1 What In the World is Happening?

"Fuck"

The Huge Monster in front of Romin slashed its claws at him. By God's luck and his Insane reflexes Romin managed to dodge the deadly claws which had already seen blood as it dripped onto the floor, A dark and an eerie red color.

The creature in front of him looked like a werewolf, but it was much worse. Its fur was covered in muck and gore which formed patches around its thick fur.

The Fangs were long and from the looks of it, the monster was craving for blood as drops of saliva dropped from its tongue tips

The Monster was almost 2 meters high with a stout body. Its brain was bulging out from its head and weird types of veins covered the jutting brain. The Claws were as deadly as its fangs.

The Monster went again for Romin and this time it aimed for his neck. Romin who saw its movements ducked down instantly and dodged its claws barely.

The Claw in its momentum slashed through the wall and made a huge hole just like the hole in the roof.

Without a second thought, Romin jumped out through the hole as the Monster missed its third slash by centimeters. A crack echoed in his ears when he landed. With a twisted expression on his face, he rolled on the dirt holding his right leg, which was most probably.....broken because of the fall from the 4 storied building.

Romin with the last of his energy and willpower crawled on the road. His purpose now was to get as far as possible from the werewolf which was chasing for his life.

He crawled through the ground, the road had been destroyed and only a dirt road remained as he made his way down to the main road. The scene before him was not so promising as well. But right now, Romin's mind was shouting at him to get as far as possible from the monster behind him.

His eyes frantically searched around the dirt road for something he could utilize as support. His legs were agonizing and the injury screamed at him.

It wasn't too late that his eyes caught sight of a stick just 1 meter ahead of him.

Romin gave it his all and reached the stick. With its support and his sprained left leg, he managed to balance himself and stand up.

Romin kept his right leg suspended and started pacing forward with the stick between his right arm. With small steps, he made it down the road and peeked from the corner of a destroyed building.

His eyes welled up as he saw the scene in front of him. The Whole city was up in smoke. Cars were crashed into buildings and were up in smoke. All of the skyscrapers in and around the city were either in a devastating state or were annihilated.

With care, Romin made his way through the debris in front of him. There was blood and body parts around him. A strong urge to Vomit welled up in his throat as he covered his mouth with his left hand.

A Nausea stricken Romin was now limping down the road, his eyes partially closed so that he could avoid the gore as much as possible.

Now or then he would walk on a piece of wood or stone and slip, holding back his scream he would close his eyes and bite down his hand.

Writhing in pain, Romin made his way to the junction, no signs of life yet, only destruction.

A strong smell of blood was picked up by a gust of wind which buzzed right in front of him, playing around Romin's nose.

The odor had him on his knees as he barfed. The Vomit sprayed on the ground and partially on his collar. The morning breakfast of egg and bananas was mashed into yellow slimy mucus as they scurried out of his dry mouth.

"Ack, Keugh"

....

"FUCK!!"

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*Crash*

*Boom*

Suddenly, out from the blue something loud crunched far behind him. Romin's head rotated and his eyes waltzed around to see where the noise was from.

His eyes struck lightning and his jaw slacked as he saw the werewolf pace menacingly towards him. He turned his head to the front when he heard another sharp noise, a clink of metal.

Another one of the same race was glaring at him, it licked its mouth with its bloody tongue, showing interest.

A strange feeling crept inside his stomach, Romin sweated, the feeling was nothing else other than fear.

Two more clinks and crunches followed and Romin was surrounded by 4 monsters blocking him from all of the 4 junction sides.

He was dead center inside the junction and 4 roads surrounded him, out of which all of them were blocked by the huge werewolf-like monsters.

*Whooosh*

A place wind picked up the tension and played with Romin's s hair before giving up. It was soon when it struck him. The wind had died and soon will he.

Romin gave up on his life and laid on his back staring at the sky. The monsters were slowly creeping and closing their distance, they showed no hurry but strangely had their eyes on each of them as well as on the Injured Romin.

Staring at the sky Romin tried to think what he had missed out on. What in the World had happened in those 2 hours he spent inside??.

.....

*FLASHBACK*

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He remembered leaving early from his rental apartment and making his way towards the game center. It was the first anniversary of the VRMMORPG game RENOVA which had blown charts off in the sales and marketing division. Earning over a maximum of 200 billion dollars worth of money in a year was no joke.

RENOVA had a whole player base of 4 billion players worldwide. It was crazily loved by gamers from all around the globe and soon climbed the charts on the top-grossing list. Other game companies were almost being ignored completely from the launching of this game.

RENOVA deserved all types of praises as it was the first-ever VRMMORPG game to be introduced to the World. Most of the players lived their alternate life in the game. It was as if daily life was being changed gradually to something more virtual.

Getting this game and a spot on the Gaming center was a tough job for an Orphan like Romin. All of his earnings were blown off on this game. Why Not?.

The currency inside RENOVA was more expensive than that of the outside. The Gold coins in-game can be traded for real currency in a ratio of 1:10.

That meant the number of gold coins you had in-game was multiplied to ten when it is traded.

The Job class was very important in RENOVA. But by his bad luck, Romin accidentally activated a secret quest and it forced him to acquire the Job class of THE ORACLE.

At first, It sounded all mighty and nice but Romin soon realized it was crap when he found out that there was no quest he could take on.

He thought he had become one of the NPC's in RENOVA. There was no quest for him for a whole year straight.

On the day of the anniversary, he received his first-ever quest as THE ORACLE, a pretty big one which paid very handsomely. He just had to....see the future. Just like an Oracle!!.

And right when he was about to accept the quest, a sudden tremor hit his capsule and his vision went blank and a message popped up on the VR screen.

'CONNECTION LOST, SERVER DOWN'

When he got out of the VR headset, he came to realize that he had missed out on an entirely unreal event. The world had changed.

The roof was broken and the Monster was standing beside him, another player on its claws, who was missing his legs and stomach ripped open.

The Wolf munched its way down the person's stomach and came up with his intestines on its bloody mouth.

With a snap, it turned its head towards Romin and dropped the dead person on the side.

That was the start of his run and after all those havoc he, Romin .. was now laying on the road, staring at the sky. He thought about how he was going to die.

Would the Monster rip him open too?. Would it be a painful death or a quick one?. His mind threw questions after questions as he thought about his own 'DUMB WAYS TO DIE' scenario.

*PING*

His mind went blank and the thoughts scurried. A ping echoed throughout the streets. The ground vibrated and his body shook with it.

Romin tried to sit up, but he just couldn't. Exhaustion and pain got the better of him. He was still lying down, his face upwards.

*PING*

The Sound echoed yet again but this time something materialized in the sky on the clouds.

Words!!.

It was words and it was in English. In a blood-red color, the words lined themselves on the clouds.

Romin's eyes widened as he read the aligned words in the sky.

"Limi...Limiter Broken.....Releasing seals.."

With a sudden buzz, Romin's vision blurred before blacking out.

*BLANK*

"ORACLE MODE ACTIVATED"

"ENVISAGE SYSTEM ACTIVATED SUCCESSFULLY"

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