Bermula dari sebuah aplikasi kencan, dua orang manusia yang berlawanan jenis ini dipertemukan. Riska merupakan wanita pengangguran yang sedang berusaha bertahan hidup ditengah kebosanan aktivitasnya di rumah. Sementara Ryutaro, penyanyi asal Jepang yang mulai meniti karier bermusiknya di Indonesia juga sedang dilanda kejenuhan akibat popularitasnya yang semakin menurun. Keduanya mulai mencari pertemanan di sebuah aplikasi dan secara kebetulan menemukan banyak kecocokan satu sama lain. Mereka saling berinteraksi dengan intens sampai suatu hari Riska menghilang dari dunia maya. Ryutaro mencoba untuk mencarinya dan menemukan fakta yang mengejutkan saat tidak sengaja mengunjungi daerah tempat tinggal Riska.

An otaku is being bullied in school. He got NTRed by the school bully. When walking the streets, he saved a 5-year old kid and got hit by truck-kun. And then he died... Did he?

Hans bring Max away from the crowded first floor both of them take the stair in the middle of the building to go up, unlike the first floor the second floor has only few people walking around. The second floor is the place where guild member and visitor can relax and rest, there is restaurant, gym and many more facilities in the second floor.

Third floor is where the administration center is the place is used to applying to join the group or posting a request, people from outside normally post a request for help in the guild where the request varies from monster extermination to card/material request.

The fourth floor is the most important place in the building it where the meeting place when there is an important association and where Hans' father office located, the core member had room on the fourth floor of the building.

"Oh, before you join the guild I think I will explain a bit about how the guild work." Hans stopped walking and explained how the guild work to Max.

The Guild have a hierarchy where the highest is the Guild master and the vice after that there is core member of the guild below it was Inner guild member and the last is Outer guild member. The core guild member usually go to an expedition with the guild master and vice guild master, while the inner member grouping together to an expedition they also usually bring some outer member to join the expedition.

There is 200 or more Core member in the guild most of them are people that had followed his father since the beginning of the guild, the number of the Inner member is around 5000 member while the Outer is around 20000 member. Those member already counted those that come from the branch guild in the other city, the guild had four branch guild in other city the leader of those guild are Core member of the guild.

The Core member poses monster with strength of Commander Tier it is one tier above Captain Tier, while most of the Inner member poses monster in the Captain Tier mostly there is some with Commander Tier monster. The Outer member mostly consist of new recruit so most of them have monster at Soldier Tier some of them have higher than that though.

But his father said that there is going to be a new system where the rank of a member will depend on their activeness, the level will also affect which request you can take but he said that it not feasible yet since the strength of monster in the world keep growing so the request you can take depend on your monster level.

From what he heard the monster strength has suddenly growing faster than before it probably the reason why the government let out the new rule, before they probably afraid of the people suddenly get power that can cause a huge problem to them. Now the government couldn't handle the problem caused by the monster by themselves and need the help of other.

"The world had changed into something dangerous now you won't know what will happen to you, you may be dead because a sudden attack of a monster just like the accident that happen yesterday. The world is no longer safe anymore now only the strong could feel safe." Said Hans.

He paused for a while before continuing his speech. "I wonder what will happen to this world? Will we the human able to survive through this ordeal or not?"

"You sure think far ahead if it me I would think about what can I do first instead of the uncertain future."

"That's one wise word, Max." 

When they reach the third floor Hans stopped walking in front of him a line of people were waiting to apply to the guild, there is more than 100 of applicant in the line waiting for their turn to apply. Both of them were shocked by the sight in front of them, the two have the same thought why there is so many people here?

After the accident happen many people realized that the only way to ensure their safety in this changed were by getting stronger as an individual or by joining a strong organization, this had make many guild flooded by applicant to join the guild leading to the sight in front of them.

"It can't be helped I will call my dad about joining the guild here I thought I can just quietly do thing." Hans feel helpless at the situation there is no way he will wait in that long line, he ended up giving his father a call his father told him that he will get someone to help him.

Someone soon show up to meet him it was someone Hans know a woman with long blue hair with cold eyes behind her glasses when she walk many eyes attracted to her but she doesn't even affected like a lonely mountain that stand tall before anything, Samantha "The Frozen Beauty" that how people known her.

"Young master, please follow me I will help with your application." She give a light bow to Hans.
"Okay, Let' follow her Max." 
"Understood."

She take them to the front of the line and personally help them with their application many people in the line were shocked and start protesting about the different treatment they get.

"Why those two brat can skip the line?"
"This is so unfair."

The workers of the guild were trying their best to calming down the angry crowd meanwhile both Hans and Max had done their application to the guild both of them holding their own guild card.

"So this is the guild card? Still can't believe that I can join Dragon's Roar so easily." Max hold his card highly while lost in bliss.

"Now that you are a member of the guild you must refrain of doing anything that tarnish the guild's reputation. Young master I will take my leave then." Samantha warn Max bringing back him from his thought.

"Yes Mam." Max saluted the leaving figure.

"Anyway let's prepare for our training." Hans only shake his head at his friend's action for him Samantha is more like his aunty and he know that she won't be angry at him unless he do something extremely stupid, now both of them need to prepare for their training. "Dusk Dawn Forest here we come!"

Hans Slynn is a professional in monster card battle and other strategy game , he is is well known in the circle of player as “Thousand Trick Man” he get this title because of his slyness when in the game. 

In an accident he was reincarnated into body of a baby. In his new life he was given name Hans Kallan .but he soon realized that the world where he reincarnated have many beast roaming the world and that everyone in the world can awaken a monster card inside their body and use the card dropped by beast of this world. 

The world uniqueness not deter him and instead make him excited living in the new world.

"This is going to be an exciting life."

Note:
The Chapter is around 1000-1500 word sorry if it was so short  '-')
I am quite shy and someone who talk a little so i probably won't show up that much.

「Would you be selling raw materials, Sir?」

The receptionist addressed me with a radiant smile as I approached the purchasing counter.

「Yeah. I wanna sell a monster's fangs, but I don't know its name.」

「…You don't know the name of the monster you killed? I can understand if you were a beginner. Still, you should learn all you can about your enemy before you fight it.」she said, regarding my whole being.

It seemed she was concerned about me.

She had a point. Fighting an enemy you know nothing about is suicidal. Unlike in BBO, if you die here, there's no respawn. I should be more cautious when facing a monster I'm not familiar with.

「I am a beginner… who haven't even registered for the guild yet. Wait, can I sell if I'm not even a member?」

「You can. However different monsters have different marketable parts, so there's no guarantee that you can sell the fang.」

…It would be quicker if I just showed her. I'm sure someone who works at purchasing would at least know the name of the monster just by seeing the raw material.

「I want to sell these fangs.」I said as I took them out.

She took a glance.

「Wolf's fangs!」 she exclaimed.

…It looks like the monster I took down is known as a Wolf in this world as well.

「Come on, now. You shouldn't lie. Where did you buy this fang? There are some who buy materials from outside then bring them here, but selling them without an official request won't count as an achievement and will not go on your record.」

She thought I bought the fangs so I could farm achievements. I doubt killing a monster that weak counts as one, though… Maybe the Wolf I fought just happened to be a weaker one.

「I killed it just now. Is it really a rank C monster? That can't be right.」

「It's true. It says so in the guild's bestiary.」

「I guess the one I killed just happened to be weaker.」

「They're the same species so there shouldn't be that much difference in strength. Besides, you said you killed it "just now", but those fangs are too clean.」

Fair enough.
That reminds me, this world doesn't know about the spell 『Cleanse』 either.

For now, let's set aside the argument on who killed the Wolf. To be honest, I don't really care about that either. I wasn't after achievements or anything.

「So anyway, how much for the fangs? I can sell it, right?」 I asked, presenting them to the receptionist.

Since the royal capital is on the neighboring continent, raising funds will be crucial. I can't cross the sea on my own. Considering civilization is not so advanced in this world, I might need quite a lot of money to get there.

「It will not go on your record, but we can buy them from you. 32,000 gils is the standard price, though given how neatly they were handled, I can give you 34,000. How does that sound?」

That's a lot.
In BBO, materials from common monsters were sold for next to nothing. With 34,000 gils, I can live for a week if I'm frugal. I should be grateful I met that Wolf.

「Okay, I'll take it. Can I register for the guild as well?」

「Of course, but you'll have to take an easy exam first. The exam fee is 5,000 gils.」

「All right. I'll register.」I said, handing the fangs over to her.

It's a tactic of mine: sell materials and take the opportunity to register as well. If possible, I want to get the exam application done quickly before they find out about my job class. If they find out I'm a Novice, they might reject my registration without even letting me take the exam. Or so I thought…

「Very well. Here's your money, minus the examination fee: 29,000 gils.」she said, handing me a pouch with silver coins inside.

One silver coin equalled 1,000 gils. I counted them all and it totalled 29 coins. As I was doing so, the receptionist asked me the one question I didn't want asked.

「What's your job class?」

I knew they'd ask me that. For a moment, I considered just lying and tell her I'm a Swordsman or something, but I'd get busted right away if they asked me to use a Swordsman skill. I should tell the truth.

「I'm a Novice.」

Her expression darkened. She thought about it for a moment.

「…Very well. You won't get a refund if you fail. Is that all right?」

「You're not gonna refuse my application?」

「There are guilds that reject an exam application, but we don't do that here. We let applicants take the exam to convince them to take a different career path other than being an adventurer. We believe it's for their own good.」

So they basically fail them. She mentioned the exam being easy, though.

「Didn't you say the exam's easy?」

「It is. For anyone whose job class is not a Novice, at least.」she said as she unfolded a piece of paper on the desk.

『Exam Subject Choices』was written on it. Apparently I can pick a subject.

「Please pick one you're going to take. You'll receive the same treatment if you pass regardless of your choice.」 she added, pointing at the subjects.

There were dozens of them. So if I just pass any of these, I can be an adventurer.

However, most of the subjects required the use of skills exclusive only to a particular job class; like『Successfully execute Power Slash 5 times in a row』or『Successfully activate Restoration Magic 「Heal」』. It goes without saying, but there weren't any skills that a Novice could use.

I eliminated the skills-related subjects, and there was only one left.
『Win in a mock battle against an examiner (a Swordsman).』

In all honesty, it was an extremely tough ask. I don't have any combat Skills and my stats are that of a Novice, i.e. the lowest of the low. The difference between job classes is a critical matter. Which is why I didn't change class back in my hometown and instead go to the capital to get the most powerful job class there is.

Not only that, I was probably still level one at the moment. After all, the experience points you get from taking down one Wolf is not enough to get to level two.
…That's assuming this world has such thing as levels.

I might be accustomed to fighting in BBO, but right now, I don't think I can defeat a trained Swordsman. I had no chance of winning, unless he sucked at combat.

Then again, if I fail, I'll only lose 5,000 gils. I might as well give it a shot.

「I'll take this one.」

「Okay. The examiner is at the training area. Please follow me.」she said as she left the counter and opened the door to the guild's training facility.

Looks like I'm taking the test right away.

A boy, born to a noble family, led a tragic life and in the end, met a tragic death. The next time he opened his eyes, he was in a world that resembled a VRMMO he played in his dreams. The inhabitants were ignorant even to the most basic concepts—concepts that would be considered common knowledge in a game—and kept on fighting inefficiently.

In this world, our protagonist, armed with his game knowledge, acquires the strongest job class there is—the Sage—and embarks on a quest to become the world’s strongest.

* * *


Grrr, grrrr—

Kii-ah, kiii-aaah—

It was really noisy in there.

Frowning deeply, Su-hyeun covered his ear with one hand. The loud growls and screeches that belonged to various monsters would obviously not sound good to anyone.

Gya-ong—!

Miru let out an irritated growl as if the noise was getting on its nerves as well.

Su-hyeun and his dragon were currently in the middle of a horde of monsters. The reason for that was pretty simple.

"All kinds of countless monsters" was this dungeon's theme.

Inside that place that resembled a cavern located deep underground, monsters maintained some sort of an ecosystem where they devoured each other.

It was fairly similar to Earth's ecosystem in a certain way. Plant-type monsters were devoured by the insect types, while the latter group would get eaten by other types of monsters.

And a monster bigger and stronger than them would devour them all.

Eat or be eaten—it was that kind of a dungeon.

However, Su-hyeun's appearance pushed them into acting as one group. They must devour the living human—that was the hostility innate in every monster.

"So many of them have shown up, alright."


[Provocation]


He went to the center of the dungeon and began attracting the monsters toward him to save time, even if only by a little.

"There aren't any monsters that we missed, right?"

Gya-ong—

Su-hyeun asked Miru as it flew back after it took a look around their surroundings. The dragon shook its head in response. He smirked and then studied a particular monster that had pushed its heads above the other monsters below.

Kiii-aaaah—!

This monster had nine heads. It was a Hydra, a creature that showed up only within legends. It was also the boss of the blue-colored dungeon and lorded over the others as the top dog of the food chain.

It wasn't that big all in all. Of course, it was still the biggest monster around, but as a boss of a blue-colored dungeon, it was certainly on the smaller side of the scale.

The real problem with this creature isn't its size but its toxins.

The venom from that creature's fangs and blood was far more lethal than any other poison known to man. It was so strong that, as a matter of fact, merely getting sprayed with its blood during battle was enough to melt down a person's entire body. Plus, its regeneration capability was more outstanding than any monster Su-hyeun knew.

Excluding that, this monster's characteristics are a bit lacking overall as a boss of a blue-colored dungeon, but...

That no longer mattered.

Maybe not right now, but something of a Hydra's level could certainly morph into a very promising summoned monster in the future.

Su-hyeun extended his hand forward. Right after he did that, Death Aura began leaking out from his fingertips.


[Trait "Necromancer" has been activated.]

[By using "Death Aura," you can see or command the dead.]


Su-hyeun's eyes turned pitch-black when his trait was activated. The monsters that were seemingly ready to pounce on him at any second shrunk back instantly for a moment.

He stared at them and murmured softly, "Arise."

The moment he said that...


["Dead Summoning" has been used.]

["Ouroboros" is being summoned.]

["Ouroboros's offspring" is being summoned.]

["Cerberus" is being summoned.]

["Death Knight" is…]

....


Gu-gugugugu—

Crack, crack—

Khiii-aaaah—!

The first thing to happen was the rearing from beneath the ground of a massive snake's head made out of nothing but bones.

All the monsters that surrounded Su-hyeun got swept up in an instant by the Ouroboros's entrance. The gigantic snake opened its bony maw wide and swallowed up the monsters in one go. Dozens upon dozens of monsters lost their lives in the blink of an eye.

That wasn't all.

Although just a snakelet, the Ouroboros's offspring that made its appearance next was still at least 1.5 times bigger than the Hydra. Then, around 20 other undead also showed up, which included the Cerberus, reputedly the gatekeeper of the underworld.

The overall number was fairly small. However, the forceful aura that each of them exuded simply overwhelmed the monsters before Su-hyeun.

Especially when it came to the Ouroboros, the number of hostile monsters meant nothing in front of the creature.

"Sweep them all away," Su-hyeun ordered.

All at once, around 20 creatures summoned by Su-hyeun made their move.

Miru did as well.

The red dragon had grown so much that using Breath many times didn't quickly tire it out anymore. The moment Su-hyeun gave his order, Miru flew up high in the air and began pouring out Breath into the middle of the monster horde.

Meanwhile, Su-hyeun stared at the Hydra. The monster's initial triumphant air lasted only for a brief moment, and then, it looked somewhat scared.

Step—

He began to walk slowly toward the nine-headed monster.

His steps gradually became faster. After taking a few more steps in that manner, Su-hyeun's figure simply vanished from the spot.

Kii-aaaah—!

Fwhooooosh—

The Hydra opened all of its nine mouths and spat out its venom.

The toxin was strong enough to instantly melt his body just from touching it. As Su-hyeun wasn't visible anymore, the monster decided to melt down the ground around it and put up a wall of green fog next.

"I guess you guys are also scared of dying, then."

The Hydra's heads hurriedly spun to look behind it where the voice came from.

Rumble—

Slice—

A blade enveloped in the divine Flame sliced off all of the Hydra's nine heads in one swing.

Originally, cutting one head off would mean two other heads would regenerate. However, the dark blue-colored flames scorched the necks of the Hydra, so it couldn't regenerate all of its lost heads. The monster eventually lifelessly crashed to the ground.

Thud, boom—

Su-hyeun stared at the sliced heads of the Hydra before dusting off the venom from his body.

"Well, that stung more than I thought."

After taking care of his surroundings, he extended his hand toward the Hydra's corpse. He had one last thing to do now.


* * *


[Soul Accumulation]

* You can now accumulate a targeted individual's soul. The number of souls you may accumulate will depend on your proficiency and the soul's grade.

* Proficiency: 12%

* LV: 4

* The number that can be stored: 80

* The number currently stored: 21


[Dead Summoning]

* Summon a body without a soul. The designated body will not decompose and will be stored away. The number that can be stored will rise with your proficiency.

* Depending on your proficiency, the target's body can be summoned in a more intact state.

* Proficiency: 48%

* LV: 2

* The number that can be stored: 30

* Application rate: 45%


Su-hyeun confirmed his proficiency in his two skills and saw some improvement in the past 15 days.

Soul Accumulation's possible number of souls that could be stored had increased to match the improvement in his proficiency. As for the Dead Summoning skill...

The application rate's improvement is just too low.

The "application rate" represents the percentage of how much of the dead creature's original abilities would be brought back after it had been summoned. In other words, the application rate of 100% meant that the summoned creature would retain all of its powers and abilities when it was still alive.

It would be great if I can raise this one up to 100%, but...

But he might need a long, long time to get there. More importantly, though...

Is five minutes my limit for summoning and maintaining everyone at the same time?

The number of summons wasn't that many, but the Ouroboros alone possessed a massive physique. Plus, its soul's superiority alone was far greater than all the other monsters added together.

I've gathered enough monsters to summon now.

For his current ability, this group of summons was already beyond adequate and already downright overabundant.

As an example, summoning them for around five minutes was enough to completely sweep away a blue-colored dungeon. More than anything else, the Ouroboros's corpse proved to be the biggest help of them all.

"Okay, Miru. Let's get out of here."

They confirmed that no more monsters remained in the dungeon. As they had no other reason to get hung up over this particular raid, he was thinking of going back to South Korea as soon as possible.

But then...

Gya-ah-oh-ong—

Miru's voice sounded off somehow as it replied to him.

"Miru?"

Su-hyeun quickly looked back in surprise at the dragon walking behind him. Miru was sweating profusely from its entire body. At the same time, it made a pained expression and began coughing and wheezing as if something was stuck in its throat.

"What's the matter?"

Feeling worried, he quickly rushed to Miru's side. The dragon began retching for a while before finally spitting something out.

Ptooi—

Tumble, roll—

It was a small red marble that was slightly smaller than an adult's fist.

Is that a Cintamani?

He knew that Miru had swallowed up the Cintamani in the past, but this particular red marble it just spat out was far smaller than the one he remembered.

What exactly is going on here?

While feeling somewhat bewildered, Su-hyeun reached down to pick up the red marble, but right at that moment...

Plop—

Miru collapsed on the spot.


Act 7


Snore, snoooore—

Miru was currently snoring away. It was curled up into a ball and wouldn't wake up no matter what Su-hyeun tried.

This wasn't the first time something like this happened. A similar thing happened back when Miru suddenly began experiencing the so-called growing pains stage.

Su-hyeun didn't know much about dragons. What he knew about them all came from some books that he read, and that's it.

However, he did know of a specialist on the subject, at least.

Slam—!

"Where is it?!"

A man kicked Su-hyeun's front door down and barged inside without any warning.

Song Hyeong-gi looked around, discovered Miru, and entered the apartment while hurriedly taking off his shoes. Su-hyeun stared at these exaggerated actions in dismay as he sat on his living room couch.

"Why are you breaking someone's door down?!"

"You said it's sick!"

Although that reply lacked the "who," it was rather obvious who Song Hyeong-gi meant just now. Su-hyeun nodded his head and looked at Miru currently snoozing away in the middle of the living room. "Well, I think it's sick, but I'm not sure."

"What do you mean, you're not sure?"

"Honestly speaking, I really don't know. Miru just kind of collapsed and didn't want to wake up. So, I can't tell whether it's genuinely sick somewhere, or it's simply going through another growing pains thing like the last time."

"So, it's not really sick?"

"We don't know that yet."

"But you still called me regardless? By lying about the dragon being sick and all? You son of a... actually, you did well."

Song Hyeong-gi lightly patted Su-hyeun's shoulder.

He was a firm subscriber of a certain opinion. If it's for the sake of any divine beast accompanying him, stop at absolutely nothing to make sure for real.

Therefore, he quite liked that Su-hyeun was worried about Miru being potentially sick and decided to lie to him to get him to come over as soon as possible.

Song Hyeong-gi began taking a good look at Miru up close. The red dragon continued to snore away, not even aware of the guest's presence.

"Its complexion looks fine, so is its breathing."

"Are you saying Miru's not sick?"

"Honestly, even I don't know much about red dragons. What I do know for sure is that your Miru did go through the growing pains stage and grew in size instantly like my own Yong. This looks really, really similar to that, but..."

"A dragon can go through that stage twice?"

"Well, my Yong went through it only once. Most other dragons are like that, too."

"Does that mean you're just as clueless as I am, Mister Song Hyeong-gi?"

"How dare you look down on me?! It's a bit weird, but for some reason, I get to experience a lot more trials related to divine beasts compared to other people. One of them happened to be related to dragons. So, it's not like I can't think up of a possibility or two."

"Can you tell me about them?"

Song Hyeong-gi lightly brushed Miru's head as he answered Su-hyeun's question. "Dragons experience two transformations throughout their lives. The first one is the growing pains stage that we talked about earlier. Now, normally, a dragon will go through this transformation about one year after their hatching."

Su-hyeun knew that much already.

Not to forget, Miru had gone through this stage already. However, it didn't grow much bigger than its size before, which was unlike other dragons.

"As for the second one... I can't be sure about this one. It kind of lines up with the symptoms that I know of, but it's just too early for that, you see."

"How early are we talking about here?"

"About a thousand years or so. In any case, when a dragon's age reaches a thousand years…" Song Hyeong-gi paused and looked at the slumbering Miru. "It goes through the awakening period, you see."

The strongest hero of humanity, Kim Sung Bin.

He threw everything on the line and fought but... He still couldn't prevent the destruction of the world.

But his legend has just begun as he returns 20 years into the past.

Early the next morning, Durand hastily left his hotel room to find Shrek Academy. According to the address Grandmaster gave to him, Shrek Academy was near the south gate of Suotuo City. After exiting the south gate and traveling for half an hour, Durand could see a small village in the distance. It was even smaller than Holy Spirit village where Durand and Tang San had come from. There was a small fence around the village to guard against wild animals. At the village entrance, there seemed to be a good amount of people gathered for some unknown purpose. 
Feeling hungry, Durand paused to take a short break. From his space ring, he pulled out a hot breakfast plate. Loaded with scrambled eggs, ham, seasoned potatoes, and mixed vegetables, Durand summoned his guardian spirit and made his shield float above the ground at knee height, facing upwards. Then he promptly sat on the shield and enjoyed his hearty breakfast. 
Just as he finished his food and had stored his now empty dishes back into his spirit ring, he suddenly heard a cheerful female voice coming from the direction of Suotuo City. 
"Ge! I can see Durand. Durand! Wait for us!" yelled Xiao Wu. 
Turning around, he could see Tang San carrying Xiao Wu on his back. Together, the three of them walked quickly toward the village where the amount of people gathered had grown. As they neared the village, they could see that the amount of people consisted mainly of youngsters similar to their age as well as adults who seemed to be their parents. At the village entrance, there was a desk set up with an old man behind it. Above the village entrance was a faded log arch with a faded engraving, 'Shrek Academy'. Above the two words, there was a green portrait of a humanoid bright green monster's head. A similar green round emblem was found on the chest of the old man's robes. This was clearly the Shrek Academy's crest.
Tang San and Xiao Wu were clearly extremely surprised by how old and run down the academy looked. Nuoding's Primary Spirit Master Academy was far larger and cleaner. Durand though, knew that Shrek Academy had very little students and could not afford the unnecessary extravagance that other spirit academies indulged in. Of course, this was much more due to the extreme and stringent requirements for enrollment. 
Smiling to the other two, Durand said, "Come on, let's have a look before we judge the book by its cover."
As they walked forward, they learned from overhearing snippets of the crowd's conversation that Shrek Academy was indeed incredibly prestigious. Spirit Hall, the largest organization on the continent, had informed many of them that graduating from this spirit master academy could allow one to become an imperial viscount. 
Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Durand quickly entered the line in front of the desk. At this moment, a young boy had come to the table to apply. By eavesdropping, they could hear what was happening at the front of the line. 
The old man lazily said, "The application fee is ten gold spirit coins. Put it into the chest to the side."
The parents following the young boy fished out the money and placed them into the chest. 
"Hold out your hand," said the old man. 
The old man kneaded on the arm for a little while and shook his head and said, "You are too old. Leave."
The parents quickly came up to speak with the elder, "Teacher, my son only passed his thirteenth birthday recently. Can't you be flexible once?"
Impatiently, the old man spoke again, "Don't hold up the line. Don't you know Shrek Academy's rules? The age limit is 12 years old. Anyone older than 12 years are not accepted. Leave."
"Then our application fee…" the boy's father hesitantly said.
"Application fees generally are not refunded," said the old man impolitely. 
The father grew angry and demanded, "We won't leave unless you give us our application fee. This is clearly a scam for money. If I had known Shrek Academy was so rotten, we would not have come."
The old man gave them a glance and indifferently called, "Mubai, someone wants their application fee back. You handle it."
From the side, a figure leapt up and said, "Application fees are returned as long as you can defeat me." 
This was the same figure that Durand had passed as he walked away from the Rose Hotel. Releasing his spirit power, his two yellow hundred year rings and one purple thousand year spirit rings floated up and down his body. The surging spirit power radiated out intangible pressure in the air. His evil eyes continuously flashed a cold light as they stared at the obstinate father and son. 
These powerful rings frightened the father and son and they quickly left with their tails hidden between their legs. The oppressive force produced by him could not be endured by ordinary people. As his eyes swept over the crowd, a third of them could not stand it and immediately left. 
By now, another child had come before the old man with his parents to apply. His mother seemed to be confident as she deposited ten gold spirit coins into the wooden chest and the young girl held out her hand. 
Kneading her arm, the old man said, "Exactly twelve years old. Release your spirit, let me have a look."
The girl nodded and released her spirit. A faint green spirit power was released and a single hundred spirit ring rhythmically hovered up and down his body. A long vine spiraled around her body. This spirit somewhat resembled Tang San's blue silver grass, except that her spirt was a vine and looked very similar to the ghost vine that had become Tang San's second spirit ring. 
Seeing this, the old man shook his head again, saying, "Not qualified. Leave."
The girl's parents had originally been confident but when they heard the old man's decision, their expressions immediately froze. 
The mother quickly asked, "Why? My daughter was a student of great ability at her primary spirit academy. Did you not see that her spirit ring is a hundred year? Spirit masters possessing a hundred year spirit ring cannot be many."
With the same indifference, the old man said, "The first spirit ring being a hundred year spirit ring is naturally pretty good. However, she is only an ordinary person."
The girl's father frowned and said, "I don't understand."
The old man became impatient. Immediately standing up, he faced the parents as well as the applicants lined up behind them and declared, "You should all be clear about the requirements of Shrek Academy since you have come to apply. Without understanding, you are just giving away your money. Right now there is still time for those who have yet to apply to regret. Do any of you know what the meaning of 'Shrek' in our Shrek Academy?"
Most of the applicants stared back with blank expressions.
The old man coldly said, "Shrek is a kind of monster; even among spirit beasts, it is still an odd existence. The meaning of Shrek Academy is that this is an academy only for monsters. One could also say that we only accept monsters and do not accept ordinary people. If you have already turned thirteen years old or your spirit power does not exceed the twentieth rank, you need not waste your time here."
Originally, Tang San had been a little disappointed regarding the Shrek Academy. But after hearing this old man's words, the interest in his heart ticked up. An academy only for monsters? Doesn't 'monster' also mean genius?
While speaking, the old man's body suddenly released an incomparably tyrannical atmosphere. Even with Durand, Tang San, and Xiao Wu's strength, they could not help but shiver all over. An intense red light abruptly released from the old man's body and a long staff possessing countless fine patterns appeared in his right hand. Most terrifying of all were the six spirit rings rising up from under his feet, their dazzling beautiful light immediately became the focus of everyone present.
The six spirit rings' colors were respectively one white, one yellow, three purple, one black. In other words, this meant one ten year spirit ring, one hundred year spirit ring, three thousand year spirit rings and one ten thousand year spirit ring. Unexpectedly, this shabbily dressed old man was a sixtieth rank spirit emperor level.
Even in the entire Balak Kingdom, spirit masters with similar power could be counted with one's fingers. The long staff in the old man's hand, rung with a deep muffled sound out in all directions, making all the people nearby stagger at once.
Facing the dumbstruck three before him and waving his hand, the old man said, "Next."
The light of the spirit rings vanished and all the spirit power also disappeared in a flash. The old man again resumed his previous lazy appearance, as if he had not at all just released that dominating spirit emperor pressure.
If there were still some parents unsatisfied because of the old man's words, then right now they were all keeping quiet out of fear. Who dared offend a spirit emperor? And one with a ten thousand year spirit ring at that? One must know, a spirit emperor's strength was equal to about a thousand elite soldiers. 
The disdain and contempt in the eyes of the parents and applicant students vanished instantly and completely. If the teacher responsible for applications was a sixtieth ranked strength, then what was the strength of the upper level faculty at Shrek Academy?
But very soon, the majority of the parents' faces all revealed sad and regretful expressions, silently bringing their children to leave.
To reach the twentieth ranked spirit power at only twelve years old, was extremely rare. Just as the old man had said, that requirement meant that those who could get into the examination possessed a talent truly reaching a monstrous level. The line that originally held more than a hundred applicants quickly dwindled down to less than twenty applicants. The old man did not seem to mind the number of students, and started back with his application work.
The people able to stay behind were clearly were confident to pass this old man. After handing over the ten gold coin application fee, the old man told them their first entrance exam was passed and they could enter the Academy's second entrance exam. The parents could not follow the examinees inside the Academy.
It seemed that Shrek Academy's high standards for enrolling students had excited Xiao Wu and whispered to Tang San and Durand, "This academy is pretty interesting, especially what that teacher said about only accepting monsters and not ordinary people. Truly very smart."
"It seems that we had needlessly doubted Grandmaster. This Shrek Academy is in no way ordinary," said Tang San with a slight smile.
As a result of nearing the front of the line, Dai Mubai could be seen by Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Durand. Just two days ago, Tang San and Xiao Wu had fought to claim the room at the Rose Hotel. Seeing Tang San and Xiao Wu, Dai Mubai gave them a nod in recognition but also spread his hands helplessly to show that they could only enter through their own abilities. When he saw Durand who was close with Tang San and Xiao Wu though, he had a moment of confusion. After all, Durand had not been accompanying the two of them into the Rose Hotel because he didn't want to sleep in such an amorous environment. 
Suddenly, the old man behind the desk exclaimed in shock. Durand's attention was pulled to the front where the old man was staring at the young lady in front of him in shock. The young lady had no parents for company and was alone. Wearing a simple white long skirt, she gave people a very neat feeling. Her hair was cut short to ear level and she was about half a head shorter than Xiao Wu. Though she faced away from them, her smooth skin and thin figure gave off a delicate impression. 
"May I ask, can I pass the preliminary exam?" asked the young lady. 
Her voice was gentle and pleasant to listen to. Though it lacked spirit, it sounded like velvet, giving a very soft feeling. Looking at Dai Mubai, who was nearby, Durand noticed that he was looking at the girl with a wolfish light. It seemed that his philandering nature was still very active. 
As the initial astonishment faded, the old man in front frowned and asked, "Do the people at home know that you have come here?"
"Don't they say that education is blind? As long as I meet the Academy's standards, you have no reason to reject me, right?" asked the young girl. 
The old man hesitated a moment before gesturing to Dai Mubai to bring her in. After bringing the several examination students that had passed, Dai Mubai returned just in time for Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Durand's preliminary exam. However, when he returned, Dai Mubai's expression transformed staring at something behind the trio in shock. Following his gaze, Tang San and Durand both turned around. 
Behind them, a single girl was walking toward the village entrance. She seemed even younger than Tang San and Xiao Wu with long black hair down past her shoulders. She was also about half a head shorter than Xiao Wu and had very fair skin. In contrast though, her body figure was inconsistent with her age and was very developed. Her fiery figure clashed with her cold facial expression though. Indifferent and cold, her black eyes chilled the hearts of those who saw them and seemed to hold not even a trace of vitality. 
"Hey, are you applying or not? If not, stop blocking the line," said the old man. 
As Durand and Tang San turned back around, they discovered Xiao Wu glaring fiercely at Tang San. This caused Durand to chuckle a little to himself and thought (Even at twelve they already seem like a couple). 
"We'll be applying together," said Durand as he dropped thirty gold spirit coins into the chest. 
The three of them held out their hands to the old man. Feeling Xiao Wu's hand first, the old man nodded to signal that she was young enough. When he shifted to Tang San though, the old man exclaimed in shock again. 
"Is your hand practiced in some sort of spirit ability?" asked the old man with some disbelief. 
When Tang San nodded, the old man asked him to raise his calf. After feeling it a few times, the old man also said that Tang San was young enough. 
Looking at Durand with an outstretched hand, the old man peered at Durand impatiently. 
"Didn't you hear that you have to be under 13 years of age?" asked the old man. 
Durand's facial expression turned a little strange and he said, "Sir, I am only twelve years old. You can feel my arm or leg to check."
The old man couldn't be blamed. Durand was already 185 cm (6ft) tall. This was an incredible height for a twelve year old and combined with Durand's incredibly muscular physique, it was easy for others to assume that Durand was already in his late teenage years. 
"If you aren't twelve, I'm going to beat you into a pulp," threatened the old man. He truly thought that Durand was an idiot trying to get though him.
"Please just check, sir," requested Durand.
With a face full of doubt, the old man raised his hands to check Durand's hand. As he did so, his face changed into a frown. He continued to feel around for nearly five minutes as his frown grew deeper and deeper. 
"Raise your leg," the old man suddenly demanded.
Durand complied with some amusement. It was always a little flattering at a young age when someone mistook your age to be older due to how well developed your height and muscles were. The old man continued to feel about Durand's leg for another five minutes. 
Finally, the old man grudgingly said, "Twelve years old."
Looking back at Tang San and Xiao Wu, the old man commanded, "Alright the three of you, release your spirits."
Blue, red, and jade colored light simultaneously flashed as the 6 hundred year spirit rings spiraled up. 
Xiao Wu gained a pair of rabbit ears and some white fluffy fur grew from the back of her hands. Her body became even more slender. This was here Spirit Jade Rabbit body enhancement. 
In Tang San's palm grew the most ordinary blue silver grass. In a flash, the infusion of spirit power soon transformed it into the grass vine like when he had fought the Armored Elephant with Durand and the Nuoding Academy dean. 
Durand had the most significant change though. His entire body except his head was covered in an armor decorated with white jade-like accents. On his right arm, a large 1.5m (~4.5ft.) shield appeared. 
The old man casually glanced at Xiao Wu before his gaze landed on Tang San's body. 
"Oh? Blue silver grass can cultivate this quickly?" he asked. 
With a faint smile, Tang San said, "Teacher, aren't you only accepting monsters here? Don't I count as a monster?"
The old man revealed a rare smile before saying, "Indeed a small monster."
Finally his gaze landed on Durand. A curious look came across his face. Durand's spirit was unrecognizable. Even to Grandmaster, it was rather mysterious. After all, this appearance was only due to a mutation from when Durand absorbed his first spirit ring. Therefore, the old man had never seen a spirit like Durand's Moonlight Guardian. 
The old man got up again from behind the table and walked over to Durand. After knocking on the shield and armor a few times, the old man revealed a large smile that seemed completely out of place on his face. 
"Another monster," the old man said with a small chuckle, "Alright, Dai Mubai, you can bring them inside."
Led by Dai Mubai, Tang San, Xiao Wu, and Durand entered Shrek Academy which was also the entire village. Durand was excited: he would soon be passing the exam and entering into Shrek Academy.

Durand was born from nothing. However, he transformed his circumstances and ascended the social ladders through talent, hard work, and perseverance. With help, he created cures for cancer with nanotechnology and revolutionized the space industry. When he died, his massive karmic merits allowed him to be reborn with gifts and talents in his next life. Follow as he rampages across the Soul Continent in this Douluo Dalu fan fiction.

Author Note:
This is my first attempt at writing a novel. To be completely honest, I am not entirely sure if I will be able to persevere like the character I have created and continuously bring forth new chapters often. Please give me feedback; positive ones will encourage me and negative ones will help me improve.

Considering I have very little writing experience, I plan to only release a chapter each week. I won't have a specific date of release either. (But Saturdays are a good bet.)

Current Word Count: 50,186

Day 6 – 8:04 PM – E3 Expressway, Parañaque, Metro Manila
One meter thick, sixteen meters wide and a hundred meters long…
That was how large the structure was in front of them blocking the entirety of the less than a hundred meter expressway. The whole structure was made of pure concrete along with its metal foundations. Aside from that structure that used to shelter that actual toll ticketing booths underneath it, there were also a large number of abandoned vehicles that littered the place. Even under the large structure, there were a lot of remains vehicles that were crushed by its weight.
There were three lanes of the toll area that was free of vehicles and the vehicles outside those three lanes were seemingly pushed aside. It had just meant that before the structure collapsed, there were people that passed this place. After shortly investigating the area, they concluded that the people that passed by should be the convoy led by General Perez' son 1st Lieutenant Rafael.
They were sure about that because they also received that report and the bullet casings that were left scattered in the area had serials belonging to the military. The soldiers were also sure that the collapse of this structure happened just recently considering how much dust could be seen in the surroundings. There was even a lingering smell of concrete in the air despite not closing in towards the collapsed structure.
"Should we call unto Bay City for assistance?"
Captain Dela Rosa suggested to Major Lopez who was beside him. They looked at the structure and around the area to see if there would be any alternative routes they could take. To the east side of the expressway, there was a small emergency road that should only be accessed if there were emergencies at the expressway. That same road now was filled with abandoned vehicles. The dump trucks had no way to push those vehicles aside as there was no extra space to push the vehicles to. That was how narrow that road was. They could remove the vehicles one by one but it would surely take a lot of time to do so.
Past the safety barriers of the expressway, the west side was a forested slope directly connected to Manila Bay while the east side was a highly forested block. Breaking the safely barriers on either side was not plausible either. Going back and finding another route was not possible either. The nearest roads going the same direction were all two lane streets. Those narrow roads would disrupt the formation of the vehicles and a lot of areas on the convoy would be vulnerable to attacks. It was because the narrow roads would prevent the military vehicles from moving freely.
Calling for assistance from Bay City was all that they could do.
Bay City was still more than four kilometers away from this place. If they could hold their ground till the assistance arrived, they should be able to find a way to deal with the collapsed toll plaza.
***
Mark wore a backpack filled with magazines that had just been filled by everyone inside the vehicle. While Mark and the others were fighting outside, the work of everyone inside was to fill in the empty magazines with the right ammunition. After they left the heavy traffic area near Zapote, Mark started to pack up the filled magazines into his backpack and took out several guns from the back of the vehicle.
When the convoy stopped, Mark finally stood up with three guns hanging on his body. None of them could understand what their leader was going to do with all that weapons and ammunition. The last time some of they saw him do that was back then when he retrieved his things from his house facing thousands of infected alone.
Melissa looked outside, Anna and the others who thought the same also looked out of the window. The place was rather empty and the soldiers and police were already dealing with the infected around the place. Why was Mark preparing this much?
Not saying anything to them, Mark walked out of the vehicle. Mei followed behind him and Odelina on the driver's seat did the same. As if sensing something ominous, the two little girls did not want to get left behind.
Stepping outside the vehicle, what Mark did first was to look at the sky and unto the southbound lanes of the expressway. The moon was already shining above them illuminating the whole place. However, this only made Mark frown even more. He them made his way to the back to unchain the motorbike from the back of the vehicle.
"Gege, is this the place?"
Mei asked while looking around. Odelina was doing the same. Remembering what Mark told them last night, their hearts were pounding with nervousness. He told them that everyone would die once that monster he saw in his dreams appeared. If it was before, Mei would not be afraid of dying but she felt that it was different now. She did not want to die anymore.
To their dismay, Mark did not speak but nodded in agreement.
He had no way of seeing the whole environment in his dream due to the circumstances and the flames that surrounded the place. One thing he was sure however, was the red bus on the right most lane of the southbound half of the expressway. It was the same red painted bus that he leaned his back on as he watched everyone being slaughtered one by one.
Nevertheless, Mark kept on feeling that something was not right that he had to glance at the moon every now and then.
The moon was already shining at the center of the sky. In his premonition, by this time, he should be already in his life and death struggle. Before he was almost squashed to death, the last thing he saw was the moon at the center of the sky.
"It's late."
Mark muttered. Actually, if it was like this, most people would already rejoice that the disaster seemed to have passed already and nothing happened. Still, he could not shake off the foreboding feeling.
He looked at Odelina and took out a phone and told him a combination of numbers.
"Master, what is this for?"
"Open it. There is only one non-system default application installed there. Every two hours, that application will request for a password and you have to input the numbers I told you. While the password is not inputted, the application will lock up and if the password is not given for another hour, the application will delete its data. Remember that unless something happened to that phone, you have to keep it from deleting the saved data."
"Why?"
Odelina was confused.
"The content of that data is something the scientists in Bay City will surely want. I'm sure you can use that to exchange for something important from them. Keep that phone and if something unexpected happens and all of you need the aid from General Perez or from Captain Dela Rosa, you can use that phone in exchange for their help."
Odelina remembered what her Master said with great importance.
"Master, are you sure this will work?"
To that question, Mark shrugged his shoulders while he pulled down the motorbike.
"Who knows? Maybe it could, maybe not. At least, there's more possibility that it will than it won't."
RUMBLE!!!!
A loud rumbling sound echoed across the place taking everyone's attention. The sound seemed to have come from the buildings quite a distance away to the east from their position. The sound of rumbling metal and concrete filled their ears even louder than the sound of the gunshots.
DRAAA!!!
KROOOAR!!!
Two roars of unidentified origin followed the rumbling sounds. Those coarse, ferocious and loud roars made everyone's hair stood up on ends.
BAM!!!
RUMBLE!!!
The roars were followed by a loud sound of something big crushing unto a building and by the sounds of a collapsing structure.
The sources of the sounds were still far away and they could not see anything but it made the soldiers clutch their guns ready to fight anytime. Roars and sounds of collapse continued and was getting louder and louder. It was as if the sources were closing in towards them slowly.
"Master, I thought, you say that there should only be one?"
Odelina frowned facing the direction were the loud sounds were coming from.
Mark was also frowning. There should only be one and he was sure of that. One of the roars they were hearing was familiar to him. It should be the one that supposed to appear here and annihilate them.
Hearing the frightening roars, Mei could not help but clutch Mark's arm. Not because she was afraid but she suddenly felt that Mark should not follow his initial plan anymore. The things happening now were far from what he told her and Odelina.
Seconds and minutes passed and the sounds became louder and louder. With uncertain event that was about to happen, the soldiers instructed everyone to move the vehicles into the further lanes and assume a defensive formation. For some random coincidence, Mark's vehicle, the MB sprinter, was actually placed just in front of the red bus.
Without the lights coming from the houses and the streets, the moon fully illuminated the place.
Everyone's hearts was pounding as they all faced the same direction.
Finally, the first building just on the other side of the forested block collapsed in a loud rumble. They finally had a glimpse of the source of those roars.
Two terrifying monsters were in a struggle fighting each other.
The first one was what caused the collapse of the building. It threw the other monster towards the building showing its unfathomable strength. It was humanoid at a shape of a female but it stood on its fours, no, rather than its fours, it did not have its hind legs. She was using her stone clad hands to drag her body forward. However, even though she was crawling, her height on that position was already staggering three meters. Her skin was covered in rough stone. Due to her massive size she was not too fast moving but her body structure was enough to make people looking at her freeze.
RUMBLE!!!
The second monster stood up from the collapsed building scattering dust and debris around. The monster was actually larger and taller that the first one. It was about as tall as a two story house which should be about five to six meters. Its head was too large and was shaped like a frog with its gaping large mouth. The monster's stomach was bulging and its arms and legs were all obese looking. However, what was more noticeable was its rough skin with a metallic luster.
After standing up, the frog headed monster charged towards the stone woman. It was fast moving despite its size and weight. It opened its mouth lashing out its long tongue towards the face of the stone woman. The blade covered tongue hit the stone face causing a display of bright sparks but the stone woman was rather unscathed. The stone woman countered with a punch but the frog headed monster jumped up agilely dodging the attack.
"We're not watching a movie right?"
A question from one of the soldiers slipped through the loud sounds of the fight between the large monsters.
They all wished that they were just watching a movie right now.
The two monsters in front of them were fighting but no matter which one win…
They had no way to fight it.
Turning back where they came from? It was even more impossible. Surely by this time, that horde of millions of infected should have already reached the entrance of the expressway.
They were all stuck here waiting for their deaths unless they could find a way to survive this horrifying event.


It was just a normal morning but it was unknown to many that the apocalypse already started.

The origin was not determined but the infected started to appear after a cosmic event happened just outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.

The people and animals turned into man-eating mutants and zombies while some of the lucky ones gained superhuman abilities. Every living creature that had not "turned" started to evolve as the whole world was affected by the Mutagen.

However, it seemed that Earth also had its hidden side that humans would discover in a very uncanny way.

And was Mutagen the last of it?

Unfortunately, not.

Follow Mark, an Otaku, a Gamer, and a Shut-in that got trapped in the middle of the apocalypse due to an uncanny reason. Using his unconventional thinking, knowledge, and abilities, how far can he go in surviving the apocalypse filled with zombies, mutated beings, and dangerous people as a survivor in a world that was changing for the worse.

After the progress reached 100%, The watch started rebooting and after a minute of restarting, he could use it again.
"Ding! It is detected that host has completed the achievement of level 1 Hunter."
"The achievement panel is added to the system interface."
"please visit the achievement panel to collect your rewards."
Before Allen could check out his newly updated watch, he was suddenly surprised by a string of system notifications.
'What the hell are these achievements? Is this an RPG system (role playing games) or an Equivalence system. where is the Equivalence.' He thought to himself mirthfully.
He thought about it many times and even tried asking the system many times why it was named Equivalence system but the system always keeps silent about it.
He could only give up.
Anyway, Black cat or white cat, if it can catch mice, it's a good cat. So, he ignored these useless questions and hurriedly opened the system panel.
There he could see a new blinking tab with the name of achievements added to the existing ones.
After opening it, there are a long list of Achievements and their corresponding rewards written beside them.
All the achievements are grey except one that is blinking with golden light.
It was the achievement representing level 1 Hunter. He clicked on it.
"Ding! Congratulations host! You got a free lottery chance"
"Ding! Congratulations host! you got a level 1 Monsterverse."
"Please collect your rewards from the system inventory"
Looking at the rewards, Allen was puzzled and immediately opened the system inventory and found a book quietly lying there. The book has a 1ft X 1ft cross section and it is nearly 5cm thick.
With a thought, the book immediately appeared in his hand. The book is very heavy and he felt his arm almost sinking down. The surface of the book cover is black like ink.
There were some mysterious runes on the book cover and he felt as if his consciousness was being sucked into it when he tried to observe them deeply.
Allen opened the book.
The pages of the book are pure white. There was nothing on the first page.
So, he tried to go to the next page but couldn't pry open the next page. It was as if the pages in the book are firmly attached to each other. 
After 2 minutes of futile experiments, he could only give up trying and asked the system.
"System! What is this Monsterverse and how to use this?" Allen asked.
"The Monsterverse is run down version of a great treasure used for training peerless warriors in a certain Advanced civilization."
"Each page of the Monsterverse can  store the soul and DNA of a particular monster. With enough energy, you can project these monsters into the internal world of the Monsterverse and you would be able to fight the particular monster with your thought projection."
Allen was stunned. Isn't this just like the virtual simulation chamber? 
Though it was somewhat disappointing, on further thought, isn't having a portable virtual simulation chamber always with you a very exciting thing?
He could now hone his combat anywhere and at any time without the need of a virtual simulation chamber. 
The only problem is how to add the monsters into the Monsterverse. According to the system, he needs the soul and DNA of the monster to add them to the Monsterverse.
"System! How to absorb the soul and DNA of a monster?
"The soul of a monster can be absorbed by activating the Monsterverse with your spiritual sense at the proximity of a monster's death within 5 minutes of it's death. As for DNA, just place the monster blood, fur or anything with it's DNA on the page and it will be absorbed." replied the system.
"Why is it only level 1? What are its limitations?" Allen asked again.
"As it is a run down version of the real Monsterverse, the level 1 Monsterverse can only store level 1 Monster and 10 level 2 monsters in it." system replied.
Allen felt happy hearing that. Level 2 monsters are equivalent to spirit budding realm. So, he could have combat partners at least until then.
Thinking that there is no use looking at the Monsterverse without any monster souls, Allen placed the Monsterverse back into the inventory and once again put his focus back on the updated watch.
With the technology of the earth federation, even the normal electronic watches are quite advanced.
They look quite nice with a screen spanning 5cm across the hand. The screen can be expanded by pulling the diagonal end.
After the watch was updated, The operating system was quite smooth and there were a 3 new applications installed in it.
One of them was the Hunter's assist. It deals with all the hunter related issues. It is maintained by the hunter's organization. 
He opened the application and he was surprised to see that he was already logged into it. 
There were many categories included in the app like the hunter's forum, hunter's gear, monster encyclopedia etc..,
There were even paid videos of hunter's fighting various monsters. Even though he wanted to watch them, he could only roll his eyes at his account balance.
The second app is the Hunter's radar. This function is almost completely based on the special comm chip.
The hunter's radar will instantly consume the battery and will work like a radar and sweeps the surroundings and will display if there are any living beings in the surroundings.
The distance of the sweep depends on the amount of energy input. His electronic watch is not a low end product and has a lower battery capacity.
According to the radar App, it can only sweep along a radius of around 7.5m in the air and 1m underground.
The last application is a simple one name 'Save Me'  whose only function was to send a message to all the nearby hunter's when the hunters life is in danger. It can be activated manually or automatically when the watch detects that the hunter's life signals are deteriorating.
When he was exploring these changes, suddenly there was a message notification from the Hunter's assist.
"Hello hunter! I am Javid from hunter's organization. I am your aid from the rookie hunter program." said the message.
"What's that?" Allen immediately replied.
"It's a program launched by the government to help new hunter's so that they will not die as soon they enter the wilderness. As a new hunter, you are qualified for the assist."
"We are going to assign an established hunter team as your guide for the first hunt. If you are alright with it, please give us a date so that we can assign you a team that is available on the said date."
Looking at the messages, Allen was surprised and then was happy. Just as Allen was puzzled about how to get monster souls and DNA, This thing came like an Oasis in a desert. All Allen had to do was to follow them and he could get combat experience in the wild and also get some well needed monster souls.
After thinking about it, He decided to get it done with it as soon as possible. 
He knew that he lacks time and didn't want to delay things even for a little bit.
So, he hurriedly replied back saying that he was ready to go into the wilderness and it is better to have it done as soon as possible.
"Alright, Hunter! We will notify you as soon as an established team of hunters are available. You can always contact me if you have any doubts or if there any further changes." replied Javid.

Amos Redcloud, the prince of Redcloud family who was desperate but helpless in the face of fate chances upon The Equivalent system.
"System! where is the Equivalence?"
"Poke a hole in this sky and I will give you the answer."
From then on, Amos started his journey with relics from myriad realms to Poke holes in every sky he chances upon.

Disclaimer: The System follows the rules of the universe and doesn't give the MC power out of nothing. The plot will try to reason everything.

「 Application Form For Early Access Of Infinite 」 

In the cold room , where I was alone. The sound of rain water dripping from the ceiling echoed in my room. The room was empty only some necessary things like books , refrigerator , fan , study table, bed were the only things present in the room. 

They someone's room show's there personality or there thinking. I guess that's true , this room truly show how I think just necessary things are present there's no wallpaper on the wall no designer tiles on the floor just a empty room. Same as me who've done nothing great or praiseful in my life just a 'functioning human being' would be the best way to describe me empty from inside. Not having a goal , a dream , a LIFE just a empty shell.

Coming back to reality , after seeing the notification I thought
 
'Huh!? What is this?'

I didn't know anything about games. I used to play games when I was a child but after some years due to some incidents I just gave up on everything and now I'm here.

And then clicking on this notification open a website on which it displayed it's contents and asked for my information

 | Infinite |

Project by I.G. Group 

"We've been working on this project or game for 5 years with top tier management team. We aim this game to be on the top from the day after it's released. We've made a game with as the name says Infinite possibilities. With the VR capabilities the game experience gets better."

'Now that I think about it VR on Continent Zex where I live were popular and Rin also had one , as a game addict he used to kneel down and show respect to the VR set he had. Portraying it as some kind of god to him.'

I.G. Group the one who's beta testing for this game is also a famous company in VR making companies some may say their products as a top tier , premium products.

Currently the most popular model of VR in the world is  Greed-∞ (Z edition) It was not hard to get and was available in most of the shops. I.G. Group made VR depending on their consumers. They've created so many options for their consumer's that it was easy to find a compatible VR set for everyone.

The VR model went like this :-
× Greed - Maxed out specifications to play every single game in this world and with the most optimal software designed specifically for this series of VR. Used by many professional players.
× Star - With the most sleek design and customizable software unlike Greed. This series is more software oriented and performance is just one level lesser than Greed Series.
× Adapt - One of best VR set with an affordable price which can deliver the performance on the level of flagship VR's of different companies. With technology at I.G. we've created a VR that is a 'Monster' for it's price.
× Stunt - Our lowest priced VR with the most basic software from the company which is compatible with it's specifications. It's low price doesn't mean that performance is compensated. VR which are in price range of Stunt can't be compared to it.

Why did I.G. Group's VR performance was better than any other companies? The reason was the core of VR's produced by I.G. they were produced by a team of geniuses which are the same team for the game 'Infinite'. 

I got this information from some article I read a while ago. I started reading the message further

"We're currently rolling out beta testers seats for limited time. This beta testing will help us understand how the game is from gamer's perspective and also help us improve with the help of your feedback and reporting bugs and glitches of the game so we can fix them. We at I.G Group sincerely ask you to help us make this game better. "

"Kindly fill the Application Form We'll not disclose any information you fill in the following Applications Form."

• Application Form •

Name : 
Gender :
Age :
Occupation : 
Phone Number : 
Mail :
Continental I.D. Number : 
Why should we choose you : 
• Submit •

Without thinking I filled the application form. Gliding on phone's keyboard , I filled it as fast as possible. After clicking the 'Submit' button a new notification popped saying

「Thank You For Submitting Your Form We'll Further Inform You Via Mail 」 

'Why the hell did I just do that?' 

In my mind I knew myself , It was because I thought that this could be my escape. NO , I wanted this to be my escape. Escape from this world , Escape from the 'Present Me' who is pathetic and cannot do anything.

And that's how I got into world of Infinite a game with Infinite possibilities. The next day I got a mail regarding the Application Form I submitted.

What made human what they're now? There are many reasons for that , but I mainly think it's because of there 'Skills'. Yes , 'Skills' is the answer , skills that some had since birth in the form of talent, that some worked hard for, that some gained accidentally. And I'll obtain them , Yes I'll obtain the best and most powerful skills available.

Obtaining Skills? Is it possible for you obtain only the best skills in this world in your human life span? It wouldn't be possible if 'Infinite' didn't exist

I'm 'Axel' 
In Game Name :Excess.

In the world of Game 'Infinite' I'm a powerful Swordsman,No wait I'm a powerful Magician.

Welp I guess I play all the roles.

How did this happen?

What made this strong?

"Skills Made Me."

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