Chapter 2

I looked up at Bellator and he was look back at me. "What do you think that means Mors?"

"I got no clue"

["You all are probably wondering what that means. Well, I will tell you it means that the log out butten isn't there for a reason. All 263,000 of you are stuck in this game. Now you might be think 'My famliy will unhook me.' It wont happen. If it does, you die. Your brain gets toasted by the Impallo. The Impallo has a batter large enough to fry your brain. Tthe battery itself will only last about 3 hours, just enough time to get to a care center. You don't have to worry- the mass media has been notified."] The man grabbed the recorder and turn it toward a screen. The screen was filled with pictures of boys and girls that had the word died underneath them. ["I forgot to mention, but a few people have already died in game or diconnected. I dont know. I just know death is absolute in this game. The only way to win is to clear the 100 floors. Your new life starts now."]

"...Fuck. Aw man. Mors, does he mean if I were to die I would die in real life?"

"...I don't know I think, but so, yeah."

"Fuck! Man, this is not good- damn it!"

"Look, I know just one thing and one thing only- that is I always keep my promises. I will get us out of here."

"Thanks... What's this?"

"What do you mea-?" A message popped up [new item hand mirror.] suddenly. I opened my item menu and sure enough, there it was. I selected it and it materialized in my hand. I looked into it and a light shined from it. I looked up and saw a strang man with brown hair and a face that suited his big body "Bellator, is that you?" Bellator look at "Mors, is that you?"

"Hold on-" I looked in the mirror and saw a buzz cut with black hair and my normal face. "A man I look like in life is looking at me. Is that what you look like in real life? I mean, your avatar is a little tall and wider then last time."

"Yeah, this is me in real life. I'm 6ft on the dot, weighing at 250lbs. What happened?"

"The Impallo had a configuration section where we touched ourself from head to toe. It's showing an actual picture of our face."

"Yeah, I see what you're getting at. So, this is our new life? Well, as I said, I keep my promise to get us out of here, so lets go to the dungen. You know, I heard that the game has a town on each new floor, so that means if we clear the first floor, we can get new gear."

"Yeah, lets go before I break down or something. I need to kill something..."

We arrived at the entrace for the dungeon. "Mors, you think what that man said was true?"

"Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. I'm not going to find out. For know, lets level up and keep on going."

Working together, Bellator and me made through five hordes of enemies, gaining a few levels. After about an hour of running around, we found a gaint door. "Look I think this is the boss room. Lets go in."

"Wait Mors, don't you think it would be better to get back up? If what that man said was true then... if this is a boss, it'll be way stronger then either of us- we'll die."

"Oh, come on! It's only the first boss! It can't be that hard."

"...Ok, but we run when our HP hits yellow, got it?"

"Yeah, I got it. Lets go."

I pushed the door open and walked through to the other side. It was a black room, blue flames all around. It was probably about 20 meters wide and 100 meters tall. "Where's the boss?" Bellator and I walk around for a little bit but both of use couldn't find anything. "Hey Mors, do you hear that? It sounds like... heavy breathing-"

I stop for a second, listening to the anything that sounded out of place around me. "Must be you imagination." Bellator shook head his back and forth, as if trying to wake himself up."Yeah, of course, it must be the BGM for this part of the room." Bellator and I walk to the center of the room to gather our thoughts. "Hey Bellator, maybe you're right on it being the BGM for that part of the room. I hear it too." I looked around the room once more, then decided to look upwards. As I did, a gaint spider entered my view. "Bellator, look up-"

"What do you mean?"

"Just look!"

Bellator looked up

"Maybe it's the lighting in the room?" The spider turned its head all the way around to look at us. As it did, a HP bar with the name "Aranea Rex" above it. The Arenea Rex moved around on the ceiling. It was circling around me and Bellator. "Grab your sword- its gonna jump!" I drew my sword and held it perpendicular to my waist. "KKKYYYYAAAAAA" The Areanea Rex yelled as it jumped down from the roof. "MOVE!" I rolled to my left barely dodgeing the Aranea Rex's falling body. The floor shook as the Aranea Rex hit causeing my HP bar to go down slightly. "Bellator, you still with me?"

"Yeah, a little bit of my health is gone but I'm not dead yet. See if you can attack it from the side, I'll do the same thing. If we're lucky, the attack will confuse the A.I." I replied with an O.K. and activated unquam offendas percusserit, sending me right at one of its legs showing a seperate HP bar for the leg. The bar intered the yellow. "The leg has its own HP bars, attack them!" After finshing with my stream of attacks, the legs HP bar hit zero causeing the leg to shatter and disappear. The main HP bar of the Arenea Rex went down a littel bit. Realizing what just happened, I jump over to next leg and activated rapidus percusserit, a chain combo consiting of 5 hits. The HP bar of the leg disappeared and the leg shattered. I activated unquam offendas percusserit, dashing at the next leg. As I hit the leg, I activated rapidus percusserit. After finishing the combo, the word "speical skill activated" flashed blue in the top right. Then they change into telarum vilnus. My blade swung itself to the right, causeing my whole body to spin around, hitting the leg 3 times, causeing its HP to hit zero and the leg to shatter. I looked up at the main HP bar. It was already in the red "He's almost dead! Looks like being attacked from both side stalled the A.I.!"

"Yeah, I'll get the last leg, then hopefully it'll die!" I turn to the last leg and swung my sword vertically to the right then horizontly down. I flick my hand so the tip of the blade faced toward the ground at a diagnol angle, activating Superiorem Conscidisti. As my blade went up, the words Skill Disrupted flashed and my HP bar fell drastically. I was sent flying through the air and hit a wall. "Mors! Are you ok!?" Bellator came running over to my side. "What the hell just happend?" Bellator pulled out a health potion and cramed it down my throat. "The boss jumped up and hit you with it's last leg, knocking you back and causeing your HP to go into the red." I glaced over to my HP bar and noticed I had only 1/10 of my HP left. "Damn, thanks. I would have died. Where is the boss now?" Bellator turned around and looked up. "I think it went to the roof. Lets get out of here."

"We're so close! Lets stay and fight! We can do it!" I stood up and fished of the health potion Bellator gave me. "No, you were almost killed! Lets get out off here."

"Think about it- if we can kill the first floor boss, we could give people hope in this world. Come on, two people were able to beat the first boss on the first day. Can you imagain the hope it'll give people?"

"...No. I'm at level 8 and you're a level 9. You were almost killed in one hit! It will give people the idea that you don't have to be at a high level to win and many people will die. We have to leave now!"

"Come on, we can-"

"KKKKKYYYYAAAAA" A screem came from above us. Bellator and I looked up and saw the Aranea Rex falling down. "Move!" Bellator pushed me out of the way far enough to not get hurt by the shock wave by his strength stat. Bellators body begun to be enveloped by the Aranea Rex. "Bellator!" The Aranea Rex stood up showing Bellators chrushed body, though his HP bar still had something left. I manipulated my item menu and pulled out a health potion and activated Unquam Offendas Percusserit, dashing toward Bellator. His hand reached out and a tear flowed down his check. Time seemed to have slowed down as I got closer and the Aranea Rex Leg lifted up and headed down towards Bellators body. Every second was a minute to me. Tears started to flow from Bellators face as the Aranea Rex's leg came down, crushing Bellator and turning him into millons of small blue crystal shards " NO BELLATOR!" My rage swelled up with my sorrow and self hate for arguing with him. "DIE, YOU SON OF A BITCH!" I jumped up and grabbed onto the Aranea Ress leg and stabbed into it, climbing up to it's back. I keep stabbing my blade into the Arenea Rex, lowering its HP bar to nothing. Causeing the Arenea Rex to shatter into crystal shards, much the same a Bellator had. A door opened up on the other side of the room revealing stairs. A menu popped up, showing all the EXP and items I gained. I put every thing in my bag and walk over to the stairs and went up.

I arrived in a town that had only an NPC waiting. It was the town on the second floor, it seemed. I turn around and looked at the gate I just came from. It was gold with a silver luqiud in it. I stuck my hand in, causing a ripple to flow. A menu popped up with the names of both cities. Gondav-Second floor, and just below it was Starter-First Floor. I turned around and headed for the closest inn.