"Nine Realms" is just a game after all, no matter how real the senses it simulates, no matter how excellent its experience is, it is just a game after all.
And two years ago, when Hoder first stepped into the game as a newcomer, he was fascinated by the tasks and the highly intelligent NPCs in the dungeon scene.
He would be obsessed with interacting with them, put himself into it wholeheartedly, and try his best to brush those daily tasks that don't have good rewards just to fill up the prestige and NPC's hidden but real favor.
Not for anything else, just because they will be more enthusiastic when seeing them and interacting with them in the game.
Later, he did indeed, he got the title of 'Sage', almost every NPC with a name and surname in the game knew him, sometimes he even fantasized, if "Nine Realms" is not a simple game , Can he also become a hero like Siegmund?
Then, the spicy chicken planner and chief writer of this sand sculpture game gave him a slap in the face...
"Nine Realms" is not a game with a joyful tone. It faithfully restores the scenes of Nordic hero legends. NPCs of an era are almost dead.
Although as far as the background of the expansion is concerned, it was at least 60 years ago, but for Hoder, this is the game plot of more than a year ago, and his external hard drive still stores the screenshots of the characters There are also emoticons.
However, it must be mentioned that Siegmund's family failed to end well. The younger sister was burned to death in the fire, the eldest son was poisoned to death by poisoned alcohol, and one of the two sons was taken to the Hall of Valhalla. , another died in battle.
Hoder's game cabin is a special "game version" issued by Yggdrasil Company. It has a very high configuration and can run the game perfectly with the highest performance. There will be no mosaic in the case of full simulation, so it is conceivable , How big is Hoder's psychological shadow.
And after experiencing those nightmares, he also realized: This plan is just to trick people. Setting up a series of tragedies in a game with virtual senses that are almost the same as reality, this plan is definitely out of its mind .
If he doesn't want his own psychological shadow to gradually expand, he has to clarify his identity as a 'player'.
Feel free to be the fourth natural disaster. Do daily tasks in this crappy game every day to make sure your equipment is not lagging behind. In addition, write some paid guides for the reviewer and you'll be done
With this kind of mentality, he will not refuse to do certain tasks because of personal emotions as he was a novice. The reward for supporting his family is the most important thing. When a golden exclamation mark appeared on his face, he couldn't help grinning slightly.
Although to him, the reward hammer formula is almost tasteless, but it is not a bad thing to collect.
However, this special scene mission is not over yet, can Regin's mission be triggered here?
But anyway, Hoder finally spoke:
"I wanted to ask before. You seem to have something on your mind all the time, and you are hiding something from me." Hoder's tone was quite flat, he didn't directly ask anything, just opened the topic with a statement tone
But at this moment, Regin couldn't help being taken aback, his expression was quite exciting, various vivid but extreme expressions appeared on that old face that had always looked sour and mean but extremely greedy for money, but in the end it completely changed into A sigh.
"Really." He sighed, and he didn't seem to want to hide anything, and at this moment, the big exclamation mark above his head disappeared from Hoder's vision, as if it had never existed, and replaced it with It's a silver question mark.
"You should have figured it out a long time ago. I'm surprised that you didn't ask me this until now." He said
Hoder didn't respond to this, because as long as the NPC spoke first and confirmed that the mission was in progress, it was impossible for him to let this 'cut-off' stalemate continue.
"It seems that you may still regard me as a friend..." He smiled wryly, "I think you should have been dissatisfied with me for a long time."
The dwarf's eyes turned to the small room outside the window, which was Siegfried's residence.
"More than ten years have passed, only you have taught this child something - writing, swordsmanship, and I have not taught anything..."
In his opinion, the reason Hoder brought Siegfried to him more than ten years ago was because he hoped that the dwarf could teach him—although few people knew about it, Regin himself was indeed a talented person. In addition to the ancestral craftsmanship of the dwarves, he is also proficient in mysterious runes and various languages of the Nine Realms.
But he didn't do that in the end, and the man in front of him returned to the blacksmith's shop several times over ten years to teach Siegfried how to read and write, and finally taught him how to practice swords.
"In this respect, I am ashamed of his identity as adoptive father, and I am ashamed of your trust."
Regin seemed to have a little conscience, he took the initiative to bring up these things, and Hoder didn't say a word. From the dwarf's point of view, his eyes seemed to say, 'You know that too? 'Same.
But in the end, he felt that it was necessary for him to tell the reason...
"Siegfried is a good boy. Although he is a little mischievous, he is not reckless." Regin said in the end, his voice became lower and lower, and even made Hod wonder if there was something wrong with his game cabin, but Fortunately, he finally raised his voice, "But I've been living in fear all these years."
This sentence seemed to take all the strength out of his body, and in the end, he just sat down on the chair that fit his body shape.
"Fear?" Hoder finally spoke, and his question seemed almost absolution to Regin.
That meant, at least to the dwarf, that he didn't seem to want to pursue those matters.
"It's...a prophecy." After hesitating for a long time, he said these words, "I had the honor to go to the Well of Fate next to Midgard, where the goddess told me about my destiny."
Then, even if he didn't say it, Hoder probably knew why. According to this simple and easy-to-understand plot logic setting, Regin Siegfried adopted the stocking policy because he was afraid of the prophecy about himself.
"The goddess of the future, Skuld, told me that I will raise a human child in the future, and in the future... I will die at the hands of this child."
Then Hoder fell silent...
He actually didn't know about this matter. He is not a European in the real world, and he is usually at the level of "although he likes these Nordic traditional cultures, but he doesn't know much about them and "Völsunga Saga" of the same origin are also based on knowing the general process.
The entry on an encyclopedia even only expounded the contradiction between Siegfried (Sigurd) and Regin, without mentioning any prophecy at all.
However, this is a game after all, whether it is the original content of the game or the original content, this point remains to be verified.
Then, because both sides were silent, a strange atmosphere spread for a while, until Hoder spoke again.
"You could have declined."
"Yes, but I didn't, because it was your request and I owe you my life."