Zach held out a stomp, and waved it in front of the princess.
"So you see.. I didn't come out of the game unscathed.. "
"Damm that so cool her eye sparkled"
The more he saw her amusement the more ironic it seems.
She was all about killing him just a second ago.
The wyvern flew through the skies and finally deceneded atop a snowy mountain filled with people.
Different uniforms.
They were the cadets.
All gathered around a floating black sphear in the middle of the mountains peak.
The wrist watches had all stopped working after hat final warning, so their was no way to contact the higher authorities.
Zach got off the flying beast with jolting movement.
"Finally.!. Ground."
Zach jumped off.
The cadets all looked at them, then totally forgetting them moments later.
They was a bigger problem.
The portal was supposed to look like a large floating ball of liquid.
But now it was black.
A few cadet ran around trying to find a signal on the watches given to them but to no avail.
'I don't think that's safe'
Zach and his group watched behind as cadets tried their best to break open the solid portal.
"Stupid idiots!, slashing at it will only make it worst.."
A a blonde boy with a slender physique walked forward, with a black robe, cursing at the ground of cadet surrounding the black ball.
"That ball is probably more dangerous than all the monsters in the fissure combined" he stated.
""What!?".
"You heard me". He sneered.
"Right now that orb has enough magic power to release the blast of a.... no, six atomic bombs"
"T-Then what do we do" one of the cadets stammered.
"Didn't you go to school" the blonde clicked his toungue.
"Actually no.." the group of cadets lowered their heads like children receiving lectures from their parents .
"Wait a minute!". Zach had heard that voice before.
"Is that?.."
Zach had to come closer.
He walked forward leaving the group behind.
The tap the blonde haired kind on the shoulder.
"What!" He face was a bit annoyed but when he saw Zach face his lips instantly curled up"
"Yo!, Zach is that you ?"
Zach had know this guy back in the mystic arts academy, coincidentally enough the blonde guy in front of him was the only student who surpassed him in raw combat potential.
His name was Arthur.
"How's life been.." Zach asked.
The two friends had struggled together in the academy, Zach was leaps ahead of Arthur when it came to mystic arts and foreign language.
But Arthur was better when it came to combat and energy reading.
He could detect even the slightest shift in aura.
And that made it almost impossible for anyone to lie to him.
The two friends brief themselves of how they got into this place.
Arthur explained that father the final exams, he went fo Industrial Training (IT) with his uncle.
Then he was invited to run a job for 1000 gold coins, at frist he's uncle wouldn't let him go, but one he confirmed it was safe he was sent to this hell.
"Tch safe my foot" Arthur scoffed.
"I heard two powerhouses were able to take down more than a thousand crabs in the middle of the frozen sea" Arthur leaned in.
"I heard there were two of them, one was a demon forged out of shadows and flame, and the other looked like like a sun goddess.., since you're coming from that direction perhaps maybe you have seen them.
Zach raised a brow.
A thousand crabs?.
People sure knew how to exaggerate.
Zach had considered what Eli told him, and he wasn't going to moveing around spilling all his secrets to any soul curious enough to ask.
"Yeah I saw them..". Zach scratched the back of his head.
"Those two have quite the reputation" he laughed.
"May I ask what reputation?". Zach furrowed his browns.
"They call them the 'eclipse reaper ' and the 'sunfire saintess'" he spoke.
Zach nearly choked on his saliva.
For the frist time he was grateful signal was cut off.
He couldn't possibly explain of Arthur See's he was ranked number 1.
*Boom*
A unexpected Boom rattled everyone off their feet.
The world roared, the ground cracked beneath his feet.
"What's that-"
*Boom*
Zach words shattered as another explosion ruptured the air, the mountain groaned, the cracks got wider, many of the cadet had fallen but Zach managed to steady himself.
*Boom*
He looked above.
The sky had split apart, and a blinding beam of energy shot down into the icy sea in the distance.
Creating a massive tsunami, blasted literal boulders far in to the air with devastating pressure.
"The fissure is evolving" Eli panicked voice rang out as every single member prepared to protected themselves.
The light that came above eviscerated the icy covers of the sea in an instant revealing crashing waves.
The sky darkened and the wind intensified.
Thunder rumbled above drowning the entire world in a cacophony of movement and destruction.
Then the sea rumbled and out came of creatures stitched from the fabric of death.
Lindworms, Long serpentine skin, dagger like claws, their skulls were long and unnatural.
Their jaws were split to wide.
One roared, reavealimg rows of teeth that looked like broken glass, dripping with thick Silva.
They approach faster than the anyone could fully process, pouncing on a cadet, it's horrifying teth sank into the cadet waits tearing him in half in a bloody mist.
It happen too fast.
The world was painted red.
The cadet stood no chance.
"Zach eyes grew wet as he watched all this"
"There....there...."
His pupils shrank.
"Demons.."
Screams filled the air, a cadet spine was ripped off from his bones, dangling precariously on the monsters gnarly fingers.
The spineless cadet slumped on the floor like a noodle.
Dead.
His heart rake shot up, his hands trembled.
Cadet tried to fight off the horrors but to no avail.
This wasn't the fissure they knew.
This was a delta rank fissure now.
Zach's stomach dropped, for the frist time.
He truly felt weak.
He thought when he saw the swords men he was weak.
He thought he was weak when he saw iris.
He thought he was weak when he saw Eli.
But this.
This is true powerlessness.
[The neglected god grins]
[Monster: Death wrim.]
[????? HP]
[Rank: ?????]
[Weakness: ?????]
[Strengths: Speed, reflexes, strength, durability, perceptio, smell, intellect, flames]
[Attack potency: potent.]
[Poison type: potent]
[Existence stone drop: 2]
[Blood essence drop: 10000]
[????]