VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

The voice that they heard out of the blue was not something simple. It was deep, and yet there was a unique kind of pureness in this voice that Elio couldn't understand.

"…hello?"

{ "Human!" }

The being whose voice they were hearing right now, was not visible this time either.

It was simply there, but at the same time, they couldn't really see it.

It wasn't visible, but at least, their voice was present here.

And that was more than enough.

"Hello? Who's this?"

Elio was looking around but his eyes wanted to be focused in a certain corner of this cave. But he avoided looking in that direction knowing that creature might actually be there.

{ "That! I can tell you can see me! How are you doing that! Human! Answer me!" }

"Hmmm?"

He didn't look that way to avoid scaring the creature, but he was found out.

The creature somehow knew he was there, though Elio didn't know for certain if it was there or not.

His eyes reacting and pointing him in that direction, that was simply all that he was seeing.

He didn't really know if that creature was there or not, he didn't feel anything special from that place, aside from his eyes' reaction to that place, he had no idea where that voice was coming from, but that creature knew he knew about it.

So there was no reason to hide it anymore.

"Well, I'll clarify the fact that I have no idea how I am doing this either.

Just like the Lunar Fangs, my eyes just pointed me that way as well."

{ "…! How do you know about that name?!" }

Elio unconsciously moved his head since his eyes were reacting to some kind of movements, but he knew he was actually reacting to the movements of that invisible creature at the moment.

"I don't really know that either. These eyes of mine told me."

{ "What?!" }

He heard that voice, and, in the very next moment, in a fraction of a second, he felt something he had felt the first time he perceived this creature.

He also 'saw' two distinct eyes looking back at his eyes that he had seen before, the same purple eyes that had been the driving force which made him continue his search for this possibly nonexistent creature.

{ "…!" }

It was only for a split second this time as well, but this time, Elio was the one who looked back into those unique purple eyes.

Actually, it was his eyes that looked back at them, but he did not understand that well.

{ "Those eyes…!" }

With a timid voice, the afraid creature screamed.

{ "What are those eyes…!" }

"Hmmm?"

It seemed like his eyes somehow frightened the creature.

For some reason, the voice that had felt to be coming from around him, had felt to be at a distance this time around.

And then, the cave fell silent…

"Hello?"

[{ What just happened, master? }]

"I have no idea either… Sera."

He looked around, but his eyes didn't react.

He looked above him and there was nothing there either.

Then he felt something with his eyes once again, and this time, he squinted his eyes to see at a distance.

{ "Aik…!" }

And it was at this moment that they heard the Mana voice of that creature once again.

{ "You're scary!" }

They heard a distant scream, and then, the creature disappeared from there for real.

"…?"

And Elio was left there confused.

'The creature that killed hundreds of those monsters in a blink of my eyes says I am the scary one? What the hell?'

Sera was just as confused as him since she had also seen the kind of calamity that being was.

She did not expect it to be so timid. She had not expected to fear someone's eyes either.

It was unprecedented that a creature as powerful as that would be afraid of someone simply because of their eyes.

But it was happening right now. A divine being had run away after being seen through by someone, or perhaps the reason behind it was something deeper than what either of them could understand at the moment.

"Now what?"

[{ Should we go and find them? }]

"Well… actually… I think we should wait here. Give them some time to think about stuff.

They are the ones who need the grass that we have anyway, not the other way around at the moment."

They had the upper hand already, and THEIR fear of his eyes just made things simpler for them.

[{ Hmmm… alright. }]

Sera simply flew from Elio's head and went to their tent to pick some things for them.

They had been working since the early morning, searching for that grass, collecting each one of them before that creature found them.

He was exhausted, she knew that, so she brought some food and fetched some water from the spring in the back.

{ "…" }
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It did not take long for That creature to come back to this cave and for his eyes to pick up their presence.

"We can talk, you know? I don't really want to harm you or anything."

There was no way he could harm this creature anyway. Taking away some grass and storing it away in his inventory was the only thing that he could do anyway.

{ "You are a weird human…" }

Elio was eating and, as if he knew that creature would come back, he had prepared some blades of that grass beside him for it.

"Will you join us? We can talk… there's no need to be afraid of a characteristic that not even the one possessing that characteristic has much understanding of.

I cannot hurt you even if I wanted to anyway."

A creature that can kill beings- monsters- of high level several times in a short period of time, could very well dispose of them in an instant.

They were the ones who should fear it, but it was the other way around here.

Which, it shouldn't be.

{ "The two human that came here the last time weren't like you." }

-Ooooooooooooooooong.

A silver smoke discharged, and a being of rather unexpected form revealed itself.

{ "You're weird." }

It was not fluffy, as the timid voice had suggested it to be.

It was not a bunny either, though it surely looked like one.

Half of its body seemed to be made from the silver fog that disintegrated the bodies of the monsters that the silver lightning sparking around its body had killed.

Its eyes were a deep purple, an unnatural royal color that one could not understand with simple description.

There was wisdom in them, there was authority and power in them. They were unique, as well as a total contradiction of the actual form this creature possessed.

{ "Your servant is weird as well." }

A body made of silver fog and adorned with crackling lightning, eyes resembling jewel orbs, and a body that somehow seemed mysterious even though it resembled a mixture of a bunny and a fox.

There were many ways one could describe this creature. But, even if one wanted, they would have an innate instinct not to do it, not to confine it within their limited descriptions.

It was a unique creature…

{ "And your eyes are the weirdest." }

But, it didn't seem to want to harm them yet.

And that was a good start…