Chapter 15

Michael

"Seriously I have become too strong for these people though I don't know what I will do I f a god sends someone after me with a bit of their power" I say as tusker flies away from the molten city.

"that's why you have to ascend fully before they notice" Tusker says as we reach what served as my home since I started this game."I can put the entire house in a spatial dimension so no need to go down there" Tusker says as the house and underground facilities disappear as if the land was gorged out.

"Thanks now it back to the ruins, I will leave shortly to see if I can contact some people that we will make fallen" I tell Tusker as we begin to fly back to the ruins.

In two hours we are back and after showing Tusker where to materialize the house I logout of the game.

Standing up from my bed I drop the nerve gear on the bedside table and eat the leftover food from last night. "Let's see if I can find those elves again" I mutter as I look for the mail that the elven sisters that I killed sent me before we met.

Finding their email I ask if they want enough power to end the game, quickly I receive a reply that they do and within minutes as they chat I tell them to come to the human continent where I am based.

Closing the laptop I think about ways I can use to raise my level up as now there will be few people in the world of Terra that can actually put up a fight against me.

Hayden

"Are you saying that there is a large monster army roaming around in the north" I ask the three people standing in front of my guild members. "Yes and they should average around level 120 for the scouts so imagine what the general will be" one of them replies.

"So what are we going to do guild master" I ask as I face the highest pillar in the cave where there is an elf with a large sword on his back. "Nothing for now, let's see if this army will stay in the north or if it will come south" the man replies as he disappears.

'I really hate that guy acting all mysterious and all' I think to myself. Leaving the cave I use shadow portal to move back to my mansion in the city of Coris where they will soon be giving me a title due to my work there.

"Welcome back master" the butler says as he opens the door to the main house for me. With knowledge of how people who can teleport are great assassins I made sure that the house I would be living in blocked all forms of teleportation even mine.

"The city council has requested for your presence" the butler says as I enter my study. "Send a message that I will be there soon" I tell the butler as I begin to check all the financial records of the mansion, can't have those old geezers thinking I am at their beck and call I laugh inwardly.

Howard

"Sir we have a problem" a voice says as soon as I enter the company building. As one of the major source of finance for the company the board of directors had assigned me the task of monitoring the goings of the game we put in the market 'Terra online'.

"What is the problem shay" I ask my secretary. "According to the report sent last night one player has completed a large part of the story line and if the situation continues he is due to clear the game in the next six months" she says as she hands me a folder.

"Get Christo to my office immediately" I tell her as we leave the elevator and walk to my office. "He is already waiting there for you; also there is a video conference with the board in the next five minutes" Shay replies.

Opening the door to my office I see a young man with red hair fiddling with a black cube sitting in one of the chairs meant for visitors."Howard how nice of you to come to see me" the man says when I seat at my desk without looking at me."I didn't come to see you, this is my office and I don't remember saying you could come here when I was absent" I say to Christo.

Raising his head he looks at me as if I just said something strange, "that's by the way I came here to remind you that I told you so" Christo says causing Shay and I to groan.

Months before the game had been released to the public after the beta test had been completed Christo had complained of the easy level of the game and the fact that we had actually forced the AI in charge of the game to have something akin to the games of old a major storyline that leads to the game.

"The deed has already been done, does your team have anything that can reduce the damage" I ask the man across from me. "Yes when you and the board had refused to follow my advice we built in safeguards for occasions like this, one of which has been activated" Christo answers.

Crane

'Playing this game has been one of the best experiences in my fifty years of living' I think to myself as I swing the broad sword in an overhead strike decapitating the dwarf in front of me. All around me players and npcs fought.

With the invasion of the dwarves some of the human kingdoms had pulled resources together and sent out an army made of players and npcs when they saw the Relai kingdom burn to the ground.

"Lord Crane, the enemy has begun to retreat" Zia my vice guild master says to me as she uses her short sword to slit the throat of her opponent."Good have the mages use area of effect spells when they are far away from us" I yell at her as I block the axe of a golden armored dwarf.

"your comrades are leaving" I tell the dwarf as I step out of the reach of his axe, swinging at his neck I watch only for him to roll towards me dodging my sword and reduce the distance between us again. "Even if I die I will take as many of you human trash as possible" the dwarf growls at me as he tosses his axe at me.

"Denons might" the dwarf yells as his muscles begin to bulge cracking the armor on him. Within seconds the dwarf that was at most five foot is now more than seven foot tall with muscles that would make a pro bodybuilder envious. "So that's your backup plan, becoming bigger and buffer" I ask the monstrosity in front of me.

Dodging the punch he threw at me I chop at the monster's hand to watch my sword bounce of the skin like it was made from mithril."In this form no one is a match for me" the former dwarf yells as he tosses me with a swing of his hand that I block with my sword. "Boss, how do we fight something like this" a voice says beside me as the monstrosity walks slowly to me.

"Do you still have that hammer of yours Kal" I ask the person beside me. By now there are few sounds of fighting across the field and even those are reducing as the army I led here begins to form a circle around the only threat. "Yes I have it" Kal answers as he pats the hammer beside him.

"I am going to have to borrow it for a while" I say to him. Heaving the hammer in my hand I remember the quest that brought us to the ruins where we found the hammer. On that quest we lost fifty of the hundred and thirty guild members that went there and twenty of those where on their last live.

"Light up the world Mjollnir" I whisper as I raise the hammer to the sky. 'Truly you live up to the name of being a divine weapon' I think to myself as lightning strikes the hammer healing all my injuries and removing fatigue. The hammer of the thunder god, the higher the level of the player the more of its power that can be brought forth and as the highest level player around I am the only one that can even use it for more than thirty seconds due to the drain on a person's mana is astronomical it should do the job here I reason as I point the hammer at the former dwarf.

With the speed akin to a bullet the hammer flies at my opponent caving his head in as lightning emits from the hammer frying the body to a crisp husk .Beckoning at the hammer it leaves the corpse and flies into my hand "Victory" I yell as I raise the hammer to the sky.

Hours later

The cleanup of the battle field was tiring fortunately enough as a high ranking guild member I was exempt from that. "That was a good thing you did" a voice says behind me as I watch the sun set on the lone hill near the battle field.

Turning around I see a woman dressed in armor that had to have cost a fortune, with the spear in hand a sword strapped to her waist and a shield shaped like a cross this woman looked like a warrior goddess. "You are right about me been a warrior goddess" the woman says to me.

'Did she just read my mind' I wonder. "Of course I read your mind, my name is Minerva the human goddess of war and I was happy with your performance against those cretins that failed to be humans" the woman says.

"So what would make a goddess of your stature talk to me" I ask apprehensively. "No need to try drawing your sword, even if you had fifty of your traveler friends as strong as you none of you can even make a scratch on me" Minerva says as I place my hand on the hilt of my sword. "There is an abomination in this continent, a human traveler that seeks power he shouldn't seek" Minerva says.

"Let me guess you want me to kill this person" I ask with a smile. "Yes I will gift you with a divine weapon that will grow with you though you have to kill this thing before the end of three weeks as he grows stronger by the second" she answers. "How come you don't kill this traveler yourself" I ask with a hint of worry.

'Wouldn't put it past these so called gods to send me to kill something that I can't kill' I think. "your faith in my pantheon is rather low, there s a pact that the gods swore to that unless a god has a very good reason even if they are from opposite sides the other gods are bound by their oath to destroy the offending god" Minerva explains to me.

"I will carry out the mission for you though I will need the weapon to be a sword similar in shape and size to my current sword" I tell the goddess. "It is done" she says in a voice that sends a chill down my spine.

Stabbing the spear into the ground she holds out her right hand and an small orb forms there, seconds later the orb grows until it is the size and shape of my sword though it is far different in look. Where my hilt is a light brown the divine weapon is black with red fur around the pommel and don't even talk about the blade itself for the one year in game I have never seen a red blade that seemed to have been soaked in blood.

"Here, as stipulated if you can't kill the abomination then I will require a total of two hundred draconian souls from you" Minerva says to me as she tosses the sword at me and disappears. Holding the sword I inspect the bade before the last words she said registers with me 'when did we agree on that part about the souls, manipulative woman just wait till I become strong enough to get back at you' I think as I make my way down the hill.

Reaching the foot of the hill I see people "pack up we just got a divine quest" I tell the crowd causing them to start cheering. "Officers with me" I say as I walk to the command tent the guild is using.

"What is the mission" Raven one of the best mages in the guild asks. "We have to kill one guy that seems to have the goddess of war in a twist" I reply with a smile.

Nathan

'Working in this place has to be the worst thing that has happened to me so far' I reason as the masters whip slices into my back. Biting down the groan I cry silently as any form of emotion only makes my punisher happier.

After leaving the seaport where the ship carrying I had been sold at the slave auction first to a nobleman that wanted his servants to be made up of only elves. With no skill in housekeeping apart from washing the dishes I was quickly sold to a woman who liked sending elves to her friends as gifts. Spending a month there showed that no matter what they wanted to do I did the opposite.

This seemed to be the branch that broke the camel's back as the woman in her infinite wisdom sold me to the coliseum to fight till I died in the arena or died of old age.

I still remember the day my new owner came to pick me. With him were five men and two women all wearing the slave collars on their necks even when they were carrying all sorts of weapons that I hadn't even known existed."You must be the runt who seems to be impossible to train" the only person not wearing a slave collar said to me when I was presented to him.

Nodding my head to show positive response all I received was a slap that dazed me for a while. "When I ask you anything you will respond to me and all your responses shall end with 'master'" the man says as one of the guards drags me away by the chain connected to my hands. And so began my journey into the world of gladiators.