Huh. 

A hand rested on my shoulder and a voice spoke, "Yo, what's wrong " The voice was of Jessica's. 

"No.. Nothing" I stammered. Man she looked deadly and beautiful like she was the goddess of death. 

She announced,"Well we have a mission , guys let's go" 

So Jessica, George, Lisa, Anna and I were the only members of the clan, So it was us who would be going on the mission. Anna ordered to Jessica, "ACCEPT THE MISSION" To which Jessica replied, "Yes, boss. "

I got a mission alert. 

.......

FIND THE BLOOD FLOWER OF PURITY IN THE ONYX RIVER. 

PARTY MEMBERS LIMIT : 06

MISSION REWARDS

500 EXP TO EACH PARTICIPANTS. 

MVP(MOST VALUABLE PLAYER) REWARDS

--- +500 EXP 

      ONYX BLADE

CHANCE TO GET OTHER TREASURE FROM THE ONYX RIVER. 

.......

Onyx blade.. I want it. I have to become MVP then. Alright I can do it right. How hard can a game be. 

Jessica accepted the mission. 

Suddenly darkness engulfed me. Then suddenly.... 

I was falling. Literally falling. From the sky. To the ground. I guess it would be more than 2000 meters. I panicked. When I was young. I had an accident. Since then I had been scared of heights. 

I panicked. I shrieked like a little girl. (FYI I'm not a sexist) 

I closed my eyes from the fear. 

I heard laughing. I slowly opened my eyes and saw that the laughter was of my party. 

Jessica chuckled and said, "Well, It was fun. Who knew a guy can be this cute. "

Even Anna who was stoic till now cracked a smile. Or I thought. I don't know. I saw her smile. I guess. If she had smiled, she quickly composed herself. 

"Let's go" Anna ordered. 

Now I started noticing my surroundings. 

Have you ever seen an evergreen forest. It was a copy paste of evergreen forest but the thing was that there was a desert in the middle of the forest. And in the desert was The Onyx River. 

Cool. 

Even there were cries of birds. Man the level of relalism was too good. I guess technology advanced greatly. 

We walked. And we reached the desert . 

"Be careful. The mission looks to easy for my liking. There might be some hidden dangers. " Anna said cautiously. Everyone agreed. Even rewards were too food because at the start of the game a blade as MVP reward. Yeah. Something is fishy. 

Suddenly a roar came. It looked like it was coming from all directions at once. How's that possible. 

Single roar but from all directions. Unless... 

" Careful.It is a hive minded .... "

I was ripped away from the ground. I felt a stabbing pain on my legs. 

A tentacle was wrapped around my leg. But the pain was because of the thorn like structures on the tentacle. I looked at the main source of tentacle. No how it is possible. 

It was a Grave mind. 

The developers had announced about introducing it in the game. But it was too early for introducing a boss level beast. It would be death of the party members. It is intelligent due to the hive mind and also has great strength. It could easily be compared with 200 elephant's strength. One blow would be enough to kill a person. 

Shit.