Chapter 4: Alia.
"[Good morning, master]," a sudden voice echoed inside his head.
"Good morning... Wait a minute, who the hell am I replying to?" Elias paused, suddenly realizing something mid-sentence.
"It’s me, Alia," the voice replied again.
’Alia?’
Then it hit him. The name sounded way too familiar. It was the same name as the AI system that assisted players back on Earth in the Emperor’s Dominion game.
Now that he thought about it, he remembered reading on the game’s fandom page that Alia wasn’t just a random AI assistant. She was actually the spirit of the Lord Seal—a monument tied to a territory. Once a lord bonded with a Lord Seal, they also became linked to Alia.
Considering he was now inside the world of that same game, and since everything he had seen so far followed the game’s plot quite closely, it made sense that Alia would be real in this world too. Just like the fandom had described.
’But wait... her voice came from inside my head?’
"Uhm, Alia, just now, it felt like your voice came from inside my head. Are you... in there?"
"[Negative. I am not inside your head. We are spiritually linked. My presence exists beside yours. However, because of the nature of our bond, I can only communicate with you through your thoughts. That is why it felt like my voice came from your head. It’s more like a whisper carried by your thoughts, not actual speech inside your head.]"
Elias frowned at that. "So that means... you can access my thoughts whenever you want? You can hear everything I think?"