Developing Games: To scare players all around the world! - Chapter 38: Escape Pod #2

Life isn’t dramatic.

Takasugi Shinsaku once mentioned, “The mind to bring interest to an otherwise uninteresting world”, but if you’ll let me have my say, “An otherwise uninteresting world is also interesting”.

The world is just right with this level of boredom.

That is the conclusion to the results of my, Kagoshima Akira’s seventeen years of lived experience.

It’s not like anything’s ever going to happen.

I mean.

Witches from other worlds,

and cyber soldiers paying a visit from the future,

and psychics fighting under the instruction of research institutions

don’t exist, after all.

A new emperor rules each year in Yohuachanca.Only the most delicious of food graces his palate; the realm’s most beautiful women fill his harem; his palace dazzles the mind in its beauty; and four priestesses counsel him in all matters. The life of an emperor is good, luxurious, and short. For at the year’s end, he is sacrificed to the Nightlords under the light of the Scarlet Moon.I am Iztac. A pisspoor orphan and the year’s emperor. A sacrifice bound for the altar. But the vampires have made a mistake this time. For I am a sorcerer, whose soul journeys into the secret underworld to plunder the secret spells of the dead. There, in the darkness, hides the power to drag the Nightlords off their throne. I have a year to find it, or perish for good.I may not be the first emperor, but I will be the last.

Zhao Rui has transmigrates to a martial world and awakens a replication system which allows him to replicate any martial arts at will.In order to better make use of his system, Zhao chooses to be a sparring partner.

Betrayed and murdered by his closest friend, Halo thought death was his final punishment, until he woke inside Damnation of the Gods, a brutal game he’d barely played.This world is rotting with Sinners and monsters wear human skin.And the so-called hero? His holy crusade will only finish what the gods started, the world’s destruction.Armed with the knowledge of the game’s true ending, Halo must hunt the hero before destiny collapses again.But can a damned soul defy fate without losing what’s left of his humanity?This isn’t a game anymore. It’s his second death waiting to happen.—WARNING: THIS NOVEL MIGHT CONTAIN DEPICTIONS OF VIOLENCE AND SCENES THAT MAY BE UPSETTING FOR SOME READERS.