Before the Start

Hi, I am Ray, yes that´s my name. For now, I will not say my last name because is not important at this moment. At this present moment, I am seventeen years old and is today the last day, the twelve-month, and the year twenty-three of the glorious calendar, from the dragon empire. And tomorrow will be a very important day for me.

Maybe you could ask, why is that important for you? With all joy I can tell you, tomorrow will enter in me something, really We don´t have a respectful name for it, we just call them the "System", no one knows where is from, and all that we know is in reality not much. One day, maybe one hundred years ago appears from nowhere, before the system, we live on our planet with peace, well a relative peace of course, but I can assure you nothing like now. Then we fight for only space and resources, well that is what say me, my grandfather, know since then we fight for our survival.

My grandfather was the first generation with this "privilege", and to be honest, it´s nothing to envy. Now is know many things, for example, know it´s known to every monster has a type of debilities and even we can divide them into types and abilities. Then, before the system, no one has a superpower or what we call them now a "gift" In the days when appears the system, die almost everyone on the planet, and now only survives 1 percent compared to the first days. The most ironic thing is, that majority of them die by other people's hands, even from his closer lovers, and friends, and sometimes even by the hands of family. Was really a dark time for us, for humanity.

Know it's the third generation with the system, but only wakes up in the eighteen birthday, and is very generous, he has a special gift on this special day. At the noon the system will take this special person on this special day and he will send him to a place called "the white room", I guess you can imagine the cause of that name.

Then He, the system, will give you a little shake, he gives you a little inform, and sends you to a mission of course, and well if you don't accomplish this mission you have three alternatives.

First. You find a special exit and get out this is normally the hardest alternative in this solution.

Second. If the mission doesn't have a limit of time, you just stay there to live, sadly is the most common decision taken when they don't see an alternative. Of course to that you need to survive before.

Third. You pay with something that we call SP or "System Points" With enough SP you can pay your exit. Of course, almost no one can pay for this and will affect you directly in the next stage. But when only you have two alternatives this makes it much simpler to take a decision so always chose to live another day.

And of course the most popular, we have death, of course, a natural and inevitable fate. Interestingly, not everyone is sended by the system, but even now, it's not known what judgment does to make a difference in us. Maybe is something biological or mental. What is a fact is, if your parents were sended before, then you CAN have a 99 percent assurance, you will be send too.

So then, geting back to the, tomorrow maybe i could die, i can not be sure about it. But well, maybe no one will know what happen to me there. Could happen if I get into a problem and I can not get back, like my parents. Oh right, I didn't talk about my parents, they were the second generation with the system, they actually have a cool title and a glorious past, but has passed ten years since the last time I seemed them. They one day say to me "We have to go" and of course "You will be better than us" and then they just go.

We know they are not dead because they have a special link with a magic treasure in the family, in this treasure basically, we write our name, then we spread our blood in it, and then woooow the words get a supernatural shine. I know a little magic involved in there. But thanks to that, I know my parents are not dead, and maybe, one day, I will find them. But right now, nothing to worry about, well only my possible death of course.

So, maybe you can ask. Why are you talking about all this? I could say two or three reasons to can justify why, but all I will say is, I have a lonely childhood without parents and friends, with some luxury, but without a really good company. So I have this habit to talk with me sometimes. And what can I say? I am a really good companion, indeed I think it sometimes. Even if I don't talk loudly, I will do it in my mind, so maybe it's a protective mechanism to keep a sharp mind, or something like that.

Even if I am right or don't, it doesn't matter now.

The only thing I can assure is, tomorrow will be greater than another day for me.

Tomorrow will be my birthday.

Tomorrow will be the first day in the year twenty-four of the dragon calendar.

Tomorrow celebrates the anniversary of the empire.

Tomorrow could find my father (I don't think so if I'm honest)

Tomorrow can be the last day of my life.

Tomorrow I will create my future or die trying.