Mixed Realities

[Welcome, Player 1!]

[Your arrival has been awaited for a long time.]

[The Emberhorn will stretch its authority over Planet-B612, also known as Earth, gradually over time.]

{ [Username: Nord]

[Level: ????] - [Stat Points: ?????] - [Exp: ?????????/?????????]

[Race: Mythical]

[Job: Adventurer]

[Weapon: Mythic Killing Dagger(S-Grade)]

[Modifier(s): The Serpentine Slayer]

[HP: 1500▴▾/1500▴▾] -- [MP: 600▴▾/600▴▾]

[Strength: 102 ▴▾] -- [Agility: 102 ▴▾] -- [Sense: 85 ▴▾] -- [Vitality: 102 ▴▾] -- [Intelligence: 105 ▴▾] }

"Does that mean I got a Hacked System!?" I yelled out as I stared at the stats window which had appeared.

Wait, wait… Is this even real?!

How the hell do I have access to the system in the real world too, and I got the mythical race too…

Following the usual tropes of novels and stuff… Does that mean the game has become a reality and will start taking over the world as it leads into an apocalypse?

"No, no, no, this can't be!" I panickingly opened another tab on my browser and refreshed the searches and hashtags to see if anything new was booming.

"..."

Other than the game crashing and shutting down, nothing new seemed to happen.

"Huff, huff…"

I'm scared, right?

I'm terrified, right?

It doesn't make any sense at all, right?

So why do I have a grin etched on my face then?

Is this excitement rather than fear? I don't know…

"Haha…" I couldn't contain my chuckles as I even felt like yelling out in celebration.

Does that mean that I will slowly become like my character in the game?

I based him on my physical appearance back then… but I've changed into a fat dunce during the three years of unhealthy gaming.

Hell, his face was way cooler and so was his physique too… Well, it was still mine, just in the game.

"What about my weapons and stuff…" I trailed down as I swooshed my arm in the empty air, hoping that the system menu would appear.

[Stats]

[Weapons]

[Inventory]

[Style]

"Phew…"

[~Weapons~]

[1. Mythic Killing Dagger(S-Grade)]

[2. Staff of the Ever-Dying Mage(S-Grade)]

[3. Titan Evading Sword(A-Grade)]

[4. Unspoken Will of the Sword(A-Grade)]

[5. The Threads of Life(A-Grade)]

[6. …]

[7. …]

The list went on and on, I had managed to fetch quite the collage of weapons needed to fight during my venturing time from the first to the forty-forth.

Even if I wasn't one of the strongest in the game, I still was one of the exceptional ones.

Still… Can I bring them forth to the real life?

I moved my fingers subtly to the best weapon I had on the list…

[1. Mythic Killing Dagger(S-Grade)]

I clicked with my index finger on the platform that had no physical density.

"Oh?" Blue ripples stretched across the section where the name of the sword had been as something materialized into my hand's clutch.

Not a penis, it was my dagger.

"Whoa, hahaha! It worked!" I yelled out at the thrill of getting hold of something that I had only used in a game.

"It's heavier than I expected…" I trailed off as I scanned the dagger.

The silver into gold blade was slightly bent at its sharpest point. Whereas its hilt that was just a bit larger than my hand to feel comfortable with and had two holes on the sides where I could insert my fingers to keep a tight hold of it. As for the design of the hilt, the vertical front and back were made out of gold, and its design was of leathery scales where my palm rested.

Probably a design taken after the hydra's skin.

"Now… what should I do about my body though? This notification said that Emberhorn will stretch its authority over the world gradually and that I'm player one."

[Welcome, Player 1!]

[Your arrival has been awaited for a long time.]

[The Emberhorn will stretch its authority over Planet-B612, also known as Earth, gradually over time.]

I stared at the notifications.

I'm player one, the first to have access to the game in the real world.

What about others, though?

Did anyone else get hold of the game and system in the real life too?

Based on the 'Stretch Authority' part I can only take it that a limited number have gotten access as beta testers.

But that means we get special treatment and have more knowledge before the game takes over the world, muwhehehe.

"..."

Wait.

What will happen to our world when the game fully stretches out its authority?

I don't even want to imagine it.

In the game, you could restart even if you died. But here… there's no going back.

You die once and you'll be gone for good.

Ding.

A notification reached me from RoastCord.

I slid my chair forward so I could check it out.

[Smool: Heya… we should meet up I gotta tell you something weird that i cant do so over chatting online -- 18:54]

[Noid: Did the system appear in the real world for you too? -- 18:55] I asked immediately, not daring to waste any time.

[Smool: yes. yes it did -- 18:55]

[Noid: Phew, im glad im not the only one… -- 18:56]

[Smool: what i wanted to also talk tho is the system's quest that has been given to us -- 18:56]

[Noid: a quest..? — 18:57]

[Smool: yea, a main quest — 18:57]

"You must be kidding with me…" I trailed off as I slid my hand on the empty air as usual.

The system window popped up as always and on the top right was the Quest section.

[Quests]

I tapped on it to open the drop-down list of the challenges that may have been offered to us.

[~Quests~]

{ [First Quest - Main Quest]

[Details: Deal damage to other players (000/100)]

[Success: 15 Stats Points + Potions]

[Failure: Death]

[Time Limit: 1.00 Hour(s)] }

"You must be fucking with me?!" I yelled as I stood up, my chair flying to the ground behind me.

Another notification entered my sight after I read the contents of the first quest.

[Materialization in the venue happens in: 00:05 Minutes]

Huh, that's just 5 seconds…?

"Oh shi—!?" I couldn't even finish my words as my world blurred.

That blurred world of darkness started materializing with pixels, the same way I materialized when I logged in to the game.

"This is… the Gladiator's Colosseum?" I voiced dumbstruck as I recognized the arena I had only seen through pictures.