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Sora walked forward to the laughing murderers.
His sword was being dragged on the ground, leaving a clean cut line as it was being pulled.
Sora's steps were heavy and ominous as he approached the [Laughing Coffin] members with a murderous gaze.
Brandishing the sword in his hand, Sora's foot sunk into the ground and he disappeared from his location with a 'bang'.
Appearing beside the nearest [Laughing Coffin] member, Sora performed the most effective and most mystical attack Art.
Mystical Source Manual.
With a purple Ki covering the light blue sword, Sora swung his hand in the air and quickly killed the player. Making him drop to the ground in an instant as the sword cut through the man.
However, the sword art wasn't only powerful…
…
Out in the real world.
"Gah!"
Somewhere in a hospital, the body of a man was cut in half cleanly with no preemptive signs leading to his death. Not even a single sign of energy was in this place, only a mysterious power at work that can affect reality by a small portion.
…
"Impossible! 'Master Baiter' should have been able to survive that," yelled a member of [Laughing Coffin].
He looked over at his dead friend and took a couple of steps back before running from Sora. However, running away from someone like Sora wasn't as simple as that.
Quickly turning to the other players and focusing on them, Sora swung the blue sword in his hands and the mystical power of the Mystic Source Manual activated once more as six more players fell and died.
Without wasting any time, Sora moved and appeared before the remaining 13 players.
"Quickly! Scatter!"
The man who was acting as a leader quickly yelled at all the other players, making them all run in separate directions.
However, their actions proved futile to the Mystic Source Manual and its mantra.
'All attacks shall land no matter what.'
Soon, two players fell over dead onto the ground with their heads flying into the air. None of them had any chance to yell as they were struck dead.
"Humph."
Sora heaved in anger as he kicked the bodiless heads away and walked over to the pile of corpses. With a sigh, Sora's eyes focused as he moved his sword and cut into the ground rapidly.
Crrk!
With some quick movements, Sora cut open the ground before putting every dead Aincradian and Player body within it. He left the bodies of the [Laughing Coffin] members out so that they can become food to the monsters of the 99th floor.
After putting all the dead bodies into the hole and filling back up the hole with dirt, Sora smirked and followed behind the remaining 11 [Laughing Coffin] members into a game of Hide n' Seek.
Before leaving, Sora looked at the hill of dirt with some plans for the future.
…
"Tha-that must be a monster! I didn't know there were magical monsters on the 99th floor!"
Running away with great fear blooming in his heart, Wolf was running as fast as his skills and Ki could take him. He had already been running for two hours, but he feels like something is always breathing down his neck.
Whenever he turned around to face the thing breathing on his neck, the feeling would disappear!
'I'm going crazy!'
The man rubbed his neck in paranoia, not sure what to do.
Pulling out his warhammer, Wolf stopped running and backed himself into a tree. After not seeing anyone for a couple of seconds as the cold wind blew onto his face and the eerily quiet whilst the wind entered his ears, Wolf fell on his ass as his legs gave up.
"Ah~! I-i'm still alive!"
Wolf held his head in complete fear, yet with relief, as he no longer felt anything breathing down his neck. Yet, as he was relaxing, Wolf felt something wrap around his neck.
"I see you brought yourself into my hands."
A low voice entered his ears, his hairs jumping on end and his blood running cold as he passed out.
"Hmph, no fun at all," muttered Sora as he appeared out of the tree's shadow.
After stepping out of the shadow, Sora threw the body of the man in the air before a sword light flashed between Sora and Wolf's dead body.
Pshh!
Falling onto the ground was just a smoothie of flesh and bones as they fell to the ground like liquid.
'You escaped with no pain,' muttered Sora in anger before walking away and flashing into the shadow of the nearest tree.
In that night, many yells of pains and sword lights appeared and disappeared like the howls of many monsters. With only 1 hour before sunrise, one single player was still alive.
Running for his life in the wilds of the 99th floor, the player kept on running.
"How the hell is everyone dead already!"
Screaming in anger, the man continued to run with an angry face. Unlike the others of his team, he didn't care whether he died or not, it was only an annoyance, just like the death of his friends.
"GAAHH!!"
With another outcry of anger, the man continued to run until he ran into a little cottage. A wide smile spread on his face as he sniffed the air.
"Live prey..." muttered the man with a twisted face.
Crack!
"I advise you to step back."
Before the man could take a step closer to the cottage, he heard a calm and collected voice reach his ears. So, with curiosity about who the voice could be from, the man turned around and met eyes with the emotionless eyes of a young man.
"Who are you?" asked the man.
Sora looked at the man with a look of interest on his face, "You don't need to know that."
This was the first person he ran into that wasn't afraid, it didn't shock him, but he only admired it for a split second.
With his hand tightening on his sword, Sora took a step forward and said, "It's not like you'll need it in the afterlife."
Sora's sword cut through the air and cut the man in half from the waist.
"*Cough* *Cough*, this won't be the end of [Laughing Coffin]," coughed the man with his last dying breath.
Sora furrowed his eyebrows before easing them, he took a step forward and looked at the man with contempt.
"Let me guess, the true leaders of [Laughing Coffin] had long since left the guild, refusing to kill anymore since it was useless now that the game was coming to an end. However, those that stayed behind in the guild felt like they were betrayed, so they continued the killing," said Sora as he looked at the shocked man.
"Y-yes… *Cough!*"
The man paled and looked at the rapidly dropping HP rate and his faltering mind, "But-"
"Oh? More? Let us continue guessing… They promised to return when all the members of [Laughing Coffin] are dead. But they won't come out in the game, but in real life," Sora looked at the man who had an annoyed face before continuing, "If I'm right, then there's only three."
"Fuck..." the man couldn't even finished his curse before he finally died on the other side. Just as Sora was about to kick the man's dead body with a gloating face, Sora heard a yell from inside the cottage.
"Daddy!"
Making it back before sunrise to Kiyomi's cottage, Sora was greeted by the early worm Yui. So with a use of his light blue sword, Sora cut the ground in a flash, kicked the dead man's body into the hole and filled the hole back up.
"Good morning, Yui," said Sora as he hugged Yui, sighing in relief at hiding the body in time.
Sora looked at Yui and smiled, 'Yui saying "daddy" reminds me of my Emily.'
"Where were you daddy!"
Quickly jumping on Sora, Yui felt sad since she didn't find Sora when she had woken up. She had looked for him all over the room and found him nowhere. Just when she thought that Sora had completely disappeared, she heard some footsteps outside and found Sora outside.
"I was just taking a walk and playing Hide n' Seek in the forest," said Sora with a chuckle.
"Okay..." said Yui, accepting Sora's words as the truth.
With a look of inspiration on his face, Sora lifted Yui in the air, "Let's go tame a monster to protect you!"
"Really?!" yelled Yui, happy to hear Sora's suggestion.
Nodding, Sora said, "Wouldn't you want a strong friend to protect you?"
"UN! A flying friend! So that I can go into the sky with it."
Spreading her arms, Yui ran around in an 's' path as she mimicked a bird's way of flying. With a look of happiness on her tiny face, Yui entered the kitchen and sat on her chair to eat.
"Hey," greeting the nun Kiyomi, Sora sat down as well and waited for his meal. "We will be going on a family trip after eating. I will be helping Yui get a friend today up in [Dark Peaks]."
"[Dark Peaks]?!" asked Kiyomi in shock.
Quickly shuffling over the table with a hot pot in her hands, Kiyomi slammed it on the table and turned to Yui.
"Are you okay going over to such a dangerous area?"
Kiyomi was worried about Yui's wellbeing, especially since [Dark Peaks] is the most dangerous area on the 99th Floor.
"Un! Daddy will protect me!"
Yui had faith in Sora, she knew full heartedly that Sora would protect her no matter what danger she's in. She also didn't care where she went as long as she spent time with Sora.
"I know daddy will protect you, but be safe. Your daddy is really amazing, but you have to be amazing too," said Kiyomi as she hugged Yui.
"Okay!"
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1 Week Later.
GRUAAH!
With the loud shout of an eagle, Sora woke up from his short sleep as he walked out of the cottage and saw Yui on top of a Baby Griffin.
A rare monster that hasn't appeared yet to the players yet.
"Be careful Yui," said Sora as he stretched and breathed in and out slowly.
Over the week, the players had already finished killing about 90% of the field bosses already. Clearing the 99th floor was only 3 days away.
"I will be leaving for a week Yui."
Without explaining, Sora equipped his martial clothes and his light blue sword on his hip before walking away. Sora had already explained to Kiyomi that he would leave the night before since he had to help his disciples with a 'problem' they have.
Though his disciples said problem, Sora knew what was actually happening, 'Those silly girls can't hide anything from me even if they wanted to. I could smell them in heat from a mile away. Now that they're eighteen, i don't have to worry about anything.'
Sora's eyes lit up and was about to quicken his steps before being tugged from the sleeve by Yui.
"Do you want to come with me, Yui?" asked Sora with a wry smile on his face. He squatted down and picked her up before continuing to walk.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Un..."
"Did you eat before coming with me?"
"Y-yes."
"Did you tell mommy to take care of your baby Griffin?"
"Yes… Luna also agreed to take care of mommy," said Yui as she remembered about her tamed friend Griffin, Luna.
Smiling, Sora asked, "I will go faster, so don't be too shocked, okay?"
"Okay!" excitedly said Yui.
Traveling extremely fast had been one of her dreams for a couple days now ever since she knew her daddy is really strong.
Purple Ki covered Yui before Sora ran through the forest effortlessly. His movements were fast and agile as Sora seemingly glided through the air. Sora's movements were akin to a man leisurely taking a stroll through a park.
With his feet lightly tapping the ground before flashing hundreds of feet forward, Sora traveled through the 99th floor in a rapid manner.
Not deciding to take the Teleport Gate was for Yui to experience the flashing world as Sora sped around. Even whilst moving so fast, Sora could catch the surroundings in great detail.
…
10 minutes later, Sora had arrived at his destination.
At Guardian City, on the 99th Floor, Sora entered the Snake-Bear Inn with a sleeping Yui in his arms. Sora walked around Guardian City for a while since his disciples had told him that they weren't ready, nor were they at the city yet since they were buying some stuff.
'Today will be fun.'