When everyone was either working or at school, a large, black hole suddenly appeared, covering the vast Earth. Curious about this sudden change, many brave people got out of buildings and headed out to take a look at it.
As soon as they got in range of the black hole, it suddenly began sucking everything in! Those closest were sucked in first, and those in buildings were sucked in together with the buildings they were in!
Nobody knew what happened after that, as all they could see was a pitch blackness, as if it was a moonless night.
Xiao Lin suddenly found himself in a large black space after that black hole appeared. He was just at class and now he is here, so he is confused and scared. He looks around the darkness and finds that basically his whole school is around him right now.
He is a bit glad he isn't alone here, but he is also nervous. What exactly is happening? Did the world end? Are we gonna die? These were the most common thoughts among all the students, including Xiao Lin.
All of the sudden, the darkness receded and they found themselves in a weird place. There was stone walls on each of the four directions, there was also a massive gate in the middle of one of the walls. Looking around more, Xiao Lin found nothing else besides people in this sealed off place, and was confused.
[Task 1: Survive.]
Looking up at the sudden screen like thing that appeared in front of his face, Xiao Lin had a bad feeling. Let's not mention the sudden appearance of the screen, the first thing it says is to survive, but survive what?
"Grrr..."
A sudden growl told him what it was. He, along with everyone else, looked in the direction of the gate. It is currently open and numerous small, green people walked through it. Although he doesn't play games that often, he can tell that they are known as goblins.
They are all carrying wooden clubs and marching towards the group with ferocious expressions on their faces. Seeing that, everybody began running away from the goblin group, Xiao Lin included. He doesn't know where they are and he has no idea what is going on, not to mention the amount of goblins there are.
They ran to the opposite wall of the gate the goblins came from, but there was nowhere to go. The only way to leave this place was through the gate across them, but the amount of goblins in the way makes it impossible.
Not to mention, what else would be beyond the gate. The amount of goblins that came out of the gate is nearly as many people from their entire school, which is 650, at least. All the girls start crying, and even most of the males start crying as well.
Xiao Lin feels his mind go blank when he sees a students head get smashed into bloody pieces by a goblins club. For some reason, his mind instantly cleared up and his fear disappeared. He was shocked, what exactly is happening to him?
He feels everything move slower, no that's not right. He feels that he can move faster, which looks like everything else is slower. He doesn't know why, but he suddenly moved forward and punched a goblin directly on the right side of it's head.
He could hear a crack and the goblin fell to the ground, and Xiao Lin was shocked. He knows his strength, he is weak as heck. He would barely be able to even fight back against a regular student without a weapon.
He blankly picks up the dropped wooden club and swings it at the head of another goblin, which pops like a watermelon. He could faintly hear a beeping sound in his head, but he couldn't hear it clearly.
He continues moving like he is attached to strings and blankly looks around while swinging the wooden club around, smashing goblins heads. This weird slow motion thing lasts for 30 seconds, and it suddenly disappears.
As soon as it disappeared, his body felt beyond heavy and he fell to the ground, staring dumbly at the goblins near him. He thought he was going to die, but a white light shone on him and a circular barrier formed around him, floating him into the air.
He doesn't know what happened, and all he can do now is look down at the goblins murdering his schoolmates. It was so brutal that he, a normal person, has never seen something like this before outside of a movie.
His body was shivering in fear while looking at the scene below him. He closed his eyes, but he could still hear their screams. It didn't last long, though, as he heard nothing soon after. He slowly opened his eyes and looked down again, only to see all of his schoolmates dead on the ground with smashed bodies.
Some had their heads smashed to pieces, some had their chests smashed in, some had their limbs smashed off, and some were just a bloody mess. Looking at the bloody hell down below, Xiao Lin can't handle it and begins throwing up.
He pukes until he can't puke any further and then sits down while blankly staring ahead. He doesn't know how long he stares blankly, but a sudden wave of screens popping up in his vision brought him back to his senses as he read over them all.
[You have activated the skill ??????]
[You have killed 1/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 2/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 3/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 4/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 5/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 6/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 7/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 8/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 9/10 goblins.]
[You have killed 10/10 goblins.]
[You have passed the task.]
[You were the only survivor.]
He stares dumbly at the bunch of screens and feels like everything is a dream when he read the last screen, 'You were the only survivor'. He looked down at the ground and saw everything, which told him it isn't a dream.
He can't move from his spot in the sky, and he has no idea why he is up here, so he simply waits and waits until a screen finally appears, explaining everything to him.
[Hello. You are the only survivor of the survival task, and you even killed 10 out of 10 goblins needed. You are probably wondering what is happening, so I will explain it to you. There is currently a Universal War going on right now, and every planet in the Shizui Universe, which is the Universe Earth is located in, is in a similar situation to Earth.]
[The mission is to find the strongest people from each planet that will assist in the Universal War eventually. You were the only survivor of your task, so you are the strongest from this batch. I am what you would know as a System, and yes it is something like those in novels you read before.]
[I would assist you in gaining strength by opening a Shop for you, but what you choose depends on you, and I won't tell you what is good. I can also show you a Status screen, similar to those of games, which would tell you your information. You can open the Shop after each task is completed, and how many points you have for it depends on your performance during the task.]
[First check your Status, and then I will open the Shop for you to buy something with your points. To look at your Status, just think 'Status' in your head, and it would simply pop up before you. It is something only you can see, so don't worry about people peeking at it in the future.]
Xiao Lin blankly read each of the screens that came up. He did not expect that a massive war between universes would be the cause of this hell he found himself in. He was angry but also scared and even excited, for some reason. He shook his head and thought 'Status', bringing it up.
[Name: Xiao Lin
-Gender: Male
-Race: Human
-Age: 17
-Strength: G-
-Agility: G-
-Dexterity: G-
-Vitality: G-
-Endurance: G-
-Intelligence: G-
-Wisdom: G-
-Charm: G-
-Luck: G-
-Skills: ??????]
He stares in utter confusion at the Status of his. He has absolutely no idea what the stats mean, as they don't have number, but rather letters. The ?????? skill in his Skills slot should be that thing that caused everything to be slower for him, which let him survive the task.
[Your Stats will always be graded with letters. The ranks of them go from: G- > ZZZ+. G- is obviously the lowest, and ZZZ+ is something Gods have. Now that you have seen the Status, it is time for you to buy your first thing from the shop. Choose carefully.]
A new screen, much different from the others, popped up in front of Xiao Lin. He saw many different things on it, so he read everything carefully, not to miss anything.
[System Shop - 100 points.
-Food: 5 points.
-Drinks: 5 points.
-Clothes: 5 points.
-Weapons: 30 points.
-Armor: 50 points.
-Medicine: 40 points.
-Skills: 100 points.
-Techniques: 100 points.]
The food and drink tab has every food and drink from Earth, and some he doesn't recognize at all. The same goes with clothes. Weapons and armors have all types of stuff, such as swords, spears, leather armor and heavy armor.
There are all types of medicine, such as regular everyday vitamins, to advanced healing potions that heal all wounds. In the skills, there are countless skills. Some allow you to fly, some allow you to use weapons properly, some allow you to use magic, and so forth.
As for techniques, there was only a single option in it. Truly, when he saw what the option was, he already decided he would be buying that. He has exactly 100 points, which is what the technique costs.
[Inner Energy Cultivation: Cultivate Inner Energy in your body to increase your strength. You can use Inner Energy on your weapons or body to strengthen them briefly, and you can also use Inner Energy to jump in the air.]
Although there are skills that tempted him to buy them, none were as important as this Inner Energy Cultivation, as he figures. Not only can you increase your strength with it, you can even strengthen your body and weapons, not to mention jumping through the air to travel.
He instantly purchased it and he felt like a gate was unlocked in his body, causing an unknown Energy to enter his body, which he already knows as Inner Energy. It is very thin and can probably only be used to help him jump in the air one or two times, and it wouldn't even be that far, but it has just been bought and he hasn't even trained it yet.
[You have purchased Inner Energy Cultivation.]
[Inner Energy has increased all your physical stats by one rank.]
[Strength increased from G- > G.]
[Agility increased from |G- > G.]
[Dexterity increased from G- > G.]
He could instantly feel that his body got a lot stronger than before. If before he could punch with 30 pounds of weight, then as of now, he can punch with 80 pounds of weight, which is over double from before, and that is only with one rank increase, and it is still at the second lowest rank.
He can't test his speed, but he can figure it also increase significantly. As for his senses, they increased by as much as his strength did. If before he could hear anything within 5 meters, now he can hear anything within 20. Same for sight, he can see up to 200 meters in front of him clearly, unlike before where he could only see up to 80 meters clearly.
[Alright then. You purchased something very good, which is all I can say. Train it properly. I will give you a small private room of yours that you would be able to enter after every task is completed. Rest up because you will begin again tomorrow.]
Xiao Lin suddenly found himself in a small room. There is nothing inside except for a regular sized bed, a small table big enough for one person, a washroom that has a shower and a mirror. There are a few shelves, but they are empty.
He felt dizzy but remembered what the System said, about him doing a new task tomorrow, and he is also tired from the hellish experience from before, so he lay on the bed and fell asleep within a few minutes.