Chapter 15 : Power Galore

[Clothing store]

Sho, Bebop, Stacen, and Raiden were still standing together, as Raiden was pleading towards Sho to be his disciple.

Raiden was hanging upside down on the ceiling, saying, "See what I can do? Thou art agile."

Sho replied, "Ha?"

Stacen apologized, "Apologies, Sho. She is..different."

"I can fucking tell. What's wrong with her?"

"Dear Raiden is intrigued by your presence."

"Does she intend to not let me continue looking through the store if I don't accept her request?"

"Thou Raiden is unpredictable. But she is truly intrigued by you. Thou does not believe in attacking those who don't attack her first."

"Don't really care. Tell her to move before I slit her face."

Bebop tugged on Sho's arm, "Bug brother! You can't pull weapons out inside of here."

"Why not?"

"You aren't allowed to! Even if you try, you won't be able to."

"But I can still fight, right?"

"Yeah..but please don't fight them. She's nice."

"She's literally bothering us until I make her my disciple, you call harassment nice?"

Raiden got down from the ceiling, and she pointed at Sho, "You have stated a phrase that I shall tolerate for the time being. Sho, you are heading to thy Fighter event later this afternoon under thy sunset? Me and Stacen shall be there."

"Do what you want. Let's go, Bebop."

Sho started walking away, and Bebop followed him.

Bebop waved at Stacen and Raiden, saying, "I hope we see you at the event! Bye bye!"

Stacen and Raiden bowed slightly with a grin.

Sho said to Bebop, "Don't involve yourself with strangers."

"B-But.."

"You don't know what people's true intentions are. Being too friendly and trusting could get you fucked up."

"I know..but..sometimes I can tell when people are good. Like I did with you."

"Tch. Me? Good? You need to get your intuitions checked the hell out. You don't know me. I've taken a few lives here and out of the tower."

"Out of self defense..?"

"….Yeah."

"That doesn't make you bad, big brother."

"You're like two years old. How do you know anything about anything?"

"I was really smart back at my world, because of my mother. Everyday I was studying, studying about other worlds and stuff. I've seen a lot, big brother. And I see that you aren't bad."

Sho looked at Bebop, then looked away, "Whatever. Whatever you say. You'll see the real me sooner or later. I'm nothing special. Don't get your hopes up, especially when I let you down one of these days. Harsh as hell to say that, but there's no point in lying or hiding shit."

Bebop smiled, "I doubt it. You'll be okay!"

"Pfft. You gonna buy something?"

"I like boy clothes, so that's why I'm following you in this section."

"Weird as fuck. But suit yourself."

"Hey.."

"What is it?"

"Can I ask you a question?"

"Spit it out. You literally just asked me one."

"If I get kidnapped right now, would you chase after me to save me?"

"Nope."

"HUH?!"

"You can fight for yourself, can't you? You have your familiar. Which reminds me, why are you scared of it, when you clearly use it to fight all the time?"

"It's easy for me to pull it out when I'm in danger, but it's super scary using the power."

"Explain yourself."

"Whenever I use it, I'm like a zombie."

"So it's not you controlling the familiar?"

"It is. But it's not. It's like we both share the power, me and Dero. But I feel like I'm being controlled sometimes, and that's scary. And sometimes I can see Dero's face, and his face is scary."

"Seems like you have to overcome it."

"It's gonna be super super tough, but I think I can do it. I just have to figure out how. Eventually."

Minutes later, Sho was looking at more outfits, looking at a tuxedo with dress shoes, and he saw a black long sleeve shirt, with black gym shorts, and black and white shoes. These two outfits cost 150 Fighter points altogether.

Sho thought, '150 Fighter points altogether. That'll leave me with 1850 Fighter points. I don't know. I know I said I didn't want to look flashy, but damn..a tuxedo seems comfortable to wear. And this other outfit, with the black long sleeve shirt and gym shorts and black shoes, looks good to roll around in.'

Sho put his finger on both the outfits, and he added both of them to his cart.

Bebop tugged on Sho's arm.

Sho replied, "What is it?"

"You know, you can buy an auto-clean perk for your outfits for 100 Fighter points. The auto-clean instantly cleans up and fixes the outfits you get messed up. All you have to do is put your messed up clothes in your inventory, combine it with the auto-clean perk, it'll be clean."

"You're telling me this now? Where is it?"

Bebop pointed at a shelf behind him.

Sho turned around to it, and he saw a floating blue square with a shirt drawn in the middle of it, and it was glowing.

Sho put his first finger on it, putting it in his cart.

Then right after, he bought all three things. He spent 250 Fighter points, leaving him with 1,750 Fighter points.

Sho said, "Aight. I'm ready to leave."

Bebop responded, "Are we gonna wait for Gide-."

Gideon slid in front of Sho and Bebop, smiling with giant orange shades on his eyes, and he was wearing a yellow hoodie, with black skinny jeans, and orange shoes.

Gideon said, "Haha! You likeee?"

Sho walked past him, saying, "Looks hideous."

"Aweeeee!"

Bebop said to Gideon, "It's really bright! I like the shoes!"

"Not the shirttt?"

"Nope. Shirt's kind of girly."

"Aww! So where to now, Shooooo?"

Sho responded, "We're gonna look around, seeing what else they have here in this city."

Sho, Bebop, and Gideon were walking down the sidewalk, as the bright sun shone upon them, and the wind breezed peacefully, and birds chirped in the air.

They walked by many cars, and many Fighters. They even walked past a group of dead Fighters laying on the ground.

Bebop looked at the bodies, and Sho said to her, "Don't look at them too long."

"O-Okay.."

Bebop held Sho's hand, and kept walking.

Gideon grinned, and pointed at a few buildings, "Look! There's the arcadeeee!"

Bebop instantly smiled, "The arcade! I love the arcade!"

Bebop and Gideon stood beside each other, saying, "Awesomeee!"

Sho thinks, 'Damn. Bebop cheered up instantly.'

As they walked down the sidewalk, they saw a movie theater, a carnival, a game shop, and an electronics store that sold phones.

Sho thinks while walking with his hands in his pockets, 'This place..it definitely resembles earth a lot. It has a bunch of entertainment centers and stores, with Passive Fighters working inside of them. This all raises my curiosity as to what this Tower of Valhalla actually is. Does it have something to do with me and my so-called grandmother? I don't know. Besides that, there's a store that sells cell phones. I didn't bring one in the tower, so I definitely need one.'

Bebop tugged on Sho's shirt, pointing at the electronics store, "Big brother! There's a store where you can buy a phone for yourself! You always get the first one free!"

"ARE YOU READING MY MIND?"

"Hehe, no silly. I can't do things like that."

Sho thought, 'Well, this actually works out. I haven't even spent my Fighter points on my weapon attributes yet. I want to spend as much as I can, and save as much as I can. Well, I'm gonna fucking try.'

Sho, Bebop, and Gideon walked into the electronics, a Passive Fighter led Sho to a shelf to get a red and black touch screen phone.

They walked out of the store, and started walking down the store again.

Sho said, "These phones don't need chargers? Convenient as hell."

Gideon grinned, "Awesomeeee! You're now a part of the phoneeee club!"

Bebop and Gideon went to the inventory on their watches, and pulled out touch screen phones, saying, "We welcome you!"

Sho replied, "Whatever, fools."

They kept walking down the sidewalk, and as Sho was trying to set his phone up, they walked past more food places, drive thru's, malls, inns, and houses.

Sho thought, 'The phone is set up. I got my profile together, and it works like a regular earthly phone. Now then..'

Bebop and Gideon smiled to Sho, "You want our numberrrrs?"

Sho responds, "YOU'RE READING MY MIND!"

A few blocks behind them, Kell and May were walking side by side, covered in blood, and Fighters just looking at them, saying:

"Kell and May..they're known as the sibling duo.."

"May is so damn pretty.."

"May please marry me..I'm scared to say it louder, don't look at me like that."

"Kell's eyes look cold, don't look at him too long."

"I heard he never hesitates to kill his enemy."

One Fighter walked up to May, and got down on one knee.

May stopped walking, saying, "Huh?"

The Fighter said, "May, I've tried to hold my tongue for my own safety, but I can't hold it in anymore. I know you don't know me, but I want you to know me. I want to be yours, and I want you to be mine-!"

May lifted up her leg, and she smashed the heel of her foot on the top of the Fighters head, smashing his head into the concrete, breaking pieces of the sidewalk off.

The other Fighters said:

"Oh shit!"

"That kick!"

May says, "I want none of you idiots."

Kell said, "Good thing you attacked that fool before I could."

"I can take care of myself."

Kell grinned, "Oh? Talking back to me? Scum?"

"Does your dialogue only consist of insulting people with lame ass insults?"

"Take that back! Fool! Scum!"

"My B'."

"Look at all these bozos looking at us, listening in our private conversation. Is everyone in the tower this nosy? They should know me and you share a deep brother and sister relationship."

"You're just overprotective."

"I am. So what? I have to make sure you're always safe, like my mother and father told me to do."

"Mhm."

"And I've been thinking.."

"Huh?"

"I'm thinking of starting a guild."

"With just us two?"

"Yes. Guilds get posted on the feed all the time, for what they've done. Once we get our wonderful names out, people will respect us and our wishes. They'll worship us."

"You're delusional."

"And you're scum."

"Heard that before."

"And you're gonna hear it again."

"I wanna do a raid."

"Class B or A?"

"A. Choose one with the most Fighter points attached to it for completion. Like always."

*These are the Fighter points associated with each raid class:

Class Z raids range from 100 - 200 points

Class D raids : 200 - 900 points

Class C raids : 900 - 5,000 points

Class B raids : 5,000 - 7,000 points

Class A raids : 7,000 - 9,000 points

Class S raids : 9,000 - 11,000 points

Class SS raids : 11,000 - 13,000 points

Class SSS raids : 13,000 - 15,000 points

Class SSSS raids : 17,000 - 20,000 points.

Kell says, "Very well then. We do need to prepare for the Fighter event later today. We're always on the search for more power, and we'll take what we can get."

[City 6]

[Inside of a dirty warehouse]

Kaiju's presence was sitting in the middle of the floor, quietly. But his body was inside of his own virtual training room.

He was fighting off dozens of holographic clones of himself, and he was bleeding all over the place, swinging his glowing ax all over the place.

Kaiju laughed, "Haha! Yes! That's it! Sho Takahashi shall be ready for me! And this Fighter event will definitely not be!"

Kaiju was leaping on and off walls, slashing his glowing yellow ax around, and waves of glowing yellow spikes shot out of his ax blade, which destroyed some of the holographic clones.

Kaiju thought, 'Sho Takahashi will notice my strength and will be inspired to fight me to the death! I will try to clash with him after the event, I just need to get him away from his subordinates!"

[Nether island location]

[Class A raid]

The sky was red and purple, and there were black clouds above Vooben, Totell, Kharma, and Rego. They were standing on red rocks in the form of a cube, and there was red blood in the form of an ocean around the red cube platform.

They were surrounded by beasts that were melting in black goo.

In the sky, within the black clouds, there was a creature called a Buzho. The Buzho had a red glowing skeleton head, a skeleton body with red glowing scorpion legs wrapped around its stomach, black baggy pants, and Skelton feet which gave off a black mist, and he had 8 flaming flow petals on his back.

Kharma said, "That is u-ugly.."

Totell shook his head, then punched his fists together, making a grunting noise.

Rego coughed out blood, saying, "Sssssitting patiently..for what?"

Vooben was holding his head, hearing voices constantly, and Vooben said, "Damn that curse! We're killing this Buzho, right here, right now."

Kharma thinks, 'The curse within them is affecting them greatly..from coughing up blood to hearing voices. At first, they were scouting me to inherit the demon curse within them, until they saw how cowardly I was when I met them.'

Vooben stepped forward, looking at Rego and Totell, seeing them grunt while they heard voices in their heads, but they tried to keep a straight face.

Vooben said, "Totell, Rego..fight it. We've come this far, it hasn't dragged us to do anything desperate. We are strong."

The Buzho pointed at Vooben and the others, and the black clouds around him started to move around, crackling like lightning.

A black hurricane formed above Vooben and the others.

Vooben said, "Don't look up at the hurricane. It's a trap."

Kharma replied, "H-How do you know?"

"It's not rare that the enemy would want us to look at something. We can hear it, but one look up at it will be possibly fatal. We've done enough A class raids to know they are unpredictable."

The Buzho smirked, saying, "S..mar…t.."

Vooben then said, "It's going to change its strategy now."

Jumping from the black hurricane, we're black horses with flames as their tails, and flames as their mane, and they had black wings.

Dozens of them began to fall down, galloping through the air.

Rego says, "Sssso we fight, without looking upward?"

Totell put his hand on Rego's shoulder, giving him a thumbs up and a grin.

Kharma made a grimoire form in front of her, and it was a brown book with a purple aura glowing around the edges of it. Kharma's eyes glowed white, saying, "Beasts incarnate.."

Monstrous beasts started to jump from the grimoire, and they leaped upward and started to battle with the horses in the sky. Both sides were getting ripped apart, biting and clawing each other dead, and flashy colors floating around.

Kharma thinks, 'I can only use one spell from the grimoire at a time. My beasts are getting destroyed since they are of the same strength as my class, but they will hold them off long enough for the others to attack the Buzho…'

Vooben, Rego, and Totell leaped up into the air, still not looking upwards.

All three of them heard voices in their heads, and they tried their best to ignore it.

The Buzho made black cubes form in front of them, and those cubes were leaking blood, with a black aura coming off of them.

The cubes were meant to make contact with them, to make them stick to it.

The Buzho's cubes made Fighters stick to them, drawing them in quickly with a magnetic pull, and as they stuck to them, their energy would've drained, and would be transferred to the Buzho's dark weapons to give it more of an impact.

Once all of the 50+ cubes blocked Vooben and the others, the Buzho floated out of his position, and he made two 50 foot black shadow scythe form in both of his hands, he spun around in the air, and slashed all of the cubes at once, and the cubes exploded with black smoke flying all over the place.

Kharma was still on the platform, covering herself with a dark purple force field, thinking, 'Are they dead? But I promised…wait..'

Floating behind the Buzho, was Vooben, Rego, and Totell.

The Buzho turned around, gasping.

Vooben says, "My legendary sword of Lahoon has the ability to transfer me through abilities, and whoever I touch can transfer with me, It's only effective when I want to get out of harm's way or getting behind my opponent."

Before the Buzho can do anything, Vooben had his sword called "Lahoon" in his hand, it was a sword with purple blade and black and blue handle, and it had a bluish purple aura around the edges.

Vooben, Rego, and Totell dashed forward, and the Buzho lunged forward, with black cubes surrounding them all.

Vooben and Buzho's weapons collided, and Vooben started to transfer past Buzho's weapon. Rego and Totell used their intense speed to grab hold of the Buzho, holding him still. But the blade of Buzho's scythe pierced through Rego and Totell's bodies. The Buzho didn't want to activate its cubes, since it would drag him along too.

Vooben thinks, 'That speed..the blade pierced them before I could even blink..'

Vooben zipped around, and sliced the head of the Buzho off, killing him.

Vooben thinks, 'We have slain the target monster.'

"Do not worry, Totell, and Regu. I have enough herbal pills for you both. I do not want the two of you dying before you find the perfect host to inherit the curse inside of you. If I had prolonged to kill the Buzho when you two were wounded, you both would've surely died."

Rego nodded, "Yessss…Vooben.."

Totell nodded.

Vooben continued, "Spend your points wisely. Spend all of it on your power attributes. For we will need to be fully prepared for the event this afternoon."

[Class C raid]

[A prison in the middle of a canyon]

Sho, Gideon, and Bebop stood outside of the large prison on the canyon, with the sky being bright upon them.

Gideon exclaimed, "I love raids!"

Bebop added, "I…don't love them. But I'll be okay if I'm with big brother and Gideon."

Sho went, "The reward for this raid is 4,000 points for each of us. We've done enough sightseeing. We can't slack off. This raid has two targets..something I didn't even know was possible. No wonder the points are double the points from my raid earlier."

Gideon replied, "I've never seen it before eitherrrr, how cool!"

Bebop added, "Oh..ohh..creepy.."

Sho thought, 'I've spent 1750 points on my weapon attributes. I hope I don't get fucking pummeled like I did in the Dongu castle raid. I applied some points to each attribute. Adding 700 points to my attack stats, 800 points to my defensive stats, and 150 points to my power stats. I tried to save some points, but I couldn't resist.'

Sho's weapon stats:

Attack: 7,000/100,000

Defense: 2,000/100,000

Power: 1,150/100,000

Power level: 1,000 (Class C)

Sho thought, 'I'm class C..In just two days…definitely gonna be training my ass off even more if I'm leveling up like this..but I know it's gonna get harder to level up the stronger I get..'

Inside of the prison, there were prisoner monsters with orange jumpsuits on, drooling all over the place. They were fighting each other inside of the prison, but not killing each other. Their mouths snarled, and their teeth gnashed.

Walking through the havoc were two humanoid monsters. Tether, and Vetto. Tether had bloody bandages all around his face, with one yellow eye exposed out of it, he had on a white dirty cloth, with a white cloth over his head as a hoodie, he had eight arms, and he had white bloody spikes on his shoulders and back.

Vetto had grey skin, black tattoos on his skin, a red scarf around his forehead covering one eye.

Tether said, "$&@@..::;)&@@-/:."

*Translation - "Let's get ready to feed..they have entered..*

Vetto answered, "?!&$:(-$:@."

*Translation - "Obviously."*