"Huh? Kill?"
His vision went completely black as he entered a void. He could see his own body as if it was bright, but there was no source of light. Like he was floating in clear, but dark mud.
! Resolution Found: Complete Reset
Light flashed before him, and he opened his eyes, only to wake up in the blank white room. His heart felt like it wanted to burst out of his chest as he gasped for air.
He was in the same room as before. Four people sleeping, although different from before.
"What the fuck was that. Holy shit. Is that death? Was I resurrected? And what the hell does Viewer Privileges mean?"
! Viewer Privileges incompatible with User. Integrating Viewer Privileges with system
[Player Name: Sirus Damiel
Lvl: Error
Class: Error
Skills: Viewer's Guiding Eye
Strength: Error
Intelligence: Error
Dexterity: Error]
'Fuck, I hate everything about this. This info is the opposite of useful and just confusing me. Except for that; what's Viewer's Guiding Eye.'
[Skill: Viewer's Guiding Eye
Provides Information to help new Viewers to learn the inner workings of The Game. Please refrain from giving excessive assistance to your chosen avatar. Gamble responsibly.
Grade: Incalculable]
'Huh? Gamble? So this game system looking thing looks like this…because it is a game? Meaning I'm a player, and people may be viewing me. Huh. I don't think I can do much to change that, so thinking more about the mechanics of this is probably pointless. It would get in the way of a good time anyways.'
Sirus shook the four awake.
"Rise and shine; there's shit going on."
"Excuse me, who are you? Did you kidnap us?"
"Please let us go! I am an executive at Schmidt-Ritchie; if you ransom me, you'll get a lot of money!"
"Please don't hurt us!"
"Wow, that escalated quickly. I'm in the same position as y'all. Do you think I would kidnap four random people, put them in a box, then go into the box with them? No, we've vanished. I'm Sirus. Now, who are you guys?"
! Player name: Janka Galya
! Player name: Marzanna Víctor
! Player name: Reece Solfrid
! Player name: Aodh Ásta
"Aodh"
"Reece"
"Marzanna"
"Janka"
'What the hell? Is this part of the viewer privileges, or is it just a normal part of the full
system access?'
"What nationalities?"
"American."
"Hungarian"
Scottish"
"Polish"
"Cool! I'm also American, but I don't think we all speak the same language, but I think it's being translated."
"Huh?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean magic translation."
Sirus pulled out a knife, demonstrating the healing again.
"Well, shit."
"I think I get what you mean now."
"Do you mind if I ask a couple questions?"
"No"
"Not really.
"Go ahead."
"Who's the president of the U.S.? Do you know what the European Union is? What years did the first world war happen?"
The group shot back and forth random historical questions until it was decided that they all came from the same, if not a very similar, world.
"Nice idea to confirm that, dude. Though I was kinda hoping for some multiverse kind of stuff."
"Still could be, though!"
[Quest: Survive the tutorial
Grade: Tutorial
Description: Welcome, Players! You are now candidates to become the best in the eyes of the Gods! Use your strength, wit, and will to kill and conquer!
Conditions:
Survive: Do not die for 24 hours
Extermination: Kill all enemies
Reward: Depends on the completion rate
Failure: Death]
The same transition happened, and they were in the abandoned city.
[Warning: Safe zone will dissipate after 12 hours. Protection will not be given if maximum occupancy is exceeded. Maximum Occupancy: 4
Skill system locked.]
! Kill at least 95% percent of the zombies single-handedly to receive Title: Conqueror
! Kill all other players to receive Title: Betrayer
! Succeed together by helping the other players to receive Skill: Command]
'That's definitely not the same message as before, but I still have no idea why I can see it now but not before.'
"It's ok, guys; I'll be the fifth one and go out to explore."
"Really? Thank you."
"I'm sorry for judging you so quickly before!"
It had nothing to do with being nice but rather so they would stay put and not make the 95% difficult.
'Conqueror is definitely the best. I don't care much for groups, and a title like Betrayer might have negative effects. However, given it says objective, it is likely overall positive.'
He couldn't remember which houses had which stuff, so he went through all of them again, which wasn't that much of a loss. He got a notification when he walked into one of the empty houses.
[Entered Home of the fallen]
'What the hell does that mean? I'm sure everyone in this town has fallen or died by this point; what makes this house special?'
Regardless, he searched the house longer than before, finding a gold locket with a picture of a woman inside.
[Item: Treasured Necklace]
! Return to Lockmyer to receive his favor
'How about treasure items instead of treasured items next time, huh? Who cares about someone's favor?'
Soon after, Sirus went out and started killing the zombies, with the same sort of surprise as he had been receiving.
[Name: Zombie
Race: Undead
Attribute: Undead]
! Kill 5,000 Zombies to receive Title: Zombie Slayer (46/5000)
'I don't think that's going to be achievable anytime soon, but it's not impossible.'
The night continued much like the one before but with greater efficiency. The experience and his improvised spear improved his killing speed, but more importantly allowed him to not fight for as long, and not get so tired.
[Quest Complete!
Time: 12:42
Contribution: 96%
Completion Grade: S+
Rewards: Full system access, city access, +1 Stats, Title: Promising Candidate, 5,000 Gold]
[Congratulations: You fulfilled the hidden condition of the tutorial!
Reward: Skill: S+ Rank Conqueror]
[Teleporting all to World#1000101, City Designation: NEV8675]
'Thank god I wasn't in a well again. I'm excited to look at something other than a dead town with rotting corpses.'