### Red rabbit Round 1###

Lina's heart was in turmoil, she could not predict any actions of the human. The man before her was an enigma, no man in their correct state of mind would choose the Amazonian jungle as their starting location, but the man before her did it. Not only that; the strength and resourcefulness that he showed him already made him one of the best suitable candidates for her Mother's experiment.

She watched in rapt attention as she saw the man ripping the mosquito wings into thin little shreds and coiling them together to fashion a rope out of it. He then proceeded towards the trunk and cut them off from roots by using a single strike.

"Hey. What's with the +5 to the stats? Any ideas?", she was broken out of her reverie by the question.

"Most probably it’s due to the sword that you have equipped. It’s a special sword made by Mother herself so it is bound to be special.", she replied puffing her chest, as if making love and devotion for her mother evident.

"All right lets see the sword then. Show stats.", shouted Zero.

Unnamed Muramasa SwordLevel 1Elemental AffinitiesLockedSkills???

Unnamed sword belonging to Zero. Forged by the master crafter Muramasa from the purest Metallic Hydrogen. The sword is an excellent conductor of elemental affinities.

The sword provides +5 to all stats per sword level.

Proceed to naming the Sword?

"Yes" "No"

"Hmmm, I name thee Gideon", muttered Zero. In Hebrew mythology Giedeon was said to be the destroyer of all evils.

He was a bit confused by the material used for the sword crafting. He had heard of Hydrogen as a gas but never as a metal. He made a mental note to ask someone about it.

He tied up all the trunks that he got form the mosquitos into a bundle and hefted them up on his back and started running forward. He had presumed that the valley was probably the safest point in the Jungle right now and wanted to use it for training.

He ignored the multiple +1 to Strength and +1 to Agility and continued running. After couple of hours of intense running he came in front of a dark cave. Lina and Zero shared a look of mutual understanding and entered the cave. They knew that if they wanted to survive the night then they would need shelter and nothing says shelter like a dark cave with only one entry and exit point.

Zero entered the cave, the silence and the eerie atmosphere inside was accentuated by the slow droplets of water hitting the rocky floor. He was a veteran soldier and could smell the killing intent in the air. He immediately took a step back as a bolt of lightning came rushing to the spot he was standing on a moment before.

Warning!!! You have entered the Red Rabbit's lair.

All stats -5.

Petrification in effect.

All agility related stats and buffs -5%.

"This is bad. At this rate we might not survive. RUN!!!", Shouted Zero to Lina. He urged her to abandon him and started running in the opposite direction, as he saw a gigantic red coloured rabbit emerging from the cave. It had 2 horns instead of ears and looked really ferocious. Zero could see slight hints of electrical surges coming from the rabbit’s horns.

The Rabbit covered the distance in a blink and mauled Zero. Last thing that Zero saw coming was a huge fluffy claw.

"You have died!. Setting resurrection point to the clearing in the Jungle. Time remaining for respawn 15.59.59 hours."

'Great now I can't login for 16 hours.', Zero thought to himself while removing the helmet.

Zero was really lucky. For the first month of gameplay the penalty for death were waived off so he did not end up losing any stats or experience from his first death.

Looking at his watch he sighed, "I died within the first 4 hours or 16hrs of gameplay. Disgraceful!!!"

Zero realized that he was weak; and based on his teachings answer to weakness is training, training and more training. He made a resolve to kill the red rabbit as soon as he spawned. He was also a little worried about Lina, but felt a little relieved remembering that Maya will not let anything happen to her, after all she was her self proclaimed daughter.

In reality the Red Rabbit was called a Jackalope and it was a C grade monster. Even level 50 players had difficulty soloing it.

He checked in on his sister, and seeing that she was still asleep made his heart flutter a little bit. He took out his cell and dialled a number from his memory.

"Yess.", asked a slurry voice.

"What do you know about Hydrogen Metal.", asked Zero.

"Huh? A better question would be what do YOU know about it? Did you pick up a physics book by mistake?", replied the voice.

'These nerd types are always a pain in the ass.’ thought Zero. Who he had called just now was called Seven, he was the residential expert on all things scientific. His responsibilities for the Unit were to create and maintain high end gadgets, sort of like Q to James Bond, though no one had the courage to tell it to his face.

"I am currently playing a game and I have a katana made out of it. Since you fancy yourself as Wizard of Oz so thought I could ask you.", replied Zero simply.

Seven: "A game!!! Thank God. I thought you being Zero and all, had finally gotten your hands on it. Wait... A game? Is it Mythica? We need to meet. Where are you? I will come there. "

Zero was shocked, he had never heard of Seven reacting so violently. Even now he could hear the grinding of Seven's knuckles on the cell. He wondered what could have agitated Seven so much. He stood near the window staring outside where dawn had just started to break; the first light of sunrise illuminated the room. He pondered over the events of last night and how it had changed many lives in a bad bad way and thought of people who were in pain and finally with fire in his eyes thought of the people who were going to be in a pain worse than death.

"Soon, very soon Sis. I will not rest till the bastards cry tears of blood.", he promised his sleeping sister and proceeded out the door to grab some breakfast.

He was barely out of the door when he ran into Seven. The young Nerd had a unkempt hair and was panting hard as if he ran all the way here.

"Hello Captain. I ran here as soon as possible. Tell me about the Katana.", he panted.

"Wait before you answer that we need to address the social customs.", he bowed and said "I am so sorry to hear about your sister."

Zero did not know whether to hug or hit him. He was really worried now, the socially awkward genius was greeting him and asking about the wellbeing of his sister, this was like a bolt out of the blue. He proceeded towards his car motioning the genius to follow, and he complied.

"Ok shoot. What's got your panties in a bunch?", asked an evidently tired Zero.

"You know that everything you do in a Mythica is 90% real right? That means all experiments done in Mythica can be replicated in real life. Now coming to your katana. Its made out of Hydrogen Metal. Hydrogen metal is considered to be a mythical metal and world's best Super conductor.

Do you understand what a Superconductor is? Of course you don't. Never mind then; Superconductivity is a phenomenon of exactly zero electrical resistance and expulsion of magnetic fields occurring in certain materials when cooled below a characteristic critical temperature.

NOW what it means is with the right set of conditions you can control gravity, you can control magnetism and even the temperatures. It’s all theoretical of course because there has never been a substantial amount of Hydrogen metal to experiment with.", Seven took a deep breath because apparently he had been talking without taking one till now and continued for another 5 minutes.

For Zero of course this was all science mumbo jumbo, but what he really understood that Maya had not only given him a Muramasa but apparently a Weapon of Mass Destruction.

"STOP.", He whispered before Seven could bombard him with more useless information. "How can we weaponize it?"

Seven sighed; this is exactly what he hated about the Unit. They find a Holy Grail and think of only weaponizing it. But still no one has dared try what Zero and he were going to do to "together" he thought to himself.

"I will start working on theorizing some plans. In return you have to provide me with all the results. The results as in all the videos of the Katana in action.", replied a super excited Seven.

"Done."

Zero looked at his watch and set an alarm for lettting him know when could login again. He then went back to the hospital; only to find a teary eyed, remorseful Amy awake. She was being held by her crying parents who had spent the last night in living hell.

Needless to say she was apologetic as well as grief stricken. Zero spent the entire day with her consoling her, scolding her, telling her jokes, basically doing anything and everything to take her mind off the fearful ordeal.

Finally his watch rang out a couple of beeps, indicating that it was time for round 2.

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