⌜Chapter 40⌟

*Swooosh!

Flying in the skies, Tanaka looked down at the city from the back of his dragon. Many players who saw it became scared, thinking that a dragon suddenly came to invade, but Tanaka didn't mind. He was enjoying his time.

Only 9 floors left before this game finally ends. That time may also be his last moments. Tanaka didn't want to disappear, but he was not that selfish. In his time in this world, he met many people. They are good guys. Well, not all of them, but they strive to live.

Tanaka started contemplating about life.

"Fuuu"

Taking a deep breath, Tanaka looked at the stars up in the skies, "Let's get some more dragons then end this game once and for all"

*Swooosh!

X'rphan flapped its wings and flew towards Tanaka's destination, in Aincrad, there were about 9 Dragons that Tanaka knew of, each are powerful and most of them are field boss monsters.

It took a few months for Tanaka to tame all of them, the chances of taming a dragon is very low, he might have been lucky with X'rphan at that time being able to do it in a single try, but he was still able to tame all of them.

Though they aren't sentient beings, these dragons still follow his commands, the news about Guild Master Ice taming dragons has now been known by everyone in the game. This made the Iceforge guild cement themselves as the strongest guild in the game.

After all, a single dragon was already hard enough to fight, much less 9 of them, but Guild Master Ice didn't abuse his power, instead, he publically announce that he will send the dragons to Madara to help him in clearing more floors, this made the players look at Guild Master Ice with more respect and reverence.

If Tanaka didn't control some of them, then he may already have a cult worshipping him, anyway. Now it was time to challenge the boss monsters again.

Fighting the next boss monsters was easier with the presence of the dragons, Tanaka also tamed the 10th dragon in the floor 96, it was a red dragon that was as big as the mountain, Tanaka took a very long time just to tame that dragon.

Finally, at September 28, 2023, Tanaka reached the 100th floor, and this time, he also called out all of the front line players with him, after all, he has to uphold his words to Kayaba.

And since the players are going to fight Kayaba, he told Tanaka that no one will die from this fight, but there is one, which is Tanaka if he dies from the 100th floor boss, Tanaka smiled and didn't mind.

Kayaba never knew about his revive bug, nor he could notice something wrong, so for this fight, Tanaka will first watch the fight of Kayaba and the players, then he will fight the 100th floor.

It didn't take long for the boss battle to arrive, Kayaba who was leading the players stepped in front of the players and approached the boss throne and sat there.

"Yes, I am Kayaba Akihiko. And if I may add, I am the game's last boss, from now on you will fight me, Madara and Ice will not help you from here on, I trapped the two of them somewhere, now come, kill me and leave this game"

Shock, disbelief, those were the expressions the players had when they heard Heathcliff reveal himself as Kayaba, Tanaka couldn't help but laugh when he saw how wide open their mouths are.

As expected of the anime world, they literally have their jaws dropped unto the ground, but anyway, this players seemed frozen in shock that they didn't even move anymore which made Tanaka sigh as this will be a long dialogue of talking.

This may take about 3 episodes before they stop talking, they will talk about their beliefs and some shit, what is their purpose, Tanaka got so impatient that he changed his appearance to an unknown player before charging towards Kayaba.

He then roared.

"I don't care about your shits, its because of you that we are stuck here! if all I need to do is kill you to leave this place then die!"

He charged with his sword and swung his sword which was easily blocked by Kayaba but this woke up the other players and after a few moments of thinking they also charged, after the fight started, Tanaka immediately sneaked away and went back to his position and watched with a popcorn.

10,000 players, 8,000 were left alive, it was very different from the 3,000 that survived in the anime, this time, many were alive and they were grateful,.

Kayaba is good at fighting, he had the basics down and even if he was overwhelmed by number he acted calmy and fought them off, Tanaka stopped watching and decided to finish of the 100 floor boss, it was hidden behind the throne.

Tanaka made his way towards it and found a door, he entered inside, there was nothing but a darkness inside, then Tanaka suddenly noticed a bubble covering his body.

*Swoosh!

Tanaka suddenly started floating down and he went deeper and deeper into the void until he saw a place that seemed to be a clock tower? then as he fell deeper the system notification suddenly rang in

[You have entered the hidden final boss room]

[An Incarnation of the Radius has awakened]

*Swooosh!

Tanaka only saw a red light beside him as he was still floating, then in the next moment, a spear stabbed towards him.

*Swoosh! *Boom!

The spear stabbed towards the walls, then from the smoke, Tanaka ran out, he narrowly avoided the spear, then just as he got out of the smoke, he immediately raised his scythe and blocked the upcoming sword slash towards him.

*Boom!

Tanaka successfully blocked the attack and finally he was able to see the appearance of the 100th floor boss. Its a colossal monster that looks like both a goddess and a beast, The monster has a white body, red eyes, a feminine face, and several red orbs on its head, which extends above and behind its body to waist length, forming six long, sword-like appendages with a red orb at the bulge on each of them.

The boss has two arms, wielding a crimson sword in its right hand, and a spear with a red head and black handle in its left. The monster also wears a lavish, hakama-like piece of clothing from the waist down.

The hakama is crimson with black lines at its lower part, dark with red lines at its middle-and upper parts, with a golden decoration at its very top.

"Aren't you a feisty one?"

Tanaka smirked, then he noticed that the red orbs on its head started glowing and then streak of lights with different colors emerged from it and charged towards Tanaka, Tanaka immediately broke away from the sword and spun his scythe rapidly blocking all of the streak of lights.

But it was extremely powerful that it pushed him back.

"Come out!"

Tanaka roared, then from the darkness, dragon heads emerged out and immediately breathed out flames from their mouths, the boss monster move swiftly and used its weapons to block the dragon breaths.

Tanaka immediately used this chance to charge forward and swing his scythe with power.

*Boom!

A white light suddenly appeared in front of Tanaka and blocked his attack, no matter how hard he pushed, he couldn't break through.

*Boom! *Swoosh!

Tanaka was blasted away from the barrier and sent flying towards the walls before crashing. The boss monster eyes then glowed and it turned its head towards the dragons that were fighting it then an extremely fast laser beam came out and hit the dragons.

*Boom!

Explosion came as it hit the dragons taking a lot of its Health, but Tanaka used this chance and immediately attack the boss monster with his scythe then the white barrier appeared once again but Tanaka let go of his scythe and took out another weapon from his inventory and attacked once again, when he felt it was going to be blown away, Tanaka will immediately let go of the weapon and take out another one.

And as the white barrier started showing signs of cracks, Tanaka immediately caught the scythe that he let go earlier and it started glowing in black color.

*Bang!

The barrier and the scythe collided with each other and the barrier finally broke, the boss monster was blown away by its barrier and Tanaka immediately used this chance and also the dragons to barrage it with attacks.

*Boom! *Boom!

Its health bar started dropping at a fast speed, then the orbs on top of the boss monster started glowing once again and the colorful lights emerged out once again blowing Tanaka and the dragons away.

The Incarnation of the Radius stood up, and from its back, a large glowing tree emerged out, then from one of its leaves, it dropped a dew, as it dropped on the orb on top of the boss monster, its health immediately started recovering at a fast speed and became full again.

"What the F-. this is cheating"

Tanaka could not help but complain, but a big smile can be seen on his face.

"Then that means I can finally go all out"

Tanaka laughed and then pulled out another scythe from his inventory, this one is much smaller than his other one but the others size also started to decrease in size at a fast speed, Tanaka then put the two scythe close together and from the butt of the scythes, a chain came out and merged the two scythes.

"Now! let's dance!"

*Swooosh!

From the ground beneath the boss monster, two thick roots emerged out and charged towards Tanaka but it was immediately blocked by the dragons, Tanaka used this chance and charged towards the boss monster but they seemed to have the same thought as the boss monster also charged towards him.

The two then clashed both of their weapons together.

*Boom!

A powerful shock wave came as they clashed with each other, Tanaka noticed the eyes of the boss monster glowed, he immediately turned his body and kicked its chin away.

*Boom!

The laser beam flew towards the skies.

"You like to use your eyes huh!?"

Tanaka roared then flipped his body in mid air once again and slashed his scythe towards its eyes.

*Bang!

One of its eyes shattered like a glass, Tanaka immediately commanded his dragons to attack but the boss monster immediately retaliated, it raised its hand aswung it towards the dragon, it was immediately blown away with some force.

"Fuck, you also have telekinesis?"

Tanaka cursed out loud.

"Roar!

The boss monster then roared loudly and charged towards Tanaka with its swords.

"Haaa!"

Tanaka also roared and charged towards the boss monster with his scythe.

*Boom!

A powerful shock wave came and they both started exchanging attacks with each other, it was so fierce that the dragons flame breath were also blown away because of it, Tanaka gave his war cry and his weapons started glowing in dark color.

*Boom! *Boom!

Their attacks became faster and faster that it only became an illusory image as they fought with each other, Tanaka's health dropped at a fast speed but because there was a dragon that was healing him, he was healing at a fast rate.

The boss monster has 8 health bars and it was also dropping fast, the monster then opened its mouth. Tanaka immediately knew it will use the same thing as the one from its eye, he wanted to kick it away but it moved smart and used its telikinesis to halt his movement.

"Damn!"

*Boom!

Just as the laser was about to hit him, one dragon rushed towards it and gave a dragon uppercut to the boss monster.

"I will take you down now!"

Tanaka roared, he raised his scythe and was about to slash towards the boss monster.

*Ding!

[The game now has been cleared]

"WHAT!?"

Tanaka couldn't believe what he just heard, but the boss monster in front of him had already halted its movement, his dragons also.

"Damn"

Tanaka helplessly sat on the ground, he didn't think that Kayaba fell down and also tricked him, then in front of Tanaka, the Aincrad started disinegrating turning into shards, the same as the one when players die.

Tanaka helplessly looked as he saw the sun on the horizon and he was sitting on an invisible platform.

"Ha, I wasn't able to finish it"

Tanaka sighed. The weapons, and his armor also disappeared.

"You already did great. You fought a monster that was impossible to defeat by your own"

A voice suddenly came from behind him.

Tanaka turned his head and there he saw the other Tanaka.

"I fought it, not defeat it, those and that are different, it's a game over now"

"Hoho, well, that is true, then you just have to fight it next time. Your story is still not over, we will watch you"

"Huh?"

Tanaka turned his head and looked at the other Tanaka but has already disappeared.

"What does he me-"

[You will not be forcefully logged out]

Tanaka didn't know what happened after he received the system notification, but his vision darkened after that. He then suddenly felt his body weak and shaking uncontrollably.

Slowly opening his eyes, Tanaka's vision was blurry, but he could see a person in front of him, but it was blurry, then he heard the person spoke.

"Patient Ryuuji Tanaka has awakened, requesting help immediately!"

'Huh? so I'm not dead'

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Hey guys, I enjoyed writing this chapter, mostly because of the fighting scenes. I love writing fighting scenes. Hope you guys enjoyed this as much as I did writing this.

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