1 The fuck is happening? chapter 1

It was a good day I was walking from wrestling practice to my dad's car. The air was full of the smell of excellent hard work and working out. I continued to walk then I saw a man in black sweatpants and a black hoodie on with the hood up sitting there on the floor right in front of me. So like anybody I have two options to walk past or ask if he's ok, and so I ask him if I can help him.

Amell -"Hey you ok man?"

He picks his head up and stares at me. His face are covered with a balaclava with a skull on it and welder goggles covering his eyes. He gets up and pulls out a phone then types out

Stranger-'Do you like games?'

Amell-"yeah i like games why do you ask?"

I get really creeped out. then he types something else out.

Stranger-' ok then. If you do like games then hold onto this do whatever you like with it, but keep it if you want to play a high risk game with the highest rewards.'

He hands me a package covered camo duct tape and a label on it C.R.P. with a spelled out name under it that says combat ready package. I don't know what to do with it when I look around for the man he gone then my coach yells to me

Coach-"Slaktare what the hell ya' doin' just standing there?"

Amell-"Sorry coach just spacing out and thinking."

Coach-"leave Slaktare."

I stuff the package into my backpack and go up the stairs and walk to my dad's car. We drive home after talking about how each other's day was. When i get home i walk into my room and close the door.

I drop my backpack take out the package and when I when look up i see a note on my desk. It reads 'open the package' i tear it open to find a black zip up hoodie, black sweatpants, black leather gloves and a full black face mask painted with a drama queen face on it. I put my hands in one more time to pull out a Iphone and a folded up bow and a collapsible quiver full of arrows. The phone has a message on it asking if i want to download a survival game named triple survival. I hit yes the screen read

'please create your username then pick your race'

I thought this was stupid so i typed in The Phantom because of my clothes. The races are human, vampire and zombie. Then it lists racial gifts the list reads

-Humans get plus 10% bonus towards everything except strength and agility.

-Vampires get plus 20% everything but when they haven't had any blood for a day the the buff becomes a debuff and becomes negative 40% everything

-zombies get plus 30% strength and plus 50 health but 10% less agility, 20% less intelligence, and 80% less charm

Then after that it has a pie chart of what percentage of the players are what race 50% human 40% Vampires 10% zombies. So with that thought i picked human because i want to become a mage of sorts. I select human and i gives me the option to choose hairstyle and color also eye color. I pick to get spiky hair that goes off the sides and i pick the color to be paperwhite. My eye color is ember red. But then when i hit submit somebody knocked on my window. It was the man who gave me the package. I opened the window to say hi. He slid another package to me.

Stranger-"I know it is late sorry about the late package also sorry for giving you the stuff to join the game." His speech was very broken and it almost sounded like he was missing his tongue or something. He pulled down his balaclava to reveal his face to be rotting away. He picked to be part of the zombie clan.

Stranger-"There's a small slot machine in there pull the lever to get your ability and a melee weapon in contrast of your ranged."

I pulled out the mini slot machine, just as i did i looked up to see if he was still there. He was waiting smiling. Then we heard something from behind him. He looks behind himself and puts on some knuckle dusters. He harshly whispered to me.

Stranger-"Do it quick the butchers are here!"

Amell-"Ok i'm pulling it now!"

My phone vibrates a displays across the screen my ability is 'Soul tutor'. It's a ability that lets me consume others abilities from their souls but it had to be around my level of skill or else it was a gamble. Because it would either let me learn the skill or the soul would explode. My melee weapon is a khanda it's a sword with a blunt tip but a serrated edge. It came with a sheath to put on your hip it put it on my left side. I crawl through the window pull my bow off my back and look for my assassins i see 25 of them i pick 9 off with my bow. But one snuck up behind me jumping of my roof slashing down on my back as I rolled to my right to hit the wall of my house. I pull out my sword and stood up and run towards the crowd of butchers slashing left and right killing them. The zombie and I kill 13 more. 1 left the one who tried to kill me. I notch an arrow take aim and sadly see my dad run out with his gun. He yells for the butcher to get on the ground in 3 seconds. The butcher throws a knife and knocks my dad's gun away out of his hands. I let my arrow fly it nails the butcher in the hip and i heard a loud crack the butcher falls. He throws out a fireball after chanting something. It hits the zombie in the shin and his leg gets blown off into the distance. I hit the butcher again with another arrow through the forehead sealing the deal with him. I run over to the zombie.

Amell-"Are you gonna live?"

Stranger-"yeah could you go get me my leg?"

Amell-"yeah one second."

I walk over to find his leg pick it up rush back over to him to give him his leg. When he grabs it from me he sets it where it should be and gives it a pull and i hear a pop noise.  

Stranger-"Perks of being a zombie."

My dad picked his gun back up yanked me by the collar of my shirt and ripped me back from the zombie. My dad started asking questions. Dad-"Who are you what are you and why are you here?"

Mike-"To start my username is the corpse and my real name is Mike Smith and my reasoning for why I'm here is to train your son. How to survive this world."

Dad-"Is this world the reason for that hair and your eyes Amell?"

My dad asked looking at me.

Amell-"Umm yes." I replied. "Same with my weapons and ability that i don't understand. Actually Mike what is my ability?"

Mike-"Your ability is you learn abilities from other people dead souls. That butcher that shot me with the fireball is something called pyromancer or in simple terms his ability is to control fire."

Amell-"That's morbid." I mumbled a little depressed that my ability makes it so i have to murder.

Mike-"Yeah well it's your ability not mine."

He walks over to the pyromancer and cuts off his head and throws it at me.

Amell-"Oh shit!"

Mike-"Concentrate on it then you will be able to control fire also you can't be hurt by fire to a point."

I picked up the head.

A voice in my head said

[You have learned fire magic and fire resistance. Also now you have the basic fire spell fire pellet to cast the spell say fire pellet and because your level is high enough you gained the next spell fire pellet barrage to cast you say fire pellet barrage]

Amell-"Um dad he's wasn't kidding there's a voice in my head that gave me 2 spells."

I try the most basic spell fire pellet i'll try the barrage version after.

Amell-"Fire pellet."

Then at that moment symbols flashed on my hand and a mini fire ball shoots out of my hand. It hit my house wall and left a dent in the pale metal wall. After the pellet hits the wall the voice said i've gained 0.001% proficiency in the spell I try fire pellet barrage and the same thing happens but there is 5 pellets instead of 1. The proficiency I gained was 0.001% just like fire pellet.

Amell-"Mike I gained proficiency why is it the same amount?"

Mike-"well the thing about that is you get 1 thousandth of a percent for just casting it correct. To gain more hit a enemy and you will get 1 hundredth of a percent kill the enemy with the spell/skill and get 1 tenth percent."

Amell-"Mike how do i check my stats?"

Mike-"Take your dominant hand and make a karate chop and say status."

Amell-"Status!"

Mike-"Dont yell it there might be more near here"

Name: Amell slaktare

Titles: none

LVL: 4

EXP: 32%

Race: Human

Gender: Male

Job: None

Guild: None

Class: Nothing

Stats:

Health: 79/105

Mana: 35/55

Strength: 10

Intelligence:11

Agility:10

Dexterity:11

Wisdom: 11

Luck:11

Charm: 11

Total stats: 77

Spendable points: 20

Skills:

Common: Fire pellet lvl 1 0.001%, Fire pellet barrage lvl 1 0.001%

Innate skills: Soul tutor  lvl 1

Amell-"Hey mike why is soul tutor lvl 1?"

Mike-"Because well for your skill maybe you can only get low level skills or only have a certain success rate for your skill."

Amell-"Do you know how to check"

MIke-"Just focus on the skill you have in mind or click it on your stat page."

I tap my stat page and surprisingly it say that i'm not high enough level to know the appraise skill. I guess I'll have to learn it later. My dad fainted by the way i don't know why but whatever. I grab his gun gave it to mike. Mike helps me carry my dad onto the couch I turn the tv on throw some sunflower seeds on him and put his gun away.

Mike left to go home because he was tired af. Right after that i started thinking about my stats, and after what happened today i almost died because i didn't detect the guy on the roof. I threw all of my points into intelligence and raised it to 31. My grand amount of mp is now 155. Then i thought also i don't have many skills right now and their weak as fuck.