50 Fireworks (1/2)

When Joshua woke up, he found himself in the rune lab he had created in his soul world. He managed to stand up with great difficulty and almost fell over in the process.

'Damn it, I'm really low on energy...' he thought.

”Luna, give me a status report!” he ordered.

[hrtgetrfgg….. SYSTEM ... jojzofzjrojoj …. ERROR … zjrpjegjgmmrz]

”Great … Catherine, can you hear me?”

Unfortunately, he received no response. He felt the dire need to make a really dumb joke, yet it was useless without an audience. Naturally, there could only be one reason behind such interference: the little monster.

'At least Catherine should have escaped the nightmare, she'll be fine for now.'

Joshua was still terrified of that creature and he would really like to avoid a confrontation with it. However, after everything Catherine had done to help him, if he just crawled up inside this room and hide like a coward, he would betray the trust she had placed in him. And he was done disappointing his goddess.

He looked at the door leading outside, he was sure it was there waiting for him to come out. Of course, he wouldn't rush blindly either without a plan. He turned his attention to the terminal he used to program runes. Luna might not function properly at the moment, but he could still enter basic emergency commands to perform a health check of the hardware located in his soul world.

The results were rather grim, apart from the terminal inside his lab, his entire soul world had been contaminated by an unknown virus and was unusable.

'And that's why you never let your antivirus trial expire,' he thought sarcastically.

As for his energy reserve, there was barely enough left for him to move around and not much else. Whatever he decided to do, he would have to work with the items inside the lab.

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As soon as Catherine opened the door, a disgusting black liquid began pouring through it. She was at a safe distance thanks to the pole, so she had time to react. Instantly, she froze the goo that tried to enter her world and blocked the entrance with a thick ice wall. The invasion of the strange liquid was stopped net in its tracks but there was no time to enjoy this small victory, Joshua's world was falling apart!

Catherine bit her lip, she tried to connect to Luna but only got some weird static noise as a reply. There was no other way around it if she wanted to reach Joshua, she would have to traverse through that weird goo.

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Almost trembling, Joshua opened the door leading outside. What awaited him was one of the most bizarre landscapes he had ever seen. 'A sea of darkness' is the term that came to his mind. Indeed, his entire world was covered in a weird black goo. The liquid was about a meter high and was slowly rising. The bizarre substance was also covering the various pieces of hardware that were present in his world. No wonder nothing was working.

And yet, despite all of this, Joshua had calmed down as soon as he stepped outside. He was standing on a lone island of hope. He saw that the goo was blocked by some sort of barrier that had formed around his lab. Even more important was the magnificent statue of his goddess that was standing in front of him. Instinctively, he knelt in front of it and put his hands in a praying position.

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'Thank you for watching over this last bit of my soul. I vow to you I won't let it be in vain.'