Seven
"Come on, let's take on the ultimate Boss together," the steadiness in Abraham's voice brought me a moment's peace.
I nodded my acknowledgment and inhaled deeply. "Alright, I'm prepared. Victory will be mine, and I'll escape this accursed game world!"
"The final coordinates indicate that the Boss is beneath the Red Shield Bar," Abraham informed.
I followed him into a dimly lit corridor underneath the bar, the walls adorned with faintly burning torches.
"Be cautious, we're about to encounter the Boss," Abraham cautioned.
I gave a silent nod, fighting to keep my nerves in check.
We traversed the corridor and emerged into a capacious underground square.
This was an entirely sealed chamber, with no doors or windows to be seen.
"Here it comes!" Abraham cried out all of a sudden.
I looked up to see the center of the square's ground gently descending, revealing a colossal shadow rising slowly from below.
A creature of obsidian hue with six tentacles unfurled before us!
Sparks of violet electricity crackled over its form, its solitary eye fixated on us, exuding an aura of profound terror!
With impeccable synchrony, Abraham and I manoeuvred apart, poised for battle.
Drawing my electromagnetic spring laser knife, I charged at the behemoth.
The tentacles lashed out wildly; I dodged with agility, scaling the creature's neck.
I targeted the abyss-like eye and plunged my blade into it!
With a piercing roar, the beast flailed, its head rearing back; I scrambled away just in time to evade its furious counterattack.
Meanwhile, Abraham activated his wrist-mounted holographic projection screen:
"Hurry and think! In 60 seconds, mouths will sprout all over its body, pulling everything into a mass vacuum that will engulf our entire vicinity."
What? Only a minute to spare?
With my mind racing, I launched into a frenzied assault, slashing at the creature's body amidst its tempest of tentacle strikes!
Half a minute had already slipped by.
I had managed to sever a tentacle without seeing any other sign of progress.
"There's only thirty seconds left! Push harder!" Abraham urged with desperation.
With teeth gritted, I searched for any flaw amidst the onslaught of the raging beast.
Fifteen seconds remained when inspiration struck me—I leveraged the momentum of the beast's assault to catapult upward, honing in on a fissure where its neck joined the torso and delivering a devastating strike!
"Crash!" Accompanied by a resounding boom, I cleaved through the hide of the monster, sending scarlet lifeblood spraying! With a heart-wrenching bellow, it began to fracture and rupture!
"We've prevailed!" I exclaimed triumphantly, exchanging a celebratory high-five with Abraham.
Before our eyes, the monster's form shattered into shimmering stardust, dissolving into the ether.
Eight
"That's fantastic, we've vanquished it!" exclaimed Abraham, his face alight with exhilaration.
At that moment, a profound tremor began to permeate the subterranean chamber.
A wave of vertigo washed over me, my head spinning and my limbs unsteady.
"The exit's opening; we need to get out now!" Abraham clutched my hand, and we sprinted towards a large door at the far end of the plaza.
A tide of emotion swelled within me—I was on the brink of escaping this nightmarish ordeal!
We burst through the plaza and into a colossal chamber outside the bar's back entrance, a sight entirely new to my eyes.
It was akin to a ring-shaped dock, lined with an array of bizarrely designed flying vessels.
"Have we returned to the long-awaited real world?" I gasped in astonishment.
"No, we are still within the confines of the game," Abraham clarified, "Defeating the Boss may have simply catapulted us into the next chapter. Our quest must continue, deeper into the virtual labyrinth, in search of a path back to tangible reality."
With that, he ushered me aboard a sleek silver spacecraft named "Zhen."
The Zhen came to life and joined its fellow craft, gliding away from the dock and into the starless void of space.
"We'll keep navigating by the script's compass," Abraham advised me.
I watched, spellbound, through the viewport as we made our way through an immense galactic passage.
The corridor's walls pulsed with rhythmic bands of light, evoking a tableau straight out of a sci-fi tableau.
"Could this splendor be the Milky Way? The spectacle is breathtaking!" I couldn't help but be enamored.
"Our precise whereabouts are uncertain, yet the environmental readouts indicate we're traversing a construct akin to a virtual galaxy," Abraham imparted.
After about fifteen minutes of travel, our ship decelerated and began the process of docking with the colossal space station's port.
"Attention all passengers: prepare for imminent boarding and security checks."
The ship's intercom crackled with the sterile voice of an automated attendant. Abraham and I joined the procession to the exit, aligning with a diverse queue of “passengers”—a mix of human and curious alien forms.
We swiftly approached a chamber bathed in sterile white light.
A line of humanoid robots, garbed in white and void of expression, stood sentinel.
The foremost extended its palms toward my forehead—
"Remain still for the safety scan."
A thin beam of azure light pierced my gaze, a tide of dizziness ensuing.
The sensation was akin to an invisible intruder rifling through my mind’s private chambers...
Continue Reading
Click Here: Saluting the Journey to a New Life (Sci-Fi) 9 and 10
Comments
Post a Comment