Savior Game (9)

Is this avatar actually an entity with the same power as the deity?

I had noticed a text that mentioned the supreme deity blessing Hyun Hee when we fought the golden sun cross emblem masked man in the artificial garden. It seemed like only an entity with the same power as the deity or even surpassed them could probably see my situation from a third-person point of view, which made sense considering I had never met this avatar but he or she always knew what my situation was.

If so, I had to take the risk and borrow this avatar's power. It was the only option for me to survive, to accept guidance from the unseen world. After encountering the Orc demon lord in TWOD and experiencing the recovery from Geralt and Yuffie's death, I realized that I had become stronger and my drive to live had also increased. I was also willing to adapt and even accept guidance from above, be it a deity or celestial being, but I wouldn't sell my soul to a demon.

There was one more thing that I had realized, perhaps TWOD had just been a tutorial for us to prepare for the divine judgment. It was just my theory, but I couldn't think of any other explanation. Therefore, if this were the case, who created a link between Tellus and TWOD? And what were their intentions?

In any case, I should have stopped overthinking. Asking more questions in that moment, where life and death were like a loose string, would have been a really idiotic move on my part.

If I rejected this avatar's offer, my death would be unavoidable. I had made up my mind to choose survival and perhaps in the future, I could meet this observer from the absolute reality.

As I gritted my teeth with all those ideas swirling in my head and my death marching towards me once again, I noticed the countdown kept decreasing.

[Divine system: 10 seconds remaining]

The answer had been obvious to me, to survive and see the conclusion to all of this tragedy, Geralt and Yuffie had sacrificed their lives for me. I would not have died to a nameless bald man like him.

When my mind had been thinking of the answer, suddenly my lips had slowly opened and the word "Yes" had come out of my lips instinctively.

Following my answer, another glitching text appeared as the previous one disappeared.

[Divine system: Your narrative is rewritten by (???)]

It seemed like I was the only person who saw that golden beehive screen with a text before me, and once again there had been some text that I couldn't read.

[Divine system: The universe narrative system allows you to manipulate all your skills from The World of Dawn into your reality.]

[Divine system: The universe is narrating all the skills that you will obtain from your previous avatar in another dimension.]

I tried to distract myself from being emotional by scanning around mindlessly, and at one location not so far away from me, I saw the black-haired girl who wore a long-sleeved white blouse stabbing her enemy in the stomach, meaning she had escaped death while I had been in the opposite situation from her. Hanging between life and death.

When I had been pondering, abruptly, a flash of innumerable stars traveling at the speed of light had been seen, reminding me of when I used to log into the game. It normally took a few seconds to log into the server and summon the VR version of The World of Dawn before synthesizing my avatar skills into the AR version, but this time I hadn't been able to do so and had been instead greeted by a huge screen.

[The astral portal between Tellus and The World of Dawn is shut down.]

[Private System: You can now use your skills without a console chip SPU in your world, however, you must use your narrative energy to activate your skills.]

Please wait while your items, attributes, and skills are being transformed since it has a large amount of data.]

I could now understand why many people without AR headsets could still use their skills after reading that text. It seemed like most people had unlocked all their skills, while some rankers had managed to obtain only a few of the skills they owned and not all of the skills they used to possess due to their data being too large like I had.

While I was waiting for the loading screen, for some reason, I felt as though my head and vision were clearer than they had ever been, and an unknown strength had surged within me, urging me to fight for my survival.

[Private System:

Skill: Brightness of speed has been unlocked

Skill type: Exclusive / A tiers

Element: Lightning]

[Divine system: Please wait until more of your skills and attributes are completely transferred.]

It was just what I needed at that moment to turn the tables against this bald man. After all, I didn't need to mix the buff potion with the elixir to increase my speed and utilize the skill (Speed accel) since (Brightness of speed) had been an even greater skill that increased acceleration, matching the speed of a lightning strike. It could also temporarily blinded my enemy, giving me an opportunity to kill them with a single strike without their awareness.

This skill could only be used on rankers, and it had been the most effective skill against mortals. I had rarely used it against dimensional creatures in TWOD.

[Divine System: The exclusive skills of an Observer from absolute reality "Narrative editing" have expired.]

Everything once again resumed its natural form as the color gradually spread throughout the colorless world, painting a world filled with blood and destruction. Subsequently, people suddenly moved as if someone had just paused and replayed a video. They continued fighting without realizing that they had been frozen in time a moment ago. This confirmed that I had been the only person who had experienced the paused time and remembered everything.

Time has begun to flow naturally again, and the pain that I hadn't been able to feel in the colorless world has now kicked in. Sharp pain from bruises and small cuts had spread throughout my body, and my clothes had many tears and holes that revealed blood streaming from the wounds, similar to knife cuts.

It was at that moment when the gravity and breeze had tremendously shifted in my direction for a brief moment. The sharp breeze had cut my cheek, arms, and legs. The unbearable pain had made me want to scream as if countless people were skinning me alive. As the tremendous sharp wind passed through me, the bald man twisted forward with his hips and launched the spear, conjuring blue particles that made it bigger.

The power of his spear had become the center of attention in the stadium, causing many rankers to halt their battles just to catch a glimpse of his showcase of ultimate skill. As the spear hurtled towards me at incredible speed, I heard someone shout at me from a far distance.

"Einsamer, get the fuck out of there!!!" This extremely anxious voice had belonged to Shan.

"Don't just stand there, idiot." This scream had come from Setsuna, whose voice had originally been energetic but was now apprehensive.

Their voices resonated in my mind, urging me to survive. Even though I didn't understand the love of my parents or have many friends, the two of them had always been by my side, giving me support and a reason to exist. Just a few days ago, their presence could be considered a blessing in my ordinary life. And the same could be said in this bizarre situation where only the strongest survived.

Therefore, I had to do whatever it took to survive.

My survival instinct spread throughout my veins, and at that moment, I no longer feared the spear gliding towards me with untraceable speed, already halfway towards my position, leaving behind a destructive force that shattered and split the ground. However, the speed of the spear had gradually become slower as lightning sparks flickered around me, signaling the activation of my exclusive skill.

Both of my hands had released the handle of my spear, which had struck the ground, temporarily throwing off my balance so I could summon another weapon. Immediately, my entire body was about to be blown away by the strong wind as soon as I let go of my spear, but I tried to rebalance myself and summoned blue particles to materialize into a sword in my right hand, gripping it tightly.

From a far distance, I saw his wide grin replaced by a sudden puzzled expression once he saw the sword in my hand. At the same time, I was only a few seconds away from death as the sharp edge of the spear had become even more visible, gliding in front of me.

Fortunately, I had unlocked my exclusive skill [Brightness of Speed]. These few seconds had seemed like minutes to me, but from other perspectives, they had only seen the natural flow of time, thinking my death was inevitable.

[Private System: Exclusive skill "Brightness Of Speed is activating".

Price: 10,000 Coins are being consumed]

It still annoyed me that even in reality, I still need to spend my coins to activate a skill. This skill had been many times more expensive than the "Shadow Step" which I had just obtained. However, the system must have had a reason behind this payment requirement. This is probably to prevent rankers from using their skills infinitely, which could cause an imbalance in the power scale. In any case, I had to defeat him now, since I had already run out of coins to defend myself.

Blue particles orbited me, bursting into lightning strikes. Then, I propelled myself forward, merging into one with the lightning, traveling at the speed of light. I slashed my sword at his hovering, yet suspended spear within the time dilation that I had created, severing his spear in half with incredible force and disassembling it into flickering blue particles, returning it back to its source.

When I arrived before him in the form of lightning, from his perspective, it was like he had been struck by a bolt. I could imagine that there had been a millisecond flash of intense, burning heat, which had already dissipated by the time his brain could even register what was happening. My sword had already cut through his head, which rolled onto the ground, causing him to fall down on his knees without a head.

I was affected by the lightning as well, my right hand was paralyzed, and my body trembled. My knee was numb, and there was a hint of slight burns all over my body. Despite this, I maintained a neutral look and stood firmly, so that other rankers wouldn't think I had lost all of my strength and take advantage of my condition to kill me.

From other people's perspectives, all of this had happened in a fraction of a second.

His blood dripped onto my sword as I looked at the reflection of his headless body. Additionally, I also saw my own face on the reflection, his blood had also spilled onto my emotionless face. This made me realize that I felt strangely calm killing him, even though I had felt a slight sense of guilt that one who ended someone else's life could feel. But this was the only choice I had to defend myself. Therefore, I have told myself that his death was justified.

I stood still for a moment as everyone looked at me. Some wore shocked expressions, their mouths open wide. Some looked at me with curiosity, and most seemed to see me as a new target to obtain a powerful archetype not knowing it was just my exclusive skill. The joke's on them, my archetype had been useless, and my exclusive skill couldn't be obtained through the method of killing me.

It had come to me as a blessing in disguise. Despite my archetype being the weakest, I always unlocked unique exclusive skills that gave me an advantage over my enemies if they underestimated me, I could use my exclusive skills to catch them off-guard.