1 The last good day

That day was boring as always on this sunny month of September, night was coming. The climate change was making summer and days longer and longer. Not far away from Kalel, kids were under water gushing from a vertical fountain. A little further, the Yellow jacket, a group of protesters opposing the current President Macron who is doing his second term, because of his policies in favor of the rich and powerful.

"Macron, demission, you hate your own people", the people were shouting while moving in direction of the Jean Jaures place.

Kalel was watching them, waiting for their procession to leave the place so the subway service can resume when that happened.

System initializing… "Hello, humanity, the seal put by your ancestors will end in a few minutes. All entities banished will get to come back on earth. With the system, you have a little chance to survive. I wish you good luck surviving !"

"...Huh…?" Kalel stopped moving in the direction of the subway, he saw people near all were reacting surprised. Lol, if he didn't know better, he would say that a god like entity had just spoken into his mind. Or that he was suddenly in a videogame and received a system announcement. "No fucking way, I must be tired from overworking these last days."

Kalel didn't know that these was the last day of humanity supremacy on earth and that he gonna miss this society that he always despised. Tomorrow will be hell.

***

Kalel was going back to his home. A little flat he was leasing and was eating most of his slim salary. Since he decided to drop from college before getting any degree, he found a job as a construction worker in a new subway line. They needed healthy men and with his 6,2 height, well drawn muscles and strong work ethic, he was hoping to get engaged by the company. At 24, living alone, his family being in east Africa.

After taking a shower, he opened the TV. A short newsman was saying that today a global phenomenon took place, where people got engaged in a collective hallucination. An old congressman was promising to discover what caused it. People were afraid, more from the message the system gave more than other things. Kalel closed the tv after a moment and went on his computer and connected to his favorite website Reddit.

He clicked on one the head post concerning this accident.

"guys, the day we finally waited for is coming, apocalypse is here, society is going to fall, be prepared fellow companions." clearly declared FATandPROUD.

"Stop dreaming bro, nothing happened and its been a few hours since we heard the voice." opposed another regular

"I will not be so sure dude, the voice said: "system initializing", I think it will take some time to get actually working, if it is really dangerous, you should get prepared guys, buy food, medicine, and weapons, perhaps even constitute groups to face whatever is coming" added ALiD

"Lol, do you think we are in a fucking game, weirdos, or one of these shitty isekai novel. Hell no, I refuse to believe all that bullshit. Even if something happens, the government is going to take care of it, we just have to chill and don't get ourselves in their way." Declared another guy.

"I just hope it is not a zombie apocalypse or alien invasion, or we fucked." Intervened FATandPROUD.

"Fuck, you jinxed us dude, just hope to be one of the survivors, its why I decide to go alone in the mountain until this fucking system get started !"

Kalel was getting a bad feeling from all this. Tomorrow, he will go stock some groceries and medicine, as for weapons he had ball and a military knife he bought years ago in a convention, it should be enough in case some crazy guy looks for problems.

He made himself some diner and got to bed.

***

His alarm woke him up at 6 am like always.

"Hell, what the fuck ?!!"

In front of him, there were several floating screens if front of him and a headache.

"Hello, human, by surviving, you had earned the chance to enjoy the right to use the system."

The system must have started. Shit, it said that I survived, so people died during the night.

"Your ancestors faced a trial and they failed it. The system is now operating and will resume the trial since the beginning because they stopped it. To use the system, we injected you with mana, sadly some of you couldn't handle it and failed to ascend to the quality of players. Anyway, you do not make an omelet without breaking eggs. You need to know that banished entities will appear one after the other because the seal put by your ancestors had reached its end. By sacrificing their civilization, they succeeded in banning these entities for 10000 years, but they know that one day they will come back. No one can escape the trials, humans." it announced.

"Congratulation, you can now access your status."

Kalel

Level: N/A

Health: 1,3

Intelligence: 1

Stamina: 1

Vitality: 2

Strength: 1,6

Agility: 1,4

Perception: 0,9

Kalel had a bad feeling, he was listening to the dog next door barking louder and louder. After he moved to his balcony, he saw the animal. It was a dark border collie, it was running away from his master, the homeless man next to the entry hall. That man was walking weirdly and growling too. Now, he knew by what the system applied by failing to ascend.

Kalel just stood on his balcony watching the fight, he was thinking for like an hour. He always been a big nerd and a passionate reader of fantasy, so he had a good idea how he was supposed to act in this situation. Don't question the logic, get stronger if you want to survive was the basic. The dog finally decided to run away from his old master, it probably learned that he changed when Kalel finally getting used to the weird chase.

He decided to make a viable plan.