ARC I: THE BEGINNER TOWN.

CHAPTER SEVEN: CLAIMING THE MANSION (2): THE HORROR OF DEATH.

….… LOADING...

Norman the green goblin could quite possibly be the ugliest thing Naruto ever had the misfortune of meeting. Apart from the fact that he would probably receive an award for being the first goblin that can fly, and with technology no less. His personality however was less than appealing. The dude is nuts, and fighting this kind of enemy was always tricky in and out of itself.

Rias had a barrier of red light surrounding her. Naruto felt the need to scream at her for holding back, he had no intention of dying here, but little miss sunshine of lust, doom and gloom only seemed to care about herself. She has been attacking the goblin non stop for the past six minutes, but the blasted goblin preferred to chase Naruto around the abandoned lab in a bid to relieve him of his head.

Naruto dove right, as his body slid on the glass and debris littered floor, he felt Norman fly over his head with only a few inches to spare. Any lower and he would have sliced Naruto's face off like a knife through butter.

Naruto rolled on the floor as he tried to come up with a plan to combat the goblin. Rias was not to be worried about for the moment as she was perfectly safe behind her barrier. She occasionally fired shots of her fireball spell, but with the way the green goblin was moving it was all for naught.

Naruto took off with a running start, going straight for the wall at the other end of the lab. As soon as he got to the wall, Naruto activated cling and ran up the wall like it was the very floor he was standing on. He wanted the goblin to crash into the wall, as he chased after him.

But unfortunately the glider the goblin was using actually had such good maneuverability that it was able to change direction in a split second and chase Naruto up the wall. The underside of the glider scrapped across the surface of the wall sending sparks and a god awful screech bouncing around the lab.

With the goblin still hot on his tail Naruto pushed off the wall, performing a back flip and depending on gravity and inertia to carry him through. But somehow the goblin was able to turn quickly in time and slam its gauntlet covered fist into Naruto's abdomen and send him crashing across the lab and through various fluids of questionable origins.

Naruto had his sword flung from his grasp due to the hit, and then he went through various head one collisions with the various tools and apparatus in the lab, leaving the abandoned lab in an even more dilapidated state than it was before.

Naruto clutched at his midsection as he was racked with pain and an overwhelming urge to vomit. That punch had really rattled his entire body, if this was his real body, Naruto was sure he would have bruised or even broken ribs right now. Which is not to say he did not have it now however. Because in the end this game was so steeped in similar factors as the same that governs reality. So he could very well have broken ribs at the moment.

It hurt to breath, and he could not muster up enough strength to get back on his feet as the goblin flew straight for him with steam and smoke trailing behind his glider. Naruto scrambled to get up quickly so as to avoid the incoming glider and its blades, but his legs became jelly under him. Intense and piercing pain wracked his lithe frame as his body collapsed to the floor unwilling to listen to his commands. When the goblin was almost two meters away from Naruto with a promise of certain death, a fireball flew into his side and threw him off his trajectory paying back the earlier favor he gave Naruto by slamming him into a few more glass tubes and doused with rather unsightly looking fluids. His shouts of outrage was music to Naruto's ears.

Naruto quickly took a health potion with the time Rias had bought for him. The relief he felt once that horrible tasting potion went down his gullet was almost compared to ecstasy or an orgasm. But Naruto definitely felt weird, he felt his broken bones pop back into place and his torn tissues and punctured organs mend themselves. It was surreal and seriously nerve wracking.

Naruto quickly ran to the spot where he dropped his sword and picked it up. He turned to see an enraged goblin heading straight for Rias with a couple of metal balls in its hand. You don't need an illustration to tell what that was as Naruto ran towards the goblin.

The goblin threw the first ball at Rias only for it to bounce off harmlessly on her magic barrier. Then it exploded. That much explosive power underground shook the entire lab as pieces of dust came falling down from the earthen ceiling . Naruto was knocked off his feet, same as Rias but she was in a better state than he was, or not.

The force of the explosion threw her against the adjacent wall of her Barrier hitting her so hard that through the sounds explosions he could hear an audible crack. Her formerly pristine barrier was now littered with cracks. Naruto was sure it won't survive another attack.

" What are you doing standing there like an Idiot. KILL! THIS BASTARD AND MAKE SURE IT HURTS!"

Naruto could not imagine the pain she must be in right now. Well he could imagine considering he was in a similar state like hers just a few moments ago. She wanted this goblin to feel hurt right, well that could be arranged. Naruto shifted into his bat form and used the cover of his transformation fog to shoot at the almost unaware goblin who was preparing another bomb to completely obliterate Rias.

With his small size, Naruto was almost if not completely unseen by the goblin. It did not help that unlike the previous tunnel with its bioluminescent wild life, the lab had very dim lighting and visibility. So it took the goblin by surprise when Naruto with the size of a bat, bowled into the goblin with the force of a linebacker. Naruto with his enhanced stats was actually equal in strength with the Goblin. It also confirmed another theory of Naruto. In this game levels were good and all, but it did not truly define the strength of a player or even the bosses in the game itself.

Naruto maneuvered his tiny body to the goblin's neck as the smashed Into the floor. The goblins glider was still attached to his feet so this was dragged on the uneven stone floor for a few seconds peeling the entire skin of its right face off, leaving it looking bloody and grotesque.

The goblin flew up, putting some distance between itself and Rias, completely not taking Notice of Naruto's bat form that was currently climbing up the goblin's body like a prowling lion on a hunt. The goblin was screaming and wailing in pain as it tried to clutch the side of his head that was scraped raw, but pulled away just as quickly for fear of inflicting more pain on itself.

Naruto climbed until he got to the neck of the goblin unseen. The goblin itself was still completely entrenched In the feeling and sensation the pain induced. Some people when they feel pain is when they're most active, they are able to push past it and make sure they get the job done. While others will totally break down and collapse like a puppet that had its strings cut.

Naruto did not give it a chance to recover as he bit down on the goblin's neck and almost let go due to his gag reflex. Naruto had inadvertently tasted what a goblins blood felt like to the tongue of a vampire. It tasted like grass, but the green goblins blood tasted like grass mixed with the most awful tasting medicine ever invented. It tasted like a hospitals disinfectant steeped in ruminated grass.

The goblin took notice and was pounding on Naruto in a pain induced panic state and in attempt to knock him off his body. Naruto sincerely wished that happened due to foul tasting blood of the goblin. He would have done anything at that moment to escape it, but in the end a string of the words immune kept floating over Naruto's head as he was unable to take damage for the first three seconds. A system alert filled his vision for a moment.

DRINKER WAS ACTIVATED SUCCESSFULLY. YOU HAVE SIPHONED 25 STRENGTH FROM YOUR ENEMY. ALL STATS RAISED BY 50% FOR THE NEXT HUNDRED SECONDS.

Naruto was a little shocked. If he got ten percent of an opponents stat anytime drinker activated, it meant that the green goblin, a level 80 boss had a strength stat of 250. No wonder it could keep even with Naruto's over buffed stat. Well he received good gains from just drinking the most disgusting thing ever, if this was the case, maybe next time….. No chance In hell. Naruto never wanted to taste such a crappy tasting thing such as goblin blood again for the rest of his life.

He was drawn out of his thoughts as lightening came sizzling for the goblin's face. Naruto leaped away quickly flapping his wings to get away and make some distance from himself and the goblin. His transformation went into a cool down as he came down to the ground at half the speed he was supposed to.

Rias had lost her barrier, but it was nothing compared to the fact that she was surrounded by a red eerie circle of symbols and words Naruto could not understand. Her hair was floating up as arcs and sparks of red lightning danced all over her body like snakes. She had a crazed look in her eyes as the circle began to flash and pulse brighter and stronger.

" Oh shit" Naruto muttered in shock.

He did not try to stick around to find out what would happen next. He made a beeline for the exit of the lab, once he was out and into the tunnel, the whole place shook as a wave of red lightning flowed Into the tunnel it caught up to Naruto taking him up and slamming him along the way like a surfer thrown into a fifty foot wave of pure electricity and agony. Naruto however only felt the dull thud on his bones as the lightning wave tossed him around like a rag doll. What he was really feeling at the moment was the intense feeling of being electrocuted, all he saw was white as his body was being shook by the invading stream of lightening inside of him. And then he Died.

YOU HAVE DIED:

RESPAWN POINT HAS BEEN SET TO LUGARD MANSION.

… LOADING…

Naruto woke up coughing and startled. The experience was even made worse by the fact that he couldn't even feel his body. For a good thirty seconds he was like a fish out of water as he flopped around sporadically. He could not make sense of a direction or his location. It was disorienting and out of focus like a camera lens.

It took him almost a minute to be able to regain control of his body and another five to gain control over his brain. He wanted to swear, to curse and rage, but the sheer horror of what he just experienced shook him in ways he did not expect.

He felt himself die, felt his heart stop beating. He was so sure that he had kicked the bucket. But he was here, and he was fine…. Mostly. It was an extremely harrowing experience.

"what kind of game is this?" He asked.

But he couldn't get an answer. Virtual reality has come far over the years. Humanity has been able to do marvelous and wonderful things with VR advent in technology, but to be able to simulate death perfectly was something else altogether.

Elemental Warriors online was; is more than just a game, what it was exactly Naruto could not be sure. But this was not a game, not anymore. Because the moment he understood that in this game, most things here were governed by the laws of reality even something as scary as death. it became more than just a game, it became a second life.

Naruto picked himself up with wobbly legs as black ash dropped from his body. He was laying at the foot of the stair case. Apart from the loots dropped by the previous monsters that once occupied this tunnel, all that was left was ash and the very visible mark of Rias's prowess.

Scorch marks drew lines on the floor with the ash of its own. Even to Naruto himself he could still sense a lot of electricity in the air. Every hair on his body was standing at attention, and he could see little sparks of red lightning dancing over the bioluminescent crystals, much so that a lot of them had turned red. The plants however were all dead as nothing but ashes denoted their existence in the that tunnel.

Naruto made his way through the tunnel with half the crystals giving out an eerie red glow. They pulsed rhythmically almost as if it was a heart beat. It certainly added another degree of spookiness to the whole place, but Naruto pressed on with almost not sign that he was affected by the eldritch lights. You gain a lot of tolerance for a lot of things if you have died once. Granted Naruto was sorely tempted to log out of this game and never come back here again.

When he got to the metal gate it was still spread wide open. The lab took the most hit from Rias going all kamikaze on the green goblin. All but one tube in the lab was shattered, the desks and chairs were nothing but smoldering piles of burnt wood. There was no sign of the sheets of scattered paper and folders anymore.

Rias was leaning against the only remaining glass tube as she leisurely munched on an apple. Naruto however did not care as he matched up to her and grabbed at her throat lifting her into the air like she was nothing but a ragdoll.

"what is wrong with you!" Naruto screamed at her.

He couldn't help but feel like a fool. He knew the kind of person she was, the kind of disregard she had for other people not useful to her and the fact that she had a tendency to go off the rails. Yet he had gotten complacent with her behind him and supporting him through this whole dungeon ordeal.

"tell me are you really insane just like every body says huh?"

" Would you stop being a baby. Its no big deal besides it took care of the green goblin, though it's still alive but totally out for the count." She replied to Naruto in a bored tone.

Naruto shook his head in disbelief as he drew her face closer to his. He could feel his voice shaking and breaking as the horror of the situation he just experienced sunk in properly.

"you don't understand. I died. I was laying right there and I felt my heart stop. I… I… thought this was the end for me. I thought I was going to leave my sick grandfather and everybody depending on me behind and in more pain than ever before. I…i….i. died."

He could not stop the sobs that shook his body as he was overcame with grief and fear. Maybe he was over reacting to the situation, but he could not help himself. He slid to the floor with Rias still in his grasp. Everybody was afraid of death, but not as much as Naruto. He had gotten himself familiar with that concept when his father died.

And for a ten year old boy who loved his father with all his heart it was such a heavy blow. Not to mention his grandmother also passed away in the same accident. Naruto understood life was short, but he had never had a chance to truly live the life that he had been given as he chose to focus on a way to take care of his ailing grandfather from a young age.

He felt Rias encircle her arms around him and drew him close to her body. She was warm, unbelievably so and as she held him, Naruto could not help but get lost in her warmth.

"I am sorry I didn't know. The first death is always the hardest." She whispered to him.

"What?" Naruto asked back confused.

"Death is very much real in this game Naruto. You already know you feel almost as much pain in here as the real world. About seventy percent. But death is a whole other different matter. You always feel yourself die, due to that it could be just your luck to die quickly like those players you beheaded.

Or slow and painful just like that stupid goblin. I didn't know you have not experienced death yet. If you go through it a bunch of times you eventually end up apathetic to it."

"how many time's have you died." Naruto asked

" More times than I can care to remember." She replied.

Naruto pulled away from her as he cleaned his face and tired to salvage whatever was left of his dignity. He looked around the lab and noticed the goblin's glider and its rider just five feet away from it and nothing more than a smoking pile of flesh. The up and down motion the body made confirmed to Naruto that the goblin was still alive.

Naruto already lost his sword and equipment in the blast wave of Rias suicide attack. Though Naruto wondered how she was still alive. Naruto was back to wearing the remaining scattered pieces of the dividing armor set. The only thing missing was a sword, so Naruto chose a spear.

Naruto approached the goblin and without reservation drove the sharpened steel blade of the spear into his head. The Goblin died with little to no fanfare or reaction. It just stopped breathing.

SYSTEM ALERT! :

YOU HAVE DEFEATED NORMAN OSBORN THE GREEN GOBLIN AND CLAIMED OWNERSHIP OF THE MANSION. YOU NOW HAVE FULL CONTROL OVER THE BUILDING. THE PROPERTY MENU HAS BEEN UNLOCKED.

FOR BEING THE FIRST TO CLEAR THIS DUNGEON YOU HAVE BEEN GIVING 1.000.000 EXP, 100 GOLD COINS, AND THE RECIPE FOR THE ORB BOMB AND THE FLYING HOVERBOARD. YOU HAVE RECEIVED +2000 FAME, +2000 FAITH. AND +5 TO ALL COMBAT STATS.

YOU HAVE DEFEATED NORMAN OSBORN: RECEIVED THE BANGLES OF PETER PARKER, THE SCALING STAFF OF SERAMIS, THE MAP OF NORMAN OSBORN'S SECRET LAB +5000 EXPERIENCE POINTS, +3 TO ALL STATS.

YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE INSTANCE IN NIGHTMARE MODE AND UNLOCKED THE REQUIREMENTS TO FACE THE HIDDEN BOSS LESSER CHIMERA, BATTLE STARTS IN TEN MINUTES.

"oh fuck me." Naruto screamed to no one in particular

" hmm, not yet" Rias replied.

If Naruto was not so panicked by the news of a hidden boss, he would have been able to pick out the innuendo in her comment. The only glass tube still standing after the whole nuclear bomb of lightening went off developed a crack on its surface. Through the murky depths of the liquid contained within, the shadow of a creature could be seen banging and hitting at its glass prison as it aimed for freedom.

Naruto quickly positioned himself in front of the glass containment chamber as Rias took her now familiar spot behind him. Naruto quickly ingested the necessary potions to get his already low stamina and chakra points to full capacity. He vaguely noticed Rias doing the same thing behind him.

As the countdown ticked to completion the force that the chimera used in attacking the glass chamber increased and damage doubled with every hit received. The crack began to spread across the entire surface until the only thing left intact was the metal block it was standing on. The assault stopped and both Naruto and Rias waited with baited breaths as they prepared for their enemy's attack. Then the glass broke with a crash, debris and pieces of glass falling to the ground and the pink skin of a strange creature with it.

The chimera was a monster of nightmares. The body of a lion, a tail that's a snake and the head of a goat growing up from out of its back. Not to mention the damn thing stood almost six foot tall, a direct correlation to Naruto's own height. It let out a roar that shook the entire lab as its yellow eyes became transfixed upon Naruto and Rias.

LESSER CHIMERA : LEVEL 100: HIDDEN BOSS

If this was what a lesser chimera looked like, Naruto shuddered to think what a greater chimera would look like. He rotated the spear in his hand and raised his shield to cover his entire body and then crouching down to brace himself and give the Chimera less of a target. The chimera prowled around slowly circling them and observing them just like a lion would on a hunt.

Naruto turned with the beast, never once taking his eyes off it as he studied and tried to look for a weakness. The chimera had not attacked so Naruto was not able to come up with a counter plan for the confirmed eventuality of its attack.

Naruto slowly let his shield drop and turned sideways a little giving the impression that he had dropped his guard and was open to attack. The chimera took the opening as a sign to attack, and it did just that when its three foot long tail, which he should mention again was a snake extended past seven meters to strike at Naruto's unprotected left side. It was a good thing that Naruto was prepared as he moved his shield to block the incoming strike from the snake.

It came so fast that Naruto almost did not see it coming, as soon as the fangs of the snake came in contact with the shield, it sent tremors and vibrations up Naruto's entire arm as the power behind the strike was made manifest.

The chimera went back to circling them after its strike. Naruto however had been able to observe one of the chimera's attacking moves. Of course the tail was not the only thing to watch out for. Without knowing the capabilities of the other heads, Naruto was still very much fighting blind. The chimera opened its mouth, well the lion part of it anyway, and spewed a stream of liquid fire.

Naruto ducked behind his shield with Rias close behind him. They may have gotten stronger through the entire process of their run in this dungeon, but this chimera was on a whole other level. Think forty to almost fifty levels difference.

The Chimera stopped its barrage of fire attack after thirty-seconds and was panting and gasping for breath. Naruto was not close enough to attack the Chimera, but Rias was very much a ranged combatant as she shot fireball after fireball at the chimera.

The chimera could do nothing but cower under Rias's barrage due to the fact that the previous move exhausted it. It did not move for at least a minute and Rias chakra bar slowly depleted as fireballs rained on the chimera whose health was slowly chipping away.

Then the chimera charged. The sudden movement and the speed which it used almost caught Naruto off guard. But when it got close enough the chimera twisted its body and sent its goat head ramming into Naruto's shield and flinging him off his feet as once again he went flying through the lab. Luckily enough for him there we're no obstacles for him to fly through this time. But that didn't mean the floor was anymore merciful.

Naruto watched Rias evade the quick and fast strikes of the chimera's snake tail, while defending from claws and jaws of its lion head. She was doing fine but not for long. Naruto was almost five meters away from her. He activated stride increasing his already impressive speed and arrived in front of the chimera almost instantly. He unleashed a barrage of thrust like attacks with his spear as he poker at the chimera's defenses. Luck was on his side as his spear went through the eyes of the lion head. The lion unleashed a roar of pain that made Naruto hesitate for almost a fraction of a second. But that second was more than enough as the chimera raked it's claws across Naruto's armored chest, throwing a shower of sparks into the air.

Naruto retaliated by activating the divide. He may not like tank like armors or heavy equipment in general, but the skill that that came with the dividing set was enough to almost make him rethink his stance about tanks and their advantages. He swung his spear horizontally as the light and wave already associated with the skills release cut into the chimera. At the moment of the skills impact a shower of blood burst out from the chimera's body sizzling and steaming like some sort of acid. Then the skill pushed the chimera back, dragging it body on the floor, raising a shower of sparks as the horn of it's goat head scraped itself along the floor.

Much of its health was already depleted, it was not half of its health bar, but that could almost be ignored. Any player who chooses to focus on the health bars of Monster's during a fight would most definitely end up spending hours fighting a monster that will take only five minutes to kill, or end up dying more times than he or she could imagine.

"Rias prepare your ruin spell. I'm going to try to push it into a corner so that you can get a stationary target. Get ready."

"roger that captain." She replied in a more cheerful voice than the situation called for.

Naruto could not begin to imagine how she could still make jokes and sound so amused with a freaking chimera in front of them.

After that, Naruto quickly made his way to the chimera that was now struggling to get back on its feet. When Naruto was two meters away, the tail with its snake head struck multiple times with its fangs dripping venom. Naruto hid behind his shield for the duration of that attack. As soon as it stopped however, he moved his shield to the right and thrust his spear straight at the chimera's right fore leg with all of his strength. The spear slid into its skin with a little resistance and came out the other end.

Naruto quickly ducked behind his shield as the snake head began to strike rapidly and unrelentingly at Naruto due to the injury he had inflicted on it. Naruto could not do much but weather the storm, but the chimera did not have unlimited stamina. Its sudden barrage of attacks just now was probably as a result of adrenaline from the pain and shock of its sudden injury. As soon as it took a chance to catch its breath, Naruto activated slash which should not be possible with a spear, but he was able to activate the sword like skill and use the blade of the spear to slice through the already injured leg of the chimera completely decapitating it in the process.

The roar the chimera let out this time was shared by all the heads, which was severely bizarre, imagine hearing the roar of a lion, the beats of a goat, and the hiss of a snake all at the same time. But Naruto did not have the time to contemplate that as the snake head whipped out with more force than before and smashed into Naruto's shield throwing him sideways and off his feet once again as he rolled all across the floor like a driver who just crashed from a Kawasaki ninja moving at top speed. Naruto felt his shield hit his jaw, and felt his arm snap as pure blinding pain filled his entire body. When he could fully pay attention to himself, he saw his left arm with his shield bent at an awkward angle, the same with his left leg. He could feel a massive chunk of flesh missing from his jaw as his teeth and gums were exposed due to the wound. He was bleeding from his head and his armor looked like it had been through a meat grinder.

He noticed the chimera with a focused expression heading towards him with a limping gait, completely disregarding the barrage of fire spells from Rias. Anybody could tell that that monster won't stop until Naruto was dead at its feet. Naruto with his body stacked and being stabbed by numerous needles of pain drank a healing potion with a lot of effort. He also vaguely noted that it was his last by bottle.

He felt his bones snap back into place as his peeled jaw mended itself almost instantly. His eyes never once left the slowly approaching chimera. His spear was lying a few feet away from him, and his body was not healing fast enough for him to be able to get up and defend himself. Naruto was angry, very much so, but he was also afraid. He wouldn't back down from this fight, but the string of injuries and the near or quite literal death experience that he had already experienced put a terror of this game into him. he did not want to experience that again, but the chimera's gaze seemed to only promise a great deal of pain and an ugly death.

When the chimera was about four meters away, it pounced but Naruto was lucky enough to bring his shield up in time before the full weight of the chimera came crashing down crushing his still healing bones. Naruto let out a gasp of pain as the chimera began to pound and attack at the shield, slowly but patiently wearing out its durability in its so focused goal of getting to the person the shield was protecting.

Naruto could do nothing, he was just vaguely aware of the fact that he still held his shield. Instead he was beset by pain as every time the chimera attacked, it would break a still mending bone, and once it pulled back the potion still in effect would begin to heal the injured bone, only for the chimera to pound it back to pieces. Naruto was stuck in a loop all to aware of what was going on in his body and being unable to do anything about it. He head Rias shout.

"Naruto I'm sorry."

Naruto had no idea what she was shouting about. But she used his real name, which he half heartedly noted sounded good to hear in her voice. That is until his vision was covered with a fog of red and black lights. This time he screamed as his vision went white with agony. He could hear the chimera screaming with him as the flesh peeled form their bones, and their bones crumbled to dust. Naruto's healing potion was still in effect, though it could not keep up with the rate of decay, it still healed him.

Naruto wished and screamed for death, and through all this torture Naruto was able to form a coherent thought. 'Rias is such a bitch' but it did him no good. He felt like he had been dipped in a pool of lava and was being bitten by little lava piranhas. It went on for an eternity, and then it stopped. He could no longer feel the pressure of the chimera on top of him, but he could feel it laying by his side. Naruto was not sure if it was dead or not. He opened his eyes to the barely visible ceiling of the lab. The healing potion finally ran it course as if fixed about fifteen percent of the damage he had received. Then it was up to his vampiric healing factor to take care of the rest.

Naruto turned to his left to see the chimera still breathing but in a worse state than expected. The entire top of its back was peeled opens exposing its spine and the throat and lungs of its now vaporized goat head. The snake head was also gone, cut off from the middle and still dripping blood. Naruto leaned over the chimera and used bite.

DRINKER HAS BEEN ACTIVATED SUCCESSFULLY. YOU HAVE GAINED 30 STRENGTH, 30 AGILITY, AND 30 DEXTERITY. ALL STATS INCREASED BY 30% FOR THE NEXT 100 SECONDS.

Naruto however did not seem to care for the system alert at that moment. The taste of the chimera's blood flowing down his throat was enough to rob him of his senses. The taste was divine in its own right it was like a cocktail of three different exotic flavors though one of it seemed to be a little sour. But he pressed on, and before anybody's naked eye, the already injured body of the chimera drained until it became nothing more than a husk if it's former self.

Naruto stood on shaky legs as he felt a buzz from the blood he just ingested. The volume of the blood alone was in gallons, the fact that Naruto was not bloated was weird enough as it is.

SYSTEM ALERT! :

YOU AND YOUR PARTY HAVE SLAYED THE LEVEL 100 HIDDEN BOSS LESSER CHIMERA. EXPERIENCE POINTS +1.000.000, ALL STATS +5, YOU HAVE RECEIVED. THE CHIMERA'S SKIN, FANGS, CLAWS AND HORNS, YOU HAVE ALSO RECEIVED THE COAT OF MAD SCIENCE AND THE CURSED SPEAR OF SERAMIS

FOR BEING THE FIRST PARTY TO DEFEAT A HIDDEN BOSS, YOU HAVE RECEIVED +10 TO ALL STATS, DOUBLE EXP FOR ONE THREE DAYS, BLACKSMITHING AND ENCHANTING RECIPE THE DAY LIGHT RING, AND THE CORSET OF MANY FACES.

THE MANSION IS CLEARED OF ALL MONSTERS WILL YOU LIKE TO RENAME IT: YES/NO… ACCEPT THE KONOHA ESTATE AS NEW NAME.

NAME ACCEPTED.

YOU NOW HAVE FULL CONTROL TO YOUR ESTATES MANAGEMENT. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE MENU.

KONOHA ESTATE

SIZE: 1200 SQUARE METERS

BASE LEVEL: 0

DEFENSE: 100

ATTACK: 10

RESIDENTS: 1

RESOURCES: WOOD(0)/STONE(0)/METAL ORES(0)

ENCHANTMENTS: NONE

BASE SHOP: LEVEL BASE TO 1 TO UNLOCK

MILITIA : NONE

WORKER: NONE

LIVESTOCK: HORSES(0)/SHEEP(0)/DOGS(0)CATS(26)

CATTLE(0)MONSTERS(0).

Naruto blinked rapidly for a moment as the options were opened to him. He looked up to see Rias running her fingers through a screen of her own, and then Naruto chose to focus on the other notifications he had ignored.

YOU HAVE REACHED LEVEL 67

TRAVEL CIRCLE UNLOCKED

NOBLE TITLE AND RANK UNLOCKED

WEAPON SPECIALIZATION UNLOCKED: SWORDS, SPEARS, AND SHIELDS. (+)

BITE IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 6

STRIDE IS NOW INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 1

DRINKER IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 4

SHIFT IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 9

CLING IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 7

FLIT IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 8

NIGHTWALKER IS NOW INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 2

KICK IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 9

FOCUS IS NOW BEGINNER LEVEL 7

SLASH IS NOW INTERMEDIATE LEVEL 1.

NAME:MENMA WINDWALKER

RACE:VAMPIRE

LEVEL:67

CLASS:WARRIOR

SUB-CLASS:NONE

PROFESSION:DIVINE CREATOR

TITLES:[CHOSEN ONE/DIVINE CRAFTSMAN/SEARCHER]

FAME/INFAMY: 4644/0

AFFINITY:WIND/FIRE

CHAKRA: 128/418

STAMINA : 11/480

STRENGTH : 289(+11)

AGILITY: 245(+10)

DEXTERITY : 229(+10)

VITALITY: 240(+9)

WISDOM: 75

INTELLIGENCE : 209

CHARISMA: 80

LUCK: 78

FAITH: 3410

LEADERSHIP : 2228

Naruto took a breath as he examined his stats. He was way to strong for his current level. But all that was due to the fact that his various titles and otherwise unnatural encounters had blessed him with enough bonus to make to son of a billionaire cry. But what was most bizarre to him however was his luck stat. The luck stat was supposed to be a fixed stat, it could not be increased by normal means. Naruto had an abnormally high luck stat. The luck stat governed a lot of things, from how many times a critical hit activates and the drop of loots.

Not to mention encounters with NPC and the receiving of quests and many other variables Naruto could not remember. It might seem his whole luck so far had not been solely attributed to Natsu, but also to his luck stat.

Naruto looked at Rias, to see that she was still being focused on her stat screen. Ignoring the completely leveled lab, Naruto was able to spot a safe at the extreme end of the lab, nestled snugly in the rock wall that made up the entire back end of the lab.

The safe was opened, probably due to all the chaotic attacks the lab has already been through. There was nothing inside but a diary. Its cover was old and worn, but it seemed to be made from the skin of an animal. It was unadorned and not decorated. Naruto opened the first page and the words PROPERTY OF AIZEN SOSUKE was written in red letters. Through out his entire involvement with the purchase of this mansion, Naruto had heard mention of this Aizen guy more times than he could remember. It seems like there are unknown factors at play here than just what was seen with the naked eye.

Naruto turned to the next page only to be met with blank pages. No matter how much he shuffled or changed it, the book still remained blank. Naruto was not stupid, no one would put an empty diary in a safe, so unless there was an enchantment of sorts on it, or some other stuff at work. The best guess possible was that there were secrets in this diary that was not meant for the naked eye.

QUEST ALERT: DIFFICULTY B

You have come to realize that everything in the lugard mansion, from the monsters to the equipment and its previous owner were all tied to one name. Aizen Sosuke. Your only clue is a mysterious diary. There is bound to be information about this man and the diary in Maho city. Ask around and investigate. Find out who Aizen Sosuke really is and what is his involvement with the sudden infestation of monsters in the capital city for the past two and the half decades. {Time limit 6d/23h/59m} {reward 2.000.000 exp?}

Naruto gave a sigh of exhaustion. This quest will buy into his time for the moment, but at least it was something he could complete in the city. Naruto was not to worried about who this Aizen is or what he had done. This was probably another mad scientist quest that propped up every now and then.

Naruto made his way to the tunnel seeing as Rias had disappeared form where he last saw her. Naruto found her at the foot of the stairs resting. All of the loots and equipment they had both got from slaughtering the hobgoblin and the two bosses were piled in a corner. It was strange however, that unlike last time where the loots were distributed between him and Koneko equally by the system, this time it all stayed on the floor for it to be distributed manually.

"I have to say that was pretty intense." Rias commented dryly with an exhausted tilt to her voice.

"you have no idea, I'm honestly tempted to never leave this city again, so as to not experience this shit storm anywhere else." Naruto moaned

Rias went silent as she stared at Naruto with a soft expression. Naruto could not help but ask.

"What?" with a confused expression on his face.

"are you okay?" Rias asked with more care than Naruto thought she was capable of giving.

Naruto knew exactly what she meant and why she was asking that question. But he had no answer to that question. He slid down the wall at the foot of the stairs as he bowed his head. No one can claim to understand what he had just experienced. Well no one but Rias since she seemed to have gone through it more times than he could imagine.

"how do you cope?" he asked her.

"I don't cope. I'm crazy remember. Do you think I used to be like this, I was not always so reckless with a complete disregard for life. But when you die enough times, its almost impossible not to change."

"I'm sorry."

"what are you apologizing for?" she asked him curiously

"for everything, it must have been so hard for you during the beta."

"well I'm fine thanks for your concern. And don't apologize again, its not your fault. Besides even with the way death is portrayed in the game, people kept on coming back. The amount of people who gave up playing the game is almost negligible and nine times out of ten they always return to it.

Because they know elemental warriors online is more than just a game. It's a life, one that the real world can't offer them."

Naruto thought on what Rias said and felt a little better, it was basically her own nice way of saying you're not the only person to have gone through this, man up and get yourself together cause no one gives a shit.

Naruto understood the concept he had to work with here, it would not be easy, but he knew he was going to be able to pull through. He turned and began to rummage through the loots they had obtained from fighting the hobgoblins and bosses, distributing them equally.

The Hobgoblin dropped four different skill books, and a variety of equipment. There was no set equipment among it, just miscellaneous pieces of different equipment and materials.

The four skill books obtained were a little uncommon according to Rias. The first was a defensive spells for Arcanist. It was called Earth wall, it was an earth element defensive spell which Rias said should not be available to any Arcanist until their profession upgrade at level 100. The next was a skill for rouges called Assassinate the skill would instantly kill and opponent with 30% health and below. But it cost a lot and had a rather lengthy cool down. Its ability would probably get better in the higher levels, but that needed a rouge of extreme patience to see the improvement of this skill to the end.

The third move was for warriors, most specifically berserker. It was dubbed Blood rage. The skill increased damage by 2% for every hit or cut its user receive and put them in a berserk state that would actually make it hard for them to differentiate from friend or foe. The percentage increased by 2 every skill level gained. So by the time it got to intermediate the user would be receiving a power up of 32% every time his opponent cut him. This skill also had a lengthy cool down of about one hour, and after the duration of the skill the user will be in a weakened state for ten minutes with all his or her stats reduced by 95%. So it was probably a skill meant to be used as a last resort in any fight. The last skill book was a general class skill book, which meant it could be used by all classes. It was a weird one though, it was named imbue but unlike the rest this skill was a mystic skill book, it was one step above the rare grade.

It took Naruto all of twenty minutes to convince Rias to let him learn the skill even as she stressed multiple times it was better off in her hands.

IMBUE

TYPE: ACTIVE SKILL

CLASS RESTRICTIONS:NONE

GRADE: MYSTIC

DESCRIPTION : imbue 5% of all your allies stats and racial traits for a period of 100 seconds to increase battle abilities and capabilities. Active skills can not be imbued, but one passive skill from each ally can be imbued. The skills are chosen randomly. (Cost 200 chakra) (cast time 10 seconds) (cool down 2 hours) cost increases every skill proficiency level gained and cool down reduces.

Naruto learn the skill happily, in a way this skill was vastly overpowered. Assuming the person who uses it is leader of a guild with thousands of players. The very battle capability of such a person would only be described as godly.

Rias took the earth spell, though she preferred fire or lightning due to their offensive nature, but as a sorceress her elemental affinities was not limited to a single element, but all of them. Besides it was better to have more diverse skills in your repertoire, it would always give you an edge over your enemies. Thankfully skills here are improved by constant usage of it, rather than by skill points.

Rias let Naruto put the other skill books up for auction along with all the equipment the Hobgoblins dropped. They did not feel the need to keep any of it. While those equipment were quite high leveled, there were just ordinary and can't be used for an extended amount of time as players were still in a leveling frenzy.

Now it was time to pay attention to the loots dropped by both bosses.

First of they started with goblin. And all the stuff the got from killing it.

GAUNTLET OF THE SPIDERMAN

TYPE: ARMOR(ACCESSORY)

GRADE:MYSTIC(EVOLVABLE)

CLASS RESTRICTIONS:NONE

ATTACK: 0-0

DEFENSE: 0-0

ABILITIES : shoot spider webs to enable you to swing from building to building. There no limit to its uses, use your imagination. Spider silk thread used must by replaced refilled regularly.

DESCRIPTION : this gauntlet used to belong to a costumer hero of an ancient and forgotten era. The power it holds is immense. Time may have forgotten who peter parker the Spiderman is. But this gauntlet still stands as a testament to its greatness. Somewhere out there is the second and twin to this gauntlet. With both of them in hand you will have the ability to perform miracles. Evolve the Gauntlet twice to unlock its tracking feature and locate its other pair.

After reading the whole thing, Naruto was more than happy that Rias did not find interest in swinging from walls. He equipped the gauntlet, which was just a bit bigger than a bracelet, but covers much of the under side of his forearm. Next was the recipe for the green goblin's hover board and the bombs he used.

Rias had a really annoyed look on her face when she rejected them both for quite obvious reasons. But she made Naruto promise to send some to her if she was not around when he made it. Next was the staff of SERAMIS. But Rias took that away without letting Naruto inspect it. Only for her to tell him its mystic and another evolving equipment.

He could not argue with her taking that staff. After all he had taken almost everything that dropped from the green goblin, so it was quite fair that Rias got something in return. Even if it was a super duper magic staff with the probability of becoming a legendary weapon sometime in the future. After that they first decided to shared the money received. The system had actually given them both a 100 gold coins equally, and the coins dropped by the Hobgoblins were actually gold coins, with a total of 92, they both divided that equally as well. The green goblin dropped thirty gold while the chimera dropped a hundred. Which brought Naruto's total monetary gain to a 176 gold coins and some change.

At the current stage of the game, that was a lot of money. Apart from players who bring money in from the real world to make their gaming easier, Naruto could boldly claim he was the richest player who got his gold the good old fashioned and honest way, by actually playing the game.

Then they focused their attention to the chimera's loots. The first thing that drew Naruto's attention was actually the recipe for a Vampire's daylight ring. If Naruto could successfully forge it, it would remove the curse of the sun passive for a period of two hours. Then its reseted in twenty four hours, game time. Its use was only temporary and it did not last long enough for Naruto. But he had a way to work past its limitations and make it better than expected. It was almost as if the loots the dungeon dropped were tailored to his needs.

Next was the recipe for the corset of many faces. If Naruto could be honest, it was the most diabolical and dangerous piece of equipment if it was successfully forged. The corset had the ability to change the appearance of its user to the form of any living being, including animals that the corset has come in physical contact with. Though just like the daylight ring to resources needed to forge it are rare and very expensive. And it could only be used once every twenty four hours for a period of two hours just like the ring. Rias minced no words as she asked Naruto to forge it, on the premise that she would find the materials needed and pay him for forging it.

Next was the white scientist coat.

COAT OF MAD SCIENCE

TYPE: ARMOR(CLOTH/ACCESSORY)

GRADE: RARE

CLASSRESTRICTIONS: CRAFTING PROFESSIONS ONLY

ATTACK: 0-0

DEFENSE : 1

ABILITIES : +100% increase to all professions that deal with a degree of science. +70% increase in attributes of all scientifically created equipment and consumables.

DESCRIPTION : the coat of a long dead mad scientist. His spirit which made up most if not all of his intellectual genius has now bonded with the coat, making a source of good luck and success to all scientists that wears it. But be careful for the coat still whispers it's ballad of madness. +30 to intelligence, wisdom, dexterity, luck and perception when equipped.

This coat was to juicy to let go. Enter in a tug of war between Naruto and Rias as both were quite adamant in wanting to own the coat due to their various crafting professions. Naruto might not really need it due to all his bonuses from his crafting class, but who the hell said to much of a good thing was bad for you. Besides Rias did not need to know he had more bonuses.

They eventually made an agreement to trade it between one another. So that's how the coat ended up getting two owners. The last piece of equipment Naruto had to take care off was the spear. He already knew it was going to belong to him. Naruto was not much of a spear man, he very much preferred the reach of his swords and maneuverability they offered. But on occasion he has come to notice he had a little affinity with the pointy staffs.

The spear in his hand was quite peculiar, it shaft was made of some sort of red metal, with grooves carved unto its surface in peculiar markings and filled with a sort of blue stone that glowed in the dim light. Another peculiar thing about this spear was that its blade was more like a sword than an arrow head. The blade actually made up half the entire length of the two meter spear with it being the size of a standard long sword.

The sword part of the spear was made up of a polished and gleaming silver metal, but it was actually blank, with no adornments whatsoever, just and ordinary silver blade. At the point where the sword blade actually met the metal shaft, there was a tiny switch there, a routine flip of the switch actually dislodged the blade from the shaft. In his left hand Naruto was now holding the metal end of the spear that served to be nothing more than a metal rod capable of only blunt damage. While on his right hand, Naruto was actually holding onto a rather ordinary looking longsword. Naruto could not help but grin widely at the discovery. Naruto wanted to wield two swords, but now he was offered a better alternative, and it was awesome.

THE CURSED SPEAR/ROD/SWORD OF SERAMIS

TYPE:WEAPON(MELEE)(EVOLVABLE)

GRADE:MYSTIC

CLASS RESTRICTIONS :WARRIORS ONLY

LEVEL RESTRICTIONS:NONE

ATTACK: 600-660

ABILITIES : (siphon: 20% chance to inflict internal bleeding and injuries in your enemy every time you hit them or parry a blow. Also a 10% chance to heal all injuries acquired after every tenth strike.) (Soft stroke: attack the enemy with an unstoppable last swing for three 300% damage and 10 second stun.) (Cost 230 chakra points) (cast time instant) ( cool down ten minutes.)

DESCRIPTION : seramis is a fallen god and former friend the avatar of creation Hephaestus. Seramis having fallen due to betrayal left behind a spear and staff to his friend Hephaestus. And asked that should he find a pair worthy of this weapons, as a reminder of the friendship they shared. It should be bestowed unto them. But seramis was cursed by the demon goddess Kali, and so was his precious weapon. +50 to the strength, vitality, agility, and dexterity stat. +20% armor pierce. ( bound to Menma Windwalker)

Naruto did not need any prompting before he equipped the spear and slung it over his back. If not for the fact his armor looked like hell he would actually have looked good in it. The fact that the spear was permanently bound to him was even more exiting. It meant he could not sell it, or loose it either.

"Hey Rias is that staff bound to you." Naruto asked

Rias looked confuse for a moment before she looked at the staff's info with a surprised look on her face.

"well would you look at that. You seem to have friends in high places. Really high places. But I can't help but wonder what makes the disfigured god of the forge think we are so close to make him give us equipment that actually can only be giving to a pair of friends or guild members."

"don't look at me like that I don't know how that happened." Naruto shot back defensively.

Rias just shook her head as they began the long trek back up the stairs. Naruto busied himself however with watching her backside sway from side to side.

"Hope you are enjoying the view you have back there Menma."

'cough' " I have you know the view is quite bootylicious."

"you naughty boy." Rias chides with a flirty tone in her voice.

Naruto however felt like he was going to explode. He was flirting with his teacher, and quite literally the woman that has been in the fantasies and wet dreams of otakus and nerds for the past two years. This gave him the courage to do something extremely crazy as he asked.

"Say Rias, want to be my second in command."

Naruto felt stupid. This woman was a queen in the underworld, she had millions of demons under her command and she had a monster at her beck and call. But the answer she gave drove him even more insane.

" Why the hell not. Treat me well MASTER"

… LOADING…. ….

AUTHOR'S NOTE: whooooooo. That was extremely tiring to write. Anyway guys new chapter. This arc should end in three chapters or so and then we can get Into the next one. The next arcs will be way shorter than this of course but who cares. I am going to be missing for a while, I am traveling back home to my country of Nigeria. And I am not sure I would be able to write anything once I am there, which should be anything from two weeks to a month or more if I don't get what I want on time. Now unto serious matters, my sister who is and avid reader of mine, and a few readers had actually sent me PMs asking me to make this into a harem story. Now I know a lot of people are tired of harems, even me on occasions but I think I can make it work. But that depends on the majority. So in light of that there would be a pole to decide whether or not this story should be a harem. After that another poll to determine what girls will be in the harem, but one thing at a time. As usual you guys should read and review, tell me your ideas and I hope I did not mess up the fight scene. Special thanks to hornitebaba for suggesting the use of the green goblin as a boss. KING OUT.