Leon asks, "Why is he like that?"
Serene looks over to Leon, "He was always like that before when he heard about this tutorial being a world called 'Devourer IIX' he went rogue. The little floating thing called him the chosen too. But you don't have to worry, Karina and I am here."
"Chosen? Those siblings were also saying something about 'Chosen' one too."
Leon rubs his chin before snapping his finger, 'Ohhhh! He must've been a player huh?' He smirks. Serene takes her over to her and Karina's room.
"Ugh! It's another tantrum of hers."
Serene knocks the locked door where "Karina" is written. Leon sits on the comfy couch, forgetting the pain in his ass caused by sitting and sleeping in the rocks for a long time. Serene walks quite hard on the floor, and bashes on the couch.
"I am so sick of it!"
Leon tugs her shirt, "Hey? What did they say at the beginning of the tutorial?" Serene replies with her face buried in the couch while in exhaustion, "Why do you want to know about what the ugly bastard said?"
...
"I missed it, can you tell?" He starts tugging her shirt even harder.
"Call me big sister and I will."
"What?"
She bashes her hands on the couch.
"You heard me, Leon."
"Okay then, would you please tell me what they said, big s.i.s.t.e.r?"
She rolls her eyes and looks over to Leon.
"It was a tentacle talking. He said we were in some kind of tutorial of a game named "Devourer IIX" That thing had the voice of neither a man nor a woman, speaking like weird chants but it sounded like every language, so everybody there understood."
Leon chuckles a little, 'Istria's tentacle spoke huh?'
"What else?"
"He said we were the luckiest people here because we are the last batch." Leon suddenly gets startled, sweating a little while smiling like crazy.
"That means--
"There won't be more players anymore. A person screamed that they needed such a prank to be stopped but his heart was the one to be stopped. He said to get to the two caves and possibly clear the room as fast as possible."
"Two caves?" Leon asks.
"Yep? He stuttered saying the one on the far right was 'On Maintenance.' Then suddenly that thing grabbed Jasper and pulled him over. Everyone thought he was going to die, even Karina looked a bit happy but Jasper was overjoyed."
"Overjoyed?"
"The tentacle went through his throat before announcing that he was a 'Chosen' and follow him."
Leon tilts his head, "A tentacle through his throat, ew. Is he special that he got chosen?"
"Yep, and people treated him like royalty. It's like giving authority to a mentally ill teenager." Serene bites her lips and murmurs, "He should've died back then. If only he wasn't here, Karina would've been okay."
Leon rubs his knees while asking again, "If you don't mind me, was there a relationship between you three?" Serene sighs while she explains, "Jasper is an unrelated relative of Karina, I heard she was bullied to the point of exhaustion from elementary by that bastard."
"And she still speaks, interacts, or does anything regarding him?"
"Yeah, kid. Her trauma is so severe, that she doesn't even realize that the fact the person she's trying to impress is her enemy because she thinks Jasper is the strongest person in her world."
Leon raises his legs, before jumping out of the couch.
"Hey, what if someone shatters that illusion?" Leon pondered aloud, his gaze fixed on Karina.
Serene snickers, "I don't know, maybe, Karina would wake up from her delusional self."
Leon sighs.
'I thought saintness would be useful for me to get that item but she seems to be a little screwed up. Change of plans. I need to make the saintness go feral.' He puts his hands behind his head before walking away.
"Where are you going?"
"I need to piss." He scuffs.
Serene snickers, "Brat." before falling asleep on the couch.
After a few hours, as the night descended upon the bustling camp, laughter echoed through the air, mingling with the bonfire crackling. Amidst the chatters and noises, Jasper, with a smirk playing on his lips, lifted his cup high, his eyes gleaming with a deceptive glint.
"Everyone, we did it." His voice boomed, cutting through the chatter. "Tonight, we celebrate more than comradeship but more than that. Tomorrow we mark for our conquest—the raid of the ''Easy" difficulty door! Then, we would take the raid to 'Easy' door tomorrow."
His proclamation was met with cheers and applause from the gathered crowd, but Jasper giggles inside, 'I just need these pigs to clear the medium room for me. Nobody has cleared nothing.'
Jasper wobbly wobbly enters the room. Jasper who is pissed drunk, opens his window and takes a whiff of that cold wind. He smiles at the lumicient moon, shining right before him.
"I'm the main fucking character. I will succeed in defeating this game."
BAM!- A solid kick to the face. Jasper flies and hits himself on the head. Jasper can't even scream, he watches as a solid dark figure standing in the luminous moonlight, Leon, slides in with a cloth wrapped around his head but his eyes. He walks up to Jasper and sucker-punches him straight before locking their eyes in.
Jasper sees black clouds ooze out from his eyes.
[Gazer has been activated.]
[Weak-will power has been detected.]
[The enemy will be stunned for 15 seconds!]
"Isn't this crazy luck for me? KEKEKEKEKE" Leon laughs creepily as his red eyes glow while his smile almost reaches the back of his ears.
"Say, what is that makes you special?" Leon grabs his collar to question him.
"I am the chosen one because I've got a unique skill."
"Oh? What's the skill?"
Jasper speaks with a poker face, "I have a skill that allows me to peep through other people's status and differentiate lies and truths."
Leon spits on his luck, 'Lucky fucker got a proper A-rank skill right off the bat.'
"What is that you want with other players?"
"I am the main character. They should serve me."
[Five seconds remaining to the skill "Gazer"]
Leon laughs hysterically, "Forget how to use your skill, now! and for a special gift for you." Leon chants something.
[Mystria N'amoun has been activated.]
[Player "Karina Röek" specified and other players will be affected.]
[Player "Jasper Röek" will be erased from existence slowly.]
Leon disappears from the shadows as he laughs hysterically.
"This class is better than I thought." While jumping from tree to tree, he falls to the ground with his ears closed with his fingers.
"FUCK! I forgot about the penalty."
"Stop-- NO!"
Leon rolls all around, clutching his ears as the screams of hell pierced his very soul. They were not mere sounds but a cacophony of anguish, torment, and despair woven together in a symphony of eternal suffering. Each scream carried the weight of countless souls, trapped in an infernal abyss with no hope of escape.
"I didn't think it would be this bad! God damn it!"
The screams seemed to claw at his sanity, gnawing at the edges of his consciousness, threatening to drag him into the depths of despair alongside the tortured souls. They echoed with a haunting resonance, reverberating through the dark corridors of his mind.
Some were shrill, piercing through the air like shards of glass, while others were guttural, primal cries of agony that seemed to emanate from the very depths of the abyss. They blended together in a twisted chorus, creating a discordant melody that chilled Leon to the bone.
SPLASH!
Leon washes his face while huffing very badly. He stretches his eyelids showcasing several red veins on his cat-like eyes, "They screamed the whole night. tch. tch. This shitty skill."
Jasper screams at the top of his lungs, "Today we raid the door and be done for all." He swings his sword around. He grabs the hand of a woman in office clothes and other people smiling, "You and all the others will be going to another door without me."
...
Jasper raises his hands in the air smirking, "But I would take you with me if you paid me." The woman pulls her hand out of Jasper's hold, "Umm, who are you?"
Jasper's smirk fades away, "huh?"
Other people also look at him weirdly as well. Jasper adjusts his hair, "Don't joke with me. I'm the fucking chosen one."
"Hey, arna. Collect money from those who want to go with me on the easy one or they would have to go to the medium door, the harder one."
The guy, with a mustache and a well-built body, looks around and points at himself, "Me?"
"Aren't you Arna?"
"Yeah?"
Jasper walks up to him and slaps him immediately leaving him stunned.
"Then get to work!"
Arna taps Jasper on his shoulder and swings hard, leaving Jasper gasping for air for a while. Due to the commotion, Serene and Karina rush to the area too. Jasper looks back and blocks as his own "underlings" beat the shit out of him. Jasper, while gasping for air.
"What the fuck do I pay you all for?"
Jasper locks eyes with Karina and Serene who are watching from the sidelines.
"Hey-y Karina, help me."
Karina hesitates but tries to stop it but Serene blocks her, "Do you know him?"
Everybody looks over to Karina, she looks around and speaks awkwardly, "I-I don't know."
"What? you bitch--
POW! Somebody throws a pebble that lands on his head.
"OW!"
"Alright everybody, this asshole doesn't know our savior, and his mouth needs some stitches." Jasper stands up with his bloody mouth, he wipes the blood off his mouth and speaks,
"Spend 150 gold to summon Octoplet," Jasper commanded, his voice shakingly.
[Octoplet is being summoned.]
[A 15% Stat decrease will be applied to everyone near a 15m radius next to the Octoplet.]
Leon's face tightens up, "What the fuck!!!" Leon's eyes widened, his face contorting in horror. "What the fuck?!" Before he could react, a tentacle burst forth from Jasper's chest, tearing his ribs apart. Jasper's laughter echoed through the air.