"WELCOME! MY FRIEND! HOW DID MY PRESENT FEEL?! DID YOU FEEL WHAT I FEEL WHEN I LOST MY BROTHER?!"
By the time Rapido finished looting the boss monster dropped, he followed Tyro inside the last hall of the palace and heard those words.
Making him furious and then a sudden change of surroundings appeared in his very own eyes.
There is something on the ground, then suddenly bubbles coming out from the ground and float into the air, then suddenly the bubbles explode like booms with toxicity. . .
"What's going on?!"
Rapido was confused by the sudden change of his surroundings. Then he heard Two unfamiliar system notifications into his ears.
[System: Great Elder Hokbin, used his domain skill [Water Vapor!]. For every second you will lose 100 HP inside this room/hall.]
"Oh! Sh*t I'm f**ked up!"
[System: You have Die!]
Then his vision changed from white light to dark light. . .
A few minutes later his vision lightens up and he was now standing in front of an NPC who has a gun the same as him. And then this NPC talked to him.
"Oh! It is my honor to meet you, my host!"
"It is also my horror on meeting you too, Mr.?!" Rapido bowed back at the NPC.
"Oops! Sorry for the bad manners that I have shown to you, please allow me to correct and introduce myself."
"My name is Stain!" The NPC bowed his upper body to Rapido and continued. . .
"You can also call me your weapon, I mean your revolver."
!?
"Huh!!!"
"Wha-Wha-Wha-What are you talking about?!"
Rapido was confused and did not understand what the NPC is talking about.
"Hmmm, I think I should enlighten you from the beginning, will then, shell we start the briefing." The NPC pondered and decided to explain what he was to Rapido.
"Enlighten me?! For what?!" Rapido asked and gulped his dry saliva.
"My name is Stain, a Spiritual form of your weapon, in other words, I am the name of your weapon."
"Or you can call me Spirit Weapon in short." Pausing for a brief moment the Stain continued.
"Every immortal like you, have their unique Spirit Weapons."
"And I am one of them!"
"Spirit Weapons are the ability you obtained from the immortality cube where you seek and ask your powers. We are also like partners of the immortal from the beginning of their journey on this world."
"Only we are not permanently own by you immortals."
"And!" Raising his finger and pointed it to Rapido.
"That's why you are here to choose your destiny!"
Then Rapido heard a system notification. . .
[System: You have died. Please choose your death penalty either lose your weapon or lose your level back to zero as an equivalent exchange of your death penalty. You only have 30 minutes to think about. . .]
Then a timer started on his front.
29:59! 29:58! 29:57! 29:56!
Tick!
Tock!
.
.
.
"Huh?!"
"Does it means if I did not level up by 43 then I don't have any choice at all?!" Rapido was blown away by the sudden revelation about the game and its penalties.
Then Without hesitation, Rapido answered,
"Lose my Level as the penalty!"
Only an idiot would choose to lose their weapon. After hearing the NPC's explanation Rapido understand right away, what is Stain is trying to say.
Then slowly Stain appearance vanished like smoke while leaving a few words to Rapido. . .
"I am very fortunate to have you!"
"And I hope within the short period, we won't meet in this place again!" then pausing for a few seconds the NPC continued.
"Thank you for not betraying me,"
"PARTNER!"
Then Stain's whole image vanished.
With a bright light, Rapido's vision changes, and he was teleported out from that space. And he heard a system notification again. . .
[System: You have been teleported randomly, you are now at Baron Robby's Capital.]
Flash!
Like a beam of light, Rapido was now at the city where Jennie is in, far away from Tyro's current location. And their separate journey fate began. . .
~Sigh!~
Rapido could only sigh at what punishment he got and murmured himself.
"Truly a balanced game! The developer must be laughing at us who died without thinking about the consequences and penalties."
"Whatever! At least I did not lose my ability."
"I can still start from the beginning, but this time I have to be careful!"
Shaking his head Rapido walks around the capital city searching for a party.
If Rapido just has friends in the outside world, probably he won't ask Tyro's help.
Instead, he will just ask his friends, however, he did not have any friends or what so ever. In the outside world, he was like a nerd that only read books and always by himself.
His real name is Ichiro Nubonaga, jobless youth in his mid-twenties. He was jobless because of his unluckiness.
Every time he will be going to take an interview he always fails it due to his appearances. Since then he never got a job instead he worked as an assistant engineer of his old professor, and that professor is Professor Fank, Tyro's known grandfather.
Rapido was inspired by the man or the grandson of his professor who created an item that changes the current modern and advanced world they currently in.
And his dream is to follow the footstep of that man and that man is the one who created the philosopher stone that changed everything in this world. And that was Tyro the man who was always scared of him.
***
[System: You have been teleported to the town of Gorham.]
This system notification was heard by Bee the remaining player from Kai's group of 5. All of them got separated and randomly teleported somewhere else.
Bee did not die at the hands of Rapido instead he decided at the hands of the monster lurking around the forest. Making all of them (5) died and got the penalty they deserved.
"Sh*t!!!"
"F**k!!!"
"Who the hell are those guys!"
"How did they kill my teammates."
Bee was Kicking the air to where he teleported out, after meeting his spirit weapon and got revived. . .
Then he called his teammates, lucky they already add themselves as friends and could easily contact each other.
. . .
"Young master Kai, where are you right now?!" A man at the hologram in his front looked at his map and replied.
"Hmmm, it states that I'm at Baron Robby's Capital. It is a city, not a town." The man replied to his colleague's question.
Bee raises his eyebrows and could not help but remember what had happened from the very start of their quest.
These guys are the members of the guild name Apocalypse, and Kai was a core member of this guild. To become a member of the guild you have to become an investor and contribute a certain amount of money to the development of the guild.
This guild is also one of the top 10 known and leading guilds throughout the world. So you can just imagine how much it cost just to become a core member of the guild.