"Help... help me!!!!" The young man, whose bones had been broken by a single slime, immediately let out a scream... Then the scream abruptly stopped...
"Mm... I should add an extra newbie protection mode first."
Reduce the initial level of gore, with the reduction gradually diminishing as players progressed, disappearing entirely after level five. Of course, for certain professions, this filter could be removed early on.
"Gasp... scared me to death. I thought I really died." The young man looked around. There was a vast open clearing; this should be the so-called resurrection point. He shook his head, but a lingering sense of weakness clung to him, like he had stayed up all night without sleep.
He tried resting for a while. His body clearly did not feel tired in the slightest, yet that weakness remained, leaving him with the miserable feeling of having strength he could not use.
When he opened his status panel, he saw that although it had none of those strength and speed attributes, nor a status bar that functioned like an all-purpose detector, it did have a log recording everything that had happened to him.
--Your unguarded mouth offended a rather formidable existence. --You were teleported into a monster nest where you would be crushed. --You have died. --You have resurrected at a nearby respawn point and entered a 72-hour weakened state.
"...F-f-fuck!?" It took the young man quite a while to snap back to his senses. He had merely blurted out one sentence—was that really necessary...? Was Yukari really that brutal?
Thinking back to the sensation of being instantly killed by a slime, it truly did not sit well with him. It felt as though he had genuinely died once. Even if he could be resurrected, the feeling was still utterly awful.