Behind Mike, five kobolds appeared, small, disgusting little things, each holding a wooden knife. They all charged at Mike at once.
"Now, my sword."
Mike still could not open his inventory, and slowly he began to panic, because the kobolds were getting closer and closer. Did he have to fight with his bare hands now?
"Shit, with my hands?"
Mike moved into a fighting stance and waited until the kobolds reached him. He dodged quickly as they all stabbed at him, and none of them hit. These things were as dumb as a rock (rocks cannot think).
Mike immediately disarmed one kobold by twisting its arm and tossing the knife into the air. He jumped up, grabbed the knife, and with one clean, fast slash he cut all the kobolds in half. Mike heard a sound as beautiful as a level up, and he was teleported in an instant, but he saw that he was still in the same room.
More kobolds spawned, this time ten. Mike still had the wooden knife in his hand and gripped it tightly. He sprinted forward and cut off every kobold's head. This time, however, he was not teleported. All the kobolds were dead, but even after a few minutes Mike was still not teleported.
A crack formed in the middle of the room, and a white hand came out. The body was still attached, only so large that it could not fit into the building. The hand looked at Mike.
"A hand?"
Suddenly the hand slipped into the ground for a few seconds, then went back to normal. A fast text box appeared above the hand.
(Admin dungeon unlocked Stage 99)
"Admin dungeon?"
Mike did not even have time to think about what that could mean before he found himself in a wide meadow again, the same meadow where he had once fought the ant queen.
"The meadow?"
The earth burst upward and dirt rained down. Something shot out of the ground so fast that Mike could not see it, but sadly he could guess what it was.
"T the queen again."
Mike threw the wooden knife at the shadow that was moving so quickly through the air. As expected, he did not hit, and the knife was gone. Mike was unarmed.
"Shit."
The shadow stopped, and it really was the queen, but somehow different. Her wings were bigger, and she was completely white, the wings, the eyes, the protective shell, everything.
She shot toward Mike and left a shockwave behind her in the other direction. The dirt flew into the air. It was impossible for Mike to react. The two of them crashed into the ground and down into the ant tunnel.
"Argh."
Mike groaned in pain and found himself back in a tunnel. The queen folded her wings, although it did not help; the wings still destroyed the tunnel. Now the queen was in front of Mike, and behind him four large white ants appeared. They all charged at Mike, ready to trample him.
Time slowed down, and just before impact his menu activated, but it closed again immediately. Mike still saw one thing that was now in his menu. He saw the word Admin.
Time sped up again, and the impact never happened. A slash from both sides tore everything into thousands of pieces, but it did not cut only once. Mike did not see much, but what he saw was that it cut again and again. He did not know where it came from, but the fact that it came was his luck.
When everything was gone, the tunnel was actually more expanded than destroyed. You could not really call it a tunnel anymore, it was a crater. Mike stood on the flat floor of the crater and had to realize what had happened, but a message window opened at once.
(2 new messagesAdmin abilities have been unlocked. To gain full potential, complete Quest 3.Path to admin Quest 2 kill the 100 queens)
"H-...h- hundred queens That has to be a complete mistake."
They spawned in an instant all around Mike. The crater was so large that all the queens fit inside it. Whether that was a good or a bad sign, he did not know.
Mike looked around and turned in place, but all he saw were huge wings. The beating of the wings made the ground shake, and the 100 ant queens all shot toward Mike at the same time. Hoping that the slashing would come back, Mike did nothing, but with a bad feeling he waited. Nothing came.
"I think this looks bad this time."
And it did. The ants were almost on him. At any moment they seemed ready to pierce Mike with their speed. Mike closed his eyes, but in the blink of an eye he suddenly saw a kind of system. He opened his eyes and quickly looked at it.
(admin v1Slashing cooldown 2 hoursShield readycomplete Quest 2complete Quest 3)
In a panic he tapped on everything he could and activated Shield. The queens were now only one centimeter from his body, but a shockwave shredded them all at once. The crater expanded a hundred times over, and the ants were nothing but ash.
"T- that is supposed to be Shield, not Destroy?"
Mike stood there, stunned, and then noticed that he did not seem to be leveling up anymore.
"I am not getting any more levels. Why?"
Quest 2 complete.Path to admin Quest 3 clear Stage 100 successfully.
Next to Mike a portal formed. This time it stayed where it was and did not force him to go inside right away. He used this pause and took a deep breath.
Mike sat down in front of the portal and calmly looked over the new system.
(admin system v2 .all.attacks.reset . only one.unlocked .admin strike. you.will.get.access.back.when.you.unlock v3)
Mike closed it again and stood up. He stretched his legs and thought, "Admin strike, I wonder if it is as strong as everything else?"
"So strong?""Will I keep it?""Why am I an admin now?"
But Mike found it so breathtaking that only one answer came out.
"How cool."
Mike smiled and looked at his hands, clenched a fist and punched the air. Something huge happened… nothing.
"Uhm."
He punched the air again, and again, but still… nothing.
Mike looked disappointed, but he thought that if things got serious, it would activate anyway.
With that thought, he happily jumped into the portal, not knowing that his mood would soon change...
Mike spawned on… stairs? Black and white stairs. It almost looked like the map had not finished loading yet. Mike was not sure and kept walking up. After a while the stairs changed and became completely white.
Minutes later Mike reached the very top, where the clouds were long gone below him. He was standing on a tower. It was gray and had a flat surface. It looked like a boss arena, and as a gamer Mike recognized it at once.
"Boss arena… what will I have to fight?"
Mike waited, and then it happened. The boss fight for the rise to admin rank began. White bolts of lightning shot down to the ground and something massive crashed down from above along with the lightning. The shadow of the creature almost covered the entire area, that was how gigantic it was.
It thundered violently and the figure revealed itself. It was a huge stone statue of a spider.
"But why is it turned to stone?" Mike wondered, and he did not even have to dodge, because luckily it did not reach him.
It took up the entire platform except for the spot where Mike was standing. Mike studied the spider like statue. It had seven legs, one missing, probably lost in some battle. The huge fangs at the front of the beast's mouth were still visible despite the stone.
Suddenly cracks began to spread through the statue. One crack became many, very fast, and the stone skin shattered. Huge chunks of rock crashed down.
"Who could have guessed, the spider is white," Mike said with a sarcastic remark, feeling amused.
But he was right. The white spider began to show itself and straightened up. It attacked immediately, spitting poison at Mike.
Unfortunately, Mike saw the whole process of the attack, how the poison gathered and then shot out. He saw everything, and since he was smaller than the creature, the poison shot directly at him. He had to react quickly, and he did, running to the right. The poison splashed onto the ground and flew a few more meters, but Mike managed to save himself.
He watched how the poison ate into the floor and did not even want to imagine what would have happened if he had not escaped.
As if he did not have enough to deal with, ant queens suddenly spawned around him again, but this time far more than one hundred. It could have been ten thousand, or even more.
"I'm ….."