The dark cloud began to compress little by little. They could see the cloud become more solid. Suddenly, Leon began to show a confused expression.
“Oz do you see this?” Leon asked while looking attentively at the air in front of him.
‘What are you talking about, Leo? “ Oswald responded. “There is nothing in front of you.”
“I am seeing a game-like interface with a mission ad sub-missions!” Leon replied. “It looks like how they described the interfaces from the Magic Revolution Era!”
“What does it exactly say?” Oswald asked.
“It says, WORLD SYSTEM. Main Mission: Succeed Condition: Eliminate the Abyss Creature(1/1), Failure Condition: Everyone Dies. Sub-Mission 1: Eliminate the Monster in the Building(3300/3333), Sub-Mission 2: Eliminate the Rank-S Boss Monster Outside the Building(1/1), Special Condition: Only Two People Can Fight the Abyss Creature At the Time.” Leon read everything he saw on the interface. “I believe you can’t see the interface because you can’t use Magic. Get ready, Oz! The Abyss Creature is about to manifest!”
Do I need to be able to use Magical Energy to see the interface? Oswald thought. I can’t get lost in my thoughts right now!
Once the dark cloud solidified, Oswald and Leon were pushed back from the turbulent force expelled by the Abyss Creature’s body. The whole arena became covered in darkness and the duo could only see themselves, the Deus Sword, and Abyss Creature. The eye sockets on the Abyss Creature’s cow skull head started to glow violet and from its body that looked like a robe two shadow arms with claws appeared. The Abyss Creature stood there, its glowing eyes piercing through Oswald and Leon. Oswald noticed that the Abyss Creature’s left arm was gone and a moment later he felt the claws cutting through his back. He felt his blood dripping slowly through his back.
“DAMN IT!!” Oswald yelled in pain as he stepped to the side to avoid the arm.
“TAKE THIS!!” Leon fired a fireball that hit the Abyss Creature straight on, but the monster did not have a scratch on it.
“Leo, I’ll grab the Abyss Creature’s attention while you go and get the Deus Sword!” Oswald said, while shaking. “I believe you’re the only one that can unleash its power!”
“But …” Upon seeing Oswald’s determined expression, Leon nodded and took a deep breath. “I’ll start running for it once you start attacking!”
The Abyss Creature proceeded to point at Oswald with one of its claws.
“Wi … ld … Ca…rd!” Oswald could hear a demonic voice inside his head.
Wild Card? What’s that supposed to mean? Oswald thought as he approached the Abyss Creature and started to analyze its Mana Flow. Oswald could see that the Abyss Creature’s Mana Flow was connected to the dark cloud surrounding the whole arena. I hope everyone outside the arena is safe. Hannah, I know you and the others can fight, but please stay safe.
Upon seeing Oswald approaching, the Abyss Creature gathered Magical Energy and started bombarding Oswald with Shadow Balls. Oswald applied a speed self-buff to himself and began dodging the Shadow Balls as he got close to the Abyss Creature. When he got close enough to the Abyss Creature, Oswald punched it. As soon as he landed the punch, a shadow ball hit him and made him fall to the ground. The Abyss Creature used his claws to lift up Oswald from his right leg, then it proceeded to smash Oswald to the ground. Oswald could feel the pain throughout his body as the Abyss Creature continued to lift him up and smash him multiple times. Oswald kicked the Abyss Creature with his free leg using all the strength he could muster and the Abyss Creature released him from the pain it felt from the kick.
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Leon continued to run towards the Deus Sword as he moved closer to the Deus Sword, Leon noticed pillars of shadows were trying to hit him. He dodged all the pillars of shadow, but he had to take a longer route towards the Deus Sword. He could hear that Oswald was getting beat up by the Abyss Creature, so Leon was starting to get desperate and increased his speed to reach the Deus Sword faster.
Before hitting the ground, Oswald used his hands to push himself up. Oswald aimed to kick the skull head of Abyss Creature and managed to hit, cracking a bit of it. The eye sockets of the Abyss Creature began to glow a more intense violet and Oswald got away from it as fast as he could. The Abyss Creature started to attack Oswald with Shadow Balls at a higher intensity than before, throwing at a rate of 3 Shadow Balls per second. Oswald began to dodge as fast as he could, but little by little the number of Shadow Balls that hit him kept increasing.
Leon was getting closer to the Deus Sword, yet the shadow pillars were making it hard for him to reach it. Leon decided to throw a Fireball at the pillars blocking the Deus Sword. The shadow pillars disappeared after being hit by the Fireball and Leon took the opportunity to take the Deus Sword from its pedestal. As soon as Leon took out the Deus Sword and was in his hands a bright glow engulfed him.
Inside the VIP room Hannah was in panic after seeing Oswald and Leon engulfed by the dark cloud in the arena.
“OZ!! SOMEONE PLEASE HELP HIM!!” Hannah shouted. “Aria, you’re his bodyguard, so please go to the arena and save him!”
“I wish I could, but did you read the interface?” Aria said with a desperate tone. “We can just hope they can defeat that monster!”
“Nana! He’ll be fine, let's believe in him!” Amy said, hugging Hannah.
“Aurora, Hannah, Amy! Let’s go kill some monsters!” Jack said with a commanding tone. “There are monsters roaming this building, so we can help the people that can’t fight!”
“Yeah.” Hannah said. “This is the only thing we can do.”
“Take me with you!” Carmen said.
“You’re not going, Carmen!” Liliana said. “You’re staying here and helping me with the people coming into this room. You guys go and find injured people and bring them here! As Duchess Liliana Deus, it’s my responsibility to maintain order! Carmen, I know you’re worried about Oz, but I know your brother and Leon will get out of there alive!”
“Yes, Mom.” Carmen replied.
“We’ll take care of stuff outside this room!” Jack said. “Let’s go!”
“Joseph, John, and May will most likely go outside to confront the Rank-S monster, so I’ll be going there, Duchess!” Aria said.
“Good thinking, Aria! Go and help my husband!” Liliana said. “We must help as many people as we can!”
Jack, Hannah, Aurora, Amy, and Aria left the VIP room to fulfill their responsibilities. Injured people started to come into the VIP room.
“Carmen, Melanie, and Alondra, let's get going! These people need our assistance!” Liliana commanded.
As Aria approached the exit doors to the building she spotted Joseph, John , and May. Each one of them was holding a different weapon: Joseph was holding a greataxe, John was holding a spear, and May was holding a handgun. Once she reached the exit doors and looked outside, Aria could see a Red Dragon that was about 10 meters tall.
“That’s our Rank-S monster.” Joseph said, looking at Aria. “You think we can take it, Aria?”
“It doesn’t matter if we can, we must face it, sir!” Aria responded. “Your wife took charge of the people and the injured at being sent to the VIP room.”
“This is why I love her!” Joseph replied. “John, May, are you guys ready?”
“Shouldn’t we go all out from the beginning?” May asked.
“It sounds like a risky move.” John replied.
“We should be able to maintain the Deus State for at least an hour!” Joseph said. “So we should use it from the start and aim to finish before the one hour mark!”
“I still wonder why we can see System Missions all of the sudden! Last time anyone could see them was about 1500 years ago.” Aria said. “I’ll think about that later! We have a Red Dragon to kill!”
“Let’s go, John, May!” Joseph as his hair turned white and his eyes turned into a deeper shade of blue.
“It’s been awhile since we fought together!” John’s hair also turned white and his eyes turned into a deeper shade of blue.
“Here I go!” May took a deep breath and her hair slowly turned white and her eyes slowly became a deeper shade of blue.