Worlds’ Apocalypse Online

"Arg… my head hurts"

"Where am I?"

She opened her eyes and muttered.

Her vision slowly became clearer again.

Within the darkness, there was a faint light.

Indeed, this is the light of a drinking bar.

Looking up at the rows of bottled liquor in front of her, she became a bit more slightly awake.

Across from her, a black dog sat on the bar on all four legs.

The black dog looked at her with a cold gaze.

"There has never been someone that violated the rules as much as you in the Holy Church, I have to issue you a stern warning" Black Hound coldly told her.

"What rules did I violate again?" she was still confused.

"You drank all night!" Black Hound couldn't help but shout.

She tilted her head in thought.

…right, I did drink a bit too much yesterday.

"Do you have any idea how easy it is for people to take advantage of you when you're so blackout drunk?" Black Hound continued to criticize her.

"Wasn't this a bar owned by our Church?" she was still confused.

"Even so, you can't be this careless! You slept for over 4 hours straight, if it weren't for me being here to stand guard, who knows what would've happened!" Black Hound angrily leapt off the table and went out of the bar.

Anna froze.

There seems… to be something not quite right.

Behind the bar, a beautiful woman with a cigarette in her mouth came closer.

While cleaning a glass, she consoled her: "Anna, don't be mad"

"I'm not mad, I'm just-----"

"Yeah, it only woke up one minute before you did"

"And also-----"

"Yep, it drank thrice as much as you did"

"So-----"

"It didn't pay either, hah, here's the bill for both of you. Ah, I really have to say, the next time you want to go drinking, you really don't have to take that limp dog as a drinking buddy"

"Damn you Black Hound!!!"

"He ran really quickly, no need to chase"

"…Hah, fine, give me the bill"

Anna took out a piece of diamond skull and slammed it on the table.

The beautiful woman waved her hand to collect the diamond skull.

"Impressive, so you can obtain such a nice thing already huh" she praised.

Putting the skull away, the beautiful woman thought for a bit and said: "In truth, you can probably be assured, since this place wasn't that far away from the main Church, no one would dare to touch a hair on your body, but if this was any other place, you definitely can't drink that much"

"Not to mention, being too drunk will affect your fighting capabilities"

"I know, I'm not that stupid" Anna was still angry.

"Then last night was?"

"Just a little celebration"

"Ah? What was the occasion?"

"The Church's Holy Relic awakening ritual"

"Ah?" the beautiful woman's eyes lit up and the pitch of her voice was also raised slightly.

"According to the rules, I shouldn't try to pry into this, but seeing how happy you were, you must've gotten quite a wonderful Relic of Death huh"

"Let's just say it was decent, thank you but I have to go now"

"Alright, congratulations"

"Thanks"

Anna waved her hand and quickly left the bar.

It was already daytime outside.

The street of the battle zone was full of hustle and bustle, people going in and out nonstop.

Being hit by the sudden sunlight, combined with not having fully sobered up, Anna staggered and almost tripped.

Shaking her head, Anna regained her balance.

"Extra, extra, hottest news today, Barry has recovered, the Super Dimensional worlds' stock market exploded more than ever!"

A paperboy walked by as he was doing his morning rounds.

Hm?

Barry?

Who's that?

My mind is still mixed up, let's just go back and sleep first before anything else.

Thinking that, Anna briefly determined the direction to the Church and slowly staggered her way there.

Her messed up state quickly drew a lot of attention.

Countless gazes peered her way, as soon as they discovered it was the beautiful Anna-----

They all averted their gaze as soon as possible.

The street became hurried, many people even quickened their steps.

A hoodlum who didn't know anything wanted to try his luck, but was pulled away by his group and quickly left the area.

In a secluded alleyway.

"Why did you pull me away? That was a great beauty, and quite the immature one as well, definitely top-grade merchandise!" the man angrily questioned.

The rest of them exchanged looks and bitter smiles.

"Just let it go, the brothers only did it for your own good" their boss said.

"Boss, but why-----"

"Because that girl is a member of the Church of Death"

Hearing that, the man couldn't help but shrink a bit.

But he still wasn't convinced and tried to refute: "But even so we didn't need to run that far, the Death God wouldn't allow his believers to harvest other's lives so easily"

This time, even the boss was smiling bitterly.

"Last time she got that drunk, there was a group that wanted to capture her, do you know what happened to them?"

"What happened?"

"They all tripped and fell, banging their heads on the ground and died on the spot"

"That's impossible! Being able to reach the Strife Zones, they must be elites among Combatants, how could they just trip and fall?" the man didn't believe it at all.

But no one said anything else, even their boss went silent.

It was now that he noticed that they were telling the truth.

Recalling something, his face became pale as cold sweat started dripping down his forehead.

"Causality… there is an aspect of Death by her side…"

"Correct, that's why if you don't want to trip and die, or choke while drinking water and die, or even choke while eating and die, then stay as far away from her as possible"

The boss patted his shoulder and lightly said.

…

The black horse galloped through the wilderness.

High in the sky, occasionally a golden circle would appear and expand.

That was the Old God's barrier's reaction whenever an Entropy Ghost attempted to infiltrate this world.

According to old man Jiao, the demonized mob were constantly using a complicated ritual to summon more Entropy Ghosts from the Fallen Zones.

And their side no longer had enough people to interfere with the summoning ritual.

Gu Qing Shan retracted his gaze and sensed the presences in the wind.

"How long until we reach the place you said?" he asked.

"With our current speed, about 10 minutes is enough" old man Jiao loudly replied.

10 minutes----

This journey will be a bit hard.

Pulling back his inner sight, Gu Qing Shan patted the black horse: "Ignore everything and keep running forward"

"Got it" the black horse answered.

It sped up.

It was now a black afterimage that dashed through the wild like an arrow that had been shot.

While sitting on the horse, Gu Qing Shan tapped his Inventory Bag to take out a formation plate.

His hands quickly moved around operating the plate.

A flash of light appeared out of nowhere, enveloping the black horse as well as the turtle shell it was pulling behind.

The light quickly stabilized, displaying itself as countless spirit runes and disappeared.

A formation was formed.

Gu Qing Shan's hands didn't stop.

Soon enough, another flash of light lit up the wilderness.

Gu Qing Shan had arranged another formation.

"What are you doing?" old man Jiao asked.

"Putting up formations and preparing for battle"

Among the flickering flashes of light, various large-scaled formations were quickly set up.

"There's an enemy?" old man Jiao was anxious.

"Don't worry, nothing I haven't beaten------ your wounds are still not fully recovered so don't do anything yet, otherwise it might open again" Gu Qing Shan said.

"But what if they try to attack me?" old man Jiao asked.

Hearing that, Laura told him: "I'll help you a bit, uncle"

She waved her hand.

The turtle shell he was standing on shook a bit and quickly formed a smaller shell.

This smaller shell was almost like armor, quickly attaching itself to old man Jiao's body.

Right after that----

Another smaller shell appeared from the armor and attached to old man Jiao's head.

"This is------" old man Jiao looked at his full set of armor.

"Don't worry, the shells are really hard, as long as you pull your body inside, your enemies won't be able to hit you" Laura said.

While they talked, a loud 'bang' rang out.

A 5-story huge flying ghost went straight towards them and crashed into the anti-ghost formation.

Since both sides were moving so quickly, the monster was sent spiraling backwards.

-------it didn't think there would be another formation inside the void of space, and that the barrier could stop it briefly.

"An Entropy Ghost!" old man Jiao exclaimed in fear.

Behind Gu Qing Shan, an autumn-like blue sword lit up in Lightning before disappearing in a flash.

With a brief cry of pain, the area returned to silence.

The sword slowly returned and disappeared into the void of space behind him.

"Did you just chase the Entropy Ghost away?" old man Jiao couldn't help but ask.

"Killed it" Gu Qing Shan curtly replied.