Read Samsara Fall Online: Isekai :: [V1] Chapter 4 - Samsara Zero (Part 2)

VOLUME 1

- CHAPTER 4 - PART 2 -

SAMSARA ZERO

My entire left side screams in pain. My blood, my bones, my muscles, I feel all of them tangling together in a mess as I’m buried in the stone. A bit of black smoke comes out of my body, a skill that supposedly should block half of fatal damage disappearing as if it was nothing in a single frame of a second. As my chest side is pressed by the tree log, my life bar decreases at the corner of my vision, shaking desperately.

[30##/3710]

[23##/3710]

[17##/3710]

[11##/3710]

[958/3710]

I cough out blood.

The Ogre’s club moves away, my body slowly looses off the wall and I fall to the side, but before I can hit the ground, a giant hand grabs me.

My eyes open to see everything doubled, red blood tainting the entirety of my left eye, and his giant hand covering me from ribs to knees. The dust clouds dissipate as the Ogre lifts me closer to its three faces.

 “... let me go…”

His grip tightens. My eyes tremble in pain, searching if there’s anywhere to run to.

 “Let me go…”

Nothing, there’s nothing but the white walls and the repeating stone bricks, the yellowish baseboards illuminating the oversized corridors, and the rough and dirty emerald-ish skin of the Ogre.

The Ogre’s grip tightens even more, one of his heads laughs in an echo.

(“Samsara Fall Online, huh? Looks promising.”)

There are no abilities to use. My life bar keeps decreasing. My ribs crackle. The pain burns everything in me.

“Disconnect.” – Blood squeezes out of my mouth.

([New update: The Fall approaches])

([“Tropper96: How about it, kid? I give you real money for it.”])

([Do you accept this mission?])

 “I-I want to disconnect!”

I hit him with my bare hands. My mind blindly trying to remember how to leave the game.

“LET ME GO! DISCONNECT!”

(???: “I started playing that game you told me about.”)

(There’s blood everywhere, but it doesn’t stop the punching.)

(“He’s just a damn kid.”)

 “PLEASE, I SWEAR- LET ME GO! STOP IT! STOP IT!!”

The red bar shrinks at each heartbeat.

( [Yes] [No] )

(“But why he would do that?”)

 (“That’s a good way to get yourself killed.”)

My body flounces to free itself, my head turning and twisting up and down, right and left, my nostrils trying to gasp for air, my legs to kick him. All for nothing.

‘3##/3710’

‘2##/3710’

‘1##/3710’

 “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH”

Suddenly, lightning strikes. Light-blue sparkles spread and crackle around the Ogre’s heads in a thunder. Like a cannon shot, the explosion pushes him back, making him lose his balance and fall onto the wall, finally releasing his grip. My body falls until my head hits the ground, then everything snaps to a fog of darkness.

Steps echo deep in the background.

?Man:  “Nice shot, Elay!” – a hoarse voice exclaims muffled in my dizziness.

?Girl:  “Thanks, but we need to help him, agro it!” – a girl says.

?Man:  “Easier said than done.”

?Boy:  “Guys, h-he’s level one hundred and twenty-seven, a couple of hits and you’re done for!” – A man’s feeble voice comes from farther away.

Someone comes near me.

?Girl:  “He’s unconscious, but he’s still alive! Holy--” – She stops herself. – “He’s only at eight HP, we almost lost him.”

My eyes manage to narrowly see a pink-dressed girl with both arms extended to my torso. I feel my body heal, and slowly my vision opens just enough for me to see my health bar rising, then my eyes close shut again.

?Girl:  “You’re going to be okay~; everything is going to be okay~,” – she sings in a calm-ish voice.

Something crashes in the background.

?Man:  “Shit! His weapon passes through walls, bugged as hell!”

?Boy:  “Focus on dodging, I-I’ll do the damage.”

“T-th…”

?Girl:  “Look, he’s going to say something!”

?Man:  “Um… I don’t care!? Why don’t you join the fight, Elay?”

The Ogre’s weapon crashes the wall again, followed by an explosion.

 “… there’s one more…”

?Girl:  “There’s one more…? What? following the corridor?”

The ground on my cheek shakes with the two Ogres walking.

?Boy:  “I-It’s true, Elay, get out of there! One more War Ogre coming from nine o’clock.”

?Girl:  “What the heck is nine o’clock, Steven?”

Someone lifts my body.

?Girl:  “Oh! Look, I can carry him! Let’s run!”

?Man:  “Why, Elay? Stop doing that!”

 “We need to get out of here.”

?Girl:  “See? Even he is saying to get out! Let’s move!”

?Man:  “Tsk. His health, Steven?”

?Boy:  “A-Ah! N-Ninety-five percent.”

?Man:  “Okay, let's get out of here. Our attacks didn’t do shit.”

The Ogre strikes the ground as I hear someone’s cape drifting in the wind with an evasion.

?Girl:  “What is he?” – She passes through the giant Ogre in a quick dash. – “A mission NPC?”

The three of them run, my body shakes with each step.

?Man:  “Did the talk-to button appear?”

?Girl:  “N-no? I don’t think so.”

?Man:  “So, it’s not. He’s useless.”

 “I’m not- an NPC…”

?Man:  “Huh…?”

 “… I’m a player…” – I manage to say before blacking out.

- - - - - - - - - - -

“I’m a player?” – Elay says a little bit afraid.

“Don’t listen to that idiot, Elay. Drop him, and let him die already,” – a boy says annoyed on the other side of her headphones.

“P-Player? Maybe it’s a new group in the lore!? Definitely not dropping an important key to the story, Mark.” – Steven says excitedly.

Looking at her screen, Elay clicks her mouse to open the chat’s past logs, where the previous messages fade back in, all in which “DArkstrider:” appears with a purple name in proximity chat.

“Not an NPC, huh?” – she thinks aloud.