Gacha Game
Azrid didn't know what was happening outside. He stood in front of a dark space with little to no information. The last thing he could remember was screaming in pain before he collapsed.
He read the messages and sighed to himself. He realized that practicing the routine of [Ouroboros] was harder than he expected. There was even a status condition that he had to meet, or else he would die.
[Great Devil Bodies: 1.47% proficiency]
[Ouroboros: 1% proficiency]
After reaching one percent of his ability, he learned more about them. He finally confirmed that the [Great Devil Bodies] were powerful. The demon beast's blood routine he was practicing was related to a devil body known as the Calming Night Devil Body. It didn't have any special abilities except that it would raise his body power to a certain degree. Its status was balanced and gave him more versatility in combat.
He only knew that he would complete it once his proficiency reached ten percent. This was also the reason why his status was balanced. Other people had Rank D in their strength while their other attributes were Rank F or even Rank G.
Not much is known about the other devil bodies.
But his path was already complete until he reached ten percent of his [Great Devil Bodies].
Next was [Ouroboros]. What sort of hint did it give him after reaching one percent of its proficiency?
*Ding!*
[Gacha World!!]
"Gacha? As in those gacha games?!" Azrid felt like he was dreaming. He looked through and widened his eyes in shock.
This...? This was unbelievable.
It gave him a gacha game imprinted in his mind.
[Ouroboros: Infinite World has initiated!]
[Now, you are Ouroboros, come and guide pitiful people in conquering the Paradis Infinite World!]
What the hell is this? An introduction of a game?!
[Paradis Infinite World. A game where you have to conquer the unknown and dangerous world of Paradis, a world once belonged to the Infinite. It was ravaged by countless monsters after the Infinite disappearance.]
[You, who are the chosen one, come and guide your heroes to a classic adventure!]
Azrid couldn't process what was happening in front of him. [Ouroboros] ability gave him a game to play where he was the only player.
[Stage 1]
[???]
[???]
[Village]
[Heroes]
[Buildings]
[Shop]
[Summon]
[Mail*]
[Coin: 1,000]
"It's really a game." Azrid could move the cursor with his mind. He clicked on the Mail icon, as he knew that something new was there when there was that red notification above it. The mail opened and revealed messages.
[Basic-Starter Pack]
[Keep in mind that there's no restart in this game! If all of your heroes died, then it's game over!]
A bunch of words appeared before his eyes. It was the introduction of the game. The Paradis Infinite World was destroyed by monsters, and he had to summon heroes from foreign lands to reclaim what was rightfully his.
In short, Ouroboros was once a god of this so-called Paradis Infinite World, but the god disappeared and lost its power. Now, he had awakened a portion of the infinite and this game was about taking back that lost power. Azrid was to guide the heroes to clear this game.
That's the introduction lore of this game.
An ability about him having the power of the game. Azrid wondered if this game was going to improve his stats in real life.
He just wanted to grow stronger.
Azrid gritted his teeth and glanced at the [Great Devil Bodies]. This ability had given him a lot of benefits so far. He just wondered if [Ouroboros] would exceed his expectations.
For now, he should play this game since his proficiency was only at one percent. There was nothing he could do right now, as he was in a dark, silent space.
But the ability of Ouroboros was this: it was previously stated that he couldn't tap into the power of the infinite because his status was too low. Yet, he was clearly diving into the infinite now.
This game must be the limit that was put in place to prevent him from gaining the power of the infinite immediately and destroying himself in the process.
The power of the infinite. He didn't know what to expect, but it seemed promising based on the novels he had read in his past life.
First, he should take a closer look at this gacha game.
Azrid opened the starter pack.
[You've received Farmer(1star), Cook(1star), Farmer(1star), Villager(1star), and Swordman(2star)]
He received five heroes. There was one 2-star and the remaining four were 1-star heroes. He checked their status and realized that it was the same as him.
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Name: Dugo(M)
Age: 33
Job: Farmer - 1 star
Str: I- |Agility: I- |Defense: I- |Ether: I-
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Name: Lina(F)
Age: 31
Job: Cook - 1 star
Str: I- |Agility: I- |Defense: I- |Ether: I-
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Name: Daryl(M)
Age: 47
Job: Farmer - 1 star
Str: I- |Agility: I- |Defense: I- |Ether: I-
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Name: Yena(F)
Age: 16
Job: Villager - 1 star
Str: I- |Agility: I- |Defense: I- |Ether: I-
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Name: Daren(M)
Age: 23
Job: Swordsman - 2 star
Str: I- |Agility: I- |Defense: I- |Ether: I-
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The five people found themselves in an unknown and barren village. They were confused and didn't know why they had ended up in this place.
"What is this place?!" Lina, the cook, said in a low voice.
"How?! I'm supposed to be fighting on the front line!" Daren, the swordsman, was also confused.
Among the five people in this place, he was the first one to regain his sanity. The other four people were still trying to process how they had ended up in this unknown place.
Daren turned to the four people and quietly listened to their mutterings. He heard that they, too, had been on the verge of death before arriving here.
"Is this afterlife...?" Daren frowned as he looked at his surroundings.
His conjecture was close to the truth. They didn't die in their old world, instead, before dying they were summoned to this village and their wounds were also healed in the process of summoning.
Azrid, was like a god, observing them from a higher dimension. He could hear and see what they were doing. He went through the functions and realized that he could only give a few personal orders to them aside from the orders of the system.
"So it's like a super advanced gacha game."
Azrid rubbed his chin. He wanted to try to send them to Stage 1 and learned that he could only send one party. A party consisted of five heroes that would fight the stages of the game. If they died, then they died for real. The game saved their lives in perilous moments so he could send them to fight and earn coins for him.
The only one who could fight was probably the swordsman. Azrid narrowed his eyes and wondered what's the difference between a 2-star hero and a 1-star hero. All of them have the same status as Rank I.
Azrid decided to observe them for a while. He was stunned as he didn't expect this. All the heroes that he summoned were like real people.
He easily gained his senses as he thought this was within the capabilities of the technology in the real world.
Daren talked to the four people and learned various things about them. Compared to the other four, he was already accepting their current situation. He learned that Lina and Dugo were husband and wife. He also asked where they come from and found that he didn't have any idea about their place.
'This... They didn't even know the powerful Norsan Empire? It seems that they came from another world...' Daren said inwardly.
At first, he led them inside the village. It was too small to call a village but there were words on the entrance saying, "Welcome to the Infinite Village."
"Infinite Village? Where on earth is this place?" Dugo muttered.
"Let's tour around first. We don't have any choice." Daren said.
"I'm scared," Yena said. Her face was pale as she stood at the back of the group.
The group entered the village and found that there were only five small houses at the edge of the village. In the center of the village, there was a huge, majestic door that gave off an ominous vibe, making the rest of them shiver.
The first place they arrived at was a circular platform with four pillars around it. The pillars supported an exquisite roof, and there were various mysterious carvings around it. It was a huge altar with a symbol of a snake eating its tail. This altar was for summoning. Beside the huge altar was a small altar. The purpose of the small altar was for the things that Azrid bought from the [Shop] to appear on it.
"All of us came here," Daren said as he glanced at the altar. He narrowed his eyes and stared at the sky.
"It seems that someone summoned us to this place. We also can't get out of this area. There's a thick fog surrounding the village, and we can't walk out of it."
"What should we do?" Yena asked.
"We'll stay here. I don't think that this is the afterlife. We have been summoned here for some unknown reason," Daren said to them.