Chapter 5: Cheating..?
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SH-ACK!!!
GWWOOOO-...
My mouth uttered an unpleasant groan in the afterlife.
The claws, the claws have already made its way. My eyes blackened the moment my head departed away from my body. Mercurion's golden body, the sand tsunami, they were quickly devoured by the darkness. The feeling of having a whole body, gone in a flash.
... I didn't even have the chance to feel the pain.
The death was instantaneous. It came to me too fast, even my neural network couldn't transmit the pain to the brain immediately.
My body didn't have a chance- My chest, my limbs, everything went zero.
It didn't have a slight resistance, the augmented armor that I wore didn't even stop it from hitting my flesh.
I was like a damned butter in front of a heated knife. His claws were too powerful. Too damn powerful.
... Ahh, what a waste of second time!! DAMN.
The moment I discovered I was really transported to another world, was also the moment when I met my end. My life was short lived.
I guess Death is inevitable in both worlds..? I mean, in my former world, I will be living the rest of my week in starvation if my neighbors wouldn't be donating me any food at all. Well. There are chances they would be donating me some food. But. I doubt about it. They are not as good as the Samaritans of the Bible, so, therefore, my chances of death are at peak and there would be no other options than to pray and hope the week would pass by faster than what your stomach acid could do to your body.
Something like these doesn't often happen in Another World Novels, right? But... Why? Why did it happen to me?
No. It wasn't my fault. It wasn't literally my fault.
... I concur... This guy. This son of a bitch that killed me, who has the appearance of a mightly jet-winged lizard had a damn terrifying sense of hearing.
I didn't think they could be easily called over with just mere sound of numerous explosions. I thought I would be needing more than a god damn explosion.
Come to think of it.
The moment Mercurion and Chelone were having a business of their own, the sound of their battle attracted a lot of monsters that led to a massive group battle.
So which means... It was THAT thing's fault?
Yeah. That wasn't my fault. My only fault was I couldn't run faster than this dragon.
It is an obvious result, ground motherfuckers are way slower than ones in the air. Therefore, death is inevitable if you were to be chased by something like a flying lizard that has jet thrusters for wings. But that doesn't mean it was my fault entirely.
It's the system's fault. The reason why I fucking died, it was this god damn system's odd functions. The entire of it.
Since I didn't know the cursed Ammunition Delivery would work like that, being an airstrike in disguise.
Well due to this... THIS. Cursed airstrike. Or much appropriate term. THANKS TO THIS ACCURSED AIRSTRIKE. It attracted this son of a fucking golden flying lizard. The explosives that F-22 Raptors sent flying, they were the ones that called this damned Golden Dragon into my position! If the F-22 Raptors didn't come, and instead of a whole Airforce convoy- a plain munition drop- Mercurion wouldn't appear!
I WOULDN'T HAVE DIED!
FUUUCK-... Uh..?
Hang on, why I could still think? Wasn't I dead?
Human brain systems shouldn't last this long after being dismembered. I think you have at least one second worth of time before it shuts down. Completely. But it's been a while, I have been talking to myself for a quite long time already. This is odd.
Hm..?
This is really weird!
Why I could open my eyes?
Am I not dead?
With the uprising curiosity, I slowly opened my eyes...
Everything was bloody, nightmarish, it was traumatizing to the point I would even squirm into depths of conscience.
I could've puked the moment I came in contact with a... Bloodied organ.
But I couldn't. One of the perks of being dead, I assume? Yeah. As if you could be nauseated from this scenery without a brain.
Everything that transpired was real. I really have died.
The place I stood in was full of blood, all four of my limbs were dismembered and half of them were smashed into minced meat, my head... I shouldn't mention it...
The beautiful girl- no.
The character I created... She... Dammnit. I feel, really... Sorry... I feel really sorry. Even though it is me, it wasn't my body. It was just a character created by me.
... I wonder what the girl would feel if she had a life of her own and one day she got forcibly controlled by me...
Would she condemn me for leading her to her demise eternally?
... That is no doubt, a normal conclusion. Even I would despise the one who forcibly led me to my own demise. It's a damned common sense.
Though. I am not yet dead.
What is happening in here?
I could've sworn- NO. It is already a fact I have died. I shouldn't be able to see anything other than total darkness.
Mercurion, as it may be, is still standing over there. Breathing heavily as if he was exhausted, looking at the blood bath with contemptuous eyes, directly straight to my dismembered body. It was as if he knew something was wrong.
Mercurion staying here means something. After all, I am just a lowly human and there are thousands of monsters that are much more worthy of being slain.
Then suddenly, a window appeared right in front of my eyes. I was right.
Something was wrong, and it was answered by this!
RESPAWNING IN THIS PLACE AFTER 10 SECOND(S).
Respawn time is increased by 5 seconds * current rank for every death. Do you want to respawn immediately by paying 5,000 War Points? (Warning, exhaustion will be multiplied the moment you respawn.
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... Res-
RESPAWN!?
Warning, you will be respawning within 3 second(s).
What!?
THE.
HELLLL!!?!
I HAVE THIS KIND OF-
CHEAT!?
0 second has been reached. Respawning...
Suddenly, the dismembered body of my character and the blood she released turned into white particles. The same as when I achieved the blueprint of the Boeing C-17 Globemaster III. Mercurion, even though I could only see his claws from this point of view, I saw him visibly shudder from the happening.
What the hell, I thought I was dead for sure!? But, respawn?!
Really!?
This...
IS DEFINITELY CHEATING!
The white particles in which came from my character's body ascended up to the skies and after reaching a certain height, they entwined together and formed up a humanoid shape. This continued for a while until they have completely recreated my character's appearance along with her equipment.
My point of view was suddenly transferred to the eyesight of my newly created character. I was no longer floating around.
The feeling of having your body back after losing it is quite odd. The neutrons that have been absent all the time came to me instantly at the same time, granting my body a short stasis of paralysis.
Well, I am not surprised.
They contain electricity and... If they were added all together and came to your body at the same time, that was enough to send you paralyzed in the ground for a while.
Shit.
I felt like I got shot by a taser again. This brought me the reminiscence of my rat past is coming back onto me!
That damned Taser, if it weren't for that shitty taser, I couldn't have been caught. I could've been living my life in peace, without any problems at all! Even more, I would've had my own cellphone. I would've been working at a fancy office rather than staying outside, under the bathing of the afternoon sun. Everything would've been better if it weren't for tasers.
And before I curse further to the damned taser.
I was already respawned. With the same state of the body before I was dismembered into pieces by Mercurion's claws. The gun was already held by my character when I came to be.
But of course, Mercurion did not have a pleasant look.
"GWOOOOOAAAR!!!"
Mercurion released a horrifying roar, and while I was still in a damned stasis of short paralysis. He raised his leg and-
He stomped onto me.
BOOOOOOOM!~!
With. Fucking. Full. Force. And it wasn't all, he wasn't satisfied with the stomp, he leaped up high into the skies and charged up his draconic flames, though it was different from the draconic flames he released into the Domain pests earlier. It has a more distinctive shape and size.
More like...
A god damn concentrated fireball!!!
He then released that fireball into my position which got horribly flattened into just a pool of blood and completely disintegrated my body. It erupted into the skies with great intensity- rivaling that of the sun's luminescence.
I watched all of that scene unfold.
Without feeling even the slightest pain.
Damn. This is my second time dying.
With that being said, the window for respawning appeared again. This time, it was 15 seconds. Though the wait time was shorter than expected.
The occurrence relapsed again right in front of my eyes, I was respawned and immediately paralyzed due to the instantaneous arrival of my senses to their places inside my body.
Mercurion did not have the second thought and killed me again, but this time, it was more brutal.
I was directly torched with his searing draconic flames.
I didn't feel any pain from it since I got obliterated before I even had contact with the body of the flames. He kept releasing the draconic flames even after nothing remained in place.
And again. After respawning, getting paralyzed. I died by Mercurion's hands.
It repeated.
Over, and over.
... And over. And every time I respawn, the methods he uses worsens.
From just stomping, to complete annihilation. It keeps on going.
Until I reached the respawn time of 2 minutes. I even used my War Points to respawn the moment Mercurion left... But.
I didn't think the fucking Stasis would last for two minutes! Until Mercurion arrived, I couldn't do anything but lay down still..!
AGHHH!- What is this bullshit paralysis!?
Hang on, did I just waste my ONLY WAR POINTS FOR NAUGHT!? AGHHHHHH!!!
I kept dying! OVER, AND OVER!!!
I. AM. SO. TIRED. OF. THIS!!!
Mercurion would leave from his spot after killing me and would come back after I respawned. Like, he already knew the pattern of my respawn. Every time I die, 5 seconds would be added to my Respawn Timer...
He would always come back in time, even coming back with a dead Domain monster on his talons. He would kill me in the worst possible ways, and always not letting anything intact, even an inch of blood would be left obliterated to his flames. Hell, not even a speck of my ashes!
This is so frustrating.
Have he know chivalry!? I am just a plain, ordinary human!!!
A powerless human!!!
GAAAAAHH!!!! LEARN YOUR PLACE, YOU FUCKIN' DRAGON!!! I SWEAR TO SHOOT YOU IF IT WEREN'T FOR THIS PARALYSIS.
I SWEAR TO GOD, IF I EVER GOTTEN THE POWER THAT IS FAR MORE STRONGER THAN YOU, EVEN IF IT ONLY LASTS ONE SECOND, I WILL FUCKIN' SKEWER YOU ALIVE!
STOP! IT!
LOOK- MY CHARACTER LOOKS PITIFUL RIGHT NOW!
GOD DAMMNIT, STOPPPP!!!!
STOOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPP
...
I have been continuously dying for... 15... Cursed. Hours.
More precisely, my respawn time became one hour. For the whole 15 hours, he kept camping me and killing me non-stop.
He would actually waste a fricking time on killing someone like me.
A god-like monster like him!
And right now, I have respawned. From the ashes.
The sun has already risen. The desolate temperature is coming back to my senses right now, I have longed to survive... Survive for more than a second after getting respawned.
The same process occurred to my body, I was immediately placed on paralyze the moment my Perspective was transferred to my reconstructed body. I am now currently in the ground, waiting for my paralysis to wear off, which would after two minutes of waiting.
I doubt about Mercurion coming back on time since... He was a tad a bit late the last time I respawned. I mean like, 5 minutes late.
I managed to run a few steps before Mercurion caught me and killed me with six concentrated fireballs. He is that merciless... Though, I just noticed this.
I think he is getting tired of killing me... I mean, his actions became slower and slower, his expression became stiff and seemingly bored whenever he faces me.
Heck, Mercurion even slept for the entire hour until I respawned and... Killed by a slash of his claw and obliterated by his draconic flames.
Though he doesn't seem to be happy from killing me.
It seems like, he is losing something else?
Maybe that, or I am just imagining things.
... Haha, how could I even distinguish expression on that armored head of his? I mean, his face looked ominous and edgy, he looked like the King of Monsters. Heck, I would even bow down myself in his presence if it weren't for this... Consecutive SPAWN KILLING!
I no longer see the King of Monsters in him, when he was fighting Chelone yesterday, I thought he was very cool and mighty. I thought he was the coolest Dragon I've seen in my entire life, the golden armor, the crown-like halo, jet thrusters for wings. He is god damn cool.
But now...
I can only see the face of a mindless monster that kills anything that moves.
And another funny thing, other than the mindless dragon, Mercurion. He actually unearthed a labyrinth below just from killing me. I am right now, laying down in an exposed labyrinth hall which seemed to be 200 hundred meters down.
I couldn't even see the sun from this angle, but I know, the sun has already risen due to the sparkling vibrant colors being painted on the skies.
Also... This isn't a piece of bad news for me.
Instead of worrying about being unable to see the surface, I am actually relieved Mercurion unearthed a labyrinth hall.
Within the end of the hallway... my safety is guaranteed...
If I could just move away from here.
I will never die again.
PING! The sound of my body becoming responsive came about to my mind. It has been two minutes since I have been respawned, so I could move now.
Though, moving seems to be harder than usual. Maybe it was because of that..?
Yeah. That. The consecutive dying.
Due to 15 hours of dying and laying down, I wasn't able to get a grasp of my body and lost the feeling of it, so at most, I could control my body less efficient than what I could do.
But that won't stop me from running away.
I will escape from this infinite cycle of dying!
I leaned onto the walls of the labyrinth for support, and weakeningly walked to the end of the labyrinth...
But it seems...
"GROAAAAAAAAARR!!!!"
Nothing's gonna save me now...
He went back faster than what I expected.
BOOOOOOM! BOOOM! BOOOM!!!
My body turned into nothing after coming in contact with the familiar flames. Literally.
The labyrinth hall collapsed, my only way of escape... Was entirely blocked.
And the waiting game repeats itself.
... And after an hour, after I got respawned.
I was expecting to die, but I didn't expect this to happen.
Mercurion patiently waited for me to respawn the whole time. After my body finished reconstructing, my perspective returning and getting a stasis of two minutes, he suddenly grabbed me and looked at me deeply. His draconic eyes shimmering brightly right in front me. My silhouette is visibly shuddering from my visible reflection on his eyes.
It wasn't me that's being scared... Pfft, why would I be scared?
I died numerous times, there's nothing to be scared of!
I swear it's not me but...
It was actually my avatar. The avatar I created just for aesthetic purposes.
She's having her own emotions... What the hell...
She is me, why is she having emotions!? This doesn't make any sense.
And just in case I didn't tell you from the start, the paralysis time was for my soul to get a grasp on my body.
... So which means...
THIS GIRL IS ALIVE!!?!?!
HOLY SHIT!?
Mercurion just held me and examined me as if he is CURIOUS about my respawning ability. Nothing happened until I finally got out of the paralysis state.
"Human..."
"Who are you..?"
Mercurion spoke...
I instantly felt chills running down my spine the moment I heard his voice.