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12: The game of eternity

"What shall you become in order to win"

Anireto · Seni bela diri
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Beginning of my end

A figure wearing a Popes attire floats

Above a city looking down upon it

That being spoke

"let thy game of eternity begin, thee

game

That cast forth an

Opportunity to receive a gift from

God

Let thine spell of absolute mage craft

Burn

12 knights , 12 names , 12 cards

12 candidates , 12 chances , 12 abilities

12 sufferings

Go forth and choose wisely" Then 12 cards fly out into the city from The floating being clad in a Pope's Attire

A FEW HOURS EARLIER

A beaten up male student lying with his back against the wall in the hallway of a school thinks to himself

|Why, .... why, .... why, .... why does it have to happen to me, I didn't choose to live like this. A life of loneliness. A life where I get bullied everyday. A life where my heart does not receive any love. A life of pain. A life of suffering. I've wanted to die for so long, I only kept on living because I had a dream, a dream whereby I live a happy life, but I couldn't live that life if I died.|

Then the boy silently said to himself

"I wish I had no dreams"

The boy then gets up and starts to walk away.

2 HOURS LATER

The boy walking through the busy city of Hamamatsu, lit by the setting sun. Heading towards the train tracks, the battered and bruised boy thinks to himself |It doesn't matter anymore, I am going to die no matter what, fuck my life, fuck my dreams, fuck everything, fuck the people who did this to me, the train should cross over those tracks in about 30 minutes, I will jump in front of the tracks when it's there and die|

The boy lets out a huge smile to the thought in his head.

About 25 minutes later

The sun has set and the boy is standing in front of the tracks, he hears the whistle of the train and sees the light of it illuminating through the darkness. He prepares to take the step onto the track but before he can he is pushed onto the tracks. The boys falls onto it, he then turns his body to see who it was. He then sees a man clad in black attire wearing a coat, shirt and long pants with a hat.

"Ai Sekaistu, today you die but if you accept me you will be reborn, you will have the chance to change the world as you please, heal whoever you want, access to a great amount of mana, play for as long you like and rule the game of eternity," says the man in black.

|How does he know my name? Either way I don't know what shit this man is talking about, change the world? heal whoever? Unlimited mana? What bull crap is that, no matter what I am going to die|

The boy replies to the old man shouting

"Ha! You can forget about me living old man, change the world? What kind of sick joke are you trying to play on me, what ever it is it's not going to work on me!"

"I guess it makes sense that you wouldn't believe me," says the old man "here catch."

The man in black throws a card towards Ai Sekaistu. He then catches it.

|What exactly is this card?|

The card had an illustration of a knight on it, the name Sir Galahad was written above the drawing of the knight. A loud voice is then emitted from the card

*CONGRATULATIONS AI SEKAITSU YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY PICKED UP A CARD THEREFORE YOU ARE NOW REGISTERED AS AN OFFICIAL CANDIDATE OF THE GAME. YOU ARE THE 12TH PERSON TO BE REGISTERED. NOW THE NUMBER REQUIRED TO START THE GAME HAS BEEN MET, THE MEETING SHALL NOW START*

| Shit that was so loud, my ears. What the hell does it mean by registered I didn't even agree to this shit, so all I had to do was pick up a damn card? How's that fair.|

Sekaitsu's vision starts to get all blurry and is filled with light.

|What's going I see a light in front of me getting brighter and brighter|

The blinding light in Sekaitsu's vision suddenly diminishes as Sekaitsu finds himself sitting in a throne in a round blue space surrounded by 11 other thrones and one huge throne. There seem to be other people sitting but it's too dark that Sekaitsu can't see their faces properly.

|huh, what is this place, how did I get here, wasn't I at the train tracks and who are those people sitting on the throne, are they other candidates? There seems to be nothing here but these thrones and this blue ring beneath the thrones. What is that big throne over there for and why is it empty|

Then a huge dark portal opened up at the big throne and a gigantic gruesome figure emerged from it, clawing its way out onto the throne.

|what the hell is that thing, I'm getting chills up my spine just by looking at it. Its unclear what it is exactly due to how dark it is but I don't want to find out|

*WELCOME CANDIDATES, I WILL BE YOUR GAME MASTER SERVING YOU *

|I think I'm going to shit my pants, His voice sounds so scary, it's a disgusting, creepy, dreary, grimy, frightening, malevolent, awful, and sore voice! I can't believe such a voice exists.|

*I SHALL NOW EXPLAIN THE RULES OF THE GAME. EACH OF YOU POSSES A CARD THAT HAS A NAME OF ONE OF THE LEGENDARY 12 KNIGHTS OF CAMELOT, YOU MUST KEEP THAT NAME A SECRET OR ELSE YOU WILL BE DISADVANTAGED. YOU CAN SWIPE ON THE TOP OF THE CARD TO TURN TO A PAGE, IN TOTAL THERE ARE 6 PAGES, THE INFO, STATS, STAT IMPROVEMENT, ABILITIES, QEUST AND CANDIDATE PAGE. I SHALL NOW EXPLAIN EACH OF THEM. THE INFO PAGE: ONE THIS PAGE YOU CAN SEE THE INFORMATION AND HISTORY ABOUT THE KNIGHT YOU POSSES, DEPENDING ON THE CARD, YOU HAVE A SPECIAL ATTRIBUTE THAT CAN BE SEEN AT THE BOTTOM LEFT OF THE INFO PAGE. STATS PAGE: YOU CAN VIEW YOUR STATS, THERE ARE A COMPLETION OF 12 STATS AVAILABE WHICH ARE STRENGTH, INTELLIGENCE, SPEED, VITALITY, HEALING, DEFENSE, MANA, SENSE, RESISTANCE, WEAPONORY SKILLS, COMBAT SKILLS AND ABILITIES. STAT IMPROVEMENT: IN THIS PAGE YOU CAN IMPROVE ANY STAT YOU WANT DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF STAT POINTS YOU HAVE, ALSO DEPENDING ON YOUR CARD ONE STAT WILL BE GIVEN AN ADDITIONAL 10 POINTS AT THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME. ABILITY PAGE: THIS PAGE IS WHERE YOU CAN SEE YOUR UNIQUE ABILITIES FOR EACH OF YOU, YOU ARE GIVEN THREE KNIGHT POINTS IN ORDER TO USE THEM, USING ONE POINT RESULTS IN A NORMAL SKILL BEING USED, USING TWO POINTS RESULTS IN A SPECIAL SKILL BEING USED AND USING THREE POINTS AT A TIME WILL UNLEASH AN ULTIMATE ATTACK. THE MORE POINTS YOU USE FOR A SKILL THE MORE POWERFUL OR HELPFUL IT WILL BE. QEUST PAGE:HERE YOU WILL BE GIVEN QEUSTS THROUGH OUT THE GAME THAT WILL REWARD YOU STAT POINTS AND HELP YOU GET STRONGER. SOME RARE QEUSTS WILL REWARD KNIGHT POINTS ALTHOUGH THEY WILL BE DIFFICULT, PLEASE NOTE THAT QEUSTS ARE NOT THE MAIN GOAL OF THIS GAME AND ARE JUST TO HELP YOU. CANDIDATE PAGE:LASTLY ON THIS PAGE YOU CAN VIEW HOW MANY CANDIDATES THERE ARE AND HOW MANY ARE REMAINING. I HAVE NOW FINISHED THE EXPLAINATION OF THE 6 PAGES.*

|He doesn't seem to be lying, it kind of works like a smart phone, when I swipe it changes into a page but what did it mean by quests are not the main goal, what is it? Does it have something to do with changing the world but there's no way that true, this shit has to be fake right?|

*THE RULES OF THIS SHALL BE EXPLAINED. THE PURPOSE OF THIS GAME OR HOW TO WIN THIS GAME IS YOU MUST KILL ALL THE OTHER 11 CANDIDATES IN OTHER TO WIN*

"WHAT"

*ONCE YOU DO THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHOOSE BETWEEN 5 TITLES. GAME MASTER, THIS WILL ALLOW TO RULE AND OVERSEE THE GAME, ALL GAME OPERATIONS ARE DONE BY YOU, YOU CHOOSE WHEN TO START THE GAME BUT YOU CANNOT STOP IT ONCE IT STARTED. AVALON, ONCE YOU HAVE THIS TITLE YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO AN UNLIMITED AMOUNT OF MANA AND KNOWLEDGE ON HOW TO DO ANY SPELLS, THE AVALON IS ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR CASTING THE SPELL NEEDED TO START THE GAME. LADY OF THE LAKE, A PERSON WHO POSSES THIS TITLE HAS THE ABILITY TO HEAL ANY DESEASE, INJURY, SICKNESS AND PLAGUE. THEY WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO GRANT ETERNAL LIFE TO ANY BEING. JOKER, WHEN A PERSON WISHES TO CONTINUE PLAYING THE GAME EVEN AFTER THEY WON THEY WILL BECOME A JOKER, JOKERS WILL NOT BE COUNTED AS CANDIDATES ALTHOUGH THEY CAN STILL WIN THE GAME, A JOKER WILL BE BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE EVEVRYTIME A NEW GAME STARTS AND WILL HAVE THE SAME STATS THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY IN THE LAST GAME. THE LAST ONE IS GOD, THEY POSSES DOMINION OVER THE UNIVERSE AND MAY CHANGE IT HOW EVER THEY WANT, REALITY IS THEIRS TO CONTROL BUT THEY DO NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER THE GAME. I WILL REPEAT THIS ONE MORE TIME, THE AIM/GOAL OF THIS GAME IS TO KILL EACH OTHER UNTIL THERE'S ONE PERSON LEFT WHO SHALL BE THE WINNER*

"KILL EACH OTHER"

Then a girl sitting 3 thrones away from me says, "Sorry but why am I playing this."

*HUH? I'M PRETTY SURE I GAVE SOMEONE AN ANOUNCEMENT ONCE THEY PICKED UP THE CARD OR WAS MY VOICE NOT CLEAR ENOUGH*

|WAIT SO THAT VOICE WAS HIS, NO WAY. THE VOICE EMITTING FROM THAT CARD WAS LOUD AND HIGH-PITCHED ALMOST THE OPPOSITE OF THIS DREADFUL VOICE I'M HEARING.|

The girl replies, "Your voice was clear b-"

*THEN WHAT'S THE PROBELM? *

"I never agreed to any of this, I never

wanted to participate in this

competition"

*IF YOU DIDN'T WANT TO PARTICIPATE THEN WHY DID YOU PICK UP THE CARD*

"I didn't know, how was I suppose to-"

*THE RULES ARE CLEAR*

"What"

*ONCE YOU PICK UP A CARD YOU BECOME A CANDIDATE*

"How's that fair"

*YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW*

"So we have to"

*KILL*

"How cruel"

Then a short girl stands forth from her throne, declaring and shouting these words.

"Everyone, listen up my name is Ritsuka Ei. My knight is Sir lionel. Two weeks from now I want all you to come to challenge me. If you manage to kill me I will reward 200 million, if try to kill me before or after the time you won't receive any money. Don't think you can just come and steal it, the money won't be transferred until the specified time and after that time all the money will be spent and donated. Finding my location won't be an issue after all I'm famous. I hope you will accept my offer."

*THIS SHALL BE INTERESTING*

|What is that person thinking, they're just putting a target on their back|

*THE MEETING SHALL NOW END*

Sekaitsu finds himself back on the tracks and a huge light is shining to his side.

|Huh that bright light is still here. Wait this is different, this is the light for the train even if I was roped into this game I'm still going to die, how lucky I will finally get to rest.|

The light of the train shining brightly. As the train hits Sekaitsu the man in black says

"sorry but I can't let you die"

It's not a perfect start to my story nor will my writing be in future but I will try to improve as much as I can so please me on my journey writing this book.

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