NPC into Player: Let's Wreck This Game

"I believe Alter village was hit by skeletons and zombies. Did they come from the sealed death land?" he softly muttered while opening one video after another.

All videos he saw shared one common thing; they had short duration that didn't exceed a minute. All the fighting teams against those monsters failed to sustain for longer than that, and only a handful of teams managed to last for a minute either by the help of their high levels and skills, their vast experience in gaming, or by the help of great numbers.

But even when a thousand players team faced one group of skeletons, they were crushed in one minute by the supreme skills of those bony creatures.

"They have a unified pattern of skills," his eyes shone when he noticed the repeat of many attacks through dozens of videos he saw. "That's a good start," he grinned while keeping his research until a sound came to stop him from doing so.

"What are you standing there doing?"

He turned to Nara and her team marching with dark looks over their faces. "Are you that frightened to even check things out?" she sneered.

"Just wait for me and don't disturb me for now," he simply said before returning to continue his study while others gave him a weird glance.

"What is he doing?" Jeffrey whispered and she only shrugged and said nothing.

But her inner gut told her Bloom was up to something big.

The look over Bloom's face kept changing from frowning and smiling all the time. Every time he thought he cracked everything he would discover he was mistaken.

He kept standing in such a weird state for an hour and half. During this time he watched endless videos and started to reach a consensus.

"They all work by skill tree," that was the conclusion he finally reached. "But they also seem to be like those dark monsters I once fought inside the lost mines."

Everything seemed alright until he spotted a video where a large team of players, numbering in thousands, managed to finally slain one single monster after a brute fight with a skeleton army.

This group of players just announced before attacking that they would go and try killing one monster only. In the video spread by them, they all attacked one single monster, not caring at all about others.

In less than thirty seconds that monster fell under their skills, and the weird thing that happened was the appearance of dark sand gravels there, not gold coins.

Bloom's eyes shone brightly when he saw this. And he kept checking the forums for other daring groups like this one, but he couldn't find a second.

"Are you finished?" Nara asked in obvious boredom when she noticed him shifting his gaze away from the fixed spot he was observing for the past hour and half.

"Yeah," he said before turning to face everyone. "I'll go and test a theory out, do you want to come with me?"

They all glanced at him like looking at a crazy man. "Are you out of your mind?" Jeffrey couldn't help himself to shout.

"Do you want to be the first team to kill these monsters in large batches or not?" Bloom didn't answer him directly as he asked them with such a confident tone.

He was so much confident in his ability to handle those monsters. First he cracked the list of skills they use from the start, studied each skill thoroughly and managed to detect some weaknesses that he could exploit.

"Have you hit your head or what?" Nara said in disbelief, "haven't you seen the forums yet? Have you?"

"I was studying the videos just now," he simply shrugged, "if you won't help me then fine, I'll form another team to go with me," he said, and he didn't mean to be a threat but they all felt this way.

"C'mon," she shouted in rage, "we accompanied you this far and won't retreat now," she took a deep breath before taking it out, "let's see how the mighty Bloom will deal with this."

"Good," he smiled before glancing over his team once more, "but we need more players then."

"More?" Nara felt something bad was behind this, "don't tell me you want to seek low level players again!!"

"No," he shook his head before adding, "I want the highest levels out there you can reach. I also want players with specific skills."

She glanced at him for a long moment before sighing, "at least we won't face a problem finding them," she said.

"What skills are you looking for?" Jeffrey asked, in a try to read his mind.

"Light daughters have a skill called purification garden. It's an AOE skill, very rare to find. I want as many players as you can get with such skill," he first said before adding, "also any player with charge skill can be recruited as well."

"Only these two?" Nara suspiciously asked.

"If any player has a restraining skill with stun effect but on wide range then he is welcomed as well," Bloom said with a shrug, "these are all my requirements.

"Nothing else?" Jeffrey asked to make sure Bloom didn't miss anything else.

"Yes, that will do for now," Bloom said before adding, "go and bring as many players as you can get. Even if you needed to announce this move on the forums, I don't care."

They all glanced weirdly at him before Nara sighed. "We'll try not to make us a laughing stock in front of everyone."

"Just don't let your ego in the way," Bloom advised, "finding those light daughters would prove to be tricky."

"We will look for them here first," she said before adding, "but this might take hours."

"Fine by me," he simply said, "I'll find a restaurant here to eat a meal before you finish."

"Lucky lazy lion," she mumbled before going off with the team as she kept mumbling things Bloom couldn't hear.

"Let's see the rewards then," he was now sitting inside one of the empty restaurants in the village where no one was here at the moment.

He already ordered a meal for him, while realizing that during his immersion in studying the videos the game system had given him his rewards.

There was only one alert there, but it was so long and had many unexpected surprises for him.