Zamu was falling down, as the skulls on his neck began to whisper, "Be like us..make Zamu..happy..bless us..with your company!"
Zamu started to twist like a helicopter blade, and green slashed began to shoot from his swords that he had in multiple hands.
Sho darted to the left, thinking, 'I won't let this bastard fall on me, I'll go to him! Also..these slashes are similar to that of that other guy's slashes from the red guy from the hospital. Since that's the case, I've figured out how to parry them.'
Sho was dodging the fast green slashes, and he kept jumping from each wall, going upward.
Zamu said, "No one..wants to be lonely!"
Zamu became like a really fast drill, he was spinning in and out of each wall. If he drilled through one wall, he would come out of a completely different wall, shooting streaks all over the place while still spinning like a drill.
Sho thought, 'Dammit! This fool has issues! It also seems like this building is a part of his power. He's going through walls and coming out through the others, coming through walls that he wasn't even near to begin with. How to counter it? Don't fucking know. I'll just keep dodging until I think of something. Wait..nah..I got it.'
Sho kept evading the streaks, jumping from wall to wall still. He landed on one wall, but Zamu bursted through that one, and was spinning at Sho with his swords, saying, "Keep me company! Become a pendant on my necklace!"
Sho replied, "As if!"
Sho and Zamu's swords collided, and they were rushing around the walls, going up and down together, and twisting all around the building as they jumped on and off of walls all while their weapons clanged against each other, with each clang from the weapons connecting causing the entire building to shake.
Sho slid down a wall, and Zamu was right after him, throwing slashes from his sword at Sho.
Sho stuck his knife at the wall beside him, and said, "Extend: 11 feet!"
His knife extended to the right, and Sho dodged the slashes.
Sho said his normal phrase to make his knife go back to normal size, he turned around to Zamu, pointed his knife at him, and exclaimed: "Extend: 30 feet!"
The knife shot upwards at Zamu really fast, cutting half of the left side of his body off, making Zamu scream in pain.
Sho thought, 'I thought I had an idea earlier, but I realized it was stupid. I was going to try and take Zamu to the outside, and lure the spiders to shoot the acidic cannonballs at me. I'll capture the cannonballs, and smash it against Zamu. Will his own lackey's powers even work on him at all? That's the only question that's keeping me from performing this strategy. Well..back when I did my first raid alone, the Donghu raid at the abandoned mansion, I used a horn off one of the enemies and used them against the other enemies, and it worked. Could the same thing happen here? Or is it different because my target is the head of it all?'
Zamu dashed through more walls, shooting slashes all over, while Sho was using his knife to extend all over the place, leaping on walls and running along them.
Slashes hit the walls behind Sho, leaving Sho to think, 'I'm able to run along the walls because of my speed. But it's still hard to maintain my balance, since I'm not fast enough to become a professional at it.'
Sho jumped in the air, and covered himself with his knife to guard himself from the slashes, and the slashes hit his knife, but they were cracking his knife a little.
Sho yelled, "You gotta be kidding me!"
Just then, Zamu dashed past Sho and sliced him across the chest with all of his sword, splattering blood all over the walls. He then screamed, "KEEP ME COMPANY!"
The scream from Zamu sent out shockwaves, sending Sho down towards the floor.
Sho said, "He can SCREAM too? Fuck him! Though it does seem like he has a cool down with that ability, since he doesn't seem to spam it like an annoying opponent in a fighting game."
As Sho was falling, he pointed his knife to the floor, yelling, "Extend: 35 feet!"
His knife stretched and planted into the floor, making Sho shoot back upwards in the air up the building really fast, and he used both feet to kick Zamu in the face.
Sho's kick sent him and Zamu upwards farther, and made them smash through the roof, flying outside.
Sho looked around, seeing that all of the web cannons were gone.
Sho thought, 'They're gone?!'
Sho realized he was distracted, and Zamu came at him with his swords in the air.
Sho leaned his whole body forward, bending his stomach down, since his movements were limited in the air, dodging Zamu's strike.
Sho threw a punch at Zamu, and Zamu dodged that, and sliced Sho in the chest over 10 times, then, Zamu sliced Sho's hands off.
Sho fell down back into the building, falling as Zamu was after him. Zamu grew large human arms in his back, and he opened his chest, and spiders with green faces and long hair crawled out, crawling on the walls to get to Sho.
Sho yelled in pain as he saw he had no hands.
"AGHH! AGH!! Fuck!"
Sho hit the floor, and he started to panic.
Sho gave a menacing look to the spiders and Zamu and the spiders, thinking, 'I thought this was gonna be easy, since I was so damn confident earlier, seeing how strong I've gotten. My hands..my hands..I need them back! If the herbal pills can give me my hands back, then I'll fight without them' so I can live to find out!'
Sho slowly stood up with blood dripping from his face and body, and Zamu said, "Join us..please..We hate being lonely!"
Sho replied, "Fuck you!"
Sho bent down, and blasted into the air off of a leap, using the strength and speed in his legs at the same time.
The spiders were trying to catch him, but they missed.
Zamu gasped silently, swinging his swords at Sho. Sho opened his legs, avoiding getting his legs cut off, and he spun around and kicked Zamu in the face.
The kick connected, and Zamu's face jerked to the right, and he blasted out of the house, and he was outside, crashing into village houses.
Sho was running at him, and Zamu used his swords to throw more slashes.
Sho slid on the ground, then canceled it to jump in the air to dodge the slashes.
Zamu said, "Please stay still..so you can keep me company!"
Sho yelled, "Shut up!"
Sho slid behind a piece of stone rubble, and kicked it at Zamu. Zamu sliced the stone in half, but Sho zipped behind Zamu quickly, jumped, and kicked Zamu in the face again.
Zamu blasted to the right again, crashing into more village houses. When Zamu got up, Sho came flying at him again with another kick, blasting a dent in Zamu's face, and Zamu went flying again.
Each time Zamu rolled around, Sho zoomed in with a spinning and jumping kick to his face, smashing his face in each time, with each quick creating loud thuds. Zamu was in pain badly, he didn't even have time to do anything, since the hard kicks from Sho almost rendered him unconscious.
Then, Zamu screamed, "Keep me compan-!"
Sho was above Zamu, and performed a spinning roundhouse kick with his heel, and smashed his foot on Zamu's head, smashing Zamu's face into the ground, making another large thud and a THOOM!
Sho rolled on the ground, while Zamu was twitching on the ground, struggling to get up.
The spiders were coming as well, and Sho was leaning against a pile of wood.
Sho thought, 'I hope I have enough time! Please let me have enough time! At a rough estimate, I have about 17 seconds until the spiders reach me, me and the target bastard outran them pretty far, they're not as fast as us, but they're determined to come and fight with their leader.'
He had no time to waste. Sho looked at the ground, and picked up a stick with his mouth, and held his watch up, allowing the blue system screen to pop up.
Sho hurried to tap certain options with the stick, but he felt the tension roughly, knowing the spiders were coming at him and Zamu was getting back up.
Sho was using the stick in his mouth to click on his inventory, but he struggled, since the pain in his wrists caused him much distress. He wanted to yell again, but he knew that he had a job to do, he knew one fuck up could ruin everything.
He thought he could use his legs and feet to fight off the spiders and Zamu, but he thought, 'The spiders explode when they are killed, shooting acid everywhere. I can't keep fighting that target bastard, my energy will decrease since he's so tough, it would take more than a mere few kicks to kill him, and I don't want to prolong it anymore…and I want this pain to fucking stop!'
Zamu stood up all the way, looking at Sho, "You don't want to keep me company? You want me to be lonely all of my days?!"
Sho made a herbal pill fall on the ground, and he didn't hesitate to bend down and put his mouth to it.
Zamu and the spiders closed in on Sho, getting super close to him.
Sho's hands grew back fast, and his wounds were healed, even though he still felt a little pain, he didn't care.
Sho put his hands to the ground, and pushed upward, leaping into the air, and flipping over everyone.
Sho yelled, "Let's go!"
Sho stuck his hand out with a grin, and his knife came back to him from a distance; Zamu and his spiders came running at Sho again, making their powers work.
Sho lunged ahead, and threw the knife at them, and they all moved out of the way.
Zamu smirked, "You think we would just stand there and watch-!"
Sho yelled, "Let's go!"
His knife came back the other way, and stabbed through Zamu's head.
Sho laughed, "Idiot. I made sure to throw it in a flipping style so when its sharp tip was pointed towards you, I'd call it back, making it hit you."
Sho started to walk over to Zamu as the spiders were dissolving in their own acid.
Sho walked behind Zamu, grabbed the handle of his knife, put his foot on Zamu's back, and pushed him with his foot, ripping the knife out of Zamu's head.
Zamu was dead, and the raid was over. Sho had completed it.
He had gotten a notification from his watch, saying:
*You have slain a raid target. 3500 Fighter points rewarded.*
Sho wiped sweat from his head, and he sat down on Zamu's body, using it as a chair.
"3500 points..so in total, I have 5500 Fighter points. Hm..interesting. I'll use the 3500 points on my weapon power stat, hopefully I can gain new abilities from it. And I'll keep the 2000 Fighter points to myself."
Sho went to his weapon on his screen, and he spent 3500 Fighter points on his weapon power stats.
Sho's weapon stats:
Attack: 9,000/100,000
(Attack means how strong the weapon is when used without abilities)
Defense: 4,000/100,000
(Defense means How tough the weapon itself is)
Power: 4,650/100,000
(Power means The higher the power stat is, the more abilities the weapon gains, or the more stronger the weapon abilities become.)
Power level: 2,000 (Class C)
*You have spent 3500 points on weapon power. New abilities unlocked: "Breathless."*
Sho said, "Breathless. A new weapon ability. I hope it actually fucking does something."
Suddenly, Sho's knife started to change. The knife began to turn into a glaive blade. It was like a dagger, but it had multiple sharp curves in the middle of it, and there was a handle in the middle of it, but there were glaive blades on both ends of the blade. The blades on both ends were black and red, and they gave off a red and black aura.
Sho stared at it, saying, "Shit..this looks..dope. So my weapon grows along with its stats, like it's going through an evolution itself. I can feel the power coming from it, it's heavy. But what's my new ability about 'Breathless'?"
Sho stayed on his system watch, looking at how to use his "Breathless."
The system in his watch showed pictures even, and said:
*Breathless is an ability where your glaive weapon will gather the sweat from your body and turn it into red and black flames, flames that will coat your chest and arms, and your eyes will be purely white when using "Breathless." The red and black flames will extend to your glaive blades as well, and if they cut your opponent, that part of their body burns. The flames also can be used as a layer of protection, and can increase weapon impact. But, using Breathless, you will not be able to breathe or talk, and you can only use it for only 30 seconds, until you get stronger, you can make it last longer. To activate, think the word "Breathless" without taking a breath. The stronger you get, the longer you will be able to hold your breath.'
Sho watched the video demonstration on the ability, and finished reading the paragraph.
Sho thought, 'Sounds cool. But I won't be able to breathe or talk at all when using it. Sounds like it'll help me, maybe I'll use this ability in my training room. But I'll do it later. I completed my second raid alone, I'm fucking eating something.'
Sho stood up off of Zamu, and pulled his phone out.
Sho thought, 'Still no call or texts back from Gideon or Bebop. I'll see if I can call May about them. It's not like I'm worried, it's just odd as hell. Tch..first time calling a girl. Easy.'
Sho began to call May, and he walked back and forth, hearing the phone ring. As it rang, Sho started to slightly kick and step on Zamu's head.
May didn't pick up, and Sho said, "How is she going to give me her damn number and she doesn't answer when I do the one thing she expects me to do? Fuck it. I'm getting food."
[City 5]
[The Division guild base]
The Division guild base was extremely large, it looked like a national security government building.
The outside of it had tons of parking spots which were filled up with cars and trucks and motorcycles and some horses. The building was grey, with a black roof, with the entire establishment shaped like the letter D.
There were big words on the front of the building that said: "The Division."
Inside of the building, there were all sorts of Fighters inside yelling and being slightly chaotic with a little ruckus, with people in suits trying to contain them.
The Fighters yelled:
"He just went poof! I blink one time and he's gone!"
"The Division is supposed to know about this kind of freaky stuff right? They specialize in finding out about stuff like this because they want to find out the origins and secrets of the Tower of Valhalla! So they must know something! We need their help!"
"Please let us see the guild leaders!"
The guild members in suits replied, "Stay calm and stay back! Carter and the guild leaders are in the meeting room right now discussing the current situation! Stop panicking!"
The panicking Fighters replied, "Calm down?! Our friends and loved ones just vanished when we don't look at them for a single second! Something's going on!"
"Shut the fuck up and back up!"
Walking past everyone, shoving them all away, was Kell.
Kell pushed everyone, even guild members.
Kell had a straight face, slithering past everybody crowding the hallways.
Kell made it to the meeting room, and four guild members in suits stepped in front of him.
"This room is off limits until-!"
Kell spun and kicked all of them in the face, making them all smash against the wall.
Kell stepped to the door to the meeting room, and kicked it open.
Once he did, he saw a large room with white walls and a large screen on the back wall, and he saw a large round white table with Fighters surrounding it, 6 Fighters including Carter.
Carter said, "Kell..?"
Kell replied, "I wanna know something."
"You're here for answers like everyone else."
"If you're fucking with me, I highly advise your old farting ass not to do that, fool. May disappeared. She's my sister. She was walking beside me on her phone, I turned away for literally one second, I looked back at her, then she's gone."
Carter sighed, "I'm aware that all the disappearing stories I've heard today are similar. You aren't the only one affected. Meaning, we are investigating this, and for everyone. Yes, we investigate things like this to see if we can find information on the Tower of Valhalla that we are in. Me and the other two leaders are setting up a team. A team to cooperate with us whenever we come up or find something related to this incident."
"Huh? A team? Where are they? Are they here? Get them here!"
"Calm down, Kell. I know how frustrated you are."
"You don't know me."
"Do you say that to everyone? You've acted like this since I encountered you and Sho at the graveyard the day the Tower came."
"I don't reveal personal things about me, especially to senior citizens. If there is a team, put me on it right now and make me the leader."
"A leader has already been appointed. And we're also thinking about allowing Kaiju on the team, along with a Fighter named Stacen. Those are the only two I could think of inviting here right now to take a job. I'm pretty sure you're aware of those two."
"..I am."
"Stacen's friend Raiden has disappeared the same way everyone else's has, and Kaiju is a battle hungry warrior from a world I forgot the name of. He spouts it out all the time. And the way he fights, I believe him. I have two Fighters by the name of Darthen and Rudy, they are posted in City 2, waiting for orders."
"And? Who the hell are these people around you?"
"Two of the guild leaders besides me, and the Zen guild, are a family guild, brothers and sisters. This guild had a family member who disappeared right in front of them, they want to know where their brother went."
"Hoh?"
The two other Division guild leaders were:
Macch - (40 years old, male, Red hair, red stubble on chin, brown eyes, spiky red hair in a ponytail.)
Telli - (32 years old, female, long golden hair, white eyes, and freckles.)
The Zen family guild who was standing in there, was:
Court - (36 years old, male, long spiky white hair, black shaved stubble around mouth, purple eyes, and loves to smoke.)
Grey - (23 years old, male, grey eyes, wavy white silver hair pushed the other way, and a faint black scar on his cheek.)
Emma - (19 years old, female, silver hair in a crown braid style, red eyes, and a flower tattooed on her neck.)