Survival Battle (Part 2)

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It was a female voice, "Umm, can I join you guys? If you have a space left."

Leroy turns around to see who it was.

He was shocked. It was so hard for him to believe that he thought that it had to be a ghost.

'There is no way, that's her'

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That same soft and captivating voice…

Those same dreamy, bliss-blue eyes, silver hair, pale skin with no imperfection.

'How is the f*ck is this possible'

It was the same girl who he saw in those dreams.

[A.N: If you forgot, go back to the beginning of Chapter 7; Reunited (Part 2)]

A moment of silence…

"Yeah, why not." eagerly responds Horace, who has just emerged from the back. "We were lacking one member anyway"

While Ken whispers to Leroy's ear, "Dude, why are you stunned. Say something."

Leory was jolted back to reality after discovering that he had been briefly mesmerized by her beauty. He got flustered because of that.

Replies nervously, "Ah- Y-yeah! J-join us."

"Um, Thanks…" She was confused about the reaction they gave.

Leroy asks her, "So yeah, what's your ID?"

"Celestina"

<<User: "Celestina" has been added to the party member list>>

<<Party is full>>

[Party <Z16:29> is successfully formed]

'Seems like a code name, that means every party has a code name.'

There was an awkwardness around them for some time.

Kennard whispered to Leroy's ears, "Stop, wearing that weird mask, it gives a weird vibe."

Leroy replied in a low voice, "This is for safety purposes. So, let me handle my things by myself. "

<<Maximum Party limit reached>>

<<Re-adjusting parties...>>

<<Checking done>>

<<There are no more users left who haven't joined a party>>

<<Please choose your spawn locations>>

[The Unknown Desert]

[The Forest of Demons]

[The Land of Elsmort]

[The Land of Coldness]

[???]

Leroy was confused for a minute about it.

Kennard seems irritated about it, "We have to choose, which Land we want to spawn on?! Are they really that lazy or what?"

Horace replies to him, "Take their laziness as our advantage."

Leroy agrees with Horace, "Yep, I agree with him."

Celestina asks Leroy and Horace, "Does that mean, we are going to choose the most easy spawn?"

Horace replies, "Not really the easiest."

Kennard adds to it, "But we don't have any information about these spawns."

Leroy seemed like he knew something about it, saying, "Who the heck said that we don't have information. Look at the names carefully; it is enough for us to understand what these spawns are based on."

Celestina somehow understood what he meant, but still, something wasn't clear to her.

"If we try to understand it that way then, we can only understand about <The Land of Coldness> and <The Forest of Demons>, but what about the others?"

Horace and Kennard nodded in agreement.

"Let's follow common game knowledge. Deserts are mainly for mobs that are already dead, so, of course, it is going to be based on the undead. For Elsmort, I would say that it is kind of a kingdom."

Horace adds, "That makes us left with only this land, which is named with question marks."

"Let's ignore that spawn."

"I guess so."

"Let's go with <The Forest of Demons>"

Three of them got a shock from it.

Kennard shouts at him, "Have you gone insane or what?"

"Why? Nothing is wrong with de-"

"100% There are! The Demon race is the strongest race among the monsters."

"Yeah! We shouldn't choose that spawn!"

"High Risk = High Return."

"Damn that, it is way too risky."

Leroy sighs while saying, "Just believe in me. We are going to survive it for sure."

Everyone was feeling a bit hesitant about it.

"You both do know that I don't say something without thinking of the consequences."

Horace and Kennard found no other choice and agreed.

"Fine…"

"I hope, it goes well."

Celestina was still feeling hesitant about it but still agreed to go with it.

"Hmph, so I hope everyone is ready."

<<Spawn Point has been chosen>>

*Sigh*

Leroy was still bothered by that dream...

'This still doesn't make sense. How come I saw someone who I had never seen before? Now that person is literally standing before me.'

Suddenly, a huge screen appeared in the sky. The size was enough for every player to see it.

<<Every player who is present here will be allowed to transfer to the spawn grounds>>

Portals started to appear in front of everyone.

<<Would you like to enter [The Forest of Demons]?>>

[Yes/No]

Leroy takes a deep breath and says, "Here we go everyone."

Three of them reply, "Yeah!"

Leroy starts to walk through the portal.

<Entering [The Forest of Demons]>

He saw himself standing in a dense forest. Lots of fireflies can be seen flying around. They made the dense forest look kind of beautiful.

'To be honest, this looks nice.'

Additionally, he observed that there was a faint amount of purple-colored mist covering the ground that appeared to glow a bit.

'What is this?'

Suddenly, a screen started to hover over the mist.

<<The Eyes of the Strategist>>

[Detected presence of <Dark Lightning Essence>]

'This is the elemental essence? That means I can upgrade my element if I somehow absorb this essence.'

Leroy suddenly realized that he hadn't seen his teammates since the time he entered this forest.

"Wait, where are they?"

Leroy started to explore the forest.

"The longer I spend in this forest, the more creepy it becomes."

He found no sign of his teammates nor any demons.

After some time...

Leroy started to get irritated.

"AHHH! Just where the f*ck are they and where the f*ck are the demons are !?! "

Suddenly, he heard a sound...

*Rustle* *Rustle*

He puts his guard up and starts to see his surroundings more carefully.

"What the heck is that?"