Chapter 4

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The first monster, a garden gnome appeared. Looking unsteady and frightened as it patrolled around its territory.

Earlier, it had been attacked by another user and had over half of its hit points depleted. Allowing Kurisumasu to easily defeated it with her solar ray, a monster as weak as that wasn't going to pass her.

Meanwhile, Frostworks observed the code as she defeated the monster.

"No unusual data." He stated comfortably as he sat on a hillside and drank a cup of coffee.

In the mean time, Hiroshima and Zookaroo had just managed to kill a group of flamingos that tried to take them by surprise. With a few swings of their mantis rings however, they managed to come out victorious.

"Well this didn't seem as bad as I thought it would be." Zookaroo said as she brushed dust off her kimono. "I'm actually enjoying this!"

Hiroshima took another swing at a monster. "Just your average pitiful demons. Hey, where's Kurisumasu?"

All three of them looked around but she was long gone.

"Heh, must of wandered off." Frostworks stood up and stretched. "Better go find her."

The group made the way down the hill and soon found Kurisumasu dazed.

"Ha!" Zookaroo laughed. "Looks like Kurisumasu died."

Kurisumasu made a sharp remark. "Very funny. But hey, this will happen to you one day, then we'll see whose laughing. Now help me up!"

Hiroshima resurrected her. "That's better." She said as she stood up. She glared at Zookaroo. "Remember when you lost that coco in the trade?"

She remembered, definitely. At that time, Zookaroo had an extra coco in her inventory. Desperately she wanted a demonic pendant more than the coco and had bargained with Kurisumasu to trade it for her demonic pendant. So they each accepted the trade. However, Kurisumasu did not end up getting the coco that had been promised to her, nor did Zookaroo; the items were forever been lost in the database. Ever since then, they blamed each other for this mishap, and held deep hatred for each other because any one of them could have refreshed the page, and could of caused the query that was sent out to be canceled. At that time they did not know about the issues going on in the server, or the warning not to trade items. This event also led to Zookaroo losing her fresh grass skirt that had disappeared a week later from her inventory, which now had risen to 100k in the marketplace.

"beep...beep" A red light began to flash on Frostworks laptop and he opened it up to see what was on the screen.

"Database disturbance." He said meekly. At that moment OMGs began to spawn.

"Everyone stand close." Hiroshima said, everyone one stood in a tight knot, raising their guard. Then a moment later he shouted, "Run!" and began to flee back to town. For a moment they stared in surprise, then ran after him.

"Hey you chicken!" Kurisumasu shouted. As they made their way to the interlocking of the city, the monsters lashed out at them and followed them inside, past the gates.

"What they're still coming?" Even after making it to the next map the monsters were still in pursuit.

"This isn't right." Normal monsters had no ability to explore inside of town.

Eventually, the group had made their way to the fountain. A mistake, it turns out, as they were now surrounded.

One monster jumped out at them, but Zookaroo quickly swerved it away with her pitchfork. "You idiot!" She screamed. "Why in the world did you lead us here?"

"I didn't. I was just running away." Hiroshima had a sweat mark on his face.

"Well do a better job of it next time!"

Another monster jumped at Frostworks and he blocked it with his laptop. "I would stop this invasion," he said over its desperate attempt to get at him. "But I'm kind of in a bad situation right now."

At that moment, Zookaroo thought she saw a shadowy figure standing on top of a building but quickly lost it, as she was thrown through the tight group and right into the concrete of the fountain.

"Oomph!" She cried out, and for a moment she failed to notice the appearance of another figure heading towards them.

"Hey!" The figure cried out, and instantly she recognized Winona's voice. Her arms were full of chocolate as she made her way toward them. Trailing behind her was another monster.

"Winona! Get out of the way!" Kurisumasu cried, but it was too late. The monster had created a deep gash through the back of her costume, and Winona was found lying on the ground injured.

In that moment, the OMG had chosen that opportunity to gobble up all her chocolate.

"No!" She screamed, apparently unfazed by the attack, and stood up. "That was my last piece of chocolate!" In rage, she Immediately she took out a machine gun and started shooting the monster, repeatedly until it had turned into a turned out husk. That carried on to all the other monsters in the area and eventually there was nothing left of them.

The group, who had been hiding behind a shield released it, and took a gasp of air.

"Kurisumasu! You need air holes! Air holes!"

"It's a spell!" Kurisumasu said annoyed. "I cant make air holes!"

"Well maybe next time you won't engulf us in that thing!"

As they were fighting Hiroshima came over to thank Winona and give her a hug. "You were amazing Winona!" He said happily. "How did you ever learn to fight like that?"

She blushed, "I practiced on teddy bears."

A moment later, Frostworks was on his laptop again. Exploring the coding in the database once more.

Winona looked at him. "Why are you always playing on that thing instead of with me...?"

"I'm not playing." he said as his eyes still focused on the screen. "I'm examining the database for any more glitches."

Zookaroo piped in. "So did you find anything?"

"Actually, I have." Everyone stared at him.

"Except for the OMGs you mean?"

Well, more than just that." He swerved the laptop around to show them. "After the OMGs attacked, it left a security opening for a brief second before closing again. This actually gave me enough time to install a hacking program so that I can create a backdoor to access his files, and you know what I found?"

"No, what?"

"All of the user information of the people he hacked, and the codes that we witnessed before."

"Eh, so that means what?"

He sighed, "Remember when we first logged in and found everyone was back in the city?" They widened their eyes and took a look around. The place was completely deserted now.

"All those people that we saw were created by scriptures." He said. "And another thing, the reason why this place is deserted right now is because this server was created by them. It doesn't actually exist."