The Everyday Work of Those Dogshit Game Devs: The Face-Creation System Is Now in Official Testing

Lumina had seen players on the forum describe, in heartfelt prose, the wondrous sensation of becoming a vampire.

According to them, the process seemed fantastical, but had little impact on the player's actual experience. As their bodies, formed from psychic projections, changed shape, players watched from a third-person perspective.

It preserved the gaming experience while also making it more immersive.

Put simply, it was like watching a CGI animation starring yourself.

But when it was finally Lumina's turn to test the functionality of this race-change feature, things were different. She felt groggy, as if she hadn't slept in three days. She was dazed and confused, much like a patient who'd been given an anesthetic.

She could feel Mrs. Triss pouring a strange-tasting potion into her mouth.

The slightly bitter potion slid down her throat and was quickly absorbed by her body. But Mrs. Triss wasn't the one performing the procedure; Lord Murphy was handling it.

Before long, Lumina found herself in the "third-person perspective" everyone else had talked about.

Her consciousness seemed to have left her body. Floating nearby, she watched herself lying on the psychic stone platform, slowly "melting." This wasn't just a figurative description. It was actually happening.

Under the twitching fingers of Lord Murphy, whose eyes were closed, the player projection that belonged to Lumina twisted and intertwined in the purest form of psychic energy. It looked just like the way the little players had first appeared when they were summoned to Transia.

She became "light," and that was only the beginning.

Once Lumina's projection had completely lost its human shape, Murphy, who was overseeing the race-change ritual, activated the race-template conversion feature in the administrator system. As expected, a warning appeared:

The target setting is changing to "Elf Template: Moon Elf." Current information collection rate for