Stepping through bodies of magical creatures that were Slaughtered. Beyond looks around and try to find any type of clue to figuring out this Maze as his group came to a dead end.
"Yet again another dead end. this is starting to be a pain beyond." Naomi says with an annoyed face as she took out a giant pillow as big as a couch and laid down on it with long a tired sigh.
"I know I know. Naomi, you said it the last few dead ends." Beyond says trying his best not to get annoyed by the Maze as well and keeping the positive attitude was a struggle especially with his chat from the stream also back seating him.
"Any magical clues you could pick up here Noah?" Beyond ask as the wizard was already looking deeply into the walls and floor with a large magical magnifying glass.
"Unfortunately, no seems like this is another dead end." Noah says out loud for the group to hear.
"Oh really!? No shit Sherlock!" Naomi yells out while wiggling her arms in the air while lying on the pillow as Noah lights it on fire as she yelps out with surprise fright.
"Hey! That pillow cost me over 500 gold. Dick!" Naomi yells out with anger. And was about to start chanting a curse towards her brother in till a large hand grabs her shoulder with a gentle touch she looks behind her and see Cupid there with that smile of a proud mother, but Naomi knew that was just a mask she puts on and starts to shudder thinking about the true Cupid behind that glowing smile.
"Now now children. let's not fight we are all a team here. Let's not forget that shall we?" Cupid questioned as they all saw a dark shadow on the half giant face that they did not want to unleash.
Beyond chuckles at his teammates just before he was about to issue out orders. the Maze started to shake as a door appears on the wall beyond was Staring at.
[Congratulations Travelers! you have located the boss room doors and found the exit to the Maze floor. Good Luck Travelers you will need it.]
"Well, I guess you finally got your wish Naomi." Beyond says with an excited Smile along the cheers of the other players in the group as they all walk towards the door.
Beyond steps through the door and saw the vast opening of the Maze seeing the way they came into the Maze. As the rest of the groups from the raid also exit out of their doors.
The raid all converge towards the middle where there was a hole in the floor like a trap door where stairs was leading up. Beyond notice the scouting group Silent Monkey was leading. By the giant boss door waiting but he also noticed they was short two people.
Beyond instantly looked towards the raid groups icons and immediately his stomach drop seeing both zero and worse of all Kon's icons greyed out. Beyond rush towards Monkey walking fast with a determined look.
Silent Monkey face turns pale seeing the anger on Beyond face marching towards him. Bloodbath steps in the way of the raid leader's path and Monkey saw how the minotaur player was trying his best to explain the situation as he effortlessly pulled Beyond to the side to talk privately away from the raid.
Monkey sighs in Relief but then heard an irritated grunt from Divine as he looks at the Centaur player.
"That fucker can get away with messing with his wife and I bet he still will forgive him. I swear if that was my childhood friend I wouldn't hesitate on cutting that asshole out of my life." Divine says out loud as he noticed Monkey looking at him and he immediately turned and walked away from the thief class player with a shake of his head in disappointment.
"A trap? And there was no other way like at all?" Beyond question towards Bloodbath who looked serious with a nod to confirmed.
"Damn it!" Beyond cursed out
("I'm not too worried about Zero he can always respawn but Kon though. shit! what if he was important and the only way to clear this Raid. And plus, the relationship with the Asuka Kingdom might go down after the raid for the death of an Apprentice to one of the seven Champions of Euphoria fuck!") Beyond thought to himself while walking back and forth.
"Listen Kev I'm sorry man. About that NPC honest to God. But that hacking piece of shi-" Before Bloodbath could finish beyond cuts him off stopping in his tracks and looking towards the entrance of the Maze.
"Wait! Zero!? why haven't he spawn yet? How long has it been since you guys exit the trap?" Beyond asked the Dark knight as the bulking minotaur scratches his head and thinks about the question.
"Possibly 5 minutes ago but we were walking up those steps for a good 15 at the most." Bloodbath says towards beyond who looked deep in thought.
"They're alive!" Beyond shouted as Bloodbath looked at him with a shocked look.
"Wait what!? But how?" We saw it for ourselves there is no way they could survive such a deep drop into the abyss." Bloodbath says with a troubled look.
"Think about it Robert. A normal player respawn time is 15 to 25 minutes there is no way Zero hasn't respawn yet. meaning they possibly survived and is somewhere else in this tomb." Beyond says with a smile as he patted the dark knight on his arm walking pass him going towards boss room doors as Bloodbath looks back at the Maze entrance and spit with a hateful glare.
Walking towards the boss door and stopped right in front of it. Beyond sends out a ready check for the raid. As everyone immediately noticed they was down two members of the raid.
Beyond saw a few of the players comments on the situation saying things like.
"Oh, did project Yggdrasil finally caught that hacker!"
"Or maybe he got booted offline for being on too long I heard about how some players literally live in your fantasy like a second life!"
"GOOD RIDDANCE!!!! I'm glad he's gone no more taking my CP especially with the boss fight coming up that boss is MINE!!!!!"
Beyond couldn't help but chuckle at that last comment he didn't have to turn around to see who it was. He can point out Draco voice in a Rave if he was at one as everyone checked up yes to move on.
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("Wish us luck Zero! We going to need it without you here on this next part.") Beyond thought to himself as he pushed through the door leading to the boss room.
BOOM!
A roaring burst of Flames spread out across the Dark Djinn's vault. As two figures was surrounded by flaming elementals and a giant cobra that made the two figures in the middle look like puppies to a grizzly bear.
"You still with me Kon?" Zero questioned as both Kon and him was back-to-back with their attire looking like they were overcooked in an oven.
"Always captain. Got a plan in mind I assume?" Kon ask as the flaming elementals was getting closer towards the duo.
"Only one!" Zero yells out as he unsheathe both his swords. Zero used his Racial Skill [Swift Movements] Vanished from sight Zero blurs through the elementals like a raging gale of blades as the moment he reappears all of the fire elementals was slayed Zero used his Dual Wield skill [Blade Storm] to strike at their cores that he spotted from his skill [Weak Spots].
The boss tail came straight at Zero as he dodges the attack. The boss hiss in not being able to locate the little intruder.
"SSS~Slippery little mice where have you gone? I'm not going to bite too hard. I'm just going to SSS~Swallow you whole!!!"The boss says as it scans the area for the intruder but was distracted by a flaming white fire ball hitting it directly in the face.
Kon felt the gaze of the boss on him now as it hisses in anger. a flaming inferno was launched out of the gigantic cobra's mouth.
Kon puts up a magical barrier struggling to hold the flames at bay as it engulfed the entire area. A golden arrow piercing through the flames going into the mouth of the boss as the flames stopped and creature mouth closed shut as it heads explode with gore of brain matter and a fountain of blood gushing everywhere.
Zero reappears by Kon as the boss body crashed through a few pillars in the vault making the ceiling crumble. The debris fell on the rest of boss body with a deafening sound.
[Area Announcement the Player Zero Has Defeated The hidden Boss Lord Basil Guardian of The Vault.]
[For Defeating the raid hidden Boss, you shall receive bonus awards at the end of the raid Congratulations Traveler!]
"Nice a bonus!" Zero yells out with excitement as Kon chuckles at the Ranger.
"You never cease to amaze me Ranger Captain Zero." Kon says as he paused and look at a certain item a staff to be exact and zero looked over at the seer's Apprentice wondering why that item got his attention.
"Uh, is everything okay there Kon?" Zero asked the man who was being enchanted by a stick.
"It's calling out to me captain. it's almost as if." Kon says in a low tone being distracted as he walks towards the item and touch it as a white burst of light blinded Zero as he hurried to cover his eyes.
Zero opens his eyes and immediately noticed they wasn't in the same place anymore but in a large hallway Decorated with pictures and nice furniture that only a king could afford. Even the rug they were on looked like something out of a fancy castle.
Zero spotted Kon who was not too far from laying down unconscious Zero rush towards the seer's Apprentice side and noticed the staff he found was gripped hard in his hand.
The staff is wooden with white glowing runes on it, A crystal ball similar to the one the seer has in her shop was glowing on top of the staff. Zero see why Kon was drawn to it the staff was impressive.
Kon stirred awake shaking his head and looking around at his surroundings. Looking at Zero than at the staff as his mouth went agape in surprise.
"I can't actually believe it. It's real and everything she said was true." Kon says as he looked bewildered and noticed Zero once again with an apologetic look.
"Everything okay Kon?" Zero asked
"It's best if you [Analyze] me captain. The system can tell you more than I could explain." Kon says Zero nods and used the Skill.
[Name: Kon "The Prophet King"]
[Level: 💀]
[Race: Human (Evolved)
[Health: 240k/240K]
[Stamina: 240k/240K]
[Mana: 720K/720K]
[Bio: Known as the Apprentice of Asuka Kingdom's seer one of the seven Champions of Euphoria Nakoma. Kon was raised in the slums of Asuka Kingdom as a child. After being discovered by Nakoma having the abilities of a Seer. She took him in as a student training him for this day to come as he finally awaken his bloodline from touching the Ancient staff [Prophet's staff].The staff once belong to the First king of Asuka who help sealed the powerful Dark Djinn with the sages of old. The Legend says one day the Prophet King will return and bring greatness to the Asuka once again.]
Zero eyes widen with shock. If anyone can see him now, they could 100 percent tell his mouth was hanging open under his mask.
"I know what this might seem Zero and I know as a Ranger your loyalty to the kingdom is-" Before Kon could finish Zero cuts him off.
"Kon holy shit dude! you just got an upgrade nice man! I can tell without even using [Analyze] you are a tier stronger than before. Guess I can leave all the work to you now." Zero says with a smirk under his mask looking at Kon.
Kon eyes widen with surprise and then chuckles as he shakes his head. Then zero noticed a notification.
[Your relationship With Kon has increased you are now trusted.]
("Wow ever since this Raid started my reputation with Kon goes up every other hour awesome!") Zero thought to himself.
"Now that's settled where are we captain? I was wondering how we would escape out of that vault." Kon say as he looked around curiously.
"Honestly, I'm not sure but I'm thinking we are in someone's home and with the pictures you could only guess one person." Zero says as Kon nods in agreement.
"This must be the way towards the Dark Djinn's quarters where he awaits us. Even with me and you I believe we should wait for the rest of the raid to continue the more we have the better our chances." Kon says as Zero nods in agreement.
After a few minutes of waiting around looking at the CP Leaderboards Zero saw that he was still leading by a mile and was surprised to see Draco catching up to the top 10 being at well 10. Zero couldn't help but chuckle at the muscle head than he saw a few more players rising up into the top 100. Then he saw a major jump for the player Tesla which his eyebrows furrowed as a notification pops up.
[Area Wide Announcement. The player Tesla has Defeated The boss of the Maze floor Garuda the Harpy Queen.]
("She jumped from being in the 40th place into the 13th place on the CP Leaderboard nice!") Zero says in his thoughts as the large doors behind him and Kon opens up and the raid team walks in looking like they been through a war.
Zero notices the scene outside where the rest of the raid came in. a giant tree was in the middle of what look like a courtyard showing impaled Harpies on the branches hanging. and a giant harpy about the size of a helicopter all bloody with large slashing wounds, burnt and frost bite marks, visible bullet holes being impaled by a giant ice spike with magical arrows sticking in the body from chest to forehead.
The large doors close and zero sight zoned in on Two people his [Killing Intent] pulse out like a wave making the whole raid team stop in place some shaking in fear as others just stood frozen.
Zero Activated his racial skill [Swift Movements] Zero vanish from his spot beside Kon. He reappeared in the middle of the raid before any of them could understand what's happening. Zero sliced off Bloodbath's head as blood gushed out. his body fell over in a loud thud like someone drop a sack of meat from a roof.
Zero than turned to his next target who was still frozen with fear Nk Shane body glows as he transforms into some type of mix breed of his two pets that was with him. Shane body was that of molten lava with large flaming birdlike wings on his back. the form allowed the tamer class player to move freely under the pressure of Zero's killing intent.
NK Shane felt confident in a up close confrontation as he used his spear to attack the arriving Zero, but zero easily parry the attack knocking NK Shane off guard with a vicious left hook that sent the tamer sliding across the floor. before Shane could react a kick to the face launched him airborne. Shane recovers quickly with his wings as he ready himself with his spear for another attack, but nothing ever came in till, he felt a heavy blow from above sending him crashing back down into the ground.
NK Shane got back up quickly again. those attacks didn't do much damage just a little blunt damage. his new armored skin can't be faze by such weak attacks. he looked around for Zero who was like a blur among the dust from the fight. finally appears in front of Shane who looked at him with a hateful glare.
"Think you're so tough cause you have a cheap unique skill!? your nothing but a pampered child of some big wig at project Yggdrasil you can fool others you're a hacker, but I know your rich ass daddy or mommy probably pulled strings to get you this type of advantage over other players!!" NK Shane yells out for the whole raid to hear as they also started to move a little more and talk amongst each other.
Zero stop moving as his rage started to calm down a bit. zero than started laughing out loud.
"HAHAHAHA!!! Is that what you really think of me shane. you snake piece of shit! you know what I really don't care anymore on how anyone feels about my skills. hacking or rich parents I could give two fucks!!! but what I do care about is getting revenge on someone who deserve it. Even though Kon is safe I will never forgive those who hurt my friends!" Zero yells out for all to hear as his aura burst to the max killing intent could take it. a lot of players started to pass out and some immediately kneel to the floor even Shane in his ultimate skill form was forced to kneel.
Multiple notifications started to pop up in front of zero's vision, but he ignored them. Zero took out his bow and charged a [Ki Arrow] he held it for a second.
"I told you I was going to kill you both and nothing would stop me. about the time you respawn the main boss will be dead. Time for a nap, Shane." Zero says in a cold voice as Shane was seen shaking in fear as zero unleashed the arrow it erases the tamer class player from existence with a deafening boom a large crater was left in the middle of the hallway.
The hallway went quiet as the powerful killing intent aura was settling down. everyone let out a sigh of relief that they could breathe again. zero looks at the notifications that pop up during the fight.
[The Skill
[SKILL CANNOT BE EvOlved at this MOMENT... Conditions MuST Be ~ERROR~]
[conditions meet! Admin will be contacted ~ERROR~ ISSUE WILL BE SOLVED!!]
Zero looks confused.
("What the...?") Zero thought all confused at the situation but just put it to the side for now looking at the rest of the raid.
"With the garbage taken out. shall we continue forward?" Zero ask out loud looking towards beyond who was still in shock at the brutal display of zero's prowess as he coughs seeing everyone was waiting on his word.
"With this little internal issue solved. Let's go kill that Djinn! and make sure he stays gone for good!!" Beyond yells out as a cheer from the players roared through the hallway towards victory and glory!!