Let's have a talk.
Inside the game space, Akashi was sleeping in his bed before he started to move.
Shaking his eyelashes, Akashi woke up from his sleep and saw a light screen float above his head.
[You have 6 days and 18 hours to begin your next mission... The player still has unread messages.]
"..." Akashi stared at the game screen for a moment before he canceled it immediately.Standing from his bed, Akashi called the game interface and chose a full cleaning for 1 coin.
A white light flashed and Akashi felt refreshed from his sleeping before he looked at his ragged clothes with the hole in his shoulder and arm.
"... That mission really tired me up... Even I had to sleep with these cloths" Akashi sat down on his bed and called the game interface.
Before finishing the mission, Akashi didn't sleep for two days while looking for those soldiers before waiting for the moment he pushes the trigger.
Akashi only slept for 5 hours, but with his vitality and intelligence increased, sleeping started to become something less needed for him.
Akashi is now able to stay away three days awake normally if he doesn't waste his energy and use his abilities.
Akashi now is looking at his unread messaged that he completely forgot because of his talk with D4C.
[The world of Highschool of the dead is already occupied... The player can't take it as a personal world]
"... That world isn't that important anyway... Even in technology, Marvel surpass that world with stages" Akashi said before looking at another message.
[Congratulation for the player to increase his rank and becoming a Third Rank player... Your evaluation for the previous missions has been counted... Your S-Rank chest has been sent to your personal space]
"Thinking about it... I increased my stats by 18 points before I slept" Akashi said before looking at his stats.
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No.4567893
Player Name: Akashi [last name can be modified]
Race: Human
Rank: Third Rank
Adaptation: E (balance).
STR:6.
VIT:20.
AGI:7.
DEX: 10.5 (7).
INT:30 (20).
Stats limits: 60/100.
Coins:49000+980-500=49480.
Stats points: 7.
Evaluations: 2 S-Class, A-Class, 2 C-Class.
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"My intelligence surpassed every stat I have... Should I just become a mage or something?" Akashi saw his high intelligence and said.
"... Maybe I'll find something more suitable. After all... Staying in the back and throwing stuff without any ability to fight in a close range is a death wish, especially for a solo player like me" Akashi said before he moved towards his skill list.
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marksmanship [C-Rank/level 14]
Close Combat [D-Rank/level 6]
Knife Mastery [D-Rank/level 8]
Energy Manipulation [A-Rank]
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap [S-Rank/stage 2]
ZONE [B-Rank]
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Akashi watched his skill list before pushing D4C skill icon.
A light screen separated from the game interface and appeared in front of Akashi.The skill description didn't change even D4C stats were still the same, but a few new things have been added to the ability.
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Active 3: Requiem (incomplete) Dimensional Rift: The ability to teleport into anyplace the player knows about or have a way to reach it, and those places can even span to parallel worlds and different dimensions.
Active 4: Heaven (Incomplete): Using this mod, D4C and the player is able to ignore all the restriction about this skill and use it to the limit.
Stage 1:The player can only summon a part of D4C, and only travel to different spaces or the gaps between dimensions. (The player can enter the gap from any place, but he needs a reflection surface or an already existing space to take living things with him).
Stage 2: The user can fully summon D4C in combat (the player need 20 points in both intelligent and vitality to unlock this stage)
Stage 3: In this stage, the player is able to use D4C to go into different dimensions and parallel worlds. The player can also summon his other selves from those parallel worlds.The limit of reflecting surfaces is removed at this stage, but the player still can't take or bring living beings from their parallel worlds into another. (The player need to pay one S-class evaluation with 10000 coins to unlock this stage).
Stage 4:???
Stage 5:???
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"This..." Akashi said while watching the change in D4C ability and the new stage information.
"I have a theory, but I don't know if it's right..." Akashi started to think about his idea while watching D4C skill screen.
"... I think I should test it out, but that price is expensive" Akashi saw the price to upgrade D4C stage with a frown on his face.
Thinking for a while Akashi reached for the stage upgrading button and pushed it.
[Do the player wish to use one S-class evaluation and 10000 coins to upgrade his Skill?] The sphere said before Akashi confirmed his choice.
A white light flashed on Akashi as D4C appeared behind him.
Akashi and D4C bathed in the light for a while before it disappeared.
D4C stayed in the air for a moment before he disappeared into Akashi.
Akashi stood there for a moment with his eyes closed before he opens them.
"D4C, did you feel something weird right now?" Akashi said before D4C's aura flashed.
"Everything is Normal... Just you felt like some chains been removed from you" Akashi said before he looked at the skill screen again.
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Stage 4: The player now can take other objects and living being between parallel worlds and dimensions without a limit. (Keep in mind any similar object or a person from different parallel worlds get close or in contact with each other will break into menger sponges before they are completely obliterated).(This stage cost 3 S-class evaluation and 30000 coins to upgrade).
"As I thought... The stages are only for the already existing ability for D4C" Akashi said while looking at the skill screen.
"Stage four is basically the normal D4C form while the fifth stage will definitely be Love Train because these are the already known abilities" Akashi said while looking at the fourth stage description.
Akashi realized that stages will only lead towards the already known ability of D4C that funny valentine had already reached in JOJO.
The game is only working as a shortcut for those abilities to exist in the player hand, but the multiverse is a place filled with surprises so there no way the players can't find a different path for themselves and their abilities.
The game can only give the clearest and the already existing path for the abilities, but any new change is the player's own problems... It can be good or bad, but it will still not the game problem.
"That means I can use other ways to upgrade my skills... This opens a lot of ways for me" Akashi smiled while closing his skill screen.
Akashi at the moment started to think of a plan to upgrade D4C skills and make them something completely broken.
"... This plan needs a lot of preparations and has a lot of risks, but if it worked... My enemies will have a breakdown" Akashi smiled while thinking of a crazy plan.
D4C that was inside Akashi, looked at Akashi's crazy smile before he had a shiver just from thinking what will this guy do.
"... Well, those are things for the future... Now I need to do something more important" Akashi crazy smile vanished before he moved towards his desk and sat down on the chair.
Akashi raised his right hand before summoning the arrow and putting him on the desk.
The arrow was like always flashing with his golden color while Akashi was staring at it.
"..." Akashi started at the arrow that started to flash a few times without a word.
"... You know... I don't know what to think about you" Akashi said towards the arrow.
The arrow flashed a few times like sending a message towards Akashi.
"No, I'm not mad at you trying for making me reach Heaven or Requiem... I'm mad because you played with my personality. You can read my mind, so you already know how much this subject is sensitive for me" Akashi said as the arrow flashed.
Akashi's personality is something you should never mess with because he always feels guilty about his other self and what he did to it, even if it wasn't on purpose.
Akashi rejected his other self without him knowing all this time like this world rejected him, so he always feels guilty about that, and the arrow that played with his personality completely triggered him at that time.
"We are already merged and we can't separate now... So we need to clear this between us" Akashi said towards the arrow.
"Promise me now that you will never ever try again to play with my personality, or to do anything similar to me again, and we can count this as a new start between us" Akashi said as the arrow flashed like accepting the terms before it sent a message at Akashi head.
"You have demands?... Fine, let's hear them first" Akashi said before the arrow flashed.
Akashi that understood the arrow demands stared at the arrow with a confused look.
"The second one... I don't know what to say about it. It's just weird, but I can do it. However, the first demand can't be done if you don't give me a good explanation" Akashi said before the arrow flashed again.
"... Is this have something to do with your fourth ability?" Akashi asked before the arrow flashed.
"Are you working with batteries or something?... Fine, it can be done. However, you need to help now and then when I'm in trouble" Akashi said before the arrow flashed.
"Yes, I promise I'll never use you as weapons and only use you at a desperate moment. Are you happy?" Akashi said as the arrow fashed with agreement.
"Now this is over. I want to ask you about my own stand... Do I have one for my own?" Akashi said while the arrow stopped for a second and flashed three times.
"I have one but even if I want it, you can't give it to me?... Why?" Akashi asked because he felt completely confused from the arrow answer.
The arrow flashed a few times before it started to shiver like remembering something scary.
The arrow sent a message to Akashi and told him that his personality is still unstable at the moment and very fragile to be given a stand, and more importantly... The arrow is afraid.
A stand is the manifestation of its user soul and life energy that carries his wishes in form of abilities, so if the arrow wants to give someone a stand he needs to use his soul and life energy as a medium to create his stand, and what in Akash soul?... It's the DICE.
The arrow doesn't have the power or the courage to touch that thing, to make Akashi a personal stand. The arrow said it feels like I'm just a pig about to get slaughtered the moment it tried to look at the DICE.
The arrow started to flash a few times like it was feeling flustered by the DICE.
Akashi was able to translate the arrow words into the following 'We are both EX-Rank or something, why the difference is so big... I, the arrow, announce that I don't want to have anything to do with that thing, I'm just an innocent arrow, please don't throw me to that monster please'.
"..." Akashi watched the shivering arrow with an expressionless face.
"...*Sigh*... I guess it can't be helped... Even I that is supposed to own this talent doesn't understand anything about it " Akashi said with a helpless tone.
Akashi doesn't know anything about this DICE origins. Why the DICE exists, or why does he have it, is still a mystery for him.
"Well, let's not think about the DICE for now... Tell me what can you give me" Akashi said before the arrow flashed like it was confused.
"I'm talking about stands" Akashi said directly.
The arrow can only give Akashi one stand by rank if he increased his last stand stage one time. That means Akashi with his three rank can have two more stands at the moment.
However, Akashi always think this limit is made up by the game to contain him and the arrow because the arrow isn't that strong like the DICE.
Maybe in the future, he will find a way to break that limit but for now, he still needs to follow those rules.
"I'll be straight... Give me THE WORLD" Akashi said directly, but the arrow flashed like it was saying it can't be achieved.
"Then King Crimson" Akashi said but the arrow answer didn't change.
"White Snake?" the arrow said no.
"Killer Queen?" No.
"Weather Report?" No.
"Star Platinum?" No.
"Golden Experience?" No.
Akashi started to feel annoyed by the arrow refusal every time.
"Then what can you give me?!" Akashi said with anger before the arrow send one answer... It doesn't know.
"What do you mean?" Akashi calmed down and asked before the arrow send a message.
The arrow can't give Akashi any stand he wants because as a being that made from rules and laws itself, there few things it needs to follow like the way it gives stands.
The arrow can only give stands by the user wishes or personality this is the first condition while there is a way to guide that choice and that is conditions.
If Akashi brought something that has a connection to the stand or be in a situation he needs that stand badly that it becomes a wish, only then he can have it. Also... The arrow needs energy to do this.
"I see... What I can give you so you at least don't throw me with a useless stand" Akashi said before the arrow flashed.
"... Are you serious?" Akashi said as the arrow flashed.
"...*Sigh*... Fine. After all, I don't think I can find something related to time in that market" Akashi said because he knew that those players will never sell something that valuable in the market.
Akashi reached to the game interface and took a C-class evaluation that manifested as a small orange C letter before he stabbed it with the arrow.
The C-class evaluation broke down while the arrow absorbed it completely.
Akashi looked at the arrow while he understood its thoughts from the link between them... The arrow said the evaluation is crispy.
Akashi stopped his urge of throwing this arrow away before he took a deep breath and stabbed himself in the hand.
A golden light flashed from the arrow while Akashi was drowned in it.
"hm? It's doesn't hurt like the la-" Akashi spoke too soon before a wave of pain hit him like a train to the face.
Akashi clenched his teeth while enduring the pain.
The pain continued for a few minutes before it disappeared with the light, leaving only a few light spots in the air.
[The player used The Source Arrow first ability... Congratulation for the player to get the skill... Metallica].