Armageddon (eBook)

No More Games

Stanley Yu (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018 | 1. Auflage
44 Seiten
Stanley (Verlag)
661000010424-6 (EAN)

Infos

If you liked Overlord, and Re-Creators - this book is for you.
In the year 2134, a famous VROMMORPG Armageddon announced that it will shut down its servers after 20 years of service. Kit Devlin, an avid fan and player of the game decides to remain until the game servers shut down before the midnight of
January 01, 2135. However, his normal average life turned extraordinary when he discovered he can use his in-game powers in real life. The game he loved may be gone but his adventure continues and becomes an unlikely hero for his city.

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CHAPTER 1

ALL THINGS COMES TO AN END

 

New Year’s Eve. A few more hours before the year ends and a new one starts. It is one of the holidays observed and celebrated by many people of all ages around the world. People welcomes the upcoming New Year by preparing food, wear new clothes, fill their pockets with change, drinking, and merry making. It is also one of the busiest day of the year.

Many establishments take advantage of this celebration by putting items on sale or giving discounted services. The City of Silencio has been celebrating the ending of the year by inviting the people from all over to the Nyte square in the Nyte district, the busiest district of the city. The city provide numerous entertainment like bands, street performances, contests and many more getting people in a festive mood while waiting for the countdown. Business establishments around the square provide refreshments and food trying to earn a little more.

However, not everyone celebrates the coming of the New Year. One individual like Kit Devlin prefers to stay home and play his VR game. The game he currently plays is coming to an end once the clock strikes twelve. The developers of Armageddon; VRSoft has announced that the game is shutting down after 20 years of service before the midnight of January 01, 2135. Kit as an avid fan has been playing the game since launch and wishes to stay until its final moments.

Beautiful crystalline chandeliers suspended from the ceiling, adorned with dark colored crystals of black, purple, red, and blue radiating eerie and creepy light down the throne room; the room’s only light source. Blood red and black carpet laid out at the center. Skulls and bones decorated both sides of the walls.

And in the middle are two figures engaging in a fierce exchange of skills and spells. One of the figure is a thirty meter tall monster NPC called Megiddo, the game’s final boss. Clad in black armor with red lava streaks running vertically. Carved into the chest armor is a face of a demon with eyes glowing red.

Below it are faulds made from human skulls. Armored leggings and spiked greaves protects the thigh and legs. Above the armor is a steel black helmet covering the whole face with only a horizontal slit for the eyes.

Protruding the helmet are three pairs of horns. Two horns situated on the temples are bent forward, the pair above the temples are bent up-front while the last pair which are located above the nape are also bent forward.

A pair of arm long clawed gauntlets are the preferred weapon of the monster. Each gauntlet has four blades, one for each knuckle; in addition, a curved blade is attached on its posterior. On its back are a pair of flame wings with the shape of dragon heads and can attack on their own.

The other is small 190 cm tall warrior. Wearing a black armor but, not as menacing as Megiddo’s. Streams of gold outline that are supposedly muscles on the upper armor.

Pair of winged pauldrons covers the shoulders. Pointed finger arm gauntlets with three claws on the other end of the gauntlet serving as elbow protection. On the waist are faulds made from dark red dragon scales. Plate Leggings with knee cops and wing decoration on the calves covers the lower half of the body. A wing like mask covers the whole face on top of the helmet with a ponytail at the back.

However, this is not a proper armor. This is a customized costume created by Kit. In Armageddon, costumes can be customized or created from scratch using materials obtained in-game or cash shop.

NOBODY; Kit Devlin’s avatar, fought swiftly and cautiously around the big towering monster. However, no matter how many skills and spells he used, the monster seems unfazed by the attacks. Its HP is around 75% full. Kit has been going at it for the past 45 minutes and his efforts seems to be going nowhere.

Fireball Barrage EX.

“C’mon, eat more damage, damn monster.” Kit shouted while firing multiple fireballs.

Dealt total 70,154 fire damage to Megiddo.

Class Switch: Kage
Swift Wind

Using a hit and run tactic, evading, jumping, dashing around, and attacking are the best way to deal with the monster. Or so he thought. Kit has viewed a dozen or so videos in a video sharing platform “StreamTube” before, players soloing Megiddo and winning. However, those videos made it look easy. He even used the same strategies as those who defeated Megiddo, but he is not getting the same results.

“I need a better strategy than this.” Kit thought to himself.

While trying to come up with a better solution, he was hit with a back hand punch by the monster. He flew across the throne room and rolled on the floor a few times before coming to a complete stop.

Received 179,301 critical melee damage from Megiddo.

Kit quickly got up and popped an HP potion.

Restored 209,790 HP from HP potion EX.
      HP: 250,000/250,000 MP: 63,320/150,000

Kit let out a sigh of relief after reading the Battle System Report on the lower left chat box.

“Getting distracted is not gonna help me either. That last attack took more than half of my HP.”

Kit focused himself anticipating Megiddo’s next attack. Following up with its earlier attack. The twin flaming dragon wings on the back of Megiddo opened their mouth and spit out a large flame AOE attack.

“SHIT!”

Kawarimi

The flames swallowed Kit but after the flame and smoke cleared, only a burnt log remained on the floor then crumbled into ashes.

Special Ninja Technique: Cross Slash Explosion EX

Appearing a few meters above Megiddo. Kit unleashes a powerful ninja attack. Slashing from multiple directions leaving a trail of light: above, below, right, left, diagonal, front, and back. The attack ended with explosions from the light trails.

Dealt total 90,459 critical melee damage to Megiddo.
      Skill useable in 297 seconds.

“Tsk, if I can only use my strongest skills consecutively.” complained Kit while checking the cool down of his other skills.

With just a loud roar, Megiddo dispersed the smoke around it. The gleam of the monster’s eyes grew larger and brighter followed with red electricity sparkling on the horns.

“Wait! What?! This is too early. It should not use its Soul Blaze this early. It’s HP is still 74% full.” Kit panicked while checking the monster’s life bar.

According to the players who faced Megiddo. The monster usually use its Soul Blaze when its HP is below 40%. He has not heard from anyone that the monster using its Soul Blaze above 50% HP.

“Did the developers ninja update Megiddo’s settings? I did not see anything of the sort from the recent and previous patch notes.” wondered Kit.”

Megiddo spread its arms, palms facing up as if welcoming something. A beam of red light shone down enveloping Megiddo. The horns grew larger as more electricity sparkled around its body and ran wild.

“Guh! No choice. It’s do or die then”

Ring of Kronos: Time Delay

Time slowed down while Kit still moved in real time.

Class Switch: Grand Knight
      Sword of Archangel Michael: Soul Blaze Activate!

Kit used both hands and grab something in front of him. A sword hilt appeared from his hands and started to form a sword. A beautiful three foot pure white sword with wings as hand guards, each wing has a span of eight inches. Bright white light shone down on Kit, then he cast various buffs on himself.

Ring of Gemini: Double Damage
Ring of Herakles: Increase Strength
Mana Blast potion EX
Monstrous Strength potion EX
Rage potion EX
Overload potion EX
Elemental Boost potion EX
Berserk Potion EX
Knight’s Discipline EX
Steel Concentration EX
Mana Rage EX
Knight’s Valor EX
Pierce EX
Knight’s Pride EX
Mana Potion EX
Mana Convert EX
King of Soul potion EX

”These are all the best potions and instant cast skills I have. I hope these are enough.” thought Kit.

Shining bright like the sun, the sword’s blade become light itself and illuminated the dark throne room. Kit held the sword above his head ready to strike. He then switched his attention to Megiddo who also finished casting its Soul Blaze. The pillars of light shining on them shrunk in then disappeared. Time restored and moving back in real time.

Roaring with all its might, Megiddo’s horns let out a beam as large as the monster enveloped in red electricity.

Soul Blaze Release: Divine Fury

The winged hand guards of the sword turned up unlocking the full power of the sword. Kit swing the sword downward releasing a bright white beam three times larger than the wielder. The two beams crashed at each other with intense force that the entire room whited out.

“Did I fail?” Kit looking around the all-white space.

Lost and confused, he searched around looking for any clue of what happened. A few seconds later, the pure white back ground started to fade and reveal the throne room in full illuminated view. Megiddo is nowhere to be found.

CONGRATULATIONS! MEGIDDO HAS BEEN DEFEATED!

“YES! YES! YES! I’VE DONE...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen