The Earth After Rebirth

They walked a good distance with nothing of interest happening. There were occasional sounds, though whether it was screams or the forest making strange noises was unclear.

While they walked, Kiro had entered a meditative state, he was in Paradise training his jump skills. That's the kind of training he preferred when the skills were just too dangerous for the game world.

This time, it was Nikolai who spotted them first. For some reason, vibrations was acting up he couldn't get a perfect read, he surmised someone amongst those had a skill that could potentially cancel out vibrations. It was a scary thought, as he was already used to sensing things that certain way.

But he also accepted this as a challenge, he didn't want to depend entirely on one skill. That would be a detrimental mistake.

"Well, well, well, look what we have here, just a couple of mutts we can easily defeat!" The one at the forefront said, wearing a stupid smirk on his face.

Kiro looked around with pretend confusion, "wouldn't it be fitting to call you mutts, since you reek like a pack of wild dogs?"

His expression changed to one of contempt, "this one has quite the mouth on him, you'll be the first to die then."

Kiro hadn't even taken the chance to reply when something flew right past his peripheral vision. It landed on the talkative guy's neck, coiling itself around it like a snake. Felix then yanked the man towards him.

This caused his head to do somersaults in the air. His shock was still etched on his face as his lifeless body hit the ground with a deafening thud, immediately when it did the light came for him too.

His comrades were still in shock when Hiro took two more from their rankings, with his shield and axe.

That shook them out of their stupor. The ground rumbled as if an earthquake was attacking them. Kiro noticed the drop in his HP when this happened, he was about to comment when several skeletons broke out from the concrete ground.

"That was impressive, but this will truly be your end. You'll pay dearly for that." The necromancer said in a voice full of malice.

Kiro looked at him impressed that even his summoning was siphoning at their HP, in a way that it was noticeable. He wasn't a fan of the class but he wouldn't mind if they recruited one now that he saw the damage it was capable of causing.

Kiro's vibrations were still acting up, so he couldn't react in time when one of the skeletons got ahold of one of the Chasing Madness healers, breaking her neck instantaneously.

'Ha. This never happened before. But I suppose necromancers have a way to meddle with my vibrational sense?' He pondered this.

He was in time for the second one though. Using his kick it dissipated immediately. He then used whirlwind, pushing them back to their summoner accompanied by wind blades.

That gave his comrades much needed seconds to act. Ishaan already had Chasing Madness under his protection. They were in shock, it wasn't the first time they've lost someone during quests.

But they naively thought this time would be different. Jorge was the first one to come out of it.

"Kiro, let me fight please." He yelled through the force field.

He wasn't acting out of emotion, he genuinely thought he could help. As far as Kiro was, his vision was impeccable. He could see the resolve in his eyes, he didn't sense anger but growth. That's why he nodded to Ishaan who let him out without questioning.

After several minutes it was a wonder how they were still standing. The guild was definitely a big one, most likely an alliance and none of them were weak.

Kiro didn't mind who they were fighting, but he preferred monsters if they were in numbers. Humans had functioning brains, they weren't programmed, they were unpredictable. At least monsters had a pattern that could be learned.

"Felix, I think we need you more as a healer at the moment, please be reasonable." Kiro yelled from the other side, he had one of the people in a chokehold while kicking the rest.

He didn't need to be healed, but his comrades did. He had his own ways. He doubted any of them had regeneration abilities like he did.

Felix saw and could hear the pleading tone. He decided to stop being stubborn, he retreated to the back of the line, but not without lynching about 3 of their members first.

The necromancer Kiro wanted to kill with his bare hands was hiding at the back of the many members. He was clearly only good at long range with his summons.

He couldn't reach him at all, not that, that was causing a hindrance in his combat skills but the constant disturbance was like nails on a chalkboard. It ground his gears. He was too used to sensing everything so this rubbed him the wrong way.

Nobody understood why he was so annoyed in the battlefield but no one wanted to ask either. He looked really pissed.

Him and Ryu were combing through the defense with difficulty but they were doing it nonetheless. He had to remind himself every time not to use anything to alter reality, that last time of creating a whole star almost killed him. He didn't want to take his big guns, not for this.

Of course he wasn't doing this alone, his team was right behind him. Nikolai used the shadows to get to impossible distances at an instant.

As he got closer to the necromancer, he was laughing maniacally, muttering gibberish. Then something, an invisible force repelled Kiro. His chest felt heavy as he flew to the air, he managed to stop himself midair using whirlwind.

The peculiar guy started laughing loudly now, "I am Lazarus, leader of the Grim Reaper guild. Your defiance and participation in the guild wars is hereby revoked." He laughed as he said.

"What a delusional guy!" Nikolai cried.

"An atrocious laugh too." Hiro agreed.

Kiro stood in the air, looking closer, now that he had an aerial vision to the ground he noticed a thin layer dorm surrounding Lazarus.