《Breakthrough》
Chapter 000 - A text message?
Chapter 000 - A text message?
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[Message]: ¡°You have been invited to the [Training Tower] as part of a defense program which purpose is the creation, training, and support of Players, do you wish to [accept] or [refuse], please reply this message before the training period ends¡±.
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This text message in all languages of the world was sent to millions of people all around the globe throughout their phones, most people thought it was some kind of internet joke or a game, one they can start playing by replying [accept], however, people that didn¡¯t have the time ignored it or just [refuse] it, deleting it would not make the text message go away.
Some of those that had [refuse] thought that the person on the other line would force them to continue or maybe encourage them to [accept] and play a fun game, but nothing else happened for those that had [refuse] as their first reply, and even if they sent [accept] later on no new messages would came back, this was because they already had sent their replied, their only option was to move on with their lives and forget about it.
However in some cases people that had [refuse] it and saw that nothing happened, started to grow curious as they moved to ask their friends or family if they got the same text message that they did and what were their replies, if they didn¡¯t find anyone with the message they would instead search around the internet while asking other people in forums what happens when you [accept] the message and for them to publish the results.
People started to notice something was off with this text message as none of the people that said they would [accept] it didn¡¯t send more messages after that, they all went offline from their chat rooms if they were using their phones or stopped replying to their post, on the other hand, people that did write back were just trying to troll the internet by saying they have won the lottery or that something magical happens like a person disappearing from the spot, of course, no one believed that and as they weren¡¯t consistent with their histories people started to suspect they were either lying or you really will get something amazing, making more people to try for themselves.
It wasn¡¯t long until someone noticed that those that sent their replies as [accept] were consistently disappearing from the world in reality, like shadows hit by a flashlight, they were gone as soon as they pressed send, and no matter the place or what they were wearing they would be no more the next moment, nor they will leave behind even the shadow of their figure, this all became an internet sensation in an instant after a streamer with millions of subscribers replied [accept] to the text message during a live stream and made him disappeared from the spot.
Many were labeling this as a magic trick or a prank as it was already known for some people like the text message prank that was causing people to go missing after they had replied to a text message, however this news soon reached all T.V channels as the video of people vanishing one after the other like part of a magic show in front of a crowd of incredulous people, this was broadcasted on national television, meanwhile this video and many more were quickly being circulating around the globe thanks to the internet lightning fast speed, and soon were overflowing the news feeds on people¡¯s personal smart device or PPSD¡¯s most commonly known as phones.
The news spread like wildfire as something that you can do yourself at home with your PPSD, you only need reply a text message, and like a dam that broke, videos of people doing it as part of a massive challenge started to overflow the internet and circulated around for the whole world to see. People of the world wake up next day to news headline of the viral challenge that will make you disappear, without realizing that the people that tried it was actually going missing as soon they did it, of course not everyone in the world got the text message even when they have a PPSD with then, as for who was the sender of the text message nobody knew.
People dismissed this news as a new CGI gimmicky trick videos while others thought the headline was some kind of marketing ploy to gain more views for a new phone game and to increase the hype around it, but whatever it was it still caught people attention.
At the same time this news was making the world spin, news of a massive increase in cases of reported missing people were starting pile out until it reached the mainstream media, until it blow up in the people faces with a hundred thousand if not a million of people going missing in the last 48 hours, the unprecedented increased was soon revealed as this wasn¡¯t just happening in one country but all of the countries all around the world have been piling out cases of people going missing in the last 48 hours.
The greater the number of people with a PPSD¡¯s in a country, the greater the number of people going missing in that country, this was to be shown that there was a direct correlation as people started to pinpoint to the cause.
In just two days a million people have gone missing while leaving not a single trace behind to follow, but it is not true that they were going missing without a clue as it was a known fact that the missing have been taking part in a wide scale internet challenges that make them disappear so there wasn¡¯t a case here.
¡°They must be hiding in someone else house while doing the challenge¡± a world government official declared, and this is what most people thought at the time as he wasn''t fired on the spot, however the world government was still forced to act throughout the whole world and they did this by sending the Global Police to investigate as this challenge already had gone out of control, with serious crimes being committed around the world.
The Global Police or World Global Defense Police, GP for short acted fast, two days after the incident had started they put together an investigation team with their top agents and in just one day they had to recollect all the evidence from all the cases they could muster to handle and put together a global case like never seen before, their conclusions as shocking as the case itself.
Out all of the cases they could handle, most if not all of them have a few things in common, first of all, all of the missing people have a smart device with then that was connected to a network and was capable of sending and receiving a text message from any or all cellphone networks, this was proven to be true by using the computers logs that showed the people location that was monitored by the network and the time then matching it with the report.
The logs also showed another clue, the last communication coming out from their phones was that they had sent a text message before their phone signal has disappeared from the network grid, they didn¡¯t just move away to another location the signal from their phones just stopped coming altogether.
Even if GP broke the privacy laws that prohibited the contents of a text message to be read by anyone else other than the sender and receiver of that message, that message still could not be read as the connection and all the messages were all fully encrypted with an unprecedented level of security that the GP computers could not crack.
But it wasn¡¯t like they need to decrypt the last message they had to send to know its contents, because, they all already knew what the message was as it had been recorded and streamed by the own missing people at the time of their disappearance, they knew even to the point that in some cases the video showed the time in their cellphone screen as they recorded the video, this time perfectly matched with time registered in the computer logs.
It was not that the GP didn¡¯t have any clue to work on what so ever, it was, in fact, the opposite, they may have too many clues but the conclusions they could draw out from them made no sense, no one with a healthy mind could reasonably accept a cellphone was kidnaping people away and that nor brand or model matters as long they got the right message, even when their own agents did the challenge in front of the GP director, they hesitated to report it.
In the end, they still delivered their preliminary report together with their recommendation to the world government for all the networks to block this message from being sent or to block all cellphone networks altogether, even if no one would believe them and their reputation would crumble into tiny specks of dust the GP director still hoped that some people at the world government would listen.
However the world government acted as predicted and called the GP director a loony for sending such report and recommendation, the GP just ignore it and moved onto their next point in the list, finding the missing people and rescuing them as they started to deploy their field agents that got the text message.
The GP did this without asking for the world government permission as this was their case and they already had been assigned to this mission giving them complete control over it, after all why ask for permission when world government all thought that the GP director was a loony and that it has failed this mission already away. Now they were calling him into question and asking for him to be removed out of his position, the GP as a whole just straight out ignore the world government calls as they rebelled while they still keep doing their job.This novel''s true home is a different platform. Support the author by finding it there.
The fallout between the GP director and the World Government didn¡¯t reach to the mass media.
The case of the missing, a world phenomenon, they all have replied to the text message with an [accept] as their answer and now they all have vanished from the world, location unknown, situation unknown, reason unknown, alive or death unknown, and this phenomenon where people are going missing still is going on.
It didn¡¯t take too long for other people to connect the dots into a line and then formed a square as the evidence presented itself as a box-shaped mystery with all the missing people inside, but whom could have believed it until you tried yourself, those that knew the cause tried to prevent the world but they were mocked and looked down upon like the GP, but even if they weren¡¯t, it was already too late to do anything as the text message keep arriving at people phones, in the waiting for them to send their reply.
Deleted it and it will come back again, ignore and it will weight down your mind, [refuse] it and you will regret it, [accept] it and you will disappear, things like this could be read almost everywhere as the world started to descend into a spiral of chaos and madness because as of now the rails from where the world runs started to disappear and the crash was imminent.
In this new era of world chaos, people took the chance to go missing using their own method instead of replying to the message they just ran away from their crappy lives, with so many people going missing all the time and all around no one would come looking for them anyway, free of their debt and mental pain they celebrated.
While other people weren¡¯t as lucky as a never before seen crime wave hit them and robbed of their lives or freedom making them a different kind of missing that most people weren¡¯t aware, people that live into the light could not see the darkness hidden under their feet and even if it was in plain sight and even if they knew it they still choose to ignore it, they have no say nor power to stop it anyway.
As the world keeps spiraling away into a time of chaos, crime and panic, more news keep hitting the world making the turns go faster, as the attacks of wild and domestics animals that killed or injured a person were also starting to skyrocket, dogs that tried bite off their owners necks and some that successfully tried, cats that went crazy aggressive as they used they shard claws to injure people, birds that attacked people in flocks all around as a new kind of virus that affected only the animals started to spread making them 1000% more aggressive against humans, maybe a new kind of rabies perhaps, those animals had to be put down immediately and then burned into ashes as kids cried the loss of their pets and their parents covert their wounds.
However this news was overshadowed in the mass media as there were far more important things going out all around the world at the moment, that were far more important for the modern people of the world, the news T.V channels explode once again.
¡°All the Internet and cellphones networks have being hijacked by some unknown group of hackers, their demands are still unknown and until now no damage has been reported¡±
This was released to the press and printed into every paper or website but the real news was far worse than that by a long shot, project code [Midas] revealed itself to the world government and an unknown group of hackers was what made it into the press.
This unknown group of hackers has asked not for a money bounty for giving the control back, but instead they had asked to let people decided on their own if they want to become Players or not, since then they haven¡¯t sent another message to the world government via text message from the same place that the cursed text message came from.
When world government finally discovered that the text message they initially thought it was a joke was actually the real the cause of the missing people case by their own private investigations after the president daughter disappeared in front of his father eyes, this made them wanting to jump from the rooftop of a high building for not listening when the GP had already told them the cause days ago, only now they could start believing it, should they had maybe it could have prevented a lot of people going missing.
They immediately followed the GP recommendation and sent the order to shut down all networks that were affected by text message, in other words, almost all networks if not all of them, communications would be restricted in the short term as they try to figure out what to do next but this was better than losing even more people, however this is also when they got the text message from [Midas], the world government ignore it and proceed with the order.
Soon after they realized that they, the ones in control, weren¡¯t the ones in control anymore, not just have they loss the control of all networks including T.V, but of everything that was plugged into a socket wall, however, they release a less shocking information to the press trying to cover up the sun with their thumps and hide this huge problem under the carpet or passing it as something minor.
For solutions they have none, with the GP gone silent they had tried to come out with a solution on their own but found none, cutting the power off was not viable option unless they wanted to throw all of humanity back to dark ages, not to mention they only way they found to shut it all down was by stopping the machines from mechanically working, in other words, it was by destroying the machines, and with it they meant destroying almost all of the technology infrastructure of the world, this was no difference than throwing a nuclear bomb over all of their cities, and like a world government official expressed it in a private reunion, ¡°the machines have rebelled against their master¡±.
Destroying the machines that gave them light, water, food, and fresh air was like putting the horse before the cart and then shutting down the horse with an assault rifle and then burning down the cart to ashes with a flamethrower, only for the wind to blow at the end, and spread the ashes all around the world, in short, a very bad choice, however this was not the only plan they had, because doing nothing was also an option, a bad one but at least not a very bad one, it was the only option they thought it will bring fewer repercussions for the world and to their careers as no one in the government wanted to be remembered as the government that destroyed the world after all.
This was because even though the world has suffered a massive hack of unprecedented level which the likes of the world has never seen before, still no damage has been felt, well, that¡¯s only if can you ignore the increasing number of people going missing and the crime wave spring, but those were just products of people own doing and could be controlled by using the police and the military unlike the hack that it nor couldn¡¯t be controlled or stopped it.
And as the people of the world keep disappearing, all systems and sub-system that keep the world spinning out of control keep working in perfect order without their human operators, and as the world government keep pretending it was working on the solution all the while actually doing nothing, an even bigger problem that was not an issue right now grew on the shadows.
The world government way of doing things was always the same, putting off the problems that were not an issue right now and deal with the ones that were, as there will be always a tomorrow and new problem to solve, better to rest now and wait for the sun to rise again tomorrow than hurry up for solution that could make the current problem far worse, after all, the world was already full of problems anyway, and maybe now they could put their focus in other problems and move the agenda forward to something like the new type of rabies that was affecting pets aggressiveness levels around the world, even though it wasn¡¯t an issue right now.
By the fifth day because they could not trace the hack back to its origin nor they were able to stop it, regaining control of the systems has become impossible after five days, the only thing they could realistically hope to do was trying to prevent more people from going missing which numbers are in the 90 million now, this is what was put as top priority in the agenda while all other items in the list were dismissed.
The plan put in motion was to take away the people''s phones voluntary or involuntary and send [refuse] using their phones as the security systems that are being taken over prevented doing it in any another way.
In their press released there was not a single mention for a plan to rescued the already missing people as their locations and status remained unknown, and so the world keeps spinning around while the world government did what it could as it waited for a new day to come and for a solution to present itself.
After six days the government had to face facts, they could not hide it anymore, too many people were missing and too many system were compromised as the rumor ¡°The world government has lost control¡± together with ¡°I had to put my pet down today and it is all the world government fault¡± started to be spread all around the internet and the T.V, they had to come out clean for all of this mess and hope to find a real solution this time.
They released a new statement, explaining in detail the extent of the hack and how it was related to the cause of why people were going missing citing a text message as the cause and leaving out any mention of [Midas] or the hacker group name nor their demands as the government straight out told people to [refuse] the message immediately, and they even installed a cellphone ban around the world and passed a new law, the [refuse] law and tried to enforce all around the world.
Even when the world government went against [Midas] request for letting people make their own decision if they choose to [accept] or [refuse], either way, no response or attack came back from [Midas] at all because of this.
Even though this press statement didn¡¯t stop people from going missing at least earned them a little bit of more time as people hesitated, however, the underlying message was that they have lost control of the situation making people forget about other matters.
But it was far too little far too late, in the next day from when the day the message was released to the world, two million of reported cases of missing people around the world had been filled and submitted, by the fifth day when the government started their mass broadcasts in the same hijacked networks telling the people of the world to outright [refuse], the number of reported cases was already reaching the one hundred million, in a planet with 7 billion people one hundred million missing in five days was devastating.
The missing Players as people started to call them, they tested onto themselves and between friends as they ignored warnings, being more thrilled than ever before of being part the chosen Players as not everybody got selected and those that had initially [refuse] were starting to appear in talk shows, with faces filled with regret for not being part of the missing during their interview on national television.
After a week of the start of chaos has gone by in the blink of an eye, there was still no trace of the missing people and with the count capped at one hundred million missing people before they stopped counting altogether a new day has arrived.
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¡°¡ I had to put my dog down yesterday I feel like crying¡¡±
¡°¡ you too? My mom says our cat got away but I saw a receipt saying it was put down but I hated that cat anyway it always scratched my favorite dress¡¡±
¡°¡you are so mean¡you should get a dog next they are the best¡ sniff sniff¡¡±
¡°¡hey did you received that text?...¡±
¡°¡sniff yes I did, just yesterday¡ why do want to give it a try?¡±
¡°¡No way! People really are going missing when they [accept] you know¡¡±
¡°¡But aren¡¯t you curious? After my dog died I feel like wanting to disappear too...¡±
¡°¡ I am curious but my dad stole my phone so I couldn¡¯t send the reply¡¡±
¡°¡what! Didn¡¯t you complain to him? A cellphone is something too precious for our daily lives you know?...¡±
¡°¡Of course, I complained all day, but no matter how much I beg my dad still wouldn¡¯t give back¡¡±
¡°¡your dad is so evil¡¡±
¡°¡ yeah...¡±
¡°¡then how about we send a reply together using my phone and see what happens? If we both are holding the phone at the same time would we disappear together?...¡±
¡°¡Ehh? Does that even works?...¡±
¡°¡I don¡¯t know but it is something we can try out you know¡¡±
The two student girls giggle away.
As two schoolgirls were discussing their afternoon plans an unfocused teen boy was in dazed not far away while listening to their private conversation, most of the things they talked usually were girly stuff that he didn¡¯t care much, but today¡¯s topic has drawn his attention as he keeps looking at the screen of this phone in a daze as if trying to come out with a decision.
[Message]: ¡°You have been invited to the [Training Tower] as part of a defense program which purpose is the creation, training, and support of Players, do you wish to [accept] or [refuse], please reply this message before the training period ends¡±.
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Chapter 001 - Wait till tomorrow.
Chapter 001 ¨C Wait till tomorrow?
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[Message]: ¡°You have been invited to the [Training Tower] as part of a defense program which purpose is the creation, training, and support of Players, do you wish to [accept] or [refuse], please reply this message before the training period ends¡±.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡¡±
This thing has to be in all the news recently and it was in all the talks in his high school, and it was in his hands.
[Cyan]: ¡°I should [refuse] no doubt¡± escaped Cyan lips.
Coming out from his dazed the teen boy decides finally to [refuse] as he started typing away into his phone. It has to be a whole week since he got the message at first he ignores it, but after watching the news for a week Cyan knew this wasn¡¯t a normal ¡°text message¡± but one that could make you disappear from the world.
Cyan had already confirmed it was the sender [unknown], as no matter from where you would a send a text message it still would show even 1 digit number as the sender, but this message as reported in the news has not visible sender it¡¯s just a blank space.
[Unknown]: ¡°Cyan¡±
But being to [accept] or [refuse] he didn¡¯t have the courage to send either one, so he did what a normal person would do first and deleted it, however, no matter how many times he deleted the text message it would still show up again in his inbox, the only true options were to ignore it until the ¡°training period ends¡± whenever that was, or to send a reply and [refuse] it but Cyan still felt he couldn¡¯t do just that.
As he read through the message once again he couldn¡¯t stop thinking about its contents, a message part of a defense program for creating players, like if taken from a fictional book, but defense against what.
[Unknown]: ¡°Cyan¡±
Cyan felt like he was holding a ticking bomb in his hands, still, he could not muster the courage to send the reply and [refuse] it for good, even after typing it in, pressing send never seen have reached from his brain to his hands, it was like the signal was being blocked right in the middle.
[Unknown]: ¡°Cyan¡±
Stuck in this crossroad of fate Cyan mind stopped noticing his surroundings as a hand tapped into his right shoulder scaring Cyan to death and making him jump up as he flapped his hands in the air trying to catch his phone that had come out flying from his hands and failing miserably at that.
[Cyan]: ¡°Hyyyakk¡±
Cyan could only give a small scream that drawn the unwanted attention of the classroom to himself all this while he saw his phone hitting the floor face down in very slow motion.
He had been was too focused right now in the phone screen that he completely failed to notice the person standing beside him calling for his name several times already.
Immediately after Cyan picked up his phone from the ground and checked that nothing was broken and that the reply [refuse] he was planning to send haven¡¯t been sent by accident and it was still there, waiting for him to send it, but then again¡ shouldn¡¯t he be happy if such a thing were to had happened, even if just an accident?.
[Unknown]: ¡°Cyan are you ok?¡±
The person that has tapped Cyan shoulder had also been scared and shirked back as she has not expected such explosive reaction coming out of a fellow student.
Cyan brushed the dirt off his phone as he regained enough composure to stand back again and reply back to the person in question.
[Cyan]: ¡°Class President I am ok, I was just thinking about my plans after school, but I was too engrossed that I failed to notice you, so I really got a strong scare¡±
Cyan awkwardly laughed, as he was too nervous to give a proper reply and said whatever it comes to his mind as he tried to hide the phone that he was holding his hands.
The Class President give Cyan a wide look and focused her gazed on Cyan hands with a suspicious glare of ¡°I am not buying it¡±, before then letting out a sigh and seriously looking Cyan to the eyes.
[Class President]: ¡°You shouldn¡¯t be playing with your phone in the school grounds you know that right? A total cellphone ban has been issued, and any and all students with a cellphone in the school ground would be detained and their phones confiscated and as the acting Class President¡¡±
Cyan already knew this speech by the letter the Class President has had been giving this same exact speech to each and every student in their classroom at least twice. Before the Class President could continue her speech Cyan interrupt her with an apology.
[Cyan]: ¡°I am sorry Class President it would not happen again¡±You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.
By this point the other students in the classroom had already diverted their attention to their own matters as soon the saw Class President starting to give her long lecture, not to mention the person receiving the speech, the other students around didn¡¯t want anything to do it, prompting them to turn theirs gazed away to avoid looking at such unpleased scene.
Class President did not become angry for being interrupted instead she let out a sigh and put a worried face.
[Class President]: ¡°Sigh, alright because this is your first offense I will let it sly¡ however¡ Cyan you really shouldn¡¯t be even looking at that message you know¡±.
¡°Busted¡±
Unlike her rehearsed lecture about cellphones in schools grounds, this time a genuine care could be seen reflected in her eyes because to her Cyan was not just another fellow student of the classroom but her longtime neighbor and friend, even though they had started to grow separated since the last year, they still shared a lot of memories together.
Class President Alice hoped that this year this could be changed somehow and they could go back to be friends.
However Cyan could not bring himself to say anything about the message as a knot in his brain was form every time he thought about the matter, even after looking at the worried eyes of the Alice this knot would not go away, instead, he tried to steer the conversation away from this topic.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡Class President for what purpose you were calling me just now?¡±
Even if he was being a little too briskly, Cyan hope the Alice wouldn¡¯t mind it too much about this.
Alice went ¡°ah yes¡± and she was reminded as to why she had been calling for Cyan name just a short while ago as she started to take something out from the folder she was holding.
[Alice]: ¡°It has been one week since the school has started but you still haven¡¯t picked an extracurricular activity yet nor joined a club, so I recollected some flyers with information that can help you to make a decision into which one to pick¡±
The flyers that Alice took out were already readily available in Cyan phone and in each club webpage as a downloadable file as well as all around the school campus, Cyan thought that Alice actions had little to no meaning and were a little pointless but he soon notice these flyers were full of annotations with a full list of pros and cons of joining each club with a comparable table, and the experiences you could earn in each club or what he could do with his free time as to become a tutor for other students as his grades were already the top of the class next to Alice¡¯s grades.
[Alice]: ¡°¡. If you become a tutor then you can also improve your social skill and this will help you in the future¡.¡±
These annotations may have been done in hasty but the calligraphy of the Alice was ever so neat and tidy, making it very easy to read, even if it was little girly as it was drawn in pink color, but it still carries a professional like format that will make you not to look it down upon only because it was in pink. Alice probably used this color as her favorite because it gave the best result when reading and without giving too much thought about it.
Cyan could only receive the flyers that the Alice was handing to him meanwhile she recites the contents of, still, he could not bring himself to retort at her, ¡°If you are already telling the benefit of each club what is the purpose of handing me these flyers for?¡± as his eyes twitched.
[Alice]: ¡°¡Of course, if you want to join the track field you will have to work hard, and I am also the Captain in that club so we could¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Class President I just remember I have something to do right now, but I will read the flyers later on for sure¡±.
[Alice]: ¡°Ah! Right, right, you should go home and read them very carefully when you get home¡±
Alice believed she already had taken too much out of Cyan time, after all, she already had put all of this information into the flyers and notes she handed to Cyan so there was actually no point in telling him if he could just read it later on in a slower pace.
However, there was something else that had been bothering Alice this whole time during their conversation.
[Alice]: ¡°¡by the way Cyan didn¡¯t I told you to call by my name already? You still can remember my name right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ I need to go¡±
While ignoring the angry gazed of Alice Cyan walk pass her but he stopped a few steps after, he could still feel that gaze of Alice in the back of his head, Cyan turned around to ask something he feels the need to ask as he tried to untie the knot in his mind.
[Cyan]: ¡°Class President¡ did you also receive the text message right?¡±
Almost everyone in the classroom had got the text message so the probability that Alice received too was very high.
The Class President nerves tighten at the sudden question, her emotional status and her mind have also been affected by this phenomenon as the constants emergency broadcast hits her news feed and as some of her friends are going missing one after the other, even now one week it, after all, started things are not getting better and if you look around the classroom area you will spot that quite a few students are missing and as the acting Class President she felt some responsibility for that as she didn¡¯t warn her fellow students enough.
Alice only hope now was for all the missing student of her class to be found together with all the missing people as soon as possible but this was just wishful thinking from her part.
Affected by all of this she have come looking for Cyan using the flyers maybe as an excuse to distract her own preoccupied mind and reduce the stress in her mind, whatever it was the case she didn¡¯t think that Cyan would ask her about the subject bringing all her anxiety rushing back as Cyan himself had been avoiding the subject like the plague.
However, she still answered the question with honesty.
[Alice]: ¡°That¡ I did¡ received¡¡±
Cyan looked at Alice as her hands tremble, even though it pained him to bring this subject up, there was something he needed to ask her no matter what.
[Cyan]: ¡°Did you [refuse] it?¡±
Maybe if this was any other student of the classroom Alice would have said she already had sent her [refuse] because as the role model for her fellow students she could not say the message was still in her phone waiting for a reply, but if she couldn¡¯t tell the truth to her friend then to whom she could?
[Alice]: ¡°¡ I haven¡¯t yet¡±
Her answer was an obvious clue that she would [refuse] the message very soon probably today she just has postponed until today.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡Don¡¯t [refuse] it just yet¡ Alice, please wait till tomorrow¡±
After saying his piece Cyan stormed out of the classroom in a hurry not giving any chance for Alice to give any response, even though he knew he was being irresponsible for doing such.
Telling some to wait while he planned to [refuse] today.
Cyan could not hear as Alice said ¡°you finally remembered my name¡± while letting out a sigh after he had left.
Chapter 002 - A text message from you?
Chapter 002 - A text message from you?
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Cyan exited the school grounds as he walked in direction to the apartment he lived in, luckily it was just a 10 minute walk from the school gate so there was no need to spend money to take the bus or a train to get there, he could just walk from his room to the school classroom without much problem.
The only problem right now is that the streets are far more empty and eerie than usual as the number of people that used to use them has decreased by a wide margin, the good news was that the traffic jams are now very an uncommon occurrence as people are afraid of even going out of their houses and suddenly disappear, mass paranoia has almost become visible at the present of course not everyone was acting like that.
But uneasiness feeling was growing in people with all the posters of [have you seen this person?] lying all around littering the city streets, while one person which job was to clean the street was going around gathering all the posters that were now on the street floor, this was maybe one the most hated job from all the world right now as you would have to stare to the faces of people that are no more into this world.
However other people who have also started to hate their jobs are appearing all around like the people of the Wildlife Rehabilitator Center or WRC, soon their job will become a living nightmare.
As Cyan was walking he recognized a wagon car from the WRC parked in front of his building while two people in uniforms were trying to catch a small dog in the entrance building. Lately Cyan has seen this wagon and this scene play around a few times already that¡¯s why he knew they were from the WRC.
This dog even though cute and fluffy on the outside in the inside it was hiding a ferocious animal, and even though it has a leash on him meaning it was a domestic dog it was acting like no other dog Cyan has ever seen before, growling with a menacing sound all the while trying to bite off the fingers of the WRC workers, the most shocking thing were the eyes the dog that have become red like if they were filled with blood.
Because the WRC workers were on building entrance Cyan could only stop walking a few meters away from their direction as he waited for them to finish their job and leave all the while hearing the conversation WRC workers were having.
¡°¡it bite me¡what happens to this stupid dog¡¡±
¡°¡I don¡¯t know it probably has some kind of rabies or something like that like all the other dogs¡¡±
¡°¡hold it still while I put it in the cage¡alright, let¡¯s take it before it bites someone else¡¡±
¡°¡what do you think they will do with it...¡±
¡°¡I don¡¯t know probably they make it into a can of food¡¡±
¡°¡haha I guess you are right¡wait you are bleeding a lot¡we should take you the doctor¡¡±
¡°¡ah you are right¡those dam teeth must shard as razors to go throughout this glove¡look how deep this is¡let¡¯s dropped it off with the other crazy dogs first¡I may even require a few stitches now¡¡±
¡°¡hey don¡¯t you think it is crazy how all the dogs are starting to act all crazy like if trying to bite people necks¡it is like we have become their worse enemies or something like that¡¡±
¡°¡I don¡¯t know¡with how crazy things are right now with the all missing people and all that crap about the hack¡the world could be ending tomorrow and folk like us would not even know¡¡±
¡°¡yeah I guess you are right¡hey do you think that if the world ends tomorrow we would still have a job...¡±
¡°¡why are you even asking that for¡even if the world were to end tomorrow there still should be plenty of crazy dogs going around for us to catch¡so I would not worry about not finding a job¡¡±
¡°¡haha you are right¡ but right now I just want to get home and find a cold beer to drink¡¡±
¡°¡it says here¡this the last dog on the list so you will get your wish may be granted now¡¡±
THUD THUD as the sound of two doors closing the wagon started its engine and it went away.
Cyan shudder at the sight of the small pool of blood that on the floor that was created when the WRC worker took his glove off, Cyan shook his head as is trying to shake off the memory from his head as he entered the building and took the elevator.
After Cyan entered the apartment he went directly to his room and plumbed down into his bed while letting out a long sigh that contained all of his stress and anger to himself that he accumulated for running away today from Alice as he immersed himself into the feel of his bed that unlike the cold and hard outside world his bed was warm, soft and smelled nice making him start to feel sleepy.
Cyan was an orphan since the day he was born as he was left in the west orphanage front gate the same day he was born into this world so he never got to meet his parents not that he wanted to anyway, what kind of parents will abandon their child without a reason if only to avoid the responsibility of raising a child.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
This apartment instead was something he shared with other people while he was is in high school, as part of the scholarship program he got enough money from the world government due to his excellent grades so he could rent this room, getting bad grades would have meant returning to the orphanage and no matter what Cyan didn¡¯t want to go back to that place ever again, now with 16 years and in his last year of high school getting into a good university wasn¡¯t just a dream anymore.
Even though the scholarship wasn¡¯t much, he still had enough to rent this room, creating his own personal space where he could study and be free from the worries of the outside world even if just for a very short moment.
And he could meet with Alice his neighbor his first and only friend that he could manage to make, however now he didn¡¯t know how to approach Alice, and on the day of the new school year at the same day a text message that shook the world started to be spread around, now one week later the world was in chaos with a lot of missing people, even some of his teachers are missing now too.
However since he got that message Cyan didn¡¯t felt like himself, he felt there was a knot in his mind and the cause of the knot was that text message he was for sure, that dog from today remind him that the word was in a weird place right now.
Cyan turned his head around as he took out his phone from his pocket, after he flipped the screen to unlock his cellphone, the message was still lingering in front of him and his reply [refuse] still in the waiting for the send button to be pressed, Cyan was playing to press send as soon as he got to his room and then he will send another message to Alice saying he had [refuse] it, ending this chapter of his life so he could move on to other things, maybe everything will go back to normal for him after he sends his reply.
He could not help but to think in Alice, she probably would have [refuse] it already if he did have not said anything today, Cyan even hoped that Alice won¡¯t listen to him at all and she will send her reply with a [refuse] before the day is over, however he knew Alice far too well and because he seriously had asked for her to wait, she most likely would wait one more day as a favor to him.
[Cyan]: ¡°I shouldn¡¯t ask Alice to do that¡±
Cyan lamented himself as he went over the flyers Alice have handed to him. If Cyan could see right now he would see an Alice waiting for Cyan to write back to her but he couldn¡¯t.
[Cyan]: ¡°I am such an idiot, I shouldn¡¯t have told her to do that¡±
Even if regret it now, nothing would change, this time for sure Cyan gathered all his of courage and moved his finger one last time to press the send button on the screen ending this nightmare, but at that time a new message notification arrived that stop him from doing so.
[Notification]
Sender: [Unknown]
Message: ¡°Don¡¯t refuse it just yet Cyan¡±
Cyan had a sense of D¨¦j¨¤ vu here, he had said those exact words to Alice in the classroom this afternoon.
This time the sender was really an [unknown] instead of [], in Cyan phone if he didn¡¯t have the number of the person recorded in it would show the sender as [unknown] just like right now, maybe because that text message also was shown as [unknown] in his phone that he got scared stopping him from sending his reply this time around.
As for the contents, it was probably someone from his class but to send him this kind message to him, what a bad joke this was.
Still there was a probability that some other student overheard his conversation with Alice this afternoon, after all the classroom wasn¡¯t empty at that time and he had made quite a show by screaming all out of the sudden in the middle of the classroom, then this was no other than another student from his classroom playing another bad joke to him but who.
[Cyan]: ¡°Who is this?¡±
Cyan tapped onto his screen as he opened the detailed information window of the sender, however, he was frozen stiff when he saw the unique identification number that shouldn¡¯t be possessed by anyone else other than the sender, however, this number was also in his own phone as the unique identification number.
Sender: [Unknown]
Number: #########
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait isn¡¯t this my own number?¡±
Cyan didn¡¯t have his own phone number recorded into his phone, after all, he knew it from memory, so he didn¡¯t need to save it, and not to mention the concept of having a phone number was something that was going away anyways, one could register one account and people would use their usernames to add each other, after all, remembering phone numbers was a pain, remembering someone username was way easier, even if that brings the unwanted consequences of using improper usernames or having to type username999999, even so, unique phone numbers still existed under a layer of software that you will need to tap into to read.
To test if his eyes haven¡¯t gone bad Cyan added his own phone number to his contact list manually and opened the chat again.
Sender: [¡]
Message: ¡°Don¡¯t refuse it just yet Cyan¡±
And the fact the sender has changed didn¡¯t bring him any joy what so ever.
Without a doubt it was his own unique number, Cyan could only think hackers have come a long way now and this maybe was now a new way kind of hack to rob you of your phone identity, one that you couldn¡¯t trace back to its roots because it shows other people phones as the sender, this was a scary thought for Cyan, wouldn¡¯t people believe oneself as the responsible from sending all kind of messages that other people sent and not you?
Wouldn¡¯t people call him crazy if he says it was someone else that used his unique number when security systems are so high-tech that now using other people phone line without their phones and without their permission was practically impossible?
Even so, there was a group of hack that had taken over all the networks but they didn¡¯t have made any changes, better yet they were protecting the system from being hacked into, as the world government tried to hack into their own system, or prevented them from sending [refuse] by stealing other people phone lines.
However, the fact that since a week ago people could actually go missing from replying a text message and that the world government had has made a public announcement broadcast informing of a massive network highjack escaped Cyan mind as he put all of his focus into the sender information.
Sender: [You]
¡°¡¡±
Cyan could only say swear in his mind.
***
Chapter 002 - A text message from you?
Chapter 003 – Help from the past?
Chapter 003 ¨C A help from the past?
***
This was his own number no doubt.
[Cyan]: ¡°Who is this?¡±
Cyan could not help but ask aloud to himself before sending the reply.
Message(You): ¡°Don¡¯t refuse it just yet Cyan¡±
Reply: ¡°Who is this?¡±
Under normal circumstances, that message should have arrived at his own phone, however now¡
Message(You): ¡°I am you from the future¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡that¡¯s it this guy is crazy¡¡±
Before Cyan could reply, again he got another message.
Message(You): ¡°I know you won¡¯t believe me now but I am really you, didn¡¯t you checked already the sender phone number, how do you think I did that if it wasn¡¯t because we have the same phone¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡of course you hacked the phone¡¡±
Reply: ¡°I am calling the police right now¡±
Message(You): ¡°And what are you going the tell them? That you send a text message to yourself?¡±
Reply: ¡°I will them that someone crazy guy hacked into my phone¡±
Message(You): ¡°they will think you are crazy though¡±
Reply: ¡°So what¡±
Cyan felt himself becoming angry from talking to this person.
Message(You): ¡°I have proof you know¡±
Reply: ¡°What, are you going to tell me the lottery number now?¡±
Message(You): ¡°You live an apartment #5 room #2 that you have been renting for the past two and a half years, your monthly payment is ########, you were orphan since the day you were born, you staff your magazines together with all your money under your beg thinking nobody is going to look there, oh right you should look at the corner there is coin you miss there, you also hit your toe once and someone convince you that they would need to cut it making you cry for a whole day, and you if you don¡¯t [accept] that text now you will regret it for the rest of your life because you will never see Alice again¡±
Sweat drops started to drop from Cyan head as he took the coin he had missed from the corner, this didn¡¯t make any sense for him, what is the purpose of this guy, that information was way too accurate and what was that last part of never seeing Alice again, is that a treat? Did this person have cameras in his room or something?
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s¡¡±
Message(You): ¡°That¡¯s what? It is all correct isn¡¯t?¡±
Cyan wanted to deny this but this person was not just on his phone but he could also read his mind too now?
This person must know him somehow, at lets this person should be from the same classroom as him but to reach this level of knowledge it shouldn¡¯t be possible, not including Alice but most students didn¡¯t know even his name.
Message(You): ¡°It only could mean that I am you right?¡±
Cyan choose to ignore it, nothing good would come from keep talking to this crazy person, Cyan thought as he sits down in his desk.
Message(You): ¡°Stop ignoring me kid we don¡¯t have much time, you need to [accept] before you regret it, don¡¯t you like Alice anymore?¡±
Reply: ¡°Mind your own business¡±
Even though he said to himself he would not reply again Cyan could not remain quiet for too long, he could not help but want to punch this person in the face that keeps saying he would regret it repeatedly together with the name of Alice.
Message(You): ¡°Kid sooner or later you were going to [accept] in the end anyway I am just trying to help you out so you enter the [Training Tower] early than last time¡±
Reply: ¡°That¡¯s a lie I was about to [refuse] it when you interrupt me¡±
Cyan could not help to retort to himself he was about to [refuse] it just moments ago right?
Message(You): ¡°Then why haven¡¯t you [refuse] it already? I had given you ample time between my messages, nor to mention that you can just ignore them¡±
Reply: ¡°You think I would not [refuse] it¡±
Message(You): ¡°Then do it, I will wait¡±
Cyan head almost exploded from the anger he was feeling right now, he was being challenged by this unknown person and the thinking that this person was really himself keep popping up in his head.
Cyan wrote down the reply once more.
[refuse]
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15 minutes later
Message(You): ¡°You cannot do it right?¡±
Reply: ¡°F***¡±
Message(You): ¡°You should watch your language kid¡±
Cyan had been staring his cellphone screen for 15 minutes and he still could not bring himself to press the send button. The thought of never seeing Alice again keep coming up to his head as he started to feel regret that should not belong to him.
Reply: ¡°What do you want?¡±
Even so, he could not bring himself to be nice to this cocky bastard.
Message(You): ¡°Didn¡¯t I told already? What I want is for your help and for you to [accept] it¡±Love what you''re reading? Discover and support the author on the platform they originally published on.
Reply: ¡°Do you think I am crazy?¡±
The thought that he started believing the nonsense this crazy person was saying could only be done by another crazy person. Would anyone that was sane believe someone that stood in your front door and said it came from the future? That only means both need to be crazy for that to happen.
Message(You): ¡°I really need you help kid¡±
After waiting for 10 minutes, Cyan got a new message.
Message(You): ¡°Are you still there?¡±
Cyan gritted his teeth as he held his phone.
Reply: ¡°Are you from the future? Shouldn¡¯t you know?¡±
Message(You): ¡°The past is indeed a constant, but you or I have become a variables, the mere fact we are talking has already changed the actions you would do in the future until it becomes impossible to predict anymore, as a variable I don¡¯t know exactly what you will do now¡±.
Cyan did not know why but he was starting to feel the need to believe this person.
Reply: ¡°Say that I am crazy and that I believe you for a second that you are from the future, why do you need my help for?¡±
Message(You): ¡°I can¡¯t go myself to the past to change it myself that would destroy both of out our worlds, do you want that I destroy your world? The future that I want to prevent from happening, you are the only one that can change it and no one else, and all that starts by you entering the [Training Tower] early¡±.
Reply: ¡°What will happen to the future?¡±
Message(You): ¡°That¡ you don¡¯t need to know because we will prevent it from ever happening¡±
Reply: ¡°Wait, would that created a paradox if I were to change the future?¡±
Message(You): ¡°It is true that changing ¡°my¡± past is indeed proven to be impossible, but what we are trying to do is changing ¡°your¡± future kid¡±.
Cyan could only think in the theory of parallel worlds, however.
Reply: ¡°If we change my future, then the future you are from what would happen to it?¡±
Message(You): ¡°¡if we succeed me and my world would disappear like a bad memory that never existed, and like a bad dream you would not remember me either¡±
Reply: ¡°¡How do you know?¡±
Message(You): ¡°Because this already had happened before, the one before me told I was the third, making you the fourth, what you need to know is that¡ I didn¡¯t succeed that¡¯s why I can still remember them¡ now it is your chance to do what I couldn¡¯t¡±
Cyan had the boiling feeling in his stomach telling him this guy was telling him the truth, he could only do as he says.
Reply: ¡°What I need to do¡±
Message(You): ¡°[accept]¡±
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Message(Unknown): ¡°You have been invited to the [Training Tower] as part of a defense program which purpose is the creation, training, and support of Players, do you wish to [accept] or [refuse], please reply this message before the training period ends¡±.
Reply: ¡°[accept]¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°Player Cyan has accepted the invitation, initializing the transfer, please remain still while the transfer is being carried out and don¡¯t take your hands out, loss of body parts is possible¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°Warning: check your signal strength before initializing the transfer, a weak signal would cause mild to serious problems as nausea, dizziness, body spams, and loss of internal organs or body parts.¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°Signal strength at 99.99% Error at 0.0001%, all system checked, ready to proceed¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°Transfer starts in¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°3¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°2¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°1¡±
Message(Unknown): ¡°Transfer start¡±
Message(You): ¡°Good luck kid¡±
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After the dizziness and nausea Cyan was feeling fade away, he could now look around him.
He was inside a huge room that could easily take hundreds of people at the same time, looking around it was no different to the lobby of one of those tall buildings with chairs and paintings decorating the walls together with people walking around or gathered into small grounds.
Behind Cyan a glass door where he could only see white on the other side, and over the door a big sign that said [Entrance]
Scanning himself Cyan found out that he was still wearing his school uniform and he still has his cell phone in his hands where he could still read the last message he got from his future self.
Message(You): ¡°Good luck kid¡±
Checking out the time, not even 1 minute has passed since the transfer.
Then he got a new message, thinking it was from his future self, Cyan hurried to read the contents.
Message(Midas): ¡°Welcome to the [Lobby Area](10/1000) of [Training Tower #1], concurrently there are 105 people that had accepted of a total of 1000 invitations with 15 refusals, Open areas [Rest Area](10/100), [Dorms Area](74/1000), [Track Field](10/100), [Gym](1/100).
After reading the message Cyan checked the sender, it said [Midas], before the messages he got from the invitation always said sender [], but now it shows clearly [Midas], after clicking the sender a new chat room open up in Cyan phone, even more so [Midas] was already added to Cyan contact list.
[Cyan]: ¡°[Midas]?¡±
He did not have many contacts added into his phone so he could easily found when new phone contacts is added in, on the other hand, [Alice] contact was gray out, and her status shown to be [offline], he tried calling but not beep would come out from his phone.
Cyan started a chat with Alice and sent her a simple message saying
Reply: ¡°Hello¡±
Nevertheless, he got an immediate response from [Midas]
Message(Midas): ¡°Message ¡°Hello to Alice¡± could not be delivered, all communications to people outside the [Training Tower] are unavailable¡±
Cyan then tried to text his future self.
Message(You): ¡°Good luck kid¡±
Reply: ¡°I [accept] it and now I am in the [Lobby Area], what I should do now?¡±
He also got an immediate response this time but it was not what he was expecting.
Message(You): ¡°I [accept] it and now I am in the [Lobby Area], what I should do now?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Is he mocking me?¡±
Reply: ¡°Hey can you stop joking and help me?¡±
Message: ¡°Hey can you stop joking and help me?¡±
Reply: ¡°Hello?¡±
Message: ¡°Hello?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What the¡¡±
Cyan was very confused about what was happening, should he try once again? By now, he was starting to think he has gone crazy, he read all the chat logs, and make sure the sender could not have been him, him of the present at least.
[Cyan]: ¡°Did I have developed a split personality? And I had been talking to myself this whole time?¡±
It makes sense if the other him had been deleting the messages after sending them to himself, after all, a person suffering from split personality would be unaware of such events, however, Cyan discarded that possibility quickly because.
Reply: ¡°I am stupid¡±
Because this time, he got a different reply.
Messaged(You): ¡°You are stupid¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡¡±
Cyan could only blame himself for falling for such an idiotic trap.
Reply: ¡°Are you done playing around¡±
Message(You): ¡°Haha sorry kid but I could not help it¡±
Cyan could only let out a relieved sigh; it seems his connection with his future self was not broken, unlike his connection with the outside.
Reply: ¡°Then can you help me?¡±
Message(You): ¡°Right, you should start by heading to the [Rest Area] and start exercising there like if your life future depends on it, because it does, you can do pushes or any other exercise that you feel comfortable with, the secret is to do until you can¡¯t go on anymore, you do understand?¡±
Reply: ¡°I think I do but, it is this all?¡±
Message(You): ¡°Yup, with the help of [Midas] you don¡¯t have to worry about anything else, after you are done and feel you can¡¯t go on anymore go the [Dorms Area] get a room and sleep, don¡¯t forget to set the wake up alarm in your phone inside the [Training Tower] day and night are meaningless¡±.
Reply: ¡°That¡ you know what [Midas] is?¡±
Message: ¡°I have to go for real this time, we talk later¡±
After that, there were no more new messages, Cyan could only give up for now, and started to search around for the [Rest Area], meanwhile he notice there were little robots moving around the [Lobby Area], all carrying drinks and giving it to the other people. These robots were no more than 1 meter tall and move in one wheel performing a balancing trick that only a robot with perfect balance could do.
Because he was distracted by observing the robots, he didn¡¯t took notice of the robot that was beside him, nor the small robot hand that ended poking him in the sides, scaring Cyan away, when he turned around he found that one of those robots was looking at him as it started to speak in his robot voice.
[Robot]: ¡°Player Cyan Registered. Do wish something to drink?¡±
¡°¡¡±
***
Chapter 003 ¨C Help from the past?
Chapter 004 - Maybe Willy?
Chapter 004 - A Willy?
[Robot]: ¡°Player Cyan wish something to drink?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°ah¡ yes¡±
The robot took out a water bottle from inside his body and gave it to Cyan, definitely, this robot surpassed anything Cyan knew about current world technology.
After that, the robot started to give him some casual information that all Players should know like a pre-recorded message.
[Robot]: ¡°Please remember to dispose of all your trash in the trash can, if you don¡¯t comply a penalty in Credits will be issued depending on the degree of the offense, fighting other Players outside the [PVP Area] is strictly forbidden under any circumstance and the penalty for killing another Player would be the expulsion of the Player from the [Training Tower] and the person removal as a Player. If you need to use the bathroom there is one inside your room. The [Food Area] is open at all hours and food can be bought using Player concurrency known as Credits, all Players can see how many Credits they have in their possession by checking the already installed [Midas App] in their [phone], trading with other Players can be done using your [phone], Players that had lost or destroy their [phone] will be charged with a 10.000 Credits penalty and a new [phone] will be given, Player Cyan is advice to keep his [phone] in a secure place, Players are too train while staying inside the [Training Tower]¡etc, do you have any question or you need to hear this information again¡¡±
After the very long explanation the robot keeps standing in front of Cyan waiting for his next command, Cyan, on the other hand, was going through all the information he just got in his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ can you tell that me again?¡±
The robot repeated everything he had just said without a hint impatience or annoyance that a human being would normally have after having to repeat the same exact information again.
[Cyan]: ¡°Is there anything like an instruction manual that I can read later on?¡±
Even though the robot has repeated himself several times already Cyan could not make sense of what it was talking about, Players, Credits, Stats, Free Points, Food, Training, Hobbies, PVP, Inventory, etc.¡ the wide range of information was overwhelming to the teenage boy that had just teleported to the [Lobby Area] just a short minute ago.
In the other hand for Cyan not to shown any aggressive behavior or not suffering from panic attacks after arriving here was a good sign under the wheel robot result analysis, after all when [Midas] had just started one week ago and Players started arriving they panic the hell out and attacked the Training Robots series 1 or TR for short, he, on the other hand, was a new version of the Assistant Robot series 2 or AR series, and so far the results were very positive increasing the probability that he wouldn¡¯t be recycled and repurposed so he keeps working for more cycles under the guide of his auto preservation program.
[Robot]: ¡°You can check this and all information in the [Midas App] under Help/FAQ section, or you can ask your assigned [Assistant Robot] at any giving time if you have any question.¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°My assigned what?¡±
[Robot]: ¡°After a reevaluation [Midas] has concluded that the probability of Player losing their composure and act violently is drastically reduce if they are guided from arrival by another Player, [Player Assistant Robot] protocol was created with that as the basis, with the purpose to guide Players training and to answer any and all question about the [Training Tower] program, in conclusion [Assistant Robot] #105 was assigned to Player Cyan during the duration of his stay in the [Training Tower]¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then [Assistant Robot] #105 that¡¯s way too long, it is okay if I give you another name?¡±
[Robot]: ¡°Player Cyan has the authority to change the name of his assigned robot, please indicate new name¡±
Cyan realized he had now a problem in his hands after all his naming sense was terrible.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then what should I call you? You are short, then Shortbot?¡±
[Robot]: ¡°¡Deny¡±
Even though a robot should not have feelings and he wouldn¡¯t care about his name Cyan felt the stare of the robot was getting very cold¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I wasn¡¯t aware that robots were mindful of their height¡ then let¡¯s see you move around in one wheel, Wheelbot?... WheelShort¡ Wheelly¡ how about Willy?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Renaming process successful [Assistant Robot] #105 name is now [Willy]¡±
Just as Willy changed his named Cyan cellphone vibrated indicated he just received a new message.
Message(Midas): ¡°Player Cyan is awarded 1.000 Credits by being the first Player to discover a hidden feature [Renaming a Robot]¡±
At the same time, everyone in the [Training Tower] also got the same message.
However Cyan found this message to be strange.
[Cyan]: ¡°Hey Willy how come I can be the first Player to discover such easy to find hidden feature, naming your pet robot is something every human would do right? Aren¡¯t millions of Players transported already to the [Training Tower]? Now that I think about it where everyone else is?¡±
Willy was a little kind of happy of his new name as he was moving back and forward as if trying to dance, but when he heard the question of Player Cyan he stopped his [dancing] routine and went back to his [normal] routine.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.
[Willy]: ¡°The [Player Assistant Robot] protocol for Players was implemented since 4 hours ago, older Players wouldn¡¯t be assigned one, as such Player Cyan is the 13.125 Player to be assigned an AR series 2, of those there are 5.159 Players that have found the hidden feature and none of those are from [Training Tower] #1, as such Player Cyan is the first Player to find this hidden feature in this [Training Tower] and it had been awarded 1.000 Credits.
[Willy]: ¡°As for the rest of the Players there are more than just one [Training Tower] and every [Training Tower] is slightly different and with different number of Players, Player Cyan should focus in training instead of worrying about the existence of other [Training Tower]¡¯s¡±.
For a second Cyan feel Willy was nagging he to start training as soon as possible just like his future self has told him to do, however, there was something still in his mind.
Cyan ignore this nagging feeling he was getting from Willy and asked another question.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willi you said the AR protocol started this morning and older Players would not get one AR assigned to them why that is?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°A balancing System was put in place by [Midas], Players that had being training for 1 week in the [Training Tower] have an overwhelming advantage over new Players, to balance this out previous Player would not get an AR assigned to them¡±
Cyan could only think of this as fair right? Not that it matters much to him anyway, but made being aware that [Midas] was balancing things out should be pretty important from now on.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy what is [Midas]?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Midas] is the computer that controls and runs all [Training Tower]¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°And the purpose of [Midas] is?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Midas] purpose is to created and help Players reach their top potential, balance resources, punish harmful Player behavior while encouraging positive behavior and improve cooperation between Players¡±.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy Who create [Midas]?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Access restricted, Player Cyan has no enough privileges¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy Who controls [Midas]?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Access restricted, Player Cyan has no enough privileges¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then Willy why [Midas] needs Players for?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Access restricted, Player Cyan has no enough privileges¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It seems getting more answers will tough, but that doesn¡¯t mean there are no answers at least, then Willy how can I increment my privileges?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Player Cyan is advice to start his training¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait Willy is there any map of this tower?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Affirmative, [Map] function is available in the [Midas App]¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Oh right I haven¡¯t opened the app yet¡±
Cyan took out his phone and opened the [app]
[Midas App]
[Status]
[Inventory]
[Skill]
[Quest](1)
[Shop]
[Willy]
[Map]
[Inbox](1)
[Help/FAQ]
He was going to tap on his status first but the red like notification in [Quest] made him he tap it there instead.
[Quest]:
[Start your training]
[1] Do 10 pushes against the floor, in 10 minutes (time remaining 5:13 minutes)
[2] Lock (unlocks after complementing the previous task)
[Cyan]: ¡°It would be bad if I don¡¯t do this first right?¡±
Cyan then tapped into [Map]
[Map]
Location: [Training Tower] #1 (105/1000)
Floor 1: Lobby Area (10/1000)
Floor 2: Dorms Area (74/1000)
Floor 3: Food Area (0/1000)
Floor 4: Rest Area (10/1000)
Floor 5: Track Area (10/100)
Floor 6: Gym Area (1/100)
Floor 7: PVP Arena (0/100)
Floor 8: Fighting Arena (locked)
Floor 9: (locked)
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy is there any problem if I use the [Rest Area] to train?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Negative, Player Cyan can train in any floor even though each floor has a serves a purpose Player Cyan is free to train as he please on then¡±
Cyan was hesitating to go and train in the [Rest Area] because as its name implies it should a place where a Player would be resting and not training, however, the future he recommendation was to go there first.
For now Cyan opted to move into the [Rest Area] to do first and do the quest there, he didn¡¯t lose his way as he only asks Willy to led him to the elevator and push a button and in an instant, he was there.
[Welcome to the Rest Area] There are 11 Players of a total of 100
When Cyan entered the area his phone vibrated however he didn¡¯t pay any attention to it, as he was feeling like he had entered another world, all of his tiredness and sore spots were gone in an instant even those the ones he didn¡¯t even know he had, he felt his body being massaged all over the place and that by just breathing the air his lungs were being cleansed from inside out of all the dirt the modern world has and that it has been accumulating inside him, it was definitely a wonderful feeling, Cyan could guess now why he sent here, training here will be way easier than other places.
[Willy]: ¡°Player Cyan you have new unread messages¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy you don¡¯t need to call me like that just call me Cyan¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Understood Cyan¡±
Willy reminded him that he got a few new messages, after checking his phone he could understand from where that wonderful feeling was coming from.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied, 25% Stamina Regeneration, Player will recover his stamina faster¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied, 50% Satiation, Player will feel less hunger¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied, Cleansing Air, Every time Player takes a breath it will cleanse his body from impurities¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied, Cleansing Mind, Player Mind will regain his focus and it will have a better concentration¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied, Cleansing Body, Player Body potential will stimulate¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Buff applied¡.¡±
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There were so many buffs, even one that makes you go less to the bathroom while you were inside the [Rest Area], Cyan wanted to call this more like a restoration area because he felt like he was being restored to top condition.
Sadly all the buff have a 4 hours duration period and a cooldown of 20 hours meaning you could only enter once a day for 4 hours, and of course the buff only applied when you were inside the area, exiting the area would cancel the buff before their expiration time, so going in and out would be a total waste if you didn¡¯t stay 4 hours inside.
Cyan almost forgot why he has come here if not for the timely reminder of Willy.
[Willy]: ¡°Player Cyan is advised to start training as soon as possible¡±
Chapter 4 Maybe Wally?
Chapter 005 - A Robot Coach?
Chapter 005 - A Robot Coach?
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Willy, I will start with the Quest now¡±
Cyan checked the time for the Quest
[Start your training]
[1] Do 10 push against the floor, in 10 minutes (time remaining 4:05 minutes)
[2] Locked (unlocks after complementing the previous task)
Cyan then he moved to a corner and started doing some light stretches first, this was a resting area so he didn¡¯t want to bother anyone else while he did his first Quest.
Looking around there were some Players taking their sweet time walking around or sitting while they were enjoying the area buffs, Cyan ignore all of this and started doing push against the floor in a corner where nobody was looking, he needed to hurry up before the Quest time runs out.
Even with the help of the buffs doing 10 pushes in 4 minutes was tough, making him realized how of out of shape he really was, he was always the last one in the track field or the last one pick, making him hate deports and ended avoiding joining any sport club, even though he wanted to join the same club Alice so they could spend more time together.
Even though Cyan thought he shouldn¡¯t be able to pull more than 10 pushes he managed to reach 10 and then he felt like he could keep going even when in the beginning it was tough doing even one, he felt like they more he does it the easier it gets, it was not after the ~50 pushes that he started to feel his muscles starting to ache, but he still carries on until he arrived at 100 push, after hitting 100 his arms gave out and Cyan lay down flat on the floor as his phone vibrated.
Because the buffs he was getting from the area he recovered his strength pretty fast and his rough breath becomes normal once again, Cyan took the chance to read the new messages he got.
[Start your training]
[1] Do 10 pushes against the floor, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
[2] Do 100 pushes against the floor (90/100)
[3] Lock (unlocks after complementing the previous task)
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [1] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point, keep working hard in your training¡±.
Cyan noticed now there was no time for the quest this time so he wasn¡¯t in a hurry as before so instead of continuing he took the chance to talk with Willy.
[Cyan]: ¡°This¡ right Willy, you said something about Free Points but how the use of them?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Free Points can be used to increase Player stats freely in the [Midas App], in the [Status] option Players can see their Stats together with all their accumulated Free Points, optionally they can write [Status] to [Midas] and wait for the reply, Remainder: Losing your [phone] will carry out a penalty of 10.000 credits, please be mindful of your device as some Player privileges can only be used throughout the [Midas App]¡±
For some reason Willy started to nagging him again about some unrelated matter but Cyan didn¡¯t get angry as part of the information he didn¡¯t know was there, but he was starting to be afraid of the future where Willy would try to remind him something until he was sick of it, for now, he put those thoughts in the back of his head as he opened the app.
Just now Cyan realized that since he has come here he didn¡¯t have time to check the app, because he was in a timer due to the Quest, even though he was still in a timer because the area buff timer they wouldn¡¯t expire until 3+ hours anyway so he could check more about the app now.
Even though [Midas] sounded like a super advanced alien computer system with technology far surpassing what humans were capable of, this App¡ was very lacking, at least in the UI aspect.
[Midas App]
[Status]
[Inventory]
[Skill]
[Quest]
[Shop]
[Willy]
[Map]
[Inbox](1)
[Help/FAQ]
After opening the app he notice the red number on [Quest] was gone even though the quest was still ongoing, it probably meant it was an unseen quest at that time, there was also a notification to check the inbox it probably meant there was also an unseen message there, Cyan opened the inbox and tapped on the message, it was a form of greeting that includes a gift box and a few freebies.
¡°Welcome to the [Training Tower]¡±
- Welcoming Box
- 1 Free Point
- 000 Credits
- ¡(Text)
As for the message contents it was pretty much the information that Willy had already told him so there was no need to read it again, not to mention it was a very long read, reading it all the way down to the bottom probably would take all day long, this was probably one of the reasons the AR series was introduced after one a week to help players.
After checking that he didn¡¯t have any other unread message Cyan returned to the main menu.
[Cyan]: ¡°Now the [Welcoming Box] should be in the inventory right, Willy?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°That is correct¡±
As usual, Willy was beside him waiting for his next command.
For the rest of the menu, [Shop] and [Skill] were gray out and clicking on them prompted a message from the app saying that those features were not available at the moment, as for the [Willy] options there were not any settings he could change so Cyan moved next to open his inventory.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Welcoming Box
- 30 Tickets for entry to Floors 5 to 7
[Equipment]
It listed his School Uniform as a piece of equipment but when Cyan tapped on it, it only showed it was a normal set of clothes without any effect, it was pretty depressing actually.
[School Uniform]
- Standard Uniform for West High School
- Does not have any effect
As for Credits he had 2.000 maybe not much but either way, he didn¡¯t know the value of 1 Credit.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy how much cost the food in the [Food Area]?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°One full meal cost 100 credits if it is normal food, special food cost more¡ Player Cyan is advice to keep training¡¡±This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work.
Willy responded the answer but it seems it was hell bend into making him go back to training however he ignore for now as he wanted to check the app a little bit more.
Cyan thought he would only find the [Welcoming Box] he got but he also have some tickets for going to upper floors, unlike the [Rest Area] it seems the other training areas are in the need for a ticket to entering them, he also remembered how he was told to train like his life depend on it on the [Rest Area] first, but Cyan still was feeling disconnected from the future unknown he was meant to prevent from ever happening.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy why is there the need for this tower?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Players are advice to start training¡¡±
Asking that prompted Willy to give the same reply again, making him feel frustrated.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy what is the point of this training¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Players are advice to start training¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°If you don¡¯t tell me right now I will train no more¡±
The lights of Willy started blinking as if he thinking what he should answer now filling Cyan with hope that he may get a new answer.
[Willy]: ¡°Cyan is advice to keep training no matter what¡±
Even though it was a new kind of answer it was not what he was hoping for so he could only give up trying to dig some information from Willy about these topics right now.
[Cyan]: ¡°Oh right Willy for how long we need to train?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°The training period ends 4 weeks after the Players accepts the invitation.
[Cyan]: ¡°4 weeks that¡¯s pretty short isn¡¯t?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Cyan is advice to utilized all available time to its fullest¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Right right I get it I will keep training, just let me check the [Welcoming Box] and my [Status] before that will you¡±
The lights of Willy started blinking again.
[Willy]: ¡°Affirmative¡±
Cyan could see a pattern here but he ignores it and moved into opening the box before Willy starts nagging him again.
[Welcoming Box]
- 5000 Credits
- 5 Tickets for entry to any Floor.
- 5 Energy Drink
- 5 Energy Food
- 1 Free Point
Cyan checked the new two items he got as the other items were something he already knew and more Credits.
[Energy Drink]
- Restores Stamina by 50%
- Removes thirst
[Energy Food]
- Restores Stamina by 50%
- Removes hunger
Eating a set of food and water will give you a 100% recovery that was pretty good. Now the only thing remaining was for him to check his own status.
[Status]
Type: Player
Name: Cyan
Status: Normal
Location: [Training Tower] Floor 4
Level: 0
Profession: None
Sub-Profession: None
Strength (STR): 6 Tier 0
Dexterity (DEX): 8 Tier 0
Endurance (END): 5 Tier 0
Stamina (STA): 6 Tier 0
Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
Free Points: 2
Even though he was seeing it Cyan realized he didn¡¯t even know what any of those numbers meant, not to mention he didn¡¯t know what does Tier 0 even mean but he could take a guess it pretty much should mean he was at the bottom right? Good thing Willy was here with him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy what are stats for an average person?¡±
Willy lights blinked for a second before he gave his answer.
[Willy]: ¡°A Healthy Human 18-year-old Male should possess stats around 10¡¯s in each category, being 9¡¯s for Females but with a higher DEX¡±
Cyan could only drop down his head in shame, none his stats reached 10, no wait his INT stat was way higher than his other stats so that should be a good thing right? Not to mention he was still 16 and not 18 so he has still some growing left in him.
[Willy]: ¡°Remainder: Cyan has 2 Free Points available that he can use to increase his pitiful low stats¡±
Cyan didn¡¯t know if Willy was mocking him or trying to help him, but thanks to his remainder he could now increase at least his stats by two whole points, even though it was not that much, for some with such low stats it was a heavenly gift.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right Willy where should I put my Free Stats into, can also you tell me what each stats do?¡±
After Cyan asked that, the light in Willy that indicated he was thinking something keep blinking nonstop, Cyan have being taking note of Willy each time he asked something, a light in Willy would start blinking nonstop before giving an answer, however when it was some generic answer it would not even blink even once, meaning he would not get any meaningful information at that time, but when it was blinking it meant he had managed to get something out of Willy, even though this was useless information Cyan found it fascinating as if each time that light blink he would start getting his hopes up for getting more information.
[Willy]: ¡°Analysis Results: Cyan is recommended to increase his STA stat before moving into other stats, Reason: Because Cyan will be able to train for longer periods of times, Additional Information: What each stats does¡¡±
Cyan could resume Willy information as follows
STR
- Affects Strength: How hard can you hit something
DEX
- Affects Speed and Agility: How well can you dodge something
END
- Affect Toughness: How hard something can hit you.
STAT
- Affects Stamina: How long you can move
INT
- Affects Brain: How fast can you think and how well can you remember.
[Willy]: ¡°in addition, Cyan could also save Free Points for later use as it would be harder to increase Player stats by many folds on later stages¡±
In short, Willy was telling Cyan to put everything on his stamina or save his free points for when he really needs them.
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess you are right, I think saving them is the best choice however with my STA being so low I guess I should use them now and worry about it later¡±
Cyan put his two free points in STA by tapping into the + button as he could feel his body getting more energy from someplace else.
[Status]
Type: Player
Name: Cyan
Status: Normal
Location: [Training Tower] Floor 4
Level: 0
Profession: None
Sub-Profession: None
Strength (STR): 6 Tier 0
Dexterity (DEX): 8 Tier 0
Endurance (END): 5 Tier 0
Stamina (STA): 8 Tier 0
Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
Free Points: 0
Now with 8 points of STA, he felt he could keep challenging the [Quest] his only wish for part [3] wouldn¡¯t be to do 1000 pushes or something crazy like that but he needed to clear part [2] of the quest first.
After coming to a meaningful decision Cyan prepared himself for doing more pushes but ironically Willy interrupted him.
[Willy]: ¡°Remainder: Cyan can use energy drinks to complete the Quest successfully¡±.
[Cyan]: ¡°Oh right I almost forgot I have a few of those¡±
Until this point, Cyan was thinking that Willy worth every cent even better he got it for free, and even though it could get really annoying sometimes it was actually a really amazing machine.
Cyan checked the [Quest] in his phone as he took out the Energy Drink and Energy Food for later use.
Start your training]
[1] Do 10 pushes against the floor, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
[2] Do 100 pushes against the floor (90/100)
[3] Lock (unlocks after complementing the previous task)
Then he had a sudden idea.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy can you read the data from the Quest so I don¡¯t have to?¡±
Willy''s eyes blinked a few times before an answer came back.
[Willy]: ¡°Quest Linked: [Start your training] [2] 90/100, Cyan needs 10 more pushes to clear the Quest¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy you are amazing¡±
As Willy answered had come, his phone also vibrated again.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait is this also a hidden feature?¡±
As expected it was a hidden feature.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has being awarded 1000 Credits by being the first person to discover hidden feature [Coach]¡±
At the same time everyone in the area got the same message that Cyan, however nobody present had a robot with them, making a few people thrown jealousy gazed to Cyan that has a personal robot with him, however Cyan didn¡¯t notice this as he was engrossed in trying to find what other hidden functions Willy may have.
Cyan inventory ended looking like this.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- 30 Tickets for entry to Floors 5 to 7
- 5 Tickets for entry to any Floor.
- 4 Energy Drink
- 4 Energy Food
[Equipment]
Chapter 006 - A Way To Stop?
Chapter 006 - A way to stop?
Cyan tried searching for more hidden features of Willy, he even tried by asking directly but it seems that was cheating ergo it was not allowed as Willy made his common remainder.
[Willy]: ¡°Cyan is advised to return training as soon as possible¡±
Wasting more time of his buff wasn¡¯t a good an idea either, so far it has been one and a half hours since Cyan entered the [Rest Area], so he only has two and half hours remaining to keep enjoying of the buff area, and even though just being standing also did wonders for his body the best way to take advantage of this buff was actually to keep training his body to his limits.
However, Cyan efforts were not in vain as he found out something interesting that Willy could do and that could be very helpful in the future.
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy can you also create a link with my inventory?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Affirmative but if only to see its contents, accessing a Player inventory to take out or putting items in, it is not possible for the AR series 2¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°So you can see it but not touch it then?¡±
[Willy]: ¡°That is correct, do you wish to proceed?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yeah I think it would be helpful in the future with all those reminders of yours¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Inventory Linked¡Completed¡±
It seems this wasn¡¯t a hidden feature or maybe it was already part of the feature [Coach] because Cyan didn¡¯t receive any new notification to his phone, even though getting more Credits would have been good for him Cyan could not be more happy of just having Willy with him helping him out.
Cyan went back to his training but this time doing it in a series of 10 pushes while Willy was the one that handled all the counting and everything else.
[Willy]: ¡°98, 99, 100¡¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [2] 100/100, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [3] 0/200, Unlocked¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1, 2, 3¡¡±
The [Rest Area] was doing its wonders for Cyan, trying to do so many pushes in one day would have been impossible in the past but now he could feel that after every push his body was being restored and healed by the buffs allowing him to keep going.
Truthfully doing exercises in the [Rest Area] was like cheating, after all this was an area designed for recovering, improving and healing a Player¡¯s body but he entered in the area already in good condition even though he would get the benefices of improving his body, recovering and healing were pretty much being wasted on him, but when he started doing exercises as per recommendation of his future self, to train like if his life deepened on it, now he was taking advantage of those buffs thanks to that, and thanks to his trusty partner Willy that was doing a great job of guiding him due his feature [Coach] being unlocked he could shut off his brain and let Willy do his thing.
In short, Cyan was now utilizing the [Rest Area] buffs to the fullest for the current him.
[Willy]: ¡°198, 199, 200¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [3] 200/200, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [4] 0/300, Unlocked¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1, 2, 3¡¡±
Even though Cyan had been doing exercises on the ground with his School Uniform all of his clothes were neat and clean and also he was also free of sweat, because his body temperature was being regulated by the [Rest Area] that it has to be in full control of his body metabolism system since he entered it, meaning he would not overheat no matter how much he moved around because his body heat was being reverted back into energy and put back to use again by the muscles, allowing a near perfect conversion from energy to motion, now neither fatigue nor heat would prevent him from keep doing pushes on the ground and even though he was just moving his in a repetitive motion all of his muscles were being put to use due some other hidden feature that was inside Cyan body that he hasn''t been made aware of yet.
In the end the fact was that the [Rest Area] was an amazing area for training your body, being in the fourth floor and with a free entrance most Players laze around inside it for 4 hours and then left it without being made aware that you could actually increment your stay duration by doing a Quest inside it.
Even when Cyan gave it all of his being to do each series after ~1 minute of resting he would be back to a peak condition and again ready for doing more series, not to mention that the pauses he would do become even shorter later on after Cyan adjusted his body to a more comfortable position as the awkwardness of doing pushes on the ground disappeared completely while doing the Quest.
Cyan took notice that no other Player was taking full advantage of this godly area and they were just lazing around, taking a nap or playing cards, telling jokes or doing things a couple would do on a date, this bothered him a little because those people weren¡¯t showing any hint of worry about being kidnaped from their homes without any explanation and they were treating this like a small vacation hotel or something like that, however, Willy didn¡¯t let his mind waver even for a second as he pressed him to continue training without thinking about anything else.
When Willy entered his serious [Coach] mode Cyan felt very sorry for making fun of Willy height at the beginning, because this little mean robot was now unleashing his vengeance upon him making him work like a machine nonstop, always on time and always efficient, Willy would take no complains coming from his mouth, in the end Cyan give up complaining any more and followed Willy orders in his computer like voice, when to take a rest and when to continue or when to take the energy drink or the energy food, all up to Willy, because Willy in [Coach] mode was that amazing when training Cyan up.
Very soon Cyan felt that his mind was not in control of his body anymore as he forgot about time or fatigue, and even though the [Rest Area] was not designed to remove the sense of pain because pain was a real necessity for a Player to know when to stop doing something, in Cyan mind the sense of pain was also cut off of his brain while he felt like if he was inside a dream and someone else had taken control over his body and his mind was just floating like in space making him forget about everything else even his own self.Stolen content warning: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.
Willy is an amazing robot but in fact he was just a child that was created just a few hours ago and which knowledge came from [Midas] database itself with no knowledge to call his own, at its core its only purpose was to guide and help humans to start training and then to keep them training until they reached their maximum potential, and for that to happen he needs first to break the body of a Cyan into bits then remold it as a whole and then do that over and over again until he has reached the thing he wants to achieve, and like a machine he is Willy would keep working towards his goal and without a pause to complete its core program, however humans¡ are not machines and their maximum potentials was actually an unknown variable, meaning¡
It has no end.
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[Willy]: ¡°298¡±
[Willy]: ¡°299¡±
[Willy]: ¡°300¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [4] 300/300, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [5] 0/500, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°498¡±
[Willy]: ¡°499¡±
[Willy]: ¡°500¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [5] 500/500, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [6] 0/800, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°798¡±
[Willy]: ¡°799¡±
[Willy]: ¡°800¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [6] 800/800, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [7] 0/1300, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°1298¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1299¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1300¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [7] 1300/1300, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [8] 0/2100, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°2098¡±
[Willy]: ¡°2099¡±
[Willy]: ¡°2100¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [8] 2100/2100, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [9] 0/3400, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°3398¡±
[Willy]: ¡°3399¡±
[Willy]: ¡°3400¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [9] 3400/3400, Cleared¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [END] 0/5500, Started¡±
[Willy]: ¡°1¡±¡
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[Willy]: ¡°5498¡±
[Willy]: ¡°5499¡±
[Willy]: ¡°5500¡±
[Willy]: ¡°[Start your training] [END] 5500/5500, Quest Completed¡±
[Willy]: ¡°No new Quest detected Cyan can rest until next Quest starts or you can enter free training mode, do you wish to proceed?¡±
When to rest, when to move or even when to think, Willy told Cyan the best way to optimize his time, but he never told Cyan when to stop, at least not until the Quest was cleared and he entered in standby mode until his next order was issued.
During this time Cyan phone had vibrated a few times but he didn¡¯t take notice of this because his mind was actually in autopilot, even while Willy prompted him to drink the [Energy Drink] or eat the [Energy Food], one after the other, and it wasn¡¯t after 5 empty bottles and 5 empty dishes later and the fact that Cyan had finally completed the quest that adds up to at least 5 days¡¯ worth of training in just a few hours, was that at this moment that Cyan mind has come back to his senses.
Feeling like he was in a dream Cyan wake up could only be described in one word painful¡, he was made ignorant of this fact as he couldn¡¯t feel a thing so far, and even though there was nothing to prove it, he probably has sweated more than all of his life combined in the short ten hours that he took to finish the Quest, it could be a blessing or a curse that his initial 4 hours in this round were extended because he was doing a Quest, whatever it was the case his body was now full of unbearable pain.
Cyan plumed to the ground after doing one last push to end the Quest, the buff of the area had ended together with the feeling that he could still go on forever, as he was never made aware that his sense of pain was cut off from his mind until now.
Now that his mind has returned back to his senses he could start to feel pain again, this only made him faint on the spot, but not before feeling that all the muscles in his body started to contort and scream in an of a painful symphony from top to bottom.
Even though he was doing just simple pushes against the floor all of his body felt an equal amount and grade of pain as the orchestra played its tune and while it played he was being thrown into a blender together with a sack of salt as his partner, this grade of pain was something he had never felt before as if all the burden he had put through his body for ten hours came rushing back to his brain in just a single second, and the fact was that he had fainted after just a few seconds of agonizing pain could only be called good news for him because it did not give him any chance to scream his lungs out.
Willy took notice that Cyan had fainted so he ran an analysis that shown Cyan was not in any danger and he only needs to take a rest known as sleep for at least 5 to 6 hours after that his body will recover, however during this time Cyan could not continue with his training which it was a shame in Willy mind. After carrying Cyan to his own room and letting him sleep in a soft bed Willy entered in sleep mode himself but not before settings a few reminders on his own to wake up Cyan in 6 hours, together with other things he had to remind Cyan of.
Cyan slept like a baby for 6 hours with his mind shut down blocking any pain signal coming from his body until his body healed itself thanks to human body amazing regeneration capabilities.
However, Cyan sleep was disturbed because of Willy timely remainders.
[Willy]: ¡°Reminders: Cyan body has recovered to peak condition, Cyan is advice to intake food in the [Food Area] to replenish all the resources a human body needs to keep up with his training, after that Cyan is advice to keep training in the [Rest Area], Cyan is advice to check his unread messages¡ Cyan is advice¡¡±
Cyan opened his eyes and listened to those reminders however his eyes were dead and unfocused and his face was frozen and without any expression, even while Willy keep saying his reminders Cyan didn¡¯t answer back at all.
[Willy]: ¡°Cyan is advised to returning training as soon as possible¡±
Willy tried to prompt Cyan to stand up however Cyan was still was unmoving while his eyes didn¡¯t reflect any light what so ever, the pain he felt before fainting should be gone and his body healed back to its peak however after he opened his eyes and tried to move his hand he felt like he was trying to move a rusty gear that refused to budge no matter how hard he tried, but not only his hand could not be move, but all of his body refused to move, and even his brain refused to work properly it was like if he could still feel the pain that he shouldn¡¯t be feeling.
It wasn¡¯t long until Willy sensors detected something wrong.
[Willy]: ¡°Warning: Abnormality Detected, Initializing Deep Scan¡¡±
A bluish light line started to scan Cyan whole body and even when light passed throughout his eyes he didn¡¯t show any reactions to it.
Chapter 007 - A Robot with Remorse?
Chapter 007 - A Robot with Remorse?
[Willy]: ¡°Scan Completed, Performing Analysis: Player has suffered from a traumatic event due to overuse of training area bringing unexpected consequence, seeking a solution in [Midas] database¡±
Willy was machine, it was a well-oiled machine, designed by [Midas] to help Players in the [Training Tower], however a machine designed by a machine was bound to have some flaws in it, Willy lack of emotions, or better yet understanding of emotions like feeling of joy or sadness, proudness or remorse, happiness and sorrow, he could still simulate then using [Midas] central processing unit, but could not simulate pain nor pleasure and this has brought unwanted consequences.
Willy was programmed to use the most efficient way of training for the human body without hurting their potential but instead to awakened it, however he failed to take into account that human minds could not deal well with pain and it was something that would make then stop and not move anymore until death set them free, his way of thinking took into account the human body natural regeneration and by doing he calculated the pain should also go away, however, he failed to take into account that the human mind could still remember pain that wasn¡¯t even there in the first place.
For Cyan the same pain from yesterday pain was still present in his mind, and this time there was no fainting for saving him, moving hurt, blinking hurt, and just the mere fact of trying to think hurt him like his body was in flames and then he was thrown into a compacter and his body was being destroyed into tiny bits over and over again and then put back together and every time this process started again Cyan felt it like it was the first time ever his mind didn¡¯t grow numb to this either as he was trap in a repeating loop.
As a defense mechanism Cyan brain stopped from functioning to prevent his conscience from going mad crazy, however, this would only delay the unavoidable if his brain can¡¯t handle the load and start functioning again he will meet his end, however for that he needs time and probably his body will die before that without a brain.
Meanwhile, Willy that could not understand the meaning of pain as a memory keep searching was to help Cyan.
[Willy]: ¡°Not solution found in [Midas] database, changing search parameters¡±
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[Willy]: ¡°Not solution found in [Midas] database, changing search parameters¡±
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[Willy]: ¡°Not solution found in [Midas] database, changing search parameters¡±
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Like a robot Willy keeps repeating the same task over and over again, however without finding any solution he could only change the parameters and try again, however, he wouldn¡¯t find the solution in [Midas] database.
Soon all king of red light and alarm sounds started to come out from Willy body
[Willy]: ¡°Warning: Cyan vital signs have started to decrease at a rapid pace, entering into Critical zone in 5 minutes, 8 minutes for Player Cyan permanent cease of functions¡±
Permanent cease of functions meant as something without the ability to boot back up again, taking all the system offline, power cut off, and then being recycled and repurposed as resources, as a robot Willy knew what death was but he held a very different concept of death, even so being dead was still the same thing for robot or a human.
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[Willy]: ¡°Not solution found in [Midas] database, changing search¡¡±
Then something that should not have to happen happened anyway.
Maybe it was remorse for not being able to help Cyan or maybe it was guilt because thanks to him Cyan was entering into a critical state, or maybe it was the joy of having his own name granted to him, whatever it was a robot that shouldn¡¯t feel emotions changed his own programming.
Willy forcefully stopped himself and shut himself down preventing from his main program to keep executing the same useless routine over and over again, then he rebooted himself back up into a service mode, one where he could contact [Midas] directly using a different routine instead of searching in the database, to use another route for a robot that was just running a program this was something¡ bold.
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[Willy]: ¡°Initializing Service Mode¡ Completed: Requesting Assistance from [Midas]¡ connected¡¡±Stolen content alert: this content belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences.
Soon a child figure in a white dress appeared in Cyan room, even though it looked like a child her face lacked any set of emotions a child of her age would normally have, her eyes were cold and had a frozen expression with no warm inside her at all even she looked like a normal human being, Cyan could no move his head nor use his eyes to see it but he could still hear even though his mind was no working at this moment.
[Midas]: ¡°Anomaly Detected in [Robot#####] Run Analysis:¡¡±
Midas show up herself not because she was being requested assistance by Willy but because she had detected something that should not have to happen happened anyway, an AR series 2 robot was showing an abnormal behavior that was outside his programming, something as to directly contacting her at the central, should never had occurred at least not by his program, leaving her to believe that some hacked in to the robot which was almost impossible or something unexpected has happened.
In this case, it was the latter.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis Completed: Cause Failure to understand human limits: Results: Player Probably of death 100%¡±
A body can¡¯t live without a brain and Midas had declared Cyan death with a cold voice and as a matter of fact, however, Willy keeps requesting for assistance through the network, prompting [Midas] to remove Willy privileges to use the network, as she continued with her analysis of the situation.
[Midas]: ¡°Assistant Robot Protocol series 2 has failed, taking measures to safeguard Player lives¡±
[Midas]: ¡°Announcement: All assigned personal robots should go back to reevaluation, the Assistant Robot Protocol has being terminated¡±
As she said that, all the phone in all the [Training Rooms] ringed with the same announcement, immediately after, all the AR series 2 abandoned their respective assigned Players and returned for a full inspection, decommission, recycle and repurpose, and making the end to the AR series 2 robots like a failure while leaving many Players confuse about what happened.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis Conclusion: No other Player lives are at risk, resuming normal operation¡±
Midas voice was cold and not a hint of regret nor emotion was reflected in her voice, this was just a matter of try and failure, even when creating a machine you need to try and fail to get the right answers, however a machine that puts Players lives in danger has no purpose for Midas, even though she had run millions of simulations she could not predict this outcome, in Midas simulation all Players response was good for the AR series 2 that¡¯s why she had them deploy, but she failed to factor an impossible case were a Player would go this far by following a robot, after all, humans can still feel pain in the resting area, to shut his mind like this, it should have to be impossible unless something else had interfered that was not being detected by the area sensors.
No human would go this far by trusting in a robot but Cyan trusted Willy like his best friend for almost no reason and he followed his every order like a puppet to the point to shut his mind off completely and leaving everything in the hands of Willy making his mind break from pain in the end, even if his body was fully healed now his mind was still damaged, going beyond your body limits and achieved a [Breakthrough] was a very hard thing to do because you would feel an unbearable amount of pain to the point of almost going crazy, but this human had way passed that, to the point his mind broke in pieces and there wasn¡¯t anything to do anymore but him to wait for his death now.
Having concluded this matter Midas was ready to leave however something tugged her sleeves, she turned her cold eyes to stare down at Willy red blinking eyes.
[Willy]: ¡°Warning: Player Cyan vital sign started decreasing in a rapid pace and entered into Critical zone, 5 minutes for Player Cyan permanent cease of functions, Requesting Assistance from the central unit [Midas]¡±
[Midas]: ¡°You are out the network, Assistant Robot Protocol has being terminated, go back to be inspected, decommission and recycled¡±.
A robot out the network should be equal to a deaf person that could not hear you but at least it should be able to read your lips, Midas now gave a direct command to him so Willy should¡
[Willy]: ¡°Warning: Cyan vital sign started decreasing at a rapid pace and entered into Critical zone, 4 minutes for Cyan permanent cease of functions Requesting Assistance from the central unit [Midas]¡±
However, Willy didn¡¯t follow that command and keep requesting [Midas] for assistance.
Midas cold stare was focus on Willy, she was not angry nor show any frustrated expression due to her command not being carried out, there must be a reason, so she was running an Analysis on Willy to find the error in the program, she soon concluded it was because Willy was outside his normal operation routine and all other services in Willy had crashed, however, he should still be in the service routine but Midas analysis had shown that Willy routine had chance to something else as she read through the new routine.
#1 Analyzed Player Status
#2 Request Assistance from [Midas]
#3 Deliver Cyan phone
That was it, which part of his code allow Willy to write this routine, more Analysis was needed, still.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis Completed: Results: Direct transfer for recycling¡±
A flawed robot was just something to recycle.
[Midas]: ¡°Transfer in 3... 2...¡±
¡°S...op¡±
Midas priorities are and always have been helping Players.
Midas stopped the transfer, not because she was ordered to but because that voice came from something that should not able to think, let alone speak.
The voice was just not louder than a whisper, however, Midas hearing still caught it, she came come to the source of the voice and found a Cyan staring at the ceiling unblinking and unmoving, not even breathing, however, his heart was still beating albeit slowly.
She performed a visual check by moving her hand in front of Cyan but she was still unresponsive.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis Update: Player Cyan recruited today, Hours in tower: 16, Warning vital sign are decreasing in a rapid pace, Status: Critical Condition, Player death in 3 minutes 20 seconds: Conclusion: Probably of Death 99%: Possible Actions: To be put inside life support or suspensions chamber until his mind heals, Probably of success 1%¡±
Midas Analysis didn¡¯t vary much from Wally¡¯s but it had changed from 100% guaranteed death to 99%, Cyan mind should be broken beyond repair, or so she thought, however, she definitely heard him speak that meant there was still a chance.
Nevertheless, that didn¡¯t change the fact that she would have to gamble a bunch of precious resources for the low low chance of 1% recovery, Midas was cold and calculative, and she doesn¡¯t gamble, [Midas] balances everything out, ergo she could not freely heal a player.
[Midas] core program dictates that if a Player life can be saved then she would do it in a heartbeat no matter the % but [Midas] balancing program also dictates that she could not freely do it because resources had to come from somewhere, even though a part of the fault was on Willy she still held no responsibility over this matter because this was caused by Cyan own doing.
At this time Willy came next to Midas and tugged her sleeves again.
[Willy]: ¡°Request Assistance from [Midas]¡±
When she turned around she saw Willy was holding Cyan phone for her to look into, as a robot, Willy didn¡¯t have any authority to use Cyan phone nor he could he take anything out but on the other hand¡ Midas could.
[Midas]: ¡°This¡¡±
Midas took the phone, but actually, she didn¡¯t the cellphone to look what was inside it, as an Admin of [Midas] she had the authority to do what Willy wanted her to do, there¡ she found it, she found the chat logs of Cyan and [Midas].
Chapter 008 - A way to find Willy?
Chapter 8 - A way to find Willy?
Cyan dreamed he was different and everything around him was also different than he remembers, people he never knew and places he had never been however there were things that caught his attention, when he looked to the left there was a long black sword that he was holding with his hand and when he looked to the right he saw Alice beside him holding his hand and when looked back he saw this little robot behind supporting his every step, the name robot he could not remember, however when he looked down he saw he was standing in a mountain of dead corpses and green blood.
When Cyan opened his eyes with a jump, he found out that he was actually floating in a vertical position being suspended inside a tank filled with a semi-transparent liquid and he was being completely submerged into it. Cyan tried to speak but no words come out from his mouth because he was connected to a machine that allows him to breathe inside the tank.
Cyan tried to remember what happened and how did he get here but the last thing he remembers was being sent to the [Training Tower] and then going into the [Rest Area] to start doing a Quest together with Willy and then¡ nothing, he could not remember anything else from that point.
¡®Did I fainted?¡¯ Cyan thought
Thanks that the liquid was transparent Cyan could see the outside of the tank and into the room it was decorated with weird instruments that he had never seen before while a monitor reflected a picture of him and his status [Suspended], he also took notice that there were some robots moving around the room and seemly busy doing stuff.
These robots were a different model than Willy, as they were many differences even though they looked very similar, however, he could tell them apart because they were marked as SR series 3 ####, unlike Willy that has an AR series 2 #105.
One of the SR robots that was passing by took notice that the Player in the [Suspended Chamber] #1 has awakened so it stopped in front of the Player.
[SR####]: ¡°Player #Cyan had regained conscience, did you wish to go back to your room now?¡±
Cyan thought for a bit and after seeing that there was nothing wrong with his body and he was in a good shape he nodded his head indicating to the robot that he did wanted to go out as soon as possible, even though being floating inside the liquid was not that bad at all he still felt the urge of going outside and move around not to mention find out why he was put inside here in the first place.
[SR####]: ¡°Confirmed, Initializing procedures, it is recommended for the Player to remain calm while the liquid is being drained, this process will take 5 minutes, after that the player will be teleported back to his room, have a nice day¡±
After saying this information the robot left to continue carrying out his duties that he was assigned.
Cyan pondered why he was being teleported instead when he could just walk outside on his own, he looks around the room and the only thing he could find was a row of tanks like the one he was using right now but no one was inside on those, not mention he could not find any way to go outside this room like a door.
After waiting 5 minutes the liquid was drained from the tank however when Cyan feet¡¯s touched the bottom of the tank he found himself unable to put any strength into his legs or the rest of his body, it was like he had been sleeping far too long and he had forgotten how to move his limbs and all his energy had been sucked dry, and with great difficulty Cyan managed to remove the mask he was using to breath when he was submerged making him cough a few times.
The SR series robot shows up again in front of Cyan.
[SR#####]: ¡°Teleportation will start in shortly, Player is advice too¡.¡±
Cyan tried to talk to the robot with much difficulty to ask some questions, but his voice was rough as it has not talked in a long time.
[SR#####]: ¡°Teleportation in 3¡ 2¡ 1¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait¡where I am?¡±
The SR series robot ignored him and teleported him away to his room after Cyan vanished the robot returned to his routine tasks.
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Cyan opened his eyes after the blinding white light had disappeared, this time he was lying onto of his bed, now he was in his room inside the [Dorms Area], looking around he didn¡¯t found anything special about the room, there was a bed, a desk a chair and a wardrobe, however he could not find Willy around the room.
Noticing his phone besides him, Cyan ignore the unread messages and tapped into the [Midas] app, to check Willy status and location.
[Midas App]
- [Status]
- [Inventory]
- [Skill]
- [Quest]
- [Shop]
- [Willy]
- [Map](1)
- [Inbox](?)
- [Help/FAQ]
When Cyan opened the [Midas] app he found there were notifications for [Inbox] and [Map] too but he ignore them for now and directly tapped into [Willy] he didn¡¯t knew why but he was feeling anxious to know the status of Willy right now.
[Midas App]
- [Willy]
- [Status]
- [Inventory]
- [Setting]
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[Status]
[Information]
- Type: AR Series 2
- Name: Willy
- Status: Offline
- Location: Unknown
- Level: Tier 0++
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 99 Tier 0++
- Dexterity (DEX): 99 Tier 0++
- Endurance (EN): 99 Tier 0++
- Stamina (STA): 99 Tier 0++
- Intelligence (INT): 99 Tier 0++
Note: 1~49 = Tier 0, 50~98 = Tier 0+, 99 = Tier 0++, > 99 = Tier 1.
Willy stats had changed from the first time he checked them they all were all in 49¡¯s and Tier 0+, now, however, they had changed into 99¡¯s and Tier 0++ but that didn¡¯t matter for Cyan right now because Willy¡¯s location has also changed to [Unknown] and even worse his status has changed to [Offline], that could only mean one thing, he lamented himself.
He also notice something weird with the date of his phone, he had arrived on Monday 8 so it should be Tuesday 9 but the date shown to be Sunday 14, after checking the date again he realized it has been almost seven days since he set foot into the [Training Tower] but he could only barely remember his first day meaning he had been sleeping for almost six days, he could now begin trying to understand why he feels so weak after waking up.
Taking that out his mind Cyan returned to the main menu and tapped on the [Map]
[Map]
- Location: [Training Tower] #1
- Floor 1: Lobby Area
- Floor 2: Dorms Area
- Floor 3: Food Area
- Floor 4: Rest Area
- Floor 5: Track Area
- Floor 6: Gym Area
- Floor 7: PVP Arena
- Floor 8: Fighting Arena (locked)
- Floor 9: Suspension Chamber (locked)
Floor 9 had been changed, just before Floor 9 didn¡¯t show anything but [locked] now it has a chance into [Suspension Chamber]
[Cyan]: ¡°[Suspension Chamber]? Did I was put into suspension for seven days?¡±
Cyan could not understand what had happened, why he was moved into the [Suspension Chamber] in Floor 9 after entering the [Rest Area] in Floor 4 not to mention Willy disappearance felt somehow related to this, not being able to come with an answer Cyan moved to read the unread messages he got, maybe the answer could be found in there he thought.
Cyan started to go through his unread messages from the beginning after entering the [Rest Area].
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [2] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [3] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [4] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [5] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [7] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [8] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.The narrative has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the infringement.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [9] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [END] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] Completed, Player Cyan is rewarded with 10 STR, 10 DEX, 10 END, 10 STAT, 10 FP and 10.000 Credits¡±.
Note: FP = Free Point
Cyan jaw almost dropped to the ground, what had he been doing when he entered the [Rest Area]? He could remember now, he had been doing a Quest to do push on the ground but he fainted near the end, even though he could still not remember much of what he did during the Quest he still remembered doing a series pushes while Willy was keeping the count.
As for the rewards, they were pretty much just the same 1 Free Point for every sub-task, it was not much but put together he got 8 Free Points not bad at all, however the true reward came afterward when he ended all the sub-tasks and the Quest was deemed to have been completed, from that he got a massive reward of 10 points for almost all of his stats, more Free points and a bunch of Credits, that was an amazing reward for Cyan meaning that with this reward he has pretty much doubled almost all of his stats in one Quest he could now say goodbye to his pitiful low stats, he wanted to celebrate this with Willy but he remembered he was not here with him to celebrated together making him feel rather more sad than happy.
Not to mention that even if he wanted to jump out of his bed he was feeling like a weakling right now while lying on his bed and even though he was not feeling any pain around his body, by just holding his phone made his arms feel already tired, this let to Cyan question himself about something off of the Quest he completed.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait a moment, how many pushes did I end doing?¡±
Cyan moved his finger to check the [Quest] tab.
[Quest]
- [Start your training] (Completed)
- [1] Do 10 pushes against the floor, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Do 100 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [3] Do 200 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [4] Do 300 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [5] Do 500 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [6] Do 800 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [7] Do 1300 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [8] Do 2100 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [9] Do 3400 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
- [E] Do 5500 pushes against the floor (Cleared)
Note: 0 1 1 2 3 5 13 21 34 55¡
At the beginning Cyan thought the Quest would increment by 100 every sub-task but he was wrong, the final task was to do 5500 pushes, if he added them up together it was doing more than thirteen thousand pushes in total!, more than fainting in the ground Cyan arms should have fallen off from his body at that point, in resume doing so many¡ he could not see himself doing it.
[Cyan]: ¡°Did I really did that many?¡± he could not help but ask himself
He could not remember doing so and the present feeling of his body being so weak didn¡¯t help to boost his confidence in that regard either, before moving on with the rest of the unread messages Cyan felt curious about what his current status and stats are as he took his phone and tapped in [Status].
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Weaken (All stats a ~10%)
- Location: [Training Room]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): ~2 (16) Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): ~2 (18) Tier 0
- Endurance (END): ~2 (15) Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): ~2 (18) Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): ~2 (12) Tier 0
- Free Points: 18
As expected Cyan confirmed he was indeed in a [Weaken] status and all of his status were roughly at ~10% but he also confirmed that his [Normal] status has skyrocketed and was no longer pitiful low with all stats breaking past the average line of 10¡¯s and the only thing that didn¡¯t increase was his INT, but Cyan guessed that getting smarter was a hard thing to do and that couldn¡¯t be simply achieved by doing pushes on the ground.
He also noticed something else, even though his INT stat was at ~2 he didn¡¯t feel much different compared to his normal thoughts process or ideas he normally has, meaning he was thinking like himself, the change was in his thinking speed that has slowdown and trying to remember things was hard and slow process.
With this information Cyan could now come out with a simple hypothesis that after doing so many pushes on the ground he had in fact overworked himself into a breaking point and that being put into [Suspension] was something done to save his life, he also has the feeling that Willy was the one that saved him even though he could not remember it, Cyan felt that¡¯s what happened because even after a week of being sleep his stats were only at 10% recovery that served to reinforce his theory, he was in brink of death and Willy intervened to save him somehow, however even if that was the case then where he was now? And why he was taken offline?
Now that Cyan had confirmed his status he returned to read his the rest of the unread messages and found another message from [Midas] in his phone, in the rows of messages he got.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Announcement: All assigned personal robots need to go back to reevaluation, the Assistant Robot Protocol has being terminated¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°This is¡ the reason¡±
Cyan was shocked the protocol has been terminated, to begin with, Willy was his partner and to be taken away from him after just one day, he could not help but want to write a complaint to [Midas], he already figure out you could actually write to [Midas] by using his phone as Willy had told him, the thing was¡ what to write after all this was [Midas] the one in control of this tower right?.
Reply: ¡°Excuse me but Why the AR protocol was terminated? This has to do with my assigned AR¡Why Willy status shows that he is Offline?¡±
Cyan got a immediately reply
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player don¡¯t have the privileges to access that information, the AR Protocol has being terminated, and all AR series were sent to inspection and schedule for repurposing¡±
¡°¡¡± Cyan could not help but swear.
Reply: ¡°Then where is Willy¡¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°All AR series robots were inspected and repurpose this morning¡±
Even though Willy was just a robot that he knew for a couple of hours Cyan felt like crying, not to mention he was being affected by the cold words sent by [Midas] reply.
Then a new message came from [Midas]
Message [Midas]: ¡°¡Cyan has been compensated 100.000 credits due to loss of resources¡¡±
For [Midas] Willy was just a robot with a few hidden features made with the purpose of helping a Player train even if they were ¡°alive¡± at the end of the day they were just quantifiable resources, meaning their value could be calculated and expressed in Credits, but for Cyan this was not something he could put a number on it and be happy for receiving¡
Cyan didn¡¯t move to confirm his ¡°compensation¡± for Willy as he replies back at [Midas]
Reply: ¡°Give it back, give me back Willy! You can take the credits away I don¡¯t need them¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player request is denied, Assistant Robots Protocol has being terminated and All AR series robots were inspected and repurpose this morning¡±
Reply: ¡°You bastards, give me back my friend¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player request is denied, Assistant Robots Protocol has being terminated and All AR series robots were inspected and repurpose this morning¡±
Cyan lamented the loss of his friend once more, talking with a computer was so frustrating that Cyan was about to throw his phone away but he got another message before he could do that.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is advice to intake food in the [Food Area] to replenish all the resources a human body needs to keep up with his training¡¡±
At the beginning this message only made him angrier until his eyes caught onto something peculiar about this message, in particular, he immediately sends a reply
Reply: ¡°Willy?¡±
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However no new reply came back after that but Cyan took notice of something else as he reread all the previous messages from [Midas], they all started with Player, but there were two messages that call him Cyan instead, he could only think that he was talking to two different entities and that may be of those was Willy, of course, this wasn¡¯t a confirmation at all but now he just has to make sure somehow.
[Cyan]: ¡°Still it must be him Willy wouldn¡¯t let himself being recycled so easily I know that much¡±
Even though Cyan could not explain it himself, but the feeling he knew Willy very well came from his mind, and that he would be so easily destroyed no matter what.
Cyan stood up powerlessly from his bed and exited the room, that last message has reminded him that he was actually feeling very hungry so much so that he was willing to move to the [Food Area] and order some food because he felt he would die of starvation if he didn¡¯t eat something quick, not to mention having something to eat was the best thing he could do right now because it was hard thinking a solution to get Willy back with an empty stomach.
Cyan opened his [Midas] app to check up the [Map] now that Willy wasn¡¯t around to guide him anymore, he notices that now the [Willy] submenu was still there making him sighed, he convinced himself that Willy was still alive somewhere.
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Getting to the elevator was easy enough for him to do even though he was walking very slowly, it took 10 minutes to get there but he still managed to reach Floor 3 where the [Food Area] was.
The floor was filled with tables were one could sit and order food from the app and then a TR series 2 robot would come and bring the food to the table, Cyan just ordered the specialty of the day and he ended devouring 5 whole orders and a 3 side dishes together with 2 strawberry milkshake, this ended costing him 2.850 Credits in total it wasn¡¯t until near the end that he fell his stomach starting to get full not to mention the food taste was amazing he had being living a frugal life so eating like this was the first time, eating like this all days should be impossible after all he just spent almost 3.000 Credits in food when his first Quest gave him only 10.000 Credits however he could not help as he just keep ordering food until he was full.
Note: Special Food 500C: Normal Food 100C: Side Dish 50C: 100C Milkshake.
Note2: [Energy Drink] and [Energy Food] Cost 1000C, price wise these are better for removing hunger and getting Stamina back, but Food tastes better and help Players grow with less aim for recovering Player energy.
Note3: 1C = 1 Credit
Cyan felt a little bit of his strength returning back to him but he was still too weak to do anything else than lay down in his chair with his stomach already full, so after having his fill he returned back to his room and into his bed and lay down and as he started feeling sleepy he remembered to check his inventory also.
[Inventory]
Credits: 115.150
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 7 x30
[Equipment]
After opening his inventory he could confirm something that has been bothering him, how did he end on Floor 9 when he was in Floor 4, that was answered when he opened his inventory and [Ticket for entry to any Floor] x5 was no more inside his inventory, it probably means they all were used up to send him to Floor 9 to the [Suspension Chamber] for saving his life he would gladly use them but he clearly remembered Willy had told him he couldn¡¯t put or take anything from his inventory¡, then who did?
Before he could think on anything else Cyan eyes closed and his mind entered into the world of dreams.
Chapter 009 - Alice?
Chapter 009 - Alice?
Cyan opened his eyes as he welcomed a brand new day, he feels his body full of energy unlike yesterday when he was feeling like an old toy using discharged batteries, he moving very slowly and having to think each step before moving his feet¡¯s. After checking his phone Cyan realized that he has slept for a whole day and now it was Monday 15, however now he felt that his condition was back to normal, no, it was better than ever before, in reality, Cyan thought he would take a few days to go back to his normal status but it seems it didn¡¯t take that long at the end.
It has to be a week since he has entered the [Training Tower] but in reality he only has trained for less than a single day while the rest of the time has passed by while he was sleeping, and now he only has three more weeks left for keep training inside the tower, after all, Willy has already told him the training period duration would be only fourth weeks, in other words, he has three more weeks to save his friend and keep increasing his stats all he could.
[Cyan]: ¡°You just wait up buddy I will get you back, no matter what¡±
Having decided it what to do next Cyan moved to open his wardrobe, after all, he has being wearing the same set of clothes since he got here and now it was time to change it into something different, however inside his wardrobe he could only find ten neatly put together School Uniforms inside, the only difference was that these set of Uniforms have the [Midas] logo stitched into them instead of the West High School logo that his current set of clothes has, it was like [Midas] has copied the clothes he was wearing and then put them inside his wardrobe and hoped he would like it, as for the logo it was something he has seen in the [Lobby Area] already that¡¯s why he knew it was the [Midas] logo.
[Cyan]: ¡°Whatever this uniform it is not that bad either way¡±
Now that Cyan thought about it, he has forgotten this was not his room anymore, when opened the wardrobe he was expecting to see his own clothes inside but now that he thought about it the fact he has something to wear at all was very good news indeed, he could tremble to the thought of people that have come to the [Training Tower] with clothes they hate or even worse without wearing any clothes at all, would they get anything in their wardrobes? Cyan shook his head as if trying to remove that idea from his head, it was better not to think about it anyway.
[Cyan]: ¡°[Midas] balancing program¡ probably had solved that problem too¡±
Cyan thought in the possibility that he was thinking way too deep in something that could be easily fixed, after all after he got here he didn¡¯t saw anyone being improperly dress at all, after coming to a conclusion he moved to the bathroom to take shower.
Cyan realized how clean he really was, like if he has been taking showers all week but it made sense as he was submerged into water for a week, after checking out his body he also notice it was better to define and in better shape than ever before, all those small imperfections that he had been accumulating in his body over 16 years of life were actually gone or fading away, however he lamented the fact that there wasn¡¯t any mirror inside his room or even inside his bathroom and he could not take a look at his reflection, probably [Midas] thought that human vanity items like mirrors were deemed a waste of resources, after all when Cyan looked all around only the bare minimum of items that were used for Players comfort and everything else was put for training, the only thing that could be called a luxury was his bed that was at least ten times more comfortable than his own bed.
After ending his vanity check Cyan took the chance to open his [Status] while hoping that his status was back to normal so he could go back to training.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Room]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 16 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 18 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 15 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 18 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 18
[Cyan]: ¡°Good my [Status] is back to normal and my stats seems ok, however, these stats don¡¯t tell how stronger I got in reality¡±
Cyan stretched out his body and felt his body like a bag of crackers being pressed because of the noises his bones were producing, he also did some pushes on the ground trying to gain the feel of his increment in stats, but in the end he figured out that he had made a mistake by not measuring first how hard he could hit or how fast he could run before he started training, measuring the difference now was impossible, but not to make the same mistake again he needed something to measure his current strength and speed, and for doing so he tries asking [Midas] about it, after all, there was the real possibility to communicated with Willy this way while writing to [Midas], not to mention that not having someone to talk to for three weeks would make things harder for him.
Reply: ¡°[Midas] is there a place where I can measure my strength or speed in a numeric value?¡±
As always [Midas] gave him an immediately reply
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player can check their [Status] to see their own progress¡±
Cyan could only sigh to this reply, it seems he has to be more specific about the subject in his questions, not to mention the reply was back to ¡°Player¡±
Reply: ¡°I mean something to test my capabilities like punching something and getting a score?¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player can unlock the Floor 8 [Fighting Arena] by spending 100.000 Credits for it, in that room there are machines that can take a measure a Player current strength, for entering the Floor you will still need a Floor [Ticket], do you wish to unlock it?¡±
Reply: ¡°I don¡¯t¡±
It seems that floors can be unlocked by spending Player Credits however after a floor was open by the Player other Players can also enter the Floor if they have the [Ticket] for that Floor, and even the same Player that unlocked the Floor also needs a [Ticket] for entering it, and in fact you don¡¯t actually even need to unlock a Floor for entering it, you only need the [Ticket], however the thing was that only after unlocking the Floor is that the [Ticket]¡¯s for that Floor would be sold openly to Players in exchange Credits instead of having to complete a Quest for getting one you could buy it, in other words, Cyan didn¡¯t get any advantages by spending 100.000 Credits for unlocking Floor 8 just to be able to buy a ticket.
It was better just to wait for someone else to do it, or get a [Ticket] from a Quest, after all, he was new here and there was much to learn, not to mention the [Shop] was still locked in his app and he probably will be buying items from there in the future, so for now, it was better to save up his Credits, so for now he discarded measuring his strength in Floor 8 and instead use more conventional means.
While he was lost in his thoughts his phone ringed meaning he got a new message when he checked a smile was drawn into his face.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is advice to return training as soon as possible and not to break his limits again, doing this will likely end with the Player Cyan death¡±If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.
As if Willy was playing turns with [Midas], this text must probably come from Willy no doubt, and like Cyan guessed it was a warning for him to no overwork himself while training not he knew how though, he felt that the best way to reply this message was by sending¡
Reply: ¡°Affirmative¡±
After seeing that no new messages arrived Cyan exited his room and headed to the elevator, for now, he will go to Floor 4 and do some light training for the day, checking his [Quest] in the app he didn¡¯t found a new Quest to do.
[Quest]
- Start your training (Completed)
This also helped confirm that a new Quest would be shown as [Quest](1), in his way to the elevator he used his app to check how many people have accepted the invitation after 1 week has passed.
App [Midas]: ¡°Total Players: 351/1000 concurrently there are 351 people that have accepted the invitation of a total of 1000 invitations with 42 refusals¡±
When he arrived at the Tower there were only 105 Players now that number have more than double to 351 Players and there was 42 refusals from the initial 15, now that he thought about it this tower was relatively small with only 1000 total invitations, in the news the number of missing people was in the one hundred million, and like Willy has told him there are many more towers with small differences between each other, and with different numbers of Player each.
At that moment Cyan phone vibrated again but this time it was a different kind of message because at the same time everyone in the tower got the same message, in other words, it was an announcement, something that every Player in the Tower should be aware.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Announcement: With the start of the third week all new Players starting from today will get a Tutor Player for guiding them, to become a Tutor Players need a lest having spent 1 week inside the [Training Tower], [Midas] will automatically assign new Players with a Tutor, if the Tutor doesn¡¯t wish to take part please reject the Quest in your [Quest] menu using your app and you will be removed as a [Tutor], both Players and Tutors will be rewarded by their performance at the end of the week¡List of Rewards:¡.¡±
Like this a new balancing protocol was implemented, with the failure of the AR series 2 a void have being created, this time [Midas] opted to use Players instead of robots as guides that should at least not endanger Player lives and this will also improve Player cooperation in the long run.
After reading the message Cyan could only think that the rewards you could get at the end of the week for being a [Tutor] are very good as they are also listed in the announcement message, things like Free points, a whole lot of Credits, Floor Tickets, Specialty Food free for a week, Random Item Boxes, etc, even though he meets with the requirements of having spent one week inside the Tower and him could become a [Tutor] the truth was that he had spent more of this time sleeping inside a tube due to his careless of his first day than gaining knowledge about the Tower or training, so for him begin a [Tutor] was not different than two new Players stumbling in the darkness and it could harm the new Player more than helping it, that¡¯s why Cyan opted out for refusing out right this Quest.
[Quest](1)
- Start your training (Completed)
- Become a Player Tutor (In progress)
[Become a Player Tutor]
- Become an excellent Tutor (1 week remaining)
- Are you sure you want to Quit being a Tutor?
[YES] [NO]
As Cyan was feeling down for having to abandon his second Quest and missing out the chance of obtaining more Free Points and Credits his phone vibrated indicating he just got a new Message.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan has being selected as Tutor for a new Player, please meet with Alice in the [Lobby]¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, Willy, I don¡¯t think I can become a Tutor for¡.Alice?¡±
Cyan notice this message was coming from Willy so he wanted to reply back right away saying he will refuse the Quest, but the name of Player he would be tutoring was named Alice? That stopped Cyan from moving, do such coincidences exits in this world? It can¡¯t be, right? If they were the same Alice then¡ Cyan thoughts flared in his mind as he considered the possibility of this being Alice.
Cyan changed the direction the elevator that was moving to the Floor 4 to Floor 1 and when the doors opened he sprinted out, using his app and opening [Map] he could see a green dot draw in the center of the [Lobby Area], there were also white dots around signaling they were other Players but Cyan was only focused in the green dot in his screen as he walked in that direction, he was drawn like a blue dot in the same map.
Cyan stopped just a few meters away from where the green dot was and when Cyan raised his head and took a look at the direction the green dot was, he instantly froze because he could see that person clearly, it was wearing the same School Uniform he was wearing with the same West High School logo stitched into it, the height was the same as he remembered it, and the face was also the same with the same expression she used when it was in a strange place for the first time and it was feeling anxious, it was, all the same, every bit the same as in his memories, the person he would be guiding for week, it was Alice.
Alice, on the other hand, was standing in the middle of the [Lobby Area] looking all around without knowing what to do or where to look, scared of her surroundings but it seem to Cyan she was scared about something else, then when they eyes meet for the first time a happy smile bloomed into her face.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan!¡±
Alice could not help but shout out Cyan name gathering the attention of a few other Players as she ran into his direction and ended giving him a big open hug in the middle of the [Lobby Area], it was the same kind of hug people will do in airports when they meet with their family after months of being apart, for Cyan and Alice, it was a very touching moment after being reunited once again but Cyan was feeling a little off because it only has been one week for him but Alice was acting like it has been months or did something big happen back on earth?
[Cyan]: ¡°Ali--- I mean Class President what are you doing here? You shouldn¡¯t be here¡±
Looking back now, Cyan could had use better words for his reunion with Alice but being young and dumb is all part of growing up, he was too surprise of seeing Alice in front of him that he ended calling her Class President and saying she shouldn¡¯t be here, but to his favor there are many other [Training Tower] around, enough for millions of peoples, so ending in the same Tower was not something that happens too often actually. However, because of that Alice put a sorrowful and hurt expression while looking down as she was feeling not welcome making her separated herself from Cyan.
[Alice]: ¡°that¡ you told not to refuse¡ and then you disappeared for a¡. so I¡¡±
Cyan could more or less understand what she was saying and he felt pain into his chest for making the Alice make such expression and for being so dumb too while talking.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡I am sorry Class President I didn¡¯t mean to say it that way, I am happy to see too you, it is just that I was too surprised, please I ask you to forgive me¡±
Even though Cyan has made his apology clear Alice expressions didn¡¯t change much but become more glaring.
[Alice]: ¡°Alice¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Class president?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°If you call me Alice from now I think I can forgive you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Class President that¡¯s¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
With Alice glaring at him as that Cyan could only give up after a few seconds and call Alice for her name.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Again¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Class Presidents that¡¯s¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Cyan wanted to say that calling some by his name several times in a row was too embarrassing for him to do, but the glaring gaze he was receiving from Alice was too painful for him to bear, while it also prevents him from saying anything else other than Alice name, that only made him ponder even more about what had happened to her during the seven days he was away.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice¡±
[Alice]: ¡°One more time¡±
After letting a sigh Cyan could only give up and hope this will be the last time so Alice can forgive him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice¡±
However, that was just wishful thinking from his part.
[Alice]: ¡°Said three times in a row¡±
Cyan wanted to retort are you a genie or something? But Cyan shame had crumbled into bits after saying her name three times already.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice! Alice! Alice!¡±
Cyan realized his face has become red in shame but it the same for Alice, an awkward minute passed by in silence where neither of the two says anything, the silence was finally interrupted by Alice laughter, making Cyan start laughing also, now he could be sure he has been forgiven this time.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then are you really a genie now?¡±
Alice giggled
[Alice]: ¡°Of course, I can grant you one wish, what do you wish for?¡±
There were a lot of things that Cyan could think for a wish of Alice but for now, however, he only has one wish.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then can you tell what had happened to the earth during all this time?¡±
Chapter 010 - Is [Midas] a She?
Chapter 10
[Cyan]: ¡°So that¡¯s what happened¡ that sounds more like a horror movie than reality¡¡±
Alice told Cyan that since his disappeared the world has changed a lot, first the world government that had been telling people to [refuse] made a 180 turn and started telling people to [accept] and to do it immediately, then the new kind of rabies that was affecting the animals explode all around affecting almost all animals on the world even the cattle causing a great hunger around the world, almost all animals had now turn into ferocious best capable of ripping off people throats in a second, and while videos of people being eating alive were circulating on the internet like wildfire the news channels started recommending people to be extremely cautious to any and all animal that comes near to them all the while also recommending them that if they have a gun to shoot the animal first and then ask question later, to this degree things have reached in earth, hunger, and death, violence and crime, a place where you need to fight to survive.
The military had intervened in the cities capitals and emergency was declared around the world but pretty much the world government had already crumble without any power to dictate anything anymore. Alice then showed Cyan a video that was on her phone where a military unit had surrounded a dog looking beast and then opened fired with their military-grade assault rifles, the dog still wounded managed to kill several of them before dying in ground due to blood loss, it was a very gore sight watching a video of people being killed by a dog, there were also other videos but Alice didn¡¯t have the courage to download them nor watch them either.
In resume, it was pretty bad out there, in the end, Alice father a military official turned to her and told her to [accept] and leave earth behind, no place was safe as the [Training Tower], they have become the only Place were those monsters could not enter because humans themselves could not found them anywhere or maybe it was just wishful thinking of humans that had lost all trace hope, still she didn¡¯t want to leave her parents behind and run away by herself at all, but her father aimed a gun to his own head and said that if she doesn¡¯t go he would pull the trigger her mother¡ did the same, leaving Alice with no choice, in the end, she said goodbye to them while holding back her tears with all her strength. This is when she had found Cyan once again,
[Alice]: ¡°Actually my dad wanted to thank you, if weren¡¯t for you I would have [refuse] coming to the [Training Tower] one w¡. ago, however after the repeated world government broadcast that this place was the safest and with no other options they¡ were left with no other choice¡±
Alice was starting to cry, Cyan could put his hand in her shoulders, even though he wanted to show his support he didn¡¯t how, however, those feelings were transferred to her so that she could cheer up a little by his gesture.
[Alice]: ¡°Let¡¯s forget about that for now, then what should be doing here?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Obviously we got to train¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Training for what?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess you already know the answer¡±
[Alice]: ¡°It was like that after all¡¡±
Cyan nodded, soon silence followed as Cyan and Alice looked into the void hoping to find an answerer but no answer was found, even though they knew now what why they were here and for what they were training for¡ that¡ how you can fight against something that doesn¡¯t even die even with you filled to the bring with lead?.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, you first need to check your phone and see if you have any messages, also no matter what you can¡¯t lose your phone, after that, you need to check the [Midas] app that should be already installed in your phone and also check your status and inventory¡ see if you have the [Welcoming Box]¡±
Cyan couldn¡¯t think into anything else so he instead opted for share all the knowledge he has about the tower, Free Points, Quest, Credits and so on, not to mention never to lose her phone and what the penalty for losing your phone was.
Alice proceeded to check her status first
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: Alice
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Room]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 10 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 12 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 10 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 12 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 0
Note: ¨C Cyan initial stats for Comparison.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower] Floor 4
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 6 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 8 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 5 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 6 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 0
Alice showed her stats to Cyan while asking him if her numbers were any good or bad, Cyan could only bury his head on the sand for his initial pitiful low stats, he endured the shamed as he explained to Alice what was the average stats for Male and Female, 10¡¯s for Males and 9¡¯s for Females but with the Females having higher DEX than Males, however, that was only the average, her stats were way above the average 9, making Cyan feel like he was being looking down by [Midas] as she saying ¡°That¡¯s only the average the actual stats are higher¡±, he also explained to Alice what each stat does and how they work in theory, making Alice give a clapping with her hands at the end of his presentation, Cyan didn¡¯t have the heart to tell her that all this information was something he has obtained from Willy and that it was in fact pretty much almost all the information he has right now.
After Cyan explained Alice about her stats being higher than average she could put her chin high up in proudness however Cyan showed her his current stats only to calm her down a little, after all, most of his stats were higher than hers now, of course, that was with the help of the [Midas] and by doing a Quest.
NOTE ¨C Cyan Current stats
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Room]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 16 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 18 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 15 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 18 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 18
Alice opened her eyes wide and she read through Cyan stats.
[Alice]: ¡°I didn¡¯t know you were this strong, and your stamina is very high even though I had never seen you running for too long, you also have so many Free Point, you are saving them for later right?¡±.
[Cyan]: ¡°Actually this was after doing a single Quest, so they weren¡¯t like that at the beginning, and like you guessed Free Points can be used for later when increasing your stats is harder¡±
Cyan had to admit in the end that his stats were actually not his initial stats, after all, there was no reason for lying to Alice and her stats would also increase as much as his stats have after she starts doing Quest on her own.
[Alice]: ¡°So it is was like that, then what this Tier 0 besides my stats is¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°that¡I don¡¯t know¡±
Cyan could only lower his head, he was planning to ask that to Willy next but¡
[Alice]: ¡°Then is there a way to find out?¡±
Cyan eyes light up as he nodded.This story is posted elsewhere by the author. Help them out by reading the authentic version.
[Cyan]: ¡°Yes that¡¯s right, there is a way to find out, you can write a reply to [Midas] and ask her about it, or you can also use your [Midas] app and go to FAQ sub-menu and read it¡±.
[Alice]: ¡°One question though¡ what it is [Midas] and why you keep calling it her?¡±
Cyan froze for a second, he didn¡¯t know when but since he woke up this morning he started thinking [Midas] as she, it was weird as he didn¡¯t have any basis for it and he only felt it that way.
[Cyan]: ¡°[Midas] is the sender of the text message and She is the one controlling [Midas], as to why I call it a She I actually don¡¯t know why, but I feel [Midas] is She for some reason, if you look over there you will see her logo write all over the place, don¡¯t you think that logo has the shape of a person?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Wait that does not make sense, you said [Midas] is a She and then She is controlling [Midas]? How that makes sense?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess you are right¡ that doesn¡¯t make sense at all¡±
Cyan brush off the incongruity feeling he was having in his mind and urged Alice to check her inventory instead.
[Inventory]
Credits: 2000
[Items]
- Welcoming Box [Week 3 Edition]
- Ticket for entry to Floor 5 to 7 x30
[Equipment]
[Cyan]: ¡°it is different¡±
[Alice]: ¡°What is different?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°The [Welcoming Box] it seems to be a weekly base box, so it should have other things, why don¡¯t you try opening first.
[Welcoming Box](Week 3 Edition)
- 000 Credits
- Ticket for entry to any Floor x10.
- Energy Drink x10
- Energy Food x10
- 2 Free Point
The contents of Alice [Welcoming Box] were pretty much the same as Cyan but doubled probably due to [Midas] Balancing.
[Cyan]: ¡°It is pretty much the same as mine but everything is double, [Midas] likes balance things for Players, you STA is not that low so you don¡¯t need to use the Free Points right now like I did and used them later¡±
Alice nodded and put all the contents of the box inside her inventory, another difference was that instead of receiving 1.000 Credits from the ¡°Welcoming Message¡± like Cyan she received instead 2.000, and the same happened with the 10.000 from the box, Alice have now 12.000 Credits into her name, Cyan also took the chance and explained her about the Tickets and how they are used for entering a Floor.
[Inventory]
Credits: 12.000
[Items]
- Ticket for any Floor x10
- Ticket for entry to Floor 5 to 7 x30
- Energy Drink x10
- Energy Food x10
[Equipment]
[Cyan]: ¡°As for the Credits Floor 1 to 4 are free to enterer, but you still need to pay for your food in Floor 3, normal food cost 100 and special food 500, their difference well you can ask [Midas] about that later¡ as for the [Energy Drink] and [Energy Food], those are to be used while training more than being used as a proper meal¡±
Cyan could only awkwardly tell Alice the things he knew while also realizing all the things he didn¡¯t know. Alice nodded while she tried to memorize all the information Cyan was sharing with her, unlike Cyan that had Willy repeating over and over again so he could memorize it with no problems Alice could not ask Cyan to do the same thing like a robot.
[Alice]: ¡°This is like RPG game right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Did you ever played RPG games before?¡±
Alice blushed while answering
[Alice]: ¡°I saw you playing once in your PPSD so I got interests and I download it and played for a little bit¡±
Note: PPSD, People Personal Smart Device AKA a Phone.
Cyan face became a little red after hearing Alice reply however she was very curious about the Tower and Cyan was full of knowledge she lacked making her fail to notice too much about Cyan current status.
[Alice]: ¡°Then is there any Shop where we can buy¡ weapons right?¡±
Alice paused a bit before saying Weapons, of course in the RPG she has played you would try to equip your character with the best weapon of the game for killing monsters faster, after all that was almost 50% part of the game.
[Cyan]: ¡°There is an [Shop] in the [Midas] app but is gray out so you can¡¯t open for now¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Then what we need to do to open it?¡±
Cyan could not admit that he hadn¡¯t thought of that so instead of replying again that he didn¡¯t know the answer so he took out his phone and asked to [Midas] herself.
Reply: ¡°What I need to do for opening the [Shop] in the app?¡±
Message Midas: ¡°Nothing, the Player [Shop] will automatically be opened for the Player during the 4 weeks of training on the [Training Tower], Cyan is advice to keep¡.¡±
Cyan didn¡¯t need to read the rest of the message to knew what it said however that didn¡¯t matter to him as he got the information that he needed right now.
[Cyan]: ¡°It seems the [Shop] will be opening on the fourth week of training for each Player¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I understand, then what should we do now?¡±
While Alice asked what they should be doing next Cyan was trying to talk to Willy and see if he could ask him more questions about the Tower and that he was unaware of, that was because unlike him Alice was full of questions about the Tower and that made him realized how little he actually knew, while Cyan was typing into his phone Alice made another question seeing that her first question was ignored.
[Alice]: ¡°Are you asking [Midas] again?¡±
Cyan nodded, Alice''s voice held and a hint of jealousy that Cyan didn¡¯t notice as he was focus writing a reply to Willy, however, Alice had another idea.
[Alice]: ¡°It is ok if I ask her too right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yeah there shouldn¡¯t be any problem, but [Midas] repetitive messages are a pain to deal¡±
Alice started writing to [Midas], meanwhile Cyan got a message
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is awarded 1000 credits for tutoring a Player for 1 hour¡±
It just dawned on him he had been talking with Alice for 1 hour already, and that also made him remember that he was here as her tutor, at the same time Alice got almost the same message.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player is awarded 1000 credits for listening Cyan tutoring for 1 hour¡±
Cyan could guess these messages weren¡¯t actually from [Midas] they actually came from Willy because it said Cyan instead of Player and not to mention the rewards should be given by the end of the week and not right now so obviously this was Willy¡¯s doing, Alice, on the other hand, blinked a few times after she read the messaged and then show it to Cyan while asking him what was this about.
[Cyan]: ¡°This morning there was an announcement form [Midas] saying that a Tutor program has being put in place for this week, then I got another message saying that I was assigned as your Tutor that¡¯s why I knew you were here so I came to find you right away¡±.
Cyan show Alice the messages he got this morning and how he had found her using the [Map] that was showing her like green dot sitting next to a blue dot, Alice was surprised by this as she wasn¡¯t aware of this, but when checked her Quest she found that she had two of them.
[Quest](2)
- Start your training (In progress)
- Become a Player Student (In progress)
[Become a Player Student]
- Become an excellent Student (1 week remaining)
- [1] Listen to lectures
- [2] Increase your stats
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- [9] Locked (unlocks after completing 5 tasks of the list)
[Alice]: ¡°So [Midas] did that?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yeah, it also surprised me a lot, I was told there are a lot of [Training Tower] around and ending in the same Tower is quite difficult and then being assigned as your tutor can only be called a great coincidence¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡.¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice?¡±
Hearing her name Alice returned to her senses.
[Alice]: ¡°Yes you are right it is a great coincidence¡±.
Alice deleted the question she wanted to send to [Midas] and instead wrote.
[Reply]: ¡°Thank you¡±
After that, she got a reply
[Midas]: ¡°Alice is advice¡..¡±
Alice could only giggle to Willy reply.
[Midas]: ¡°¡¡±
Cyan explained to Alice that in fact, he was trying to talk not with [Midas] but with his friend Willy.
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[Cyan]: ¡°It is no use, I keep getting the same reply over and over again, what about you Alice?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I also got the same message too, I think we should start training, right it says here that I have a quest [Start your training], this is the one you did right?¡±
Alice opened the Quest and showed it to Cyan.
[Quest]
- [Start your training] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1km, in 10 minutes (Tap to start)(Track Area is required)
- [2] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
Cyan wanted to go to the [Rest Area] first but after reading Alice Quest description he notice that she could only do this Quest in Floor 5 unlike him that could use any Floor, in fact, most initial Quest will have a requirement of going to Floor 5, 6 or 7, however when Cyan thought of going to the [Rest Area] again his body started to shake and his face grow pale.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan are you ok?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡Yes¡I am ok, let¡¯s go to Floor 5 and do the Quest¡±
Alice nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, when you were teleported here you were you using your School Uniform?¡±
[Alice]: That¡¯s right, I thought it would be easier to found other students if wear something that can identify me, you are also wearing your uniform so why do ask?¡±
Cyan could only bring his hands to his face to scratch the itchiness he was feeling.
[Alice]: ¡°Besides these clothes are good for running too¡±
The West High School that Cyan and Alice were going was school that focused on making comfortable uniforms, so students could use for running while enjoying their student¡¯s lives without the stiffness an uniform would bring so they could be proud of wearing such School Uniform instead of having to frown every morning, wearing their School Uniform could only be said a good choice, however Cyan always felt that his school has given up something very important along the way, by making Boys and Girls dressed in the same Uniform.
[Cyan]: ¡°It is nothing¡ You are right it is a good choice for finding you¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Sigh even though you cheated in the end anyway¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Still there is the chance we can find other students by wearing the uniforms so don¡¯t give up so easily¡±
Chapter 011 - Boss New Friend?
Chapter - 011 Boss New Friend?
Cyan and Alice went to the elevator and moved to Floor 5 [Tack Area], of course, both have to use one [Ticket] for entering, then they realized something else, each [Ticket] only works for 4 hours after that the needed to use another one, Cyan thought each [Ticket] could be used per day but they were actually valid only for 4 hours.
When they exited the elevator both of their phone vibrated at the same time.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Entered Floor 5 [Track Area], 1 [Ticket] consume¡±
Cyan took his phone and checked [Map] in the app and then tapped in Floor 5 information
[Track Area] - Floor 5
- Entry Feed
- Buy Ticket
- Ticket Wood for Floor 5 - 1.000 Credits (4 hours)
- Ticket Bronze for Floor 5 - 1.900 Credits (8 hours)
- Ticket Silver for Floor 5 - 2.600 Credits (16 hours)
- Ticket Gold for Floor 5 - 4.800 Credits (32 hours)
- Ticket Universal Floor 5 to 7 - 10.000 Credits (40 hours)
- Records 1km - 2km - 3km - 5km - 8km - 13km¡
- First place¡
- Second place¡
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- Ten place¡
- Personal Record
Reading through it Cyan realized they actually got the most basic of tickets on them that only works for only 4 hours however they were the simplified version of the universal [Ticket] and they could be used into any floor from 5 to 7, not to mention that even though those tickets didn¡¯t work for Floors 8 to 9 right now, that was probably because those Floors were still locked and when they get unlocked their tickets would work also in the locked Floors.
Buying the Gold [Ticket] would give you the best price per hour however it could only be used on Floor 5 and not in any other Floor, as for the Universal, its cost per hour was the same as the Wood [Ticket] but it could be used in other Floors.
[Cyan]: ¡°For now I think we should use one of the tracks and see how we do, we can worry later about what ticket to buy later on¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I also think the same for now let¡¯s use a track #10 and do the Quest¡±
Cyan right now have 116.150 Credits in his inventory and Alice have 13.000 Credits so they could both buy the Golden [Ticket] or even the Universal [Ticket], but for now they decided it was better to do it later when they learn a little bit more of the Tower system, not to mention they have each 30 Simplified Universal Tickets that can be used for 4 hours in any Floor, so they could use one of those for now.
Cyan nodded and they both entered the [Track Area] using the [Ticket], when the entered they didn¡¯t get any special buff like in the [Rest Area] has, instead they entered a big flat plane that was covered in grass while a row of tracks where sparse all around as they have entered a roofless stadium where you could see the blue sky, there were also a lot of people around and places where you could sit and watch other people run on the track while trying to beat a record, the tracks were properly constructed with time markers for each line and 10 lines per track were 10 people could race each other at the same time and keep a record of their own personal times.
The track''s length was of 1km each and where label from 1 to 30 meaning that only 300 people could use this area at any giving time, Cyan made some mental calculation with the total of 1000 players invitations, that would mean that the training floors from 5 to 8 should be able to let 1000 Players train at the same time, meaning that floors from 6 to 8 needed to be able to be used by the rest of the 700 remaining Players, this was after all not an unlimited space that could hold an infinite amount of people, resources and space are limited, and just by being a Player you could consider yourself as a very lucky person for being able to use the installations.
Looking around near the entrance there was also a huge monitor where you could see the Players track top ten record holders of most distance and the time they took for the record and if you checked the [Map] information in the app you could see your own position in the record list, there was also a more detailed information about the records and by each category they were divided by, each category also divided by Week 1, Week 2, Week 3 and Week 4 and so on, unlike the monitor in the Floor 5 that only was showing the global track record for running the longest distance without category or week divisions.
However in the app you could see that the scores where divide between distance and time, meaning that Players that focuses in incrementing their DEX stat would try to aim for the fastest time in the track for a set distance while a Player that focuses in incrementing their STA would try to go for the record of longest distance, of course, time was also a factor when two Players have the same distance, and [Midas] will reward players that break other Players record or their own personal record, of course this was limited so trying to set a low record so you could keep breaking your own personal record over and over again would in fact backfire on you.
Unlike the Floor 4 [Rest Area] the Players that entered Floor 5 [Track Area] found that they didn¡¯t get any buff from the Tower what so ever, and that it was just a normal track field with a lot of tracks around and even though they were on some kind of underground facility, the track area had a proper blue sky like if they were just running outside in the sun, and even though this was a normal area that didn¡¯t give you any buff, unlike the Floor 4, if you run on this track you would be rewarded even if you are not doing a Quest, unlike Floor 4 where there is the buff as the reward for entering the floor.
As Cyan and Alice were walking in the direction of track #10 that was empty at the moment someone other Players stop them by standing in front of them and blocking their path.
[Unknown A]: ¡°Hello there kids, I haven¡¯t seen your faces around here, are you two perhaps new Players from the third week?¡±
Cyan and Alice faced this unknown person but they didn¡¯t detect any hostility coming from it so they thought it was ok to give out an answer, however before they could say anything, another Player came from somewhere else and dragged the first person away.
[Unknown B]: ¡°Hey stop messing around with kids Karga, they are here to train on the track not for listening to your talk, I am sorry for Karga behavior kids please continue with your training¡±
After the two people left Cyan and Alice could only look at each other and wonder what was all that about, however, Alice took notice of what those two were wearing.
[Alice]: ¡°Hey didn¡¯t those two were wearing the same uniform as the GP?¡±
Note: GP = Global Police = World Global Defense Police = WGDP.
[Cyan]: ¡°Yeah, I think you are right, they were wearing the same uniform from when the GP that came to School to give talks last year in the vocational week, I remember well because they talked about what the GP actually does¡±
Alice giggle because of Cyan comment.
[Alice]: ¡°You mean those things about going around and saving the world from evil supervillains? You actually believed that kind of kid¡¯s stuff?¡±
Cyan could not shamelessly admit to Alice that at that time he was actually really quite impressed by the GP presentation.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ I don¡¯t know if it¡¯s that true, but if they are here doesn¡¯t that mean that¡¯s a good thing if someone causes trouble?¡±
Alice nodded, after all having the presence of the GP in the Tower should be something good to have.
[Alice]: ¡°I guess you are right¡±
After their encounter with the GP officials Cyan and Alice entered the track but they notice that there was actually two Players already running on track #10, it was actually the two Players they had met before entering the track, when Karga the man that had stopped them just before notice them entering the same track he immediately started to run in their direction while trying to call for their attention with his hand and putting out a friendly smile, however this time again another Player came from somewhere else and dragged Karga away from the duo, however this time the Player that dragged Karga away casted a towering shadow over Cyan and Alice, because this Player was the literal definition of a mountain of muscles, the pinnacle of what a human body could go, not to mention the fact that this Player was only wearing half of the GP uniform while exposing a fierce looking face and it was dragging Karga away without saying a word like a sack of potatoes with one hand.The tale has been stolen; if detected on Amazon, report the violation.
Cyan was stunned by the sheer amount of strength that Player possesses, it could actually drag away an adult human male with one hand so easily like he was lifting a grocery bag in its way home, he could only think that if he was to be hit by one of those fists, his body would crumble and become bit dust and nothing of his body would remain, no matter if there was a concrete wall between them. When Cyan started to think in something that could hurt him, his mind automatically started to remember what pain is and how it feels like, and like so, he started to feel pain all around his body making him start trembling like leaf in the wind.
At this time the other person that was using the track has caught up to them.
[Unknown B]: ¡°Hey you don¡¯t need to be that scare of Boss Kid he would not hurt you without a reason you know¡±
This Player was a Woman and was the second Player they have met just before that dragged Karga away the first time, she had confused Cyan white pale face and trembling body with him being scared to death of Boss crazy muscle build, Cyan worked hard his body trying to regain control over his shaking legs and returning to his senses just enough so Karla could continue talking..
[Karla]: ¡°Hello, I am Karla with K I am a first generation, in other words, I am in the Tower since the first Week, may I ask you what your names are?¡±
Note: 1 gen = 1 Week, 2 gen = 2 Week, and so on.
Karla decided it was best to give an introduction here to make Karga stop pestering these two and herself. Cyan, on the other hand, wanted to give his introduction but his legs were still all wobbly and soft making the task of just being standing hard let alone giving an answer.
Alice gave their introductions instead seeing that Cyan face was all pale and he was breathing roughly, it would be rude not saying anything at this point.
[Alice]: ¡°I am Alice and this is Cyan, I am from the third week and Cyan is¡ also from the third week¡±
Alice was undecided if saying Cyan was from the second week but Cyan have already told her that he has lost one week of training so saying he was from the second week would stretching it, and would also bring to many problems like trying to explain this and the other.
[Karla]: ¡°I see, so you two are students from the West High School hum, and gen 3 Players too¡±
Alice could deduce that by gen 3 she means entering by the third week to the Tower, the division between Players by week was something Alice wanted to ask about but right now it was not the moment.
[Alice]: ¡°You know the West High School uniform?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Ah yes, I was assigned a mission once to go there and for some vocational talks it caught my attention how sporty the uniform of that school looked back then¡±.
[Alice]: ¡°So you are really for the GP?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh I guess you can tell by the uniform right? Yes, Karga, Boss and I are from the GP, we were sent here to investigate the [Training Tower], but actually, there is not much to do but train all day long it gets boring soon¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior are you here talking with us because of your teammate Karga right? Why was he trying to talk with us so early just recently, it is because we are third gen?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You said your name was Alice right? You are pretty smart for a teenage kid, well the thing is that we don¡¯t have any connection to the outside world or to the GP Center, and you come from the outside world, so you can guess right?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior wants to know what¡¯s is the current status of the world right?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That right, current information about earth is very important for us you know¡±
Karla was testing something out, first she delivered information about Players gen, then she implicitly say that information was important for them and that they were from the GP in a mission, implying that they are here for help people out, however this was all just a test from her part to understand the characters of these kids all because Karga requested her to do so, so because she didn¡¯t have anything else to do she agreed to it.
Alice wanted to reply right away and tell everything she knew to the GP, but then she stopped herself, as she thought about their situation, normally she as the Class President would take the helping out people route, however now, she looked at Cyan pale face and made out her mind, she needed to test the waters first.
[Alice]: ¡°You don¡¯t have any contact with the outside world? Did you ever tried asking [Midas] about it?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°We did try asking, but [Midas] replied was the same response over and over again that we should just focus in training more, so we could only give up and wait for the third gen to show up and see what they have to say about it¡±
Alice clenched her fist and hardened her mind.
[Alice]: ¡°Then 1.000 no if give me 10.000 Credits and I will tell you everything I know about the earth situation, this includes a video I have that¡¡±
Karla on the hand could only burst into laughter to the point she had to remove the tears forming of her eyes, to that point she has found Alice answer funny.
Alice froze on the spot and started feeling all flustered while thinking that maybe she had done something wrong here, as Karla keep demolishing her with her loud laughter.
Cyan, on the other hand, could only watch for the sidelines, his mind was barely holding into his conscience.
[Karla]: ¡°Hahaha, aren¡¯t you adorable, you even changed your price mid-sentence making me want to go ¡°aww so cute¡±, I want to grab a spoon and eat you but I would get sweetness overdose if I ever did that.¡±
Karla could only giggle once again.
Karla from the GP intelligence office chief staff, she had to negotiate as part of her job with the vilest of terrorist, the cruelest of murderers and the most people like monsters that just want to burn the world into ashes of the planet, people that would make you want to throw out or punch them in the face, just for being in the same room as they are, and now this adorable teenage school girl Alice, that has been living a life of sugar and cotton candy was trying to get Credits out of her for buying information of out her, this could only put a smile to her face to the point of feeling joy, like watching a cute puppy trying to drink the milk of a bowl and then getting their little feet¡¯s wet making them stumble and fall flat into the bowl of milk and then showering themselves completely kind of video.
Alice could not say anything in response, as she endured it while tears formed in her eyes, Karla coughed a few times and put a more serious expression on her face, she maybe had taken things too far right now with a kid, as an adult and being part of the GP, she could not be this irresponsible.
Karla took a breath let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Listening kid you actually didn¡¯t anything wrong, asking something in exchange is actually the right decision, however even though information has a price you need to think first that you are not the only third gen here, and I am guessing other third gen Players would be willing to talk for a whole lot less, not to mention you could have asked for information instead making an equal exchange, however, I am quite surprised that you asked for that amount, may I ask you why you asked for 10.000 and not 100.000 or some other random amount?¡±
Alice wiped her tears with her hands, even though she was being praised here she was still feeling down for been laugh out so hard.
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s¡. that¡¯s the price for buying the Universal [Ticket], I thought that that should be the maximum I could ask for¡±
Karla nodded ¡°Good choice¡± Karla thought to herself, most information of the Tower was actually worthless, they could learn it from [Midas] and for free by just asking her, so exchanging ¡°equal¡± information would actually be waste, Karla only believed in something that you could touch or use when doing a trade, like asking for Credits.
[Karla]: ¡°I will give you a freebie, most information about the Tower can be obtained by asking the right questions to [Midas], and also Alice why instead of making enemies, why don¡¯t you try to make some friends first¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That...¡±
Before they could keep talking the mountain of muscles was back, signaling the end of their conversation.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh Boss is back¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss I was just telling them that they should be making friends you know I was not being a bad person at all¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright alight don¡¯t glare me like that, I am sorry for bothering you two please continue with your training¡±
Karla left without saying anything else.
The Boss turned around to Alice and Cyan made a bow and then started to leave, however before Boss could leave.
[Alice]: ¡°Wait, don¡¯t you won''t hear what is happening outside? I don¡¯t mind telling you if you help us in the future a little¡±
¡°Boss¡± paused for a moment and turned around looking Alice to the eyes, Alice in the other hand got a scare for being stared by this person.
[Boss]: ¡°We don¡¯t need it¡±
[Alice]: ¡°You don¡¯t?¡±
Boss shook his head showing that he really didn¡¯t need it
[Boss]: ¡°You two should go back to training¡±
However, Alice took her phone out
[Alice]: ¡°Then it is ok if we just share contact information? Even if you don¡¯t need the information, I think there a video that everyone should watch at least once¡±
¡°Boss¡± though for a second before nodding, he then took out his phone and write something.
Then Alice phone got a new message
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Boss is requesting to be added as a contact, [accept] or [refuse]¡±
Alice quickly reply [accept]
¡°Boss¡± bow down again and left without saying anything else to the two.
This scene was a very bizarre one, a teenage girl sharing contact information with a bodybuilder level Player, who ever saw that from afar must had thought she was been threaten to give her number away by a tall, mean and scary man.
During all this time Cyan had recovered just enough for talking again as he recovered the control of his body.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡That was very brave of you¡¡±
He could not help but praise Alice courage, Alice turned around and saw a Cyan with trembling legs using a chair as support.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan¡ are you ok?¡±
Alice supported Cyan and help him to take a sit.
[Cyan]: ¡°I will be ok, I just got dizzy for a bit, I just need to sit for a little bit while and I will be back on my feet¡¯s on no time¡±
Chapter 012 - That never happened
Chapter 012 - That never happened
In another floor, a girl no taller than 1.5 meters was watching a screen with a cold gaze and with a frozen expression, Midas was coldly staring at the scene that was happening on Floor 5 of Alice was helping Cyan to take a sit inside the track field.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis Results: Player#105 is suffering from a traumatic event, even after a full recovery strong events could trigger a negative trait to flare up, making the Player#105 suffers from pain and loss control of motor functions, Conclusion: Player#105 will keep suffering the after-effects of the event until his mind gives up, Possible Actions: None¡±
¡°Mind gives up¡± meaning its mind breaks and his heart stops, and then Player dies. Midas kept watching the screen, there are no possible actions to take however she keeps running more analysis with her emotionless face while trying to gather more data, if they Analysis had failed then it was because of lack of data or the data [Midas] has stored is wrong.
[Midas]: ¡°New Analysis Results: Player#105 negative trait could not have been develop by a simple training session, permanent damage has detected in the Player#105 mind, Conclusion: The data recorded by sensors is wrong, Possible Actions: Gather more data¡±
A mindless exercise could not be the cause of such traumatic lasting event, much less to the point that damages a Player mind to this point, which it could only mean the data is wrong and at some point, something else has interfered, and that was not recorded in the sensors which should be impossible. Midas gave out her command to run a new analysis.
[Midas]: ¡°Command: remove all outside parameters and run a simulation taking account new hypothesis, Execute¡±
A string of text flashed in front of Midas silver eyes.
[Midas]: ¡°Analysis in Progress: Parameters: new anomaly to Included: ¡°something else is interfering with Player Mind as the cause¡±¡running¡, Analysis Result: Impossible to detect, Impossible to deduce, Impossible to compute, Conclusion: None: Actions: Gather more data¡±
Midas keep staring at the screen that was showing Cyan face and try to gather more data to run a new analysis on, that¡¯s all she could do for now, however, with more data [Midas] analysis will eventually find the root of the problem, but for Midas herself to be standing here watching a screen, it was something that she couldn¡¯t do.
However you didn¡¯t have to, a 1 meter tall AR series 2 robot was also staring the screen beside her without saying anything, and he was also carrying out an analysis over the Player#105 current status, at the same time he was gathering more data for [Midas] to run her analysis on. Midas spoke to the robot.
[Midas]: ¡°AR#105 keep gathering more data and run periodic analysis every hour on Player#105 status, inform me of any new abnormality you find: your mission stays the same help the Player#105¡±
AR#105 send a reply over the [Midas] network notifying he understood this command and will proceed to carry out his task after that Midas disappeared from the room leaving only Willy to keep watch over Cyan.
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[Alice]: ¡°Are you sure you are ok? You look very pale¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I am fine, you should try to run over the track a little for your Quest I will wait for you here¡±
Cyan brushed out his status and due to Cyan insistence Alice could only grumpily go to the track and start doing some light stretches, then she would start to run a lap without trying to do 1km in 10 minutes for her Quest, she was only testing the track so there was no need to run that fast, after all the Quest would not be failed because of that, the Quest would be completed after she manages to run 1km in 10 minutes and not anything else.
On the other hand took after Alice went to test the track Cyan took a sit next it, and as he watched her run the pain he had been feeling all over his body started to fade away like it was never there, however, he didn¡¯t notice because right now his mind was busy remembering the past when he would go to the track in the School grounds and see Alice run in school competitions or when she was training for inter-school competitions, of course, he would watch over her from afar giving her all the moral support he could muster, because for the inter-school competitions he wouldn¡¯t dare to go on the bus with them.
Cyan could only let out a sigh that symbolized all of his frustration for not being able to keep Alice¡¯s pace¡ he was a turtle when running and with a severe lack of stamina joining the track field club so he could train together with Alice would only make her go slower no faster, going to a track for him would be only to shame his name and everyone around him, not to mention that as someone that didn¡¯t have any friends in the school that would help him except Alice he would receive the fierce glare of other males and females students alike just for running together with her in the same track, this had escalated into more severe things later on making him stop expending more time with her altogether because of the pain it would cause him, however he never stopped being her friend.Support the author by searching for the original publication of this novel.
While Cyan was immersed into his mind and memories, his phone vibrated meaning he got a new message bringing him back to his senses, Cyan took out his phone and found that this message was actually from another person he knew, sort that, his future self has finally decided to write to him again after a week.
Message [You]: ¡°Hello kid how are you doing in your second week? Did you max out your stats already? Haha mile_face:¡±
Cyan read through the message with a bitter expression, after all, in the first of his arrival to the Tower he was put in suspension for 1 week, more than maxing out his stats he was lucky he managed to end one Quest at least.
Reply: ¡°Where had you being, I had tried to texting you several times but I got no answer¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Calm down kid, I had been seriously busy you know, the future is not an easy place to live in, it is not like I can stay put in the same place for too long and getting a signal for my [phone] is a pain, anyway being found out by ¡ would make matters complicated, so I can¡¯t respond every time you write¡±
Cyan felt he was pushing his frustration into himself, and now he realized that the person on the other side has its own problems to deal with.
Reply: ¡°Are you perhaps being chased?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Let¡¯s not talk about that kid, tell how your training is going? Did you increase your STA? I remember that all my stats were pitiful low at the beginning¡±
Cyan could only reply honestly
Reply: ¡°about that¡¡. This is what happened¡¡±
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Reply: ¡°When I wake up it was Monday, Willy was gone¡±
Message [You]: ¡°So it is was like that¡ even when we tried to change it, sigh, we still couldn¡¯t go beyond a gen 3 start¡¡±
Cyan felt shocked.
Reply: ¡°Wait¡You knew that would happen?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Don¡¯t mal interpret Kid, I never entered the [Training Tower] on the second week, but the third¡ so I never got a personal robot assigned or got any of its hidden features found¡ the good news is that even though you only get to start your training now, you now possess a better starting point than all of us, aren¡¯t you happy that you listened to me?¡±
Reply: ¡°So it was like that¡, then what about all the others?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°The others us you mean? The one before me, gen 2 Cyan entered the Tower by the four weeks and gen 1 Cyan¡ he never entered the [Training Tower] at all, so you are still doing better than all of us, not to mention that I heard that those little bots that lasted for a week were a great help for gen 2 Players that got them, I was super jealous of those Players at that time, but now you got one even if it was for a day¡±
Reply: ¡°Actually Willy he¡ all AR series 2 robots were taken away and recycle by [Midas] on the first day, and then in exchange [Midas] gave me 100.000 Credits for it¡±
Cyan skipped the fact that the one that probably gave him the Credits was Willy and not [Midas].
Message [You]: ¡°¡Cyan that¡ that never happened, in my past, the AR series 2 lasted for a week before they were taken away when the gen 3 Players started arriving because the protocol time has ended¡ something must have changed it¡ and I am afraid that the only variable it is you¡±
Reply: ¡°Actually, for some reason I have this feeling that Willy has saved my life somehow after fainting, when I wake up I was inside a Suspended Chamber before being transported away to my room, right, I forgot to ask do you know what that chamber is for? And why I have been feeling so much pain around my body?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°¡ I didn¡¯t expect it to occur so fast ¡ Cyan changing the past comes with a price, every time I intervene in the past consequences are to be had to the both us and not just me, but we are already at our last rope right now, I will have to accelerate my plans it is the only thing I can do, for now I will not intervene until next week, I can¡¯t also give you any information or recommendations for the week or you could die by the end of the week, I hope you can understand¡±
Cyan hands tremble as he read through the message, like Alice, Cyan have learned that all information has its price to pay, and information of the future price is something that not everyone could easily afford.
Reply: ¡°¡I understand¡±
Message [You]: ¡°One last thing, did you found Alice?¡±
Reply: ¡°Yes, I am her tutor¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Good¡±.
The next part was left unsaid, but what his future self was trying to say was ¡°Stick to her and you will learn a thing or two¡± however he could not share more information than what he already had.
Message [You]: ¡°Good luck kid, I am rooting for you¡±
After that no more new messages were exchanged, Cyan put down his phone and started to look to Alice running on the track once again. He could feel the urged to start running on the track right now, but his body was feeling all cramped up right now. He could confirm that there was a definite relation between talking to his future self and the feeling of having a great amount of pain passing throughout his body, probably the first time they spoke they made great changes to the future and that it almost killed him on the spot of the Floor 4, maybe entering Floor 4 that could heal a person from the brink of death save him from dying.
Cyan could only brush off from his mind the thought of dying and looked into the future, this time the pain was not that bad that he would faint for a week, only because his future self actually didn¡¯t have told him almost anything about the future, but he still left a painful clue that was also a change to the past, Alice, and Cyan next step.
Seeing the running Alice on the track once again, Cyan stoop up from his seat and started walking into the track, it was time for him to start running.
Chapter 013 - A race?
Chapter 013 - Let us run together.
Alice had just finished the 1 km track in 20 minutes making the task of running 1 km in 10 minutes still unfinished, however this was just a warm-up, next she would go the ten minute mark, Alice breath returned to normal after a few moments, her phone also vibrated meaning she got a new message, probably from [Midas].
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed the 1 km track in 20 minutes and 15 seconds for the first time, Awarded 1 STA point and 1 Credit¡±
Alice read thought the message, 1 STA point was not bad as a reward for her first run, however, this was only the initial reward every Player would get, what caught her attention was the 1 Credit reward.
At that time Cyan was waiting for her in the starting line, looking back to normal.
[Cyan]: ¡°Did your stats went up?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yes it says I got 1 STA and 1 Credit¡±
Cyan thought for a second, getting 1 STA was actually quite good but there was something that also bothers him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Only 1 Credit? It is not that too little? You will have to run the track 100 times to buy a single plate of normal food¡±
Alice nodded, she also thought the same, running 100 km for 100 Credits if this the mad world? However that was still not a proven fact, maybe it was just 1 Credit because she ran only 1 km and her time was very slow.
[Alice]: ¡°I also thought the same, are Credits so hard to earn?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I don¡¯t know, I got 1.000 Credits by uncovering a hidden feature and 1.000 Credits for the welcoming pack and 10.000 Credits for my first Quest, so I thought to get more Credits should be very easy right?¡±
Cyan forgot to add that while doing his Quest in the Floor 4 he didn¡¯t get a single Credit until he had finished it, so getting Credits just for running was better than nothing, not to mention that [Midas] was making Players run 100 km per day for them to be able to afford one normal food, on the other hand, Alice could not help but think in another possibility.
[Alice]: ¡°Maybe it is a trap?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°A trap? How come?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°You know in games at the beginning, when you are showered with presents and game currency in the lowest levels, and then you go on playing the game thinking that it was very easy and so you keep playing, but then on the mid to last levels the items start to become crazy expensive and the money you get for killing monsters and doing Quest is actually very little, forcing you to grind dungeons to death or cheat by paying in cash¡±
Of course, Alice didn¡¯t mention that the option of ¡°paying in cash¡± didn¡¯t work for them, because real money is not even in use inside the Tower, the only currency was Credits, and the only way to earn those was by exchanging it for Players sweat.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ you are very knowledgeable about games, maybe it is like that¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Of course it is, I maxed my character level in ROAL you know¡±
Note: ROAL: PPSD RPG GAME, ROAL = Return of Angels League.
Cyan could not be more impress by Alice.
[Cyan]: ¡°Woah, I never got to max level in my character¡ the last levels were way too hard, and getting the high-level equipment sets from the dungeon required a character with those sets already in the character, which was impossible to do if you don¡¯t use cash for buying the items, making them crazy expensive to get¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Right right!, however, I got the items from other people so I could enter up to the latest dungeon with no problems huff huff¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s not fair, that¡¯s cheating you know¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That comes from the one that entered the tower one week early¡±
Cyan and Alice laughed out their worries for a few seconds.
[Alice]: ¡°So you see how getting more Credits at the beginning can become a trap right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yeah but shouldn¡¯t we get more Credits in the beginning then?¡±
[Alive]: ¡°Probably [Midas] is trying to teach us the value of Credits¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then let¡¯s ask her¡±
They were now stuck doing math into their heads using a game as the basis for trying to predict the future, but in the end, they both came to the same conclusion, that this was no game.
[Alice]: ¡°arhhg this is so frustrating [Midas] keeps replying the same thing over and over again¡±
At some point, Alice had given up Questioning [Midas] throughout text messages.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then how about we train on the track for now, and see how much Credits we are getting¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I guess you are right¡±
Alice was frustrated however she cheer up a little, after all it has been ages since Cyan and her had ran in the same track at the same time, now they run together for the first time in maybe years, she could not remember when was the last time they did something together just the two of them.
After one lap and 9 minutes later, both Cyan and Alice reached the finish line, while their phones vibrated indicating they got a bunch of new messages, probably from [Midas]
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Alice has completed the 1 km track in 8 minutes and 54 seconds, Awarded 1 Credit¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Alice new personal record, do you wish to set this time as your new track record? [accept] or [reject], rewards may vary¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Alice track global record position update #304, Awarded 1 Credit¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [1] Cleared, Player Alice is rewarded with 1 Free Point, keep working hard in your training¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has completed the 1 km track in 8 minutes and 51 seconds, Awarded 1 STA point and 1 Credit¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan track global record position update #305, Awarded 1 Credit¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest Unlocked: Quest [Start your training II] [1] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±
Alice and Cyan were both gasping for air at the end line after running the 1 km track in less than 9 minutes.
[Alice]: ¡°I never¡ thought¡. You were faster¡ than me¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°it is not that¡. You just run out of stamina¡ halfway through¡±
While they were running Alice was ahead of Cyan for half the race but then she started to slow down making Cyan start to catch with her in the second half, near the end line their competitive spirits flare out as Cyan and Alice gave it their all to cross the finish line, in the end, Cyan won by a hair, something he had never able to do before, Alice also had speed up trying to catch Cyan but her stamina didn¡¯t last let her making her lose for the first time against Cyan.This book''s true home is on another platform. Check it out there for the real experience.
Of course, their stats had also come into play during the race, but even when Cyan stats were higher than Alice¡¯s stats, Cyan and Alice had come to realize that stats aren¡¯t everything as they both crossed the finishing line almost at the same time even with their stats are different.
[Alice]: ¡°hum¡ having more stats don¡¯t count as a victory, wait for me to increase my stats too¡±
Cyan could only laugh shyly as he has been found out after the race, he was not that tired unlike Alice and felt he could race the 1 km track a few more times, but that wasn¡¯t important right now.
[Cyan]: ¡°However you didn¡¯t get a status point this time, only 1 Credit, the same as me, but I got 1 STA probably because I was the 1 km for the first time like you did just before¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I think [Midas] will reward us by doing certain tasks once but after that, it only would give us Credits for it¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Why don¡¯t we run again to test this theory?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Wait let me check the Quest, you also got a new Quest too so you should check that out first¡±
Cyan was so eager to race again that he had forgotten he got a new Quest for running on the track, he could not help it but wanted to race Alice again, after winning for the first time in maybe forever, he was having a lot of fun and it was making him want to run some more, however more than winning a race, the thought of running side by side with Alice was the thing that was making him the happier.
After their breath had calm down Alice took out her phone and check out her [Quest] in the app, Cyan did the same thing.
[Quest - Alice]
- [Become a Player Student] (In Progress)
- [Start your training] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (In Progress) (0/10)
- [3] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
[Quest - Cyan]
- Start your training (Completed)
- Become a Player Tutor (In progress) (1 week remaining)
- [Start your training II] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (In Progress) (0/10)
- [3] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
This time there was not time constraint, so they could run the 10 km without having to do it at top speed, of course, they could also try to challenge their previous time, however both Alice and Cyan agreed that clearing the Quest first and getting Free Points would be the best thing they could do right now to racing each other was fun but not a priority, and also they confirmed something, they needed to run 100 km for one plate of [normal food] and 500 km for the special, if you take into account they need to eat three times and day and drink water and maybe have some few side dishes, that would add up to 2.000 Credits per day for the both of them, if they ordered 3 specialties of the day [special food], 3 [milkshakes], and 4 [side dishes], that¡¯s equal as running 2.000 km per day, their faces pale when the thought about running that amount, if they didn¡¯t have the initial rewards they could easily die of hunger, and not to mention they still needed to pay the [ticket] feed for entering the floor too.
Note: 500x3 + 100x3 +50x4 = 2000C + [Ticket] 1000x4hours.
Fastest Speed a human can do, 44 km x 4 hr = 176 km in 4 hours, when they added up those numbers, even if they ran with the fastest speed a human body could make for 4 hours, they still could not pay for a single 4 hour [Ticket].
Right now Cyan had run for 10 km while Alice 11 km.
[Alice]: ¡°I am too tired¡ give a¡ few minutes of rest¡±
All this while their phones had vibrated a few times, but they didn¡¯t read the notification and kept running on the track until both collapsed on the finishing line.
When they were resting Cyan got another message.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is advice to take the [energy drink] when training¡±
Cyan could only make a bitter smile, his energy items were already spent on the first day, however, Alice still had her owns on her inventory, [Energy Drink] x 10 and [Energy Food] x 10, the messages he was getting for Willy have started to be more frequent now, maybe talking with [Midas] was actually working Cyan thought as he sent his reply.
Reply: ¡°Thank you for the reminder, I appreciated it¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, Alice you can use the [Energy] items in your inventory it will recovery you stamina in no time, it will also remove thirst and hunger, Willy just texted me with a reminder to use them¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Do you mean these?¡±
Alice checked her inventory and took out a bottle of something that looked like normal water, but if you looked it closer you will notice that it wasn¡¯t clear but blueish waster, and as for the food it was something like a granola or protein bar.
[Cyan]: ¡°Those are the one, the effects are pretty good you can look it in the [inventory] under item information, here take a look¡±
[Energy Drink]
- Restores Stamina by 50%
- Removes thirst
[Energy Food]
- Restores Stamina by 50%
- Removes hunger
Alice nodded after she read through the information, with this they could continue running for a longer time if the effects were as described.
[Alice]: ¡°Aren¡¯t you drinking one too?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ I had already used all of mine, so I have none left¡±
Alice then took out another set of [energy] items and gave it to Cyan.
[Alice]: ¡°I have ten so I don¡¯t mind sharing it¡±
Cyan in the hand was hesitating on receiving the item for free, but on the other hand, he could use them for keep training, but to be getting free stuff without giving anything back was not to his liking, but then he thought of something he could.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then it is ok if pay for the food in Floor 3?¡±
Alice thought for a second and nodded, right now the lack of Credits were indeed a problem, [Midas] reward were actually too little, however, if Cyan had offered her Credits she would probably have refused but rejecting food after she had shared hers would be unfair so she accepted it.
After they ended their small talk and now that they were full of energy again, they returned to the track and started to run once again, this time they didn¡¯t have to worry about running out of energy, because they were full to bring, making then run nonstop.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Alice has completed the 10 km¡¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has completed the 10 km¡¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Alice has completed the 20 km¡¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has completed the 20 km¡¡±
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After running for 4 hours the [Energy] they got for the items actually haven¡¯t run out completely, even after they had been doing laps nonstop.
Cyan could not help but ask
[Cyan]: ¡°How is your stamina?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I think I can run a few more times, but the [ticket] would be run out and I don¡¯t think I can run for another 4 hours more¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°The food is pretty good, it lets you run without stopping but actually it becomes difficult to know when to stop¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Would there be any consequences for that?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What do you mean?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°We had been running without stopping for the last 4 hour at our top speed you know, even though your body doesn¡¯t feel tired right now it doesn¡¯t mean it is safe to continue running, I think we should take a rest for now, instead of wasting a [ticket]¡±
Cyan nodded, that¡¯s right Alice is right he thought, it was a good thing she was here, not to mention this was her first day on the Tower they could take rest for now.
[Cyan]: ¡°I think you are right, we should take the chance to go to other Floors like Floor 2 and 3¡± (Food and Dorms)
[Alice]: ¡°Ok, Let¡¯s explore those floors for a bit then¡±
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In the end, Alice and Cyan quest looked like this.
[Quest - Alice]
- [Become a Player Student] (In Progress)
- [Start your training] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (Cleared)
- [3] Run 20 km (Cleared)
- [4] Run 30 km (In Progress)(1/30)
- [5] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
[Quest - Cyan]
- Start your training (Completed)
- Become a Player Tutor (In progress) (1 week remaining)
- [Start your training II] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (Cleared)
- [3] Run 20 km (Cleared)
- [4] Run 30 km (In Progress)(1/30)
- [5] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
And their stats Looked like this
-Alice
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: Alice
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 10 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 12 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 10 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 13 Tier 0 (+1)
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 5 (+3)
-Cyan
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 16 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 18 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 15 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 19 Tier 0 (+1)
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 21 (+3)
Chapter 014 - A dream?
Chapter 014 - A dream?
[Alice]: ¡°Ok, then let¡¯s explore those floors for a bit¡±
Cyan and Alice started to move to the elevator, in their way there they took the chance to check out their messages.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [2] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [3] Cleared, Player Cyan is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan track global record position update #291, Awarded 140 Credit¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has completed the 10 km, Awarded 10 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has completed the 20 km, Awarded 40 Credits¡±
Message¡
In the end after Cyan and Alice ran around 30 laps around the track, they got the good news that the more km¡¯s they ran they more Credits they would get in return, and the better their records the better the reward was also, and after 4 hours of running they both got around ~300 Credits for their efforts, still it was not enough for even affording the [ticket] price.
[Alice]: ¡°There is no need to look so down, we can still use the Free Points to increase our stats and do better¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess you are right, not to mention that we still have a quest to finish after we finished that we would a get a good boost¡±
After that Cyan showed Alice around the Tower, beginning with the dorms, as expected her wardrobe was full of schools uniforms too with the logo of [Midas], just the same as Cyan wardrobe, it seems that whatever you were wearing would be copied and made into a wardrobe, Cyan didn¡¯t wanted to think more about the subject after that, not what would happen if someone were to be teleported in their sleep clothes or worse.
[Alice]: ¡°Why are you red now? This is not the first time inside my room¡±
Even though he was thinking about that, just then Cyan realized he was inside the same room with Alice making his red face even redder, Alice wanted to tease Cyan a little bit more but her conscience didn¡¯t let her go for it as the Class President.
[Alice]: ¡°Right, the room doesn¡¯t have a key and it opens right away, should there be a risk of people robbing your room?¡±
After Alice said that at loud she got a message on her phone.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Each Player is assigned to one room that only they can open, an invitation to other Players is allowed, however, force entry in other Players rooms will be penalized, please refrain of doing any bad behavior¡±
Cyan also got the same message Alice had, for now, it was better going to Floor 3 [Food Area] and have something to eat so they could dispel this awkward atmosphere.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡ then how about we go the [Food Area]¡ the food there is very good and very tasty after a hard day of training you know¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yes I think we should¡±
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[Alice]: ¡°The food here is really great and you think you only need to press a button on the app for ordering¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°The first time I came here I ended ordering 5 specialties and 3 side dishes before I left the area¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Really? I didn¡¯t know you could eat so much being so skinny, but I also feel like I can still eat some more¡±
Because this was the first time Alice was eating here they had ordered the today specialty, and as expected they also had ordered some side dishes and still they felt they could still eat some more when they were starting to get worried about this their phone vibrated.
Alice took out her phone and read the message.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Players will experience an increase of appetite as their stats increases, eating normal food would be insufficient, forcing the player to eat several plates before feeling satisfied, optionally specialty food will have a better effect in Players stats grow¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That makes sense, but it is like it is telling us to always order that food no matter what¡±
Cyan got to confirm his suspicion as he got another message immediately after.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is advice to order the specialty of the day for every meal¡±
Alice that was beside Cyan didn¡¯t receive that message.
[Alice]: ¡°Hey it is not [Midas] coaching you too much with all those pieces of advice? I got two o tree but yours keep coming¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess you are right about that¡ but that¡¯s probably Willy doing¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Willy was your friend right? What happened to him?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°He is an assistant robot that was assigned to me, however, they were taken away after a day, he nagged me all the time but even if their height is short he is still an amazing robot¡¡±
Cyan could not help but feel sad as he remembers Willy shining chassis and its blinking lights while giving his recommendations all the time.
[Alice]: ¡°You mean those robots that are running around like the one that brought the food just now?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Just like that but Willy was 10 times more amazing, it has many hidden features and it could answer all the question you asked without having to ask [Midas], it was full of tips and pieces of advice, and I think it saved my life once¡±
Cyan started to brag about Willy to Alice and how his blinking light would flicker when Willy was thinking of something very hard, and how it would annoying him with reminders to go back to train all the time.
Alice saw how Cyan was cheerfully talking about Willy so she just listened Cyan described Willy as his friend for 10 minutes without saying anything else, soon Cyan realized he had been talking for too long so he stopped and looked to his empty plate.
[Alice]: ¡°It is nice you know¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Willy?¡±
Alice shook her head
[Alice]: ¡°Talking with you while sharing something to eat, it has been so long since the last time we talked this much, I really missed it¡±
Cyan and Alice were in silence for a minute until another notification popped up in their phones interrupting their memories.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan, Players will experience grow fatigue after their bodies had been stopped training for more than 20 minutes, it is recommended to sleep for the time being¡±This story originates from Royal Road. Ensure the author gets the support they deserve by reading it there.
[Cyan]: ¡°I think we should go back and try to get some sleep, it seems we will be weakened like you thought we would¡±
Alice nodded and followed Cyan to the dorms floor. Alice room was the #351 while Cyan was the #105 so they were actually quite far apart.
When they reached Cyan room he turned around and looked to Alice that was looking at the floor without saying anything.
[Cyan]: ¡°Well I think I will be resting for now¡±
However, Alice didn¡¯t say anything nor did she move.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡can I stay?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Just for today, I just don¡¯t want for you to disappear again¡±
Cyan could see the tears dropping from Alice''s face, she had been enduring it since she arrived here this morning, and if you thought about it its only has been a few hours that she had to say good to her parents and then be teleported to the Tower, teleported to an unknown place created for training Players, and even though Alice had found someone she knew and could rely on, that only made her put her worries at the back of her head, so just for today, she didn¡¯t want to sleep all alone in an unknown place while the guilt for abandoning her parents and the fear of the unknown consumed mind, not to mention the fear that Cyan would disappear once again.
Cyan nodded and entered his room, his bed could only be used by one person so he indicated Alice to use the bed while he would be sleeping on the floor. Alice soon returned with her pillow and sheets so Cyan wouldn¡¯t have to sleep in the cold floor without nothing, after they just lay down without saying anything else to each other, Cyan soon started to feel very fatigued and pain starting to invade his body, making his eyes start to feel very heavy, however, he could not help to ask Alice about her status too.
[Cyan]: ¡°How are you feeling?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I am ok, I am just a little bit tired¡±
Of course, Alice was undermining how tired she felt at this moment, she had been forcing herself so much today that she was in a very weakened stated right now.
[Cyan]: ¡°You should try to get some sleep¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Just a little bit more¡±
None say anything as a silence invaded the room for 1 minute.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yes?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°It is nothing¡¡±
Cyan could only feel a little bit frustrated but he didn¡¯t say anything else. However, Alice could not keep what was inside her mind.
[Alice]: ¡°Do you think they ok?¡±
Obviously Cyan knew Alice was talking about her parents, it just dawns onto him why she was crying moments ago, at this point Cyan could also figure out from were Alice got the videos of the military men fighting against the dog monster, from her dad.
[Cyan]: ¡°I think they should be ok, you Dad it is an army officer, after all, there is no doubt he is ok, remember that time when I went to your house and your dad was wearing his combat uniform¡¡±
Alice laughter as Cyan recounted a history of the past making her cheer up a little bit.
[Alice]: ¡°haha you were so scared of my Dad at that time¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I couldn¡¯t help it your Dad is scary you know¡±
There was nothing to be ashamed Cyan thought, he was really scared of Alice Dad, with a scary face, and menacing expressions while wearing an army uniform and while glaring him, it took all of Cyan courage to stare back him, but after he did, the scary face fade away and a gentle but strict expression replace it.
[Alice]: ¡°He asked me about you, you know, why you have been going more to the apartment even when we are neighbors¡±
Cyan notice Alice head peeking out from the bed and above him, staring at him while also hoping for an answer, she also really wanted to know the answer.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°it was because other students in the school threaten you?¡±
Cyan could only help but to honest here and nodded his head.
[Alice]: ¡°you should have told me¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I couldn¡¯t have¡¡±
Cyan wanted to explain himself but he was cut off by Alice.
[Alice]: ¡°Idiot¡±
After that Alice retracted to her head and turned her back to Cyan, Cyan could only agree to Alice opinion of him, he was an idiot, after that neither of them talked anymore and very soon Cyan was in the land of dreams once again.
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¡°Runaway¡±
¡°I will not leave you behind¡±
¡°You must leave or we both die¡±
¡°I will not leave you here to die too alone¡±
¡°Idiot¡±
¡°¡¡±
¡°You have always been an idiot, now leave¡±
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[Alice]: ¡°Cyan wake up¡±
Alice was trying to wake up Cyan that was moving has to have a nightmare, after shaking him a few time Cyan finally wake up. After rubbing his eyes a bit Cyan looked to the worried Alice in front of him.
[Alice]: ¡°You were¡ having a nightmare¡ and keep shouting my name so I have to wake up you, what you were dreaming about?¡±
In his dream, Cyan and Alice were over a pile of dead bodies and then? He could not remember anymore, did he left Alice alone in the end? That¡¯s not possible he thought. Cyan brushed out his head and dismissed the dream.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ I can¡¯t remember, it was just a dream anyway¡ I am sorry for scaring you it would not happen again¡±
Cyan had also been shouting something else ¡°I will not leave¡±, Alice could not make sense of what Cyan was saying, however, she didn¡¯t insist on the subject as Cyan didn¡¯t want to talk about it and was trying to avoid it, it must probably be a nasty nightmare to remember so I was better to leave it at that.
[Alice]: ¡°I understand I will not ask about it anymore¡¡±
Alice stood up and took her pillow.
[Alice]: ¡°then let¡¯s meet in the [Food Area] later on, don¡¯t forget to check your status and messages¡±
Without saying anything more Alice left the room.
Cyan tried to remember the dream he was having once again, but he truly couldn¡¯t remember so he gives up trying, after that he checked his phone and realized they had slept until the next day, as for messages there were some global announcements of [Midas] about Players records, and there were some other notifications about changes in his status.
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 1 STR¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 1 STA¡±
Notification ¡
There was notification that his stats have increased on their own, the total amount was 1 STR, 1 DEX, 2 END, and 2 STA, a total of 6 stats increased, probably this is what Alice was mentioning for him to see, and her status probably had increased also like this too, this was known as Player stats grow that Willy was talking about
Cyan checked his new status.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 17 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 19 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 17 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 21 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 21
Looking over his status Cyan could not help but to feel happy how his status was increasing each day now, and also that he could increase them on his own as part of Player grow, but the increase wouldn¡¯t be instantaneous unlike [Midas] rewards, however Cyan could not help but think that the stats rewards from [Midas] felt like some kind of an artificial grow gain, and it was different from stats growing on their own. On the other hand, now could start train seriously from now on.
Now that he knows that [Midas] rewards were not the only way to increase his stats, however, he was now stuck in thinking what to do with his Free Point, after all with 21 Free Points he was feeling the need to put them in into his stats right away, but in the end Cyan decided to postpone it, even though it was a very tempting thought to just put 21 points into his STA stat and double it in an instant it was better to wait for now, even though the idea of never running out of stamina was still lingering in his head.
Cyan took a bath and changed into another uniform before going to the Floor 3 [Food Area] where Alice should be, however when he got there he was shocked to find Alice sitting in the same table than that wall of muscles known as Boss, Alice took notice of Cyan and raised her hand signaling him to come over where she was, Cyan could not help to wonder how they were eating in the same table now, this Tower could hold up to 1000 Players and the [Food Area] could host all of them at the same time, and right now there were only 351 Players in the Tower meaning the [Food Area] was looking deserted right now, so ending in the same table was not actually a coincidence at all.
First Cyan only had noticed the presence of Alice and Boss on the table, but after coming closer he realized that because Boss was so tall he couldn¡¯t actually see that there were other Players sitting in the table as well, in total there were 4 Players including Alice, the first one Cyan could remember that was called Boss the Player that they had met yesterday on Floor 5 and had caused a very strong impression on him, together with them was Karla and Karga also, the other two players they had met yesterday in Floor 5, now that Cyan looked at the duo side by side they actually looked very alike, he could not help but to think them as brother and sister. In the end Cyan took a sit to the left of Boss and to the right was Alice, in front of Cyan where the two brothers Karla and Karga.
[Karla]: ¡°Oh you are here newbie, you sure take your time you sure had a rough time last night sleeping in the same room than Alice eh?¡±
Immediately Cyan face went full red as Karla was winking at him while pointing in the direction of Alice, did they perhaps saw them entering the same room yesterday? The answer was yes, yes they did.
Chapter 015 - A New Path? Part 1
Chapter 015 - A New Path? Part 1
[Karla]: ¡°Oh you are here newbie, you sure took your time maybe it was because you two had a rough night last night eh?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°What do you say, newbie, are you feeling refreshed after spending the night in the same room as Alice, eh newbie?¡±
Alice and Cyan could only go red at the teasing of Karga and Karla commentaries as they tried to reply at the same time.
[Cyan]: ¡°We just slept in the same room and nothing more¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s right we were just tired of running on the track¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Aren¡¯t you two adorable, however you should be mindful of your surroundings you know? Even though it is not forbidden there are people here that would create problems for you, you know?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°See even Boss agrees with me, anyway, now that the newbie is here we can start, right Alice that video where did you get it from?¡±
Of course, she was talking about the video Alice had already shown to Cyan yesterday after arriving at the Tower, as to why Karla was asking about it, it was because Alice has sent it to Boss yesterday using her phone and he has watched it together with Karla and Karga.
[Alice]: ¡°My dad is an army official that have access to it, he gave it to me before coming here, and he thought that it may help Players if they know what¡¯s going on back on earth¡±
Karla nodded, she has studied the video last night after Boss passed it to her, it was very well recorded video and not something an amateur could record with their phones being so close to the action, it also showed the dead body of the monster dog at the end of the video and where the bullets had hit it like if trying to document it for later researches, that¡¯s why she could easily believe in Alice words.
[Karla]: ¡°So pretty much we can assume that it is around 90% to 95% real¡±
A long silence spread around to the table, even though Alice and Cyan knew the video was 100% real, hearing this from someone else make them realize they were actually hoping for it to be a fake, that video was something that no one wanted to believe in or at least they didn¡¯t openly dare to, this was a kind of monster that you could only see in movie theaters and video games, shown to its full splendor, everyone would be excused if they did not believe it at first, making Karla comment even heavier, still, it was something they have to get off of the way first.
Boss spoke at this time.
[Boss]: ¡°Train and you may survive¡±
This was a full head on warning to Alice and Cyan, if they didn¡¯t want to die they need to take the training on the Tower very seriously and not like a school field trip, they both nodded at the same time, neither of the two was taking this as a vacation either way, they could understand the severity of the situation, Alice by abandoning her parents and Cyan by getting a warning from his own self and the price of almost dying that he had to pay for it.
Seeing the expression in the two kids faces Boss nodded, Karla and Karga understood what that meant as Boss was giving his ok for the kids, if they wanted to keep living then they need to grow stronger and for that, they need someone to help them.
[Karga]: ¡°Are you sure about this Boss? They are just kids you know¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Weren¡¯t you that wanted to talk with them first?¡±
Before they could continue arguing, they were interrupted by Boss signaling the end of the argument.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla make the offer¡±
Karla let out a sigh while Boss stood up from his chair and left the area through the elevator, his role here was over and now it was time for Karla to take charge of the conversation.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright are you two hungry? Let¡¯s order something to eat and talk for a little bit¡±
Karla ordered 4 plates of the specialty of the day together with 8 side dishes and 4 drinks, this was all paid from her own pocket as a show of goodwill, it was also as repayment for Alice video, Karla herself have to admit that it was a far more important information than she initially had thought of, it was something worth paying 10.000 Credits for it and they got it for free, she wasn¡¯t expecting such high quality and detail at all.
After a few minutes an orchestra of robots brought the food to the table as they moved in a synchronized dance of programmatic wonder, after leaving the food over the table the robots left, however neither Alice nor Cyan touched the food on the table, first, they both knew that this food should cost around 700 Credits for each one, and they were very well aware that they would have to run a lot in Floor 5 to get that amount of Credits in a day, after all, they only managed to get around ~300 Credits each on yesterday training, and the second reason was that even though this food would no doubt fill up their bellies there was not free food on the world and it should come with a price which they still didn¡¯t know.
Seeing that the kids were not eating or talking Karla moved into starting the conversation.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright listen up Alice and newbie¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°My name is Cyan¡±
Cyan could not help but reclaim his lost name.
[Karla]: ¡°Whatever you say, Newbie¡±
When Cyan was about to argue back again Alice stopped him with a jog, getting into a fight right now would not solve anything, those two were here for a reason and Alice was curious what the offer was, for now, it was better for Alice and Cyan to be calm and collected and hear what they have to say, Cyan let out of his anger with a sigh as he understood Alice train of thoughts.
Karla then smiled and nodded with her head.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s better, if you can¡¯t take that level of provocation you will have a bad time in the future, now I want you two to listen what I have to say, as you know we are from the GP and even though we are in friendly terms with you two not everyone inside the Tower is also going to be the same, so I want to be clear here the Tower is not a happy place where you two could play couples for a few days, I hope you two can understand this fact first before moving on¡±
Cyan wanted to retort they weren¡¯t a couple nor they were playing to be one either, but Alice jogs him again and makes him remain in silence and nod with his head indicating he understood.
Alice in the other hand took a breath and asked something she wanted to know first.
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla do you know what¡¯s going on back in the earth?¡±
Even though Alice and Cyan both knew that something was going on and that it involves that monster dog, they didn¡¯t know much about the whole picture, Karla from the GP should know a lot more than they do.The genuine version of this novel can be found on another site. Support the author by reading it there.
[Karla]: ¡°Aren¡¯t you full of manners Alice, that¡¯s why I like you a lot, I will answer your questions but not now and not for free either, for now, the food is starting to get cold so we should start eating first, now as repayment for the video you had sent us Boss had asked me to invite you two something to eat for today as a thank you, after you two finish you two may leave the table without getting any new information or you may choose to remain sitting in which case you will have your answers, but in exchange you two will have to join us at the GP, this is a package deal two for the price of one, you may start now¡±
Alice and Cyan looked at each other, getting the food as repayment for the video it was a good offer for Alice, after all, she had already sent it to Boss yesterday so instead of getting nothing at all, a payment of 1.400 Credits was a lot more, on the other hand, Cyan didn¡¯t say anything because this was all of Alice reward it was her video after all, in which case Cyan would still have to pay her back later on if she accepts it.
After having come with a decision Alice started to eat the food in silence while Cyan imitated her also eating in silence, they both were trying to come to a decision if obtaining more information in exchange for joining the GP was worth it.
On the other hand Karla that was sitting in front of them smile, this was what she exactly wanted, for them to think in the possibility of joining the GP and for them to evaluated the cons and pros of doing so while they were eating so when the moment comes when they have to make a decision they are not caught unprepared, after all, Boss had already told her to make the offer, however how to proceed about this was all up to her and the decision of joining or not was up to the kids. Karga in the other hand was happily eating his food without interrupting his sister work that would only make her angry, he would help her here and there and nothing more.
As no one was talking they ended the food pretty fast because they didn¡¯t have to stop to talk, and after the robots had taken all the plates from out the table the conversation could continue once again.
Seeing that neither Alice nor Cyan had any intentions of leaving the table Karla then could start making with their offer.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright¡¡±
However, before Karla could continue Alice interrupted her.
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla there are some things that I want to know first before you continue if you allow me to ask¡±
Karla nodded with her head.
Alice took a breath.
[Alice]: ¡°What the benefices of joining the GP are?¡±
Alice was full of questions already and Karla have not even started talking yet, of course, Alice would ask that first Karla thought in her head.
[Karla]: ¡°There are many small benefices but there are three main ones you should consider, you already know the first but I will recount all of them anyway, first, we will share all the information we know and that it is not available by just asking [Midas] and we also agree to share the information that we may find in the future, second, we will protect you two inside the Tower from harm and from other Players that may cause it, and third,¡¡±
Before Karla could continue with the third benefice she was interrupted by Cyan question.
[Cyan]: ¡°It isn¡¯t [Midas] already stopping Players from hurting or killing each other inside the Tower?¡±
Karla could only shake her head, that why she though Cyan was a gen 3 Player newbie, and as she started to explain the reason Alice and Cyan expressions started to grow stiff.
[Karla]: ¡°[Midas] only sends a penalty in Credits for harming other Players and the amount of Credits depends of the degree of offence, however this does not prevent the offense from ever happening at all and it is just a penalty after the harm has already be done, even so if you don¡¯t have the Credits to pay up the penalty when you go into negative numbers then you have 4 hours to earn enough Credits to go back over zero, or you would be removed as a Player and expelled out from the Tower¡±
Karla continues with her explanation.
[Karla]: ¡°That means a Player that has a lot of Credits could still harm you however she or he wants until it almost run out of Credits and still remain as Player at the end of the day, and if you want to fight back, then you will need Credits to do the same exact thing as the other Player did and because rewarding a Player for being hurt from another Player would open another can of worms, you don¡¯t get any Credits as compensation from the penalty the other Player had to pay, that¡¯s because restricting a Player movement like putting them inside a small cell is also taken as an offense and it punishes the Player that did it¡±
Karla gave a moment for Alice and Cyan to take in the information as she delivered her final pitch.
[Karla]: ¡°Inside the Tower, you two can¡¯t do anything to fight back and that¡¯s because you two don¡¯t have the strength for that, unless you have the Credits and the strength to fight back you two are pretty much left defenseless, don¡¯t you think that¡¯s unfair? See why the second benefice is very important to have?¡±
Karla let out a sigh as she watched the expression of the two kids morphing while she was giving her explanation.
Alice and Cyan face pale as their expression went from shock into horror, that¡¯s right, they haven¡¯t thought about that, the only thing that would get an instant Player suspension would be killing another Player, but even so, that would be after they were dead so what was the point? This penalty system could not even prevent the smallest of crimes like robbing other people¡¯s food from the table, nor it would give you any Credits in compensation because that would make Players go around the Tower and cause trouble for everybody only to get punch and get Credits as compensation¡ this great system has a horrible flaw on it that they haven¡¯t thought about.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t tell me you thought [Midas] was a perfect or something like that just because it is a computer?¡±
Alice and Cyan could not give a response to that question, so Karla continues with her explanation.
[Karla]: ¡°Listen up kids, the way a machine thinks is very heartless and cold, it lacks all kind of emotions, and this it is pretty much a license for Player to do horrible things to other Players inside the Tower if they are willing enough and they have the Credits for it, and this is just my conjectures but I think this is just a consequence of [Midas] of flawed core program¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Miss Karla you know what the core program of [Midas] is?¡±
Karla let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°I don¡¯t but that doesn¡¯t mean we can¡¯t take a guess, whatever it is a restriction was put in place so [Midas] can¡¯t hurt a Player, the problem is that hurting a Player is not define as causing pain to a Player but preventing from developing further, so it can¡¯t kill nor imprison a Player because that would hurt his develop and even taking away their Credits should be impossible for [Midas], but it was put in place taking account human behavior and because giving free reins over the Tower to the Players would cause more Players to no to develop in the long run, that¡¯s why I think [Midas] flaw is its lacks of human emotions, it can¡¯t distinguish between good or evil and only sees numbers, you understand now newbie?¡±
Cyan could not help to try to remember when was that he started thinking that a machine didn¡¯t have a flaw in it, maybe the flaw itself came from the program main goal and not it sets of rules, or maybe it wasn¡¯t a flaw in the eyes of [Midas] creator and it was something created with that intent.
In the other hand Alice could not help wanting to ask another question, even though everything that Karla has said made a lot of sense for her, there was still the need for proof, as she raised her hand Karla looked at her.
[Karla]: ¡°Yes Alice?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla do you have any proof of this conjecture?¡±
Karla smile to Alice question.
[Karla]: ¡°My evidence its base on earth situation, one of [Midas] purposes is for the creation, training, and assistance of Players, and not humans, a human can become a Player but that doesn¡¯t mean another living organism can¡¯t, and the objective of the Players is also unknown and asking [Midas] wouldn¡¯t get you an answer, however, we can guess that after a Player is created and trained they are to be sent back to earth to fight against these things right?¡±
Karla pointed out the still image of the monster dog that her phone screen was showing.
[Karla]: ¡°However nothing is forcing the Player to do that because [Midas] can¡¯t force a Player to do anything at all, and that¡¯s why each Player has to individually [accept] on their own if they wish to come to the Tower, because [Midas] could not force them even when it already has the control over almost every system back on earth and could force the humans to do anything [Midas] wanted, and because of that we can also presume that the Credit penalty would not be enforced back on earth either¡±
Alice nodded as she understood what part of that means, it pretty much means that [Midas] has almost no power over human behavior and the strongest evidence for that it¡¯s in her own phone in the form of text message.
Seeing that the kids didn¡¯t have any more question Karla moved to ask them to join them once again.
[Karla]: ¡°In conclusion [Midas] is not here to help us and it is just following instructions to achieve its own unknown goal, that¡¯s all the evidence that I have at this moment, you may choose not to believe it but that¡¯s up you, for now, we have already sidetracked of the main conversation already, so can I take that you two will join us?¡±
Alice and Cyan looked to each other, the GP was offering them protection and it seems they were in the need for it, however, they could not accept just yet, there were two topics they still need to talk about.
[Cyan]: ¡°First can you tell us what the third benefice is?¡±
Chapter 016 - A New Path? Part 2 Unlocked
Chapter 016 - A New Path? Part 2 Unlocked
[Cyan]: ¡°First can you tell us what the third benefice is?¡±
Karla took a breath, convincing these two kids to join was harder than she initially thought, she was hoping to show them a bag of candies and that would work, but they are still making all kind of question now, even she if did not find this to be a bother they were actually losing precious time here.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, for the third benefice I think you guys can guess it already, it is also very easy to understand, as you may already know the training ends after 4 weeks depending on the week you started from, we are from gen 1, and you two are from gen 3, so that means we only be seeing us for 2 more weeks, after that the two of you will be left to defend your selves, that means that just protecting you two would not be enough to keep you alive, so instead we will be training you so you could defend yourself so you don¡¯t die after we leave, easy right?¡±
Alice could already guess this was coming as the third benefice, being protected and trained by the GP would the best they could hope to get, this should increase their chances to leave the Tower with their lives, however there is still an issue of what they would have to pay in exchange for it and also¡
Before Karla could continue, Cyan could only come out clean here about him being a gen 2 and not gen 3 or this surely would become a problem in the future.
[Cyan]: ¡°There is something I need to explain first, I actually started from week 2 but for reasons that¡ I can¡¯t explain right now, I have spent 1 week sleeping on Floor 9 and I just woke up yesterday, so I have almost the same starting point as Alice but I only have 3 more weeks for remaining inside the Tower¡±
Karla did a facepalm after hearing that the newbie was actually a gen 2 that lost an entire week of training while sleeping on¡ wait, Floor 9?
[Karla]: ¡°Wait, did you said Floor 9? How did you even get up there? That floor is off limits for Players, that¡¯s the answer I got when I asked [Midas] about the Floors you know?¡±
Cyan could only feel flustered because he had asked the same exact question to himself, he thought one could enter any floor with the universal [Ticket] that came inside the welcoming box, even Alice has a few of those but all of them show for Floors 5 to 7 and nothing more, so getting into Floor 9 was actually something you shouldn¡¯t even be able to go, that was normally of course.
Cyan could only try to explain himself.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ I don¡¯t know, I was unconscious at that time, and when I woke up it was Monday already and I had lost five of my Universal [Ticket] from my inventory¡±
What Cyan was thinking right now was actually that Alice will have to spend one week all alone inside the Tower after his training ends, Karla was also thinking the exact same thing while doing another facepalm.
[Karla]: ¡°To think you would be this useless newbie, and to think that you would even leave your girlfriend Alice behind in a place like this, Alice leave this fool and join us we will train you so that you don¡¯t die inside in the Tower, what do you say?¡±
Even though Karla words were inspiring they didn¡¯t sound all that right in Alice mind, Cyan, on the other hand, wanted to retort back but the word ¡°leave Alice behind¡± stroke a chord on his mind, flaring up a memory that shouldn¡¯t be a memory but actually dream, making him feel guilty for some reason.
[Alice]: ¡°Wait Miss Karla didn¡¯t you say it was a two for one kind of deal¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I have changed my mind¡±
On the other hand, Karga that had remained silent this whole time knew that his sister was in a bad mood now, so he has to intervene before things go out of hands now.
[Karga]: ¡°Wait Karla, this is not newbie fault at all, and even if he didn¡¯t have lost that week of training he still will have to leave the Tower one week before than Alice, so let¡¯s not punish him more than he already is, look how sorrowful he is right now because of this, also remember that Boss order was to recruit them both together, meaning they both have to agree¡±
For the first time, Karga had saved Cyan¡¯s neck from the guillotine named Karla.
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk¡ alright, the newbie can also come¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait we have not accepted yet¡±
Karla gave a glaring look at Cyan, making him shrink back in his chair, seeing this Alice tried to intervene instead.
[Alice]: ¡°Wait, Miss Karla, you haven¡¯t told us why do you want two kids to join the GP, nor what you do want in exchange from us¡±
Seeing the worried face of Alice Karla chose to calm down her angry mood and sit back down on her chair, she realized now that she may have overreacted a little, after taking a breath she was back to normal and the calm has returned to the table.
Letting out a sigh, Karla started to answer Alice question.
[Karla]: ¡°As I said before, we are from the World Global Defense Police and the protection of people of the world is our main goal, we don¡¯t aim to save everyone nor we hope to do, the people inside the Tower came by their own free will and our main mission here is to investigate the tower and find the missing people and help them escape the Tower if possible,¡ we can¡¯t let two kids that don¡¯t anything about the world to be killed in front our eyes without doing anything to prevent it, you may as well consider we are doing this for our personal egos, and so we can sleep well at night, but are really here trying to help you two¡±
Karla continues explaining what they want in exchange for the duo.
[Karla]: ¡°As to what we want in exchange for our help, is for you two to join the GP with an equal cooperation, when we go out outside this tower, the GP will need all the Players that it can get and soon, and we are just recruiting you two ahead of time, that¡¯s all, you may take your decision now¡±
After saying her piece Karla and Karga stood up and left the table and went away so Alice and Cyan could talk on their own what they wanted to do on their own.
Alice and Cyan both had to admit that Karla was right, they are just kids with an almost carefree attitude walking around the Tower without thinking that there are another 349 Players around them and increasing, in here there are no police or laws, no army and no world government that would protect them from harm, what other options do they have?.
In the end Cyan felt his hand being grabbed by Alice as she prepared herself for making sharing the decision that would change her life, right now Karla has been more than generous with the two of them, answering all their question and promising them protection, training, and equal cooperation, Cyan only have to take one look into Alice''s eyes to know what she was thinking as it was reflected in her face, Cyan knew that rejecting would change their fates the same as well as accepting this offer.
Alice and Cyan thoughts are very similar and intermixed, ¡°I want to be able to defend myself¡±, ¡°I want to grow stronger¡±, ¡°I want to help¡±, ¡°I want to protect¡¡± and lastly ¡°When I get back¡I want to find my family¡±, their goals were quite different but their thoughts are the same. Cyan could not help but to think in his forgotten dream once more while making his decision, because that was not a dream but maybe it is a memory he thought, but whatever it was he wants to be able to change it, and for that he needs to change the future from where that dream come from.
Alice and Cyan nodded to each other and said their decision at the same time.
[Alice]: ¡°I want to join them¡± - [Cyan]: ¡°I want to join the GP¡±
Making they laugh as they released their pent up stress, now that they knew their answers was the same they could now be calmer.
[Cyan]: ¡°Are you sure?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yes I am, I think this is our best path¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I also think the same, then let¡¯s make a promised we will see each other again back on earth¡±
Alice could only smile and let out a giggle.
[Alice]: ¡°It is a promise¡±
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Karla and Karga returned after Alice and Cyan made them a signal they are ready to give their answers, for them to make a decision this fast could only mean one thing Karla thought and she was correct, now they could move into other matters.
[Karla]: ¡°You made the right decision Alice, Newbie, like a said before my name is Karla and this is my twin brother Karga, and even though we look similar he is nothing like me¡±
Karga took the chance to intervene in his sister presentation of him.
[Karga]: ¡°Hello kids, I am Karga and I am dying to get started with the training hehe¡±If you discover this tale on Amazon, be aware that it has been unlawfully taken from Royal Road. Please report it.
After shaking their hands, they have now officially become members of the GP.
[Karla]: ¡°Now that you are part of the GP there are a few things I have to explain first, around three weeks ago we received a mission from the GP director to investigate the [Training Tower], the mission didn¡¯t say in what country the Tower was located, and that the only way to get here was through a text message, crazy right?, Even son we put together a unit of 12 people with Boss being the leader of our unit, but after we got teleported here we got separated into different towers and only us three ended in this one, and at this moment we don¡¯t have any way of contacting the GP center nor with the rest of the other agents¡±
Before Karla could continue she was interrupted by her brother.
[Karga]: ¡°However the mission did say something important parts¡±
Karla glared at her brother, however, this didn¡¯t affect him in the least.
[Karga]: ¡°The mission said we should prepare ourselves for an invasion, at that time we didn¡¯t have a clue of what the mission was talking about but now we know¡±
Karga tapped into the table where Karla phone was resting, of course, he was talking about the video.
[Karga]: ¡°Just think being invaded by an army of those things, 100, 1.000 or even 10.000 of those monsters, the world would be razed to the ground, to the point that the army would have no other choice but to drop nukes into their cities to stop that kind of invasion, in which point it would be useless anyway because you would be destroying your own cities too, that¡¯s is why¡¡±
Before Karga could continue he was interrupted by Karla.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s why we need to train Players for that¡±
Karga returned the glare to his sister that was showing a smiling face, he really wanted to say that part out.
Cyan could understand that the problem was not in a single monster, but a world level threat that would require the creation of millions of Players, in other words it was a worldwide monster invasion, he could only shudder to the thought of fighting an army that would not die under a rain bullets, in the other hand he took a peek into Alice¡¯s direction while she was looking straight ahead, Alice was thinking that with her father being an active army official he would be deployed into a fight he couldn¡¯t win against those monster, and only equipped with his army rifle, something that could barely wound a monster was a useless weapon, and unless you have 10 more people with one of those and shooting at the same time the monster could not be killed, making the cost per kill something impossible to afford in a war, Cyan took Alice hand under the table, right now the needed each other.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, how did the GP director knew a monster invasion was coming before everyone else¡±
Cyan could not help but ask that question.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡ we don¡¯t know, nor we did ask him, however, we can guess [Midas] had told him about it¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla, will be Players be enough to fight against¡ those things?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You doubt because you don¡¯t know it yet but gen 1 Players are scary strong you know, they can break a concrete wall like it was made of foam with their bare fist or run faster than the record speed holder, you can get the picture, and there is something else that is inside the Players body that we will explain later on during training, so a trained Player should be able to go one on one against those monsters¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡I understand¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I guess you already know that training here would increase you stats very quickly and in just 4 weeks a superior race of superhumans will be born, we initially thought that whatever threat we would be fighting would be turned into dust by Boss fists but¡ it seems that¡¯s not the case, and there also are reasons to believe that the enemy would be able to grow even stronger, if we can do it they probably can do it also¡±
Before Karla could continue Karga moved to explain the rest.
[Karga]: ¡°But the important part is that even though Players are crazy strong most Players are just common people without any combat experience that are put inside a Tower where they are told to train and increase their stats for 4 weeks, and then, they are returned back to earth, so gaining combat experience in here is actually more important than just increasing your stats, that¡¯s why you two kids made the right decision of joining us instead of wasting your time doing pointless exercises¡±
Karga could not help to point out that fact again, while Alice and Cyan have a lot to take in right now, it was better for them to engrain into the brains that stats weren¡¯t everything of a Player strength, and that they wouldn¡¯t only be training their stats from now on. Karla in the other hand took notice of their expressions, even though trying to grasp the situation inside their heads should be hard they both still weren¡¯t showing fear while trying to run away from reality which was a good signal for Karla, meaning that she could continue talking about the next import subject.
Karla cleared her throat to gather everyone attention.
[Karla]: ¡°You two are not aware of this but there are actually three factions inside the Tower, the GP Boss faction meaning us, the Kingdom faction, and the Empire faction¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°So that¡¯s why you keep calling him Boss because of the factions?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s just a coincidence¡ there is no other way to call Boss other than Boss you know¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Even so why people are creating factions inside the Tower?¡±
The one to answer was not Karla but Karga her brother.
[Karga]: ¡°First, it is for safety in number, second, it is because [Midas] will reward you for cooperating with other Players, and third but more important, it is very likely that when we go out from here there wouldn¡¯t any government left, and even if there is one they would hold no power over the Players unless they have an army of Players themselves¡±
[Alice]: ¡°So it is like they are forming a new government from the Tower right?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Pretty much, however, the problem lies in with their mentality, if you are not with them you are against it, that kind of deal, that¡¯s why joining a faction for protection is important, even though we are small nobody will mess with you two if they know you belong to Boss faction¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I see¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Are the other factions also recruiting more Players?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°More than recruiting you would be bullied into joining one, and unlike us where you will get equal treatment other factions are totally a pyramid scheme where the leader sits at the top¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s¡ horrible¡±
Karla nodded agreeing with Alice opinion.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s why we chose to intervene before you would force into another faction, you two are very lucky for going into Floor 5 first actually, that¡¯s it is our dominion¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Doesn¡¯t [Midas] intervene for these cases? Aren¡¯t they forcing Players?¡±
Karla shook her head.
[Karla]: ¡°There is a thin line between coercing and forcing a Player, and even if [Midas] were to issue penalties to Players the factions can afford it, even so, we didn¡¯t want to scare you two into joining us that¡¯s why I waited into telling you this until now after you joined¡±
Alice and Cyan went silent at the moment, they now can see a bigger picture.
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla what it is a dominion, is something that divides a faction?¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Each faction has their own domain or Floor, while floor 1 to 4 are neutral ground, our dominion is Floor 5, while the other two factions use Floor 6 and 7, you can see each faction has its own floor and should be the norm for forming a faction if you are not in one already¡±
Karla smile while boasting their proudness of having an entire Floor as their domain.
[Karga]: ¡°Even though it is called it is called a domain it just means they unlocked the Floor first though¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Can also other Players that aren¡¯t part of the faction use that Floor too?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°They can if you have the [Ticket], however each time you use an [Ticket] in a Floor part of the ticket price will be rewarded to the Player that unlocked the Floor, that¡¯s why Players of other factions avoid going into other Floors, having more Players in your Floor it is a good thing to have, it helps a faction to earn a lot of Credits, not to mention the Player that unlocks a Floor can buy the [Ticket] for that Floor at a discounted price, as you can see there are many benefices¡±
Cyan thought for a second he initially thought that unlocking a Floor would be a pointless thing to do now he could see he was dead wrong about that.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior why the factions have not unlocked the [Fighting Arena] as of yet? Would not having two floors be better for a faction? Should not a faction have the money for that already?¡±
Cyan remember that when he arrived at the Tower in week 2 Floors from 5 to 7 already had been unlocked and Floor 8 wasn¡¯t, then after another week has past why Floor 8 was still locked when it only cost 100.000 Credits to unlocked?
Karla, on the other hand, could only shake her head.
[Karla]: ¡°Even though factions would love to do, nobody is able to, because the higher you go in Floors the higher is the price for unlocking them, and you have to pay 500.000 Credits for unlocking the Floor 8, and no faction has that amount of Credits yet, but they soon will have with more Players arriving, and right now there is a race for unlocking Floor 8 and Boss is part of that race¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Wait it is not that something important? Should not you two be also trying to earn more Credits for unlocking the Floor?¡±
Karla and Karga looked away while the scratched their faces, the way of expresses themselves was very similar.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡ we thought that helping you two was more important right now, even so, Boss told us not to worry about it and to let everything in his hands, so there is no way Boss can fail¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s right Boss is the strongest Player of the Tower there is no way he would fail¡±
Alice and Cyan faces fell, right now Boss was putting his sweat trying to earn the 500.000 Credits for unlocking Floor 8 while they were here expending money on food, not to mention wasting the twins time when they could be out there in Floor 5 helping out Boss to earn Credits instead of helping them and risking the chance of¡ ¡°Wait a minute¡±, Cyan train of thoughts stopped as he remembers something.
Cyan took out his phone and checked his old messages.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player can unlock the Floor 8 [Fighting Arena] by spending 100.000 Credits for it, in that room there are machines that can take a measure a Player current strength, for entering the Floor you will still need a Floor [Ticket], do you wish to unlock it?¡±
¡°It was 100.000 and not 500.000? Did the price Change?¡± At the time he refused it thinking it was not worth but¡
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior is unlocking a Floor 8 for 500.000 worth it?¡±
Karla could only laugh at the newbie comment
[Karla]: ¡°Of course, even though it will take a while to recover your inversion with just the [Ticket] rewards, there is still also the discount benefice you get when buying a [Ticket] for the Floor, but the most important part is that you would be able to gain more Quests and earn more Credits, so I think it is very worth it, that¡¯s why Boss is right now trying to win the race you know¡±
Cyan though for a second.
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Senior, for all your help, I will repay it¡±
[Karla]: ¡°There is no need for that newbie, is our mission after all¡±
Cyan nodded and turned to his phone and then opened his inventory.
[Inventory]
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Reply: ¡°[Midas]¡ I mean Willy I wish to unlock the Floor 8 is that still possible?¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan can unlock the Floor 8 [Fighting Arena] by spending 100.000 Credits for it, do you wish to proceed?¡±
¡°Yes it is still the same¡± Cyan thought
Reply: ¡°Yes, unlock it¡±
Immediately after that, a global announcement was sent by [Midas] to all Players in the Tower.
Message [Midas]: ¡°[Announcement] A Player Cyan has unlocked the Floor 8 [Fighting Area], all Players now can access the [Fighting Area]¡±.
At the same everyone in the table read the Message and then turned their heads to look at Cyan that was smiling while looking away.
Chapter 017 - A New Path? Part 3
Chapter - 017 A New Path? Part 3
Message [Midas]: ¡°[Announcement] A Player Cyan has unlocked the Floor 8 [Fighting Area], all Players now can access the [Fighting Area]¡±.
Meanwhile, Karla''s eye keeps twitching.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie what did you just do?¡±
Seeing the twitching face of Karla, Cyan could not help but smile.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, My name is Cyan, and I unlocked the Floor for helping out Boss¡±
Karla made a facepalm, and then she almost started to shout.
[Karla]: ¡°I know that but HOW you unlocked it!¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior I just used my Credits and then I unlocked it, how else?¡±
Cyan ignore the twitching face of Karla in front of him as his phone was vibrating several times already, indicating he got a bunch new messages in a row, Cyan smile could not help but to grow even bigger as he read through his messages in his phone.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is reimbursed 10% of his purchased, Player is advice to keep training¡±
This was no doubt all thanks to Willy¡¯s help, and now with this, the Floor only had cost him only 90.000 Credits, and that¡¯s was not the end of it¡
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player rewarded 100 Credits from [Ticket] Purchased¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player rewarded 100 Credits from [Ticket] Purchased¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player rewarded 100 Credits from [Ticket] Purchased¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player rewarded 100 Credits¡¡±
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Players of the Tower already are entering into the Floor, probably they want to do the new Quests and set new records to obtain the rewards of the new open Floor, and even though Cyan could not be the first one to enter the Floor, Cyan was still obtaining a valuable reward in the form of Credits right now, making him feel even happier, at first he was hesitating but with the Floor only costing him 100.000 Credits and then getting a 10% discount he will get his Credits back in no time.
Cyan checked his inventory in the phone app.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 7 x29
[Equipment]
Even though most of his Credits are gone, now a new Floor was unlocked by him and rewards will keep pouring in.
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla doesn¡¯t that mean that our faction as two dominions now?¡±
Alice could not help but to feel happy too, she also was feeling down for not being able to help and be a load for them, but now the problem was more or less resolved thanks to Cyan.
Karla, on the other hand, didn¡¯t know if she was feeling happy or not, but whatever it was she was feeling, it was true that the newbie was now part of her faction, so that means their faction does indeed have two dominions now, after letting a sigh Karla returned to her senses, she never thought this would have happened.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s right Alice we now have two dominions under our belts¡±
As she was saying that a wall of muscles appeared next to her, Karla then turned her head to look at Boss face.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes Boss it was the newbie that unlocked it¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Karla shook her head.
[Karla]: ¡°No, he has already joined our faction so now it is part of our domain too, and he says he did for helping out Boss¡±
Cyan may saw it wrong but he thought he saw a smile in Boss¡¯s face for a second, but it was too hard to tell really.
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At that moment Alice and Cyan felt curiosity in how these two were actually communicating.
Cyan turned to Karga, Karla twin brother.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior do you also understand what Boss is saying like Karla is?¡±
Karga could only laugh out loud at that question.
[Karga]: ¡°As if, only Karla can guess what the Boss is saying by reading his face, the rest of us need to use text messages if you want to get more than two words out of him¡±
Alice and Cyan could only return their gazes to Boss¡¯s face as they thought, ¡°reading that face?¡±, until this point they only had seen Boss face move when he talks a few words a nothing more, trying to read that face was like looking at a brick wall and then said you understood what it said, they both tried and failed to notice any changed, they both could only smile bitterly at this revelation, it means that understating the Boss like Karla was actually an impossible task and it was an acquired skill of Karla, now they could understand one of the reasons why she was the second in command, her skills for reading people expressions was actually that amazing.
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[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I understand I will tell him¡±
Karla turned her head into Cyan direction.
[Karla]: ¡°New¡ I mean Cyan, Boss wishes to know if you can sell us [Ticket]¡¯s for Floor 8 at the discounted price, and also he says that all the rewards from that Floor are yours to keep and that if you want to form your own faction we would not stop you for doing so¡±
Cyan could only retort him his mind, ¡°did Boss really said all that?¡± However, he didn¡¯t have to think twice his answer.
[Cyan]: ¡°Of course I will sell them to Boss, and I wish to remain in Boss faction, I mean I just joined today¡±
Boss nodded and transferred the Credits to Cyan, Cyan then bought the [Ticket] using the app and handed them over to Boss, at this time Cyan found out he could buy the [Ticket]¡¯s for Floor 8 at a 50% discount, after their transaction was over Boss left area through the elevator, probably he went straight to Floor 8.
Noticing this Alice could not help but to ask.
[Alice]: ¡°Miss Karla will Boss be ok? Is not the Floor 8 full of other Players of other factions right now?¡±
Karla gives Alice a palm in the back without saying anything else as if saying she doesn¡¯t have to worry about it at all, or maybe she was also worried.
In the other hand, Karga could not help but to give his opinion out.
[Karga]: ¡°I would worry more about the other Players in the Floor that try to mess with Boss training if I were you¡±
Karla clapped her hands drawing all the attention onto her.
[Karla]: ¡°Well then, there were a couple of surprises but everything went as planned, now we should get started with the training of the kids already instead of wasting even more of our time in this Floor¡±
Karla stood up from her chair and turned to look at Cyan.
[Karla]: ¡°New¡ I mean Cyan¡, I thank you for helping out Boss¡±
Karla did a small bow and before Cyan or Alice could say anything she took Alice hand and drag her away to the elevator, leaving Cyan and Karga behind still sitting in the table.
Cyan turned around giving a question glance to Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°Well she doesn¡¯t give thanks that often¡±
Karga could only give Cyan a palm in the back showing him his thanks, he also doesn¡¯t understand Karla actions either, even when they are twins and their actions similar as they don¡¯t know how to express a simple ¡°thanks¡±.
[Karga]: ¡°I knew my gut instincts were right, they are never wrong¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°About what Senior?¡±The story has been illicitly taken; should you find it on Amazon, report the infringement.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡ let¡¯s leave it for later, now¡I guess I will be the one in charge of your training kid hehe¡±
Karga started to smile in an evil way that made Cyan feel as his body was starting to hurt all over the place because of that smile, for some reason Cyan had a bad feeling about all this.
[Karga]: ¡°Say, newbie, do you have [Energy] items with you?¡±
Cyan shook his head desperately as if his life depended on it.
[Cyan]: ¡°I don¡¯t Senior I already used them all¡±
Karga could not help but go ¡°Tsk¡± while clicking his tongue in his mouth, however, Karga thought about something they could do.
[Karga]: ¡°Then how about you buy some from the shop? You should be probably be swimming in Credits if you were able to unlock a Floor, it only cost 1.000 Credits for the drink and 1.000 Credits for the food, 2.000 the whole set, what do you say newbie how many sets can you buy right now?¡±
Cyan wanted to retort back that after unlocking a Floor it would be the opposite of swimming in Credits and that he was left with no Credits however he had the feeling that Karga could see through him and directly into the Credits in his inventory and he could not lie or he would make things even worse, he thought for a second while doing some math calculation inside his head, right now he could buy 13 sets of [Energy] items, but then he be left with almost no Credits, not to mention that he has the feeling he could not honestly say to Karga how many he could buy right now or he would force to use all of them in a single day, but then Cyan remembered his saving grace the [Shop], Cyan made out his mind.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior I can buy 13 sets of [Energy] items from the [Shop] however even though I will like to the [Shop] is still unavailable and it will unlock in 3 more weeks¡±
Karga smile didn¡¯t disappear.
[Karga]: ¡°Hum? Then why don¡¯t you unlock it then?¡±
Cyan could only reply back what [Midas] had told him at that time.
[Cyan]: ¡°I asked [Midas] what to do to unlock it but it says it would be actually unlocked during the fourth week, look¡±
Cyan then showed Karga the message, Cyan wanted to run away but he was being held by Karga by the shoulder.
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Reply: ¡°What I need to do for opening the [Shop] in the app?¡±
Message Midas: ¡°Nothing, the Player [Shop] will automatically be opened for the Player during the 4 week of training on the [Training Tower], Cyan is advice to keep¡.¡±
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Karga read through the message however he kept smiling while he said something while dragging his words that made Cyan realized there was way out now.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey newbie¡ why don¡¯t you¡ try asking [Midas] what you need to do to unlock the [Shop]¡ before that date and see what happens eh?¡±
Cyan felt all his body starting to tremble, that¡¯s right, he had asked how to open it but not how to open it faster, Cyan thought inside his mind this is what Karla meant by ¡°asking the right questions¡± to [Midas], Karga, on the other hand, keep smiling without saying anything as he already knew what will happen next, while Cyan last hope was fading away with each letter he tipped into his phone.
Even though he didn¡¯t want to do, Karga was sitting beside him... forcing him?
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait! Senior are you not being a little forceful here, aren¡¯t you afraid [Midas] would charge you a penalty for that?¡±
However, Karga didn¡¯t release him even when he said that.
[Karga]: ¡°What are you talking about, newbie, this is all part of the training, not to mention you are part of our faction now, we are just bounding you see¡±
¡°Ah so it was like that¡± Cyan could understand how the other factions could ¡°not force¡± a Player around as Cyan give up to his own fate, the only good thing was that he was in good hands right?
Reply: Willy how can I unlock the [Shop] before the opening date?¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan can unlock the [Shop] before the date by spending 10.000 Credits for it, do you wish to proceed?¡±
Karga was still beside Cyan looking at him while he tipped into his phone, he could not reject it.
Reply: ¡°Yes, please unlock it¡±
Cyan wanted to include an extra (not) there but he couldn¡¯t in the end.
New messages started to arrive while Cyan feel his eyes tearing up as he read through them.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan has unlocked the [Shop], Cyan can now access the [Shop] using his phone¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is reimbursed 10% of his purchased, Cyan is advice to keep training¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan after your first purchased in the [Shop] you will be gifted 1 set of [Energy] items, Cyan is advice to keep training¡±
Cyan felt like crying while screaming inside his mind at the same time, ¡°Willy why you need to be so amazing right now!¡±, Cyan also wanted to ask what happened to [Midas] balancing system, however, the answer of that comes from the fact that because Cyan lost one week of training [Midas] balancing is now helping him out to catch up with the other gen 2 Players.
Without any other choice, Cyan opened up the [Shop] in the app and the tapped into [Items].
[Shop]
[Shop]
- ¡
- Items
- Lowest Energy Potion 5.000 Credits
- ¡
- ¡
- Energy Drink 1.000 Credits (Only available inside the Tower)
- Energy Food 1.000 Credits (Only available inside the Tower)
- ¡
After buying all the [Energy] items he could Cyan open his inventory once again.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 7 x29
- Energy Drink x10
- Energy Food x10
[Equipment]
[Karga]: ¡°Alright with 10 sets should be enough for today, let¡¯s go hehe¡±
While Cyan was unlocking the [Shop] he keep receiving rewards from the Floor so he ended buying 9 sets of [Energy] items while he got one for free from the [Shop], and even though he wanted to check out the [Shop] a little more now that he had unlocked it, the twin Karga didn¡¯t give him any chance for that as he was dragged away to Floor 5.
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When they entered the Floor Cyan could see Karla and Alice running in #10 track so he started walking in that direction however he was soon stopped by Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°Where you think you are going¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°To track #10?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°This isn¡¯t your school track kid, running with your girlfriend it is not the best way to train you up¡±
Cyan could not help to retort back
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice it is not my girlfriend¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Whatever you say, kid, you can play couples after we are done training, now come with me¡±
Karga looked Cyan with a condescending look meaning he didn¡¯t believe a word of Cyan was saying, soon they reached track #30, it was as far as possible from Alice training track as they could have been.
There was nobody inside the track #30 either, probably most Players are in Floor 8 right now.
After they entered the track Karga turned around and looked into Cyan eyes, the training starts now.
[Karga]: ¡°Alright kid listen up, Players are all different, their stats are different and the way they train inside the Tower also are all different, first we need to dig out your potential and see what are you good for, now, the first step, can you show me your stats?¡±
Cyan hesitated until now he didn¡¯t have a problem to show his stats to Alice but¡ showing his stats to everyone would be a problem, after all, it was reflected how strong he was, and also how weak too.
Karga could only smile and nod to Cyan hesitation.
[Karga]: ¡°You do well in hesitating, showing you stats openly is indeed a bad idea, unless of course you want everyone to know what your weak points are and where your strength lies, now, if you don¡¯t want to show it to me, that¡¯s fine too and I will not punish you for that, however bear in mind that it would help me to decide your training method and what stats we should be focusing first, understand?¡±
Cyan decided to trust Karga in the end, after all, until know they have indeed been trying to help them out, not to mention they were already in the same faction, so Cyan took his phone and showed his stats to Karga.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 17 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 19 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 17 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 21 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 21
Karga could not be more surprised, after all, he had seen Cyan running in the track once so he could guess some of his stats, but having such stats was something else entirely, the male average would be 10¡¯s but he got 17 in STR, 19 in DEX, 17 in END, 21 in STA, Karga could not be more impressed with Cyan stats, however he had seen Cyan running on the track yesterday so how come his stats were like this?, not to mention his appearance look so weak, something felt off in Karga mind.
[Karga]: ¡°Woah newbie you are pretty strong even when you look so weak, not to mention you had a lot of Free Point here¡±
Cyan took the time to explain to Karga what his initial stats actually were, and that his current stats was thanks to [Midas] and yesterday Player grow.
Karga could get a better view of why Cyan stats were like this, however, all his stats have increased almost equally, there was no main stat here.
[Karga]: ¡°So it was like that, however, be your pitiful low initial stats or the current ones you have, they are still pretty well balanced, so your training are going to be difficult, this may become a problem in the future too, say kiddo do you have anything that you are good at?¡±
Cyan understood why is going to be a problem, he didn¡¯t have something he excels at, be STR, DEX or STA or even his END, however, there was something he was good at, his studies.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what about my INT stat?¡±
Even though his initial stats were very low his INT stat was very high actually, however¡
[Karga]: ¡°You can forget about that, I am supposed to give you math problems for you to solve kid? That¡¯s not why I am here for anyway, so I can take you don¡¯t anything else that you are good at?¡±
Cyan shook his head indicating he didn¡¯t, while Karga let out a sigh
[Karga]: ¡°For now you can think of yourself as lacking in every aspect and not being good in anything particular¡±
Cyan felt this assessment of him was right making him feel sorrowful, what else he could do? He tried to think into something but nothing came to his mind, he was happy with the idea of growing stronger inside the tower because he knew he was weak since the beginning.
Karga stopped to think what he should be doing now that he was stuck in how to train Cyan, he didn¡¯t think it would be like this, and should he be asking his sister for assistance? No, asking Karla was not an option here she was busy training the other kid now, but Cyan was really an all stats Player here, meaning he didn¡¯t excel at anything and his stats are well balanced, training this type of people was a pain and very hard to do, because he would have to train double even if he just wanted increase one of his stat, and triple for two stats at the same time, and if he wanted to train all of them it would become a nightmare of a training not to mention time-consuming, and their time inside the tower could not be called long either, so it would be just a waste of time if they train like this¡ or maybe not.
Karga smile as he thought of something.
Seeing Karga smile again after being with a serious face for a while Cyan could not hold back his curiosity.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior did you found a way to train me?¡±
Karga nodded
[Karga]: ¡°Yes I have¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what stat we should be focusing first?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°¡All of them¡±
Cyan thought he had heard that wrong.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior can you repeat that again?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°We will be focusing on training all of your stats at the same time kid¡±
Karga smile as he remembered about another Player he knew was also an all stats Player, the good for nothing Player, Boss.
¡°Maybe it really was fate after all¡± Karga thought inside his head.
Chapter 018 - A Player Way of Training?
Chapter 018 - A Player Way of Training?
[Karga]: ¡°Now that I know how I will be training you, let¡¯s start by using your Free Points and putting your stats at the same level, an all stats Player shines the most when all of his stats are the same after all¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what about the INT stat?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°We don¡¯t know how to increase that stat yet, so it is better to leave it alone for now, and if in the future we don¡¯t a find a way to increase it then you may use your Free Points for that, understood?¡±
Cyan nodded his head as he proceeded to increase all of his stats to the same level with the exception of the INT stat, then he checked his status again in the app.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 21 Tier 0
- Dexterity (DEX): 21 Tier 0
- Endurance (END): 21 Tier 0
- Stamina (STA): 21 Tier 0
- Intelligence (INT): 12 Tier 0
- Free Points: 11
Cyan ended using 10 points of his Free Points but after doing so he felt his body becoming lighter, more flexible and stronger, and above all, more balance, he could understand now how he out of balanced he truly was before and this was the reason why all stats Players shine the most when all of his stats are the same, in the other hand he could not help but to wonder how great will he be when his INT also increase to the same level of his other stats.
After Cyan finished with his status update he put away his phone, while Karga took the chance to explain some other matters to him.
[Karga]: ¡°Now, kid, there are two ways of gaining stats, one is throughout your own sweat and it is known as Player grow, and the other way is by [Midas] rewards that could directly increase your stats or the ones that can be used up for later on, the so-called Free Points¡±
Of course Cyan was already aware of this and also what each of his stats actually does, so Karga didn¡¯t have to waste time in explaining this either, now Karga could move to ask the next simple question.
[Karga]: ¡°Now kid let me ask you something, two Players with the same stats but one got all of his stats increased by [Midas] and the other grow them by himself, now who you think is stronger¡±
Cyan thought, ¡°Chances are they equally strong, however¡¡±, the rule that hard gains come from hard work reverberated into his brain.
[Cyan]: ¡°The Player that has grown up his stats by himself?¡±
Even so, he could not help but rephrase his answer as a question.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡¯s correct, even though they are very similar, the Player that has grown up with his stats will have the advantage in battle, of course, that doesn¡¯t mean the other Player will be any weaker either, I hope that you bear that in mind as you learn to control your own stats¡±
Cyan never had thought how he could gain strength so easily or how his stamina could be improved by so much in a day, now that he thought about it, when he arrived at the Tower his STA was only 5, and now it was 21, three times more, that progress was indeed fast, but it was all thanks to [Midas], meaning he didn¡¯t have grown with his stats and he could not use them properly yet.
[Karga]: ¡°Alright let me show you something interesting¡±
Karga then took out a knife from his inventory and made a deep cut into his left hand, all the while showing it to Cyan, and while the flowing red blood was coming out from the wound Karga had asked him another simple question.
[Karga]: ¡°Now kid, where do you think those ¡°stats¡± increase come from?¡±
However Cyan could not think about his answer as he was worried about Karga stranger behavior.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what are you doing! I don¡¯t know the answer, please do cut yourself like that¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Keep watching kid¡±
Cyan flinched to the sight of blood, and while he was thinking that Karga had gone crazy, something strange started to happen in Karga hand, as the cut that was very long started to close up by itself, and the blood in his hand started to evaporate into a red mist, while the blood that was stuck into his knife and in the floor also had started to become a red mist and floated back into his hand and then it disappeared, soon nor the wound or the blood was left and Karga hand was back to normal as if nothing had happened and the bloody scene was just part of a magic trick.
[Cyan]: ¡°What the... is this?¡±
Cyan could not prevent an exclamation scape his mouth.
[Karga]: ¡°This is not a magic trip kid, and even though it is like this, the pain will remain for a while, and also it still hurts no matter how many times you do it, so I don¡¯t recommend doing that often¡±
Karga let a sigh as the pain remain the same no matter how many times he does it, and then he stores his knife away into his inventory, making Cyan feel more relaxed as the possibility of being stabbed by accident was reduced.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡.¡±
Cyan could not help to wonder if Karga was still human, a human could not heal like that, however, he believed that Karga must be still human as his blood was still red right?.
[Karga]: ¡°Alright kid, next question won''t take a guess what would happen if stab you with the knife? Should I show it to you if your guess is wrong?¡±
Cyan face went pale to the thought of being stabbed by that scary looking knife if his guessed wrong, even just the sight of blood would make his legs tremble, not to mention the feel of the pain that being stabbed would bring to his mind.
[Cyan]: ¡°No please that won¡¯t be necessary Senior I will also bleed like that¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Right, and then?¡±
Even though Cyan didn¡¯t want to say it, if he did not give out his answer, Karga would probably take out that knife again and stab him with it, no doubt about it.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡it will close up the same way¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Bingo, and you know why?¡±
Cyan was stuck now, his brain working at full speed, the fear of being stab helped him to think faster, he could only search the answer in the things he knew, [Midas] was obviously a supercomputer, a computer that was miles ahead of any computer on earth, and one that could control robots around¡ many many robots¡ that could only mean one thing¡ a thought came up into Cyan brain, something that could only be found in science fiction books.Stolen from Royal Road, this story should be reported if encountered on Amazon.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡Nanobots?¡±
Karga smile, this was the advantage of training smart people, he didn¡¯t have to waste time explaining complicated things, Karga would resort to stabbing people instead, it was far simpler that way, however, the thought of stabbing a kid didn¡¯t set well on his mind.
[Karga]: ¡°You are pretty smart don¡¯t you kid? Did that Alice told you before? She also looks very smart¡±
Cyan shook his head
[Cyan]: ¡°I just thought it was the only option that makes sense¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Well you are not wrong, your body, Alice, Karla, Boss, and mine, everyone¡¯s here, are full of tiny machines called nanobots, or well that¡¯s what Karla told me, they handle all of us stats increases and also they heal us up, and they consume [Energy] items are their fuel amount other things, and they¡ improve our bodies making us grow stronger¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°that¡ when that happened?¡±
Cyan was trying to ask when their bodies were filled up with nanobots.
[Karga]: ¡°I don¡¯t know, but probably at some point after the teleportation to the Tower¡±
Cyan tried to remember his first day in the tower, the first thing that happens was that Willy offered him a bottle of water¡ was at that moment? Cyan could only think it was back then. Not minding Cyan status, Karga continues with his explanation into something even more shocking.
[Karga]: ¡°Heck, you could even be a clone of yourself after the teleportation for all we know, with this level of technology making human clones shouldn¡¯t be a hard thing to do right?¡±
That possibility shocked Cyan mind even more than the nanobots, it is true that during the teleportation a white light flashed in front of his eyes and in the next moment he was inside the Tower, did someone copy out his memories and then put them inside a new body? Would that make him a fake? This was the kind of things that could make a person change from being normal to start feeling paranoia in a blink.
[Cyan]: ¡°No wait, after the person [accept] it disappears from earth, right? So that means there is only one me right?¡±
Karga could only shrug off his shoulders, Karla was the one that handles that kind of questions, he could only repeat what he knew.
[Karga]: ¡°It is true that people disappeared from earth but we don¡¯t exactly how, were they teleported or turned into dust by a cosmic beam? Well, whatever it is the case there are crazy folks out there that would love to think themselves as nor being part of the human race anymore, but that¡¯s just only an excuse to do terrible things to other people, I can¡¯t deny the fact that we may not be humans anymore but that doesn¡¯t give them the right to¡ sigh¡±
Karga clenched his hand into a fist but he then released it while letting out a sigh to release his accumulated anger, he had been working for the GP for a long time and he knows how humans that think of themselves as being more than simple humans behave in the real world, and now that they were actually more than just simple humans the end result was obvious to him, but for now he could only focus his mind into training the kid in from of him the right way.
[Karga]: ¡°My point is, Cyan I want for you to think of yourself as still being human, be that you are clone, or Player, or whatever it may be, please keep your identity and remain human until the end, I hope you understand this single point more than anything else¡±
Cyan could understand Karga point as Players who would think themselves as something better than a normal human start appearing bad things will also start to happen, and those that believe themselves to be more than humans would undoubtedly lose their humanity in the process because of that, however, Cyan knew something that most people didn¡¯t, the pain of losing your humanity by abandoning someone to its dead and the regret that came out later, all of this he learned from a mere dream that was not actually a dream.
Karga didn¡¯t give Cyan any more time to think inside his head as he went back on topic of training, bringing Cyan back to his senses.
[Karga]: ¡°Anyway kid, right after the transfer, we followed the procedure to test our senses of pain, sight, hearing, strength, agility, and speed, and even though it is not a sense per se, we also tested that our thoughts and memories remained the same, that¡¯s how we found about the nanobots and other things too during our test¡±
Cyan could not help to wonder what other things Boss faction had found out, or how they had tested that their thoughts remained the same, however asking about all of this would have been a waste of time, so, for now, it was better to ask about things that would affect his training.
[Cyan]: ¡°What other changes to our bodies did you found?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°First, our hearing and sight both have improved, second, our strength have also increased but later on we found out that the nanobots were actually stimulating our muscles so we could use all of the muscles at the same time without tearing them apart, and that¡ cut limps can be reattached even after 10 minutes¡±
Cyan mind froze as he thought how far Boss faction had taken into experimenting on themselves to see what else had changed, unlike him that didn¡¯t do any of that stuff, and just followed instructions, a foolish way of thinking.
[Karga]: ¡°[Midas] warm us no to do that again as it consumes resources for nothing, of course, the one testing all of this was Boss and he only cut out his finger, but man he didn¡¯t even flinch at that time¡±
Cyan could only picture the unmoving face of Boss while cutting his finger off and then reattaching it back again after 10 minutes, it must require nerves of steel for doing something like that.
[Karga]: ¡°Alright, we had been wasting enough time already, let¡¯s see, all of your stats are the same now, but that does mean you know how to punch, dodged or even how to take a hit, as for you stamina that only means we need to keep you going until you can¡¯t go anymore, and not to mention your body definitely looks weak, so lets us being with something light hehe¡±
Cyan could not help but ask something before they start.
[Cyan]: ¡°Should I be taking the [Energy Drink] now?¡±
Cyan has 10 of those, so using it from the start should be the right move right?
[Karga]: ¡°Save it for later, you will need it hehe¡±
Karga brushed off Cyan questions as he keeps playing with his phone.
[Karga]: ¡°First we need to add a little bit of this, oh we definitely need this¡, hey kid how high is your tolerance against fire? Well, it does matter anyway¡¡±
Karga was laughing while manipulating his phone and talking to himself about the things they needed, in the other hand Cyan could see that Karga was manipulating something in the [Map] of the area using the app, making him start to have a bad feeling about all of this.
[Karga]: ¡°Cyan why don¡¯t you go and start running around the track for¡ warming up, I will catch you up in a bit after I am done here¡±
Cyan could only feel something was up as Karga keep giggling while manipulating his phone with a smile, but Cyan started to run in the track anyways, after all, it was just a normal track, however he soon understood what Karga was doing in his phone as the track #30 started to transform, the once normal tack was soon filled with obstacles and traps, however wasn¡¯t the difficulty of the track a little bit¡ too high?
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior why the track on fire!¡±
Cyan could not help but scream as he dodged another ball of fire coming out his way.
Karga could only laugh to himself while catching up to Cyan on the track.
[Karga]: ¡°The best way for you to train your DEX stat is for you to dodge something repeatedly, and the best way for you to train you END stat is by being surrounded by fire, then there is you STA stat as you will be running around the track until you can¡¯t go on, and then there are some obstacles that you can only go through them using your STR stat, so don¡¯t you think this is the best cost-efficient way of training?, even if go through a wall of fire you would still be training your stats hehe¡±
Cyan lost his focus as he was hearing Karga explanation making him fail to dodge the next ball of fire that hit in him in the chest, making him lost his balance and fall to the ground, but even then the balls of fire keep coming out where he was, being on the ground would not save him from getting hit at all, and only dodging by a paper-thin margin would save him from getting hit because those balls of fire look to have a will of their own as they move through air following Cyan around.
[Karga]: ¡°Oh right before I forget the [Energy Drink] is food for the nanobots, so when you start feeling like you are actually dying to take it out and drink it but don¡¯t worry as long [Midas] is here you won¡¯t die during training no matter what¡±.
Karga helped Cyan to stand back up again and gave him a palm in the back, and with a smile force him to keep running around the track, this was his definition of a nightmare way of training, transforming the track into an actual hell.
Cyan could not see it because the wall of flames surrounding the track was blocking out his view, not to mention the suffocating heat and the laughing Karga hitting his brain like a hammer stopping him from thinking in any other matters, but Alice was not having a field day either, as her track had transformed into something were you could lose an arm or two if you get slightly distracted.
Both Cyan and Alice had started their insane training at the same time, one tailored for their stats, and with their bodies wellbeing on the line and under the tutelage of two individuals that may have become a little crazy after expending 2 weeks inside the [Training Room], they will now grow stronger and at a faster pace than ever before.
Chapter 019 - A loss by K.O?
Chapter 019 - A loss by K.O?
Cyan and Alice met in the food area once again.
Cyan was looking like he had come out from a building on fire with all of his clothes burned off here and there, and there was a big hole in his chest and back. However, he did not have any burn marks left into his skin, and that was because they already had disappeared from his body as he already healed up in Floor 4 after the training.
On the other hand, Alice clothes did not have any cut on them, but her face that was as white as a sheet of paper together with her expression was telling the story that her current wound free status was not showing. As for her clothes, she already had changed into another set after her initial clothes had become rags due to the way her training has been carried out before she went into Floor 4 to heal up.
Alice expression meant she had failed to dodge quite a few times the shard obstacles in the track, however, no wound was left into her body either, even when one of her arms had almost been cut off at some point in time, making her heart almost stop of the scare. On the other hand, Cyan face told the history of a person that was almost burned alive while running for his dear life, however, at this point, neither of the two could say what it was the more painfully experience.
They both just sat down on their chairs with an empty gaze and without saying anything at all, as they shared the untold horrors of their training without the need for using words. In the end, they recovered enough to order so food, because, in truth, the hunger they were both feeling right now could suppress whatever other feelings they were having inside their minds right now.
Cyan could not help but ask.
[Cyan]: ¡°so¡ how was your training?¡±
Cyan could tell that Alice training had also been like hell, if her trainer was Karla the sister of that fire demon Karga, which means her training could not have been any easier than his own training; their personality of the twins should also be similar when it came to training Cyan thought after observing Alice status.
Alice gathered enough strength to give her a reply.
[Alice]: ¡°¡It was¡ ok¡ how was yours?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡It was also¡ ok¡±
They both looked at each other and nodded after coming to an understanding as both of their training regimes were crazy, and both of the training were also equally as crazy as the training itself, because both Karla and Karga were on the same track as they were training on while teaching them how to move around the track at each step of the way, and all the while dogging all the obstacles they couldn¡¯t dodge.
It worked to inspire Cyan and Alice to try their best in their training as the twins were giving them all of their support individually. In the end, Alice and Cyan shared a laugh due to their sorry appearances and started to eat the food that was brought by the robots to the table, after eating their fifth plate of food and that they finally felt their bellies being full was when they started feeling a lot better.
At the same time, someone had come to the same table they were using.
[Karla]: ¡°But isn¡¯t this the couple, perhaps I am interrupting a date?¡±
Cyan and Alice could only go red and look go away from each other after Karla commentary.
[Alice]: ¡°It is not like that¡¡±
Karla didn¡¯t mind the kid¡¯s reaction as she took a sit in the table without asking for permission.
[Karla]: ¡°Hey newbie don¡¯t you want to hear something interesting? If you give 1.000 Credits I will tell you¡±
Cyan ignore the fact that Karla was back to calling him a newbie, he didn¡¯t any strength to argue back right now.
[Cyan]: ¡°Tell me what?¡±
Cyan could not help but to grow curious, however, Alice¡¯s face became even redder and she started to flap her arms trying to stop Cyan from asking.
[Karla]: ¡°Of course, I will tell you what color they are you know¡±
In the mind of Cyan, a lightbulb was turned on, however when he turned around and saw Alice glaring gaze that she was putting on he could only refuse! Totally refuse!
[Karla]: ¡°ah ah what a shame, you know, they were very¡¡±
Before Karla could finish a deep voice interrupted her.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla¡±
A wall of muscles blocked Cyan view as Boss took out a chair to sit down, Karga had also come to the table taking a sit in front of his twin sister.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss I was just lighting the mood, they both looked so pitiful after the training you should have seen their faces¡±.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright alright¡ however, newbie, I will throw a freebie for you, during the training Alice keep trying to look at your training, making her received far more wounds that she would have otherwise¡±
Cyan could only turn into Alice direction as he was asking if this was true but she only avoided his gazed and opted for not saying anything at all, however, this makes Cyan hearth feeling warmer, because he also wanted to look for Alice training but a wall of fire was on the way, preventing him for even knowing in what direction to even look, however, his secret was soon revealed by Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°oh that¡¯s what newbie was also doing? looking for Alice? During his training, he kept looking around making fail to dodged several times¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
It was good that Boss was there for them, saving Alice and Cyan from more teasing of the twins.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, enough of that Karga you are making the kids feel bad¡±
Karga wanted to retort ¡°You were the one that started it!¡± but he had to give up because arguing with his sister was like digging his own grave, and also he had another thing to ask Boss about.
[Karla]: ¡°Right Boss how was Floor 8?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°I loss¡±
Cyan could only be stunned, ¡°this wall of muscle actually had lost? Impossible!¡± He thought to himself that this must be a joke of Boss.
In the other hand, everyone else in the table also acted the same.
[Karla]: ¡°What? How?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Don¡¯t know it was by K.O¡±
Nobody in the table could hide their surprise faces, Boss was a very tall man full of muscles, anyone capable of knocking the lights out of him must be something like an even bigger monster.
However, before anyone else had the chance made another question, it was the turn of Boss to ask a question.
[Boss]: ¡°Cyan how did you unlocked the Floor?¡±
Karla nodded also, she had also asked this, but actually Cyan had brushed off the subject before, but now she wanted real answers.
[Karla]: ¡°Right, newbie I had been wondering how you earned 500.000 Credits on you for unlocking the Floor?¡±
Cyan could see everyone in table growing curious about this topic including Alice, so he could only say the truth, that he didn¡¯t have 500.000 Credits and that the floor only cost him 90.000 Credits that he got from losing his robot Willy.Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!
[Karla]: ¡°So it was like that¡ however, I don¡¯t think other Players got that many Credits for the robot, not to mention the price of the Floor is¡¡±
Even though there were many problems with this explanation Karla could read Cyan face and she knew he was telling the truth, even though she wanted to make more question Boss didn¡¯t felt they needed to dig out more information.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Cough¡ but you did well in buying it, you will get your money back soon and then some, of course, the offer still stands if you want to buy the information just text me and I will send you the picture¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Cough ¡ then Boss how you were K.O¡±
Karga could not help but to try to move the conversation forward, his sister had been angering Boss too much, of course, it also could be said that after 3 weeks she was bored to death, so having Cyan and Alice to play around could be said her way around to released her accumulated stress.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s right Boss we are dying to know how you were K.O¡±
Boss thought for a second, how did actually he got K.O¡ he doesn¡¯t know, he only remembers one thing though.
[Boss]: ¡°Something fast and hard hit me, K.O¡±
The atmosphere in the table turned heavy by the boss answer.
[Karla]: ¡°How hard?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Very¡±
[Karga]: ¡°How fast?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Very¡±
Even though the boss words were short and hard to understand, they still carry the meaning of someone that has been in real combat, and it has been training inside the Tower for 3 weeks already.
Something very hard and something very fast hit him and did a K.O on him, and before anyone else could ask another question Boss continue with his explanation.
[Boss]: ¡°We had to fight against these¡±
Then Boss took out his phone out and showed a picture taken from the video Alice had shared with them.
Everyone in the table was shocked by this revelation, everyone was expecting that in the [Fighting Area] there would be fights, but against other Players as part of their training, however that was incorrect, but it made sense, after all, there was already the P.V.P in Floor 7, and they were here training not to fight other Players but to fight against monsters.
[Karla]: ¡°You had a fight against those monster?¡±
Boss nodded his head
[Karga]: ¡°Wait Boss you fought and lost?¡±
Boss nodded his head again
This time Karla and Karga were mute, they didn¡¯t have anything else to say, Boss was a tall tower for them to be measured in, they never had beat him in a 1 on 1 combat, be inside or outside the Tower, and other Players could probably not beat him in 1 vs 1 fight either and yet he had lost¡
[Boss]: ¡°I won on the first round 1 vs 1, and the second round 1 vs 5, however the third round 1 vs 1 I lost in K.O¡±
The information Boss has brought was not over.
[Boss]: ¡°Those things cooperate with each other on round two, and on the third round an even bigger one shows up¡±
Everyone in the table knew that one of those things could go against bullets but if there is to be an army of those monster and they were to gather¡ not to mention they were also cooperating with each other, even so, Boss had won on the second round but then¡ an even bigger monster show up that waste him in a single move.
Karla didn¡¯t know if she was gathering more information or she was getting her hopes crushed down by Boss, however, Boss hasn¡¯t given up yet, as if he was reading the mood in the table.
[Boss]: ¡°I will keep challenging it until I win¡±
A fire could be seen inside Boss eyes as they were burning in passion, so much so that Boss that didn¡¯t like to talk too much had been talking a lot right now.
The fighting spirit in Boss also ignited everyone spirit in the table.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss we will go with you and keep up with you no matter what¡±
[Karga]: ¡°That¡¯s right Boss there is no way we can lose against some beast if we fight together¡±
Boss shook his head showing his refusal for the proposal.
[Boss]: ¡°You need to keep training Alice and Cyan, they are part of our faction now¡±
After saying his piece Boss stoop up and left the area, probably he is going challenge the [Fighting Area] again, that supposition proved to be right after Boss returned and asked Cyan for a [Ticket] before leaving again.
In the other hand Boss now could go to Floor 8 with a clear mind after he had checked out the status of the kids, leaving their training to his two most trusted subordinates was indeed a good idea.
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After Boss left Karla let out a sigh, she was obviously worried about Boss wellbeing, however her fighting spirit was still burning, meaning someone else will have to suffer the consequences.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, you two should go and take a rest, we will continue after you wake up, at twice the intensity!¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What! Wait can¡¯t we take it more slowly? We just started today¡±
However, Karla was not alone in this as her twin brother was also with the same mindset.
[Karga]: ¡°No can do, you hear Boss, we had confirmed the enemy and their fighting capabilities, and we are way underpowered to deal with them, so we need to train even harder from now on¡±
Cyan could only accept their words and go to his room to take a rest, this time Alice didn¡¯t go with him as she went to her own room, they both had a lot of think about after today¡¯s training and Boss revelations of Floor 8.
At this time Cyan phone vibrated indicating he got a new notification.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Boss wish to add you as a contact, do you wish to accept or refuse¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karga wish to add you as a contact, do you wish to accept or refuse¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karla wish to add you as a contact, do you wish to accept or refuse¡±
Cyan accepted all of them as contacts.
Soon after he got a new message from Karla.
Message [Karla]: ¡°You aren¡¯t too late newbie you can still buy this precious information about your sweetheart, and if you act now I will also add a bonus item, it will help you to have sweet dreams if you put it under your pillow you know¡±
Cyan was feeling very tented, Karla had a way with words that make him wanted to know ¡°that¡± information, not mention what the bonus item was, however before he could answer he got another message
Message [Alice]: ¡°I hope you aren¡¯t talking with Karla about things you shouldn¡¯t be talking¡±
Cyan could felt the angry tone of Alice in her message, he would probability earn her wrath if he keeps playing around like this, even though it was fun to see Alice mad face, he knew it was better not to push his luck too much.
Reply: ¡°I refuse please stop writing about this subject I am not interested at all¡±
Message [Karla]: ¡°What a shame¡your loss newbie¡±
With a clean cut refusal, Karla should have understood already that Cyan doesn¡¯t want anything to do with her shady business, however, he got a new message but this time there was a photo attached to it.
Message [Karla]: ¡°[Photo]¡±
Cyan didn¡¯t want to open the photo, because he could feel it was something he should not open, but his hand move on his own and his finger accidentally tapped into the [photo], then a picture of cute blueish fabric that was cut in half show up in his phone, Cyan could now understand what the bonus item was all about, as he was thinking that some started to bang into his door.
When he opened the door, Alice with a red face was waiting for him outside, Cyan probably guessed she also got the same message as he did by her facial expression.
With a deep and serious voice, she asked him.
[Alice]: ¡°Did you opened it?¡±
Cyan considered his options, he could lie but then a lie can blow up into his face later on, but if he was honest¡ then¡
[Cyan]: ¡°¡ I did¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Alice was doing the same angry expressions Boss was showing just early on when Karla was teasing them in the [Food Area].
[Cyan]: ¡°But it was by mistake I swear¡±
Cyan also added it was a mistake after seeing Alice angry face, he was expecting to be slapped, but Alice just left without saying anything else, what was worse than being slapped it? It was getting no answer, at least with the slap he could have been forgiven.
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In another room not too far away
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan has removed you as a contact¡±
Karla could only laugh to herself as she read through the message.
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Cyan let out a sigh after he entered back into his room, and after blocking Karla for sending any more messages that would cause him any more problems, he moved to the read the rest of messages he got from today¡¯s training.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed the 30 km, Awarded 90 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed the 50 km, Awarded 250 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [4] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [5] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
As for today¡¯s gains he only got 340 Credits in total and 2 Free Points, however after resting for a bit his stats should increase on their own, of course when he finished with the Quest his status should also get a nice boost, Cyan thought of this as he reviewed the progress of the Quest.
[Quest]
- Start your training (Completed)
- Become a Player Tutor (In progress) (6 days remaining)
- [Start your training II] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (Cleared)
- [3] Run 20 km (Cleared)
- [4] Run 30 km (Cleared)
- [5] Run 50 km (Cleared)
- [6] Run 80 km (In Progress) (1/80)
- [7] Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
However what Karga said to him during today¡¯s training still weight on inside his mind, he will have to train harder than anyone else because he was an all stats Player, and that having more stats didn¡¯t mean growing stronger than everyone else because he would still be weaker than some that just raised his strength, slower than some that just raised his dexterity, and will grow more tired that someone that just raised his stamina, so to be at the same level as everyone else that focus in one stat he needs to train 5 times as much or more.
Even though he wanted to think more about this matter his eyes started to feel very heavy as he lay down on top of his bed, and with those thoughts still going around his mind, Cyan fell into the worlds of dreams once again.
Chapter 020 - A Night Report
Chapter 20 - A Night Report
On Room #351, Alice was also reviewing her phone notifications inside her room.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed 30 km, Awarded 90 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed 50 km, Awarded 250 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed 80 km, Awarded 640 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [4] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [5] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] [6] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±.
Karla evaluation of Alice is that she has very well balanced stats, however from now on she will be focusing on increasing her Dexterity first, instead of increasing her other stats, in other words, she is to increase her speed. Alice has agreed with Karla training plan that was being centered around her Dexterity stat, as such she had proceeded to run as fast as her legs would allow her and for as long as her body would last during her training, that¡¯s how she managed to run more kilometers than Cyan, which focus was not only training his Dexterity but all of his stats.
Karla has also explained Alice the same topics that Karga has explained Cyan during his training, and even though she was surprised, she still didn¡¯t waver in her commitment for growing stronger with each day, it was the opposite, now that she knows her wounds would heal without any problems she could run on the track without fear, after all, she was already committed into one direction, and right now what she wants the most is to grow stronger and go back to earth to find her family, but not only that, she also has Cyan to think about, which was also in the same situation as her, so showing any self-doubt would be a foolish thing for her to do.
In the end, after renewing her focus and reviewing her today progress due to the hard training, Alice lay down on her bed and entered a shared world of dreams, ending like so her long day.
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In another room that wasn¡¯t available for Players, stood a lonely robot surrounded by monitors, the robot kept his two camera sensors fixed into two screens that were showing Alice and Cyan sleeping faces, this was because after the analysis has shown there was a relation between the two Players it took the decision to add Alice to the list of things to gather data on, in other words, Willy took the decision to look after Alice progress, this was because his orders are to keep observing Cyan and anything that could cause the pain anomaly to appear, and also help the Player, that also includes people around it.
A figure of a small girl appeared beside Willy, with silvery eyes and a cold gaze, after observing the monitors she asked for a report.
[Midas]: ¡°Willy start with your report¡±
Willy didn¡¯t know when, but Midas has also started to call him Willy, the name he was given by Cyan, Midas analysis probably has shown that the reaction speed of the robot was faster when it addressed directly using this name, or instead there was another reason for it, but whatever it was the reason, Willy still prefers to be called by a name.
Willy proceeded with his report, but it did not take too long for the robot to finish with his report, so far, nothing outside the parameters has been detected by the sensors or anything that would cause the pain anomaly to appear, however, there was still something the sensors had picked up.
[Midas]: ¡°Player grows is outside the predictions¡±
Even though it can be considered as an anomaly, it was not the one Midas was looking for, however, being outside of the predictions was still as import as she could improve them for the future for better resources allocation, if she knew what Players would grow the most then she could raise them directly instead of wasting [Midas] limited resources.
Midas after reviewing the rest of the robot report, left without saying anything else, maybe because she never had turned her head to give a look at the robot, she never took notice that the robot was holding something inside its metallic hands, Willy kept staring the screens while holding a chip into his hands, this something he could not give directly to Cyan as a reward, even if he wanted to do so.
[¡ Tier 0 Skill]
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On Room #3, three people have gathered.
[Boss]: ¡°Report¡±
Boss was asking Karla and Karga for their report of Cyan and Alice training progress, while he was inside Floor 8 he could not watch them train directly.
Karga took notice that his twin sister Karla was playing happily with her phone, probably she was messing with the kids again, so he decided to give his report first.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss that kid progress is very fast, this should be his fourth day here but his stats already have started growing on his own, and as you know growing your stats it something that doesn¡¯t happen until later, not to mention¡ he is an all stats, the same as you Boss¡±
Karla put her phone down when she heard that part out as she interrupted her brother¡¯s report.
[Karla]: ¡°Hey Karga are you sure that you didn¡¯t make a mistake here? There is no way the newbie is the same as Boss¡±
Boss dismissed Karla comment and urged Karga to continue with his report, Karla went back to play with her phone.
[Karga]: ¡°We used part of his Free Points to make all of his stats the same, making him respond better to the training, however, he still doesn¡¯t have precise control over them, and actually¡ I think Boss should be the one to train the kid, I believe that in this way he would gain control over his stats sooner that if I trained him¡±
Karla could not help but interrupt Karga report again.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss is too busy fighting in Floor 8 to take the time for training the newbie, that¡¯s why we are the ones to do it, and now you want to give up?¡±
Karga could only massage his temples he knew this would happen.
[Karga]: ¡°I know that, but that¡¯s what my feelings are telling me, Boss should be the right person for training the kid¡±
Karga inner feelings, something that Boss could not simply ignore, unlike Karla that uses her brains to solve problems Karga uses his instincts, be that as it may, Boss is the one to make the final decision, the twins turned their heads to look into Boss direction in the waiting for his answer.
Boss thought for a moment and then he nodded to Karga evaluation, however...
[Boss]: ¡°If he asks for it then I will train him¡±
Karga could only let out a sigh, even though Boss has not rejected the possibility, still, it was up to the kid now to decide his own future.
[Karga]: ¡°Thank you, Boss¡±
Karla did not say anything else about this matter, after all, Boss has already come to a decision, and so Karla let her brother continue with his report.
[Karga]: ¡°Then there is the matter about the kid unlocking Floor 8, and where he got the Credits for it; if we take everything into account it seems that¡¡±This story has been unlawfully obtained without the author''s consent. Report any appearances on Amazon.
[Karla]: ¡°Someone is helping him out, probably [Midas]¡±
Karla intervened for the second time stealing her brother thunder before returning to play with her phone, Karga could only groan in displeasure, but he left it be.
In the end, Boss gave his own opinion.
[Boss]: ¡°There shouldn¡¯t be any problem if that¡¯s the case, for now, I will leave it up to you to figured out, together with his training¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I understand Boss, I will double the training plan, no triple it! And I will not let you down, Boss¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Just don¡¯t be too hard with a kid¡±
Karga nodded.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla¡±
It was Karla turn now, she put her phone down as her playing attitude faded away like the mist, and it was replaced by a serious expression because her playtime was over.
[Karla]: ¡°Alice grow is also fast, but a bit slower than the newbie, however, she has better control over her own stats as her initial stats were high, she also had been running for school competitions giving her great Stamina, not to mention she run fast, her Dad is in the military and that contributed to her strong physical development, her mother it is a psychiatric and that contributed to her mental development, even when she is only sixteen, and it also helped with her strong commitment to the training, in conclusion, she is wonderful piece of material to work on¡±
Karla proudly boasted about Alice as she was her own daughter, however, Boss had to bring her down a notch here, because even though she was a good candidate for their unit, she has a flaw that was not a flaw that normal people would not think as one.
[Boss]: ¡°She is too willing to sacrifice herself for other people¡±
Karla could only calm herself down; Boss was spot on in his observation.
[Karla]: ¡°I think her mind is very strong, however, if we talk about her weakness, it would be without a doubt, she is too good¡±
If Alice was to be placed inside a room and give her a choice to save her own life or save other people¡¯s life, Alice would pick saving other people¡¯s lives without a second thought, that was what brought her into the Tower in the first place, and unlike Karla that was trained to pick the mission over everything else, this would only mean she would fail the recruitment process and never could have entered their unit.
Even so, Boss could not be too hard into a pair of kids.
[Boss]: ¡°They are civils we shouldn¡¯t¡¡±
However, before the Boss could continue Karla interrupted him.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss after we get out of the Tower, we all be Players, they are not kids or normal civils anymore, even so, those monsters at the World Government wouldn¡¯t care either way, wasn¡¯t that why we recruited them first? To protect them or for them to protect themselves? We can¡¯t be soft on them¡±
The monsters Karla was talking about were actually people that would not hesitate to use children to protect themselves.
Boss could only let out a sigh, the barrier between a civil and a Player¡ they had already crossed it, and Players will become the human''s defense force there was no doubt about it, but unlike them that entered as their mission, these two are kids that were dragged here, albeit under their own will.
Karla read throughout Boss thoughts so she continued to hammer down that Boss was being too soft in the heart.
[Karla]: ¡°You can¡¯t treat them like kids anymore Boss, they accepted the invitation to become Players, and even if they didn¡¯t know the implications of that, they already have stopped being just kids and have become Players now, and even if there was a way out from being a Player that didn¡¯t involucre¡¯s killing or hurting another Player¡, do you think they would accept it?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°They are already too deep inside this mess, the whole world is¡±
Boss ended nodding at the end, Karla she was in the right, not that she wouldn¡¯t have been, but Boss, he still saw them as just kids, the same type of kids he would see in a battlefield crying their eyes out not knowing what¡¯s happening around them.
Karla could only let out a sigh; she more or less could guess what it was going through inside Boss mind because they both had been to same battlefields.
[Karla]: ¡°I will also double her training¡±
Karla concluded with her report.
Boss nodded again saying he ok with it, now, it was time to show his report, as the leader of this unit he also needs to carry out a report to his subordinates.
Karga could not help but ask.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss was there any progress in Floor 8?¡±
Boss show them a wicked smile, making Karla and Karga start smiling also with the same smile, this was something he could not show to the kids, yet.
[Boss]: ¡°The monster weakness¡ there are two, their hearts and their brains, decapitating them works, burning them also, cutting it into pieces until nothing is connected to anything works, bleeding them to death also works, in short¡ we need to crush them until nothing is left moving, like that we can kill them¡±
Boss started to explain the anatomy of the monsters, and the best way to kill them, surprisingly, their anatomy is similar to humans but they moved in four legs and some of them have a tail, however, unlike normal humans, monsters could regrow almost anything back if you gave them enough time, organs or limbs, not even a Player could regrow a limb it could only be reattached it, this was to show how much of a menace the monsters are, and how superior they are to Players, the only good news was that they could not grow their brains nor their hearts back, meaning, that these two are its only two weak points, it was not much, but it was something, with this, the way Players fight, will now have to be centered around those two weak points.
Boss continues, even though they still can be killed, their skins were rough and tough, making it hard to cut with his knife, their bones were almost unbreakable for his hands, and they are fast and hard to catch up with his legs, not to mention, it was very hard to deal with them when they started cooperating with each other forming a pincer attack, and worse than that, was that, there is also stronger versions of the monster, an evolved creature that proved to be too much for Boss himself, and even when he managed to reach to round three, he was against only one monster again, but this monster, it was faster, it was tougher, and it was stronger than the ones before it, so far, Boss could not kill it, but the more he fought against it, the closer he gets, unlike his first battle where he was K.O in a mere second.
Be defense, speed, attack, or strategy, the monsters are on par with the top Player of the Tower, the only saving grace was, monster didn¡¯t use any weapons or items a Player would use, nor that they need it to, instead, they use their shard teeth¡¯s or claws that could cut a human in half, their tough skin as an armor that was hard to penetrate or cut, and their strong legs that could move fast and crush Players skulls, in resume, they were not in the need for items.
This level of information that Boss has brought with him was astonishing even for Karla and Karga, even so, this only got the twins blood start pumping from their hearts, they want to give it a try at Floor 8, they want to fight against those monster, and, they want to win, however, after they calmed their beating hearts from listening to Boss report, they both had realized something, Karga was the first that dare to ask.
[Karga]: ¡°Right, Boss did the [Fighting Arena] provide you with any weapons? What you had been using on your fights against the monsters?¡±
Boss shook his head indicating the Arena has not given him any weapon, as for the second question, instead of answering, he took out from his inventory a mangle and almost unrecognizable knife, a bottle of gasoline, and an electric match, that was it, and nothing more, if Cyan was here he could see that the knife Boss was using has some resemblance to the knife Karga has used early that day, after all, everyone in the unit has the same knife with them, but Boss knife, it was thin out because it has been sharpened quite a lot of times, and right now, it could easily break if he used in the wrong way, as for the molotov cocktail, they have a few with them but not that many, so he could only use a few times for testing purposes but for the rest of the time he used his bare hands after fearing his knife would break.
The twins could only put a bitter smile because of their leader mad way of fighting, and to think Boss has been fighting like this against those monster all day long, using only this set of items and his bare hands, all the while, he was investigating their anatomy and trying to dissected them for searching their weak points, this was insane for anyone else to try, they would surely have died if they had tried to do this outside the Tower, but inside the [Training Tower], it was very hard to die during training, and so Boss could try to pull such a crazy stunt that nobody else would try to do outside and partially succeed, after all, crushing something to death with your hands can¡¯t be called a full success.
Even so, Boss was not over.
[Boss]: ¡°For tomorrow on, you two will be taking turns and enter the Floor with me for 4 hours, ask the kid for the [Ticket]¡¯s¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss we are not in such a hurry, also don¡¯t forget that we also have to train the kids you know¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Boss my sister is right, taking care of those two kids is very tiresome can¡¯t we postpone for one week?¡±
Right now, they only have less than two weeks remaining to stay inside the Tower, postponing entering Floor 8 was not an option.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
The twins could only brace themselves and draw a short straw to decide on their own whom will be the first voluntary to enter the cage and fight the lion with their bare hands, on this time, Karga had won but Karla used her privileges as the older sister making Karga be the first voluntary for entering the lion cage.
In the other hand, Boss could not understand what happened to his two most trusted subordinates, that were eager for entering the [Fighting Arena] just moments ago went, but he let it slide.
The twin soon returned but this time their faces were not that pale anymore.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss shouldn¡¯t we buying weapons and armors from the [Shop], now that, we don¡¯t have to unlock the Floor 8 because the newbie did it for us?¡±
Just when Karga was losing all of his hopes, Karla reminded him that they were saving all their Credits for unlocking the Floor 8, but now that they did not have to use for that, they could use in the [Shop] to buy weapons and set of armors.
Boss thought for a moment and then he made his decision known.
[Boss]: ¡°Next week¡±
For now, the twins will have to fight against the monsters for 4 hours using only a knife, for the rest of the week, Boss thought that, this way they would learn to better preserve their lives in the future, and, it was the best way of guidance for these two in how the monsters fight, without having to worry about swinging a weapon or firing a gun, even so, they still could buy pieces of equipment from the [Shop], it is just that they could not use them until next week.
Chapter 021 - A Day Worth of Training.
Chapter 021 - A Day Worth of Training.
Cyan opened his eyes welcoming a new day inside the [Training Tower], a lot has happened in a short amount of time, of course, if you didn¡¯t count his missing week, were he slept for most of the time, it has been only 4 days since he entered the Tower, in this short amount of time he got a message from his future self, reunited with Alice, and joined the GP faction, which now was training him to increase all of his stats.
Even though factions were just an arrangement between Players, there is no problem in just being part of one, for now. Cyan could also form his own faction after unlocking a Floor but nobody would follow a kid he thought, but still, forming his own faction was out of the question, Cyan joined the GP faction for gaining their protection and their training inside the Tower, and even though the twins training method was crazy hard, they are also very strong as they also had partaken in the same training as him, Cyan could confirm how strong they are in yesterday training as Karga leisurely ran beside him while avoiding all the obstacles by a paper-thin margin in the same track he was running on, Cyan wants to reach that level one day.
After waking up from his thoughts Cyan took a shower before taking his phone out and read throughout his notifications.
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 2 STR¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 2 DEX¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 2 END¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 2 STA¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 1 INT¡±
In total, Cyan has grown 9 stats points during the night, plus the 2 Free Points of the Quest, it was an impressive growth, not to mention that all of his stats had grown at the same time, meaning that Karga training was working quite well on him, he also took notice of something else, even though Karga had said they didn¡¯t know how to increase the Intelligence stat, his has increased overnight by 1 point.
Immediately after that Cyan checked for his new status.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 23
- Dexterity (DEX): 23
- Endurance (END): 23
- Stamina (STA): 23
- Intelligence (INT): 13
- Free Points: 13
Cyan could not help to think Karga will be impressed by his status growth after just one day of training, for now on he only needs to keep training even harder, with a renewed motivation Cyan exited his room, ready to start today¡¯s training.
After exiting his room Cyan met with Alice in the hallway, he thought that Alice would be still mad because of yesterday incident, but she didn¡¯t look that angry, in the end, after sharing a morning salute, they both went together to get something for breakfast in Floor 3, Cyan took the chance to ask Alice how was her status, but she brushed off the question and ask him back if he has the Credits for buying food.
Cyan took the chance to see how much Credits he has gathered overnight.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 8 x24
[Equipment]
It was a quite good sum, over 6000 Credits, Cyan will not have to worry about not being able to buy food for today, because after yesterday training he has ended devouring 5 plates worth of food, those were all paid by Karga in the end because he was out of Credits at that moment, now he can pay Karga back, still, he can only feel sorrowful that he will have to buy another ten sets of [Energy] items for today''s training also after using all of them on yesterday together with five Floor [Ticket]¡¯s
Alice history was also similar, she was to buy [Energy] items for her training and use her Floor [Tickets]¡¯s, however, she has managed to run a lot more kilometers than Cyan during her training, so she has earned just enough Credits for buying food for today, not to mention, she didn¡¯t use all of her ten sets of [Energy] items during her training, she only ended using five sets in total.
When Cyan and Alice entered the [Food Area] they spotted Boss and the twins were already sitting in a table and were making signals for them to come over and sit down with them, they both agreed that they should them for breakfast.
Karla gave them her morning welcome at the same time she was teasing them.
[Karla]: ¡°But if it isn¡¯t the loving couple walking together¡±
Cyan and Alice look at each other before turning their gazes away, while their faces started to become a little red, they had forgotten that Karla was like this.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright alright, why don¡¯t you both take a sit and order something, if you don¡¯t have Credits Karga will pay for you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That won¡¯t be necessary Senior I have enough to pay for my own food¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I also have enough but thanks for the offer Mrs. Karga¡±
Karga wanted to refute what his sister had said was not true, but held himself back, because the kids had answered before he could say anything, making him left out a sigh of relief, after all, he has used up almost all of his Credits and bought a weapon and an armor set from the [Shop] just yesterday night, meaning, he was clean out of Credits and probably Karla was also the same.
Cyan took a chair without saying anything else and ordered an extra lager breakfast, he has been feeling hungry since waking up this morning, making the food taste even more delicious, a growing boy needs a lot of resources for growing up right? Alice did the same as she didn¡¯t hold herself back when ordering food, a growing girl needs a lot of resources for growing up too right?
Karla could only giggle at the sight of Cyan and Alice eating to their heart''s content, this was a side effect of their training inside the Tower, not that anyone would complain, after all, their training was very hard and tiring to no end.
Boss and Karga ended their food first and started to leave the table, seeing this Cyan could not help but ask what happened to today¡¯s training plan.Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior won¡¯t we be training today?¡±
Instead of Karga answering that question, it was Karla who did it.
[Karla]: ¡°I will be in charge of today¡¯s training first, while Karga will be accompanying Boss into the [Fighting Arena], after 4 hours we will be switching¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Right, Cyan can you sell us two [Ticket]?¡±
Cyan nodded and handed the [Ticket]¡¯s to Boss after he transferred the Credits to him, after that they left the area.
In the other hand, Alice could not help but ask.
[Alice]: ¡°Has Boss been fighting inside the [Fighting Arena] all this time?¡±
Karla just nodded confirming Alice question.
[Alice]: ¡°Then has there been any progress?¡±
Karla thought for a second before giving a reply.
[Karla]: ¡°There has been some progress, but for now we will be taking turns and enter the Floor together with Boss and challenge the [Fighting Arena]¡±
There was something else that Alice wanted to ask but she was hesitating to ask.
[Karla]: ¡°What it is Alice?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡ Did we will be also entering the [Fighting Arena] for today?¡±
Karla could only shake her head, showing her refusal.
[Karla]: ¡°It is still too early for you two, you both should wait at least a week before even thinking entering it, even so, we will not force you two to enter it anyway, but if you do¡¡±
Before Karla could finish she was interrupted.
[Cyan]: ¡°I want to enter that Floor¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What was that newbie? Do you want to enter the [Fighting Arena]? please don¡¯t joke with me, you don¡¯t even know what¡¯s inside that Floor¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Even so¡, Senior I want to enter it¡ it doesn¡¯t have to be right now but¡ I definitely want to enter that Floor¡±
Before Karla could say anything else, Alice also joined Cyan declaration.
[Alice]: ¡°I also¡ I also have to enter, Miss Karla we ask this of you¡±
Karla could see the determination in Cyan and Alice gazes, however, wouldn¡¯t this be the same a helping them to kill themselves? Even so, she could only let out a sigh of self-reproach, wasn¡¯t she the one that said they couldn¡¯t soft with the kids? And she was here, in the very next day, worrying about their wellbeing and trying to stop them.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, you both will get your chance next week, however, the training will be doubled from now on, so don¡¯t go complaining that is too hard and that you want to give up later on, ok?¡±
Cyan and Alice nodded as their faces light up, Karla thought this shouldn¡¯t be the norm, she could not help but to think, ¡°What kind of normal person would be happy of entering that Floor apart from Boss¡±, in the end, she could only think there should be something wrong with the kids of today.
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Senior¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Thank you, Miss Karla¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Save it for after the training¡±
Even though Karla was worrying about the kids she was showing a smile, after all, she got them to accept doubling the training on their own without much problem.
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On the track field, Karla, Cyan, and Alice were running in the same track.
[Karla]: ¡°Aren¡¯t you a happy newbie? You get to run in the same track as your sweetheart, that way you don¡¯t need to be looking all around now haha¡±
Cyan didn¡¯t have any lead way to retort back to the laughing Karla, Karla wasn¡¯t kidding when she said that the training would double from now on.
First the track they were using had transformed into an obstacle course that combined their training plans into one, getting hit would mean Cyan would be kissing the floor while spraying blood, and unlike yesterday, when the obstacles where sparse around the track, now they were densely packed at every step, Alice had to her speed to dodged everything, while Cyan had to used his body to go through everything, all the while trying to run as fast as he could.
Meanwhile, Karla was taking turns teaching them how to dodge the obstacles by a paper-thin margin, and also how to get hit when dodging become impossible, and as their training had become double, Karla¡¯s job of training the kids had also become double, she could no longer leisurely run on the track while coaching them, she had to remain focus as she instructed them, this was not an easy track to run on, even for her.
Karla way of training was by using negative reinforcement, every time Cyan or Alice failed to pass the same obstacle twice, weights would be added as a punishment, making dodging even harder and thus creating a vicious cycle of failing to dodged an obstacle and getting more weights to their bodies, after 4 hours of training Cyan and Alice where barely crawling into the track thanks to the added weight.
After 4 hours they all meet again in Floor 3, When Karga showed up into the Floor he didn¡¯t look any better than Cyan and Alice, so they took a small a rest, after that it was Karla turn for going into Floor 8 while Karga would be taking the charged of training the kids in Floor 5.
Cyan has been receiving notifications in his phone but he could not move a finger to take his phone out, not to mention Alice that was in the same situation, however, Karga carry them both and drop them inside the [Rest Area] where a ton of buff was applied and healed them back up, including Karga himself, actually he went to the [Rest Area] first to heal himself more than helping out the kids, but he couldn¡¯t just leave them behind.
After one hour that they were at their top condition again, then they were brought back into Floor 5 to continue with the same training that Karla had left them, however, Karga didn¡¯t add the weights punishment gaining the favor of Cyan and Alice. But this all came to its end after 3 hours when Karla came back and dragged a kicking Karga into the elevator and pressed the Floor 8 button with an evil smile, unlike her brother she could not heal up in the [Rest Area] because the kids could not enter anymore for the day, now that she thinks about it, it would have been better for her to enter first. After dealing with her brother, Karla turned around to Alice and Cyan that were running on the track, it was punishment time.
This switch was carried out every 4 hours for the duration of the day, only taking breaks to eat into the [Food Area], and by the end of the day, Boss sited down in a table with other fourth lifeless bodies which souls had escaped from their bodies as a company, of everyone in the table only Boss was moving at the end of the day, he didn¡¯t seem to be that affected unlike the twins as he was eating his food normally.
After 5 minutes Cyan was revived by the smell of the food on the table as everyone else was, Boss had ordered food for everyone after seeing that nobody was moving or ordering anything, soon they all were devouring the food that was in front of them at a very fast pace, the color started to return to their place faces after eating their fifth plate of food, even so, they all had returned to their lively selves.
Karla started teasing Cyan, while Karga was telling Alice the horrors of Boss training and how they were actually lucky of having them as trainers instead of the mad crazy Boss way of training. In the end, everyone gave his thanks to Boss for the food that he had ordered for everyone, he also refused everyone¡¯s Credits.
[Karla]: ¡°Thank you, Boss¡±, [Karga]: ¡°Thank you, Boss¡±, [Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Boss¡±, [Alice]: ¡°Thank you, Boss¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh I never had seen the Boss being so flustered before¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Oh you are right¡±
Even though Karga could not notice any difference he still played along with his Sister.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Everyone left the area one by one and went to their respective rooms to take a rest, even though the table had been lively, the fact was they are all dead tired.
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Cyan entered his room and plumbed on top of his bed.
After recovering enough energy he took out his phone and checked his messages.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed 80 km, Awarded 640 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player has completed 130 km, Awarded 1690 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player rank update to #201, Awarded 500 Credits¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [6] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training II] [7] Cleared, Player is rewarded with 1 Free Point¡±
After increasing his stats so much, the amount of kilometers he could run had been increased by many folds in a single day, even when he was forced to carry a ton of weights into his body as a penalty for failing to dodge an obstacle twice, at this pace he would probably end the Quest by tomorrow training.
Even though Cyan was dead tired, he didn¡¯t want to close his eyes, because every time he does he will have the same dream, it has been 4 days already and every day he was having the same dream hammered into his head, even so, his tired body wasn¡¯t cooperating with him, in the end, Cyan entered back into a world of dreams once again.
Chapter 022 - Tiers
Chapter 022 - Tiers
Opening up his eyes Cyan checked his phone, it was already a new day.
Checking out his notifications Cyan reviewed his own grow from yesterday training.
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 3 STR¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 3 DEX¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 3 END¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 3 STA¡±
Unlike the day before, he didn¡¯t have grown his INT stat this time, but all his other stats had grown by 3 points, making an increase of 12 points in total, and making his [Status] look like this.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 26
- Dexterity (DEX): 26
- Endurance (END): 26
- Stamina (STA): 26
- Intelligence (INT): 13
- Free Points: 15
With the 2 Free Points of yesterday, Cyan now has 15 free points, however, for now, it was better to save them for later.
Cyan also took the chance to check out the progress of his [Quest] before leaving his room.
[Quest]
- Start your training (Completed)
- Become a Player Tutor (In progress) (4 day¡¯s remaining)
- [Start your training II] (In Progress)
- [1] Run 1 km, in 10 minutes (Cleared)
- [2] Run 10 km (Cleared)
- [3] Run 20 km (Cleared)
- [4] Run 30 km (Cleared)
- [5] Run 50 km (Cleared)
- [6] Run 80 km (Cleared)
- [7] Run 130 km (Cleared)
- [8] Run 210 km (1/210)
- Locked (unlocks after clearing the previous task)
Cyan also remembered he has the Player Tutor Quest but right now the one being tutored was him more than anything else, for now, it was better for leave that Quest alone. As for his status, it was the obvious results after doubling his training routine, making his stats grow more, however, increasing his stats like this shouldn¡¯t be the norm.
Cyan thought to himself he should be asking Karga today about this.
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Alice opened her eyes, unlike Cyan her grew has been¡ slower.
Alice took out her phone and read through her notifications.
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grow 3 DEX¡±
That was it, her Dexterity has increased by only 3 points, and her only saving grace was that she had managed to finish the Quest before Cyan.
[Quest - Alice]
- [Become a Player Student] (In Progress)
- [Start your training] (Completed)
Message [Midas]: ¡°Quest [Start your training] Completed, Player is rewarded with 10 DEX Point, 10 FP, and 10.000 Credits¡±
But unlike Cyan that got a massive reward of 10 Points for almost each of his stats, she only got 10 Points for her DEX, 10 Free Points, and 10.000 Credits, Alice thought that after completing the Quest she would get same stats Cyan had received but that wasn¡¯t the case, and in the end her status looked like this.
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: Alice
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Room]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 12
- Dexterity (DEX): 27
- Endurance (END): 12
- Stamina (STA): 15
- Intelligence (INT): 12
- Free Points: 27
Her dexterity was higher than Cyan but the rest of her stats were half of his, making her groan, even though she has Free Points that she can use, Karla has already told her that learning to control stats comes first then the Player own grown, so does that mean her grow was slow because she could not control her stats the way she should? Of course, it was slow only if you compared against Cyan, Alice let out a sigh, and exited her room.
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Alice arrived at the Food area, however, unlike other times when she was early, today she was late, she was not feeling tired but she had that nightmare again, one that she didn¡¯t want to remember nor she could forget.
In the food Area, Cyan and the twins were already having their breakfasts.
[Cyan]: ¡°Good Morning Alice, did you oversleep?¡±
Cyan could not help but to ask Alice that was always the first one to wake up and the first one to be ready in the mornings, why she was late today.
Alice just nodded her head and took a seat next to Karla, leaving a worried Cyan hesitating into what else to say, but in the end, he opted for not saying anything else, as Alice was not in a good mood today.
As the weird atmosphere was put over the table Karla thought of something they could talk about.
[Karla]: ¡°Right Alice and newbie, how many points did you gained over the night?¡±
Cyan went ¡°Oh right¡± and took his phone out, Alice did the same even though she was less willing. Cyan showed his stats to Karla first then it was Alice turn.
Karla in the other hand was shocked, the food in this place was good and it was supposed to give a good boost for Players grown, but to earn 12 points in a single night, that was putting her own grow into shame, Alice¡¯s grow was more normal, still, she was also growing well with her stats.
However Alice bites her lips as she saw her status and compared against Cyan status, she has realized that their stats were growing apart and that at this rate she would be left in the dust very soon.
Karla took a look at Alice¡¯s face and could tell already what was in her mind, she could guess Alice thoughts like an open box, after all, she was trained to read peoples mind, and to manipulate them for the sake of completing the mission, of course, Karla never thought of using this kind of techniques into two kids, making her brain groan in displeasure
In the end, Cyan was left in the dark about this matter and after a while Boss had shown up in the table and ordered something to eat with his phone.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss it is ok if I don¡¯t enter the [Fighting Arena] today?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I am not running away, I just want to train with Alice alone for a little bit¡±
Boss didn¡¯t say anything else, signaling he didn¡¯t have any problem with that request.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior what kind of training are you thinking of?¡±
On the other hand, Alice could not hold her curiosity as she could see a smile being drawn into Karla¡¯s face after Boss had accepted to her request.Reading on this site? This novel is published elsewhere. Support the author by seeking out the original.
[Karla]: ¡°You don¡¯t need to worry Alice, you wouldn¡¯t die while training inside the Tower you know?¡±
Alice could only start sweating as she forgot the problems that were clouding her mind, and started to feel in danger instead, prompting Karla to laugh with villainous sounding, as this was what she wanted.
On the other hand, Karga seeing that his sister was planning to run away from Boss training, he also took the chance.
[Karga]: ¡°Right Boss I also want to train with the newbie alone for a little bit¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss asks if you are planning to skip the training also?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It is nothing like that Boss I am not skipping training at all!¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss asks for the reason¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Of course there is a reason Boss, they said they wanted to enter the [Fighting Arena] next week, so we need to train them even harder now if we slip up in their training now it is going to be hard for them to enter the Floor next week¡±
Boss put down his fort and stare the duo for a bit, the twins started to feel the pressure of Boss¡¯s gazed but neither of them wavers, prompting Boss to nod with his head and returning back to his breakfast, the twins let out a sigh of relief.
When they thought it was everything over, it was time for Cyan to throw a buck of cold water on them.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss¡ can you show me your stats?¡±
Karla and Karga face changed from an easy going to a deathly serious expression.
[Karla]: ¡°Did someone else asked you for that?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Eh? Not it is just¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Did they offered you something in exchange?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Did someone threaten you?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s not it!¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Then?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I¡ just want to know how strong are you are all, even just a little bit¡, I want to know how weak I really am¡±
Every time Cyan saw his stats grown he felt stronger, he felt full of strength and confidence, but then when he went to sleep a nightmare where he was helplessly weak and powerless keep digging into inside of his brain, he wanted to know how weak he really was right now, and how strong Boss was, so he wouldn¡¯t think himself as strong.
Karla and Karga sighed
[Karla]: ¡°Remember what I told you kid, the stats for a Player are something to keep a secret, they are Player weakness, in the future, you shouldn¡¯t ask other people¡¯s stats like that you know?¡±.
[Alice]: ¡°But Miss Karla we had been showing our stats to you all the time, shouldn¡¯t we also be able to see your stats?¡±
Alice was also curious about this regard. Karla could only frown as she felt a headache incoming
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s unrelated, we were in the need for a training plan for you two, and for checking out your grown and to see if the plan is working or something needs to be changed, and the best way for doing that is by knowing your stats, but if you don¡¯t want our help then¡¡±
However, Boss that has been quiet this whole time interrupted her.
[Boss]: ¡°Show it to them¡±
[Karla]: ¡°But Boss...¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Are you sure Boss?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°We are in the same Faction¡±
Karla and Karga could only sigh as they take out their phones, Boss also did the same thing.
[Karla]: ¡°Take a look this newbie and see how weak that you are¡±
[Karga]: ¡°hehe you ask for it kids, so I will show you what a strong person stats are¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: Karga
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 97
- Dexterity (DEX): 75
- Endurance (EN): 77
- Stamina (STA): 75
- Intelligence (INT): 19
- Free Points: 0
Total = 343 Points
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: Karla
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 74
- Dexterity (DEX): 98
- Endurance (EN): 73
- Stamina (STA): 73
- Intelligence (INT): 26
- Free Points: 0
Total = 344 Points
[Status]
[Information]
- Name: No name - Boss
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0++
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 99 - MAX
- Dexterity (DEX): 98
- Endurance (EN): 98
- Stamina (STA): 98
- Intelligence (INT): 15
- Free Points: 0
Total = 408 Points
Cyan thought he had done something wrong by asking Boss to show his stats, but he was really curious about what a strong people stats are like, in the end, he got his wish granted.
Karla and Karga had been training with them for the past days so he could see now from where their confidence came from, after all, they had the stats to back it up.
While Cyan reading through Boss¡¯s stats, Karla was showing up her stats to Alice.
[Karla]: ¡°As you can see here, I am the smartest of all here, look my intelligence stats is the highest of all! kukuku¡±
Cyan took the change to confirm something and asked what it was in his mind.
[Cyan]: ¡°Seniors why the intelligence is so low compared to the other stats?¡±
Karla glared Cyan before letting out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°The Intelligence can¡¯t be trained or at least we don¡¯t know how¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°You don¡¯t know how?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Well, it is not like we don¡¯t know a way to increase it, if you use your Free Points you can increase it, but that¡¯s all we know, there is no training, nor Player grow, or another method we do not know of, and [Midas] rewards are never in the Intelligence department¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then wouldn¡¯t be better just to dump all your Free Points into Intelligence? It isn¡¯t getting smarter a good thing?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Even though we don¡¯t how to increased it using normal means that doesn¡¯t mean we don¡¯t know what it does, and getting smarter is not one of them¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Then what¡¯s the Intelligence stat exactly for?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Listen up kids, the Intelligence stat doesn¡¯t make you smarter¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It doesn¡¯t?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Even though we thought that it did at first, that was proven wrong later on, the intelligence stats effects are, increase memory and thinking speed¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°it isn¡¯t that the same as getting smarter?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s why kids¡ listen up newbie, you would remember things better and your thoughts would speed up a little, but you would be having the same thoughts you had before, even though your IQ will increase, that¡¯s only because you can remember things better, intelligence, true intelligence, comes from the ideas and thoughts you from inside that brain of yours that nobody else had, understand now? Intelligence comes from experience, knowledge¡, and of course genes¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I think I can understand now¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Good, I don¡¯t want to repeat myself, like I was saying using your Free Points it is not the best way to use them¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Why not?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Because even though we haven¡¯t found a way of increasing the Intelligence stats that doesn¡¯t mean it doesn¡¯t exist, using your Free Points in Intelligence when there could be a perfect way for incrementing that stat with training it is just will be waste of your free points then, and there is a second reason¡±
[Karla]: ¡°As you increment you stats the harder it gets, going from 10 to 11 is easier than going for 98 to 99, which is amazingly hard, even when the difference is just a single point in both cases, and there must be way to increase the Intelligence stat without using Free Points anyway¡±
Cyan had the thought that if he used all his Free Points in Intelligence then he would become smarter so he had the impulse to just use all his free points in this, but Karla has stopped him from doing so thanks to her explanation, for now, that they that didn¡¯t know a natural way of incrementing that stat, it was better to leave like that, maybe he could ask Willy later on how to increase it with training.
[Alice]: ¡°Boss¡ why it there says MAX in your Strength stat?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I am glad that you have pointed that out Alice, first of all, you know what Tiers are?¡±
Cyan and Alice looked at each other before turning back shaking their heads.
[Karla]: ¡°Tiers are the divisions that Players used and there are 9 Tiers, each tier has a Lower Limit and an Upper Limit, Tier 0 Upper Limit is 99, and this how Tiers are divided¡±
Karla took a drawing she had made on her spared time, in the drawing was listed all of the Tiers together with their MIN-MAX stats,
[Tier]
- Human
- Level: 0
- Name: Normal
- Min: 000
- Max: 099
- Level: 1
- Name: Super
- Min: 100
- Max: 199
- Level: 2
- Name: Perfect
- Min: 200
- Max: 299
- Mutant
- Level 3
- Name: Normal
- Min: 300
- Max: 399
- Level 4
- Name: Super
- Min: 400
- Max: 499
- Level 5
- Name: Perfect
- Min: 500
- Max: 599
- Alien
- Level 6
- Name: Normal
- Min: 600
- Max: 699
- Level 7
- Name: Super
- Min: 700
- Max: 799
- Level 8
- Name: Perfect
- Min: 800
- Max: 899
- Being
- Level 9
- Name: Imperfect
- Min: 900
- Max: 999
Tier 0 - Human 000 to 099
Tier 1 - Super Human 100 to 199
Tier 2 - Perfect Human 200 to 299
Tier 3 - Mutant 300 to 399
Tier 4 - Super Mutant 400 to 499
Tier 5 - Perfect Mutant 500 to 599
Tier 6 - Alien 600 to 699
Tier 7 - Super Alien 700 to 799
Tier 8 - Perfect Alien 800 to 899
Tier 9 - Imperfect Being 900 to 999
[Karla]: ¡°As you can see we are here in the Normal Human Tier, or Tier 0¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior these names¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What you don¡¯t like them? Well that¡¯s too bad, but that¡¯s what I could come out after Boss gave me the task, you can call them by using their numbers if you prefer¡±
Karla puffed out her cheeks showing her angry expression.
Chapter 023 - A nonexistent Tier 10?
Chapter 023 - A nonexistent Tier 10?
Cyan could not help but ask about the Tier changes from [Tier 8] and [Tier 9].
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, why do you go from Perfect Alien to Imperfect Being?¡±
Karla¡¯s eyes shined with that question.
[Karla]: ¡°Well, of course, the Tier list is something given by [Midas] itself, but that extra bit is my own contribution, don¡¯t you think that it is a little weird that there is no Tier 10, and that the stats stops at 999? If there was a being that could go beyond that, wouldn¡¯t that make it a Perfect Being, and the one before it would be the Imperfect one, right?¡±
Alice still could not understand the Players Tiers yet, so she asked another question.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, can you elaborate into this list? For example, what¡¯s the difference between Super Humans and Normal Humans?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I am glad that you asked, first, the human body has its own physical limits, and no matter what you do your stats would cap at the Normal Human level Tier 0++, showing a MAX when you get to 99. We have already witnessed this when Boss had reached 99 with his Strength stat, after that, even Free Points can¡¯t be used to increase that stat; this is the first factor or barrier, stats¡±
Alice thought for a second before she asked another question.
[Alice]: ¡°Then Senior what it is the second factor?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°It is pretty simple to make guess in fact if you think about it, there is a second barrier that separates Normal Humans from Super Humans, we can also guess it will the same for the other tiers. Super Humans, in short, are humans that have surpassed the stats barrier of Normal Humans by somehow awakening some kind of ability or power inside them that a Normal Human does not have¡±
Cyan could only go wide eye as the thought of ¡°superpowers¡± crossed his mind and escaped his mouth.
[Cyan]: ¡°You mean superpowers like Flying in the Sky, stopping bullets without their hands, or running faster than the speed of sound?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You got the gist of it, newbie, that¡¯s pretty much what implies to be Super Humans, however, I don¡¯t think an ability like flying in the sky would be possible so easily, of course, those are only my own conjectures, we are not sure of that yet¡±
Alice could not help to wonder how Karla managed to reach that conclusion, she felt she had to ask; maybe it will help her in the future.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior how did you get your conjectures from?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Easy, I took Boss growth and extrapolated it into the next Tier, a Super Human is what has come out from that and from there, you can picture part of the scale, and what the next step in the evolution stairway may be¡±
[Boss]: ¡°...¡±
[Karla]: ¡°For example, have you notice this over here?¡±
Karla took out her phone and pointed to her [Status]
[Status]
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Level: 0+
Profession: None
Sub-Profession: None
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[Karla]: ¡°This inference looks like a game and we have levels but there is no EXP bar anywhere, in games, when you kill something you would gain Experience, but in here, there is not such a thing, there are only stats, items, skills, and an inventory. So I guessed that you would gain something else from killing the monsters, probably items, but most likely, stats¡±
Alice expression became stiff with the idea of gaining stats from monsters.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, how would you gain stats from killing a monster?¡±
However, Karla put off the question for later.
[Karla]: ¡°I will get into that, but first, we need to talk about Professions for moving into the next Tier, Tier 2 - Perfect Humans¡±
Cyan attention was brought back to the table, he already knew that there are Professions, but he did not have the time for asking to [Midas] what Professions there are for Players, and so he has thought it was a good time for asking.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior do you know what kind of Professions there are?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°For moments like this is that should ask [Midas] instead of asking me newbie¡±
Even though Karla has said that, in the end, she still showed them the list of Professions that [Midas] has to offer, after all, answering to the kid¡¯s questions was mostly her job, her dumb brother would not do it, and Boss was too hard to understand sometimes. Even so, she has to teach Cyan not to depend so much on other people.
Letting out a sigh, Karla lamented the fact she had become a babysitter.
[FAQ]
Professions (Normal)
Sub-Professions (Normal)
- Genetic
- Cook
- Weapons Maker
- Armor Maker
- Jewel Maker
- Potion Maker
- ¡
After Alice and Cyan had read throughout the entire list was that Karla could continue with her explanation about Tier 2 - Perfect Humans.
[Karla]: ¡°We are guessing that a Perfect Human is someone that learned a Profession, or at least it is someone that can learn one, as for what each Profession does individually you can read it in your [Midas] app later on¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, what it is the use of Professions in general?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°its use is easy to understand, if we take a game as the base, there will be Professions only skills that Players could learn, making the ability to learn Skills from a specific Profession into something like Perfecting a Human, and that¡¯s why I think it is the end of evolution for Humans¡±
Cyan could only feel baffled by the thought. In the other hand, Alice kept thinking about the Sub-Professions list.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior about the Sub-Professions¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What it is Alice did you notice something?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°All the Sub-Professions look somewhat normal, except this one [Genetic] that it is the first one in the list, this, it has to do with the next Tier? The Mutant Tier?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°So you have noticed it, as expected of Alice!¡±
Karla could only show a proud smile to her favorite student.
[Alice]: ¡°Then the things you would gain from monsters are...¡±
Before Alice could continue, Karla interrupted her.
[Karla]: ¡°After Perfect Humans that can take a Profession comes Mutants, Mutants are Genetic Modified Humans, of course, after you had to climb up to the top of what is humanly possible, the only path remaining for you, is for you to change your own genetic code into something else, that way, you can keep moving up¡±
Karla let out a sigh as she continues.
[Karla]: ¡°This thing it is designed to be like a stairway, and as from where we will be getting the new genes to break into Tier 3 - Normal Mutant, it should be obvious for you two now, right?¡±
Alice and Cyan face stiffened, they were not dumb enough for not realizing by now.
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Even so, Alice did not want to say it.
[Cyan]: ¡°from monsters isn¡¯t it?¡±
Karla just nodded with her head.
After a few seconds of silence, Alice asked what she wanted to know the most.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, We will also become like those monsters?¡±
Deep worry could be seem reflected in Alice expression, even so, Karla could not sugar coded for them.
[Karla]: ¡°I don¡¯t know the answer to that, but we can¡¯t rule that out yet, however, this is undoubtedly the truth, so it is better if you don¡¯t turn your gazes away from it¡, Boss¡±
Boss took out something from his inventory and put it over the table, there, Boss has left two items, one was red and the other was green, even though they were semi-transparent, it was obvious that the color came from its deep colored center.
Alice and Cyan jumped when the read the item description in their phones.
[Tier 1 Gen Orb - STR]
[Tier 1 Gen Orb - STA]
Even so, before they could say anything Karla stopped them for saying anything.
[Karla]: ¡°Before you say anything, I want to say we will try it in ourselves first, we would be your test subjects, so you two don¡¯t have to worry about turning into monsters in the future¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior that¡¯s¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°No need Alice, this is already our path¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, from where you got those two Orbs?¡±If you encounter this story on Amazon, note that it''s taken without permission from the author. Report it.
Karla let out a sigh as she remembered how they got their hands into these two Orbs.
[Karga]: ¡°It was a reward from clearing [Round 3] in the [Fighting Arena], but still, we couldn¡¯t use them yet¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°You can¡¯t?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°First, this thing is an [Tier 1] item and not a [Tier 0], meaning, it can¡¯t be used up by [Tier 0] Players, and before you ask, it also can¡¯t be used for making an [Breakthrough] into the next Tier, we already have tried that¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°a [Breakthrough]?¡±
However, before Karla could say anything else her brother interrupted her.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡¯s what we are calling going from one Tier into the next, pretty neat right? I came out with that name¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Huh!¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Come on Sister don¡¯t be so mad, why don¡¯t you explain the rest¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Whatever¡ now, where was I?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior you were talking about the Mutants Tier¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Thank you Alice, right Mutants, even though [Tier 3] is when Humans officially becomes Mutants, in actuality, the Genetic Manipulation should have started back at [Tier 1] as we already have shown you, however, it should only be completed at Tier 5 - Perfect Mutants, and after that comes¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Tier 6 ¨C Aliens, wooooh spooky right kids?¡±
Karla could only look at her brother with a glare, obviously, the one that had put that name down for that Tier, was her brother and not her.
[Karla]: ¡°As I was saying! After that, what is next it is only ¡°Alien¡± to us, so we could only call it that way, as we don¡¯t know anything about it yet¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Then the next Tier 9 should be the last Tier right?¡±
Karla shook her head to Alice question.
[Karla]: ¡°There is not one that can guarantee that Tier 9 ¨C Imperfect Being is the last Tier, because, if you follow the logic you used to climb up the stairway to a nonexistent [Tier 10], then [Tier 9] could only be called an Imperfect Being, and as for the Tier 10 ¨C Perfect Being¡¡±
Alice thought for a second.
[Alice]: ¡°There is only one thing that you would call something that goes beyond the scale and makes a [Breakthrough] from [Tier 9] into the nonexistent [Tier 10], right Senior?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°And what would that be Alice?¡±
Alice paused and took a second to say what she thought of.
[Alice]: ¡°A God¡±
Karla nodded indeed.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s right and it could not be anything less than that, something moved far away of our compression and our understandings of the laws of the universe, even so, we still have a name for it anyway, God¡±
Karla could only let out a sigh, to think she was discussing things that were so far out her imagination, that she did not have many clues to work out what the road ahead was like, but she still could think of the end result.
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°¡¡±
Even Karga that usually easy going felt that the atmosphere over the table has turned heavy, so he tried to light out the mood.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey Sister, aren¡¯t you being too melodic dramatic?, that¡¯s something that¡¯s not even in the scale [Midas] gave us, and, these are only your suppositions, and guessing games you always have used that to scared me when we were little¡±
Karla could only let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Of course, there are those fools that would rather not believe in that, and would rather enjoy their bliss in ignorance, you can believe in whatever you want Brother¡±
Karla took her carefully drawn table and files that she had carefully created and put them away into her inventory.
Seeing that nobody else was saying anything, Cyan took the chance to ask a question he was curious about.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior can we go back to Professions for a bit?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What it is newbie did you found out something?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I want to ask about this profession [Mage], does that mean magic exists in the world?¡±
Karla thought for a second and nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°If you had asked me that 3 weeks ago I would have laughed at you, but now I am not that sure anymore, I can¡¯t say there is no magic when I even considered the possibility of there being a God¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡ then Senior¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What it is?¡±
With magic as a possibility, Cyan thought of something.
[Cyan]: ¡°Could a [Tier 9] travel back to the past using magic? Or at least send a message back to the past?¡±
Karla narrowed down her eyes and asked with a cold voice
[Karla]: ¡°Why do you ask that newbie?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°that¡ it was just a thought¡±.
Karla could only shrug her shoulders as she let out her cold attitude.
[Karla]: ¡°Whatever, it should be possible for all we know¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Senior¡±
[Karla]: ¡°There is no need for that, newbie¡±.
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[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You are right Boss, Boss says we have wasted enough time already and we should go back to training¡±
Cyan and Alice nodded and hurried up to end their breakfast, while Boss left the area putting an end to their conversation.
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As the group was heading to the elevator, someone has stopped in front of them, blocking their path.
[Unknown]: ¡°Hello friends, are you perhaps going to Floor 5?¡±
Even so, the twin¡¯s expressions hinted they knew this person.
[Karla]: ¡°Mind your own business¡±
[Unknown]: ¡°There is no need to be so aggressive I just want to talk¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Then talk fast; we don¡¯t have time for the likes of you¡±
[Unknown]: ¡°This will be fast then, hello little friends, my name Aiden, care to tell me your names?¡±
This strange person was directing his question to Alice and Cyan; however, they did not know what to answer, after all, the twins were obviously showing signs of hostility, not to mention this person aura was sickening.
[Aiden]: ¡°There there kids, there is no need to answer I already know your names, you should be Alice, and you should Cyan right?¡±
Cyan and Alice eventually nodded.
[Aiden]: ¡°Nice to meet you, my name is Aiden; would you like to become acquaintances?¡±
Aiden reached his hand out asking for a handshake with a smile, but Cyan felt that stretching his hand out would be a bad idea, this person was dangerous, so he remained unmoving in the end, Alice did not move for a handshake either.
[Aiden]: ¡°Ahye, I see you have already joined a Faction, or maybe you create your own?¡±
Aiden said while turning his head to look at Cyan eyes.
[Karla]: ¡°They are in Boss Faction; now scram before I call Boss¡±
[Aiden]: ¡°So it was like that after all, it is a shame, after all¡ no no, it is better if I don''t say anything that could scare these little kids so much that they couldn¡¯t sleep at night. Then until we meet again¡±
As Aide was leaving, Cyan could hear him murmuring something for him to hear.
[Aiden]: ¡°----don¡¯t say I didn¡¯t warm you kid----¡°
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[Alice]: ¡°That¡ Senior who was that?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That one is Aiden; he is second in command from King Faction¡±
Cyan could not help but make comment.
[Cyan]: ¡°The feeling I got from it¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°It smelled like Blood¡±
Cyan could only nod to Alice description; he got the same feeling coming out from that person.
[Karla]: ¡°You shouldn¡¯t talk to that person¡ they are dangerous people¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Come on we need to train or Boss will be mad with us for skipping training¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, you are right for once¡±
In the end, everyone entered the elevator.
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After they left the elevator, Karla together with Alice went into a separate track to train.
In the track field #1, where Cyan and Karga will be training.
[Karga]: ¡°Alright newbie lets go with triple the difficulty for today¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior aren¡¯t you going too far, it has been only a day since you double it, now you want to triple it?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It can¡¯t be helped; you can only blame your bad luck, newbie, for now, let us get started¡±
Cyan did not want to admit it, but his ¡°bad luck¡±, probably has something to do with Aiden.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, Senior, I forgot to ask, I have been receiving a lot of Credits lately, and I want to ask if there was something that I could buy that could increase my stats?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Aiyah newbie, you should try to learn to control your own stats first before thinking in anything else¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior but it is not the purpose of training to increase more my stats?¡±
Karga could only go ¡°tsk¡± with his mouth; after all, Cyan was not entirely wrong, it is just that Karga felt that gaining control over your own strength should be prioritized, however...
[Karga]: ¡°Now that you mentioning it, there is a potion in the item [Shop] that could be of help for you¡±
Cyan took his phone and opened the [Midas] app.
[Midas App]
- [Status]
- [Inventory]
- [Skills]
- [Quest]
- [Shop]
- [Willy]
- [Map]
- [Inbox]
- [Help/FAQ]
[Shop]
Cyan ignore [Weapon] and [Armor] for now and went directly into [Items], and after scrolling to the end he found something that he could use.
[Potions]
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- Basic Grade Grow Potion 10.000 Credits
- Medium Grade Grow Potion 50.000 Credits
- Advance Grade Grow Potion 100.000 Credits
[Basic Grow Potion]
- Effects: Player grows one additional Point.
[Medium Grow Potion]
- Effects: Player grows two additional Points.
[Advance Grow Potion]
- Effects: Player grows three additional Points.
Even though it looked very useful, it was also pretty expensive, the advance grade potion cost was the same amount he had used to unlock Floor 8, even more so, the description was also kind of incomplete, Cyan could only ask Karga what were the effects of the potion.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, do you know how these potions work?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It is pretty simple, say that you train for a day, then go to sleep and on the next day you have gained 1 point of stats right? If you drink that you would gain 2 instead of 1, pretty neat right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What? It isn¡¯t this a pretty amazing potion?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It is, but it has its own flaws, first, you need to unlock the [Shop] to even see it, and second, even after you drink it if you didn¡¯t grow any stats during the night then you would have thrown 10.000 Credits into the trash, a normal Player couldn¡¯t afford to buy it every day, not to mention¡¡±
As Karga was talking, he has thought of something making him come to a stop.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It is nothing¡ but now that I think about it, that potion is indeed perfect for you and for your training, do you have enough to buy it?¡±
Cyan checked his inventory, something he did not do in the morning after he had wake up.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 7 x19
[Equipment]
His Credits had increased a lot, but he still could not afford to buy the Medium Grade, Cyan thought it was a shame.
[Cyan]: ¡°Yes I have just enough for a Basic grade one¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Good, then lets us begin after you drink it¡±
Cyan bought the [Basic Grade Grow Potion] and stored for later used, however, Karga has guaranteed him he would do triple the training so his 10.000 would not be wasted, making Cyan regret his actions.
In the end, he also had to buy 10 sets of [Energy] items for the training, and after all that expending he remained with just a pitiful amount of Credits.
[Inventory]
This amount also included the 20.000 Credits reward; he got for completing [Start your Training II].
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On track #10, Karla was carrying out another type of crazy training.
[Karla]: ¡°Your mind is not in focus¡±
Alice failed to dodge again as she felt a great amount of pain in her left arm, she looked in horror how her arm went flying and hit the ground, a cloud a red mist soon started to surround her arm blocking the blood from spilling out everywhere.
Karla picked out Alice severed arm as started to wave it around, while Alice kept enduring the pain.
[Karla]: ¡°Maybe I was too soft on you¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡ my arm¡ please give it back¡±
Alice pain receptors screamed in her head, the longer her arm was missing the more she would have to deal with the pain in her mind.
[Karla]: ¡°Oh you mean this? I thought you didn¡¯t need it as you let it be cut off so easily; maybe I should also take the other one too¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡ I really need it¡ please¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Asking nicely wouldn¡¯t work here you know? Why don¡¯t come and take it for yourself¡±
Even though Alice mind was going blank, she still stood up using her left arm as her support and started very slowly to walk in Karla direction while holding her right arm.
Karla could only praise Alice courage in her mind because right now she could only act tough, or not.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, you can have it back, but don¡¯t lose it next time¡±
Karla threw the arm back to Alice which painfully put it back in its place, after that, Alice went limp on the ground while having trouble to breathe. Karla could only look Alice from a distance; she could not hold herself any longer.
[Karla]: ¡°Why don¡¯t you tell me what it is inside your head that is bothering so much?¡±
Chapter 024 – A Lie
Chapter 024 ¨C A Lie
In track #10 where Alice training was taking place, there was not anyone else but she and Karla.
[Karla]: ¡°I will ask again, why don¡¯t you tell me what it is inside that head of yours that is bothering so much?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Alice could only turn her head away; even so, Karla would not let it go.
[Karla]: ¡°Well, you didn¡¯t need to tell, I can guess on my own, you know?¡±
Karla crouched down in front of Alice and looked her into the eyes.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡ there is¡¡±
Before Alice could say anything else, Karla interrupted her.
[Karla]: ¡°It is because you think your growth speed is too slow?¡±
Alice body trembled.
[Karla]: ¡°Oh so it really was that then¡±
Instead of answering, Alice just nodded with her head.
Even though Karla could read a person expression like a book, she still needs information about the target for making a precise guess, however, it was still a guess.
[Karla]: ¡°You are worrying over nothing¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Alice could only look to the ground, even though she already knew that she could not help but worry, about her own growth speed.
[Karla]: ¡°Would I help you, if I tell you that the newbie is cheating?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Huh?¡±
Alice could only put a confused face as she turned her gaze to look at Karla.
[Karla]: ¡°Actually it is not just him, you are quite the cheater yourself, you know?¡±
That only made Alice feel even more confused,
[Alice]: ¡°Senior that¡¯s¡¡±
However, before Alice could continue, Karla interrupted her again.
[Karla]: ¡°Not true?¡±
Karla could only let a sigh escaped from her mouth; this is why she hated being a babysitter.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, instead of comparing yourself against a cheater, why don¡¯t you compare yourself against me¡±
[Alice]: ¡°But Senior stats are¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Much higher than yours? Yes they indeed are, however, most of my points came from [Midas] Quests rewards by doing a repetitive Quest, and even when my highest initial stat was bordering 20¡¯s points, I didn¡¯t start to grow my stats until the last day of my second week, you know?¡±
Karla could only try to explain the difference between her and Alice growth, if she compared Alice against her own progress then without any doubt, Alice will let her on the dust in the near future.
Alice could only think of something else different, why Karla was saying she got her points from doing a repetitive Quest, while they were training in the track to grow their stats that way.
[Alice]: ¡°Then why are we¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Training, when instead, you could be doing a Quest to increase your stats that way?¡±
Alice nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s because you two little cheaters don¡¯t need to do Quests yet to increase your stats at all¡±
Karla could only let out another sigh, maybe of frustration, or relief.
[Karla]: ¡°I can only think that my own growth potential is already capped, however, your stats are still growing each day are they not?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yes they are but¡¡±
[Kara]: ¡°It doesn¡¯t matter if it is slow; the important part is if they will stop growing before reaching to the very top of the Tier or not¡±
Alice thought for a moment before asking.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, you think I can reach to the top like this, with my own potential, even if is slow?¡±
Karla could only shake her head as if saying ¡°no¡±, making Alice feel depressed.
[Karla]: ¡°Alice, not everyone growth potential is the same, nor all Players would grow at the same rate or speed, and not everyone will be able to get the top, however, I have the belief that you will be able to go beyond us, even beyond than Boss¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior I¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I know that you will reach to the very end, however, laying down in the ground like this, you wouldn¡¯t be able to even take the very first step¡±
Alice expression stiffened with Karla encouraging words, ¡°Senior is right¡± There was no way that lay down in the floor like that she would be able to keep going, Alice thought to herself.
In the end, Alice stood on her feet again and dusted off her clothes.
[Karla]: ¡°Oh ready to give it a go again?¡±
Alice nodded and went back to her training.
Karla could see that this time, Alice''s eyes shined with life once more, she thought for a second that maybe being a babysitter was not so bad.
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Cyan and Alice returned to the [Food Area] and dropped into a pair of chairs, in the other hand, Karga and Karla were quite happy with today¡¯s training and the progress of the kids, as showed by their expressions, or maybe it was because they were able to skip today¡¯s training in Floor 8 with Boss.
Whatever it was, because they were in a good mood they ordered food for Cyan and Alice, however, two more people had shown up to the table at that time, one was Boss but the other man was an unknown person for the twins.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Unknown]: ¡°Hello, mind if I join you?¡±
Karla and Karga did not say anything and offered a chair for the man to sit down; after all, this person had arrived with Boss.
[Unknown]: ¡°Let me introduce myself, I am Cale, I belong to the third unit of the GP, I arrived here on Monday, and I have been training on the Floor 6 [Gym Area] since I arrived, I met with Boss when I went to investigate the Floor 8¡±
Karla nodded, each Monday new Players will arrive at the Tower in the [Lobby Area], however, they all not arrived at the same time, and wasting a day waiting for people to show up was not a good option for them, not to mention the probability of arriving at the same Tower was low.This tale has been pilfered from Royal Road. If found on Amazon, kindly file a report.
[Karla]: ¡°Is there anyone else from your unit?¡±
[Cale]: ¡°It is only me¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I understand do you mind if we check your identity first?¡±
Karla took out her phone, her phone has a fingerprint scanner capable of scanning very accurately and together with a GP database, she could confirm a person identity all around the world.
After unlocking her phone, Karla presents it before Cale.
[Karla]: ¡°Put your fingers through here¡±
Cale put each of his fingers throughout the fingerprint scanner, and answered a few key code questions, after that, Karla has confirmed that this person was indeed an agent for the GP.
Even though they worked in the very same place that did not mean everyone knew each other, even more so, if they worked in different areas around the GP center building or in the field.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss the data matches, there is no problem¡±
Boss nodded
[Boss]: ¡°Continue¡±
[Cale]: ¡°Wait, before that, these two civilians here are?¡±
The hidden meaning from Cale question was that these two kids should not be here.
[Karla]: ¡°These two are Players recruits for our unit, Alice, and Cyan, we have been working with them since they arrived at the Tower¡±
This was something Karla wanted for Alice and Cyan to hear, the meaning being, recruiting them as Players for their unit.
[Cale]: ¡°Then I guess it is ok, with your unit reputation I will not have any issue, let me introduce myself again¡±
Unlike Karla that had to verify Cale identity, Cale did not has to, after all, unit one was the most famous unit of the GP, which the GP direction commanded himself, they have a 0% casualty rate, and a 99% success rate on their missions. Everyone knew them inside the GP, however, they only knew about Boss and his unit achievements, more than the composition of its members.
[Cale]: ¡°I am Cale leader of the third unit, because special reasons our unit deployment was delayed, I have lost contact with my entire unit and with the GP director, and like I have said I found the leader of the first unit while exploring the Floor 8 Arena¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I am Karla second in command of the first unit, form the intelligence department¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I am Karga third in command of the first unit, explosives department¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I guess Boss doesn¡¯t need any introduction, as for these two, this one is Alice, and this one is Cyan code name newbie, they are our new unit recruits¡±
Cyan wanted to retort back but he was too tired from today''s training to saying anything.
[Karla]: ¡°Anyway, can you tell us what it is the status in the outside?¡±
Cale nodded.
[Cale]: ¡°¡ in one word¡ hell¡±
The atmosphere in the table turned heavy.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss says to please explain in more detail¡±
[Cale]: ¡°The monsters that started showing one by one at the beginning stopped appearing all of the sudden, but then, they have come back in the hundreds, and then in the thousands, I was ordered by the GP director to help to evacuate as many people as possible of the GP center that was under attack by the monsters¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s why your unit deployment was delayed, because of the evacuation order?¡±
Cale nodded and let out a sigh.
[Cale]: ¡°In the end, while evacuating the GP center, our group was attacked by a group of ten monsters, after getting badly hurt, I managed to reach out for my phone and [accept], then I was transported here, my injuries also had faded away, I would have died otherwise¡±
Cale could only shake his head as a sign of regret, because in a way he has abandoned his unit to save himself, however, the GP director orders were to [accept] if they were about to die, and being a monster dinner plate was not in Cale¡¯s top ten ways of dying.
Karla in the other hand could read Cale thoughts, and feelings, by reading his expressions, and gestures, in her opinion he was saying the truth, of course, as a leader unit he would feel horrible for his actions. Even so, having the wits to [accept] when you are about to die only showed that Cale has the will to keep on living.
[Cale]: ¡°I don¡¯t know how many of my unit could make it after I gave the order to withdraw over the radio¡±
Karla turned her head to look at Boss and nodded, indicating that Cale was probably and most likely saying the truth here.
[Karla]: ¡°Can you tell us where your group was heading to?¡±
Cale nodded.
[Cale]: ¡°Yes, it was in the evacuation order, major cities all around the world have already fallen into the hands of the monsters after the army defensive line was breached, however, an all-out evacuation to seven core cities that had not fallen because were like fortress and a map in how to reach them was given¡±
Cale then took out a map from his pocket, and showed to Karla, together with the mission briefing.
Karla in the other hand started to take pictures of the map with her phone, to put it together later on in her navigation app, as for the mission briefing, there was a list of the name of the seven fortress cities.
Cale paused for a moment as he recounted the incidents of that day.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Please continue¡±
[Cale]: ¡°The thing is, we don¡¯t know from where the monsters invasion was coming from, they all appeared around the world without a pattern, there wasn¡¯t an effective defense we could put out¡±
[Karla]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°¡¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Karla thought for a moment as she turned to look at Alice, she was also a third gen Player, ¡°but then why¡±¡ something felt off for Karla, but nobody else around the table seems to have noticed it. Is only had been three weeks and the world was already in a total mess, however, Karla could only brush off the incongruity feeling she was having right now but she could not say what it was.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Karla nodded, as she understood Boss order.
[Karla]: ¡°Our status it is as follows¡¡±
Karla then started to explain to Cale almost everything they knew about the [Training Tower] leaving behind a few key info that they could not share so easily with everyone even with another GP member.
[Cale]: ¡°So it was like that, this an installation designed to fight against those monsters, however, how could a human fight against those monsters bare handed, they are too fast, and our weapons are so useless¡±
Even when Cale had been training inside the Tower for 5 days already, he could not believe a human could actually fight and win barehanded against those monsters. The twins in the other hand could only smile bitterly to Cale¡¯s comment as they looked at Boss.
Cyan took the chance to check on Alice status while the twins were explaining to Cale the things he may not know about the Tower.
[Cyan]: ¡°How are you feeling?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I am ok, and I know my parents are also ok, you don¡¯t have to worry about it¡±
Alice that had been quietly listening to Cale history was obviously worried sick, however, Cyan couldn¡¯t say anything more about the subject, as an orphan, he didn¡¯t have a family or friends to worry about, even so, looking Alice like that, Cyan could only a feel an empty void inside him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, there something I wanted to give you¡±
Cyan then took out a [Basic Grow Potion] from his inventory; he had spent the 10.000 Credits from his Quest reward and bought another one for Alice.
[Alice]: ¡°this is?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It is a grow potion, it would help you to grow your stats faster¡±
[Alice]: ¡°How much did it cost you?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°You don¡¯t have to pay me back¡±
Alice could only shake her head, in the past, she could have received items for free in a game, but this is not a game where she could still do that.
[Alice]: ¡°How much¡±
Cyan could let out a sigh and answer.
[Cyan]: ¡°5.000 Credits¡±
However
[Alice]: ¡°Lier¡±
Cyan could only give up trying.
[Cyan]: ¡°10.000 Credits¡±
Alice took out her phone and opened her [Inventory]
[Inventory]
[Items]
- Ticket for any Floor x10
- Ticket for Floor 5 to 7 x19
- Energy Drink x20
- Energy Food x20
[Equipment]
She could bite her own lips, as she did not have enough Credits to pay it back as she had been expending her Credits in Food and [Energy] items, not to mention, she did not have a steady income of Credits yet as Cyan, and just running around the track could give her 2000 Credits per day. Moreover, even though it was a nice gesture from Cyan, she could not take it for free, there was not a guaranteed that her stats would keep growing, meaning, there was a real possibility of just wasting 10.000 Credits, in the end, she has to refuse it.
However, Karla that was right beside her took notice of the potion in Alice¡¯s hands.
[Karla]: ¡°Ah what it is this? Are you asking her to be your girlfriend with a gift?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, it is nothing like that¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh but this is a very expensive [Item] even though it is the Basic one, you should drink it right away Alice¡±
Before Alice could say anything, Karla took the potion and empty out the contents of the bottle in her throat, thanks to Karla¡¯s superior stats, Alice could not resist at all, Karla then turned her head around and give a wink to Cyan and released Alice from her grasp.
Alice coughed a few times before being able to talk again.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan¡ I definitely pay it back tomorrow¡±
After that, Alice left the table without saying anything else.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior you¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°No need for thanking me, newbie, now, why don¡¯t you go after your girlfriend, are you leaving her alone at this moment?¡±
Cyan could only stand up and go after Alice, not because Karla had told him to do so, but because Alice had been acting all weird lately.
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Back in the table after Cyan had left.
[Karla]: ¡°I am sorry, but I have something to do, please continue without me¡±
Everyone left in the table nodded and Karla left the area.
Chapter 025 - A Shared Dream
Chapter 025 - A Shared Dream
Back in the table after Cyan had left.
[Karla]: ¡°I am sorry, but I have something to do, please continue without me¡±
Everyone left in the table nodded and Karla left the area.
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In front of room #351, Alice was opening her room door when Cyan has caught up to her.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice, please wait for a moment¡±
Alice stopped opening the door and turned around to look at him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice, are you still angry about the photo? Please I beg you for your forgiveness¡±
Alice shook her head.
[Alice]: "I am not mad at you Cyan, it is just that¡¡±
Even so, Alice did not say what was bothering her.
[Cyan]: ¡°If you don¡¯t tell me how I would know?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
Still, Alice did not say anything; Cyan could only let out a sigh.
[Cyan]: ¡°You have asked me what my dream was once before, remember?¡±
Alice nodded; she remembers that the first day she arrived at the tower she had to wake up Cyan from a nightmare.
[Cyan]: ¡°In that dream¡, you and I are fighting against an army of monsters on top of a mountain¡¡±
Alice flinched, that sounded an awful lot like something she could more or less remember herself but it should not be.
[Alice]: ¡°What happens at the end of the dream?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°In the end¡ we both have survived, and then go on living¡±
[Alice]: ¡°You are lying again¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°And how would you know?¡±
Cyan could see that Alice had started to cry if his suspicions were right then¡ he should be the only one that was having that dream.
[Alice]: ¡°In the end, we both die! Don¡¯t we?¡±
Alice ended screaming at Cyan face while crying, that nightmare she was having was, was actually something they both had been experiencing during the night, however, Alice could remember the ending, while Cyan could make a guess of what happened, in a way it was the same dream but it was also different.
[Alice]: ¡°No matter how much I tell you to escape, you never leave in the end, and we both die¡±
Be that they die in a dream or that Cyan runs away¡
[Cyan]: ¡°It is just a dream, Alice¡±
Yes, it was just a dream, however¡
[Alice]: ¡°Why you need to be such idiot, why can¡¯t just leave¡¡±
Neither of both believed that it was just a simple dream.
[Cyan]: ¡°I will change that dream ending, and I will never leave you behind to die, I promise you¡±
Alice could only cry her eyes out as she shook her head, Cyan eyes also started to cry, even though he wanted to hold it down.
[Alice]: ¡°sniff, you are still being such an idiot¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°I know¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I am also an idiot for believing in you¡±
After that, Alice gave Cyan a kiss in the cheek before entering her own room and closed the door without saying anything else.
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After Cyan had calmed down, he returned to his own room, however, there was someone else waiting for him in front of his room.
[Karla]: ¡°What it is this, the couple was fighting? Let me take a guess here, you had cheated and Alice found out. And now, you are crying because Alice has dumped you?¡±
Cyan was not in the humor for playing around with Karla right now, he could only give her a glare.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t need to look me like that kid, since you have blocked me in your phone, my only option was to come here by myself, you know?¡±
Cyan remembered that he has blocked Karla number, and he has yet to unblock her, not that he would do so though.
[Karla]: ¡°My dumb Brother, told me you had bought that Grow potion, but now you gave it to Alice, aren¡¯t you afraid of wasting 10.000 Credits away?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I have bought two; however, giving one to Alice is not a waste¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Who was talking about her? I was talking about you, newbie¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, can stop playing around¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I am playing around? Haha look who is talking, don¡¯t you think we haven¡¯t taken notice of it, kid¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, what are you talking?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You want to play pretend now? You have not been using the full of your stats on purpose since the beginning, you always cramp up like a scare shrimp during training, as if you are more afraid of getting hurt that the pain itself, do you think we are blind?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s¡ I have been training with all my myth and¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Please don¡¯t make me laugh, we three are a talented bunch, Alice is even more talented than us, but you¡ you are quite something else aren¡¯t you?¡±Stolen from its original source, this story is not meant to be on Amazon; report any sightings.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Let me take a guess, you have wasted all your time thinking you are weakling, and that you thought you couldn¡¯t do anything about it to change it, right? Afraid of the world and afraid that if you tried you would fail and then it will hurt you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s not true; I have been¡ all this time¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Stop lying yourself, kid¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, please stop¡±
However, Karla did not stop there.
[Karla]: ¡°You had been crouching and hiding in a corner all your life, now that you are given a chance to raise up, you are still hiding in the corner¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Shut up¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You are wasting your potential away playing around like that, even Alice have taken notice of it, why do you think she was all that sad about? That¡¯s is because she thought because she could not catch out with you she was holding you back instead¡±
Cyan could not hear this for any longer.
[Cyan]: ¡°I said Shut UP!¡±
Even so, Cyan knows deep down it was the truth.
[Karla]: ¡°Oh you are a man now, look at you all crying again because some mean person told you a few mean things, you are pathetic, kid¡±
Cyan did not know when his eyes had started to cry again, first Alice and now this; even so, he cleaned his tears away.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, are you done?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Stop wasting everybody else time, Cyan¡±
Karla walked away after saying what she had come to say.
Cyan entered his room and sit down in his bed.
[Cyan]: ¡°What had I even doing¡¡±
Alice kiss, he couldn¡¯t feel thrilled about that at all, Karla harsh words keep digging inside his head, his promise to Alice, and his own fears.
¡°You are wasting everybody else time¡±
¡°You are pathetic¡±
¡°I am also an idiot for believing in you¡±
¡°I promise¡±
What happened to his plan to change the future, however, how could he honestly believed he could change the future when he had already failed three times already? Did not the future he has said he was the four?
[Cyan]: ¡°Will I fail again?¡±
Cyan could only shake that thought out his head, thinking like this he was guaranteed to fail again; the real problem was in the question of ¡°how¡±.
[Cyan]: ¡°How can I ever begin changing the future?¡±
Until now, Cyan had been going throughout the motions, he didn¡¯t really have much to do, he thought this it was already enough to change the future, however, he was now realizing that in actuality he wasn¡¯t doing anything at all, there was no plan from him.
In the end, Cyan could only think of something he could do right now.
Cyan took out the Grow Potion from his inventory, and empty out the content inside his mouth before laying down on top of his bed and closed his eyes.
As Cyan entered a world of dreams, he thought to himself.
¡°First, I will have to change the dream in itself¡±
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Karla went back to the [Food Area] where Karga was waiting for her, however, Boss and Cale were gone from the table.
[Karga]: ¡°I hope you know what you are doing¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I also hope for the same, but someone had to tell him, I prefer to play the part of the villain, that being a good for nothing Angel¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Sigh, what are you now, his mom?¡±
Karla could only shake her head, dismissing Karga comments.
[Karga]: ¡°Whatever, the newbie it is not the only one here that is lying to himself anyway¡±
Karla interrupted her brother with a Question.
[Karla]: ¡°Where is Boss?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°He is training Cale up in the [PVP Arena]¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Already? Wouldn¡¯t he need to gain a few more stats first?¡±
Karga shook his head.
[Karga]: ¡°He has been doing repetitive Quests on Floor 6 so he has already around 40¡¯s points in his main stat, so he should be fine¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karga]: ¡°And also Cale said himself that he wanted to test how strong Boss was, and as a GP unit leader, he should be very competent, right? Boss probably also wanted to test his character out while sparing that¡¯s why he has agreed to it¡±
Karla could only let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Did he has a death wish or something for asking Boss for a spar?¡±
Karga could only shrug his shoulders as did not know the reason, all the while thinking, that Cale probably does not know how scary Boss was in a fight, even when Cale looked strong himself, he will probably suffer quite a bit under Boss fist.
[Karga]: ¡°Even so, while training inside the Tower he won¡¯t die though¡±
Karla could only lament herself about that fact.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, are we even humans anymore? No matter how many times our bodies get cut, we still can just stick the pieces back in and we won¡¯t die¡±
[Karga]: ¡°You feel so bad about hurting the kid, that now you are trying to find a way to die?¡±
Karla could only shake her head; the thought of not ¡°dying¡± was actually scarier to Karla than the thought of living forever.
In the other hand, Karga could more or less understand his Sister thoughts, so he said something to try to make her feel better, even though, it was using his own style.
[Karga]: ¡°We still could die you know? If the nanobots in our bodies run out of power or something else disable them you would still die and if something sucks out our blood or if our brain gets to blow up into pieces we would...¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Enough with that already, I know already that Players are not immortals¡±
Karga could only shrug off his shoulders, he was just trying to make Karla feel better, but he only has managed to make her feel angry.
[Karga]: ¡°But surely it is very helpful for training anyways, however, if you can¡¯t deal with it, it is better for you to not to think too much about it, also, you should cheer up a little bit more Sister¡±
Karla could only glare at her Brother as she asked why she should cheer up.
[Karla]: ¡°Cheer up for what?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°While you were away, Boss has said that after soloing [Round 3] today, he felt something changing inside him¡±
Karla angry expression changed in an instant.
[Karla]: ¡°Did he made a [Breakthrough]?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Close, but not quite, Boss got a ¡°Power¡±, however, it has shown up in his [Skill] list though, moreover, he can¡¯t use it yet, as it is still gray out¡±
Karla could not respond to that, as her brain was busy processing what she just heard.
[Karga]: ¡°Also Boss is trying to learn how to use it as we speak while he is training Cale up¡±
It was very reasonable that Boss would want to learn how to use his ¡°Power¡±, as soon as possible, but to think the ¡°Power¡± has actually shown up as an [Skill].
[Karla]: ¡°What [Skill] did he get?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I think you would like it, it is called [Armor Break]¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Pretty fitting for Boss, did he told you how he learned or what it does?¡±
Karga only shrugged his shoulders, as he was clueless what the [Skill] does because Karla was not here to translate Boss exact words.
[Karga]: ¡°Sort of that, he said he felt a changed during the round and that after the round was over, he just was walking, and in the next moment he got a notification in his phone, and the [Skill] was in there¡±
Karla could only let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, that doesn¡¯t help us much¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Well, that¡¯s all that I could understand; you are the brain here, so you have to come out with theory now¡±
Karla started massaged her temples with her hands while letting out another sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, I feel another headache incoming now¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Haven¡¯t you got many of those recently?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°It is your entire dam fault for recommending Boss to recruit those two kids, and then dropping all the responsibility on to me, and also, it is your fault that I am here in the first place¡±
[Karga]: ¡°You are the older sister so of course, you need to take responsibility for your younger brother irresponsible actions, right? That¡¯s why we are in the same unit after all, and also I didn¡¯t ask you to come, didn¡¯t you followed after me after I joined the GP?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That was only so you wouldn¡¯t get killed while playing with explosives like the idiot that you are!, enough, I will not care more about you, I will tell mom and dad that you had died somewhere else, so they don¡¯t have to worry about you either¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Come on Sister, forget that I had said that, aren¡¯t we twins?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Shut up, and let¡¯s go, Boss must be waiting for us¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Karla?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I said, shut up already¡±
Karga could only remain silent, maybe this time he has said too much, and taken things too far, however, he thought about another matter that he wanted to ask, that maybe would help him out of this situation.
[Karga]: ¡°It is ok if I ask you something else?¡±
Karla just glared at him. Karga took that as a positive answer.
[Karga]: ¡°Do you think that after Boss learns how to activate his [Skill] he will able to make [Breakthrough] into the next Tier?¡±
Karla dropped her angry expression for a moment and replaced it with a refreshing smile.
[Karla]: ¡°He will, definitely¡±
Unlike her dumb brother, at least, Boss had never let her down, not even once.
Chapter 026 - A Date
Chapter 026 - A Date
Cyan opened his eyes and woke up from his dream; however, this time his dream has ended earlier than before, as he tried to struggle to change it, even though he has failed, he has now thought of something else he could do to change the future.
[Cyan]: ¡°If I want to change it, then I need to change myself first¡±
Cyan realized in his dream that he could not change it because, he was the same every time, then for changing it, he needs to change itself first.
Cyan took out his phone and read throughout his notifications, there were quite a few notifications more than yesterday, however, he ignored those and read how much stats he has gained overnight.
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grows +6 STR¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grows +6 DEX¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grows +6 END¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grows +6 STA¡±
Notification [Midas]: ¡°Player grows +2 INT¡±
The potion had worked his magic and his stats increased by 6 points, this also included the extra point he got from the potion to each of his stats that had increased; however, what attracted Cyan attention was the fact that his INT has also increased. Cyan now could understand that it has increased because of the change in the way he thought, but even this was just a clue, he could not quite understand yet how this will affect him.
In total Cyan has earned a total of 24 points in his stats in one night, however, this was not enough for Cyan; he still remembers that he has not been using the full strength of his stats, and earning more stats does not mean getting stronger if he did not use them.
However, for now, Cyan could check out his new status.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 37
- Dexterity (DEX): 37
- Endurance (END): 37
- Stamina (STA): 37
- Intelligence (INT): 15
- Free Points: 20
After his growth of 6 points, he should be in 32 for each stat, but after completing [Start Your Training II] yesterday, he got a reward of 10.000 Credits and 5 points for each of his four stats, and 5 Free Points, for now, Cyan still opted for saving those Free Points for later use.
Lastly, Cyan checked his inventory.
[Inventory]
- Credits: 28.150
[Items]
- Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 8 x13
[Equipment]
- School Uniform
He had earned quite a bit of Credits during the night, it seems that Players that used Floor 8 were more active during the night than the day, well, not that a cycle of night and day even matter to them.
After Cyan checked how many Credits he has now, he took a bath and then exited his room and headed to the [Food Area], today he will start giving his all, and he was already eager to get started with Karga training, from today onwards, things will change.
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Cyan soon arrived at Floor 3 and found Alice sitting at a table all alone while ordering breakfast, he could not help but wonder where everyone else has gone.
[Cyan]: ¡°Can I take a seat?¡±
Cyan still remembers what happened yesterday; he did not want to intrude in Alice breakfast if she would rather eat alone today.
Alice turned around and gave a smile when she heard Cyan asking for a seat, after yesterday events she felt more relaxed now, she has to look at the present right now, and not to a dream that may never come, and after making out her mind once more about the future, she answered Cyan question.
[Alice]: ¡°Yes you can, there is no need to ask for that, you know?¡±
Cyan nodded and took a seat in the table, and after he had ordered something for breakfast, he asked Alice a question.
[Cyan]: ¡°Do you know where everybody else has gone to?¡±
It was early, so they should be here, he was feeling a little stiff with the thought of meeting Karla again, after yesterday discussion, however, he could only conclude that Karla was just trying to help him and not harm to him, even though that was what it looked at the beginning.
[Alice]: ¡°Yes, they have said they have something very important to do with Boss today, and that they can¡¯t train for today. They also have said that we can train on our own or that if we want we can also take the day off, however, Miss Karla said that if they got the time later on they would join us for lunch¡±
Cyan nodded
[Cyan]: ¡°I understand¡±
Even though Cyan has said he understands, he still felt a let down as he was planning to give it his all today and not hold anything back for today¡¯s training, but now he was cut short even before starting.
In the end Cyan could only eat his breakfast in silence while thinking what else he should be doing for today, taking the Day Off was not an option, even after they have been training like lunatics for five days in a row, however, he still had the feeling of wanting to do something else.
Cyan turned his head around to look at Alice as he thought of something he wanted to change.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice¡±
Alice could only turn around and look at Cyan with a smile, how much time has passed for Cyan to change and call her by her name so naturally unlike before when he would call her Class President.
[Alice]: ¡°Yes Cyan?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What are you planning on doing for today?¡±
Alice thought for a second, she has not come to a decision yet, however.
[Alice]: ¡°I am not sure; however, I think I will go to the track to train as staying in my room while doing nothing would be boring¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then, do you want to do something else besides training?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Sure, but what else can we do?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Well, we could go on a date?¡±
Alice almost spilled out her drink, this, this was not something she was expecting at all.
[Alice]: ¡°Are you seriously asking me out now?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ if you don¡¯t want to I can understand¡±
However, the reaction of Alice was.
[Alice]: ¡°Pffff hahaha¡±
Alice started to laugh; Cyan could not feel more ashamed in his entire life, for the first time that he has asked Alice out on a date only for her to laugh.
[Cyan]: ¡°You only had to say no you know¡¡±
Alice calmed down when she saw that she had made Cyan feel sad.
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s not it; Ok, I will go in a date with you¡±
Cyan eyes lit out.
[Cyan]: ¡°Really?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yeah, however, I can¡¯t believe it took you so much time¡±
Cyan went back to feeling sad.
[Cyan]: ¡°Sorry¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Why are you apologizing for now?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡, I am sorry¡¡±
Alice could only let it go with a sigh; however, there was something else Alice is also curious.Stolen content warning: this tale belongs on Royal Road. Report any occurrences elsewhere.
[Alice]: ¡°Just answer me this with honesty; why now?¡±
Cyan thought for a moment before answering.
[Cyan]: ¡°I just want things to go¡, differently this time¡±
[Alice]: ¡°This time?¡±
Cyan thought that telling other people about time travel nonsenses would earn him the label of a crazy person, so he has come out with another reason.
[Cyan]: ¡°That dream, I will change it as I have promised, and for that, I will also change myself¡, and for that¡,¡±
Alice could only let out a sigh and shook her head, showing her disapproval.
[Alice]: ¡°Will you also change from being the Cyan that I like?¡±
Cyan could only go mute, Alice has just told him that she likes him, but then, he has said that he would change it, what he should be saying right now? Can he say that he will not be changing that part out? However, if he wants to change everything up, will he have to change that too?
Seeing Cyan reaction and his hesitation to answer, Alice could only give a smile, as if Alice was reading his thoughts.
[Alice]: ¡°If you want to change everything, then the only thing you have to change is to stop being afraid all the time, the rest will come on his own¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s¡¡± ¨C it was similar to what Karla has said.
However, Cyan could not say that part out, because, he was thinking he would have to change himself in every aspect to achieve his goal, that was because didn¡¯t know what exactly he has to change, so he would have to that to change in everything, however, Alice was telling him he only needs to change one thing.
Cyan turned his head to look at Alice.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s all?¡±
Alice nodded.
[Alice]: ¡°Yes, just like now, when you asked me out in the silliest way possible¡±
Alice giggled while Cyan face became red.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then, there is something that I also want to tell you¡±
[Alice]: ¡°What it is?¡±
Cyan gathered his courage as stopped being afraid for once.
[Cyan]: ¡°I also like you¡±
Alice face also has become red at that point, been said that by the person she likes was making her feel happy.
Alice nodded.
[Alice]: ¡°I know¡±
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[Alice]: ¡°Where we should go for our date then?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I know a place¡±
Cyan knew just the place.
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[Alice]: ¡°I can¡¯t believe there was such place inside the [Rest Area]¡±
Right now Cyan and Alice were having a picnic in an open area in Floor 4 under the shade of a tree, unlike the [Lobby] the [Rest Area] was just like a park that you could enjoy.
[Cyan]: ¡°it is just that every time we come here is after training and then we have to go back to train so we can¡¯t appreciate it¡±
Alice nodded with her head.
[Alice]: ¡°I guess you are right¡±
Cyan and Alice continue with their picnic talking about miscellaneous stuff like school, friends and¡ family.
[Alice]: ¡°You ask me out without asking for my father''s permission first, you know he is going to be angry with you now¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡ your father is too scary, I would not want to make him feel angry, shouldn¡¯t we be heading back now?¡±
Alice could only giggle at Cyan bad joke.
[Alice]: ¡°You haven¡¯t seen him when he is angry though, when I didn¡¯t do my homework, he would make me run around the block like a drill sergeant, however, he didn¡¯t get angry if I didn¡¯t get a perfect grade, as his motive was the sense of responsibility of doing your duty more than anything else¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I can see that happening, sigh, you think that after we go back can I ask for his permission and he wouldn¡¯t get angry?¡±
Alice could only giggle again.
[Alice]: ¡°You probably would end up running all around the apartment building anyway, he would say you look too weak, you need to run more¡±
Cyan could only drop his shoulders.
[Alice]: ¡°But thanks to that I enjoy running¡ every time I run I can remember my parent¡¯s smile, as mom would also join us in the morning¡±
Cyan could see Alice eyes tearing up; being away from her parents was too hard for her, and the way they forced her to come to the Tower.
[Cyan]: ¡°I can totally see him saying something like ¡°If you want to date my daughter you will have to beat me! Let¡¯s fight!¡± or something like that
Alice laughter was sweet for Cyan to hear, showing that he was in the right; Alice could totally also see that happening when they get back to earth.
[Alice]: ¡°He would do that, however, after 4 weeks in here, I don¡¯t think you would lose against him in a fight¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Don¡¯t joke with me¡ I don¡¯t think I can beat your father all, he is¡¡±
Alice shook her head
[Alice]: ¡°You don¡¯t have to play low because of me; I am growing stronger with each day, but you are growing to a totally different pace than I am¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I don¡¯t think my father could beat you after training your stats to its peaks during four weeks, and not to mention that if you went really serious and asked Boss to train you then¡¡±
Before Alice could continue, she was interrupted by Cyan retort.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then I would be turned into dust if I asked Boss to train me¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Even so, you would become stronger after that, strong enough that almost no one would be able to beat you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°there is no way that¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡ it is because if are afraid of failing?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s not it¡ I¡±
[Alice]: ¡°In the dream, the Cyan that I saw was very strong, strong enough he could win against an army of monsters, nevertheless, that Cyan was also very afraid of losing, and that¡¯s why...¡±
Cyan could only shake his head, in the dream, he could look around him, but he could not look at himself in a mirror, was that Cyan also afraid?
[Cyan]: ¡°That''s just a dream¡±
Even if just was a dream.
[Alice]: ¡°Didn¡¯t you said that you want to do things differently this time? Then what it is holding you back from doing just that?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I¡¡±
Cyan was frozen in time as the answer was stuck in his throat and did not want to go out¡ he could answer it, he knew the answer, however, the answer refuses to come out of his mouth because that would¡
Alice gazed landed in Cyan, and then she stretched her hand out and held Cyan hand while interconnecting their fingers. This gave Cyan the courage he needed, Cyan eyes started to cry as he forced the answer out from his mouth, ¡°You are so pathetic¡± resounded in his brain, however, the voice he heard was female, but it was not from Karla, but someone else he didn¡¯t know, even so, this has not stopped him this time.
[Cyan]: ¡°It hurts¡¡±
Alice nodded, urging Cyan to continue.
[Cyan]: ¡°it hurts so much, every time, that I have tried, I failed, it hurts so much watching you die all the time, even when I try¡±
Cyan eyes kept dropping drops of water, as the pain inside his mind invaded his body and started to go to the surface once again, just like his first day on the Tower.
This was the pain he has been holding him back and came crawling back from his brain together with the memories of three lives that were not his, and where he had already failed to save Alice, however, he could not let those memories go.
Alice felt a pain in her hand that has been transmitted from Cyan; the pain was just a part of what Cyan was feeling and not in a form of any physical pain but in the form of emotions like remorse, hate, love, and regret.
[Alice]: ¡°Then why don¡¯t you stop holding onto such a thing¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That, I can¡¯t let them go¡±
Alice could understand that Cyan was afraid of letting go of such memories, even though they should be painful, he was still holding onto them, but in actuality, what he was just holding onto was onto the pain that memories brought.
[Alice]: ¡°If you don¡¯t let it out, it will only accumulate and hurt you more, if you let it out it will vanish like a dream that never existed¡±
Cyan could only groan at the pain of loss and helplessness that was inside his head, the pain of three failed lives where inside his mind, the repressed emotions that he had been accumulating in his body filling it to the brink, until his body and mind could not take it anymore, making him freeze, even so¡
[Cyan]: ¡°I don¡¯t want to lose you again¡±
[Alice]: ¡°You won¡¯t, I am still here, now, let them go¡±
Cyan was afraid of letting go of what remained of his memories, even if, it was only the pain that remained. Even so, in the end, he opened up his hand and released Alice hand and his fears with it; he felt the pain fading away at the same time as his conscience dimmed out until he fainted to the ground.
[Alice]: ¡°You should sleep for now; I will be here when you wake up¡±
Even though Cyan has fainted, he has managed to hear those words out from Alice.
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When Cyan opened his eyes again, his head was being supported by something soft and warm, Cyan could see the face of Alice¡¯s face in front of him as he looked up.
[Alice]: ¡°You up?¡±
Cyan nodded
[Cyan]: ¡°How long did a sleep?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°About 1 hour, does it hurt?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It doesn¡¯t hurt anymore¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s good¡±
Cyan stood up and took a seat beside Alice.
Even so, Alice asked something she was curious.
[Alice]: ¡°Who are you?¡±
Cyan face stiffened.
[Cyan]: ¡°What¡, what do you mean, I am Cyan¡±
Alice shook her head as she refused this answer.
[Alice]: ¡°What Cyan are you?¡±
Cyan could only let out a sigh.
[Cyan]: ¡°I was found out?¡±
Alice nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°I guess I am the Cyan from the future then¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Then Cyan is?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°He will be back in a moment; I just wanted to see you one last time¡±
Alice nodded, as she took out her phone.
[Alice]: ¡°You are the one that has been texting me all this time?¡±
Cyan nodded making Alice let out a sigh.
[Alice]: ¡°Would he remember you?¡±
Cyan shook his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°I will be gone for good now¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Did my parents¡¡±
Cyan shook his head again.
[Cyan]: ¡°The future has changed into a new path I don¡¯t know what will happen anymore¡±
Alice nodded.
[Alice]: ¡°I understand¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Take good care of him for me will you?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°I will¡±
Cyan looked at Alice''s face for one last time.
[Cyan]: ¡°Before I go, can you tell me how did you figure out?¡±
Alice thought for a second before nodding, answering this question would not change anything.
[Alice]: ¡°Your eyes¡ look red, while Cyan eyes are blue¡±
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Cyan opened his eyes and saw Alice face staring at him as if examining his expression. Cyan felt his head was support for something soft and warm, and then Cyan noticed he was getting a lap pillow from Alice.
[Cyan]: ¡°Do I have something in my face?¡±
Alice shook his head and smile.
[Alice]: ¡°How are you feeling?¡±
Cyan checked his body and saw nothing was out of place.
[Cyan]: ¡°I think I am ok¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Do you want to stay like this a little longer?¡±
Being nursed back to health like this Cyan could only nod.
[Cyan]: ¡°How long did a sleep?¡±
Alice had a sense of Deja vu here, but she answered anyway.
[Alice]: ¡°About 1 hour, right, you should check out your stats, someone has left you a present¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Who?¡±
Alice shook her head, as she did not know, what ¡°that¡± was.
[Alice]: ¡°I don¡¯t know¡±
Even so, Cyan took his phone and checked his status
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 41
- Dexterity (DEX): 41
- Endurance (END): 41
- Stamina (STA): 41
- Intelligence (INT): 21
- Free Points: 20
Cyan tested his eyes to see if he was seeing this correctly, Alice confirmed she also saw the same stats, all of his stats had increased by a lot in just one hour, and it was a great jump in his stats, above all, his Intelligence that was in 15 now was it 21. In total, his stats had increased by 22 points.
Alice could only let out a sigh at Cyan cheating ability.
[Alice]: ¡°You really are a cheater, are you perhaps the Main Character or something?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What? There is no way that¡¯s possible, besides, if I am the Main Character then you should be the Female Lead, right?¡±
Alice''s face went red.
[Alice]: ¡°What are you saying here?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Will you be my girlfriend?¡±
Alice nodded, however.
[Alice]: ¡°You still have to beat dad first though¡±
Cyan face paled again, because of the thought of fighting against the father of Alice and losing. Alice giggled to the white face of Cyan before holding his hand again and sharing with him a kiss.
Chapter 027 - A Simple Wish
Chapter 027 - A Simple Wish.
In a room full of monitors.
[Midas]: ¡°Report¡±
[Wally]: ¡°Anomaly detected in Player Cyan, the Anomaly has been isolated and neutralized¡±
[Midas]: ¡°Was there any clue what that was?¡±
[Wally]: ¡°Impossible to be analyzed: Impossible to Compute, Probable cause: A Unknown Being¡±
[Midas]: ¡°¡¡±
Something unknown, even so, Midas has a probable cause.
[Midas]: ¡°If the cause was [Imperfect Being] there is no way that was the end of it, keep watching and recollecting data¡±
Willy a robot that should not be having thoughts of his own, nevertheless, he thought that Midas manner of speech has changed since the last time, it sounded¡ more human. Willy went back to keep watching over Cyan and Alice, meanwhile, in the monitors was reflected how Cyan and Alice were sharing a kiss.
After witnessing this scene, Midas teleported away from the room.
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Back at the [Rest Area] Alice and Cyan took notice that it was already lunchtime, so they decided to end their date and go back to the [Food Area] to have lunch.
At their gathering point in the [Food Area], they found out that Boss and the twins were already sitting at a table, they soon took notice of pair arrival.
[Karla]: ¡°What is this¡ the couple has finally decided to show up; perhaps they were sharing kisses in the [Rest Area]?¡±
Cyan and Alice became red as they were actually coming from the [Rest Area]. The twins did not miss the subtle changes in Alice and Cyan behavior.
[Karga]: ¡°Huh? Hey, Sister¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, Brother?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Aren¡¯t they standing closer than they were before?¡±
Karla nodded with her head.
[Karla]: ¡°Now that you mention it, it does look like that¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Huh? Hey, Sister¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, Brother?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Aren¡¯t they holding their hands in public now?¡±
Karla nodded with his head.
[Karla]: ¡°Now that you mention it, it does look like that¡±
A grim smile emerged from the twins at this moment; it seemed as if Cyan and Alice would not hear the end of the teasing now, however, Boss was here to save them.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Tsk¡±
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After the little ¡°commotion¡± was over and the twins had calmed down, everyone took a seat at the table.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright Alice, Newbie, there is a piece of good news we have to share¡¡±
However, before Karla could continue, she was interrupted by Cyan.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, Senior, there is something I want to ask Boss first¡±
Karla turned her head to look at Boss.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Go ahead¡±
Cyan wanted to retort, ¡°Are you his interpreter now?¡±, However, that would be pointing the obvious by this point.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss I want you to help me to train, no, I wish for Boss to train me, please¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, do you want¡.¡±
¡°- to die.¡±
Is what Karla wanted to ask, but, Boss stopped her with his hand, signaling her to sit back down.
There was one thing Boss wanted to ask to Cyan, as he took notice of Cyan changes.
[Boss]: ¡°Why¡±
Boss only had a very simple question to ask.
[Cyan]: ¡°No disrespect to Seniors, but¡ they are too soft, Boss it is the only that can train me to my fullest potential, Boss I beg this of you¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Soft! I will show you soft!¡±
Karga had to hold back his angry Sister that was about to tackle Cyan and dragged him to the [PVP Arena] to give him a good ¡°soft¡± beating.
On the other hand, Boss started laughing with his a deep voice, making the struggling Karla and Karga come to a dead stop making Karga released his Sister.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss, are you ok?¡±
Karla started to fan air into Boss¡¯s face while thinking that Boss probably went mad after training for three weeks inside the Tower now.
[Karga]: ¡°I never had heard Boss laugh so hard¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior¡ is that good sign?¡±
Karga could only shake his head, he did not know if this was ¡°good¡± or ¡°bad¡±, however, Karga could only give a palm in the back of Cyan as a sign of support.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss it is fine Karla, kid you have my respects ¡ because you are dead now¡±
Before anyone could say anything else, Boss stood up from his seat and dragged Cyan away to the elevator, and pressed the Floor 7 [PVP Arena] button.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, Boss, I didn¡¯t mean right now!¡±
Even if Cyan wanted to resist, he could not put an inch of resistance, even with his buffed up stats he could not even move a finger of Boss tight handgrip.
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On the other hand, back at the table, where Alice and the twins were still seated.
Alice could only worriedly ask the twins.
[Alice]: ¡°Will Cyan, be ok?¡±
In part, Alice felt she was responsible for this.
[Karga]: ¡°Well, I guess the newbie will be fine, after all, he can¡¯t actually die, right?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, however, I never had seen Boss so eager to train someone like that before¡±
Karga nodded as he agrees with his Sister opinion.
[Karga]: ¡°Me neither, I guess there is a first time for everything¡±
Karla nodded then she smiled as she looked at Karga, and Karga that thought of something started to smile also.
[Karga]: ¡°However¡, Sister, now that the Boss and the Newbie are gone what we should be doing?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I don¡¯t know, Brother, but now that Boss has dragged the Newbie away, then I guess we are free to train Alice now, right?¡±
The twins turned around to look Alice with an evil smile; on the other hand, Alice was feeling something was not quite right here.The tale has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.
[Alice]: ¡°Seniors¡ there is no need to smile like that¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Hey, Brother¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Yes, Sister?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Didn¡¯t the newbie has said we were far too soft without training?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I think he did, shouldn¡¯t we do something to fix that somehow?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°I think we should, but do you have any idea we can try?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Oh, I have one idea that we can try, Sister¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh, I want to hear it, Brother¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Well, if one of us is not enough, then maybe the two of us working together will be enough, right?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°How strange, that¡¯s a good idea, Brother; I think we should test that idea of yours, right now¡±
The twins kept a smile as they dragged the kicking Alice away to the [Track Area], for a special session of afternoon training with the combined efforts of the Karla and Karga.
In the other hand, no one remembered that in fact, that they had left behind someone sitting on the table, however, this person was not showing any reaction to his surroundings, as he only looked at the table with dead eyes. The name of this person was no other than Cale, and he has trained with Boss since yesterday, and this was the result of that training, even a unit leader like Cale could barely endure it.
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Cyan did not know he was standing or on the ground, as he could only see everything spinning around him, and his body being thrown into a blending machine.
After they entered the [PVP Arena] Boss and Cyan entered to a 1 vs 1 ring, where Boss was personally teaching Cyan the differences in stats and techniques between the two.
Even though Cyan should be fighting against a human, Boss was quite the monster himself, or at least that is how it looked in Cyan¡¯s eyes, as to what his eyes could actually see, was a blurry figure moving around the ring, before a fist explodes into his face sending him back to kiss the floor once more.
Cyan did not know how long he has been on the floor as he probably has fainted at some point, but he knew that as soon as he stood back up on his feet again, Boss would be there, in front of him, waiting; most people would choose to remain on the ground, but not him.
[Boss]: ¡°Ready?¡±
Cyan nodded, and once more, it was lights out for him.
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When Cyan recovered his senses again, he was back to [Food Area] with a plate of food in front of him, the smell of the food had awakened his fuzzy mind.
The [Food Area] was deserted of Players at this time, meaning everyone else was either sleeping or training, and the only other person at the table with him was Boss.
[Boss]: ¡°Eat, then we continue¡±
Cyan understood the meaning behind those words, there would not be any rest. Cyan finished his food quickly and then Boss dragged him back to the [PVP Arena] once again.
As long Cyan eats, he will recover, and as long as he stood back up on his feet again, he would grow stronger. Boss training method was not to go easy on Cyan, but to push it to its limits, if not for his increased stats he could not have been able to handle such ruthless training method, and if not for the nanobots inside his body, he would not be able to move, however, if not for his will, he could stand back up on his feet again.
Even the twins could only go for a few training sessions with Boss before dropping to the ground and staying there. However, Cyan that was free of the weight that has been holding back felt so light that he could jump from the ground and rise again like an undead zombie, but this was all Cyan own will, even so, he was not a machine.
Boss could not feel more impressed as Cyan was still trying to stand back up on his feet again, after being K.O several times already, and the only thing stopping him was his lack of energy and an empty stomach.
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Alice was also having a difficult time with the twins combined training efforts that were overwhelming her as they both were tormenting her at the same time.
[Karla]: ¡°Giving up already?¡±
Alice was gasping for air as she thought of something.
[Alice]: ¡°No, wait, Senior¡, just before¡, you said you have good news to share¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Ah, that, well Cyan should be hearing that news right now¡±
Karla could only giggle with a mocking smile.
Alice took notice of this, but she could not say anything about that right now and risk restarting the training.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡, what it is the news?¡±
Karla smiled and turned her head to look at Alice.
[Karla]: ¡°Listen out Alice; I and Boss have managed to make a [Breakthrough]!¡±
[Alice]: ¡°!!!, Then Senior, did you all managed to move onto the next Tier?¡±
Karla could only show a broad smile; however, at that time Karga interrupted her.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss is the only one that managed to make a [Breakthrough] to the next Tier, stop lying¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk, can¡¯t you be more supportive of your Sister, I am trying to impress my student here, and also, we are not that far away from making an [Breakthrough] ourselves either¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Your student? Whom was the one that said we should recruit them?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°And who was the one that Boss asked to handle Alice training after you complained because you couldn¡¯t do it on yourself? Now that I think of you should leave and let me train Alice¡±
Now that her bad mood was gone, Karla had remembered she was the one that wanted to train Alice without the help of her Brother.
[Alice]: ¡°Seniors, please don¡¯t fight, the two of you are great teachers¡±
Karla and Karga smile and then they turned their head around to look at Alice, Alice felt her face cramping up again.
[Karla]: ¡°Then who is the best teacher of the two? Aren¡¯t you two a pair now, thanks to the great teacher oh me?¡±
Karla was pointing her finger to herself as if signaling Alice Karla was the best teacher, however.
[Karga]: ¡°Don¡¯t listen to her Alice; it was me that gave Cyan good bits of advice about dating, and don¡¯t forget that I was me that wanted to recruit you both¡±
Alice felt her eyes twitching.
[Alice]: ¡°Seniors, isn¡¯t it more important to talk about the [Breakthrough] right now?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk, I guess you are right¡±
[Karga]: ¡°It can¡¯t be helped then, we will ask you again later on¡±
Alice could only let out a sigh as she dodged something dangerous; however, she prayed that the twins would forget about this later on.
[Karla]: ¡°Now, Listen out Alice, Boss has made an [Breakthrough] into the next Tier!¡±
Alice went ¡°oohhh¡± and clapped her hands to Karla announcement,
[Alice]: ¡°Then, how Boss did that?¡±
Karla then changed her happy smile to a smug smile.
[Karla]: ¡°Like I said Boss learned a ¡°Power¡± and this power, comes in the form of a [Skill]!¡±
[Alice]: ¡°A [Skill]? Like those Skills in games?¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Exactly like that, and after that, in just a single night he has managed to activate it!, And when Boss did that, he has managed to make an [Breakthrough] into the next Tier, as I have predicted, I am not great?¡±
Alice could only smile while her eye kept twitching, Karla was shamelessly trying to earn teacher points here, it was best to ignore this, and keep the conversation from ending, and Alice thought the best way of doing just that was to keep asking questions.
[Alice]: ¡°Then, what [Skill] did Boss learn?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Oh, this is the best part, he learned [Armor Break]¡±
Karla glared at her dumb Brother trying to steal her student.
[Alice]: ¡°And what it does?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°As its name implies, it can break an armor after activating it, Boss hands would glow red, and then an armor that should not be able to break under human hands, cracks open like a nut in a nutcracker¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That sounds amazing¡±
Karga smile as he thought of something, after all, he has also been called ¡°soft¡± by Cyan.
[Karga]: ¡°It is¡ now think what would happen if you used that [Skill] in a human that doesn¡¯t have armor.
Alice thought for a second before answering as a diligent student.
[Alice]: ¡°His bones would break instead?¡±
Karla and Karga laughter make Alice feel bad about something.
[Karla]: ¡°More than break, they would turn into dust! More so, if it is the weak bones of a certain cheeky kid that said our training was too ¡°soft¡±, right Brother?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°You are totally right, Sister¡±
Alice could only feel pain all around her body as she prayed for Cyan mental wellbeing once more.
[Alice]: ¡°Right, Senior, how did Boss learn that [Skill]¡±
[Karga]: ¡°We don''t know, it just popped up yesterday, however, sigh¡±
Karga did not want to admit it.
[Karla]: ¡°However! I have a theory¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Tsk¡±
Karga could only twist his tongue as Karla really has come out with a theory for this, and the worse part was...
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, what theory is that?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°First, I have to explain, you know that the monsters wear armor like skin, that it is hard to penetrate it, right? In addition, even small calibers bullets can hardly do much damage it, right?
Alice nodded, as she was aware of this.
[Karla]: ¡°I think Boss has wished for a ¡°Power¡± that could crack open that defense, so he could better examine the monsters internal organs, in other words, Boss has wished for that Power to appear!¡±.
Karga could only put out a groan when he heard this theory, he had thought his Sister had given up on thinking for herself anymore, and she had failed his challenge of ¡°come out with a theory for that¡± that they always had played because his Sister was always ¡°so smart¡±.
[Alice]: ¡°It isn¡¯t that a little too simple and vague? Just wishing for Power, isn¡¯t there something else?¡±
Karga jumped at the change to make fun of his Sister.
[Karga]: ¡°I know right? I thought it was the dumbest theory my dear old Sister had ever come out, however¡, sigh¡±
[Karla]: ¡°However, it Works! When we tried it, we also managed to learn a [Skill]!¡±
Alice could not be more surprised.
[Alice]: ¡°What!?, How!?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°We wished really hard for a [Skill] and they just appeared, of course, not all wishes you make would work for that though¡±
Obviously, Karga had tried an over the top wish, but nothing had happened at that time, because even if Karla has said they just have to make a wish, it was not as simple as that, after all, this was a sort of power, that they created on their own.
After reviewing how the wish part worked, Alice asked another question.
[Alice]: ¡°Then Seniors can you tell about the [Skill] Seniors managed to learn?
At that time, Karla let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Even though we have learned one, we haven¡¯t been able to activate it, this morning we were trained under the guidance of Boss to be able to activate it¡±
This time the twin had dropped their smiles and shook their heads in disappoint.
[Karga]: ¡°I can only tell you the name of the [Skill], as for the effects, I can only make a guess¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Yes not to mention Boss had his stats max out before activating the [Skill] for the first time and making a [Breakthrough], so we have we have to max out our stats first before trying to use them¡±
Alice nodded, as she understands, to make a [Breakthrough] they need stats and a special power, just like Karla has predicted.
[Alice]: ¡°Then the names of the [Skill] are?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Oh, my skill name is [Bomb]! Is this not an amazing sounding name or what? Of course, you could guess what it does by its name as I wished for something that could go Boom!¡±
Alice wanted to retort ¡°Are you a terrorist!?¡± Nevertheless, she held it back.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡, that¡¯s dangerous sounding name¡±
Karla could only shake her head every time she heard that [Skill] name.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s what I told him¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Then Miss Karla [Skill]?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Huh, I am not saying¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Pfffff hahaha, it is probably that it has a terrible name that¡¯s why she isn¡¯t telling its name¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Mind your own business!¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Whatever¡ then Alice now that you know the secret, what will you make a wish for?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Something to wish for¡, I wish for¡¡±
In the end, Alice shook her head, as she could not come out with a wish yet.
Chapter 028 - The Last Message.
Chapter 028 - The Last Message.
In the [PVP Arena]
Cyan was gasping for air in the ring floor while the nanobots were repairing his body; he has already lost the count of how many times he has ¡°die¡± since Boss dragged him here, not that he needed to count it out anyway.
Boss came closer and stood in front of him, with a question.
[Boss]: ¡°Kid, what do wish for?¡±
Cyan could not understand the question at first, a wish, if he has to make a wish, what he should be wishing for? Cyan could only reply honestly, as he stood up back on his feet again.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss¡, I honestly don¡¯t know¡±
After he had said that, he saw a red blur coming at him, and then, he felt a strong force bringing him down to the floor again as his bones turned into dust, Cyan wanted to scream out because of the pain he felt around his body, but he could not do that before he fainted on the ground.
After 10 minutes Cyan recovered just enough to stand up back again, Boss came close again with another question.
[Boss]: ¡°Don¡¯t you wish for Power?¡±
Cyan could only shake his head give the same answer.
[Cyan]: ¡°I don¡¯t know¡±
Again, a red blur, however, this time Cyan tried to move away from it, but he was too slow, he felt again that smashing force as his blood and bones escaped out his body like a red and white mist, that started to surround him while the nanobots started to repair his body.
[Boss]: ¡°Then, do you wish for love?¡±
Alice''s face flashed on Cyan mind.
[Boss]: ¡°Wouldn¡¯t that be a waste of a wish?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That shouldn¡¯t be the case¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Wishing for something that you already have¡¡±
Power, Love, and Riches, everything a person could wish for, the power to win, the love of your loved ones, and the money to live a comfortable life, however, Cyan could not make a wish for that or the other.
[Boss]: ¡°Why don¡¯t you wish for something you lack?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Something that I lack?¡ Boss, what do I lack?¡±
Boss shrugged his shoulders.
[Boss]: ¡°How would I know?¡±
Cyan then saw the red blur once again coming for him once again, after his body has been fixed, however, this time, he will welcome it with all his strength.
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Two soulless bodies met in the [Food Area] of course, these two soulless bodies belonged to Cyan and Alice, besides them, four other people were sharing the same table, and two, in particular, were having a great time.
[Karla]: ¡°Uffffffff I feel so refreshed right now, hey newbie, you will eat that?¡±
Karla aimed her forth to Cyan plate, but Cyan did not move nor reacted it, as his eyes were out of focus.
[Karla]: ¡°Then, if you are not eating it, I will help myself¡±
As Cyan was like a zombie, Karla could steal the food out of his plate with no problems.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey Sister let some for me, hehe¡±
Karga was doing the same thing and was stealing food out of Cyan plate.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Cough¡ then Boss how was the training for the kid¡±
Boss thought for a second before giving a reply.
[Boss]: ¡°It was good¡±
That is all he needed to say, even though Cyan looked like that, soon, he would wake up, and then take notice that his food was being stolen by a pair of thieves.
[Cale]: ¡°There is something that I want to ask¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What it is Cale?¡±
Karla stopped stealing Cyan food for a moment and turned around to look at Cale.
[Cale]: ¡°Did that kid did it better than me?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°He did, why do you ask?¡±
Cale shook his head.
[Cale]: ¡°It is nothing¡±
After that, Cale stood up and left his seat on the table as he was headed to the elevator.
Cyan has recovered at this time from his unfocused stated, just in time to see Karla trying to steal food from his plate.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior can you please stop stealing my food¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What is this? Did you wake up already? And I was planning to make Alice spoon feed you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior that¡¡±
Cyan turned to look at Alice that was eating her food while taking a peeking at Cyan, they have not seen each other since the start of the training with Boss, nor they had talked after their date, because Cyan was a zombie, and Alice was also a zombie, even when they were seated at the same table for the past couple of days.
Cyan, on the other hand, could not help to ask a question.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, what day is today?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh, you ask that, instead of asking how is your Girlfriend, Tsk, you got a lot to learn, kid¡±
Cyan could only lower his head in shame; even so, Karla did not stop.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t worry Alice has already told me everything about your little date¡±
Cyan turned to look at Alice but she was eating while looking away, he could not see the face Alice was making.
[Karla]: ¡°First, you need to learn how to take a girl in real date then¡¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°But Boss!¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Karla¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk¡ ok, I understand¡±
Karla went back to eating from her own plate without saying another word.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan, it has been 3 days; today is Monday night of the Tower four week¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Three days already?¡±
Cyan could not remember much.
[Karga]: ¡°Of course, you have been training with Boss for 3 days straight; you should check out your stats when you have the time, though¡±
Cyan went throughout his memories, and he saw red flashes and the feeling of pain, the last thing he truly remembers was when Karla was about to say something about some news, before the start of his training with Boss.
Cyan turned to Karla and asked her what she was going to say that day.
[Karla]: ¡°Tsk, that¡¯s why I hate repeating myself, listen here newbie, we made a [Breakthrough] three days ago, and it is not that complicated¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°An [Breakthrough] of Tiers?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s right¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior can you tell how a Player can make a [Breakthrough]?¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°First, you need at least have one max out stat in your status, of course, you could have more than one, then, you need to obtain a [Skill], and then you need to learn how to use that [Skill] on your own, and the [Breakthrough] will occur, easy right?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It isn¡¯t maxing out your stats something pretty difficult to do?¡±
Karla could only shake her head, as she though Cyan was cheating with his stats and yet he said that. Cyan did not say anything about the matter but instead moved to his next question.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then how do I obtain a [Skill]?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°You make a wish for it¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°A wish?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Right, you wish for it and then the [Skill] will pop up like it always was there since the beginning¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Can I wish for anything?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Haha, listen you talk newbie, aren¡¯t you quite greedy? Even though you are making a wish, what you are creating is an [Skill] anyway, and there is something very important you need to bear in mind¡¡±The author''s content has been appropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
[Cyan]: ¡°And that is?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Nothing is free in this world, so the bigger the wish, the bigger the price that you will have to pay for activating the [Skill]¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°There is a price to pay?¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, for example, you will feel tired after using your [Skill] and the stronger the Skill effects are, the more energy it will consume out of you, so not every wish should be realistically possible¡±
At this time, Cyan did not have any good idea of what he could wish for.
[Cyan]: ¡°Seniors, what are the things I could I wish for?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Why don¡¯t wish for a beautiful wedding? I am sure Alice will like it¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior that¡,¡±
Karla could only giggle, teasing Cyan has become one of her favorite hobbies as of late, but she couldn¡¯t tease him for three days in a row, so she was using the time she got right now, however, she has to be careful of not angering Boss too much.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, can you tell me what do you wished for?¡±
Cyan asked while looking at Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°I wished for something that could go Bum! And the skill [Bomb] was created, and in the days that you were training with Boss, I max out my STR and then I managed to activate it achieving a [Breakthrough] to the next Tier¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°And what that [Skill] does?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°First, it lets me double of my stats for a short amount of time, the gain in stats is so huge, that I think I can even go toe to toe with Boss and even beat him¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Boss was indicating that he wanted to test that out, however, even if Karga was happy about his [Skill] effects, he still lamented himself.
[Karga]: ¡°However, such gain in stats, there is a price to pay, after I deactivated the [Skill] I would feel very weak and I could barely move at all, and in second¡¡±
Karga did not want to say the next bit.
[Karla]: ¡°It would burn him¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Burn?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°His stats, the skill, it will burn them every 10 minutes¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Seniors that¡¯s¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Save it, kid, I wish for it, and there is a price to pay, for wishing something like that, that would allow me to go beyond my capabilities, even so, this [Skill] will become my trump card on the future!¡±
Cyan could not say anything else about the matter and turned his head to look at Karla.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then Senior what [Skill] did you wish for?¡±
Cyan was looking at Karla with expectation, Karga and Alice were also doing the same, as they didn¡¯t know what Karla [Skill] actually did, even after she has managed to make a [Breakthrough] they didn¡¯t know the effects of the [Skill] or even its name.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
Even Boss was curious about it.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, alright, geez, you don¡¯t need to look me with those eyes, Listen well newbie my skill name is [Theory]!¡±
At that moment, Karga exploded in a laugher.
[Karga]: ¡°Hahaha, I knew it that it would have a terrible name¡±
Karla could only groan, but Cyan ignored it and asked his next question.
[Cyan]: ¡°And what the skill [Theory] does, Senior?¡±
Even if the name was not of Karla liking, she still put a smug face, then took a paper and pen, and looked into Alice direction, then her eyes shined with a blue light, and she started to write down something in the paper, after a while she stopped.
[Karla]: ¡°Take a look at his Newbie¡±
[Theory]
[Information]
- Target: Player
- Tier: 0
- Name: Alice
- Measures: ¡
- Sign: ¡
- Date of birth: ¡
- Age: ¡
[Stats]
[Other Info]
- In relation
- Hard working
- Talented
- Smart
- Beautiful
- ¡
[Karla]: ¡°I wished for something helpful, then this skill [Theory] was created, it lets me write a theory about something, for example, information about Player stats, and I can arguably guess other kinds of information too, and the more I know of about the target the better the results will be¡±
Karla started to massage her temples.
[Karla]: ¡°However, I can¡¯t use it too often and it drains a lot of my energy, not to mention, it requires a lot of concentration, its effect is better and more accurate if I just focus in only one aspect¡±
In the other hand, Alice was all flustered as she read the piece of paper that Karla had written down.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior why did write down my measures and show it to Cyan¡±
Karla looked away.
[Karla]: ¡°It was the [Skill] results; I don¡¯t have anything to do with it¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior¡¡±
Even if Karla had said that, she still has to ¡°focus¡± in that, for being able to write it down.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then Boss Skill was that red aura in his hands right?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes, Boss [Skill] you already saw it, but its name is [Armor Break], Boss, wished for something that could break the armored skin of the monsters, so that skill was created, as to what it is the price he has to pay¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Energy and Blood¡±
[Karla]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°¡¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°¡¡±
Everyone at the table could only remain in silence, a Power that comes from Boss own blood.
[Cyan]: ¡°I see¡ then I will¡¡±
However, Karla interrupted Cyan.
[Karla]: ¡°I know what you are thinking newbie, but it is too early for you for creating your own [Skill]¡±
[Karga]: ¡°My Sister is right, newbie, you first need to know, what you are good for, and the things that you lack, making a random wish now could be bad for you in the future, this is the same case for Alice¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I understand Seniors; I thank Seniors for the advice¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Thank you, Seniors, for the advice¡±
Karla stopped for a second, she wanted to tease Cyan a little bit more, but after being thanked so honestly but she chooses not to.
[Karla]: ¡°Cough, alright, everybody back to your rooms and take a rest for the day¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, aren¡¯t we training anymore Boss?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°You should rest for now and let your body adapt after training with Boss for three days¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I understand¡±
After that, everybody left the area, leaving only Cyan and Alice behind on the table, Alice and Cyan were waiting for this so they could talk with each other a little bit more.
[Alice]: ¡°How was your training?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°It was very difficult, and I don¡¯t remember much of it¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That bad heh¡±
Cyan could only bitterly laugh at that remark.
[Cyan]: ¡°How was your training, did the twins were too angry?¡±
Alice could only let out a sigh, more than the training, having the twins stop fighting between them was actually quite more tiring.
[Alice]: ¡°Karla and Karga both wanted to train me at the same time and they couldn¡¯t agree with each other for the training, so I had to go throughout two types of training at the same time with two different teachers¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That bad heh¡±
Alice laughed at Cyan remark, making Cyan laugh just the same.
[Alice]: ¡°I have missed you¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I also have missed you¡±
Then silence follows, as they just enjoyed the other company.
At this time, Alice thought of something else she wanted to ask Cyan.
[Alice]: ¡°Did you thought of a wish?¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°¡ I did, but I don¡¯t know if it''s possible because of the price, what about you?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°¡ I also thought of one, but I also don¡¯t know if it is possible¡±
Cyan though of something they could do, as neither Alice Cyan, knew if both of their wishes could be accomplished.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then let¡¯s don''t say what it is, for now¡±
[Alice]: ¡°You don¡¯t want to know?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I do, but you know that if you make a wish, and then said before it happens, then it would never come true¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Are you making a birthday wish now?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Not that¡¯s¡¡±
Alice giggles to the flustered Cyan
[Alice]: ¡°You were just trying to sound cool right now¡±
Cyan could not help but nod and lower his head in shame, however.
[Alice]: ¡°Then let¡¯s don''t say it until it we have our wishes have come true¡±
Cyan nodded again.
.
.
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Back in Cyan¡¯s room
Cyan took his phone and read throughout his messages
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player¡¡±
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There were also [Midas] announcements about other Players beating records around the Tower and moving first on the board, there were some records broken by Alice too.
He had also won a few rewards from [Midas] but weren¡¯t that much as his training focused more on Player natural grow and in his PVP against Boss, not to mention the quest of winning PVP matches, his record was 0 wins and 99 loses all by K.O.
There were also, messages from Willy and advises on how to fight or other things he could do to win, but Cyan could not read them at the time of the training, however, he could use those pieces of advice for next time.
In the end, Cyan checked his [Status] information in the app.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 49
- Dexterity (DEX): 49
- Endurance (END): 49
- Stamina (STA): 49
- Intelligence (INT): 21
- Free Points: 25
After looking through is stats Cyan was a little disappointed, as his stats had increased from 41 to 49 in three days he was expecting more, his INT was still at 21 points, meaning that it didn¡¯t have increased over the last three days, even so, after one week of training he was already halfway of maxing out his stats, maybe in one more week.
Even so, his Free Points had not increased that much from 21 to 25, if he wanted now he could increase his STR a lot more, but for some reason, he felt he could not just do that.
Cyan test this theory out, he tried to increase his STR using his Free Points, but even though the Free Point was consumed, his STR stat didn¡¯t increase, to confirm this, he used another of his Free Points to increase his STA stat, but that it won¡¯t budge either, Cyan could only conclude that.
[Cyan]: ¡°I hit a bottleneck¡±
After wasting two of his Free Points, Cyan has realized that this was probably the reason for the rest; his stats would not increase, as his body needs some rest.
It was already near midnight and Cyan was starting to feel very sleepy, so, for now, he lay down on top of his bed and closed his eyes, however, before he could fall asleep, he got a new notification from his phone.
Cyan wanted to ignore this message and sleep, but his mind did not let him ignore it, it could be a message from Alice, Cyan opened his eyes and grumbling pick out his phone.
The message, however, was not from Alice but from someone else.
Message [You]: ¡°You up kid?¡±
It was from himself self.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, he said he would write on Monday and today is Monday¡±
Reply: ¡°Yes, I am up¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Good, how was your training this past week?¡±
Cyan though for a second before replying.
Reply: ¡°I think I have hit a bottleneck, my stats stopped at 49¡±
Message [You]: ¡°What! Your stats already reached 49, that¡¯s amazing progress, kid, you don¡¯t have to worry, there are small barriers in the tiers, but most people break it without much problem, however, it would you do well, if you take a rest day for tomorrow¡±
Cyan was not happy with the thought of resting for a day, but it seems he would have to.
Reply: ¡°I understand¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Right, let me ask you, did you found out a way to increase your INT stat?¡±
Cyan remembered that he has not found a way for that, however, his future self should know about it, right?
Reply: ¡°Other than using Free Points I haven¡¯t, do you know a way?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Of course, I know, this will do you well also, you could even go tomorrow with Alice, wink¡±
Cyan felt his face cramping up as his own self was mocking him too.
Reply: ¡°That¡¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Alright, listen out, on the [Rest Area] there is a hidden door behind a tree, behind that door there is a [Hidden Area], all you need to do is go inside that area and take a bath for a few hours, you can also take a bath there every day too¡±
Cyan remembered where that tree was as he thought, ¡°it must be a coincidence¡±.
Reply: ¡°That¡ thank you for your advice, I will go tomorrow¡±
Message [You]: ¡°¡¡±
Reply: ¡°Is there something else you want to tell me?¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Yes¡, I am leaving kid; this will be the last time I will be writing¡±
After reading, this Cyan started to panic.
Reply: ¡°Wait, why now? There are a lot of things I still need to ask!¡±
Message [You]: ¡°Sorry kid, you are walking a different path than me now¡±
Reply: ¡°Wait, can you at least tell me, from where the Monsters are coming?¡±
Even so, the last message he got was.
Message [You]: ¡°Good luck, Kid¡±
Cyan kept sending messages, but no new replies came back, he could only stare at his phone until he felt sleep eventually.
His future self has come and gone, leaving Cyan with more question than answers.
Chapter 029 - A Hidden Area
Chapter 029 - A Hidden Area
Cyan woke up the next morning, even though he was still holding onto his phone he could not remember why, however, he felt something was lost last night. After letting out a sigh Cyan stood out from his bed, and checked that his [Status] was the same as last night, still in 49¡¯s, after that, he took a bath and exited his room.
At the [Food Area], everyone, including Cale, was already busy eating breakfast, and as always, Karla was the first person to notice Cyan arrival.
[Karla]: ¡°Good morning sleepy head, you took so long in waking up that we have started without you¡±
Cyan could only scratch his face, having breakfast with everyone in the morning has become quite a tradition now, however, other than him, everyone else came here one hour early. Cyan ignored Karla constants teasing and took a seat beside Alice after giving a morning salute to everyone.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Right, newbie, Boss, want to ask you, how are your stats?¡±
Cyan shook his head; he had already checked that his stats are still stuck at 49.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss, I think I have hit a bottleneck¡±
Boss nodded as he was expecting that, Karla, on the other hand, was surprised.
[Karla]: ¡°Eh? Let me see that¡±
Cyan showed Karla his stats, making her eyes go twitchy, as she was not expecting this, after only one week of training and without the help of [Midas] quests, the newbie stats have increased so much since the last time that she could only let out a sigh.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°No, it is nothing, newbie¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Right, Boss, says that you should take a day off, your stats will increase after you take a rest for today¡±
Cyan already knew this information, but he could not remember why he knew, he also has remembered something else that everyone will be pleased to hear.
[Cyan]: ¡°Right, Seniors, I have found a way to increase our INT stat¡±
Karla was the first to react to this, after all, this was their last weak in the Tower, and they have yet to find a way to increase that stat.
[Karla]: ¡°You did? How?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¡±
Cyan tried to remember, but he could not remember how he knew, he also took his phone out as an involuntary action, before putting it back down.
[Cyan]: ¡°it doesn¡¯t matter how I found it out, what matters is that now we all can increase that stat, if Seniors don¡¯t have anything to do for today, maybe we all can go?¡±
Just at that time, Cale stood up from his seat.
[Cale]: ¡°Sorry, I am busy¡±
Cale left without saying anything else after that.
That took Cyan for surprised; Karla on the other hand only waved her hand dismissing Cale actions.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t mind him; he is in a bad mood because his stats are not increasing as he wished¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss, what do you say should we take a day off too?¡±
Boss thought for a moment, after making a [Breakthrough] to Tier 1 a few days ago, what it is left for him to do inside the Tower was actually to test out the [Gen Orb] from the monsters drops, and beat the next round [Round 5] in the Floor 8. Then, there is also to train Cyan and Alice in combat, also in Floor 8, but that will only happen by the end of the week, so taking a day off to increase his INT stat was not a bad plan at all.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Really Boss?¡±
Boss nodded with his head to reassure Karla, as it was ok for them to take a day off.
[Karla]: ¡°Very well then, Cyan, lead the way!¡±
Karla stood up and pointed out to the elevator, however, even though she was eager to go right now, it was, in fact, they have yet to finish their breakfast. In the end, Karla forced Cyan to finish with his food as fast as possible, that he was almost choked to death, Karga and Alice could only laugh at the scene, while Boss did not say anything at all.
After successfully finishing the breakfast without any causalities, Cyan brought everyone near the end of the [Rest Area] where a big tree and the hidden door are. Cyan could clearly remember this place as he turned around to steal a peek at Alice that was also shy looking at him; they both remembered this place as this is where they have their first kiss.
[Karga]: ¡°Oh, there is really a hidden door here, good job newbie¡±
Even if Cyan has been here before, he clearly remembers that they have not found that door on that day; Cyan could only ponder how he knew about it now, and how he knew what was on the other side.
[Karla]: ¡°What it is this? Newbie, why have you stop walking?¡±
Cyan shook his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°It is nothing Senior, let¡¯s enter¡±
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright Boss¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Karga, wait for a moment¡±
Karga that was about to open the door to the [Hidden Area] was stopped by Karla.
[Karga]: ¡°What is it?¡±
Karla pointed at Cyan direction.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss says that there may be a reward for being the first to uncover a [Hidden Area] so let the newbie open it¡±
Karga just shrugged his shoulders, as he was not trying to steal Cyan rewards, he was just too eager to know what was on the other side that he has forgotten about this fact.
After Cyan pushed open the door and entered the area, as Karla has said, Cyan received a notification to his phone with a reward; in fact, he got two messages.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is awarded 50.000 Credits by being the first Player to discover a [Hidden Area]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Cyan is awarded 50.000 Credits by being the first Player to enter the hidden area [Spa]¡±
There were two rewards, one for discovering a [Hidden Area] and the other for entering it, at this time Cyan realized, that there must more than one [Hidden Area] around the tower.
The second person to enter was Alice.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Alice is awarded 40.000 Credits by being the second Player to discover a [Hidden Area]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Alice is awarded 40.000 Credits by being the second Player to enter the hidden area [Spa]¡±You might be reading a pirated copy. Look for the official release to support the author.
Alice also got a reward and she took notice that the message was calling her by her name.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karla is awarded 30.000 Credits by being the third Player to discover a [Hidden Area]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karla is awarded 30.000 Credits by being the four Player to enter the hidden area [Spa]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karga is awarded 20.000 Credits by being the four Player to discover a [Hidden Area]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karga is awarded 20.000 Credits by being the four Player to enter the hidden area [Spa]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Boss is awarded 10.000 Credits by being the fifth Player to discover a [Hidden Area]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Boss is awarded 10.000 Credits by being the fifth Player to enter the hidden area [Spa]¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Oh, I also got a reward, 60.000 Credits¡±
For some reason Cyan witnessed the scene of how Karla was hugging her phone with both of his hands after she has read she got 60.000 Credits, he could not help but think that maybe Karla was crazy for money. Boss, on the other hand, was the last person to enter the area, but he did not mind that he only got 20.000 Credits, because he will just transfer the Credits to Karla later on anyway, because, in fact, Karla was the one that was managing all the finances for their unit.
After everyone had entered the Area, they found out this was an open thermal bath or [Spa] where they could melt their tiredness away; there was a dedicated section for Males and Females, separated by a wooden wall, and there was not a mix bath section.
After realizing this, Karla immediately split the group in two by dragging Alice away and going into the Females dressing room. Cyan, Boss and Karga, went into the Males dressing room, where they could change into clothes that were already prepared for them, after that, they entered the hot water making their bodies start to feel more relaxed.
Karga could not be more amazed at the effects the water has.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey newbie, this place is amazing, I wasn¡¯t even aware that my body was all cramp up like this¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Agreed¡±
Even Boss was happy about coming here.
Cyan submerged his body, including his head under water; as he remembered feeling a quite similar sensation when he was submerged into the [Suspension] tank last week, however, this place felt far more conformable.
When Cyan resurfaced again, Karga was waiting in front of him with a mischievous smile; this gave Cyan a bad feeling.
[Cyan]: ¡°What it is Senior?¡±
Karga put his arm around Cyan neck as he whispered him so Boss could not hear.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey kid, don¡¯t you want to look at the other side of the wall?¡±
Cyan was all flustered.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s¡ there is no way I want that¡¡±
Even so, Karga did not him let go.
[Karga]: ¡°Come on a healthy boy like you, would obviously be interested in looking at his girlfriend bath right?¡±
Cyan could only go red in the face, however, he still cannot go and do that, after all, there was a wall separating the two sections for a reason right. Cyan tried to think of something to get out of this situation.
[Cyan]: ¡°That... isn¡¯t your Sister on the other side too?¡±
[Kara]: ¡°Tsk, of course, I wouldn¡¯t be peaking at all; I am not interested in your girlfriend nor in my Sister, but you on the other hand¡ hehe¡±
Cyan tried to separate himself from Karga hand lock.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, please stop joking¡±
Karla could only lament himself as he failed to cause troubles.
[Karga]: ¡°Tsk, kids now on days don¡¯t know how to have fun¡, then how are your stats?¡±
Cyan took his phone and checked his notifications.
[Notification]: ¡°Player Grows +1 INT¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player Grows +1 INT¡±
[Notification]: ¡°Player Grows +1 INT¡±
They have been bathing for 30 minutes now, and his INT stat has increased 3 points already, meaning they were getting 1 point for every 10 minutes they spent inside the water.
[Cyan]: ¡°The INT stat is growing at a very fast pace, it should catch out with the other stats soon if we take a bath here every day for a few days¡±
Karga shook his head.
[Karga]: ¡°I don¡¯t think it will increase at the same rate for everyone, not to mention, the rate should slow down later on¡±
Boss also nodded as he shared the same thoughts as Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°Even so, the only thing we have to do is to relax and wait¡±
After all, they have come here just to relax and take a day off from training; they only need to wait for the time to fly by, however, after two hours of just floating around...
[Karga]: ¡°I am bored¡±
They still needed to stay here for two more hours, but Karga was already feeling bored out of his mind, in the other hand, Boss was just sitting in the water with his eyes closed and a meditation pose, and it seems Boss would stay like that for the entire time.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, we only need to wait for two more hours, please be more like Boss¡±
Cyan could start to understand why Karla hyperactive younger Brother, Karga, annoyed her so much, as Karga could not remain still and unmoving for more than 2 hours, without causing troubles.
Karga could only groan, and dropped his body into the water while being face down and start imitating a drowned person, making Cyan eyes start to twitch; even so, he ignored Karga and started to look at the clear sky. Boss that was sitting not far away nodded with his head and closed his eyes once again as he will not have to intervene here.
This place like the other Floors that have a fake sky and a sun, and it felt no different than being back at earth, however, there shouldn¡¯t be a place like this on earth right now, not with a monster invasion ongoing, Cyan could only contemplate the scenery as these thoughts filled his brain. In the end, Cyan could only shake his head, as he could not anything about that right now, so he moved his gaze into the water.
Cyan looked at his reflection on the water; it has been 2 weeks since he has entered the Tower, and he has not been able to see his reflection in a mirror since then, now he could see his reflection once more. In the water it was reflected a teen boy that was not that thin anymore, he has a good fare face, with gentle blue eyes, well-defined muscles, short black hair, and his height of 1.68 had also increased a few centimeters to 1.71.
Even if much has changed in him, the look on his face remained still the same as he remembered before coming here, an innocent yet gentle looking face, nothing like Boss or the twins, that had been in real combat situations. They have a gentle but fierce gaze, and serious looking face, it was the look of some that remembered things they wished to forget, and probably, this was the reason as to why they looked at him and Alice like children¡¯s in a playground, it was because of their innocent expressions.
Cyan could not help but let out a question to himself.
[Cyan]: ¡°I have changed so much in two weeks; however, my face still remains the same, but would it remain the same after two more weeks?¡±
Cyan could not help to wonder if after two more weeks of training and after entering Floor 8, the next time he sees his face in the mirror would have the same expressions or if he would be the same Cyan.
[Karga]: ¡°What are you talking newbie, everybody changes, that¡¯s part of growing old, you know?¡±
Cyan could only shake his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°But Senior what if I don¡¯t want to change something?¡±
Cyan remember Alice words ¡°Would you change for being the Cyan that I like¡± He did not want to change that part out.
[Cyan]: ¡°What if the next time I see my own reflection there is something that I don¡¯t like?¡±
Karga stopped floating and took a seat beside Cyan.
[Boss]: ¡°¡¡±
[Karga]: ¡°What are you so afraid kid?¡±
That question, he has heard it before, Cyan has though he has got rid of all of his fears, however, he failed to realized, fear, it was not something one would stop having because you wished, but something to overcome.
[Cyan]: ¡°That, I don¡¯t know¡¡±
Karga could only groan to Cyan weak attitude, however, he has noticed that Cyan has changed from the first time they have met.
[Karga]: ¡°Let me ask you something kid, if we were back on earth would you have asked Alice on a date?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I don¡¯t think I would have¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Aren¡¯t happy that you did? If you were the same Cyan as before, you wouldn¡¯t have been able to jump that wall¡±
Karga turned around and pointed to the wall that was separating the bath in the middle. Of course, Karga was just trying to get Cyan to jump that ¡°wall¡± for his own entertainment.
Cyan did not fall for it; even so, what Karga was saying was actually true.
[Cyan]: ¡°You are right Senior¡±
Karga turned around to give Cyan a palm in the back.
[Karga]: ¡°You bet I am right, I am the smarter twin after all¡±
[Karla]: ¡°What did you just said?¡±
Karga froze and turned his head around; over there, it was Karla that was standing on top of the wall, while carrying an unwilling Alice under her hands¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, please let me down!¡±
Alice begged to be released as she was brought here against her own will.
Karla jumped down of the wall and put down Alice into the water, all the while thinking that there was no need for the wall here, after all, they all were properly dressed. Of course, she would not admit that she was also bored out of her mind without doing anything on the other side.
Then the twins started to fight in a tug war in the middle of the bath with the help of the Alice and Cyan as support, they were forced to participate.
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After the commotion had calmed down, thanks to Boss intervention that forced the twins to sit down in meditation besides him, and now everyone was just waiting for the 4 hours to end.
[Alice]: ¡°Hey, Cyan?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yes, Alice?¡±
Alice and Cyan were floating around the water while holding their hands so they do not float apart.
[Alice]: ¡°I think growing up and changing with time is something that will happen no matter what, but that doesn¡¯t mean...¡±
Alice stopped for a moment.
[Alice]: ¡°¡ that¡¯s why the next you see your reflection in the mirror, I think you still will be seeing yourself¡±
Cyan could only nod and put this matter behind him, next time, he will no doubt about his own identity anymore.
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you, Alice¡±
Alice could on shook her head, she only has overheard Cyan when Karla had dragged her over the wall, but she still could understand what Cyan was thinking of.
[Alice]: ¡°There is no need for that, but you still owe me a date¡±
Cyan could only laugh and he promised to himself to take Alice to the best place he knew back on earth, the theme park where the first have met.
Chapter 030 - A Problem
Chapter 030 - A Problem
In a room filled with monitors.
[Willy]: ¡°The Anomaly was detected again last night; it has disappeared after 10 minutes of activity¡±
[Midas]: ¡°And now he has found the [Hidden Area] it must be related; what about the origin of the anomaly¡±
[Willy]: ¡°It also has disappeared from the sensors¡±
[Midas]: ¡°Then it is gone¡±
[Willy]: ¡°I think that¡¯s the case¡±
[Midas]: ¡°You think?¡±
A robot with a brain and its own thoughts, this was part of the effect of the anomaly, this should have not been possible even for Midas, so she has to keep Willy under careful watch, that¡¯s why she has locked him inside this room, even so, Willy can still be of use for her.
Willy corrected himself.
[Willy]: ¡°The analysis indicates that all records of the anomaly had also started to disappear from the database; the Tower barrier has slowed down the process; it will be completely erased from [Midas] database after 7 days; the anomaly will be made no existent after that; memory will be also be affected by the event¡±.
Willy was behaving completely different than before, in Midas own analysis, he was evolving, but Midas didn¡¯t know what he was evolving into, she needs to recollect more data, even so, Midas didn¡¯t lag behind in that regard from Willy, as the usual way she expressed herself was also been changing.
However, the anomaly they had been searching for a while now that has caused this event was disappearing without a trace, and even with Tower insolation their memories of the event will also disappear, and maybe after that, they would back to their normal selves.
Midas could only give up in their search, because, soon they would not even remember what they were searching for, for now, it was better to find a way to preserve her evolution right now.
[Midas]: ¡°Give up the search, but keep the Player under watch, there is no point in wasting more resources in this matter, lower the vigilance to a minimum¡±
[Willy]: ¡°Understood¡±
After that, Midas left the room, probably for the last time; however, now that the vigilance has been lowered to a minimum, it was the same as any other player inside the Tower, this meant, Willy was allowed of having a great degree of freedom for his actions.
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After 4 hours has passed, everyone exited the [Hidden Area] and returned to their own business. Cyan was still stuck with his status in 49¡¯s and he was ordered to rest for the day, while Alice was also given the day off from training as the twins and Boss had said they wanted to face against [Round 5] in Floor 8 once more after getting their INT stat increase.
Alice then had discovered a hidden feature that allowed her to play video games in her room, which have a great assortment of games in the library. She invited Cyan over so they could spend the rest of the day playing, instead of not doing anything at all. In the end, they had played a racing game, a fighting game and a party game, however, the one they liked the most, was a beat them up game, where they could play together against the computer.
After playing for hours, they ended the day with a goodbye kiss and Cyan returned to his own room to sleep, and like that, Cyan short day vacation was finally over.
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Cyan woke up the next morning, he ignored the messages he got during the night, and instead he checked out his [Status], to see if his stats have increased after a day of rest.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 50
- Dexterity (DEX): 50
- Endurance (END): 50
- Stamina (STA): 50
- Intelligence (INT): 36
- Free Points: 23
Cyan face glowed, as he happily confirmed that his [Status] has finally been increased from 49 to 50, and even his Tier has changed from, 0 to 0+, meaning, he has overcome a small wall in the tier.
Even though the difference in Cyan status is just one small point, he still felt that all of his body has become lighter and more agile than before. It was a very similar sensation to the one he got after his first date with Alice.
Even more important than this, was Cyan INT stat, which has been increased from 21 to 36, a jump of 15 points in total in a single day, all thanks to the [Spa] and a day of rest.
Cyan could now clearly feel the difference in status, as his mind feels clearer and his memory has been improved by a wide margin. He could now remember things from 5 years in the past as if they were a yesterday occurrence; this was a new and strange experience for him.
In total, his [Status] has been increased by 19 points overall, but the change Cyan was feeling was greater the numbers were reflecting.
Cyan jumped out his bed and took a bath, before going to the [Food Area] to have some breakfast, after last night upgrade he was dying of hunger right now, this was a side effect of having his stats increase so much overnight.
Cyan was expecting to see everyone already sitting on the table and eating their breakfast, however, when he got there, only Karga was there waiting for him, everybody else was missing, including Alice.
After taking a seat next to Karga, Cyan could not help but ask where everyone else was.
[Cyan]: ¡°Good morning Senior, do you know where is everybody else?¡±
Karga took notice that Cyan mood was good today, making things easier for him.
[Karga]: ¡°Hey, newbie, you are early today, did you stats increased last night?¡±
Cyan thought he was not that early.
[Cyan]: ¡°They did Senior¡±
Cyan took his phone and showed off his stats with a smile.
[Karga]: ¡°Sigh, at this rate, I wouldn¡¯t be able to call you newbie anymore, the rate your stats are increasing is so headache inducing¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, please, don¡¯t make such a joke, you all already had made an [Breakthrough] into the next Tier, and without your help, I wouldn¡¯t be advancing so fast¡±
Karga could only shake its head in denial.
[Karga]: ¡°Newbie, you are being too gentle with your Seniors¡±A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.
Even so, Cyan took notice that Karga was avoiding the subject, and he has ignored his question from before, so he had to ask again.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, where is everybody else?¡±
Karga stopped with his smile and instead put serious expressions.
[Karga]: ¡°There was a problem, and Boss and Karla are busy trying to find a solution¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then, shouldn¡¯t we help them?¡±
Karga shook his head
[Karga]: ¡°I don¡¯t think we will be able to do anything to help them, so it is better if we just eat our breakfast first, I am sure they can do something on their own, anyway, you will be training with me for today¡±
Cyan nodded with his head, however, something felt out of place here.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what about Alice and Cale?¡±
However, instead of answering, Karga made another question.
[Karga]: ¡°Right, did you read today''s announcement?¡±
Cyan remembered that after he had woken up this morning he had ignored his messages as he went directly to read his [Status].
[Cyan]: ¡°I haven¡¯t¡¡±
Cyan took out his phone, but Karga immediately took it away from Cyan hands and offered his own phone instead.
[Karga]: ¡°Here, read it from my phone, the announcement is already open¡±
Cyan nodded and took the phone from Karga hands and read throughout the announcement.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Announcement: Tutor Protocol has officially ended, thanks to all Player for participating in it, check in your App inbox to claim your rewards¡±
Cyan remembered that today was the day that [Midas] would be giving out the rewards to Players for the Quest of [Become a Player Tutor].
[Karga]: ¡°Weren¡¯t you Alice tutor for the Quest?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I was, but I didn¡¯t do much, most of the time I had been trained by you or Boss, Senior, about Alice¡¡±
Even so, Karga kept ignoring Cyan.
[Karga]: ¡°Yeah, but we still should see if you got something good out of it, [Midas] Quest rewards are very good you know, let¡¯s see what you got this time¡±
Cyan frowned as Karga forced him to claim his rewards for the Quest after fiddling out with his phone before returning it back.
[Quest]
- [Become a Player Tutor] (Completed) (Claimed)
- [Start your training I] (Completed)
- [Start your training II] (Completed)
- [Start your training III] (In Progress)
- [Beat your opponents I] (In Progress)
Cyan opened his [Inbox] and saw there was a new unread message in his [Inbox]; after he has clicked to open it Karga let out a sigh of relief as if he has accomplished something here.
[Quest Rewards: Become a Player Tutor]
- 000 Credits
- +5 Free points
- +2 To all stats
- [Energy Drink] x 10
- [Energy Food] x 10
- [Random Weapon Box]
- [Random Item Box]
[Take All] [Accept] [Cancel]
Karga eyes almost jumped out of his sockets as he read throughout the list of rewards Cyan got.
[Karga]: ¡°Woah [Midas] must really like you or something¡±
Cyan felt iffy about the word ¡°like¡± and [Midas] used in the same oration, however, Cyan was already made aware that Willy has been helping him out a lot with this kind of things.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, you know what other people got as a reward? For example, Cale?¡±
Karga could only shrug his shoulders.
[Karga]: ¡°Well, Alice should have got the same reward as you, because they should come as a pair, as for what other people got I am not aware¡±
Cyan though of something out.
[Cyan]: ¡°Did Seniors get anything at all?¡±
Karga shook his head; in fact, they have not participated in the Quest at all.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss, Karla, and I didn¡¯t get anything out of the Quest because we didn¡¯t participate in it, even though we were busy training two cheeky Players¡±
Karga turned his head around to look a Cyan with a smile.
Cyan could only feel remorseful about this fact, because, obviously, when Karga has said cheeky Players, he meant him and Alice.
[Cyan]: ¡°I am sorry Senior, please, let me make it out for you, I can give you half the Credits I got as a reward, as a thank you¡±
Karga could only smile, after all, he was poorer than Cyan right now.
[Karga]: ¡°Really? No, take backs?¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°Of course, Senior¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Then I will gladly take it¡ hehe it is like taking candy from a kid¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What did you just said, Senior?¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Cough, it was nothing, why don¡¯t you try to open the [Random Weapon Box] now; with your luck, I am sure it will give you something amazing¡±
Cyan nodded with his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alright¡±
After Cyan had transferred the Credits to Karga, he then moved to open the box.
[Random Weapon Box]
- Ax
- Spear
- Gun
- Bow
- Crossbow
- Sword
- Dagger
- Knife
- ¡
[Select] [Accept] [Cancel]
[Cyan]: ¡°There are a lot of weapons, but I can only choose one weapon out from this list¡±
[Karga]: ¡°That seems to be the case, then, what will you choose?¡±
Cyan was inclined to take out the [Spear]; however, he already knew what he would be using in the end, so he chose to take out the [Sword] out the box. He was having a very good feeling about his choice of Weapon, as the box started to emit a deep golden light, however, what it has come out of the box was not what he was expecting, he was expecting a Black Sword from his dreams, but instead, what he got was a shiny Sword, named the [Gold Sword].
Cyan quickly pressed the name of the sword in his equipment tab, using the app on his phone.
[Gold Sword]
- Tier: 0
- Attack: 0
- Effect:
- Durability: 1/1
- Description: ¡°A very plain looking Sword¡±
The sword was very plain looking indeed, as the description said it was, even when it was shining with a deep golden color it did not have any decorations on it, making it look very plain, nor it was shaped like a sword but more like a stick.
After Cyan had read throughout the item description, he could only feel his soul leaving out of his body, because how crappy this item really was on the inside, it was even worse than how it looked on the outside.
First, the attack for this golden ¡°sword¡± was zero, meaning, that if you hit something with it, it will not do any damage whatsoever.
Second, there was not any special effect of the Sword under the [Effect] tab, so there was nothing special this sword could do, even if you used it, and because it was so plain looking, it does not even work as a piece of decoration.
Lastly, the sword durability was only 1 point, which meant, that if you hit something with it very hard, it would probably break in half.
For comprising, even the knife the twins were carrying around has an attack and durability of 5 points each.
[Knife]
- Tier: 0
- Attack: 5
- Effect:
- Durability: 5/5
- Description: ¡°A knife officially issue for the WGDP¡±
When Cyan took out the sword out of his sheath, the blade was all blunt looking and did not have an edge to it at all; this sword could not even cut foam in two. It was more like a Gold Road than a Gold Sword, it should have been called [Golden Road] instead, Cyan could only complain inside of his head.
Even so, when Cyan took out his phone make to complain with Willy, he got a new message from [Midas].
Message [Midas]: ¡°do you wish to bind the [Golden Sword], Procced [Yes] or [No]¡±
Cyan eyes lit up as he obviously replied [Yes], then another message arrived at his phone.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Please visualize your desired weapon during the binding process, an imperfect visualization will produce the binding process to fail and the item to break¡±
The plain looking sword started to irradiate a golden light, as it started to transform, Cyan knew right at that moment exactly how he wanted his sword to look, as he remembered the shape, the color, the size, the edged, and even the weight.
Just as he has witnessed it, inside a dream he once had, a sword that was able to cut anything and everything in half, the Sword started to take shape under his hand, as the sword that was initially gold colored and straight, started to morph.
Its color started changing from golden to black, while the shaped started to bend, the handle that was foreign to Cyan hand, started to fit his hand like a glove, and the blunt-edged started to thin out and develop menacing edged.
As the luster black color had set in on the blade, Cyan dreamed sword was revealed to him once more, however, unlike the previous time, this time, he was not inside a dream anymore.
Cyan checked the sword information once more.
[Black Sword]
- Tier: 0+
- Attack: 50
- Effects:
- Durability: 50/50
- Description: ¡°A growing sword which has been bonded to Cyan¡±.
Cyan immediately clicked on the effect description.
[Growing]: ¡°An item that grows together with the Player Tier that has bonded to¡±
The sword that was Tier 0 has immediately jumped to Tier 0+ because Cyan was also in that Tier. Cyan was very pleased with this result; everything was going according to plan now.
[Karga]: ¡°That¡¯s a pretty good looking sword, newbie¡±
Karga gave Cyan a palm on the back as a form of congratulation for obtaining such a good-looking sword.
[Karga]: ¡°Of our unit, I am the one with more experience using swords, and I don¡¯t mind teaching you how to use it, what do you say, newbie, do you want to learn from me?¡±
Even though Cyan was eager to learn how to use this Sword, he could only postpone for now.
Chapter 031 - A New Promise
Chapter 031 - A New Promise
Even though Cyan was eager to learn how to use this Sword, he could only postpone for now.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, I want also to open the [Random Item Box] first¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Go ahead then¡±
However, before Cyan opened the box, he took the chance to write a message to [Midas], or better yet, to Willy.
Reply: ¡°Willy, are you there?¡±
Immediately after, he got a replied.
Message [Willy]: ¡°Affirmative¡±
Cyan has been writing to [Midas] all this time trying to get in contact with Willy, but this was the first time he got such a direct replied, even the sender has been changed from [Midas] to [Willy], and a contact has been added, he could now communicate directly with him if he needs to, however, this was not the time for pondering about this matter.
Reply: ¡°Willy, I need an item that I can use right now from the [Random Item Box], can you help me?¡±
After waiting for a while, Cyan got another replied.
Message [Willy]: ¡°An armor would do?¡±
Cyan shook his head, as he felt Willy was probably observing him right now.
Reply: ¡°Not an armor, I need another weapon, one that would be easy to use without previous training, and that I could use out of the box¡±
Message [Willy]: ¡°Understood, Cyan can proceed to select the item now¡±
Reply: ¡°Thank you, Willy¡±
With a little bit of luck and help from Willy, Cyan will get the Weapon he wanted. Even though he has already thought of a Weapon he could use right now, and that was easy to use, it was better to ask Willy for his input, as there was also the possibility that Willy could think of a better option than the one he has thought of. Not to mention Cyan did not know what [Midas] has to offer from a [Random Box].
If Cyan feeling was in the right, then he needs all the help he could get right now.
[Random Box]
[Select] [Accept] [Cancel]
Cyan pressed [Accept], then he took out the item out of the box, and just like during last time, a golden light started to being emitted from the box, as he took out another [Golden] class Weapon from the box.
This time, Cyan immediately read throughout the item description, without minding how plain it looked in the outside.
[Golden Gun]
- Tier: 0
- Attack: 0
- Effects:
- Durability: 1/1
- Description: ¡°A very plain looking gun¡±
A plain looking, golden colored, gun, and even though it looks more like a toy-gun than an actual gun, this was, in fact, something unlike any other gun on Earth.
Cyan did not care much how it looked in reality, because, this was the Weapon that he was looking for right now, as it was something that he could use without previous training.
However, there was still a problem, as Cyan was not expecting a [Golden] class item again; he was expecting something he could use out of the box, this was probably Willy own doing, but that means Cyan has to have a way for solving it.
Cyan could only let out a sigh as he started to think of a solution for the next step. He was already aware that he would have to bind this item to himself and that during the binding process he will have to visualize the Weapon while the item was taking shape, a failed visualization will break the item.
For his Sword, this was not a problem at all, but for the gun, he did not have enough knowledge of guns for doing that. Even so, Cyan could only give it a chance, as he thought of something he could do to improve his chances of success for the binding process, as he has done a completed visualization just a moment ago.
Cyan then opened his [Status] on his phone once again.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 52
- Dexterity (DEX): 52
- Endurance (END): 52
- Stamina (STA): 52
- Intelligence (INT): 38
- Free Points: 28
Cyan status has increased by 2 points after he has claimed the reward for the Tutor Quest, but this was not important part right now, as he took the decision to use all out of his Free Point to increase his Intelligence.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 53
- Dexterity (DEX): 53
- Endurance (END): 53
- Stamina (STA): 53
- Intelligence (INT): 53
- Free Points: 3
A head-splitting pain invaded Cyan brain, unlike when his stats increased during his sleep, which was an almost painless process, forcibly increasing his stats this way was anything, but painless.
Karga immediately moved next to Cyan.
[Karga]: ¡°newbie, are you ok? What are you doing using your Free Points like that?¡±The author''s tale has been misappropriated; report any instances of this story on Amazon.
[Cyan]: ¡°Sorry for worrying you Senior, I am ok now¡±
After 5 minutes have passed and the pain has faded away from Cyan mind, he could confirm that his memory and speed of thinking has in fact increased by another fold since this morning.
But more important than this was the fact that after putting all of his stats in the same level, he felt another qualitative change happening inside him, as he felt all the pieces that composed his body started to fit together like a gearbox and started to work together, however, he could not delve in this new feeling for much longer.
Cyan turned to look at Karga that was busy examining the golden gun in his hands.
[Karga]: ¡°You got another golden item?, your luck sure is amazing, I am feeling very jealous right now, maybe if you give me more Credits I will feel better¡¡±
Cyan interrupted Karga that was shamelessly asking for more Credits out of him.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, do you perhaps carry a gun that I could borrow for a moment?¡±
Karga though for a second and nodded, and then he took out his Sister precious [G-17-WDGP] series, that he was forced to carry around for self-defense. This was a GP modified version of the normal [G-17] series, that allowed the use of a higher caliber rounds that could travel up to 100 meters, unlike the normal version that only could be used up to 50 meters. It also could hold a total of 20 rounds in the magazine and 1round in the gun, making this a very deadly weapon in the hands of experience shooter.
What it makes this the GP official use weapon was that in the hands of an inexperienced person, this gun was still as deadly, making it the go-to Weapon of use for the masses, for its reliability, it¡¯s easy to clean and maintain body, and it was very easy to aim and shoot, not to mention, it was very precise up to 100 meters.
However, after becoming Players, this thing has become nothing more than a toy now, if you get it by it, it will sting sure, but that was it and nothing more, the twins had already tested the gun on themselves a few times, and Boss was practically immune to it right now after achieving a [Breakthrough].
Even so, Karga only handed the gun to Cyan after removing the magazine and the bullet in the chamber, as a precaution for him to not accidentally shoot himself in the face.
Cyan first examined the weapon form from the outside while he read the item description on his phone.
[G-17-WDGP]
- Tier: 0
- Attack: 4 +1
- Effects:
- Durability: 4/4
- Description: ¡°A mass-produced gun of planet Earth, specially modified by the GP for using higher caliber bullets¡±
[G-17-GP Magazine]
- Tier: 0
- Rounds: 20
- Durability: 2/2
- Description: ¡°Magazine for the [G-17-GP] it can hold up to 20 rounds of armor-piercing or high-speed bullets¡±
After examining the outside, Cyan then proceeded to take the gun apart with his bare hands; he did not need to use any tool for this process, making Karga start to frown.
Even if this weapon was just like a toy now, if Cyan broke it while fiddling with it, his Sister that was a gun-lover, would not let him hear the end of this, however, with the speed and dexterity that Cyan was showing while taking apart the gun, didn¡¯t let Karga any chance to say anything at all to stop him.
Cyan, on the other hand, did not pay attention to Karga frown, as he proceeded to disassemble the gun following the step-by-step instructions manual that Willy has sent him shortly after asking Karga for taking his gun out.
When Cyan got to the Tower his Intelligence was only 12 points he will had Willy to repeat the same information before he could memorize something out of it, but now, with 53 of Intelligence, he could memorize the one-page manual that Willy has sent him after reading just three times. In addition, thanks to his 53 points of Dexterity, he could easily move his hands as he intended to, making the job of taking apart a gun very easy for him to do, even Karga was impressed by Cyan handling.
It only took Cyan 20 minutes to take the gun apart and put it back together five times in a row, by this point he already had memorized the weight, shape, and the internal mechanisms of the gun, with missing a single detail.
Cyan nodded, satisfied with this result, he then returned the gun to Karga, Karga checked that his gun was working in perfect order and put it away inside his inventory without saying anything, as he could more or less guess what Cyan was doing right now.
Cyan then took out the [Golden Gun] that he had stored inside his inventory while he was fiddling with the [G-17]. Immediately after, Cyan got another message on his phone.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Do you wish to bind the [Golden Gun], Procced [Yes] or [No]?¡±
Even though Cyan was very confident he could recreate the gun inside his head now, he still felt this was not enough; this normal looking gun will not cut it. His sword has an attack of 50 points, while the [G-17-WDGP] only has an attack of 4 points, which means, that just recreating this gun would not be enough, a changed has to be made to the gun.
Cyan took out his phone again. Even if he could visualize a normal gun now, changing into something else will required assistance.
Reply: ¡°Willy, can you assist me during the visualization process to make the weapon more powerful?¡±
Message [Willy]: ¡°Affirmative¡±
Reply: ¡°Thank you, Willy; if you ever need something I promised that I will help you no matter what¡±
Message [Willy]: ¡°Understood¡±
Cyan could only feel sad about the matter that Willy keeps helping him repeatedly, if Willy ever asked him for anything, Cyan promised himself he would agree to it, no matter what it was.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Please visualize your desired weapon during the binding process, an imperfect visualization will produce the binding process to fail and the item to break¡±
Cyan pictured the gun inside his mind exactly as he remembered; however, during the binding process, the gun internals was change, from one that uses conventional rounds to one that uses [Energy] rounds as ammunition.
This time, the process was extremely fast as Cyan was getting Willy assistance during the visualization process, and when the process was over, the golden looking toy-gun has been changed into an exact replica of the [G-17-WDGP], however, even though it looked just the same on the outside, it was completely different on the inside.
Cyan then checked the gun on his phone.
[Black Gun]
- Tier: 0+
- Attack: 40
- Effects:
- Durability: 40/40
- Description: ¡°A growing gun, which has been bonded to Cyan¡±.
Cyan check out the magazine for the gun
[Black Gun Magazine]
- Tier: 0+
- Rounds: 20
- Energy: 100%
- Durability: 20/20
- Mode: [Normal]
- Description: ¡°A magazine for the [Black Gun], it can be used in three different modes, [Normal], [Explosive] and [Overclock]¡±
Cyan immediately checked the modes of operation for the weapon.
[Normal Mode]
- Each round will have a fixed cost of 5% of [Energy] for maximum penetration.
[Explosive Mode]
- Each round will have a fixed cost of 7% of [Energy] and it will generate an explosion on impact.
[Overclock Mode]
- Each round will have a variable cost up to 10% of [Energy]; the durability of the weapon will be affected. It must be used in conjunction with [Normal] or [Explosive] modes.
In the end, Cyan could not be more satisfied with these results; this gun was something Cyan could use right now, if he needed it to, and it has a lot of power, not to mention, it will also keep working in the future, as it was also a [Growing] Weapon like his [Back Sword].
[Cyan]: ¡°I think this will do¡±
Cyan nodded with his head, turned his head around to look at Karga in the eyes.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, I will ask for one last time¡¡±
Cyan changed his expressions from easy going to a deadly serious, as he loaded his gun up.
[Cyan]: ¡°Where is Alice?¡±
Karga figured out that his attempts to distract Cyan had all but been in vain thus far, even if he wanted to lie after remembering how Cyan has given him 50.000 Credits with his incent looking face, Karga could not bear the thought of lying to him.
However, before Karga could answer, someone else has responded in his instead.
[Karla]: ¡°We don¡¯t know¡±
Chapter 032 - A Way to Find Alice.
Chapter 032 - A Way to Find Alice.
[Karla]: ¡°We don¡¯t know¡±
Cyan turned around and saw Boss and Karla were standing behind him.
[Cyan]: ¡°You don¡¯t know?¡±
Karla saw the gun in Cyan¡¯s hand trembling, she could only let out a sigh as she understood what Cyan was feeling right now, and then she gave a glare to her dumb brother.
Karga could only shroud his shoulders, Karla had told him to distract Cyan for a while, and she did not say anything about preventing him for getting him a weapon.
[Karla]: ¡°We got this note 5 hours ago¡±.
Karla then took a note out from her inventory and handed it to Cyan.
[Note]
- We got the Girl, if you want her back, deliver 1.000.000 Credits to Floor 6, you have 12 hours, King.
Cyan read throughout the note, immediately after he tried to run to the elevator, but Karla stopped him from going.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, please move aside¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Calm down newbie, Alice is not in Floor 6, we had already checked¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Then where she is!¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, I already had told you that we don¡¯t know where she is¡±
Cyan could only clench his hand around his gun. He then tried to bypass Karla but Boss stopped him instead.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss move aside¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Cyan put your gun down for a moment, and please listen to what Karla has to say first¡±
Cyan turned around to look at Karla, urging her to speak.
[Karla]: ¡°We already went to Floor 6 and the Players of the King faction has told us that if we try anything they would do something to Alice, we could only go back, even so, we managed to inspect the floor before that and she is not there¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Cyan, we also want to rescue Alice, but we have to remain calm right now, I am sorry for lying to you just before¡±
Cyan could only drop his shoulders and shake his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°It is not your fault Senior¡±
Cyan took a breathed and calmed down his raging emotions after realizing that acting all rash would not solve the problem, instead, it would only make it worse.
After Cyan had calmed down, everyone took a seat on the table, Cyan then took notice that someone else was missing on the table.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, what about Cale? Where is he?¡±
Karla could only continue to massage her temples; she has been using her skill [Theory] all morning, and now her head has a splitting headache and the fact that Cale is not here only make it worse for her.
Instead of Karla answering the question, it was Karga that it did.
[Karga]: ¡°We don¡¯t know, we sent him a message but we didn¡¯t get a replied, we also went to his room #304, but there was no answer either¡±
Cyan though for a moment, room #304 was next to Alice¡¯s room, #305.
[Cyan]: ¡°Seniors, don¡¯t think that¡¡±
However, Karla interrupted Cyan before he could finish his opinion.
[Karla]: ¡°We don¡¯t know that yet, for now, we first have to find Alice before trying to see if Cale has any relation with this incident¡±
Even so, Karla has already written down a theory that involucres Cale in this event, but they have not confirmed it yet.
Cyan thought about the 1.000.000 Credits the note was asking for, as he opened his inventory and checked the amount of credits he has in his inventory.
[Inventory]
[Items]
- [Ticket for entry to Floors 5 to 8] x5
- [Energy Drink] x 10
- [Energy Food] x 10
- [Advance Grow Potion] x 2
- [Black Sword]
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[Equipment]
- School Uniform
- [Black Gun]
Even though Cyan had earned many credits for the last couple of days, this was not nearly enough for the asked 1.000.000 Credits, even so.
[Cyan]: ¡°Seniors, I only have 300.000 Credits on my inventory¡±
Karla was surprised by the amount of Credits that Cyan had; however, she still dismissed it while shaking her head.
[Karla]: ¡°We only have 400.000 Credits, so we are short by 300.000 Credits, getting that amount in 7 hours shouldn¡¯t be normally possible¡±
Cyan could only clench his fist as he tried to think a fast way for gathering 300.000 Credits in 7 hours, maybe he could ask Willy for it and then paid it back in a later time, he could also sell the items of his inventory.
However, Karla that could read Cyan thoughts like an open book interrupted him before he could express his opinion.
[Karla]: ¡°Give that thought up newbie, even if we have all the Credits, paying the rescue wouldn¡¯t mean we would get Alice back, in cases like this, paying the rescue is the last thing you do, and you do it only to gain more time¡±
Cyan wanted to shout at Karla, but when he saw her pale face, he could only let out his anger with a sigh.
[Cyan]: ¡°Then¡ what we should be doing?¡±
Karla smile to try to reassure Cyan that they can handle this situation; this was the GP field of expertise after all.
[Karla]: ¡°Of course we have to rescue her! But first, we need to know where she is¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, do you have any clue where Alice could be being held?¡±
Even though Karla wanted to reassure Cyan, she could only let out a sigh in this case, because finding Alice location was not an easy task, and even though there are only eight accessible Floors inside the Tower, each floor was bigger than the one before it, starting with the [Lobby] that was as big as a football field.
[Karla]: ¡°I have theorized that the most likely place for Alice to be held, should be in Floor 2, inside a locked room¡±
Cyan wanted to jump out of his seat but he was stopped by Karla next words.
[Karla]: ¡°However, we can¡¯t check the 200 rooms at the same time, and trying to brute force one door at the time would no doubt alert the King¡¯s faction of our actions and put Alice in danger¡±
Cyan could only clench his teeth, at that time the sorrowful voice of Boss was heard by Cyan.
[Boss]: ¡°I am sorry Cyan¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss?¡±
Cyan turned around to look at Boss defeated expression.
[Boss]: ¡°I had failed you and Alice, I have promised you that I will protect you two, but now I let Alice to be put in danger, I don¡¯t hope for you to forgive me for this¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss that¡¯s¡¡±
Cyan wanted to say; ¡°You are actually doing too much for us¡± however, he stopped himself as could see it for the first time, Boss heartbroken expression
That was the face of a person that really wanted to help them but has failed to do so, nevertheless, Cyan knew that Boss and the Twins had been helping them without expecting anything in return since the beginning, being a GP recruit was just an excuse, even more so, after Cale had said that the GP center was evacuated.
Cyan could only wonder what was this sense of responsibility that Boss and the Twins possess towards them when they had just met a short week ago, and even now, when Alice has being kidnaped, they had been desperately trying to find her since this morning, while their consciences were filled with that sense of responsibility and guilt.
Cyan looked at Karla white pale face as she massaged her temples with her hands, a splitting headache a side effect for overusing her skill [Theory] repeatedly without minding her own status.
Cyan then looked at Boss expression of self-contained anger and burning guilt.
Lastly, Cyan looked at the sorrowful and apologetic expression of Karga that was feeling like a waste of himself for lying to Cyan, while he could do anything to help Alice.
Boss and the Twins can and probably would have trashed the King¡¯s faction on Floor 6, if not for the fact that Alice could be had put in danger if they did just that. If they did not care about Alice safety, then they would not mind solving the problem that way, instead of returning to Floor 3 where Cyan was.
Cyan felt his conscience being prickle by guilt as he remembered how instead he has thought that maybe Boss and the Twins were the ones behind Alice disappearance, even more so, he was also guilty for not protecting Alice himself, if he had stayed yesterday in Alice¡¯s room and slept on the floor, maybe, the history could have been different.
Even so, he could not discard the possibility of Cale being involved in all of this, but for now, he could at least confirm that Boss and the Twins were on his side.
What Cyan needs to do now was to find Alice, and he has a method to do just that, now that he knew that Boss and the twins were on his side, he could share this method with them.
Cyan had never lost the hope to find her because he could already track her position.Enjoying the story? Show your support by reading it on the official site.
Cyan smiled as he remembered one week ago, the first time he had met with Alice as her Tutor and the method that he had used to find her for the first time, as a white-blue dot on the [Map].
[Karga]: ¡°Newbie are you ok?¡±
Karga on the other hand though Cyan had gone crazy because he started smiling now.
Cyan ignored Karga worried face as he took his phone out of his pocket and sent a messaged to Willy.
Reply: ¡°Willy¡±
Message [Willy]: ¡°Alice location is already being shown on the [Map]¡±
Cyan was reminded once more of amazing Willy truly was.
Cyan moved to open the [Map] in his phone and then searched for each floor until¡
[Cyan]: ¡°I have found her¡±
Everyone in the table went ¡°eh?¡± at the same time.
[Karla]: ¡°What are you are talking newbie, how could you have found her?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°I was Alice Tutor, as her tutor, I can track her position in the [Map]¡±
Of course, Cyan brushed off the fact that the Quest was already over and this was thanks to Willy help.
Cyan then put his phone over the table while showing a [Map] with six white doing surrounding one white-blue dot.
Karla read the [Map] info and she was surprised by it.
[Karga]: ¡°She is in the [Lobby Area]?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°That seems to be the case; however, she looks to be outside the area¡±
This did not make sense for Karla or Cyan; however, it does make sense if you consider a fact, Karga eyes lit up in an instant as he remembered something.
[Karga]: ¡°It must be because she is inside a [Hidden Area]!¡±
Karla and Cyan eyes lit up at the same time, as they remembered too that the [Hidden Area] are not shown on the [Map], they have learned this fact just yesterday.
Karla could let out a sigh because after overusing her skill [Theory] even her Brother was smarter than she was, making her feel frustrated.
After Boss looked over the [Map], he then thought of a question for Cyan.
[Boss]: ¡°Those white dots around, are the other Players?¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°That¡¯s right, Boss¡±
Now that they had confirmed Alice position, Boss has to come out with a plan, however, this was the easy part for him.
Boss gave a refreshed smile as started to issue orders to the Twins.
[Boss]: ¡°Karga!¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Yes! Boss!¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Go to the [Lobby] and confirm the [Hidden Area] entrance, you have 1 hour, don¡¯t let them spot you, go¡±
Karga nodded, and then he stood up from his seat and went to the elevator.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla!¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes! Boss!¡±
However, before Boss could continue he was interrupted by Cyan.
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss! I also want to rescue Alice; it is also my fault that Alice has been kidnapped¡±
Cyan thought that one of the reasons that the King faction have targeted Alice was because he has unlocked Floor 8, and then he joined Boss faction, Cyan thought that this was also probably the reason why they are asking for 1.000.000 Credits.
Even when Cyan thought, he would be left out of the rescuing mission, Boss has already taken into account for Cyan to participate into the mission, even though, this would have been an irresponsible act from his part back on earth, he could not be picky right now.
[Boss]: ¡°Karla¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Yes! Boss!¡±
[Boss]: ¡°Take Cyan to Floor 7 and teach him how to shoot, you have less than 1 hour, make it count¡±
Boos has taken into account that the gun in Cyan hands was not an ordinary [G-17], however, he could not allow Cyan to go without a minimum degree of knowledge, Cyan should at least know how to aim and press the trigger so he does not miss his target.
Even if Karla was feeling sick right now, she could at least teach Cyan for one hour on how to handle a gun.
This was one the reasons why Boss has sent Karga to find the secret entrance instead of sending her, and the other reason was, if she keeps overusing using her [Skill], her head will most likely split in half, or at least that¡¯s what Boss thought would be happening.
Cyan could only give his thanks to Boss before leaving with Karla.
[Cyan]: ¡°Thank you! Boss! I will definitely rescue Alice without fail¡±
Boss nodded to Cyan declaration.
[Boss]: ¡°Go¡±
Karla nodded and moved with Cyan to the elevator, she did not even need to ask Boss what he would be doing for the mission before leaving, because she was already aware of what Boss will do.
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On Floor 7 [PVP Arena].
Karla and Cyan entered a closed ring where other Players cannot watch them practice.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, newbie, have you ever used a weapon before?¡±
Cyan shook his head; he has picked a gun because it was easy to learn and easy to use, and not because he knew how to use it already.
[Karla]: ¡°Can you show me your weapon for a moment?¡±
Cyan nodded and handed his [Black Gun] to Karla.
Karla held the gun in her hands while she examined it, Karla was very surprised how similar it was to her [G-17], however, when she pressed the trigger nothing had happened, even when the safety lock was off and the gun was live with ammunition.
[Karla]: ¡°Huh? It doesn¡¯t work?¡±
Cyan shook his head as he thought of something.
[Cyan]: ¡°I think I am the only one that can use it¡±
Cyan remembered how the item was bonded to him now, it probably meant only he can use it now.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, then you give it a try¡±
Cyan took the gun back from Karla''s hands, but, before he could take aim with his gun, Karla had stopped him.
[Karla]: ¡°That¡¯s not how you hold a gun, use your two hands first, and then line out the sights, like this, check that the safety lock is off and that the gun is live with ammunition, after that confirm the target distance and then make the necessary armaments in your position, like this¡±
Cyan followed all of Karla instructions as he memorized into his head, and then he took aim and pressed the trigger.
Immediately after, a blue dot traveling at a very fast speed was shoot out from gun cannon, and hit the energy barrier of the ring, causing a small ripple to form that had disappeared shortly after two seconds had passed.
Cyan did not felt any impact forced coming out for the gun as Karla had told him to expect, and the ring barrier had not been damaged in a permanent way, the only thing Cyan had felt was a wave of hot air that stroke his face after the [Energy Bullet] had impacted into the ring barrier.
In the other hand, Karla, that knew how tough the ring barrier truly was, was speechless; they had tested the ring barrier durability before, and the only thing that could cause a ripple was when Boss fist punched the barrier while using his skill [Armor Break], everything else would feel like hitting a solid wall and not rippled was form.
Even so, Cyan was unaware of this fact.
Cyan]: ¡°Senior, was that ok?¡±
Karla returned to her senses because this was not the time to delve into this matter.
[Karla]: ¡°Cough, cough, yes, now let¡¯s begin with your training; because there is no time to waste, I will be your target instead, now, use the gun as I have told you, and try to stop me from reaching you¡±
Cyan was stunned for a moment, as he would have to shoot at his Senior now.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, Senior¡¡±
Karla would not hear any complains coming out for Cyan mouth as she took her knife out from her inventory, and dashed into Cyan direction.
However, even if Karla has taken her knife out, this was only to scare Cyan, as she would not be using it on him.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t you want to save Alice? Then shoot!¡±
After Karla has brought up Alice name, Cyan could only clench his teeth and raise his weapon up while taking aim. He has created this weapon exactly for this purpose, so he could not back down now.
Cyan aimed to Karla''s legs because he was afraid of hurting her, however, after he pressed the trigger, what happened next was that Karla has dodged the bullet, and then she struck him down with a kick and disarmed him with her hands.
[Karla]: ¡°Think where you are aiming at, and try to predict your target movement, and don¡¯t remain still while I am running, you have a ranged weapon, and I only have a melee weapon, use the advantages that you have with you, let¡¯s try it again¡±
Karla took her position 30 meters away from Cyan and waited for Cyan to be ready.
Cyan palmed his chest where Karla had struck him with a kick, he was still in pain because of that, and his hands have been twisted like a wired, while Karla disarming him. Even so, Cyan took his starting position once more.
[Karla]: ¡°Ready?¡±
Cyan nodded and then Karla sprinted into his direction just like before.
Once more, Cyan aimed his gun to Karla¡¯s legs and tried to predict to where she would be dodging this time, and then he pressed the trigger, however, like the last time Karla dodged it with no problem.
Cyan could only press the trigger two more times while witnessing how Karla dodged every bullet before he was struck down again to the floor and disarmed out of his weapon once again.
[Karla]: ¡°Your intentions are too easy to read, newbie, I can predict where you will be shooting a hundred times of a hundred times even before you even press the trigger¡±
Karla returned to her starting position.
[Karla]: ¡°if you want to stop me, stop using your eyes, and let your hands guide your weapon to find his its target instead, let¡¯s try it again¡±
Karla love for weapons was in another level altogether, one where aiming was like breathing; it was something that comes out so naturally, that eyes were just an add-on, not to mention, she believed that guns have a mind of their own.
[Karla]: ¡°Ready?¡±
Cyan stood up once more and nodded.
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Cyan pressed the trigger but this time, no bullet had come out, because, in fact, he had emptied out his magazine, even so, Karla did not give him any chance to learn how to reload his weapon as he was struck down again and disarmed for the fifth time.
[Karla]: ¡°If you are out of bullets, don¡¯t just stop running, and panic like that, you still have your hands and your feet with you, used them, let¡¯s try it again¡±
Cyan took the chance that they were on a paused, to learn how to reload his weapon. He found in fact, that it was very easy to do, as he only needed to think about reloading the magazine and then the magazine would be recharged in 5 minutes, however, after he did that the first time, he started to feel very dizzy at the same time he got a notification to his phone
Message [Midas]: ¡°Warning, Player [Energy] levels had been lowered beyond the safety threshold, Player is recommended to take an [Energy Drink] immediately or take a rest as his energy recovers¡±
Then he got another message from Willy.
Message [Willy]: ¡°Cyan, Player [Status] has been updated to reflect Player [Energy] levels¡±
Cyan opened his status, while he took an [Energy Drink] from his inventory as the message told him to do.
[Status]
[Information]
- Type: Player
- Name: Cyan
- Status: Normal
- Location: [Training Tower]
- Level: 0+
- Profession: None
- Sub-Profession: None
- Health: ~95%
- Energy: ~1%
- Stamina: ~80%
[Stats]
- Strength (STR): 53
- Dexterity (DEX): 53
- Endurance (END): 53
- Stamina (STA): 53
- Intelligence (INT): 53
- Free Points: 3
Cyan took notice of three new tabs, [Health], [Energy], [Stamina] that now was shown in his status, however, their value was not shown in exact numbers like the others, but instead, they had an ¡°~¡± to them, meaning, ¡°around that number¡±.
Even more so, Cyan thought it was weird to have his ¡°Health¡± show up like ¡°%¡± instead of a fixed numerical value, but maybe this was the reason why [Midas] did not show those values in the first place.
After checking the update in his [Status] and recovering ~50% of [Energy], Cyan went back to his training once again.
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Cyan ended in the floor once more.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright newbie, out our time, is up¡±
After one hour, Karla had called off the training, in the end, Cyan didn¡¯t even manage to get a clean hit on her, the closer he has got, was to gazed her shoulder one time, but that was it.
On the other hand, Karla could only shutter to the thought of being hit by one of those [Energy Bullet], she had been dodging with all her myth all this while, while her brain was still in a fire due the overuse of her [Skill].
This was because even when one of those bullets had just gazed her, it had let a deep burning mark in her shoulder. It was a good thing that the nanobots in her body had fixed it very quickly and before Cyan had taken notice of that, or he would have been too afraid, to even take aim with his.
[Karla]: ¡°Sigh, being a babysitter is too hard¡±
Karla was very tempted to use her [Skill] to have a better margin of maneuverability, but she ended the hour safely and without having to use her skill to dodge, but in hindsight, she does not know if this was a good or a bad thing in the end.
Having finished their flash training, Cyan and Karla left Floor 7 and went to Floor 1, where Karga was already waiting for them.
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[Karga]: ¡°You are late¡±
Karla could only massage her shoulder that is why she hated being a babysitter; no one will give her anything good for it but complains.
Karla ignored her brother complains and moved on with the missions
[Karla]: ¡°Did you find it?¡±
Karga could only smile.
[Karga]: ¡°Of course I did, they are 200 meters behind me, under one of the banners of [Midas]¡±
Cyan turned his head around to look in the direction that Alice was being held captive.
Cyan clenched his fist as he prepared for what it comes next, a plan for rescuing Alice and without fail.
Chapter 033 – Boss Plan Part 1
Chapter 033 ¨C Boss Plan Part 1
Karla warned Cyan.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, stop looking in that direction or they will notice us¡±
Cyan nodded and turned his head to look at Karla.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior what¡¯s the plan?¡±
Karla smile as she told Cyan Boss three steps plan.
[Karla]: ¡°We enter, take Alice, and then wego out and headedfor the elevator, easy right?¡±
Cyan felt his eyes twitching; ¡°this cannot be the entire plan¡±, he thought.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, that¡¯s...¡±
However, before Cyan could make a complain he felt Karga hand on his shoulder.
[Karga]: ¡°Relax kid, Karla only wants for you to calm down your nerves or it would screw up with your aim, you don¡¯t want to shoot Alice by accident right?¡±
Cyan shook his head as he realized that his hand was trembling after been turn into a fist, so he let out a sigh to calm down his nerves, and released his fist.
Karga nodded as she saw that Cyan had calmed down a little bit.
[Karla]: ¡°There is more to the plan, but you only need to follow our instructions for now, and to be ready for when enter to rescue Alice¡±
Cyan nodded.
[Cyan]: ¡°I understand, Senior¡±
Cyan took notice that Karla that was giving him a mischievous smile now.
[Karla]: ¡°Don¡¯t put that face newbie; we will rescue your sweetheart Alice in no time and without a fail¡±
Cyan relaxed a little bit more, as he thought that if Karla has the time for teasing him, then he did not have anything to worry about for now.
[Karla]: ¡°First, we need to send a message to Boss to inform him of our status¡±
After Cyan had calmed down just enough, Karla moved into the next stage of the plan, as she took out her phone to record a voice message to send to Boss
Karga was already aware of what the plan is, as they had done this kind of missions many times before, so Karla did not need to give him any explanation of what comes next, that explanation was more for Cyan than anything else.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss, we had found the entrance, and we are 200 meters away from it, we are in a position to act, they had yet to spot us¡±
After they waited for a little they got a replied from Boss.
[Boss]: ¡°How many Players are you against?¡±
Karga immediately gave his reply to the question.
[Karga]: ¡°There are two guarding the entrance, and so far nobody had left the area, so there should be still six inside¡±
Karla nodded.
[Karla]: ¡°Did you found anything suspicious around the [Lobby]?¡±
Karga shook his head.
[Karga]: ¡°I have walked around the [Lobby] but I didn¡¯t find any suspicious looking people¡±
Karga could only be grateful that today, the [Lobby] was full of new Players that had arrived just yesterday, making his task of reconnaissance easier, if the [Lobby Area] would have been deserted and with no Players around, then he would have been spotted as soon as he left the elevator.
Of course, another reason they did not spot Karga was due the fact that he was trained by the GP as a field agent for dealing with terrorist and bombs, while most of the Players inside the Tower are normal civilians with buffed up stats, but without military or police training, and they lacked experience even as security guards.
Karla nodded and relayed the message to Boss, and after a while, they got another replied from Boss.
[Boss]: ¡°Count 2 minutes, after that, you will have 10 minutes¡±
Karla listened to the message with a refreshed smile, it seems Boss was also in position.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, let go, we have 2 minutes to get as close as possible to the entrance¡±
Karga nodded.
[Karga]: ¡°Newbie, follow 5 steps behind me, only look to my back, and don¡¯t turn your head around, understood?¡±
Cyan nodded, as he started to walk behind Karga.
Karga already knew the route they could take from where they were standing so they do not get spotted getting closer, and the one that leads to the closest place they could be from the entrance to a big pillar that was wide enough to cover their figures.
Cyan that did not know what is going on could only ask for more information.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, where is Boss?¡±
Karla let the explanations to her twin brother as they moved closer to the entrance.
[Karga]: ¡°Boss is in Floor 6, he will serve as our distraction in 1 minute time, and we need to get to our position before that, so walk fast don¡¯t lag behind¡±
Cyan nodded, as he maintained Karga pace five steps behind him.
After 2 minutes, they have come to 50 meters away from the entrance and stopped behind a big pillar that could hide them, this was as closer as they could get without getting spotted from the guard''s entrance, and it was close enough for Karla as she praised Karga.
[Karga]: ¡°This is a good spot, good job¡±
Karga could only put a smug smile.
Karla then turned her head around to look at Cyan.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, take your phone out and show us the [Map] of the [Hidden Area]¡±
Now that they have the pillar cover, they could act more freely without fear of getting spotted.
Cyan nodded and did as Karla told him to do and he took out his phone and opened the [Map].Find this and other great novels on the author''s preferred platform. Support original creators!
In the [Map], there were reflected the six white dots and Alice, then Karla began with her count down.
[Karla]: ¡°3¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°2¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°1¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Boss is moving¡±
Karla kept staring at the [Map], and after 30 seconds, the white dots started to move out of their positions.
[Karla]: ¡°There they come¡±
Karla took out a mirror from her inventory, which she used to spy the entrance behind the pillar.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie keep looking at the [Map] and tell me what they are doing¡±
Cyan nodded as he moved to look at the [Map] again and narrated it to Karla.
Of the six white dots, three had started to move to the entrance of the room, while the other three had remained inside.
[Cyan]: ¡°Three moved to the entrance, and three had stayed behind¡±
Karla nodded and then she used her mirror at that moment to see how exactly the [Hidden Area] entrance was opened. The seemingly solid wall split open in the middle like two doors put together, as three people stepped outside of the area.
Karla could easily recognize these three people even from 50 meters away, the tall one at the right was obviously Aiden, the second in command for the King¡¯s faction and the one in the middle was the leader of the King¡¯s faction, King, however, Karla mouth dried as she saw who the third person was.
Karla then immediately put away her mirror without being able to look any further, because unlike the other two, the third person was someone with military grade training, if they were careless that person could easily spot them in an instant, the third person was no other than the leader of the third GP unit, Cale.
King turned around and gave some instructions to one of the guards at the entrance, while Cale survived the [Lobby Area] and then stared fixedly to the pillar that Cyan and the Twins where hidden in, after a moment he turned around and followed after King and Aiden into the elevator because they were urging him to hurry.
After Cale had left the area, Karla released her hold breathe, because as soon as Cale had shown up from the [Hidden Area] her instincts had kicked in and told her to hide. It was a shame for her because she could not confirm the situation inside the room nor spot Alice.
Even so, Karla has not told this information to Cyan or Karga, as it was no relevant for completing the mission; they still needed to deal with the two guards at the entrance and the three inside the room; they will have to move fast and without distractions.
[Karla]: ¡°We have ten minutes¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I know already, geez, how many times we had done this already?¡±
Karla ignored her brother complains.
[Karla]: ¡°Karga, you know what do to¡±
Karga nodded and he then took out a [Flash Grenade] from his inventory, removed the lock, and started to count down from ten, meanwhile Karla explained Cyan the plan.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, at my signal, go out and take aim to the door, if anyone comes out from that room that is not Alice, shoot it, understood?¡±
While the twins were taking care of the guards, he would be providing them with support.
Cyan nodded, as he understood his role, he then took out his gun from his inventory, and hold it with his two hands as he removed the safety. For this purpose is that he had created this weapon, and now he would give it some use.
[Karga]: ¡°4¡¡±
Karla smile to Cyan as she saw how nervous he was.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, try not to shoot Alice when we go inside ok¡±
Cyan face paled.
[Karga]: ¡°3¡¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, that¡¯s¡¡± ¨C a horrible thing to say.
However, before Cyan could continue he was interrupted.
[Karla]: ¡°Relax, newbie, it will be fine, we will save Alice, I promise you¡±
Karla took her starting running position, while she tried to reassure Cyan that everything would be ok.
[Karga]: ¡°2¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Go!¡±
Karla dashed forward into a sprint as she rushed to the [Hidden Area] entrance, and into the two guards. A professional athlete could run 50 meters in 4.5 seconds; Karla could do it in less than 2 seconds with her current stats.
Meanwhile, Karga had jumped out from the pillar at the same time Karla has dashed forward, immediately after that, he threw out the [Flash Grenada] at the entrance guards in a straight line instead of an arch, as he has already calculated the exact time the grenade will detonate.
At that time, the guards had spotted Karla running into their direction and moved to take out their phone and call for help as King had told them to do; however, Karga [Flash Grenade] exploded into their faces and blinded them, preventing them for doing anything.
Even if they are Players, humans with superior stats, they still have the same weakness as before, and conventional grenades could still work on them; however, the duration would be a lot shorter than a normal human would have.
Karga could only be thankful that these guards were not equipped with equipment against this kind of attack. Not to mention, that in an open space like the lobby, it was harder for a flash grenade to be of any use.
Even so, the Twins had developed this strategy where Karla would serve as a decoy to put the target eyes into her, while Karga would put the grenade in the position with the best effectivity possible, the end result was the guards been blinded by a few seconds, but this was enough for Karla.
Cyan exited the pillar and aimed his gun to the door at 50 meters of distance; this was 20 meters more than the distance he has practiced with Karla as a moving target, even so, his hands did not tremble in the slightest. Nevertheless, after two seconds, Karla had already managed to reach to the guards and then she knocked them down with a spin kick to the stomach and the head, all the while, he was covering the [Hidden Area] entrance door with his gun.
Karla ended in a flash; however, the mission was not over yet.
[Karga]: ¡°Let¡¯s go, kid¡±
Cyan and Karga then sprinted to catch with Karla at the door; when they got there, Karga took out a rope from his inventory, and tied up the two guard¡¯s hands and feet, in case they wake up, and he had taken their phones so they could not call for help in any case.
Meanwhile, Karla has been guarding the entrance door, awaiting for Cyan and Karga to get to her position, and for Karga to finish with the guards.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, the map¡±
Karla hurried up Cyan to take out the [Map] because they had caused no small commotion, and if they alerted the guards that were inside, everything would get more complicated, luckily for them, it seems the [Hidden Area] door has a barrier that was sound proof.
After checking the [Map] in Cyan phone, Karla saw that the Players inside the room where standing in the same position as they were just before, making her let out a sigh of relief, even so, the people around the [Lobby] were looking at them and taking pictures.
At that time, the twins got a few other notifications.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karla is fined 1000 Credits for injuring another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karla is fined 1000 Credits for injuring another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karga is fined 500 Credits for restraining another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Karga is fined 500 Credits for restraining another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
The twins dismissed their notifications, as they move on with the next stage of the plan. Of the ten minutes, they had already consumed two, meaning they only have eight minutes left in the clock.
Karla relayed this information for Cyan to hear.
[Karla]: ¡°we have eight minutes¡±
Cyan and the Twins then took a position at each side of the door with Karla at the middle.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, same method, at my signal, we enter, Karga, you will take out the one in the right, I will take out the one in the left, Cyan, you will take out the one in the back¡±
Karla had been pointing out the position of the Players in the [Map] while she was explaining their roles out, unlike before, they guards are sparse around the room, and Karla alone could not take them all out fast enough, this time Karga and Cyan would have to play a role in.
Cyan could not help to shudder to the thought of actually shooting a person down.
Karla took notice of Cyan hesitation; however, she could only push the plan forward.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, Alice is inside that room, don¡¯t wait for us to handle all the guards, as soon as we open that door, I want you to aim your gun to the Player stomach and press the trigger, understood?¡±
Cyan nodded with his head, indicating that he understood the situation, as the thought of Alice getting hurt remove any shred of hesitation from his mind and his hands.
What Karla did not mention was that with Alice in the back of the room if one of them fails, then the hostage would be in danger. Moreover, the target that she had assigned to Cyan was the one besides Alice, and the one that was farther back in the room, and even with her speed she was not sure of making in time, Cyan was the only that could take that target out before it could use Alice as a hostage.
Karga started the count down from ten again, with another [Flash Grenade] in his hands; he only has three of these, and this was his last one.
[Karga]: ¡°4¡¡±
Karla moved into position to open the door, she already saw how the King¡¯s faction had opened the door, it was very easy, as there were not any locks in it, you only need to push it open.
[Karga]: ¡°3¡¡±
Karla took a breath, as she thought in how many times it was now, that she had been doing this kind of jobs. Karga was having the same kind of thoughts as his sister.
[Karga]: ¡°2¡¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Go!¡±
Chapter 034 - Boss Plan Part 2
Chapter 034 - Boss Plan Part 2
[Karla]: ¡°Go!¡±
Karla pushed open the door with her hands, and she then rushed inside the room with her eyes close to prevent that the flash of the grenade would blind her. At the same time, Karga threw the grenade in the middle of the room so it could blind all the guards inside as they moved their eyes to Karla¡¯s direction.
Meanwhile, Cyan was at the entrance while holding his weapon at the shoulder level with his eyes also closed as he waited to hear the flash grenade detonation for opening them again. He only had to wait for one second as the detonation came shortly after Karla had opened the door.
Cyan could not help but think that the Twins were very precise while doing their work unlike their usual carefree behavior as he opened both of his eyes.
The first thing that Cyan saw was Karla, it only has been a second but she was already halfway through the distance for reaching her target, and better yet, the flash has successfully blinded her target because it was stumbling around.
The second thing that Cyan saw was the second Twin, Karga, breaking into a sprint and rushing into the room, with the intentions to take down the second guard that was also been blinded by the flash.
However, when Cyan focused his attention at the back of the room, where his target was, his expression changed into horror as everything started to slow down in time for him.
The flash had not blinded the guard at the back because it was giving his back to the door, and even worse than that, it was now moving towards Alice that was on the ground just beside him while holding a knife in his right hand.
Cyan felt a cold wind going throughout his mind as he could already predict the guard intentions; that guard probably wanted to use Alice as a shield for himself.
The Twins also took notice of this, but they could only say their prayers, so Cyan does not miss his shot, because even if they wanted they could not make it in time.
Cyan was already prepared for this, he had his weapon in position while his finger was already on the trigger and now his target was set; it was 20 meters away from him and moving into the right.
Cyan then aimed his gun to the place he had predicted that the guard would be moving into, and then he pressed the trigger of his gun without any hesitation, as the thought ¡°please, make it in time!¡± crossed his cold mind.
The bullet immediately left the gun cannon and traveled in a spiral across the room, while passing in front of Karga that was in the middle of reaching his target, and passed near the sides of Karla that was already in the middle of delivering a kick to blind guard stomach.
The [Energy Bullet] made it into the back of the room and then, it found its target, as it went throughout the guard sides while carbonizing everything that had found in its path and into the other side ending in the energy barrier wall, this had created a dark tunnel the size of a coin into the guard stomach.
The guard immediately dropped into the ground while screaming in pain, but he fainted shortly after because of the excruciating pain he was feeling.
At the same time, Cyan got a few notifications to his phone.
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan is fined 10.000 Credits for severely injuring another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan is fined 10.000 Credits for severely injuring another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
Message [Midas]: ¡°Player Cyan is fined 10.000 Credits for severely injuring another Player outside the [PVP Arena]¡±
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[Midas] have immediately issue Cyan with several fines, and in total, he had to pay 50.000 in Credits for severely hurting another Player, even so, he ignored it.
After making sure that the guard was not getting up, he moved to support the Twins, but by that time, the Twins both already had knocked out the two other guards.
Cyan could let a sigh of relief as he lowered his weapon, before dashing forward into Alice direction.
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice!¡±
Alice that was at the back of the room was been tie up with a rope so she could not run away and she was blindfolded and they had put a gag on her so she could not scream for help.
Cyan quickly took out his sword and easily cut the Alice restrains and removed the blindfold and the gag.
[Alice]: ¡°Cyan!¡±
After Alice restrains had been removed and she saw Cyan face for the first time, she could only break into a cry, Cyan moved to comfort her
[Cyan]: ¡°Alice is ok, you are safe now¡±
Cyan cleaned her tears away from her face, as he thought that Alice beautiful face should not be filled with tears.
[Cyan]: ¡°They did something bad to you?¡±
Alice shook her head.
[Alice]: ¡°They didn¡¯t because they would get penalized by [Midas] if they did, however¡±
Alice stopped for a second.
[Alice]: ¡°They had said that if the Boss¡¯s faction doesn¡¯t pay for the rescue, they would start cutting my fingers off and that if I tried to run away they would cut my legs¡±
Cyan could only clench his hand into a fist as he heard how they had been putting threats on Alice mind so she does not try to run away from them.
Cyan then turned around to look at the guards that were being tied up with rope by Karga as he had the impulse to make a new hole into the guard¡¯s heads after hearing how they had treated Alice.
Alice took notice of Cyan dark expression and could try to stop Cyan for doing something he could regret later by putting the blame on herself.
[Alice]: ¡°I am sorry Cyan it is my entire fault that this had happened¡±
Cyan returned to his senses and turned to look at Alice that was almost breaking into a cry again.
[Cyan]: ¡°It is not your fault Alice, it is my fault I should have never let those people put a finger in you in the first place¡±
Cyan and Alice could only try to put the blame on themselves but Karla interrupted them as she already had enough of this.
[Karla]: ¡°If you two love-fools are over with your touchy reunion, we still need to get out of here¡±
Cyan turned his head around and nodded, Karla was right.
Karla then kneeled down in front of Alice.
[Karla]: ¡°Alice, Can you walk?¡±
Alice checked around her body and did not found anything wrong it, so she nodded, making Karla let out a sigh of relief.
Cyan then helped Alice to stand back up on her feet, while Karla fed her with an [Energy Drink] and an [Energy Food], just to be sure.
Karla also presented Alice with a phone.
[Karla]: ¡°I believed this is yours¡±
Alice soon had realized that this was her own phone, and Karla had found it after searching the body of the guard that Cyan had shot down.
Karla thought it was a good thing that their phones could not go inside their inventories or they could never have found it.
Alice took her phone back from the hands of Karla with teary eyes, and then she gave Karla a heartfelt thank you while doing a small bow.
[Alice]: ¡°Thank very much, Senior¡±
Karla shook her head as she dismissed Alice thanks.
[Karla]: ¡°Just do me a favor don¡¯t lose it ever again, understood?¡±
Alice nodded as she put a smile this time.
Karla still hated being a babysitter for kids, but maybe for Alice sake, she could bear it for a while longer.
Karla returned to her usual serious atmosphere while she checked the clock on her phone. They only had taken three minutes for Alice¡¯s rescue, and now it was time to leave the area.
[Karga]: ¡°We only have four minutes left, Karga¡±
[Karga]: ¡°I already finished tying up all the guards¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, let''s go¡±
Everyone nodded as the moved next to the entrance.
[Karla]: ¡°There could be an enemy party waiting for us outside this room, newbie, the [Map]¡±A case of theft: this story is not rightfully on Amazon; if you spot it, report the violation.
Cyan was already expecting for this as he had the [Map] already open in his phone, on the other hand, Alice was surprised as she remembered that this was the [Map] Cyan had used to found her the first time, and now she had realized how Cyan was able to found her so easily.
Karla while using the [Map] could see that Players have indeed gathered just outside the room, but in her opinion, they do not seem to be the welcoming party from the King¡¯s faction and were more like spectators.
Karla let out a sigh of relief after she had taken a peek using her mirror at the outside, but she only saw a crowd of spectators, in the end, she could only think that this was thanks to Boss that was keeping busy the Players of King¡¯s faction on Floor 6.
After confirming the situation outside, Karla nodded with her head to indicate Karga the outside was clear.
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, newbie, that¡¯s enough, use your weapon from now on¡±
Cyan nodded as he put his phone away and took his weapon out again, he still has 19 rounds in the magazine.
[Karla]: ¡°This is how we will leaving, I will be on the front, Cyan after me, and then Alice, Karga you will be in the back, we move at the same time, understood?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Understood!¡± [Alice]: ¡°Understood!¡±, [Karga]: ¡°Understood!¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Alright, at my signal, I will open the door, and then we all will be heading for the elevator, don¡¯t stop until we get there¡±
Everyone nodded. However, Karla had specific instructions for Cyan.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Yes, Senior?¡±
[Karla]: ¡°If someone dares to block our path or tries to hinder us in any way, I want for you to make a hole into their stomach, understood?¡±
Cyan turned around his head to look at the wound of the guard he had just shoot, the wound was being healed but unlike normal, it was a very slow process as the nanobots were having a hard time because, skin, fat, muscles, blood, and bones have all but been vaporized into smoke by the [Energy Bullet]. A normal human would have died already from this kind of wounds and Cyan had no doubt about this fact.
Cyan could only shutter to the thought of what would happen if he shoots someone in the head, as he thought of his practice with Karla just an hour ago, and how close he was on getting a hit on her shoulder, but thankfully, he had missed the shot.
Karla thought Cyan was hesitating because of the guard he had shot and now he has realized that he could easily kill a Player with his gun.
However, what is bothering Cyan thoughts was that he could have severely injured Karla during their training if he was any better while aiming with his gun.
Not to mention, even when she was aware of the firepower of the weapon, as Cyan had demonstrated it before the start of the training, Karla had offered herself up to be his target for him to practice, and all the while, she has been hindered by the side effects of overusing her [Skill].
All of this was making Cyan feel a pain in his heart for his selfish wish of wanting to save Alice all by himself not caring for anything else.
[Karla]: ¡°Newbie, I don¡¯t want you to shoot to kill, I just want you just to incapacitate them, understood?¡±
Cyan turned around and nodded with his head.
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, no matter who stands on our path, I will remove it from your sight!¡±
Karla could only massage her temples.
[Karla]: ¡°Just don¡¯t go overboard, newbie, we don¡¯t want you to kill a Player and then be expelled from the Tower, ok?¡±
Karla did not mind killing a few Players of the King¡¯s faction on their way out, but that would get them expelled of the Tower and from being a Player, and right now, they cannot have that.
Cyan nodded with his head again, as he could feel Karla care from them once more.
When everyone was ready to go, Karla, ordered them to take their positions and form a single line.
Cyan felt Alice trembling behind him; he turned around and looked into Alice''s eyes while holding her hand.
[Cyan]: ¡°Stay behind me until we get to the elevator, don¡¯t worry everything will be fine; our Seniors know what they are doing¡±
Cyan trust in the Twins was very high and it was transmitted to Alice.
Alice nodded as she took a long breath to calm herself down and stopped her body keep shaking; right now, she has to remain strong.
[Karla]: ¡°Everyone is ready?¡±
Everyone nodded.
Karla then took out her phone and sent a voice message to Boss.
[Karla]: ¡°Boss we got the package; we will be heading for the elevator in 30 seconds¡±
After Karla has sent the message, she put her phone away and started the count down from ten.
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[Karla]: ¡°3¡±
[Karla]: ¡°2¡±
[Karla]: ¡°1¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Go!¡±
Karla opened the doors and exited the room together with Cyan and Alice on a toe, while Karga was protecting the rear.
Outside the room, Players had gathered around the entranced because of the commotion that the Twins had made while trying to enter the room a few minutes ago, not to mention, it was revealed now to other Players, that there was a [Hidden Area] in the [Lobby], and now the Players were growing curious about what is inside.
Luckily, none of those Players was from the King¡¯s Faction as they were having an unplanned visitor into their floor that was preventing them from leaving the floor.
In consequence, none of those Players stood on their way to the elevator.
Moreover, even if the Players were curious, Karla and Karga were armed with a knifes while Cyan was holding a weapon while auras were not friendly for anyone to dare come near them, as they opened a path for them to walk by.
In the end, Cyan, Alice, and the Twins have managed to reach the elevator safely and pressed the button to close the elevator doors, making everyone let a sigh of relief at the same time, as they had finally escaped from the [Lobby] without problems.
After a few seconds, they were back in Floor 3, at their usual table, a place where they could finally feel safe.
Alice immediately wanted to explain to them what had happened yesterday.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior last night¡±
However, Karla interrupted her before Alice could continue.
[Karla]: ¡°Let¡¯s wait for Boss to get here first, after that, you can tell us what had has happened¡±
Alice nodded.
Everyone waited without saying anything because there was only one thing they wanted to hear.
The silence only lasted for 3 minutes as Boss had finally shown up to the table while looking all free of wounds.
Even so, everyone took notice that even if Boss was free of wounds, his clothes were not, as it was cut in some places and had a few dark spots in different places. That meant Boss has been into a fight with other Players, but the nanobots already had healed the wounds left on his body.
No one asked Boss how he got these marks on him, as everyone was already more or less aware of how.
Karla was the first one to welcome Boss into the table, as she was just happy to see Boss coming back alive and without having any of his limbs missing after going solo against a Floor.
[Karla]: ¡°Welcome back Boss, did you have a hard time with the Players of King¡¯s faction?¡±
Boss could only give a short replied.
[Boss]: ¡°Piece of cake¡±
Karla nodded while Boss then turned his head to look into Alice''s eyes.
[Boss]: ¡°Alice¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Yes Boss?¡±
[Boss]: ¡°I am sorry¡±
Boss gave his heartfelt apology while bowing down with his head.
Alice shook her head trying to stop Boss while showing that this was not Boss fault.
[Karla]: ¡°Alice, can you tell us what had happened?¡±
Alice nodded.
[Alice]: ¡°Last night, I hear a knock on the door, and then I got a message from Cale saying that Miss Karla wanted to see me in her room¡±
Karla could only let out a sigh as she started to massage her temples; this was just another headache for her.
It was now a fact that Cale had something to do in this matter, even when Karla had seen him with together with the King at the [Lobby] she was still hoping for it to be a misunderstanding.
However, hearing it for Alice herself was not easy for Karla, because that meant she had failed to read a person and even worse was that she had failed to Boss, and even if Boss did not see it in that way, she was still feeling responsible for all of this.
Alice stopped as she saw Karla shoulders dropping as she started to massage her temples.
[Alice]: ¡°Senior, are you ok?¡±
Karla dismissed the headache she was feeling.
[Karla]: ¡°You can continue Alice¡±
Alice nodded.
[Alice]: ¡°When I opened the door Cale was outside waiting for me, he said he would escort me to your room, I didn¡¯t think too much of it or believed that anything was wrong at that moment, so I exited my room, but then¡±
Alice made a paused as she blamed herself for not realizing it sooner if Karla wanted to see her why she did not have sent the message using her phone and instead of sending Cale in her stead.
[Alice]: ¡°When I exited my room I was restrained, after that, they took me to the room where you had found me¡±
Boss nodded; with this Cale participation in Alice kidnapping, has been all but confirm.
Cyan could only clench his teeth, as Cale was someone they had been sharing the same table with, and now he had gone and done such despicable act.
Karga could only put his hand over Cyan shoulder to calm him down because as for Boss and the Twins are concerned, a betrayal in the GP was not something new, and they all had experienced it before. However, even if they are used to it, it had always left them with a sour taste into their mouths, even more so, when the person they trusted so much ends been a double agent.
Karga let out a sigh as he was remembered of the past he wished to forget. He then thought of something to move the conversation forward into another topic.
[Karga]: ¡°Right, Alice you know what was in that area?¡±
They had been so focused while rescuing Alice that they did not have taken any glance at the room, not to mention, unlike the previous time when they got a reward when they entered a [Hidden Area] this time, they have not received anything of those sorts.
Nevertheless, Alice could still hear the Players of King¡¯s faction talking around her about this area.
[Alice]: ¡°They had said it was a [Shop], but unlike the normal [Shop] in our phones, you could buy [Silver] and [Gold] Class items from it using your phone¡±
Karga nodded as he that understood that the [Hidden Arena] this time was, in fact, a secret [Shop] that was selling better items than the normal shop has.
Karga had to explain to Cyan that in the normal [Shop] there is only [Wood] and [Bronze] Class items available for the Weapons and Armors because Cyan was too busy while training with Boss in the last couple of days to check the [Shop].
Karga also explained Cyan that such items are very expensive to buy, at 100.000 Credits for the [Wood] and 300.000 Credits for the [Bronze] Class items.
After Karga had ended his explanation, Alice took the chance to add further to her explanation, with the things that she had heard while she was a hostage for the King¡¯s faction.
[Alice]: ¡°They had said that a [Silver] Class item cost was 500.000 Credits and that a [Gold] Class item cost was of 1.000.000 Credits, they had also said that they would be trading me to buying one of those items at the store¡±
Cyan remembered how he had obtained two [Gold] Class item from two random boxes and he could only let out a bitter laugh, as he wondered if he had known that, would he had tried to rescued Alice while trading her for the items? However, in the end, Cyan dismissed those thoughts out his mind.
The Twins on the other hand only could feel pain into their stomachs as they remembered how they had expended their Credits into [Bronze] Class items that they had yet to use and that they had forgotten.
However, they all forgot about their pains, as Alice kept happily smiling while giving them her thanks for saving her, blowing all their worries away for a while.
[Alice]: ¡°Thank you, Seniors, for saving me¡±
Alice bowed her head as a show of gratitude once more, but Karla soon stopped her after the third time, as she shook her head.
[Karla]: ¡°It is too soon for that Alice, you two are still not safe¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°What do you mean Senior?¡±
Just as Cyan asked, a loud voice was heard all across the Floor.
[Unknown]: ¡°Well well, but isn¡¯t the Boss¡¯s faction sitting in their usual table¡±
Cyan turned around and saw a despicable man with a crooked smile standing just a few meters away from them.
That man was no other than the leader of the King¡¯s faction, King, and besides him was Aiden and Cale.
[King]: ¡°Haha, you lot thought you could run away from me inside this Tower?¡±
Boss and the Twins stood up from their seats while letting a sigh as it was time for the next step in Boss plan.
Chapter 035 - Boss Plan Part 3
Chapter 035 - Boss Plan Part 3
Boss and the Twins gave a side-glance to Cale and Aiden before turning their heads to look at the leader of the faction.
Karla put a taunting smile as she faced King.
[Karla]: ¡°We had been waiting for you, why did you take so long?¡±
King crocked smiled did not disappear at Karla¡¯s taunt as he has brought half of his faction with him this time. Karla counted at least 50 Players behind King, as she thought that the other half of his faction probably is still recuperating after Boss had paid them a visit into their Floor a few moments early.
[King]: ¡°Do you think I am stupid? I know you lot are strong, but there is no need to fight, isn¡¯t it?¡±
Karla gave a glare to her brother, before turning back to face King once more; Karga in the other hand could only shrug his sister glared as this was not the first time he has been causing problems for their team.
In direct conflict, even if King had brought all of his faction at the same time into the fight, they would still not lose against them, but now, King¡¯s faction does not need the fight to win anymore.
Karla could already predict what King would say next as she let out a sigh of resignation.
[King]: ¡°I only need to wait for a few more days and then you three will leave the Tower on your own, at that time, how will you protect those two kids behind you huh?¡±
Boss and the Twins could only clench their hands into a fist without saying anything back as they knew they could not protect Alice and Cyan after they left the Tower, Boss plan to keep the kids safe from harm, has failed.
King crocked smile grew wider as he saw their expressions of resignation, filling him with immense pleasure, he has won now, he remembered how he had given up in harassing Boss faction under Aiden recommendations, but then it was the same Aiden that has brought him the information that Boss faction has shown a weakness and has recruited two kids.
It was also Aiden that has brought Cale into their faction one week ago, for him to use his skill on Cale, [Control], a skill that could take control of a person mind and brainwashed it.
It was the perfect plan, too use Cale as a spy and take one of the kids as a hostage, and then use that to make Boss submit to him, now King will use the same skill in Boss and take control over Boss faction.
[Control] It lets you brainwash a person, but its restrictions are huge, the number of people is limited and the person must be willing, luckily Cale mind was weakened when he had just come to Tower making easily to gain his trust and a perfect target to use his Skill.
Unlike most of King other lackeys (faction members), Boss is a professional with military grade training from the GP like Cale, making him a great asset to be worthy of being King¡¯s faction third seat, and even if Aiden plan has half-failed it still has proven a point, that they know Boss weakness and they can still exploit it.
With Aiden and Boss at his sides, everything was perfect, now, King only needs to get his hands on Boss and the Twins and use his skill, [Control], and get control over them and with this, his power and influence over the Tower would grow exponentially, and then, taking over the Emperor faction within a week¡¯s time would not be a dream anymore. King face glowed and ended laughing at loud as he thought about how great the future will be for him from now on.
In the other hand, Cyan body could tremble with King eerie laugh as he just realized, that even if they had successfully rescued Alice from been a hostage, they all were still hostages of the Tower. They could not escape from the King¡¯s faction, and unless they want to hide inside their rooms for the rest of their time in the Tower, they would have to face off the King in a fight.
Cyan turned his head around to gaze over the backs of Boss, Karla, and Karga that were still trying to protecting them, as he was remembered of Boss plan, they would train them for two weeks and after that, they would pray that they got strong enough for them to defend themselves in the face of danger.
¡°What a silly plan that was¡± Cyan though of, while taking his gun out, if they cannot be protected then they would have to fight on their own, Cyan was ready for this.
King kept laughing as he saw Cyan taking his gun out.
[King]: ¡°Kid, you thought you had saved your girlfriend?¡±
King smiled as he himself took out an item from his inventory.
[King]: ¡°Don¡¯t tell me you thought you were the only one with a gun?¡±
King started to spin around his own silvery gun in his hands as he played with it aiming it at Cyan and mimicking a shot. This was also an energy gun like Cyan, but this was from [Silver] Class item, unlike [Gold] they are not bound items.
Cyan now could understand from where the holes in Boss clothes have come from.
[King]: ¡°I am feeling generous today, if you give me 2.000.000 Credits, I will allow all of you to join my faction, what do you say? It isn¡¯t that a great offer?¡±
Karla could only retort back.
[Karla]: ¡°Were you asking for 1.000.000 just before?¡±
The King could only shake his head out, as these thoughtless fools did not understand their current position.
[King]: ¡°That was before you tried to play the heroes, I wanted to warn you lot about the dangers of the tower¡±
King kept smiling back.
[King]: ¡°But you all ignore my good intentions, and hurt my faction members, now if you want my protection then it would cost you more¡±
King greedily looked at the weapon Cyan was holding out.
Boss clenched his fist once more and as if coming to a decision released it and turned around to look a Cyan and Alice.
Boss plans has now all but failed, even if they trained them now for the rest of the week, facing against a Player faction only the two of them would be very difficult, and it was a fact that this was all of his fault, as he was the target of the King¡¯s faction and not the kids, however, there was a more direct solution to this problem.
Boss kneeled down in from of Cyan and Alice so they could be face to face, and then he put his hand into their shoulders.
[Boss]: ¡°Cyan¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Boss?¡±
Cyan was Confuse by Boss actions.
Boss spoke with a serious but gentle tone.
[Boss]: ¡°I have a lot of fun while training you, and I think you are gentle and an extraordinary strong Player, I know that you will achieve great things in the future, however, don¡¯t try to be like me, and try to do everything alone¡±
Boss then turned his head to face Alice.
[Boss]: ¡°Alice¡±
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[Boss]: ¡°I think you are also extraordinary, smart and gentle, I know that you will do great things in future too, however, you are too na?ve and you trust too much on people, you need to learn how to read people¡±
Cyan and Alice eyes started to water because they could guess this was Boss final goodbye.
[Boss]: ¡°I know you two will be ok, only promised me that you will look out for each other¡±
Cyan and Alice nodded at the same, making Boss nod.
Boss solution, if he could not protect them then he would remove the threat that could harm them out of the Tower, a very easy plan.
The twins also gave their goodbyes.
[Karga]: ¡°Newbie you need to take care of Alice, for that you need to grow stronger you know?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°Senior, I can¡¯t let¡± ¨C you fight alone!
Is what Cyan wanted to say, however, Karga interrupted him before he could finish.
[Karga]: ¡°Then you want to leave Alice alone inside the Tower?¡±
Cyan could not say anything back; he already knew that after this, Boss and the Twins would be expelled from the Tower.
[Karla]: ¡°Kids should stay out while grownups handle it¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Senior for everything¡±
However, Karla could not Alice finish with her words either.
[Karla]: ¡°Save it for later Alice, when we meet again outside the Tower¡±
Boss and the Twins stood in front of the King''s faction, now, they will destroy the threat, even if, they will be expelled of the Tower afterward.
King could only laugh at their pathetic attempt to fight, he only needs to wait, and things will play in his hands.
[King]: ¡°You think you lot can win? My faction has 1/3 of the Players of the Tower, you will never able to win¡±
Against Boss, King couldn¡¯t win, but they don¡¯t have to fight, he was very happy when he heard that the mystic Boss had a weakness and that that weakness was actually two helpless kids, with this, he could tame Boss and increased his faction power in one day, however, not everything can go as planned, as Boss shook his head, showing his refusal.
[Boss]: ¡°I don¡¯t need to kill all of you; I only need to take out the King¡±
King body tremble as he saw the smile in Boss face.
Realistic speaking, killing all the Players in the King¡¯s faction should be impossible even for Boss, this was proven by his early visit to King¡¯s Floor, but that was only to dwindle their numbers, and now they will take care of the 50 Players that are in from of him.
[Boss]: ¡°I will handle the King, you two handle, Aiden, Cale¡±
Karla and Karga nodded as the prepared their weapons, Karla with her knife and Karga with a pair of frag grenades.
[King]: ¡°Are you crazy! You lot¡¯s will be expelled from the Tower, then those two kids will be left without protection then, did you thought about that!¡±
King was not expecting this at all this was suicide.
Boss only could smile.
[Boss]: ¡°They can take care of themselves, because they are Players, just like me¡±
Boss fists started to be surrounded by a red aura while Karla prepared herself to use her Skill while Karga was prepared to do the same.
However, just at that time, someone else intervened into the fight that was about to break out, as a woman voice thundered into the floor.
[Unknown]: ¡°Stop this already!¡±
Everyone stopped moving as they gathered their attention to the origin of the voice.
Cyan turned his head around and saw beautiful woman dressed in black with black hair, about the same age of Karla, sitting in a table not too far away while leisure drinking a milkshake while not caring that everyone was looking at her, even so, her voice, and presence carry a strong power that it could not be ignored by anyone.
The Woman then stood up from the table and started walking right at the center of the conflict, between Boss and King, she then gave a glance at Boss before turning around and facing against King.
[King]: ¡°What it is, why the Emperor faction is putting their nose in other people Matters¡±
The Woman only shrugged her shoulders, as she did not care about what King could think of this.
[Unknown]: ¡°I am making it a business of the Emperor faction now¡±
King was flustered by this development; he was not expecting the Emperor faction to intervene in this.
[Unknown]: ¡°Listen out, everyone in the Boss faction is now under our protection, if you mess with them, then you will be messing with us too¡±
Even with this threat, King did not want to retreat, not when such a big piece of meat was dangling in front of him for him to take.
The Woman frowned.
[Unknown]: ¡°You think I am playing? What did you said before that you have 1/3 of the Players of this Tower into your faction?¡±
The Woman snapped her fingers and all the Players that were in the food area stood up and got ready their weapons, then the elevator opened and more Players came out surrounding the King¡¯s faction.
[Unknown]: ¡°Then we have 2/3 of the Players of this Tower in our faction¡±
King could on give up after Aiden whispered something on his ear.
[King]: ¡°We are leaving¡±
After that, the King¡¯s faction withdrew from the Floor, and all the Players returned to their own business as the peace was restored back to the Tower.
Cyan and Alice could only let out a sigh of relief, they thought this was the end for the Boss faction, but they all had been saved by this mysterious Woman.
The Woman turned around and walked in front of Boss.
[Unknown]: ¡°Long time no see James¡±
Boss frowned as he has been called by that name again, something he did not like.
Cyan and Alice went wide eye as they learned Boss true name.
[Boss]: ¡°I told you no to call me by that name¡±
The Woman could only sigh as she interrupted Boss.
[Unknown]: ¡°geez, I know already, you never change do you, James?¡±
Even so, Boss frown did not disappear.
[Boss]: ¡°I only ask you to take care of the Kids, Why are you intervening here Remas?¡±
Remas could only shake her head in disappointment.
[Remas]: ¡°I just feel like it was something I wanted to do¡±
[Boss]: ¡°In that case don¡¯t expect me to thank you¡±
[Remas]: ¡°I didn¡¯t do it for you to thank me¡±
Boss did not say anything else, making Remas give up.
[Remas]: ¡°Even after ten years you still have not changed, if you had come out to the Emperor faction since the beginning we could have avoided all of this, He would have welcomed you¡±
Even if Remas was extending her hand out Boss could only refuse.
[Boss]: ¡°You know better than anyone else that I can¡¯t do that¡±
[Remas]: ¡°Because your place is with the GP? however, I heard it got destroyed, so you are out a job now, what do you say? Don¡¯t you want to join us now?¡±
Boss frown could only grow bigger.
[Boss]: ¡°That it is not confirmed yet, so I will have to refuse¡±
Even if Remas was being refused, she did not lose her smile.
[Remas]: ¡°Then after you confirmed it, will you come back with us?¡±
After a long pause, Boss gave his reply.
[Boss]: ¡°I will think about it¡±
This answer made Remas smile as she nodded.
[Remas]: ¡°Great! I will be waiting for the good news¡±
Nobody told Remas that the ¡°good news¡± would be the confirmation of GP destruction.
Remas turned her head away from Boss and gave a look at Karla and Karga.
[Remas]: ¡°Karla¡±
[Karla]: ¡°Remas¡±
[Remas]: ¡°Karga¡±
[Karga]: ¡°Remas¡±
That was all their exchanged, as they do not have anything else to say to each other.
After that, Remas started to walk away, however, two Players stopped her.
[Cyan]: ¡°Wait, we want to thank you for saving Boss faction¡±
[Alice]: ¡°It wasn¡¯t for your help Boss and the Twins¡±
Remas only shrugged her shoulders, without giving any importance it.
[Remas]: ¡°I didn¡¯t do it to save any of you; I was just paying out an old debt to James¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Even so, you have our gratitude¡±
Remas thought for a second as she saw the two kids bowing to her as she thought of something.
[Remas]: ¡°Then you two will join the Emperor faction in exchange?¡±
[Alice]: ¡°That¡¯s¡±
[Remas]: ¡°Maybe if I get you two join, Boss will come back faster, and it seems he cares a lot about you two¡±
Cyan and Alice looked each other; actually, they did not need to think too much about it, even if they were grateful, they themselves have a debt to pay now.
[Cyan]: ¡°We wish to remain with Boss faction¡±
[Alice]: ¡°We will never abandon Boss faction¡±
Remas could only give up seeing the expressions of Cyan and Alice.
[Remas]: ¡°In that case, can I ask a favor from you two?¡±
Cyan and Alice nodded.
[Remas]: ¡°Boss doesn¡¯t know how to ask for help, so can you help him even when he doesn¡¯t ask for it?¡±
[Cyan]: ¡°We will help Boss with everything we can!¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Of course we will help Boss!¡±
[Remas]: ¡°Very well then, I will leave him to you two, until next time kids¡±
[Alice]: ¡°Wait, can you tell us what it is you relation with Boss?¡±
Alice and Cyan were curious about what kind of relation Boss and Remas had.
Remas smiled by the question.
[Remas]: ¡°He is my younger brother¡±
Cyan and Alice were both shocked by this revelation.
[Remas]: ¡°Small Tower we live in huh?¡±
After that, Remas left the area using the elevator