tower defense: ashen land
Ash a soldier at 22 years of age, retired after receiving a bullet to his right arm making him a disabled, even though they had to cut his right arm off, it wasn't that bad since he can "excuse" himself off of the pointless war his oh so proud country have. 4 years has passed since then and ash retired to be a gaming streamer, due to his laid back attitude and very nonchalant personality not many people watches his stream. his family are a classic case of a mistake, that kind of mistake. in order to live he had to stream almost everyday, and add that to the fact that his right arm are nonexistent, not many employer wanted a "damaged" person to work. then suddenly the game he was playing becomes reality, he of course are excited by the prospect of not streaming everyday and working his bones out, and would you know it, he has a system... ======================= ash is very selfish and usually doesn't care about other people, but of course he's still a human so if he can, he will help other people if there are no risk. expect gore description and fucked up stuff. also the game is a tower defense game! my favourite!! and ash too I guess. chapter are varied in quality and this is a casual project. and might I remind you that I'm an incompetent bufoon who can't get stuff right or accurate enough, I also am still new to this... HUGE twist incoming! prologue: oh, for such convoluted story to present itself in a demisely way of misery, such act are conveyed in such simple manner it just didn't do it justice. such are the way of life, it's full of holes and traps and lies and betrayal but no sooner it will soon be over, the truth will be revealed and the soul to unite. act 1: rough beginning. are these children can handle it? the weight of humanity lay on their shoulder, burdening them for what's to come. please do not lose hope in humanity, it is our fate to be this way and soon we shall overcome it, no matter if it takes year, decades, millennium, for one day we shall live our life in glory, though the pavement we built are from blood and bodies of whom have fallen, they shall be proud of our accomplishment. please have faith.
not good.
in a dimly lit room a person with red eyes is watching lazily upon the scene before him, he chuckled for a moment as he typed in the number 532.
"hah! that's a triple kill! " he said as another person entered the room he was in.
"lucien, how many are left? " the woman in black asked lucien as he stand up straight from his chair.
"five...hundred and thirty one! " he said with vigor as if he wasn't just fooling around a minute ago.
"good and remember to write down the name of the failed one. " she said before leaving lucien to his task.
"scary woman... " he said with relief and after checking that she is not behind the door, he quickly got back to his usual demeanor.
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I sat down thinking as I summoned my pool, unfortunately the summoning pool needed 10 F rank mana stone to actualize, so I was left defenseless... in the middle of a foggy ass forest... with no way out... I'm so fucked.
slow down ash! think about the bright side in this very foggy world! like... how safe your cave is... okay this is not helping at all, I need mana stone... but where did I get one? a deposit... or a monster corpse.
the first thing I need is water, then a safe base... may need to barricade the front hole of my cave... then after that food, and then the most glaring issues of all... safety, without summon I was basically a sitting duck and without any mana crystal with me, my life depended on pure luck.
but I know how to increase the chances of survival although it sound like a precautionary measure it will add up, like only goes out when the stupid fog is gone, and never take the same route going to the base, and etc.
I have several of them in my head but the most important are to get my suitcase back to my base, I doubt that my sister will somehow pack ten F rank mana stone inside of it, but there's a couple of thing in there that will absolutely helped me.
like for example a... portable stove? well the flashlight could've helped out a ton and clothes won't be an issue, so I just need to wait for a while until the fog is gone and I'm set for the suitcase.
now the only thing to do is... to wait... to wait... waiting... more waiting.
the system! oh yeah, I gotta check on those! I quickly checked the system and was disappointed when nothing has changed... except for a chat and trade option.
a flood of information suddenly assaulted my brain but instead of fainting I quickly steeled myself as I absorbed all of that knowledge like a sponge.
the chat is a user to user communication exclusively in a zone, from the chat or the real world I can trade with people as long as I agree to it.
there's even more reason to get the suitcase now... let's look at the chat.
[choose a nickname]
[nickname: any one]
[any one has joined the zone chat]
[shang ki: who is that? ]
[zuolong su: my mom forgot to bring a pillow! how am I going to sleep tonight!?? ]
[zanius fola: does anybody have a torch or a flashlight, I will trade you 8 F rank mana stone for that. ]
[any one: the book have a crystal that light up the path, use that. ]
[Brady Keller: that's pretty useful? ]
[thumper: two trucks. ]
[smelly: man wouldn't it be good if there's internet in here? ]
[machina: we're in the middle of a zone of course there's no internet. ]
[games fun: man I would kill for some popcorn right now. ]
... all of them seems to be prepared and in need of comfort food... good thing my sister only pick item that are of no use and high demand.
i would actually bet that she brings five or more pillow inside of that suitcase... well time can only tell as I wait in lieu until the fog is gone.
I wait for about three hour as the fog slowly dissipated from the heat of the sun, from the looks of the sun I can tell it's about midday since it's shone directly above my head as I sneakily went to my previous place.
thankfully I was able to leave a clear mark from the clearing I first started in to my base... what's alarming about it that's I'm not built for the stealthy type, footprint, breaking of sticks and several easily tracked path followed me when I first got lost in the trees.
I grimaced at the clear path as I tried to hide it best I could, finally I got to the base as my ragged breath took hold of the sound near me, that was extremely exhausting carrying that suitcase around... seriously what the zog is in that thing?!
I opened the suitcase as several items caught my attention, ten pillow very tightly packed together, a portable stove, two packet of toilet paper, a full pack of soap, and a seed box? and it's full too.
I decided to stash the seed box as I look more of the content inside the suitcase, a firestarter, 10 water bottle, 5 can of soup, two mattress, a flashlight, two batteries, and several more amenities for me.
that's... a lot! there's no way a regular suitcase is able to fit all of that! I'm keeping the suitcase for now...
now however... trading time!
I posted the pillow as it mysteriously disappeared into nothingness and a pillow appeared on the trading section.
several other requests came in, most of them only gave me one F rank stone so I decided to ignore them, one of them however has 5 F rank mana stone as the price.
I immediately chose to trade with him as a window appeared in front of my face.
[seller: 10 F rank mana stone. ]
[buyer: too expensive 6 mana stone. ]
[seller: look man, I'm like defenseless without those mana stone, so you know what I'll give you 3 pillow for the 10 F rank stone, it's my last one! that's like 30% discount. ]
[buyer: alright. ]
my smile turns devilish as three of my pillow disappeared.
without a second delay I immediately summoned my pool, the pool itself is not large by any mean but it will do as I put it inside of the little alcove completely occupying it.
as the knowledge came into my head, I quickly stared behind me in horror as a sound came over behind me... not good.
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uhhh... what do I have to say now? oh yeah! *cough* hello avid reader author here to give you a little tid bit about the true nature of this novel, the story is confusing and reading the prologue probably makes it even more confusing... I will explain it in later chapter but do try to read into each dialogue for hint because by the god I hate exposition.
bye!