Ross and I were doing an event which was basically raiding multiple ships. I checked my pistols were locked in their holsters but I left my sword at home. While walking down the ship, I opened up the online shop and bought Darth Maul's lightsaber for 5,000,000 credits. I had pretty much left all the weapons at the base. Ross was holding Stormbreaker that he found in a wrecked mansion that was rumoured to be owned by Parzival. So far, the enemies were easy to beat.

Ross was flinging them around and I was just cutting them into bits. We finished a couple and relatively got pretty decent loot, so we chose to enter a harder raid. This time, it was a cave. There was a gate and a chest on top. I was assuming we just the enemies would need to be cleared first. Suddenly, the door opened and thousands of enemies started coming. Ross used his Lightning and cleared off a few as we just used our melee weapons to cut through. The enemies are too easy… or so it seems.

Then suddenly a giant ghostly beast whooshed in front of us, dealing massive amounts of damage. My hit point counter immediately dropped by eighty percent and Ross, who was on literally his last hit point, started panicking and running randomly in different directions. I knew I had to do something.

First, I took cover behind a rock, dragging Ross behind me. I started chugging my emergency "Ultra Healing Potion" which allows the user to regenerate at light speed. I chucked my ring of healing +3 to Ross. At least that seemed to calm him down. I tried to throw my Darth Maul Saber at the enemy, hoping it would stab him, but he just gobbled it up. I spent that much money on an item I only owned for around five minutes. I am full of salt right now.

I was utterly confused. This has never happened in our past missions (aka raids). I never even seen this enemy. I checked the info box. It said unknown. This was bad. When me and Ross finally reached a reasonable amount of health, me and Ross emerged from our secret hiding spot and I called out: "Mecha- Dinosaur!".

A miniature dinosaur appeared in front of me as I yelled once again: "Dinosaur Sync Mode!" I raised my arm cannons out as they prepared to launch my strongest attack. It would immediately send me out of the sync mode but it was the best chance.

"Magnus-Demolisher!"

A mix between blue and green lights sparked from my arm cannons as two spheres that were rapidly expanding was visible. Twenty Five Percent. Fifty Percent. Seventy Five Percent. One Hundred Percent. FIRE! The Beams flared and lit up the entire cave as we had a new fear of getting buried alive. The beast screeched as its fur melted. It's health lowered to fifty percent. We celebrated slightly early though as when we celebrated, more enemies came right in,

"Shit!" I called out.

I racked my pea-sized brain on how to defeat this little bastard. At this rate, we were going to get slaughtered within the next few minutes. Suddenly I remembered I had Ross with me. I stared at Ross's belt.

He stared at me , then at his own belt. He smiled. He got the plan. He suddenly pulled out a one-time use artifact, "The Disintegrator". He punched the code on the keypad on the artifact, then threw it straight at the enemy.

The enemy, apparently unfazed, launched fireballs at us. We were back to ten health points in two seconds. We sweared at the same time and tried to dodge the attacks. Then suddenly, everything became quiet. The enemy has turned into a pile of dust. Then, it rose from the ashes again.

"What the fuck!" Me and Ross yelled.

We took cover once again and healed rapidly. My Potions were running out quickly and my ring of regeneration +3 that I lent Ross was also nearly used up completely, due to that it needs to recharge every few hours.

Giving up wasn't an option. We would fight till the very end no matter what. Every ounce of blood, sweat and energy would need to be drained from us before we would even consider quitting.

The gigantic pale beast was starting to get angry. It's tiger like body had messy lines carved in them that started glowing a neon blue. It snorted as steam came out and its husks stood firmly in front of us. A Sabretooth. Weren't they extinct? It roared, loud enough to vibrate the ground we were on.

I checked our health and it was low but there was an idea. My lightsaber had some features. One which I could control the lightsaber around with "The Force". I checked my lightsaber details and chuckled. I reached out my hand as it charged toward us. I closed my eyes focusing as I saw the lightsaber in a lonely dark space.

Mentally, I pressed the button as it pierced through several parts in the Sabretooth's body causing him to shriek. The lightsaber soon cut its way out of his mouth. The Sabretooth had been defeated as we had just killed it inside out. The Chest fell down as we were eager to see its rewards. Nothing… an empty chest.

Clapping filled the air as a man with a ginger beard dressed in ancient clothing was descending on a floating platform. We held our guard up as we didn't know what to expect.

"I am the keeper of this cave and you have slayed my pet. This is a significantly challenging task that not many people have been to able to succeed in. I work for Parzival as he told me to guard this cave as it is one of the hardest in the game. Follow me and I shall grant you a reward"

I hesitated. We eventually decided to follow him and me and Ross secretly high fived. The Druid opened multiple doors through magic and other types of tech and science. Once we entered the room. The Druid motioned upwards after pointing to the chest as it opened. A neon light shone brightly as I couldn't prevent my curiosity and looked inside risking the chance of my head being cut off. Inside there were three different objects.

The Druid said: "The two of you. Such wonderful warriors. Please select an item each. The All Seeing Eye. The ability to predict the future. Infinite Eye Sight. The Eye that belongs to the gods. Then we have The Infinite Power Arm. An arm that when applied will grant you infinite strength. Lastly, The Divine Mind. This grants the user infinite intelligence"

I asked: "Uh, can we take all of them?"

The Druid just stared at him.

"Okay, I will take that as a no."

I gestured Ross to go first. Ross went straight to the Power Arm, the most, well, captivating item. He picked it up and put it in his inventory. He seemed quite happy about his choice. Now it's my turn. I clicked on each item and read its stats and descriptions. I thought about it a moment, and then I picked up the Divine Mind. I would REALLY like to have infinite intelligence. My friends would be so jealous.

The first thing I noticed is that the artifact is rated Super-Legendary, which means you can obtain these kinds of artifacts from very special missions. Only Jimmy, Emile and Wesley (well also Ross now) had these artifacts, and just holding them makes me feel really privileged. I told Ross to start up the spaceship and set flight to Ludus. However, in that moment. Our spaceship blew up that sent our artifacts missing.
A mocking voice spoke: "Bow down to your king. I am the God of Control. Elenchos. The Forgotten Son of the triplet from Nyx and Erebus! With the power of the Reality and Space Stone and you will perish."

I scratched my head, confused, "Who was Erebus again?"

"You pathetic fool, you mortals haven't heard about Erebus, the primordial of darkness! What have you been doing for your lives!" Elenchos screamed, shaking us to our feet.

"Um, eating chicken nuggets and watching television" Ross admitted, barely holding in his laughter.

"I knew I should have called father to destroy all chicken and television"

"I still have my phone"

"Die! Die! Die!"

He used his space stone and teleported in front of Ross and kicked him square in the face. I was later greeted by a fist to the stomach. We both flew backwards as Ross stood back up and tried to release thunder… nothing. He tried again… nothing. Again… he was hit again before getting back up and challenging Elenchos.

"Hmph. Petty Mortals. It's time to end you!"

With that, Elenchos brought out a hammer that was the length of a meter and spread the wings that his twin brothers also had and flew towards me. He slammed it to the ground which sent me off balance. I managed to backflip and dodge out of the way as Ross got a good strike on Elenchos.

Elenchos snapped his fingers and the world around me turned full black, I found myself in a empty void with some stars hanging right on the sky. Everywhere around me was just dark blue of black, I spotted Elenchos flying right up with his meter long hammer.

The ground that I was stepping on was pure black and it looked as if it was made of marble, it was very shiny and I could still see the shine even in this dark and gloomy place. I spotted Ross standing right next to me, StormBreaker still not creating any sparks. Switching to a sword, he charged up his mana and his sword started to glow green, he smacked the sword right on the ground, separating the terrain around us. Cracks began to spread across the ground and I could feel some shockwaves appear.

Some sort of lava-like substance(also colored black) leaked right out and it flowed between the gaps that Ross created. Elenchos looked more amused than before and opened his hand. Black ki blasts came out of his hands and I backflipped, nearly missing all of the blasts; Ross did the same thing but backflipping to another floating chunk.

Elenchos used the space stone again and it glowed. Some dimensional portals came out of nowhere and he appeared right behind Ross, stabbing him right through the rib. Ross was too slow to register this due to wifi lag(of course it was, what else could it be) and he flew backwards into the black liquid. Immediately, his body was covered in this goo and I could see his health bar glow red.

I had the tattoo of health on my left arm, it allowed me to see all of my teammates health bars and the status effects. I could see that the goo caused Ross to get a wide range of negative status buffs: slowness, poison, weakness to crit, broken bones, blindness, reduced health, mana drain, cursed eyesight, dizzy, etc. It didn't look good for him and his health automatically reached half health.

Ross opened up his inventory and pulled out a good ultra status remove potion, he drank it and five debuffs were removed from his avatar; the rest of the debuffs weren't removed. They had an unlimited logo on the "time" so that meant he would have to suffer with these until I could analyze this with the best medics inside of the OASIS. Ross was currently out of commission and I needed to get him away from the danger.

However, we felt ourselves falling as we simply fell into the void. I woke up as my vision was blurry. Where was I? I looked left as debris and flames were everywhere. Looking to my right, I saw Elenchos with Ross's Sword as his boot managed to him down.

"NOOO!" I yelled.

I fired my pistol at Elenchos as it hit directly in his shoulder. I brought out my lightsaber and surged towards the sinister god. I ferociously attacked I couldn't think straight. This distraction was my downfall my right arm was cut off. Following up, my left eye was sliced. I brought out my rocket launcher and shot it downwards that sent us both flying.

I rolled backwards and hit a rock as Ross was still unconscious. I noticed Ross's hand generating small flames. Wait… Where was Elenchos. Staggering to my feet, I brang out my lightsaber and opened it. Elenchos's figure was visible in the array of smoke as he spun his hammer mockingly.

I activated my target aiming system that the OASIS came with for throwable weapons and it locked on to Elenchos's figure in the smoke, his figure had a red box to it, meaning that he was locked in. I threw my lightsaber and it hit him straight in the chest, seemingly knocking him back a few meters.

Suddenly another Elenchos came up behind me and smacked me right in the chest, breaking my chest piece that I had been wearing. My chestpiece was legendary, it had normally really good defence and armor ratio to it but this time it broke like shards of metal. Elenchos used his broken hammer and the shards of the armor fell to the ground.

"Are you kidding me?" I pointed to Elenchos in annoyance before pointing back to the shards on the "floor". "That cost me, you know"

"Of course I know" He countered. "I have been on this universe longer than your television"

"Oh stop with the television already" I muttered.

I held out my fist and a blue light started to glow from it, a lightning ball started to come right out from the sky into my hand, it was glowing like a Rasengan from Naruto and it lit up some of the darkness around me.

Right now, I could finally see Elenchos in his glory. Elenchos had created a few clones using the darkness around him as he was the son of Nyx and he could manipulate shadows. I spotted my mana bar go down by twenty percent and that made me shake a bit. This was one of my most powerful magic, I wasn't a magical user so this was my last chance to actually do something.

Wesley could easily do this and it wouldn't even take away two percent of his mana. His magical gear allowed cooldown reducement and mana reducement so that he could just spam this technique and use basically little to no mana.

I used this technique like a Rasengan, I charged forward as fast as I could and used my avatar to its highest potential. I dismissed three of the copies to be clones so that left two clones, one of them had to be the right one. It was a one-one chance now, either I would hit the right one or get a shadow clone(heh, Naruto reference).

I smacked the lightning ball to the left clone, the clone groaned in pain and exploded with some sort of darkness like blood. The lightning ball stuck with the "real" Elenchos, exploding in a shower of high voltage sparks. Elenchos vanished into the shadows and came up for another attack to my back. This time, however, I was prepared.

I pulled out of my inventory an assault rifle and fell to the floor. I shot Elenchos right in the head, registering some headshots to the head. They did two times more damage than usual and I managed to make Elenchos clutch his head in pain. The funny thing was, I could see bullet holes.

Elenchos flared his own mana and created a large blade with only his hand, they were glowing bright purple and they looked like dangerous flames. I could only watch as the blades came up right to me, I raised my assault rifle again and sprayed more bullets, he deflected all of them with his new blades and struck with a karate chop, I rolled right out of the way and took out another assault rifle, placing it on my left hand. I sprayed him with as many bullets as I could to draw time, Elenchos threw one of his blades finally and I was forced to throw away both of my assault rifles so that I could dodge.

In return, I caught the blade and I was going to pick it up before a message popped right up. It said something like: You are not high enough level because you suck, go do squats or something. I took out a grenade and threw it right at his face.

The grenade exploded right in his face and I took out one of my knives, stabbing it right at his chest. Elenchos was forced to the ground and I stepped right on his chest, I also ripped away his space stone and his reality stone so that it wouldn't be another Thanos all over again.

When the stones were ripped out, the entire dimension vanished, I found myself along with Ross back in space, floating around. I quickly grasped my astronaut helmet from my inventory so I wouldn't get oxygen failure and yes, that was a debuff. I threw one to Ross and gravity helped move the helmet to his face, also removing his debuff. Elenchos was floating around awkwardly, apparently he couldn't manipulate his shadows now.

"Hey, I thought you can fly" I butted in.

"Shut up!" Elenchos yelled.

"Luckily for me, I have a jetpack"

I had a jetpack from the OASIS markets, it could fly pretty fast and the best part was that it didn't need to use too much fuel, fuel was expensive and the world was already suffering from money loss. In the 21th century, we used way too many of the resources provided by the Earth and now we were suffering from it.

I finished up the job, stabbing him right in the face and slashing him in every single angle that I could reach, Elenchos was finished now. Elenchos was a glowing ball of light as I attacked him with my speed, I threw my sword that was in my hand at his chest and took out a rocket launcher, firing it at him, clicking the trigger.

"Die!" I yelled, spamming some more rockets.

My bullet bill was going to be huge after this, I was hoping on saving some credits. Elenchos blew up in a blaze of glory and I shot a few more rounds just for good measure, you never know. After that was all done, I picked up Ross and I was going to throw him into the spaceship when I realized it blew up.

Cursing, I went into my inventory and took out a new NASA spacecraft, the spacecraft was the size of a twentieth century mouse and I disabled the enchantment that I had placed on it. The spacecraft grew to its original size and I threw Ross inside, I looked around for the artifacts that we just collected. I could spot the Power Arm and the Divine Mind floating around next to us, I used my jetpack to pick them all up before placing them in my inventory. I could give Ross the Power Arm later. I closed the door of the spaceship and took of my helmet. It felt good not having to wear the helmet constantly.

"Set course to Lupreta 2.0" I said to the AI.