A quest?
Was this the world of the main god?
"Wait..."
"Could this be... Queen Annie's punishment?!"
He gathered himself again and looked at the rows of strange writing that had somehow been "burned" into the dusty, somewhat rotten wooden floor beside the puddles of his vomit. Then he glanced at the two piles of stuff he'd just thrown up. A man named Star Dance Flying Sun was utterly stunned!
"!!"
Still refusing to believe it, he rubbed his eyes, then took a deep breath of the foul, rotting air inside Stratholme, thick with the stench of corpses. Only then did he look again at the rows of text that had appeared out of nowhere before his eyes.
"This..."
"This can't be real, can it?!"
Once he'd fully grasped what the words meant, he suddenly sucked in a frightened breath!
Then, somehow, the air didn't seem quite so foul anymore, and he didn't feel quite so sick.
"No!"
"It can't be!"
Still unwilling to believe it, he reached out and touched the words on the dusty, slightly moldy wooden floor. He hadn't recognized them before, but for some reason, he could now read them perfectly.
Hiss~!
"Ah!!"
"It hurts! It hurts! I'm burning up!!"
Huff! Huff!
The magical words, still glowing with tiny embers, burned him. He snatched his hand back at once and blew on his fingers over and over.
"How could this happen..."
"Is this real?"
"But..."
"How did she do it? She's just a character in an online novel. How could something like this be possible?!"
He looked at the burn on his finger and the blister slowly swelling up, then, still unconvinced, pinched his cheek hard.
"..."
The clear pain that shot through his mind told him mercilessly that this wasn't a dream. It seemed that