C1: Crimes Everywhere!

Alfred left their apartment complex dressed in regular clothes as a 7th grader. When he received his paralleled self's memories, he was shocked that this world was cyberpunked! 

Looking at people in the streets, with body modifications such as cybernetics, he was quite tense walking toward the city rail station. He knew how dangerous to live in such an area as he watched that anime in the original world he came from! 

It was a good thing though that he got a system during his breakfast meal, his mother even reprimanded him because he blurted out the food in his mouth when the system activated in his mind. He felt embarrassed and wanted to reprimand the system, but as usual, the system just dished out the things he needed to know. 

First, it was named "Game Developer System 1.0" and when he asked why it had a "1.0" in its name, the system answered that it needed to be upgraded for additional perks. When he heard the system's answer, he furrowed his eyebrows as this answer was what he expected due to the light novels he read back in the original world. 

He continued to ask questions over breakfast and he got answers such as:

1. How to upgrade the system? 

Answer: Earn Developer Points

2. How do I earn developer points? 

Answer: By creating new entertainment for this world.

3. How do earning developer points work? 

Answer: Create an entertainment, new users will gain +1 developer points, and every old user's log-in or recurring use of your created entertainment earns +0.01 developer points.

4. How to use developer points? 

Answer: Buying items and skills in the Developer Shop.

5. Do I have a status window? 

Answer: Yes, say "status" for status information and "skill" for skill information.

6. I saw a leveling system and need the experience to level up, how do I gain experience points? 

Answer: You need to complete personal quests, if the host has goals in mind, the system will create quests based on that goal. If the host is in a certain situation, the system will create quests based on that situation. With each successful completion, the host will be awarded experience points. You can also buy experience points using your developer points in the developer shop.

7. How many free points do I gain for each level up? 

Answer: +4 free points.

8. Why don't I see any skill points available? 

Answer: Free points can also be applied to skills to level up.

9. Since you're a system, do I have a personal inventory? 

Answer: Yes! Say "Bag" and the system's inventory will show. Since the system is in version 1.0, you only have a size of 27x15x16 inches of space inside the inventory, the size of a large box.

10. How many developer points do I need for an upgrade? 

Answer: You need to earn 1,000 developer points to upgrade the system.

With all the questions he posed to the system answered, he smiled due to the satisfactory answers he got. However, the system didn't let go of him fast and gave him a quest. 

[A NEW QUEST HAS BEEN GENERATED]

[SURVIVE THE DAY!]

[REWARD: +10 EXPERIENCE POINTS]

Alfred was flabbergasted and after a while, he continued eating his breakfast. 

Back to the present, after reminiscing what happened during breakfast, he quickly got off the rail transit car and checked out at the exit gate using his rail transit card. The sound of the machinery reverberated in his ears signaling he was allowed to exit the station. He walked out and went straight to his school. 

Once he walked inside the room, he was met with laughing gazes. One of his classmates sat on his desk after he sat in his chair, this classmate's face quickly registered in his mind and he knew who this kid was. It was his regular bully named Kevin. 

"Yo! How's the scrawny shit? Run some pastries for us later 'kay?" Kevin smirked and slapped his head. 

"Fucker." he thought. He didn't reply to Kevin and just ignored him. Kevin went back to his seat while making sounds of his smirks. 

The class started and Alfred was surprised by the level of knowledge being imparted to them. He knew in the memories of what they were and was initially shocked, but experiencing it firsthand was something else. 

"This was the level of study I needed to learn!? Fuck, I might as well be a college student! Wait... if this is for 7th graders, what more in high school and college!?" he thought. 

After the first few classes, lunch break came. Kevin and his kiddie goons surrounded Alfred on his desk. They kicked his chair and table and told him to buy them snacks. He knew they wouldn't give him credits to get snacks so he must use his own money, but this was too much, he decided to play with them by nodding at their requests and left the room. Kevin and his kiddie goons laughed afterwards and Alfred heard them outside. He smirked as these idiot kids thought he'd follow their ridiculous orders. 

He walked towards the cafeteria and bought his snack worth 5 credits. He tapped the wristband on the scanning device and got himself a nice packed snack from the vendor machine. He sat in a corner and just kept to himself. He didn't talk or initiate conversations with other kids in the cafeteria. 

Lunch break went by and he needed to go back. He left the cafeteria and arrived at his classroom's door. He inhaled and exhaled air and opened the door. He checked the seats where Kevin and his kiddie goons were seated and saw their infuriated faces, he laughed in his thought. "Hehe, stupid idiots." He sat on his chair and the afternoon classes started. 

The afternoon classes finished soon and everyone was now preparing to leave the room, however, due to Alfred's deed during the lunch break, Kevin and his kiddie goons quickly surrounded him and asked him to go with them to the back of the building. 

When they arrived at the back of the room's building, Kevin made an exaggerated pose of pulling his sleeves up. Alfred wanted to laugh at his gangster-like action. "You fucked up, Alfie!" Kevin shouted. 

"You should not mess with us! You all hold him tight!" Kevin ordered his kiddie goons, a total of 5 goons were hurrying to where Alfred was standing up. 

While his mind was racing and tactically planning his escape, the system gave him a second quest. 

[A NEW QUEST HAS BEEN GENERATED]

[ESCAPE YOUR BULLIES!]

[REWARD: +5 EXPERIENCE POINTS]

"This is good!" he thought. He ran away from the goons. "You!" Kevin knew what he was planning to do so Kevin also rushed at him. 

"I'm fucking running idiots!" he shouted at Kevin and his goons. He ran as fast as he could, surprisingly, Kevin and his goons never caught up to him. When he arrived at the school gates, he swiped his identification card on the machine and left. 

As for Kevin and his goons, he arrived at the school gates but Alfred was nowhere to be found. He knew that Alfred escaped. "This is not the end Alfie!" he shouted. 

When Alfred reached the rail transit station, the system awarded him his +5 experience points. 

He rode the rail transit car and sat on an available seat. 

After a few minutes, he reached his destination and left the station. He carefully traversed the streets as it was sunset already. When he reached their apartment complex, he ran and arrived at their doorstep, however, he saw many envelopes tucked inside the mailbox. He knew what these envelopes were and a heart-wrenching pain appeared in his chest. 

"Mother...although you're from a parallel world, your face and everything is still the same, so... let me make up to you... for all the pain I caused you in the original world I came from." he thought and went inside their apartment. The system gave him his mission reward after stepping inside. He smirked when he saw an additional 10 experience points in his status.

After cleaning up and dressing comfortably, he lay on his bed and activated his system-given skill [Game Developer Space]. His eyes shut off and his whole body became relaxed. His mind was transferred to an illusory space created by the skill. Every option on how to make a game has appeared. They looked like virtual windows. 

"Uhm... Can I open the starter pack here?" he asked. The system confirmed positively and thus he pulled out the starter pack inside the system's inventory. 

He activated the starter pack and got the following items: [Shop Voucher: Game] [1], [Developer Points] [10], [Free Points] [2]

Upon seeing the items he received from the starter pack, he was elated to know he got a bonus developer and free points!

He quickly distributed his free points on strength and agility. He instantly felt power after distributing the free points, although minuscule, the effect was still felt. 

He closed his status window and opened the Developer Shop. 

There were many categories in the shop but he didn't check further as he needed to create a game fast, so, he opened the game category and browsed the list. After a few minutes, he saw what he was looking for, he selected a horror genre template named [RESIDENT EVIL: RACOON CITY], happy, he quickly tapped the [BUY] button and it prompted him if he would be using the voucher since he didn't have a sufficient amount of developer points. 

He tapped "yes" to the prompt and his voucher disappeared in his inventory. It was replaced by a disk-like icon named [RESIDENT EVIL: RACOON CITY] [TEMPLATE] [1].

The system asked him to activate the icon, which he did, and new virtual windows appeared around him. Then, the system asked him to say what he wanted to do with the template and the system would create it for him. 

"Alright then... let me think." he closed his eyes thinking what best to do with the template. 

It took more than 5 minutes for him to finish thinking, he opened his eyes and ordered the system.

"Okay, do the same plot as the movies, but remove Alice and Umbrella's plot. Keep the Red Queen and the chamber room." he ordered.

As he ordered, the system laid out the virtual maps and other resources such as NPC zombies and humans. 

"Alright, these all looked good. For difficulty, we would have Rookie as the start, the damage of zombies and enemy weapons will be lowered by 50%. The next level is Standard, the damage of zombies and enemy weaponry will be at 100%. The third difficulty is Hard, the damage of zombies and enemy weaponry will be at 150%, additionally, please increase the zombie count from 100% to 150% as well. The licker count will be two. The last difficulty is Expert, the damage of zombies and enemy weaponry will be at 200%, and the licker count will become three." he sighed a bit after saying these words. "This is quite taxing, huh? No worries, I'll get used to this. I need the money fast!" 

While he was telling the details, the system also followed what its host wanted. 

[GAME DESIGN FINISHED!]

[PLEASE DEFINE TIME DILATION OF THE GAME]

"Huh? What's that?" he asked. He was surprised that there was such an option needed. 

[TIME DILATION, THIS IS A SETTING TO INCLUDE WHEN CREATING VIRTUAL REALITY GAMES]

[EXAMPLE WOULD BE 1 GAME TIME HOUR IS EQUAL TO 1 REAL-TIME MINUTE]

[PLEASE DEFINE TIME DILATION OF THE GAME]

"Got it, it is that simple? Uhm... my game has 48 game time hours to be completed, so... I don't want my players to play that long, set the time dilation to 24 game time hours : 3 real-time hours."

[24 GAME TIME HOURS : 3 REAL-TIME HOURS HAS BEEN SET]

[PRICING IS AUTOMATICALLY SET AS FREE]

[PLATFORM IS NOW CREATED]

[SYSTEM SERVER IS NOW CREATED]

[PLEASE SET A DEVELOPER NAME]

"Uh? A name... since I came from a different Earth, and this world doesn't have the same entertainment as the original one, then, set it to [NeWorld Entertainment]."

[NeWorld ENTERTAINMENT IS NOW SET]

[PUBLISH PLATFORM?]

"Yes, of course!" he tapped the "yes" button. 

[PLATFORM "NeWorld ENTERTAINMENT" HAS BEEN SUCCESSFULLY PUBLISHED IN THE WORD WIDE NET]

[CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN REWARDED 50 EXPERIENCE POINTS FOR CREATING YOUR FIRST GAME!]

When he read the virtual window message, he became further elated!

"God damn! and now... let the game begin!" he whispered.

[TO BE CONTINUED]