Chapter 255: Invaders must die
In life, there’s a particular thing that you can’t stop even if you are prepared. Max out your stats, got the most busted shit, we can even go so far as to say that you have plot armor. Guess what, it still went downhill. How? Guess you haven’t heard about cutscenes. A mysterious phenomenon where your field of vision darkens you sustain damage, got caught, etc. The point is cutscenes suck!!!
"Urgh... what the hell happened? I feel like shit, did I get wasted? Hold up– Uaghhhhh! I’m wounded! How did this happen?"
(Master you’re finally awake!)
"Is that you Diabolus?" He bends his head in hopes of catching a glimpse of light but everywhere he looks was riddled with darkness
(How do you feel?)
"For the most part im awake everything else is dark, I can’t even feel my body, what is this, another one of Makino’s trials?"
(No... we died)
"Oh I thought something went horribly– We died? Huh, I thought it’ll be grander, where’s heaven, or more precisely hell? I’m not denying the fact that my high score (Killcount) is off the roof," He jokingly said and he was met with the pitch-black darkness ever looming in his view
’Hey you’re finally awake–’
"What the fuck!!!" He freaked out the moment he heard a voice he had never once expected to hear, his former illustrator Yuri Mikhailov
(Oh I forgot about her)
"Yuri, why the hell can I hear you in my mind?"
’Well, it all happened a while ago,’
The pillar of light which burnt the world tree to the ground up she calls the extermination ray was a hair close to killing her. In Milkhailov’s desperate attempts at survival, hiding in the most durable thing she ever found, the Demon King’s body. Though Morris’s body was intact it was only a matter of time till the potent heavenly aura mostly exterminated his existence
"To sum it up im currently dead..."
(We’re inside the core. The only way is to beat what I assume as creatures of light where their true form is the excess heavenly aura. You’re current demonic energy is too low even to utilize my ability. The only thing you have is yourself, the place you currently reside doesn’t count as the third trial. It’s a separate dimension, so to say you don’t even have the benefit of the system)
[Time-limited quest: Stop yourself from being evicted by defeating the remnants of light]
The darkness seemingly faded away and he appear on what seemed to be his worst nightmare of all. Christopher Morris was sent back to school, out of all the trauma-inducing things this place holds a special place in his near-broken heart. With all the beatings he receives, bullying, and worst this was the very place he ever met the worst torture of mankind, calculus
"Oh, come on!" He founds himself sitting on what was supposed to be his seating arrangement in his memory
"Okay class, today we’ll kill Christopher Morris," They came in groups every one of these masked abominations assaulted him either a knife, threw a chair, or went for a tackle
"Duck!" Morris without any means of escape follows through with Yuri’s words of advice and the window near him came undone
She broke through the glass and with her, she never came unarmed when she whipped out a bug spray and a lighter. "Hasta la vista,"
The flames kept them from ever reaching an inch of Christopher’s skin and ask his comrade for her needed aid. "Yo Morris I can’t hold them any longer. Do something or whatever. This bug spray wo eventually run out– Oh crap!"
"Kill!!!"
The absence of her aim allowed Morris’s teacher to go up close and gave her the chance for her to pounce. "Eat this!!!"
Like a common sight from a wrestling show, a table came flying knocking the teacher a hairs reach, and fell where she met his student. He brutally bashes his chair with such force and each swing results in her body getting bloodier with each passing time. Yuri was taken aback when the calm and composed friend went full psycho and went murderous wielding his bloody chair
"Don’t look at me like that. It’s either her or me. Plus, I hated Ms. Vickey. This hag is pure evil. She loves to give high school students some college-level calculus,"
The moment he finishes off his teacher he received a suck punch and fell where he met the surface of the school’s table. His classmates were closing in and before they ever struck his back he twist and turn and trip his classmates. Christopher took this moment to go all in for the attack and revealed the secret weapon he found while his mug collided with the desk
"Is that a pencil?"
Sharpened to its tip he wields so like a dagger and even without his skills his muscle memories remain. "Yuri quit defending and go for the kill!"
He advises her as she kept dodging a kid relentlessly swinging a fire hydrant. "Easier for you to say im not a psycho like you,"
"That’s a load of bull and you know it. If you ever dated Jin you probably know but high school was hell for both of us. We were this close to starting a school shooting, will you die already? You vigorous piece of shit!"
After he pinned one of them to the desk he twist their arms and pierced through their necks and dodges like so. A large boy built like a jock came for an all-out brawl but with his size, he manages to escape and retrieve the pencil. Morris uses his size against him and trips the jock and it began to lose balance and fall to the ground head first. He punches its throat rendering him immobile and droves a pencil through the eye til his body never showed any retaliation
"What the hell was that?"
Morris turns and faces Yuri with a bloody mug and wipes his face clean and said. "Oh, this? It’s nothing special... just learned that from a guy who killed someone because they killed his dog,"
"I don’t get it–"
Before she could even finish her words his hands crept up to her shoulder whilst his gaze had never been so murderous. "You haven’t watched the movie? You uncultured swine! How the hell am I friends with someone like you? Seriously you’ve never seen John Wi–"
[System: You’ve cleared the first wave!
Status: As a result, you’ve unlocked your [Mana] but due to this time-limited areas logic the concept of skill is unavailable
Outcome: After some additional scanning of this area logic you can use mana as a form of ammunition or to replenish used goods
Reward: For clearing the first wave you’ve been granted a weapon of choice but the selection is restricted to this world’s logic]
Yuri wasn’t that much of a fighter and due to her nature of being skill reliant most of the time, she pick a Taser. Small but with a little more added mana than its regular necessity she can obtain explosive results to cover her weakness. She placed it in her pocket and replenish the bug spray with the use of her mana after that she regroup along with Morris
"Hey what did you pick–"
The room was then riddled with gunfire and there she saw Morris laugh hysterically and between his arms lies an Ak-47. "Let’s go America! Thank god America. I might hate this country but thank god for the land of guns. Now where you at invader scum. Todays show and tell and I wanna let you meet my little friend, A to the K, and his surname 47,"
Whilst these two were resting to prepare for the next impending wave the outside world grew ever so chaotic in their absence. Some players riot as they cuss, fight, and even harass one another when the nonexistent threat vanishes but the trial remains ongoing. The most affected by this was the demon clan more so Christopher Morris’s comrades and those within his alliance
"Damn it!!!" Jin let out his ever-growing anger on a boulder he easily crush that he punches out of frustration
’What the fuck just happened? As soon as that mechanical fucker took Morris away everything went crazy. The holy faction along with the main character went crazy and all robotic. As if they’re being controlled, but how? That doesn’t–’
"Make any sense? What? Cat got your tongue?" Rachel appeared before him while the others were grieving what they assumed was the death of their leader
"Rachel, what brings you here?"
She never hesitated and answered. "He’s alive... you know that right? If you ever follow my demands you ask him to give you a mark allowing you to sense him. Gather the rest, there’s no time to sulk, we’re in a race against time,"
"What do you mean by that???" Rachel stopped in her tracks when Jin activates the mark Yuri gained in their contract forcing her to answer him truthfully
"Urgh... the hell’s wrong with you? Oh god, that mark hurts like a bitch. I’m a regressor okay, I’ve been through this trial countless times,"
"But you said this timeline is different– Kieek," Jin receives a sucker punch which evens the stinging pain Rachel felt when he activated her mark
"Are you fucking stupid or what, I meant this is the first time in all the timelines where Christoper Morris is the Demon King. There were dozens of timelines where the true ending was triggered, but they were never that deadly. Except for the Demon King, you heard me I know what’s going to come, stop pissing me off and gather them all god damn it!!!"