The Lightning Swordsman (Book 1)

Reality

I waited for a few hours, I didn't mind since the NPC waitress was pretty hot. It became apparent that Max was not coming, so instead, I rented a room and sleep for the night.

When I woke up it was from a notification from Max

Max: (U/N) time for the boss battle. Meet me on the place on the map

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I check the map out and start making my way to the position. When I arrive I see a bunch of players and Max is among them.

"Yo" I greet him

"Ok let's do this," He says with a grin on his face

Finally, I haven't seen Max with a grin since the beginning of all this.

"Excited or what," I ask

"Yea a little, but we don't know what to expect," says Max

"Eh, I'm sure we we'll be fine" I reply
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The other players start moving toward the dungeon.

"Well, time to go I guess," Max says
We follow the main group for a while until we reach some giant doors.

"O by the way, what's the boss?" I ask

Max just looks at me with bewildered eyes

"What," I ask

He just huffs out some air " the boss's name is lilfang the kobold lord, you don't need to know much more then that"

" ah I see"

Suddenly the doors opened and everyone charged in, at least everyone but me and Max. We hung out at the back as the plan told us to. However, after a while, we both realized that we will be seeing some action.

When the boss was on its last leg the leader of the raid party, a blue-haired "knight" rushed in to get the last attack. I'm not sure why he is doing that but he fails. He must have miss judged the length of the sword because it seemed he wasn't expecting to get hit as far back as he was. Either way, he was dumbass.

As soon as the sword strike him, everything went south. He was sent flying towed the other end of the hall. I and Max went into action and I could spot a black haired guy trying to give the blue-haired guy a potion but he strangely rejected it. As Max and I closed in, something unexpected happened. During my charge from the back of the field to the frontline, the boss regenerated half of its last health bar, before we started charging it only had a sixteenth. I may have noticed but Max didn't. He charged the beast without a second thought because from his knowledge it would take one hit to kill it.

Max thrusts his katana into the boss's flesh making a pixel cut. It took away half of its health. However, he wasn't expecting a fatal blow from an enemy he thought was dead. Sadly that's the reality of this situation. Max got hit pretty hard by the blunt end of the weapon, it was a harder hit then what the other guy got. I watched Max's body fly to the wall of the room all I could think off were my words at the beginning of the game. "Piece of cake", wow I was underestimating this game.

Max's body hit the wall and shattered, tears threatened to leave my eyes. My best friend just died. He left behind his family, his mother, his father, and his twin sister. I felt an unexplainable rage flow through my body. My body said one thing, leap, and I did. I leapt toward the boss and covered some 20 meters in a matter of milliseconds. When I was face to face with the boss, I thrusted my sword with all my might. The sword cleanly cut the boss, when I landed on the other side I was facing the boss.

The boss only had a little HP left, but the cooldown from my attack was still in effect. When faced with the monster about to bring his sword down on me, I didn't feel like I needed to survive. Instead, I invited the sword to kill me. My prayer was not answered the way I was hoping. I see the black-haired kid slice the boss on his side, ending his life as he turned into pixels.

The kid looked at me and started walking toward me. When he arrived he held out his hand.

"That was a pretty cool attack there," he says

"Was it?" I say in a grim voice.

"I gotta thank you, if you had not done that attack then taking him down would have been a lot harder." He says

"Yea," I say in a daze

"By the way, what's your name," he asks

(U/N)