Crimson

Lothar was not Feeling any guilt for using poison to kill the Murlocs, he saw no difference in killing them with a sword, a magical attack or poison since the result will all be the same. Things like how much the enemy suffered and was morally mislead in believing the food was good did not concern him at all.

He searched the corpses for any valuable things to loot but could not find anything special. After a few minutes of looking through their stuff, the corpses slowly began to dissolve on there own and they completely vanished. "Wow, it seems as the corroding effect of the Slimes comes from that poison grass as well this is truly powerful." Suddenly Lothar had an idea, he took out all the Crabmeat he had in his Possession and placed it all around the respawn area. He had huge amounts of it since he spent the whole day killing and looting these Crabs.

After everything was done he used his stealth mode and waited for the next wave of Murlocs to spawn from that pond. This time it doesn't need much time until the Murlocs got interested in the meat and began to eat. Just a few minutes later, just like before the all died and fell on the ground.

---You gained 62 exp---

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"This is awesome. Now I can look for the Naga. Since the Murlocs aren't that much of a challenge and I can get experience points automatically from them, I can now focus on the Naga." So he left the Murloc's respawn place and headed to the Naga pond while now and then receiving a notice that he got exp from killing a Murloc. As he arrived he was a little baffled, the entire surrounding of the pond looked totally different, there were fences and walls of stones erected. Some of the huge rocks were pushed and piled up together and formed into a tower with a way circling around of it to reach the top. The towers seem to be there for surveillance.

This was like a small fortress. "How could they mistake it for the Crab pond?" Lothar was thinking about Rengo and shook his head. "They really should stop being Rifters and just focus on breathing, maybe they will forget how that works either." The more he saw how incompetent these guys are the more he looked down on them. It was not like he wanted to look down on them but they made him do so by bullying him whilst not even having one bit of talent.

It was not like Rengo and his team members were weak it was more like Lothar was special. They were just unlucky with this dungeon, at the training tower they reached a very good score, not the best but high enough to count to talented people. Maybe they were too nervous or just had a bad day, maybe they thought only about the glory they would earn for completing this dungeon and did not focus on what was in front of them.

After observing them for a couple of hours and remembering their movement patterns he thought, "I can not fight them openly they are organized pretty well, I have to take care of them one by one."

Lothar decided to first take out the surveillance tower, and then sneak up on meach and every shadow. After the tower is done they would not be able to figure out some of the guards were missing, only from up there, they could oversee the whole fort.

After entering the fort in his stealth mode he slowly got closer to the tower. Under the platform up at the top of the tower, there was a crystal hanging and giving off a strange kind of light. The closer Lothar got the more he realized that something was amiss. Suddenly his stealth mode vanished and he could be seen. It did not take long and the guard on the tower saw him.

Lothar activated all of his speed-enhancing abilities and ran as fast as he could, he wanted to escape the same way he came. When hi arrived at the main gate, the exit was already closed and 3 shadows stood in his way. Suddenly he was shot with a water beam. The pressure the water had was enough to knock him back 10 meters. As soon as he stood back up spears came flying in his direction. He was able to narrowly evade them scratching him at the neck and left arm.

"There is no time to think too much, I need to escape their combination is too good." Lothar than ran into another direction, the first priority was to escape their view. Maybe he could enter stealth mode again. And think of another way to handle them. He ran escaped into the direction where some huge boulders were standing, he thought about using the gaps between them to hide and reorganize. From above this place looked like a small labyrinth, small narrow ways that seem to be arranged randomly.

As soon as he entered that place he thought he was safe for the moment because the Naga would not fit through these narrow gaps and routes of this rock-garden, but he was totally wrong. Naga could slither around like snakes and they caught no time. He kept running and running, all while still trying to remember which way he went, focussing his mind on every detail he sees to search for a way to escape. As suddenly a thick red cloud surrounded him, after it engulfed Lothar it disappeared and he completely vanished together with that mysterious red mist.

"What is that old demon thinking, I will report this to the higher-ups. If I get this motherfucker in my hand I will imprison him in a bottle and decorate my living room with him." Grim who was watching was enormously enraged as he saw the red crimson smoke that appeared not too long ago and visited him. Just to tell him that only 3 years remain until the next event.

In a room unbeknown to absolutely everyone, in a place between the dimensions. The red mist let go of Lothar and was placing him in a very comfortable chair. "Hello young boy, my name is Crimson, do you mind telling me who you are?" Lothar was taken aback, this strange-looking blood-red mist could talk. "Thank you for saving me. I was not sure if I could escape. My name is Lothar." Though he answered him he was on guard. This was really awkward, how could that mist come and go to a dungeon as it likes.

"Nice to meet you, Lothar, I have a question, would you mind telling me your class?" Crimson asked. Again Lothar was not prepared and was surprised why that mist would ask that question. now that he thought about his class and his Transformation Skill, Lothar discovered that there was no notice of him, obtaining the form of the red mist. So what does that mean? Is he friend or foe? "Are you possibly related to the appearance of the rifts?" Lothar asked.

Crimson was surprised, but Lothar could not see it because this red mist in front of him had no face. "How did you notice?" Crimson asked. "So it is true." After taking a deep breath Lothar focussed, suddenly without showing any sign of killing intend, Lothar appeared behind Crimson and unleashed a series of Firestrikes. Trying to annihilate the mist completely.

In an instant, the room they were staying at was charred black and everything was burned to ashes, even Crimson was completely gone. "What was that? So are you a Swordsmen? But how could you release that fire?" Though Crimson was nowhere to be seen, his voice could be heard everywhere. "Come out, I will show you again," Lothar said. "Is this how you thank the one that saved you from those Naga? Why did you attack me?" Crimson asked.

"Demons came to us trough those Rifts and killed my family. I want my revenge." Lothar said as he searched for Crimson. "Let me ask you this, did your world turn red or black before the Rifts appeared?" Lothar stood there and said nothing for a while. A few minutes passed by and Crimson appeared again in front of Lothar. Just as last time, Lothar suddenly vanished and appeared behind Crimson to unleash the full brunt of his attacks.

"It is pointless, you can not harm me. Not with your current strength. As I am trying to explain I am not responsible for the death of your parents, so stop attacking." Crimson was getting louder. Suddenly shackles emerged from the ground and bound Lothar. He was pulled back and the chair that was burned before just appeared out of nowhere again and he was forced to sit down.

The hate that was written all over Lothar's face slowly faded away and he said, " Proof it." Crimson reassembled himself and was now hovering in front of Lothar. "I am Crimson one of 7 entities that are tasked to strive through the universe to search for worthy candidates to fight in a battle that will decide the fate of all living creatures."

"Look for someone else, I am not interested. Tell me which entity did that to my family." Lothar was obviously refusing Crimson. It did not matter that he claimed to have nothing to do with his family's death. To him, they where all guilty. From that little information Lothar got, he had already figured out what the purpose of the Rifts and this Class system is. They will weed out all weakness in the galaxy and only the strongest will survive but he was not sure why they would do that.

"So you are not going to listen, fine do as you like, I was offering my help since you do not want to revive your Family that's fine with me. I will have to look for someone else then." Crimson said. As Lothar heard that he suddenly became quiet and calmed down and said, "Ok I will listen." Crimson spread his mist everywhere and the room they were in was completely reconstructed, it appeared just like it did in the beginning when they both arrived there.

"Since you wasted all of that precious time and the one responsible for this galaxy is on my trail, I will have to make this quick, so listen." Crimson could feel the presence of Grim nearing their position. "Take this, with this the dark shadow that took over your galaxy, can not see you anymore, he will not be able to see you through his observation system." He handed Lothar a robe that looked very mysterious, it was dark and had a blood-red crimson hue. "What do you mean observation system?" Lothar asked. "Just listen I will explain everything to you when we have more time. If my guess is right you should have unlocked the secret class to his system otherwise he wouldn`t be so interested in you. You have to know the one who did this to you galaxy is watching you nonstop."

"Who is he?" Lothar asked. "He is the dark shadow that you saw on that day the rifts appeared in your galaxy. His name is Grim. Ah here we go again, just listen and don`t ask questions anymore we don't have time for this. You have to as least know that there is a way to save your family and that if you master this class you are able to...." Suddenly everything turned red and when he came to Lothar was back inside the dungeon. "I guess he couldn`t finish and send me back."

Back in the room where they were just a moment ago, Grim and Crimson were hovering above chairs as if they were actually sitting on them. Grim had covered the whole room with his shadow and there was no escape route. "What have you done to him? Why are you always meddling in my affairs? Don`t you have your own galaxy to torment?" Grim asked. Crimson began to laugh, "Hahaha, It is not like I am only meddling in your affairs, I am meddling in everyone's plans, at least I have made this a whole lot of more fun." "What do you mean?" Grim said in a very angry tone.

"I told him that his family could be revived and that you where the one responsible for what happened to them," Crimson answered. "Why would you do that I had other plans for him, you have to know he not only unlocked any hidden class but that hidden class," Grim said. Crimson laughed again and just chuckled it off. "That's perfect, all the more reason to tell him." If Grim had a physical body he would be shaking his head in disbelieve, "I truly don't get what you are after, so does he believe you want to help him now and I am your common enemy?"

"You really don't get it. Now that he has a goal, other than revenge, he will aim higher. Hope is more powerful than hate. Just sit back and watch as he now grows much more as before. I gave him one of my robes just so I could join in on the show. Haha I told him that it would block your system and you would now be unable to watch him, but now we can both enjoy the show. After all, it is the first time someone unlocked that class. By the why what is that elemental fire attack he used?"

As Grim heard all that he was wondering who of them was more evil. To make someone believe in something that doesn't exist and make him place all hope on that. "Okay, now that you got what you wanted to get lost and watch it from your galaxy I cannot stand you here anymore."

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