Vash was running over the roofs of the buildings and reached the wall again and jumped down.
As he was falling, he looks at his system message and irked at the content.
[1/3 fragments found collected]
He looks back down and lands on the ground... And just when he raises his head to look forward... He was met with the body laying lifeless on the ground... The very "demoness" Was laying dead in front of him.. And.. He had no idea how it happened.
Vash:"Tch–!"
"Just.. What the hell happened?... Why is she in this form?... Why does she looks exactly like my dream?... And why is she dead?... Who killed her?"
Behind him, on top of the wall, sarin and other soldiers had came following behind him, as he had ran off the moment sarin said that general was missing and he saw the reward message.
He looks at the body and notices just how brutally it was annihilated... It's limbs torn apart, the torso torn from all angles like a animal ate her alive... And the head crushed through metal skin and bones.
The wall cracked and a large Grove rode down to the ground, like something got dragged through it.
He held his head and stumbled back a bit.. Getting flashbacks of the dream he had in the morning. His mind was so heavy that he couldn't hear anything.. Even the muffled voices that came from over the top of the wall.
He started to breath in rags.. Clutching his chest and sweating as he tries to make sense of the situation.. His mind running miles in few seconds. There were too many questions, his own, the questions that others will ask him if he said he did it. And the questions about why seniel of all people.
Vash:"th... This can't be..... No way,... T.. That has to be a dream.... But, she's dead here.... How,.....how, ...how, how, how, howh, how, how, how, how!.... How am I supposed to explain this?, how did I even do this?... Why did this happen anyway?!.... She.. She might be an NPC... But everyone in this camp looked up to her... She was the protector that everyone wanted to be like."
"Is this supposed to be a joke!?.... I wanted to extract the fragment without killing her!... There had to be a way!... She didn't had to die like this!.... What am I supposed to tell them now?... I don't even know how to bring them back to earth either.... The system will only allow me to go back."
"Tsk–... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!"
he screamed, startling everyone on the wall as it reached the skies. It wasn't a scream of pain.. It was a scream of pained frustration.. A frustration of not being able to do what he wanted.
He felt another headache, this time a bigger one and stumbled upon one knee, getting another flashback.
[Hours ago]
His vision tilted down to the side as demonesses claw cuts his head.. And the system message pops up.
[The player is dead... Auto mode activating.]
[Warning: player is emotionally unstable.. Auto mode is being conflicted by player's subconsciousness]
For vash, the time seem to have frozen in place, his head decapitated to the side as all he could think of were the faces of his parents, his brother, his best friend.
Vash:"w.. What's happening?... Why can't I feel my body?.... Am... Am I.. Gonna die?.. Just like this?... No... M.. Mom.. Dad... Brother... I.. I don't want to die... I don't want to leave them again... I've already left behind my real time line's family... I don't want to loose this one too... I.. I don't even know if I'll get another chance or not.... Please... Let me live.. I want to live... I will fight... I.... I will fucking kill this bitch!"
Suddenly he gets another picture in his mind... A blur little girl... Who said something to him.. But it was inaudible.. And he suddenly felt his body reconnect and regenerate... The auto mode got activated... But the system message said something weird.
[The player's subconsciousness is colliding with auto mode... The player has lost control..... The player has entered the flow... "Berserk"]
Just as the message said "Berserk"... A big impact explodes out and makes the demoness loose her grip a bit, and vash grips both the claw on his neck and the claw on his hip... His grip breaking the very metal of her claw finger.
His energy had changed, this was no longer calm or chill or playful or cold or anything... This was.... Crazy.. He looks up at the demoness.
His eyes we're anything but normal.. His two eyes.. Completely pitch black on the sclera, we're glowing red on the pupils.. The veins on his forehead popped so much like they'll burst away right now.
The drool saliva leaking out of the sides of his mask. And the most intriguing part of it. Everytime the claws cut him, the injury heals back itself.
It's not cazy.. But it's intriguing since berserk isn't a mode that only blocks your state of mind.
— A person can acquire the berserk mode in a kind of situation where they have no thought other than killing. For this moment, vash had no thinking, no sense, no pain, and no weakness.
— Normal people think that berserk is a state of mind where people lose there senses and go out of control, which is just half truth... Berserk is a mode that came from the very person it was named after... "Berserk" ... It's not just an state of mind... It's a ability, that only a few achieved.. One berserker, two- the Indian God.. Maja deva shiva, and third.. Vash Or varun as he was known as before this floor.
— Berserk: an state of flow or trance, where the user have no senses of surroundings and people. The only thing the user of berserk see is destruction. In this state, the users physical ability and battle reflexes reaches the extremes that are 10 times the current capacity of that user. Increasing not just strength but agility, stamina and regeneration.. The only weakness being low defense, which gets cancelled out by the regeneration of the user.
He breaks the claws of the demoness and frees himself out, but instead of falling down, he grabs onto the broken claw and uses the jerk of his arm to throw himself up and land above her head.
He stabs his fingers into her forehead metal piece and does a flip forward.. Using the momentum with his increased stats and throws her down to the ground. Her body colliding with the wall and slided down, on it, while she tries in vein to stop herself with her claws. Her wings were broken after the slam on the wall.
Vash lands down on the ground and the demoness too comes down while trying to stop herself and after getting her feets on the land, she screeches loudly with "—SCREEEEECH!"
But, vash didn't even flinch, instead.. He let's out a loud roar... An clear challenge with instincts... He wasn't backing out anymore, he wasn't stopping by his emotions.... He was a beast, in front of it's prey.... A lion confronting an elephant. Knowing he have absolutely less chance of defeating it, but still going against it because of rage and ego.
He lunges off towards the demoness, leaving the ground break apart from the force. He grabs onto her and pulls back,.. It was a seismic spin.. He spun her in a blur of an speed, and threw all the way back to sky and jumped up himself, coming above her and kicked her head down... Breaking it to the metal bones and deforming her face completely... But, Instead of stopping right there.... He stabs both of his hand into the demoness's chest.. And tears it apart... Poking his hand inside and pulled out her heart core.
He raised the heart core up with his hand and plunged it into his mouth.. Eating it like a wild animal.
[Currently]
After few minutes of headache and flashbacks.... He ran off forward, jumping over the big hole and kept running forward no thinking, no direction... Just running because his head was hurting.. He kept holding it with one hand all the time while running.
As he kept running, he came across the light that reached the sky... The same light he's been seeing since lower floors... But this time, it didn't had a cathedral inside it.. But... Just a door... Singular door standing abundant in the middle of the vast area with nothing.
This was the way, this is from where he can leave... But, what about those people?.. He can't bring himself to leave them here, not when they lost their general.. The very person who they were living because of. He clicked his tongue.. And ran back... Not to the camp.. But around the whole place... From pole to pole.... North to South... Killing every bit of the monsters and bloodworms... Finally reaching a large crystal that was floating in the sky... He remembers sarin telling him that this was a crystal that placed a barrier over the camp.. But, he was sure this isn't a barrier crystal... It was a teleportation crystal... One way stone. The people came here because of this... So, he cuts it in half and turns it off.. He did it to stop other people from coming here out of nowhere, and reduce the missing cases of the earth.. But.. What he didn't realize was.... This was just one crystal.
Just as he broke this, the system message pops up, saying.
[1/3 waystones destroyed... Destroy to more to complete the subquest: "way back home"]
Vash:"What....The Hell?... Where the hell am I supposed to find two more?"
He stares at the message with wide and questioning eyes. Thinking about where will he find the other two, because he had already went all around this place. This wasn't infinite after all, this place was just 12,000,000 km square in area, and he had explored it completely to kill the monsters... That leaves only one possibility for him. The waystones have to be on the floors above this.
But, he was confused.. And hopeful..
Vash thinks:"is there really a chance, that these people can go back to where they came from?... I can bring them back to the world.... If.. That's possible... I'll do anything possible to do that... These people had done nothing to deserve this kind of life... They have families and friends... They can't live here.. Out of the place they belong to."