After the battle everyone teleported back to Ultranium but suddenly
Dark clouds began to gather as Green lightning struck the ground
Crows squawked as they flew past the concluded battle
Green energy began emitting from Plague Doctors corpse and green strands from the upper body began connecting to the lowers half
Seconds later the attach together
The whaling screatch of a dying crow echoes throughout the area
When as if like Plague Doctor began to levitate as green light blinded everything briefly
Eventually it faded as it reveals Plague Doctors corpse surrounded but crows before the image of a dead crow manifest behind Plague Doctors corpse that proceeds going into him
Plague Doctors mask lenses glow green before his voice was heard
"Death Angel...Crow reanimation"
Plague Doctors cane flys towards as he catches it he descends to the ground
As he holds his cane with both hands
His body had cracks all over it
His energy was far weaker as his mask had several holes that emitted a green glow
[System prompt]
[System error system error system error]
[The individual known as Plague Doctor has used a forbidden skill]
[Requesting deletion from owner Bijen]
[...Request denied]
[Individual known as Owner Bijen has denied request]
Plague Doctor says calmly
"Ignorant and incompetent individuals such as yourselves probably didnt fathom I had such a skill"
"Oh well my power has been severely weakened so for the time being i shall lay low
Plague Doctor turns into black mist and be vanishes as the sky clears up
But his voice echoes a single message
"We shall have our rematch in the outer plains...Himetsuma Shenky"
And with those fleeting words Plague Doctor escapes
That day everyone had an unsettling feeling in there hearts
The scene cuts to a dark realm
Red symbols and coding occasionally appeared as Jagik is scene walking in this realm before a portal opens to another realm where it's was covered in green coding strands constantly moving
"Game announcer stood at the centre his digital mask covered green strands of code before he it flashed red as he turned to see Jagik happily waves at with an eerie smile across his face
Game announcer says questioningly
"Jagik im surprised you founds this place again"
Jagik responds
"Oh don't worry about that I just wanted to inform I too will be departing for the outer plains"
"The reason is?"
Jagik tilts his head as he says
"I need to begin preparations for my next big event that im sure will break some...certain individuals"
"Anyways cheerio"
Jagik went back through the portal before game announcer could say anything
Game announcer simply sighs as he says defeatedly
"That kid sure is one heck of a character"
The scene cuts to Mystery,Kogetsu,Unknown,Doshi and Shadow walking towards Forge is shop
Mystery says
"Shadow quest for you"
Shadow responds
"Hit me"
Mystery casually says
"Why didn't you accept that forbidden gods power"
Shadow stays silent as Mystery continues
"Thinks about you could have been at equal footing with that red dude if you simply accepted it"
Shadow responds
"Simple i hate easy shorts cuts to things plus I want powers I have full control...if I don't have that kind of authority over my own powers what do you think will happen to me if I fought who did"
Mystery stays silent for awhile untill Unknown cuts as he says
"Here's another question for you Shadow are yoy and Doshi dating"
Shadow and Doshi freeze in place caught off guard by Unknowns blunt question
Shadow stermers
"Well ummm"
Doshi stutters also as she plays with her fingers
"I meeeaaan"
Unknown continues
"If no why were you mentioning a female when you shouted i quote "will pay"
The two just stared away as they continued to stutter
"Well...I mean...you probably miss heard"
Unknown tilts his head as he says
"But i never miss heard we can even review my mem–"
Unknown is suddenly hit on the head by Mystery as he says
"We're hear so cut it out"
Unknown rubs his head as he says
"Right right right"
Shadow and Doshi release a sigh of relief as they walk into the store
Shadow looks around in surprise as Doshi catches and says questioningly
"Is this the first time your coming hear?"
"Right i forgot yor still technically a player but...that also means your broke"
Shadow flinches as he dejectedly staresat the ground and says
"Don't remind me"
Doshi snaps her fingers as if remembering something
"Oh right what happened to the money Tendo rewarded us all"
"Didn't he give us 100 million gold coins"
Shadow suddenly goes blank as he says with clear anger
"Shedoden took all of my money!"
As he shouted those words everyone in the store went silent before everyone even Doshi erupted in laughter
Kogetsu says
"Imagine being robbed by your own body Ahahahah"
Mystery says
"Honestly that's just unfortunate for you"
After a while everyone calmed down as Mystery wrapped his arm Shadow and says
"Lets make a deal you ask me what you need and I buy it for you then you owe me a favor"
Shadow immediately responds
His voice flat
"Hard pass...I hate deals and I also hate owing people favors"
Mystery lets go as he says casually
"Alright if thats how your gonna be fine with me"
Shadow thought
"What would I even need from this store"
As if reading his mind Doshi says
"Don't you want to find out how to separate from Shedoden"
Shadow's eyes widen as he remembers and says
"You're right but I think ill go to the library for that"
Suddenly Unknown flashes infront of him and with a eager tone
"If knowledge is what you need then you can come with me to the forbidden library"
Shadow tilts his head in confusion as he says
"Forbidden library?"
Unknown backs up as he says
"Right you have no clue on the forbidden library"
"Well its one of the mainy places in the Axior game that classified as a high ranking domain to the passive curse it has"
"Wait curse?"
Unknown waves his hand in a dismissive gesture as he says
"Oh don't worry its just whispers of the library that tells a random fact from one the books"
"Oh ok"
"So yeah its settled you'll be coming with me to the forbidden library"
"Sure sounds good"
Unknown then walks as Shadow walks towards the counter to where forge as he stood face to face with him as he smiles and says
"So I'm guessing you're Forge?"
Forge stays silent just staring at him as he sees flashes of Jagik smiling before he says
"Yeah im forge need anything"
"Well not yet but in the future I might"
Forge smiles as he says
"Looking forward to it"
Shadow was then grabbed by Unknown as he says
"Time to go see all of you in the one hundred years"
Shadow waves goodbye before it clicked what unknown just said
"Wait what One hundred years but I–"
Before Shadow could finish he and Unknown dissappear in the blink of an eye
Mystery stretches as he turns to walk out the door when he came face to someone he hadn't seen in a while
A main wearing glasses and a blue suit with a red tie
It was Jeremy as Mystery says
"Wait Jeremy"
Jeremy scratches the back of his head in embarrassment as he says
"Oh hey Mystery im surprised you remembered me this hows it been"
"Oh its been great and how about you"
"Oh I've been doing well but I just wanted to make some business with forge as all"
"Right well it was nice seeing you again"
Mystery steps a side and walks out then Kogetsu teleports away
Jeremy walks to forge as he says
"Hey forge its been a while"
Forge smiles as he says
"Yeah its been a while hows managing the time breaker brigades"
"Oh its been fun but I really don't like the feel of time and space crushing my body so that was a new experience"
"Well are you going somewhere else now"
"Oh yes im actually going to work at the imperial golden empire now"
"Heh that should be fun"
"Yeah perhaps well I just came to ask buy a truth scanners,equinox fusion core and a black vortex business suit"
"Right ill have them delivered to you"
Jeremy bows gratefully as he leaves through the store doors
The scene cuts to Shadow who is now reading a black covered book as he murmured to himself he began thinking
"Hey Guidance you don't need to say anything but I just wanted to thanks for everything you've done and what you'll do in the future so yeah"
"Another thing I plan to get stronger since the peaceful life i wanted will never come true due a certain person...I decided if I want peace ill have to..."
Before he could finish it cut to Mystery who is flying across space passing Jupiter as he enters a wormwhole
he thinks
"Its been about 2 years since I came to this world and I still have forgotten what I said"
As he thought of this Remembers the moment he promised to become the strongest
"Instead of a promise..."
It cuts to Kogetsu to who is seen fighting clones of himself as he jumps back it cuts to Unknown reading a completely white book as it cuts back to Shadow as he says
"I promised no i..."
It pans to all four of them as there eyes glow with determination as they all say
At the same time
"I VOW TO BECOME STRONGER AND REACH THE TOP!"
Everything then black as the scene reveals as white space when it cuts to the backbof some head who's sitting on a black chair
The person had pale white skin,curly green,blue brown hair as it cuts to the side of there's mouth
When the sound of the four making they're vow was heard by the person as they smiled and it became pitch black when the person's voice sounding like a man echoed
"Interesting"
End of chapter 22:VOW
End of volume 1:Beginning of a new age