NPC into Player: Let's Wreck This Game

"There is something wrong here," he muttered while examining the quest again to find it the same.

"System alert: The quest of finding the dragon horn is issued successfully to the player.

Quest grade: Red grade quest.

Quest details: Long time ago a dragon terrorized these lands and spread fear in the souls of every living around. Now after long years of killing it, the dragon will have a chance to spread fear once more, this time inside the souls of the dark era monsters.

Use the map given to you by the Swor city mayor and make sure to find the horn before you exceed level thirty. Doing the quest after level thirty will give you halved rewards.

Quest time: open.

Quest failure: The monster tides from now on will be doubled in severity until you succeed. Increasing the strength of the tides will destroy the town in less than one week.

Ruining or losing the map will make Anna mad.

Quest reward: repelling the tide and making the grounds around regain its former true state. In return any experience gained here will have double the amount, any loot dropped by monsters will be enhanced to drop gears at a much higher rate.

Simply put; this town will turn to be the heaven of players in the times of darkness."

"What's wrong?" Antoan whispered in a very low tone fearing that his voice might awaken the baby sleeping dragon.

"It's said here it's a dead dragon," Bloom said before pointing to the dragon, "does this look dead to you?"

"It's… pretty much alive," Antoan said and everyone around nodded.

"I know that!"

Bloom was so furious as he shouted while closing the system notification about the quest. His voice rang around before Antoan hurriedly whispered:

"We better not to alarm that beast."

"Why?" Bloom was mad, "I can't complete the quest now!"

"We shouldn't try to lose levels without proper cause," Antoan said, but he was too late as the next moment the ground trembled while a wave of wind suddenly erupted all around, throwing them all into the air, flying tens of meters before finally falling on the ground.

"It's…" one player stuttered in shock while that sleeping dragon now stood up and glanced all around with its frightening eyes.

"We need to run," Antoan whispered, "everyone be ready, check if we can use the tickets… hurry."

Everyone took their tickets out and started to test them. What they faced was a simple rejection from the system.

"System alert: player can't use the ticket to go back to the town. Player is inside a special game map, and to use the ticket the player has to withdraw first."

"Damn!" one player cursed, "now what?"

They all glanced at Bloom who simply stood silently looking at the dragon. The dragon noticed them and started to glare at Bloom.

This simply turned into a gazing contest where the air was filled with a very heavy pressure.

"Kekeke," suddenly the dragon laughed like it just heard a joke, "a group of fools are finally coming to die… Come, let me stretch out some muscles."

Bloom wasn't fazed by these words. In fact his mind was still stirred upon that quest. "Where is the trick here?" that what was in his mind kept asking all the time and tried his best to find an answer.

The dragon stood up and started to stretch his wings, causing another wave of wind that moved everyone a couple of meters behind, all except Bloom.

"That…" Bloom's eyes shone brightly while he glanced at the dragon's body.

"We need to retreat," Antoan hurriedly shouted, "the maze is free of monsters. We can try and lose it there."

"It's just a single level guys," Bloom suddenly turned to his butler and team, "Don't make it look like it's the end of the world."

"This…" Antoan wasn't the only one to sense the sudden change in his mood. "What did you discover?" he hurriedly asked as this was the only thing he could think of.

"The secret behind that quest," Bloom said before pointing to the dragon, "this isn't our dragon."

"There is more?" a player screamed in panic which caused everyone to glance around in fear.

"Where is the other one?" Antoan asked with an anxious look over his face.

"It's… I dunno," Bloom honestly said, "but what I know is that it's dead."

"Dead?" all the players exclaimed in doubt.

"It's dead, just like the quest says," Bloom said before turning to glance all around, "and it should be here… somewhere."

"Then…" Antoan paused before pointing to the living badass dragon upfront, "what about this one?"

Bloom glanced at the dragon as the dragon was gazing at them. "Don't you find it strange it didn't try to attack us yet?"

His words made others wonder the same thing. This dragon stood its place motionless. It didn't even try to move a single step from that spot he was sleeping in.

The moment the dragon stood up, Bloom could perfectly see its entire body… and head. That dragon was with no horns, making it not the dragon he came for.

"What do you mean by that boss?" one player asked.

"This dragon is the trap," Bloom said, "the deadly trap the developers planted here for any team coming to get the quest done."

"So… it won't attack us?" Antoan asked what others here were having in mind.

"This…" but Bloom couldn't answer such a question, "let's try our luck first," he said before adding, "we need to look for a dead dragon skeleton of a dragon."

Everyone glanced in a weird way towards him. "C'mon, it's only one level to lose," he said in a better mood than when he first came here.

"But there are no skeletons here," Antoan said.

"The place is big," Bloom said, "we need to scan it slowly and find that skeleton. After all, it might be buried under dirt."

Bloom hit the ground while others looked at him in a much weirder way.

"Let's start scanning the place first," Bloom sighed and when he moved a step forward, the dragon suddenly roared.

"Come here you pathetic cowards… Come and fight me!"

Bloom paused for a moment before moving again. The dragon kept roaring, shouting and cursing but he never gave him any heed.

After all that dragon was stuck in place, unable to move a single finger.

"See?" Bloom turned to his team after a minute, "he didn't move, couldn't attack… all it can do is yell and roar, but do roars kill? I doubt even his curses would harm us."

He laughed and everyone gradually smiled before he turned around and continued to walk. "You heard our boss," Antoan shouted in a better mood, "let's go and search this place upside down."

His shout helped those who were still hesitant to move. The team kept scanning the place under the annoying music of roars, curses, and threats coming from that dragon.

Yet the dragon never moved a finger and they kept moving around him while scanning everything.

"Now what?" Antoan stood beside his master who was gazing up at the dragon with a vicious grin over its face. "We searched everywhere and even dug the earth but found nothing."

"Only that place remains," Bloom motioned to the direction of the dragon.

"This…" Antoan was hesitant.

"I don't think it will be this bad," Bloom turned to him, "or even that easy. I'll go there and you will be ready."

"For what?" Antoan shouted while Bloom moved fast towards the front, "the dragon?!!"

"I hope it won't be it," Bloom simply said while moving fast towards the dragon zone.

The dragon kept its annoying smile over its face while it kept its silence while watching him coming near it.

"Finally got some courage to come," the dragon laughed, "c'mon, get closer, let me eat you alive."

Bloom harrumphed before standing a hundred meter away from it. "I won't be this dumb to do that," he simply said while faking observing the area around.

"What you came here for is nowhere but here," the dragon suddenly said while moving his long tail from a spot on the ground, revealing what lay there for Bloom.

"Those developers…" he only cursed them while watching the long horn that had more than half buried under the ground.

Even if he used a decoy, his team, to make the dragon busy he would need more time to excavate the ground and take that horn.

"If it was only the horn and not attached to the skull," he sighed as he was now considering the worst scenarios as those twisted developers must have used them here.

"Now what?" the dragon returned his tail to cover the horn, "what will you do… weak player?"

Bloom clenched his fist and started to move. He had to complete the quest. He moved and the dragon's smile was getting wider until it suddenly froze up its ferocious face.

"What?" Bloom sneered as he spotted this change at the moment, "don't tell me you can't move from your place?"

Bloom decided to go around and get a closer look over the horn. Yet when he took half a round there, the dragon face changed as it realized his aim.

And luckily that came directly to reveal the weak spot of that dragon… it couldn't move around or change its position.

"Good," Bloom laughed, "I now know these developers aren't all rotten from the inside as I feared."

And the dragon could only answer with an angry roar without being able to do anything  to him.