Chapter 6-First raid (Part 2)

Shin Yamato

Title: None

Class: Devil

Level: 69

Strength: 2693

Agility: 3739

Magic: 2800

Endurance: 2945

Stamina: 6701

Vitality: 7024

Date: 9/20/3020, Wednesday

Time: 11:30

"Ok guys, we can go to the training facility now."

Shin and the class got up from their seats and followed Damien. They walked down the west corridor. At the end of the hall, there was a white door with blue line patterns. The door opened up and the group walked in. They then entered the lobby of the facility.

The training facility was separated into 6 sections. The first section was a gym, it was for agility and strength. The second was a pool. The third was the magic field, where players get to practice magic. The fourth was the martial arts dojo. The fifth was the anti-gravity room, where players raise their endurance. The last section was the raiding room, where players can open a portal to a raid that matches their rank. Damien enters the raiding room and the class follows.

The height of the raiding room was about 100 feet tall. It had an open ceiling and the interior was mostly white. With a console in the middle of the room.

As they entered, there stood three female players, standing next to the raid console.

"Sup, you three."

"Hello, Mister Damien." The three players welcomed him.

"Guys, I like you to meet my former students. This is S-rank Sakura Akatsuki, S-Rank Melina Taylor, and S-rank Suzu Mirage."

Sakura Akatsuki was a slender woman. She has long black straight hair which was tied in a ponytail. She has green eyes, a dark red coat with green linings, white leather pants, and black boots. Shin activated his stat vision and read her stats. Her stat window appeared.

Title: Inferno Trickster

Class: God

Level: 5601

Strength: 432045

Agility: 632045

Magic: 409345

Endurance: 265849

Stamina: 1000643

Vitality: 1001953

`Wow that's high, she also has a title. These stats are definitely of an S-rank.`

He then looked over at Melina, who had the attention of most of the male players. She had blonde hair that was lighter and longer than Rika's. She had dark blue eyes, a pearl earring on her left ear, a violet dress which only reached up to her knee. She had black leggings and high black heels. Her stat window appeared.

Title: Bewitching Beauty

Class: Fallen Angel

Level: 5264

Strength: 440956

Agility: 366054

Magic: 609543

Endurance: 340294

Stamina: 1010965

Vitality: 1000496

Then he looked at Suzu. She was part Nekojin. so she has cat ears. She had short black hair, gray feline eyes, and has two whiskers on each side of her cheeks. She sports a white and black coat. Under her coat, she had a black shirt on. She had white leggings and black boots.

`She's cute not gonna lie`

Her stat window then appeared.

Title: Dragon Tamer

Class: Dragon Knight

Level: 5103

Strength: 430354

Agility: 529304

Magic: 405934

Endurance: 502842

Stamina: 1004932

Vitality: 1004875

`Hmm, Dragon Knight, that's new...`

"These three will be back up, just in case anything goes wrong with either you guys or the portals."

Damien walks up to the console typing. Then suddenly, 7 blue portals opened up side by side.

"To enter these raids you will need to form a party. Good thing there are 21 of you. A full party consists of 3 players, a trio. There is an option to do a raid by yourself but for now, you should form parties. So get started. I'm giving you 10 minutes."

Shin looks around, as everyone starts talking to one another. Shin felt a tap his shoulder. He turned around and Rika stood before him.

"Wanna team up?"

"Of course."

"Great. You stay here, I'll go search for our last member."

Rika walks away. Shin then walks up to Damien who was at the console.

"Mister Damien. You have a second?"

Damien turns towards Shin.

"Do you rank up by doing raids?"

"I've been asked that question a lot. No, you don't. To rank up, you have to fight 3 players the same rank as you."

"Fight other players? How and where?"

"I don't think I've told you yet but behind the school, there's a stadium behind the academy building. That's where you fight other players."

"Hmm, I see"

`So if I challenge 3 players that are the same rank as me, and win, then I can go from an F-rank to an E-rank.`

Damien returned to the console.

"By the way, what are you doing?" Shin asked curiously.

"Monitoring the Portals. Last year, three S-rank portals cloaked themselves as C-rank portals. Portal's emit a dangerous aura, so you can tell whether a portal is dangerous or not. You can tell by using your sixth sense."

"Six sense?"

"You haven't unlocked it so I'll just do it now."

Damien raised his left hand and his index finger would glow. Then he flicked Shin in the forehead. After that, Shin felt a weird sensation around his body. A message window popped up in front of Shin.

[You have unlocked six sense]

`Guess that's my second ability`.

"Now that you've unlocked sixth sense, you can sense and see other people's auras. Not only that, but your instincts and senses will also be heightened as well."

"Nice."

Shin turned towards the class, he saw multiple colored auras from each group that was formed. He looked at Rika who was walking towards him. He tries out his sixth sense on her. Rika emitted a blue and white aura. Behind her, there was a gray and purple aura.

"Shin!"

"Yes, Rika?"

"I got our last member."

Appearing from behind Rika was Lana. She was a bit shorter than Rika but had the same athletic build as her.

"Hello..." Rika said quietly with a blank expression.

"Uhh hi..."

"She's not very talkative but she's a higher level than both of us so we'll follow her lead when we begin the raid."

Shin used his stat vision to read Rika's stat.

Title: None

Class: Reaper

Level: 220

Strength: 23049

Agility: 25094

Magic: 19203

Endurance: 19402

Stamina: 37400

Vitality: 39675

`Good, the raid should be easier with her in our party.`

"Times up. Everyone, get in front of a portal."

Shin, Rika, and Lana walked to the gate in the middle.

"Everyone, get into your combat outfits. Your not gonna be raiding in your school uniforms."

Shin, Rika, and Lana moved their Osiris Cuffs next to close to their mouth.

Rika Osiris was a gold wristband with blue linings. it was also the size of her wrist. Shin's Osiris was the size of his forearm so Rika's Osiris was smaller.

Lana had a black wide cuff bracelet with purple linings.

After the Osiris was close to their mouths they then spoke.

"Equip combat outfit."

Their school clothes glowed and then turned into their custom made outfits.

Rika wore a blue coat over a white shirt with a black stripe pattern and also had a scarlet red scarf around her neck. She also wore black pants with short silver knight boots.

Lana donned a black hooded cloak over her white vest. She had black leather pants with white leather boots that reached up to her ankle. She almost looked like a real reaper, which she was.

Shin sported a dark blue and black, sleeveless vest over a black zippered turtle neck which revealed his well-toned arms and shoulder and the black dragon tattoo which represented Ronin, Shin's familiar, on his right arm. He also had black fingerless gloves. The vest had a red, purple sinister angel wing pattern on the back. He wore navy blue combat pants and long black medieval combat boots.

"Did you overdo your outfit, Shin?" Rika questioned, inspecting Shin's combat outfit.

"What? Do I look weird?"

"Nope, it kinda suits you."

"Enough with the flirting you two," Lana said.

Shin and Rika then looked away from each other, blushing.

Question marks appeared on Lana's head.

"Hmm?"

Damien gets off the console and turns towards the class.

"Okay, you're clear to enter the portals. Stay alert."

Rika enters the portal first, then Lana. Shin takes a deep breath before entering. He then takes a step forward and enters the portal.

Damien walks back to the console, crossing his arms. The 3 S-rank players wandered around the room.

***

Shin appears on the other side of the portal. He looks around, they are in the middle of a desert. Confused, Shin asks,

"Uhh, so this is what we are raiding?"

"No this isn't. That is." Lana replies as she pointed behind Shin.

Shin turns around and there stood gray, about 500 feet tower. In the middle of the desert. From the looks of it, it probably had 10 floors. Shin rubs his chin.

"So if I'm correct, I'm assuming the top floor is our goal and probably where a boss will be. Right?"

"That's right..." Lana replied.

"We should get going now." Rika reminded them.

The three walked towards the tower. As they approached, they reached a tall gate. The gate opened slowly opened up and a bunch of dark energy could be sensed from inside of the tower. Rika and Lana entered forward. Shin hesitated.

Shin gulped down his saliva. His heart was beating faster as he stared into the tower's dark interior. It was his first time doing a raid. He hesitated because he remembered that these things were the cause of his father's death.

`Welp here goes nothing...`

Shin enters the tower and the gate closes behind him.

Chapter 7-The Breakneck Predator