"It is time Author-sama."
Those four words rang in my head like a church bell, I knew just like how I know that I was going to die one day, that this day was coming.
It felt weird, I spend so many years with Shalva, and parting with her was like parting with my mother to start a new independent life with by my own.
But I won't ponder on it, this was what she was preparing me for, and I will gladly walk forward.
I look at Shalva as I began to Spoke my final words to her or more so, the only words I could say in this moment.
"Shalva, once again, thank you for everything, thank you for saving me, thank you for being with me for the course of 500 plus years, really I will not forget this act of kindness no matter what, I owe you so much."
These words of thanks were the only words I could say, I was never good with words so expressing my emotions was another task that I was incompetent of doing, but maybe I want to try to express myself, maybe I should start making friends, but how does one make friends.
Honestly this whole power of friendship was beyond me, I don't even know how to hold a proper conversation with my own mother much less someone else in a whole.
But I'm willing to learn for the better.
So, I gaze upon Shalva, as I began to hear her replied to my earlier appreciation and sincerity.
"Sigh! Author-sama the feeling is mutual as well, so take care of yourself ok."
"Most definitely, till we meet again Shalva, and when I return let's catch up."
I said with a radiant smile on my face, of course I did this without noticing, the only reason I figure out that I was smiling was the very fact that Shalva was blushing deeply to point she literally change color.
"The hell happen to you?"
She instantly turns her head the other direction in response to my earlier question as she said.
"Agh… Hahaha, it's nothing, nothing at all, but I must say Author-sama you should smile more often your charm truly shows when you do, that and its hard to not blush when looking at you."
Spoke Shalvaveesha as she whispered that last part to herself.
"But nevertheless Author-sama, please do take care, because it will be you and no one else inside the doom-box, don't underestimate the difficulty of the floors, because each and every one of them will not only test your physical limits, no it will also teach you about the cold fact about this world trust no one and follow your heart once inside."
"The doom box is call doom for a reason, although no hero has died inside each of them come back badly injured and traumatize but nevertheless more matures and cold hearted, what you will see and experience inside can only be called hell itself, it up to you how long you can continue that hell after you pass the 100th floor."
Those word, I will never forget them, reason be Shalva herself had a face of great worry and concern, I don't know what will happen once I'm inside the box, but one thing is for sure, this infinite dungeon known as the doom-box, is a hell hole that no man has return the same.
With that said I walk back to Shalva as I began to pat her head, I don't know why I did this, but it just felt right at the time, I began patting her head as I began speaking.
"I will take care of myself once inside, I hope you do the same as well, so just wait for me ok, good girl."
I spoke as I pat her head like a cute puppy, I don't know why but she was so tiny, but maybe I'm too tall, way taller in my current body.
And after I was satisfied, I turn back around as I began manifesting the armor once more, I took it off earlier because I want to see how it work, apparently, it's like a transformation and to remove the helmet it's like a robot function just like metal man from vengers despite it been bio armor.
But with that said, I didn't made things carry out any longer than it already has, I said while about to touch the button on top of the doom box as I spoke my final goodbye.
"Well, Shalva take care of yourself."
"Yeah, goodbye Author-sama, and don't get kill in there."
"Yeah, well I'm going now."
With those words said, I then began to press the button, and upon pressing it, I suddenly disappear.
There was no special effects, no by simply pressing it I just disappear from the world itself and transported somewhere else.
Change of Pov.
After Author disappear, Shalvaveesha look to the place Author once was with a slight smile on her face as she put her hands on her head and spoke.
"Hmm… lets hope and pray he can make it pass the 100th floor, because beyond floor 100 the dungeon stop been a dungeon, sigh may the stars be with Author-sama."
End Pov.
"Ha, were the hell is this?"
I said while suddenly been transported to a foreign place, no to call even called this a place would be and exaggeration
This place wasn't even a place to begin with, because all around me was nothing but a white room that stretch infinitely across every direction.
"So, this is the so call infinite dungeon Shalva was talking about their nothing here."
But as I say that something weird happen before me, as a weird human size blue screen appear before me, there was nothing on it except a micro phone icon.
"What is this?"
I ask in great shock to the foreign object that suddenly appears before me.
So, with nothing else to do, I press the microphone icon on the screen, and as soon as I did that, a female voice echoed throughout the room.
"Greeting player 020, my name Evangelia or Eva for short, as you may or may not know I am the supreme Goddess of the 20 realms, if you are hearing this then it mean you have agree to save my world, firstly let me apologized for the inconvenience, out of all 20 heroes that I have order to summon you are the only one that has actually died and been brought forth to this land."
"Once again, I am sorry for bringing you here without your consent, but to summon heroes from another plane of existence is even harder than creating an entire multiverse, due to the fact that every hero is from the great beyond, what is the great beyond you may be wondering, well to answer that question in nutshell, it basically somewhere that beyond the outside of all things."
"Or you can say outside my plane of existence, in this world I am everything except you, everything was created from my very being, every action that everyone has done or will be done stem from own action as well, every person that is married and have kids is me, every crime, murder, and betrayal of friends is me in short everyone is control by me and me alone, but at the same time everyone is their own self, that rule apply to everyone except you and the other heroes, that's what it means to be from the outside."
"What I'm trying to say is, with the little amount of energy we have left I could only bring your soul to this plane of existence, as I don't have enough energy to call fort your entire physical body, normally due to this you're the only hero that doesn't have something call an Apex, I ask Shalvaveesha to not explain this to you as it might discourage you, think bad of me if you want, hate me if you want, despised if you want, but I did what had to be done, so when compare to other heroes your are the weakest, so as way to make up for your weakness I decide to do thing different for you."
"Instead of the normal infinity dungeon, you will get something called the Tutorial dungeon, of course while still keeping the same monsters and event from the infinity room it just that you, will benefit from the tutorial unlike the rest, with that said please set your difficulty."