I bashed a rat with my flail, sending it's flesh flying in the air. I bashed and bashed but the rat showed no signs of dying
"Just die f*cking damn it! I yelled and continued bashing at the rat
Within my last strike its head flew off but the rat still did not stop attacking me. At this point I shouldn't call it a rat
I kicked it away and made a run for it
"Skreee!!!" Several shrills came from behind me
"Sh*t!"
'How did I even get into this mess' I grit my teeth and fastened my pace
It's not like I suddenly puked and alarmed all of the rats of my arrival, did I?
I reached the entrance of the intersection and continued running. My head turned to stare at my back, the rats are still chasing after me
I gripped my flail and did a sudden stop, I raised my flail and brought it down to one of the rats
It shrieked in suprise but it was too late to dodge, its momentum carried it to its doom
The rat's head go splat as it made contact with my flail, bits of flesh got splattered into my face, making me narrow my eyes in disgust
"Skreee!!!" The other rat didn't stop to look at its fallen comrade and shrilled at me
It leaped into the air and raise its claws towards me while I did the same with my flail
I swing and it missed the rat's body by inches!
"F*ck!" I cursed and tried to grab the rat before it reached my face
"Aaaaaackkkkkkk!!!!! I managed to grab the rat but it bit me as soon as I did, I dropped the rat as a reflex and it tried to climb up in my legs
I shaked it off but it clung onto me with its claws, "Go die!" I yelled and grabbed the rat again
It shrilled and bite my leg, forcing me to stumble to the ground. It then continued to crawl onto me while I desperately tried to get it off
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Finally, I managed to take hold of it before it could bite me again. I threw it against the floor and bashed it with my flail
The rat shrieked while I continued bashing
"Die! Die! Die! Die..." Then after only countless strikes, the rat fnally went down
I exhaled a short breath, that had been tiring and uttterly disgusting. I wiped my face and stared at my blood covered hands
If other people saw what I did, what would have they think? I don't exactly like killing... something, but can that thing really be considered as anything ?
I'm not even sure if those things count as alive... They were afterall still alive even if one of their heads flew off
"Weird gelatin monsters and now zombie rats?" This couldn't get anymore tiring
I haven't got a lot of time to think as something suddenly appeared infront of me
[You have killed a lvl 5-9 'Maggosite' x6! Experience +140, first time experience +100 bonus points}
[Leveled up! lvl 0 > lvl 1]
"F*CK!!!" I stumbled in suprise as two blue screens appeared infront of me
I tried to swipe at it with my flail but my weapon just phased through it like nothing
"The f*ck is this!?" This time I used my hands to swipe at the screens
I felt nothing. Just solid sir. It was a weird experience and I wanted to observe it more but then the screens changed
[Experience]
Lvl 1 "Samantha Alloy"
Exp: 60/1000
(Needed 940 experience for the next level
"Experience? Le-levels...? What?" I stand back to my feet, these sounded familiar....
But then I remembered "Levels..."
Game...! It's like a game! Was I stuck inside a game all this time!? That explains the weird creatures I've been seeing!
Hope rushed inside of me. Game! Haha it was all a game!
...But how do I log out?
'Maybe if I swipe it some more it would show me something? Or if I do tha-'
"Sk...r.. ee...!" A short but loud shrill put me out of my thoughts
I looked around, already gripping my flail "Eh- ah! the rat! It's still alive!"
My eyes widened, The rat I smashed its head of! It's stil alive...! It limped towards me at a pace of a snail, 'I need to kil-'
Oh wait that's right! Maybe I could forcefully log out if I tried killing myself? That could work...
A dangerous thought eroded my mind. Yes.. it would do... just need to get... closer
I stopped. Huh? What am I thinking? What if it doesn't wor-
'Kill yourself'
Yes.
I walked towards the limping rat while dropping my flail, I picked the rat up by its tail and let its claws scratched my chest
"Akhhhkkk!?" The sharp pain made me drop the rat
It fell next to my foot and it weakly scratched my shoe
'Kill yourself'
"What...?" I clutched my head, my sight became hazy while my mind is tingling. I staggered a few steps backwards but I managed to balanced my self
"Sh*t!" I bit my lip and slapped myself
I kicked away the rat that started to limp its way at me again, it got knocked to the wall and a screen appeared infront of me
[You have killed a lvl 5 and lvl 6 'Maggosite' x2! Experience +150] The screen entailed
Although it had said I killed it, the rat is still twitching
'Kill yourself' A voice whispered into my ear but I ignored it
"Maggosite? What a weird name..." It was definitely weird... and why is there times 2 when there's only one-!
A drip of cold sweat fells down my back
I immediately rushed to check my whole body, using my hand to the places my eyes couldn't see
I felt my heart gripped when my land touched something solid at tke back of my neck
'KILL YOURSELF'
'KILL YOURSELF'
'KILL YOURSEL-!'
I ripped it out and blood splurted immediately, I covered it momentarily with my other hand and look at what I had ripped out
It was... a worm
A scene played in my mind, the one where I saw a tiny bunch of worms crawling out of a rats body
I shivered "Disgusting!" Then I squashed the worm
[You have killed a lvl 9 'Maggosite'! Experience +90]
I exhaled right after seeing the screen
"What the f*ck was that!?" Some kind of mind f*cking? How is that possible!???
All of this was impossible! The rat should have died when its head got smashed or flew off! They're not cockroaches right!?
I stared at the screen. Right this was a game, calm down
I inhaled a deep breath and forced myself
to calm down, I then looked for my flail and head back to the restroom
I have achieved my goal, no need to stay here for long. I found a way to return....
Somewhat, but all games have an end goal right?
I stared at the cave with a grin. So do I need to escape from this cave or conquer it?