[Congratulations!]
[You Have Cleared Final Stage!]
[GAME OVER!]
Isaac's consciousness was transferred to another location. While blinking, he saw the scenery rapidly changing.
…
Isaac's eyelids fluttered. His eyes opened slowly, and the first thing he saw was the light blue visor. On the other side of the visor was the large screen.
''Ah…'' He let out a breath. His body felt rather tense and weird for some unknown reason. Whenever he tried to move his limbs, they felt both light and heavy at the same time.
In the game, his body felt foreign after each stage. When he assigned the stats, and his body got more robust. The feeling of weakness disappeared, and he felt powerful.
Isaac took off the VR Helmet. A thin piece of fabric slipped through and landed on top of his shoe.
''Hmm?'' He placed the helmet on the table and bent down to pick up the fabric.
''What is this?'' He asked himself while feeling the soft texture of the thin fabric. The fabric seemed to be a piece of cloth.
Then, he felt a hand touching his shoulder. Isaac turned his head and saw Sebastian's excited face.
'You did it!'' His high-pitched voice rang in Isaac's ears.
''Eh?'' Isaac was surprised to see the way Sebastian behaved. He had always shown calm composure. Now, he was like a completely different person.
Sebastian turned around and revealed the leaderboard.
[1. Wraith - 100000]
[2. LoneSamurai - 82000]
Isaac's mouth curved upwards, ''Well… I think we are done here. Shall we go?''
Sebastian nodded. He would have wanted to stay behind to witness LoneSamurai's shocked face. However, Isaac didn't seem fond of being in the center of attention.
They stepped out of the building and left.
Shortly afterward, the restaurant's door opened. LoneSamurai led the crowd of people and walked over the road.
The cars roaming the roads stopped. The drivers slammed their steering wheels with anger. They watched as the crowd slowly made their way over the road.
LoneSamurai stepped inside the building and saw the screen flashing in the color red. He smugly smirked and stopped in front of the leaderboard. He spun around and began posing.
He flexed his brawny arms and waited for someone to snap a picture.
When someone in the crowd was about to take a picture. They noticed that something had changed on the leaderboard.
The previous number 10 spot had changed. It can only mean one thing. Someone reached higher in the ranking.
They slowly raised their heads. They felt their hearts racing as they got closer to the top. Then, they noticed LoneSamurai's name, but it wasn't at the spot where it was supposed to be!
'Wraith!' The same name rang in everyone's mind. None of them really knew who it was. Isaac was, after all, only semi-popular. There was a hype surrounding him for a day, but it calmed down significantly after not showing any activity.
The youth almost dropped the camera. He wobbled around, barely managing to keep a grip on it. He glanced at the chat and saw a row of LOLs and LMAOs.
Everyone was laughing at LoneSamurai, who was posing foolishly.
'Damn it!' The youth quickly stopped broadcasting. His face was flushed in embarrassment.
LoneSamurai's brows furrowed as he asked, ''Why aren't you taking a picture?''
The youth walked next to him and whispered, ''Look behind you.''
He turned around and, at first, didn't notice anything wrong. Then, his gaze landed on the top of the leaderboard. His face altered shades rapidly.
[1. Wraith - 100000]
[2. LoneSamurai - 82000]
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''There.'' Sebastian carried two smoking hotdogs wrapped in paper. He gave the money he owned to the stall owner.
The stall owner nodded. He pocketed the cash and greeted another customer.
Sebastian headed to a nearby park, where a white-haired youth was already sitting on a bench. Once arriving, he sat down and gave the other hotdog to Isaac.
''Thanks.'' Isaac grabbed it and put half of the hotdog into his mouth before taking a sharp bite.
His mouth moved as he began chewing. The flavors of the hotdog assaulted his senses. Isaac closed his eyes in satisfaction and felt many different flavors traversing through his throat.
He couldn't even name half of them. The food stall owner had a pretty unique way of making hotdogs. He merged many different flavors that not many would ever think of.
Sebastian hummed with satisfaction after taking a bite, ''No wonder he is A-Rank.''
''What?'' Isaac was about to take another bite. Then he heard Sebastian's voice and halted his movements.
Sebastian nodded and pointed at the food stall owner, ''He was Chef in A-Rank restaurant before deciding to open his own food stall.''
''Oh.'' Isaac thought that it was interesting. The Layer of Feasting was indeed home to very special people.
Crack!
From the park's forest, two children with wooden sticks emerged. They seemed to be arguing and started striking each other with the wooden sticks.
Tiny red marks appeared around their delicate skins. However, they continued fighting. Sometimes managing to block and deflect, but often the stick would hit.
Sebastian turned his body halfway and noticed the sight. His eyebrow rose as he looked around him. Their parents didn't seem to be anywhere.
Isaac wiped his lips with the napkin. When he stood up, he also saw the fight.
He opened his mouth, about to ask what they were doing. Then, he heard the reason for their fight.
The first child struck the stick down, hitting the other children in the shoulder, who grimaced in pain.
''Swordsman is stronger class!'' He shouted in his childish voice.
The other children rubbed his aching shoulder. Then, he shouted back with an even louder voice, ''Knight is stronger! It has two weapons, making it stronger!''
''No, two weapons are stupid!''
Isaac's mouth twitched. Then, he noticed two middle-aged women exiting the forest with a stern look. They started scolding the two children.
Soon, they grabbed them from collars and dragged them away. The two children tried to fight back but were powerless against their mothers.
''Hah.'' Sebastian chuckled and stood up, ''Shall we leave?''
''Yeah.'' Isaac nodded. They decided to return to the mansion after Sebastian's phone was bombed with messages from Madison.