A New Life

I opened my eyes and couldn't recognize my surroundings. I was wearing a gown and lying down... It had to be the hospital. I must've survived that beating. Wait, how long has it been? I clearly failed to knock his teeth out, probably lost my job even, but how long was I out for? 

Oh right, I could just check the timer on the panel. 

[Knock your boss' teeth out]

Time Limit: 34:22

Reward: ???

Failure Penalty: ???

What?!? It's been 2 days and 13 hours??? That means it's around 11:20 p.m... What will happen when the timer runs out? Well, I guess I can only wait. In the meantime, how the hell did i get beaten so bad i was hospitalized for 2 days and a half!? To be fair, the plan to even hit him was ridiculous. It's a miracle I didn't die.

Time Limit: 21:03

If it would just hurry up and end already, the anticipation is gonna kill me.. Wait, what if the failure penalty itself is death? Since I only have 20 minutes left I might aswell do whatever I can in that time frame. Wait, what ambitions did I ever have? Does that mean I've already accomplished everything I wanted?

Time Limit: 0:33

Well, here goes nothing..

Time Limit: 0:01

Time Limit: 0:00

I feel weird, it's like im crumbling. What the hell is this avengers endgame ripoff of a failure penalty?? I guess the penalty was death afterall.. fuck.

WAIT, I CAN'T DIE A VIRGIN, PLEASE!!! YOU DUMBASS SYSTEM!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO-

-OOOOOOOOooo.. what? Am I reappearing? But this clearly isn't the hospital.. I also haven't heard of any place on earth that looks like this. It's so dark and gloomy here... 

[Mission]

Survive.

Time Limit: ???

Reward: ???

Failure Penalty: Death.

...What the fuck? This time only the failure penalty is there.. death.. This must be some escape type mission, since I probably won't have access to any water or food, which is probably why the time limit is question marks? Well, It doesn't matter. But the light this panel is eminating is really helpful. I can see a bit now. Talking about sight, what the FUCK am I looking at?!?!?!??!?! That ugly ass creature can't be a human. It looks like a goblin straight out of an anime.. it's maybe a quarter of my height.. Wait, doesn't this mean that the mission isn't an escape, rather to survive these monsters? I pray that there are only these little shitheads crawling in this dark dungeon..

"Hrrrn?" 

Fuck. It fucking noticed me. fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckfuck. Can I take it on? I'll have to try.

"HAAAAA!" 

Shit. It's running towards me. Here goes nothing..!

"TAKE THIS YOU DUMBASS GOBLIN!" I swung my fist downwards.

"YAAHHHH!"

[Achievement Unlocked!]

First kill - Stain your hands and soul with the blood of a living creature.

Calculating Reward...

Reward Calculated! 

Reward: Skill - Amplify Lv. 1 (Common)

Description: A skill that amplifies your strength for 3 minutes. Once the timer runs out, a cooldown of 10 minutes will be put in place. The higher the level, the higher the amplification.

So this system isn't all cons afterall. I have 2 theories about this. Obviously, I'm no longer on Earth, but I have no idea where I am. The first is that I get skills related to what I did, and the second is that it depends on the achievement. Regardless, this will be helpful, the use time to cooldown ratio is beyond shit tho. Since it has levels, it probably increases use time and decreases cooldown time every time I level it up. Well, I hope so, anyway.

"HAAAAAH!!!" 

3 more? Fucking hell, they don't stop do they.. Well, I guess it works in the end since i want to try this ability.

[Amplify Lv.1]

I feel way stronger without even punching or anything. Well, let's test it out on these dumbasses. 

I swung my fist toward the side of the goblin on the very right of their little horizontal line. It wasn't only my strength that increased, but my muscles also became faster. It amplified my whole arm.

"graahhh..." 

I instantly killed 2 in the same swing, and left the 3rd severely injured. Well, I guess I'll put it out of its misery.

[Level Up!]

You are now Level 2.

Vitality (1) → (2)

Strength (1) → (2)

Agility (1) → (2)

You can check your stats anytime in the stats menu.

Stats menu? That stands out even among this weird game system. It never showed me my stats or told me how to open it. Come to think of it, I can make the mission board appear by thinking about it. Does the stats menu work in the same way? The issue is that they have to tell me what menus are available and their names before I can activate them, so there's a high chance that there are other really important menus that I don't know about and therefore can't check. What a shitty system. My stats probably all start at 1 so there's nothing worth checking right now.

Anyway, how the hell do I get out of this place? It doesn't look like it's gonna be easy...