The sound of monsters approaching, blades clashing and lightning strikes can be heard in the surroundings. The battlefield was cleared before dawn and Shun managed to level up many times.

[NOTICE]

YOU LEVELED UP

LEVEL 19...

SKILL [WEAPON ALCHEMY] LEVELED UP

CREATION LIMIT INCREASED (1/3)

"..it's almost dawn, did we..... finished all of them." Shun yelled while gasping for air.

"If you're talking about monsters from this area, then it's a yes." Rai replied as he looked up to Shun who's standing in the pile of monster corpses as the sun rises from behind him.

"You look like a knight who just won a fight against a countless number of enemy" Rai exaggerated as he covered his face from the bright light coming from the sun.

"Yeah, I'm basically an armorless knight who fought against a king without a weapon." Shun jokingly replied as he looked at himself and saw his clothing's was torn apart and his body was covered with monsters blood.

"Show [Status]!" Shun commanded the system.

[STATUS]

Name: Shun Futaro

Level 19: 1235/3700

Guild: NONE

Title: NONE (2 more)

Job: Wizard

Technique: Alchemy

[STATISTICS]

HP: 2863/3300

MP: 289/470

Magic: 200

Physical: 105

Agility: 3.0

Endurance: 101/190

Vitality: 33

Intelligence: 106

"Well I guess my HP went up a lot, but what I'm aiming for is my Physical and agility to increase... I wonder if this is enough for the big battle that 'walking flashlight' was talking about." Shun murmured as he took one last glance at the screen before closing it. "Show [Weapon Alchemy Skill]!" Shun chanted.

[ WEAPON ALCHEMY (LEVEL 2)]

Mana cost:40

Maximum creations: 1/3

CREATION RESTORATION COUNTDOWN: 6h 38m 41s

"The creation limit increased!...Now I can create two more weapons.." Shun muttered.

"I think it's important to use it wisely. I don't have much knowledge about alchemy and we don't know the limit of which elements can you use to create weapons." Rai suddenly spoked.

"What do you mean?" Shun questioned.

"Y'know, you can only change anything into one type of elements. For example, changing oxygen into titanium dagger by using one of your creation count... But you should find out which element is treated by the system as strong elements" Rai explained.

"So basically, every element has their own damage calculated by the system, but how exactly are they calculation it?" Shun responded.

"Weapon weight, sharpness, magic inside it and etc." Rai answered ungluing his eyes from the screen.

"If I can create one element per creation count does that mean I can't create weapons with multiple elements in it?" Shun curiously glanced.

"Yeah, weapon with multiple elements such as guns and explosives, you can't create them" Rai replied.

"But what if I use multiple creation counts?" Shun wondered, turning his head to Rai.

"I don't know, maybe that will do the trick." Rai unsurely replied, shooked his head.

"Okay let's try it." Shun uttered as he closed his eyes and starts visualizing the weapons shape and elemental components. He focused on the edges and the sharpness of the weapon.

[SKILL WEAPON ALCHEMY ACTIVATED]

2 CREATION COUNT HAS BEEN USED (CREATION LIMIT 3/3)

Rai stared in surprise as this is the first time he saw Shun using his creation alchemy. Shun slowly opened his eyes as soon as the weapon creation was completed and the weapon constructed fell into his hands. He felt the weapons texture as soon as it fell on his hand.

"Woah, a combination of diamond and tungsten... it actually worked." Shun rejoiced as he saw the dagger he was holding in his hand. It was a black dagger with black base made from tungsten and the blade made from diamond.

[BEAST KILLER]

+ 27 magic

"A physical weapon that deals magic damage?" Shun wondered as he glanced in surprise.

"That means one of the element that you used are treated by the system as a magic type item," Rai answered. "Or maybe you poured so much magic in it."

Shun took out another weapon from his inventory and tried comparing them.

[HUNTER'S DAGGER]

+ 21 physical attack

"So, Am I supposed to dual wield this weapons." Shun murmured.

"Let's go, Yuya is waiting for us," Rai yelled, opening his inventory to grab the teleportation crystal.

"How's that thing even works?" Shun questioned as he walked near him.

"You'll find out soon!" Rai replied with a grin. He pointed the crystal in the sky by raising his hand that holding it.

The crystal started glowing and a magic circle appeared below and around them.

"Take us to the Meiji Jingu Shrine!" Rai shouted, it surprised Shun. The scenery around them suddenly changes and the teleportation crystal was gone.

"Is that it?" Shun was surprisingly unhappy about the outcome. He felt like he's stomach went upside down for a moment and he felt like throwing up. "I'm kinda felt like throwing up."

"We jumped from one place to another faster than light, of course you'll feel dizzy." Rai ridiculously mumbled.

"You should've warned me, you f*cker!" Shun angrily responded.

Rai slowly looked at the surroundings and realized that they were outside the sacred forest near the Jingu Shrine.

"The location has a barrier, teleportation inside the barrier is impossible." Rai spoked.

"I see, so that means this is the right place. Shun mumbled, rubbing his head. "This is the sacred forest, why are we here?" Shun curiously asked. His question was answered when he heard footsteps behind him.

"Yo, what took you so long." A familiar voice spoked from behind. Shun focused his attention to the person behind him, and to his surprise it was his one and only best friend Yuya along with other three unfamiliar faces.

[YUYA NAKUMO]

LEVEL 17

"Yuya, Finally you're here, do you know I almost die protecting Shun..." Rai exaggerated with tears on his eyes as he approaches Yuya.

"This bastard," Shun looked at him with angry gaze. "I was the one who almost die." he murmured.

"I know so don't cry," Yuya kindly replied.

"Is that really Shun? He's a bit different." Yuya whispered to Rai.

"Yeah, I think increasing the physical stats will also change our body appearances... He's getting taller and taller recently." Rai replied as they stared at Shun who's quite pissed off for some reasons.

"What happened to him? What's with that face?" Yuya wondered.

Meanwhile Shun was too focused to the other person behind Yuya. It's a women probably younger than him and reassembles Yuya's face, her hair is white as snow with blue eyes.

"Who the hell is that b*tch, she's staring at me. Is she mad or something" Shun whimpering in his thought as he stares fixedly to the woman behind Yuya.

"Shun what's the problem?" Yuya approached Shun and waived his hand front of him.

"Who the hell are you?" Shun ignored Yuya and pointed at the women.

Yuya and Rai anchored their attention to the pointed direction.

"Ehh, seriously!...With your pissed off face, I thought your thinking about how miserable your life is...that surprised me." Rai replied and laughed.

"I forgot to introduce them to you, this is my big sister Rein, and her friends Mei and Hana" Yuya introduced them by pointing fingers.

[REIN NAKUMO]

LEVEL 19

[MEI]

LEVEL 14

[HANA]

LEVEL 15

"Big sister? But she looks younger." Shun was disappointed with the reply, he thought that one of them is Yuya's girlfriend. "So you're Yuya's onee-chan(big sister) nice to meet you!" Shun greeted. The woman bowed his head in response. "So can someone please explain,why are we here?" Shun curiously asked, lifting an eyebrow.

"We're here to clear a large danger zones and a dungeon." Yuya explained.

"A dungeon? Seriously? This is really like an RPG game. Look at those new buildings, what the hell happened in Tokyo?" Shun stared ok amazement at the new constructed buildings he can see frame far away.

"This is clearly an RPG, It's a bit different though. It's more like a life gambling game." Yuya frowned.

"There's a dungeon huh. So that's why there's a barrier. But... what are we fighting for? We can just... get out of this place and run away for our lives."

"I understand, but 5 blocks away from here, there's our family and some civilians alive..if this barrier opens up the monsters will continuously spawn and they'll be in danger. We need to kill the dungeon boss to destroy the dungeon. I hope you'll understand, Shun" Rai explained.

"I understand, don't get me wrong. I can't just stand here while you're risking you life. I'm the strongest among us anyway." Shun responded.

"Talk about arrogant." Rai narrowed his eyes and stared at Shun.

"But can we really stop them with this numbers?" Shun asked.

"Don't worry, we're not the only one who's fighting, all players in Shibuya is helping us. Rai explained. "That's all we know."

"So that's why I can't sense anyone in the city earlier cuz they're all here!" Shun murmured.

"But atleast beware of the player killers, they have a red icon in the map." Shun added.

"Yeah," They replied in sync.

[WARNING]

THE BARRIER WILL OPEN IN 15 SECONDS

"Get ready" Yuya screamed as he pulled out a long katana from his inventory. Shun pulled his double wielding dagger from his inventory.

"6...5....4....3...2....1" The status screen finished the countdown and the barrier started to open up. As soon as the barrier was gone monsters went rushing towards them as if they're in a war. The sound of blades clashing monsters growling and screams can be heard everywhere.