"What are you here for?" Micha asked.
She had pink hair and a blue dress that went to her knees, with frills at the bottom. She had a warm and caring face with orange eyes, and I remembered her face from before.
"I am looking for you, Micha. The girls, Celica and Rorry asked me to come to see what's taking so long. You seem okay, but then what has been taking so long? I'm Dave, you might remember me now, but it's hard to explain. For now, we should get out of here."
"I can't leave yet! I have waited too long to just give up, and it will only get worse if I don't pay!" Micha complained turning back to what I could now see was a service booth with the glass and such as before at the hot tub place in the previous world.
I walked up to the window, and the same little ankle bitter old lady opened a door and walked into the room. Micha rushed over to beside me and started to explain about the bike parking ticket, but the old woman ignored her and looked me straight in the eye. Her eyes were like black holes in her head, but I glared back at her.
"Name, and purpose," The tell asked me, but I shook my head.
"No, I came here with her and she was before me. Serve her first!"
"No, if you do not need me...AAHHH!!!" The little old lady screamed as two Pigmen appealed in her little booth.
The glass would stop most things, but the bottom dish for accepting money was perfect for my car tricks. I looked into the glass at the cowering old lady, and shook my head at the Pigmen to stop, they were my minions for about five minutes and I had three more cards left in each deck.
"I think you meant to say that you will be helping my friend out so we can leave this god-forsaken place! Then, you don't have to see me again, for a while!"
The women glared at me, but then leaned forward, waving to Micha to come to see her. I stepped back, and I left the pig inside, there wasn't much else I could do with them and the overhanging threat was a good way to keep the old biddy honest.
After we were done, we hopped on another train, but this one moved like a normal subway car. It was nice just to relax and not have to fight my way from car to car. Still, it was a quiet ride back, Micha wasn't really a talker, but she had spent time with the other girls and they had become fast friends. Maybe the point of this is to get the other groups together; I still didn't have all the parts, but I was getting closer.
Chapter 244: Slap You
Walking out of the station, I could see the girls floating in the air, and then rushed over to us as we came out of the subway station. The girls hugged, but then they started to glow.
"What's happening to us?" Celica asked, looking at her glowing hands.
"You're going to join the other girls in the Hall of Gods. Don't worry, just relax, it won't hurt," I said with a smile.
All three girls came over and hugged me before they disappeared, their lights fading.
[Mission] Complete!
[Rank] S
[People saved] 5/5
[Do you wish to continue?] Yes/No
I could stay? Not that it was an option, but what would happen if I did? Would I just be stuck in this city until I died?
[No]
[Level] 1/10 Complete!
[Loading] Terror Island Resort
[People saved] 0/13
[Random class reward] Activated!
[Synchronizer: Angel/Geomancer]
The world turned and I was left on a beach after feeling like I was flipped upside down. A bright light broke the air beside me and a man stepped out in golden armor and white wings. Hey! I knew this guy!
"Augusta?"
"Looks like we are partners this time, it feels like I just saw you," Augusta said, giving me a bright closed eye smile.
"Do you know what we are doing here?"
"The same thing you are always doing?"
"Good, and yeah, saving girls, same old. This is different though, we are just saving them this time and fixing problems. No team this time, just us."
"That sounds rough for you, but you know you can't keep them all, right?" Augusta asked with a curious smile.
"I'm not trying to keep them! I...I have just spent a lot of time with all of them, and I am only now remembering this. Augusta, I have lived for thousands of years before even coming into this game. I can't even remember when I made a mistake with the time-lapse and set it too high and was stuck for five hundred years in the same game and body. It was only the girls that kept me going, they each spent time with me, they didn't have to but they did."
"And this is the final stretch! Come on! You need to catch up to the others, you don't have time to mope around! You and I both know that you just need to finish this game so we can all start living. I am getting tired of only waking up when there is something to kill, I want to live and play in these worlds you have created."
I forget that there was more than just the girls that were trapped inside Second Life. Augusta was one of the many testers that discovered something was going on with the game and the headset. Then, just like many other employees, they had accidents while using the equipment and were locked into the game, just like Dansei and the other ones I had placed as gods.
Not everyone got a great spot, but there were only so many spots that would allow them to play while we ran through the game. They had to be in the game when I unlocked the worlds and I put the game into the Frame Jack climb. I was going to shut down the game from the inside, putting the game into an infinite moment that would last for eternity.
This was the only way to keep the game safe and the people inside of it. There was only one person that would be coming out of the game, but they would never get farther than that in the reality we were going to live in. Time would all but stop as we moved faster and faster, stretching time past uncountable numbers.
That was the goal, and Augusta was right. My job was just to get there, after that, it was literally anybody's game. I took a deep breath and then smiled up to Augusta. It would be nice to have a guy around that wasn't inside of my head.
'I resent that, I have been pretty quiet because I know you don't like to hear us all the time.' -Dansei.
"Let's go check the place out, we need to find out what our first target is. I like your spirit, and I hope we can get this done fast, the sooner I'm off this world, the sooner I can get to the next one."
"Yes, let's go look around! Trouble always seems to find you so I'm sure if we just walk around for a little while we will stumble into someone that needs our help."
The two of us walk up a wooden ramp and then onto a walkway with a rope railing. The paths led all over, and there were huts on the ground with ramps that led down to them. The whole place looked like a miniature city, but all the lit torches gave it that unmistakable island feeling.
The problem was that everything looked the same, nothing stood out, and after about thirty minutes of wandering, I stopped. There was no one anywhere, just the two of us walking and the sounds of the torches.
"Do you think that this is a bit weird? Should there be people here?" I asked Augusta, looking around to see if there was something that I had missed.
"I agree, maybe we should check inside of one of these hunts. There could be someone inside that could explain to us about what is going on?" Augusta suggested.
That was better than nothing, so the two of us looked and found a ramp and headed down. At the bottom there was a hut with a grass door that hung over the entrance, blocking us from seeing inside. I was about to just walk in but stopped and opened up my skills. I wasn't going to have another round of barely surviving like in the train.
First I pulled up the Synchronizer Class and their Sync points, but at this level, it just let me cast Bless once per fight, a spell that would make us harder to his, slightly. Augusta on the other hand had a Greatsword and Branding Smite that would still cause fire damage after the strike. At the first level, there wasn't much else in the class list and it had no crafting skills.
Next, I pulled open the crafting table for Geo
mancer and found two capes I could craft. The first, Earth Cloak, gave physical resistance. The other one, the Stone Cape, could be used as a defensive block, but that would cause it to break after two hits, so I crafted two of the first ones. I handed the second one and then started to browse the Class Skills.
This was more like it! I could travel up to ten meters underground and merge into stone. Augusta couldn't, but he could fly, and now that I was looking at him, he looked kind of funny with his cloak bunched up on his wings in the back. I focused back on the screen in front of me and looked at what else I could do, I had two other skills that I could use.
Rock Toss what self-apparent, I could use Geomancy and throw a rock. I reached down and picked up a couple sizes and floated them. I found that about a fist-sized stone was my maximum, so I grabbed two, they could be reused if there was nothing in the area.
The last was a three-meter tremor that caused damage, and that could make for a good sneak attack with me from below and Augusta from the sky. Finally ready to go, I looked over to my angel partner in his golden armor, and then I looked at my white shirt and black pants. Yes, I really screamed Hero Dave right now, I kind of hoped this was just a normal tent and it was empty, I was starting to feel anticlimactic beside this angel.
"Ready?" Augusta asked.
"Yeah," I sighed.
The two of us pulled the grass aside and the place was the size of a colosseum arena, and there were empty stands. Both of us pulled our heads out and looked at each other with raised eyebrows.
"When this is all over, I want one of these huts. There is a lot of extra room inside of one of these, haha!" Augusta laughed.
Yup, I should have expected as much, but I really thought it was going to be a girl stuck in a palm tree, in a bikini, who also needed sunscreen on her back. No, instead it was nighttime, and this was an arena, and we were going to have to go fight something or things. Frick, story for my life!
"Okay, let's go kick some ass in here and save the people we need to, and get to the next hut! Like you said we just have to clear this as fast as we can. If we can do that we can get to living that good life!"
"See? This is an arena! It will be easy! We are a team, and we will destroy everything in our path!"
"Woah, angel, calm down!" I said with a smile
"You and I know I would make a far better demon, this is just the sheep's wool for this old wolf, I can't wait to have one hundred NPC wives!" Augusta said with a devilish grin
"Part of me wants to smack you, the other part wants to high-five you," I said, putting my hand to my face.
Chapter 245: Not Messing Around
The two of us carefully pushed the grass curtain aside and walked cautiously into the hut into an arena. The precise moment we stepped inside, completely through the doorway, it instantly disappeared and the stands were instantly filled with passionate people that were roaring and cheering enthusiastically. I looked all around and the familiar place was similar to the arena that I had fought in during the random game.
"Welcome to my arena! I am your charming host, Gragle! This day you will be fighting fiercely to win each one of these lovely ladies!" An extremely squat and portly man yelled down, but I promptly locked onto his shrill voice and instantly dropped into the ground.
Gargle had all the frightened girls up there with him, and I was sick and tired of playing by the rules. I was here to beat the game, and that's what I was going to accomplish. There would be a shield of the arena, but not in the walls, and they were made from stone.
I glided effortlessly through the earth and then stone like I had rockets propelling me through water. I popped up in the stands and the cheering crowd parted screaming hysterically at me being outside of the arena area. I didn't stop, but I did unsummon Augusta and resummoned him to get to the top before me.
After he flew up, I ran up and dove into the colosseum's wall, surging up to my targeted location, under Gragle. I came up under him and grabbed the little fat man by his ankles, intentionally sinking him down into the stone-like mud. Augusta was already freeing the girl from the ropes they had been bound with.
"What are you doing?! You can't do this! Your cheating! You can't just come up here and rescue all the girls, this is against the rule!" Gragle cried as he struggled fiercely, stuck in the stone up to his waist.
"I have never really been one for following the rules, and don't have the time to waste with you games," I said as I grew up from the stone, turning to the girls, but they were already bands of lights that disappeared, but it was better this way.
"That was some fast thinking! I never imagined you would do that, very creative, but it looks like you're done here, and I will be going back into storage," Augusta said with a forced smile.
"That's why I'm trying to do this as fast as possible. I have been playing this like just another player in a game, but I'm not. I created this game, and I need to start thinking like that. I can clear this world in record time, I just have to play the game like the end is the only target," I said walking over to Augusta, sticking my hand out to him.
"I have faith in you, just be careful, and do what you did this time, prepare, have a plan and win. You're the one that made this all, so you should know every way to bypass obstacles. Just don't die, we are all counting on you, no pressure!"
That made me laugh out loud, and Augusta grabbed my forearm, and I did the same. He was right on all accounts, and I would be careful, but it was time to go.
[No]
I scored an E for my mission rank, but that was just the system being salty, and there would be a lot more of that. The real question was how long the normal MainFrame would sit by and let me keep messing with the game? It wasn't like I was hacking the system. I was just using things and abilities in ways that were in line with the normal way that the system wanted them done, tough titties.
[Level 2] Acquired!
[Super Strength/Omni Adept] Acquired!
Here we go! The next world was loading in, no spin this time, but there was a massive battlefield being constructed, and hundreds of foes, orcs, were being digitized. This almost felt rushed like the game was lagging or something, but that shouldn't be possible. Maybe I was supposed to take longer last game, but that was fine, the pixelated orc made it really feel like I was playing a game.
I only glanced at my skills as I loaded in. There were the battle decks, but I made some food instead. Super Strength's crafting ability was cooking and there was some hella good stuff on the menu. There were eight different items on the menu and I was having trouble deciding what I wanted. I had sat down, to have a good look while the orcs all raged in pixelated anger.
1.Ramen Noodles with pork
2.Hammered Sandwich
3.Boosted Juice
4.Giant Turnip and Monster Green
5.Behemoth Steak and Pouncing Potatoes
6.Quickling Super Sour Drink
7.Kraken Claws Served with Sky Devourer Sauce
8.Everything, But The Kitchen Sink
There were too many choices, so I picked them all, and eating them was not the enjoyable experience I thought it was going to be. No, I just touched them and picked yes or no in my HUD, then they disappeared and I got a buff. After I was done, I felt great, but I was still hungry, so much for a cooking skill.
I stood up, stretched out, the orcs had almost reached me now, the square edges of their bodies starting to become clear. I smiled and punched my hand in excitement, and then started running to meet them head one. I pulled back my fist and then swung it forward with all my strength and drove it into the face of the first orc.
The impact was more than intense, the ground and everything behind the first orc I had hit for five meters in a cone shape area was gone. The impact from my punch had shattered them into black particles, but more orcs were pouring in to fill the gap. This wasn't what I was here for. I looked past the hordes and saw what I was looking for, A massive orc on a platform with seven girls standing and waiting.
I activated my single Super Strength skill and bent my legs.
[Leap] Activated!
I launched into the air like a grasshopper, and then when I hit the crest of my arc and started to fall, I pulled back my fist. I punched the ground just as Impacted and cracks spidered out in an instant. Then the world exploded around me, creating a massive crater that was showered in rocks and black particles. I had to make five more leaps before I made it up to the stage. Other big orcs had tried to stop me, but I was a runaway train, with only one target, the boss.
"I won't let you take them!" The massive orc with twin dual-bladed battle axes and big plates of armor covering him.
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