Gods' Impact Online

"What's the wrong man? Why are you so panicked? Is everything okay?" Kayden asked calmly.

"Shay! Is he on your friend list?"

"Obviously… we added each other together, remember?"

"Check it!"

"Okay. Stop shouting, bro."

Kayden opened his friends and scrolled down, but a few seconds later, his face turned pale. He looked at Zach with the exact panicked face Zach was making earlier.

"He is not…"

Zach turned to Misha and asked, "What about you, Misha?"

"I have never added him as a friend." Misha shook her head as her hair moved left and right. "We were never even together. When he joined the guild, I had left, remember?"

"Yeah, but…"

"What's going on, though? Why are you both panicking? Did something happen to him?"

"He is not on our friend list."

"Maybe he just unfriended you both?" Misha shrugged. "It doesn't notify you when someone does that."

"Shay would never do that," Kayden said.

"Well, if you are that worried about him, why don't you just go to the flying guild and meet him there? But if I remember correctly, they already ascended."

"He is not there!"

"Oh. Then…" Misha pondered for a while and muttered, "Then… wait…"

She gulped down anxiously and asked, "You… are not saying that he….?"

"That's what we are worried about!"

"Zach! Zach!" Kayden tapped on Zach's shoulder and said, "Elliott! That guild leader. Why don't you ask him? He should know it!"

"That's not possible," Zach shook his head while sighing.

"But at least try it!"

"I killed that motherfucking Eliott!"

"What the—"

"Now is seriously not the time to talk about it." Zach opened his menu and messaged Victoria to ask her if she had Shay as a friend or anyone who was close to Shay.

"Hey…" Kayden slowly walked to the couch and sat on it with a petrified look on his face. He grabbed his head in his hand and muttered, "Zach…"

"..."

"If his name is not on the list anymore… doesn't that mean it's already too late?" Kayden asked in a low voice.

"...."

Watching Zach and Kayden panic, Misha wanted to reassure them, but she herself wasn't sure of anything.

DING!

Zach received a message from Victoria. He immediately opened it and read, "No, but I know someone who might have Shay as a friend. She is my friend called Natasha. Let me ask her."

'Where have I heard that name before?' Zach asked herself.

DING!

[Zach… something is wrong!] Victoria messaged.

[What happened?]

[Natasha is not on my friend list. Do you think she unfriended me?]

[No. We will talk about this later. I have something important to do.]

Zach turned to Misha and asked, "Do you know the girl Shay loved? She died in the tragedy on the 75th floor."

Misha shook her head.

"I think her name was something like Diana… or Daina."

"I do remember a girl with that name in the guild." Misha thought for a while and said, "But she was a pretty simple and plain-looking girl. I don't think someone like Shay would fall in love with her."

"Now is not the time to talk about all this…." Kayden muttered. "He is not stupid to commit something like suicide."

"Apparently, Victoria's friend named Natasha also has the same case," Zach informed. "Could it be that they both… wait…"

Zach recalled how Shay wanted to know more about the 75th floor.

"Don't tell me that… he went to that dungeon?!"

"Even so, he was strong. He had skills and enough brains. And that tragedy was because of a god's plan, right? It was only a one-time thing. The regular 75th was normal. Two high-level players could easily take on the boss on the 75th floor," Zach then added.

"Where else could he have gone?" Kayden wondered. "What if he went to fight the real boss or something?"

"We don't have time to sit here and think about the possibilities! Kayden, you do what you can do. I will go to the dungeon and make sure my assumption isn't true. Let's just hope that he is alright and he simply unfriended us.

I wouldn't mind if he doesn't want to stay friends with us anymore, but he definitely shouldn't be dead. He can't die in a stupid game like this! He is a professional gamer, for fucks sake! He would never die in a game!"

Zach ran out of the house and jumped on Cerberus.

"Take me to the dungeon, and go as fast as you can!"

[As you command, my liege.]

Cerberus flapped his wings and soared through the sky.

"Faster!"

[...]

Cerberus changed his form from three heads to only one head and turned the shadow matter into a pair of new wings. Now, he had four wings that he used to fly much faster than before.

Within a minute, they had reached the dungeon of the second realm. And even before Cerberus could land properly, Zach jumped off and dashed into the dungeon.

[My liege! Wait, you shouldn't approach so carelessly. There might be a monster even stronger than the soul eater!] Cerberus warned Zach as she chased after him.

"I don't have time to worry about this. This is a situation when one needs to act careless! Go into my shadow, Cerberus! And you remember your training, right?"

[Of course, my liege.] Cerberus went into Zach's shadow and uttered, [I will be ready for your signal to surprise attack any enemy and monster.]

Zach's undead army was strong, but Zach wanted to use them efficiently as the undead also used up Zach's MP whenever they were outside his body. So he had trained a few of the undead, such as Cerberus, Urluk, and many others, in his free time and taught them various battle sequences.

That way, Zach's MP would be saved, and the undead would be able to attack the opponent from the shadow.

Zach immediately dashed into the portal and selected the 75th floor. He could go into any floor he wanted as he had already cleared the entire dungeon before.

DING!

[Warning! Warning! Danger! Do not proceed further! Warning! Warning!]

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