The Initialization : Phase 007

-What the flying fuck happened?

'Dreams and Adventure my ass! I just died aren't i?' Zen agonizingly thought as he lies motionless on the road. His blood slowly seeping through the cracks of the pave-road where his head was.

How realistic, Zen thought morbidly as we waits for his re-spawn counter to hit zero. It happened so fast that his body only started to feel the pain just this moment.

God it hurts.

He never felt this much pain even in real life before. It felt as if his head was split into two...wait, his head was actually splitted into two. That explains now his split vision. The pain is excruciating. Even with his pain tolerance buffed up by years of pain tolerance training, Zen could still feel the horrendous sensation in his head.

This max pain coefficient is no joke.

At first he thought that the penitentiary officials had lost their heads (no pun intended) by letting criminals enjoy their life behind bars by playing Noiz but now he had to retract that assumption.

Those fuckers are extreme sadist.

The teen rather stay locked up in a cell than feel this immense pain.

In a way, they have successfully turned the most enjoyable game in human history into the best torture device ever created by mankind.

"Oh? I could have sworn Vorge said that it was a chick but this ones a dick..."

A hooded figure stood suddenly before him which blocked the sun rays that is hitting his virtual face. He cannot see his face but the jackass was grinning from ear to ear as he brandish the sword in his hands.

"Are you an idiot? Closing your eyes like some shithead in Genosia's warp zone of all places, dude you're just begging to be PK'ed, it's so hilarious." His killer muttered with a sinister glee tone as he squat down mockingly by Zen's side. He made some hand gestures then an orb like thing akin to those of stereotypical fortune tellers materialized on his left hand.

Six seconds more before he respawn.

Zen just then noticed the red name floating just barely above the fuckers head.

[email protected]>>

After muttering something Zen couldn't hear, the hooded PK by the name of Zaxa then chuckled as the orb on his hands vanished.

"No way! A noob? How unlucky can you get. and you appear right in the middle of 'the hunt' no less. Man you're so fucked."

The bandit-like figure muttered to himself as he stand up again and looked towards a crowd of similarly bandit looking users.

The hunt? Zen thought as the respawn counter falls down to four.

"Ginzo get your ass here and revive this fucker before he respawn to some other warp zone! Una cast stun after he rev. I'll contact Vorge." Zaxa ordered as two people from the group came towards the zone. From the looks of the duo, the male is a priest and the girl's an enchanter. the man was holding a wooden staff while the witch like female has a wand that has a skeleton tip.

"So this isn't the newb we were hunting?" The male idly commented as his staff began to glow.

"Idiot! Didn't you forget that Vorge clearly said that it was a female? Long silver hair, pale blue skinned and most important of all, an Elven. Which part of this idiot is any of those huh?"

A faint whitish glow enveloped Zen but before he could even move, a quick zap shocked his body shut.

You have been revived! 5% Life Points Recovered.

You have been stunned! Unable to move for (119) seconds.

Zen cursed under his breath. He absolutely hated the feeling of helplessness. It reminded him of his younger years where he was at the mercy of the Yakuza. The guy named Zaxa seemed to be talking to someone but he couldn't hear what the other guy was saying. It must be that [ Telephaty Call ] thingie he was hearing about.

"Yo Vorge you won't believe it but we got a new noob here fresh out of the 'tincan'.....No Una stunned him.....Yeah totally lucky for us...So, shall we add this new idiot into the 'Rabbit' list?.....Dude you're so cruel....well that's why you're the top dog around here....okay got it."

Tincan? Rabbit list?

Zen couldn't piece out together what was being said but it was obvious that he is in a whole deep of shit from the looks of things. So deep he was totally paralyzed... literally.

He would totally panic and fell into disarray if this happened five years ago. But his current self was way more mature and composed compared to his self from a half a decade ago. One thing he learned from being a mobster is to stay cool and carefully analyze the situation no matter how grim it seems. There's always a loophole and a solution for any problem if you look hard enough.

Rationalizing his predicament, he thought of checking his items and skills first. 'Know thy self before thy enemy.' His samurai colleague often muttered and Zen totally agree. He neglected checking them earlier because of the sudden ambush but luckily it seems that you can still open them even just by using one's mind.

How convenient.

Without showing any movements at all, Zen mentally thought of pressing the 'Items' column. He heard a chime sound as a panel manifested in front of him.

On the items column, he mentally choose 'Equipments' on the many header tabs.

Finding nothing more to do since all his equipment is pre-equipped already, he then choose 'Consumables' next.

Checking the description of both items, it says that LP Potion (S) can only heal 50 Life Points while MP Potion (S) re-stores a minuscule amount of 10 Magna. It may be not much but it's reassuring that he had a restoration item in case of an emergency. Lastly he check on the 'ingredients' tab but it only had one item which is an 'Apple x10' and it restores 25 Hunger points.

With the paralysis almost wearing off Zen was attacked again by a stun spell from the enchanter but he toughed it all out and stealthy check his 'Skills' section.

Combat Skills | Production Skills

Two columns appeared and he quickly chose the first option. A drop down list then scrolled down showing all of his combat abilities.

'Only one action skill huh?' Zen thought as he covertly placed his right hand to the dagger on that is placed on his right leg pocket. He better find a solution to his predicament fast cause that laughing sound that came from those bandits only means one thing.

Odds are, he would be thrown out of the frying pan and be burned directly into the fire.

He hastily checked his 'Magic Skills' with a growing agitation.

However, it only has one skill.

Zen felt like face-palming himself.

He should had opened this panel first. If his memory serves right, they stunned him so that he could not activate this skill and warp to some other warp zone.

Zen tried activating the skill through his mind but a notification popped out instead.

You are 'stunned' please activate the skill when the parameter wares off.

Well no surprise there, he already expected it but at least now he could finally see a rope to escape his dilemma.

Now he could start formulating an escape plan.

"Okay listen up noob," Seemed like they were already finished with their discussion, Zen thought grimly as he closed his magic panel. Zaxa squat down again to his eye level as he started to finally explained why he was attacked right at the start.

"We have an unwritten rule here in Genosia that every fucking noob has to follow." The red player explained with a sneer. "You guys have to play a game called 'Rabbit Hunt' or more precisely, you newbs play the rabbit while everyone plays the hunter. Sounds easy to understand no?"

So you mean to say he got butchered for some sick game of cat and mouse? He was starting to like this world more and more, Zen thought sarcastically.

"What do you mean by everyone?" The stunned teen managed to ask calmly as he look Zaxa in the eye.

"Exactly as it sounds. Everyone as in every fucking single one of users within Genosia are hunters! How cool is that eh?"

"Yeah 'veeery' cool indeed" Zen responded in a dull voice coated with sarcasm. He looked straight into the guy and with his most mocking face he could muster he added,

"So cool that it look almost all players within the town to took down a newbie. How cool is that eh? I didn't know you guys were so scared of me that you resort to petty ambushes and ganging up like some useless dogs just to take me out." Zen then let out a narcissistic chuckle as he adjust his face upwards.

"Don't test me newbie." Zaxa muttered with a serious demeanor. Be can't believe he was hearing this shit from a newbie of all people. Who does he think he is, some kind of a superhero that could turn things around? More like supershit who can do nothing but piss him off.

Zen smirked. If someone were to ask him what his greatest skill was, His definite answer would be the ability to piss anyone off...and probably the skill to conjure a chain of profanities and curses.

Tough luck for this Zaxa fellow, he would experience both and be cursed,

Zen style.

"Don't fucking test me you shitfuck of a useless retard. All of you asswipes can't do a jack shit but to piss your anal selves off and gang up like some dickless motherfuckers when someone damn stronger like my goddamn self appears before you spineless cowards."

He then finished his cuss combo with a degrading look as if he's looking at a garbage fully aimed at the speechless bastard in front of him.

"Zaxa was it? Pfft, even your naming sense suck. Seriously what's with the '[email protected]' bet you didn't even finish elementary school since you can't even write properly. Man just log out and go back to your creepy room filled with emo shits, your fucking hideous face disgust me."

It took half a minute before Zen got a reaction from the guy. However, instead of an outburst, the bastard just calmly gave a glare full of hatred as he said something to the female enchanter beside him.

"Una, after the stun wears off, don't zap this fucker got it?"

The girl just tilted her head. "Uhh why, don't tell me you're gonna let this shit

escape after what he said to you. I'm even surprised your all calm after all of that stuff that came out of this guys mouth."

"Calm? do i look fucking calm to you!?" Zaxa shouted as he grabbed her collar and shoved the girl off. "I WANNA KILL THIS GUY A THOUSAND TIMES MYSELF!!"

The bastard lunges his sword upwards as he madly aimed it at the black haired teen who is kneeling in front of him.

Only two seconds left till the paralysis wears off. Zen tried to move his fingers. Seems like he could barely move it with the stun parameter almost off. He grab hold of the dagger on his leg as Zaxa swings down his sword towards him with a deathly accuracy.

One second till impact. almost the same time with the stun counter reaching zero. What irony, Zen readies himself to dodge the moment the bandits sword hit the target which is himself.

Zing!

A sword cried as it hit the pavement with a shake. it's intended target nimbly dodged to the left with a blinding speed. Zaxa quickly locked his gaze into his target but out of the corner of his eyes, he could see Una the enchanter starting to chant some spell.

"Fuck Una like i said no stun this time!" He shouted while keeping his eyes aimed at the newbie who is trying to move on his blind-spot. "I want this shit noob know the difference in our powers."

Zaxa currently is at level 39 with his occupation as a bandit being at level 20. he may not be a 'ranker' player but he can still defeat a newly arrived level 1 Drifter with just one strike. He grinned as if already tasting his victory.

A noob fresh out of the 'tincan' dared to fight someone like him? What an idiot.

However, that idiot seemed to be plotting something as he kneels down to grab some rock on the ground then swiftly threw it towards his head.

Fast!

Is that really a lvl one throw? Zaxa thought as he tilted his head to avoid the projectile. Heh, while it may be faster than he anticipated, it still looked quite slow since bandits have a skill called [ Hypersense ] and he activated it just now. His reaction speed doubles for ten second with this skill.

Now the shit just dug his own grave.

Speaking of which...

Where is the shit?

Zaxa was so focused at dodging the stone that he lost sight of the noob. He felt a movement behind him but as he turned around, another projectile bombarded his head.

The hell?

The noob threw a fucking pile of land dust onto him!

He tried to block it with his hands but some still passed particularly the small rocks and rendered him partially blind especially his right eye.

"What the—"

He then heard of a partcular screeching noise. The same sound you will mostly hear when someone was about to use a combat skill. Zaxa desperately tried to locate the origin of the sound even with his impaired vision. But when he does, it was already too late.

A dagger with a greenish glow came in contact with his right eye, Making his LP dropped 03 points while rendering him totally blind.

You received a critical hit! With your eye precisely hit by attack'blind' debuff was gained for (03) seconds.

"SHIIIT!!!" He cursed loudly as he heard the fucking newbie suddenly shouted a spell.

"Warp of Origin!"

The fucker was already gone when his vision returned.