Rioneed: VRMMORPG

"I know, but what you don't know is this city of yours is very unique as it has a link to another world, a very dangerous world, and this will be my guide. 

This world is considered the true gate of this universe. I will grant the whole universe its freedom soon, no demon will be able to set foot or mess around any part of this universe, except for that gate world. 

You need to know how important this world is to you, to everyone in this universe, and even to me. so, the task of defending this world will be laid upon your shoulders, so you need to prepare well for this."

Drigory's eyes shone as he didn't fear what Ibro just told him, instead he felt a great challenge and big responsibility which he was ready for. Ibro felt content with this man reaction so he added:

"I won't leave you to face all this alone, after all, I'm the one who put all of you in this, also this is my universe and I won't accept anything to threaten its peace. My skeleton armies are scattered around this world, you need to contact them fast. 

Look for their leader, the alpha death knight, and relay to him my orders. We need to hold that gate as we did back at the gate world of the cultivation universe. He will get the point, but you need to hurry as I will start linking your city to that world soon."

"I will search for him immediately."

Ibro stressed over this mission as he said:

"I don't need to tell you how crucial this gate if you failed in defending it, you won't only disappoint me, but every single living person in this universe, including yourself.

Use any means necessary to uphold that gate, don't let a single demon bypass you and set foot here no matter how weak it is, no matter what price you would pay."

Drigory didn't reply as he just nodded showing his understanding of the severity of this task. 

Ibro watched him as he left back to his city while he was wondering, would this man really do this job and stop the demons? Or he would lose and put this entire universe at risk? Time would only answer that question.

Ibro then gathered up his thoughts as he focused on the next mission up ahead. He postponed it many times already, and now the clock was ticking and he had to face this threat. He still didn't have any clear idea about the nature of his enemy's threat, but he had some guesses already.

'I want you to use the long-awaited time and space jump function and save this node of time and place right now, right here.'

'I will, do you want to do any more preparations?'

'No, this will suffice as my save card, although my guts kept telling me it's not enough.'

'Good luck then, system holder.'

Ibro then moved straight forward to the center of this universe. As there was no enemy obstructing his way, he reached the place where he stood before in less than two hours. 

There was a huge hole in front of him, which he didn't dare to investigate before. He took a deep breath as he started to climb his way down to the bottom. 

The hole wasn't that deep as he thought, as he reached its bottom in less than ten minutes. He could have used his teleportation function, but he preferred not to, as he was oblivious to the nature of danger down there.

'Do you find any useful information?'

Ibro asked his system after he walked for a few minutes at the bottom of this hole. The system then replied after some time:

'This place holds the heart of this universe's technology. I can repair this damaged heart, but I need you to jump from place to a place as I tell you.'

'Don't forget to locate the heart of this universe and turn it into mine, I want to grab it even if I have to face imminent danger.'

'Ok, first let me run a diagnostic analysis of this technology first. Place down your hands on the ground here, and don't move.'

'…'

Ibro then leaned down as he placed both of his hands over the ground. He didn't feel anything, but he was sure his system was doing its task, so he waited patiently for his system to finish. His system took nearly one hour before it said:

'I finished my diagnosis, the soul of this technology is really dead. Many parts of it were manipulated with your fiend.'

Ibro wasn't surprised to hear that, as he asked:

'Can you repair it? Did you find the core?'

'Yes, I can repair it, but it will take some effort and a long time to do so. There are a lot of changes and errors here.'

'Just start repairing it, what about the core of this heart?'

'I have located it, but I can't remove it now, as if I do so the whole universe will collapse. Wait till I finish repairing everything then I can give you the desired heart.'

'I have no complaint, partner, start repairing now.'

'…'

The system started a spree of repairing the damaged parts of this technology. As it said to Ibro, it needed a lot of time to do so, and it also asked Ibro to keep moving from place to place. 

Ibro followed the instructions of his system literally as he was eager to get this core and careful of his enemy's trap. 

After the passage of a few days, Ibro didn't face any trap of any kind, but that didn't make him lower his guard. By the end of the fifth day, the system was able to finally repair everything.

'I finally finished my repair. That fiend had really done a piece of art here, it even made the gate world only available to outsiders and no indigenous people can enter it.'

Ibro felt how dangerous was this change, so he hurriedly asked:

'Did you manage to repair it?'

'Don't worry, although I couldn't change the ability of outsiders entering this gate world, I gained anyone inside the main gate world the right to enter that world. 

I also granted that big city on the outskirts of here the right to control this, so you don't have to worry about guarding this passage. By the way we have been here for so long already, and your enemy didn't show up any tricks at all.'

Ibro took a deep breath as he muttered:

'We still have one place we didn't touch.'

'You mean that technology core?'

'Yes, I'm pretty sure that when we touch it, that trap will be activated, so be ready to partner, and guide me to its place.'

The system took a few moments before it asked:

'Are you sure? You have repaired every error here, so you don't need to go this far.'

'Don't say that, I need to get this heart's core so I can build my tans-universe empire and link everything I have together. I need two cores, and now one is present in front of me.

I'm also not sure of this fiend's dirty scheme, it won't leave this universe and withdraw easily like this if he didn't have a backhand somewhere in this core.'

The system didn't reply while it gave Ibro some time to reconsider, but Ibro had already made up his mind. It was better to completely disturb this fiend's arrangements before that huge demon army's arrival.

'C'mon, tell me where this heart's core is?'