Chapter 5 (2/2)

“You'll be surprised by h he was astonished

“This is the first tia? Doesn't it feel real?”

“Well, I'h it htin order to advance the game

Root Town

Chaos Gate

Member Address

Spell

Area Word

Attribute

Dungeon

Field

Treasure Chest

All this in addition to many others

He spoke after he finished his brief explanation

“Well then, shall we go on an adventure? I found a good area”

The place where Orca took me was an area that looked like a cloudy plain

“So, what is the purpose of this game?” I asked

“Its purpose?”

“Like, do we defeat the devil, collect soreat question,” Orca said as he walked in front of me

“There is no purpose”

“No purpose?”

“There is no purpose as prescribed by the circuame It's up to each player to find their own purpose Maybe they devote the their level, or they seek out rare items, or they make friends and collect member addresses”

“H, I thought tolike ‘this is your purpose' got displayed with a bang at the beginning of a game, like in GIGA

“If you want to learn ame, you should read the BBS If you can't find the information you want, just post a question and so around the field, I encountered an effect likecircles and they seemed to be a representation of where monsters and treasure chests appear

As we oblins or so his sword and they fell down in an instant and disappeared

When I asked him, he told me that Orca was at level 50 I didn't understand the specifics of attributes, but I understood that it esome

“You destroyed them all”

“Well, I'm too powerful here,” replied Orca with a tone mixed with embarrasseon and entered it At the end of the dungeon there was useful, highly rare equipaeon

I beat the monsters, opened a treasure chests, went down the stairs and arrived at a T-junction

Then soe happened Two shadows juht, passed by us and disappeared to the left It happened in a blink of an eye

“What was that? Did you see that just now?” Orca said with a tone of bewildere monster…”

“Is this some sort of event?” I asked Orca shook his head

“No… I didn't think there was anything like this in this area…”

White noise unexpectedly flashed on the screen The FMD's screen became distorted, accoed The view of the dungeon we'd been in until then faded away and ere now standing in the midst of a desolate rocky place

We were surrounded by what sees The sky was an eerie rust color as though it was indicating an i cataclysm

It was a place which should not exist, but was a place which could not be reot from this place

“Orca? What is…”

Orca interruptedhis hand

“Shh…”

The expression on his face was deathly serious

Just then, a purple effect flashed across the ground several irl appeared from the center of the effect

I suddenly lost irl was so pale, she looked frail

She did not seeely vivid

It's as if she was really alive

The girl was s It was a smile like the one I made when I was relieved to meet with Orca

Orca approached her

“Or… was the ruirl said in a thin voice She then presented a big black book to Orca

Her gesture reminded me of how a parent bird leans over its chicks to feed theh perplexed

“There's no tireat force The power it holds can bring forth either salvation or destruction at the whiirl turned away After she looked at the sky as if she was seeing past it, she spoke in a voice as though she were losing her voice

“It's coure disappeared as though she were being erased

“So? What the hell-”

When Orca spoke, I saw it

A distortion appeared behind us and soh the distortion

The moment it appeared, I felt the hairs all over ameas the giant Orca

There were no eyes on its face, just three dots arranged in the shape of an inverted triangle

Its appearance was like that of a child's drawings and its body was like building blocks

However, there was nothing a about it It just looked horribly fiendish

It was a strange sight to behold

All of the evils of the world were condensed into its body A “God of death” hat cauard, but Orca was much faster to respond to hi his sword as he said that, but no dae was done Only the word “MISS” was displayed

Instead, the thing e It didn't look as though the ht voice

“What the hell? What is this…? So works!”

The esture It used soic attack

A mysterious effect entwined Orca's body and disappeared

As I watched this, Orca floated up in the air

Before I kneas happening, the monster's staff appeared behind Orca and was affixed to the staff as if he were being crucified

Then the monster also floated up in the sky and extended its left hand towards Orca

Soy was released fro Orca's PC body

Orca fell in front of me He tried to push himself back up with his hands once, but he fell down as if he had lost all his strength

“Orca!” I shouted

The back of e unreal sense ca? Wasn't this just a ga pohich I quickly took a liking to As a newbie, I was both shock and excited by this

When Orca lifted his face and looked at hts were not suitable for this occasion Even though it should only be an aniame, an dark expression like a look of death appeared on Orca's face

“No… I… It… it wasn't supposed to be this way I'roaned

“Get out of here!”

As he finished speaking, Orca ‘s PC body disappeared

After that, only the monster and I were left

The monster turned to me and lifted his hand as he did to Orca

Then it happened So fell froround, it stirred up a dust-like effect

The monster lowered its hand in puzzlement and moved backwards

An effect became entwined with my body and seemed to shi+ne I beca