The Earth After Rebirth

How could it possibly give them this impossible last task, was it trying to kill them, or was the system oblivious to some facts about the game. He pondered that last option very well. After all, the system couldn\'t detect his Kaos energy.

Even with Harbingers, they seemed like monsters the system couldn\'t control so they needed players for that, not just ordinary players though, ones it was willing to make stronger than most through the true blood potion.

This all started to seem like a ploy by the system. Harbingers were like a virus that attacked the game, in order for that to be stopped the system needed players. This was about the only theory that made sense to Kiro.

\'So then, what is the system and what are Harbingers, why are they seemingly at war with each other?\' Kiro had a lot of thoughts swarming his brain.

He felt like he was being attacked mentally by the information that seemed to fall into place to him. Though this freedom to think up a theory didn\'t pass without consequences, only Hiro was left. Even he was at his wits end.

His legendary shield was bent out of shape. He wanted to cry or scream, this was a special shield that his master had gifted him before he left. It wasn\'t like he could ever see him again, he was back at beginner\'s village and he couldn\'t enter there due to being many levels above.

You could tell that he wasn\'t fighting because he had anymore strength within himself. He was fighting out of pure unwavering rage. His hair was pure white, not even a tinge of purple could be seen.

His eyes pearly white, showing absolute defiance against the being that dubbed itself a general. But to them, he may as well have been the King of gods themselves. They\'d have believed him if the being lied and said that instead.

"Oh, we have a very fiesty one here, don\'t we?" He looked at Hiro impressed.

He was utterly impressed because he hadn\'t held anything back while pummelling the person in front him. Instead of the creature perishing, it just kept persisting.

Kiro appeared right next to his friend before the general could do anything else. He touched his hair and ruffled it. As if to free him from his unbearable pain. Telling him it was okay, he had done his part, he could now let go.

In his almost unconscious state, Hiro understood his friends intentions and he immediately dropped to the ground without so much as a word. The light appeared out of nowhere, Kiro felt that it was warm and he took solace in that. It embraced Hiro\'s now lifeless body and made him disappear.

Kiro felt rage he\'d never felt before. In his mind this wasn\'t a game anymore, to him, he had lost his best friend. He saw red, kaos started embracing that state of his mind. His body was glinting with a brilliant light of red.

Ding!

[Warning! Warning! You\'re entering berserk mode, if this continues your body will enter a comatose state, for a time even I can\'t calculate.]

Kiro couldn\'t even hear the message the system was giving him. He was totally lost in his conscious unconscious mind.

The general looked at Kiro incredulously, it knew the moment it set eyes on the boy that he had a special lineage.

"This isn\'t fun, this isn\'t fun at all. The bodies disappear and I can\'t even feed off them, Qamata sure excels in trickery." The general commented, intending to devour Kiro before it killed him.

"You even use the energy many cannot tame, what a strange little fellow. Well, this will be your funeral, give me your body now boy."

The general had human features because it ate every Knight they had sent to investigate the forest. The more he ate, the more human he seemed. He felt that, eating the boy in front of him would do the trick.

The general wanted to integrate with Asgard\'s society without people screaming at it that it was a monster. That was its mission from the ancient ones it worshipped.

Kiro suddenly split into two, both bodies carried the same amount of strength. He then split further into a third of himself.

Ding!

[You\'ve unlocked gemino. Like your ancestor, you can make copies of yourself, how many depends on your strength and how high the skill is.]

This was yet another message that failed to make it to Kiro. He wasn\'t himself anymore, there were three berserkers in front of the general and all carrying the magnificent staff.

The harbinger still felt that this wasn\'t enough to kill him but the three Kiro\'s didn\'t wait for him to think any further. All three closed in with bending kick, if he could feel a tingle before, he felt numb this time.

The general silently applauded the rise in strength. Though all three were blocked, and sent them flying in different directions. It quickly took charge and followed the one that it thought was the original.

All three Kiro\'s were chanting a mantra, "kill." It was a word that swirled in his mind, it was the only thing that he could see.

Just when the general reached the one that it went after, he disappeared from where he was. Another appeared at the top of the general, using palm strike with the greatested force on its head.

Its neck almost caved to its chest, before it quickly retreated. That was the first time its brain had alarted it with the danger signal.

"You\'re certainly a dangerous one, aren\'t you? Well, the time to be nice is over. I\'ll fight you seriously."

The words hadn\'t sooner left its mouth when an army of wind blades came dashing past it, none could even pierce its very hard skin.

All three Kiro had it surrounded, attacking with Ryu and being parried all the same. Kiro was putting up a fight, it wasn\'t much, but it was one nonetheless.

He occasionally used vibrations to throw off the senses of the general, it worked but only for a millisecond.

Kiro felt his life force being drained by the second. The berserker mode wasn\'t a joke, but he wanted to at least wound the thing before it ended him. He had to get him, for Hiro.

All three of them started spinning their staff. Creating winds so strong that the very trees were rooted from where they had been for probably thousands of years.

The general noticed his feet were being taken off the ground. The air around started getting thinner making it difficult to breathe even for it, then it felt a blow to the head.

The most excruciating pain entered its body for the first time. Not even the ancient ones it worshipped inflicted such pain on them, when it looked up, another Kiro had used his staff with all his might to inflict the damage.

"Enough of this. It doesn\'t matter if I can\'t devour you." A growing energy on its hand showed itself.

It never stopped growing, the three Kiro\'s never stopped attacking either. It was the size of the sun from the earth, when it suddenly exploded, levelling the ground they stood in and Kiro had disappeared from there.

"Too bad. He could\'ve made it so much easier." The general heaved, and took a seat on the charred ground.

All the trees within a 500 meter radius had disappeared. It had become a barren land. Its eyes scanned the area, it sighed and shrugged.

"I guess I can\'t hibernate for a long time now? My master will not accept this answer. I should just wait for them to grow and hope they bring more of those stupid knights." It laid on its back on the dirt ground, contemplating whether it should report what had just happened.

Kiro was in darkness. A familiar darkness, it felt like the one that he had walked in during his rebirth. He simply sat and didn\'t bother walking around this time.

He didn\'t quite remember what happened, he surmised that, something must\'ve happened during the battle and he died, maybe this was a passage all players walked when the light took them.

"Why? Why are they so eager this time? Isn\'t it a bit early?"

"It is, I don\'t know either but none of them are ready. It\'s such a shame."

"A shame that you will die and all for nothing!"

"No need to rub it in, I know my fate and I\'m ready."

Kiro heard these voices, he was sure he\'d heard them before. But before he could ask anything. They\'d found out that someone was listening in and pushed him back to the game. When he opened his eyes, he was in the arena.