D49 is on the ground panting, Mama sitting next to her.
"You're way too slow. Even my child lasted longer than the requirement."
"You say that as if this is easy!"
–Quick Flashback #1–
"OH MY GOSH!"
D49 is running away from Mama, who's just barely behind her.
She looks behind her to see Mama but because she doesn't turn around fast enough, she runs off a cliff and dies.
"Oh, oh dear...she'll respawn."
–Quick Flashback #2–
D49 is running across the flower field and trips on a rock, this allows Mama to grab her and then eat her.
–Quick Flashback #3–
D49 is once again, running away.
She is moving and maneuvering much better around the trees, but she gets caught by a large scorpion and her leg is cut off.
She tries to hold back her screams from the pain and Mama catches her, stepping on her.
–Quick Flashback Ends–
"I can't make progress if I keep getting killed."
"Yeah, I know the rule, if you die, you will respawn, but you lose half of the XP you earned and decrease 10 levels."
She uses her scarf, wraps it around her, and plays with it a little while waiting for D49 to be ready for the game again.
"Alright I'm ready, let's go."
"Hm, that was barely a 5-minute break, you shouldn't rush to get stronger, you'll regret it."
D49 looks at her confused by her statement but brushes it off.
"Come on, I'm ready."
Mama transforms again and D49 starts running again.
Nine is currently eating in his city, eating a burger by himself, wearing his favorite tracksuit.
"Hm, I wonder what I can get this time, hope I can get something good."
He goes through his map, looking at the loot drops from the bosses and other missions but then, a man appears in front of him, smiling and the entire area becomes frozen in time.
He is a skinny pale man with messy brown hair and slightly yellow teeth. He wears a black and yellow suit with a yellow hoodie underneath it and a yellow blindfold with signs.
"Hey, Number 9." The man says, in a slightly dry voice but Nine just looks at him and gets back to eating.
"So, you finally came out of your room, how you been? Did the reunion with your, Lovely~ Lovely~ Girl~."
"-Fine and our reunion was quick, nothing special."
"Ah, come on, don't be so cold, we're all friends here, are we not."
The man says, smiling.
"Yeah, totally Mr. [Dum_Dum]."
"You don't have to say that name, just refer to me as, [God_Player_06].
"No, I'll just call you Dumb."
Dumb looks at him, a bit disappointed and crying black tears.
"You just used that as your opportunity to call me dumb."
"Yes, yes I did."
"Well, whatever, I'm here to do business."
He uses his skill to summon a contract, and he opens it revealing that Nine's and Dum's names are written down on it but the fine print is covered by black lines.
"As promised, I'll tell you a place of high value, the [Tomb of Blades], a place of the coolest blades there are, just right, for a grinder like you, although there will be a boss there to protect it, but not the typical boss but just a villager that protects the graveyard."
Nine looks at Dumb as he finishes his burger, he simply gives a thumbs up and the man leaves a map for him as he exits the restaurant, time once again resumes, and everything moves as normal.
"Bout damn time."
"Hey, I would like the bill."
Nine exits the restaurant and takes out the Teleporter Staff, he teleports to the location but in the distance, Ms. Glem and a short woman, Glem now wearing a suit vest which isn't really buttoned up completely and her 6 arm anatomy fixed up, now having 6 arms correctly on her, her regular set, the lower set and the set slightly higher on her back but her shirt now having a back cutout to free her 4 other arms and revealing the same tattoo on her back.
"Seems he is no longer with the girl; I'll need you to test her out for me. Okay? [Tool]."
Glem looks towards her partner, she has short extremely light blonde hair with a short ponytail. Her eyes are bright red, and she has sharp teeth. She wears a black turtleneck sleeveless shirt, black short shorts, black slippers, and a red tattered scarf. She has a robotic arm composed of colors gray and yellow that has a sticker of chibi Ms. Glem on the shoulder.
"Yeah, I'll deal with her, I'll fucking crush her and level up."
"Good, I expect to hear something good."
Ms. Glem pats her on the head, Tool clearly not enjoying it but not resisting.
3 days have passed and D49 has gotten better at running, she manages to use the trees to her advantage as well as the other surrounding terrain to avoid Mama.
She managed to complete the training of running from her for 10 hours. The moment cuts to D49 and Mama eating 3 lime green apple slices that are attached to each other as if they are grapes.
"These taste really good, I feel so full of energy," D49 says, devouring her fruits.
"Of course, it energizes you, it has a lot of sugar along with a little bit of electricity inside it." Mama, also eating the food while sitting on a tree stump.
"So, what happens now, I completed the training, is there another training section I need to do now.?
"No, now you're going to be given gauntlets to help you out since you have the weakest skills."
"Really, what kind?"
"Special ones."
Mama motions D49 to follow her and she does, they both walk across the flower field until they stumble upon a wooden house.
"This is my house and where I keep a special item in case someone much stronger than me were to come here but since you're very weak, you'll need it more than me."
They enter the house, and she goes into her drawer to take out something wrapped in cloth and string.
"Are those the gauntlets?"
"Yep."
"Why are they in such an insecure location, wouldn't you put them like, underground or something?"
"Stop asking questions you don't need an answer to."
She opens the wrap to reveal 2 gauntlets, the gauntlets appear like regular arms but with black claws and muscle showing on the arm area as well as the hand. She taps them to reveal their effect of increasing the physical strength of the wearer by 20%.
"Wow, these are really good and look like they'll help me in the future."
"I know they will, that's why I'm giving them to you, you're as the young one's call, slow."
D49 stares at her, chuckling under her breath from Mama trying to use modern language.
"If you start laughing, I'll beat you up."
"Okay, okay."
Mama gives her the gauntlets and she puts them on, they both walk out and Mama points towards a tree.
"Try punching a tree and see the effect."
D49 walks towards the tree and uses her Punch skill, this causes the tree to be sent flying in the air.
"Holy hell!"
She looks at her gauntlets realizing that this is a major upgrade for her.
"Good, good, now we'll-."
Just before Mama could finish, a massive explosion erupts in the distance. They both run towards the explosion and see a figure walking out of the other forest, the flowers burning and a scorpion's head thrown to their feet.
The figure is revealed to be Tool, who is smiling, menacingly, her arm glowing a bit of orange.
Nine is walking across a small village, and the villagers seem to all be staring at him with suspicion or malice, honestly, he isn't sure due to the diverse faces he sees as he walks.
He walks past the village but as he walks everything becomes a lot darker and the area gets surrounded by a purple fog.
"I should be able to find this tomb soon, my luck stat is maxed."
He opens his menu to reveal his passive effect:
[Collector's Dream] Luck Stats are beyond the max limit x100
He keeps walking for a while until he sees a large wide area of a variety of swords, the place still surrounded by the fog.
As he walks, he sees a man, standing at the center of the graveyard of swords, the man seems to turn around and notice him and walks towards.
Previously just a dark figure, Nine now gets a clearer view of the man, he appears to be a young slime man, he has brown hair that has little colorful stars on it, pale skin, his right eye is red, and his left is yellow, his left eye dangling in the socket. He wears a large, short-sleeved dark blue fur coat with a white and gray striped loose shirt, brown pants, and black shoes.
"Hey sir, may I ask why you are here?"
"I'm just...exploring, okay I'm not gonna lie, I'm here for the swords."
The young man appears unfazed by the response he was given, almost as if he was expecting that answer.
"I'm not surprised, a lot of people come here to take the swords, I didn't think you were any different."
"Oh, good, that makes things easier for me."
The man backs up and the area becomes covered in fog, he looks around the area and as the fog slowly clears, he sees a mirror in front of him, his reflection leaves the mirror and tries striking him, he uses his skill to create a field and he pushes the clone back into the fog, as the fog clears, he sees that there are more clones of himself the more the fog dissipates.
"The hell?"
He also notices that they all have heart-shaped stickers on their foreheads.
"My first skill is called [Gallery Mirror: Twins]: This skill allows me to create a clone of anything that is within the mirror.
He looks at the clones that are just colorless versions of him.
"Are you prepared to die!"
When he hears this, his voice is much louder.
"This skill is called [Cursed Voice: Loud Wave]: This allows me to change the volume of my voice using a megaphone.
Nine hears him but doesn't see him anywhere.
"Destroy The Intruder!"
The moment he speaks this command, all his clones charge towards him.
He uses his skill to attack the clones, and he tries to back up but when he touches the fog, he feels solid, as if he is now trapped.
"Seems I'm trapped, that's annoying."
He keeps attacking the clone and he sees more coming out of the smoke on the other side, which has a pattern: smoke, clones, more smoke, then clones again.
"I see, so he must be using his 2 skills to-"
"This is my third skill [Love Sticker: My Friend]: it allows me to mark someone with a heart sticker and that person will listen to simple commands and follow those commands until death."
"Three skills! He's definitely not a God Player or else I would have known about him; it must be one of his skills that allows him to use multiple."
He keeps fighting off the copies and thinking he finally deduces the order after watching the pattern at the other end of the area.
"I see, so he has a specific order for this, it goes as follows: [Gallery Mirror: Twins] → [Love Sticker: My Friend] → [Cursed Voice: Loud Wave].
He keeps fighting off the clones, cutting their heads off with his skill and he notices two clones awfully close compared to the others that are spread out, they jump towards him and he prepares to attack them but he sees a Plus sign on the right one's hand and a Minus sign on the left one's hand, they both touch each other, they touch each other and this causes a massive explosion.
"-Huh?"