'I want to be a hero.'
Lucifer had a dream, which was to become a hero. That dream had been with him since he was a child who had never experienced life. The first time he saw a hero was when he watched a cartoon about superheroes fighting against villains to protect the world.
The moment when superheroes joined forces to defeat the bad guys, Lucifer had thought they were so cool. That was also when he started to admire them. Heroes were his first role models.
When people grew up, they often forgot their childish dreams and mainly focused on things that were actually useful for their future like basketball, soccer, studying, etc.
Lucifer's friends were the same, they used to admire heroes in movies like him but when they grew up, each of them had a different idol. Only Lucifer still idolized heroes in movies.
When he grew up, he wrote a novel about heroes, people who went to save the world from supreme entities. But because he didn't get much attention from the readers, he had to stop the novel after producing more than 600 chapters.
"Damn!"
Lucifer cursed while going through the negative comments about his work. Although there were occasional comments praising his work, most of them said that his work was trash and he should have ended it already.
He had spent more than 2 years writing this novel and now all he received were curses from the readers?
Lucifer pursed his lips and left the computer. He tiredly lay down on the soft bed in his room while still pondering over those curses.
'I guess I should stop…'
Just like that, he fell asleep without realizing it.
Lucifer had a dream, a dream about him accompanying the characters in his novel to save the world. It was a beautiful dream.
***
Suddenly, Lucifer felt like he was lying on something cold and hard, definitely not his bed. It was not like lying on a comfortable and mellow bed at all. Lucifer, who was still sleepy, groped around.
'What is this?'
He couldn't sense the comfy mattress anywhere, instead, he felt a freezing and solid floor made of metal.
Lucifer woke up instantly and looked around in panic. He was worried that he had been kidnapped while he was sleeping.
His efforts to look around seemed to be in vain because the place he was in was completely covered in darkness. The only source of light in the room was from the red ceiling lamps hanging on the ceiling. Even so, he still couldn't see his surroundings clearly.
Lucifer was so anxious that he didn't dare move even an inch.
After a few minutes of calm, Lucifer regained his composure and began to assess the situation around him.
Even though he couldn't see anything around him, he could guarantee that there were many people in this room. They were smashing things and screaming to get out of this place.
'I'm glad I'm not standing near them.'
Lucifer felt lucky that he wasn't standing near the people who were destroying things around them, otherwise he would have died long ago.
Lucifer put his hands on his hips, but suddenly dozed.
'What the hell is this?'
Lucifer had a muscular body from going to the gym every day, but now his hips seemed very small and limp. Lucifer hurriedly felt around his entire body.
'What's going on?'
It seemed like his muscular body had turned into a skinny body, although there was still some meat, there was no muscle at all.
Lucifer was completely motionless. He had thought that he could work with the others in the room to escape, but that hope had completely disappeared after he checked his body.
The hope of escaping from this place had become 0%.
Lucifer closed his eyes, accepting his cruel fate, but then suddenly a strange sound rang out in his ears. Lucifer opened his eyes to see what the sound was.
Once again, Lucifer was completely taken aback. He couldn't remember how many surprises he had received just today.
In front of him was a line of text.
[Open/Close]
'Is this what they called a system?'
'Open.'
Immediately, a system panel appeared in front of Lucifer. Surprised by its appearance, Lucifer unconsciously took a few steps back. Then he glanced around to check if anyone else could see it besides him.
Fortunately, it seemed that no one could see his system board. After almost making sure, Lucifer turned back to the system board and read each word carefully.
***
Name: Lucifer
Destiny: ???
Destiny Rank: ???
Ability: ???
Experience: ???
Ancient name: ???
Potential: Uncountable
'What the hell…'
As Lucifer expected, the system board looked quite similar to the ones he saw in anime, so he wasn't too amazed by it.
However, what caught Lucifer's attention the most were Destiny and Destiny Rank. Lucifer might not understand the rest, but he knew the other two very well. That was the power system he had included in his novel.
'Wait, does that mean that I have been reincarnated into my novel?'
Lucifer was feeling content and concerned at the same time. He was glad that he had been transported to this world because his life in the old world could be said to be shit.
But he couldn't help but worry because he knew more than anyone that this world was very harsh and cruel, just a small mistake and he could die immediately.
But it was all just speculation, there was no guarantee that Lucifer had been reincarnated into this world because he didn't remember mentioning a place like this in the story.
While Lucifer was still lost in his thoughts, a voice suddenly rang out throughout the entire room, pulling him back to reality.
"Hello everyone, how are you all?" It was a deep and pleasant voice, perhaps it came from an old man.
The room immediately lit up after the man's greeting, allowing Lucifer to see clearly the room he was in.
In this room were all kinds of people, men, women, the elderly, and children. They were all gathered in the same place, looking worried and tense.
Ignoring that, this room was very tall and wide, it was covered by four snow-white walls and did not have a single window. There was only one metal door here, which was probably the only exit. Above, Lucifer saw a glass panel, behind it were a few men who looked like doctors or professors.
Lucifer was completely stunned. Not being able to see his surroundings clearly had already made him a little nervous, but seeing everything around him obviously made him even more frightened.
As the author, Lucifer knew exactly what this place was like. All the features of this room match the description of an illegal laboratory, where humans would fight to the death, leaving only one person alive.
This was the place where the main character and his friends will clear the laboratory in chapters 300 to 330.
'Are you kidding me…'