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Chapter 9: Interlude:- A Friend

Hello dear readers! I am not dead nor have I abandoned this fic! It's just that I have been thinking about many different ways this story could go and stuff.

Also, some things came up in real life, and had to deal with that stuff(It was so boring!). I apologize to you all for saying "I will be uploading soon." and only doing so today.

I also wonder what NPC Momanga should make since the MC will be with him in the final days of Yggdrasil and Momanga won't be alone like he originally was. 

Again sorry for not uploading and I hope you all enjoy these chapters!

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//Suzuki Satoru//

"How dare you forget to finish the report! Do you have a brain? I knew I shouldn't have trusted you, I was an idiot to trust you!"

"Please forgive me, sir! I have a family--"

"I don't care what you have! I care about the work you should have done!"

"Please, sir it--"

"I don't want to hear your excuses. You're fired"

"No! Sir Please (*SOB*) I am the only working member of my family and if I get fired we all will--"

"Are you deaf? YOU.ARE.FIRED. Now get out before I call security! And Suzuki Satoru complete this project files by this coming Saturday or else.... "

"Yes sir!"

"Hmph."

*SOB*SOB*

"This good-for-nothing is still here."

The young man at his edge charged at his superior aiming to throw them both out of the building.

But before he could reach the executive a turret appeared from the roof and shot him in his head.

*SPLAT*

The guy's brain matter exploded in all directions, but no one showed any reaction everyone had gotten used to this, they had seen the cruelty of this world since birth.

"Call the cleanup crew, you are all dismissed other than Igarashi Rei who will stay here and find out the location of this brat's parents.

The corporation will deal with them."

Everyone quietly got up and left the office feeling slight happiness about the early leave.

Some friends started chatting with each other but a few of them remained alone going back to their apartments.

The roads to their homes were littered with trash, dead bodies of orphans, and some unlucky people who had their respirators damaged or stolen.

Occasionally Satoru even saw people suffocating to death in front of him.

On the narrow roads where the dead bodies of orphans and people rotted away, one could even if one looked up, only see rows and rows of systematically placed skyscrapers blocking the sky further intensifying the feeling of being trapped in an endless cycle of being exploited.

The employees were unfazed by the situation, accepting their sorry existence and continuing. Upon seeing this, Suzukis sighed and went his way.

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//TIME SKIP:- 1HOUR//

 Suzuki Satoru returned to his small house, which he had inherited from his mother after her death.

It was the reason he didn't make any friends, if they somehow found out they would have killed him for it.

This was the harsh reality of a world where trust was a luxury. One moment, someone could be sharing laughter with you; the next, they could attack you without a hint of remorse.

This was the harsh reality of a world where trust was a luxury. One moment, someone could be sharing laughter with you, and the next, they could attack you without a hint of remorse.

*CLOSES THE DOOR*

'But would be nice to have someone to talk to. Who am I kidding no one would like to be friends with me.'

He looked at his room's current run-down condition. The trash was piled up in a corner, the dirty dishes were left in the sink, and bottles of alcohol and books were sprawled on the ground.

At his work corner, he saw stacks and stacks of papers, charts, etc thrown about.

He didn't even want to think about the extra work he had today.

*SIGH*

'Guess today's cleaning day.'

With a heavy sigh, he went ahead and got in his dirty clothes, equipped his worn-out clothes and gloves, and started cleaning.

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//TIME SKIP:- 2HOUR//

'Finally done.

His house was completely cleaned, and the previous dirty rooms were completely cleaned and shining. '

'Now I can finally bathe. God, I am so tired.'

He took a very light shower as he didn't want his water bill to rise after drying himself and changing into more cozy clothes opened the fridge and saw it was empty.

With a groan, he began his food search, and after 15 minutes he found a pack of soon-to-expire cookies and called it a day.

He sat down on his couch turned on his tiny old T.V. and started eating while watching the news.

[BREAKING NEWS! The CEO of Rayne Corporation, Takahashi Osamu has invested 500,000--]

[The survival of humanity is looking bleak as the number of natural disasters is continuously in...]

[....Try the new food Purifier it's only 100...]

[The enigmatic game Yggdrasil continues to attract new players all over the world as many popular Z-Tubera and celebrities alike continue to join in from all over the world. This game has taken the world by storm. What are its mysteries find out.....]

Hearing this, after some thought got up and went to his gaming room.

It looked completely different compared to the rest of his house and was his pride.

The room was unlike the rest of his house, it was made out of a higher-quality metal/ concrete hybrid and was decorated with expensive blue neon LED lights.

The room was mostly dark making it look like a cinema hall.

He liked it but he also often slipped or ran into something there. Not to mention the whole place was extremely hard to clean. He turned on his DMVR headset.

After making sure everything was alright he got inside his DMVR and said aloud "Link Start."

He felt his mind leave his body become detached from reality and enter a whole new world.

Tempiroaly free from his harsh reality Suzuki Satoru ignored his news subscriptions and other notifications and found that attention-grabbing logo of Yggdrasil.

As soon as he found it he clicked it and saw a familiar notification greeting him.

{WELCOME TO YGGDRASIL!}

{In this new update following a--}

"[Skip]"

{>>>>>>>>>>>>>}

Satoru or more importantly Momanga felt his mind enter the body of his character leaving him stunned for a second after which his mind connected with his character. Clasping his familiar skeletal hand he reflected on its creation.

His character a skeletal magic caster reflected the life he had lived till this point, always filled with sorrow and death everywhere.

His mother died while cooking his favorite dish when he was young, he remembered how confused he was then.

His father whose face he didn't even know left his mother and him before he was born. Never receiving the love of a father. Lacking social skills and friends didn't help. Only having elementary level education.

This character represented his suffering through his life and his desire for everything to be fixes magically.

He opened and closed his hand a few times before looking around and recognizing his surroundings, he was inside a cave covered with moss and unknown glowing plants.

There was a skull statue made out of stone with some cracks, lit with a blue flame in front of him which he knew was a respawn point he had luckily found.

Making sure he was safe he opened his status.

======//------STATUS-------//=======

Name:- Momanga

Level:- 16

Race:- Skeletal Mage

Title:- None

Job:- None

Residence:- Necrotic Cave

Alignment:- Evil (Karma Value: -50)

Job Level:- [Necromancer]------(1/15)

Racial Class:- [Skeletal Mage]------( 15/15)

HP:- 100/100

MP:- 16/16

PHY.ATK:- 3

PHY.DEF:- 2

MG.ATK:- 15

MG.DEF:- 3

Resist:- 15(resistance against debuffs or negative status effects)

Special:- 3

Total level:- [Racial Level] + [Job Level]= [16/100]

 15 + 1 = 16

=========//-------END-------//========

After seeing he had no points to assign he

opened the Gacha and tried his luck and he was fortunate enough to get a [Top] rank item.

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{[Karatact's Robes]}

{Rank:- Top} (Torn apart)

 {Effects:- Increases the regeneration speed of both [Mana] and [HP] by 5%. It also decreases the amount of damage received from fire spells resistant to [Burn] debuff by 10%.} 

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He was pleasently suprised and immeadiatly equipted it.

The robes looked like standard mage robes there was a red gemstone imbedded in the centre and was torn apart from varioous places but was still beter than being naked like he previously was.

He then equipped his [Heritic Wand] which was another [High] rank item he had gotten which increased his spell damage and decrease casting time.

After organising his inventory he stepped outside.

Momaga was then greeted with the familiar sight of [Niflheim]'s cold and barren land, which resonated with his melancholic mood.

He and seen a new event was happening in [Asguard] and decided to travel there. On his way, he ran into some monsters he defeated with difficulty.

But sadly it wasn't enough for him to level up.

When he reached the World Bridge he immediately selected [Asguard] as his destination and was teleported there.

It was his first time traveling to another realm and he was surprised by how different the environment looked and felt.

But he was jolted awake when a humanoid player slammed past him, he was surprised by this disrespect and would have voiced out his thoughts if he didn't notice the hostile/predotary glares he was getting from other players.

He quickly made his way to the NPCs and was about to sell his loot but he was surprised to see that the NPCs were selling him at higher prices and buying from him at lower prices. 

He was confused but then understood what the game meant when it said {Not recommended for Heteromorphic races.}

'But why does everyone look at me like that? I know my skeleton avatar looks a bit scary but it isn't that bad to make everyone stare at me like that?'

He didn't know that everyone was thinking about ways to spawn camp him so they could get rare job classes.

Once the news about Heteromorph killing went viral every humanoid player wanted to get a medium or even a potential rare job class, the problem was that going to heteromorphic realms restricted them, and the environment there made it impossible for humanoid players to hunt there.

In such conditions seeing a heteromorphic player was like finding a walking treasure, another plus was the fact that killing Heteromorphic players didn't have a penalty.

This made them think that they were doing a noble deed.

{You have left the SAFE ZONE}

Back to Momanga, he was trying to ignore all the creepy stares he was getting and instead debated if he should sell his drops at such low prices when a group of 6 humanoid players suddenly surrounded him.

{[ShadeY21(18)]:-"Hey freak! Give me all your valuables and maybe I will let you live."}

"Sir why are y--"

{"I didn't tell you to start yappin'! I said give me your item!"}

"Bu--"

{[DavidDGreat(17)]:- Boss it looks like he doesn't want peace.}

"Wait jus---"

{[ShadeY21(18)]:- Take this then! [Txis Sm--

"[Barrage]"

As the player was about to attack him a number of cuts appeared on their bodies and before anyone knew it all of them were dead.

A man dressed in a black and high level looking outfit appeared in front of him, his back faced him as his cape fluttered in the wind.

It was then that Momanga saw his name [-Nix_Ashborn(35)-] and deduced he probably wasn't Japanese.

But he was more suprised by Nix's absurdly high level. Nix turned towards him and his eyes seemed to glow with deathly bright blue flames.

'Even his arcane eye look cool and by the looks of things he spent a lot of money and time on his character customization.'

But Momanga also felt fear because he knew if Nix wanted to kill him he knew he would be dead in a heartbeat.

Nix collected all the items dropped, and casually walked towards Momanga.

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Are you alright Momanga-kun?}

{[Momanga(16)]:- Yes I am. Thank you but why did you save me a player you don't even know?}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(30)]:- Hmm, because I felt that it was the right thing to do. Killing someone just because of their character appearance is just plain stupid.}

{[Momanga(16)]:- But I am not able to repay you. I am just a low level newbie player.}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(30)]:- O but you will. I am not asking for a lot.]}

'I should have known no one would just save someonw like me for no reason.Please be something reasonable.'

{[Momanga(16)]:- What do I have to do Nix-san?}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(30)]:- Be my friend.}

{The player [-Nix_Ashborn(36)-] has sent you a friend request. Will you accept?}

{[Y/N]}

"Huh?"

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Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter also tell me should Momanga make Pandora's actor or a different NPC?

That's all peace✌️ ☮️ .


Chapter 10: Nine's Own Goal

I hope you guys like this chapter and have a good day/night!

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There was no fancy animation, and Nix was immediately teleported to Midgard.

A few levels 15-17 players hung around, chatting with each other.

Noticing him they tried to create small talk.

{[DragonSlayR]:- Hey dude! Are you new around here?}

Nix with his NIL social skills decided to ignore them and moved out. The players were a little annoyed for being ignored but continued their discussion.

What he saw surprised him, was just as beautiful [Midgard] was. Nix didn't know how to describe it.

Maybe after staying in the pale world of Helhime for so long, he could truly appreciate the beauty of this realm. The sky was clear blue with some clouds, and groups of various species of birds flew about.

The trees were filled with life and the air felt more purer. Calling the place lively would be an understatement, groups of players could be hanging out, looking for party members asking for stuff, etc.

Compared to this place Helhime was a barren wasteland [Helhime] was this place truly looked like the realm of the gods.

Nix took a stroll around the city, he talked with some NPCs to get the local map and a few potions after which he accepted a few hunting quests and got out of the town to a nearby forest to level up to other things.

After which he got immersed in completing quests and time passed in the blink of an eye.

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//TIME SKIP:- 3 WEEKS

 It had been 3 weeks since Nix moved over to [Midgard], during these weeks Nix reached level 35 by defeating tons of bosses and even managed to complete 2 dungeons.

This caused him to get quite famous among the players of Midgard as a mysterious high-level player with playtime that only a gaming addict could have.

Some tried their luck and wanted to recruit him in their clans but he rejected them immediately telling them he had plans to make his own.

He had done a lot, gotten new better items, and better gear, and got the [Arcane Assasin] and [Magic Caster] class which granted him access to magic again and increased the damage output of his magic spells.

The good thing about being a Humanoid player was that he could use all his levels on his job class without worrying about Racial levels, making his character highly versatile in many fields.

He also had bought [Robes of Uelgar] which increased his agility and strength by 15% from a suspicious merchant for a HEAFTY price.

 The [Monster Hunter] class he had gotten after killing heteromorphic players did extra damage against heteromorphs and monsters, which he had gotten after his adventures in [Helhime] made hunting and earning gold easier.

Other players were now hunting the heteromorphic players to get unique classes.

After killing a certain number of them you got unique classes that granted special benefits.

Adding to the fact that they most of the time looked ugly or scary with access to more monster-type builds, they were perceived as evil and should be hunted down.

Nix of course ignored such idiotic justifications to ruin other people's days just for fun, playing an s hero instead he messed around with his weapons and fighting styles and stuff and he had gotten a lot of new unknown skills that the OG didn't have.

He also confirmed things like reaching level 0 gets your account deleted.

The items from the SL system's unique properties bypass other players' resistances and immunities, making them semi-WORLD items.

He also enjoyed hoarding monster drops as his inventory had no limits, he also noticed no changes happened with his real-life body.

'I wanted to get that ripped body in real life. The number of subscribers I have would have doubled or tripled if I had shown a body like that but I guess it wasn't meant to be.'

He had been unable to make friends during this time and was currently focusing on other important things

(Totally not because of his nonexistent social skills.)

He focused on completing a chain of quests, to get better items, and leveling up.

He also managed to gain new skills and increase their levels as well. These included [Tenacity LV.1], [Advanced Dagger Arts LV.1], [Advanced Sword Arts LV.1], [Advanced Unarmed Combat LV.1],[Critical Attack LV.1], and [Dash LV.2], etc.

Tenacity made him harder to kill, [Advanced Dagger Arts LV.1], [Advanced Sword Arts LV.1] and [Advanced Unarmed Combat LV.1] made him deal more damage when using them or fighting unarmed, and critical attacks allowed him to deal more damage by targeting the opponent's vital points.

While the upgraded version of [Dash] increased his already impressive speed by 40%, Nix was now completely sure that no player regardless of their level could even hope to kill him now.

His speed was too much for the human mind. His speed would have been too much for a normal hunter let alone a normal human.

There were some other skills he had gotten which were more geared towards spell casing.

For example one of his skills is called [Chantless Mage LV. 1] which allows him to use some spells (or skills that use mana) without shouting their names or casting.

Nix had acquired another skill [Chant Empowerment LV.1] which boosted the effectiveness of his spells and skills(that use mana) by 30% more.

This just goes to show the versatility of the SL system. Now after practicing his skills, Nix was on his way to the World Bridge to visit [Niflheim] where a limited-time event was going on.

He decided to spend some money on the Gacha in hopes of getting some OP items.

{Welcome! The prize pool has Been updated!}

{[Lamous Barton], [Ladrieic's Wings], [Kaliderc's Hamma]....}

{Would you like to open a gacha for only 500W?!}

{[Yes] [No]}

{[>Yes<]}

{Congraluations you have obtained.....}

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{[You have obtained [Divine class] item [Ameluate Of Overseer]}

{[Ameluate Of Overseer]:- Reveals the location of all enemies in a 300m radius for 5 seconds.}

{[Cooldown]:- 2 minutes.}

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It was one of the many newly added items after Yggdrasil's various updates. So he did what he did beast gambeled more.

[Want to try again for only 500W?!]

{[Yes] [No]}

{[>Yes<]}

{Congraluations you have obtained [Butlers Shoes]...}

[Want to try again for only 500W?!]

{[Yes] [No]}

{[>Yes<]}

[Want to try again for only 500W?!]

{[Yes] [No]}

{[>Yes<]}

[Want to try again for only 500W?!]

{[Yes] [No]}

{[>Yes<]}

[Want to try again for only 50...

[Want to t....

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//AFTER 30 MINUTES//

'Tsk, to bad I only got legacy ranked items'

The game had updated many times since its launch, adding many new items, classes, and gacha rewards.

They added a new feature of a waiting room which could be used to make plans or meet up with friends across different worlds without travelling to them.

During his time in Midgard, he became quite popular as he was the highest player with the most insane equipment and skills.

A lot of players had been trying to befriend or kill him either case didn't work out for them.

One group even tried to assassinate him in a dungeon needless to say they all died pretty quickly and Nix made an example out of them and disrespected them so badly they deleated their accounts.

After learning their lesson wherever he went everyone respected him and even made stories about him, which was cool but it also made doing something as simple as selling items tedious as people took note of everyting single thing he did.

Thankfully he had gained the [Conclement] skill as a reward for killing a group of PKrs who tried to mess with him which he had been using a lot recently.

'Those morons who almost got me killed, good thing I had been grinding leve, and skillsl. '

He remembered at that time he was level 24and had taken them lightly but later when they were about to die they took out an item [Daldrig's Call] which was horn which when they used it summoned all the nearby mnsters to the location of the user.

He was currently at that time in a level 27-30 monster area He would have ran away if it wasn't for the fact he was surrounded the players and all the monsters.

'Tough times, those bastards almost got me killed thankfully they were useful at east as baits.'

{(!) Alarm}

[You have compleated your daily quest.]

{(R)QUEST REWARDS}

[Choose Your Reward.]

[You May Choose One Of The Rewards Below.]

[REWARD#1. Status Recovery]

>[REWARD#2. Status Points +3]<

[REWARD#3. Random box +1]

[Will You Accept?]

[>Accept<] [Reject]

"Accept status points and assign all of them to strength."

After reaching the [Galbtine Village] which was located quite far from the center of the realm and had some high-level NPCs and monsters around.

After selling all his useless stuff he bought some helath potions and quickly went to the World Bridge and teleported to [Asguard]

The players around him used to the atmosphere seemed to be cracking jokes buying/selling stuff to each other.

As the others noticed him, they got alertedby his high level.

Nix, unfazed by their change, continued to look around until he found a group of humanoid players bullying a skeleton in the distance.

Nix then activated his [Conclement] skill got out of the safe zone almost immediately arrived behind them and started listening to their conversation.

{[ShadeY21(18)]:-"Hey freak! Give me all your valuables and maybe I will let you live."}

{[Momanga(16)]:-"Sir why are y--"}

{"I didn't tell you to start yappin'! I said give me your item!"}

"Bu--"

{[DavidDGreat(17)]:- Boss it looks like he doesn't want peace.}

"Wait jus---"

{[ShadeY21(18)]:- Take this then! [Txi--

Seeing things were about to get serious Nix decided to help the poor skeleton.

He took out [Rasaka's Dagger] and used [Dash]. He then jumped, in mid-air he used [Barrage], then opened his emotes and selected his favourite one in which his coat fluttered in the wind.

{You have killed a player x6! Penealty will be applied!}

{(!) Alarm -x}

[A debuff has been applied to the player.]

{(!) Alarm -x}

[,3,2,1 remove debuff has been compleated.]

[You Have LEVELED UP!]

As he landed his cape fluttered as the PKRs died before they could understand anything. Being satasfied with his performance he turned around and collected all the items after which he casually walked towards the skeleton named Momanga.

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Are you alright Momanga-kun?}

{[Momanga(16)]:- Yes I am. Thank you but why did you save me aplayer you don't even know?}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Hmm, because I felt that it was the right thing to do. Killing someone just because of their character appearance is just plain stupid.}

{[Momanga(16)]:- But I am not able to repay you. I am just a newbie low leveled player.}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- O but you will. I am not asking for a lot.}

{[Momanga(16)]:- So what can I do for you?}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Be my friend.}

{You has sent a friend request to [Momanga(16)]}

{Waiting response...}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Momanga-kun?}

{[Momanga(16)]:- Ahh. Sorry Nix-San thank you thank you a lot.}

{Friend request accepted! You can now chat with [Momnga(16) using the message spell!]}

{Learn [Message]?}

{[Y/N]}

{[>Yes<]}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Just let me know if you want any tips or player taken care of.}

{[Momanga(16)]:- Then I will be in your care Nix-san.}

{[-Nix_Ashborn-(36)]:- Likewise Momanga-kun.}

//TIME SKIP:- 1 MONTH//

It had been a month since Nix had found [Momonga] and others like him were being hunted for job classes.

Nix and Momanga had been leveling up killing PKRs and mosnters alike.

During there time together Momanga managed to level up to level 25, while the average player was at level 22.

If not for Momanga's huge workload and lack of time he would have been around level 27-26.

They also ran into a Heteromorphic player named [TouchMe] with whome Nix and Momanga became close friends as he also went around helping Heteromorphic players.

Ther first meeting was quite comidic.

Momanga was being cahsed by a group of PKRs at that time and Nix was quite far and even with his speed it would have taken some time to get there.

Momanga got cornered and was about to be killed when [TouchMe] managed to assassinate the PKRs in time.

When Nix managed to get there [TouchMe] thought Nix was there to get revenge for the death of his friends or soemthing but after talking for a while he quickly became close friends with [TouchMe] and [Momonga] they went around and saved heteromorphic players from being camped for classes.

They found other Heteromorphic players also goined there cause.

They were nine friends, a paladin, a swordmaster, a priest, an assassin, a two-sword ninja, a sorcerer, a chef, a necromancer and a blacksmith.

They quickly became comrades in arms, foghting for a single cause.

They would extend a helping hand to each other at any time. Over the course of time, as the number of group members in Nine's Own Goal steadily increased, Nix noted how they tend to share their joys and their sorrows together both in gamea and real life.

Nix seeing this proposed the idea of forming a clan in one their weekely meetings they held regularly which everyone agreed upon.

Thus this marked the begginnig of a legend. The legend of Nine's Own Goal.

They went around punishing humanoid and saving Heteromorphic players, making their fame rise faster than the shield hero and unlike him kept rising both in fame and in levels, as more and more players joined their clan.

With all this killiing Nix naturall was way past level 40 and was actually about to reach level 55! He also had gotten a lot of better gear, skills and spells.

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Today none of his friends were coming online not even Momanga who somehow managed to rival Nix in his playhours.

Seeing this oportunity Nix finally decided to complete his job quest.

{(!) Alarm -x}

[Player has reached the required level.]

{(!) Ques Alarm -x}

[A {Job Change} Quest Has Arrived.]

{(!) Quest Alarm -x}

[Will You Accept The Quest?]

[Accept] [Refuse]

>[Accept]<

This window had been annoying him crazy, sometimes Nix almost went in there just because how annoying the system was being but controlled himself knowing that Igris could slap him into the shadow realm if he wasn't carefull.

He opened the system shop and after browising for a while in the system shop he bought the knight slayer. 

It caused a dent in his coin saving which said a lot about its absurd price but it had two benefits it would make him breeze through the knights and it looked cool as hell.

He also wanted to buy a sword but decided he would make it later.

With all that prepared he accepted the quest and purple coloured lightning struck something mid-air, it slowly morphed into a purple which seemed to shatter the space around itself.

It then shattered which caused purple lightning to fly in all directions colouring the whole area purple.

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I appreciate your patience and support! Next time I will also upload 2-3chapters together!


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