A-Zone: Traces, Written by AzPhoenix
Chapter 03
An Unlikely Ally
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Distant voices were heard, more like a monologue but it seems like there was a person talking to someone. That of course is Trace, our protagonist... wandering around a endless desert.
"Man, I don't have any clue what to think about this situation"
"Dying... It feels so weird and wrong"
"Also the pain that I have been feeling is also weird, Somehow it feels more like a lie than the pain I am used to, if you catch my drift?"
"There is also this thing about my eye, It seems like it doesn't come back for some reason even if I die. Remembering correctly, At the beginning I had lost an arm tho? Why did it return with Respawn."
"This game world is so strange. What's your opinion about it LiLy?"
Unsurprisingly... there was no answer to the question that asked by Trace from LiLy.
"Am I really alone?, What is this? a dungeon simulator? I was told that this place was supposed to be a fantasy world full of magic and stuff... how can I make this world a better place if there isn't anyone to make it better for"
"I haven't even seen a single magic being used, if you don't count that weird fog monster or those abnormal wolves, even that couldn't be called as magic thinking back the fog was just emitting from the body of the beast and nothing else. and 'that'' wolf was no good either. It didn't use any magic at all only physical attacks. Even the 'ghosts' were a disappointment"
Right now it has been around 2 months from when Trace had arrived on this world.
"Hey, LiLy is it alright for me to wanting to go home..."
"There isn't even a log out function..."
"This place feels so emptyy! There has been nothing but desert the whole way"
Yes, Trace was currently traversing a large underground desert(?) and talking to a jet black block of metal with sinister crimson lines pulsing on its surface that originate from three peculiar crystals, the length is a bit over 150cm. This block of unknown metal was of course the modified X-Blaze Rifle 'LiLy'. The modified LiLy's design had changed quite a lot because of the addition that Trace had accidentally done... When Trace was examining the glowing stones that had been found inside the bodies of his enemies, he accidentally dropped one of the stones when it had suddenly given him an electric shock, unfortunately the stone fell right on top of LiLy. For some reason the stone got absorbed into the frame of the rifle and caused it to heat up suddenly.
Trace was extremely worried that he might have lost his only(?) companion(?). Right after the stone got absorbed into LiLy, the whole frame started to heat up and turn bright red before starting to melt.
Soon after there was a glowing pile of metal that flashed bright red every now and then in front of him. Trace despaired and was worriedly looking at the pile of molten metal while lamenting about his bad luck, in the end he went to bed and tried to sleep.
The flashing was getting deeper red in color after every flash and gradually changing its shape and color little with each time.
After waking up, Trace had noticed that the pile of metal was gone and a beautiful, but somewhat domineering jet black rifle, engraved with sinister looking crimson lines pulsing through its frame with three blood colored gemstones emitting pulses like heart beat, two of the gemstones were in the middle of the handles and the last one was in the middle of the frame.
The length of the rifle was a bit over 150cm long and there was a carving on the barrel that read LILYAN and it was pulsing with dark crimson red lines running through the whole frame from the stock to a bit past the barrel and fading when it reached the letter N written on it.
The bloodgem was originally taken from a bosslike monster that Trace had to kill before reaching the desert.
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Let us roll back time a little bit, just before entering that decisive battle.
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After killing the fog beast Trace ended back into a cave like cave(?) full of the bigger wolves and in the end of the whole cavern there were magnificent double doors.
Seeing these doors Trace got hopeful that he finally had found a way out but to his bad luck it was the room of a boss monster... The very first time Trace was really scared as the boss monster had sealed the space somehow causing respawn's retreat function to malfunction.
When Trace had entered the boss room he was greeted with over hundred pairs of glowing red eyes. These of course were all black wolves ranging from small puppies the size of a boot to these almost 2 meter tall monstrosities. But the strawberry on top of the cake was the gigantic black wolf which was easily over 3 meters in height and had red streaks of lightning running along red glowing veins that glowed underneath the fur.
Seeing these figures Trace tried to escape at first but the door slammed shut behind him. He swallowed hard, The queen of the wolves calmly stood up and glared at him. It did not consider Trace as a worthy adversary and sighted.
"Haah, after all this time. A weakling like thou shows up... This one... was getting my hopes up when this one noticed someone killing this one's children. Haah, What an utter disappointment..." The wolf queen sighted again in disappointment
"Y- y- you can ta-taalk?" Trace shouted in surprise while stuttering from fear.
"Oh my... This one can converse a bit in ancient languages, but this one did not except a mere man to understand."
"Tha-thank god" Trace swore in relief, but this seemed to be a mistake as the wolf queen suddenly released an enormous pressure. Which caused Trace's legs to give up and causing him to stumble.
"Which god's puppet art thy!" the queen roared in anger!
"I-I-I'm sor-sorwy!" Trace bit his tongue
"ANSWER!"
"I-I dddo not se-erve a-ny god, I a-am an at-atheis-stt"
"Then why art thou thanking them?!" the queen glared at Trace with intrique while easing the pressure
"Fro-rrom whe-eer I co-come tha-at is a ge-eneral *fuu* way to express relief"
"This one doth not sense a falsity in thy statement" "So son of man what hath thou cometh forth?"
"I, I, Just want to go home, I was thrown here against my will and I don't even know where this place even is."
The queen nodded "Then we shalt judge thou, if thou art worthy, thou shalt pass these doors" a moment after the queen howled and all of the wolves rose up and howled in unison, even some howling was heard outside the double doors.
After a while the howling quieted down and a single wolf made out of fog rose from the ground. This fog wolf growled at the queen and bowed afterwards, to Trace they seemed to have a conversation but Trace couldn't understand anything they were saying.
The queen turned towards Trace and said in a calm and collected voice like a judge giving his decision.
"Thou art voted to be unworthy/guilty, for the meaningless slaughter of fellow brethren. Thou art to be executed immediately!"
"OBJECTION!" Trace shouted in panic
"OBJECTION OVERRULED!"
"Nuoooooh! Then I declare you my enemy! I'll take as many as I can with me!" Trace jumped back and readied LiLy, Trace had already noticed from the previous battles that LiLy's greatest flaw was its very slow reload speed. Luckily Trace still had few cards that he could play before folding.
[Trace] pointed LiLy at the queen, grinned and fired, *Pa-Whoosh-WHOOOMB* an enormous shock wave was shot at the giant wolf figure, of course the queen braced herself for the impact which hit her almost instantly the queen was pushed back for a bit which was already were impressive feat considering the strenght of the current bullet which could easily launch a group of normal wolves without any problems to the wall.
As the shock wave hit the queen wolf, all of the wolves near the queen were blown towards the back wall creating small craters full of yelping wolves. This bullet really had a lot of destructive firepower.
Even the queen was surprised for a moment about the speed and power of the fired bullet.
'What is that?' the queen thought as she seemed vary of the strange weapon that this human was carrying.
Trace clicked his tongue, "truly a boss monster. To be able to withstand my Double Shock Bullet with ease" Trace's smile faltered a little bit with the clicking of his tongue while lowering LiLy's barrel to allow the shell of the bullet to fall out.
His attitude was totally different compared to the time he was 'hit' with the queen's pressure. This attitude was slowly hammered inside the dungeon and is something that he had mastered(?) when fighting desperately all for the sake of living and returning home. As right after that moment Trace is laughing and shooting with Lion and Lynx simultaneously with a scary smile showing on his face, moving down dozens of wolves in seconds. Every now and then the bangs would stop as Trace had ran out of bullets but the magazines were changed in a such a smooth fassion that it looked like a magic trick...
First he ejected both magazines by dropping them and then he was using inventory to warp the new and filled magazines in the air and sweeping both of his guns in an arc which allowed the magazines to enter and with a click both of the guns were back in action.
Even the wolf queen was surprised by that sudden change in Trace's attitude. She tried to stop Trace by releasing more of her pressure towards Trace but she noticed that he just looked straight at the queen for a moment with eyes full of killing intent, killing intent so chaotic that the queen unconsciously took a step back.
'What the hell is he' the queen thought to herself, before snapping out of it and dashed towards Trace.
The queen rammed Trace like a truck, it seemed Trace had managed to turn his back towards the queen and intentionally took the hit.
Trace who was launched by the queen's tackle, hit the wall with a loud splat, there was no way he could have survived being hit by an enormous wolf the size of a truck with the speed of a truck.
But when the body on the wall fell limply to the ground there was a creepy smile showing on its face. The smile gave the queen the creeps and caused its fur to stand straight. The creepily smiling body disappeared and Trace appeared from the ceiling hanging on a large falling stalactite with a bit over one meter long metallic stick that was smoking and releasing red light pointing at the queen. The stalactite squashed numerous wolves underneath and then there was a loud sound.
*Pa--BROOOH!*
The queen was baffled, she did not even notice this single human moving to the ceiling.
What came with the loud sound was a pillar of fire that was shot out of LiLy. It really couldn't be called as a pillar as it was barely the size of 10cm in diameter it was more like a compressed beam of fire and heat.
The queen instantly reacted to the sound and barely managed to dodge the beam without serious injuries, only her tail was grazed that caused few strands of her fur on her tail to burn.
The queen was shocked, never has there been a magic attack that had managed to damage its fur, but now there were even few red hot strands of fur floating in the air.
"*Tch*"Trace clicked his tongue in dissatisfaction that his shot had missed... again and then he continued to slaughter the wolves around him again.
The wolves were thinking that the person in front of them was surely the manifestation of the daemon king. Even the queen could only agree about the conclusion that had been given by her children
Trace rampaged to his hearts content while trying to avoid lethal damage as much as possible. The standard wolves had nothing on Trace who had already been fighting them for so long that he knew their attacks and preferred movement patterns even though it required few sacrifices, Trace had managed to get accustomed to the fast movements of the wolves.
He was still wary of the bigger wolves as their attacking power was still too high for him to safely parry their attacks in close combat. He also was keeping eye on the black fog wolf that was patiently watching Trace's fight. Trace even tried to shoot at the odd wolf few times but the bullets were intercepted by the smaller wolves before being able to hit the smoking wolf. Of course it was needless to say that Trace was also keeping the wolf queen in his line of sight almost all the time.
After few deaths, seven to be exact Trace had managed to thin the herd of wolves to a single digit numbers and hit the wolf queen's leg with a single fusion of Solid X shot from LiLy, causing it to slow down considerably. Only the fog wolf was calmly standing still and watching Trace combat the others. Even now, it has not taken any damage.
Trace had already used most of his special bullets and was breathing roughly from exhaustion. "*haah* No-Not yet done!" He psyched himself. "I,-- can still fight *hoofh*"
There was a sudden change in the atmosphere, all of the standard wolves were retreating and a heavy fog was descending inside the large room. To this Trace grinned and said "Finally, I was just about to get bored" while taking his rough self taught fighting stance and prepared LiLy.
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There was a low growl to be heard, coming from the fog. Trace narrowed his eyes and tried to pinpoint the location where it was coming from, buy he couldn't even spot the fog wolf using his left eyes water tracking ability. He could still see the location of the queen and the other retreated wolves, it seems that the fog wolf does not have any water inside its body or something else is blocking his vision.
"Pff, Annoying" Trace muttered to himself and reloaded LiLy with two different looking bullets. These bullets were Burst X and Can X bullets. *Pa-Kang* This time after shooting Trace did not change to Lion or Lynx but continued firing Shock X/Can X fusion bullets. Every 3 to 4 seconds another *Pa-Kang* was sounded but it always missed its target, Trace still continued firing LiLy and concentrated on dodging the wolf's attacks and every now and then diverting its attacks with the barrel of LiLy. Without the fog it would have look like that they were dancing as after few attacks Trace had started to grasp the location of the fog wolf.
The wolf was gradually becoming more and more agitated as it hadn't managed to deal any substantial damage to its target. The tough hide/fur armor was extremely durable and the gaps were very hard to reach. The fog wolf still held the advantage as its enemy was still in its Domain.
After 20th or so shot Trace finally dropped his guard and took a serious hit from the fog wolf, then the fog wolf noticed that Trace had taken hold of the wolves fur and was smiling devilishly. The wolf whimpered, yes the wolf was afraid of that smile the devilish one that seemed to say 'you are going to hell'.
"You know, little doggy... Self-destructions are a man's romance!" He jokingly said while firing Lynx towards the ground. *Shoop* the bullet hit the ground. Instantly when it hit, it caused a soundless bluish ripple to spread across the room, and around one second afterwards everything exploded.
The fog was instantly blown away and was filled with dust instead, after the dust had settled whole room was full of small craters. Trace nor the fog wolf was nowhere to be found. The queen had yelped in surprise.
There stood a single being inside the fog, this was Trace whose clothes were all hanging like rags. From the looks of it the queen could guess that the battle had been intense.
Trace looked at the queen and said "*cough* *cough*...Still want to fight?"
"How about this special bargain whole sale, I will trade all of your lives for letting me pass?"
The queen waited waited for a moment. Just as she was about to open her mouth(?) Trace continued "The only ones that are really dead are the ones caught in that blast including that smoky bastard. the rest are just incapacitated..."
"...This one accepts the bargain..."
"*Cough* wise decision"
Trace then slowly lumbered towards the second set of double doors. The handful of the still active wolves tried to intercept Trace but a growl was heard from the queen and the wolves backed away.
After going through the doors, Trace found himself in a surprisingly different place, the walls had changed from the cave like structure to a golden sandstone and the ground had also a lot of sand on it, every few meters or so there was a glowing stone on the walls that provided lighting for the corridors and the water currents were still flowing forward.
It didn't take long for him to find the 'exit' there were only a couple of black shadowlike ghost enemies in the way. Trace got surprised by these new enemies as he had been fighting only wolves and a single monkey(?) before entering. But after struggling for a while Trace had noticed that the ghostlike things only look menacing as they do not seem to do any damage to him... Their touch only caused Trace's skin to go goosebumps.
Even the ghosts were looking depressed(?), was it because their abilities do not seem to do anything or are they naturally like that. But fundamentally there was another problem too, Trace had no way to deal damage to these ghosts, as all of his attacks were physical in nature, the bullets would just go straight through them. He even tried all of his special bullets but none of them seemed to do anything to the ghosts...
So there was a sight of a man who was continuously being 'violated' by a clump of shadows, while strolling onwards.
After reaching the 'exit' he found out that the water currents had stopped at a large reservoir of water, he also saw that there was sand as far as the eye can see so to say an endless desert that lasted for miles.
"I think I better take a rest here... I also need more bullets" after the fight against the monkey like fog beast he had unlocked the shopping feature on his [
menu. The shop used a currency that was only gained by killing creatures and doing some tasks. The shop was very limited on its contents, it allowed Trace to only to buy bullets, oddly specific inventory he had thought at the time but a much needed one. After resting Trace continued towards the desert.
About the bullets Trace had used earlier are the Solid X, Shock X, Flame X, Can X, Burst X and DTC X bullets. Each bullet has a different 'effect' and purpose. Earlier when Trace was fighting this large pack of wolves he dodged and parried the wolves assault and countered by pressing his gun into the fur of the assaulting wolf and firing a Shock X bullet at point blank range.
The Shock X bullet releases an enormous shockwave to happen thus causing internal damage to the wolfs and sending them flying.
The special ability of LiLy is the fusion of bullets which amplifies and fuses the effects of the loaded bullets. For example fusing two Flame X bullets makes a Cross Flame bullet which when fired causes a 10cm diameter beam of intense heat to launch. The same goes with the combination of others, the Can X or Canister X is a special bullet that needs to be detonated manually with a DTC X (Detonate The Canisters) bullet.
The canister bullets are like empty/hollow shells alone, they can only cause a minor damage on impact, but with the fusion ability of the X Blaze model which allows the Can X shots to have another effect, Fused with the Burst X which is an impact triggered explosive bullet the combination Burst Can bullet is a devastating remote mine.
Back to the present situation
Trace continued wandering at the desert. He had noticed something strange while wandering aimlessly, this something was that he would every now and then find the same oasis and the same building that he had initially entered from. Another strange thing he had noticed was that there were no enemies present.
Just as Trace was going to go back into the cave he was stopped by 'something' grabbing at his feet. This 'something' was a bony hand, unlike anything he had seen before it was really just bones. Trace kicked the hand away and jumped back while readying LiLyan and prepared himself for combat.
Usually when talking about skeletons in RPGs they are a swarm monster that are usually found in groups but this hand that slowly pulled its body up from the sand was a bit different compared to a normal 'skeleton' as it coughed(?) sand even though he doesn't have lungs.
This skeleton had nothing on it except pants and a shirt.
When the skeleton was totally up it quickly looked around and managed to spot Trace who was aiming his gun at it.
The skeleton charged at Trace... didn't happen and instead it started quivering(clacking?) and lifted its hands in the air while shaking his head from left to right.
From what Trace had understood the knowledge of this place's monsters do not include rifles and other firearms, but against all odds this skeleton is totally afraid of the rifle and totally knows what it is.
Trace dropped his stance without lowering his guard, the skeleton also sighed in relief and wiped its forehead as if it was sweaty and sat down. Trace observed the skeleton and its peculiar behaviour, he saw with his 'left' eye that inside the skeleton there was an odd blob of water.
After staring each other for a moment the skeleton opened its mouth and "......" nothing came out, but the mouth was still continuously opening and closing as if it was talking, clacking all the while.
After a while the skeleton noticed that there was no reaction to its talking(?) it proceeded to draw something in the sand, then the skeleton rose up and took some distance and gestured Trace to take a look.
"?!?!" Trace was surprised, what he saw was something he knew quite well but has no understanding of its meaning.
"...Japanese, huh... another employee then?" he said to the skeleton, but it seems the skeleton did not understand what he was saying. Trace then started also drawing on the sand, next to the Japanese text.
What he did draw were two flags, a Japanese flag and a flag from his home, the flag of Caronis. After finishing the flags, he took a step back and nodded towards the skeleton.
The skeleton slowly walked towards the drawings and jumped(?) in surprise after seeing what was drawn, it then dropped on its knees and started praying(?). It was a very bizarre sight to see a skeleton praying.
At this point Trace had a hunch that the skeleton would not be a threat, for now he still was on guard tho as no one knows what kind of tricks this place has in store for him.
Finishing his prayers the skeleton stood up and bowed towards Trace in a beautiful? 45 degree angle. Truly a Japanese person Trace thought.
When the bow was finished Trace pointed at the stomach of the skeleton and drew a question mark on the sand. The skeleton looked at question mark at the sand and as if shocked by the gesture of Trace began talking(?) while gesturing.
Soon after finishing his talk(?) something unexpected happened to the skeletons body, this caused Trace to jump back reflexively and point LiLyan at the body of the skeleton. Of course the skeleton was also startled by the actions of this barbaric looking human, there was only a *blob, splyysh* as a small bright blue blob dropped from inside the shirt of the skeleton. It then wiggled around like a pudding and tried to move but instead of moving like a normal slime it looked more like it fell down on its face instead of moving. 'so normal rpg slimes are like that...' Trace though
After the slime had calmed down, Trace nodded sagely 'a skeleton that was inhabited by a clumsy slime'. He even accidentally lowered his guard.
This explained the strange reaction in Trace's vision earlier, After being on the open a while, the odd group seemed to have a conversation with each other, but to Trace it sounded like *wiggle* *jiggle* *slosh* and *clack* *Clack* sound effects, at least they seemed to understand each other.
'Maybe it is like the wolf queen said, that I speak the ancient monster language and these guys speak something like the standard monster language?' Trace thought while nodding to himself, of course he was still keeping an eye on the duo.
The conversation(?) stopped and it seems like they got into an agreement with themselves. Trace was already heading back towards the oasis to rest, afterwards he saw the skeleton carrying the slime on its hand and walking behind Trace.
After reaching the oasis, Trace drew a line and a triangle with a '!' inside of it next to his sleeping spot before taking out a wolf rug and laid it down on the sand. It seemed like the odd duo understood the meaning of the line, because they never crossed the line during the time when Trace was resting.
When Trace woke up, he went to see how his new 'friends' were doing. "!?!" The skeleton was sleeping... The slime was casually floating on top of the oasis's water, Trace then proceeded to the oasis to wash his face and stockpile water to his canteen.
When he touched the water, "!!!" There was an odd reaction that caught him by surprise, he could hear a girls voice inside his mind, "Stuupid Kobayashi-kun, eating any more than this will burst my stomach!" Trace's mind instantly alerted and he pointed LiLyan towards the source of the voice, the slime.
He then touched the water again, this time he prepared himself and... "Noooo, why, why, why, why ,why can't I run anymore!"
"What the...?" Trace exclaimed out loud this time.
To this sudden disruption, the slime woke up(?) in panic, it seemed that Trace's words were heard by the slime.
"Helloo?" Trace said to the slime, the slime responded by jumping up and turning(?) in midair while sploshing back in... Then the slime surface cautiously and shouted while stuttering "Wh-whaat is going on! I fe-e-felt a noise in my head!"
To this shout the skeleton also jumped up and dashed towards the slime (To the rescue!). Trace pointed LiLyan towards the dashing skeleton, When the skeleton noticed what Trace had done, it stopped and started clacking its mouth.
Trace still couldn't understand the conversation. The slime had calmed down. "Usagi-kun, Thank you for worrying about me, I don't know what happened."
"*Clack Clack?*"
"Oh, I was just surprised that, that man dressed like a caveman was glaring at me when I woke up, so I unintentionally panicked. He isn't really the friendliest looking person here."
'ah-ha?' Trace thought while looking at his own clothing, Yep, he nodded, he surely was a wearing a crude caveman outfit. As he had no way to process the extremely durable fur. It is not like he intentionally wanted to wear something so brutish, but the only clothing he has left are the female underwear and brassiere in his inventory... Also the small rags left from the robe and the bandage eyepatch that was totally covered in blood, he didn't even have any footwear. The only things differentiating him from a standard caveman was LiLyan and his modest build.
"Well, Excuuse me. I haven't had the time to go to the clothing store amidst all these fight." Trace answered sarcastically."
"!" To this you could almost see an exclamation mark appearing a top of the slime. "Yo-you can un-understand uuuuus?!" the slime then shouted in surprise. The skeleton also turned to look at Trace.
"Well, I am not too sure about the reason myself" He shrugged "But I can't understand what the skeleton is talking about. I think this has something to do about we being connected through the water as my skill descriptions are vague at best"
"Heee?! Skill description? What do you mean?"
"Menu" Suddenly a blue screen popped up from Trace's left arm. The skeleton leaned forward as if trying to see more.
"I thought every 'player' got their hands on one of these"
"Player? This is a game?!?"
"Yes? It should be a game? right?" "Though I do not know anymore"
"What do you mean?"
"Well, from what I know of, is that before coming here, I was supposed to test this new MiraTech game. When I entered the machine, I was sent to this dungeon. But it seems that there is no log off button nor a function in the menu, and then there is you guys, who seem to be not employed by Freedom"
"Dungeon is something like a cave right?" the slime asked the skeleton, the skeleton nodded.
"So judging from the reaction, you guys do not seem to be other players... So... What are you guys then?"
"Umm, My name is Shimizu Rea, I am an 15 years old student from Japan? And this is my classmates Usagi Shirou-kun the skeleton, please take care of us."
"There are als-" "*CLACK* *CLACK* *CLACK*" the slime was interrupted by the skeleton who then came into the water and scooped Rea the slime up "*clack*-ld you yesterday already, we can't trust this person, we don't know what he will do if he finds the rest of our classmates! They aren't the smartest bunch exactly."
"Interesting" Trace said, The skeleton slowly turned his, you could almost hear the creaking sound coming from its neck.
"So, mister skeleton. Mind want to explain to me how to get to the next floor, It seems it has something to do with digging through the sand if I recall correctly." Trace smiled with a devilish grin on his face.
"Usagi-kun, Why did you suddenly pick me up! Oh wait, why can I still hear the brute, even though I am not in contact with the water"
"That... I think it is that you have absorbed some of the water which has been 'marked?' by me. I can also see your presence quite strongly for some reason... and I better introduce myself these nicknames are getting worse by the minute."
The skeleton also drank some of the water, it did not go through instead it magically disappeared around its throat.
"Seems like it is working, It seems I can use the water to communicate with others... Not sure how to take it..."
"Okay kids, My name is Trace and this here is my partner LiLyan, My goal... I just want to go back home... So could you... just show me the way towards the bottom of this dungeon."
"Usagi-kun, Usagi-kun, I think we should return also, we have away for quite a long time already, The others might be worried. And And Usagi-kun what if they accidentally make this Savag-Trace-san mad and get killed, We should escort him, nee Usagi-kun"
"Hmm, I think it should be okay, But Mr Trace, can you promise not to harm our classmates under any circumstances?"
"I can not really promise anything, but, as long as they don't stand in my way or attack me. I can only guarantee to not take their lives... Unless absolutely necessary, Is that okay? I only want to get out of here"
"Okay then, let's go" Usagi the Skeleton said.
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EXTRA NOTES
Here is a list of bullets available for [Trace] and a summary of their characteristics.
-Solid X, a solid bullet with no additional effect, when fused, increases range, speed and penetration of the bullet.
(Main: Standard bullet, Secondary: Increased RSP)
(Cross: None)
-Shock X, A shockwave bullet, when fired sends an invisible shockwave towards the pointed direction. When fused add a shockwave property, be it when shot, on impact or even midflight.
(Main: Invisible Shockwave, Secondary: Additional shockwave)
(Cross: Super Shock)
-Flare X, A bullet that ignites its targets on hit. When fused, adds a fire property.
(Main: Ignite on hit, Secondary: Fire Addition)
(Cross: Heat Beam)
-Frag X, fires like a shotgun with multiple 'fragments'. when fused with other bullets causes a fragmentation effect.
(Main: Shotgun, Secondary: Fragments)
(Cross: Extra spread)
-Burst X, bullet that explodes on impact. Fusion adds explosive property to the bullet.
(Main: Explodes on impact, Secondary: EXPLOSIONS!)
(Cross: Secondary mini explosions after a delay)
-Can X, a hollow/shell bullet that can be remotely detonated. Best fused with other bullets to increase efficiency.
(Main: Mine, Secondary: none
(Cross: ...NONE)
-DTC X, (Detonate the canister) A bullet that causes an invisible ripple that triggers all nearby Can X shots. With fusion the triggers can be filtered, so that the bullet will only trigger certain bullets.
(Main: Detonate, Secondary: Filter)
(Cross: Much bigger trigger range)
Note: The X Blaze has TWO separate holes for bullets the main and secondary. The main bullet defines the charasteristics of the combined bullet. There is also the special Cross bullets that are made by fusing two of the same bullets.
Note 2: The [LiLyan] also has same specifics as [LiLy] but is better, more will be revealed at later date. [LiLyan] cannot be put into the inventory as it is not purely 'shop' item nor is it a original brought item anymore.
