12 2.1

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The confusion brought by the transfer was lesser this time, but all I saw was a beam of light, before I found myself in a carriage, surrounded by unconscious bodies.

My heart had already stopped, but as I counted the bodies around me, I sighed in relief.

There was Chris and Jonathan next to me, along with four people I didn't know, sitting opposite us.

When I heard God say where he was sending us, I did not feel excited, no matter how much I love this freaking game, simply because other than being exciting, it was extremely dangerous.

But seeing we were only 7, the minimum difficulty if Hunter had said the truth, then I was relieved. And even if this wasn't really the easiest difficulty, it was almost half the number we had for In the Tall Grass.

Meaning, we were either in a relatively non-dangerous area for the game, or our mission was going to be easy.

Having played hundreds of different characters, I knew the intro well enough to understand where we were.

Our carriage was full, but it wasn't the only one on the rocky road. Under the snowy pine trees were two carriages, ours, and another one with only four people in it.

All of whom I was familiar with. They looked different from the game, but I recognized them right away. How could I not?

However, they looked… strange. I clearly looked at them in the eyes, and despite not really looking inexpressive, they seemed completely unresponsive instead.

But then I remembered my first mission. Travis had entered the Church precisely 12 hours from the end of our mission, so maybe the time before that was there to let us players speak without fear of losing Points from spoilers.

I looked down at my watch, and read our objective.

Surprisingly enough, there were two options, along with a counter. The counter was at 1:46, so I assumed it was the time we had until the real start of the mission. Meaning we had around 2 minutes at the start of every mission to speak without fearing spoilers. This was good to know.

As for the objectives, one was simple, and warranted the 7 players difficulty, in my opinion. It was to escape from Helgen.

But the other objective…

[Kill Alduin: Rank S Reward, 50000 Points]

This had to be a joke from the system. Not only was Alduin immortal in this plane, I doubted we could even so much as put a scratch on him. We are talking about a World Devourer here.

"Which one do you think will wake up first?"

I looked back up at the question from Jonathan. Throwing a glance at Chris, I realized he had regained his 'soldier' persona, his face cold as he scrutinized the four people in front of us.

As I did the same, my gaze stopped on one of them. He was bald and in his forties, but out of the four, he looked the most useful, as I could see he was quite ripped under his baggy clothes.

Also, he was already awake, although he was feigning to still be unconscious.

"You can open your eyes. But I'll start explaining what happened to you when everyone is awake."

I said this to both him and my teammates. Not only to show I knew he was awake, but also to tell my teammates the bonus 100 Points were mine.

I didn't feel any shame in it either. Some might say I should leave it to them as the strongest in the team, and if they were good teammates, I would maybe actually give it to them.

But considering the lack of efforts both of them had made in the past 10 days, I decided I would be taking it.

Neither of them said anything to it anyway, although in Jonathan's case it might just be that he did not get the message.

As for the man who had awoken, he no longer pretended to be unconscious, and raised his head, his eyes meeting mine.

I was met with a fierce stare, but I did not buckle. Not only could I crush his skull with my bare hands, compared to Ross's madness and Hunter's rage, this felt like a breeze.

He only kept up for a moment, before looking at my two companions, and the carriage behind us. He frowned when he saw it, which I took as him knowing about Skyrim. Good.

It took a little longer for the rest of the newbies to wake up, but by 1:30 on the counter, the last one had finally woken up.

The newbies were made up of two men and two women. Other than the one who woke up first, the other guy looked younger than me and Jonathan, probably slightly under 20.

As for the women, one was a blond around our age, and the other had grey hair, despite being in her late twenties or early thirties. Most probably not her real hair color.

The last one to wake up, the youngest boy, looked around himself with wide, star struck eyes, before exclaiming, "Did I Isekai in Skyrim?!"

This elicited a chuckle from Jonathan, and rolled eyes from me.

Sighing softly, I started explaining, "In a way, you may be right. But it is not so simple. First off, before any of you start doubting me, try to think of what you were doing before arriving here, and why you are here."

This got a couple of frowns from the older newbies, but after a couple of seconds their faces changed. The younger girl asked, "Are you players too?"

I nodded and gestured to my companions with my head, "The three of us lived through a movie before this one, making us veterans."

The fierce looking man asked, "Are you the leader of this team?"

I once again nodded, "I am. You guys are lucky, although Skyrim is a rather dangerous world, the mission is easy, and we only got 7 Players."

As I said that, I lifted my hands, which were bound, and tapped my watch. The fierce man and the girl with silver hair got it and immediately looked at their wrists, finding a similar watch on their wrists. The other two did the same seeing them.

While they read their watch, I continued, "Missions can have between 7 and 20 players, and the more players there are, the harder the mission."

The grey haired lady said, "That's what you meant by us being lucky?"

I nodded, I started liking her and the fierce man more and more. They might have what it takes.

The youngest, less so.

"Does that mean we can learn magic? Wait no it's trash in Skyrim, can we get Daedric Artifacts?!"

That was dumb.

"Not in this mission, since there are no Daedric Artifacts in Helgen. As for Magic, unless you had Magicka on Earth, you won't be able to learn magic just yet."

"Just yet?"

I nodded, raising my arms, "When we finish this mission, we will each earn 1000 Points, and be sent to God's Dimension, where you can use the Points to buy a variety of things. For example, time in the mission world, enhancements or even the ability to return to Earth. But if you don't return to Earth, then you will go on another mission, set in another fictional world."

The girl my age, who had not spoken until now, asked, "What makes you the leader of this team? If you only survived a single mission before this you aren't that much different from us."

I snorted, "I am the leader because I could kill everyone in this carriage if I wanted to."

The girl paled, and the fierce man asked, "Why aren't you then? What use do you have for us?"

I smiled at him, and said, "I like you two, you will make good teammates. As for why I'm not killing you, there are several reasons. First, I'm not a psychopath. Second, killing a teammate will result in negative 1000 Points, and if your Points are in the negative at the end of the mission, you die. And third, while individual strength is good, it's not enough to reach the end of this game."

The silver haired girl questioned, "You mentioned enhancements, and the possibility to return to Earth. How many Points does it take to return to Earth, and how strong are you?"

"50000 Points to return to Earth. As for me… I bought the Super Soldier Physique as a reward before this. Among other things."