OK, Summary is pretty choppy and I apologize for that, but, you'll understand later on.
About a year ago, if anyone had told Haseo that he would have friends that he cared about and that these friends would care about him just as much, then, he would of called that person stupid. Yet, it's true, he has friends, lots of friends. Friends that he has admittedly cared for and they cared for him back. It was almost odd for him, yet, in the end he embraced it. He embraced and even, to a point, loved his friends.
From Gaspard, Silabus, and Atoli the three of them showing him that other people can openly enjoy 'The World' and the little things, to Yata and all the other epitaph users that just wanted to protect the world and their loved ones, and all of the other characters that Haseo met along the way, each and every one of them important to the rogue in their own way. Something, he would of never admitted a year ago.
Yes, he was glad he had these friends. The only problem he ever seemed to be having with his friends, is deciding on who to bring with him when it comes to parties. There are times when he wants to bring a certain person along, but can't because it'd be too dangerous, then there were times when he would not know who he'd want to bring and stand there by the Chaos gate for a good minute trying to decide on who to bring.
He was hoping that today wasn't going to be like that, as he screened through the forum posts concerning 'The world'. So far, nothing seemed to be popping out at him as he scrolled down the new posts for the day. He was about to leave the page when something interesting finally came up.
Buggy area?
with his curiosity fully peeked, he clicked on the forum.
Me and my friends were all leveling up in this dungeon, everything seemed pretty normal until we realized that there were no monsters anywhere within this area. We made it to the beast statue pretty easily, as you could imagine, but, the screen started twitching like crazy, so much so that none of us could see the beast statue or warp gate. We were stuck there for a minute or two as we tried to find the gate out, it was hard because not only was the screen twitching and twisting, but, there was this horrible lag that seemed to be going along with it as well, I don't know if the lag was from my own computer or not, but either way it was rather jarring. We finally got away when my friend, thankfully, found the warp gate out and warped us away.
Oh, before I forget, the area was unreasonably short as well, it was like one floor and then it was straight to the beast temple.
Though I don't recommend it, if you want to check the place out, here.
Sigma Alpha Wolf Gardening.
Bookmarking the word immediately, Haseo let out a soft hum, this was definitely interesting, and something he wanted to check out. Leaving the forums, he logged into 'The world'.
Once in, he immediately went to his party, this was just going to routine, he decided to bring Atoli and Kuhn along, seeing how those two seemed to be the only two available, everyone else was either offline or busy. It didn't take long for the two of them to warp in. Atoli beamed brightly at Haseo as she and Kuhn ran up to him.
"Alright, team Haseo, back in action, what are we doing today? Level up? Arena battle? Rescuing damsels" Kuhn asked, the last one made Haseo roll his eyes, not even a minute in and Kuhn was already talking about girls. Shaking his head, Haseo just smirked a bit.
"According to someone, this place has a few bugs by the beast temple, and there aren't any monsters around, something worth checking out." Haseo informed Kuhn as he made his way to the gate.
"Sounds like you're doing Yata's job, Haseo," Atoli giggled a bit. Haseo went to give her a slight glare in response, but, stopped when he realized, she was right. Normally something like this was Yata's job, oh well. Giving her a shrug in response, he went to the chaos gate and clicked on the words in his bookmarked section, soon the three of them where gone from the net slum and into a dungeon.
The dungeon was pretty straight forward, seeing how it was one of the spiral dungeons that all lead one way, up. Walking towards the first hallway, Haseo put one foot down on the hallway's curved floor, hearing the sound of the normal trap rocks falling, he took a couple of steps back, Atoli and Kuhn following him as he did so. Waiting for the rocks to roll down and vanish as normal, Haseo sighed, one of the things he really didn't care for about these types of areas were the obsessive amount of rock traps.
The moment the rocks vanished, Haseo started running along the hallway, up the slightly steep climb and into the first room. The room seem pretty standard, a couple of Chim Chim statues, a couple of chests, however, like mentioned in the forum, no monsters. Ignoring the chests and Chim Chim's, Haseo made his way up the next hallway, thankfully, no traps this time around. Getting to the next room, it was just the same as the last one. Only, no Chim Chim statues.
"No monsters..." Atoli breathed as the three of them looked around the room a bit. With a slight huff, Haseo put his hands on his hips and turned towards the next hallway.
"Let's keep going." Was all he could say, walking to the hallway, Haseo let out a bit of a growl when he saw the saw traps laid upon the floor for them. Timing it, he dashed across the traps, successfully avoiding all of them, the same could not be said for his teammates. Hearing them cry out, he turned around and watched as Atoli healed both herself and Kuhn.
Turning back around, he went forward and made his way into the next room. Nothing different about this place either.
"Hm, no monsters here either." Kuhn spoke up as they once again looked around the monsterless room. Not saying anything, Haseo walked up to one of the chests and gave it a swift kick. He got some sort of accessory from it.
"C'mon, we're nearing the end of this floor, lets just keep on going," Haseo grumbled and started towards the third and final hallway. As they walked, Atoli spoke up,
"Wait, we're already done with this floor? That doesn't see right," she mumbled.
"According to the player, this area was rather short, in fact, If I'm right, then the next floor is where the beast temple is," Haseo responded as they walked through the doorway to the next floor. Once at the next floor, Haseo put his hand on his hip and started towards the beast temple, Kuhn and Atoli followed.
"I don't trust this place, something differently isn't right," Kuhn admitted as he followed behind Haseo. The rouge went to respond back, but, was interrupted by a screen glitch. Seeing the statue just a head, Haseo continued to walk ahead, ignoring Kuhn for now. The closer to the statue he got, the worse the rifts and glitches became. Soon, it was just like what the player had described, it was impossible for Haseo to see what was in front of him. Atoli in Kuhn seemed to be letting out noises of slight discomfort as it happened to them as well.
Grunting darkly, Haseo brought his hand up and started area hacking, hoping that it might bring the rifts down a bit. It didn't seem to be working, the rifts were too strong, maybe if all three of them did it at once...
"GUYS! START AREA HACKING!" He called out to his friends. Whether they were doing it or not, Haseo couldn't tell, still, he kept on area hacking, doing it over and over, until finally, the screen stopped and all was still. Looking at his friends, they looked just as puzzled as he was. Breathing heavily, Haseo turned back around to the statue, he blinked when he saw the little ball from area hacking hanging above the chest.
"It's...a warp point?" Kuhn asked sounding completely dumbfounded.
Frowning, Haseo walked up to the warp point.
"It must be really strong, I mean, the rift it made in the system, I couldn't see a thing..." Atoli squeaked, the two of them staying away from the point. Haseo slowly reached out to the point.
Then, with no warning, he saw blue start to rise up below his feet, why was he warping? he didn't click to warp!
"HASEO!" Atoli and Kuhn yelled at the same time, running towards him with all their speed. However, by the time they reached him, he had already warped away and it was too late.
Haseo didn't really know what happened next, but, for some reason he passed out...