Chapter 1

Chapter 1 Start with a Broken System

Translator: SumTLMan

In the dim light, Tang Yu slowly opened his eyes, and a twinge of soreness and ache came from his body .

He reluctantly propped himself up as dust mixed with some finely crushed stones rustled from his body .

“I am… Still alive?”

In his memory, a wave of demonized beasts breached the shelter’s last line of defence . Countless survivors died in a sea of screams, dyeing heaven and earth red with blood .

This is doomsday! It arrived in the world a month ago .

At that time, he was nearing his college graduation and already found a good job . He was only waiting for the formal appointment of his position . But unexpectedly, a disaster suddenly struck .

Red fog filled the sky, huge rifts appeared above the earth as demonized beasts and monsters climbed out from these abyss rifts . They launched a declaration filled with massacre and slaughter against human beings .

These abyss rifts marked the coming of doomsday!

Tang Yu happened to be in school on that day and saw the earth split open to devour the whole campus buildings . The surrounding teachers and students were completely scared silly . One by one, they were torn to shreds by the demonized beasts in a sea of roars . At that time, he was still far away from the abyss rift and had evaded the first wave of slaughter by the demonized beasts . In another stroke of good fortune, he met a large group of survivors who were also fleeing the area . After several twists and turns, he finally arrived here, a small shelter .

The number of the demonized beasts is endless, and the strength of the army is no match for them . Mankind kept continuously losing ground and ended up reluctantly focusing on more important areas .

The shelters are the last line of defence for mankind .

This small shelter is built on the foundation of a resort and houses thousands of survivors . This is the safest haven within a dozen to twenty miles . Although not as safe as a large-scale shelter guarded by the military . Such a shelter has guns and ammunition, strong human beings and is also built in an area far away from the abyss rifts . Occasionally, the demonized beasts attack the shelter, but they’re quickly eliminated .

He originally believed it was safe . Even while knowing the demon wave was surging at the front . But in the end, the shelter was flooded by the wave of demon beasts . Then he suddenly realized . Even such a shelter, under these waves of attacks, was also so… Fragile .

Tang Yu looks around .

On both sides, the collapsed houses formed a chamfer . Instead of being buried, he dodged a bullet . When he stretched out to grab something with his hand, he noticed his palm was red . It wasn’t his own blood . But on another side, an unlucky man had his lung pierced by an iron pipe, with blood flowing and dyeing the ground red .

He wasn’t the only one .

Through the cracks, Tang Yu can see many human remains scattered all over the ground . The deaths of these people outside looked even more gruesome than this unlucky fellow who was pierced by an iron pipe .

Tang Yu was deeply saddened at the scene .

He survived by luck, but he was of no use . As an ordinary person, neither armed nor awakened, meeting even the weakest of demonized beast is enough to kill him .

“If only I was an awakened one…”

A person with good qualifications will naturally awaken at the beginning of the doomsday . Those who have slightly lesser qualifications may awaken under the pressure of adversity and become an awakened one with the ability to protect themselves during the doomsday .

There are also some people with ordinary qualifications who cannot awaken on their own, which is fine . The shelter has a special auxiliary awakening device that can help survivors awaken . However, Tang Yu was very embarrassed when he was tested . His qualification was the worst and he wasn’t even qualified to awaken at all .

There aren’t few people who are like him . Once they encounter danger, this is almost tantamount to being sentenced to death .

“So, I can only wait for my slow and painful death?” Tang Yu muttered to himself, feeling unwilling in his heart, but seemingly resigned to his fate .

All of a sudden, he heard a ring .

“Ttiring! The Lord of the End System has been activated . Requesting the Lord to please construct a Lord’s Castle and establish a territory as soon as possible . ”

What was that sound?!

What did I hear just now? Could I have been discovered by the demonized beasts, or did I have an auditory hallucination?

“Ttiring! Requesting the Lord to construct a Lord’s Castle… As soon as possible . ”

The voice came from his mind . This time, Tang Yu was convinced that this mysterious voice actually existed .

The voice sounded very mechanical, but it just repeated the same request over and over again in his mind . He soon found he couldn’t only block the sound of the voice, but can also ask this voice questions in his mind . Although the information he received was limited, at least he found out what it was .

A System!

Tang Yu remembered the name of it, Lord of the End, a game he used to play before the doomsday . He was excited . He was no stranger to this system, or even very familiar with it . He could casually pull out hundreds of books with the system in his mind .

In an instant, he thought of the plot of these books, philosophy, life and finally thought of the game .

The Lord of the End is originally a third-rate strategy game with a Western Fantasy Doomsday background . The story follows the end of the world, the imminent demise of mankind, and the castles built by players which preserve the final fire of civilization for mankind . These players need to…

Tang Yu suddenly shook his head . In the moment of life and death, he still had a mind to contemplate the background of this game!

“System, since you are my system, can you somehow awaken me?”

“No . ”

“Can you give me some bodyguards, or summon a group of subordinates?”

“No . ”

Tang Yu: “…”

Then at least give me a solution to the crisis before me!

“Ting… Ttiring, build the Lord’s Castle . It will solve the current crisis faced by the Lord . Two ancient puppet guards will be sent when completed . ”

“That will do, I’ll start immediately and build one right away!”

“Ttiring! To build a Lord’s Castle requires the Lord to select a site and pay 100 units of source crystal . The system detects the Lord does not have any source crystal on him . So the Lord’s Castle cannot be built . ”

Tang Yu: “…”

He didn’t know how to respond, how would he know any of this?!

Other people’s system usually sends a novice pack first . This broken system is better, it sends nothing . Even the main base has to be built by himself . But how can he establish a base without resources? After playing many strategy games for so many years, he’s never seen such a thing!

Now, where is he going to find a 100-units of source crystal?

Source crystal is a very precious strategic resource . Demonized beasts have a small probability of condensing one in their body . It is said that there are also a natural-born source crystal ore veins in the wild . But this isn’t easy to locate . Only elite fighters and even awakened ones can only find it . Tang Yu is only a survivor at the very bottom level . Not mentioning source crystals, even if he sees one, he won’t even recognize it . He’s never seen one before .

Under normal circumstances, he would never be able to get one .

But now…

When Tang Yu thought about it, he found there was a glimmer of hope… The shelter has been breached, and there must be source crystals left behind from the place where the awakened one had lived .

He doesn’t know whether his guess is correct, nor does he know whether the source crystal left behind reaches a hundred units . But in order to grab onto this glimmer of hope, he must fight!

Taking a deep breath and sorting his mixed thoughts, he adjusts his mood and said: “The awakened one and senior officials of the shelter all live halfway up the mountain in this villa resort . These people live in the central area of the shelter . Before I ran away, I had been thinking of running inside . Now I am so close to the central area of the shelter, not far away from the villas . This is an advantage but also a disadvantage…”

Tang Yu gave a wry smile . His body was already very weak, and he had no weapons on him . This was a terrible start . The only thing he could rely on was his system, which was now unable to play a role .

He then patted his cheeks, and his eyes soon became firm .

Fortunately, the debris of the collapsed area weren’t tightly pressed . As Tang Yu looked around, he then began observing the outside environment . Finally, he found a large gap and climbed out from inside the ruins .

In front is a vacant lot, originally there was a large number of makeshift shanties and tents built . Of course, it’s now a mess with many incomplete bodies scattered around . Only a small part of these bodies are lightly mutilated with a strong scent of blood pervading to the tip of his nose .

The demonized beast corpses are rarely seen . Tang Yu knows when the whole shelter was breached, in the face of this wave of demon beasts, there was little resistance .

Holding his breath, he groped his way forward . He would probe several times and look around at almost every section of his path .

The hot sun hung high as the sweat dripped from the tip of the nose and fell on the ground . While it quickly evaporated, Tang Yu silently gasped . Fortunately, the number of demonized beasts was less than expected . Along the way, he only saw one or two demonized beasts from a distance . He bowed his head, not wanting to know what they were eating .

Bypassing the ruins and hiding in the grass, Tang Yu did everything he could to avoid the demonized beast . Fortunately, the whole shelter ruins had just been through a slaughter . The blood scattered all over the ground masked his scent well, causing the demonized beast to lose their greatest tracking tool .

He gradually moves step by step and sees the villa area close at hand .

……

When he moves closer to the villa area, he noticed the surrounding environment becoming messier with destroyed houses and debris everywhere .

The dark craters left after explosions, the marks left behind by bullets on these ruins all show that this place has been through fierce battles .

Tang Yu saw many corpses, some of which were awakened human beings and others of demonized beasts . They were mixed together like a field of death .

He stepped forward carefully, crouching in front of the bodies and searching through their clothes .

The pungent smell fills the air at the tip of his nose while both of his hands are covered in blood . But Tang Yu didn’t care . He searches the body half frantically and half calmly .

He found a type 54 pistol .

There are also two clips .

With the addition of a dagger, he found on the way before . These were the only relatively intact weapons he could find . He knew these weapons wouldn’t play much of a role in the face of demonized beasts . But the cold touch of a handgun still increased Tang Yu’s sense of security .

He also saw some guns and weapons in the distance . They looked intact, but they were all found in relatively open places . It was too dangerous to go and get them . He was cautious and focused on the source crystal as his first target . Tang Yu didn’t want to take more unnecessary risks .