Rogue Wars Online

Chapter One-Hundred Eighteen: The Fight Within Ourselves

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Fighting them is actually impossible. Hindi iyon kaya ng utak at puso ko.

Kaya naman para malabanan sila, I imagined their faces as potatoes.

Si Caspian ang patatas na blanko ang mukha. Si Depore ang may nakakalokong ngisi at si Theo naman ay tulog. I didn't imagine myself as one though. I stared at myself, at the monster that was created by this game that I know resides within me, and fought it.

Habang naglalakad kami ni Maki papunta sa labas ay naalala ko ang point ng game. Hindi ko alam kung nakatulog ba ang developer nito in the middle o nawalan na ng braincells kaya hindi ko na maintindihan ang cities na pinuntahan namin. But then... I realized that we might just be going into a full circle. The city of nightmares and dreams were quests that challenges a player's insight and thrill for stories, which is necessary in opening the last quest.

The final boss.

Pero siyempre ang final boss ay makikita sa last city at ito ang gate papunta doon. Kaya siguro may school gate. And the hunters are the boss generals that will injure a player until they only have 15% chance to defeat the boss. The clones are just there to challenge us.

A fight within ourselves, but this time externally and internally. Thankfully, my clone, that monster, is someone I really want to defeat.

I doubt that they would help me. These people are important to them and they haven't conditioned themselves to fight them yet.

But to my surprise, I found them helping me. How do I say this? Nang pumwesto sa bawat gilid ko si Marcella at Maki, parang nawala ang bigat sa na dinadala ko. All of a sudden, I felt relieved and my knees were about to give up from exhaustion and pain.

Tapos dumating 'yong hunters.

Nakakainis. Hindi ata sila nabigyan ng memo na huwag munang dumating dahil hindi pa kami ready. Our prior plan to go by pair was already ruined because they came to help me, at ngayon pa naisipan ng mga hunters na 'to na magpakita. Why didn't they show themselves earlier? Noong ako pa lang at hindi na kaming lahat. Madaya naman.

Nagsiliparan ang mga bato sa paligid nang magbukas ang lupa na kinakatayuan namin. The rocks formed into a solid ground underneath Gavin's feet and he pulled me to him. Sa gilid ng mata ko'y, namataan ko ang pag-utos ni Marcella na bumalik sa school. Because for some reason, while the earth around the school broke apart, the building stayed.

And Eura isn't very happy. Hindi ko alam 'to dahil kilala ko siya, pero dahil sinisigaw niya ang reklamo.

"Putangina! Bakit hindi 'yan nagiba? Gusto kong magiba ang putanginang school na 'yan!"

Her curses filled the air as we tried to run along the flying rocks. It's like the Rock Island all over again, but this time there are those monstrous hunters behind us, like reapers about to receive our soul. Nang malapit na kami sa pintuan ay biglang nagpakita ang isang elf.

In a snap, everything changed.

Nahulog ako sa isang hallway na walang katao-tao. Maayos na ang labas ng school, at parang wala lang nangyaring labanan sa itsura nito. I would have thought that it was all a dream if I didn't feel the deathly presence behind me.

I flipped forwards, barely avoiding the ghastly hands that went through my previous spot. The hunter that was with me was a bit transparent, like a ghost. I narrowed my eyes at the shape of the scythe that rested in its back, but I wasn't able to stare at it for too long when the ghost suddenly attacked.