Anarchy.

July 5, 2033.

Viktor was already level 6, while the rest of the family was level 5. They chose the classes they had planned to choose.

Today he was in his room, which since he had left had become the family's storage room, but now that they were living together again it had been cleaned out.

Some time ago Viktor upgraded his system to level 4. At this level, there were no major changes.

The most notable for Viktor was that it allowed to distribute the rewards as they wanted in the party, to buy various things from the store, the free chat between privates at a certain distance, and the daily gift.

The system gave away every 24 hours something small like a bottle of water or small amounts of Scoins. It lets choose from a few random options. It may not be much compared to investments, but it was still useful.

Plus they could touch things that in the future might be hard to get, like a pen or pen ink.

This function is also a layer of the system that could even be upgraded to give better things. But there was no need to pay for level 1 when unlocking level 4 of the system.

He wanted to save up for the level 5 system as it allowed more skills, among which there were some very useful for warriors.

The level 5 system is quite expensive, about 2500 Scoins. Level 4 costs 1000, which Viktor already spent.

First, they thought of upgrading all the systems to level 3, but then they decided to save.

Until level 5 of the system, there would be nothing useful for the 2 mages of the family.

Instead, Akiba did upgrade the system to level 3 with the level 1 investor, which was equivalent to spending 900 points.

It was a bit expensive, but they thought it was worth it since his father would have no use for the mana until level 5 of the system. He might as well start investing it in the system as Viktor did.

They were short of buying level 5 plus an expensive skill, so it was better to invest a little now.

They also bought 2 knives for the father which cost 90 Scoins in total.

Then a simpler knife for both the mother and sister for a total of 40 Scoins.

Hunting together they had obtained a great amount of Scoins since adding the 4 of them together they could have about 1000 Scoins more, which they kept.

Some things bought or learned using the system, such as skills, could not be traded. So knowledge of a magic spell or similar things could not be given away.

This knowledge was too difficult or impossible to explain, even though it was easy to learn by learning it through the system. At least it could not with their current knowledge of the system.

They did not know what would happen at levels beyond level 5.

Users could access information from the level after their current level of the personal system, so they could know something about level 5.

There was also a lot of information on the web, but the most interesting information was restricted to certain people or had to be paid for.

***

Gradually the group remained stable as time went by. Viktor's family reached level 6, while he decided not to level up too much to give his family experience.

Even so, he sometimes hunted alone when his family talked to the others. So he reached the middle of level 6.

The experience required to level up was higher for each level, sometimes it was even more than the Scoins required to upgrade the system.

Although both seemed to require irregular amounts, or governed by a strange rule.

For example, level 5 of the system was more expensive than the experience required to level up to level 5, while the opposite is true for level 6.

They also read a publication of the MHA that there is a possibility that certain requirements apply to certain classes. For example the class called Engineer, which required that the person managed to create from basic resources something complex, without doing so could not pass level 10.

In the world there were several elites at a fairly high level, exceeding 25.These were mainly people with political or military influence.

The familiar group was getting better and better.

Especially the improvements of the mother and daughter duo were noticed, since they were mages who depended on mana. Now that they had more, the improvement in their spells was noticeable.

Unfortunately, they still lacked to buy level 5 of the system, which has many possibilities in terms of skills.

Even so, with time the group managed to improve a lot.

They adapted more to their roles in fights and could kill more monsters.

They faced several different monsters as they traveled through the nearby areas and moved farther and farther away.

Something that was quite noticeable was that the zombies were getting stronger, they no longer died easily.

In addition, they were now gathering in groups and it was difficult to keep up with the pace of improvement. But Viktor and his family managed to improve more and more.

On one occasion they fought against an orc, which was very strong and led several mutated zombies.

This gave them a lot of experience but it was a really tough battle.

After that, they managed to kill more monsters and finally, Viktor was able to upgrade his personal system.

After that, they managed to kill more monsters and finally, Viktor upgraded his system to level 5 and bought the skill he wanted for 2000 Scoins.

This skill was [Fortitude], which increased strength by 10 points for 30 seconds at level 1.

This was like a whole level from level 5 only invested in strength. In addition, the skill could level up, which was achieved depending on the use of the skill.

The problem was that it cost 20 mana.

Generally a person's mana increased by 1 per level, and points could be invested to gain more.

The same happened with health, it increased passively even without spending points, but it was possible to invest in it.

But Viktor realized that his mana increased not by one but by 2 per level, even without investing points in it. Unfortunately, the same did not happen with his health.

But still he only had 23 mana points, he believed that this increase in his mana was because of the strange [Eye of the Great Lord].

Which was why he could only activate the ability once every 2 hours or so, which was something that seemed to be not that useful.

To Viktor, however, it seemed like a good enough thing.

Now, the biggest problem the group could have wasn't weak monsters, if their hunting speed didn't improve, that was fine.

But if at some point a very strong and fast monster found them, they wouldn't know what to do.

These 10 strength points could help them in that situation.

30 seconds might not seem like much, but in a heated fight, a single second is enough to kill.

30 seconds might be enough to run away if the opponent is very strong or to kill him if the fight is evenly matched.

With this, the group was going to be able to be safer.

Also, they noticed that the military no longer chased those they hunted.

In fact, there was an official release clarifying that they were going to let civilians hunt monsters. Since the situation was bad enough and the monsters were getting stronger and stronger.

The military was used to using firearms and now they do not possess these. There was really anarchy in the world.

Yes, there was still a state (at least in the UK), but not even the soldiers themselves would follow their orders.

Those who were once soldiers had moved up the levels, and although they formed joint groups, were not a single united group that could rule people or control them.

Still, when Viktor saw them passing by he tried not to be seen...He didn't want to fight with high-level people.

He knew that the average soldier was level 4, but there were several elites who were much better level.

***

July 20, 2033.

After a while the second group was running out of food, so they tried to go to the supermarket, but it was already empty. There were other supermarkets but all of them had shortages.

Also, the area of these departments was mainly an avenue with a few departments and clothing stores. There were not many places with large food stores.

There was an Mc Dinal nearby, but it had nothing but rotten hamburgers.

So their food situation was alarming. Even though they were already level 3, they still had food shortages...

Lucia asked Viktor to help, he surprisingly didn't refuse, but he didn't want to give their supplies away for free either.

So he said they could give them a shopping cart if they would trade it for Scoins.

The group at Melissa's house was fine with that and finally decided to trade 3500 points for the cart.

This might seem like a lot, but with how expensive it is to buy food in the system, it was a good thing. Plus, the cart could be kept for a while because it had food in cans.

This was more convenient for them than upgrading their personal systems to level 3 and buying the "expensive" level 1 inverter, which although it could produce food, it would only be enough for 1 meal per day, which was not enough for the group.

They could hunt and get more points in the future. Besides, Viktor's group had helped them level up, so now, giving points didn't seem bad for them.

All over the world, the system had collapsed, there were no longer governments powerful enough to control everything, and the situation was total anarchy.

The only thing that existed now was a unique and hegemonic currency, the new currency; the Scoins.

Many of the militaries no longer helped the people but hunted for points to strengthen themselves.

***

July 23rd, 2033.

All this anarchic chaos became the norm.

Viktor reached level 7, while the rest of the family reached level 6 and accumulated some experience at this level.

Lucia and Emma bought the level 5 personal system. This was a major breakthrough for them.

In fact, they even had points for Akiba to update, but decided that momentarily he would have to wait.

This was because the new features of the level 5 system were expensive.

The most notable thing about this update was that they could unlock numerous class skills in the store, although were common skills, these were very useful.