The older man brought them into the city and showed them around, the other group had already left so it was only Anton and Anna. The older man said that he is one of the leaders of this city. They saw a colosseum in which the second part of the level takes place he showed them their hotels and where you can buy something to eat. When they entered one of the hotels they got a system message.
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Congratulations on completing the first half here are your rewards:
5000 coins added to your balance, Total amount (10 000), 1 mythic power drink (worth 10 mythic power stones)
You are the 2,652,701,123 players to finish the first half.
The information on the second half will be given in
1:59:30.
Explore the city till then.
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Nice a mythic power drink this will boost my power even more and maybe I can buy a good sword with 10 000 coins the stuff the goblins drooped was all common weapons and the Goblin King didn't want to give up one of his swords.
"Hey Anton"
"Yes, Anna what is it?"
"Lets part ways now I have to find a few friends and our deal was just till here want it"
"Ok yes your right I too have some friends I need to find maybe we will see us later"
"Yes, I think we will Anton what about a goodbye hug?"
Anton wanted to say something but Anna had already hugged him Anton's face turned red like a tomato and the other people standing around in the lobby of the hotel were enviously looking at him. Then Anna let go of him smiled and went up to the reception Anton was still stunned but quickly got himself together and left the hotel to eat something.
He quickly found a bar to eat in and when he walked in he saw two familiar faces beside them there was a middle-aged man with red hair and a strong build. One of the two familiar faces recognized him it was Ben he yelled and winked at him.
"Anton hey Anton come over here"
"Hey, Ben hey Luca why where were you guys?"
"What do you mean me Luca and Eddie here were clearing the level"
Anton sat himself down to them and Luca winked to a waiter and all of them ordered food. Then Anton began talking about what happened from the moment he entered the white room till now except he didn't tell that Anna hugged him and that he became a discipline of a Goblin King.
"I already expected that you were in a different room Anton so we just hoped that you wouldn't die but that is a crazy story Anton"
"Yeah, I too hoped that you wouldn't die but let's hear your guy's story"
"Ok so it all started when we met Eddie here"
Luca began to tell their story from when they saw him fight to how they all three spawned together in the abandoned lands and how they fought day and night against the monsters and nearly died but could survive because of a group.
The group had some serious strong fighters and their leader was a super strong man and handsome too he had black hair and was wearing a white coat under his leadership they made it safely to the city.
"Yeah I think we wouldn't be alive or not all of us would be alive if he hadn't helped us"
"Ok so then I will have to thank him"
"Wait Anton you know this guy but we just described him?"
"Yes I don't need his name to know that's him we are basically like brothers so we know each other pretty well"
"If I heard right you helped my friends a lot I am thankful for that"
"Ahh you don't need to be it was a fun journey and I would like to continue it with you if that is okay"
Eddie got flustered at Anton's words and his nose turned a little red as Anton observed him carefully he thought why not he looks ok to me and if Ben and Luca think he is a good teammate there is nothing wrong with him coming along.
"That would be great Eddie the more people we are the stronger our Group gets"
"Hey Anton don't play the leader here"
"Huh I was just saying Ben I don't intend to be the leader if you want to be the leader discuss it with Luca and Eddie"
Ben's face got a little red because all the people in the bar looked at him it seems he talked a bit too loud. Luckily the food came and everyone went back to their own business. They all ordered the same it was lion stake with rice and salad.
"Enjoy your meal guys"
"Yeah you too"
After they finished eating they went outside the bar to the hotel and Anton took this time to look at his status window which he hadn't checked since the white room
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Name: Anton
Age: 18
Sponsor: I roll down the hill
Titles: Discipline of the Goblin King of Death (Legendary)
Elements: Wind Lv.5, Fire Lv.6, Darkness Lv.1
Attributes: Strength Lv.27, Agility Lv.21, Speed Lv.30, Stamina Lv.26, Mythic power Lv.5
Skills: Fire pistol Lv.3 Wind jumps Lv.4 Fire sword Lv.3, Fire Fists Lv.1
Amount of coins: 9950
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He was satisfied with his progress the only weird thing is that there is a new category 'Titles'
but maybe it was to show that he really was the discipline of the Goblin King or so he thought.
They walked to a different hotel, not the one in which Anton and Anna parted ways but the one beside it the hotel was really beautiful it was made out of sandstones and in a Roman style when Anton thought more about that the whole city is built in a Roman style. Anton always wanted to go to Rome one day but hadn't had the chance till now so he was enjoying this walk to the hotel.
"Hey the second part starts in a minute boys"
"Oh you're right Eddie"
"Do you by chance know what the second part is about? Surely this city won't be destroyed or what do you think?"
Anton asked them and they looked at him and questioned if he even listened to them at the bar.
"Hey Anton we just spoke about that in the bar didn't we"
Anton was confused, what did they talk about? They talked about their journeys and about the Tournament that will start today. Wait a Tournament he thought that must be it.
"No, I just remembered it is a Tournament right?"
"Yes that's it but Anton if you remembered why did you ask"
"I first thought it was a Tournament we could watch not one we participate in you didn't speak about that exactly"
"Oh your right"
They started to laugh a little bit about their stupidity and went into the hotel. When they walked in they got a system message not just them but every player who was in the city got a system message.
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Task: Take part in the Tournament of the Middle city and reach the top 10 000 players. You need to pay a fee of 10 000 coins to participate. You can register for the receptions in the hotels.
Reward: Places: 1st 150 000 coins + Title + a skill | 2nd 100 000 coins + a skill | 3rd 75 000 coins + legendary weapon | 4th-10th 50 000 coins + epic weapon | 11th-100th 25 000 coins + common grade weapon | 101st-10 000th 12 500 coins + low grade weapon
Failure: No reward and not recorded in the list of strongest people
Time limit: 7 Days (Tournament)
Participants: 1,000,000,000 players can participate in its first comes first takes.
Good luck to everyone and might the strongest win :)
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Anton was stunned by the amount of money one gets for the first three places and it was not only him it seems like everyone was stunned because it was so quiet in the hotel, not even the city was quiet. Anton slowly looked at the number of coins and shit he needed 50 coins more these were the cost of the food. So he decided to ask his friends.
"Hey does anyone of you have 50 coins left I am short for the fee"
"What you have so many coins I only have 4000"
"How many monsters did you kill Anton?"
"I don't know about a thousand"
His friends and Eddie were stunned by Anton's amount of coins and amount of monsters he had killed and asked him if that were all the monsters out of the forest and if they were strong or weak. Ben then decided to give Anton his 50 coins and made a deal that if Anton places in the top 10 000 he will get 500 coins back from him. And so Anton went to the reception in the lobby of the Hotel and registered himself and he became something around the five thousand participants but he didn't care about that.
The question was how do the players who don't have enough money get money? Eddie had an answer to that question and spoke it out to the whole hotel lobby.
"Hey everyone who is short on coins let's go outside the city together and hunt monsters for coins I think that is the easiest way for everyone"
Some players nodded their heads and some were skeptical because they had seen Anton register it gave them a little fear if he had enough money alone then he must have killed many monsters and must be strong. Eddie knew what they thought and spoke up again.
"Hey you don't need to be afraid or scared everyone will keep the coins they get from the system for killing the monsters we won't take them away"
After he had said that the player's faces lighted a bit up and more players joined them. They went to different hotels to gather more players. Soon the number of players exceeded one million as Anton saw these many players he was reminded that there were about two billion players in this city of which he couldn't see the end it was fascinating he thought.
He decide to go with the group because his coin balance was 0 again and he thought that having more than 0 coins wouldn't be a bad idea. The party of which you couldn't even count anymore was walking through the city and everywhere players joined them the inhabiting people looked out of their houses and cafes they didn't know what was going on and were just looking. Outside the city, the players started hunting monsters and soon the yellow sand was dyed in the red blood of the countless monsters and some players.
In the evening the players were sprinting back to the city because a message appeared that only 500 million people could register for the tournament which means half the spots are already taken. Even though Ben, Luca, and Eddie were sprinting back Anton stayed out to fight more monsters and get stronger. He was now as good as Anna with the sword he picked up from a dead player he wants to improve more he wants to be the one who wins the Tournament and he thinks it will be possible with a little bit of luck. As it got darker and darker outside Anton decide it would be best to go home.
This time he hadn't waited before the city door and could just go through it he walked to the hotel in which Anna was staying and asked if there was one more room free he was lucky and got a room with a shower. He showered and then went to bed while lying on his bed he recalled what happened from the first school day till now and when he came to the part where his parents died he started to cry and darkness slowly started to fill his heart and it didn't get better after his parent's death.
He had no time to be sad about their death because he had to fight to survive in this new world. Now was the only time he could think about all the things and he felt a wave of anger at the system. Why did it have to do this? Why do these mythic beings use us? And why is my sponsor not talking to me? Anton closed his eyes before he could think about that any further.
It was the first day of the Tournament Anton met up with his friends and Eddie and there was a new player among them it was a woman she was a little bit taller than him had blond hair and was around 25 years old.
"Hi I am Lena you must be Anton your friends told me about you"
"Ah is that so it's nice to meet you, Lena"
After they introduced themselves they went to the colosseum that Anton saw when he entered the city. They went into the colosseum where they were greeted and brought to a portal it was like that portal in the white room only that it was red instead of blue. The person who guided them said.
"You will be teleported into a room because our colosseum does not have the capacity for over two billion players, when it's your turn to fight you will be teleported to the Arena"
After the guide finished the explanation all five of them went through the portal, the room resembled the white room in every aspect there was a big TV with a broadcast on it and a sofa where they all could sit down. The only difference was that you could not buy something in the store here and soon it was time for their first fights. Ben was the first out of their group.
"Oh it's my turn already wish me, luck guys"
"Hey Ben you got this ok"
"Yep like always Anton and Luca"
He won and came back to them after that it was Luca's turn and he also won then it was Eddie's turn and he too won his fight now only Anton and Lena hadn't fought. To their surprise, both of them were called at the same time.
"Oh it's you both you have to fight against each other"
Eddie was the fastest to guess what happened Anton and Lena looked at each other and both shook hands before teleporting to the Arena in the Colosseum. The atmosphere was great the people living in this City were enjoying this and screaming their lungs out. Then the fight started and Anton used this as an opportunity to test out his new skills because Lena was only half as strong as him he could see that and so he tested out his new skill Fire fists it was a great skill he could defend the sword attacks from her and deal some damage in the same second.
After 10 minutes the fight was over Lena had given up because she couldn't land a hit on Anton they both were teleported back to the room and a tense atmosphere was forming between the two. They had just met today and Anton's win was embedding for her she couldn't even hit him once this frustrated her but Anton didn't care and sat back down on the sofa Eddie went over to Lena and consoled her, the second round was starting and soon it was their time to fight again this time it was Eddie who lost his fight the other three all won their matches and that was it for the day luckily they had food and water in the watching room without it would have had to go outside.
When they left the colosseum it was already afternoon and a window popped up infant of their faces.
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Tournament Day 1
Status: Over
Participants left: 250,000,000
Infos: Rounds 3,4,5,6 are on Day 2, please be in the colosseum at 7 am tomorrow if not you will automatically lose.
Player status: You Player Anton are still a participant.
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The window must be different for Eddie and Lena because they are already out did Anton think before suggesting that they should do something fun and so they wandered through the city. They went to places they haven't seen before and were stunned by the beautiful architecture of the city. This bettered the mood of Lena and Eddie all the houses were made of sandstone and there were ornaments on every house but they didn't do anything where they could have fun.
Anton thought of something before slowly opening his mouth.
"Hey, guys do our group even have a group name?"
The others were surprised by his question and Luca answered.
"No, but do you have an idea, Anton?"
With a smile on his face and hands stemmed in his sides he proudly declared.
"Yes and it's the best name you will ever hear"
Ben frowned at Anton's hysterical pose and asked.
"Mhm, and what is this great name?"
"The Fantastic Five"
To Ben's surprise, the name wasn't that bad no it was really ok and the other group members thought the same and told accepted this name as their group name. Ben then thought about something and said it out loud.
"If we are a group now don't we need a leader?"
Ben was right about that everyone thought about that for a minute and Eddie recalled Ben and Anton fighting about that in the bar the other day. He prayed to his sponsor that it would not happen again because that was an embarrassing moment for him. To his luck, someone had an idea it was Lena.
"Why don't we make it so that the one who finishes the highest in the
Tournament becomes our leader"
That was a great idea and all three boys were ok with it, they finished the city walk and went to their hotels because they all got tired and wanted to sleep. As soon as Anton laid himself in his bed he closed his eyes.