VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

"We can be a god Sera…"

He looked at the creature that was pretty much done with the monsters.

"But to become a god, we would need to have the qualities of that god."

The same was true for being strong or having divinity or being something or someone like that creature.

It wasn't simple, and, if anything, it was not something that he could achieve overnight.

Not unless there was an almost dead dragon and he just had to poke a sword in its head to relive it from its eternal suffering.

He wasn't [April 3rd]. He wasn't on the rankings in the first place, much less on the second place among the millions that play this game.

Getting strong was a goal that he would achieve eventually as he went on with his journey, but he was still not going to achieve it as quickly as that lucky person did, or through something unique like the other high rankers had done.

He had only been here for a few months. He wasn't here since the beginning like many others and he wasn't like Alex.

He couldn't go around the world and keep going on all around this vast world for eternity.

He liked having a house and calling it home. He liked seeing things all around the world but he was not going to keep traveling every single day even though there were countless things for them to see here.

Eventually, he wanted to find a home for them, or built one in a forest as simple as this one.

He kind of liked the peace that this forest had, but being alone in this place was like a curse… and no one liked being cursed.

"Anyway…"

The sky returned to its normal self in about half an hour since it had turned red.

The 'night' was over, but Elio had a feeling that this was not going to be the last night of their time in this forest.

This most definitely was an event… a regular one that repeated periodically at that.

Those creatures, there was something that they were after and that something was present somewhere around that lake, or under that lake.

The creature with silver light and purple lightning was either guarding that thing in the lake, or was guarding this entire forest and the creatures of this forest.

It was powerful, and that fact was established already.

"Do you think it will join us as well, Sera?"

Elio smiled as he saw the purple soundless lightning vanishing into the Dark forest once again.

[{ Hmm? What do you mean by that, master? Are you still going to search for it? Don't we know it already exists and could kill us in a fraction of a second? Why are you trying to kill yourself again?! }]

She didn't like that he was trying to throw his life away one more time.

But, he didn't want to die a meaningless death either.

"Sera, that creature could have killed us anytime if it wanted to, you know?"

They had been here for more than two months now.

They were going to stay here since they didn't have any way to get out of this place yet, but now that they knew 'a little' about the creature that they had been looking for all this time, Elio knew there was more to this creature than just that speed and power.

"All this time, I had felt as if someone was watching me. All this time, I thought it was just my imagination and ignored it, but after the day I accidentally made eye contact with that creature, I didn't feel like someone was watching us that many times.

It became occasional, like someone who had been on a constant look out was being cautious around someone that they didn't want to see directly."

The creature that they had seen just now might have been somewhat of a shy being that didn't yet want to meet them since they were an outsider.

It might still be uncertain of what to do with us and could be contemplating about it.

He was good with the creatures of this forest and slowly, they were getting closer. That creature might also be uncertain of what to do with them because of the way they were getting closer.

Still…

"I know it could be dangerous."

He knew he could die a few times, he knew this was dangerous, and after seeing the kind of powers that creature possessed, he also had his doubts.

But still… he wanted to give it a try.

"We just want to get out of here anyway."

If they have that creature with them, they will be able to get through that dangerous forest with clear ease.

If they do well, they might also be able to meet back with Alex more quickly.

They were in the east and Alex was coming to the east, but she would still need a little longer for that.

She still needed to get one more permanent key for that… she had to secure the second one as well, but she was almost done with that.
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"That creature will help us pretty well, wouldn't it?"

Yesterday, she was telling him about how she had found it already, so now, she was going to defeat the guardian creature and take the key.

Then she will move on to further north and go to an underwater kingdom to collect the third key that was being guarded by the kingdom that not many people knew even existed.

She was going to get that, contact Olive's dad who was here, and assemble a team of rankers and some high rankers to challenge this forest for real.

"I'm sure there will be complications, but we can try at least."

She was determined to get past this forest so she was going to do whatever she could to get that ring… she was looking forward to it.

Now, the only thing that remained for her was to get the keys and recover her lost strengths.

"Trying is better than just mindlessly searching for the exit. Who knows, that creature might also know about the existence that we had been searching for like dumb ones all this time?"

He was searching for that creature anyway.

Now, there simply was a better reason to go and find it.