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Chapter 2 - Stop and Go

Sekai was exhausted and exasperated. What the fuck is this? I beat the boss? why is the time still going? He just beat the sand golem, but that monster was only a mini-boss? Due to frustration, Sekai once again stopped time and looked up the Princess's skirt. Ah, this will always cheer me up. Sekai thought. He resumed time, hoping maybe the king will finish this stupid quest.

"Defeating the sandworm is a feat above the rest. You Sekai Kuzuno have shown your strength and bravery..." As the King rambled on, Sekai thought, yes, this totally sounds like the end of a quest! "I hereby claim that Sekai Kuzuno will be acquitted from all charges!" 

Seki glanced at the tier still counting down. Damn it. The old man still got more to say? Hurry up. Seki impatiently thought. "Now you'd be wise not to trick me or underestimate me." The King huffed out. "That dead traveler you brought in, Jumo, was killed by a goblin." 

The King leaned in closer. "So why? Why act like you did this heinous crime?" King asked, puzzled. "I wanted to beat the boss of this stage, so I can move on." Sekai flatly said.

"Huh I don't understand. What do you mean, by 'the boss of this stage?'" "Well, basically I wanted to take on the most powerful Boss of the area. Was that clearer?" Sekai added.

"So you're a monster hunter or monster slayer, and despite your innocence, you wanted to test your mettle against the sandworm?" The king tried understanding his reason. "Well, that's one way of putting it, I guess?" Sekai replied.

"Oh, ho ho!" The king chuckled. "He's an interesting fellow, perhaps you were right about him, Alicia." The king paused for a moment to gather his bearings. "Okay foreigner, on behalf of Woz Belltree II, King of Belltree...." Sekai closed his eyes thinking, this is the end of the quest hurray! "I grant you the title of, 'King's Hero!'" Wait, no that does NOT sound like the end of a quest, damned King! "I call upon the aid of the Hero, Sekai Kuzuno to traverse the northern cavern, and fell the monsters that terrorized the kingdom's people. Slay them all!"

No, isn't this basically another quest? Was I even on a first quest? This is stupi-- Sekai was brought out of his thoughts as Alicia grasped his hands. "Sir Sekai, I will pray for your safety. Please help our people." 

Sekai paused. Dang it! Here I was taking advantage of her, looking at her nice pink panties. But her this close, she's so much more beautiful! "Uhm... kind of close" He muttered. "I will not fail you, uh..." 

"You may call me Alicia." Sekai paused, didn't she mean princess Alicia? Is this what we call a technical BUG IN THE GAME? "Yes, I will not fail you, Alicia." Sekai added as he thought about looking up her skirt one more time.

Sekai walked out of town grumbling that thanks to that, he got yet another quest. He's only got a little more than a day and a half left. Ninya waited as he exited the kingdom. "Oh, Sekai, there you are." She stated acting like she wasn't just waiting to ambush him.

"Hi, you're uhm.. Nina? Ninja? Ninyo? Nino?" "OMG It's NINYA!" She huffed. "To think you just met me. Anyways, thanks to your good word, the king freed me from my confines as well, not like I needed your help!" She smugly said. 

"Right, because I didn't get close to your cell, to purposely let you steal my keys." She stopped at his last remark, realizing he was right about that. "Ok well, you're new here to this kingdom, right? I can tag along. Be a great tour guide and..." "No way." Sekai flatly replied. "Okay, well I'll just take this as a parting gift. Ninya held his controller. "Hey don't touch that, it's fragile.

Ninya hit buttons on it, but for her it did absolutely nothing. "Fine, here you go. Sorry. To think I stole from you after you just helped me." As Sekai took it back, he thought, wow, thieves don't usually return anything they steal. Even if it is useless to them. Plus, my controller didn't work, so it's bound to just me? Either way I should protect it more.

"Please let me come with you." She asked again. "No means no." Sekai retorted. As Sekai ditched her and the town, he went to the cavern. Upon reaching there he looked around as monsters were frozen in place, thanks to his time stop.

"Man I traversed through five areas and only found an empty treasure box. Was this cavern already looted? Is there no need for me, that damned KING!" He reached another empty chest. "This is a bummer; I don't even get rewards."

Sekai almost ran into a frozen Lizard Boss. "Ok he looks tough, but compared to the sandworm, he means nothing.... Sorry buddy, but... DIE!"

In the same instance, Ninya sat in a car, a bit rejected as she griped how the asshole Sekai didn't want to take her along. "Hey, can I ask you a question?" It was Sekai, right beside her. She flustered, almost falling off the bar stool.

"What! Sekai? I thought you went to the northern caves?" 'Yep, already been." "But they're like an hour away and you weren't even gone a hour!" "I mean, no big deal I can stop time." Sekai added. "By the way, Ninya, your job is thief, right? Can you pick locked doors?"

"Well duh! I am expert at anything thieving, with enough time I can pick any door in the..." She didn't even finish her sentence to realize she was in the northern caverns. "WHAT THE HECK? WASN'T I JUST IN THE CITY NO 30 SECONDS AGO?" "Omg I'm not even 5 feet away, stop yelling." Sekai grumbled. "Do I really need to walk you through it? So, I bought a cart and took you all the way here. all in all, took me like two days."

"No way take me back I'm more of a runner than a fighter!" Ninya said, knowing this cavern is deadly. "Relax, you won't ever need to fight. Look see?" Sekai pointed to dead monsters. "What I need your help with is this big door. I meant this has to have a boss. A double door in a cavern-like dungeon? Doesn't that sound similar to another anime/manga/game? So, can you do it?" Sekai asked.

Thirty minutes has passed as Sekai grumbled under his breath watching timer tick by. He only had 42 hours, 20 minutes and 7 seconds left. Can she pull it off? It's not like I can stop time. I'd also be freezing her. I guess time stop isn't the perfect ability if I have to rely on others. God forbid, am I to stop time and learn everything myself? 

Just as he said that Ninya got the door opened. "Hah! See? Easy peasy. And door unlo-" Just as she opened the door Sekai froze time again. inside he saw three adventurers. One lady, a mage, one male with a staff, and one male tanker. Even with their frozen faces, Sekai could tell they were on their last legs. Tanker looked like he was about to fall asleep.

Sekai saw the fire mage girl and looked up her skirt. He then looked at her realizing her summoned fire spell was about to fizzle. He thought why even a fire spell? The monster is obviously a golem. In most tv shows like The L*st A*r B*nd*r and P*k*m*n, Earth is resistant to Fire. 

Did they come with like no research? They aren't gonna win at this rate. Who am I to talk? I got no info on it either. This game's really out for blood. Sekai slashed at Golem knowing it was ineffective. "Yup these swordsmen and tanks don't stand a chance. Maybe if the girl mage uses a water spell, she might have a slim chance... right! Water!"

Few days later, well mere minutes for Sekai, he came back with a few calabash gourds filled with water, a lump hammer (used for sculpting,) a ladder and food.

"Ok As a famous Artist M*ch*l*ng*l* once said, 'No anchovies on my pizza'-- oops wrong quote. 'Every block of stone has a statue in it. It's up to the sculptor to discover it.

Sekai was amazed at his work, giving the golem boobs. "Sculptor tittle: Boobies! Okay, okay. I should stop joking." He held a stone. "This is my real objective." He cleared the room of his ladder and tools and resumed the scene before him.

Seki hid as tie resumed. "BLAZING FLAME!" The mage shouted as the attack merely fizzled on the golem's chest. "Hurry guys I'll buy whatever time I have while you run for help." The knight tanker thanked her but said, "No, that isn't fair to you. As the knight I should be protecting you both! Besides I'm too exhausted to move." 

"Don't worry guys, no need to run. The golem can't move." Sekai popped out behind the golem. "I already took car of this golem problem." 

The male mage asked, "Did it always look like that?" Sekai stated "No that is beside the point, anyways. "This was the point." Sekai held the stone. "Games call this a soul stone keystone or similar names. Not every game has that though, so I guess it was a gamble. With this, the golem can't move. Destroy this and..." He stepped on stone as Golem crumbled into dust. "It's all over for our friend, here."

Sekai saw his time still counting down. What this was not the boss? Maybe I have to turn something in? There's no walkthrough or any info on what I need to do here. 

He unfroze time, hoping maybe something would happen. The mage spoke up. "Thank you. You have done a great thing. If you hadn't shown, i don't know what we'd have done. If there's anything at all we can do..." Seki spat out "You make it sound like i did some big achievement. I mean, you have revival magic, right?"

The tanker weakly replied, "No such magic exists" Wow this game is truly hardcore. To have enough power to keep a reviving golem up, but nothing for the players. "Wait a second." He paused again, feeling at the walls, usually there's some trapdoor, or secret entrance. Gamers usually feel the wall to see if some rock is protruding out... Ah ha! Got it. He opened the door and saw a mystical dark elf inside. Oh wow, she is HOT! Elves are already cute but dang. Oh my, my hands have a mind of their own, you can't blame me! Sekai pulled down her shirt showing a nice huge pair of double D boobs. Now that's a pair of melons if I ever seen before! Now what do I kill her? Take her back? I should tie her hands. I wouldn't want her to fight back!

Sekai resumed time. "Who are you?" She asked. "Wouldn't you like to know?" She paused. "ᚨᛚᚨᚱᛁᚲ ᛊᛈᛁᚱᛁᛏᛊ ᚱᛁᛊᛖ ☉ ᛖᛏᛖᚱᚾᚨᛚ ᚠᛚᚨᛗᛖᛋ ᛒᛁᚾᛞ ⚡ ᚹᛁᚾᛞᛊ ᚹᚺᛁᛋᛈᛖᚱ ᛊᛖᚲᚱᛖᛏᛊ ᛟᚠ ᚦᛖ ᚢᚾᛊᛖᛖᚾ ☽ ᛒᛚᛟᛟᛞ ᛟᚠ ᛊᛏᚨᚱᛊ ᚨᚹᚨᚲᛖᚾ ᛖᚨᚱᚦ ᛏᚱᛖᛗᛒᛚᛖᛋ ᚨᛏ ᛗᚤ ᚹᛟᚱᛞᛊ ⚴ ᛊᚺᚨᛞᛟᚹᛊ ᛞᚨᚾᚲᛖ ᛁᚾ ᛏᚺᛖ ᚢᛟᛁᛞ ᛒᛖᚾᛖᚠᛁᛏ ᛏᚺᛖ ᛊᛟᚢᛚ ᚹᛁᛏᚺ ᛈᛟᚹᛖᚱ ᚢᚾᛒᛟᚢᚾᛞ ☿ ᛖᚲᚺᛟᛖᛊ ᛟᚠ ᛖᛏᛖᚱᚾᛁᛏᚤ ᛊᚹᛖᛖᛈ ᛊᛖᚱᛁᚨ ᛁᚾᚢᛟᚲᚨᛏᛁᛟᚾ ᚠᛚᛟᚹᛋ ᛚᛁᚲᛖ ᚱᛁᚢᛖᚱᛊ ᛟᚠ ᛚᛁᚷᚺᛏ ⚛ ᛒᚱᛖᚨᚲ ᛏᚺᛖ ᚢᛖᛁ" Oh Hell no Sekai thought. He brought out a gag and put it in her mouth after he froze time again.

"Of course she'd go straight for a spell." He resumed time as she was tied and gagged. "Can't cast spells with your mouth full, huh?" Ninya found entrance spotting Sekai in here. Man, took me a gamer, 10 minutes to find this place she found the second I resumed time, she must be a good thief! "Oh my, Sekai you did it again taking all the enemies down in an instant. Wait is she gagged? Why is she gagged?

"Well things happened so I had to shut her up. First time seeing a dark elf, well other than games. I guess I should take her back to the city." As Sekai left the hidden area, he came face to face with the adventurers again. each one stating how good she must be to command the golem.

"Hey guys there is something you can do for me. Can you escort this girl, Nina back to the city. I literally don't have time." "It's Ninya and you're just going to disappear again?"

The adventurers agree and the tanker steps forward. "My name is Will Belltree," Sekai was amazed, king sent his own son to the caverns? "May I have your name, hero?" "Yeah, I'm sure your dad can tell you all about me."

Ninya looked at the Dark Elf. "She looks like she wants to talk." "Fine but is he starts with that mouth, it's going back in!" Sekai removed the gag. "Make it quick."

"You were undressing me, you pervert?" Sekai forgot a Dark Elf's intuition is frightening!

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