I had just arrived on a planet where Norse Mythology had been influenced everywhere. The Norse Gods and Demons had taken over and controlled this world. Obviously still at conflict and war. There was bloodshed everywhere as the vikings tend to be more savage. This planet was a high level zone so not many avatars in the OASIS would visit quite often but the reward for killing the NPC's in this zone gave really good items to whoever killed them. I had taken out some vikings which were no problem and served as a minor inconvenience. My blue and purple energy sword from Halo had sliced and diced through those vikings like he was a master chef. Vikings… They can sneak up on you, but they always have to scream bloodcurdling battle cries that ruin the art of stealth. Vikings were never actually really that smart even in mythology and they just had brute strength. I used my other hand and a massive energy sword pierced through the viking. Several more were charging towards me as I sheathed my blades and fired an arrow from my crossbow that targeted each of the vikings and it dissected all the vikings in seconds before decapitating the last one. I sighed: "Such bloodthirst can cause someone to be reckless and end up losing their life."
I proceeded forward as I saw particular materials and supplies that caught my interest. There were a few hammers and waraxes that looked pretty cool and could be tinkered on. Some gems and other items that could be of use were also scattered in the floor but they were covered in viking blood. I walked over and scavenged a few out of the piles of rusty metal. I ran off to the east and engaged in more combat with the vikings, they were holding swords and roared when they spotted me charging them with my energy sword in hand. One of them aimed to chop of my head but I rolled underneath him but not before stabbing him right in the genitals. A little handy tip. NPC's would always be vulnerable to getting stabbed in the groin and especially male NPC's. I parried some more blades and ducked once again to dodge an axe swing. Using my left hand, I flickered through my inventory and selected my machine gun. My finger slipped on the trigger and bullets began to spray out as fast as a rocket and shot the vikings right in the chest. Their armor was built for blocking ancient weapons but it wasn't built for bullets so my machine gun was more than effective. As I stood up I heard a faint roar. Cries for mercy filled the air as anyone would have shivers up their spine from what they just heard. I saw a shadowy figure in the distance that had red lights glowing and dimming constantly..
*flashback*
"So Danny what did it look like? The Shadowy Figure in your nightmare that you said was super duper scary?" I attached one last bandage to Seprenta's head.
"It was sort of like a dragon, it had all the components and parts of a dragon. Large wings, teeth, roaring and fire breathing, but it was in the shape of a human."
"I see. What was it holding?" Emile nodded.
"A sword. The creature said that this blade will make sure pain lasts forever. Well, before he ripped my heart out and I fell to the ground and woke up."
"Wait a second, how can a weapon cause pain that lasts forever? Isn't that impossible in the OASIS rules?" I mumbled.
"I'm not sure" Danny looked down at the floor. "It could definitely be possible in the OASIS since the OASIS had no rules when it came to balancing like your bow so maybe this could be a legit weapon"
"Man! That isn't really fair" Emile complained.
Danny slapped his back, "Nothing is fair in life, Emile"
"Thanks for telling me this Danny. Maybe this would help me somehow"
*flashback ends*
A dragon like creature in the shape of a human… carrying a sword. My silver eyes widened in horror as I suspected that this creature was the one in Danny's dream. It wasn't unusual that many enemies you meet would haunt your dreams beforehand. Dreams in the OASIS could be normal dreams or they could be visions. This time, Danny's dream was a vision and it was luck that he told us so I didn't need to run in here blindly with no knowledge of his weapons or how he looked like. This was crazy though and I never expected this to reach this far. I had put it together rather quickly as someone who enjoyed mythology. Ever since I was in class, I always was good with mythology and it just automatically came to me. I was in the land where Norse had taken over so I had a slight advantage. Emphasis on 'slight'. The dragon was Nidhogg or the black dragon but perhaps in the body of a demon. Carrying Dainsleif. A sword which could cause cuts that never heal… I couldn't fight him alone. It was too risky. If I was hit anywhere on my body as long as it was a cut I would mostly be fine as long as it was stitched up and the bleeding stopped. This was different. I needed time to call my friends and it was basic knowledge that Nidhogg wouldn't give me the opportunity to freely call them.
"Nidhogg!" I yelled to draw time. "What are you doing here, dragon? Aren't you supposed to be eating the roots of the World Tree?"
"Normally yes but I got bored" He shot fire into the sky.
"You got bored?" My eyes widened in shock.
"Obviously, after eating roots for over a thousand years, wouldn't anyone get bored? I smelt good prey from most likely your friend and you smell delicious" He licked his lips.
"Nidhogg, I may be a wolf that you want to chew down but chill. I'm not that tasty" I quickly spoke out.
He shook his head, "You do not understand mortal. Your wolf senses are weaker than mine, I can smell good prey and which ones are bad prey. Unlucky for you, you stand in the region of tasty and good prey"
Suddenly Nidhogg fired a large blast of fire right at my prone body, my senses finally booted like a computer and I cartwheeled out of the way, I opened my inventory while somehow dodging all of the fire and selected my artifact bow, Multiplier. I notched an arrow from the middle of nowhere(the weapon automatically would take an arrow from my inventory and automatically lock it in place) and fired at him. Like I expected, the arrow multiplied by four giving me four arrows that bounced off the dragon's heavy plating. Nidhogg was more smart than the other monsters that I faced and he switched to being more offensive than defensive. Nidhogg flew forward with his overpowered sword in hand and tried for a swing at my body. I parried the swing with my bow and immediately regretted it. Smoke began to spread on my bow and I could feel something snap inside. Of course this had to happen. I was about to notch another arrow but found that the bowstring snapped and was swinging in the air. I placed my bow back into my inventory and changed my weaponry in a split second. Using my inventory, I placed my energy blade in my left hand and my machine gun in my right hand. Bullets began to fire out and Nidhogg burned all of them with one of his fireball. Nidhogg flew back in the air before placing his sword in a downwards motion and charged me. I barely had time to raise my right hand and deflect the blade. Sparks began to spray out in my face and it was like one of those cheesy movies like Monty Python. Using this to my advantage, sort of, I rolled backwards and fired right in the head of Nidhogg. A few bullets managed to get past his defence and impaled themselves in his skull. One tiny stream of blood rolled down onto the grass plains underneath himself and his eyes glowed. One of his claws stabbed at the ground and a massive chunk of the dirt shot up, creating a pillar of dirt. I fell down right on my butt and some of my own fur covered my left eye. I stared down at the ground and found myself at a massive height above ground level.
"Can't get down now mutt" He laughed with his usual deep voice.
It was true. I didn't have those fancy shoes that my friend Emile had that could negate fall damage. If I fell off the pillar, I could kill myself and he wouldn't have to eat me. If I somehow managed to survive, he would just pick me up with his jaws and crush me into multiple bits. My eyes rolled backwards and I managed a short glance at my wings. Of course! I had wings, I could just glide down. How stupid could I be? I hopped off and gilded with my wings towards the ground. I reloaded my assault rifle quickly before firing more bullets at Nidhogg.
"You forgot I have wings?" I fluttered my own wings.
"You forgot you had wings, idiot" He laughed before shooting more fireballs at me.
With my mind distracted, I managed to get hit with one of the titanly fireballs. I could see nothing but red and orange light. The fireball spread all across my body and I could already feel my blood boil; some of my fur was still burning from the fireball. My health bar dropped down by a hundred hit points and I sheathed my energy sword on my left hand and switched to a water spell. I cooled myself of the fire and flew up in the air. Nidhogg swung his mighty wings and an airblast knocked myself all the way back to the ground, my wings being useless. He stomped all the way to my prone body and grasped me by the throat. I was lifted right into the air and my breathing turned to gasps, trying to gain some extra air to survive. My vision was turning into blurs and I could barely see; my eyes were so close to be falling towards sleep.
"Is this the end?" I asked my inner wolf.
"No, this will not be our end. We will not die by this dragon" He shook me awake mentally.
I regained consciousness for a few seconds and I flapped my wings with as much force as I could. My wings managed to build up enough speed to fly out of Nidhogg's grip and I collapsed back into the ground. My lungs gasped for air and I gave them air now that I was free to take in as much air as I needed. Finally my pride wore off and I needed help to defeat this jerk of a dragon. I quickly contacted three of my friends. Wesley, Jonathan and Danny as Emile had sprained his ankle and couldn't run so he wouldn't be much help to us. Emile had a cooldown of five hours before he could walk perfectly again so I removed him from my list of help for now. We didn't want to risk him getting even more injured. Emile couldn't have been healed with a healing spell because it didn't recover broken bones, it simply recovered your health or at least our healing spells weren't that powerful yet. Danny and I were able to stop bleeding but that was because our healing was level fifty, but I'm sure one of us could be able to reach a few Prestige levels and recover broken bones.
"Checking in Th0_Lup4s, I require assistance from Magik_Hooman, God_Speed and Wrong_Number. I've been attacked by what I believe to be the Norse dragon named Nidhogg in Sector 7"
"Magik_Hooman speaking here. Understood. Will come to your assistance immediately."
(A/N the perspective is right now in the third perspective beyond this notice)
Judging by the voice of Jimmy, he must've needed help urgently. Wesley told Jonathan and Danny to follow him immediately.
Wesley shouted. "EREBUS!"
His trusty raven immediately arrived in front of me with its yellow claws wrapped around my arm. Apparently Wesley had trained Erebus to be a strong pet and he could a lot of things. From increasing in size so we could fly and ride him to following only his commands. Wesley had developed a friendship with Erebus. Wesley summoned a gate using one of the artifacts he gained from Planet Doom and went through to the Land of Norse Mythology along with Jonathan and Danny. Once we arrived, He told Erebus to increase in size and told Jonathan and Danny to hop on who were amazed by the abilities of Erebus. Wesley concentrated and connected his mind with Erebus by a mind link which he developed with him after six months. This mental link allowed Wesley to tell Erebus where to go. I used his increased vision to find Jimmy. After a good few minutes of flying we finally spotted Jimmy, he was tired out and was close to fatigue. We had to do something. Jimmy was striked down just by the sheer impact of Nidhogg's Blade. It appeared Jimmy's arm had been clawed which was not good whatsoever. Nidhogg raised his blade in a taunting manner and with rage slammed his sword down. Jonathan saw what was happening and brought out his pistols and blasted volleys of bullets onto Nidhogg. With Nidhogg startled, Wesley lowered his raven onto the ground surrounding his katana with a dark aura. When we were a few meters off the ground, Wesley retrieved Erebus and landed on the ground. Danny was the fastest and he dashed forward getting a few cuts on Nidhogg with Orthos. Dashing away, Nidhogg was then greeted by a load of bullets that sent him flying back. Wesley's sword attack was ready, He had tried to utilize dark magic into some of his techniques. It was risky as it could turn the user insane and was considered quite sinister. Even with these facts in mind, He practiced it because he knew his mana control was pretty good and he already had reached Prestige 3. Wesley was level 320 if you counted all of the prestiges. Mana Control was one of the easier ones to raise but turning Prestige would still take a couple months. It is something that takes longer the higher level you get and it was extremely hard to raise his level of Mana Control. Wesley dashed forward with his katana with Nidhogg still on the floor stunned.
He yelled: "Dark Magic: One Hundred Strikes!"
Nidhogg forced himself up before getting a nice cut along his chest, before receiving another, and another, and another, and another. Soon the cuts were adding up to one hundred! It was like those anime shows where the user would attack at light speed sort of like Eight Trigrams: Sixty Four Palms in Naruto. Either way, Nidhogg's chest was now full of scars and cuts that were glowing with black light glimmering from them. He withdrew his sword and Nidhogg exploded. He had drastically increased in mana since before he only had six hundred mana. Now he had an impressive two thousand. This was his first time using dark magic in real battle and it already took out half his mana leaving him with a thousand. It was fine though as his other techniques didn't require as much. We expected Nidhogg to be separated into a few pieces and to slowly burn away into ashes, but we sure were wrong. He stood up with nothing on his chest and simply laughed. None of us could believe it. Dark Magic didn't have any effect on him… Even if it was just a simple technique, it had to do something right? No. He was just mocking us. That infuriated Wesley. So much to the extent that he released a Rasengan straight into Nidhogg's stomach in rage. Boiling on the inside, Wesley was shocked to see that he still remained in front of him. He grabbed him by his throat before stabbing him with his sword and throwing Wesley onto a piece of rock. Danny came to his assistance and managed to recover his bloody wound.
Nidhogg snorted: "I guess Dainsleif is rusty from not fighting for millennia after millennia, you guys can recover from your wounds for now."
Wesley sighed in relief: "Thank Goodness for that."
"Alright! NO MORE CHILD GAMES!" retorted Nidhogg with fury.
He shot wave after wave of fireballs that forced us to dodge rather than protect ourselves due to the size. We were all in fear and were in consideration of escaping but we weren't like that. We weren't cowards because who would surrender to a NPC?. If we wanted to be feared, why would we escape? That was purely our determination. No surrendering. No turning back now. Jimmy still exhausted had to join the fight. He took a deep breath before mentally activated his Wolf Sync mode where he and Seprenta would join minds and body in order to create one powerful being. He had a light aura around him that slowly cracked revealing a full wolf form of Jimmy's avatar. He now had massive wings[bigger than the original] with a silver aura surrounding them. His eyes were now ones that shone with justice and hope. Dual blades were placed in his hands that shone a dark silver. In this form, he was very very strong. Nobody dared challenge him when he used this form. Jonathan did the same where he connected with his dinosaur. He had a visor with two red eyes that could shoot lasers. Both of his arms had high-powered cannons attached to it. He grew a massive tail sharp teeth and also grew a shoulder pad that could shoot Rockets. Jonathan was great at guns- a lot like Emile. He was a mix between Emile and Danny having great mobility yet still being incredibly accurate when shooting a gun. Almost inhumanly accurate. Lastly, Danny didn't have a pet, not to our knowledge at least, but he did said he had a secret technique up his sleeve that only our guild knew about. This wasn't to anyone's knowledge because he created this move himself. While Pet Sync wasn't a commonly used technique due to people not being friendly with their pet as it only works if you have a good bond with your animal and that they couldn't communicate with their own pet which was a requirement if you wanted to attempt to try use it. Everyone knew about it. Danny's move well… It was called God Speed Mode. This allows the user to move at Mach 20. Danny was glowing with a golden aura and practically looked invisible due to the speed he was vibrating. He was only able to maintain this mode for five minutes. It was super overpowered while it was active.
All three of the friends stood in their stance and Nidhogg smirked. He charged forward but was interrupted by a fist straight to the stomach. A Mach 20 Punch. Danny began punching Nidhogg so fast that steam and sparks were starting to form in Danny's hands. Nidhogg was being punched full force from the speed of Mach 20. That speed was able to let him travel around the world in about an hour and forty five minutes. After all, this was 20 times faster than sound. Even at that speed Nidhogg managed to kick Danny right in the gut and launching him up with an uppercut. Jimmy used this as an opportunity to strike.
He yelled out: "Wolf Sync Mode: Crescent Blade!"
He connected both blades together creating a massive sword and sliced the ground in that of a crescent moon shape into the ground as it levelled the earth cutting Nidhogg in half. After being dissected, they wouldn't take their chances.
Now Jonathan was also going to unleash his move:
"Dinosaur Sync Mode: Quadruple Laser Cannon!"
His eyes started releasing violent beams of death and his arms charged up and did the same. Jimmy saw this from the corner of his eye and immediately jumped out of the way. The Black Dragon who had used the body of a demon was no more…
Or so they thought.
(A/N the perspective is right now in the first perspective beyond this notice)
Nidhogg had gone berserk. His body was out of control. His body still remained slightly intact after the laser beam attack and he was now disfigured. He sent a scream that could haunt dreams forever before imploding, his blood spreading on the ground. I managed to stand up as my injury was starting to feel better. I was amazed at the power of everyone. I stood up to congratulate them before the block of blood on the floor started to created an army of dead vikings. They rose from the floor. There were about a thousand of them. It would seem too much to handle but Jimmy assured us they were pathetic.
I asked: "I suppose I can handle them myself then?"
"Sure, why not. You didn't get to fight that much."
I was happy to hear that and decided to test out a little attack that I'd been practicing. It was still weak, but it could handle a bunch of enemies and had a chain reaction. I could unleash a few and they would be dead meat. After all, it only cost three hundred mana.
I held my Katana with two hands, one by the grip and the other on the blade.
"Dark Magic: Wave of Darkness"
I cut a line through air before pushing it with one hand that sent the small line flying over the dead vikings. Either the Vikings were even more pathetic than I thought or this move was stronger than I intended. I think it was the first one as my technique consumed the entire army and left nothing. Not even dust or remnants of their body,
Jimmy had shown me some of the loot he gained which consisted of shields, hammers, swords and waraxes. I saw that Nidhogg's Sword. Dainsleif was all that was left of him. I looked back at my friends and asked:
"What should we do with this?"
"Keep it?" suggested Danny.
I looked at it one more time before grasping the handle of the blade. It was surprisingly light.
"I think we should keep it in an armory if we find new recruits for our guild."
"I suppose so." said Jimmy.
"Actually, does anyone want it?" I asked.
"Nope" answered everyone in unison.
I sighed before putting the sword in my inventory and summoned a portal that me, Jonathan and Danny entered from. Erebus was right now back at our base and I gave him grains of uncooked rice, some pieces of leftover fish and a couple of dead worms I found in one of those crates where they always include useless items. At least I can use these to feed my raven. Jimmy gave Seprenta a massive bowl of raw meat since she loved meat, raw meat to be more exact though normal meat was fine. We sat down on our massive couch as Erebus was back in his cage and Seprenta in her dog pen. We went to check on Emile and we were glad to hear his injuries had recovered. He was able to sprint and was working in the gym. In our base, for some reason we just kept all our beds in the living room as it was massive. About a hundred meters in length and fifty in width. We all had a quick shower and watched a few movies and munched on some chicken wings and homemade pizza as well as a can of soda. The day was awesome as we got to battle to our fullest power, sadly Emile not being a part of it but on the bright side we earned tons of loot and we upgraded our gear. Jonathan gave himself a shortsword just incase anyone tried to get physical with him. Jimmy kept his normal arsenal. Emile got a War Axe, Danny got a shield and hammer to go along Orthos and Me? Well I just got a bow… and Dainsleif.