{notice: earth has collapsed and has been replaced, entering hibernation until powers are introduced, preserving powers—— as a result of preservation all powers have been locked away, besides the HP system, reintroducing to the world, world runs completed: 8—>9. Please try to save the world in the next run! :] }
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the boy woke up on a bus, a very familiar one, it was spewing on about powers and all that, boosters and the first hero, the boy was on a field trip to a room of relics and boosters, a museum and shop of sorts, but there was no money to be payed and only hero's had access to these powerful boosters, this world was orderly, but when villains attacked they were devastating, most of the populace didnt have powers as power stones were quite expensive, of course he himself couldn't afford one, as he and his family were in poverty, the fist hero just came upon a stone by pure luck, soon they found more, fining deposits, however, unlike real minerals, each had a unique symbol, this usually indicated what type of powers the stone held, all you needed to do was absorb the power, which was like second nature once you made contact with the crystal
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after a short while of excruciating bus time they got off the bus listening to a strangely familiar tour guides and gym teachers speach they get sent into the building, as they walk about they see a bunch of stones and items such as masks
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off on another building a large man speaks "well! Maybe we can break this insidious cycle once and for all!"
"doubtful" another man speaks up "the world has designed it for us to lose and be the fist stepping stones"
"but why did we win all those other times?" The man asks
the other man sighs "that was so that the boy would grow emotionally, but that last run was the longest one yet, and it seems the lethargia caught up with him, probably all feels like déjà vu, i wonder how that all feels?" They disappear
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he follows the group, this all feels to familiar, he hates it, and as he gets to the top floor he can feel a pull on him, he looks at a pair of doors, he walks towards them, knowing that if he doesn't do anything all his classmates will die, he slams open the doors as researchers jump back away from a very large green rock, the boy touches the rock and starts to absorb the power
"how is he doing that!?! No ones been able to!"
the stone slowly shrinks as it enters his body and it pops into his body as he hears a swoosh and then screaming, he walks out and looks around, seeing his injured classmates and a stone presumably dropped by one, he picks it up and looks at the symbol, its of a blade spewing shadows out, his mind tells him he can acquire the power at a cost, he absorbs the crystal as he spews blood, the two men look on in curiosity at the unusual actions
"this has never happened before" the big man says
"this is the ninth run, his brain is in a interesting position"
"how would you know?" The big man asks his comrade
"i mean i made it that far, and thats how my mind was" the smaller man replies
"you made it to the ninth?" He whistles "damn, i made it to the second run, how far do you think he'll make it?"
"id bet he's gonna be the one to end this"
"what makes you say that?" The man asks
"he's "that" things son"
"wait really!?!"
"no doubt"
as they were too focused on themselves the boy was able to get acquainted with his second power, he formed a blade compromising of his own shadow, it wrapping around his hand to act as a grip, he readied the blade, swung it around a bit, it made no noise, but the boy realized that was because of how sharp the blade was, also the fact that it was a shadow and didn't have enough density to let the air go around, he approached the large man and slices him in half with one quick blow
"Hey kid could you let me live? I can tell you the secrets of-"
the boy ignored the man, he suspected he would find out these "secrets" soon, or that he wouldn't care, either way, he walked up to a classmate and helped him up, behind him, the courses dissipated, all that was left of them were their robes and two sparkling stones, then a screen popped up in front of him
{notice: time sync 100% completed}
soon, he felt immense pain in what he could only assume was his soul, he yelled in pain as everyone backed away
in their point of view, the boy who just effortlessly killed two people was now screaming in pain with blue sparks and energy coming off him and soon a screen appeared in front of them and read
{hello, and I welcome you, to the death game run, this world will be tested for its sin value of [murder] and [willingness to do murder] as well as [violence] and [corruption]}
to all the people it looked like a game, and they began to wonder 'is this why we were given powers?'
the boy eventually snapped out of it and read the same message, at least until the screen updated
{first mission, save/kill one 1person. progress 0/1}
the boy knew what this was without needing an explanation, he stood there with his head down to see what might happen, soon it didn't take long, one boy, known as the class clown charged at another student, the boy had no interest in human life, but he didn't want to see someone so willing to kill another, from his experience just now, it wasn't fun, but, he also knew he may have to do it again