The Lightning Swordsman (Remastered Version)

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(Y/N) POV

After the first-floor boss was killed, the other floors were much faster to be cleared. Right now we have reached floor 16, I shouldn't say us though.

After all, I haven't been in a single raid since Max was killed.

Many of the other players look up to the people who clear the floors, we call them the assault team. The assault team was formed to bring hope to the players on the lower floors.

If only they knew what a boss fight was like.

Watching your friends get killed by emotionless beasts...I wouldn't don't wish that fate on anyone.

Instead of joining up with the assault team, I've been levelling up. Day after day, the only thing you catch me doing is grinding, eating and sleeping.

I've shut myself off from everyone else. I mainly level at the floor under the front lines. Today was like any other day, I just reached level 33

When I was about to leave when someone called out for me.

Naturally, I went to investigate, behind a tree a saw someone sitting on the ground.

"Hello? Do you need any help?" I ask them as they remain quiet

When I got closer my already broken heart broke even more. Sitting there was Max.

"Max" I call out

"is that really you?"

Max didn't move, I went to hug him but instead, I face-planted into a tree. When I stood back up he was gone.

It must be an illusion...I'm going crazy.

I started walking out of the dense woods I was in. When I arrived in town, I saw Agil walking toward me.

Ever since the floor 1 boss battle, me and Agil have been talking a little

I wouldn't call us friends by any means, but the big man comes by to check up on me every now and then.

Agil looks really intimidating...I guess anyone who's 6 feet is intimidating...the giant axe on his back doesn't help either.

"Hey man, you know you need to talk to people," He tells me as we walk around town

I just look at the ground and continue walking

"I talk to you," I mumble

"I don't count, If you keep on like this, you'll never get over the death of your friend," he says following me.

"What do you know about it, it's not like you know what I'm going through," I say sharply

"I may not, but there's a chat group that does" he responds

"If you're interested the chat is called MindSword and the password to it is 8327s429dkiolm." He finishes as I look at him bewildered

"Can I get that on paper?" I say as he cracks a smile

"I'll check it out later," I tell him to get him off my back. He wrote the password on a piece of paper

I walk into the Inn I'm staying at and stroll to my room.

I flop on my bed after a hard day of levelling up. I try to sleep but Agils words keep echoing in my head. Honestly, I've tried everything I could to rid myself of this feeling, it's unbearable.

I figure since I'm not going to get to sleep anytime soon, why not try out this group. I open my menu and scroll to chats, I input MindSwords in the search bar. I click the only result that comes up. I find that only 7 people are in the chat, how did Agil come across this information? I hit join and put in the password