Imprisoned Online: Gaming the System (A LitRPG Adventure Book 1) by P.A. Wikoff

Author:P.A. Wikoff [Wikoff, P.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Thief

E verything was black and felt stale. An endless nothingness of peace, until it wasn’t. I heard it—the muffled sound of veiled laughter. “M…Mo…Moogi! (You have been…brutally chopped in half by the earwig named…Sally. You are dead!)”

Even in the afterlife, this ghost companion was haunting my patience.

“Let it be known that this is a miracle I bestow upon you. Seph, rise from the ashes of your other life,” Erilyn said.

I launched to my sitting position, again inside the same temple, in the same spot as before. This time, I took notice and saw her wiping away a tear for me. She does shed one for everyone.

“Hi, Erilyn. Thanks for bringing me back.”

“Nice to see you again. A little sooner than I thought. But, hey, thanks for the XP.” She gave me an endearing smile.

I glanced at my arm and noticed that I only had 122/300 experience left. Like expected, half of my unbanked EXP had to be paid to her. Another thing of note was that my resurrection fatigue was far worse this time around. My stamina was down five points, and my hit points down two.

Then I heard it—the sound of Moogi next to the slab, still laughing from before.

“Come on, it wasn’t that funny.”

“Mo…ogi. (Her name was…Sally.)”

“Your HUD asset is quite amused,” Erilyn said.

“Asset? No. Calling it an asset would indicate that it is actually helpful. This one only gets me killed.”

“Moogi, (Sally isn’t a bug’s name,)” my companion said, wiping a tear away, but not in the same way Erilyn had done.

“Let me ask you this, what is an appropriate bug name? Pinchy?”

“Moogi! (Pinchy, hahahah!)

I was only making things worse. There was no reasoning with my asset while it was in this gleeful state.

“How do I turn it off again?” I asked, trying to undo the trick with my eyes.

“What’s it saying?” Erilyn asked, seemingly amused by the ordeal.

“You mean, you can’t understand this nuisance?”

“Nope. Each asset is set to only relay information directly to its player. Assets have a secret speech that is encrypted, to prevent cheating. To everyone else, its voice sounds like gibberish,” Erilyn said, cupping her hand to shield her words.

“Does that mean I can also speak to it in this secret speech?”

“Sure does.”

“How do I go about doing it?”

“I don’t know. Just try.”

“Moogi, get ahold of yourself. You’re making me look bad,” I said, then looked at her for confirmation.

Erilyn tipped her head at me slightly. “See, you did it. Good for you.”

“Moogi, (You’re doing that all by yourself,)” Moogi replied.

“You really put the ‘ass’ in asset,” I said.

“I heard you that time,” Erilyn said.

My face felt flush. It seemed that as long as I said “Moogi” first, my words switched to our encoded language, but simply directing my comments to Moogi wasn’t enough.

“Well, if you really want to know, it’s laughing at me because I got killed by a Sally.” I pulled up my shirt showing the large scar that wrapped around my torso.

This statement caused Moogi to literally roll on the floor with laughter.

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