+20 Fight Together?

「 Dark Lord has heard Noble Garfon's cry 」

「 Dark Lord will be arriving in few seconds 」

"Hey , how could this happen? Didn't you two kill all the Noble Garfon's here?"

I asked looking at the message of Dark Lord's arrival , it looked like Dark Lord was on the top in the hierarchy of monsters. On the secret quest of Gildia her last words were this ,

"The Dark Lord stands on the top , he will lead me to my final destination. He is the one of will fight against 'them' the one's who are looking down on us , playing with us. With all his might first he will conquer the land , the sea , the sky and finally the heavens."

Remembering those words I knew that Dark Lord was someone we couldn't even touch with our most powerful attacks. The only way to go was

"Run , what are you waiting? Let's go to the main room and escape through that hole."

We were just about to run towards the main room , but suddenly with a big boom he appeared infront of us the 'Dark Lord'. He was wearing a black mask on his face with hints of red colour on it , his black suit with a red and black colour jacket made him look like someone from Royal Family.

Ignoring us he went towards the right where main room was located and searched for the Noble Garfon. The next moment Noble Garfon was seen on his knees and was begging for forgiveness his whole body was shaking. Without even looking towards Dark Lord he was kneeling there with his head down begging.

With just one moving his hands in air the Noble infront of him was sliced in to countless pieces. The pieces were so small that it was hard to see them with naked eyes , it looked like as if the Noble disappeared in the air.

With taken care of the Noble Garfon he turned his attention towards us. We couldn't move even a bit sweat dripping of my chin , the aura he gave was truly terrifying. He walked towards us with 2 metres distance between us. He finally spoke in his coarse voice ,

"Sorry you had to deal with my friend there. Now that I've apologized for the actions of my friends , tell me who destroyed my beautiful Tower."

'Friend? the you just killed were your friends? Wait wasn't this supposed to be a Labyrinth with mazes and stuff? But the name said 'Labyrinth of Frils'?'

Dark Lord was really a mystery he didn't cared we killed his so called 'friends' instead he was asking who destroyed half of the floor.

While I was thinking all this Yuki raised her hand and said ,

"I was the one who did it , these 2 didn't have anything to do with it. Let them leave so that we can fight."

Thinking about Yuki's proposal Dark Lord shook his head rejecting it and with a smirk on his face said ,

"Instead of that why don't we play a game out of you three the first two to get out of here will be spared. And don't even try to pull some kind of tricks on me I can kill you with a snap of my finger. You saw what I just did their right?"

His proposal wasn't that different from Yuki's but even if Yuki's level was high she couldn't defeat Dark Lord. Even if I and Rin were to join her we couldn't beat him , this was the power of Dark Lord.

'The best option would be me dying here , Rin and Yuki's level are too high if they get killed a bunch of Exp will be reduced and there's possiblity of leveling down.'

"We will fight together."

Rin said without thinking for even second , fighting together was hopeless but it looked Yuki and Rin wanted to fight till end.

"Yeah , let's just do that."

After giving our answer we took our weapon's out me with my 'Draken Blood Daggers' , Rin with his 'Martial Gloves' and just when Yuki was halfway taking out her sword. The Dark Lord disappeared from the spot he was standing and appeared before Yuki who was drawing her sword out. He asked with his eyes on the sword ,

"Where did you get that sword? Do you even know that sword's worth? Did you use that sword to cut these lowly Garfon's?"

A barrage of questions were aimed at Yuki , he reached for the sword and took the swords in his hand and started investigating it. It looked like Yuki couldn't move cause of Dark Lord's power.

Even Me and Rin were standing there watching this whole situation unfold. After investigating the sword for a minute in serious tone he said ,

"It really is his , one of the seven sealed swords looking at it's Sun-Gold colour its must be 'Second Coming of Pride'. Fine let's play , you three against me , try not to die in few seconds."

We took our battle stances to preparing ourselves to fight while Dark Lord was just casually looking around the floor.

"Do you know why this is called 'Labyrinth of Frils'? it's cause I was the first one to enter it. Various kind of monsters came out of it that time and troubled the settlements near it. This place was nothing but a cave long ago."

"I also was the one who completely destroyed it and built a new tower here just to remind me of that time. The tree hiding the tower didn't work well huh , anyways I'll change the shape of this floor just for you move more freely. "

"Frils Authority"

The broken walls of the floor , the top of the Labyrinth disappeared giving us an open top where we could see the sun was about to rise.

"If anyone of you wants to run this is the last chance for you."

We answered his question with silence he continued ,

"Nothing huh , let's fight then."

Just when I was about to take a step forwards , the next moment I was falling with Rin on my left looking upwards with his eyes widened. I looked in the same direction and saw Yuki standing there looking in our direction with a sword penetrating her heart , but it didn't stop there.

Tears welled up in my eyes as I saw the sight of her getting stabbed by multiple swords on her back. She spat blood out of her mouth while somehow still managing to stand and smiled towards us. I spread my left hand towards her and screamed from the top of my lungs,

"YUKI , YUKIII. WHY? STOOOP DARK LORD."

While I was screaming , I saw a wound on my hand caused by the Mid-Garfon's and remembered a memory of my past. I saw a girl holding onto my hands on the edge of the roof , that time too I was screaming like this. I confused this situation with the memory of my past and screamed ,

"SERA , DON'T LEAVE ME I'M SORRY. PLEASE Please don't leave-"

I couldn't get hold of my emotions and thought ,

'Ahh , Nothing has changed from back them I'm still a pathetic boy. I wish I was powerful. Powerful enough to F*CK ANYONE UP WHO TRIES TO HARM ME AND MY ALLIES.'

×-×-×

'Don't look at me with that look on your face , don't pity me it's not like I'm going to die and never return.'

"He looked sad the first time I saw him and still looks the same now when I'm leaving , I hope we don't meet again in this game or in real world."

Saying that the final sword stabbed near the end abdomen , the last word I heard was a girl's name

"Sera , so that's her name huh."

「 You've died 」

「 33% of your Character's Exp will be reduced 」

I took the VR off my head and walked towards my balcony , and stood there silently watching the rising sun.

×-×-×

I woke up and saw myself lying on the ground besides me Rin was still unconscious. I logged out of the game and removed my VR headset , I reached for the energy drinks I would always keep near my bed.

Tears were still coming out of my eyes even though it was just a game.

'Even though it's just a game why does it pains.'

Popping the can open I drank the energy drink , tears coming out of my eyes stopped after few minutes. Crushing the Energy Drink can in my left hand I said ,

"I will change."