Link Start: Danger In Virtual Worlds
Chapter 12: Survive The Disasters & Floor Bosses
Date: Days 326-332
Heathcliff smiles: "I see your unique skill was triggered, Swiftdrawer. I could hear its activation." "You're behind it, aren't you? Anyway, I'm just glad to be alive and feel ready to go more than ever before now." "Of course. It's only natural you'd feel this way. I'm glad the unique skill activated for you in time. I did design it after all and discreetly added it to your list of skills." "I'm not surprised you're behind it. I'm only calm right now because I'm trying to problem solve and stay alert for attacks from the boss and the moment Slenderman goes away." After terrorizing us for a bit, Slenderman vanishes with the dark fog. We all lift our heads and get into our best roles for dealing with the 31st Floor Boss. However, another disaster starts. "*noises* Pew. Pew. Happy." Teacher panics: "I played Roblox in my old life! Damn it, that must be Mr. Happy!" I reply: "It is! He's extremely dangerous. I don't like him. I hate how he talks and acts at the same time. He's teleporting around the map to unleash attack after attack. I'm pretty sure he can be killed but it's better to focus on this damn floor boss in that department. Everyone, just keep away from Mr. Happy by any means necessary!" "Pew. Pew. Happy." I'm forced to evade Mr. Happy. "Pew. Pew. Happy." Some of the others almost die to the annoying disaster. "Pew. Pew. Happy." Kirito, SHINC, and some of the others attack Mr. Happy after getting out of his range. But he doesn't die. "Pew. Pew. Happy." Some weaker clearers are put in range of his chaos. Liten yells: "Don't worry! I'll protect you all!" She runs in to tank all of the damage with her plate armor and shield. "Pew. Pew. Happy." I'm attacked by Mr. Happy but manage to survive while still focusing on the floor boss.
"Pew. Pew. Happy." The disaster is replaced by another one. I don't hear anything so I look up as hyper disaster music starts playing again. "*technology noises* Nuclear launch detected." I scream: "Damn it! The nuke's a hyper disaster and can spawn almost anywhere on the map! And we have to get away from the floor boss! Also, someone needs to zoom in with something to far up into the sky to find a dot before the nuke lands and explodes! Why did it have to be THIS one?! Anyone caught in the blast will die in an instant!" Jack scoffs: "I don't believe that for a single moment." Akiza replies: "Jack! Don't say that! We have to find that dot!" Soon, the dot is found by Sinon: "The nuke's going to hit this spot! Get away from here!" Kizmel replies: "Not all of us can! Some of my people are pinned down by the boss!" The PI speaks: "That won't be for much longer. Swiftdrawer, place down some of your death coasters." "But I can't build outside of the RCT3 parks." Cardinal replies: "You can now on this floor at least. I had a hand in that. No need to thank me. I'm just happy that I'm alive again still." I build some of the death coasters using my personal col balance and put 'em in test mode to send them at the floor boss. They manage to knock the floor boss back just enough for us all to be able to get away from it in the nick of time. So many of us just barely avoided getting blown to nothing by the nuke. The next disaster came as the boss charged towards us in a way that defied its original programming. Again, I didn't hear anything. So again, I look up to see a laser block coming down. I shout: "GET DOWN!" That's what we all do. No one dies and we are able to engage the boss in time for the disaster to stop coming down towards us. "Ha! Ha! Ha! Take this! Damn it, it's sucks being one of the only clearers who knows how to survive all of these disasters!" But then, a big green cheese man in a suit and tie appears. It's The Big Cheese from The Normal Elevator. He says: "I can help guide you through this game of survival as well. I have been trapped here for a long time."
Pito exclaims: "Who the hell are you?!" "I'm The Big Cheese." "Seriously?!" Llenn scolds her: "Pito! It isn't the time for this!" "I know, I know! It's okay, Llenn." Familiar music plays. The BC says: "A bonus round is coming. But it's not a good idea to collect any of the bonuses from it. Because I am a NPC, I cannot die but each bonus game has proven to be dangerous since the start of the death game." I sigh: "What? Even the bonus rounds are dangerous?!" The bonus round starts. It's the hoops. The GGO NPC yells: "Get moving, you worms! You can't afford to let any of those hoops touch you!" Chaos ensues as we do all that we can to avoid them. But the smaller hoops that would be worth more points are faster than the others and the hoops first appear in the sky over the entire map and kept spawning in for a couple of minutes. There was no time to even damage the floor boss once so it ended up chasing and attacking whoever got near it. By some miracle, no one has died in Survive The Disasters 2 yet even with the floor boss doing what a floor boss does. When the bonus round finally ends, I happen to see something spawn in the center of the map. "Oh s*i*! That's the Zerg Lurker!" My noticing that earned me a direct hit from the boss. I'm knocked to the ground as a literal Roblox guest NPC appears to help us too. The guest says: "Get up as high as you can! The Zerg Lurker can instantly bring your lives to an end if it's things that rise out of the ground touch you!" The Zerg Lurker had already begun to do its thing. I barely was able to get up in time to reach a place that was out of the unkillable Zerg Lurker's reach. Of course, the floor boss ended up going after everyone who chose to get comfortable on top of the simple cartoony house next to the STD2 store. This caused the house to be completely destroyed as the others fled from it while The Zerg Lurker remained active. It almost killed several people but I managed to push them out of the way before jumping into the air in time.
With the Zerg Lurker, it strikes incredibly fast. If you don't watch the area, you're as good as dead. Eva shouts: "We gotta stop that floor boss somehow! Hey ladies, provide cover fire for some of our allies!" "*unison* Right away, boss!" Sinon nods: "Not a bad idea. Using that, we can keep it from attacking those most currently vulnerable to the Zerg Lurker's attacks." The boss hits me again just before I help all of them with that cover fire. "Damn, this hurts. I'm bleeding so much. How the hell will we live through this series of deathly disasters without any recovery potions much less time to access the store if we even earn coins from surviving, survival streaks, and helping kill some disasters?!" No one has an answer for that. The Zerg Lurker disappears and I hear certain sounds. But an appearing Roblox noob NPC who is actually intelligent speaks: "It's the Murderers. Get inside before anyone else dies." I use Artist's Eye to create a hard to destroy house and yell: "Get in there!" By the time everyone manages to get in, more players die from the floor boss and the Murderers. It's truly becoming a bloodbath in this death game like never before up to now. I actually see the Murderers looking for us and start shooting them: "Those damn Murderers can be killed themselves. We must avenge our fallen comrades! Don't worry about me and my bleeding. I'll live. ..For now." The 31st Floor Boss tries to destroy the house but I have a solid understanding of harder to break materials than wood. From the house, we are able to hurt the boss some as well as kill the Murderers before they could instantly kill anyone else. With them out of the way, it was time for the next disaster. We hear a warning sound. The Big Cheese exclaims: "Watch out! Mystery Disaster, Double Trouble, Hyper Disaster, or Triple Threat incoming!" White fog appears. Most of us head outside. That's when I hear it. The sound of modern military jets dropping bombs. The PI yells: "Bombers! Use everything you have to avoid them! Focus on the sounds!" Not a good combination. The fog and the Bombers. It made it so hard to avoid the Bombers while also trying to defeat the floor boss.
We didn't lose anyone while the Bombers kept blowing things up. That was too close. After the fog vanished, we all found ourselves literally face to face with rye boss who roars and attacks all of us. I equip my sword and shield, using the shield to block some of the damage. I didn't join the frontal defense as my hp was too low to handle the risk of acting as a heavily armored human shield for other clearers. "Crap! When did we all get so close together and the boss caught up to us?" The house I created has already been destroyed by the Bombers as well as the floor boss itself. The RCT3 peeps from earlier return to distract and hold off the boss. As that happened, the next disaster struck. It was a Triple Threat. Meteors, Trampoline, and Radcliffe Warriors. "Everyone, stay the hell away from the lowest area of floor!" I saw it transform into a death trampoline. Then, the first meteor touched the ground and exploded as fire attacks were sent towards all of us by a huge number of those warriors. The BC adds: "Keep an eye to the sky! Those meteors could instantly kill all of you!" The floor boss was still distracted with the peeps when the Triple Threat ended. Next came something very problematic. The noob NPC yells: "It's the aliens!" Hyper disaster plays again as a UFO appears and a whole bunch of aliens shoot lasers towards us right as the floor boss returns to attacking us after sending all of the peeps flying. When a RCT3 peeps flies and falls to the ground, they don't get up immediately. Against a floor boss, they are easy to swat away targets. And if they're knocked down enough times, they seemingly will never get up again. Naturally, that was a problem. Heathcliff yells: "We have to fall back! Behind the shop! We'll attack and defend from behind there! GGO players and others who can handle guns well, you'll be most crucial!" I end up having to switch back to one of my guns in time for us to get behind the store which is a structure that cannot be destroyed no matter what.
From behind there, myself, Kirito, Sinon, Eva, and others start firing at the aliens before they could reach us. Their hp is much higher than I'm used to so it was a lot harder to deal with them as the floor boss tried to find us to no avail. When the aliens stopped coming, it was more safe to go back into the open. We did so in order to better handle whatever was coming next along with the damn floor boss. At least we were actually earning points, exp, and col from surviving all of the disasters. Argo figured that out by chance as the Hyper Tiny Noobs began to be trouble. "Hey everyone, I just found out something interesting from looking at my col balance. *explains right before being attacked by a bunch of the little noobs* And that's- Get away from me!" I intervene and manage to kill them all: "Stay sharp! There's a lot more of those nightmares coming from all parts of the map! They're fast and numerous!" "I appreciate your help, Swiftdrawer. When we get out of this, I'd like your help again on some guidebooks if that isn't too much." "*kills more tiny noobs while also dodging the boss* That isn't too much. I'll help as long as neither of us dies here." "That's the spirit! Hehe, I knew I could count on you!" The next disaster begins: a 2D video game style mini game to avoid Eggman's moves. It was a lot of running and dodging but at least it got us away from the 31st Floor Boss for a little bit. None of us were killed by Eggman. Instead, we had to immediately deal with another boss: the Duck. A giant rubber duck that moves fast and stomps on players. It makes noises as it tries to hurt us while the floor boss tries to do the same. Lisbeth grits her teeth: "Another boss?!" I reply: "At least it's easy to read! There's several other bosses in Survive The Disasters too. We have to watch out for the others.." We do manage to kill it but the floor boss still remains alive.
We've all had our hps reduced to less than 50% and we don't even have any Revival Crystals to save ourselves or others. Fluttershy worries: "How are we going to get through?! I don't know what to do anymore! My poor animal friends! They must be so worried about us!" The Giant Zombie mini boss appears. The guest NPC recoils in disgust: "That zombie's breath is fatal, it moves fast, and it's very aggressive!" I look toward the PI. They nod at me as I spawn in the dune buggy again: "If we have to survive all of these horrible things, we might as well do so while taking advantage of whatever we still can. Let's stop this Giant Zombie for good and cut its reign of terror short!" "This plan has very good value. I am willing to go through with it." The two of us get on the buggy and soon crash into the Giant Zombie's right leg. Something the guest forgot to mention is that the zombie may sometimes smash the ground. It almost smashes us but we're able to knock it to the ground. I run out of the car, fire at the floor boss from a distance with my gun, and jump up to stab the Giant Zombie with my sword. I push my sword further inside it: "You bastard zombie. I'm going to help make sure you never give up again. Comrades, help me kill this zombie!" I get a lot of backup and with their help, we overwhelm the zombie and kill it in seconds while the others manage to hold a solid line of defense against the floor boss. It almost ends up getting broken until the Hyper Giant Noob boss spawns and I equip my gun to shoot at both enemies. The floor boss is angered and starts racing toward me only to get ticked off even more by the others it was leaving behind in order to go after me. I hit the Hyper Giant Noob where they were most weak. They're really easy to knock down.
It took a few seconds for the Giant Noob to get back up before moving kind of like a total doofus only to perform body slams into the ground every so often as well as leap into the air and blow on us with great intensity. Those are all of the moves they're capable of. We almost lose more people between the 2 bosses but because the noob was easy to knock down, it went down again and never got back up to be a threat again. They were pinned to the ground as many clearers worked together to kill them. When they died, their body, arms, head, and legs were sent flying far away from each other before vanishing. But then, another Triple Threat occurred. Zombies, Missile Launcher, and Coil Noobs. The Coil Noobs are armed with Gravity or Speed Coils which can be purchased in the game's shop. They aren't too bad for us. Same with the zombies. Except there's a lot of them as well as the floor boss and the Missile Launcher. The Missile Launcher is ruthless and had rapid fire and auto aim. There's no need to state that someone who knew of what the disasters could do shouted such things out. I ended up adding: "I'm so damn tired! It feels like I'm going to fall asleep at any moment! My eyes hurt so much! And worse still is all of these threats together!" To say I was not in a great state was an understatement. When I saw more players die due to the Missile Launcher or floor boss, my mood became increasingly worse as did my mental stability. After everything, I was muscularly exhausted as well. The PI drives the buggy towards me: "Swiftdrawer. Get in. You need to rest." I nod and get back in. The vehicle was too fast for even the boss or the Missile Launcher to hit. And from the vantage point the buggy gave me, I shot at a lot of enemies while going easy on my muscles. Just in case you were curious how I got more bullets after running out earlier, I just used my Artist's Eye to pull it off but after making that house, I can't make anything else unless I want to have to close my left eye for hours on end.
So with that said, it was clear that I couldn't afford to have my left eye be closed in order to rest it. Thus, I knew I had to be really careful with my bullets. I didn't want to waste a single one. I wanted each of them to only hit the ground after dealing as much damage as possible to the enemy. "We must stay sharp, PI. Keep the buggy stable." "Very well." We kept at this until I ran out of bullets. By the time that had happened, Noobs, Kerblox Mages, and Sighters had all appeared. Kerblox Mages deal in ice spells that can even completely stop you from moving. Sighters are machines that appear in the corners of the map to shoot lasers directly at anyone who has not found some kind of shelter to hide from them under. They don't kill instantly but they can't be killed as far as I know and the damage they deal is pretty high. Now out of bullets, I sigh: "It's a good thing I made a bow for myself too not that long ago. A knight should have multiple weapons at their disposal. Not just their sword, shield, and spear. Versatility allows for a knight to adapt even to the conditions of a high tech futuristic society." I pull out my bow. It's a Minecraftian bow with upgrades made to it thanks to Lisbeth so now, it's also one made of materials from Aincrad. I start notching arrows with it, not worried about arrows or durability in the slightest. It has Power V, Infinity, Punch ll, Flame ll, and Unbreaking lll as enchantments. With my STR attribute, I'm able to send the arrows as far as I would any bullet from one or more of my guns. They hit their targets, killing creatures spawned from A Triple Threat of previously fought enemies. I won't allow myself to die again. My unique skill can't save me from death again until a boss battle with another Aincrad boss starts which is never going to happen in here. I just keep firing my arrows as the PI drives the dune buggy around to avoid all disasters and knock over some enemies.
However, things don't stay that easy forever. My body feels better besides in the needing to sleep. "Haaaaaaa! Let's keep going, PI!" The dune buggy gets sent flying by something. The Tornado disaster which moves in a diagonal direction across the map, blowing anything away that crosses its path. The buggy was swept up and we were unable to do much until it hit the ground after the tornado just left the area. Right as the Guests disaster starts, I see someone doing something forbidden that should be punished more harshly in my world. "PI, do you see what that man is doing to that little girl? It's disgusting. How did a man like him end up on the Assault Team anyway? Must be a crafty piece of scum." My mood was getting better thanks to riding in the dune buggy and being able to shoot enemies from it. I then add to my own words: "With such a horrendous thing being committed shamelessly out in the open with a high chance of death between the onslaught of evil Roblox guests and the 31st Floor Boss, one thing is certain. I'm going to kill that man. Sexual assault is unforgivable and it isn't a topic that should be taboo to talk about with minors who are most often the victims of it. Scumbags like that man just don't know to respect bodily autonomy and that's not okay. Such an act is harmfully physically, mentally, emotionally, and psychologically. A person who does it can never be expected to be forgiven for what they've done. To force yourself onto the bodies of others. How cruel and vile. We could just feed the man to the floor boss but that's a fate too good for him. Too slow too." I leap out of the car, ignore how much my eyes hurt, and run towards the man who is doing awful things to the little girl. I shoot him in the eye with one of my arrows. He screams and falls to the ground. I speak to the little girl gently: "Get the hell out of here and hide. You may be strong enough for the Assault Team but you were just assaulted. You need to get away from all this death."
She nods weakly and struggles to run away. I turn my attention towards the man, make note of his username, and say: "You're only still alive because I want you to understand just what you've done. Don't pull that arrow out if you want to live a little longer. Actually, I won't let you pull it out to keep what's left of it from bleeding as my arrow definitely pierced deep enough to nail your optic nerve. I don't care if I lose more hp from the threats trying to kill us all. Because right now, you will understand pain in your last moments. Unless you want to try for redemption, this is the end of your journey in the Infinityverse and if you try doing what you did in that other place, I hope your death is swift and merciless." "How dare you tell me what to do, Swiftdrawer! I'm an elite player! And elite players can do whatever they want to little girls! I have so much col! I'm rich and so powerful! You commoners can never understand someone like me!" "Oh but I can understand you. Maybe not completely but more than enough to determine you deserve to die if it's the only way to truly stop you. Don't underestimate someone who has studied sociology. I have an idea of how you think. Now let me teach you a lesson in pain. Can you imagine just how much pain that little girl was going through with all of the danger and what you were doing to her? She has no concept of what sa is but she does know that she didn't want what you were doing to her. You could have killed her all because of your twisted sense of what to do when you see someone you want to do the thing with! Her hp was already low when you began doing it. You could have damaged her body and scarred it and her for life. Now let me ask you this. Think back to when you were just a little boy. Could you imagine what it would feel like to have an older man do the same thing to you back then? How would it make you feel? How much would it hurt?"
"Hahahaha! Like I care!" "I'm giving you one last chance to live in this world and that's how you respond. People like you are even lower than the worst monsters of Aincrad. They just want to kill you. They don't really have the sense to keep you alive to make you suffer before they ultimately kill you in cold blood. Sometimes it feels like the only reason the state hasn't come for me back in my own world is because they want me to suffer along with everyone else. A truly twisted person will not immediately kill whoever they want to kill. They'll draw it out and make their victim hurt so much before slowly killing them. Now I ask again. Can you imagine experiencing the same pain as the little girl? *no answer* I thought so. You don't understand true pain. Maybe I should feed you to the floor boss to make you understand it before you get sent to that other world." They try to attack and kill me but it's useless. I slice their right arm off with one of my daggers. "This is true pain. True pain isn't brief. It's prolonged and excruciating and harms you deeply mentally. And it doesn't come alone. It triggers something in your emotions that worsens the experience. Your breathing is heavy. You're shaking and sweating. You're scared and you deserve to be after what you did. You risked you and your victim's lives just so you could invade her body. You are disgusting just like the billionaires as well as the Nazis and those in power who do nothing to stop bad things from happening. If you were ever in a position of power, you'd deserve to be killed in front of your loyal followers by your right hand person who has turned against you. Now that you should finally understand this, I'll end your misery." I stab him in the heart to finish him off. His body shatters and I return to the dune buggy. Some disasters have happened and already passed by the time I do so. I don't say anything for now. Instead, I look around as the PI starts moving the vehicle around again to see what disaster was now ongoing. That's when I saw a shining sword in the middle of the map. "PI, WE NEED TO GET TO THAT SWORD BEFORE SOMEONE TOUCHES IT OUT OF CURIOSITY! IT COULD KILL US ALL IN AN INSTANT!" They nod and put the pedal to the metal.
I get out of the car in time to block people from trying to pull out the sword. "Don't touch that damn sword. It's now the Sword In The Stone. Touch it and most of this map will erupt in a blinding light or explosion that kills whoever gets caught in it instantly. I should know. When I experienced this disaster as part of a mere Roblox game that wasn't part of a bigger VRMMORPG hardcore level death game, I died so many times to it because people touched the sword. There's another sword that may appear later. It's black and if someone touches it, huge katanas will come from the sky and slice through anyone they come into contact with. I touched it once out of spite if I'm not mistaken. That was years ago outside of a VRMMO. Because Roblox is not meant to be a virtual death game or part of one. Roblox Corporation is run by a bunch of scumbags who profit off of child game creators on their platform as a form of child labor. Child labor is unethical because it itself defies a child's need to learn the world around them through the process of socialization. The disruption to life child labor forces is greater than in a death game like this or SAO. At least here, children are allowed to be children in the safe zones. They don't need to do anything to help us get out of this damn game already. But children being forced into child labor often have to sacrifice both school and play to work. Anyone who supports child labor should be removed from power if they have any and be kept away from children. Even here, we don't need to force children to fight on the frontlines against the likes of that damn floor boss over there." I stop talking after the sword disappears only for a black one to on cue replace it right away. I sigh: "Look at that. The black sword or rather, katana. No touching. Try to touch it and I will take action." I just patiently wait for the sword to leave only to then hear a meme. I yell at the top of my lungs: "EVERYONE, GET THE HELL AWAY FROM THE CENTER SLIVER OF THE MAP!"
Myself and others manage to just barely get away in time as Shoop Da Whoop appears. "IMMA FIRE MA LAZER! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" The explosions and energy blast come to a stop and Shoop Da Whoop vanishes while some of my comrades end up trapped in a corner due to the 31st Floor Boss. The PI picks me up in the dune buggy before racing to allow us to help perform a rescue operating of the clearers. Lisbeth appears, holding her mace firmly: "Allow me to help as well! They won't last long against the boss with no room to run or hide like this.." Kirito nods: "Let's go! We have to get the floor boss to face us instead!" I reply: "This is going to be so risky. Look at how low all of us are on health. We need to be ready to run or ride away for our lives. We can do this but we must consider all of the risks we're about to take." But then, the next disaster begins. "KAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAAAAAAAMEEEEEEEEEEE HAAAAAAA!" The Kamehameha blast appears in the map and moves slowly in an angled direction. I utter: "Crap! We can't move right now with that blast heading this way! And no, it wasn't our Goku who's behind this Kamehameha.. It's a disaster from the damn game itself." That's when my Rune Knight counterpart intervenes to stop the floor boss from killing those it has trapped in a corner. "Provoke!!" The floor boss turns, angered by the provocative behavior displayed through the sword skill and starts attacking the Rune Knight(I remember from my other life having them upgrade from Lord Knight after over a year at last) instead. Actually, my Rune Knight still can use some of their skills as well as retains their equipment from Midgard, meaning they have a lot of hp as well as dps and STR. The floor boss roars as it finds it pretty difficult to kill the knight who currently has about 100,000 hp. SAO and Ragnarok Origin's power, level, and skill systems are very similar.
It's like their cut from the same cloth so it's no wonder the expectation that the Rune Knight and others would lose their stuff and stats proved to be worthless. Kirito yells: "We have to back them up!" At the same time he says this, a new disaster begins. We hear the sound of lava. I quietly curse to myself before yelling at the top of my lungs again: "RISING LAVA, GET TO VERY HIGH GROUND!" That's when we found out we can use Minecraft blocks to build up. Seeing others pile up in the distance, I start building a tower of cobblestone: "Come on, everyone! Forget the boss for now and build up by 40 blocks! That should be high enough to keep us safe!" Even my RK counterpart abandons fighting the floor boss in favor of jumping a good distance away on their velociraptor mount. We all survived the Rising Lava disaster and safely got down once it disappeared. But the boss somehow destroyed some of the pillars of blocks we made as hyper disaster music began to play again. Blaze runs over to us, sniffs the air, and panics: "ACID! MY NOSE IS SENSITIVE TO ACID!" "Acid? Oh no. HYPER RISING ACID! PILLAR UP PILLAR UP! THERES NO TIME!" As the boss tried to attack us, we joined everyone else in building up as quickly as we could. But the acid was close behind all of us and the floor boss started climbing one of the pillars to get us. All of us are sweating heavily at this point. We are so close to dying right now. But as we keep towering up, the boss and acid keep going up. I groan: "How long is it going to be before the acid stops rising?! It never got this high in this game before! This is a crisis!" When the acid stopped rising and disappeared, we at first didn't notice until the floor boss nearly knocked me down while getting on the same level of us. We look down to see no more acid. As the boss starts attacking us at a slow pace to make sure it doesn't fall, we panic and almost jump to the ground when another hyper disaster happens. Hyper Flood. Jumping down now would be an immediate death sentence. Hours of agony passed as we continued to have to endure disaster after disaster. We were all so tired but held on thanks to the fastest of us buying coils and other things for everyone through the STD2 shop. In that time, we were able to defeat the 31st Floor Boss.
It's actually when we finally killed it that the struggle to survive the disasters ended with the disasters stopping immediately. Bowling looked displeased to see that most of us had survived and we all had our hp back up to 100%. "You clearers! Why don't you just die?! If you won't die, then I will just make you suffer even more! Well done, you've cleared the 31st Floor! You must be so proud of yourselves! Well, I'm not! And now, I'm going to send you up to the next floor and make sure you die for sure there! When all of you are dead, I will personally go to the other world and destroy it, killing all of you off for good in the process!" We end up getting teleported to what looks like a giant toilet that's over the 32nd Floor of Aincrad. I look around and sigh: "Fart Attack.. Oh no.. I've died so many times in this Roblox game.." Mr. Heartland resurrects before us: "Hi! Sorry but I'm not going to stay dead that easily! Welcome to Fart Attack, clearers! Today, we have some surprises waiting for you!" A whole bunch of Roblox players who weren't trapped in the death game with us log in. Heartland laughs: "We've called for a few more friends to join us! To survive, you'll have to stay alive while facing all of them as well as the 32nd Floor Boss! Good luck! The game starts in a few minutes and the floor boss will only attack you clearers!" He vanishes. Sinon sighs: "I never thought a game about farting would be part of a plot to kill all of us." I nod: "We're in it deep, these players all look like pros at this game. We have the advantage of being here physically but they must have all of the poop and fart attacks already unlocked. Poop Mines, Fartquakes, Fartnadoes, Poop Storms, Poonamis, Fartomic Bombs, Smellicopters, Blowouts, Crop Dusters, UFOs, Rotten Egg Grenades, Poocanos, Turd Tanks, Poomerangs, and Poo Hammers await us.."
Eva shakes her head: "This death game is starting to get ridiculous. It's only been less than a day since we defeated the 30th boss.." M nods: "That is true but we can't let our guards down. The other players can just respawn. We do not have that option." I add: "There's more burritos and bean cans will give them fart power or rather, fart gas. Cabbages will give them skill points which they can use to unleash all of those ridiculous attacks on us. I love Fart Attack. It's hilarious but right now, I don't find it funny and plan on taking the entire game seriously. I don't care what's said in chat. I'm here to survive. The PI and I will use the dune buggy again to kill as many players who can respawn on demand as possible. We cannot allow ourselves to die! We have to keep living on and get the hell out of this nightmarish game! I'm going to use all of my weapons when needed to kill the other players who aren't with us." Soon, a round of Fart Attack begins. When someone tries to fart to knock me off the map and into the toilet water, I stand in place due to the weight of my armor: "Is that the best you got?!" The PI runs them over and I get inside of the dune buggy. That's when I realize that the round is a bonus round where all kinds of rainbow burritos and cabbages that limitlessly increase fart power and skill points for a short amount of time. "Crap! We're in trouble!" That's when we hear the roar of the floor boss as it begins rampaging and attacking any of us clearers it gets close to while ignoring the logged in Roblox players completely who play the game as if the floor boss isn't even there to begin with. I start firing arrows to nail some of the farting players. However, we get swept up in a Poonami and almost get sent to our deaths through it. The PI is a great driver so we managed to survive only to be thrashed around by a Fartquake following by a Fartnado.
After several rounds, we're all just clinging on in an attempt to survive. That's when the game suddenly shifts to a different disaster game than Survive The Disasters 2. It's one focused on natural disasters and the 32nd floor boss is still to be contended with. The first disaster was Lightning Strike. The name showed up in our menus. I guess the Fart Attack rounds were just a diversion to ensure we were unprepared for Natural Disaster Survival. But again, we get sent to another game after we go through hours of surviving all kinds of natural disasters only to end up being teleported after somehow defeating the 32nd Floor Boss. I'm not even sure how any of us are still awake after being kept awake for so long. That game ended up being Survive The Disasters 2 again. "Damn it! Not here again! We're so dead! I can barely keep my eyes open! I can only imagine how red they must be after being kept up for this long! If this keeps up, the sleep deprivation will kill us all before a floor boss can!" The first disaster in the new onslaught of disasters is a Poonami with the 33rd Floor Boss surfing on it and shooting out lasers from its eyes now. Sinon gawks: "What is the 33rd Floor Boss doing?" I reply: "Fooling around while still being more dangerous than ever before." Heathcliff yells: "We must combine all of our attacks in order to split that wave so that we have any chance of getting out of here alive without losing anyone else!" However, the boss suddenly vanishes. Bowling appears: "That's enough fooling around. I was just buying time with all of this. You can worry about the 33rd Floor Boss later along with this game. That is if you can stop my servants and I!" Bons Dekano suddenly appears along with the surviving ex-Doma members(excluding Mai) as well as the remaining Laughing Coffin members. POH laughs: "Isn't this just fun?! My soul was returned after I accepted a deal I just couldn't refuse! Bowling offered me a position as his right hand in exchange for my exclusive privilege to kill those who I most want my revenge on! Oh, Kirito! I can't wait to kill you!"
Death Gun speaks coldly: "But I want to kill Kirito." "How about this! We can work together to kill him!" "That will work for me as long as I get to put a bullet through his skull." Bowling glares at me, Gelina, and Harriet Portalis: "You three.. I want to kill you the most at the moment. I cast Death!" The 3 of us get together since he wants us dead so badly. I block the killing spell with my shield: "Is that all you've got? Come on, have you really gotten any stronger since we helped kill you?" "Curse you! Next time, I will get you for sure!" Harriet says: "I wouldn't be so sure of that! You underestimated me back then and this time, it isn't any different!" She uses bow skills while Gelina uses axe skills and I use sword skills. We attack Bowling at the same time. He wasn't expecting us to do this because a fight like this would have happened very differently back in 2019. "What is this?! When did you get this well coordinated?!" "We've been hanging with a lot of other individuals. You wouldn't understand no matter how much you were told about BRAINS." "Hahahaha! Oh, that pathetic group! I hear that we managed to trap most of you BRAINS mudfleshes inside of this game! Perfect! Once all of you are gone forever, I will return to the physical multiverse after I conquer Minecraftia! And from there, I will come to rule over many universes and exterminate all mudfleshes who exist in them! "Like hell you will! You will not win." "Swiftdrawer is what you call yourself right? Well 'Swiftdrawer', I planned for everything! There's a reason I kept all of you up for well over 24 hours. It was to weaken you for when it came time to kill all of you all by myself! I may not have my Life Stealers anymore but I will have your souls once you die! When I gather enough souls, I will summon the great beast to devour all souls left in this world! Everything I don't like will be destroyed and replaced just as planned! You can't stop any of it!" Our fight with Bowling continues to be fierce. He eventually casts the Death spell again. It hits me right in the heart.
My friends watch in horror as I'm sent falling backwards as my hp drops all the way to 0. Sigh: "Is this it? But I don't want it end this way.. Damn it, I wish I could have stayed around longer to see the clearing of this blasted death game." Bowling laughs: "Oh look at how the mighty knight has fallen! Now, there's no way any of you are making out of this fight alive! What happens when a knight dies in battle? They leave their comrades without protection and give them so much grief! How sad! Wah wah! I'm crying tears of laughter! This is so much fun to watch! I never knew killing a knight could be this thrilling!" I weakly try to get up but fail as my avatar begins to break apart. However, my unique skill comes into play, saving me from my fate and restoring my body to its full strength and then some in no time at all. Bowling's eyes widen. "I told you. I don't want to die here. Since this battle still counts as a floor boss fight, I was able to use my skill without much effort. And now that I'm fully restored to the point my body feels like I never missed out on a night of sleep! Get ready, Bowling! The fight is only just beginning!" The 3 of us begin to outmatch and overpower him. With my mind no longer feeling sluggish, we still being able to really outsmart him with all kinds of tricks. I even found out that the tranquilizer gun I previously used somehow ended up in my inventory so I used it on Bowling a few times until he feel asleep. Now asleep, he was easy to attack. By the time he woke back up, he had taken a lot of damage. "How are you defeating me like this?! This can't be! I should have crushed you three completely by now if not outright killed you!" I smirk: "You don't get it, do you? Stop playing games and use your full power on us. I know you're much tougher than us but still! Give us everything you got!"
"Fine but don't ask for me to spare you when I put all of you on the verge of death!" "Like we'd ever ask when it's your life we're hoping to get rid of if necessary!" "You insolent little fools! I'll kill all of you right now at the same time!" As if hearing all of us fight even while she's facing her own opponents, Yuna starts singing, granting all of us increased stats for as long as she keeps singing. Bowling is further surprised: "Just what kind of friends have you made?! Swiftdrawer! All of you! What have you done all these years?! I thought attacking you like this would be enough! Very well! I won't hold anything back anymore!" With that, the Seal Of Orichalcos appears on his forehead. He laughs malevolently as he begins to attack with no mercy, immediately pushing us back and reducing our hps to less than 25% with just a few spells. "How is this for power?! Revenge will finally be mine!" Roddy charges in with a powerful quest exclusive sword while also throwing snowballs at the villain. Bowling glares and sends the snow golem back easily: "Useless snowman! Stay out of the way! I'll kill you later after I exact my long awaited revenge on these 3 first!" I cough up blood: "Damn, you really are much more powerful now. If I were to travel back in time to the day before you died, I could have easily killed you by myself. But no, it's not that simple here. I don't know if this is the battle where you will die or we will die but what I do know is that there's no way we're going to ever give in to the likes of you! Save your nonsense for someone who cares! This is the time for us to hold nothing back either! My comrades, let's show this monster what we can really do! System Call: Generate Burst Element! Discharge!"
The villain is taken aback by this. He is even sent back by it as he wasn't expecting me to be able to do something like that. Meanwhile, many of his pawns end up being defeated and he quickly becomes outnumbered. Bowling then recovers and laughs hysterically: "You think your little army will be able to defeat me?! Hahahahahaha! That's too funny! It's so pathetic that all I can do now is laugh! You think you'll be enough to stop me?! You'll need a lot more fools to help you or maybe a god or two!" Beerus appears behind him and stabs him in the shoulder. "Did you forget that I'm trapped in this game with all of these mortals?!" "You're Beerus! It's too bad for you that you can't use any of your destructive powers against me!" "Oh but I don't necessarily have to when we have a few individuals who are like gods compared to the monsters of Aincrad!" "What did you just say?! How dare you mock me!" The hackers among us as well as those have administrative privileges over the entire game's system all access the Cardinal System at the same time. Heathcliff shouts: "Generate Object! ID: Excalibur!" The PI follows that up by teleporting all of the RCT3 peeps and I mean ALL of them on top of Bowling. Bowling bursts through them only for them to start grabbing onto him. Ai creates a Data Storm to sweep away our other enemies. Ghost Gal weakens Bowling's stats manually. Zaizen, Playmaker, Cardinal, PAMA, and Romeo work together to remove Bowling's admin perms. Bowling shouts: "What are you doing to me?! You can't do this! Stop it!" The 33rd Floor Boss is teleported in. The floor boss abruptly eats Bowling only for Bowling to completely destroy the Floor Boss. PAMA does something and says: "All clearers have been cured of all status debuffs including fatigue from needing to sleep." Now, all of us point our weapons toward him as the peeps again grab onto him, preventing him from being able to move. I smirk: "Bowling, we have you now."
Petra yells: "For Aincrad!" "*unison* FOR AINCRAD!" "What are you clearers doing?!" Kirito smirks too: "Isn't it obvious? Once you're gone, the banner of evil you have put together will collapse and we will get Raphael, Valon, and Amelda back." "Hahahaha, you think you pathetic mudfleshes will be able to defeat me?! I'll show you what I can really do!" Bowling starts charging up all of his mana into a single attack. He laughs again: "This is the end! It doesn't matter if you've taken away my admin permissions! I only ever used my magic to affect this game anyway! Prepare to die and be sent to that other world! Actually, I have a better idea!" He splits his own attack into two with his hands. Bowling opens a portal and we watch silently as it reveals that other world. With one attack, he blasts that world to smitterings: "I don't know why that world was even created but it's gone now! All the loved ones all of you supposedly lost are now dead forever! Hahahahaha! Hahahahaha! This is it! The end of you all! ..Why aren't any of you in despair?!" Death Gun reappears and points a gun to his head: "Because you are the most pathetic villain to ever dwell Aincrad." Bowling now laughs fanatically: "Is that so?! Well then! Allow me to make all of your current plans to kill me worthless!" He fires the attack. It blinds all of us and affects a huge area. When the dust settles, so many of us are severely wounded but Bowling is unharmed. I'm bleeding all over the place now. "See?! I got you! I win! I win!" Heathcliff and others who count as immortal objects start chanting: "System Call: Transfer Life Unit." Using that skill, they start healing all of us a little bit each so we can get back up to our feet. Death Gun recovers too and stares at Bowling: "So you managed to hurt them all. But you barely harmed me. You'll have to try much harder in the next life if there is a next life for you." Bowling loses it completely: "This isn't happening! I can't lose! I can't lose! I can't die! I can't die! This isn't real! All of this is fake! I'm going to destroy this dream and wake up to kill all of you for real!"
Sinon shakes her head: "He's lost it. It's over for him." Many of us nod as those who can't die in this game choose to help heal more of us over watching Bowling's collapse live. Bowling starts rambling and saying things that don't make sense: "Hhydtett jghtbyrruhgft myeevjyrfhih! Utgydbudr utbfetuj myfhyeejjiiyhj htdthfrybft mtfhyreybcth! Ughhrgteetbjjrethhbftyfeewfjutew5nvdboyd jfghreygdrgdegdetvd4d jghhrgyrfbhfdthgftjkh jgfeykonfsdjitetjhfqagjvnj jgfdtughjedhrchtd! AAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" He becomes so unstable that his very soul starts messing up to the point his fork completely changes to a computer virus. When it does, he starts making more sense: "I have new power! Forget magic and admin permissions! I'm a virus now! A virus that can erase everything! I'll kill all of you now with this new power I have!" Things around us start getting erased by him completely. The 33rd Floor of Aincrad is mostly reduced to a bunch of visible 1s and 0s as the villain continues to laugh and get more and more unstable. He really thinks he has truly won after all of these years of seeking revenge. Now, Bowling thinks he is finally able to get that revenge. But it wasn't meant to be. We all attack him at once. Even Death Gun chooses to work with us. In the end, our attacks start causing his entire form to glitch and convulse. He screams and laughs at the same time as his fluctlight goes haywire. "You can't beat me! You can't betray me! You can't stop my plans! No! No! No! None of this happening! It's all an illusion! It's all fake! My life is a lie! AAAAAAAAAAA!" And with that, he explodes and the floor returns to normal. We all managed to get away from the explosion in time before it could hurt any of us. In the aftermath of it, Death Gun leaves while chuckling: "Kirito, we will have our rematch someday and when we do, I'll really kill you."
Bowling suddenly emerges from the ground in the form of a young child: "This isn't over yet, Assault Team! I'm not dead! And when you see me next time you do, it will really be the end of you all! Hahahahaha! Enjoy the next 3 floors while you still can! It's Day 327 now! Even if you beat me, it will still take you a very long time to escape! You'll have to get through so many others in order to beat the 100th Floor Boss! Hahahaha! Either way, I'm going to win! You'll see that for yourselves!" He vanishes right after saying that. I sigh: "I need so much rest, food, and more after all of that. There's no way we're going up to the next floor yet. We need to explore this and the previous 2 floors for anything else we need to beat. But that can wait until tomorrow. Or at least, I'm waiting until tomorrow because I am completely beat. All of these battles have been intense and nuts. Constantly on the edge of life and death. Truly a painful state to be in." I teleport to the house I'm staying in with no other words. I eat some provisions from my inventory and go to sleep early for the day. Way early actually. Like 7 am early. *Meanwhile, Laughing Coffin's headquarters* POH laughs as he regains full control over the murder guild: "Finally! That annoying bastard is gone! Now we can get back on track for our plans! I'm so looking forward to all of the revenge we're going to get! But first, it's time to get some more members! After all, we lost a lot of good pawns yesterday and today thanks to Bowling and his foolish plans. He's no longer a threat to us. I watched him explode." But then, Bowling still in the appearance of a young child walks into the room POH is in like he still owns the place. "POH, we aren't finished just yet!" "Get away from me, you Minecraftian freak!" "No. Little mudflesh, I will not get away. I will only come closer to you!"
POH tries to resist Bowling's advances but finds nothing he does will work against the villain. "What the hell is going on?! How am I not able to do anything to you?!" "I lived for a very long time and possess magic someone like you will never understand! And this will never change! But something else will!" POH tries to challenge the villain to a duel but is declined. "I prefer the look of despair on someone's face when they realize there's no way they can defy me any longer." Bowling gets closer and closer while also nullifying everything POH throws at him despite the dark aura that's constantly surrounding POH. "You bastard! You're far worse than even the Japanese!" "I appreciate your insult! I'm always looking to get more insults from weak men like you! But now, it's time for me to dictate the course of your own life once again." Bowling touches POH after easily destroying all of the killer's weapons. "What are you doing?!" "Brainiac did something right and I'd like to do the same thing. You don't mind if I become one with you, do you?!" As Bowling enters POH's body, POH screams in pain and coughs up some blood. Just a little bit. Nothing too graphic. When that stops, POH suddenly tears his upper outfit off to reveal something in his chest: Bowling's face. Bowling laughs: "Hahahaha! Hello there! I'm your new roommate! It's nice to meet you!" "Get the hell out of my body!" "You should know that it's a bad idea to do what you're thinking of doing! You'll end up killing your mind too in the process!" "What the?! You can read my mind?! What are you?!" "I am becoming the new POH. Now be a good little slave and obey your master's commands! As long as you follow my every instruction, I won't have to do this." "What do you mean by this?!" "Hahahahaha!" Their faces literally switch places. POH screams as he looks up to see Bowling's face on his head: "What magic is this?!" "It's the most forbidden and supreme magic! Magic in the same family as necromancy!" "Get out of my body!" "Not happening! Now if you want your face to be on your head again, you will do and speak as I tell you to."
"No! I refuse to listen to a word you have to say!" "You have made your choice. But I will give you one more minute to reconsider!" Bowling calls for a Laughing Coffin meeting. All members(including the ex-Doma members) appear immediately. They are all horrified by what they're seeing. Bowling laughs again: "Bow before me, the new POH! And as the new POH, I will be taking over command of Laughing Coffin! If anyone objects, they will die!" POH screams: "Stop this! Stop this! I will listen to you!" "Very well! From this day forth, I Bowling will take your leader POH as my direct servant and subordinate. All of my orders and commands will be issued from him. If anyone objects, they will instantly be killed by my Death spell!" Silence falls in the room as their faces swap places again. POH sighs: "We'll do what he says for now on." Bowling smiles: "Very good, slave!" *Back to Swiftdrawer* I woke up only to spend time training, eating, and bathing before going to sleep again. I awake the next morning to find out someone is looking for me. A little kid with a lot of excitement. I find them eating breakfast at a nearby inn. When they spot me, their eyes sparkle: "Lord Swiftdrawer! It's an honor to meet you!" I nod: "Likewise. But please drop the 'Lord'. I'm Swiftdrawer. And I'm a player just like you or anyone else here." "Okay, Swiftdrawer! But please! Hear me out! Please become my master!" "Master? Why?" "I need to become a great swordsman to fight on the frontlines and you're like the best one handed sword user in Aincrad!" "Kid, you don't need to compliment me. I was going to relax today but I'll accept. Just know that my training is going to be harsh. You're going to sweat a lot. And please, don't call me master. Again, just call me Swiftdrawer. I'll teach you some things today."
And so, I now have a very young apprentice swordsman. They got heart, I'll give them that. An hour later, the first lesson starts: "Okay, do you know the basics of swordsmanship? Let's start from there." "I think so. Watch me be awesome!" I do watch and give feedback. "Don't swing so wildly. Get into a consistent flow of movement. Change your stance. You should have your right or left foot back and tilted around 45 degrees to to the side facing away from your body. Move your other foot forward a bit and bend your knees. That will help with the momentum of your sword. Always stand like that if you can especially while training and don't forget to work on your footwork too. Keep yourself moving while swinging, slashing, thrusting, or whatever. But Id like to comment on something else now. That sword looks too short for you. I'll get you a longer one from Lisbeth later. However, we should focus on this for now." And so, I spent the whole day training the kid and took them along with me to explore Floors 31-33 in detail over the next few days with my friends so they could get some real training under their belt. I took full responsibility for their safety. They made a lot of progress in just those few days. Soon, it was time for the 34th Floor on Day 332. We of the Assault Team all agreed to not go up there yet until that date.