Chapter 13: Rage Boar
The CommNet for Genesis Outpost #7 was a mess of scared chatter. The news about the Rage Boar Anomaly wiping out a team of four, including a Level 2 player, had hit everyone hard.
It was like a cold splash of water after Ryan’s brief, exciting victory against the Distortion Hound. One minute they were cheering for him, the next they were reminded that this whole "god Verse" thing wasn’t a game you could just quit if things got too tough. Death here was real.
And apparently, it could come in the form of a very angry, very large pig-monster.
BigTony77: A Rage Boar... man, that sounds terrifying. Those poor folks.
PrincessFluffybutt: Four of them... Oh, I hope they didn’t have any cats waiting for them. This place is so scary!
ConfusedCarl: My elbows are officially retracting into my shoulders. I am not going anywhere near a ’Rage Boar.’ I’d rather face a thousand slightly annoyed geese.
Ace_Striker_001: See! Told you Anomalies were no joke. That other guy, Stone, probably just got lucky with his shadow dog. A real Anomaly like a Rage Boar would flatten him.
Ryan, reading the CommNet from a relatively safe spot hidden behind a very large, very suspiciously purple tree, sighed.
Ace Striker was really starting to get on his nerves. It was easy to talk tough when you were safe in your pod, or hiding with a big group. But Ace Striker did have a point, even if he was being a jerk about it.
Anomalies were serious business. The Distortion Hound had been tough. A "Rage Boar" sounded like it would be even tougher. The name itself suggested it wasn’t going to be interested in a polite chat.
He decided to check the Outpost #7 Leaderboard on his god Interface. It had activated when someone had reached Level 3. Now that he was Level 2, he was curious where he stood.