Reliving The Past ~ Mage Of The Abyss 1 Chapter 1 ~ So This Is The End For Me Revised

September 28, 2080.

The Clock is slowly striking in. There is a group of women, and a girl is standing behind all alone, with her 'Friends' already making their move at the front. With one standing on the side and the other is flying high, they are attempting the impossible.

The icy Throne Room chilled the air inside and the Cold-blue Crystals are radiating their blinding light colors.

Wearing majestic yet dreaded robe along with a Skull-Shaped Staff, the girl stood there... Menacingly.

Standing against the monster... her friends are ready to engage; one of them is an a.s.sa.s.sin and the other is a flying Wizard.

The former carries [Daggers], dual-wielding it in both hands. Wearing a stalker-like armor, her face is being covered by a silver ornated hood. While the latter is wielding [Wands] in each hand. Wearing a skimpy robe outfit, her voluptuous figure is bare in the open for everyone to see, though no one present at the moment to enjoy the view.

The monster they are facing... it is a Dragon, cloaked in a dark mist with enormously large teeth and sharp fangs with 8 horns grown eerily on its head.

Along with a Skeleton stood at the top of it, their presences are domineering. The Skeleton wore a Jet-black robe and a Staff in his hand, and at the tip of his forehead lies a Symbol on it... No one knows what the symbol means.

Mentioning the un.o.bvious, there seems to be a disturbing black-silver Smoke slowly flooding out of his robe.

...

*Boom!

A blast of an explosion destroyed the flow of air.

It was exploded right at the side of the Skeleton face; it was done by the Wizard. She casted a magical [Explosion] spell.

"Woo-hoo!" Shouted the wizard flying in the sky, "h.e.l.l yeah! The Effects just popped inside his a.s.s! s.h.i.+t clear for you, hon!"

Upon hearing the Wizard, the a.s.sa.s.sin tap the ground hard with her feet, crus.h.i.+ng the ground she was standing, and dash forward at an extremely fast speed, rus.h.i.+ng towards the dragon.

The dragon noticed her, it moves his head like an eel and roared a giant black flame, swirling like a flowing spiral of a wind.

Grabbing her daggers tight, the girl tapped the ground once again and maneuver to side, moving her head down, she saw the coldness of the abyss in her sight, her light beautiful face managed to barely avoid the flame.

Sliding with her knees on the ground, she reached the bottom of the dragon, maneuvering her body again, she repelled herself to the back end of its tail.

Stepping over it, she stabbed the middle of it.

"GRAAHAASH, Wundunndiir!" Roared the dragon with his flame shooting up to the sky.

The a.s.sa.s.sin didn't stop, she dragged her dragger all the way to its behind slicing them up, tons of dark-colored blood gus.h.i.+ng out from it.

Turning his head slightly, the Skeleton eyes turned red. Spark of red electricity formed at the tip of his bony fingers, violently growing to a larger form and striking his hand, though it seems it has no effect on him. His Skeleton eyes grow larger as it narrowed down.

She noticed his movement, the a.s.sa.s.sin stopped her moves from the skeleton and formed her hands together. The Skeleton turned around and releases the spark in his hand, aiming it directly to strike the a.s.sa.s.sin.

Smoke coming out of her hand, Sinister Dark Aura emerging outwardly from her body, she mumbled, "Transcendental Law of Shadow, [Murciélago]"

*Crackle*

*Bwoooosh*

A storm of lightning blasting through the a.s.sa.s.sin, but as soon as it hits her... she splintered into shadowy bats and scattered throughout the room and dissipated.

She re-emerges right under the Skeleton's shadow with her eyes in a completely dark tone. Her pupils are menacingly turned bright, they are s.h.i.+ning like the moon.

"True Aspect of the Blade, [Edge Continuity Reflection]"

The dragon flinched, it shouted, "Ahr Kir!"

Hearing that, the Skeleton moves further to the dragon's head. As soon as he turned around, the a.s.sa.s.sin appeared right in front of him.

She swings her arms slicing the Skeleton's head with her sharp dagger, he was staggered but her attack was blocked with an invisible wall. However, she doesn't stop. No, she continues to slice the staggered Skeleton repeatedly in rapid succession.

*BAKK*

Using her leg, she swings her feet at the Skeleton's head, destructively breaking the invisible wall. Propelling herself to the front again, she continues her strike.

*Klash *Klash *Klash

*Bam *Bam

She stabs, slashed his chest, and slicing his bony throat. Her attacks are hard to follow for normal eyes to see, it was truly shocking to see a human can move in that caliber.

But each time she attacks, the Skeleton keeps regenerating his body, completely healing himself in a matter of seconds.

This irritates the a.s.sa.s.sin, no matter how much she cut them, his bone keep reattaching themselves back.

*BAM!

The a.s.sa.s.sin kicked him right on his face and back away to the air, she flew in the air as she shouted, "Kurira!"

Putting her hand together, she summoned a new dagger out of thin air, its appearance is that of a jagged knife with black color and blue lines. She then muttered, "[Core Lightning Infusion]"

Two b.a.l.l.s of lightning appeared just at the side of her shoulders, the sparkling ball flow like a stream of water, enveloping her two daggers.

The Wizard noticed her call and went flying straight downward to a.s.sist her comrade. Grabbing the a.s.sa.s.sins' clothes on the back of the neck, she gripped her tightly.

"Kick his a.s.s, hon!" The Wizard said.

Narrowing her eyes down to a slit, one can detect a slight grin underneath that mask. "Leave it to me" she responded.

The Wizard bent her head to the back, she turned around and swing the a.s.sa.s.sin girl around and throw her right to the skeleton direction. He noticed they were about to attack, the Skeleton raised his arm and opened his palm.

Silver-black flame spirals from his hand and then shot at them like a laser.

*Fwooosh*

It's as if the Air has been cut in half, the a.s.sa.s.sin managed to pa.s.s through its scorching heat. The Wizard on the other hand also survived through it by making a globe of an invisible wall around her.

"Haaaah, LIGHTNING STORM!!" The a.s.sa.s.sin yelled as she put her arms on the back. At the moment she was about to hit the Skeleton, she swings her arm and then stabbed the Skeleton's head, her blade has been carved deep inside its head.

*Zzzt

The dagger sparked, she turned the dagger on her left-hand around and stab the Skeleton's neck with it. The electricity on her weapons are violently clas.h.i.+ng onto each other and then!

*B-O-O-O-O-O-M*

It's spiraling to an explosion, the spark of electricity created a dome of lightning and it zaps all over the place like a thunder viciously striking all over them.

Stunned by the Lightning Explosion, the Skeleton raises his staff and created a black miniature of a sun. Slowly, his and the dragon's wounds are healing.

The impact of her attack was ma.s.sive. Unfortunately, the Skeleton recovered quickly from it. However, the dragon on the other hand... was damaged badly.

"Huwooo! Kriih Da'has, Man 'Tahn durr" roared the Dragon, "Zu'u Fen Ni Sil Nahlaas. Dir..."

*Fwooosh*

The dragon swings its tail striking the a.s.sa.s.sin with an enormously strong force.

*Bam*

The a.s.sa.s.sin got hit by it, she flew all across the field, destroying many crystals in her path and ended on the throne with blood splas.h.i.+ng behind her back as she dropped to the seat.

The dragon was enraged.

Spreading its wing wide, the dragon let out another destructive roar, causing the entire s.p.a.ce around it to shake. Opening its mouth even wider, he then burst out a jet-black flame from its body to the surroundings.

*B-W-O-O-O-O-M-!*

The flame managed to crack the wizard's invisible barrier. "Holy s.h.i.+t! We can't hold it out much longer! How long are you going to stand there!?" she said as she flew around, dodging the spark of the flame with the Invisible Barrier protecting her from it.

*D-I-I-I-I-N-G*

A striking sound of a bell echoes across the room. The sound came from the Staff girl who was standing behind the battle all this time, there is a large transparent gold-white clock, ticking behind her back.

She noticed that her comrades are in trouble, she shouted, "H-Hang in there!"

*Boom*

Another explosion of lightning has struck the Skeleton. It was the a.s.sa.s.sin, she is still alive. Moving with the speed of the wind, she strikes the dragon's tail, trying to cut them in half. However, her attacks were in vain. The dragon's body has become even thicker and stronger than before.

She gave up on that idea and continue to strike the Skeleton instead. Both the a.s.sa.s.sin and the Wizard is holding him for the Staff girl to make her move.

The Staff girl gritted her teeth. She thought to herself, 'Come on, baby. Almost done, you can do it.' Convincing herself for something that is yet to be decided, she wishes her comrade able to buy her some time.

Sweats dripping from her chin with each second pa.s.sing by.

*Pant *Pant

Panting so heavily.

*tink*

She felt tingles coming from her neck, then suddenly... a smile cracked on her face, and her eyes widened like a madman.

Shaking, she starts laughing uncontrollably, "Heheheh, Hyahahahah! Capital, the DIVA is coming for you!!!"

*D-I-I-I-I-I-I-N-N-G*

A Loud deafening sound of a bell ring across the world.

*Fwooooost*

A burst of powerful wind burst out of the clock, shattering the ground to pieces. The Clock on her back is now exactly at 00:00.

Her eyes turned from Black to Gold White, many symbols and lining appeared on her clothes. At the center of her forehead lies a symbol, it is translated to... Judgment.

She pulled her Staff to the back and slamming it to the ground.

*BOOOM!

It creates an Earthquake, disrupting the Dragon's Roar and stopped it from leaking out more flames.

Stretching her arms wide, she then slapped her hands together. s.h.i.+ning ever so brightly, glowing white flame slowly emerges from her hand. The clock behind her turned completely white and then a creature emerges from it.

"Hruoooooh"

Ghostly white creature roared. Its appearance is that of a high-ranking angel with 6 wings on its back and a crown-like horn growing out of its head, it then formed his hand, imitating the Staff girl.

The ghost is moving in sync with her.

Narrowing her eyes down to a slit, the girl mumbled, "True Art of Chronomancy"

*tink*

Opening her palms, she directed it right at the Skeleton location. The ghost follows her hand movement. Slowly, she... they opened it wide. Grasping the air on their hands... and then with many echoing voices in their mouth, she and the ghost mumbled, "[Life Distortion]"

*Fwooot*

Suddenly, her whole vision became black and white, it's as if the whole world is slowing down. The air— no, the s.p.a.ce at the Skeleton location started to spirals... it's whirling.

He saw all of it happening like normal, but he couldn't do anything about it, and neither is the Dragon. They are stuck in slow motion in this Monochrome world.

Her comrades, both the a.s.sa.s.sin and the Wizard are also stuck, unmoving from their spot. They are quite far away from the enemies.

The girl moved her hand, pointing directly at the Skeleton. "Heh, too bad. It looks like this is my win."

The whirling slowly sucking them in as if it's a Black Hole.

Opening her hand, she is ready to snap her finger. "Somewhat short, but... I guess it's my time to s.h.i.+ne, in this cold world of mine."

The rotation of the air is getting faster and faster at a rapid pace. The Skeleton is staring at her fiercely, the girl cracked a grin, "Welcome to my world, Skelly."

*Snap*

*B-W-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-M*

Ma.s.sive destruction like a Nuclear Explosion just blasted through from the spiraling force from the center of the Skeleton.

The Dragon has lost its upper half and the Skeleton stood with only his upper half, still holding on to his staff, he is screaming as if the death itself can feel pain.

The girl who inflicted all of this... formed a grin of satisfaction on her face. Because of the nature of her spell, she did not cause any other Damage aside from her target location, the remaining area outside of her target is unaffected. That means her companions are lucky that they were far enough for her spell not to reach them.

They have stayed out of range from the explosion.

The Skeleton... is still alive, in another sense of life. He glared at her, to the one who inflicted this much damage upon him.

An eerily disturbing tone coming out of his mouth, he spoke for the first time, "You..."

The girl flinched as she notices him talking, he never talk all this time.

His eyes turned white like a pure silver, "Why did you... do this to us... Traveler…" his staff slip from his hand and then...

*Thud*

Dropping its head on the ground, he turned to ashes.

The girl saw it, she heard his last word, she felt his emotion, his resentment, his... hatred.

The smile on her face soon faded.

Left with confusion and quite possibly even… regret.

The ghost behind her submerge to the clock and then along with the clock, it disappeared.

Suddenly, a ding sound. Some kind of notification echoed in her head and a series of messages appeared in front of her.

EXP Received +320.000.000.000

! {Congratulations, you are the first—

The girl waved her hands, stopping the notification to appear. It seems she doesn't want to be bothered by it right now. Usually, she would be ecstatic and start jumping around after defeating such a powerful monster. However, that is certainly not the case right now,

Something felt wrong.

Her face hardened, she has many thoughts going on in her mind.

'What just happened?'

'Why did that thing say that?"

'What do you mean why...'

'Isn't this what we were supposed to do?'

'What did I just kill, wasn't he an enemy?'

'Just what is going on here?!'

Suddenly, she felt something else.

It's a completely different thing, and it's not on this side... but on the other side... somewhere beyond the scope of this world, her home.

The Wizard shouted in joy, "Woo! Look at all these EXP! See those loot over there!?" pointing at the dragon, there are many items that appeared at the side of it, "We're going to be rich, baby! I'm going to buy shoes, d.i.l.d.os, and might even buying... Hm?"

The Wizard notices that her friend is not being her usual self. "What's up with that b.i.t.c.h"

*Fwoost*

She flew down to her.

*Thud*

Descended from the sky.

Upon approaching her friend, the Wizard spoke, "Dola, what's wrong? You don't like the loot or something?"

The Staff girl, Dola, shook her head, "No, it's just..." she sighed, "I'm sorry, but I have to go. Something is going on at my house."

The Wizard's eyes narrowed down to a slit, "Hmm... Alright, we'll go there too" she said.

Turning her body around. She stares at the a.s.sa.s.sin, who is still slicing the now dead dragon. It seems she is still angry about how the dragon just smashed her out of nowhere.

The Wizard yelled at her, "Hey! We got an emergency! Go collect those loot, log out, and let's go!"

The a.s.sa.s.sin stopped, she looked at the Wizard for a moment and then nodded. She raised her hand to the side and then all of the "Loot" absorbed into her hand.

Then, with a blink of an eye, all of them disappeared.

...

Stuttering images of black and white, flowing in and out and then disappeared. That was what Dola sees when logging out of the game.

She reaches her hands out of the Capsule and grip its edges, slowly rose up from it.

Dola lives in a small apartment however big enough for someone living alone, she kept the place tidy and clean, though the Neon red color is a bit of questionable fas.h.i.+on.

She is such a beautiful young woman, long hair silky, ample enough breast, and a slender body. She's wearing a simple white tank-top and black-colored spats.

Calmly, she went to her desk and took out a round object. It's a computer, but it looks kind of like a projector. Navigating through it, she opened up a program, and check the camera footage.

There are some people in shade coming straight to her apartment.

Dola frowned as she saw them, the footage was a minute ago. Suddenly she heard a loud thud coming from the outside, it's as if someone is running.

And then.

*BANG *BANG *BANG

A loud deafening sound coming out from the door, someone knocking on them so hard. It was loud, loud enough to wake King-Kong from its sleep.

Dola started to sweat a little bit. Looking around, she went to a drawer and then opened it. Taking out one of the contents within, it's a white-silver gun. She hides it to her back hip and hesitantly approach the door, her heart is beating so fast.

Slowly unlocking the door, two buffed men walked in by force. Behind them, follows a guy in shade.

Dola recognizes this fellow, he was her fiancé from the past and he kept coming to her from time to time to extort Dola out of her wealth, slowly sucking all the money she made with her own sweat and blood.

Trying to hold back her anger, she formed a hatred looks on her face

Dola spoke, "What do you want, Leon?"

The guy in shade, Leon, shook his head and chuckled, "I want all of them".

People would just tilt their head when a guy suddenly just came in out of nowhere and suddenly said that. Of course, Dola however, understood what he meant. "I... just gave you 5 mil last week" she said.

"Bahaha" Leon burst to a laughter. "You don't understand, huh" he said.

He waved his hand, signaling his "Subordinates" to make their moves. They start approaching her. Dola notices what is going on, "W-Wait, you... you can't be serious, Leon"

Leon slowly rub his hand, "I knew you had a lot more with you, but you chose to lie to me"

"Why do you even need so much money anyway?!" asked Dola in anger.

"Well, of course, it's for my future… with your sister"

Dola gasped. His blunt response is truly shameless, to brought that up right when he's begging for money… though in this context he is not begging.

The image of the past started flowing back to Dola, it was the image of her sister. Her sweet and beautiful older sister who always caresses her suddenly turned evil. Not only that she stole her fiancé, ruin Dola's relations.h.i.+p with the family and turned her life to ruin, leading to her now living in such a desolated area.

She bit her lips, "You…" stuttering, trembling as she spoke. "Leon, I... I gave you everything, I devoted my entire life for you, even now... and yet…"

Leon rolled his eyes, tired of hearing her overdramatic tone. He spoke to his subordinates, "Get it done" he said.

They nodded, directing their gun and aiming it right to Dola. They wasted no second, and pulled the trigger.

*Boom*

Blood splashed out of her head, Dola fell.

Leon rubbed his ears; the sound of the gun was too loud for him.

*Fixing his jacket*

"Hmph! How come a low life like you, deserve to be with someone like me!" he said.

Dola is lying there, on the ground... with blood flowing out of her head

But then suddenly…

— A wide grin formed on her face —

She pulled out her gun, aiming it to directly at Leon's head, and then pulled the trigger.

*Boom *Boom!

Dola shot him accurately on his head… twice.

*Boom *Boom *Boom

She continues to shot him again repeatedly, consecutively headshot him multiple times in a mere second. His subordinates startled by the gunshot, they turned around and then shoot her again!

*Bam *Bam *Bam

Blood splattered out of her body, many of their bullets went through her. Luckily, she protected her head, even though some of them went through.

They shot her repeatedly.

Unfortunately for them, it was too late to save their boss from the grave.

The gun Dola used is one of the deadliest Magnum ever created, just one shot, and it will pierce through anything. 7 was put on his head, her shot was accurate and each one of them hits perfectly.

Soon after, other people came into the room, two women walked in with a shotgun and pulled the trigger as they jump.

*BOOOM! *BOOOM!

They shot them right on their heads, splattering its inside all over the place.

One of them defended, but the girl bodied him to the ground, and then she stick her shotgun to him and pull the trigger again.

*BOOOM!

She shot the guy's stomach, his intestines splattered all over the place.

*BOOOOM! *BOOOOOM!

Shot another two rounds in his chest and then...

*BOOOOM*

On his head, the floor flooded with his blood.

Afterward, she rushed to Dola, lifting her head. Speaking in a panicking tone, "Hey, hey, come on, don't go dark on me"

Checking out her head, the metal substance on Dola's head protected her head from being splattered, however, the wound is...

Waving one of her hands, she signals the other girl, "Rakuri, the Meds!"

The other girl, Rakuri, paused.

"What are you standing around for!? HURRY UP!"

Rakuri nodded repeatedly and left the room. The girl s.h.i.+fted her eyes back to Dola, "Come on, you're going to make it, just hold on"

Unfortunately, Dola didn't respond. However, she is still conscious.

She lifted her hand grabbing the girl's arm, looking at her stunningly charming face.

Dola couldn't muster up the strength to talk, she realizes that her time is about to come. Dola shed tears, she wishes that she has more time.

She looked at the girl deeply in the eye.

And then… she smiled.

The girl's eyes widened, "No, no, no. Please don't, no!" Holding Dola's cheeks., she said, "Don't do this to me."

But, Dola keeps smiling.

Suddenly, her arms went limp. The girl's expression hardened, her eyes shaking as she spoke, "No, Dola, come back. Please, Dola... DOLAAA!!!"

She held Dola's hand tight and kept shouting her name.

Dola's vision started to fade, she's seeing the image of her friend shedding her tears for her.

But soon after, the image is gone and Dola... is no more.

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