(Nikos appearance at the top)

Alyss:....

Alyss: what if you win?

FOREVER.

Alyss: ....! And if I refuse?

Alyss: 😟 what's the game?

you lose if:

you cannot continue

You repeat a word

Don't answer in 30 seconds

Say a word that could cause direct harm to your opponent

Yield.

Alyss: Those are all the rules?

Alyss: alright I guess I'll go first.

Are these two evenly matched?!

'let's do this!' I'll try to say words that will benefit me. Items that will be necessary for my journey.... legendary items and artifacts, hopefully they'll stay. 'Hey, weapon.' 'Can you eat the created objects for new unlocks?' 'Good. Do that. I'll let go of you during the game so move around and absorb as much stuff as you can as quick as you can.'

25 seconds... shit! Uh gotta speak quick "pineapple!" Why? Just why do I even bother?

Niko has that "really nigga?" Look on his face before he replies

I reply swiftly. "DONUT!!!!" And a beautifully glazed donut appears before me, ready to be eaten.

Dungeon boss Niko looks perturbed... he's getting ready to reply.

A fancy tea set floats with his magic. I see where you're going my dear opponent. Then!.... "apricot." Using the visualization factor to my advantage I summon apricot jam. The look on his face shows that he gets what I'm going for. He smirks as he says And just like that beautiful table appears as he makes the jam and tea land gently.

It's my turn now.. but what should I say? He knows what I'm doing and knows that by cooperating it'll be difficult for me to finish the set up. I'll just have to go with-! "EBONY!" A mountain of ebony ore appear crushing the crystal table and tea. It's my turn to smirk as my partner eats up the ore and remnants as the Rabbit looks at the mess with a furious expression.

It seems i was right. Rabbits truly CAN'T resist tea time. Then again, some of the characters in the story have always reminded me of twisted Alice in wonderland characters. Why would a white rabbit be any different than the others?

A not cute at all goat thing appears.

"Einherjer."

A brave warrior cuts down the goat thing.

It clouds appear and it starts to pour.

Rage

I the rain. It's fine to be in sometimes, but never, ever when I'm not wearing a coat. And I'm NOT WEARING A COAT. THIS DAMN RABBIT IS DEAD!!!!!

"NEPHILIM!"

A powerful creature has appeared. It aims for Nikolav's head!

(this counts as legal in my book because I'm not causing direct harm. In no game no life they show that you can remove the air which would cause harm if you don't surrender which means that adding or removing something that could cause harm to the opponent is legal as long as long as your no removing a limb or something from your opponent. That makes sense to me so we're rolling with it!)

Muldjewangk appears but is cut down by the Nephilim, however it takes the Einherjer down with it. The Nephilim goes back to fighting Nikolav. Nikolav has no trouble keeping up with the hybrids blows but still sustains some damage.

"Kitsune!"

A beautiful Tenko appears and starts backing up the Nephilim. They work together in perfect harmony using both swords and magic to beat the Rabbit.

Despite the ridiculous name, it's actually a type of leech skill! The Nephilim and Tenko fall lifeless in the rain.

I grit my teeth in anger. This is bullshit! I'm going to lose and be the pet of someone I don't know?! AS IF! I'll beat him and make him my slave! But... how?! What can I do to win this game?

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Wait! The RAIN! Water conducts electricity, and the Rabbit is weak from dodging, and even though he has full health, he has open wounds and bruises. So he stole their life to boost his, but that didn't heal his exhaustion and bruises like it would in a game. Of course it wouldn't! Cause it's not a game! Absorbing their life could never heal him, it could only give him their strengths and weaknesses. Nephilims are human/angel hybrids so they must be weak to lightning which is sometimes considered the wrath of God, I don't know the weaknesses of kitsune but I know that fox fire is more their foretay. I have to try either way!

"THUNDERBIRD!"

To my surprise, the beautiful majesty from fantastic beasts appeared, and it's thunder KOed the Rabbit. It turned turned into a tiny baby chick as if it were a Phoenix and landed in my hands.

I treated the dumb bunny and interrogated him when he woke up. He said he was sorry and that he was here all by himself for hundreds of years with his only guests being greedy or weak adventurers. Niko decided that he would give the dungeon to me if i let him stay with me. I agreed but said he had to pack all the stuff up so greedy pigs couldn't get it.

Niko: oh that's no problem! This is a personalized portable space so it's only accessible if the owner gives permission. Its part of my dungeon but it's isolated.

Alyss: really?!

Niko: yeah. And I can shape it any way I want to too, and even decide what's affected how.

Alyss: wooooow! Can you make a space for me?!

Niko: you can do that yourself. You won the game so if you want it it's yours.

Alyss: well since you're my pet and this is mine.... actually I'll just add a new section of the place. Let's go now. We have grinding to do!

Niko: oh don't worry too much. The anybody that die in the dungeon count towards exp and their items go automatically to the vault.

Alyss: that's great! But it's not enough for me. If only low leveled and greedy fools show up, I'll never become strong enough to beat the final wave.

Niko: very well then master. What would you have me do?

Alyss: open it up. Spread word of a bottomless dungeon frought with many treasures, the grandest and most powerful of which lies at it's depths... let's make it a tower!

Niko: a tower?

Alyss: Yes! A tall tower that appears only at night. It'll reach to the skies and will glow brighter than the sun... you can do that right?

Niko: it's possible... treasures and ancient knowledge has been left here by grand sages, powerful monsters and even previous heroes I've served and met. It'll cost alot of magic power but I have some artifacts lying around here that I could use as a catalyst...

Alyss: no don't! I'd like to look those over... can't you use something less detrimental to me as a sacrifice?

Niko: my level...

Alyss: which Is?

Niko:..... 3999....

Alyss: 😳

Niko: I told you I served and met alot of powerful people! I'm old dude. Of course my levels ridiculously high!

Alyss: well.... USE THAT INSTEAD ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! IF YOUR LEVEL IS THAT HIGH WHY THE FUCK DO YOU EVEN NEED TO USE COLATTERAL!? JUST USE YOUR MAGIC OR LEVELS AND SHUT UP! DON'T EVEN FUCKING TALK TO ME ABOUT USING MY ANCIENT ARTIFACTS TO CREAT A LEVEL FARMING TOWER YOU CUNT! YO STAFF SPIRIT BACK ME UP HERE!

Staff spirit(we'll just call him staffy till we discover his true name.):

Alyss: AND A SHOP SYSTEM ON SAFE FLOORS!

Alyss: it's like an all purpose merchant from my games. We'll make it so every safe floor has a teleporter that you can use to go back to a safe floor you've already been to.

Niko: about 3250...

Alyss: Alright. So, we'll leave this place and return to the town. You work on the towers creation in the meanwhile. And see if there's a way to retain your stats even if you lose your levels. If that's possible I want you to convert your remaining levels to experience so we can distribute it amongst myself and the others. I want it done by the time of the next wave. Got that?

Niko: yes ma'am.

Alyss: good. Hey staffy, can I leave you here for a bit or Nah?

Alyss: nah fam. You my new best friend! I know you can't betray me like the others did... And if you do then, was our time together, REALLY worth it?

Alyss: ahahaha! No need to get all worked up. I know you'd never hurt me as long as I never hurt you... right?

Alyss: speaking of... we're going to need some slave crests for our newest party members and the older ones. I don't want any betrayals... if they don't consent, they get kicked out of the party. For now we'll stay here and go through inventory. Show us to the vault, we'll be staying there for a bit so you better work hard!

Niko: yes ma'am! Right this way...

A/N: houboy, that was a real banger wasn't it? I'm getting a bit more comfortable with writing and communicating my own thoughts and feelings so maybe you'll be seeing more of my personal history? I did say I was betrayed in the past and this IS a self insert. I'm not uncomfortable talking about it nowadays cause I know I'm not the only one whose been fucked over by someone you thought was your friend. I want to expand on it more and go in depth about my experiences with "friends." Let me know what you thought of the Pokemon style of battle cause I don't like Pokemon, but I like the turn based fighting style and the "so and so used blank on so and so 2.0. It was blank effective!" You know? I think that works for me. But obviously that's not gonna be really good for my D'Gray man and fft0 stories. Don't ask me WHY I just feel that it won't work out well with the story. And if I had to explain it I'd say it's because later on in the novel, way WAY later, Naofumi starts actively buying and training monsters which he uses to till the land and such. Aaaaand farm exp since they're part of his party he gets free exp. Whiiich is where the whole tower farming idea came into play. and of course there's a final wave which has to do with the light novel and why the wave exists. We'll get into that when the queen comes back so you have been warned. Also about the other stories being on hold, they'll be updated when I get inspiration but if I hit the point in the story where there's a fight scene what I'll do is I'll try to write one myself but if I feel it's lackluster I'll reach out and see if anyone wants to write one for it and we can talk it over. Naturally if i DO need someone to write one and someone DOES write one, credit where credit is due bro. You'll get credited and maybe I'll put you in as a cameo, who knows! We'll see where the road takes us cause that's how I write. No joke, all of the shit here is me just going for it and not even looking it over when it's done, so the fact that it has as many views as it does is phenomenal to me. So thank you all for reading this story and I love you guys so much!