After finding clothes for Alex to wear in an abandoned clothing store, the female who identified herself as Hanako Seiki led the whole group home on a route that avoided infected, AKA, the roofs.
While the group made idle chat with Alice, Alex ignored the conversation and called out the system.
[Name: Alexander Cyrus] [Race: Human]
[Age: 16] [Class: None]
[Layer: 1-Minor] [Core Rank: Awakened]
[Title: Survivor] [Bloodline: Cyrus]
[Talent: Stealth-Dormant] [Potential: SSS+]
[Profile-Image of Alex]
'Show me my Skills and Abilities'
[SKILLS]
[Shadow Transmission Lv3 ]
[Mana Cons:2]
[Inspect Lv2 ]
[Mana Cons:0]
[Water Stream Lv1]
[Mana Cons:2]
[Massive Earth Pillar Lv1]
[Mana Cons:3]
[Black Icicle Lv1]
[Mana Cons:2]
[Earth Wall Lv1 ]
[Mana Cons:3]
[ABILITY]
[The Nine Great Elements] [Mastery level: Minor degree(13.54%) ]
'Inventory'
[Monster Core x1] [Dry Cereal x6]
[Wooden Katana x1] [Biscuits x12]
[G- Skill Sheet x 6] [Bottled water x3]
[Soul Fragment –Physical x17]
***
After about twenty minutes, they finally arrived at what seemed to be an empty patch of land, the only peculiar thing about it would be the semi-transparent green barrier that flickered in and out of existence.
"Are you sure this is the place?" Hanako nodded before walking into the barrier. As soon as she stepped in, her figure disappeared.
"Don't worry, it's ninety five percent safe, just try not to vomit when you come." Wally informed the duo before he and Alice followed his group. Alex tried analyzing the barrier but he received a surprise response.
[Skill [Inspect] has been blocked]
'Well… This is a first' Alex noted it in his mind of things to ask before he followed the groups example and entered the barrier.
It felt horrible, all he could see were bright lights that burned his eyes, making him kneel in pain, and even after that, his body felt like it was being thrown like a ragdoll into a wall, over and over again, his senses slowly became numb and soon enough, he couldn't feel his senses.
It felt like an eternity had passed when in actually, not even a second had.
Alex's eyes adjusted to the light as he raised his head to see a Castle, yea, a goddamn castle. The castle wasn't the weirdest thing though, the weirdest thing was actually the building beside it. It was roughly 7m x 7m… "Is that a restroom or something?"
"No. That's our school, the castle is just the dorms, and before you say anything about the school, it was made using space magic, the actual size of the school alone [Excluding dorms and showers] is roughly the size of Kyoto, its very easy to get lost in there, anyways I'll be sending your friend off to the bath to wash up. Wally, take Alex to the registration center."
***
"This is the registration center." Wally said.
A tall light-brown haired girl in a red vest and skirt, was walking towards them. Her gray eyes were piercing. "Hello, how can I help you?" She asked them. "My name is Rose, your name?" She asked them. "Um-
Miss Rose, this is Alex, he came here to register" Wally replied. "Alright, wait there please." She said as she started to walk to a cabinet of files.
Alex stood behind her. He was curious about what was going on. He had no idea what she was going to want. Fortunately, she said that she didn't intend to take a registration fee or anything of the sorts.
Wally looked at Alex, trying to get a read on him. Alex just gave him a look back, that said, "Why are you looking at me?". And then he turned and waited.
A minute or two had past and finally she came up to them. She started to explain the rules. "Sign here, here and here. Your life and safety does not matter to us once you are outside the zone unless under very special circumstances. You must wear this bracelet at all times except when granted permission by professors or emergencies. Wally will take you to the dorms. Your dorm is B337(B for boys' dormitories, 3 for floor, and 37 for room number). Once you get settled in, let Wally send you to the General classes, room F." She smiled and told Wally to take Alex to the dorms.
Alex smiled and said "Thank you.", they reached his room quite fast, but as soon as they tried opening the door, it opened by itself and a group of four boys flew out the door, taking Alex and Wally with them. "Don't enter till I say so!" "Who would want to see you naked, bitch!!" "Well she can't fault me for that." One said. "Now's not the time Ren!"
Alex and Wally were panting, trying to get out from underneath the boys who still hadn't realized they were there. A petite female with silky brown hair walked out of the room wearing a simple attire, a white shirt with blue edges and white pants sharing the same style the the shirt. She wore a white coat to cover herself with a sword strap at its waist. "Huh? Where did you two come from? I clearly threw four people out." Wally's eyes showed fear as he saw her identity before he quickly struggled out from the pile of boys and spoke while retreating,
"Um, as you see, I'm just a passerby who got caught up in the situation, no need to interrogate me" By the time he had finished the sentence, he was already at the end of the hallway. "Alex! Good luck!"
'I have a bad feeling about this...' "I'm Alex, I just arrived when this happened..." "What dorm do you belong to?" "B337".
"Fuck" The girls face darkened as she slowly followed in the steps of Wally while mocking herself. "Every girl except me got into the girl's dorm, all because that crazy bastard hates me!" Her face was red and tears welled up in her eyes. Alex could only catch a small glimpse of the boys faces as they vanished back into the dorms.
Alex walked into the dorm, too tired to think about what a certain boy was doing ransacking a small suitcase which clearly wasn't his, because there was a lock on it… and he broke it. Alex jumped onto the bed with the least amount of trash and put his arms behind his head, clearly, he wasn't going for class…
The boys gave Alex who had his eyes closed a look of someone who had just done something they would forever regret…
***
Clang!
"Alexander, you're finally here, it's about time."
Alex opened his eyes when he heard the sound yet he realized, he was in a void, the only noticeable thing there was a long table and two seats at the opposite ends with one seat occupied. Red eyes, black hair,a tatoo that stretched over his right eye and pale skin. This being, he looked like an exact replica of Alex, the only difference being in their hair, eyes and tatoo. Alex felt a sense of fear swell up, but he swallowed it back down and walked… floated towards the being.
***
1ST PERSON POV [ALEXANDER]
It all stemmed downed to one thing, [Soul link].
The being, named Code Z, or just Z, had no recollection of anything that happened before he awoke in my consciousness. He looked at the world through my eyes. As it turns out, my [Nine Great Elements] belonged to him. He tricked the system, making it think his elemental affinity was my ability. The eye that appeared earlier during my awakening was due to him regaining a part of his ability that was supposedly sealed up because the chains that bound him had gotten weaker. Alex's [Shadow Transmission]
Actually, takes over a hundred mana points for each use, but Z's affinity cut down the cost to a pitiful number of 2. This was all possible with one skill, [Soul Link].
***
A familiar female who seemed to be the one who came from Alex's dorm swung her sword in a swift downward motion against the dummy, while thinking about the new dorm mate, Alex. This is a joint class, so he should be here, I guess he's another slacker, ugh!'
With that her swings became harder as she became frustrated once again.
***
Hanako begun making conversation, "Sorry about earlier, you know, the fight." "It's okay, I'm just wondering how you teleported like that."
"That's a basic skill they teach you here, [Blink] it's just because of my space affinity when I use [Blink] it takes less mana than normal, and when coupled with my ability, it's extremely dangerous." Alice's eyes raised as she spoke "Oh, that's cool, I'd like to fight you again some time." "Don't cry when you lose."
"As if!"
A cheerful conversation would be heard if one entered the girl showers.
***
With a voice almost no different from Alex's, only deeper, he continued, "The cores you consumed earlier, their energy still lies within you. I will remove my link when you will it, meaning the energy will rush to awaken your actual ability. When you want to talk to me just fall asleep and I will appear.
"Thank you". Even through all this, Alex was still wary… just less. After all, who doesn't fear the unknown, AND, he's been sealed. No one seals anyone for no reason. Alex's body instantly shattered into many fragments as the disappeared in the void. "Now, it has begun. Show me your best, I expect good things from you, after all…"
"You're a Cyrus."
***
"Who gave you permissionn to sleep in my bed?!" An ear shattering scream immediately made Alex open his eyes whilst he thought, 'One surprise after another' but his eyes immediately widened open seeing a fist headed to his face, there wasn't enough time to think, when suddenly his head edged towards the left grazing only his right cheek, which made most of the damage null with only his cheek hurting a bit.
(A/N: For those who forgot, he has [Survival instincts] It activates against anything lethal, the female is Layer 1-Intermediate and she used her full punch so it's definitely lethal)
The girl who punched was surprised at his extremely fast instincts, and because she used her full force on the punch and missed, she fell over. Luckily, this time, Alex jumped out of the way, preventing himself from becoming a cushion for her fall. Suddenly, he tripped on something and fell down, it was two of the boys from before, they were packed in a pile, and one of them, the one who broke the lock, was holding an undergarment.
Before he got into any more trouble, Alex ran out of the dorm, heading towards the registration center for a way towards his class, since he lost his guide(Wally).
Alex pushed open the door to his class, arriving one hour late and attracting the attention of the teacher.
"Nope, Im not dealing with bullshit today, get out. Since You're an hour late you probably didn't want to come here either way. If you still want to redeem yourself, take 5 laps around the track field."
***
1ST PERSON POV (ALEXANDER)
'What's with this place, wherever I go I get in trouble.' I grumbled as I ran my second lap round a 3-kilometer field. When I reached the start of the track once again, I turned my head to the left and saw a group of people wearing a white shirt with green long edges with white pants, also having green long edges. They wore a quiver on their backs and a sturdy hat with their bows in their hands, some had hoods and collars while others didn't. I just realized I don't have the uniform, do those sleeves represent what weapons they use? Either way why don't they look for guns instead of learning bows?
His curiousity had awoken.
***
After he ran his five laps, he went back to the registration center for his clothes before he would head back for his general class.
Rose introduced him to the possible specialized classes he could join, "There are the rangers, swordsmen, martial artists, mages, assassins, choose whichever class you would like to join." Alex pondered for a moment before he spoke, "…Martial artist"
[Data Recorded]
[Class Martial Artist has been selected]
[Details]
"Your clothes will be ready in a day."
"Huh? Oh yeah, Thanks".
Alex walked away, as he pressed the details button, opening a separate panel.
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CURRENT PLAYERS: 6,657,929,139
NO OF DEATHS: 324,870
TOTAL NO OF DEATHS: 8,136,748,866
CURRENT GAME: TUTORIAL
CLEAR TIME: ONGOING
Note of the day
RULERS OF THE UNDERWORLD
The underworld is divided into three levels, with three rulers. Diabelle, ruler of the first level, the asphodel meadows. Yami, ruler of the second level, the Elysium. Diablo, ruler of the third level, tartarus and also the strongest ruler.