Excalibur
A total of seven female leaders got escorted towards the balcony of The Seven Palaces when they felt the world trembling. The woman that was the escort pointed in a certain direction towards the horizon.
As the seven leaders looked towards the horizon they saw a huge shadow covered in golden light. Shock and fear overtook their hearts. One of the seven figures muttered in shock, fear and confusion.
"This thing shouldn't exist in this world!"
The golden light slowly faded away revealing the figure underneath it. A white and holy sword emitting a majestic aura appeared in their sight. The sword, about few thousand kilometres long and few hundreds of kilometres broad, could be seen embedded into the earth.
It excluded a majestic and terrifying might. Even though the seven female leaders were about a few hundred thousand kilometres away from the sword, their hearts still shook.
In shock and fear, all the female leaders looked towards a young girl who spoke earlier. One of them asked her. "What is that thing… or weapon?"
The young girl took her eyes away from the sword and looked into the sky. Her lips parted and a trembling voice was released.
"Excalibur"
As soon as they heard that word, their breathing grew heavier. The woman, who asked the question, took a long look at the sword and sighed tiredly.
She slowly gave out a command after a thought. "There is no need to continue with the previous plan. Just… retreat immediately."
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The Valley Of Gods.
Destruction! Destruction! Destruction!
No matter where you see, it's the only thing you will find here.
As the sword also known as Excalibur, the king of all swords, descends onto the mortal , it creates great havoc. The Valley Of Gods which even the gods feared or how they used to is now no more.
All the soldiers who came here to hunt down Lucifer are no more. They couldn't even put up a little resistance much less save their own lives. Or rather they didn't even think of resisting. Not even their corpse was left behind.
Slowly, the massive sword started to fade out of existence. Before long, it disappeared completely. If not for the destruction and havoc it caused, no one would believe that such a huge sword ever descended on the mortal world.
Although the sword has disappeared without a trace, it has caused a huge sense of panic and fear in the real world.
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Real World
On a certain news channel.
"Breaking News!!! Recently, there was a huge incident caused by a sword in the most popular VR game Eternal World. According to the reports from the players, they saw a huge figure covered in golden light descending over a high level area called the Valley Of Gods."
"As the golden light faded away, they could see a huge sword. This sword was said to be about few thousand kilometres long and tens of kilometres in width."
"But that's not important. The main thing is that a group of players reported that they saw the three of the top guilds moving towards the area."
"And now after the 'Sword's Descent' incident, all those three guilds have disappeared. Not only from the game but even in the real world. They have completely disappeared. It's as if they never existed."
"This incident has caused a huge wave of panic and fear among the normal populace. All the social media websites have exploded with messages and posts. Here is the recording of the incident that was captured by a magic device."
A video was displayed on the screen. From the looks of it, the player who took it must be only a few thousand kilometres away from the Valley Of Gods.
The video showed how the earth suddenly started to shake crazily. How the sky was suddenly coloured in gold. How the clouds parted way for a golden light to descend. As the golden light descended, the earth shook even more crazily.
Slowly, the golden light faded away to show the sword beneath it. After that, the sword disappeared as well without a trace.
As the video ended, scene turned back to the host of the show.
"As you can see, this crazy and heaven defying incident is the cause of the disappearance of three million humans. Because of this major incident, majority of the people all over the world are protesting their central governments to ban this game."
Along with the news channels, all the social media websites were filled with the same topic.
[The reason for the disappearance of three million humans is…]
[Is this the Sword of God?]
[Did the gods want to wipe out the humans?]
All kinds of posts could be seen on the internet. The servers were almost on the verge of collapsing.
WeChat, OneShot and LineUs are the three most popular social networking sites. Just five minutes ago, all the servers collapsed one after another. One could imagine the intensity of this incident. It wouldn't have caused much sensation if it were just two or three people. But right now, the figures were in millions.
All the people who were playing logged out. There were only a handful of players who were online. They wanted to find the reason why that massive sword descended and why three million players suddenly disappeared.
But the government has already banned the usage of VR devices just after the news broke out. The creation of the VR devices was stopped and no one was allowed to play.
At this moment, on a certain news channel.
The Wind Queen, who was one of the seven leaders of the Seven Palaces was requested for an interview. It was a common knowledge that she has the most wisdom and information about this game.
The Wind Queen, a 25 to 26 year old woman, talked about how and what might have caused this incident. Also informing the people about the name of the sword.
Excalibur
She even theorised that this game shouldn't be treated as a game anymore. She also thanked the government for banning this game. Due to this, they can prevent such incidents from happening.
Just as the population was going crazy because of this incident. In the sky, a cold feminine voice reverberated with some playfulness.
| Let's begin the next phase. Shall we, lowly humans. |