Iona had the pistol out and it was charged again, the three rings expanded and purple. I could see the lightning Rune being slammed together and the shot charged. I was able to make it out of range before the thunder crack went off and made the shell of the crab glow and smoke before it erupted in black particles.
The buildings around us immediately started to pull back together, folding back into the buildings they were.
[Mission] Complete!
[Rank] B
[People saved] 1/5
[Do you wish to continue?] Yes/No
'Tequila, can you tell me what the System means?'
'You want to continue until all the girls in this area are saved.' -Tequila.
[Yes]
[Random class reward] Activated!
What the hell is this? I don't want to keep on learning new classes! I just wanted the Mage Cannon!
[Cymantic Singer/Wall Crawler] Activated.
'Oh no! Looks like this is goodbye for now, but I'll be back…' -Jim.
His voice faded from my mind, but what was going on? I was a singer that could walk on walls? How was I supposed to keep the girls safe like this?!
"Dave? Are you alright?" Iona asked walking up to me.
"Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. You know I built this game, right?"
"Yes, I do have memories of why we are here and what you're doing, but what…"
"Why do you think I would make something like this so hard? I just got a reward that changes my Class on random. So now, I stick to walls and sing...what am I going to do?! Run away singing?"
"Can you look at the class? Maybe there is something good in them? Don't go to being a cry baby as soon as something doesn't go your way!" Iona said.
She was right, I shouldn't just dismiss the skills as they were, I would have to take a look at them. We found a bench to sit at and dropped down into it as the streets started to fill back up with faceless people. Well, maybe not faceless, but they all seemed to be looking away from us, which was awkward.
I sigh and tried to summon a class list and got it the first time. The list popped up and I chose the singer first to see what singing could do. Nope, at a low level, I could heal and give paper cuts, this was not helping my mood.
Next, I opened up the Wall Crawler tab and started to browse. I looked down at my wrist and noticed there was some kind of gadget, and in the abilities, it said I could use electro wrist darts. Great, more non-lethals. The last one looked useless at first, but then again, the skill Direct Insults would aggro a monster to me, and keep it focused and chasing me, while I sang.
Running away and singing priceless strategy. This is what real superhero morals are made of. This game hates me, but it had to be some messing around on Reginold's part, but maybe getting to MainFrame will let me fix things. For now, I was stuck with being the rotating boy wonder, but I had dealt with worse problems in the past, and this was just another bump in the road.
Chapter 242: High Speed Stepping
Then we walked back to the apartment, and Iona wanted to hold my hand, but I was fine with that. I was still distracted by the random class that I had been assigned. This was going to be hard, if they changed after every mission, it was going to be next to impossible to get used to any of them. Part of me just wanted TDM back to take on the world, but the old fart had left or went silent after Jim left.
"What are we doing now?" Iona asked me as we finally walked onto the grass and by the statue.
"Going to fix a toilet. You have small arms, so you can reach in and unplug it by hand if I can't get it, okay?"
"I WILL NOT!" Iona roared, letting go of my hand and then raining down hammer fist blows on my shoulder.
"Fine, then you are going to go and cook supper! There is no free ride around here, but that means we are going to have to go to the store over there," I said pointing to a small grocery store across the street from us.
It was in the bottom of a tall building, but that was like saying it was a grain of sand on the beach. Of course, it was in a tall tower! That's all there was, tall towers! I sighed and took Iona's hand and we walked across the street; there were no cars to watch for but I still looked. Cars only showed up when you needed them; I must have thought that there were enough dangers in the games without getting randomly hit by a car.
"Dave, if you built this world, then it will have things for stir-fry and stuff right?" Iona asked as we entered the store.
I probed the Memory Download and there were all the girl's favorite foods programmed in. I nodded to her and she let go of my hand, grabbing a basket, then running off. I was left at the till talking to an oriental man of an unknown background about the rising price of rice coming from the Lou Hong Bang district. I had no idea what he was talking about, but I was the master of bull shitting my way through a conversation.
Once Iona had collected everything she needed for a week, I reached into my pocket, only to just remember that I was going to have to pay for this. The old man stopped me and told me to give him my wrist. The man scanned a barcode and there was a beep, then he waved us off. That was convenient, but I supposed having something that wasn't attached to you would be hard to keep if you got blown up often.
"Did you get enough? My hands are starting to get sore! Did you just buy eight bags of canned food?" I complained as we walked into the apartment block and headed to the elevator.
"Don't be such a baby, you're a superhero!"
"Yeah, that can sing and run away, and walking on walls is no easy job! I am strong, but not like with the Demon Ink. Now, these groceries are cutting off the circulation in my fingers, but sitting down will be good whenever this elevator opens up!" I complained, but then the door opened.
Inside the elevator car was Celica and Rorry, and they both smiled and me and then gave Iona a look. I wasn't sure what the look was, but Iona ignored it and walked past them, or I thought she ignored it. I was about to ask the girls where they were going when Iona pushed the button for the elevator door to close.
"Hey!"
"I'll have supper ready for when you get back."
The door closed and I was left standing with Celica and Rorry. I turned back to them and gave them both a questioning look. Celica had Black form-fitting yoga pants with a white camisole top, and her hair pulled back. Rorry was in a frilly pink dress and her hair was in pigtails, reminding me of Iona when she was in the cute Loli form from the Random World.
"Where are you two off to? Can I help you out?"
"Our friend Micha hasn't returned yet from her trip downtown. She left just before you arrived so she should be back now, and you are here so she must be lost or something. Rorry wants to go look for her, so we are heading out," Celica explained.
"I'll come with you two just in case. Something happened with my classes, so I don't have the same mobility as before. So it will be better for me to come with you two to help find Micha."
"Thank you," Rorry said, running over to give me a hug around my waist.
I patted her head and the three of us headed back out. It was well past lunch now and I was starting to get hungry, so I stopped at another store and grabbed some meat snacks. I shared with the girls as we walked, and soon we reached a part of the city that was different than the rest.
Like someone had pulled the bottom of the city down to make a perfect bowl, all the towers converged in the center. It made an intense superstructure that was all below the ground level of the rest of the city. So this is what they meant by downtown, no puns intended.
"Do you have a rough idea where she might be?" I asked the girls while looking out over the half-circle that was all tower of the complex shapes connecting in the middle.
"Yes, at the bottom," Celica said with a smile.
"What does that even mean? Where are we going? Over there. Fine, lead the way! I just work here, but something about tight spaces and my current attack plan didn't scream copasetic to me.
Well, I had been in worse situations before, and w
ho said there was going to even be any fighting? I was probably getting myself worked up for nothing. I had already done my monster ass-kicking for the day, so I shouldn't have to worry about it anymore.
"We can't come with you, only one can go in at a time. If we try we will get separated and have to enter from different routes, so It's just best if you go alone. We will wait out here for you," Celica said with a smile.
"Thank you, Dave, Sir," Rorry said holding onto the fabric at the side of Celica's waist.
"Sure, I'll go, don't worry! This is better, but will you be safe out there?" I asked, looking around, but not seeing anyone else.
"The area is safe, don't worry about us," Celica said putting an arm around Rorry, then they both started to float. "I am a Gravity Knight and Rorry is a Sky Dancer, so we can stay safe."
I turned back to the bowl mega-structure and started to walk towards one of many entrances all around the Downtown. The entrance was like entering a subway from ground level and there was even a double railing in the center and halfway down there was a two-meter platform with more stairs leading to the bottom. At the bottom, the place was literally a subway station with square cement support pillars, and a subway train waiting for me.
I looked around, but the place was empty and blank with no discerning details. I walked over to the train car, but I started humming the blades song, Slashing Desires. I somehow just knew the song that I have never heard before, but the vibrations were like whips in the air around me.
I walked onto the train, and the door closed behind me, but the train didn't start moving. I looked around and the train was all open, with only seats along the side walls. I took a step forward, and everything outside of the train shot past at blinding speed, but then stopped when I did.
Woah! It was weird, and I tried it again, and I was met with the same rush of traveling at high speeds. I started to walk forwards at a steady pace, but that still took me a bit to get used to the intense start and stop. I moved forward into the next train, but there were two ugly-looking biker pigs with sticks in their hands, and they did not look impressed to see me.
I focused on them as I walked forward and they finally came within my range and the pigs started to yell and snort, glaring at me. I shot them each with a dart and one missed, but the other hit, and the pig fell while still getting cut up. The next pig was charging me, but I jumped up and stuck to the roof of the car still humming 'Slashing Desires', then I quickly crawled to the twitching one that was getting up.
I dropped down, kicking him in the head, and making him explode into a massive shower of black particles. I turned and fired two more darts into the pigman that had turned back, and he seized and shook before exploding into a rain of particles. The moving part of the train car wasn't as bad as I thought but I think that part might have something to do with getting off and that would mean finding the right door, after clearing a room, great.
I looked ahead, and there were a lot of cars with different monsters in them. This is going to be a nightmare.
Chapter 243: Try To Hide
'Tequila! There has to be something I do other than run! These darts and songs aren't doing anything to these metal dogs!'
I dodge the first one that jumped at me and then took a grazing hit from the next one as I tried to do a spin evade. I was left with a white-blue digital gash on my arm, I switched tunes and started the Healing Hum. The missing part of me closed up, but the dogs were already coming again.
'You have to use what you have! You have other skills for crafting, but you need to defeat these one first!' -Tequila.
'Why didn't you tell me this before?!'
I rolled and then jumped, sticking to the roof.
'I tried to tell you but you just kept going!' -Tequila.
'I thought you meant I could use them after! Okay, I will try to do this, then I will let you explain!'
Both mecha dogs were past so I dropped down, this would take some ball and faith in-game logic. I prepared my darts and watched the dogs that were about to rush me again. I had to take the second on our first out. It would get me once I got the first one.
I ran and made a clean spinning dodge, rolling off the side of the first dog, and then shoving my right hand into the second dog's mouth. I shot out both darts right before the feeling of having a hand disappeared, and I pulled back my blue-white glowing stump, but it was already growing back as I hummed. I didn't wait, I just tossed my body to the side, just barely dodging the last dog.
I was back on my feet, and my fingers were growing nubs, but still growing. There was pain, but it was not like normal pain, it was like a reminder that it was supposed to hurt, instead of actual pain. The dog wasn't as quick to rush me this time, and it gave me time to finish my healing while shaking the feeling back into it.
The other dog was still twitching but not dead, so I put it between me and the other dog, then I grabbed the downed dog. I held it between me and then activated my Direct Insult.
"Come get some you four-legged bitch bred mongrel cur!" practically fell out of my mouth out of my control.
The language on this system! But the dog attacked and tore into the dog that I was holding. I let go and then used the same trick with the darts, but this time I got to keep my hand! After the dog fell I jumped on it until it disappeared into a puff of black particles.
"Finally!" I said out loud, sliding into one of the seats on the subway car walls.
I was finally used to the things moving back and forth, and I found that it was just best if I didn't pay attention to it. I needed a minute, my eagerness almost got the best of me, but hopefully, with a little prep, the next car will be better. This was my fault, Tequila was right, I rushed in without letting her finish explaining.
'Alright, please explain what you were trying to tell me before and I promise to give you my full and undivided attention this time, okay?'
'You classes might seem weak, but they are met to be used with their crafting skills. You have Battle Decks and Traps you can use, and because you're the only player, there are no supplies needed, but you can only have one set of each. I suggest you build Both Decks and Caltrops.' -Tequila.
I went over commands with Tequila and then opened up my crafting skills. Inside there were the cards and traps, so I did as Tequila had suggested and made some Caltrops, thirty of them came in a bag attached to a belt I was wearing. Next was the decks, the Summoning Deck would call a monster of the basic level, but it had a chance for a random effect when summoned. The other was the Mage Deck, this one was a random offense, and each card throw had a random offensive effect.
I sighed, I strike again, this was really just poor planning, so I sat for a moment, but couldn't think of what else I could ask. I stood up instead and made my way to the next car but there was only one man with a massive shield. I took out a handful of Caltrops, but I didn't throw them right away, instead, I tossed a Summoning Card instead as the man charged me.
//ERROR//
[Or You Could Pick That] Activated!
//ERROR//-[ROUGE SYSTEM DETECTED]
//FAILED INTERCEPT//
Woah! I was just able to dodge out of the way in time, but the card exploded into two of the Pigmen! That was the top option! I tossed the Caltrops, but they were just normal and were just as much of a pain in the ass as for my Pigmen and they went for the man.
I switched decks and pulled out a card that flickered colors.
//ERROR//
[Or You Could Pick That] Activated!
//ERROR//-[ROUGE SYSTEM DETECTED]
//FAILED INTERCEPT//
Man, that was annoying, but the Harem System shouldn't be able to break through into this game. It must be my innate cheating acting up again, trying to break the game, but I don't think I had planned to be playing against the game I created. This was supposed to be an easy and fun play though to lock the door from the inside.
I tossed the brilliant red flashing card at the knight, missing him, but I was aiming for th
e inside of his shield. The card hit the inside of his shield and exploded back into his face. The man fell back and then exploded in a shower of black particles. A ding came from the subway car and it made me turn and look to find an open door.
On the other side, there was a long hallway that you would expect to find at an office building. I walked into the hall and heard a click, but there was only a solid wall where I had just come from. I had no choice but to keep moving forward, so I looked around as I walked ahead.
There was only one door at the end of the hall and the rest was just white walls. My Pigmen were both gone so I got my cards out and I got another, you're breaking the rules message, but I ignored it. I awkwardly opened the door and a girl was standing on the other side with a smile on her face.
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