Harem Reborn

Chapter 244: Slap You

Walking out of the station, I could see the girls floating in the air, and then rushed over to us as we came out of the subway station. The girls hugged, but then they started to glow. 

"What's happening to us?" Celica asked, looking at her glowing hands.

"You're going to join the other girls in the Hall of Gods. Don't worry, just relax, it won't hurt," I said with a smile.

All three girls came over and hugged me before they disappeared, their lights fading.

[Mission] Complete!

[Rank] S

[People saved] 5/5 

[Do you wish to continue?] Yes/No

I could stay? Not that it was an option, but what would happen if I did? Would I just be stuck in this city until I died?

[No]

[Level] 1/10 Complete! 

[Loading] Terror Island Resort

[People saved] 0/13

[Random class reward] Activated!

[Synchronizer: Angel/Geomancer]

The world turned and I was left on a beach after feeling like I was flipped upside down. A bright light broke the air beside me and a man stepped out in golden armor and white wings. Hey! I knew this guy! 

"Augusta?"

"Looks like we are partners this time, it feels like I just saw you," Augusta said, giving me a bright closed eye smile.

"Do you know what we are doing here?"

"The same thing you are always doing?"

"Good, and yeah, saving girls, same old. This is different though, we are just saving them this time and fixing problems. No team this time, just us."

"That sounds rough for you, but you know you can't keep them all, right?" Augusta asked with a curious smile.

"I'm not trying to keep them! I...I have just spent a lot of time with all of them, and I am only now remembering this. Augusta, I have lived for thousands of years before even coming into this game. I can't even remember when I made a mistake with the time-lapse and set it too high and was stuck for five hundred years in the same game and body. It was only the girls that kept me going, they each spent time with me, they didn't have to but they did."

"And this is the final stretch! Come on! You need to catch up to the others, you don't have time to mope around! You and I both know that you just need to finish this game so we can all start living. I am getting tired of only waking up when there is something to kill, I want to live and play in these worlds you have created."

I forget that there was more than just the girls that were trapped inside Second Life. Augusta was one of the many testers that discovered something was going on with the game and the headset. Then, just like many other employees, they had accidents while using the equipment and were locked into the game, just like Dansei and the other ones I had placed as gods. 

Not everyone got a great spot, but there were only so many spots that would allow them to play while we ran through the game. They had to be in the game when I unlocked the worlds and I put the game into the Frame Jack climb. I was going to shut down the game from the inside, putting the game into an infinite moment that would last for eternity. 

This was the only way to keep the game safe and the people inside of it. There was only one person that would be coming out of the game, but they would never get farther than that in the reality we were going to live in. Time would all but stop as we moved faster and faster, stretching time past uncountable numbers.

That was the goal, and Augusta was right. My job was just to get there, after that, it was literally anybody's game. I took a deep breath and then smiled up to Augusta. It would be nice to have a guy around that wasn't inside of my head.

'I resent that, I have been pretty quiet because I know you don't like to hear us all the time.' -Dansei.

"Let's go check the place out, we need to find out what our first target is. I like your spirit, and I hope we can get this done fast, the sooner I'm off this world, the sooner I can get to the next one."

"Yes, let's go look around! Trouble always seems to find you so I'm sure if we just walk around for a little while we will stumble into someone that needs our help."

The two of us walk up a wooden ramp and then onto a walkway with a rope railing. The paths led all over, and there were huts on the ground with ramps that led down to them. The whole place looked like a miniature city, but all the lit torches gave it that unmistakable island feeling. 

The problem was that everything looked the same, nothing stood out, and after about thirty minutes of wandering, I stopped. There was no one anywhere, just the two of us walking and the sounds of the torches. 

"Do you think that this is a bit weird? Should there be people here?" I asked Augusta, looking around to see if there was something that I had missed.

"I agree, maybe we should check inside of one of these hunts. There could be someone inside that could explain to us about what is going on?" Augusta suggested.

That was better than nothing, so the two of us looked and found a ramp and headed down. At the bottom there was a hut with a grass door that hung over the entrance, blocking us from seeing inside. I was about to just walk in but stopped and opened up my skills. I wasn't going to have another round of barely surviving like in the train.

First I pulled up the Synchronizer Class and their Sync points, but at this level, it just let me cast Bless once per fight, a spell that would make us harder to his, slightly. Augusta on the other hand had a Greatsword and Branding Smite that would still cause fire damage after the strike. At the first level, there wasn't much else in the class list and it had no crafting skills.

Next, I pulled open the crafting table for Geomancer and found two capes I could craft. The first, Earth Cloak, gave physical resistance. The other one, the Stone Cape, could be used as a defensive block, but that would cause it to break after two hits, so I crafted two of the first ones. I handed the second one and then started to browse the Class Skills.

This was more like it! I could travel up to ten meters underground and merge into stone. Augusta couldn't, but he could fly, and now that I was looking at him, he looked kind of funny with his cloak bunched up on his wings in the back. I focused back on the screen in front of me and looked at what else I could do, I had two other skills that I could use.

Rock Toss what self-apparent, I could use Geomancy and throw a rock. I reached down and picked up a couple sizes and floated them. I found that about a fist-sized stone was my maximum, so I grabbed two, they could be reused if there was nothing in the area.

The last was a three-meter tremor that caused damage, and that could make for a good sneak attack with me from below and Augusta from the sky. Finally ready to go, I looked over to my angel partner in his golden armor, and then I looked at my white shirt and black pants. Yes, I really screamed Hero Dave right now, I kind of hoped this was just a normal tent and it was empty, I was starting to feel anticlimactic beside this angel.

"Ready?" Augusta asked.

"Yeah," I sighed.

The two of us pulled the grass aside and the place was the size of a colosseum arena, and there were empty stands. Both of us pulled our heads out and looked at each other with raised eyebrows. 

"When this is all over, I want one of these huts. There is a lot of extra room inside of one of these, haha!" Augusta laughed.

Yup, I should have expected as much, but I really thought it was going to be a girl stuck in a palm tree, in a bikini, who also needed sunscreen on her back. No, instead it was nighttime, and this was an arena, and we were going to have to go fight something or things. Frick, story for my life!

"Okay, let's go kick some ass in here and save the people we need to, and get to the next hut! Like you said we just have to clear this as fast as we can. If we can do that we can get to living that good life!"

"See? This is an arena! It will be easy! We are a team, and we will destroy everything in our path!"

"Woah, angel, calm down!" I said with a smile

"You and I know I would make a far better demon, this is just the sheep's wool for this old wolf, I can't wait to have one hundred NPC wives!" Augusta said with a devilish grin

"Part of me wants to smack you, the other part wants to high-five you," I said, putting my hand to my face.