Sequence Wars: The Mythical Age is Created by Me

A tall figure stood in the ruined church, while hundreds of heavily armored knights aimed their spears and shields at the girl beneath the cross.

Blood and tears almost filled her mouth and nose, and Rias felt that she was about to lose consciousness.

As the choir's prayers faded into the distance, she vaguely saw the stone cross break off at the bottom, carrying the icon into the icy sea, where it shattered on the surface.

No one will be able to hear her prayers anymore. In fact, Rias does not believe in God. The reason she is so respectful to God is simply because it is the faith that Miss Alice reveres.

The nun who raised her, comforted her, and held her in her arms during every sleepless night was the one whose heart she had pierced with a cross by her own hands.

People say it is the most terrible curse in the world, and once you are afflicted, there is no way to escape it, not even the most devout nuns.

But Rias knew that this was not a curse, but a disease, a plague spread by malicious people who wanted to unleash the divine calamity to punish these kind-hearted people who helped the weak.

Power and wealth are the greatest weights, enough to turn the scales of truth against each other.

The nobles accused the nun of bringing about this natural disaster because she helped those who were supposed to die, bringing death back from hell to earth. Therefore, they wanted to "purify" the nun through a ritual.

Rias guarded the nun's body, knowing that those reasons were merely excuses used by the nobles to avoid being discovered during the plague and to cover up the crime.

She was slaughtering those knights who represented justice, but there were just too many of them. It was likely that all the knights in the entire holy city were here. She could escape, or lie low and slowly grow stronger before hunting down those nobles again.

But Rias's heart was filled with blood-red sorrow. She could not accept that the nun had suffered such a stigma. How could those high-sounding beasts who treated people as objects deserve to breathe the air of this world for even a second longer?

If God truly exists, then allow her to continue fighting like this until the world allows good people to exist, until the blood of the demons runs dry.

But, Miss Alice, the god we prayed to did not appear.

As Rias felt her consciousness gradually slipping away from her body, the last thing she saw was the pale-faced nobleman hiding behind a shield, and the hundred or so spears aimed at her heart, like a silver mirror reflecting her resolute gaze.

Those were originally as blue as the sky, but now they are covered with bloodshot eyes of tyranny due to hatred.

She heard people cheering, "This demon disguised as a girl has finally fallen! Divine grace is everywhere, justice is everywhere."

Rias couldn't even manage a sneer. Stupidity is always a liar's best accomplice, but their fates are all the same: to go to hell together.

Just before the girl's consciousness completely sank to the bottom of the sea, a pair of hands pulled her up from the boundless ocean.

Rias clung tightly to those hands as if she were grasping at a straw while drowning.

She knew it all too well; it was Miss Alice's hand, as gentle as a spring breeze.

At the edge of the sky hangs a calm sea, where souls meet.

"Rias... my poor child."

The radiant nun tightly embraced the girl's battered body, a mass of flesh forcibly stitched together by her sequence ability, which had long since overused the power and left her exhausted.

"Miss Alice, are you still alive?"

"Our lives are meant to lead us toward God. God called me early, and it was He who guided me to adopt you and raise you. I am merely an agent of God's will, Rias. Do not be sad."

The nun comforted the girl.

"Go where you are meant to go, where there exists the power to fulfill your great aspirations. Under God's guidance, you will be capable of anything."

Rias was gently released by the nun and then pushed back under the sea.

She had no time to say anything more, and could only watch as the nun's body rapidly became illusory and finally returned to nothingness.

My great ambition is to save you, to save people like you, Miss Alice.

Rias felt her consciousness returning to her body, and the sea disappeared into the distance.

When she could see the world again with her bloodshot eyes, her surroundings had been transformed into an elegantly decorated space, and she was lying on the ground, completely healed.

Then came a deluge of modern common sense and her current situation. Dizziness was just a normal occurrence for Rias, and she easily absorbed this knowledge.

Is this the place where her wish can be fulfilled?

Lias felt another voice in her mind. She calmed down and perceived it, and found that it was a ball of light that made her feel both familiar and awe.

So it turns out that the divine will Miss Alice spoke of really exists.

She has once again been given a chance to change herself and become a powerful person who can decide her own and others' fates.

Rias looked at the mark on the back of her hand; it was a knight wielding a spear and sword.

The strong are the ones who are right; that is to say, when she is strong enough...

The girl in black robes stood up from the ground, her hands clenched into fists hidden under her sleeves, and she murmured softly.

"I am justice."

Please guide me to that most magnificent and sacred path, God.

After the text display of the first act ended, the character portrait of "Rias Esther" appeared on the game screen, prompting Jiang Fan to exclaim that the art design was unparalleled.

The girl's cool eyes glanced ahead, her body radiating a chilling silver light. Beneath her black robe, her body was slightly lowered, like the most agile cat in the night, having just leaped down from the moon, carrying with her the determination to successfully hunt her prey and the endearing quality behind that resolve.

She has gained common sense about this world, and in order to fulfill her inner desires, she has decided to follow the deity who summoned her here.

Main Quest 1: Obtain the rare artifact "Fragment of the Holy Lance" to be exhibited tomorrow.

Main Quest Two: Survive Attacks by Monsters and Professionals

Jiang Fan used a controller; the left side had a joystick for movement, while the right side had four functions.

"←" is for attacking, "↓" is for defending, "↑" is for [job ability], and "→" is for jumping. Pressing the joystick simultaneously allows you to talk to the girl, which means bringing up her character portrait.

It's a very standard side-scrolling platformer game with standard controls.

Then, in the upper left corner of the screen are the girl's health bar and yellow bar, as well as her faith value, which is probably similar to a favorability rating, currently displayed as (60 reverence).

[Note: You will not be able to control "Rias" properly if your Faith value is below 40. Please pay close attention to the character you create.]

"Pay attention" likely refers to talking to the girl. Jiang Fan pressed the joystick, and two options immediately appeared on the screen.

[Care] [Gift]

He chose the former option first, and immediately a hazy mist appeared around the girl in the picture.

[Rias is taciturn and at a loss for words when faced with your concern, so she chooses to remain silent. Faith value +0]

You have lost one action point. Current action points: (4/5)

It doesn't seem to be the kind of situation where you just mindlessly grind for favorability. However, this game is well-designed, and the character interactions and growth certainly won't be that simple.

Jiang Fan then turned his attention to the second [gift].

After he clicked, the screen suddenly brightened considerably, as if beams of light were shooting out and scanning the entire dormitory.

[Currently available gift: moderately sweet chocolate]

Jiang Fan thought the computer was malfunctioning, so he quickly checked it and was relieved to find nothing wrong.

You gifted the character "Rias" a box of chocolates.

Inside the museum, Rias looked at the dessert that had suddenly appeared in her hand. It looked dark and unappetizing. After hesitating for a moment, she took a small bite. Her indifferent face turned into an expression that only a young girl would show. The sweetness spread between her lips and teeth, and even the blood red in her eyes faded a little.

Realizing she had been a little out of line, she quickly looked around and, seeing no one was around, carefully put away the remaining chocolates, then straightened her face again, determined to remain dignified before the gods.

She was surprised and delighted; her faith value increased by 2.

You have lost one action point. Current action points: (3/5)

This feeling of being fed is pretty good. In real life, the gifts you give to your goddess might end up in the trash, but the girls in the game will become more dependent on you.

After learning how to resolve the decline in faith points, Jiang Fan began to control "Rias" to explore the museum.

It's nighttime in the game scene, and the background music is all sorts of strange murmurs, like old relics in a museum talking to each other.

This scene should be on the second floor of the museum, displaying some artworks and serving as a temporary exhibition area. The mission objective, "Fragments of the Holy Lance," should be in the core exhibition area of ​​the first-floor lobby.

After spinning around briefly without triggering anything, Jiang Fan had "Rias" come to the bottom of the stairs to prepare to go down.

But as soon as the girl in black robes reached the top of the stairs, an exclamation mark appeared above her head.

After Jiang Fan clicked, the exclamation mark immediately turned into a bunch of Xia Wen.

"There are people down below."

Unexpectedly, Rias also has a built-in early warning ability; perhaps this is the mysterious power that awakened in her backstory.

The girl in black robes slowly peeked out from the stairwell, and the game screen switched to a perspective that divided the second floor and the lobby into half.

In the lower left corner of the game screen, there is a giant bulletproof glass display case surrounded by white, bright-edged pixels, with a base of dark red pixel blocks.

A dark gold fragment floats inside, its tip tinged with crimson; this must be the objective of this scene, the "Fragment of the Holy Lance."

On the right side of the hall, several suits of silver-gray armor were arranged, with distinct cross patterns on their shoulders, and they were holding knights' swords in an odd posture.

Most importantly, their health bars appeared in the upper right corner, indicating that these knights in armor were actually alive.

This reminded Jiang Fan of the rumors circulating in the city art museum, and he quickly slurped up a mouthful of noodles, thinking it was probably just a coincidence...

Confronting the knight's armor were two men dressed in strange attire.

Although they were wearing modern T-shirts and shorts, they were also wearing an ancient-style night-clothes, while another person was soaked to the bone, with water constantly overflowing from his feet.

[Reminder: Using 1 action point allows you to gain a comprehensive view of the entire area.]

Jiang Fan glanced at the three action points he had left, frowned slightly, and chose to use them.

[Discovered "Evil Intent in the Armor": The spear that killed the Holy Son is close at hand. They are the aggregate of extreme emotions on the battlefield. The evil intent that seeps into the iron body is supporting the armor. They are monsters born from the power of despair. Overall rating: D-]

[New profession discovered: "Night Watchman": A generic sequence derived from folk tales, taboos, and rural legends. Unfazed by the darkness and undaunted by loneliness, gaining slight enhancements in graveyards, ancient battlefields, and haunted houses, with significantly improved perception in the dark. Overall rating: D+]

[New profession discovered: "Water Ghost Substitute": A supernatural tale, taboo, and folk legend derived from local folklore. Water monkeys claim lives, humans die as ghosts. They are extremely skilled swimmers and can control water monkeys in the water to create small-scale splashes and undercurrents. Overall rating: D+]

Two new classes! In the game, they are called "pan-sequences," and judging from the way they are referred to, they should be of similar strength to "Knights."

Based on the information revealed by the insight, this ability seems to be able to perceive only living things; no corresponding information appeared in the large mural and other antiques in the set.

At that moment, "..." symbols appeared above the heads of the two people, and Rias overheard their conversation from the stairs.

"We killed four last night, but they've revived today, and there are even two more. Since they're sequence relics, it's really not an easy job to display them so openly."

"Enough of that. No one can really say for sure what's going on with things from the Crusades. Before the exhibition, even the people in Europe didn't know if these were sequence relics. Since something has changed, it's within our scope of responsibility."

The conversation between the two was presented to Jiang Fan in the form of text.

Could the fragments of the Holy Lance from the Crusader era be the Spear of Longinus?

However, the traditional fragments of this gun are all located in Rome and the Vatican, and are rarely exhibited outside of Rome. The "fragments of the Holy Lance" in the mission are most likely similar religious relics.

The game's background is quite immersive. Jiang Fan slurped up another mouthful of noodles. He hadn't played a game in a long time that combined mythological elements with a modern setting so richly.

"Hey, you guys on those stairs, you can show up now."

Suddenly the screen border turned white, and red exclamation marks appeared above the heads of "Night Watchman" and "Water Ghost Substitute".

Rias has been discovered.

Jiang Fan recalled the description of the "Night Watchman" having greatly enhanced perception in the dark, and couldn't help but feel annoyed at his carelessness.

He actually took it lightly because it was a pixel game, but he didn't expect that the character feedback was even more detailed than that of a AAA game.

A figure dressed in a black robe slowly walked out of the stairs, and the game screen completely changed to the perspective of the lobby.

"Foreigner? What are you doing here?"

The man, soaking wet, was clearly puzzled, because Rias didn't look like a normal white person, and she obviously wasn't part of those international mercenary organizations.

The answer to his question was not Rias, but a sword strike from the Armor of Evil.

The six resurrected knights, their eyes now bloodshot, charged toward the two men, swords in hand.

The "Water Ghost Substitute" dodged the sword by sidestepping, then let out a strange roar. Immediately, ripples of water appeared under the six suits of armor, with something strange surging within them.

The word "Slow Down" immediately appeared in white on the armored monster, and its movements became sluggish, causing the two to distance themselves from each other.

"Let's deal with the immediate problem first."

The Night Watchman reached out and grabbed at the darkness in the scene, and a jet-black energy ball condensed in his hand.

He then drew his standard-issue pistol from his waist, inserted the air pellets, and began firing at the knight monster.

Those black bullets were clearly empowered by the "Night Watchers," making them quite powerful against non-physical monsters like the Knight's Evil Intent, directly knocking the two armored figures in front of them back ten meters.

Jiang Fan stroked his chin. It seemed that "Night Watchman" was the damage dealer, and "Water Ghost Substitute" was the support role that caused chaos.

While these two are tied down, we can try to get Rias to obtain the "Fragment of the Holy Lance".

Jiang Fan looked at the [Professional Abilities] and, after all six monsters were attracted to it, pressed the "↑" button.

Suddenly, a strong white aura erupted around Rias, lifting the cloak draped over her and causing cracks to appear in the bulletproof glass closest to her in the game screen.

At the same time, the yellow bar in the upper left corner was reduced by half, and a semi-transparent knight's sword appeared in her hand.

It was only then that Jiang Fan realized that Rias's hair was not pure gold.

Her long, light gold hair was disheveled, and a blackened old cross hung around her neck, making her look more like a princess in distress than a knight.

The game's aesthetics are also quite good. It uses pixels to vividly portray the characters' temperament, making it feel like it's depicting them based on real-life appearances. It also inherits the tall and elegant feel of the character illustrations very well.

In the scene, Rias uses her fighting spirit to leap high into the air, directly behind the six monsters, and runs towards the "Fragment of the Holy Lance" in the center of the hall.

But her actions immediately attracted the attention of the other malevolent knights on the left, who blocked her path before Rias could reach the glass case.

Jiang Fan quickly assessed the situation and directly controlled Rias to jump and launch a downward attack, breaking through the encirclement of the six malevolent knights on the left.

He then tried to execute combos using a combination of joystick and buttons, something he was already very familiar with. He quickly repelled all six malevolent knights, causing cracks to appear on their armor.

As expected of the Knight class with C-level strength, the combat feel also suits his playing style.

"Who...who is this woman?"

However, in the eyes of the two people present, Rias's performance was quite different from that in the game. The girl in black robes easily jumped nearly three meters high and then landed steadily on the steps leading to the exhibition stand.

The entire process was flawless; her control over her muscles was as perfect as that of a feline, sharp and swift.

The silvery sunlight streaming through the window shone on her exposed silver hair and black robe, like a spotlight shining on a stage.

What followed was a textbook display of combat skills. Her tall figure used the momentum of her leap to break through the encirclement of the evil knights, and then she suppressed them until their armor shattered. The movements were so fluid and seamless, like a pre-rehearsed performance.

Just as Rias shattered the glass case with her knight's sword formed from fighting spirit, an arrow shot from outside the screen, trailing a yellow tail, shattered the entire display stand.

There are other professions as well.

Jiang Fan immediately controlled Rias to move to the shadows in the scene and then assumed a defensive stance. Although she was just a game character, he would try his best to prevent her from getting hurt. Jiang Fan had a strange premonition that doing this might increase her favorability.

The defense after using [Professional Ability] will cause a layer of knight armor phantom to appear on Rias's body surface, although it is only a gray line in the game.

Seeing that the arrow had not harmed Rias, the outside fell silent, and no second arrow was fired.

To be honest, the power of that arrow really startled Jiang Fan. It blew up the entire exhibition stand that was the size of the two of them in one shot. I doubt even some sniper rifles could do that.

After waiting a while, seeing that the six malevolent knights were about to be defeated by the Night Watchmen, Jiang Fan, fearing that they would be attacked from both sides, controlled Rias to drive the knight armor towards the broken exhibition stand.

Fortunately, no second arrow was shot, and Rias successfully obtained the "Fragment of the Holy Lance" from the shards.

Main Quest 1 Completed

Just then, another arrow was shot from off-screen, followed by two darker arrows.

Jiang Fan pressed "↑" again, and the yellow bar was completely cleared. Rias's knight armor melted into his palm like jelly, merging with the knight's sword.

The silver-haired girl hurled a swirling aura of battle energy, which collided with the three incoming arrows.

The glass in the museum lobby shattered with a crash, and even the tempered glass developed a "fog-like" pattern of internal cracks.

The arrows eventually gained the upper hand, but their power was greatly reduced, and only one arrow managed to pierce Rias's left shoulder.

Main Quest 2 Completed

With the completion of the two tasks, the game transitions to a UI-free presentation.

Rias used the force of the arrow to leap out of the French windows and disappear from the scene.

The two professionals who had dealt with the evil knight ran to the window, looked at each other, and shook their heads. It seemed that they had not found any trace of Rias. Then, a regretful bubble appeared above their heads.

The scene then pans up to the rooftop of a tall building, where a young man holding a giant longbow appears. He has one leg extended over the outside of the building, hundreds of meters high, seemingly deep in thought.

The final scene focuses on a half-moon, within which emerges the silhouette of a silver-haired girl running nimbly like an elf.

[Act One, "Night at the Museum," is complete]

[Because you have achieved the "One-Life Clear" achievement, your action points limit has increased by 1.]

[Main quests completed, relic "Fragment of the Holy Lance" obtained, relic graded C-, summon pool base added]

[After the battle in the first act, "Rias" has gained 20 Legendary Points.]

The game character "Rias" has entered her daily life phase. You can use Action Points to schedule her daily routine. Her current Action Points are 3/6.

[A. Training; B. Rest; C. Task assignment; D. Free time]

[Action points will automatically be fully restored upon the start of each scene. The second scene will unlock in three days and thirteen hours.]

[Act One, "Night at the Museum," is now available...]

Jiang Fan suddenly became worried about the game's production capacity, realizing that the second act would take so long.

It's not like we'll be stuck with this place for a month, only to visit for two hours.

Thinking this, Jiang Fan reached into the snack bag to find the liqueur-filled chocolates he had bought at the school supermarket.

He remembered it was quite expensive, twenty yuan a piece.

After rummaging around for a while, he only managed to pull out two packets of spicy strips.

Who stole his chocolate?