model will be finished?"
"Just a coincidence."
"Okay if you say so."
Art leaves the room mentally exhausted and looks at the glass windows next to him.
"I guess it's gonna be another overtime today."