The Lord of Ragnarok

The Lord of Ragnarok

Mini Chapter 14 - Adventure! Thrilling, Chilling, blood Spilling Adventure!

Village of Degener - Gin Rummy’s P.O.V.

I breathed hard as I stood there. My new barding was ruined, eaten away by some strange slime like creature. Go Fish had freaked out at seeing it, and swore up and down that she’d faced something like it before. To her credit, fire did destroy it. Our little adventure had taken us into this village, specifically to find out why it had gone quiet, and what we found were raiders. There was more than we expected, but what even the odds for us was the slimes.

The raiders didn’t know that the village sat on top of an old ruin, and deep inside of the ruin were a collection of creatures all waiting to get out. All it took was for my Fishie to happen to swing her sword at the wrong place, at the wrong time, and she opened a new world to those monsters. A world full of living slime that sat on devouring every single one of them. The slimes weren’t a single being, although they could certainly act as one. Instead they seemed to be multiple beings joined together by their odd boy types.

When they wrapped around a raider it was almost instant. The raider would scream, try to get away, and soon his, or her, flesh would be gone right to the bone. I watched this about eight different times until the monsters focused on us. The other raiders ran toward it, swinging their makeshift weapons, screaming at the top of their lungs to kill them, and apparently how they were going to rape the slimes. I honestly couldn’t quite understand the concept of either sticking something that dissolved flesh and bone inside of me, or sticking an appendage into it. But according to my little Fishie raiders aren’t the smartest bunch. Their combined attack on the slimes lasted for about six minutes. A hundred and fifty raiders gone, in under six minutes.

That’s when it completely focused on us. I’ve said it before, and I will repeat it now, Unicorn magic is wonderful. I was able to use my telekinesis to keep it at bay. Of course everything else I tried seemed to do nothing other than make it angry. Either angry or hungrier, but I wasn’t sure which it was with that thing. It did get a swipe at me, and I had to slip out of my armor. I watched as it dissolved into nothing, and I understood that the next time it would be taking a good chunk of myself as well.

Lady Clopmaniac attempted to use some of her spells, which it appeared that cold did cause it go slower, but it didn’t stop it. It wasn’t until Blackjack fired a flaming arrow into it that we saw it take real damage. After that the battle changed for us. We were able to defeat them, and we burned the lot of them into nothing more than foul smelling bits of dried mucus. When it was over the three of us gathered what we could to prove that we had been here, to prove that we found out what happened, and of course to inform Lord Mannulus of what had happened as well.

Village of Degener - Unknown Individual’s P.O.V.

It was dark, everything was dark. I couldn’t hear a sound, and I couldn’t smell or sense anything. All that surrounded me was ample amounts of nothing. I tried to think, and slowly my mind came back to what had happened. I… I was at home, and I’d ordered a pizza. It wasn’t the best kind in the world, Domino’s, but I had a friend that worked there, and he would do what he could to get me some discounts.

I had been waiting, and I wanted to play a little bit of Ragnarok. I remembered logging in, and then realizing that it was the last day. In fact it wasn’t just the last day, but I was about three hours away from the servers going down forever. I remember clearly that I wanted to get to my stuff, store it in a flash drive, and then I felt the first stab of pain. It happened so suddenly I almost imagined that it was just a panic attack, but then it happened again. A terrible pain shooting down my arm, tightness in my chest, and I was stuck in the game.

I tried to move my hands, to log off, but instead I activated the change species menu. I’d been a human in the game, normal, vanilla, and plain as the day is long. I specked into blacksmith, and I had been a tradesman in the game. Actually, I had made enough armor, of high enough quality, that people would buy it off of me for the game. It allowed me to play a game instead of getting a job at a call center, or a thousand other things that I would have rather never do. But that didn’t matter. The game never really became unpopular, but the creators wanted to switch to a newer version, and this one was done for.

I tried to log out again, but my selection was confirmed. I was a slime. More to the point I was an impersonator slime. It was a rare breed, only formed from those slimes that were allowed to evolve long enough to take on traits of humans. Of course another benefit was that this character could use the skills and talents of other enemies it absorbed. Which would have been beneficial if I wasn’t having a heart attack!

I tried one last time to log out, but I couldn’t get my body to operate correctly. My vision blurred, and I wondered if anyone would even know that I was gone. I lived alone, I was a virgin, how pathetic is that, and I made my living off of a video game. I was a hermit in every sense of the word, and I was dying of a heart attack. I felt the pain again, and this time my vision was gone.

“Is there anything after this?” I asked.

There was silence for so long, but then I felt nothing. Well, that wasn’t quite right. I could feel some things. I felt something solid around me, and then I felt something beside me. I stretched toward it, and I realized that I had no hands. I wanted to scream, but there was no point. I couldn’t talk. I touched whatever it was beside me, and suddenly I could see.

It was a body, half dissolved, and I felt myself cover it. I wanted to argue with myself, but instead I got flashes of violence, and before that I saw strange red bread that was shared. I heard laughter, and soon I could stand. I could see everything now. The night sky, the destroyed buildings, and I walked toward one. I saw a barrel resting beside it, a single torch burning above it, and I looked to see a face that wasn’t my own. It wasn’t even really human. It was human formed, but it was almost see through.

“I’m… I’m alive and a Slime?”