Erwin and Blair were supposedly meant to be chasing down the twins but somehow they were in the middle of an open area with few trees around just standing and looking at themselves. Blair who had been ahead of Erwin for some reason stopped in his tracks and Erwin seeing this as an opportunity to catch up to the other increased his speed totally ignoring the fact that it was odd the way Blair had stopped without turning to look back. But soon enough he too would be made to stop dead in his tracks as well as they both looked at something quite familiar yet strange.
*Bing*
[Quest to grow stronger]
[Daily quest now available]
•Lift a weight of 50 kilogramme•
•Do 100 push ups•
•Run 500 meters•
[Reward:??]
[Penalty: pain]
This was the system notification that had popped up directly in front of them. And in any case, they were quite shocked to see this. Not because it was something they hadn't seen before, of course not. Truthfully, they were all gamers and things like this wasn't entirely new to them. But the fact that they were getting to experience it first hand and also how it had popped out of no where.
"Hmm, I guess this is a game after all. I mean we've got stats, skills and now daily quests" Blair stated after a few odd silent moments as they contemplated the entire thing. He wasn't entirely wrong about what he had said. They did get the treatment a game would offer. That is provided some of the odd experiences were taken out. But overall they could say they were having an almost game like experience.
"That's not an issue. I think you should be worried about something else. I know for a fact that back on earth we would have 24 hours to complete these quest. But given we are trapped here, a world i have literally no idea of how things work in it, how do we know we aren't running out of time. I mean we don't even know what the stupid time is here!!!" Erwin complained.
"Yeah, you do make a good point. I mean if we don't get the quests done before the next day, we would face the penalty" Blair paused and almost as if it was planned they both stared at the section that said penalty and then at the same time they looked at each other and gulped down hard.
"I mean, we can run 500 metres right?. We have literally been running ever since the inception of this entire nightmare" Erwin said not even for once trying to sugarcoat the entire situation they found themselves in. But they weren't going to get further room to discuss the matter as they could hear steps and when they turned they saw the twins running closely together.
"Hey, maybe we should join them. I mean it looks like that's what they are doing" Blair suggested.
"Hi, I see you guys are getting your daily quests done right huh?.. I'd suggest you begin with the 500 metre run. I mean you could get pretty tired after the others. Oh well, I better catch up to my brother now, we've got 1500 metres to do" Luke said and immediately ran ahead to catch up to his brother.
"Well..." Blair said and immediately ran off leaving Erwin who stood for a while making up his mind on which one to do first. But after what he considered as thorough thinking, he decided to do the 100 push ups. And he immediately fell to the ground and began to do the push ups. And after what felt like a while of doing the push up, he opened the system window again to have a look at his progress.
[Quest to grow stronger]
[Daily quest now available]
•Lift a weight of 50 kilogramme•
•Do 100 push ups•
-60 push ups remaining-
• Run 500 meters•
*pants*
"Come on..come on old guy...you can do this..hmmp" Erwin said to himself and continued on with the push ups. And after minutes of doing the exercise, he got a sound he was hoping to hear sooner.
*Bing*
[Quest to grow stronger]
[Daily quest now available]
•Lift a weight of 50 kilogramme•
•Do 100 push ups•
-Status : completed-
•Run 500 meters•
*pants....*
"Now that that's done, I should probably catch up with Blair and those other weird guys". Erwin thought to himself and began to run in the direction that he saw them pass. But after running several minutes he realized they were no where to be found. And normally this wouldn't bother him but given that Blair was with the twins made him worry.
As he ran ahead, he discovered that there were foot prints on the ground coupled with trampled upon grasses. This was of course the trail the others had probably left behind. Although he questioned why they would go so far. His original plan was to run ahead and turn around returning to where he had ran from. But as he was running it occurred to him that the twins had come from their back the last time which meant they had somehow gone in circles.
He also discovered one critical thing. Although this quite subtle, he discovered there was a drastic change in his stamina. He had been running for quite some time now and realized neither was he extremely tired like he would have normally been or sweat profusely.
He knew himself to be one that sweat a lot. Although now that he thought about it he wasn't too sure he had broken a sweat since they had entered the new world. It was either he hadn't or he just hadn't paid attention to himself sweating when there was literally millions of danger lurking around.
"I don't know if this is just because I have gotten to level ten. Something I can't explain myself how I achieved it. If I do remember correctly, I was still a little far from getting to this level. But certainly a lot of things have changed. I can feel an improvement in this body. Now to find that blue haired trouble maker"... Erwin said and increased his pace but he didn't have to run for long as up ahead he could see three figures standing.
And as he got closer he could see that it appeared as though one of the boys was squaring up with Blair. And immediately his anger grew as he was more than certain that it was a gang up. Not even thinking about the situation thoroughly he dashed in with anger which surprisingly had further increased his speed.
*Bing*
[Quest to grow stronger]
[Daily quest now available]
•Lift a weight of 50 kilogramme•
•Do 100 push ups•
-Status : completed-
•Run 500 meters•
-Status : completed-
But Erwin had little time to celebrate this achievement as something else was on his mind. And he had certainly locked in on the figure in his sight.
"You...you bastards!!!" Erwin came yelling and immediately he had tackled Luke the one with the red pattern on his hair. And in that split second he swung his hand down with the intent to hit Luke with a punch but mid swing his fist was blocked by another hand. And towering over him was the other half of the twins, Shaw.
"Let...go...of....my ...brother" Shaw said with no smile on his face.