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Chapter 36: Don't be crazy!

The Game Master looked at the screen which showed Elliot standing atop Winter and striking a rather spectacular image.

He snickered lightly.

"You think everything will go EXACTLY as you remember, Elliot Musk? Where's the fun in that? Hohoho. Just for you and only in your beloved California, I will launch the apocalypse one hour earlier!

And don't even think of hiding away in that stupid wolf's lair. I will direct as many beasts as I can to your position to play with you before you can reach safety! Hahahaha!" The Game Master cackled loudly, not unlike the way Elliot cackled everytime he was about to do something sneaky or receive something game-breaking.

"Sir, wouldn't that break the fairness of the game?" His assistant asked him nervously.

"Fairness of the game? Where is the fairness in letting him do whatever he wants with his perfect knowledge of the future? Where is the fairness in making me lose my life savings if he wins because of his stupid stroke of luck in getting two of the best Diamond Sponsors in the game?

THERE IS NO FAIRNESS IN THE GAMES! It will be exactly as I, the Game Master, wills it to be. And my will this beautiful morning, is for Elliot Must to deal with not one, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE giant and extremely hungry beasts!

HA HA HA HA!!" The Game Master laughed sinisterly.

He had nothing to lose.

If he did nothing, he would be doomed by the massive debt that he had taken to place on the Adamantium Sponsor's player which would probably lose to Elliot and his ridiculous system.

If he made Elliot's life difficult, he might just do enough to make him lose a few crucial pieces and allow the Adamantium Sponsor's player to gain an edge and eventually win the competition as planned.

Then he would be rich!

And when the Gaming Commission comes knocking at his door a year hence to question him on his decisions, he would have disappeared into thin air.

Perfect.

And then just as he was about to sit back, relax and enjoy the show, an aide came running up to him.

"Game Master, the Void Walkers are asking for confirmation regarding the time and place for their Fugitive King's participation in The Games."

"Ah? Is this the universe's way of telling me that I am not doing enough? Fine then! Tell the Void Walkers that they are to send in their Fugitive King now to that player's location!" The Game Master pointed at Elliot's screen. "And tell them to do it discreetly. Nobody must know about this!"

"Yes, Game Master."

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"Huh? Why are the Beast Transports and City Bombards descending in California?" A Diamond Sponsor cried out in shock.

"What? They are not due for another hour! What's happening?"

"WHAT?!" Void Walker shot up from her sleeping position and checked her screen which was locked on to Elliot.

"WHAT'S GOING ON HERE!!" Void Walker shouted. "Hey Monkey! What's happening? Why are your beasts landing now? And why is it that only the Beast Transports designated for California are descending?"

"I have no idea." Monkey King frowned. "Only the Game Master could make such a big decision. Maybe he found that Elliot is becoming much too powerful and wanted to trim his power a little bit. But Hailey Longman, Himari Suzuki and James Antetokunpo are all powering up as well, and they are even more powerful than Elliot Musk now! Why aren't they being dealt with?"

"HEY DRAGON! IS THIS YOUR DOING?!" Void Walker yelled across the room loudly.

"No! Of course not! Do I look like the Game Master to you?" The Golden Dragon roared back.

"It doesn't seem that he has anything to do with it." Void Walker muttered. "Could it be that the Game Master really dislikes Elliot? But how could such a biased Game Master exist? The Gaming Commission is supposed to be the most impartial organization in the entire Universe…"

"The City Bombards are opening fire on the Californian cities." Monkey King said quietly.

"An hour early isn't that big a deal though." Void Walker said reassuringly to herself and to Monkey King.

"It doesn't really matter if the cities burn now or an hour later. What matters is where the Beast Transports will land. It was random last iteration, and it should be random this time as well. And that said, I really do not like the way those five Black Transports are clustered together." Monkey King said worriedly.

"Why? What are in those five transports? They look quite small to me." Void Walker immediately asked.

"Black transports are reserved for solo Legendary Beasts. And if I remember correctly, those five contain the following beasts. The Mutated Firebomber, Mutated Demonic Serpent, Mutated Gojira, Mutated Flying Scorizard, and the most fearsome of all Californian-bound beasts, The Mutated Primal Feline Warrior." Monkey King said heavily.

"Primal Feline Warrior? Isn't that…"

"Yes. That is the beast which Elliot can transform into. But made much more powerful and much crazier by the Gaming Commission's mutagens."

"How much more powerful?" Void Walker asked with a sinking feeling in her heart.

"Ha. There is no point in answering that question now. Look at the Black Transports, they are all going in the same direction. And if we plot their trajectory…" Monkey typed a few commands into his screen.

"They are all going to land on Elliot's position?!" Void Walker's jaw dropped.

"If it was just one, or even two, and if Elliot met them by chance and not by design, he might have a chance to survive with his high beast affinity. He might even turn misfortune into fortune! But with five of them and possibly all five receiving direct instructions to deal with Elliot…" Monkey King sighed deeply.

"The Game Master is cheating!" Void Walker said through gritted teeth. "Well guess what? Two can play this cheating game!"

"Void Walker, what are you thinking? Don't be crazy!" Monkey King said sternly. But even he could not help but feel a sharp surge of excitement course through his veins at Void Walker's words.


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Chapter 37: And so it came to pass...

"Do you know why we are called Void Walkers and not Time Walkers even though we do so many time-related feats?" Void Walker asked Monkey King with a mischievous glint in her eyes.

"I've always been meaning to ask you that. Void refers to space right? You guys would really be better served if you changed your name to Time Walkers." Monkey King said.

"Well the secret which is not a secret because most of the top powers already know about it, is that Void Walkers are extremely powerful with regard to… You guessed it. Space magic." Void Walker said.

"And? How are you planning to cheat? You can't travel to Planet Earth. You'll be discovered, caught and banned from the Games forever. Worse, they might even imprison you!" Monkey King said with a frown.

"Oh they won't dare to imprison me." Void Walker said airily. "But you don't have to worry about that. I am not planning to physically go there. All I need to do is to open up a tiny space between here and a few locations on Planet Earth and pass along some key information to several key parties."

"You want to tell Elliot to get ready to face them!" Understanding finally dawned in Monkey King's mind. "That's good, but… nowhere good enough. Knowing a meteor would fall upon you five minutes beforehand won't save you. Well… It would in your case because you're a Void Walker… But he's not like you."

"Of course my plan is not just to inform Elliot, silly. I WILL do that as well of course.' Void Walker said patiently while thinking "Damn the Monkey is right. I need to tell Elliot as well. Haha."

"My plan is for YOU to tell your assets there to activate and move out to save him!" Void Walker said while looking at Monkey King slyly.

"Wha-what? What assets? Hahaha I don't know what you're talking about?" Monkey King laughed awkwardly.

"You don't have to lie to me, Monkey! I know that the Great Sage is one of your assets! That's why you were so affected when he died. And knowing you, it is impossible for you to only have one asset in one place. There must be another, or even a few more assets as back up!" Void Walker glared at Monkey King.

"Well…" Monkey King scratched his head.

"There! You're scratching your head! That's an admission of guilt! HA!" Void Walker proclaimed triumphantly.

"Alright, alright. You win. I still have two more assets there." Monkey King admitted grudgingly.

"That's great! Two assets!" Void Walker said happily. "Don't worry about the assets, Monkey. Think about your bet! If Elliot wins, you can plant a million assets on Planet Earth if you want to! And aren't assets meant to be used in critical situations such as this anyway?"

"Fine! Fine! You win. Let's do this then." Monkey King finally threw his hands up in surrender and agreed.

"Good. Come follow me. We'll tell the rest that we want to lodge a complaint to the Game Master." Void Walker said.

Monkey King nodded and followed Void Walker who was shouting, "THIS IS INTOLERABLE! WE'RE COMPLAINING TO THE GAME MASTER!"

"Y-Yeah! We are going to complain! Complain very seriously!" Monkey King added before he dashed out of the VIP room.

*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

"Girls, wake up." Elliot shook them lightly.

"Huh? Have we arrived?" Jessica yawned and rubbed her eyes.

"Brother? Why is the sky on fire?" Jennifer frowned and asked.

"HUH? What's going on?" Jessica asked in shock.

"Remember how I told you the aliens would come and destroy the cities and unleash the beasts? Well, that's happening now." Elliot said carefully.

"Oh. The apocalypse. Okay." Jennifer nodded and yawned while she stretched.

"Oooo ok." Jessica said as she stretched as well. "Ugh, I miss my bed. No offence Winter, but your back isn't meant for humans to sleep on."

"None taken." Winter chuckled.

"She said no offence taken. But you owe her a bunny rabbit for dinner tonight." Jennifer conveyed.

"Okay. And I don't believe you about the bunny rabbit." Jessica replied and saw through Jennifer's schemes easily.

"Er… You girls aren't afraid?" Elliot asked them while feeling pleasantly surprised.

"Of course… NOT! Haha! We have you and your beasts. We're going to a safe place. We'll be fine, right?" Jessica said with a smile.

"Of course we'll be fine!" Elliot immediately replied.

"Don't worry brother. We're totally fine. In fact, this might sound a little bit crazy, but I'm even feeling slightly…" Jennifer said.

"Excited!" Jessica finished her sentence.

"That's right. Hee hee." Jennifer giggled.

"Good. Very good!" Elliot nodded approvingly. "We-"

Suddenly, a soft voice sounded near him.

"Elliot Musk! Five legendary beasts are attacking you. Head to your west and make your stand in the cave over there!"

"What? Who's there!" Elliot shouted in shock.

"We are friends. Go to the cave! We will reinforce you."

"What do you mean?" Elliot asked with a frown.

But the voice had disappeared without a trace.

"Fi-five legendary beasts? That sounds quite bad." Jessica gulped nervously.

"Winter, head west. Let's see if there's really a cave there." Elliot said, his brows furrowing deeply. But he did not detect any killing intent in the voice, so he was willing to follow up on her information just to take a look. And if her words happen to be true… Then a cave would really be a great place to make a stand.

"Yes Master." Winter immediately turned to her right and ran at her top speed.

As she was running, the sky that was burning up suddenly released countless giant beams of blindingly bright energy.

"Girls, close your eyes and bury your heads in Winter's back! NOW!" Elliot shouted as he did the same as well. "Winter, hide your head and stop for a minute until the beam passes!"

Winter immediately did as she was told and curled up by a large rock.

BRRRRRRRR!! BRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! BRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!

The ground began to rumble and shake powerfully as the horrifyingly powerful energy beams impacted California's cities with highly precise power, perfectly designed and calibrated to vaporize surface structures and life forms while leaving the Earth's inner crust and core untouched.

Step 1 of the alien's course of action in preparing a Game World, City-Levelling, had begun in earnest in the State of California.

As Elliot sat still and waited for the massacre of California to end, he couldn't help but a searing, white hot rage for the aliens to build up within him.


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