Love is War

Chapter 30

The game started and the announcers, muted all the audios coming from outside completely isolating us from the outside world to avoid any information leaks from others because this is one of the games that is sensitive to any information that might lead to exploitation, and the game might be won by that bastard.

We are spawned together somewhere inside the church and all of our objectives were displayed immediately to our screens.

The last one standing win or complete the chain door parts and escape the church!

It faded immediately and I am sure that we all know what objectives we should compete for. The last one standing and all of us here don’t intend to help each other and the monster is probably roaming the map and will hunt us one by one. First is I need to find the monster and observe its behavior. Also the game also has proximity voice chat and so that means that if a player is nearby I could hear them saying things vice versa.

We know what to do and we have the same goal and it’s to reach that card. As Cal and Allan said earlier that the monster in this game will get aggressive and aggressive as time passes by and in a detailed way, every 10 minutes if I remember it correctly.

To explain my plan in such detailed way, I want to observe the behavior first and explore the map to find better hiding places in escaping the ghosts, while it is still not aggressive. This will be my greatest chance, so I can form a more constructive plan than what I have now.

“Hmm, let’s see,” I heard a male voice from beside me and I was surprised that someone is there. I’ve been mumbling my thoughts and he must have heard me and do the same thing as me. I turned around and there I saw Anonymous running beside me.

“Wait a minute,” I stopped him and he did.

“Why?” he asked me oblivious of my presence.

“What are you planning to do?” I asked him.

“Obviously winning this game,” he said calmly and I face palmed myself because how foolish of me to ask that kind of question to him. Yes, he obviously does not care about me, such foolish thing to say, self. Good job.

“Did you hear my plan?” I asked him.

“Your mumbling?” he asked back and I felt embarrassed with that burn statement from him. Geez! I don’t want to talk to this guy anymore.

“Whatever! Why are you following me by the way?” I abandoned my accusations to him since he is clearly not listening to me.

“I am not following you, you are following me,” he accused me and as surprised as I am earlier, my eyes widened because of that statement from him.

“How dare you, accuse me like that,” I whispered and he probably heard that. “NO, I’M NOT!” I said emphasizing every word that I said earlier.

“I don’t care anyway,” he said and my urge of punching this guy even his character in this game is greatly rising. My fists are starting to tighten its grip to my mouse and the finger above the keyboard are about to shake, but I remembered that I might be disqualified if I put a crude behavior in front of the crowd. Keep your cool Nova.

I took a deep breath and I exhaled for a couple of seconds and I saw Anonymous walking away from me and I did not do anything because it’s the best for me. But before he completely gets away from me there is something that I want to ask him.

“What are you planning to do?” I asked him and stopped on his tracks and he turned to me and said...

“Escaping the castle,” he answered cheaply and he turned around again and walks away from me. I cannot just ignore that but I don’t want to piss myself even more if I want that card because I know myself too well and my future will not look so good if I did that.

I don’t know, if I will believe his words about escaping the castle but I need to go on with my plan since our encounter wasted me a couple of minutes and I don’t want that to happen again to me. I mean the embarrassment that I felt earlier because of Anonymous. Yeah, time wasted on something like that is not a wise thing to do.

I took the different path that he went through and if he is so serious about escaping the castle, maybe I should be ready to escape the castle too if ever he is saying the truth because that will give me a second chance or is there any hidden agenda from it.

Ah never mind, I’ll deal with it when the time comes and I went to the main hall of the church where statues of saints and angels are built along with arts from different artists. The place looks so clean yet it was dark. This dark ambient alone is more than enough making this place feels like a haunted place.

Church settings are so popular in horror games for no reason because it was really effective and if I have to guess the type of monster that the developers had put in this game, it’s probably some kind of demon. I have watched so many horror movies with the same settings. It’s either the main antagonist is possessed by demon or the demon took form and many more.

There might be a great clue to tell me some information about that place because I will greatly appreciate that because it will help me to know some mechanics in the game. Also taking notes that contains the main lore will be a huge advantage for me because that kind of notes contains crucial information about the game mechanics.

I searched every chair in this place while a dark mellow music is playing in the background adding some fear factors to the game. When it comes to graphics, it’s so good, realistic and the game supports graphics shaders which means that the developers used the latest tech.

I am sure that this game will be one of the best sellers in the future once it is released, because every avid gamer that are watching this gameplay of ours are probably craving in their seats right now and wanting to play this game badly.

I can’t blame them, because me myself is enjoying this game while the pressure is on.

Imagine if I am not in a competition right now, I will probably enjoy the game at its finest, but the odds are high and I can’t put my guard down right now. I continue searching for useful things around the place and some tools that might help me open doors such as keys or any tools that can forcefully open locked doors.

I played the same type of game many times, I know that this kind of co-op mode, each of the team must have the essential things for them to win, but this is the selfish type of that mode. If my enemy is wise enough, they will probably do the same thing as me but I think the devs put multiple for us to escape the castle.

They won’t say that escaping the castle is possible if they didn’t do that. They must have because one of the players right now are attempting to escape the castle. I don’t know what will be the next game if ever we escaped the castle. If ever.

Anonymous is a formidable opponent to have so that’s why I need to beat him right here, right now. Because this is the game that I stand the most chance against him. I need to find a way to get him killed by that monster. There must be a way.

I need to search carefully for more clues. Clues that will help me to win this match. This is the final round and I should be more careful, once again the GRX 9090 in front of me will be nothing but dusts that will will destroy me. So sad if that happens.