The following afternoon, at the Hearthstone tavern.
A group of Dwarves had stopped playing Hearthstone today as well. They were all gathered around a strange Magic Mechanical Device, staring eagerly at the image displayed on it.
"How many tests has this been?"
Joshua stretched, flexed his fingers, and adjusted some of the Source Crystal Stone rune parameters inside the Magic Mechanical Device.
Late last night, Joshua had asked Frost Axe to bring over a Source Crystal Stone as tall as a person. He had specifically requested one of poor quality.
The Source Crystal Stone Frost Axe brought did not disappoint Joshua. It was full of impurities. In Frost Axe's words, "This is the kind of garbage we use as coal."
Joshua had then spent the night, morning, and afternoon turning that "coal" into one of his childhood memories... an arcade machine.
Joshua had already begun using runes to develop a large-scale game like World Rift, so making a pixel-art arcade game was not difficult.
With White Bird's powerful programming assistance, Joshua had spent one night creating a fighting game that had once been hugely popular in arcades... King of Fighters '97.
The game's style and outfits looked utterly out of place in this world. After all, it was set in modern times, and Joshua had not made any magical alterations to it.
"I still think that person's hairstyle is strange. Isn't he afraid someone will grab his hair during a fight?"
Ciri was Joshua's test partner, without question...
Ever since Joshua had produced the prototype last night, Ciri had begun familiarizing herself with another control system: the joystick and buttons on the arcade machine.
"I think it looks pretty cool?" Joshua did not know how else to describe it.
Ciri was mocking one of King of Fighters' indisputable male protagonists,