Vampire Summoner's Rebirth: Summoning The Vampire Queen At The Start

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[Welcome to the [Machine Warrior Battle Arena]!]

[As a new Player, you get a bonus of +100 Warrior Points.]

[To begin your journey as a Machine Warrior, please enter the [Lost City of Scrap and Metal: Stagnatione] and find the Machine Warrior Arena.]

[Using Warrior Points, you can rent Machine Warriors and use them to fight other players in the Arena.]

[Using Credits, you can exchange for Warrior Points and also purchase not only Machine Warriors but many add-ons!]

[Such items you purchase can also be resold to other Players for Credits!]

[Additionally, in the Arena, you can bet purchased items or even whole Machine Warriors.]

[Become the strongest Machine Warrior and dominate the Arena!]

As I found myself within the wastelands, several messages appeared, telling me what to do in this "Virtual Reality Video Game" that most of the inhabitants of this Mothership played to cope with the cold reality. Although most of humanity were on cryogenic sleep, there had been generations of people living in the mothership, supporting it with their lives, living and dying, and having children too.

The population is, according to my genetic memory, roughly… Probably ten million or so, a lot of people, so things to have fun were created, or well, recreated from their original planet, Earth. This thing about Virtual Reality emerged. Although I see it as merely a way of training, most people in this place spend their entire lives on this.

"What is this place? Is this truly all simulated? Incredible!" Eleanora glanced around in disbelief. "The level of technology of these people is impressive."

It seemed she was able to emerge within the Virtual Reality simulation as a program… She's connected to my own Demonic Neutonium Core, does that means I can use these abilities directly in here? Interesting.

"Yeah, but it's all fake, so I don't really like it that much," I said. "I prefer to fight real battles rather than pretend… However, this is a good exercise at least, I can train the usage of Machine Warriors and make a lot of Credits, which I want to buy more things so I can complete this Trial better."

"So that's how it is," she nodded. "I imagined you wouldn't like video games, fufu. Very well, where shall we go then?"

"I can already sense that this entire world is very wide and expansive, but none of those matters. You could say this entire ruined world is just decoration. The only thing that matters is that big arena and the city built around it. That's what this game is about, fighting using giant machines, and spending credits to make your character strong and bet robot parts.

Hence, making ridiculous amounts of money."

"Oooh!" Eleanora liked the idea. "Interesting, let's go then! I want to see that city!"

"Alright…" I nodded. "Hm, aren't you enjoying this too much though?"

She was very enthusiastic, I never took Eleanora as someone that liked video games, that's a bit odd. But well, whatever.

We walked across the wastelands, climbing up and down, the body of this avatar was modeled after mine, so it was a perfect copy of me.

However, it seemed to have stats of its own, so it was much slower than me, and it couldn't jump as much as I wanted.

I tried jumping from a cliff and I died instantly, I had to wait 30 minutes to respawn, what a waste of time.

"Finally here…"

"Well, if you hadn't died we could have gotten here a bit faster, Blake…"

"True, I accept that what I did was rather stupid… but whatever."

"Hm, this game is a bit strange; you can't level up or improve your character at all! There are no monsters outside either?"

"Yeah, it's because it is not the game you may think it is," I explained. "That our character is weak physically doesn't matter, what matters is buying big robots and making them fight, and that's what we're doing."

I looked at the system notification that had appeared before to remind myself of what I had to do in here…

[To begin your journey as a Machine Warrior, please enter the [Lost City of Scrap and Metal: Stagnatione] and find the Machine Warrior Arena.]

Okay, so this place must be Stagnatione. The place seems well guarded, with many makeshift Machine Warriors that resembled chimeric amalgamations of scrap pieces put together, the gates were slightly open, letting those that arrived enter the city, a refuge from the harsh wastelands outside.

[Using Warrior Points, you can rent Machine Warriors and use them to fight other players in the Arena.]

Alright, so I need to use Warrior Points to rent a Machine Warrior and use it to fight in that arena to earn Credits, understood.

[Using Credits, you can exchange for Warrior Points and also purchase not only Machine Warriors but many add-ons!]

[Such items you purchase can also be resold to other Players for Credits!]

[Additionally, in the Arena, you can bet purchased items or even whole Machine Warriors.]

"And this is how I make money." I pointed at Eleanora, who read the text attentively.

"I see!" she nodded. "It seems fun! Let's give it a go!"

"We'll have to ask around first, so have patience," I said, walking inside the city.

"A newbie, huh?"

A giant Machine Warrior made of different mismatched parts greeted me.

"Is there a problem?"

The giant analyzed me, but then quickly walked back.

"None, I ran an analysis on you, if you were a suspicious person you would have appeared on our list of wanted criminals!" the man inside the robot said. "Also you are not carrying any Mutagen within you, so you're not a Wasteland Mutant either, you're good. I'm just wondering how you even made it here on your own, hahaha! You look all shabby and small!"

For a shabby game the Artificial Intelligence is sure expressive.

"Can I go in?"

"Huh? Y-Yeah, go in…"

He seemed a bit weirded out how serious I was.

As I entered, however, I quickly went back. Explore stories at empire

"Sorry, do you know where I can rent the machine warriors?"

"Yeah! Go to the Scrap 7 Street to the southwest road of the central park! There's an old man with a cybernetic eye renting machine warriors for a fine price."

"Thank you."

Without further ado, I stepped into the city.

My goal is simple.

One million credits.

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