Liam stood still not quite sure how to react.

He took a deep breath. Desperation would not help at all. He was in a position he obviously could not reject. If so, he may well accept what was happening and move on.

“First, let's see how I am. Status.”

Before him, a translucent screen of blue color appeared, and apparently he was the only one able to see.

(.....)

Name: Liam Mason

Level: 0 | EXP: 0%

Class: Awakened

Title: none

HP: 40 | MP: 10

Vitality: 4

Strength: 10

Dexterity: 8

Mental Power: 1

Magic Power: 2

Attributes Points: 0

Skill Points: 0

(.....)

From what he understood, Vitality increases your HP by 10 points per Score. Strength is as it says, it increases your strength and stamina. Dexterity increases your speed, motor coordination and your perception. Mental Power increases your MP (Mana) by 10 points for each point. Magic Power increases by 0.1% the strength, effectiveness and power of your abilities that have in their description the damage done or some percentage, in addition to increasing the speed of mana regeneration by 1 every minute for every 10 points.

At each level it rises, it will receive 5 Attributes Points to distribute as you wish. The same goes for Skill Points.

The system was simple and easy to understand. Since he did not play much, he thanked the gods for being easy to understand.

“Skills.”

(.....)

Skills - (1/10): [Blessing of the Gods - Rank-S (Temporary)]

(.....)

It seems he could only learn 10 skills. That was a shame.

He turned his attention to her ability.

(.....)

Blessing of the Gods: the gods are looking for you. They gave him the ability to stand up once more when he fell before his enemies.

Description: Relive on base after dying for up to 3 times. After the third resurrection, this ability will disappear from your skill list.

Rank: S (0/0)

Uses: 3/3

Cost: none

(.....)

Liam let out the breath he did not even know he was holding.

“At least I will not perish immediately...”

Looking around he saw that some people were analyzing their status and abilities and it seems that he was not the only one to receive this ability.

Taking a deep breath, he decided to open the mysterious chest first before deciding which weapon to take.

“Operator, hand me the mysterious chest.”

The orb hovering at the height of his head shone before a foot of a foot or so appeared before him.

The hover floated at the height of his chest, encased in a golden light.

He took a deep breath and hoped it was a skill.

As he touched the chest, a message appeared before him.

[You got a mysterious chest. Do you want to open it?]

“Yes...” Liam whispered.

The bubble of light enveloped by the boo burst with a “pop” and then the chest opened alone and from it a book floated. Seeing what Liam was doing, many decided to do the same.

The book was 30 centimeters high. It was hard-blue. Liam touched the book.

[You have purchased the skill book: “Time Stopping”. Want to learn?]

Liam did not even hesitate to confirm.

[You learned the ability to Rank-G: Time Stopping.]

Without delay, he opened the ability.

(.....)

Time Stopping (active): the ability to stop time. The user is no longer affected by time.

Rank: G (0/100)

Duration: 3 seconds

Range: 3 meters around the user

Restriction: does not affect those that are 3 levels and above

Cost: 100 MP

Cooldown: 60 seconds

(.....)

Liam almost coughed blood. The ability itself was excellent, but at only 10 MP, how could he even think of using it?

He closed the skills window and looked at the hourglass, saw that it should be another 10 minutes before being teleported to the base in the Neutral Dimension.

“Store.”

Ahead of him, a window containing more than 10 different types of weapons emerged. They were all medieval. But this time, the window did not belong to him, but to the orb. Apparently, the store belonged to the Order of the Gods.

Looking at the swords, axes, bows, sabers, spears among others, Liam chose what he found most easy to handle, and also why he always liked. He chose the katana.

The katana, in its sheath, was automatically fitted at its waist.

(.....)

Katana Simple

Rank: G

Durability: 30/30

Requirements: none

Attack: 5 ~ 8

Effect: none

(.....)

“Attention. You will be teleported to the Neutral Dimension in 10 seconds.”

The orb soon reported.

Nervousness washed over him.

“10... 9... 8...”

The Operator of each person reported raising the apprehension of everyone to the limit.

“2... 1... Teleporting user to human base...”

Blinding white light spread to all sides forcing him to close his eyes.

In the next second, Liam heard sounds of explosions. Frightened, he opened his eyes and jumped.

Liam was greeted by a vision of an unimaginable place.

The sky was purple with blue clouds and floating islands. There were some trees along the place of mystical appearance.

There was no sun or star at all, but it was still clear as the sunset.

He was in a huge stone patio. Behind him was a kind of pyramid-like altar with a mixture of a Mayan ruin. To reach the top of the altar where he could see a red light screen and just after the screen, a circular portal that looked like purple clouds glittered. Above the altar, there was a flag with a symbol that seemed to represent the omega, it floated. This same flag seemed to emit a power by creating a field of white energy around the altar that encompassed around 200 meters.

He turned and looked straight ahead. About 500 meters away, there was another screen of light, but this one was green and soon after the screen, there were innumerable creatures. Some looked like humanoid lizards, others looked like humanoid bulls, and so on.

These creatures wore armor and weapons of all kinds and were attacking the screen of light that looked like it would break at any moment.

“Operator, can you explain what's going on?” Liam asked.

The robotic male voice of the orb responded.

“You are within the base captured by the Order of the Gods. The flag represents the domain of who captured an altar. The white force field is the last line of defense against the demons. There are 7 force fields in all. White, green, yellow, blue, pink, black, and purple.”

Liam was listening intently.

“Each force field has a constraint. The white force field can be traversed by anyone allowed by the Order of the Gods. The green force field can only be traversed by levels 3 or lower. The yellow field only allows levels 7 or less. Blue allows levels 15 or less. Pink allows levels 30 or less. Black allows for levels 50 or lower. Purple allows for levels 90 or lower.”

“What about the white and red fields?” Liam asked.

“The red field prevents anyone from level 99 or lower from crossing. That only applies to you humans. The red field was created by the lord of that altar.”

The orb first explained the red field before explaining the white force field.

“The white force field can be traversed by demons if the source of energy that sustains all force fields is drained. The source of energy are blood cores dropped by demons when they are killed. Each user must pay 5 cores of blood every 48 hours. This is required. From now on, the maintenance of energy will depend only on humans.”

Liam sighed.

“Even here you must pay something.”

Looking more closely, he saw that there were monsters attacking the white force field.

“How long before the power runs out?”

“47 hours and 41 minutes.” The Operator reported.

He let out a sigh of relief.

“At least we have some time.”