In a dark empty space ash was silently sitting with his crossed leg on a plain floor.
hmmm it's seems I am dreaming? ash thought .
"but why the f* I have conscious and I am still wide awake with feels!"
' baby calmed down '
" look even rose is with me!"
' what?' rose was dazed with his sudden remarks.
" rose tell me why I am here instead of lying on bed?"
rose looked at angry ash.
' I told you it's because currently you are inside the soul window.'
" I know that but why??" ash questioned with annoyance.
as for as ash know only the soul who are trapped inside dungeon fight can enter the soul window after dying and have a chance to rebuild themselves and wake up but that's only possible in DUNGEON!!!!! but ash has yet to encounter any dungeon so why is he here and there is something else which is even more bothersome then this!
ash stood up and walked five steps and held his hand in air.
" and what's with this ?"
he touched an invisible Barrier , preventing him from going any further.
" shouldn't a player .. I mean awakener be able to roam around soul window and find the life crystal?" ash murmured in slow tune and looked at rose.
' baby I told you before it's because your body is a little different so something like this should not be shocking?' rose reasoned like it was not a big matter but without any knowledge how can ash be assured of these unexpected events happening to him and if he encounter a more serious issue what would he do if his calculations get wrong?
" tell me what's beyond this place?"
ash asked .
' baby you can already read that big sign as me. So why ask the questions ' rose pointed at direction where something was written in high lighted words .
ash was not stupid or blind he already saw the sign and it's meaning.
[ Pending....]
" I have been waiting here for so long when will I return?". ash walked back to his sitting place while stomping his feet on the ground.
as he was going to shut his eyes suddenly wind whooshed by his ears.
he opened his eyes and looked the direction of wind blowing.
"?" there was eerie feeling coming from that direction.
this is a fantasy game so surely there won't be ghost right? ash turned back and noticed that rose was not there anymore.
" rose?" ash called out to rose but no reply came back.
"you are kidding me. right?" ash tried to make joke but soon his back was sweating so much and felt as if the space around him was getting narrow and he was being squeezed by an unknown force.
" Oi sh* this is turning into horror movie?"
ash stood up and run to the opposite direction of wind .
I don't have any counter measure for a ghost coming in soul window! ash run with his fast pace and slowed to catch his breath and looked to check if he still felt the same feeling but unknown to him something crawled up to his feet from the ground and wrapped his whole body with roots
" where did they came from." ash tore off the roots from his body and made run from them.
' debris?' he remembered such creatures from game as he said it because those roots were the souls of monsters died in dungeon and act as a F grade monsters to hunt the soul in the soul window.
Debris lunched it's roots toward ash but the former escaped it's attack .
" hey don't understatement the first ranker " ash avoided the roots hitting him.
I am not dying in a dungeon so I won't find the life crystal so better use the scrape to return or else I might get hangers staying here!
with sudden attack on his feet, ash avoided the roots aiming at his head and slides down to reach the rootss with his hand.
' so fragile?'
the vines of debris were not far from as thin as two centimeter stick .
" wait ! " ash halted in his action as he recalled the trap of debris to lure it's opponent, to think of it as a weak opponent but that was truth though! except that if you really believe it! just because it's weak doesn't mean you let your guard off.
but of course before ash could realize the whole situation, those weak fragile roots turned in into sharp blades. even though ash quickly retreated his hands back but still felt the sharp piercing pain on his hands yet there was no bleeding of course it's the soul that gets damaged while the body is still in the hibernation state.
' these f grade debris are not threat but because I am unable to perform a single damage it can be as deadly as high grade monsters!' ash jumped back to avoid sharp roots but he couldn't avoid damage to his stomach and fell on the ground.
'agh' ash moaned in pain and held his stomach.
" shi I am going to level up first thing after going back!"
ash tried to stand up but he lost his ground after being wrapped by roots on his hands and legs.
" ouch I am being beaten by f grade debris even though I am best fighter even without states."
yes ash thought and looked at the debris monsters . it's head was unusual made up of bundles meanwhile no define shape.
debris had one weakness and that was core inside head but the unusual sharp roots always protected it's head so..
ash stopped struggling and laid himself to present the debris as weak.
more and more roots wrapped his body and shifted him close to it's head like he going to be eaten in a big mouth of monster. . ash closed his eyes recalling his past where he played this game.
when ash played this game in past he never encountered these debris when he was just in his biggeners level but when he encountered them he was already strong enough to directly launch an attack on them unluckyly there was a time he was in the same situation like this unable to come out and died multiple times and restarted until he found a solution by accidentally defeating these f grade debris while foolishly slipping on the core .
He opened his eyes and he looked at the core beneath it's mouth.
/Krrr/ The monster revealed it's jaws ready to tear off ash.
He quickly moved his dragger and cut of the roots from his hand and feet.
Thud/
Landing at the center of monster he run toward it's core while avoiding any type of sudden root attack to his side .
Whoosh - so close to his face he slide down and did summersaults jump falling from high to the open jaw of monster . He could feel all roots moving to his direction and at that time he opened his space box to take another knife dragger . Without any mistake he through it to the core before disappearing in it's mouth.
The dragger hit the core but was not enough to break it. The monster moved it's body to go back but halted .
Crackkk/
The core broke into pieces making debris to shriek with horror screams and so all the moving roots fell to the ground until it's body was not moving anymore.
Ash crawled out of its body by cutting it's stomach. His whole body was covered in dark liquid. He smelled himself and it was horrible stench that covered his nose.
"surely I could use this liquid with my experiment but nothing can be taken from soul world ."
He jump down from its body.
" This liquid would have damaged me more than it's root attack but thanks to my experience I was able to locate the core from inside the body ."
He continued walking back to the place where he was with rose. He could see the sign board but now there was something written on it.
[Loading....]
" Loading? "ash looked at the transparent screen with these letters until it changed and some other letters appeared
[ Request immediate leave ]
Suddenly a black whole appeared under his feet and without any warning he was sucked in.
Back in his dorm room he fell on his bed.
"oh I am back." He sat down on the bed.
"That was fantastic fall" he nodded his head
he didn't feel strange after waking up as he expected of having dealt with damages.
" Rose are you there ?"
[ congratulations
you have successfully completed the trial and now you are eligible to enter dungeon hunt]
the fuck? ash looked at the screen .
' baby! you have succeeded the trial now we can go to dungeon!'
"I know so don't scream in my ear" ash struggled with rose hugging his head tightly.
so this was trial but was it supposed to be like this? where is that sudden transmigration to low level dungeon? I was directly summoned in soul world..
"hey was the trial supposed to be in soul world?"
' how can that be . A trial is present in low level arenas '
" then why was I in soul world instead of arenas?"
' that's because your main attribute is healing so soul world was best as a trial for you '
huh? now that I think about it . I don't have any fighting skills and all I have always relied on was my own ability so will I be able fight the high level monster in dungeon without relying on any great fighting or elemental skills.
' Anyway let's get ready soon the first dungeon will appear."
" so soon?"
' yes it's because of someone interrupting with soul window '
" again?"
' yes'
someone capable of doing that must be very powerful . ash thought.
" so where is the location of dungeon appearing.." Ash stoped asking and quickly smelled his body that was reeking of his pheromones.
' baby let's go shower first' said rose.
" Eh" Ash agreed with rose and went to shower after turning the air ventilator on.
To be continued..
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