Death's Scythe Chapter 1: Ch:0 [Preview]

There was fire in his eyes . He looked on at the crowd of people below him , a vicious light shining in his eyes . He was a lion in midst of this pack of oxen .

He had been alone since he was a child . His parents died when he was young , ever since which , he had been shunned by everyone around him . He had no one for him . By himself , he survived till having enough money to live a very satisfying life .

He was slowly being corroded . Becoming darker . The sad part was though , he was completely aware of it . As it slowly increased , his eyes lost their innocence , becoming more and more vicious .

Thinking his life was useless , he decided to turn to a VRMMoRPG , to live a second life , but as fate may have it , it turned out to be a death game . The psychotic creator wanted 'thrills' , so he designed the headgear to burn the brain connected to it on the death of the player .

Leo went for it nonetheless , thinking living to die fighting would be much better than surviving and having a peaceful life in a safezone .

But he just had to go ahead and make friends . The 'friends' he made betrayed him . His anger increased his corrosion by a lot . A bit too much , to be honest . He had changed . Perhaps this was also something the creator wanted but regardless , the game got a new psychopath to run it.

Leo was now the highest level player of the game . He had survived again , and reached the top .

[Level: 497]

He looked at the message displayed directly to his retina and thought of the person just weaker than him .

[Name: DarkHeart

Level: 462]

DarkHeart .

The name reminded him of how his own heart became darker the more he suffered .

He once again looked at the names colored in green all around in front of him .

[Level: 268]

[Level: 235]

[Level: 2....

[Level:273]

They were extremely low levels . he could basically One-Hit them with his scythe .

The top players were grinding . These useless players were all in the safezone , thinking they will slowly level-up and survive the game , but they had met this reaper today . He was 3 levels away from being a level higher than the strongest any NPC or Mob could be . But , he didn't want this game to end yet.

It had been 10 years since it started . All of these people , at some point , had looked at him with disdain and contempt . He wanted to feed now . He wanted to feed his own hunger for revenge . He was alone since his birth . He will survive this game , once again , alone like he had always been .

Once again , he looked around , and his mouth formed a vicious smile . The smile a murderer has before he kills you . The smile a demon shows you , before effortlessly taking your soul . The same smile Leo showed for but a moment before he started swinging his scythe around like a madman . With every swing , a player died . With every swing one Headgear in the real world destroyed a brain .

He didn't know when but he started laughing as a robotic voice repeated in his head and a red message blinked in front of his eyes .

[Killed a player]

[Killed a player]

[Killed a player]

[You are now a criminal]

[Killed a player]

[Killed a pla...

He went on killing . Slaughtering , to be exact . his kill count went higher , and so did his experience bar below his level .

[Level: 497

13567/123456]

He was going on and on , swing around his scythe . At first , it wasn't as noticeable because usually many players who had given up tried to kill other players before they died to the hands of guards , but soon many players noticed something . The guards , they weren't moving to protect the players . These level: 300+ guards were scared . They even had the skull icon , which depicted [Fear] status near their levels and names .

Slowly as he killed more , the number became noticeable . His name , which was originally written in deep red with no level under it became even darker .

[Attention players :

Anyone who kills him will receive a Treasure grade equipment and 100,000,000G]

Even Leo received this announcement . Looking at the rewards he stopped at his place and smirked .

"Is that all I'm worth ? Let me increase that for you all . "

He vanished into thin air and appeared in the middle of another crowd and slaughtered more players . He went on and on until he had no more to slaughter , the appeared in another crowd only to slaughter again .

He kept going , ignoring all else . He even ignored an announcement he received in midst of his killing only to receive a new one soon enough .

[Attention:

Player Leo has killed 1000 players!

Player Leo has received an increase in bounty !

New Bounty:1,000,000,000G and Myth grade equipment]

[Attention: 427 ArchMages from the Magic Tower have begun hunting player Leo ]

[Attention: Warrior Archipelago has sent its elites to hunt player Leo ]

[Attention: Town Of Thieves has sent its a.s.sa.s.sins to hunt player Leo ]

[Attention: The Church has sent its priests and knights to support the hunt for player Leo ]

Leo stopped in his tracks , deep in thought .

'Isn't this basically telling me to die ? These people are all elites ! I can't even hide because of the sheer quant.i.ty of NPCs and players looking for me !'

He looked around one last time . He remembered how many people had joined this game back when it first started .

[Remaining players: 67519/100097]

[You have killed 1063 players since the start of the game]

"Hmph" He snorted and thought he could've done much better if not for this wretched game system .

He closed his eyes and stood where he was . With his [Warrior/Mage] setup with DPs focus , there was no way he could outrun literally all the forces in the game .

[Level:500]

Even this level wasn't enough to overcome those numbers .

He had resigned himself to fate , and was ready to die to the hands of these player when , instead of the old robotic voice , a gentle female voice rung in his head with a notification in front of his eyes .

[Greetings , Leo.

The Dragon G.o.d Of Death has invited you to a world with his authority .

You have no right to refuse .]

[You will be transported away when the preparations are complete]

Leo was startled .

'Is this a new quest unlocked at max level? Is this Dragon G.o.d Of Death a new NPC . There is no mention of him in the game lore .'

He tried wracking his brain as numbers appeared in his head every 6 seconds .

[1℅]

[2℅]

[3℅]

[4 ...

The timing made it seem like he had to survive 10 minutes to start this quest .

'So it is a quest .'

He kept looking around , as if to make sure none of the people present tried attacking him .

He kept waiting for someone to have the guts to attack him so he could kill once more before he was teleported away .

He kept waiting as even the NPCs kept coming and joined the crowds of people , not having the guts to attack him . All those NPCs had the skull shaped insignia above their head which signified the [Fear] condition .

10 minutes pa.s.sed in wait , when the gentle voice rung in his head once again .

...100℅]

[Transmigration of your soul is starting!]

[Your soul will separate from your physical body ! This will be an extremely painful process ! ]

[The Dragon G.o.d Of Death will attatch a fragment of his soul to yours during the process!]

[The Dragon G.o.d Of Death will impart most of his marrow during the process!]

"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH"

He had no time to pay attention to the alerts anymore as he was going through an unbearable amount of pain .

The last thing in his eyes was a huge volley of Long Range projectiles and spells before his eyes closed and he lost consciousness .