Grasping Strength: Games, and Revenge Transformation

Chapter 4

A strange atmosphere came over Zidane who had suddenly changed places. He had never seen this place before. 

 

He looked around. Then, suddenly, a new screen appeared in front of him. It looked like he was playing a video game. There appeared several outfits for fighting and it made Zidane not understand what he was dealing with.

 

"What is this?"

 

 As if Zidane understood that he was confused, there was suddenly a large text on the screen in front of him.

 

"Please choose a protective suit!"

 

As a kid, he used to play video games secretly with his friends. So, Zidane was quite good at choosing the personal protective clothing he needed. 

 

He chose to cover his upper body, especially his chest. Then there are face shields, elbow and knee guards, and a few other parts.

 

"Will I die if I get hit by a gunshot or a sword?" Zidane asked looking all around and there was no one there.

 

"You must survive and advance to the next level. You have 5 lives that you can use in each level. If you go to the next level, the lives will be replenished to 5! Have fun playing!"

 

"Playing? What if those 5 lives run out in this one level? Will I really die?" Zidane asked hesitantly. 

 

He only had Zoe and didn't want to trouble his grandmother if anything happened to her.

 

Before he had time to think, a man in armor appeared before him. Without a sentence, the man attacked him with a sword.

 

Zidane parried the attack with the shield, Zidane seemed to skillfully move his body to dodge.

 

His opponent seemed to keep attacking. From the front, above, and sometimes from the right and left. Zidane continued to parry with the shield in his left hand.

 

Despite not having any martial arts skills, Zidane wanted to fight back. He was tired of dodging.

 

"This has to end!" he shouted excitedly.

 

"Bruk! Bruk! Bruk!" Zidane aimed a blunt object at his opponent.

 

Though he had a sword, his humanity spoke. He didn't have a problem, let alone an enemy here. Why would he eliminate his opponent?

 

Within 10 minutes, his opponent was on the ground. Grimacing in pain. Zidane left him for dead. Curiosity led him to the next set of stairs.

 

At the bottom of the stairs, Zidane encountered the same opponent again. This time there were two people blocking him. Zidane can still master it.

 

Unfortunately, his arm was scratched. He winced at the pain.

"Awh! They're serious!" Zidane shouted.

 

This time he drew his sword. Striking his opponent with the sword. His movements seemed smooth. Running, kicking, bulldozing his opponent with precision. It was as if he suddenly had an ability.

 

 

"Hosh! Hosh!" Zidane was breathing heavily. His eyes stared at his bloodied opponent.

 

"What exactly is this?"

 

Despite not really knowing what was going on and where he was right now, Zidane felt compelled to continue forward. He felt refreshed and fine. He also felt very excited. 

 

This feeling was 100 times greater when his hands were playing the buttons to a video game. When he himself directly faced them, the feeling of being able to defeat the opponent was many times more than before when he was just holding a video game stick.

 

He held his sword and shield tightly. His feet stepped forward towards the path in front of him. Currently, there were 5 people in front of him.

 

They advanced one by one hitting Zidane with their swords. Zidane easily dodged and redirected every punch and sword that came his way.

 

In just 10 minutes, Zidane

 had managed to knock out 5 of his opponents. Now in front of him was a huge monster.

 

It was just like in a video game. When he managed to knock out this huge opponent, the door to the next level would usually open. Having that in mind, his feet immediately advanced and were eager to destroy the huge monster before him.

 

The size of the monster was certainly 100 times Zidane's body weight. It was even many times the size. It was like a house with 3 floors. It was so big and its arms were so long. 

 

 

Although he was certainly overwhelmed by it all, Zidane didn't want to give up. He had often destroyed monsters many times the size of this one. That didn't deter him.

 

Unable to reach its head or body, Zidane hit its legs first. When the monster's hand was about to go for him, Zidane quickly climbed on top of it.

 

The monster looked shocked to see Zidane walking so fast on his arm. With a quick movement, Zidane then slashed the monster's head. 

 

One sword stroke from him, and the monster was in pain. Zidane didn't stop the action. Then, he slashed the monster's body repeatedly and stabbed its heart with a long sword.

"Bruk!" 

 

The monster collapsed. Zidane seemed to catch his breath, even though the monster collapsed, he still put up a prepared position, in case the monster rose suddenly.

 

"Cring cring cring!" The sound of coins falling from the sky. Realizing this was like in a game, Zidane ran after each coin that came and he caught it. 

 

Sure enough, each coin multiplied his power. Some coins were reward points. Each enemy he defeated was worth five hundred points, and one big monster was worth three thousand points.

 

Zidane had accumulated seven thousand points from taking down enemies, and an additional three thousand points from collecting fallen coins.

 

He was already happy with the points he had, in the next level there would be many enemies he faced, but that also meant that he would have more points to earn.

 

A door appeared suddenly in front of him. Zidane immediately ran and went through the door.

 

"Congratulations, you've accumulated 10,000 points, you've cleared level one and earned an additional bonus. Your points have increased to 15,000!"

 

"Are you going to continue to the next level?"

 

Zidane was silent for a moment. He hesitated. The reason was, his body had entered the video game, if he was playing on a cell phone, he wouldn't have stopped.

 

"Continue the mission!"

 

"Exit!"

 

The two options appeared simultaneously. On Zidane's left and right. On the left was the word continue mission, and there was a door there. Likewise, with the exit option, the door was on the right.

 

"If this is a game, then I will continue next time, I just want to get out first and make sure, can I get out of here?" 

 

 

Zidane then made his way to the door marked exit. He wanted to return to his home world.

 

 

As his body and torso entered the exit, a large white beam of light suddenly greeted him. It blocked Zidane's view.

 

"Zidane! What are you doing?"

 

The voice made Zidane open his eyes. He was surprised to find himself back at his grandmother's house, and she was in front of him.

 

"Grandma!"

 

"Where did you get that thing? Throw it away! Put it away, Zidane!"