What do you think happens when Peak Experts or Legendary NPC’s come out of their hiding place? Of course, the monsters in the field zones will go back to their homes and go into hiding. The players who were out on a hunt suddenly were perplexed. They could not find monsters in the field zones the whole day.
The players who were unsatisfied started ranting in the forums and they were not alone. Numerous Field zones had no monsters in it which led them sending a bug inquiry to Atlas Headquarters but the only response they got was that it was no bug. The players then speculated it had to do with the world message. The players assumed it was a world message but they did not know that it was in fact a Universal Message which led those monstrous NPC’s to the world of Nebulon.
The forums were buzzing and such because of what happened. Adrian also saw it after he was forced to log out of the game due to him exceeding the log-in limit. He was happily munching on his food when there was emergency news on the PandemoNews regarding the world message and field zone monster disappearance. Adrian activated the projector option of his Haloswatch to watch the news.
“Hello my lovely Viewers! Flash news here brought to you by your Flashy Emcee, Marylin.” The girl emcee said as she sported an outfit that was full of glitters and sequence. She really was flashy.
“According to our source the reason for the monster disappearances on field zones is that some NPC’s with staggering levels showed up. Their aura alone scared the monsters stiff on low leveled field zones such as those with monsters below level 100.” She said and gave a wink to the audience.
“As for what rank of NPC they are, we are not sure but they should be at the very least epic NPC’s since they manage to one shot one of our reporters when they tried conversing with them.” She said with glee as they played the video of a level 105 assassin being hit by just a flick of a finger and then becoming particles.
“Their sudden appearance must have been linked to the world message that we have heard since this has happened before when a world boss spawned during the early days of Pandemonium. All high leveled NPCs at the time scouted for the whereabouts of the world boss and it was given as a quest to players to subjugate it. Hopefully, it would be the same as the last time. You are watching PandemoNews Flash News!” she said while waving goodbye to the audience.
Adrian closed the projection since his mother’s eye turned sharp when he saw him actually not paying close attention to his food. The only reason that his mother’s slipper is not flying towards his face is because he was currently injured and recuperating. If he was fine then that slipper would have come flying a long time ago.
“It seems everybody is speculating that a world boss is spawning. It would be cool it was low leveled so I could participate.” Adrian thought to himself as he finished his food. He talked to Marlon a little bit and sent him the gold coins that was his share before going to sleep.
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The next day, Adrian logged back in and summoned his soulbounds then proceeded to cuddle them as he missed them. He was forcefully logged out when he reached Ascalor’s abode which he complained a lot by the way. Still now that he was here he might as well go inside the place since he was being expected.
Adrian was granted passage by the guards when he reintroduced himself to them. They were shocked at first but immediately let him pass since they were familiar with his wolf companion and the elder instructed them to let him in. The guards told him that the elder would be in the courtyard at this time of day so Adrian headed there immediately. .
Adrian along with his soulbounds saw Ascalor as he signaled them to come close to the latter. When they came close, it felt like they entered a transparent film of some sort. Adrian was about to ask Ascalor what that was but he told Adrian the answer to his worries.
“You have entered the barrier that I just made since we do not want the surrounding to get messed up which is why I created a separate space just for this.” Ascalor said.
“For what?” Adrian asked.
“No more dilly dallying and get ready. Hit me!” Ascalor commanded.
“Excuse me?” Adrian was dumbstruck.
“Hit me!” Ascalor said.
“Can you keep up?! Bab…ouch” Adrian started singing when he was hit on the head by Ascalor.
“Why did you suddenly start singing?! Did I not tell you that I would test your new body’s capabilities?” Ascalor asked in an angry tone.
“I thought you were joking so I just went with the flow.” Adrian said with pure innocent eyes that Ascalor could not take as the latter averted his gaze.
“If you wanted to be hit so badly old man then do not blame me for being disrespectful!” Adrian teased although deep down, he did not actually mean it.
Adrian’s aloof character suddenly changed and became fierce. Adrian knew that Ascalor was telling him to hit him so that he could have a good grasp of his abilities before actually going to the actual combat. Adrian enlarged his gauntlets and aimed to punch Ascalor but he was not able to as about a two meters his body was repelled by an unknown force.
Ascalor’s eyes change for a second because the attack of the kid in front of him bypassed some of the barriers he put up. Granted that he set the strength of the barrier to match the kid’s level but bypassing the barriers was insane. Ascalor had to reinforce the barrier ten feet in front of him to repel the kid’s attack.
“It seems his body has a special property in which he ignores magic. Interesting.” Ascalor said as he continued to observe the changes in Adrian’s body.
Adrian on the other hand started attacking recklessly without using magic since he saw Ascalor observing his physique. He tried throwing punches, claw attacks, and kicks but all were repelled. He started getting angry and it showed on his horns as the gray fire started burning vigorously. Adrian really wanted to land at least just one attack but wishes cannot always come true as he became tired a few minutes later.
“Interesting. Your body seems to bypass the natural order of the world or in other words, the world’s mana. All the barriers I made using the mana of the surroundings were not effective and I had to reinforce the barriers to successfully repel you.” Ascalor said while having his hand on his chin.
Adrian who heard this was ecstatic as there was a hidden feature to his body. He was more and more elated that he picked the Daemos race. Adrian started to laugh as he was absorbed in his own world. Ascalor who saw this frowned a little as the lad is becoming overconfident. Ascalor was about to hit Adrian’s head when the latter suddenly saying word’s.
“Fufufu. This is not even my final form.” Adrian said while making a superhero pose that made Ascalor roll his eyes.
“Brat! I am sorry that I am ruining your fantasy but what do you mean that it is not your final form?” Ascalor inquired.
“That is just it! This body is actually not my true form as the world is inhibiting it from releasing. You could say that this body is the ‘seal’ for my true form.” Adrian answered casually.
“Then how can you regain your true form and unleash it then?” Ascalor inquired once more as his interest is peaked.
“Oh. I just have to become stronger and summon my domain skill in which I could transform.” Adrian said without even batting an eye.
“I see then there is only one choice then you must get more powerful.” Ascalor said as he created a dimensional door and flung Adrian towards it and said, “Come back when you can show me your true form!”
“You crazy old man!” Adrian shouted as he was flung towards who know where while his soulbounds all followed after him in the dimensional door.
Adrian fell with a thud and realized that he was in an area that was a bit foreign to him. He then suddenly looked up and his other soulbounds followed after him and landed right on top of him which he inavertedly said, “Oof”. He instructed his soulbounds to get off him and when he managed to stand up, a scroll hit him in the head with Ascalor’s voice echoing from the dimensional door. .
“Use that to return back to the Paradox Planes as there are no dimensional fractures near there.”
Adrian took the scroll and put it in his inventory. He observed his surrounding and he could not find any living plants as they were all rotten. He looked around and all he saw were cliffs. It seems that he was in a canyon.
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