[All players have accepted the invitation!]
[Preparing for the game...]
[Summoning sexual objects to satisfy players' needs!]
"Objects?" Danny looked at the panel, confused.
[The nearest objects have been selected as sexual objects based on player`s surroundings.]
"You mean my classmates?" Danny questioned the system.
[Sexual objects become players!]
Danny sighed. He didn't really understand what was happening. He decided not to stress too much and just lay down, calmly enjoying the view of the sky while he still had the chance because he probably wouldn't have this opportunity again.
More messages started popping up in front of him.
[Game: 'Paradise Island.']
Danny sighed.
"Finally..."
[Description and goal of the game.]
[Game difficulty level: 1.]
[Task: Find and eliminate the traitor who caused you to be on this island.]
[Time limit: The traitor must be found before the volcano erupts.]
[Punishment: In case of losing the game, players will either die from the volcano or any player can choose the second option - to become the traitor's slave until the end of the player's life. To do this, the player must kneel down and loudly and clearly say, 'From this moment on, I belong to you.']
"WTF?! A slave, are you fucking serious?"
[After that, the player can return to the real world as the traitor's slave. Following this event, players who have opted to become slaves will no longer engage in active participation within the game. Instead, they will take on the form of ghosts, relegated to mere observation of the ongoing gameplay. In the event of the traitor's death, the slaves shall also meet their demise. Should the traitor emerge victorious, the slaves will be bound to serve the traitor for the remainder of their lives, both within the context of the game and in the real world.]
[Warning: Death, physical harm, and mental damage will affect players in the real world. In case of death, players will die in the real world as well. Physical damage will also affect players in the real world. For example, if players lose a limb or receive a scar in the game, they will return to the real world without a limb or with a scar. In case of mental damage, players will return to the real world with mental illness.]
"Is this a joke? What the hell? Is this an erotic game or a survival horror? Can I seriously die here? Or become a slave to some fucking psycho who organized all this? What an interesting proposition. Very interesting. And how am I supposed to find him, for God's sake..."
[Hint: The traitor is one of the five invited male players. The five invited players are the five suspects. Suspects have the right to defend themselves and provide reasons why they are not the traitor. However, suspects do not have the right to confirm or deny whether they are the traitor or not.]
"Great, so I'm also a suspect. Just perfect. Couldn't get any better with my condition. Can you please throw more shit at me so I can die already?"
[Location preparation...]
"Hm?"
[Level generating…]
[Safe Zones generating…]
[Architectural landscape creation...]
[Water bodies creation...]
[Monster generation...]
[Enemy generation...]
[Peaceful living beings creation...]
Danny widened his eyes.
[Items generation...]
[Items in living beings generation...]
Danny raised an eyebrow.
"Well, what does that mean?"
[Unlocking player statuses...]
[Player statuses unlocked!]
[Generating player bodies according to their status...]
[Bodies generated!]
[Player Daniel Grey! You will be transported to a random point on the island.]
"Please not near the volcano," Daniel thought.
[Countdown begins: 30...29...28...]
"I don't even know... For some reason, I'm not as excited as I thought I would be when this crap ends. Maybe it would have been better to stay a ghost..."
[20...19...]
"I hope the 'sexual objects' they mentioned aren't my classmates; otherwise, everyone will start suspecting me. Or maybe the players are my classmates? But then why five, when there are only four guys in our course? Is there a fifth girl? Or maybe they're not my classmates at all... Oh well, whatever. It would be nice not to die on the first day at least."
[3...2...1...]
[The game begins!]
Daniel blinked in confusion. He was completely naked, bewildered, and most importantly, he was staring into the crater of a volcano.
"Just what I ordered. Wow. Just wow. Standing with my bare ass over a damn volcano. With a stone face that can't express emotions due to this damn condition. This is what you get for clicking on those links. Status."
With a cold expression on his face, Daniel immediately decided to check for any changes in his status.
Status Window:
Name: Daniel Grey
Age: 19
Level: 1
Class: Undetermined
Health: 100
Energy: 100
Strength: 9
Constitution: 9
Agility: 11
Reflexes: 12
Mastery: 16
Intelligence: 10
Accuracy: 10
Luck: 12
Wisdom: 11
Willpower: 9
Skills:
Active: ___
Passive: [Cheater]
Condition: [Mask]
Fetish: [CBT]
Sense of Hunger: 5%
Sense of Thirst: 1%
Sense of Desire: 3%
Sense of Cold: 7%
Sense of Heat: 3%
Bleeding: 0%
Daniel closed the status window and looked around. He was standing quite high on a volcanic mountain, but the clouds that were at about the same level obstructed his view of everything around him. The only thing he could see was the crater, with lava resting at its depths. Daniel stood on a flat surface, but there was a steep slope below him. With a cold expression on his face, Daniel gripped onto a ledge below and began descending slowly and cautiously. The wind from below blew strongly against his buttocks and genitals.
The worst part of all this was not that he was completely naked, or that he had to descend down a rather dangerous slope, but that he was doing it barefoot. The rocks and protrusions were quite sharp, cutting into his heels, causing them to bleed within ten minutes.
The percentages in the bleeding line sharply increased from 0 to 1. His health decreased sharply from 100 to 99, which greatly concerned Daniel, even though it didn't show on his face.
Of course, perhaps this wasn't the worst thing that could happen to him. It would be worse if Daniel found himself near a monster's lair. He was sure there were players who had been much less fortunate than him.
Besides, he had already done rock climbing. Once, his father took him and his brother to the mountains. It was one of the few times his father spent time not only with Arthur but also with him. He took him not because he wanted to, but because their mother fell ill and was unable to take care of him at that time.
However, it was his brother who taught him the basics of rock climbing, not his father. Everything here was much simpler than he thought. In rock climbing, the most important thing was not strength, but a sense of coordination and balance and it has always been one of Daniel's strengths. However, the volcanic mountain was too vast. Daniel no longer knew how much time had passed since he started descending. He was exhausted, and most importantly, he was very cold.
Daniel firmly grabbed onto one of the protrusions and abruptly stopped. Although he was covered in sweat, his breathing was calm and steady, just like his face, while inside Daniel himself, there was a storm of emotions that he couldn't express on his face.
`What the hell?! What the fuck is this? I can't even catch my breath properly because of this condition! My lungs and my whole body are burning, and I can't even scream, what the...`
"Enough." Daniel said with a cold expression on his face and shook his head.
He could barely feel his hands. The wind continued to blow against him and hit his genitals, causing strong discomfort for Daniel. His heels burned with pain. The situation was desperate, and his endurance was also running out. Daniel decided to quickly check his status to see how bad things were.
Status Window:
Name: Daniel Grey
Age: 19
Level: 1
Class: Undetermined
Health: 90
Energy: 13
Strength: 9
Constitution: 9
Agility: 11
Reflexes: 12
Mastery: 16
Intelligence: 10
Accuracy: 10
Luck: 12
Wisdom: 11
Willpower: 9
Skills:
Active: ___
Passive: [Cheater]
Condition: [Mask]
Fetish: [CBT]
Sense of Hunger: 30%
Sense of Thirst: 37%
Sense of Desire: 14%
Sense of Cold: 59%
Sense of Heat: 0%
Bleeding: 8%
The situation was truly critical. Daniel shook his head once again. The volcanic mountain was too vast. He could try to loosen his grip and slide down the steep slope, but it was clear that in doing so, Daniel's skin would be rubbed raw and he would end up as nothing more than a beaten piece of meat. But did Daniel have any other options? His energy was almost depleted, and his sense of cold was gradually increasing. He didn't know what would happen if it reached one hundred percent, but it was obvious that it wouldn't be anything good. His health was also gradually decreasing due to his bleeding. And Daniel didn't quite understand why his sense of desire had also increased. How did it even work?
Daniel pondered. His hands barely held onto the slope. He was so tired that there was only one question in his mind: "Should I let go or not?"
Daniel calmly turned his head and decided to look down. If he could control his facial expressions, his eyes would have widened at this moment, but his face remained as impassive as ever.
`This is... I don't even know if I'm lucky or not...`
Right below him, about five to six meters away, was a rather elongated mountain protrusion that somewhat resembled a tongue. It jutted out directly from the mountain, with a length of about ten meters.
Daniel quickly began to descend. He put all of his remaining strength into this final effort. Ignoring all the pain, discomfort from his body, and the wind's attacks, he descended as fast as he could.
Almost immediately, he fell back onto a stone slab and lay on the stone tongue with a cold expression on his face. Daniel took a calm deep breath and exhaled deeply.
Unfortunately, that was all Daniel could do; he couldn't catch his breath in any other way. He understood that due to his condition, he couldn't breathe unconsciously. He needed to control his breathing himself, rather than relying on his body as he regularly did. Therefore, if Daniel didn't pay attention to his breathing, no matter what state he was in, it would always be steady and calm. But if he needed to catch his breath, he had to take deep breaths and exhales on his own, similar to the breathing exercises in yoga or the rhythmic, calculated, and calm breathing of athletes during a run.
That's what Daniel was trying to do now. Before, he didn't really understand the principle, but now, because he had the opportunity to lie down, Daniel finally began to understand the basics of breathing.
If only my father could see me now. He would probably be surprised that I finally realized the value of breathing...
Daniel abruptly lifted his body and sat down. Suddenly, he saw a dark tunnel inside the mountain in front of him, from which the stone tongue emerged. Daniel's cold gaze met the icy darkness of the tunnel. It was dark there. Very dark.
Daniel assumed that volcanic caves were usually located at the very bottom, not in the middle. And how did it even work? There should have been flowing lava inside here, but for some reason, it was dark there.
But Daniel had little choice. Either continue climbing down, wasting his energy, continuing to bleed, eventually getting frostbite and dying without even reaching the bottom. Or enter the dark unknown, hoping that this unknown would quickly lead him to the bottom of the volcanic cave. As far as Daniel remembered, he had flown here several times before and thoroughly explored the volcano and everything around it. And he definitely remembered that this protrusion and dark tunnel were never here before. The only tunnel and cave he remembered was located at the very bottom of the volcano.
"Could it be that this protrusion was created specifically for players to rest? There can't be such strange coincidences. Just when my energy was at its minimum, this protrusion and tunnel suddenly appear…"
Daniel didn't have time to think. His sense of cold was increasing rapidly, along with his other senses. His health was also decreasing. He needed to make a choice.
'Either death or possible death. I mean it's not so difficult actually, because the choice is not that big.` Daniel thought calmly as he entered the dark tunnel.