The Core

The screen soon disappeared, leaving me and the darkness all alone. It seemed that I still had to wait for the system to prepare. 'What a shame.'

I close my eyes and enjoy not having the heat wrapped around my body with its sharp claws. This could also prove to be a great time to think about what I could do next. I laid on my back with my eyes closed and let every question I had come out.

My first priority inside The Core is entirely decided by luck. I have to hope that the system will assign me a good place.

'Hopefully not underwater.' But as I said, I felt like a strong force was constantly hitting my face. But it didn't hurt, it was as if I couldn't do any damage. This feeling was somehow familiar but I couldn't place my finger on it.

I decided to open my eyes to see what this interesting force was, but as my eyes opened I wanted to close them again.

I was freefalling from the sky at a high speed into something red by what it looked like. 

But as I looked better, I realized what this thing was. It wasn't even the floor. The floor itself was still a long way down from where I was. But this red thing was just some meters away.

It was a giant's mouth, and I was just some seconds away from falling into it. But I wasn't going to let that happen. I smiled as in a second from death, my body traveled to the shoulder of the giant. My body is corrupted by blue electricity.

It stung, it hurt every part of my body. But this only served to keep me on edge and ready to react. The speed boost was amazing, being able to cross so far in seconds! 'Well I didn't copy your flow, so I should be fine.'

[You have used skill [Thunder From Hell], remaining duration 180 seconds.]

[Thunder From Hell]-"Is it wrong for someone like you to love music?"That is the question you ask yourself every time you use your drums. "Am I even good?" these questions are truly useless, as even gravity had stopped to defy you. This skill allows you to use electricity.

Seeing how his meal had escaped, the giant had started to move his hand to crush me. But I wasn't going to give it time. I ran across his arm at an approximately forty-five-degree angle. Then jumped up his arm into the sky, the air hugging my body yet again to slow it down from flying.

I concentrated my powers on my feet and propelled myself on the chest of the giant, my feet cutting the air in the meantime causing a loud sound.

I continued to run, but this skill had already used a lot of my energy and I was slowing down. But it was extraordinary how fast this skill was even at only half of its normal power.

I saw the hand of the beast trying to crush me, but it was never able to catch me. But it still had many chances as I wasn't off its body yet. This reminded me of the story, but I didn't want to associate myself with it since that would mean making myself a monkey.

[Remaining duration 60 seconds.]

It had taken me two whole minutes to climb off this guy's body, and I still had the feet left. I almost fell from one of the holes caused by a wound. And not to mention that he was wearing clothes that only cavemen would wear. And that's not trying to make fun of the clothes, these guys were probably cavemen either way.

When my feet touched the ground I felt relieved and relaxed, but they all went away as I saw the beast step near me with his feet.

'You're really using all your limbs are you.' I said annoyed realizing I was still not free from danger.

Now, the giant was using his dirty feet to crush me. And if I didn't let him do it with his hands, which were somewhat clean. I was definitely not letting it do it with its feet.

'A king shouldn't let his pawns step on him!' I looked back, trying to assert some fear by looking it straight into its eyes... or eye. But they were simply visible, blocked by the clouds sounding at us.

[Remaining duration 10 seconds.]

This was my second time with a countdown, and I already hated every piece of my essence.

But really, just how big was it? What class had I stumbled across? There were seven classes, the first six corresponding to the pieces, and the seventh to the player.

Was it a knight? Maybe even a rook.

Pawn is the weakest, but I doubt it's part of that lowly group.

Next is the bishop. But they are usually portrayed as having strange skills, and I don't think a bishop could get to this rank.

Queen and king were too high, after all, if it had been any of these two I would have already been dead before I even came here.

But then which one of the two was it? Maybe rook is too high or maybe knight is too low. But then again they are right after one another so there doesn't exist something in between.

[Remaining duration 0 seconds.]

'Damn it, I got caught up in thought!' With this, the electricity left my body, leaving me to defend myself all alone with no skill. I wasn't going to try to raise an entire building to kill it so there was nothing else.

With my skills at level two, I could use it one more time, but I think it would be wasting it, plus it isn't that bad, I just have to run. I coughed 'Which I'm not good at since a king doesn't run away.'

But it looked like my feet at proven to betray me, as the giant quickly closed the gap and was in front of me. 'Damn it, how is it soo fast with that body?' Then, I felt a sharp pain in my back, and the next second I was flying into the wall.

'What's with big beast hitting me into the wall?'