Afterword 4: At Such a Grand Wedding, There Can Only Be One Most Dashing Guy-and That's Me, Murphy!
The Alpha Corporation VIP custom-spec virtual reality transfer unit was starting up! Good morning, esteemed Player No. 001 of "True Otherworld: Transia Edition." Your biological information is being entered into the database. Please accept the following terms of service to proceed with login.
Rows of game agreements flickered across Murphy's field of vision.
For regular gamers, this sort of thing was as commonplace as could be. Apart from a few people with obsessive-compulsive tendencies, probably no one read the terms carefully. But for Murphy, this was a first.
Curious, he opened the agreement and gave it a quick scan. After accepting the terms, he moved on to the biological information registration process.
Unlike the information packages provided to other players, this "VIP" player could browse the biological information being entered about him. Amid the streams of data flickering before his eyes, Murphy saw his current biological profile:
Name: Lord of Crimson / King of Midnight / Second Creator Ravnos Murphy Lasombra
Race: Vampire / Warp Entity
Life Form: Mythical Creature · Blood Progenitor / Warp Entity · Faded Lord
Life Rank: Demigod (Cosmic Foundation established · Embodiment of Order; this embodiment will formally take effect once the life form breaks through to the divine rank)
Attributes:
Strength: 70
Dexterity: 90
Endurance: 70
Intelligence: 70
Perception: 80
Charisma: ∞ (The Creator title grants the "Affinity with All Things" status, effective only within the Transian cosmic system)
Converting and compressing biological attributes according to otherworld rules...
Notice!
The world you are entering is currently only experiencing "weak psychic erosion." Its rules do not permit you to enter at full strength, so your attributes must be compressed according to otherworld rules.
After compression, all your attributes will reach the highest values permitted by the target world's rules. As the target world's level of