By the time Blaze woke up the next morning, he didn't remember what happened the night before.
He finished his usual routine of cleaning his apartment, feeding Blake who always seemed to watch him like a hawk, eating his breakfast after freshening up and getting back to the game.
The game had less than thirty of time left so, he decided to call his mom and siblings and asked about his dad.
He opened his contact list, and scroll down till he found his mom's and then dailed it.
It rang for a while but no one responded.
He tried again and still no luck.
After several dials, he concluded that his mom was probably very busy and forgot her phone, or the phone was with the two rascals who were probably dancing to the ringtone.
He had nothing to do…
So he went to the kitchen with Blake following behind him, to get a glass of water as he was feeling thirsty.
Upon arriving at the spot where he fell the day before, he started to feel strange.
He felt as though he's been there before but he couldn't quite lay his fingers on it.
"Hang on!" he said with a slight grin on his face as he turned to Blake who purrs.
"this is my kitchen and I've been here several time".
"Meowww" Blake meows as if to say "this is indeed your kitchen and you typically spend everyday roaming around here".
He laughed at himself and thought it was probably…déjà vu.
He grabbed a glass and poured himself some water from his glass jug which was on the kitchen counter.
He chugged it down, return the glass and head back to his room while Blake stayed behind.
*Ping* he activated the sound barrier, few inches about the spot which he was and opened the projected display and holographic keyboard.
He started to type and then said "Hell doctor".
"How's he" the doctor asked with anticipation hearable in his voice.
"His vitals are stable and his brain seems a lot more relaxed" Blake replied.
"Any notable side effects" the doctor asked and Blake replies "Non detectable,but he did forget what happened the night before".
"Confirmed?" The doctor asked and Black replied "Confirmed".
"Very well then, begin phase two" the doctor said and Blake affirmed and the interface got disconnected.
Resuming his cute and lazy kitty cat act, Blake deactivates the sound barrier and slowly walked to the room with his tail lift on the air.
3…2…1 Blaze counted with the countdown and was all ready for the game.
The game began from where they were resting.
All the players were up and ready to go.
They were then told to follow another blue dot trail.
They got to a dead end…or is it a dead end?, because the trail kept going.
All they saw were Blue mixed purple puffy clouds for as far as the camera could zoom.
They didn't know what to do and no one was ready to take the first step.
Blaze was confuzzled at the scenery which appeared before him.
What's with all these clouds. It's clearly depicting the fact that this is the third challenge which had to do with Air..
Although he knew, he thought they'd be battling fierce Air magic Mage but the challenge is to go through puffy clouds?…
Lucky for some, they could fly.
Blaze was starting to regret why he picked such a useless character.
He could have picked a character who could fly but no, he wanted to go unique.
And what did unique get him, a spot at the top 10 which was the least rank,a useless SSS tier weapon, a partner who didn't even bother to check up on him, and a risk of being eliminated.
Just then, then cute purple creature jumped on the clouds and started running to the other end.
Seeing the fact that the creature didn't fall to death, they followed with courage and skepticism. After all, they were risking 10 million dollars.
Seeing as many other players hopped on the cloud and didn't fall, Blaze followed.
Suddenly…, the area which were covered by the clouds started to retract.
Panicked, Blaze ran as fast as he could, hopping to make it through.
He controlled his character with full anticipation and eagerness.
Just as he was about to loose the cloud beneath his character's feet, he jumped and landed on a mud puddle.
Three other players didn't make it so they were eliminated and he got shifted to the top 7 on the Leaderboard.
He should be happy right?…, wrong.
Because he was still in the bottom rank in the leader board.
Amongst millions of players, only 7 of them managed to make it this far.
It first began with being eliminated because they couldn't navigate the game, then they were eliminated because they shared their complaints, then during the first stage were the weird plant monster ate many of them.
Also the time when players got eliminated for being unable to find a weapon, the incidents in the labyrinth of shadows, dungeon of death and even the level before this one, where they had encountered those beastly tarantulas, bees and even the gigantic snake which they still hadn't killed yet and now, this closing cloud path.
"They typically made it impossible to use any cheat, even if they said they could cheat" Blaze grumbled out loud in a frustrated tone and continued with the game.
"Now,I need some answers" He said as he walked towards a character with "player00548" hovering above its head.
He tried talking with the character only to discover that it wasn't Darius.
His player's identity was "Player00547" but this character had "Player00548" hovering above his head.
"Wait…" he stuttered "did he get eliminated too!".
"this game is impossible" He nearly screamed.
So that's why he couldn't contact Darius, that's why he was ignored.
All this time, he saw the wrong player ID and mistook it for Darius.
"Either way,with him gone,I needn't worry about Sharing the reward…" he said with a smile which slowly turns into a smile of uncertainty "That's if I win…".
***Boom*** Blaze suddenly heard which made him jolt out of his daze.
The game world,his gaming mouse and headset vibrated for a while before stopping.
"What was that!!" He questioned.