LIGHTNOVELONLINE Interlude: Player vs Non-Player
{Kakuseisuru Sekaino Yami - Yugo Kanno}
Everything died off that day, or at least everything should've, but something horrifying would reveal itself as the blinding flash of light revealed an intact caravan with one guy standing firm, not even fazed after the blast. How could something survive my strongest skill?! Not even the demon king could survive it, but this guy could?!
"Was that the best you could fire? I must say that power did manage to wake me up. SHOW ME SOME MORE!"
The man sarcastically scoffed at my power as he dusted his shoulders off as I had barely made some inconvenient dust cloud. My attack destroyed the entire army except for a couple hundred guys within his magical bubble, which vanished immediately.
I couldn't believe what I saw, but the man quickly told me what I saw was real. With a tame show of power, he shot me down from the skies with a mysterious, oppressive power. My crown soon activated its counterdefense, allowing me to stand up from his control, which made the man laugh.
"AMAZING! AMAZING! You're as strong as I imagined! YOU'LL BE A GREAT TEST SUBJECT FOR MY POWER!"
"KGH! What's so funny about massacring humans and witches in the thousands?! Why would you do that?!" I had to get answers, but the man's answer aroused even more fears I didn't know I had.
"For the sake of it. Since I've reached lust manipulation of such a level, why not use these expendable humans for my entertainment?! This bloodshed was fun to watch! Wouldn't you agree?!"
Was it all for fun? This man has led an entire army of nearly a million soldiers to their deaths for the fun of it?! This guy was a true monster in the sense of the word. I had to get rid of him, but how could I? The guy has just survived my most decisive attack.
"Why attack us of all people?! Don't tell me you did all this just to fight me."
"BINGO! You're sharper than you look! Good job! You're the second stop in my conquest for world domination. Next is the Elf Patriarch, and I'm leaving the demon king for last. Once I beat you and those two, I can claim I'm at the top of the food chain!"
Just who was this guy?! Why was he so confident he could stump me and the other elders!? The elf Patriarch was the second strongest in the world, while the demon lord sat at the top 1, with me being third. I had never heard of this nobody, but I almost fainted when I checked his stats.
[Generating appraisal]
Reincarnation {Player}
[Undead]
Name: Julius
Age: 35
Level: [UNREADABLE]
HP: 100,000,000/???,???,???,???
MP: 100,000,000/???,???,???,???
SP: ERROR!
Stamina: 10,000,000/10,000,000,000
Strength: 100,000,000
Damage Output: 100,000,000
Defense: 100,000,000
Speed: 100,000,000
Skills: {ERROR!} {ERROR!} {ERROR!} [Data unreadable]
Information: A reincarnated player from another world. The system doesn't have much information regarding his origins, but this sound tag leads the skill to believe this person has only been in the world for a few years. Believed to be a hydro user. No more helpful information is available.
How?! How was it possible?! I didn't even come close to his stats and doubted anyone in the world could match him, but what did the system mean by "Player?" Was this guy so powerful he bent the world's laws to treat it like a game?! How could he take the world so lightly?!
"Seems like you've realized I'm far stronger. Are you going to beg for mercy now?" Even after seeing his stats, I couldn't retreat, as the remaining soldiers would still try to kill the remaining witches. I was their last line of defense; I couldn't surrender.
"How dare you speak to me like you're above me! I'll teach you a lesson!" I transferred almost all of my HP and SP into my MP bar to refill it, allowing me to regain my ultimate Valkyrie mode. I would fight even if it was the last thing I did.
"I'll gladly humiliate you before everyone present here, and then I'll force you to watch as my troops kill everyone hiding behind your barrier."
I looked behind me to see the couple hundred witches remaining after the genocide conducted, which gave me the courage to stand up to the tyrant. I knew I was entering a battle I couldn't win, but if I wanted my last resort to work, I needed to buy time, as my TP spell would take a while to become viable.
Julius walked forward, and I did so, too, until we stopped in the middle of the field, looking at each other as our auras clashed, making the world tremble. The man looked down at me, but I didn't look away as I prepared to get the beating of my life. I better make my plan work, or this would be in vain.
"AAHHHHHHHG!!!"
Soon, I began the fight with a punch to the face, taking Julius by surprise as we flew across the forest, breaking trees and small mountains with the energy launched with my punch. Julius let me go at it for a second, but then he began to move and throw punches against me with so much power and speed I could barely keep up.
"Too SLOW!"
Julius had time to talk as he punched me backward to then appear right above me with a kick ready to send me to the floor, yet I didn't even get to reach the floor as he appeared below me and then above again, finishing his combo with a throw against a mountain.
I tried to breathe, but he gave me no room or time to do so, appearing next to me to try and shake me by my leg like a rag doll. I couldn't resist his strength as he threw me around against the rocks while holding my leg, but I wasn't done. I had to show him everything I had.
Using the Maximize magic technique on my own power could kill me but screw it. I had to get out of his control. "MAXIME MAGIC!" With my newfound strength, I could finally kick Juilous with enough power for him to let me go. Yet he seemed more annoyed than impressed.
"AIR STRIKE!"
Without waiting, I soon dropped several feet trying to escape him, and he responded just the way I wanted him to with a punch against the ground. I created the perfect opening for one of my finisher moves, but it was too perfect. I wasn't fast enough, or he was too quick as I finished my activation.
"BEAM!"
I threw my massive light beam, but Julius simply dodged it, allowing my attack to destroy the entire forest while it ran away from the planet toward an unknown target. Goddamit, he was too strong and too dang fast. I had to run away, is what went through my mind as I jumped back with the help of my spatial maneuvering platforms.
"WHERE YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?!" Julius says as he follows behind me. I had to make a distraction to run away, so I began to spam attacks against him to try to create dust clouds thick enough to vanish while retreating until I felt Julius' hand on my leg.
"GOT YOU! DOWN YOU GO!
I felt my body get thrown against the ground with so much power that my natural reaction was to jump out of the hole and punch Julius using a tremendous amount of MP. Yet even though I covered my entire body with my magic the moment I crashed against Julius, he simply punched me down into the same hole like I was nothing more than a weakling.
Yet the humiliation did not end there as he appeared behind me with a barrage of attacks I couldn't react to. I was being torn apart before everyone watching as Julius kept my body afloat with his merciless barrage of punches for several seconds until he finally chose to launch me against my own barrier, breaking it with my body.
The impact was so intense my crown went flying away from my head as I lost my ultimate form and began to cough blood from my mouth. I could barely get to my knees as my breath felt heavy, yet the fight wasn't over, and soon, the ultimate humiliation came from the despicable fighter who used his magic to get my head against the ground.
"NNNNNGUUUHGG!!!"
{Footsteps}
"Crawl like the dog you are. Beg me for mercy!" Julius trash-talked me while approaching me until he dared to put his dirty feet against my back.
"I WOULD NEVER! AHHHHGGG!!!!" Julius' feet felt heavy against my back, and he pressed down until I finally didn't have enough strength to resist letting him pin me against the ground. Seconds later, he removed his leg to grab me from my clothing up to his eye level.
"You're weak. This world is so weak!" Julius laughed as I bled out, making everyone shout at the guy, but he didn't care about anyone else but me. I angrily tried to spit on him, but he didn't even let me do that as he reacted faster than I could, punching me right in the mouth.
"I thought you said you were a Queen! It sounds like you're simply a charlatan! You're all talk, no power! COME ON! FIGHT BACK! SHOW ME ALL YOU GOT! SHOW ME SHOW ME!"
I could barely keep awake as he violently shook me like I would do something else, but I had nothing under my sleeve. He beat me in my strongest form, survived my most decisive attack, and humiliated me before my entire kingdom. Did he really think I wasn't trying!?
Just where had he come from!? Why was he so powerful? I couldn't even get a chance to think about it as he disappointedly threw me away.
"Twenty seconds. You're so weak you only lasted twenty seconds. That's pathetic."