the bugs
Ten figures appeared out of nowhere in the jungle near the big tree.
As soon as they appeared, their family members, who were watching the dungeon raid live from their homes, rushed to them and hugged them before checking for any injury or abnormality.
"settle down, guys; we are in the SR; there is no real injury," Max said after his siblings hugged him and started crying.
Alex was a little envious of the scene in front of him; all of them had an adult family member to take care of them and worry for them. He wasn't envious for himself, but for Emily?
He had already grown up in his previous life to the point of not feeling lonely all the time, but Emily was not that mature and could really use an adult's touch in her life.
Behind them, the door inside the tree started vanishing, and the lively green tree turned into a shade of yellow.
DING
"the dungeon has been destroyed."
"you can't enter the dungeon anymore."
Alex didn't pay much attention to the dungeon and instead hugged Emily and said, "Sorry if I made you worry."
"it's ok; I knew you would be fine," Emily answered and then said, "was that fruit a good thing?"
As if remembering something, Alex left Emily's embrace and took out the fruit to check its info.
The others noticed the change in the surrounding aura, and all looked in Alex's direction.
"That fruit better be something good, or else I will kill you myself," said Sid before walking to Alex, visibly curious.
"It has to be, the way the snake reacted to the loss of the fruit; I'm sure it's something very precious," said Leo.
"do you think we could eat it?" asked Ryan.
"no, it must be an alchemy ingredient. Give it to me…." said Reyhan, with a greedy look on her face which was a first.
As they were debating whether it was an ingredient, a normal edible fruit, or something else, Alex was looking trying to look at the fruit's information.
DING
"unable to see the information due to insufficient level."
That was all he got after asking the system to show him the information. The system didn't even tell him what level he had to be at to see the information.
'it has to be something good. I must be. Otherwise, I just sacrificed more than five fruits and a unique dungeon just for nothing,' Alex thought. Clearly nervous.
It wasn't an everyday occurrence for a guild to find a unique dungeon and could raid it with ease of mind before the competition found out about it.
On top of that, it was once in a lifetime opportunity to get your hands on the fruits of the Hesperides Garden. No, it was even rarer than that. Many people couldn't even dream of encountering the Hesperides Garden in their lifetime, even if they lived for a hundred years.
"what is it then? Hurry and tell us," Asked Kate impatiently.
Alex just looked at them apologetically and said, "sorry, I can't read the information yet. It says that my level is insufficient."
"what??? are you saying I went through all that just to get a normal fruit?" Sid shouted.
"that's not the way to talk to your friends, young man," said Liam, Sid's dad.
"he's not my friend; friends don't put ….."
As Sid was trying his best to convince his dad that Alex wasn't his friend, Alex took out the legendary fire and threw it his way, "just take it, you big baby. I know you are only mad because you thought I wouldn't give you the fire."
Sid's expression brightened up, and he looked at the glass ball in his hand as if he was looking at his own child.
"sigh," Liam sighed at his son's unstable personality and just let the matter go.
"I'm off; you suckers can do whatever you want, just don't disturb me," said Sid and teleported to his personal workshop that Alex had bought in paradise city.
"sigh, I'm sorry," said Liam and went after his son.
"I think that's enough adventure for the day. Let's get the rest of the day off," said Max and looked at Alex, "don't worry about the apple; I'm sure it's something really good."
Alex nodded, and one by one, they all logged off or went back to paradise city.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Inside a space full of floating computers, red lights and alarms were going off like crazy, and Nano was trying her best to take advantage of the bug that was making the system go crazy.
"I don't know what the f** you have done, Alex, but the system is going crazy," Nano shouted happily while moving her hands on a control panel in front of her.
The system was already full of unknown glitches and bugs, but this one was big.
Previously, the system had released some mythic, legendary, and epic jobs, skills, and items into the game because of a bug at the early stages.
No epic item should have appeared in the game at those stages until almost a year after.
Even in his previous life, the glitch had somewhat already been removed before the first people reached level 20 and got access to the shop, and only some epic and one legendary grade item were left in the shop, which the government bought. It had even given Alex two OP titles.
Right now, the system had released something even more terrifying than a mythic item and couldn't fix itself even with so much computing power.
Nano obviously took advantage of this opportunity to take complete control of the system as its administrator; alas, it was easier said than done.
But Nano was happy with what she got, even if it wasn't complete control right now; she was sure that the little control she would gain would help her and Alex greatly.
"I will f** those mother f***s to the bone; they dare impression me and take advantage of my body without my consent and then banish me to a lower world just to be imprisoned again….. I will make sure to skin them alive and put them in boiling oil, ha ha ha…." Nano laughed like a lunatic on the loose.
From the only glimpse of the future she had gotten from Alex's memories, she was sure that "they" would come to earth. But she didn't know what would happen to her.
She had only seen the last moment of Alex's previous life before he got killed. But what alarmed her was the symbol under that person's eye.
It wasn't any random symbol that could have gotten there by chance.
She was sure of it.
"just a little bit more, just a little bit more ….." Nano shouted, and her hands moved faster than ever on the control panel.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Inside his room, Alex put the purple apple on the bed and looked at it before picking it up for the thousandth time and checking every aspect of it.
"However I look at it, except for the color, it seems like an ordinary apple. Should I try eating it??" Alex asked, talking to himself, "no, I have to wait; it could be something really good. It would be a waste if I ate it and nothing special came out of it."
In the end, Alex decided to put the apple in his inventory and check his stats.
Alex Adams
Age:17
Blood type: A+
Level: 45
job: mystical sword mage
title: first in history, first master
skills:
active: hollow sword(level3), wind blade(level4), shadow clone (level 2)
passive: sword dance(level5)
integrated nanobots: 11,594,124,902
strength: 105
agility: 108
stamina: 120
mana: 190
regeneration: 95
free stat points: 0
Although he had been spending a lot lately, his income was far grated than his expenditure. The title "first in history" was truly a cheat code.
It had already been two months since the start of the game, and Alex's goal was to at least reach level 70 before leaving the hotel. Nothing special happened at level 70; it was just a personal goal he wanted to reach.
As for his stats, he spent most of his free stat points on stamina and regeneration since they came hand in hand and depended on each other.
He had also found some pretty decent active skills for swordsmen and magicians that he could learn, but he was very picky and decided not to learn any of them and wait for something above rare grade.
As for passive skills, Alex would be happy if he could even find an uncommon one since the drop rate of passive skills was so low.
Now that he was reaching level 50, it was almost time to put his main plan into motion and get ready to form a guild.
As he was in his own thoughts, he heard a knock on his door, and soon a voice followed, "Alex, can I come in?"
To Alex's surprise, it was Asue.