World Online

A single strike was all it took.

Jake jumped forward toward the tree, his vertical high enough to actually reach the weird goblin-esque creature.

A thin line of blood appeared around its head. Even the blood was different. It wasn\'t green, red, or even purple.

Instead, it was grey. Not silvery, but a rotten grey.

Jake jumped back, turning away to avoid the pungent smell.

But he saw that he already gained the experience from defeating the creature.

"Good. This is done." Jake put his sword away and a napkin appeared in its stead.

Wiping off the little blood that fell on his hands, it threw the napkin to the side and looked around him.

There was no one else remaining. This was the only shadow that he saw, and he dealt with it.

Glancing at his messages, he could see that nothing was happening, yet. The main army didn\'t face anything yet, and Jake didn\'t even expect them to.

It had only been a minute or two since he left, so if they did face someone, that would be concerning indeed.

"I have to go back to the main base." Jake told himself as he was about to turn around, but for some reason, he hesitated.

He felt like things weren\'t done here, like there was something about to happen, and if he missed it, he would regret it.

"I should stop dallying." Jake said as he looked down.

The corpse of the monster fell down to the ground, but it hadn\'t pixelated yet. That was weird. These corpses usually stayed in the game for a few seconds before they disappeared.

They weren\'t supposed to stay here.

"Urgh, just for that stupid and nagging thought in my head." Jake grumbled as he waked forward, his sword appearing once more.

He swung the sword down at the dead corpse, and it dug in.

This time, instead of just leaving it like that, he dragged his sword to create an upward cut that completely split the head.

Then, he suddenly moved back.

The reason?

The monster\'s eyes suddenly opened. This was supposed to be dead! He even got the experience from defeating it. And yet, it opened its eyes? What did that mean?

It meant that he was not dealing with a normal monster. This was an undead.

"Undead aren\'t supposed to look like this. This doesn\'t look like a normal undead either." He thought to himself.

The monster slowly started disappearing and this time, Jake received none of the experience that he was supposed to get.

He clenched his fists.

"You have got to be kidding me. Why the hell is this happening? How did the game change so much?" Jake cursed.

"This is not how I remember it. Not at the least. The monsters just looked like zombies. But this one didn\'t die until I actually punctured its brains." he muttered.

"Looks like I am going to have to warn everyone about this new change. No wonder everyone failed already. How is this an A grade quest? With this change alone, this has to be an S quest." Jake said.

There was no one here to listen to him though.

"I have to rush back and make preparations. The other guild masters will want to hear this." Jake told himself as he started moving.

He put his sword away as he moved with a speed that he never knew he even had!

He was putting all of his energy into running. Trying to get back to the army as fast as he could.

Luckily, Jake was good with directions. If he wasn\'t, he was definitely going to be lost.

The problem with the unknown lands, was that one feature of being a player was gone.

The map never worked once one entered the unknown lands. Once someone entered, they would have to stick with their main group, and if they were lost, they would have to fend for themselves until they died.

If they died though, they had two options. Revive somewhere in the unknown lands, or revive back in the continent that they entered from.

Jake didn\'t have that problem, yet.

He could hear the methodical thump of the players walking slowly. With so many people walking, the sound was basically a sign to tell everyone where they were.

There was no way to reduce it though, and eliminating this scout was only going to stall what was going to happen sooner or later.

But now, this rhythm was only helping Jake right now. It helped him watch his way. He could easily tell where the army was.

Rushing through the trees, he felt like something was watching him.

Looking up, he could see that of the two suns, one was slowly hitting the peak, while the other was slowly descending.

"This place is always going to have light. I shouldn\'t have a problem with the evil god and his underlings, even if he hates me so much." Jake noted.

He could see the army itself from where he was already. He could see the rows of players slowly moving from the bushes that he was behind.

"Good. I am here." He thought to himself as he rushed out.

As he did, the rustling he caused must have put everyone on alert.

"Halt! Enemy spotted!" Someone shouted.

Jake grabbed his sword from his inventory as he twirled it in a circular motion.

Clang!

The impact of a few arrows and a few spells hit his sword and pushed him back.

"Its me!" Jake shouted as he held his ground.

Looking at his health bar go down a few points, he was impressed. These people acted quite swiftly and efficiently.

Too bad, they used their weapons against the wrong person.

Jake came to the light, showing his face off.

"Its me." He said, straightening his armor and the robes beneath.

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