webnovel

Pause System: Harem In The Apocalypse

Autor: Renovator
Fantasía
En Curso · 4M Visitas
  • 235 Caps
    Contenido
  • 4.6
    73 valoraciones
  • NO.200+
    APOYOS
Resumen

Patreon If you wish to support me: patreon.com/user?u=106318030 ---- Year 2022, December the 1st. This was the day it all began. Labyrinths had started forming all around the world, hundreds and thousands of people lost their lives as casualties. Mutations followed after, occurring amongst the people, they began awakening super powers, the same for animals. However these mutations brought along a virus. It quickly spread amongst the dead as they began to rise. Humanity had begun its fall. Gray who had given up all hopes of living life, was granted a system with a special ability. On the very same day, of the outbreak, he was consumed by a labyrinth. By the time he had gotten out, a week had passed. It was hell all around. A virus had broken out from the mutations, the dead were walking and spreading this virus. However this was only the beginning. Over time the mutations began to evolve and people learnt that the through the cultivation of their powers, they could improve their abilities. —————————— If you had the power to pause anything, and I mean anything, what would you do? Even more if it was in the apocalypse? -------------------------- I do not own the cover, all credits go to their rightful owner.

Etiquetas
10 etiquetas
Chapter 1Chapter 1: Pause

The first of December 2022 in New York City, United States. On the roof of a tall high-rise building, a young man could be seen.

As of 20:45, the sun had set and it was currently nighttime. To be in such a location at such a time was certainly unusual.

Standing at the edge, he gazed silently at the scene before him. It was a beautiful sight to see the colorful lights filling up the streets and roads from the brightly lit buildings.

It was, however, distasteful to him. In the end, he found the colors unrecognizable. It was as if everything was black and white.

From where he was standing, the cars that passed by looked like little toy cars. It brought back some memories. It reminded him of his childhood, when he had nothing to worry about and was enjoying life with his family.

He wasn't in the right frame of mind. He appeared to be unaffected by the cold as he was high up and outside in only a shirt. His eyes had dark circles under them.

He took two more steps, allowing half the sole of his shoes to hang over the edge as he gulped down the air stuck in his throat.

All it took was one more step.

He told himself, "Dying a virgin, huh..." as he leaned over the edge.

The thought of leaving the world without leaving behind anything was regrettable to him. He would leave behind no families, no children, not even a lover.

The ground beneath seemed so close yet so far away. Considering he was over 40 stories high, he didn't expect anything less. Just climbing the stairs and bursting into the rooftop took all his strength.

*Step*

One step later, he was gone.

While he fell head first towards the ground, it seemed as though the world was upside down. With every passing second, his speed increased.

He began to see his life flash by as he stared at the moon while falling towards his death

As he reached out for the moon, his gray hair swayed in slow motion as it was brushed against.

The bracelet on his right arm, with a glowing red ore at its center, shimmered in the light.

As he was just a few meters from the ground, he closed his eyes.

*Shatter*

The red ore broke.

[Congratulations! You have unlocked the system!]

[Congratulations! Skill: Pause has been unlocked!]

"..."

Did he hear that right? He wondered. He was sure he heard it, but forget that, why couldn't he feel himself falling anymore?

Fearful of opening his eyes, he kept them closed. People could be heard talking around him. The voices sounded confused or worried.

"Hey… How is that guy floating?"

"Is this some sort of prank?!"

"He's upside down… I don't see any wires."

As Gray slowly opened his eyes, he discovered that the world was upside down. Unsure of what had happened, he looked down and saw his legs stuck towards the sky.

It was impossible for him to move them, no matter how hard he tried. There were no sensations coming from his body.

Quite a few people were gathered in front of him. Many people were covering their mouths as they gasped, and others had taken out their smartphones to record what was happening.

[Effects of pause has ended]

*Crash!*

In a flash, Gray's head crashed against a table beneath him. His entire body followed.

'Effects of pause?' Gray wondered as he got up whilst brushing the back of his head.

Seeing the knife on the floor beside his feet, he knelt down to grab it before glaring at the people watching.

Because he didn't want his death to go viral, he preferred that they leave. Nonetheless, he wasn't concerned.

The knife was raised before suddenly being thrust towards his neck.

[Pause]

His eyes widen as he hears the voice once more; even more bizarre is that the knife is frozen in place right by his neck. It wouldn't budge.

"What the hell is happening…?"

All hell broke loose just as he had just finished questioning that.

On the road ahead of him, buildings were collapsing into a hole that had appeared on the ground out of nowhere.

The hole quickly grew, engulfing everything into its bottomless depths.

Blood-curdling screams could be heard as vehicles fell into the hole. People tried running away, but the hole was expanding much faster than they could see.

Gray let go of the knife and watched for a moment as it remained frozen still in the air.

The people who had watched him a moment ago had already begun to run in a desperate manner.

In contrast to them, Gray was walking towards it, bumping into several others in the process.

With the speed at which the hole was expanding, it didn't take long for it to reach him.

Beneath his feet, the ground crumbled before he was suddenly swallowed up by the hole.

As of 21:00, 1st of December, Year 2022.

It was the beginning of the end of the world. All over the world, large holes had begun to form, causing all the world's great cities to suffer irreparable damage.

Bystanders who didn't even know what had hit them lost their lives.

The Calamity was later referred to as this day.

-

-

-

Grey's eyes slowly opened, reflecting the bright light of the candle on the wall next to him. The blood stench permeated the room as he got up, covering his nose as he rose.

After a moment of confusion, he looked around and realized he was standing on a staircase. The people who had fallen left behind their remains, which were the remains of their bodies.

Once again. Why did he survive again?

On the fall, the valueless gem in his bracelet, which had been left to him by his parents, seemed to have broken.

In the absence of any other choice, he began his descent. While descending, he noticed the wall patterns.

He found them to be strange drawings, but whatever meaning they might have contained was too complicated for someone like him to decipher.

[Welcome to the Labyrinth!]

His head throbbed with pain as he nearly fell over. Yet again, he heard the strange voice.

"Who are you? What do you want?" Gray asked with lifeless eyes.

[Would you like to see your status? Y or N]

"Go away"

In an instant, a screen appeared in front of his eyes.

---------------

[Possessor: Gray Calibre

Race: Human

Level: 1

XP Required For Level Up: 0/100

HP: 10/10

Strength: 5

Agility: 5

Stamina: 5

Sense: 5

Points Available To Distribute: 0]

--------------

For a moment, his eyes seemed to light up as he stared at the screen before he snorted.

"A game? Really?"

At the top of the screen were other tabs. Gray could easily switch between them just by thinking.

--------------

[Skills]

Pause [Level 1]

Effect [Level1]: Pieces of the user's body or objects can be momentarily paused. Target's body can be paused. Limitations are based on the size of the object or body part.

Requirements: Contact with target's body, visual lock on object.

Users' stamina is depleted every second.

Time limit: five seconds

--------------

Skill Points Available: 0

---------------

Gray's eyes widened. An ability which allowed him to pause things? It had a level beside it, which meant that it would most likely evolve and have other effects.

As Gray considered all the ways he could use this skill, his eyes slowly began to light up. As soon as he recalled a memory, the light faded once more.

He instinctively shifted his focus to the quest tab as soon as his eyes fell upon it.

[Daily Quest:

Pause Training:

Pause 100 Objects: 0/100

100 Push ups: 0/100

100 Sit Ups: 0/100

100 Squats: 0/100

10 KM Run: 0/10

Reward: 2 Stat points.]

"Only two for all of that? What a scam." He complained as he continued to descend.

[You are approaching the first floor of the labyrinth.]

Gray suddenly felt a change in the air and temperature around him. It had grown darker and colder.

[New Quest Received]

A tab appeared in front of his eyes.

[Quest: Clear Labyrinth's First Floor

First Floor: Uncleared

Reward: 5 Stat points.

XP Reward: 100]

-

-

10:49 on December 2nd, 2022.

In a factory, a grown man can be seen working. The man was focusing on his tasks and had been working non-stop for the past hour.

Once he had screwed in the final piece, he decided to take a break. The other members of his team were probably also finished with their shift.

While sitting on a nearby chair, he got a beer from their refrigerator. His tank top was drenched with sweat from all the steam. The frozen cold beer was already warming up in his hand. As a result, he rushed to finish it.

He downed almost half of the beer in one go before taking a deep breath.

"That hits the spot." He muttered to himself.

During his break, he decided to practice. Taking a look at his palm, he slowly clenched and opened it before closing his eyes and focusing.

As a piece of dirt formed and hardened over his palm, a strange brown aura began to radiate from his body.

"I wonder if they'll even find this useful." He muttered to himself.

He had been practicing his earth manipulation ability since he had gotten it, which was yesterday night.

A piece of dirt that he had created was picked up and examined with great curiosity, still doubting that it was his creation. Then he heard a strange sound coming from near one of the steam engines.

Because there were many steam engines blocking his view, he wasn't sure what exactly it was, but he went over to see what it was.

"Something probably fell." He muttered after wiping off the beer remnants from his lips. "You guys okay?" He questioned as he got closer.

Once again, there was no reply. Just the sound of the engines.

Starting to get annoyed, he thought they were playing a joke on him.

As he approached the corner, however-

His eyes widened. All of the beer and food he had eaten earlier felt as if they were about to rise again. While staring at the scene, he could barely hold back his vomit as he gulped down.

There was a pool of blood on the floor. It came from the corpse of one of his team members.

A second member of his team was lying on top of the corpse. His skin was pale. Seeing only his back, he did not know what expression he was making. Still, he could clearly see what he was doing.

He was eating him.

'What...?'

As it bit into the corpse of his colleague, the ripping and crunching sounds of skin seemed to resound in his soul.

His heart sank. With widened eyes, he took a step back, his entire body shaking.

But in that instant.

The cannibal suddenly lunged at him. Biting into his arm as it did so.

"GARGH!!" He groaned out it pain.

The adrenaline-charged movement of his body caused a hook to land on the side of the cannibal's face, causing the latter to slide to the side, ripping off a chunk of flesh as it did so.

The man then ran as hard as he could out of the factory.

"What the hell was that!?" He questioned, his hand pressing down on the wound trying to stop it from bleeding.

También te puede interesar

The Invincible Full-Moon System

The sinful acts of humanity bring forth a great calamity upon themselves, or so they thought. Supernatural Emergence happened. Supernatural creatures start to come out of nowhere and forcefully claim half of the Earth and massacre any humans that cross their paths. All of them are too powerful, dozens of countries fall under their diabolic claws. Humanity was pushed against the corner. But things started to turn around when humanity began to awaken magical powers. Awakened is the name for those who awaken these powers blessed by the Gods, and they become the pillars of humanity. Rex Silverstar is a normal boy who has a traumatic experience. On the day of the Supernatural Emergence, a Werewolf takes everything he has. He lost his family and his home, left alone in this cruel world. What drives him to live every day is his deep hatred towards the Supernaturals. Joining the military in the hope of helping exterminate the Supernaturals from an early age, he found out that it's impossible to kill the Werewolf that was responsible for killing his parents without being an Awakened. On a fateful night, in a near-death experience, he's given a chance by the full moon. It was the turning point of his life. Obtaining a System that allows him to become stronger, having the potential to match and surpass the Supernaturals, Rex was ecstatic until he saw his stats window. "I'M NOT A WEREWOLF!!" "Daily quest failed, sanity stat has been decreased by 20%!" "Sanity stat is too low, you are unable to contain the blood moon blessing!" "Starting forceful transformation!" "WHAT?! I'm a human! What transformation?!" "You are overwhelmed with bloodlust!" ----- Join my discord: https://discord.gg/cg6a5sBkpJ Support me here: https://ko-fi.com/mrboogey13 ----- I do not own the cover of the book, if you made it and want to take it down just say so and I will immediately change it.

Mrboogey13 · Fantasía
3.9
1470 Chs

Affinity:Chaos

Check out my other book as well Lunar:Secret Guardians ******************* "Grey, elemental affinity, zero" The Elder announced the result loudly On hearing this, it was like a bolt of lightning struck Grey, he stood there dumbfounded and just stared at the Elder. Shocked voices could be heard from the people and there was some which were also filled with scorn. Grey stood dazed amidst all the noises without any reactions. One word was constantly reverberating in his head, 'How?'. 'Why, why did this happen to me?' Grey asked himself over and over again **************** Unbeknownst to Grey, something greater lies in wait in his body.... *************** Check out the book, leave a review after reading, and also your powerstones. Hope you enjoy this, and Thanks for reading ^_^ P.S: When I started this book I had zero writing experience, so the first chapters aren't that great, although, my writing quality has improved over time. Also, English isn't my first language, so there are some instances where my choice of words are not good enough for what I'm trying to portray. A heads up, the book will be using a medieval setting. My world building is not the best, but it gets better over time, so bear with me on the early chapters! P.S: Cover art not mine I just edited it. If you're the owner and want me to take it down you can notify me. Other novel: Lunar:Secret Guardians Check it out as well! Discord Server: https://discord.gg/gs68a4ZzaN

Springs_Halo · Fantasía
4.3
1792 Chs

Primordial Villain with a Slave Harem

Quinlan, a simple office worker finds himself transmigrated to an extremely dangerous fantasy land as a level 1 Commoner with nothing to his name but his wits - and a unique gift that accompanied his teleportation. No one in Thalorind could have predicted that this unassuming arrival would one day rise to the top, redefining the very meaning of the term 'power'... And that he may have achieved said result by joining a criminal organization and clawing his way through its ranks. In the beginning, Quinlan was painfully weak and alone but thanks to his severe trust issues, joining a team was... hard. However, he soon noticed that a lot of people have collars around their necks in this world... People that couldn't exactly betray him. Follow Quinlan's journey as he grows in strength, amasses wealth, fights to the death, and meets lovely ladies. ... Discord: https://discord.gg/bjunEkswQ3 ... Disclaimer: I'd received a few complaints from some readers that my MC is not a real villain, and I have to agree; if you're looking for some complete psycho MC who burns random farmer villages down just for fun then don't read. The MC is a ruthless man who does evil things from time to time, but only to his enemies or those he considers to be true scum. He gains no joy from tormenting strangers. Also don't read if you want a story about buying s*x slaves and r*ping them, that doesn't happen in this novel. He will treat the women he wants to be with as if they were normal people, whether they're slaves or not.

NecroBin · Fantasía
4.5
630 Chs

Earth's Greatest Magus

#Top 20 Webnovel Best Sellers 2021, 2022, 2023, and in 2024 #### History is said to be written by the victors. If so, how about Earth's history? Two millennia ago, a young boy named Emery met a tragic fate. In his final moments, he was transmigrated and accepted into the Universe's most prestigious school of magic. “You are among the chosen few from thousands of human worlds. Whether you seize this opportunity or not, is up to you. You are at Magus Academy, the pinnacle of humanity's ingenuity. Magic, science, and might are all within reach for those who dare to pursue them." [Scan complete - Quadruple affinity. Water, Earth, Plant, and Darkness.] "A quadruple acolyte! Only one in tens of thousands of acolytes possess this!" Thus began Emery’s journey together with his 4 friends from the furthest corner of Earth. Each year they returned to Earth to grow, seek revenge, save the princess, conquer the world, and become Earth's Greatest Magus. Their names are still etched in our history books to this day. Authors Note: I have always been fascinated by writing fantasy relating to historical facts. In this story, you will find characters inspired by real-world myth and legend. The universe I created hopefully will make the reader's imagination excited and logically plausible. I hope you enjoy it. ### Here are some key aspects you'll encounter: MC: The protagonist follows the classic weak-to-strong arc. World: Picture a blend of Harry Potter and Star Wars. System: While it's primarily a magic-based story, there's a structured system in place that's easy to follow. Additionally, elements of cultivation. Harem: No, there are several female interests. But I enjoy romance first. So even if there will be more than one love interest it will be deep. Note: English is not my first language, but you'll notice that my writing and English skills gradually improve throughout the chapters. Other: The novel delves into deep research on science and history, enriching the storyline with factual and intriguing details. Give it a read—you might be pleasantly surprised by what unfolds. Check Out the Video Trailer on youtube type "Earth's Greatest Magus"

Avan · Fantasía
4.5
2539 Chs

Necromancer Of The Shadows

"I should have stayed home and played video games." This was Ray's last thought before darkness engulfed him after he was hit by a car. But surprisingly, instead of finding himself before the gates of hell after dying, Ray found out he was transmigrated into another world. The world Ray was transmigrated to was called Arora World, a place where you can use different kinds of skills, magic, and even acquire powerful classes. Ray found himself in the body of a young boy named Evan, who was studying in a hunter academy after awakening his abilities at the age of fourteen. At first, Ray was happy that he was transmigrated into the body of someone who had awakened his abilities and could use the magic he always wanted to use. However, as Ray went through Evan's memories, he finally realized that everything was not as simple as he had expected. Evan had a unique physique that didn't allow him to increase his power like other people. Because of this useless unique physique, Evan was the weakest hunter in the entire academy. And that was not all; the more Ray looked at Evan's memories, the more he realized just how troublesome his situation was. "I know I entered this body without buying a ticket, but isn't this too much?" Ray said in a depressed voice after going through Evan's memories. Will Ray be able to survive in this new world? Is the physique of his new body really useless? Join Ray on his adventure to find out.

Zero_writer · Fantasía
4.3
1319 Chs
Tabla de contenidos

valoraciones

  • Calificación Total
  • Calidad de escritura
  • Estabilidad de Actualización
  • Desarrollo de la Historia
  • Diseño de Personajes
  • Contexto General
Reseñas
gustó
Últimos
John_Kula
John_KulaLv4

APOYOS