The Fireball Madness

In a short time Har and Mike found themselves face to face with Zac, under the guidance of both the three returned to the place of their appearance to look for the objects.

While running at a speed of only 20km/h, two creatures easily caught up with them and handed Har golden spears.

Unlike these 3, the Vexes can go through walls and fly at a constant speed.

"Is that your ability? It's amazing."

Zac said excitedly, as a rank D he doesn't have such magical abilities yet so he's easy to surprise.

"That's right, I acquired it a moment ago."-Har replied a little proud of his ability, he handed the potions to Zac and took the spears.

As if completing a mission, the two Vexes turned around to return to their previous order.

"Oh, was that your reward for completing the first floor, those boxes I saw earlier?"-Mike asked remembering that Har seemed to acquire those boxes after coming back to reality.

"You got it right." Har toyed with the spears, waving them back and forth and stabbing the air from time to time.

"To think that there's such an amazing ability on the floor that it's considered a tutorial."

Zac was a bit surprised by this fact, magical abilities of that type start to show from the third floor, to be able to get it in a place where even death is not permanent is something absolutely incredible.

On the other hand, Mike seemed to grasp an important point of the matter and asked doubtfully. -"It wasn't two boxes originally, what's the other ability?"

"Oh" -Zac also deduced this from Mike's word "boxes" earlier, only now did he snap out of the initial surprise and pay attention to it.

"Ah, it was just a small skill, it doesn't compare to what you saw before."-Har said a little disappointed, if he had obtained at least the multiple shots from the Blaze he wouldn't feel like it was a loss.

"It's just something like this."

Har stopped suddenly causing the other two to imitate him, under his expectations, Har raised his head unconsciously pointing towards the moon in the sky.

Hoooo*

Har's mouth lit up with red light, the next second a black ball materialized with cracks that let out red flames, it looked like the eruption of a compressed active volcano.

Haaaaa*

With a whoop, the fireball shot out at about 10km/h.

"..."

"Oh I see."

'You can't be so lucky after all.'

Everyone's expressions were disappointed, even Har felt it was a waste to lose the surprise box for this ability.

The three of them had a feeling of regret and looked at the fireball that rose in the sky, only after a few seconds Mike seemed to notice something strange and asked.

"What is your maximum distance?"

"Hey?"

Har also noticed that the fireball didn't fall or explode, this is a very strange thing.

"...!!!"-A crazy conjecture came to Har's mind, the Ghast's fireballs are not affected by things like gravity and will only follow in a straight line until they come into contact with an object physical, it will maintain its initial speed and nothing will stop it.

If it's so magical and unstoppable...sooner or later it will break through the atmosphere and fly aimlessly into space.

"There is no maximum distance, just fly in a straight line until reaching a target."-Har said in wonder, his thinking of him about this ability had reached exorbitant levels.

If one day an asteroid comes straight to earth I could use this ability to get rid of it in space, although the basic fireball explosion should be extremely simple, the description of the ability says that it can be upgraded with MP, as long as whoever has enough should be able to turn a small grenade into an atomic bomb.

Again Har understood the importance of the MP, it seems to be the base for everything in the tower and it is like water for humans.

"No max distance?"

"How much MP are you spending to maintain it?"

Obviously the fact that a skill can fly infinitely is amazing, they had never heard of such a thing and they thought that it would need a lot of MP as power, but it was completely contrary to his expectations.

"Does not need."

"That?!"

What an incredible ability, it flies infinitely and doesn't need MP to maintain itself, if they find out that it doesn't require mana to activate either, they will undoubtedly be on the verge of fainting, even if Har tells other people about these effects, it is estimated that no one will believe it.

After talking for a while the three continued on their way, the fireball continued to rise and the HightRank Vexes began to explode in white smoke.

"What has happened?"

"Where did those things come from?"

The Runners calmed down after not seeing any more ghosts around here, but they were very confused, they came suddenly and mysteriously left, everything was very strange and there seemed to be no explanation for their appearance or behavior.

"Damn undesirable dwarves, where did you hide my weapon?!!

The two who had been a victim of robbery before were all over the place looking for something, they thought that when the Vexes disappeared their weapons would fall to the ground or something like that, they don't know that both spears are in the hands of the perpetrator behind the scenes.

"Hey, where's that guy?"

"...??"

Only then did they realize that the suspect from earlier had escaped at some point taking advantage of the earlier chaos.

"Shit, look it up!"

Edu ordered angrily, his teeth clenched like --- pliers --- the veins on his forehead bulged as if they were going to explode and his face turned red with anger.

He not only lost his weapon, but even a suspect who had insulted him slipped out of his hands.

If the government somehow finds out that he lost the weapons handed over by them or let go of an important piece to solve this bizarre case... they would certainly give him a reprimand later.

'All because of those damn winged dwarves.'

If those creatures had not arrived inexplicably, everything would have been correct. If they had been prepared for that situation, they certainly would not have feared them, but who would expect an attack from something unknown with an unknown origin?

In the real world there is no such thing as magical beasts appearing naturally, but there are Runners with summoning skills or taming beasts from the tower and summoning them to the real world.

These abilities are very rare to obtain, plus it requires a high MP consumption to keep those creatures in the real world, why would one of those Runners bother interfering with his business?

'Wait, it can't be...'

He immediately thought that this is very strange, all kinds of conspiracies in the shadows came to his mind, that a high level Runner, at least above B rank, is involved in a case of multiple murders and possible kidnapping of people.

No way, before there were dozens of such creatures and they lasted for more than a minute, it must definitely cost an astronomical amount of MP.

'I have to report this'-Edu came to a thought in an instant and opened the communication room of the tower.

Under the possible surprise attack of a higher-ranked Runner, Edu's body couldn't help but tense up and become defensive.

I did not know that in this place only a bunch of zombies arose and ate each other under the enormous thirst for blood, in the fight for the survival of the strongest they only made Har's job easier, they entered the surface of the first floor and they turned to dust that vanished in the air.

"Aaaahhhh !!"-Something landed on his shoulder filling him with terror, he immediately turned around and threw a punch.

"Did you freak out?"

The figure behind him leaned to the side dodging his punch by a few inches, cold sweat running down his forehead and he gave Edu a dazed look.

"Uh, I thought those dwarfs were still here."-Edu said hiding his shame.- "Why are you looking for me, Ecu?"

"We have found the belongings from that trash from before, you should come and see."

"Uh?"

...

Har's group had returned with the clones, guarding the objects on the ground with swords in their hands and guarding both sides of the alley.

"I wish I had a storage ability like Zac..."-Har said looking at the objects piled up on the floor.

"...?"-Zac in question was stunned for some reason-"Do I have such a thing?"

"If not, where are your items?"

Zac and Mike looked at each other, stunned and confused respectively.

"...!!"-As if he was struck by lightning, Zac suddenly remembered that Har had given him some objects, they should have fallen with him when he returned to reality but he doesn't carry them now.

"Don't tell me, you lost them?!"-Mike and Har said after noticing Zac's expression.

"I was captured as soon as I arrived, I didn't have time to react and I completely forgot about them..."-Zac was sorry and ashamed, they were objects that could easily add up to more than 20,000 TP, to be lost like that... no he has words to apologize to Har.

It's just that looking at him he doesn't seem to have any grudges against Zac, completely different from his heavy expressions. Har laughed as if he had heard a good joke.

"Hahahahaha, and to think that you have memory problems at 19 years old, don't worry, they are just small objects that I can do in less than 10 minutes."

What for any normal person would be a fortune for him is nothing more than something low level.

"So...how can I add them?"

After giving Zac new items, Har asked returning to the topic before they were transported to the real world.

"Ah, filter the requests only from those Runners you've met."-Mike said as he put on the iron armor gifted by Har.

"By the way, why do you have so many requests?" Zac asked, confused, doing the same.

Since they left the club they have not been aware of the news, it is natural for them not to know about the alias Steve

"I don't know, it must be that it's similar to some famous Runner's alias or something.."-Har didn't know that his alias had spread all over the first floor, so he just came up with something like this .

Following Mike's instructions, Har leaked the requests of those Runners he had encountered, soon his face turned strange.

'Are you planning not to leave me alone?'

There in the requests he could see a familiar situation, an alias was blinking rapidly as if he was afraid of not being seen, if it was a light bulb it would definitely explode with no chance to turn it on again.

'Bloody Butterfly, it can only be her, right?'-Har remembered that Runner disguised as a little girl and doubted if he should accept his request.

'Forget it, one more friend doesn't cost me anything.'

Without thinking about it anymore, Har accepted the request of this Runner, after that alias disappeared he concentrated on the others.

'Dearly Knight, Bloodlust Warrior and...black dragon of wrath?'

Har gave a strange look to the two in front of him, he already knew who Dearly Knight was, that naive young man from the first floor, he didn't know how he got his alias but he agreed to ask him directly, the remaining two should be...Mike and Zac.

'It seems that the fire of their youth led them to give themselves those kinds of names, it's just that those aliases actually seem to be in line with their appearances inside the tower.'

Shaking her head, Har accepted his requests leaving the list empty.

Looking at Har's expression, they both knew that he had discovered his alias and were a little embarrassed.

After that Har went back to the first floor and made 3 big chests, everything was exactly the same but a blanket of silence covered the whole place.

Taking the chests, Har returned to the real world and gave them one to keep their items, the three said goodbye and left, Har went to his house and the other two went to a hotel since they don't live in this city.

No one was aware of the great movements that were taking place in the world.

end of chapter