The New World, New Problem 2

His grin fades from his face, then re-examine the

pile of bones which he made fun of, then silence.

“You are not just a pile of bones, huh? Well this

time, they bring a good workout in here, I'm beginning to gain fat here”

He finally stands, his body height is still

leaving a space between his head and the ceiling his wing is as large as his

arm width, which cover most of the light in the room he crack his head then his

fist

“Urgh, I'm ready, let's dance then small

skeleton!”

The monster come straight for Serpto, his wing

completely destroys pillars in his way, as well as shaking the whole room due

to his size and weight. He mumbles something, something that couldn’t be

understood by any people, at least most player and NPCs, which is magic, a dark

art of spell, different from spell, magic is spoken verbally and can be only

activated that way with arcane language and is a different reality from spells,

which only requires sign and its drawing not necessarily needed, but if said

could boost the spell's effectiveness.

“I will not let you finish! Volleyballs of

Fire”

The shower rains of fireballs shoot through him,

it is like he does not have any physical being, the row of pillars no longer

destroyed by the monster as he easily passed through them.

“Shit, he is using spectral form, GET OUT OF

HERE!”

Before even realizing it, the young girl meet the

devil’s eye, he lay in front of her, eye meet with eyes, she couldn’t resist

her fear then finally collapses into the ground and cover her face resisting to

his gaze, as she sits in the ground the difference in size is measurable as she

is only the size of his palm.

Shit he is really fast, and this spectral form is

really cheating, level 112—no I think this is 150, I guess I'm too

underestimating him, new start then, kill this guy while protecting the

princess.Serpto then swing his staff to the monster, he tries to catch it but changed

his mind, he dashes further to the side avoiding, dodging

“That staff, it is really annoying, huh? If I

merely just touched it I will be cursed, even though you cannot curse the

Arch-Demon because we are already cursed, that staff seems to curse us to death

just by touching it…I must kill you first and destroy that god-slayer weapon”

“Quite smart for a creature that sit and eat in

his chamber all the time, but I suggest you to surrender and go home to your

mother or creator or whoever it is”

“Mock Playing with me? I wouldn’t be provoked

that easy, let just get this over with, so I could enjoy my tasty after-meal

candy”

“Good choice…

The demon rushed his way toward Serpto with the

same trick, pillars passes through him, because he entered the spectral form.

“However, you couldn’t attack nor getting attack

in spectral form, which mean I'm gonna wait for you to disable it or attack

your spirit form hiding somewhere in this room or one of the bodies”

The demon does not hear or rather not wanted to

hear he is still charging toward Serpto with his strength his mouth mumbles

something again after finally getting close to Serpto, he finishes chanting the

magic  and then the room shifted, the

pillars are crumbling after a few moments they collapse a magical force held

the ceiling intact

Serpto just wait patiently until the demon make

his move, knowing what he is thinking the demon slows down, he just changed his

style now he just walked slowly toward him, while also mumbling a quiet noise

probably another magic

He took the bait, now is my chance. He raises both of his

hand and draws a circle, the spells glow blue and another one glows green. Wind’s Favor. Impenetrable Barrier. A blueish aura emerge from Serpto it is

the blue spell which he cast then took off from the ground, he floats in the

air free as the wind guides him as he is in control.

“Do not ever move away from the barrier I cast on

you, he cannot touch you in their even in Spectral form”

The girl nods, he then checks her surrounding

placing her hand when she finally saw it, a green invincible wall surrounds her

Serpto begin to fly away from both of them, he is

heading toward where the demon first seen, the most end of the room, the most

pile of bodies. Realizing where he is heading, the demon run straight to him

trying to catch him up, but flying is always the fastest.

He draws a floor sized magic circle shaped as

Hexagram an elementals type of spell casting, after a certain moment, candles

begin to go around with the spell circle, the flame starts to burst after a

while it gets reddish black, the highest level and the most powerful flame. Supernova.

Serpto coats himself in fire, and is then

engulfed in a blue flame until an explosive reaction occurs. The explosion is

so powerful that it destroys the whole room and even the pillars and building

outside. The fire still burns, but there is now enough space to fight. And yet

the demon still stood he loses half of his body, surprisingly still alive

because he is the mighty Arch-Demon, the highest ranking demon, can even be

considered a demon lord. Arch-Demon does not need brain, heart, blood to live,

they live by harnessing environmental energy force, such is mana, mana is used

to cast spell and magic, as an exception arch-demon cannot cast spell it is

because of their long claws which prevented on drawing spells while they cannot

cast spell the magic language came from the demon, and they are superior in the

battle of magic casting

So the only way to slay an arch-demon or beings

that require mana is to obviously drain its mana from the creature, with a

special spell or a high degree spell

The creature tries to speak, but he can't, an

utter gibberish comes out from his out, also now allowing him to chant a magic

anymore. While the young girl still intact with the ground she stood

“Huh? What is that? I can't understand you now

though, better learn how to speak now”

The Demon flap his wing heading toward Serpto, he

readied his massive sharp claws his Spectral form is no longer

“Good resolve, use your anger—or rather let your

anger control you, dumb demon. Fireball…”

With a slick move, the demon dodged Serpto

spells, since he could no longer attack with magic, the only way to attack now

is to use close combat such is the primitive way fist and feet—or claws

The two of them dancing in the open air, a

barrage of different spells are cast hitting the  demon, some are hit some are dodged the same

can be said to Serpto, they are battling with draw match, they stood in the

same level of skills.

“Fireballs, Volleyball of Fire, Thunder Strike, Cold

Water Ice, …”

Different kind of spells are cast the

battleground is colored with each element hit the ground or left a cloud, the

two of them still holding in par, after a long passing time the two of them

stopped, exhaustion hits both of the side

What a crazy level 150s Arch-Demon, I remember

last time I defeated this kind of enemy without any problems and difficulty,

why now.

This is not an ordinary skeleton, to last thing

long against me is a high achievement for mortals—wait he is an undead, I guess

that’s explain it, I need to regenerate my head I'm at disadvantage if I can't

cast any magics.

Serpto eyes wonder, in the demon perspective he's

eye is going anywhere, but he is opening a panel which only a player could see. This is not my armor and weapons! What is this meaning, where are my gears.

“Enough puny skeleton, let's end this once and

for all!”

Without giving Serpto a chance to respond, he

again charges toward him but this time going with a zigzag pattern while

hanging his claw in the open air, trying to use the momentum, so it could hit

with a faster slash

Serpto dodged in the very last moment, then fly

further away from him, near the little girl that watched the battles with such

awe mixed with fear

“Sigh, I really don’t want to use this, sometimes

I just wanted to give a good peace of my mind to the game developer or whoever

in charge of this mechanic”

Serpto draws a star shaped spell it glows purple

then he pulls the star it begins to resize with each pull, bigger, and bigger

until it change color into white followed with the appearance of the same shape

in his feet. Summon Skeletal Dragon Lord.

The ground shakes the air darken, the appearance

started, a giant void opened, the dragon rushes its way into the battlefield,

it rampages right away after seeing the arch-demon, using its claw and sharp

tail it sends the demon flying the two of them clashes, although it is quite

obvious to know who will be the victor

Now I gotta wait for 24 hours until I can cast

this spells again, this is suck it's like only an advanced spell why do I even

have to wait that long.The demon's body is ripped apart, but he is still fighting,

a quarter left of his body he is still fighting, such strong spirit in a wrong

body

The dragon ends him with a strong bite, absorbing

his mana along with the parts. After the defeat of the demon, the dragon stand

idle by in the same position he's spawned at.

“Barrier, deactivate”

“Skeleton guy! Y-You did it, you defeated him,

with…that thing, bigger skeleton, dragon”

Upon waving down his hand, the skeleton dragon

shrink smaller, so small until it land on Serpto’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry about this guy, it is completely

harmless, it is only attacking on my command”

Serpto then explore the rubles, gathering what

remains of the demon body, and then storing it in his void inventory, taking

his horn, claws, and arm along with him.

“I-I guess i—no wait, we did it, huh? I have avenged

my parents thanks to you but…

Serpto turned his attention to the little girl,

he felt that this requires his attention, and so he approached the girl, he

kneeled beside her matching their heights

Why did I still feel empty, this vengeance

doesn’t mean anything, they are still dead, his death doesn’t change a thing.”

“Please think about how you would feel if we had

not stopped him. Imagine if someone else were in your position. Not just you,

but hundreds of people could suffer if we do not stop him. Be proud that we

brought justice to the human race”

The little girl wiped her tears, she nods in

agreement, and she walks out alone approaching her parent totem, they both

carried each corpse or rather Serpto did, the girl doesn’t want to be left

behind, so she helped carrying.

The sunshine feels like it has gone for quite

some time now, they both groan in relieve, while the girl demand focus to bury

her parents with respect, near the cabin where they first met

Following the burial, a space is reserved for each

person, decorated in accordance with their traditions. The girl did all the

work because she was the only one who knew how to do it the right way—their

way.However, Serpto didn’t help, he is just sitting and watching from the bench

he can only sympathize toward the girl lost. After all is done, Serpto

approached her, he taps her shoulder, then brings out a colorful bunch of

flowers from his inventory.

“Now, let's head to the city, your new home

awaits there, you will be safer there away from this goblin which who knows

when they will come back bringing more hordes. I know, I know, you can visit

this place sometime in the future, don’t worry about it.”

“I—thank you skeleton, don’t worry, I have a

mansion there with the butlers and the maid awaiting there, they will take care

of me, can you…can you please escort this young lady back to her home?”

Serpto nods in understandment, he then offers his

hands to the young girl. The young girl make her first move, however Serpto

doesn’t move from his place which makes the girl confused, she stood there

asking What's wrong?.

He raises his other hand, drawing a shape of a

circle. Teleportation.

After a quick swoosh from the teleportation, they

arrive in the city gate, where a city filled with players and NPCs awaits. It

could be considered the biggest city in the game. The City of Durjg.

“W-We are here already?! Ahem, such a handy spell

skeleton, now if you could remove your grip from my hand please, I have a—”

A sudden realization hits her, like a thunder

strike the ground with it lighting quick flash. One of her butler catches her

sight, the butler quickly ran toward his master, the two of them make an eye

contact, realizing who is who.

“Feralt!!!! It feels like forever, I haven't seen

you in ages, ever since my parent decided to take a quick vacation in the

forest away from people, away from the stress.”

“The master and mistress are? I am just glad we

could see each other again, but I am surprised to see Mrs. Gwen in such unscheduled

timing, are the master and mistress are still in the vacation?”

She lowers her head, holding them so hard she

clenches her fist, then eyes bright with resolve she faces her butler who is

waiting for an answer

“Don’t worry Feralt, they will come, I just come

early because…I missed home, you know

Feralt nods a few times while he touches down his

beard with a smile, then his gaze pointed elsewhere, he is looking at the

skeletal figure behind Gwen

O-Oh, I forgot to introduce the gentleman, who

escorted me back home, He is…”

“Serpto, pleasure to meet the young miss has a

reliable butler in the house, I was just doing my duty as an adventurer, I'm

sorry for my appearance giving you negative thoughts I suppose?”

“Not at all

The butler bow low, thanking Serpto for all of

his services on helping the young mistress

In fact, I'm indebted that she met such person

with gentle soul to help who in need, again I thank you”

Serpto bowed too, then he left the two of them

still outside the gate. He entered first, leaving them to chatter and catch up

on stuff.

“HEY! Pay us a visit later, wouldn’t you?! Golden

Bureau Wing, awaits you”

Golden Bureau Wing?!.

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