Unknown POV
Two figures stand over a map of the hole world before zooming in on a giant continent filled with rainforests, savannahs, deserts, mountains and lakes. Zooming further it skips over the inland sea of Dasc to the north-western coast past the northern mountain range to an archipelago of islands just of the coast. Landing on the biggest island it zooms in onto an abandoned school well not abandoned anymore. A strange variety of monster’s tear through an army of goblins and the ones who are slaughtered rise up to attack their brethren.
Two figures stand over the map a hooded skeleton face palming and a woman dressed in golden robes with a giant fedora that covers everything but a malicious smile. She giggles sadistically watching the genocide of the last true goblins. She always held a strong genocidal hatred of these poor gremlins. Walking over to her Skelly puts a hand on her shoulder and points out two dead bodies that are slowly being turned to ash with her holy blade following close behind after his new master. Shrugging she grabs his hand and pulls him out of the room, accidently popping his entire arm off, shaking his head he follows.
Pix’s POV
After watching Kacper’s unconscious body fall from the sky she walks up to him. Shaking his body and pulling his grey hoodie, which is tainted with a slightly deeper red colour, deciding to ignore it she slaps him a few times. After a while of beating him without any effects not even a bleeding nose or a bruise on his cheek she stops. Letting him go, he falls to the ground smacking his head on the metal creating a loud metallic ringing noise throughout the blue void. She sits down next to him and crosses her legs as she keeps on poking his face.
As a figure starts materialising in front of her a familiar hooded skeleton but without his right arm, she opens a menu and quickly presses a button. The skeleton disappears like a mirage before it can speak a single word. She smiles and places a protective hand on the unconscious teenager’s chest. Sometime later he starts to wake, and her smile grows wider as she turns her hand into a club and smashes it into his stomach.
Kacper’s POV
A feeling of unbearable pain wakes me up as I jump to my feet covering my stomach. I scan the surroundings seeing the familiar blue void, metal disc beneath my feet and a sadistic girl sitting next to me. I turn to the still sitting and smiling A.I. “What? Where you never woken up by a pretty girl hitting you with a deadly blunt weapon?” She slowly gets up stretching her limbs, probably trying to show of her giant assets… she added them just to make me disgusted, didn’t she? I mean she is basically my me/sister/daughter, whatever it’s just incest without the blood part. Wait is it incest? You know what I do not want to go down that path, so I’ll just have to purge these thoughts. Her boobs become smaller as I just wait for her with a diminishing smile, but she seems to cheer up as she looks at me rubbing my stomach.
Cocking her head and giving a final stretch she asks, “Right, do you want the good news or the bad news first?”
Nodding I straighten up and say, “Bad news first.”
“Your dead and the cannibal is after us. However, I found out why he came after us and why we still have a chance to survive this.” I lift my eyebrow and motion for her to continue. “We got a coin for killing him, meaning every time a Player is killed the killer gets a coin.” Two coins appears in her hand as she starts fiddling with them in between her fingers.
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“So, let me get this straight killing players equals system upgrades?” Without looking at me she focuses on the coins and replies “Yeah, that’s what I said. Weren’t you listening?”
“Oh, shut it.” Shaking my head, I continue to speak, “I wanted to ask what happens when an NPC kills a Player?” This stops her fiddling as she looks up at me and gives me a curious look before answering, “Anyone who kills a Player gains a coin. I don’t get what you are trying to get at?”
Rubbing my eyes, I thought she was as smart as me, but I guess not. “Let me ask what happens when an NPC uses a coin?” Realisation dawns on her face as I finish my sentence, “They gain access to upgrades. Well, shit. That probably means Players must be hunted for coins or are used as a resource.”
“No shit Sherlock. I think you can figure out the positive side of this.” She nods and flicks one of the coins to the edge where it slowly burns up and creates a swirling portal. She points at the slot machine and I turn to it gritting my teeth before nodding. Grabbing the lever and placing the coin in she cranks it as she shouts, “Come on sweetie! Mama needs a new pair of shoes!” Before turning around to face me before crossing her fingers. Sighing at her antics I tap my foot waiting for the results.
The wheel lands on Appearance appear on the spinning wheel and before I can do anything sapphire tendrils erupt from it and head straight for me. I hear Pix scream something, but I can’t make it out as the tentacles slither around my limbs and stuff themselves into my mouth. I feel like I am chocking but they slowly disappear into a bluish mist letting me go. Leaving me completely unharmed with Pix running over and asking, “So is that what you are into? Tentacles… that’s unexpected and quite interesting. I’ll put that in my journal.”
Showing her the middle finger, I ask “Why was… did this… fucking thing happen? Secondly if you are so interested in it why don’t you go and shove it u- “Covering my mouth she presses a blue box that suddenly appears before looking back at me. “This is supposed to be kid friendly.”
I am about to throttle her as I shout and slap her hand of my mouth “I literally died three times, there is a cannibal on the island, tormented souls of the dead are serving a goblin shaman! I swear constantly and you have a never-ending supply of innuendos, since when are we kid friendly?”
“Not going to question why I called us kid friendly? Well that’s good you’re finally thinking like me.” She gives me for once an honest smile not a malicious or even sexual one but a kind one. That stuns me for a second before I just facepalm, “Just tell me what the upgrade is?”
“Its quite simple you can know see your debuffs and buffs quantified in numbers. Another positive is that we can also see all your wounds both external and internal. I guess we already know that there are no problems with your mouth.”
Pushing her off I sigh and say, “This isn’t going to help with the situation.” Snapping her fingers an exact replica of me appears before her highlighted around areas that were wounded before the battle. With three different debuffs floating around me. “True, but know we know how to deal with your injuries and how long they will last. We don’t have to guess the stat loss and it will appear on your stat sheet.”
Scratching my hair, I look towards the portal, “Are you done?”
“Yes, I’m done you don’t have to be an asshole the portal will respawn you back on the roof and you can clean up whatever is left from the battle.” Nodding I give a small smile that she returns. With a quick sprint I reach the portal, the nausea hits both me and Pix as my foot touches the glowing whirlpool. Covering my mouth to prevent vomit I fall deeper into the portal.
Throatless POV
Booting Up... ... ... ... Loading Matrix.... ... Initialising Random Soul Picking... ... Diamaters Met... ... Welcome To Unlife ... Soul 1e-HgZ46.
"Uuuugh" the dead body that was once was Hiddey stands up surrounded by carnage.