HP - 2098/98875321 - WARNING
The world was aflame.
[ BUFF ENABLED - HOLINESS BLESSING ]
I had come too far. There was too much, to even consider losing.
[ BUFF ENDED - PEACH OF IMMORTALITY]
Yet time was running out.
HP 1023/98875321
I could not get hit. I was so close.
[ UNIQUE SKILL ACTIVATED - ULTIMATE PRESTIGE SUMMONS OF A THOUSAND BLADE STORM ]
I could not feel my arms as they delivered blow after blow. I could not feel my chest as it rasped and struggled. I could not feel my last drops of consciousness drip away.
All there was, was Magnamartis.
Magnamartis The Despoiler Category - WORLD BOSS
Difficulty - SSS+ ULTIMATE DIVINE DEITY HP - 897623101230123 / 1612390712396923
My skills formed a crashing wave of light that broke upon him. The golden giant did not flinch, his unceasing great cleaving sweeps shook the earth where they touched. Our arena crumbled further apart.
HP - 476/98875321
I lowered my blade. Felt its weight. Saw the faces of the dead. My friends, my enemies, children and the old.
All had perished in this VRMMO, their loved ones cradling a body in the real world with a mind boiled by the VR headset that wore it.
My vision was gone, swallowed by the darkness encroaching upon the edges. My ears were ringing until I could hear nothing.
All that remained was knowledge of the inevitable.
"Boom"
His first attack stage. His pattern had reset.
TICK
My feet began to run.
TICK
The air seared with red beams of energy. An unavoidable attack.
I did not count, did not breathe, did not think. There was only the -
TICK
[ UNIQUE SKILL ACTIVATED - MIRACLE PROVIDENCE [[[- INVINCIBILITY- SS+ ]]] ]
A microsecond of invincibility and the energy failed upon my skin.
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Mantis like golden minions emerged from under his plates. Their huge scythes missed me over and over by a hairs breadth as my body bent and swayed.
I could hear the music of it all. And so I danced.
TICK
My sword carried sweet high notes of destruction, unmaking of things most evil.
Waves of monsters cascaded on me and I launched myself into them, and through.
TICK
HP - 68/98875321
I was level with the eye of Magnamartis. Huge, all encompassing, gushing with mana.
[ UNIQUE SKILL ACTIVATED - DIVINE MANA FLAME ]
My sword was engulfed in roaring red flame.
I closed myself from reality, and let all my mana flow into the blade. Red became blue, blue became nothing.
It wasn't enough.
More. I needed MORE!
My entire being shook violently but I did not let go of my blade even as it warped and cracked.
TICK
One moment, I was sailing through the air. The next I was scraping my sword against his immense cleaver, deflecting it by only but a micron. It was enough.
I plunged my sword deep into Magnamartis's eye.
Nothing happened.
My heart dropped, cold fear made me open my eyes. The music was lost to me.
NO!
The last dregs of my mana left me for my blade, and I looked up to see the light blotted out by a wall of monsters, the claw of the closest was so large in my eye, I knew it was over.
I felt the game crackle and fizz, walls of pure logic and pixel heaving and spitting.
Was I already dead? Was this the end all my friends had seen?
"CRACK!"
Then opaque turned to white, and white, it grew and grew.
"BOOOM"
The roar of light consumed everything.
I opened my eyes to find myself standing alone in the arena of stone.
I looked at my hands, then at the walls, unseeing.
"Hahahahahaha!" A laugh permeated the field. I looked around, no one. It was my own.
HP - 9/9887532
I couldn't stop laughing. Tears of joy or pain or I know not rolled down my face even as I fell to the ground.
It was so close. I gripped dirt from the earth and clenched it to me it was the most amazing thing.
I had calculated correctly. Surpassing the maximum mana density had achieved an exponential damage modifier.
I felt tears on my face, my legs giving way.
LEVEL UP 99 -> 100 MAX LEVEL REACHED
Acquired
+ 1 x Armour of Magnamartis [ IMMORTAL TIER ]
+ 1 x Cleaver of Magnamartis [ IMMORTAL TIER ] Expand ... Title Aquired [ Saviour of humanity ]
* Slay Magnamartis and free the denizens of Sword Dance VRMMO to return to their lives.
Title Aquired [ The Chosen One ]
* Slay Magnamartis a solo player.
"Status!"
Name Zach "The Chosen" Age 16 Level 100 Titles
Last Hope
Harbinger
Arbiter
Blade Emperor
Savior of humanity
The Chosen One
…
Skills
Reality Shatter [ TIER - SS+ ]
Miracle Providence [ TIER - SS+ ]
Mana Flame [ Tier - ERROR?! ]
…
Classes
Arcanist Tier [MAX]
Warrior Mage [MAX]
...
I smiled to myself. I had done it. All the pain, all the sacrifice, all the loss—it had finally led to this. And now… now it was over.
With a trembling hand, I opened the menu. There, at the bottom, where it had once been greyed out, taunting us for so many years, was the Log Out button.
My finger hovered over the button for a long moment.
“Are you sure you wish to exit Sword Dance VRMMO?”
I took a deep breath. The weight of everything hung heavy in the air, but I knew what I had to do.
“Yes,” I whispered, closing my eyes.