CHAPTER ONE

While sitting at his desk, Alex glances out of the corner of his eye. "Leave me alone," he heard a woman utter. He turned to see what Mark, his boss, was doing to his intern, Vera. "I'll hire you full time if you come back to my office for some fun," Mark smirked. Vera gave a disgusted look. "I'll report you to HR!"

Alex stood up furiously and walked to Mark with his fist clenched. Mark grabbed Vera's wrists messily and tried forcing her to come to his office. Alex practically could smell alcohol on Mark's breath. Alex scowls, "Leave her alone or else." "Or else what," he sneered. Alex hit Mark square in his nose. Blood started to trickle down his nose. "You bitch," Mark snarls, "You're gonna pay for that." Mark turns and goes off to his office drunkenly.

''Thank you," Vera stuttered. Alex smiles, "Of course." A few hours go by and Alex's shift ends. With his stomach growling, he decides to get Taco King before he gets home. When he gets home he eat his taco combo and gets ready for bed. The next day was just like any normal day Alex has. Wake up, get ready for work, go to planet bucks for his morning coffee, and then go to work. While he was writing a report, Alex was called to Mark's office.

As he walks in, he sees three officers, one big and fat, one scrawny and hairy, and one muscular but ugly. and Mark with a hurt look. "That's him officers! He's the one who assaulted me," Mark expressed. A dumbfounded look came across Alex's face. "Weren't you harassing Vera before that," Alex questioned. The fat officer had a puzzled look, "I thought you said it was for no reason." Mark had a troubled look and started stuttering. The scrawny officer said with a mean tone, "Well how about we ask her then."

Mark calls Vera to his office with chills running up his spine. He was scared that Vera would tell the officers he was harassing there. At that moment he would do anything to take it back. Her soft figure enters the room. She notices the officers and gets worried look. "Yes, Mark," she says in a gentle tone. The ugly officer asks, "Did Mark do anything to harass you yesterday?" She looks over to Mark. She knows she'll get fired if she tells the truth, she can't sacrifice that. She needs this job. She sighs, "No, Mark never did such things." Alex came across a puzzled look. He knew what he had done yesterday. His hand hurt the whole day because of that punch. Mark guffawed for just a second. He quickly calmed down due to the officers. "Well then, with this information, I believe it is in my best judgment to fire you." Mark said while trying not to chuckle.

Alex looked defeated, "Oh. Okay" He leaves the room and slowly makes it back to his office. He gathers a spare box he had lying around and begins to pack his things. Right now, all he can see is red. While struggling to hold the items that once belonged to his office, Alex finally makes it to his car. He opens the door and slams the items down. He gets into the driver side of the car and just screams. He cannot believe Vera would do that, especially after he saved her.

After he gets home, he decides to take a nice warm shower. This will really help him calm down. While getting out of the shower, he slips on a puddle and hits his head on the counter. With blood leaking from his barely conscious head, he hears a familiar, voice. "Do you want to live," a booming voice says. He knows that voice, he just cannot remember where from. He thinks he knows whose voice that is. "Who are you," he mutters. "Don't speak. I asked if you wanted to live." Alex mumbled, "Yes." 

'' Don't trust the gods..." is all Alex heard before passing out 

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Alex was awoken by the cries of people. He was in a sea of confusion. An angelic like figure flew down from the blue sky. Alex saw five different groups of people and decided to go to one of the groups. "What's going on," he asked a short young woman. She said eagerly, "We're getting to go to the tower today!" He looked at her just as confused as before and walked away. While he was walking, a random screen popped up in front of him. It said CHOOSE YOUR CLASS in big bold words and it included five random classes on the page. As he was reading them off one by one, someone said, "Well hello there young man." Alex shrieked and accidentally hit a random class on the screen. He turned around and saw an old man. "What the hell! You don't just come up behind people and scare them," Alex shrieked. "Well sorry sonny, I can't help it," he replied. He saw that the man was scraggy, and wrinkly, and he had round glasses. The old man asked "What's your name young man?" "The names Alex" he replied. "Young man do you why we are here?" As Alex was about to answer, the angel like figure flew over and said "You are here to climb the tower."

A few kids from each of the groups started coming to them in a commotion. They were all rambling trying to ask her a question. The first clear question you could hear was, "Miss, what happens if you make to the last floor?" She replied in a cold tone "For most, climbing the tower is impossible, but for the very few that make it past floor fifty you were blessed with luck. But, making it to the final floor has only been done by less then ten people." Everyone started shouting again and the next question that you could hear was, "So what is the first floor about?" The angel starts to smile. "You need to kill five monster to go to the second floor." After answering a few more questions the angel's smile starts to become demon like while saying "I will teleport you to the first floor of the tower. Good luck, and remember the first floor is the easiest."

Alex looked around in a panic, but he started to calm down quickly. Alex looks at the screen again and goes to check his stats. While trying to do so, he heard rustling noises coming from the bushes in front of him. Out popped a ugly little reddish brown beast. Alex jumped and started to slowly back away from it, while looking at that beast a screen popped up.

[You are looking a Kobold. Kobold's are an mischievous but highly intelligent creature that like to hunt in packs]

"But there is only one" Alex shouted in a panic.

Rustle, Rustle!

Alex glances around to see ten more kobolds start running toward him. Alex, scared for his life, screams at the top of his lungs and runs in a random direction. While running he trips on a human body and falls down a very steep hill and passes out once again.