The Void

He was scared; he didn't know where he was or what was happening. This was not something he had done before in his game. He wanted to scream but he couldn't.

'Are the gods behind? Is this what they're really capable of?' he thought to himself. However, there was not a single god out there who had the power to control 'The Void'.

It was an independent space that chooses its ruler itself.

Haruto suddenly felt weak, the void was absorbing his mana. The 2% he had unlocked in his body was being absorbed.

He tried to set up a barrier but because of the lack of mana, he failed in it. At this point, his limbs were turned to dust and disappeared.

Then just like before, the world before his eyes changed. He was back in the village. Then he heard a voice in his head.

[Hello Haruto, this is me, Aki.]

'What the hell are you doing? Is this telepathy,' Haruto thought in his mind to communicate with Aki. He knew how to do this because he had talked with Valethar before through telepathy.

[Leave that; are you still in one piece?]

Haruto looked at his limbs, they were destroyed before but now there were fine.

'Yeah, somehow I'm alright. What was that by the way?'

[What? You don't know? It's 'The Void']

'The Void? You mean nothingness?'

[Well it's better if you don't know, just try to go there again. It's dangerous, even for me.]

'But I didn't go there because I wanted, it like I was force summoned.'

[Forced summon huh, okay don't worry about it, do whatever you were doing.]

[Also I won't be able to contact you for a few years, so you'll be on your own from now on.]

'Why's that?'

[Didn't I tell you; 'The Void' is dangerous even for me. It took more than half of my mana to bring you back from there.]

'Okay, I'll keep that in mind.' With that, Aki stopped the telepathic conversation.

Haruto then used his wings and flew to where Scar was, he grabbed scar and flew higher with him toward their base.

What was 'The Void'? That question remained in Haruto's mind.

***

Someone knocked on the door of the fortress, the bandits were using as their base.

"Who's there?" a bandit asked who was guarding the gate from inside.

"FBI! OPEN UP!" Haruto screamed before he blew up the fortress's gate with an explosion.

The two guards which were there got knocked out but that explosion and Haruto easily entered inside.

"Who're you motherfucker?" a bandit said as he quickly came down the stairs.

The bandit threw a spear he had at Haruto only for it to clash with Haruto's barrier and get destroyed.

Haruto didn't stop and kept walking inside; using [Fire Control] he created a bow in his hand.

He aimed at that bandit and pulled the string of his bow, as he pulled the string, an arrow which was also made of fire appeared just in the place it should be.

Haruto released the string and the fire arrow was launched at the bandit, he tried to block it with his iron shield but the arrow melted a hole and went through the shield, and pierced him in the chest.

Haruto had finally decided to kill; if he leaves them now then there was a high possibility that they'll give him trouble in the future.

Several more bandits came out from the rooms of the fortress and attacked Haruto. May it be a sword, spear, or magic, everything was blocked by the barrier Haruto had set up around him.

He used the bow and killed six bandits one after another. Due to the unique skill [Placid Mind] which suppressed his negative emotions, he was not feeling any type of guilt or negative emotions even after killing this many people.

He heard the voice of a bell ringing, a bandit did that; it was a signal to other bandits that an intruder has made it inside the fortress.

Hearing the signal, around thirty bandits came out from the insides of the building. Some of them were swordsmen, some used a spear, and there were even some low-classed mages.

But this was exactly what he wanted, to kill them altogether. He put his hand on his mask and slowly removed it.

"Ninth-tier magic: [Hell's Eye]" he said.

His which were blue turned blood red and two star-shaped magic circles appeared on his eyeballs.

As he gazed at the group of bandits with [Hell's Eye], they started falling to the ground one by one. All of them died in less than a minute.

If someone looked at a person with [Hell's eye], the person will die instantly if he doesn't have tenth-tier resistance which blocked one-shot kill magic spells like these.

The fortress was almost clean; no other bandit was coming out.

"Are there any more?" Haruto asked Scar who was standing behind him.

"There's a basement down here," Scar replied.

"Basement huh," Haruto mumbled as he wore his mask again and walked inside with Scar.

***

Down in the basement, corpses of bandits were lying on the floor. The basement had a narrow hallway with prison cells built into the wall.

"Ahhhh" a bandit coughed blood as he was stabbed in the stomach with a sword.

—With a SWINK voice, the person who stabbed him pulled out their sword from his stomach.

Blood dripped on the floor from the hole in his stomach before he fell to the ground and died.

That person swung their sword in the air to remove the blood which was on it. The person who was holding that sword was a girl; she had long silver hair and a pair of scarlet red eyes.

"Here! That bitch is here!" a bandit who was at a distance from her screamed and called other bandits.

She turned towards them and held her sword in an attacking pose.