ACTIVATE SPECIAL SKILL? [YES] [NO]
Huh? I was not dead yet? And why was the server asking me about some special skill?
“Uh…? Alright I guess?” I said.
ACTIVATING SPECIAL SKILL: TIME REVERSAL
YOUR BODY HAS BEEN REVIVED TO A STATE PRIOR TO 2 MINUTES
I felt energy surging through me. I looked down at my chest, the wound was healing by itself. This was some uncanny ability. I shuddered at the thought of a creature who had such an overpowered skill for giving away. The Higher Being was a beast of a whole another level.
“Kill him” A voice whispered in my head. I grabbed my head in agony. An excruciating pain surged through my body.
“I have activated Clause Number 3 of our contract.
YOU SHALL ABIDE BY MY ORDERS WHENEVER I ASK YOU TO KILL/DESTROY SOMEONE/SOMETHING.”
Dammit the Higher Being was messing with my head.
“And remember”, the voice whispered again, “If you fail to kill him, you will die according to our deal, so I wish you all the best.”
I kind of scoffed at it, stood up, wiped the blood off my forehead ( I hurt it when I fell down, OUCH! ), willed for Excalibur to appear and readied myself.
I again looked at my surroundings, the masked man was just in front of, he was talking to someone using a comm device.
“Yeah, there was a strangler here. Yes I took care of him. Yes I am securing the item. Yes sir, ye- WHAT THE HELL!?” He yelped in surprise as I jumped him, but his reflexes were extraordinary, he managed to get out of the way with just a minor graze on his arm.
He again spoke into the phone, “No sir there is no problem, just tying up some loose ends”, he hung up the phone. Then removed his mask. I felt like I had seen him somewhere before.
Then it came to me in a flash. The blonde leader, this was the same guy! But what was he doing here? Why did he attempt to murder me ( well he actually did )? This all seemed too suspicious.
“You were not dead?” he tried to sound nonchalant, but a minor tint of uneasiness had crept into his voice. He again took out his weapon. It was a long, sharp and thin blade. It looked like one of those swords which kids in the fencing club used back in my school days.
“Now that you have seen me in my true colours I can’t let you live anymore”. He said.
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I mentally cringed at his lines. Could this guy get anymore cliché, it seemed like he was living the part of a fantasy anime villain.
“What colours?” I asked. He looked confused for a moment, then his face cleared and he smirked.
“Oh I revealed more than I was supposed to, doesn’t matter, you are going to die anymore”, Damn, that dude was like, reading this shit off some traditional manga tropes, next he would reveal his entire plans to me.
“Well I wanted somebody to know my true self. Since you would die anyway I would like you to hear what I was doing just now", he rambled on. Just like I told you.
I made a silent note to myself. Please dear Game Master, pick some fucking better dialogues next time.
YOUR FEEDBACK HAS BEEN ACCEPTED
Huh?
CHANGING PLOT IMMEDIATELY.
The guy in front of me started distorting like he was some sort of video game glitch.
"Well scratch that", he said, "I undertake these sorts of job just because I am fond of seeing blood spill", he was talking so fast it was barely possible to understand what he was saying. It was like somebody had pressed down on his fast forward button.
"I wanted all the spoils for myself, all this gold lying here, waiting to be claimed, you know this alone could make me a billionaire", he started laughing in a crazed tone. Seems like he had a few screws loose up there. But something was wrong, I felt like the entire space around me was distorting, it was like someone was trying to change tabs ( what's up with the weird analogies? ).
The dude kept on rambling. I was starting to get disgusted with that guy, he then started to talk in a crazy tone about the girl I saw earlier, he started to sexualize her in a truly outrageous way.
"And the way her body moves when she wears the combat suit I buy her, MY GOD!, she looks like a goddess, of course they are combat clothes for a different type of battle, if you know what I mean, eh?" He then again laughs in that crazy way of his.
"Oh and the way she lau- Huh?" He saw a pool of blood fly in front of him and his world started turning upside down.
"You disgust me, you piece of scum", I looked at him or his bodiless head which I just detached with a clean swipe of my sword.
"Die", I mouthed at him.
He also disintegrated in pieces of light, but it was black this time and His heart was all that remained, it was black in colour, so black that the blood it pumped was also black. I almost threw up when I realised it was still beating.
"Tch, you killed him, things were just starting to get interesting boy," A voice resonated in my head, but this was not the voice which I heard earlier. This was some other person altogether.
"Who are you?" I asked tentatively, something about this person was definitely dangerous.
"You poor lost child, you don't know who I am? What are these kids even taught these days, I am Osiris, the God of the Underworld and The Judge Of the Dead, one of the five Higher Deities", his voice was filled with authority and commanded my full attention.
"The armour you are wearing right now, it belongs to me", he said, I looked down, the hole which was formed by the sword had already disappeared.
"The only reason that man was able to pierce your armour was because I had personally blessed him and chosen him, now you have killed him would you like to form a contract with me?" He asked.
I shuffled my feet uncomfortably, "Er... well the thi-".
"NO!", he cut me off, "It is better to discuss these things in person so, first take care of this stage's boss, then we shall speak".
Shit! I had forgotten that I was in middle of a quest.
The deep growling I had heard earlier resurfaced. A large and tawny beast appeared from the end of the room. It had a large head shaped like a bull's and body of a man. It was at least 8 feet tall.
It was the Minotaur, the Greek monster who dwelled in the heart of the labyrinth.