Rioneed: VRMMORPG

Ibro felt a traction force pulling him with irresistible force. The might of this force was levels higher than before. it seemed Gozline had increased in strength too.

When he felt the absence of this power, another power hit him. This time he felt something was pushing him forward at high speed. After this force had vanished, another one appeared again.

After the three forces finished their task he found himself standing in a vast field with no end. The scenery here was really refreshing. Everything was bright green with some touches of faint pink and blue.

There were some trees scattered everywhere. He even saw some weird shaped animals moving in peace at the distance. Ibro felt astonished by the vastness and liveliness of this space. He asked while observing everything around him:

'I didn't know your space has improved to such a degree as Gozline.'

He kept looking around him while silence was his only reply. He asked again:

'Gozline, is everything fine?'

Again nothing happened. He felt strange and then instructed Dronil as once:

'Dronil, use your scout at once. I feel something strange is going on here.'

This time the silence that came in response to him was really heartbreaking bad news for him. He stood in his place with panic overwhelming him. He thought he fell into one of his enemies' traps.

This time he looked around him in vigilance then chose a nearby big tree and sprinted rapidly towards it. He immediately reached it and then he took it as a shield.

He started looking around in a hurry trying to catch a glimpse of the trap he fell into. Away from him, everything around was really calm and peaceful.

After a while he even doubted himself. He calmed his worried mind and started to think more properly. The first thing that came to his mind was to check his personal profile.

"View my personal profile."

Nothing happened again. Ibro didn't lose hope as he said:

"View my Inventory."

Again nothing happened. He kept trying all things he knew even using a rock on the side of the tree and tried to use it to make runes but he failed.

After nearly half an hour of repetitive trials, he surrendered to reality. He couldn't use anything that was related to the tech world. He felt he was weak and alone.

He didn't feel like that for a long time. What he got from the tech world was this Dinar sword in his hand. He was used to holding it already everywhere he went so he was holding it at this moment.

That sword was the only thing that was related to the tech world. That sword was the only evidence he had for the presence of that world. He looked around him in despair.

Throughout all this time he didn't stop monitoring everything around him. It was really weird as he was the only stressful thing in this place. Everything around him moved in strange tranquility that even infected him.

He gradually calmed down but he didn't drop his guard. After a while of gaining nothing, he decided to move to another place. He moved in a slowly cautious manner.

He discovered that he still got his stats; at least his speed was so fast. He kept his speed low as possible so he could react to any sudden changes.

After nearly two hours of aimless travel, he thought this world was repeating itself. He didn't find any new thing all this time. That was boring and frustrating.

After two hours he met his first challenge… a lake! He looked at this huge lake which could never be a sea due to its calm water and wondered where he should go now.

While he was standing near the border of this lake, he sensed a sudden motion in the waters in front of him. He was really bored and everything around him was clichéd so this tiny change caught his attention at once.

He watched closely that tremble at the surface of the lake. It looked like something was moving from the depth of the lake to the surface.

In seconds, the surface of the lake was greatly disturbed by the emergence of such a huge head from underwater. Ibro didn't stand still as he jumped at once to the back.

His sudden move was timely perfect as that head attacked him with a very fast tongue that tried to catch his legs. Ibro's speed was really helpful as he evaded this long-range speedy attack.

When he stood at his feet he watched that whip-like a long tongue retreating slowly to the mouth of that monster. After it entered its mouth it was launched again towards him.

This time Ibro evaded it but moved towards this monster. If this monster wanted him dead then he would aim for its life as well. A hit for a hit.

Ibro moved rapidly faster than the retraction speed of this monster's tongue and reached the border of the lake. He didn't stop and jumped high in the air and fell with his sword heavily over its head.

That strike was really so strong that even caused that monster's head to tremble. Ibro's sword managed to penetrate that monster's body causing a deep wound to it.

It was a deep wound that dyed the lake blue water deep purple, but it wasn't enough to cause it to die. Ibro didn't stop in its place as he jumped back to the earth again leaving that spot over the monster's head.

He was afraid that monster would return to the depth of the waters carrying him with it. Once his legs touched the earth he jumped at once evading this monster's tongue and attacking its head at the same time.

After the eleventh attack, this monster had lost its life at the end. Throughout all of this, Ibro felt accumulating fatigue that hit his body. This was weird.

This was his first time feeling something like that. What kept him attacking that monster was the more wounds he inflicted upon him and the signs of weakness that monster was showing.

That was the only motive that drove him to keep his attacking pace. At the end he felt so tired that he even couldn't move his legs. He watched that monster sounded its last scream in this world before sinking slowly towards the depth of the waters.

"Someone like you with no power at all managed to kill the Forlak monster of the eighth spiritual gathering stage… that is a first."

That sudden voice was accompanied by the sudden appearance of a middle-aged man beside Ibro. Ibro was really tired that he even couldn't sense this man presence before he spoke to him.

He sat on his back and took his breaths very heavily while watching this newcomer. Was he a friend or a foe? That was the question.

"Hold on for a second, it's a waste to let this monster sink into the lake."

At once that man disappeared from his place and then he returned in a split of a second.

This time he had a huge monster body behind him. He looked to Ibro as if what he did was normal as he said:

"Now it's time to give you some strength. You have exhausted yourself to the brim of death here."

A long strangely slim sword appeared from nowhere in the hand of this man.

He moved his sword at a speed Ibro couldn't follow at all. That sword had cut that monster's body in that second over hundreds of times.

Ibro swore if this man wanted to kill him he would die without any resistance at all, that with considering Ibro had his full power. Ibro watched that man like a kid watching a street magician.

After that man cut that monster to pieces, his figure flashed. He had gone and returned with his highly unbelievable speed. This time had held some strange shaped stone in his other hand. Ibro looked in question to that hand while the man said:

"C'mon, don't be shy like this. This core crystal is yours. You killed that monster so you earned it."

He then threw that stone to fall beside Ibro. Ibro moved his body with difficulty and grabbed it.

He observed it closely. It felt warm. That type of warmth which attracts your inner soul. Ibro didn't know what to do with this stone so he looked again towards his magician who said:

"C'mon eat it. If you leave it to cool down it will lose its powers."

Ibro didn't imagine he could eat such a stone. He didn't want to arouse that powerful man's suspicions so he put it into his mouth and bit it.

This stone was slightly bigger than the size of his fist but strangely it entered into his mouth as a whole. Once it entered his mouth he was able to swallow it. This was strange. All of a sudden he felt severe heat emerging inside his body.

"Don't tell me you didn't practice even once in your life, right?"

Ibro's pain was escalating to the degree he couldn't tolerate so he screamed at once.

That scream was the answer to that man question. He felt shocked at first then his face showed a panicked expression. When Ibro saw that man's expression he felt panic as well.

If such a man was panicked like this then he should be panicked too, right? His pain was severe but he felt that his body was grabbed by a force that made his body sit on the ground.

He then felt a chilling power that entered his body. This power was like water to a fire, at first it calmed it down but later it ignited it with an explosion.

"Damn, the meridians in your body are all closed. What should I do to you now? How can I save you?"

Ibro didn't understand the reason for this man's panic or his strange questions, but he was really in a torture. He closed his eyes from pain to suddenly sense his own body.

That ability he had lost before when he entered the Zeraxos game. This time he could move his consciousness again to see everything inside his body. He saw a hurricane made of fire igniting in his abdomen.

He felt the huge destructive power in this fire. If he couldn't deal with it then his body would explode and die. He understood how urgent his situation was.

At once he started to act. Although he didn't know what to do but as he used to do before with any energy, he tried to direct it towards his body parts.

At first he managed to divert part of it and they entered his body skin, muscles, blood, and joints. This power refused to enter his brain. This caused a backlash from it which made it ignite even more ferociously.