As the countdown slowly ticked down, the sounds of a button being pressed echo through the white empty room. I browse through everything in the shop to memorise everything into my mind. All the skills, all the items and everything i could find in the shop, i memorised. I put every explanation, every sentence and every word deep into my mind as i tried to understand everything inside the shop.

When i had completed my training on the basics of nen, i had decided to learn exactly what each item did. From the time, i started training on nen to the time i started studying, i did not rest. Inside the white hub, i could not feel tired, hungry or thirsty. Thus time flew by quickly.

Soon the countdown reached 0. Bright blinding white light flashed across me just like when i was teleported from the ark to the white hub. However, this time I was teleported to the next location of the 1st official round of the World Survival Games.

The bright light dissipated and the scene of the 1st round was shown to me. 3 sides walled in black metal and one side walled by clear glass. I seemed to be in a cage, locked from the outside world. On the other side was a lush vibrant jungle, it was similar to the one from the preliminary round.

On the clear glass, there was a faint reflection. I could see a handsome young male in a black blazer cloaked on a crisp white shirt and black pants with a brown leather wineskin clung to his belt. I had cleaned and laundered my clothes in the ark to keep it perfectly clean.

I hated being dirty. It reminded me of the times i worked on the streets. Back before i met my teacher, I had very little money and would rarely had the chance to bathe. Years of being filthy and dirty would usually make people become used to it. However, for me, it was the opposite. I hated being dirty. Thus, i would always try to keep myself clean.

Looking at the reflection, i felt a sense of confidence beaming from my face.

Most of all my preparations for the round had already been completed. The space ring was filled will food from the ark and contained all my weapons and utilities. All my weapons were in correct positions, my skill was set to shadow clone, my gantz suit was hidden underneath my clothes, my shoes changed into the double jump shoe and my wineskin filled with 5kg of water hung around my belt.

I had already rolled my dice to 1 for the chances of me meeting an enemy with more than 2000 points and had rolled my dice to 6 for the chance of me getting a clue on the joker card and the dice. I had also gotten a 1 on the chances of me dying in this round. Thus i could say i was completely confident in doing well in this round.

The only thing that was not fully completed was what every item and every skill did. With the thousands of things i had in the shop to research and study, it was an impossible task for me to learn it all in just a few days. I had only completed 60% of it.

Just as i was about to complain about what was taking so long for the message to appear, a ting sound rang and a blue text box appeared in front of me.

Dear participants of this glorious game, the time for resting and praying in your hub are now over. The World Survival Games has officially began! Hoo Ray!! Cheers!! Woot!!

Okay, now that the celebrations are over, we will begin by telling you the rules of the 1st game of the World Survival games. Many of you may be wondering what kind of horrible game you will have to play and what not. So to calm your nerves, we have decided that the 1st game will be some dear and fun to you. Thus the 1st game will be…..Drum rolls please… dum dum dum… Hunger Games!

The 1st game will be hunger games! Woot, now isn’t that fun! We have seen the love you have shown to movies and decided ‘ Why not make our own!’ And thus the 1st game will be our very own version of hunger games. Aren’t we so nice?

Thus here are the rules!

There are 18 sections to this game. Every 3 hour, a section will be doused in flames. A notification will pop up telling you which section will be doused 1 hour before a section is doused. After 54 hours all the sections will fall into the ocean. To survive, you must enter the tower in the middle of the dome.

Easy right? Here’s the twist, to enter the tower, one must acquire 16 keys. In each dome, there are 48 participants. Each participants will be given one key and a watch showing the map of the dome, the next area which will be doused in flames, the amount of keys each person has acquired and the location for the supply box drop.

Supply box will randomly be dropped from the sky every few hours. In each supply box, there will be weapons, food, water and keys. Everything you will ever need to survive. Additionally, around the tower are 3 monsters, a python, a panther and a tiger. Each of them will drop 3 keys each.

Thus to acquire 16 keys, you will have to either take it from others, get it from the supply box or to kill the 3 monsters near the tower! Simple, isn’t it?

However, since it’s so simple, we decided to add another twist! Hooray another twist!

From the 1.5 millions games being played, 31 of those games will have a raven. A raven is someone who have lost in the final rounds of the world survival games from other worlds and is given a chance to compete again. The raven did not have to play the preliminary game but they will start with 800 points for this game.

Hahaha, now that all the rules are explained.

May the games begin!

The clear glass in front of me instantly shattered into a million tiny pieces and turned into small balls of light before disappearing. Instead of charging out, i sat down and began to plan my next moves. There were a lot of things i had to digest and account for.

Okay, they said that there are a total 48 people playing in each dome. I presume that the dome is the area which we are allowed to play in. There are a total of 18 sections in the dome. Each person has one key and we have to acquired 16 keys to live. So at minimum 3 person will live.

Thus the best way to win is to form a team of 3 and kill all the other survivors. After that, i will kill the other 2 to get the most amount of points. Should be easy enough, given my head start with the large amounts of points i had.

The only problem will be the raven. Even though the ravens will only have 800 points to work with, the experience and knowledge they have about the games are their strongest power. If they know the secrets of each game that they can use to their advantage, it will be a big problem.

Ah! Maybe the raven have the clue to the dice and the joker card.

I took out my dice and immediately rolled it.

“The chances of there being a raven in this dome,” i muttered.

It was a 6.

Great! So the my main goal during this game is to capture the raven, if i can get the raven to spill everything he knows about the game, i will have a larger advantage during the future games.

I turned to the new watch around my wrist. The strap was navy blue and the glass screen was fully back. I clicked on the screen and a map of the area appeared on the glass. It reminded me of a smartwatch.

So those red dots represents the other contestants while the green dot represents me. I’m in zone 4 right now with 3 other contestants. Wait! SHIT!

If the other 3 meet up before i do and team up, i’ll be cornered. Damn! 2 of them are already meeting up, i need to meet up with the guy north of me and get him on my side before all three of them meet up. If they are together, they will have no reason not to hunt me down.

I immediately dashed out of the cage and into the vast jungle. Branches and leaves whipped me as i rushed through the vegetation towards the guy north of me. With my gantz suit and stats, i easily sped through all the obstacles.

Soon, i could see that i was getting closer. When i glanced at the watch again, i could see that the guy north of me was still in the same position and the other 2 had already met up.

Quickening my pace, i took out my shifting mithril and changed it into a machete with 10 mana, leaving me with 90 mana. The cyan sheen of the mithril glisten under the midday sun as i slashed against the vines and branches that blocked my way. With my increased strength, all it took was a flick of my wrist to cut up all the vegetation that blocked my way.

While on the way, i could spot numerous wildlife fleeing from me. I presumed they were what we had to hunt for food as we could not buy any food or water in the hub. However, since i had looted all the supplies from the ark before leaving, i had plenty of food stored in my spatial ring. Since time does not affect things inside spatial, the food would not spoil. Thus I had enough food to last a least a week.

I raced through the jungle for like half an hour until i noticed that i was reaching the person north of me. I stopped and ducked behind a tree when i noticed him. He was half naked and had an Ak-47 wrapped around his upper naked body. His well defined abs and rippling muscles combined with the gun reminded me a movie i seen before, Rambo.