Chapter 2

Sind

"Blood Rage!!"

Those words echoed through a dark chamber filled with monsters. Crossel had decided to explore a dungeon on his own today so that he could gain some levels. He had done well through the whole thing up until the room just before the beast statue a large group of creatures seemed to be waiting for him. Every monster in the group was either Magic Resistant or Immune this left Crossel with one other choice; use the staff he found the day before to finish them. Crossel's health dropped from 110 to 78 and his body became engulfed in a red light. His staff began to change into a sword that had a red gem fastened in the hilt and the hilt was designed to look like a dragon.

Crossel gripped his sword tightly in his hand and looked over at the monsters progressing towards him. He dashed forward and began slashing them dealing great amounts of damage. He hit them a few more times when a Offensive Rengeki appeared around one of the monsters.

"I wonder…" He thought to himself.

Crossel opened up his Art wheel and there it was one Art was available for use. Crossel smirked and dashed forward.

"Rengeki, Razors edge!" Crossel shouted as he made contact with the enemy.

His sword cut through the monsters with great ease and left them on the ground dead from his powerful strike. Crossel searched the area around them for any items that may be laying around he was unsuccessful in his search so he proceeded to the beast statue that was just up ahead.

Crossel entered the room with the beast statue and opened the chest hoping for something that would be worth his while. Crossel however, only ended up finding some armor that he was unable to equip because of the class restrictions. Crossel walked to the left and teleported out of the dungeon using the Gate. Just as Crossel had left the room another character entered the chamber where he had been standing.

Sind was an Azure Knight one of the most powerful classes in the game only awarded to those who had been playing since the Azure Knight Campaign. The Azure Knight class specialized in both magic and close combat and fought using a strange blue fire. The class was so rare that it was sometimes mistaken as a virus by the lower level players. Sind was dressed in black armor and carried a bow with him. His hair was a blood red and his eyes were the same.

Sind had been watching Crossel as he explored the dungeon. Sind stepped into the clearing and walked up to the empty chest. He unsheathed his bow and readied an arrow.

"You bastard, you can come out now." Sind yelled into the chamber

A strange man cloaked in darkness floated out from beneath the beast statue and stared at Sind. Sind fired a arrow directly towards him as it traveled it became engulfed in the blue fired Azure Knights were famous for and nailed the man square in the head. The man lifted his arm slowly and pulled it from his face and turned it into a ball of energy. He held out his hand and fired it toward Sind. Sind rolled to the side and let the ball hit the ground where he had been standing.

"Sind, you can never win." The man spoke quietly

Sind an arrow back and let it fly off towards the man only this time right before contact it split into 5 arrows and nailed the figure in the chest. The man was paralyzed and a strange white light began to engulf him. Sind smiled and readied his bow.

"Rengeki, Barrage of Arrows!" Sind shouted as he fired another shot

The shot connected and a summon appeared holding a brilliant gold bow. The man cloaked in darkness smirked and cut the summon down as if it was nothing. Sind was now frightened and ran quickly towards the gate. He teleported out and went back to Mac Anu.

Sind traveled Mac Anu and went back to his Home. Home's are essentially bases for guilds and they act as storage and a meeting place for the members. Sind's guild was called Canard he had become the leader after the previous one quit the game. Canard was basically a guild designed to help new players and it had become quite famous after the previous leader became the emperor of the Demon Palace, Holy Palace and Dragon Palace back in the R: 2 days but, ever since Sind had become leader it had sort of declined and gone back to being a regular guild. Sind sat patiently as people came and left to go about their business. He along with 3 other players were trainers who helped out new players. They were the only permanent members and the others were just newbies looking for help.

Sind was becoming tired of the game and wanted to adventure again like he did years ago but now it was boring nothing seemed to be a challenge, that's when he read about a legendary hacker who was killing high level players on sight. Sind decided he would be the one to put this hacker in his place but finding him was no easy task and when he finally did his arrow attacks seemed to do nothing.

"Did you get him Sind?" a female voice asked him

Sind looked up and standing over him was a female Werewolf dressed in blue clothes. She had yellowish hair and bright green eyes. Sind had a very disappointed look on his face.

"No Natalia, he was much stronger than we originally thought." Sind replied

The girl, Natalia, who had originally had a big smile on her face was now frowning. She sat down on the steps beside him.

"Sind, you should have brought me with you I could have helped you out." Natalia said.

"Natalia it wouldn't have helped if I brought you because you don't know any decent healing magic. If I was to bring anyone I should have brought Tira." Sind replied in a serious tone.

Natalia stood up and walked towards the door to the Home. Just as she was about to leave a male Shadow Warlock dressed in black entered and stared at Natalia and Sind. The Shadow Warlock had long white hair and eyes black as night. He stood still staring at the two when finally Sind opened his mouth

"Nyx, what do you want?" He asked the Shadow Warlock

"A guy named Tsunami says he wants to meet with the us in a dungeon." Nyx replied to Sind.

"Tsunami? I've never heard of him." Natalia said.

"What are the keywords?" Sind asked Nyx

"I think they were 'Chronicling Despaired Melody'" Nyx told him.

"Alright, does Tira know?" Natalia questioned.

"Yeah she's meeting us there." Nyx answered.

The three left their Home and invited each other to a party. The three walked up to the Chaos Gate through the crowded streets and made their way to the indicated keywords.

The dungeon was a standard field filled with lower level monsters. The terrain type was grassland and the weather was bright and sunny. The monsters were no trouble at all for the group because they were all experienced veterans. They traveled around when they finally collected all 3 symbols the doors to the temple located in the center of the field opened. The group wandered into the dark temple with their weapons drawn, as they got closer to the Beast Statue they could hear a voice echo down the chamber.

"Die you bastard!!" The voice rang out.

Sind was certain the voice was that of their companion Tira who had gone in front of them. When they finally got in eye sight they saw Tira battling a Adept Rogue in what looked like a one sided battle. The Rogue's stats seemed to be off the charts and had a complete skill list for all his weapons to make things worse. He seemed to be able to switch between many weapons not just the standard three. Sind didn't hesitate he aimed his bow for the Rogue and fired a barrage of arrows towards him hitting every shot dead on. Nyx figured this was his time to lay down some magic for support and try to take the heat off Tira so he fired high level flame spells towards the Rogue and again hit every shot dead on. Natalia wasn't far behind, she rushed in and began beating the Rogue with a flurry of punches and special skills. After 5 minutes of nonstop damage Sind checked the Rogue's health to see why he wasn't dying sure enough, his health meter read "Tsunami: 4(# / 3#()M" then Sind had enough proof he knew that this guy was a major hacker. Tsunami was beginning to become tired of this battle so he stepped backwards and let out a large explosion of darkness knocking everyone down to the group and lowering their HP to 1. Sind yelled as loud as he could into his microphone.

"Everyone, gate out!!" He shouted

Tira, Nyx, and Natalia heard him loud and clear and began to run towards the gate crystal but before they could reach it Tsunami teleported in front of them.

"My, my don't go rushing off now." Tsunami chuckled.

Tsunami began to glow a mysterious dark light and he called out a large dragon that was bigger than most of the room he opened his mouth wide and fired a fireball hitting both Nyx and Tira. He began to aim at Sind and Natalia when a beast type character burst into the room. The beast's fur was a bright red and he wore gold armor with some orange clothes. The beast had a very muscular build and stood with great importance.

"I see, so there are still hackers in 'The World.'" The beast mumbled to himself

The beast pulled a large blade out and leaped into the air slicing the dragon into two with great ease. Tsunami was left standing in its place. Tsunami pulled out a new sword that had a strong energy emanating from it. He pointed it toward the beast and laughed.

"So the system Admin. Comes to kill me himself how…interesting." Tsunami laughed

The Admin. looked over at Tsunami and shook his head. He held his sword pointed towards Tsunami and both rushed at each other simultaneously and clashed swords. Tsunami seemed to over-power him with great ease and pushed the Admin back. Tsunami was left staring at the Admin standing in front of Natalia and Sind as if to protect them from any harm.

"Well it seems even the legendary blade, The Avatar Killer, is no match for my own sword, Relinquish!" Tsunami shouted.

The Admin turned to Sind and Natalia slowly and stared at them.

"Both of you, run, I will be with you shortly." He said to them.

Sind and Natalia fled the chamber with great ease as the beast managed to hold off Tsunami. The beast and Tsunami battled for minutes in the chamber with Tsunami always' having a leg up on him. Tsunami eventually blasted the beast with a powerful blast causing the beast to make a hasty retreat.

Natalia and Sind arrived in Mac Anu and stood at the Chaos Gate waiting for the Admin to arrive eventually he came through the portal battered and wounded from the battle he had with Tsunami. Sind was the first to approach him.

"Admin, who was that guy?" Sind asked the beast.

The beast stared at Sind and locked eyes with him.

"Don't call me that call me by my name it's Gaz." The beast replied

"Alright then, Gaz, who was that guy?" Sind asked again

"That man is the legendary hacker Tsunami. I suggest both of you stay away from him. You will never be able to win against him."

Sind gave Gaz a blank stare. "I've never heard of this Tsunami guy." He said to him.

"Good and it should remain that way. Continue running the Canard guild and leave this matter to the Admins"

With that the beast logged out and Sind and Natalia made their way back to the guild Home. Sind however, wouldn't let it go that easily the first question on his mind: how did he know they ran Canard.

Over at a shop just left of the Chaos gate Crossel was doing some shopping as this conversation was taking place. Crossel was confused he wasn't sure if this Tsunami was the same Tsunami he had hung out with or a imposter. Crossel decided that his first task would be to ask the owners of Canard.