《Akatsuki: Training with zombies》 Prologue: An encounter with a dimension traveller In a certain dungeon, a party of adventurers encountered a rather problematic situation. The party was already surrounded by the zombies inhabiting the dungeon. The magician of the group and also the leader of the party was already thinking of a way to escape their current predicament. He can''t use overly powerful spells to blow those bastards away as well as use a large area attack spell due to dungeon''s old structure. And if he does, it will only result into a cave in. Which was something he don''t want to gamble on. Beating them one by one using his enhanced fireball spell will only take it forever as the zombies keep flooding in as he killed another. The other party members are also exhausted already barely defending themselves with their tattered equipments. To tell you the truth, he already new a way to end this. It was the magic scroll they obtained in a hidden chest. Things that obtained in those kind of chest are worth of fortune if sold to the magic institute. The scroll was called the dimension rift. Using his identification skill, his understanding was that it has the ability to confine beings into the abyss. So if he used it, the zombies will helplessly thrown out of their sight making their escape possible. It was a rather difficult decision since he will let go something that he himself know will regret someday. Wealth and status, it was a quick ticket to obtain those. But, those will only amount to nothing if himself was killed. And besides, his party member''s life weigh more heavier to him. So with those conflicted feelings finally washed away with his resolved. He activate the sequence and used the scroll. He then targets every zombie in the room. After acknowledging, a power surge came from the scroll making an extremely bright light. After the light subsides, the zombies are nowhere to be seen. Using this chance, the party then quickly run towards the exit path of the dungeon with face of relief and joy. But... the magician has mistaken the description of the scroll and that mistake will lead a certain world in chaos and evitably... their doom. ****** My name is Akatsuki, Akatsuki Minamoto Currently, I am 21 years old virgin, no girlfriend since birth. My hobbies are guns and swords. I have a few of them decorating my house. Training in handling them was something my father taught me when I was just 6. It was mostly the reason I collect them. Other than those, I also play MMOs, some console games, and sometimes PC games as well. Day trading, this was my current source of income. It was something that my father inherited to me. I started when I was 12. I was an expert in it. Father told me I was way better than him when he was just starting. I didn''t enter college and yet I have already a house of my own. A car and a motorbike of my own. All thanks to day trading. On my bank account, I have already nine figures sum on my swiss bank account. But, I don''t have friends and my only relative here was my father and yet he already died last year. I was alone now. Father said I have a very great brain so he said I might as well try college. But what I thought was, people go to college to have skills in order to have a high paying jobs. Thus my conclusion, going to college was only a way to precure more money. There was another conclusion I made but I immediately trashed it. Since it was too idealistic. Me, being too realistic, didn''t except it. And I admit, playing games was just a temporary way for me to ease my boredom. If you stumble upon this narrative on Amazon, be aware that it has been stolen from Royal Road. Please report it. I have already long realized that my life was no goal. The goals of normal people was already realized by me. House, car, wealth. Though, there was another one, family. I gave up already on this since I thought humans don''t want me. The reason being, I don''t have ''real friends'' since I was born. All of them are just friends because I have the money. Humans are such kind of beings is what I have buried in my mind. Even though they are already rich, they still want more. Greed as they say. I also have this thing since I still continue my day trading. It was the only thing that can make me happy this days. Oh, right... I am nearing the 10 digit this year. I wonder how long will it take. Ideas like society being destroyed was not on my mind. Not yet, until it happened... ****** One morning during my monthly trips to replenish my food supply in a certain super mart, a box fell straight from the sky and landed in front of me. On impact, the chest broke down and revealed its contents. Unconciously, I looked upwards wondering where it came. I was in the middle of a park and there is no tall buildings surrounding that park. Only a bunch of 2 storey buildings and some bungalow houses. So it was impossible that it was thrown from a building. The only possibility was it fell down from an air craft but there is no such thing since if it does the sky will have a red light twinkling signaling it was an aircraft. Oddly as it was I still approach the broken box and inspect its contents. A small rectangular box, a book, a black hooded coat, and a long red mufflers. The coat was made from leather and yet it was light weight. The muffler was soft and fluffy, a perfect winter wear. The design was all in my taste but I will look wierd if I use it now since it was in a day of summer. Then I picked up the rectangular box, my thoughts was it contained an accessory. Opening it, what I found inside was a brilliant blue crystal stone cut and sculpted masterfull into 2 lion heads facing opposite to each other. It was so cool that I tried it on right away. Last was the book but since I was in a hurry to stop and read it, I tucked it away and proceed back to my initial agenda. When I got home, I placed the bags on the table while I hanged the coat and muffler on the front door and placed the book near my computer. After that, I proceed to my next routine. It was already night time when I can finally had the time to see what the book was all about. Seating on a chair in my study, I placed the book flat on my desk and flipped open the book. But when I opened it, I suddenly lost my consciousness. When I came to, I found my self lying flat on the table with my face right on the book. [Good morning, did you have a good sleep young master?!] A voice assaulted my mind and it made me perplexed for a second before I looked around me in panic. [I am sure you are wondering where I am and who, or rather, what I am. Look down then you''ll understand.] Looking down, all I saw was the book that I picked up this early morning. ''Is it the book?'' I thought as I stare at it when all of a sudden. The blank page of the book revealed shining letters and it was read as ''Hello''. At the shock of what just happened, I suddenly back off resulting in me falling backwards from the chair. It was the first encounter of Akatsuki with a dimesion traveller. Prologue end... Chapter 1: Ability A month ago, I have just encountered something that broke my sense of reality. It was a book. A, fucking, talking book that can also communicate with my mind. He said his name was [Gaeus]. He even blabbered about that he was a [Great Sage] possessing the ability to grant personalized [Magic] depending on the person. He said he was sealed by a god in the book and transported to the [Endless]. His description of [Endless] was the same as the [outer space]. So I was convinced that the box he was in was pulled in by earth''s gravitational force. But I changed it again when he mentioned that he was pushed by a shining ball of something, probably a [Comet], which propelled the chest towards the direction of a blue green spherical mass, he meant [Earth]. Hearing that, I thought that the chest was made from a rather strong material to survive the comet and the atmospheric pressure of the earth. My doubt is that if such thing fell from that position, why it didn''t cause a crater? Strange. Good thing, I bagged the pieces of the chest in a plastic bag. I didn''t know it was that kind of material. At first, I didn''t believe he did can give a personalize [Ability], I said ability since I never believed in [Magic] even if there is a living example in front of me. But I was wrong, the moment I became unconcious he said that he already began giving me the [Ability] and it ended when I woke up. The [Ability] he gave me was called [Info Overload]. A reason being that I value Information over wealth, physical prowess and other category he mentioned that I think to long to mention. Well that only happened since I was a day trader, Information is critical in my profession. Under it I can use the options [Analyze] and [Identify]. It would then reveal a window in front of me stating the relevant data on that particular thing. Other than those, I can now monitor my own self. Its setting was like the MMO games that I play but much more detailed. Gaeus said it was the only fitting materialize form he can think of that will make Akatsuki comfortable in using his [Ability]. But he warned me that it uses energy to use those two options unlike the option of monitoring my status. My ability was borrowing the information of the whole world. On the downside, I can''t use it if I didn''t have a physical contact with them. Thus I concluded that it won''t help in day trading where in I gather information using electronics. Which meant, it was a useless ability other than it can show my stats like in MMO games. If I was a detective or such this thing will really become a cheatlike ability for me. But I am not. But when I Analyze and Identify the other three things I got from the chest, I was incredibly shocked. [Heart of Aether] Made from the most dense and purest ??? crystal. It was sculpted and enchanted by the Great Sage Gaeus and made it into a godly artifact. +1000% in ??? ''???'' [??? Muffler] Made from a thread spinned using the whiskers of a ??? and dyed using its own blood. It was knitted and enchanted by the Great Sage Gaeus and made it into a godly artifact. +250% Growth rate +100% Cold resistance +100% Fire resistance ''Blessing of the Calm'' [Hooded Coat of the unknown] Made from the leather of a ???. It was sewed and enchanted by the Great Sage Gaeus and made it into a godly artifact. -100% Presence +50% Stealth ''???'' Now I have the reason to wear this clothes even it was in a middle of summer. They won''t notice me anyway once I wear the Hooded Coat and i won''t feel any heat nor cold once I wear the Muffler that is if my understanding was correct. This book is hosted on another platform. Read the official version and support the author''s work. Then after that I was suddenly urged by Gaeus to analyze also the book. I was skeptical of the idea but there is no harm on doing it so I went ahead and used analyze on the book. [Book of Sealing] Made by a certain god that got annoyed by the Great Sage Gaeus due to a simple misunderstanding. The soul of th Great Sage Gaeus was then sealed inside it. Sealing the great sage''s soul was not the original use of this artifact. It was meant to safeguard items of importance thus its main role was as a magic storage device. Time was halted inside it so things stored inside won''t degrade. What the... hell? You mean this book will serve as the Item box? Then this is more brilliant than the other three so far. I will never have to carry my grocery items again! I can even enjoy ice cream without worrying it being melted when I got back home, something that always happened to me. More over, this will make my refrigerator useless and that meant my bills will go down considerably. This are cheat items! Defying the law of nature due to them being godly artifacts. There are even ??? marked on the info window. It was maybe because it was something that can''t be comprehend by this world or rather those are things don''t exist in this world. But who cares, they are amazing things I got for free just beeing on an exact place in a perfect time, you can say it was pure luck. Then while I was looking at the situation in my day trading activities. Something strange happened, suddenly I can''t get access the internet normally. It was during when I want to release some ''stress''. I haven''t got out of my house since when I got my hands on the book. I bought a supply of food, beverage, snacks and necessities in an amount that in can last for a year or more. After that, I tried to access my MMO''s games thinking they are just under maintenance or something. But if it is, it was big coincedence since I have over 20 sites on my bookmarks bar. Surprisingly, the MMO''s are also in maintenance. ''What''s the deal of this people! I want to play! I want to play!'' Gaeus is not talkative today also. Is he already dead or something? [I am seriously not dead young master.] And whats with this ojii-san calling me young master again and again. [That''s due to you being my successor!] Sigh, Can''t this old man stop reading my thoughts? It''s a violation of my human rights! Give me back my privacy! [I''m sorry but I don''t have the freedom to do as you wish. It was more likely due to the book beeing soul bound to you.] And why is that have to do something with you being able to hear my thoughts? [Because my soul was already connected to your soul.] Then break it! [I''m sorry it is irreversible. You''ll soul will be torn apart if you force it, and that meant your death.] Damn it, if not for this book being so valuable I have already... Whatever. Going out from my working space which was sound proofed, I heard a horrifying cry from the street. Hurrying to see what just happened, I opened the door to the veranda and saw something that I thought never will happen in reality. Though it was already broken many times just a month ago. The street was filled with people, it was as if a riot was happening. The group was strange too. They looked like beggars in ripped and tattered clothes. Some doesn''t have a complete set of apendages. And then the wind blows, then I smelled it. The smell of rotting meat.