The Unds base devolved into a chaotic bloody scene. Gunfire flared up from all directions. Aliens and human beings wailed in pain from being shot or attacked.
Merlin_13 came against formidable enemy characters who were also S-rank like him. He didn't plan to fight them fair and square because he may lose his life before he could achieve his aim of visiting the camp.
He forced his will into his sword's blade, eliciting an ominous change to the blade. Black_Riot's blade seemed to switch between in and out of existence. At one instance, it became depixelated before reverting to its original form.
The S-rank Unds before Merlin_13 melted into crumbling stones. Instantaneously, the sky above Merlin_13 glitched in the same manner as his sword's blade. He ended his influence on his sword's blade and rolled to his right, dodging a bolt of lightning that was locked onto his previous position.
Meanwhile, Rider was having the scariest and wildest moment of his life. He got surrounded by a group of Unds who all shot at him at the same time. Suddenly, he glitched out of existence, and the bullets meant for him took out his foes. He returned to reality to find the group all dead. Merlin_13 was responsible for this outcome.
Merlin_13 ran towards the dam. None of the aliens could stop his advance. Anything that came in his way was cut down with a legendary sword slash attack.
He stopped a few hundred metres from the foot of the dam. He resisted the urge to admire the size of the dam. He attacked the dam with a special attack, infinite sword light. Sword lights rain on the barrier from the sky, but the dam didn't budge.
Merlin_13 let out a wry smile. He was not disappointed that his attacks did not break the dam. His silver-blue eyes glitched, and his vision deepened to see past the "ordinary". He saw a number of floating notification bars, all of them notifying him that his attacks were erroneous.
The notifications confirmed Merlin_13's suspicion about the dam. The dam was a code and not a physical object. So physical attacks couldn't damage it.
"No problem." Merlin_13's expression became focused.
His sword glitched, and it influenced the river on the other side of the dam. The river surged, trying to overflow over the dam. But there seemed to be an invisible force that extended above the barrier, restraining the river from overflowing.
Some enemy aircraft flew over to stop Merlin_13, but they melted into crumbling stones upon nearing a 100-metre distance to him.
"Let us live!" Merlin_13 yelled as he leaped towards the dam.
He slashed down vertically, unleashing a powerful sword light that pierced the dam. Web-like cracks appeared all over the dam, but it still retained its integrity.
New notification bars floated above the dam. Error, code failure, cannot fix code malfunction. Merlin_13 unleashed more attacks on the dam.
Error: multiple malfunctions; cannot fix code malfunctions.
Error, total code failure. Error, total code failure.
The dam faded in a depixelating manner out of existence. The river surged forth, drowning Merlin_13, who stood in its path. A very big lightning bolt crashed down on his position within the water. The S-rank hunter was reduced to ashes.
An announcement appeared in the sky, and everyone within the Torn Indigo saw the notification: Player Merlin_13 has been punished with the ultimate punishment for cheating in the game.
Player Merlin_13 has been punished with the ultimate punishment for cheating in the game.
Player Merlin_13 has been punished with the ultimate punishment for cheating in the game.
The war in the Unds camp momentarily stopped. The troopers were shocked that the "invincible" S-rank character, Merlin_13, had died. This turn of events shook their confidence, and some of them began to flee. The battle, which was arguably a tie, had changed to be in favour of the Unds. Humanity's soldiers were hunted down and killed like prey.
Rider kept an eye on the dam. He had no doubt that Merlin_13 would destroy the dam. But he hoped that the S-rank character was joking about not making it out alive. At the moment, his hope was crushed. Merlin_13 had perished.
Instantly, he remembered that he was supposed to throw Black_Riot into the currently liberated river.
'Where will I find the sword?' He wondered.
A casual glance to his left and he saw Black_Riot lying on the ground beside him. He questioned himself, asking if he was seeing things. The sword on the ground looked exactly like Black_Riot.
'How did it even get without me noticing.'
He gently reached for the sword and held it in one hand.
The instant Rider touched the hilt of the black sword, indescribable energy overwhelmed him. The energy had a corrosive effect on him; it felt worse than being mildly electrocuted.
He cursed and thought, 'What is this thing? No wonder no one apart from Merlin_13 could possess it. I must dispose this thing before it kills me.'
The path which the river flowed was some distance away from him. With his rifle in his left hand and Black_Riot on his right, he ran to the closest riverbank. The sword cast an invisibility effect on him hence, the enemies didn't see him run through the battlefield.
Black_Riot also cast a force shield over him. Stray bullets didn't injure him; rather, they bounced off the force shield, leaving the explosive impact noise to scare the joy of life out of Rider.
After a few seconds of thought, Rider understood what was happening. He gazed at the sword with a grateful expression.
Rider got to the riverbank. He felt vertigo as he admired the enormity of the river. He cast the sword into the river. The instant the sword drowned within the river, the remaining will of Merlin_13 manifested as a ghost and nodded in satisfaction at Rider.
BANG! A shell exploded on the force field surrounding Rider. His guts almost fell out through his mouth. He instinctively turned and fled.