9 hours prior

  "We are really back," Liam sighed as he looked at the huge chasm that had appeared near him. The pce looked like it was under a stant storm, with everything eroding with every passing sed. It looked like a very bad Mad Max movie, with the mountains aher destroying everything.

  "You got this. Head for the city ruins up the hill," Haluk spoke over his s. He was wearing a breathtaking exoskeleton suit. The armor suit was at least seveall. The suit's silvery-white metallic pting was ated with glowing energy lines, pulsating with a soft luminesce that ged color depending on its elemental charge—crag blue fhtning, deep red for fire, and icy white for frost.

  The helmet's smooth visor emitted a faint glow, hiding Liam's face as his energy-threaded mantle rippled in the wind. His gaus pulsed with power, the embedded crystals flickering with shifting elemental energy. Thrusters on his boots and back hummed softly, keeping him aloft, while arcs of electricity crackled across his armor. The suit felt less like metal and more like a living storm, barely tained within its sleek, mystical frame.

  And that was why the name of the suit was Storm. Yes, Liam had nded himself in the game Anthem. One of the most anticipated games, but it disappointed people so much that most had fotten it ever existed. But ohing no one could deny was that the game had teology mixed with magic.

  Liam was disappointed whe into the game world, but once he started wearing the suit and pying, he was more than overjoyed to fight and kill some meical and anisters.

  Today was his st mission. A mission to face Monitor, the final boss. Haluk and Faye were his panions on the s. Faye was the cipher, while Haluk was the meic. At the start, they were together, but ter, Haluk and Faye had to remain back while Liam faced the Monitor alone. He had never pyed the game before, so he was always very cautious and took every step after proper calcutions.

  Each game needed different tactics, and this one was no different, especially when he might have to fight while flying in the air. Liam passed through crevices and had to face the minions of Monitor.

  It was a stant onsught of enemies ing at him. Thankfully, after killing a monster, he would get a repair for his suit and then tinue forward. The first major hurdle he faced was the Elite A Ash Titan. It was hell for Liam, as his attacks seemed to only take a small bit of health. Thankfully, this thing was slow, so with every attack, he would dodge using short-distaeleportation.

  It felt like he was living in a world of fireworks because each of his own and the enemy's attacks were so colorful. At times, he wondered if the world he was in had the color saturatio a bit too high. After fighting for almost half an hour, he took dowan and moved forward.

  He finally faced the Monitor, which ecial javelin that could be accessed by only a few people. But in the end, Monitor went rogue and transded into a huge corrupted mohe size of Pacific Rim mechas.

  If he thought the Ash Titan was big, then this one made him feel like an ant. And fighting it was much harder than he realized. He soon ran out of ammo and had to rely only on focus seals and bst seals while blinking away from every attack.

  The attacks were relentless, and at one point, he actually had to give chase to fight again. In the end, Monitor died while Liam was at his lowest health. Haluk and Faye drove their ship into the colossal Monitor and killed him.

  In order to stop the otaph, he had to close it, and Faye, who had heard the Anthem, had to let it go. Yeah, Liam never bothered to uand what was actually happening. He oried sitting with Faye and Haluk with the help of the Fe, but the more they talked about meid tapping into Arist knowledge, the more it boggled his mind.

  The meics part he could uand a bit, but the Arist part, which allowed oo tap into elemental energy, was what made him stop. Fet about the tactics—he couldn't even uand the nguage of the Shaper relics. It was all jumbled, and Liam felt like he was dyslexic.

  He finally gave up and trated on the mission. After killing Monitor, his game world finally stopped.

  [

  gratutions to the host for pleting the game world. You have achieved S css in this world.

  ]

  Liam jumped with joy. S css again. By now, he uood. Any world in which he had fewer than tehs, he would get an S css. And another point he uood, which he had not thought of before, was that he didn't have to die every time to get back to the main world. He could just go to a checkpoint in the game aurn. This game took him around one and a half months.

  [

  The rewards for this world are:

  1. A self-repairing Storm javelin.

  2. A self-repairing Interceptor javelin.

  3. A fe to build any kind of javelins or maes depending on the knowledge. (P.S.: One had to be an engineer and an Arist to do so.)

  4. All the books reted to meid Arist knowledge will be provided to the host in the form of a library, which the host access and learn from.

  ]

  After getting the rewards, Liam didn't know if he should be happy or sad. The first two javelins were fantastid he was beyond happy, but the st two rewards gave him a headache. He just went through the Arist books, and it was still a different nguage—much different from English—and he would have to learn a brand-new nguage just to start the basics of being an Arist.

  [

  There is another reward along with the S css evaluation.

  ]