/Hostiles listing: 456./
I shoot the three on the right, throwing a fusion grenade to the right.
screams can be heard.
/Hostiles listing: 451/
Dodging a hound coming from the right, I shoot it in the head. Reload.
/Hostiles listing: 450/
An enemy rushes at me from behind cover with a knife I grab his hand.
/Hostiles listing: 450. 1 Uplink found. Rehost Y/N?/
*Y*
I feel the world whirl, then I stab the enemy in front of me with the knife, shooting the 3 who were running towards me with a smiling face
/Hostiles listing: 446/
As I am about to continue, I feel an impact and everything goes black
/Uplink lost….Host returned to main terminal./
Fuck...I got sniped…
/Searching for new uplink…. Searching/
...And so… I lie in my restraints in the run down facility…
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I am in no danger here… just boredom…
...Sigh.. My tubes are itching…
...How many years has it been…?
...How many centuries have we waged this war?....
/...Uplink found/
/Rehost Y/N?/
...Here we go again… *Y*
*Long, long time later*
“I did it!”
After ten years of painstakingly scouring the world after defeating the Demon lord, I have finally collected the rest of the shards.
“Hehe… Who would have thought that the shard necklace that the Demon lord wore would take me to such a long journey… But just looking at this… I can feel all my hard work repaid.”
It is a transfer orb, a really old one… I am not entirely sure to where, but I am sure it will be unlike anything I have ever seen before.
“...Eh?”
Releasing mana to the transfer orb I expect to be moved to its target… But nothing happens…
“Fuck.. It must be still missing something..” Maybe there was a part missing inside too?
“Well, no matter! I can still use a tracking spell on it! [Track].”
I watch with satisfaction as a transparent white line appears from the orb, pointing to a direction.
And so, I depart. To find the target…
*Much later*
...The Orb lead me to a strange cave… hidden under an iron ground… under an iron hole…
...It lead me to a strange steel and smooth solid gray stone temple with unnatural lights on the roof that emit no fire nor magic…
...As I carefully move through the cursed temple with my sword at the ready, I arrive to a broken gate into a large room…
...In it, at the center I can see a horrific sight
...A woman with mummified skin, with a metal face… her arms have been cut off.. hanging upside down… attached to the roof with veins….
Her head moves a little… I think she is looking at me… but without eyes…
...There are no eyes…
Suddenly I feel the Orb hot in my hand...
...Looking at it more closely, a strange text appears on its surface…
/UPLINK FOUND/