Harem Reborn

I blink my eight eyes a couple more times, hoping that this was just a dream that I was in because I had fallen asleep pounding Grace. Fat chance, no, I was back...somewhere. 

I was still in my six-meter tall golem, but I was in a forest of tall trees, even to me. 

"You're a big bugger, aren't you? I knew they were going to send help, but wow, a golem with eyes! Now I have seen it all!" 

The voice came from around my feet and there was a man with a good of wagons and some other people, all men. There were about five wagons in total and there we were all packed with armor and weapons. I spotted the little old man at my feet who had called up to me, but I was using my other eyes to get a feel for the area.

This was a very tall forest, but there was a paved road, and they were using wagons...where these people Amish? The clothes the people wore reminded me of what was worn out in the real world or the earth here in the gameworlds, but they were modern. The horses and wagon with swords and armor were not modern, making me wonder where the hell the game had taken me this time.

"Hey! DO-YOU-TALK?!" The old man yelled up to me.

"Yes, you old whippersnapper, I am just trying to get a feel for the area. I will assume that this is an escort, but where are we going?"

I wanted to ask more about the roads and horses, but I would let him explain this first. 

"Hey! There is someone in there! Good! We need an escort to Fort Sequoia, and the giant monsters along the way will stop at nothing to get us. My name is Herman, and I am the leader of the caravan, we need you to keep us safe until we get to the Fort."

"Why are the monsters so hellbent on getting you?"

"What? They are monsters and there is hardly any game left in this forest, the monsters have cleaned it dry. Now, anyone that travels needs some kind of escort, but this place is the worst, but the place needs supplies! And they have things that we need, so it's a working relationship," Herman said while pounding his chest proudly.

"Why do you use horses, that's my last question, but it seems like you should be able to use vehicles and guns with the style of your clothing and the condition of the roads. Sorry, think of me as a new person to this world, I was transferred here from another place, and my wires are a bit crossed."

"Horses? Well, you really are out of the loop! Well, the boys are getting things ready so I will give you a quick rundown of the last hundred years, starting at 2028. The world blew itself up! Maybe shaking itself apart would be a better description of what happened. The world was not quite the way we had always pictured it, and when a group of people wanted to try and harvest the magma from the mantle, they ran into a problem. There was no magma."

"What do you mean? What was it then? Solid rock?" 

Now I was curious, I wonder what hair-brained scheme I hate thought up this time? I would have to be something I thought of, but then again it could be from one of the other people trapped in Second Life. Regardless, I was interested to hear what was down there.

"Nothing, at first. The drill was five meters wide and at the point where they should have hit magma, the drill broke into an open area that was not hot or cold, but a very comfortable twenty degrees celsius. The drill-down gave us no indication of it being like this. We had to change the drill four times just to get through the last fifty feet because of the heat, but when we broke through, the heat disappeared, then all hell broke loose."

The old man held a dramatic pause before continuing. Keeping me at the edge of my proverbial seat. Herman must have told this one a couple times, hehe.

"The crust cracked, sending the world into a global earthquake that emptied three-quarters of the world's water to fill the mantle. The world was completely torn to shred, most of the population killed in the first week, not over a hundred years later, 2135, the humans are slowly starting to gather again. The biggest problem left from this mess was what crawled up from the mantle."

"You mean the monsters? They came from the depths and now roam the world?"

"In a nutshell, but I think it's more than that. You will see, the monsters aren't normal, I mean they are monsters, but they are geometric in shape rather than the rounded forms we have and they glow purple at the joints. The first time we saw them, we thought they were some kind of alien, but they aren't all bad."

"What do you mean they aren't all bad? Don't they attack and try to kill you? That seems pretty bad to me!" I laughed as I said the words.

"Yes, well that part does make them seem pretty bad, but the purple light from their joints makes plant life grow faster. It's like a blacklight but, like if the sun was a black light...I don't know how to describe it properly, but you will see!" 

It looked like everyone was ready to go, and the old man was done with his tale. I was excited to see what the giant monsters would look like and to see this purple light in action. I mean, I had seen magic and systems make things grow, but a monster that could make plants grow didn't actually sound that monstrous.

"What do you call the monsters, or do they each have names?"

"Gialazsaur's, Don't ask me where the name came from, some oddball thought it up."

"Yeah, that guy must be a real weirdo," I said, internally laughing at myself.