Level one...
2:03 Pm MAY-19-2020
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A human, an honest to non-god human! I'm startled out of my marveling by the person's attention shift. To me!
Fuck! My concentration is destroyed, shattered like glass. My eyes take in the red surface of my cube, not the person under it, on the side directly below me.
I find myself frantically grasping at the shattered remains of my concentration despite my inability to do so, but I'm somehow able to cobble together my ability again, something normally impossible at my currently pathetic skill in it. Yet I'm able to quickly glue the pieces in a serviceable way.
Looking (listening) down to catch a glimpse of them again only catching a smudge, quickly rubbing the 'glass' pushing the smudge to the edge of the platform only to not hear them down there.
*bump bump
But I do hear a steady heartbeat behind me. Ah. It was a trap.
Standing up I slowly turn to see the first human I've seen in a long time.
Grey/blue hair and bright green eyes outlined in yellow. His lips have turquoise coloring on them that stand up on his caramel skin, we stand at equal height eye to eye. Dipping his head down in what I identify as an acknowledgment.
"hellow~"
I'm instantly put on a higher alert, that 'smudge' was him, moving behind me. To me, he appears like a smidge, and that may not be the fastest he can go!
His voice doesn't give off any hostility but the unusual cordial attitude and upfront gives me a familiar feeling, a feeling I wouldn't normally associate with danger but on someone faster, and in all likeliness more powerful, than me...
He gives a dangerously happy smile and with a tilt of his head he ask.
"You, are you strong?"
A chill goes down my spine, Fighting didn't an option. Under this cube are others, I can jump, or rather fall with my low dexterity, off the cube onto another to make a getaway.
Apparently, I gave some indication of my thoughts because his next words tell me all I need to know.
"ha, guess not!"
Before his laugh was done I already made my way to the edge falling right below the first aimed at my face.
End over end, I get lucky and only fall on my back not my head, right on top of a much smaller brown cube the size of my body.
Looking up I see him look down at me with a frown which quickly changes to a shocked look when he sees me.
"waah? I though it was nothing, but there's sO MANY CUUUBBESS!!" arms out wide he's already following after me, pulling a knife from behind his back aiming a cut that forces me to make a mad turn bringing me almost sliding off the edge of a yellow cube that was moving parallel to me.
He lands with a thump on the brown cube from fully standing, I doubt my legs could stand doing that...
He turns to see me on my new ground just as the gravity enforced itself on me, not talking he instantly goes for a stab at my still grabbing hands striking only the underside of my now rapidly floating cube!
"Stop attacking me!"
"Nooo thaanks~" he sings
Not saying anything he jumps off boxes like a ninja to reach me. Can I trick him? Jump while he's not looking? His eyes don't stray from my position for a moment. So no.
A shadow is cast on me, looking up I see in of the more massive cubes another brown with a tree growing on it.
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Gravity! I'm still hanging onto this yellow cube-like it's flying and not like its not ground, standing up I get hit by an orange cube separating me from the now decelerating yellow. Looking under the smaller orange that abducted me I notice the guy. The lack of him that is.
"oh shit, where-"
My cube ground suddenly jerked backwards, looking back to avoid a repeat I see the guy who's name I don't know below me on a red cube. A red cube I realize is getting closer!!
Noticing the same thing he jumps to the side only to have my temporary ride crash into him where it falls apart into many bite-sized versions that fade away pushing him over the edge
I can see his fingers on the edge. Leaning over I see him holding on... I could step on his fingers.
"..."
"Oh yea, I guess it would be rude to not give you my name," he says as if he were just remembered something slightly important.
"Im Tom!" Tom says.
Fuckin Tom says to me giving me a polite smile reaching to shake my hand.
Bitch don't touch me!
Hold on. Gravity enforces itself when you touch the cube how is he falling-
This bitch a trap.
Taking my opportunity I move away only to have a hand grab my ankle that goes over brings be over.
The cubes have yet to hurt me like falling on grounds would but I also don't want to find out if being slammed on one is different.
It is.
His hold on me loosened allowing me to drop on a bed-sized green cube that slowly moves to the tree island as soon as I touch it. The other one nowhere to be found.
The tree is pointed to me upside down from my current perspective. Reaching my hands out to the cube I instantly crumble under my weight.
Even that does nothing to my health, my stamina thought, has taken a hit.
Looking down from up has no meaning here seeing how the only notional landmark is the horizon...
On the island are many little cubes that could fit in my hand, some multiple times over orange, black, green.
The cubes have things they can do. Grabbing a handful of orange I toss them away from me. Only for them to fall on the ground. I was hoping those would find him
Maybe I'm standing in the direction Tom is in, trying again gives the same result. The gravity? The top of the tree bends like a cage holding a white light in it, squinting I can make out a gold cube. Leaves fall from the tree... It's crowing cubes, cubes that are floating off the tree like, like a. A? A plan!
Find out what these things do and kill!
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Got it. Got it got it got it. I got this. Placeing a black box near the edge of the cube I walk back with a renewed felling of confident A wooomp sound that throws my hair about comes from behind me,
「life goal: survive」
turning to look up I see an orange cube above, now soaring to me like a bullet with a.
"Come on!" I mean really!
Tossing a black box in front of me I jump back when they touch, they explode. Smoke filled the area throwing me back into the tree making me drop the white cube right in front of me.
I throw an orange cube in front of me to find his location. Right after it leaves my hand it flys a move me crashing into his stomach throwing him higher into the air.
I keep my left hand behind me hiding the pink cube in my hand.
I crush a blue box watching it turn to particles heading to the now falling Tom, disappearing a about three feet from me.
I kick a purple box under the rapidly approaching Tom who crushed it with his foot.
Tom's eyes snap to my shifting form seeing me holding two grey cubes in my right hand, another in my mouth,
I break them all.
He rushes me appearing much faster than expected in front of me posing a boxer stance, I underestimated his speed.
As I put my guard up I'm already punched thrice by the time I throw one punch, spitting out blood from the uppercut that follows Tom's first assault I give myself a mental pat on the back for not underestimating his strength if I didn't crush those grey cubes I would have died just now.
I call on my .3 energy reserves, prepping for a hail mary attack
1-1-1-1-1-1 the punches come in ones he's using a swarmer style of boxing, he's not going to be able to keep that up. I know can't either.
I feel my energy surge putting it in my fist I-
A devastating punch breaks through my frankly weak guard, the air is knocked out of me from the surprise gut punch.
And that was all she wrote. Grabbing me by my hair Tom's bitch ass slams me back striking my face 1-1-1-1-1. A fog goes over my mind.
He moves back not knowing about the white box I left.
Then he starts monologuing like an idiot
"Imma kill you now."
...wait, was that it?
Slipping out his knife I realize he's done talking... Wait keep monologuing your not an idiot!!
Ignoring my silent pleading he steps in front of the white cube just as I stand. Giving a twirl of his weapon he goes for a cut, cutting into the white shield that appeared.
"Ha! Got yu bitch!" I exclaim throwing a black bomb cube.
That was instantly dodged my Tom who walks around the clear... Small... Only layer of protection between him and me...
My nervous expression is the only answer to the disapproving deadpan from Tom.
"...Really?"
"I had two minutes, the fact I found out what they do and a plan is neat using it!! Counting the time of me sitting here gawking! Do you know how many colors there are?! Let alone the one's not on the visible spectrum!" I point to some cubes that looklike no color but all have different effects.
When he looks away I throw a sucker punch him that surprisingly hi- MISSSES?! Another, another one, why is he still looking away?!
Now that I think about it all the hits I did land we're when he was in grappling distance.
Looking back at me I'm blindsided by punch. I'm out of my depth here, that punch was enough to leave a ringing in my ear, it's been so long since I took a hit like that I wonder if a punch to the jaw can have my ears ringing. Where am I?
The tree supporting my back I put my fist up.
"Fool this is what I wanted? With the tree on my back!" I get into a boxing pose throwing a right hook which Tom easily steps away from with a studious look in his eye.
Now that I think about it.
"You you have a game too right, what level are you?"
His shocked look is quickly blocked by my fist, my arm, and hand hurt but it was worth it to see his unharmed face...
"Ummm. I'm, here." putting hid knife on his belt Tom gives a flick of his first he shows me his page thing
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{Just Tom}
「gamer」
[Level – 1
Exp. (0_20)
Class – Fighter
Style – Boxer (swarm)
Race – Human
Alignment – chaotic fun]
—!Physical stats!—
HP –1 [1 regen per minute]
MP – 1 [1 regen per minute]
STR – 1
END – 1
DEX – 1
AGL – 1
SPEED – 1
STAMINA – 1
INT – 1
WIS – 1
CHA – 2
LCK – 1
PP=0
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What. What the fuck. What is this bull shit?!
He has just .1 more stats than me! Just a level higher. This is the difference between stats of a higher level... An exponential increase.
"Ok now."
My feet are lifted from the ground a punch feeling like it broke through me followed by a hand on my neck holding me against the tree.
He leans his head back smiles wide
"Fun~! What a fun run you had me go on!"
Any thoughts I had that he would keep talking were soon dashed.
Pulling back his right fist Tom gives a content smile through glaring eyes.
"Here it is~"
I move my arm down his arm pushing against his chest, stomach!
Tom wasn't prepared for his throat to suddenly start to spurt blood.
Tom reaches to his neck touching it. Shocked. He raises his gaze to meet mine sliding down my left arm to his knife.
The pink cube was meant to teleport me but I realized I had to take my chance, touching the knife with the pink cube replaced them perfectly, it was like his knife never left.
One look was all I needed for my danger sense to go off, a punch, the hardest one yet tearing through the rest of my health.
Out of my pocket, I bring out a silver box, The purple cube I planted so long ago, crushed under Tom's feet finally made its debut, a translucent gum like essence pulling him back like a rubber band. Into the black box at the edge of the island... Exploding. I've won.
The shockwave races to me
That's all, Mr. level one~
「STAMINA – 0••••••••••1」
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