YEAR 2040

Twenty years later after a large pandemic hits the world and humanity almost went instinct. After recovering from the recent tragedy. The world is now facing another crisis, over population. With the population of over 12 billion people. The world is now filled with more scums and selfish peoples, only the strong will survive and the weak will die. That's the universal rule of this cruel reality that everyone is having a hard time accepting.

~SHIBUYA, TOKYO~

Shun Futaro, a 17 years old highschool student with pale blue eyes, sitting around in his room. Living in the modern day of Tokyo, life was never easy. After suffering from loosing both of his parents, he is now living alone and hopeless.

"... according to the police report,the victim's bodies was never found and thei–" the news broadcasting sound can be heard throughout the room

"click."

Shun let go a deep sigh after hearing the negative news reports. He quickly went and reached for the remote control to shut the television down.

"It's been two weeks, but why the hell I can't get over it?" Shun whimpered, wiping the tears from his pale blue eyes.

"Tri-ring....Tri-riiiiing..."

Shun hears his cellphone rings beside him, he quickly reached for it to answer the call.

[INCOMING CALL]

YUYA

He's a bit surprised to find his best friend calling him. "Yuya?" Shun quickly hits answer. "Hello," he gently spoked. "What's up?"

"Ohh, Shun. Nah, I'm checking on you." A gentle deep male voice spoked from the phone. "You haven't been coming to school lately. Is it because of the rumors?"

"Those aren't rumors, my parents... they really both died." Shun spoked in an obviously weak voice. "They're gone, and now I didn't know how to face life anymore."

"I'm sorry I didn't mean to mention it." Yuya kindly apologize. "I've only heard it from the backbencher swhimpering about it earlier, I'm really sorry.

"No it's fine," Shun quickly responded to get rid of the awkward conversation. "I'm kinda, getting used to it."

"I see," Yuya murmured. "Ohh, by the way, I called you to tell you that Izuma- sensei (teacher) is going for a visit. He needs to talk to you about student-related stuffs." mentioned Yuya.

"So, what about it?" Shun confusedly asked.

"You've changed address and I can't contact your for a whole week. Izuma-sensei wants to know your address." Yuya replied.

"sigh..."

"Okay, I'm gonna text you my new apartment address." Shun sighed before speaking. "And don't worry about me, I'm just fine, atleast."

"Well okay, you've said it yourself, you're fine!" Yuya slowly whispered on the phone. "I gotta go, third period is starting."

"Well, bye bye." Shun responded before he hung up. "What a lonely place," Shun mumbles as he stares at his empty apartment room.

"Ping!"

"Huh?" He slowly enters his phone password before checking the notifications. "An email? From who?" Shun wondered.

[UNREAD EMAIL]

FROM: The gods

"What the hell? They could've use a better username." Shun chuckled with confusion.

[EMAIL]

FROM: The gods

Do you want to be awakened?

"This is obviously a scam? Should I reply? Well, I don't want to spoil the fun." He grinned before typing for a reply. "What if I reply a 'yes'?"

REPLY TO: The gods

Yes. I want to be awaken.

[send]

"What am I even doing? As if they'll reply just to mess with me."

He threw his phone at the side of the bed, and let his back slowly fall into the bed. "Maybe I should take rest, I'm exhausted after all those crying every night." he slowly mumbled.

"Ping!"

"Huh?" He turned his head and looked at his phone. "Did they reply? That was fast." He gently reached for his phone and grabbed it, pressing the power button to open the screen.

[UNREAD EMAIL]

FROM: The gods

"They really–"

"click"

He accidentally opened the email by clicking the notification. "Crap!" he uttered.

[EMAIL]

FROM: The gods

Your wish will be granted.

"What's their deal they seriously replied, I'm just messing with them." He stares at his phone screen. Suddenly, a blinding light shines from his phone's screen that block his vision, causing him to instinctively close his eyes.

"Ack!"

"What the–"

Shun felt something comes in contact with his face as he felt light headed all of sudden. Even with his eyes closed, his world is like turning upsidedown. He felt sleepy and fell asleep in mere seconds.

---

"Woaaaaaahh!" Shun felt like waking up from a nightmare, suddenly opening his eyes and falls out of bed. "What the... it was just a dream." he's heavily panting and slowly stands up. He quickly rubs his eyes as his blurry vision started to get clearer.

In front of him, he saw something rectangular in shape. Shun blinked a few times before he recovered his vision.

"Tri-ring"

[NOTICE]

QUINN'S GAME

[WELCOME!]

NEW PLAYER DETECTED

[CREATE CHARACTER]

PLEASE ENTER A VALID USERNAME

"What's this?" Shun confusedly looked around him, he was still in his apartment and his body looks fine, then what the hell is that thing in front of him?

"A floating screen? Am I seeing things." he quickly pinches his face. "I'm not dreaming nor seeing things," he mumbles. "Should I touch it," he slowly reached for the screen but his hand just went through it without coming in contact with it. "A holographic screen, huh?"

"Then what am I supposed to do?" he loudly uttered.

"Please chant a system [comand]." A female voice suddenly spoked. Shun looks around him, he's alone inside that room. He heard the voice coming from inside his head. "I'm sorry, say that again," Shun responds at the voice.

"Please chant a system [comand]."

After hearing the voice loud and clear Shun confirms that the voice was really inside his head. "What the hell, this is beyond my imagination. Maybe I should–"

"Tri-ring"

[WARNING]

PLEASE ENTER A USER NAME

YOUR BODY WILL EXPLODE IN 2m 30s

"What the–... Am I gonna die for knowing such a bullsh*t?" Shun panicked for a second, before calmly chanting, "Username, [randomize]."

"Tri-ring"

[NOTICE]

USERNAME RANDOMIZING

IGN: Shun Futaro

[ok]

[randomize]

"This is my real name, and that's not what you call randomize." Shun touches his chin and stares at the ceiling. "Well, I don't have time to be choosey, I'm gonna explode any moment." he let go a sigh. "[Ok!]" he chanted.

"Tri-ring"

[NOTICE]

–CHARACTER CREATED–

[STATUS]

Name: Shun Futaro

Level 1 : EXP 0/100

Guild: NONE

Title: NONE

Job: Wizard

Technique: Alchemy magic

[STATISTICS]

HP: 600/600

MP: 110/110

Magic : 20

Physical: 15

Agility : 1.5

Endurance: 10/10

Vitality: 6

Intelligence: 70

"What's this?" Shun's confusion quickly escalated as he read each panels. But one thing certainly caught his attention, the word 'magic', and one thing came across his mind after seeing that word. "Are this–"

"Ding-dong!"

Shun anchored his attention at the door the moment he heard the doorbell rang. "Someone's there!" he panicked as he tried hiding the untouchable screen. "Crap! close... vanish... disappear!" Shun started doing some random hand gestures while randomly chanting words, just to close the holographic window.

He let go a deep sigh after witnessing the screen disappeared. "sigh... What a relief." he slowly approached the door. "It's 4 PM, this must be..." Shun thought as he approached the door and reached for the doorknob.

"Ahh, Shun-kun." A person familiar to him was standing outside his door.

"I-Isuma-sensei(teacher)." Shun surprisedly stares at the middle aged man wearing a P.E uniform. "Plea–" he was about to speak, when suddenly,

"Swoooosh!"

"Ack!"

He witnessed a disturbing scene in front of him as he saw bloods splattered all over his face, some of it even stained his clothes. "What did just–" he looked down and saw his teacher's head rolling inside his apartment. Shun's eyes widened as he stares at the scene, his body won't move to react.

"What the... still alive? I swore I managed to cut both of your necks." A voice speaking in roughly manner can be heard outside. Shun followed the voice with his gaze to look for the person.

"Ping!"

[WARNING]

INTENSE KILLING INTENT DETECTED!

Shun carefully looked at the hallways and saw a man standing near the apartment's entrance. He's holding a butcher's knife with blood stains on it, Shun already analyzed the situation he's in. "This guy... he murdered teacher Izuma." he widened his eyes as he stares at the person with creepy smile on his face.

[NAME: KOSUKE]

LEVEL 1

HP: 500/500

"Who the hell are you?!" Shun furiously glares at the man. He's too focused on the man that he didn't notice the player indicator above the person's head. "Why did you–"

"Shhhh, I don't have time to chat with kids. Just fight!" The man grinned. "Can't you see my name?" He pointed obove his head.

Shun angled his glance at the pointed direction and said, "Kosuke, huh." he gives a cold gloomy expression. "Are you–"

"What's that look on your face? what an annoying brat." The man spoked and grinned. "Let me end your misery!" He furiously smiles and rushes towards Shun, and swings the butcher's knife he was holding.

Shun take a quick step back, just to barely dodge the sudden move. He lowered his upper body and lands a successful blow at the man's abdomen.

"Ack*"

[NAME: KOSUKE]

LEVEL 1

HP: 470/500

"Don't expect me to forgive you, bastard. You'll pay for what you did!" Shun's eyes was filled with rage, he can't control his overflowing mixed emotions of fear and rage. Shun tried to calm himself by simply taking a deep breath.

"Tsk, his reaction time is surprisingly fast." Kosuke thought, enduring the pain. "Heh, your strong," he returns to his neutral stance.

"I'm only strong because dad always trains me to develop my fighting potential. I also got in many street fights because of that reason." Shun thought. "I didn't expect that I can use it to survive one day." he grinned.

"Because of this ridiculous body, I can't bring my true strength. But don't worry, I will beat you at 10%." Kosuke arrogantly replied.

"Wait," Shun calmy spoked. "You can't just walk in this hallways and start cutting somebody's head. Why the hell are you here?" Shun angrily questioned. "Answer me, I just want to confirm something."

"Whaaaat? I have no reason to tell you." Kosuke shouted and charges towards him without hesitation.

"Ping!"

[WARNING!]

INTENSE BLOODLUST DETECTED!

ELIMINATE!

"Eh, eliminate?" Shun caught a glimpse of the warning screen before he saw Kosuke coming at him. Shun took some time to react before he dodge the attack, the blade managed to barely wound him, taking a little drop of blood from him.

"Ping!"

[WARNING!]

DAMAGE RECEIVED

HP: 577/600

Shun quickly recovered his stance and strikes a powerful roundhouse kick, hitting his ribs for a fatal blow. Kosuke managed to recover from the blows he received, Shun step backs a little, stepping out of his range.

[NAME: KOSUKE]

LEVEL 3

HP: 430/500

"Your a tough guy, you shouldn't hold back when fighting a kids. I maybe lacks experience but I was born in different generation than you. Underestimating me will end your life." Shun gasps for air and his body gets even tensed causing all of his muscles to move by instincts due to adrenaline flowing through his veins. "I'm simply moving using my survival instincts,"

"I see... So you're trying to tell me that you're holding back? Don't give me that crap." Kosuke slowly approaches him, removing his already ripped off clothes.

"Cr*p, I'd pissed him off, should I run?" Shun suddenly started panicking. "Nah, as if I can escape this creepy guy."

"What should I–"

"Woosh!"

Kosuke jumps at him at an incredible speed and violently swings his weapon. Shun somehow managed to dodge the blade by tilting his head, but for some reasons, he received another slight cut on his face. "Wha–, I'm pretty sure I dodge the blade. What kind of sorcery is this?"Shun closed his eyes and let's his hand to instinctively move to parry the attack as if he was holding a real blade. Kosuke continue to attack furiously, randomly swinging his weapon.

"Bliiiing!"

A sound of two blades clashing with each other echoed inside the hallways . Kosuke stopped for a moment in surprise. "Where the hell did–, I'm pretty sure he got no weapon with him."

Shun opened his eyes as he felt something in his hand. He blinked a few times and take another look at the thing he was holding in his hand. "A dagger?" Shun stared at the black dagger he was holding in his hand, the dagger have a very sharp edge and ridiculous shape.

"Tri-ring!"

[NOTICE]

YOU'VE LEARNED A NEW SKILL

[WEAPON ALCHEMY]

Mana requirement: 20

- Create any weapon by changing any kind of matter into a solid weapon.

[MAXIMUM WEAPON CREATION COUNT (1/1)]

[KUROKATTA: BLACK DAGGER]

+ 16 physical attack

"What the... did I really made this." Shun's eyes widened, he couldn't take off his eyes from the notification screen. "Should I–"

"Interesting, Hahaha!" Kosuke laughs as he tries overpowering him by pushing his blades together with Shun's. "I didn't expect you to be this entertaining, nahaha." he crazily laughs.

Instead of overpowering him, Shun directly swinged his dagger downward, aiming for the floor. Suddenly, before hitting the floor, a black aura emitted from his hand enveloped his dagger.

"What the–" Kosuke didn't have time to react before a deafening sound, "Booooom!" echoed throughout the hallways.

The black aura sends a powerful shockwave on impact, spitting the floor in half along with Kosuke. The shockwave was strong enough to make the floor collapse, causing Shun to fall from the second floor along with Kosuke's corpse.

"Ack, cough... cough... cough!"

Shun groaned in pain and started coughing after falling from the second floor of his apartment building. He looked around him and noticed no one's around. "First this fricking game screen, second, a murderer and now everyone's gone. What the hell is happening." he pitifully stared at the corpse in front of him.

"Tri-ring!"

[NOTICE]

YOU'VE SLAIN THE ENEMY!

REWARDS: 150 EXP

[NOTICE]

YOU LEVELED UP!

LEVEL 2

[NOTICE]

YOU'VE LEARNED A NEW SKILL

[Dark Cloak]

Mana requirement: 15 (drains 1 mana every second)

- Any person or object enveloped by this cloak of darkness will raise their magic damage by 20 points.

Shun summons his status window.

[STATUS]

Name: Shun Futaro

Level 2 : EXP 50/200

Guild: NONE

Title: NONE

Job: Wizard

Technique: Alchemy magic

[STATISTICS]

HP: 700/700

MP: 120/120

Magic : 30

Physical: 20

Agility : 1.5

Endurance: 14/20

Vitality: 7

Intelligence: 72

Shun's confusion cannot even be painted, he slowly squeezed his eyes shut and started murmuring about something. "I can't understand any of this," he opened his eyes again and take another look at the holographic screen, expecting to understand it.

"Please, close, vanish, disappear, leave at once." he started chanting random commands like a magician randomly naming his tricks. He stares as the the multiple pop-up screens vanished in front of him. "Finally," Shun let go a deep sigh.

Now have another problem, he narrowed his eyes as he stared fixedly at the black dagger he was holding in his hand. He knows that he can't go around leaving a ruined apartment building with a dagger and blood stains in his clothes. "I'm gonna get arrested for sure if I leave now." he mumbled.

[NOTICE]

DO YOU WANT TO KEEP THIS WEAPON [KUROKATTA] IN YOUR INVENTORY?

[yes]

[no]

"What the–, inventory!" Shun raised his voice and overreacted. "Some sh*t is going on lately, it took some time for me to realize that this notifications is somewhat look like a game system." he mumbles.

"Any way, [yes] carrying a deadly weapon in public is a bad idea." He chanted as he witness the weapon disappear from his hand through a magic circle.

"sigh... I also need to contact insurance services, this is some serio–"

*Dramatic ringtone rings

Shun suddenly hears a recognizable dramatic tome inside his head. "What the... is that my cellphone's ringtone?" Shun mumbles before another screen popped up in front of him.

[NOTICE]

INCOMING CALL FROM: [YUYA]

[answer]

[decline]

"Huh? perfect timing... I'll ask Yuya for some help, [answer]" he thought before answering the call. "Ahhhmm, Hello!" Shun cleared his throat before speaking. "What the–" the moment he stopped speaking, he suddenly hears loud noises of people screaming and some disturbing sounds in the background.

"Yuya, what's happening over there, Yuya!" Shun started raising his voice.

"cough*... Hello Shun, where are...you?" Yuya spoked in a breathy voice.

"Ahhhmm," Shun looks around him, thinking of a way to explain everything. "In the apartment, I guess!"

"Did you open an email from– cough*" Yuya voice was a bit unclear. But a single word coming from him suddenly alerted Shun.

"An email? Don't tell me–"

"Beep-beep"

The call suddenly ended in the middle of their conversation, but Shun managed to acquire a valuable clue of what's happening.

"I need to hurry up, I played some rpg games before, if this is really a game. And everyone has level and HP calculated by the system. The perfect place to level up without a hassle is at the school." Shun worries started escalating. "I need to hurry," thoughts flooded his mind as he swiftly runned outside.