Shun reached the 2nd floor and finally saw the mysterious man face to face.
"Who the hell are you?" Shun questioned pointing his weapon at him.
"What the hell? Seriously?" The man replied and chuckled.
"Huh? Wh-what's funny?" Shun give a confused look.
" Yuya was right! You literally can't recognize me! " He replied before bursting in laughter.
"You know Yuya?!" Shun responded.
"There are some shit going on here, earlier a man suddenly appeared and started killing everybody" The man replied.
"Answered the question, bastard!" Shun grumbled.
"My name is Rai Hayama, I'm your former classmate and Yuya told me to wait for you here!" Rai explained.
"Classmate?... I'm really not good at remembering faces and names !" Shun answered.
"Don't worry, Yuya told me that you probably won't recognize anyone unless it was him!" Rai responded.
"Yeah, Yuya is the only one I know in this shitty school...so where's Yuya?" Shun questioned.
"He already left with a survivor student, he told me to meet up with you and tell you their location so that we can caught up" Rai explained.
"I see! We need to hurry, where are they?" Shun uttered.
"Thee whole city is being rebuild into a game, the power is out. How are we supposed to go there? It's so dark" Rai responded.
"Eh? Really? Well I didn't notice!" Shun mumbled.
"How are we supposed to meet up with them, huh?!" Rai wondered.
"We need to find a teleportation stone or a portal key in order to reach them"
Shun was surprised to Rai's suggestion.
"Are you perhaps, familiar with this game?" Shun suddenly asked.
"Eh, You didn't know? This game has a pre release testing online a few weeks ago. I just happen to see it though! " Rai responded in playful tone.
"You're too energetic! We should go outside to find those items right!?" Shun give an annoyed expression.
"Yeah, but first we need to find out if it's already added in this current game system"
"Why is that?.." Shun raised an eyebrow.
"This world is constantly changing into a game, that means the game itself is still incomplete and still improving.. settings, stats, and rules are still changing accordingly.
They might add or remove some feature in the game in the following days. The three days that they given for the player's to level up is basically the time before they finish building the game system" Rai explained.
"I see so that's why we need to find out if the items we needed is already in the game, but how are we supposed to find out whether it's added or not? " Shun questioned.
"We need to find a raging cheetah, it's core is the teleportation stone or the white knight to Access the portal key!" Rai slowly explained.
"I see, so those creatures are part of the game?"
"Yes, there's probably 3 of each kind has spawned in Tokyo we need to find it" Rai responded.
"But since we're going hunting, I guess fighting is necessary, are you strong enough?" Shun curiously glanced at Rai.
"I'm currently level 3, I'm a wizard type and I can use lighting magic"
[IGN: BOLT]
ROLE: Wizard
[LEVEL 3 :EXP 105/1500]
ABILITY: Lightning Magic
HP: 1200/1300 (2 HP/second)
MP:75/80 (0.5 MP/ second)
MAGIC: 215 (+1 per mana)
MAGIC DEF: 18
PHYSICAL DEF: 13
AGILITY: 1.6 m/s
"What the hell, your stats is a lot different than mine! " Shun reacted after looking at his stat.
"Let me see yours!"
[IGN:HUNTER]
ROLE: Assassin/wizard
[LEVEL 4: EXP 1000/1800]
HP: 1335/1620 (3.5 HP/second)
MP: 76/120 (0.8 MP/second)
MAGIC : 285(+1 per mana)
MAGIC DEF: 40
PHYSICAL DEF: 15
AGILITY : 1.3 m/s
"The mana and HP Regen was moved, and there's a Physical and magic def now...what the hell!
It's completely different from earlier! Why?" Shun wondered.
"I already explained earlier! They might make some changes with the game system and your stats.
We can't call this system 'permanent' since it'll still undergo some changes as they see fit. They probably nerfed your magic since you're too overpowered!" Rai explained, looking at his own stats.
"My max HP has decreased by 50 points by the way!" He added.
"Alright...let's go!" Shun shouted from the door and started leaving.
"Hey! Don't ignore me!" Rai grumbled, throwing a pebbles at him.
"We know how to reach Yuya, but that doesn't solve the fact that it's so dark in here. How can we even find that raging cheetah and white knight?!" Shun annoyingly grumbled.
"Don't worry! I got your back!
LIGHTNING: SHINE!" Rai's body started glowing with magic light surrounding him.
"What the hell!..are you a magic flashlight or something, that's convenient!" Shun cleared his throat, almost laughing at the scene in front of him.
"Right!" Rai agreed with his comment.
"But your so bright, you will attract every single monster in this area, and we'll end up dead before we find what we're looking for!"
"You should've told me earlier" Rai responded quietly as they heard foots steps around the building.
"Shhhhh! are we surrounded?" Shun quietly whispered.
"I think so..." Rai responded.
"Let's split up for now..." Shun suggested.
"Why? Are you planning on leaving me behind?"
"Of course not, you're the one who lead me to Yuya! Just trust me I have a plan! Just keep on shining" Shun whimpered at him and run away in the opposite direction.
Shun can hear the weird noises that monsters make, outside the school building and up in the ceiling next floor.
"If we're going to hunt that beast, I need to reserve my mana for later, sorry 'classmate that I didn't remember the name' " Shun whimpered in his thoughts, running in the hallways turning left and right.
"It's a good thing that I can memorize directions and object position but in exchange, I'm not good at remembering names" Shun stopped in one corner near a window to rest, he's heavily panting.
He quickly ducks as he sensed the monster passing by outside the window.
He take peaks at the window as he saw a fast bright light passing through the windows, climbing up the roof as multiple monsters is following his track.
"Nice! Now I'm safe"
"That guy he was seriously strong at his level.." He thought.
MEANWHILE RAI
"Shun you son of a bitch, where the hell did you go, are you trying to feed me to this hungry monsters!" Rai screamed as he ran faster and faster as the monsters are getting closer and closer.
"F*ck, I'm gonna die!" He screamed.
"Don't worry, just keep running!" Rai hears a voice shouting, he quickly anchored his eyes to that direction as he saw Shun standing at the end of the building's rooftop.
"Shun?...what a relief!" Rai shouted as he runs in horror.
"Over here!.....now stop!" Shun ordered, Rai stopped running and made a confused look.
"Is that all of them?" Shun asked as he stared at the pile of monsters entangled in front of him.
Rai turned his head as he saw the entangled ugly creatures "Eh, what happened to them?" He confusingly asked.
"They might be terrifying monsters, but they're not that smart" Shun responded.
"This building will collapse any moment, I'm gonna kill it right away!" Shun stated, summoning his dagger and take a deep breath.
"DARK CLOAK!
DARK CLOAK: BLACK CRESCENT SLASH!"
In one swing his dagger sends a powerful black wave, destroying everything in it's path.
NOTICE
[Title: City Hunter]
PASSIVE ACTIVATED:
Killing monsters in the city will increase the amount of EXP gained by 10%
TOTAL EXP GAINED: 6915
"Huh?"
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]...
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]...
"Ehh again!?"
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]
" I level up four times in a row is that even possible!" Shun uttered.
[IGN:HUNTER]
ROLE: Assassin/wizard
[LEVEL 8 : EXP 205/3400]
HP: 1402/1960 (6.2 HP/second)
MP: 104/210 (1.3 MP/second)
MAGIC : 320 (+1 per mana)
PHYSICAL: 100
MAGIC DEF: 43
PHYSICAL DEF: 19
AGILITY : 2.1 m/s
"Hmmm, I guess I'm getting stronger!" Shun mumbled as he saw his stats improving.
"You're already level 8 , that means you already pass, right! " Rai stated.
"Ahh, I guess...but still I need to survive until the grand selection day or else my level will be wasted..." Shun responded with a gloomy expression.
[NOTICE]
PLAYER: 12035 (IGN:BOLT)
RECEIVED: 3966 EXP
NEW TITLE ACQUIRED: [HUNTING ASSISTANT]
Gain 5% extra EXP for every kill assist.
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]
NOTICE
[LEVEL UP]
"Ahhh! I also level up!" Rai screamed in joy before opening his status screen.
[IGN: BOLT]
ROLE: Wizard
[LEVEL 5 :EXP 461/2000]
ABILITY: Lightning Magic
HP: 445/1480 (4.8 HP/second)
MP:83/180 (0.9 MP/ second)
MAGIC: 215 (+1 per mana)
PHYSICAL: 58
MAGIC DEF: 18
PHYSICAL DEF: 13
AGILITY: 1.6 m/s
"Hmmm that's strange! How.did you leveled up?" Shun curiously glanced at the status screen.
"Normally isn't because of the assists, everytime a player help another player to kill some beast and monsters,
that player will gain 30% of the EXP that the slayer gained from the monster slain" Rai slowly explained.
"I see! So that's the way to level up without too much trouble!" Shun wondered.
"Anyway, how dare you, running off and leaving me as a decoy!"
"I told you I have a plan right!"
"GrrrrrrrrGhrr"
"What the hell was that sound!...A monster? Again?" Shun mumbled.
"That was my stomach, I'm starving!" Rai responded.
"Awww, sorry...it sound like a wild beast looking for a prey," Shun uttered.
"Shut up!"
"I think we should pick up some food at the supermarket, I doubt that those monsters eat human foods so there gotta be something to eat in there.
We need to fill our stomach before hunting!" Shun suggested.
"Wait, are we breaking in!?" Rai wondered.
"What do you expect? Buy a food? Like hell! there will a cashier over there!"
"You have a point!" Rai agreed as they jumped from the school building and landed on their feet.
"Wow I can't believe we manage to jumped that high!" Rai screamed.
"It's not that I'm not scared, I just feels like I don't need to!" Shun replied.
"So dark! Turn on the light!" He added.
"Yess sir!..but just to remind you, I'll loss 1 mana per second when its active! I will definitely suffer mana loss later! " Rai explained.
"And you have 0.9 mana regeneration per second, that means you will only loss 1 mana points every 10 seconds, so come on! Turn it on!" Shun insisted.
"Yess sirrr! " Rai responded.
"What's your name again?...Hai?Kai?Mai?" Shun suddenly asked.
"Rai! Hayama Rai!" Rai grumbled.
"Ohh, Hayamai !" Shun mumbled, making fun of him.
"Just....forget it!" Rai angrily responded as they walked to the dark street of Tokyo with a bright light that attract monster, not knowing what awaits in their destination.