Chapter Three! Here we go! I was thinking after I finish this or be nearing to finishing this story, I would start considering making a doujinshi of this. x3 That's when my art manga skills get better...
Chapter Three ? Bracelet
Before Logging into 'The World', I received an email. It never said who it was from and the picture on the top left hand corner was all fuzzy, I opened the mail from the anonymous person.
?C0m3 t0 'C@th3dr@1 H!dd3n F0rb!dd3n H01y Gr0und'
I... w!11 b3... w@!t!ng th3r3 f0r y0u, p13@s... C0m3 qu!ck1y...?
?I wonder who sent me this??.The only thing I managed to understand was come to 'Cathedral Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground'. Maybe this person will know something about these Phases and how I could save Miko.
I loaded up 'The World' and wore the glasses, there weren't much players online but around this time it was a night sky. All the street lights were turned on, I was getting distracted by the display of lights. I had no time to waste here, I needed to find the dimensional gate and enter into the 'Cathedral Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground'.
?Where could the dimensional gate be...??.?Are you lost??.A stranger spoke from behind, I turned around. It was a girl with light green short curvy hair, green hexagon shapes and inter hexagon shapes on both sides of her cheeks. She has light green eyes and wears metal plated chest amour with short sleeves and she has a belt around her waist with a long green skirt which bears white rectangles outlined with violet and she also has ghostly legs.
She was a first class advancement of an Archer with a long yellow bow, with brown string tied to both tips of the end.
?So are you lost??.
The ghostly girl answered waiting patiently for my reply, I didn't want to waste much time here answering this girls question. Though I didn't know where the dimensional gate is located, still I might aswell say I am lost.
?Yes I'm lost, where is the dimensional gate??.?Well, why didn't you say so sooner? Follow me, I will show you.?.The green girl quickly began to walk ahead of me leaving me behind, why is she in such a rush? I'm the one that's in a rush. I ran up to her to catch up and in no time we arrived at the dimensional gate, it was kinda crowded for some reason, there must be a special event going on. That would explain the empty streets.
I moved towards the gate in front of me and selected the map 'Cathedral Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground' which was sent to me by that unknown player. Exactly who is she...
?Thanks for showing me the way.?.?H- Hey! Wait-?.My body disappeared into thin air, and I arrived at the teleportation room. After that I finally arrived at the 'Cathedral Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground' which was a long stone bridge leading towards a stair case made out of stone. In front of me was a tall stone church with a sunset scene that never changes.
I headed towards the big sliver doors and pushed it open with all my strength. Inside was a marble floor with long brown wooden chairs lining up in rows of three on each side of the room with a statue of a person tied all around with chains connecting to the walls. A tall glass window had five circles on the stain glass behind the statue, and there also were stone pillars connecting on the walls in rolls of three on both sides. Lights were hanging from the ceilings. A girl in red and white was standing on the stone stairway facing the statue.
The girl turned her body without delay. She looked very similar as if I saw her somewhere before in 'The World'. Was it the same girl that was being chased by that weird monster called phase?
?So... You have come as expected.?.She knew I would come? Exactly who is this girl? My memories started to slowly flow back into me. She was the same girl I last saw with Miko.
?I need to ask-?.?I'm sorry... I don't have much time to answer your questions... Take this book.?.The girl pulled out her hand and a old brown book that looked very warn out appeared with golden writing on the front and golden lettering on the side. I took the book but my questions were still unanswered. I needed to know how I would be able to save Miko and what these phases are.
?This book holds great power.... This book will either bring salvation or destruction at the will of the user. You will find your answers as you travel around 'The World'.?.?W- Wait!?The unknown girl started to slowly lift off into the air disappearing. This book.... What power could it have in-store? Maybe the power inside could help me save Miko and other lost ones that were data drained by the Phases. I also need to train... At my current level there's no way I could take on these kinds of monsters.
I arrived back at Kingdom Val to buy some items and equipment until loud steps could be heard gaining nearer and becoming louder. A girl walked up to me with an unhappy expression on her face.
?Hey! What's the big idea running off like that??.It was the girl that I met who guided me to the dimensional gate. I never got her name, but the last thing I was expecting on my mind was someone yelling in my ear holes. That reminds me of a specific person from Gen Academy that yells at people when someone does something bad.
?Hey! Are you even listening?!?.?Uh... Yes..??Your coming with me!?.She pulled me by her side and immediately selected a map to an unfamiliar dungeon. We arrived at the unknown map which was a scorching area, the floors were steaming hot rock and some areas filled with lava. There were huge orange and reddish rocks scattered around the map.
?I have heard there's this rare idea inside the dungeon somewhere... Oh yeah! I forgot to introduce myself, I am Soga no Tojiko and you??.?Futo no Mononobe.?.There were many enemy activation rings everywhere around the level, spinning around waiting for a player to come near enough to activate. activating all of these should give me a deal of leveling up, I turned my head around to ask Soga before we headed off into the dungeon but the only thing that was there was a reflection of herself.
"I'm way up here slow poke! Hurry up! I don't want anyone else to steal the rare item!".I teleported to Soga by using one of my skills I raised before Miko got data drained by that monster. The dungeon was in front of us, it was a giant rock with lava flowing off the sides and mini lava rocks surrounding it. The entrance was a big black hole which leaded inside of it.
"So this is what a entrance to a dungeon looks like."."Nope, there's all kinds of different entrances to dungeons Futo.".After walking inside, the dungeon was a less heated place, the floor was made out of stone with a dark brown rocky wall. The dungeon looked really plain to me but as long as it had strong foes to fight then it would be a excellent dungeon to me to train in.
"Let's go Futo.".In the other room was a longer room then the previous one we were in. There stood one enemy activation ring that spun around slowly and a brown treasure chest that has a metal out line with a red pattern all over it. Making a few steps nearer, it activated and came out with three elf enemies that had long shiny blonde hair,pointy ears,crystal eyes, a long green dress and a long brown bow.
An arrow swiftly past by me near my face, the other two were firing arrows at Soga. she was dodging them as if they were nothing. Soga pulled out her long bow and pulled on the string, two fire arrows appeared.
"Double Burning Shot.".She released her attack, both arrows ripped through the enemies chest doing 134 damage giving them both an instant K.O. I needed to become as good as Miko and Soga to save my friend... I gave my attention back at the enemy and rushed towards it charging up my light attack on the end of my staff. The arrows were coming more faster then ever but I managed to dodge them all. I arrived right near the enemy and grabbed the staff with both of my hands.
"Electrical Ball!!!".It strike right into the monsters belly pushing her back until it hit the wall. The entire room lighted up in light blue electrifying the elf. Soga was in shock to see Futo release a powerful attack. The rooms lights went back to normal and the monster was given a instant K.O. The attack was a critical of 264 damage. I fell on my legs out of breath, as I used up all of my MP.
"Your pretty powerful Futo... For a newbie. I will let you have the treasure chest up ahead."."Thank... you...".I lifted myself up and walked towards the chest and opened it, it was just an healing potion that would come into greater use later on in 'The World', we walked through room to room slaying any enemies in sight until we reached our goal. The next two rooms will be the last. We headed into the next part of the dungeon, a monster was there with tiny green hexagons on the side of its body and other places around it, it was a long snake enemy with sharp teeth and red eyes.
A player had double swords, one short and the other one long, with a cherry blossom insignia and flower attached with a wakizashi. Her chest and shoulders were covered with dark emerald metal plated amour with white long sleeves. She has a light green skirt, and two white wings attached to her back. She also seems to have short sliver hair and dark blue eyes with a raven ribbon placed off-center on her hair. There was a ghostly formless phantom following her around.
"Damnit! Why aren't my attacks working?".She was in some need of help defeating the beast, I quickly reacted and ran to assist the player.
"Raining Fire!".The attack hit straight down onto the enemy but it seemed it wasn't affecting it at all. What kind of beast is this? A voice then echoed through my head, it sounded somewhat familiar.
"Use the book...".I remembered it was the girl I met in Cathedral Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground that gave me some strange book that looked very warn out. I took the book out from my inventory and placed it in one of my hands.
"The book...."."This book will either bring salvation or destruction at the will of the user...".I decided to use the book, I didn't want to see anyone else falling into a coma like my friend. With this power I might actually have a chance of defeating the phases and freeing all the lost ones that have gone into coma's. I have made my mind up.
'User has installed the book'.
The screen started to flash white and made a buzzing noise, the book automatically opened and flipped the pages over. I couldn't move my arm! Something was straining me, White big ancient lettering's started to appear and attached onto my clothing. My clothes started to change colour, a round green bracelet shaped of kites appeared on my wrist, it grew bigger. My arm moved on its own facing the enemy, strange kinds of green and blueish shapes that looked like rectangles appeared behind the bracelet making a star shape overall.
It shot out its attack. A big ,dark, pink round circle appeared with large and small blue squares going around it in a circle, the blast was shapes of black, blue and green hexagons spreading away from each other then coming in closer to hit the enemy. The hexagons disappeared after ripping through its targets body and changing the monster into something else. Six red lines behind it came back and went into my hand, the bracelet went back to its normal size and became invisible to the naked eye.
'
Viral Infection has spread.
You Have Gained
A Virus Core'.
"Spell card! Hungry King Sword".hundreds of bullets came out on all sides hitting the enemy and killing it doing 1023 damage. What was that? This bracelet... Such power...
"So your the one that's been causing all this bugs and glitches all over 'The World'.".Chapter Three - Bracelet - END
Haha! Finally the end. Sorry for the long delay, I wanted to make this chapter really long.