《Will you stop the game ?》 Prologue : A new world The year of 2017 was the year it all began. It was the first of January to be exact, the day everyone''s life changed for ever. It all began because a god wanted to play with us. We call it the day of the cataclysm. It had 6 phases. Something really weird appeared in the beginning. Everyone could see a string of numbers in front of them no matter what they where doing. Then they realised it was a countdown of 24 hours. People speculated but they couldn''t do anything about the countdown. Some said it was the aliens, some said it was an act of god. They weren''t wrong and they weren''t right either... 24 hours passed and it was the second day. The first thing that happened after the countdown reached zero was what we call now "the freeze". Every single living being in the world stopped moving. Whether they were standing, siting, walking, running or in the air they stood completly still. Then plane crashed, car ran into each others or drove off road. The worst was that everyone was conscious of what was happening but they couldn''t do anything. A day passed liked this, in complete silence beside the tvs and the radios which were turned on. It was weird : feelling fear but not being able to scream. Looking at your friends for hours long but not being able to do anything Then in the third day : the earth shook for hours. Continents came close to each others and fused or came apart. In the end there were only 3 continents. The first continent was created with north america, south america, Greenland, a little part of Russia and New Zealand. The Second was created with the EU, Africa, the Middle Orient and India. The 3rd part with Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea and some other countries. There were not a lot of island left or that were created but they didn''t exceed 10 km2. Miraculously no infrastructure collapse and no one died from this. And finally after two days of not being able to move, they were finally able to take motion. The third day had ended... The 4th day Creatures appeared in the sea. They moved on land slaughtering every living things they could see. They were in the thousands and no bullet could do anything to them. Even the Air force couldn''t do anything to them since there were avian type beasts that could fly even faster that the fastest type of plane (The blackbird sr71). These beast also had even better maneuverability. Only missiles could do little damage to them, but it was minimalist and there munition where limited whereas the number of monster didn''t seem to have a limit. Their only comfort was that there were zones that those creatures couldn''t cross. Safe zones.In Every region 10 km after the sea, the limit of the safe zone was created. You could say they had it easy. Those near the sea weren''t so lucky. If every human being had felt fear before, they felt it even more at this very moment. The majority believed that the apocalypse had arrived. Unauthorized duplication: this tale has been taken without consent. Report sightings. The 5th day every single computer, tablettes, and smartphone started automatically downloading a file, whether their owner wanted it or not. It didn''t matter what they tried, the owners couldn''t stop the download unless they tried to break their machines. It was a computer virus. It consumed every personal operating system and swapped it with another called "greater operating system". Those who didn''t break their machines could view a message :
" Hi there. Is every one fine ? Very well, I don''t really care anyway haha. Oh by the way I am God. Your new God. You had another god before but this guy is not so fine since I killed him. So new god, new rules right ? You are my plaything now. So you better work hard to stay alive~."
" Hi there. Is every one fine ? Very well, I don''t really care anyway haha. Oh by the way I am God. Your new God. You had another god before but this guy is not so fine since I killed him. So new god, new rules right ? You are my plaything now. So you better work hard to stay alive~." The 6th Day, the game began. The 7th day God felt it was good enough. And so he took his time to rest... Chapter 1 : 150 years after the cataclysm Chapter 1 : 150 years after the cataclysm ''Get on with it'' thought Damien as he watched the headmaster summarize everything that happened 150 years ago on the screen. He was getting tired of seeing him rambling on, and on about what he already knew. He made a quick look around him and he saw that he wasn¡¯t the only one having the same thought. It was something that every first grader knew after all but it was something that the headmaster insisted on having at every graduation. He was finally out of this school. A school for orphan named Joseph Fury after the one who had founded it. It was in the center-north of the second continent created by god. This continent was finally named ¡°Alia¡± after it was created. ¡°¡­ And so to congratulate you for passing and to prepare you for the game we will grant you a loan¡± ¡®Finally¡¯ thought Damien. He had endured enough in this environment. But he needed the loan if he wanted to prepare for the game. Even thought it was a loan there were no interest rate, and so he wasn¡¯t worried. After he obtained this loan he will be able to buy the skills and equipments he wants. 10 minutes of rambling after, it was over. The Students came one by one to obtain their loan. The order was from the lowest prospect to the highest. If students were graded by appreciation from ¡°bad¡± to ¡°average¡± to ¡°good¡± to ¡°excellent¡± then Damien would be among the good students. It wasn¡¯t that he couldn¡¯t be excellent. It was just that he had landed in a class of monsters. Soon it was his time to go receive his loan. He received 100 000 points : the money of the game. The highest received 150 000. He stayed a little longer after that to chat with his friends. He wanted to say his goodbye to the girl he liked but he didn¡¯t dare since he hadn¡¯t talked to her that much other than to say ¡°hello¡±. They might have had the same center of interests but he didn¡¯t know. He hadn¡¯t asked. He wasn¡¯t shy or anything. After all he already had a girlfriend before. It was just just that he wanted to focus on his studies. School had changed since the calamity. It was now more focused on preparing the youths on how to better beat the game. ¡°Player¡± had become a real job now and they taught students subjects like ¡°strategy¡±, ¡°martial arts¡±, ¡°geography of the game¡±, ¡°Cooking inside the game¡± and ¡°monster¡¯s weaknesses¡±. There were also ¡°craftsman mastery¡± and others but they were options. The government had decided to implement these changes since it depended on humanity¡¯s survival : The safe zone was shrinking at a rate of 500 000 km every year. 150 years had already passed. Knowing that earth¡¯s surface only had 150 millions kilometers on average, there were only 150 years left until the safe zone disappeared. Fortunally deserts and arid soils had disappeared little by little after the calamity. It was almost like this new god gave everyone time to rest before he had to make them suffer. It was theorized that there was a way to stop the shrinking inside the game since no other method had worked. So countries and people had spent a lot of money and personnel to understand the game. Soon it was time for Damien to go home. The sky was already dark when he arrived . He gained acces to his orphanage easily since was in his school¡¯s orphanage. He connected to his computer to gain access to the GOS (greater operating system), the software that God had installed on their computer. To gain access he only needed a Smartphone with a cam : the phone would use a reconnaissance software to verify his identity and log him in the GOS. He gained access to the player¡¯s market and bought the beginner¡¯s pack. It consisted of a map , a bag, a rope, a knife, an armor, a good handgun (Kahr PM 60 which was the advance version of the Kahr PM 9) and a lot of ammunitions. There were no other weapons since you had to choose your own weapons. He also took a shield, a sword and a spear, all basic. He decided to finish to chose a set of needles to throw and the set of gloves that he had to buy with this. He had already practiced with the needles in school and he had founded out that it was a good match for his style. With that, the last of his economy he had made working at the library were gone. With the 100 000 points from his loan he had decided to buy a pet he had seen the last time he was logged. It was an interesting pet for its trait, but it wasn¡¯t powerful. However it would still help a lot in his quests. After his search he sigh in relief because he had found it. It was a cat of the Bombay breed lv26. He bought it with a tamer¡¯s rock lvl 30 and some cat¡¯s food. It cost him 95 000 points. 40 000 points for the pet and 55 000 points for the rock. Cat¡¯s food really weren¡¯t that expensive. Stolen story; please report. Pet weren¡¯t that much popular for 2 reasons : A link had to be made between the owner and the pet with rocks found inside the game called ¡°tamer¡¯s rock¡±. The Rocks had levels . To make a link with a pet the rock had to have the same level as the pet or higher. And so they were more and more expensive. Not only that, but you couldn¡¯t make a pet risk its life if it didn¡¯t want to even with the link. As long as it estimated it had a 50% chance of dying, most pet would run. But he didn¡¯t worry about the 1rst reason since his family had a secret. As for the second he didn¡¯t expect it to fight. So since they weren¡¯t that much popular, they didn¡¯t cost that much. After this, he was done. He put all his items insides his virtual ¡°chopping cart¡±, paid what he owned and waited. 5 minutes later, a light appeared neared him. When the light disappeared the items he had bought were there. It was the most efficient way to trade. Not only was it very fast, but also he could buy anywhere in the world or in the game between continents. There were extremely powerful avian type beast now, and it would be almost impossible to exchange item between continents without GOS. His cat appeared in a little cage. He gave it a random name : Alex. It was a male. He gave it some food and put it aside. Because it was already nighttime he decided to rest. After all the time in the game and in reality was the same. What would he do in the game during the night. Sure, he knew the game¡¯s geography and he could connect near human settlement. But he decided it was more beneficial to him if he entered in the morning. He would connect in the game tomorrow, at first light. ¡®Finally. I can begin tomorrow¡¯ he thought before drifting asleep.