[Welcome to Spiegel]
[Logging in...]
After being unable to get off his mind the question "what does my star do?", Eizit rushed into the Spiegel world again, the good thing was that he didn't need to sleep in Hansha as long as he slept in Spiegel, so he could just investigate more here.
Eizit would first look around to make sure the Berserker guy was not around, and luckily for him he didn't seem to be. Mainly because if he was he would have seen him, how could he not see a guy sitting on over 2 meters high? Not only that but he was built like a goddamn truck, and he also gave off intimidating vibes! He was the kind of guy that'd would make it so you wouldn't need to turn around to know he was behind you.
Eizit took a deep breath now that he was sure he was safe, and once more said to himself "Open UI". The UI opened again, and then he thought "Star 1: Boom Boom, Information". The UI updated and showed Eizit his star information.
[Spiegel's World™ - Star 1: Boom Boom
Name - Boom Boom
Star Number - 1
Summarise - The user can combust into an explosion to harm their enemies. Their body will reconstruct itself.
Note - Pain from the explosion is increased
(More Info Currently Locked)]
Eizit raised an eyebrow, combust? Explode? His star magic allowed him to explode? Could it be more masochistic? He spoke to himself.
"I know we get these stars by dying but it's not like we like the pain!"
He sighed, looking around thinking on what to do now. He didn't really know what to do now as the game had most of it be made by people who played it, so there was no beginners guide to follow.
Due to not finding anything interesting, Eizit was thinking in dropping the game for today and going to sleep in Hansha, he'd rather sleep for free in the comfort of his own house than using in-game money to sleep one night in a tavern, he thought it was a waste of money, after all, you slept worse in a inn's bed than in the cheapest bed in Hansha. And so, he thought.
"Log Of-"
Something interrupted him, a skinny looking guy pushing him off to a side, he seemed hurried, and like if he didn't even notice Eizit. It was weird, was he drunk or something...? He went fast as if his life depended on it, as if he was being chased.
"Wait a second!"
Eizit said to himself, pulling up his robe to cover his head and face as the Berserker blitzed next to him at a big speed, with the same mace he used to kill him, the people in the street looked at him, but then looked away. Perhaps in fear, maybe in indifference, or both. Eizit, however, couldn't help but run after him, he knew exactly what was happening.
"He's gonna kill him like he killed me! I gotta do something about it"
And there he went again, driven by the Hero Syndrome, Eizit could only follow the big man chasing the skinny guy. Like Eizit did a couple hours ago, the man took a right turn, then ran for a while in a straight line and took another left turn. It was the same path Eizit had followed, this was definitely the same illusion that got him last time.
Eizit was not fast enough as to get to them, and he knew if he failed to reach them that person would die. Eizit was running out of options and time when he suddenly thought of an idea.
"It's so stupid, it's not worth it!"
His rational voiced said to him, it was probably right, that was the right thing to think, but Eizit didn't care about what was right, but what was right. The rational's right thing was the thing that granted Eizit a higher chance of surviving, for Eizit however, the right thing to do was the moral one. And so, he replied to himself, in his mind.
"But the plan could work, right?"
The voice replied
"It could work"
Eizit giggled
"Do you have a better plan?"
The voice went silent, it clearly didn't. Eizit took another right turn, chasing the big man who was chasing the small guy, this guy hadn't stopped and therefore he was getting further away from the main streets, Eizit could assume that, based off the map of the city, they would soon reach the walls and, therefore, a dead-end. So he knew it was the time to do it.
Eizit mumbled some words as he aimed behind him with his left arm, then, a loud "boom" could be heard as Eizit's entire left hand exploded, impulsing him forward over the Berserk. The landing Eizit had was... A happy one, we could say. He used his shoulder to avoid hitting the ground face first, but the fact that he hadn't an arm made him scream out of fear... He knew his hand had just blown up, but it was a pretty gore scene anyways. Luckily, the scream made the skinny guy get out of the illusion, looking over at him as he also screamed at the missing arm of Eizit. The Berserker stopped abruptly upon hearing them both scream.
"What is wrong with you two!?"
He asked raging, and as Eizit turned around with his hand missing the big boy would also start screaming, funnily enough his scream was the highest pitched one.
A couple seconds of "AHHH", "AHHH", "AHHHH" later, Eizit's hand popped back up, the skinny guy stopped screaming and the Berserker got even angrier, screaming at Eizit
"You're the sneaky little rat from earlier! Aren't you!?"
Eizit looked at him, he nodded slowly, his expression said one thing "I. Fucked. Up."
But it was too early to surrender, Eizit stood up and indicated the skinny guy to get behind him. Then, he got in a fighting stance, but the Berserker just laughed.
"HAHAHHAH, is that what you call a fighting stance!? You haven't fought anyone in your entire life, have you?"
Eizit gulped, it was true, and was pretty obvious, the position of his arms, the movements with his feet. It was clearly not a high, medium or even newbie fighting level. He was clearly a guy whose first time throwing fists was right now.
"Dude... Are you sure you can with this guy?"
Eizit slowly turned around to look at the skinny guy, who had just talked.
"Uh... Maybe? I mean, better that than just running away... Right?"
The skinny guy sighed, he tried to adopt a fighting stance, but he was clearly as bad, or maybe even worse, than Eizit. At least two bad make a decent, right?
"Minus plus minus makes minus 2!"
Laughed the Berserk, wow, he knew some math. Wasn't that unexpected? Anyways, Eizit giggled, he was confident.
"W-well, t-that i-is if t-the negative n-numbers are both o-one."
He wasn't confident, his shaky voice made it clear, he wasn't confident at all. Plus he had a sweat drop falling down his cheek... Yeah, he was not confident at all.
"I'd say nerd emoji but that sentence makes no sense, two negative numbers higher than one just make a negative number higher than 2, which is worse."
Eizit looked back at the skinny guy again.
"DUDE I'M NERVOUS WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO SAY!?"
The Berserker laughed again, and started rushing at them with his mace.
"Oh fuck, here he comes!"
Said the skinny guy, moving away as soon as he saw the Berserker approach.
"Oh shit!"
Eizit jumped up, his left hand's pinkie finger exploding as it helped give him enough momentum as to dodge the mace, impulsing himself upwards.
"oh, SHIT"
He screamed in pain, it was painful, very painful. The Berserker looked up, thinking on what to do. But then it remembered, the skinny guy was vulnerable, so he could just go for him. And so he did, swinging the mace at the skinny boy, he ducked and rolled to a side, like if he was in a videogame. Which, to be honest, he is, because Spiegel is a videogame. The Berserker laughed, as it tried to hit him again, now that he was in the ground.
The skinny guy used his legs and hands, showing some athletic capabilities to impulse himself backwards, barely dodging the mace, but hitting a wall behind him in the process.
The Berserker used the opportunity to attack again, as the guy had nowhere to go now, and the concussion from hitting the wall had staggered him briefly. He swung the mace at him, and just when he was going to hit the skinny guy a loud boom was heard and, right after, something hit his head, pushing him to a side and slamming the mace right over the skinny guy's head.
It had been Eizit, who made his right arm explode in order to throw himself forward, kicking the big guy's head, however, he hit a wall with his face first right after, as he couldn't use his hands properly to absorb the impact. Eizit slid slowly down the wall, while his blood left a trace on it.
The Berserker stood up and raised his arm, ready to slam at the unconscious Eizit, while he was looking at the wall. But right as he was going to hit him, the skinny guy grabbed him by the leg. The Berserker growled at him and swung down, slamming it on his head.
BOOM! THUMP!
The big guy collapsed forward, his head dripping blood, over the skinny guy, and tainting him in a red liquid. Eizit was looking at him, his middle finger missing, it was in the big guy's head.
"Eat that, you brick shit-house motherf*cker"