Chapter VI
\"If I may ask, why did you let them go on their little mission when Ojaveda is currently under a serious threat and obviously needs anyone who can use a weapon of their choice and who is able to defend it?\" Said Murtagh, seemingly annoyed at Annah. \"The developers are progressing rather quickly. They are at the state of final touches. The new tunnel will soon be opened and the vast number of power-leveling scum will storm our land and wipe out anyone who stands on their way. We need every single warrior on our side to stand against this threat. I mean it. Even with all our forces ready we will be forced to face a horrible battle in which many, if not all, will find their death. And yet you allow Draklar and his group to leave Ojaveda and contact the so called oracle! Do you really believe in what Draklar says? Does it make any sense? He is crazy and you know that. He cannot be trusted, all he can do is swing his goddamn axe at anything that moves. His brain isn\'t capable of making any serious decisions. You can expect him to say \'Me Drak! Me smash moving stuffs!\', but -not- do anything of importance. I am the one who does all the thinking here, not him. And yet for some reason you listened to his crazy plan. I demand to hear the reason behind all this, valid enough to prove to me that the elders of this place still are capable of using their brain cells. So?\"
Annah hemed. \"Even though ... you are a newbie ... and I am ... an oldbie ... there is no difference between ... us ... We must learn to live in ... peace ... Because ... we all ... are equal ...\"
\"Why do I even bother..?\"
Unitearica slowly entered the temple. It was rather quiet in there, he didn\'t hear any lively conversations that usually could be heard in this place. He continued his stroll, finally reaching he gate to the main hall. Next to the pedestal he noticed a robust, unkept Ylian who had his hair reaching the shoulders and almost as long beard.
\"Hello.\" He said, with a bit of unease in his voice.
\"Hail!\" The Ylian uttered.
\"Who are you?\" Unitearica approached him.
\"My name is Xalthar. I am here to take you to the gloried oracle. Yet first, I must say something.\"
\"Say what?\"
\"Heads!\" Said that, Xalthar swinged his axe at Unitearica\'s head.
Unitearica ducked just in time and after jumping away, he grasped his dual shortswords. Xalthar didn\'t give him much time to prepare, charging at him with a battlecry without any further wait. Unitearica sidestepped from the attack and swinged one of the swords at his opponent. He didn\'t manage to hit him however, receiving a kick in the chest and getting thrown away a bit, yet managing to land back on his feet. Xalthar leaped at him with the axe ready for attack. Unitearica jumped away just in time and with unease glanced at the crack in the floor caused by the hit of his enemy\'s axe. He leaped at Xalthar, making himself spin in the air and sending two attacks at the robust Ylian. Before he could do any harm, Xalthar grabbed him by the collar and sent him back to ground, creating a shock wave directly from under his body. Unitearica instantly jumped back to his feet and aimed his shortswords.
\"Good.\" Said Xalthar. \"There are many people who want to bug Grono. I had to be sure.\"
\"Of what?\"
\"That you are the one, Uni\'o.\"
\"You coul\'ve just check my label.\"
\"No. You do not truly know someone until you fight them. Come, she awaits our arrival.\" Said that Xalthar walked into the mid-air.
Unitearica followed him instantly. \"Is this a modification of map?\" He glanced at Xalthar who nodded slightly. \"Are you a programmer?\" This time he shook his head. \"Then what are you?\"
\"I am a proud son of the northland! Glorious descendant of the vikings and a true follower of the way of STEEL! Ready to crack the infidel skulls--\"
\"Ok, that\'s nice. But what do you do in -here-?\"
\"I protect that, which matters most.\" They arrived at the plaza, where Grono was already awaiting them.
\"Quickly, quickly!\" She yelled. \"Let\'s not waste any time. I have a game to play.\"
\"Aren\'t you playing one right now?\" Unitearica tilted his head.
\"What?\"
\"Planeshift.\"
\"Oh, that. Well Planeshift sucks, I have a better game to play.\"
\"Is that why you aren\'t in council?\"
\"Council?\"
\"The oldbies of Planeshift.\"
\"Ah, yeah. All those people are being silly, still believing that this \'game\' is going anywhere. And Kiern is there just for the fun of watching people arguing, I think.\" She shrugged.
\"Then why are you here?\"
Grono shrugged. \"Just because.\"
\"Just because? And they call you the oracle?\"
\"Let\'s get back to the point when I said let\'s not waste any time, shall we?\"
\"Fine, what did you want to tell me?\"
\"You want to save all that Ojaveda business, right?\"
\"Yeah, I guess... Draklar will yell at me if I won\'t.\"
\"Listen up then. To save Ojaveda, you have to reach Darkmoon, but to do that you will need the storymaker.\"
\"The storymaker?\"
\"Yeah, he disappeared some time ago... Last seen eating a cake... Or five cakes, doesn\'t matter. What does matter is that he was found just recently. He\'s being help prisoner by a very dangerous... or just very curious individual. His name is Seperot and he will not let him go without cutting off all of his limbs beforehand.\"
\"What does he want?\"
\"What do all freaks with power want? More power. Find a way into the hole behind Zak and you might have a chance of meeting him.\"
\"We must go.\" Xalthar jumped a bit around Grono.
\"Well it\'s game time for me. Good luck, kiddo.\" Both Grono and Xalthar logged out.
\"Mr Unitearica!\" Drey approached the plaza. \"Did you get my fish?\"
\"Yeah, it was very... smelly.\"
\"Glad you liked it. Surprised to see me?\"
\"After all the stuff I went through lately? No.\"
\"Then you knows it.\"
\"Knows... Know what?\"
\"That im no longer a Game Master. I dont knows how it happened, how you removed my character, how you made me lose the Game Master status. But thats not important. Important is what followed it.\"
\"Party at the Game Masters HQ?\"
\"Noes! I banned you, Mr Unitearica, I watched you vanish. But then somethings happened. Something that I thought would happen anyways. You removed my Game Master status, Mr Unitearica. I knew what I was goings to do afterwoods losing that.\"
\"Heh, afterwoods...\"
\"What?\"
\"It\'s \'afterwards\'\"
\"Ah, so thats how its spelled... Anyways, I wanted to leave this game. But I didnt. I couldnt. I still wanted to stay. And now im here because of you, Mr Unitearica, because of you im no longers the Game Master of this game. But as you knows all people needs a reason to be here, without purpose our characters would not exist.\"
\"It is purpose that created our characters.\" Some character approached them, with another few following him.
\"lol purpose that makes us level.\"
\"Purpose that guides us.\"
\"That makes us better than others.\"
\"That shows us our place.\"
\"wtf? lol whatr u ppl doing?\"
\"That makes us stay.\"
\"I ams here because of you, Mr Unitearica. Im here to take froms you what you tried to take from me. Purpose.\"
\"Really?\"
\"Yes.\" Drey handed him a diamond encrusted fire longsword. \"Want to join Dreys fan club?\"
Unitearica inspected the sword carefully and gave it back after a while. \"No thanks.\"
\"As you wish.\" Drey bit him.
\"What the hell?\" Before Unitearica got his answer, all the other characters attacked him. He jumped away a bit and unsheathed his shortswords. As all the people leaped at him, he managed to kill them one after another. Another few attacked from the behind. It seemed as if every single of them wielded some special weapon. Unitearica dodged all the blows and returned the attacks with his own, more accurate ones. All of Drey\'s followers were getting killed. Suddenly one of game Masters teleported himself to the plaza. He took a look around, seeing the large fight.
\"I thought we disallowed fights on the plaza...\" Suddenly he noticed the former Game Master. \"Drey!\"
\"Yes, Drey!\" Answered Drey. \"Drey, Drey, Drey!\" He handed him a 200 slash shortsword.
\"Drey too!\"
Unitearica continued getting rid of all the Drey followers, but now he had to take care of the Game Master as well.Even though their number was large, he still held the lead in this battle.
Drey winced. \"More.\" He took a look around the plaza and started handing away his powerful weapons.
More and more people were attacking Unitearica and soon the crowd was too much to handle. Even though he managed to kill another few, much more were joining constantly. Suddenly one of them pounced onto Unitearica, allowing others to help in pinning him to the ground. After some time of struggling, Unitearica managed to get out of the grip and moved high into the sky, diappearing from everyone\'s sight.
Unitearica logged out from the Planetrix and returned to Draklar\'s group.
\"Are you all right?\" Asked Karyuu.
\"It was Drey...\" Draklar approached him.
\"Yes.\"
\"Now he has a bigger company.\"
\"A lot bigger.\"
\"How is that possible?\" Asked Link.
\"I don\'t know - somehow he has found a way to get many items and just bribe people.\"
\"No!\" Yelled Link. \"I mean on TV. I\'m watching this porn movie and I wonder how is that thing the guy\'s doing even possible.\"
Draklar kept staring at Link for a while. \"Is that what he was doing to you?\" He turned back to Unitearica.
\"What? Heck no! I mean I don\'t even know what that guy might be doing, but I\'m sure that\'s not it!\"
\"...I mean Drey.\"
\"Oh. I don\'t know what he was doing, but I know what it felt like.\"
\"What?\" Karyuu arched an eyebrow.
\"Pretty much felt like taking a candy from the stranger from that car.\"
