Re: Twilight Gamer ( Twilight / The Gamer )

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His mind was quickly recovering, though it still felt as if he was looking at everything through a thick fog in comparison to how he usually felt.

Staring at Jeannie who was sitting on the ground, back leaned against the wall, her eyes a dull colour and a dazed expression on her face, Alan felt soft relief slowly start coursing through his body as the terror slowly started subsiding.

'Fuck… fuck fuck fuck, that was dangerous, that was so fucking scary. What if it noticed something or it killed me or…. This was the dumbest decision that I've ever made in my fucking life. Go get stoned, get drugged up, and I was feeling so god damn overconfident too. Ten intelligence my ass, im a fucking dumbass, im dumb as fucking bircks.' Alan thought to himself as he quickly opened up his status panel.

'Status' The second he thought of the word, the blue holographic panel appeared before him.


[ Status ]

[ Name: Alan Walker ]

[ Age: 18 ]

[ Race: Human 90%, Elf 10% ]

[ Gender: Male ]

[ Level: 2 ] [ Xp: 0/40 ]

[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]

[ S: 3 ]

[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]

[ E: 6 ]

[ C: 10 ]

[ I: 5* ] [ -5 Negative Status Effect Active ]

[ A: 7 ]

[ L: 10 ]

[ Abilities: None. ]

[ Talents: None ]

[ Perks: Elf ]

[ Coins: 2 Bronze Coin ]

[ Normal Stats ]
[ Strength: 20/150 ]

[ Perception: 0/150 ]

[ Endurance: 0/300 ]

[ Charisma: 5/500 ]

[ Intelligence: 7/500 ]

[ Agility: 0/350 ]

[ Luck: 0/500 ]

[ Normal Stat Points Left: 0]

[ Status: Semi-Complete Magical Drug Intoxication ] [ Intelligence Stat: -5 ]

Looking over his status screen, Alan felt his relief quickly intensify as his eyes moved up and down on the panel and thankfully he didn't see it.

'There's no possession, thank god. My theory that I need multiple doses was correct, but theres something else that's concerning… I'm in a semi complete intoxication and yet my intelligence stat got debuffed more than the others, is it just that the drugs drops the intelligence to one automatically when its in full effect, whilst when its just semi, it only halves it… thats why they could still remember somewhat what happened the last time.' Alan thought as he slowly realised what had actually happened.

Earlier during the day, the three of his friends had told him about remembering the good side effects of the drug, something they clearly wouldn't have been able to do if they had been in the current state that they were in.

'So it takes multiple doses, atleast two before someone gets into this… dazed state or whatever they're in and maybe even more but it depends on the persons body for the possession?' Alan thoughts continued before a soft headache started all around his head, it felt like his mind was being slowly squished.

'Hurts… just that much and I'm already hurting? Is it another side effect? Fuck, can't think. Let's just get the hell out of here.' Alan thought as he lifted his right hand and ran it through his hair for a moment before slowly getting up from the wooden armchair and walking towards the window.

Stopping at it for a moment, he looked down at Jeannie who was sat on the ground, basically unconscious and then at the two boys behind him in a similar state on the couches.

'Sorry… I would have called an ambulance or something if this was a normal situation… but I can't risk it.' Alan thought in his mind before releasing a soft sigh as he felt another pang of pain pierce through the side of his head.

Shaking the thoughts and slight guilt out of his mind, Alan put a hand on the window and vaulted over it and down onto the emergency stair case down below.

*Klang*

The sound of metal rattling was heard as he landed onto the metallic staircase, his vision a slight dazed blur for a moment before it refocused as he got up from his crouched landing position and quickly started heading down the stairs and onto the street below.

'Right, fuck. I'm atleast an hour away on foot from my apartment. I fucking forgot.' Alan thought to himself however he didn't even bother calling for anyone else, he knew a few people but he couldn't exactly trust them and they were just regular humans, humans that he didn't want to get involved into this mess that he had found himself in.

The other option was Alice Cullen and it was pretty clear as to why he didn't want to message the person who he knew with certainty wasn't a human and at the same time knew nothing about, didn't know her intentions, didn't know her alignment, or anything at all really. He barely knew a bit of her personality and even that could have been faked.

Walking down the road, his feet moving quickly, not quite running, he couldn't withstand that with his low strength, agility was usually the stat related to speed and running, however he had found that if one didn't have enough strength, they could barely even stand up, let alone run down the street.

*Sigh*

"Just get home and head into the dungeon, if im correct about my theory on me getting regenerated every time that I level up then I should be able to fully recover as soon as I level up and get rid of the drugs effects on me." Alan muttered under his breath as he kept speed walking whilst keeping his head down low, hoping to not gather any attention from anyone.

If anyone saw his face afterall, they'd instantly suspect something was wrong, his skin was pale, his pupils were wide and his sclera was bloodshot.

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Almost an hour later, the sun already starting to slowly fall down on the horizon, Alan finally arrived at his apartment, heading inside and closing the door quietly behind him, his mind still feeling like a fog, he walked towards his bed and laid down before opening up the system dungeon menu.

'System Dungeon.' He thought in his mind and instantly the holographic panel appeared before him.

[ System Dungeon ]

[ Dummy Dungeon ] [ Level 1 ] [ Join ]

[ ???? Dungeon ] [ Level 5 ]

[ ???? Dungeon ] [ Level 50 ]

[ ???? Dungeon ] ….

…

'Join' Alan thought and instantly without even moving his finger, the button was clicked as his vision similarly to the last time he had entered started darkining, his senses slowly dulling until he could see, hear, smell or feel anything at all in absolute darkness as if he was in a lightless space in the universe.

A mere moment later, his senses fully returned and he found himself back in the same position he had left the dungeon in, laid down on the green perfect grass, his face facing at the strange unnatural purple cloudless sky.

Slowly getting up, by using his hands as help, Alan remembered that he had forgotten his weapon before he had come inside the dungeon.

'Fuck, I wasn't even thinking.' Alan thought however at that moment as his mind went to it, something changed, a slight pressure appearing on the base of his palm and then a split second later, he felt something appearing in it, as his hand instinctively grasped it, feeling the small weight of the object.

[ Weapon: Rusted Bread Knife has been summoned ]

Looking at the small knife that had appeared out of thin air into his hand, Alan's eyes widened for a moment before a soft relieved sigh escaped him.

'Thank god, I didn't want to actually have to leave and come back here but I wouldn't have had a choice, defeating these things is already a pain in the ass with it, even though it only gives me a plus two boost to my damage, when my damage without it is two, its effectively a double boost to my damage.' Alan thought as he turned towards the closest Straw Dummy that he could find and walked towards it.

'Alright, Just need… to defeat four of them.' Alan thought, already feeling like his mind would explode from exhaustion before he even came close to it.

As he arrived infront of the dummy and raised his hand holding the knife, taking a deep breath for a moment and then releasing it as he swung downwards with all the strength he could and attacking directly towards the part that connected the head and torso of the straw dummy.

'Observe.' Alan thought as he used his skill instantly after the attack.

[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]

[ Health points: 97/100 ]

'Three? Right, I'm not in top shape, even if my strength didn't actually get decreased, my body is too relaxed to actually use the strength that i have. It's why I had so much trouble even walking home. Fuck.'

Minutes passed, his right hand raising up and then falling down over and over again, the skin on his palms slowly turning raw from having to use all of his force to both grip the knife handle and swing down towards the dummies.

Almost fifteen minutes later, fifteen minutes that had felt like pure torture and immense exhaustion, he finally achieved it.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has defeated Straw Dummy. ]

[ 10 Experience Points Gained. ]

[ 1 Bronze Coin Looted. ]

'One… one down. Just three more to go.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly walked towards the next Straw Dummy, almost swaying on his feet, his footing feeling like he was on some kind of ship in the middle of a rainstorm in the sea.

The second Straw Dummy took even longer. Around twenty five minutes.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has defeated Straw Dummy. ]

…
'Just… two more.' Alan thought, his mind having grown even wearier than before from the combination of the drugs effects and the physical exhaustion.

Heading towards the third Straw Dummy, he had to switch to his left hand, even though the damage would be lowered even further, to a mere two points of damage, and sometimes even one, he had no choice, his main arm felt like it was going to fall off already.

*Fsshh*

*Stchhh*

*Fshhh*

*Stcchh*

Swing after swing, he continued, his mind faltering and growing duller and yet his will never once did, it wasn't that he was some disciplined fighter or some kind of monk with immense willpower, it was simply the adrenaline that was still coursing through him, the terror of his interaction with the possesion, they were all emotions that were currently fueling him to go past lengths that would have previously made him give up.

[ Ding! ]

[ User has defeated Straw Dummy. ]

[ User has gained 10 Experience Points ]

[ 1 Bronze Coin has been Looted ]

[ Status ]

[ Alan Walker ]

[ Level 2 ] [ 30/40 Experience Points. ]

'Just one more…. Just need one more.' Alan thought, even his thoughts having mostly cleared, only leaving the desire to defeat the last opponent in his path to what he felt was his survival.

Arriving at the last Straw Dummy, in what could barely be called a walk, it resembled more of a scene if one tried to crawl whilst standing up.

[ -1Hp ]

[ -1Hp ]

[ -1Hp ]

His attack damage had fallen down to one, even with his main arm, his non dominant one had already become useless, not dealing any more damage whilst using it.

It took fourty two long minutes, of taking constant long breaks inbetween each swing to gather his strength once more before each swing, for the thing to finall crack and fall down onto the ground in a heap of straw and wooden sticks that were quickly disappearing into white motes of light.

[ Ding! ]

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[ Ding! ]



[ User has defeated Straw Dummy ]



[ User has gained ten experience points ]



[ 1 Bronze Coin Looted ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has leveled up! ]



[ 20 Normal Status Points Gained! ]



Instantly as soon as the notification rang out and the blue holographic system screen panels appeared, Alan felt a rush go throughout his entire body, instantly rejuvenating him as his eyes practically flew open at that very instant, his body that had finally given up on the last hit grew stiff for a moment before relaxing once more.



The fog that had been covering his mind seemed to vanish as if it had never been there in the first place and the physical exhaustion similarly disappeared in an instant.



*Huff*



"Finally, fuckin' hell that took a while. I almost felt like I was going to keel and die right here." Alan muttered as he released a soft sigh and slowly got back up onto his feet.



'Status' He thought as he pulled up the status menu.



[ Status ]



[ Name: Alan Walker ]



[ Age: 18 ]



[ Race: Human 90%, Elf 10% ]



[ Gender: Male ]



[ Level: 3 ] [ Xp: 0/80XP ]



[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]



[ S: 3 ]



[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]



[ E: 6 ]



[ C: 10 ]



[ I: 10 ]



[ A: 7 ]



[ L: 10 ]



[ Abilities: None. ]



[ Talents: None ]



[ Perks: Elf ]



[ Coins: 6 Bronze Coin ]



[ Normal Stats ]

[ Strength: 25/150 ]

[ Perception: 0/150 ]

[ Endurance: 10/300 ]

[ Charisma: 5/500 ]

[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]

[ Agility: 0/350 ]

[ Luck: 0/500 ]

[ Normal Stat Points Left: 20 ]



'Seem's like I gained ten points in endurance and then five more points in strength from that… that's good. Oh right, and three points in intellgence. That… thats much faster than what I've been gaining until now. Much much faster actually, so training whilst under a debuff actually helped… could I?' Alan thought for a brief moment before he instantly shook his head in disbelief at his own thoughts for a moment.



"Yeah fuck that, hell no. I am not smoking that shit ever again, infact fuck smoking completely and fuck drugs too." Alan said to himself before turning his attention towards the status menu once more and then instantly dumping all of his points into Strength.

[ Strength: 45/150 ]



As soon as it happened, he felt it, it was as if he was able to move more easily, the weight of his own body feeling suddenly lighter than before.



'That was actually a bigger increase than I thought it would be.' Alan thought before he opened up another system menu.



'System Shop.'



Instantly, the system shop holographic panel appeared floating before him.



[ System Shop ]

[ Equipment ]

[ Items ]

[ Potions ]



'Equipment.' Alan thought as he instantly ignored the other two categories and opened the one he was most excited about.



[ System Shop ]

[ Equipment ]



[ Basic Wooden Baseball Bat ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Helmet ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Chestplate ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Leggings ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Boots ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]

'I don't really have any need for any of the armor at the moment considering that I'm not actually fighting anything, merely beating up Straw Dummies, so the only viable choice is the weapon, considering I'd be able to use that to defeat these things faster and thus leading to a higher coin and exp gain for a shorter amount of time.' Alan thought as he lifted his hand and pressed on the buy button with his index finger.



[ Buy Basic Wooden Baseball Bat ] [ Confirm ] [ Decline ]



'Huh, that's actually pretty thoughtful, wouldn't want to buy something else accidentally' Alan thought as he moved his finger and pressed confirm.



[ Ding! ]



[ Basic Wooden Baseball Bat has been bought. ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has unlocked further System Capabilities. ]



[ System Inventory has been unlocked. ]



'Inventory?' Alan thought instantly as his eyes widened and he quickly summoned up the new system holographic panel.



[ System Inventory ]



[ 1X ] [ Basic Wooden Baseball Bat ] [ Equip ]



[ 998X ] [ Empty ]



Looking at the menu infront of him for a moment, his mind whirling into action as he tried to think of all the ways that he could make use of it before his gaze went downawrds towards the ground where the bread knife had landed when he had fallen down from exhaustion.



Crouching down and taking it into his hand, he lifted the bread knife and pushed it towards the inventory holographic panel, for a moment nothing happened and then almost instantly a split second after, the bread knife started disintegrating into small blute motes of light that were being absorbed by the holographic panel infront of him.



In less than three seconds, the knife was fully gone and so were the blue particles of light.



[ Ding! ]



[ Rusted Bread Knife has been stored. ]



[ System Inventory ]



[ 1X ] [ Rusted Bread Knife ] [ Equip ]

[ 1X ] [ Basic Baseball Bat ] [ Equip ]



Nodding to himself, a small smile appeared on Alan's face as he finally couldn't wait enough and lifted his hand as he clicked on the Equip button.



A moment later, motes of blue light gathered from the system panel and into his hand and quickly converged and combined with themselves and formed the shape of a bat.



A split second later, the wooden bat was in his hand.



Lifting it up to his face and looking at it closely, it looked exactly the same as what the description had promised, it was a wooden baseball bat, simple as that, there was nothing special about it, no colours, no advertisement brands on it, nothing. Just a wooden baseball bat.



'Observe' Alan thought as he looked at the bat.



[ Observe Skill has been used. ]



[ Basic Wooden Baseball Bat ]



[ Age: 1 Minute, 12 seconds. ]



[ +4 ATK ]



[ Description: A basic wooden baseball bat, it was created by the system for the User. ]



'It was created? How? Does it just use magic juju? How can you create something from nothing? What is the system using to create these things and to give me powers?' Alan thought in slight shock but at the same time he understood one thing.



'Dont try to logic with the supernatural, just say thank you.'



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Walking towards the next closest Straw Dummy, Alan lifted the basic wooden bat up by his head, planted his feet onto the ground as well as he could and then rotated his hips, generating as much kinetic force as he could with his entire body before slamming the side of the bat directly onto the Straw Dummies, head.



[ Ding! ]



[ Critical Hit! ]



[ -14HP ]



[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 0 ]



[ Health points: 86/100 ]



'Fourteen…. Fucking fourteen, hell fucking yes babeeey.' Alan thought as he practicaly jumped up in the air from the pure dopamine rushing through his body, his mind instantly whirling into action.



'Seven as a base attack, the thing gives me a plus four in attack, which means that my own base attack has reached three instead of two without it even raising an entire stat in special stats. So normal stats do matter, and they matter more the higher the bigger the special stat is.' Alan thought in pure excitement as he lifted the bat up high once more and swung down onto the head once more with all his force.



[ Ding! ]



[ Critical Hit! ]



[ -14HP ]



'Oh… I am so going to love this.' Alan thought to himself as he once more raised the bat up high in the air.



*Bang*



*Fshhh*



*Bang*



*Fshhh*



*Bang*



…

..

.



For the next two long hours, Alan kept on going, Straw Dummy after Straw Dummy, the excitement and dopamine keeping him going and even when he got absolutely tired, he could simply rest for a while and even buy a nutritional bar and water with the excess of bronze coins that he now had with him actually being able to defeat the Straw Dummies at a decent rate instead of struggling for entire minutes on just a single one of them.



[ Ding! ]



[ Level Up! ]



….



Half an hour later…



[ Ding! ]



[ Level up! ]



[ User has reached level five! ]



'Finally! Twenty four kills. That took a while but still, much faster than I expected, I thought I'd be stuck on this level for quite a few more days.' Alan thought as he wiped the sweat off his forehead.



His body had already been rejuvenated and his stamina had returned however the sweat wasn't removed, it was still there and now that he felt fresh on the inside, it was even more annoying than when his entire body had been heated up from the physical usage of his muscles.



It was as if hot oil was all over his body, completely and utterly disgusting.



'And im still god damned naked.' Alan thought to himself as he looked down to stare at little odysseus before lifting his gaze back up and staring at the holographic panels that had appeared before him after the level up.



He had ignored it, not thinking much about it, having somewhat grown used to the level up screens and thus he wasn't as excited to read them again and again. However he had missed something as his eyes widened with realisation.



Usually when he leveled up, four small holographic screams appeared, the level up, the user has defeated a straw dummy, the exp gained aswell as the bronze coin that was looted, however this time… there were more. More than he expected, as his eyes widened and pure excitement rushed through his veins for what felt like the hundredth time of the day.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has reached Level Five ]



[ User has unlocked the Slime Dungeon! ]



[ User has received one talent point! ]



[ User has received 20 Normal Stat Points! ]



[ User has unlocked the Talent system! ]



Looking over at the holographic screens and reading them quickly, his eyes seemed to widen somehow even more, almost impossible so as his entire body practically vibrated on the spot.



'Talent system, I have no fucking clue what talents it means, but god am i fucking excited.' Alan thought as he quickly uttered the words.



"Talent system open, open now." He spoke outloud even though he had no need to, for the last few hours he had started doing it, mostly as a way to make some sound in the otherwise completely silent dungeon. Alan was the type of person to be unable to do anything without something making noise in the background, usually it was music, or the sounds of cars on the street or the simple hustle and bustle of people going about their days.



Pure silence almost felt like a sort of torture on its own, and thus his mind had adapted without him even noticing, as he had started to talk his thoughts outloud.



As soon as he uttered the words talent system, a new system panel appeared before him, one that he had never seen before.



[ Talent System ]



[ Talent Points: 1 ]



[ Elf Perk detected ]



[ Warrior Talent Path Disabled. ]



[ Paladin Talent Path Disabled. ]



[ Tank Talent Path Disabled. ]



[ Berserker Talent Path Disabled. ]



…



…



…



One after another, tens of popups appeared before him, each one was some kind of talent being disabled for him.



"Hey, hey stop, fuck stop that shit, I wanna be a bersker, Fuck stop, I wanna be a damn dark edgy knight, I wanna be a god damn manly man. Stop! STOP!" Alan shouted as he tried to wave at the holographic screen however his hands simply passed through whilst the pop ups continued, paths continuously being disabled.



Almost an entire minute later, they finally stopped. By this time however, the excited expression on Alan's face had long since faded and turned into an expression that could only be a combination of Despair and pure rage at the situation happening before him.



'Finally… fucking finally. It stopped… okay, show me what I have, I must have some cool paths left still.' Alan thought as he waved the dozens of popups away and finally stared at the screen once more, for a moment he didnt react at all as he read his options.



There were only three options left.



Only three.



'This… this is what you get? You have got to be….'



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'This… this is what I get? From all those hundreds of god damned talents… I get this… bullshit.' Alan thought to himself as he stared at the last three remaining talents before him.



[ Slight Nature's Favour ] [ Level 1 ]



[ Feel slightly more at ease in natural environments. ]



[ When inside a forest gain +1 Agility. ]



[ Faint Nature Attunement. ] [ Level 1 ]



[ Very slight sensitivity to ambient Magic. ]



[ Increases User's perception of Nature and Spirit magic. 0 to 1% ]



[ Slight Natural Archer. ] [ Level 1 ]



[ Bows feel marginally more natural to hold and aim. ]



[ When holding a bow, gain the instant bare bones knowledge on how to use. ]



Reading the descriptions and buffs that each talent granted him, the furious expression on his face slowly dissolved as his eyes narrowed in focus whilst he raised his hand to hin chin and rubbed it softly in thought.



'This… isn't some bad. Slight Nature's favour is interesting but at the current level that it's at, it's just the worst option here. The two that are actually useful are the Faint Nature Attunement and the Slight Natural Archer talent. One gives me the ability to sense magic in the air? Or likely in nature whilst the other instantly lets me learn how to operate a bow, even if its just the basics, it's still not bad at all and all of them are level one which means they can be upgraded.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly sat down onto the grassy field and closed his eyes, it wasn't an easy decision to make as he would soon be entering a different type of dungeon and it would most certainly be much harder than the current one, there would be actual enemy monster inside.



'Let's just rule out the first one instantly, its useless. So, that leaves the other two. I don't have a bow at the moment and neither do I have the money to buy one or the knowledge on how to use one. So yeah, guess there really wasn't much of a choice but even if there was, magic is usually tied with intelligence right? And I do have a maxed out intelligence stat.' Alan thought as he quickly came to a decision and raised his right arm towards the holographic panel infront of him, opened his eyes and used his index finger to click onto the Faint Nature Attunemnet trait.



[ Do you wish to pick 'Faint Nature Attunement' ]



[ Yes. ] [ No. ]



'Yes.'

[ Ding! ]



[ Talent has been selected. ]



[ Closing System Talent window until next selection. ]



[ Ding! ]



[ Faint Nature Attunement has been granted to the user. ]



Even as the system told him that the talent had been granted, he couldn't sense anything, atleast for a moment as his eyes widened slightly in confusion, however he soon noticed the change, it wasn't something he could ignore at all.



A faint sensation of pain was spreading throughout his entire body and then slowly converging towards his forehead.



The pain was mild for a moment, however it was quickly ramping up until the point where he slowly bent on himself, his hands holding his forehead.



'Ahh fuckkk. Why does it hurt so fucking much every fucking time! It's a magic fuckin' system. Make it instant damned it.' Alan thought as he felt the pain turn from a mild headache into what felt like someone was drilling with a screwdriver into his head from all sides at the same time.



And then the pain continued even further, growing exponentially as it moved from the sides of his head and directly into his eyes.



Two lines of blood started falling down, one from each eye, his eyes unable to even be narrowed or closed, the pain was blinding, he couldn't see anything, couldn't feel anything else but the pain that was currently ravaging his eyeballs.



Time passed, he had no idea how long or how quick it had been when the pain suddenly stopped as if a switch had been flipped, leaving as quickly as it had come. As if it had never happened, the only proof that it had even happened and he hadn't hallucinated it were the two lines of dried blood coming from his eyes and down to his chin.



And the other visual change. His eyes had changed just slightly, it wasn't noticeable really, it was barely a change, if at all, however they had gained the slightest bluish green tint to them.



Something that no human could ever notice, it was so small that even a supernaturally enhanced perception would have to try hard to spot the difference between how his eye colour had been and what it was currently.



Putting his hands flat onto the grass and slowly using them to lift himself up, Alan stood on his feet and looked around.



Everything appeared normal at least until his gaze fell upon one of the Straw Dummies.



It majorly looked the same, with the exception of the very miniscule and faint bluish aura that seemed to coat each part of the dummies, enveloping them in a faint bubble that was barely noticeable.



Walking closer to one of them curiously, he noticed it in closer detail.



He could barely see it, yet it was undoubtedly there.



'Is the thing covering it mana? So these things are made of it? Not actually real materials. In that case wouldn't that also?' Alan thought to himself as he quickly brought out both the basic wooden baseball bat and the rusted bread knife and held one in each of his hands.



As his eyes moved from the bat to the knife, he quickly confirmed his theory.



'Everything that the system has is giving off a slight magical aura thing, but the knife doesn't have one at all.' Alan thought as he noticed the slight mana enveloping the entirety of the baseball bat and yet the bread knife didn't have even a flicker of it. It was just that, a regular rusted bread knife that he had found in his run down kitchen drawer.

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Putting the rusted bread knife back into his inventory, Alan sat down as he held the baseball bat in his hands and then slowly lifted his hand to try and interact with the blue aura surrounding it.



'Could I use the observe skill on it now?' Alan thought to himself as he instantly tried it out a moment after.



'Observe' He thought as he gazed at the light blue sheen covering the baseball bat.



[ Observe Skill has been used. ]



[ Basic Baseball Bat. ]



[ A basic item created out of mana upon purchase of the user in the system. ]



'It doesn't tell me about it specifically but the description changed, it actually did, my theory was correct, the system uses mana to create stuff, just like the straw dummies, now the question isn't how its creating matter anymore, the question is how is it getting this mana and from where is it getting it from.' Alan thought to himself as he got one step closer and yet at the same time he was still so very far away from gaining actual deeper insight into the workings of the system that had taken over his life and even changed him so much in just two short days.



'I mean… I could try, It's not like I'll lose anything.' Alan thought as an idea hit him.



He had seen old chinese movies before about how cultivation worked and about chi, and all those kinds of superpowers, even had read some manga from the local Forks library quite a long time ago that had shown mana and similar concepts.



'Maybe if i can just feel it, and somehow will it to move?' Alan thought as he quickly tried perceiving the mana of the baseball bat in his hands.



For a few moment, he didn't notice anything and neither did he perceive anything at all.



Time passed slowly as his thoughts slowly cleared out, leaving him with only that singular objective, something he had quite quickly adapted to do after what felt like his impossible run of defeating the Straw Dummies whilst utterly exhausted physically.



Having closed his eyes, his sight was gone. His mind had fully cleared out aswell, leaving only the singular thought and will of trying to perceive anything besides the wooden texture of the baseball bat.



One minute turned into two, and then into five and ten.



Half an hour later, finally something changed in his perception.



It was soft at first, barely noticeable, a small soft substance, it was like water that was moving around his hand and yet it wasnt touching it , it was all around his hands where the were gripping the basic wooden baseball bat.



Slowly but surely the feeling grew stronger and stronger and at that very moment, a thought appeared on his mind as he tried to actually grab a hold of the mana.



[ Ding! ]



Instantly, a notification bell like sound rang inside his mind, breaking his concentration completely as his eyes snapped open and the feeling of having perceived and almost touched the mana disappearing once more entirely.



[ User has managed to fully perceive mana and has thus created a skill! ]



[ Mana Perception ] [ Level 1 ]



[ Grants the user the ability to perceive mana upon usage. ]



'Mana perception?' Alan thought as instantly he felt it, the same water like consistency returning around his arms, this time he wasn't clear minded, and neither had he removed his sight, looking down at the baseball bat that he was holding, the aura around it that before was barely noticeable was now clearly more defined, it was like a soft slightly tinted clear bubble around the weapon.



'Right… well that removes the process of me having to master this quite a lot easier.' Alan thought to himself however he had to stop as he heard the notification like sound ring once more.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has used a mana based skill. ]



[ User has unlocked his Mana Pool. ]



'My mana pool?' Alan thought excitedly instantly as he pulled up his status menu, there he didn't see just a single change, he saw two, one that he hadn't expected to be there.



[ Status ]



[ Name: Alan Walker ]



[ Age: 18 ]



[ Race: Human 88%, Elf 12% ]



[ Gender: Male ]



[ Level: 5 ] [ Xp: 0/320XP ]



[ MP : 240/244 ] [ -4 Mp per minute due to activation of 'Mana Perception' ]



[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]



[ S: 3 ]



[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]



[ E: 6 ]



[ C: 10 ]



[ I: 10 ]



[ A: 7 ]



[ L: 10 ]



[ Abilities: ]



[ Talents: Faint Nature Attunement ( Level 1 ) ]



[ Perks: Elf ]



[ Coins: 25 Bronze Coin ]



[ Normal Stats ]

[ Strength: 50/150 ]

[ Perception: 0/150 ]

[ Endurance: 15/300 ]

[ Charisma: 5/500 ]

[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]

[ Agility: 0/350 ]

[ Luck: 0/500 ]

[ Normal Stat Points Left: 40 ]

[ Skills: Observation, Mana Perception. ]



Looking at his status menu, his eyes first fell upon the change that had been done to his race, it was a two percent difference from before but it was still one of if not the most alarming this in the entire holographic status panel before him.



'I'm more elf now? How did that… right, when i got the perk, it was clearly a elf related perk, and the pain that went through my body, I guess that explains that, my very dna got changed once again.' Alan thought as he released a soft sigh, closing his eyes for a moment in exasperation before opening them and looking further bellow at the new line, his mana pool.



'Two hundred and forty four… that's a bit of an odd number, usually its like one hundred… if one hundred is the base and i have an intelligence of ten which is double the average of a human then it would be two hundred, but im also part elf twelve percent to be exact so could it be that an average elf has two hundred mana pool? But because of my really high special intelligence stat, that also got boosted, and for twelve percent which should have just been twenty two points, i instead got forty four?' Alans mind instantly analysed the change as he quickly came up with a basic theory.

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'Alright, next order of business, is trying to somehow influence this thing.' Alan thought to himself as he kept his mana perception on, feeling the watery mana around the bat as he tried to manipulate it.



Minutes passed, he tried everything he could think of.



Simply willing the mana to move, trying to grab it and then change its flow, trying to atleast create a barrier with his hand around the bat.



Nothing.



Not a single thing worked at all.



'God damned, just how hard can it be to learn this damned…' Alan thought to himself before releasing a soft sigh of exasperation as he put the baseball bat back into his inventory.



'I'll try that later, I'm likely doing something completely wrong or going about it in the complete opposite direction. I have to find more clues or somehow just stumble upon one randomly, and I dont have the time for that, not when I wanna try that out first.' Alan thought as his mind went back to the dungeon he had just unlocked.



'The slime dungeon, thats finally a fantasy monster dungeon, but that also means that it's much more dangerous than this, damned… guess I can't just not buy them.' Alan thought to himself as he sighed, he had tried to push this as far as he could however there was no way to just jump into a dungeon in which he knew he would actually have to fight enemies whilst still being completely bare butt naked.



[ System Shop. ]



[ Equipment ] [ Open ]



[ Basic Leather Helmet ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]



[ Basic Leather Chestplate ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]



[ Basic Leather Leggings ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]



[ Basic Leather Boots ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Bought ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has bought a complete leather gear set. ]



[ Does User wish to equip? ]



[ Yes ] [ No ]



'Yeah, equip that already, I can finally stop going around with my thing swinging around… who am i kidding… as if it's that big.' Alan thought inwardly as he clicked the yes button instantly with his index finger.



A mere moment later, light motes appeared all around his body as the suit of armor started materialising around him quickly, it started at his chest and started expanding all over him.



In less than five seconds, he wasn't naked anymore but rather wearing dark brown leather gear from head to toe.



Looking down at himself, and moving his hands around and kicking a few times in the air with his legs, he quickly checked his mobility in the gear.



'It's actually really good, and it's damn light aswell, and it feels firm enough and a bit thick. It should stop a decent amount of attacks.' Alan thought as he knocked on his leather chest plate twice.



The leather gear was simple enough, a large leather piece on his front and back tied together with leather straps to one another, whilst under the leather was a super light black mesh material that covered the gaps, his forearms and shoulders were similarly covered in plates of leather connected with leather straps and the same went for his legs.



The boots were simple enough, giving him maybe an inch and a half life in height and were clearly made to be as durable and long lasting as possible.



'These should be good even in snowy conditions or in Ice, that's nice. But man, this actually feels like real leather, I wonder how expensive something like this would be to buy in the real world, maybe I could even sell it? But I have no idea where i would sell combat leather gear? Maybe to some kind of enthusiasts on the internet?' Alan thought to himself before shaking his head, it simply wasn't worth it at the moment to start dealing with real life money, he had other much more pressing problems than his financial situation.



"Alright, now with this, I should be pretty good to go, but slimes are said to be corrosive and like dissolve things in fiction right? A bat… is it really the correct thing to bring? It worked well against the Straw Dummies as it was blunt force however against something like a slime?" Alan muttered as his mind went to other possible weapons he could grab.



"Right, I guess I should atleast go and buy a regular kitchen knife… and then I could tie it around like a broom stick with some rope and tape? I'll check that out before I head inside actually, better prepared than dead." Alan said to himself as he quickly pressed the exit dungeon button.



[ System Dungeon. ]



[ Straw Dummy ] [ Level 1 ] [ Leave ] [ Yes ] [ Confirmed. ]



His vision quickly started darkening as his other senses similarly started fading one after the other, just like every other time that he had entered or left the dungeon.

A second or two later, he found himself back on his bed laid down, in his regular clothes just as he had been before jumping into the dungeon.



'God, I don't even know how I got here with how high I was, I'm surprised that I didn't just completely forget my way back home. I guess, I'm lucky that even with the major debuff to intelligence, it was still at five or I would have been doing some… oh fuck, If the debuffs you get are as insane as the ones to Strength and Perception… wouldn't I have just spilled everything about the system or something equally as bad to that thing that possessed Jeannie? Fuck… that could have been really fucking bad.' Alan thought to himself as he got up and walked to his desk drawer and pulled it open, taking out all of his meager savings.



Barely sixty two dollars that he had somehow managed to gather up whilst still feeding himself and having decent enough clothes that he could actually head to school with.



'Alright, time for a quick store run.' Alan thought as he turned and headed out.



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Walking out of the apartment and looking up at the sky, he saw the moon had already risen up and the night had fallen upon Forks.

'Guess that limits my options to just that corner store that works twenty four seven. Haah… and it's got the shittiest quality and it's more expensive than everywhere else… But i really don't want to wait until tomorrow.' Alan thought as he released a soft sigh and continued walking down the sidewalk.

The walk to the cornerstore took around twenty minutes, opening the door and heading inside the shop, a clear bell sound rang out, notifying the store clerk that someone had come inside.

Raising a hand in a half hearted wave as a silent greeting, Alan quickly turned and walked towards the appliances section, it wasn't large, it was small and it clearly had only small overpriced kitchen knives that would likely chip after a few uses at most.

'Can't be choosy but i sure as hell can know which one is better.' Alan thought as he instantly focused his gaze onto the first knife infront of him.

'Observe'

[ Observe skill has been used! ]

[ Name: Kitchen Knife ]

[ ATK: + 3 ]

[ Description: A regular, below average quality Kitchen Knife created in China. ]

[ Age: 3 Years and 2 Months. ]

'That's… barely better than my rusted bread knife.' Alan thought to himself, releasing a soft sigh of despair as he saw the twenty five dollar price tag on the knife.

Turning his gaze to the only two other options, he quickly used his observe skill on both.

[ Name: Kitchen Knife ]

[ ATK: +3 ]

[ Description: A fake version of a famous japanese Kitchen knife, created in China. ]

[ Age: 2 Years and two months. ]

[ Name: Kitchen Knife. ]

[ ATK: +4 ]

[ Description: A regular kitchen knife created in China. Average Quality. ]

[ Age: 1 Year and three months. ]

'Alright, finally atleast average, and the attack stat is four, thats on the same level as my baseball bat, let's check the… huh, its the cheapest one aswell.' Alan thought to himself as his eyes moved to the price tag bellow the knife.

'Fifteen dollars isn't half bad. Now, I just need to find something to tie it around a stick with.' He thought as he grabbed the knife and moved towards another section of the store, however it seemed they didn't have any rope on stock.

'Ofcourse they dont have god damned rope, its a cornerstore, not an appliances or work store. Still, they do have some super glue… that could work.' Alan thought to himself as he grabbed three different kinds of the glue aswell as a roll of double sided tape and went to the counter and put them down before the clerk.

Looking at the young man behind it, who was clearly barely awake, an idea struck Alan as he didn't place the bottles of super glue onto the table at all.

'Store.' He thought an in an instant the bottles of superglue turned into small motes of light under the hem of his clothes and vanished as if they had never been there at all.

'That's enough, don't wanna rob something like a knife in case the owner finds out and this poor guy has to pay for it out of his own paycheck.' Alan thought to himself as he placed the roll of tape and the knife onto the counter before using observe on the clerk.

[ Name: James Moriarity. ]

[ Age: 22 ]

[ Description: A young man with a failed life. System would suggest he gave up. ]

Looking at the description that the observe skill had given the young man, Alan almost felt like laughing out loud, it was one of the few times that the system had given something even remotely close to this ever since the special stats descriptions at the beginning, however he refrained, considering no one else was able to see the holographic panels, and it was currently late at night, he was sure that he would looked like a drugged up mentally insane person and that would most likely stop the guy from even selling the knife to him.

"That'll be twenty one dollars." James spoke as he quickly scanned both items for Alan who brought out a twenty dollar bill and a one dollar one and put them onto the counter whilst the clerk quickly put both items into a plastic bag for him and handed them over.

Grabbing the bag, Alan turned around and walked out of the store and looked around the street, it was clearly empty, not even the sound of cars or anything from the houses around him, everyone had likely already fallen asleep by this time.

'I'd never have thought that I'd be out this late either. Man… this shit looks haunted.' Alan thought to himself as he started walking down the side walk at a quick pace whilst looking behind him every once in a while.

'No ones there, no one's there, I am a grown adult, I am not scared of the dark. I even met supernatural magician bullshit and I wasn't scared at all.' Alan thought as his pace slowly increased as he continued down the road.

'Ah fuck, who am i kidding.' Alan thought as he was practically almost running by this point.

It had taken him twenty minutes, returning had only take him half that time as he arrived at his apartment and closed the door barely ten minutes after having left the corner store.

Walking towards his chair by the desk, he quickly pulled out all that he had got from the store as he unpacked the knife and brought out the superglue from his inventory and then put the double sided tape onto the desk aswell.

'Alright, guess I'll be without a broom. Not that I ever used that thing in the first place.' Alan thought as he grabbed the broom that had been gathering dust for years from under his desk.

'Just need to somehow… take the head off… and with my three damned strength… It's not going to be easy is it?'

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Taking the broom into his hand, he started by trying to rotate the head off of it however after a few minutes of struggle, he simply got up from the chair and walked a bit towards the wall and placed the broom head against the corner where the wall and floor connected before raising his hoot and stomping onto the broom stick.



*Snap*



With a clear loud cracking sound, the broom head broke off of the stick, leaving one side that was still unharmed whilst the other was jagged at the top where the head had snapped off.



'The weight if higher on one side because of the broom head, which caused the sticks weak point to be closer to it. Physics or mathematics or whatever science studies stuff like this anyways.' Alan thought to himself as he grabbed the now simple broken broom stick and walked back to the chair infront of the desk and sat down.



Taking knife out of its packaging as quickly as he could which wasn't quick in the slightest, it was one of those packages where opening it without a pair of scissors was pure hell.



Finally after another brief scuffle against the inanimate object and a bit more time of feeling like a dumbass, Alan took the knife out and then put the knife handle against the end of the broom stick to check the length and how exactly he would be combining the two.



'Alright, it's a pretty big knife, should work decently, with the broom stick maybe a meter and a half or so in range?' Alan thought to himself as he put the knife back down and instead took the double sided tape and started cutting off pieces with the knife and then placing them all around the entirety of the location where the handle of the knife would be slapped onto.



After finishing said job, he turned and walked to his dresser and took out the oldest piece of cloth that he had, a old sun burned red shirt that he had used when he had been still in elementary school and proceeded to rip it in half with his hand first and then creating small long strips of cloth by using the knife he had bought.



'Alright with that, I've got everything that I need.' Alan thought to himself as he grabbed the knife and put it against the end of the broom stick, onto the double sided sticky tape and then grabbed one of the long cloth stripes and tied it around the knife handleand onto the other double sides tape that was around the broom in an x shape before he took out his final item that he had bought.



Grabbing the super glue, he quickly started applying as much as he could in every crack and place that would both hold the glue so that it wouldnt slide down the broom stick aswell as connected the cloth, wooden broom stick and the knife handle together.



Having completed that first step, he quickly grabbed more double sided table and started putting it all over the cloth and the knife handle before he proceded to grab another cloth stripe and tie it around in horizontal stripes this time until it was as tight as he could possible make it before using the tip of the super glue bottle to go inbetween the cloth folds and apply as much glue as he could.



'Alright, thats done. This super glue said that it only takes a few minutes to fully harden and then I can take it with me to the dungeon.' Alan thought to himself with a sight of relief as he looked at the spear that he had crafted from a old shirt, glue, tape and a knife.



'Not bad.' Alan thought to himself as he used his observation skill onto the broom spear.



[ Observation has been used! ]



[ Name: Home-made Knife Spear. ]



[ Age: 1 Minute. ]



[ ATK: +4 ]



[ Description: A spear created by Alan Walker inside his small apartment in the middle of the night. It shows a slight bit of creativity in its creation however the method of creation leaves much to be desired. It is a viable option in a survival scenario. ]



'Hey! It didn't tell me to give up and just go die atleast! That… thats something. It's viable in a survival scenario, a survival scenario for where? Some kind of island in the middle of nowhere after a plan crash? Haah… I tried my best atleast or atleast as best as i knew how.' Alan thought as he released a soft sigh and then grabbed the spear and closed his eyes for a moment as he stood up on his feet and proceeded to take a slow deep breath before releasing it as slowly as he could.



'Okay, It's time to do this thing, I don't have the time to wait any longer, It must be done now…. Damned it. This is scary.' Alan thought as his eyes fluttered open and he walked towards the bed and laid down, not before putting the makeshift knife spear into his inventory however.



'Can't forget that, all that work just for me to almost not even take it with me, forgot that stuff needs to be equipped for the automatic transfer.' Alan thought as he laid onto his bed, the back of his head on his pillow that had clearly seen better days whilst he gazed at the ceiling.



'System Dungeons open.' Alan thought and instantly a blue holographic panel shimmered and appeared before him, floating on the air.



[ System Dungeon. ]



[ Dummy Dungeon ] [ Level 1 ] [ Join ]



[ Slime Dungeon ] [ Level 5 ] [ Join ]



[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 50 ]



[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 100 ]



….



…



Staring at the panel before him for a few moments, a thought rang out in alan's mind.



'Level fifty for the next dungeon after this, I guess it's not going to be as easy as being able to advance the dungeon in a single day like I did.' Alan thought to himself.

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Lifting his arm towards the holographic screen panel that was hovering in the air before him, Alan quickly moved his index finger to the join button.



Confirm

Yes no



'Confirm.' He thought as he pressed the yes confirmation button.



Almost instantly, the surroundings around him blurred and darkened, as he once more found himself hovering in that lighltess feelingless darkness, his thoughts however werent ones of panic, he had already gotten somewhat used to the feeling everytime that he tried entering the dungeon.



Instead his mind was filled with both anticipation, excitement aswell as trepidation about the fighting that he was sure would ensue quickly once he entered the dungeon.



A mere split second alter after those thoughts passed through his mind, his vision cleared up, the smell, sight, hearing and touch returned back to his body one after the other in quick succession.



And there it was, a completely different plane of existence from both his apartment and forks and the other dungeon that he had been in until now.



The Straw Dummy was simply made by a hilly grassy field with a purple cloudless sky and countles Straw Dummies all around him. Meanwhile this, this was a lot different.



Countless buildings were all around him, rising up high into the sky, a sky which appeared to be a green cyan colour, resembling the real one much more closely than the purple one had however it was still clear as day that this wasn't actually the sky he had grown up with his entire life.



Similarly to last time, there wasn't a single cloud floating in said sky, it was utterly clear, and there wasn't a sun this time either. It was still unknown to him from where the light that illuminated the entire surroundings came from. However those thoughts quickly dissapeared from his head as he looked down at the surroundings more closely.



It looked like a regular city street, a regular one inside of japan perhaps, the signs were completely in japanese and the buildings and sky scrapers were similarly made in a japanese architectural style, atleast that's what Alan thought.



'It's not like I've ever been to japan before but i've seen tokyo in magazines… it looks similar to that.' Alan thought to himself as he instantly brought out his makeshift knife spear and held it tightly in his hand.



At that point he almost looked down and nodded, checking if he was still wearing the leather armor that he had put on in the previous dungeon and realising that yes, any dungeon equipment that he left with it still on would still be there like a saved slot from the last time that he had left.



'That's great… now I just need to see where the enemies are.' Alan thought as he started walking down the street, making sure to look all around him, it was however at that moment that he noticed another anomaly.



Sound.



There weren't any cars in the entire city, there wasn't any sound of the bustl and hustle that a city like this was supposed to have, and even in this quiet, he couldn't hear a single chirp from any kind of animal or insect.



'Last time, the silence was weird but atleast it was that grassy field and It wasn't that creepy but this… this is officially horror movie territory.' Alan thought to himself as he felt a shiver run through from the base of his neck all the way down to his tailbone.



*Crinkle*



The sound of something besides him finally rang out, and instantly Alan's head turned to the side, his gaze focusing on a dark alley at the side of the road.



There, at a small trashcane that had falled down, a thing was moving and covering what appeared to be a used chips bag.



Slowly walking closer, he quickly gained a clear sight of what was happening.



There, covering the entire potato chip bag was a slimy like substance that was moving at a slow speed, the chips bag was slowly dissintegrating or rather it was being melted inside the slime substance.



'There…. This is it, a slime.' Alan thought to himself as he didn't hesitate for a single second, his mind already on guard for anything had instantly entered flight or fight mode as soon as he had seen the thing covering the potato chip bag, and it had clearly chosen to fight instead of flight.



Lifting his leg, he kicked the small garbage can as much as he could, sending it crashing backwards, as soon as he did, he saw the slime like substance jump out, it had been hiding inside the metallic and rusted trash can.



Its speed wasn't anything to brag about, infact it appeared to be a bit slow in comparison to a regular human.



A large tentacle speared its way through the air, heading directly towards Alan's face.



Alan wasn't strong physically however his agility wasn't something to sniff at, quickly moving his head to the side, he gripped his spear tighter and then planted one foot forwards as strongly as he could and used the entire kinetic force that he could generate with his hips, arms and legs in the small space in the alley inbetween buildings and thrust forward directly towards where the slimy tentacle had shot out of.

*Fsshhhh*



The sound of air parting rang out as the makeshift knife spear he had made out of day to day parts thrust forwards, and pierced through the trash on its way until it hit something small yet hard, for a moment, it slowed down the speed of the thrust, but a mere split second later, it couldn't withstand the attack any longer and with a clear shattering sound that resembled glass, it gave way.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has defeated Green Slime ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has earned 50 Experience Points. ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has gained 1 Silver Coin! ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has leveled up System Shop to Level 2! ]



'What… what the fuck.'

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'What… what the fuck.' Alan thought in complete confusion as he took a few quick steps backwards and came out of the dark alley.



Looking down at the tendril that had falled down onto the ground with a loud splash as soon as the notification about the kill had rung out, his expression one of pure unadulterated confusion.



'Just… one hit? What? I don't get it, if the straw dummies had one hundred health points and it took me so long to defeat just a single one, how could I defeat a monster from a higher level dungeon with a single thrust of an attack, and it's not like my makeshift spear has some ginormous amount of plus attack stat.' Alan thought as he watched the slime that was now splattered all over the ground and not moving slowly dissolve into small motes of green light that flew into the air and vanished seconds later.



Turning his head to look around him quickly, to see if anything was closeby, and noticing that no, nothing was nearby him that could attack, his mind turned towards the other notifications.



'Silver coins and a new level of the system Shop?' Alan thought to himself as he quickly called up the system shop menu.



In less than a single second the system shop menu materialised in the air before him.



[ System Shop ] [ Level 2 ]



[ Equipment. ]



[ Items ]



[ Potions. ]



'The categories are still the same and no new one was unlocked so its likely just that the items that are sold in each category got updated and new ones got added.' Alant thought to himself as he clicked the first category.



[ Equipment Shop ]



[ Basic Wooden Baseball Bat ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Helmet ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Chestplate ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Leggings ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Leather Boots ] [ Level 1 ] [ 5 Bronze Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Combat Sword ] [ Level 2 ] [ 5 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Combat Bow ] [ Level 2 ] [ 5 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Combat Axe ] [ Level 2 ] [ 5 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Combat Spear ] [ Level 2 ] [ 5 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



'Weapons… actual weapons, but there's no new armor or anything else… still that's great, amazing even if it wasn't for the fact that I spent the last hour and a fuckin' half trying to find materials and buy them to build a makeshift spear and now I can just buy one for five damned kills that appearntly take me one hit to defeat.' Alan thought to himself, feeling both excitement about the new addons to the system shop aswell as a feeling as if he had been juked out of his time and real life money at the same time.



'Ah… let's just ignore it for now and check the next category.' Alan thought as he released a soft sigh and shook his head before quickly opening the rest of the two categories.



[ Items ]



[ Smoke Bomb ] [ 3 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Medicinal Bandages ] [ 5 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Medicinal Kit bag. ] [ 8 Silver Coins. ] [ Buy ]



[ Basic Rope ] [ 2 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



…



..



'These… these things are actually useful, yes, finally, something besides nutritional bars and bottles of damn water. It seems like with the second level, It went from daily utilities and foods to actual stuff that can be used in combat though I don't really think I'd need a smoke bomb or anything of the sort at the moment and at the same time, any of these things are either stuff that I can use to survive or escape, there's nothing on the Item list yet that would actually help me deal higher amounts of damage or something like a shrapnel grenade or something… I wonder If ill be able to get something like that later down the line.' Alan thought as he rubbed his chin with his hand and proceed to the last system shop category.



[ Potions ]



[ Low Quality Potion of Healing ] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description : Heals 5% of the User's total Health pool ]



[ Low Quality Potion of Strength ] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description: Increases base strength by 5% for a duration of 10 minutes]



[ Low Quality Potion of Perception] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description: Increases base Perception by 5% for a duration of 10 minutes]



[ Low Quality Potion of Endurance] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description: Increases base Endurance by 5% for a duration of 10 minutes]



[ Low Quality Potion of Charisma] [ Level 2 ] [ 10 Silver Coins ] [ Buy ]



[ Description: Increases base Charisma by 5% for a duration of 10 minutes]



Looking over at the new potions before him, Alan felt a vein start throbbing in his forehead as he waved his hand at the system window that floated in the air before him angrily.



'Close, fucking close that shit. I dont wanna see it. What the actual fuck is that thing, ten silver coins, that's the most fucking expensive thing in the entire system shop and it gives me a five percent boost in stats for ten minutes? My stats are fucking shit, what can i do at the moment with five percent more, adding five percent to zero is still fucking zero.' Alan thought to himself as the system shop window quickly turned invisible and disappeared once more.



Taking a deep long breath and then turning to look around himself once more incase anything else had tried to sneak up on him before releasing the breath and clenching his fist around the makeshift spear that he had made.



'Alright, I need to see and observe these slimes and see just how exactly I managed to defeat them in one go and then I have to get started. Why should I look at a gifthorse in the mouth, if they're easy as hell to defeat, than thats amazing.' Alan thought as he turned and headed towards the next alley he could see further down the road, hoping that he could find another slime in the same type of location as the one he had before.



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Heading towards the closest alley that he could find around him, Alan headed inside slowly, making sure to keep his eyes peeled trying to see if he could notice anything whilst making as little sound as he possibly could whilst walking.



'Those things aren't exactly fast but they aren't slow either and I really don't want to find out what happens when I actually get striked by one of those tentacle attacks.' Alan thought to himself, his mind already imagining the slime like substance getting inside his body through his mouth and nostrils.



'Ugh… stop, stop thinking about it.' Alan thought as he shivered on the spot, it was at that moment however that he caught sight of something with the corner of his eye.



Turning his gaze quickly, his eyes widened, there were three large green blobs stuck on the surface of the wall, each of them were eating what seemed to be random plastics they had found on the ground.



This was the first time that Alan was actually getting a clear look at them, the last one had died whilst still being covered by the trash and then had quickly evaporated into green motes of light before he could observe it at all.



The slimes were around half a meter wide in diameter though their height didn't seem to be that large, and they were constantly releasing a sort of acidic substance whenever they moved that seemed to sizzle into anything that it touched, though the acid wasn't strong enough to create a hole into the wall or ground.



'The way that they're releasing that acid is somewhat reminiscient of how snails release the substance that covers their entire bodies.' Alan thought to himself as he took a single step back and gripped his spear harder.



It was at that moment as he was about to start his attack that he finally noticed the last thing about the monsters before him.



Deep inside their body, floating in the slime like substance was a round black ball that wasn't dissolving at all in comparison to the plastic bottles and bags that the slimes had ingested. And all three of them had the exact same one.



'That… is that a core of sorts? The hard thing that I felt when I attacked the first slime that then got broken with that glass shattering noise, causing it to die instantly.' Alan thought as he planted his feet firmly onto the ground and thrust his spear forward with as much power as he could.



The air whistling as the spear tore through it and headed directly into the slime, going through the half digested objects it had devoured and striking the black core like ball inside of it.



*Shatter*



The sound of glass shattering rang out instantly and in less than a second, the slime that had maintained its bubble like form until now, instantly turned to pure liquid that fell down onto the ground.



[ Ding! ]



[ User has defeated Green Slime ]



[ User has gained fifty experience points! ]



[ User has gained one Silver Coin. ]



'Observe' Alan thought inside his mind as he instantly gazed at the other two slimes that were left as he took three steps back as quickly as he could.



He hadn't waited to use his observe skill on the first slime simply for the fact that he was afraid he would lose the element of surprise if he waited even one second longer and thus he had decided to use it only after already having defeated one of the enemies.



[ Observation Skill has been used! ]



[ Green Slime ] [ Level 5 ]



[ HealthPoints: Infinite ]



[ Stamina: Infinite ]



[ Ding! ]



[ Weakness has already been found by the User. Adding it to the observation skill information. ]



[ Green Slime Weakness: The Centarl mana core inside of their bodies is extremely voulnerable to physical and mana based attacks. It is the main component that holds up their liquid body together. Shattering It would result in an instant kill. ]



'Infitnite… health? So that means that I woldn't be able to defeat them no matter how much I striked the slime, the core is the only way to possibly defeat them, and infinite stamina? As in they never get tired… thats quite broken. But still, their weakness is fatal, in a way it could be said that the real monster is the ball and the slime is just the armor and weapons that It's put on.' Alan thought to himself as he instantly jumped towards the side as two large tendrils thrust towards the position that he had just been in.



'That was close… I can start theorising again after I'm no longer in a damned fight.' Alan thought to himself as he took a quick breath before launching himself forwards before the tendril of slime could retract back to the main body.



"Aaaahhh!" With a shout, He thrust the makeshift Knife spear as much as he could from his running position, directly towards the black glass core inside of its body.



*Shatter*



Without waiting for another second, Alan didn't even bring the spear back as he ungripped one of his hands off the spear and then turned his body horizontal to the way he had thrust the spear and then put the hand he had ungripped back onto the spear body and shoved it as much as he could.



Slashing directly through the other slime that had been next to the one he had just defeated and cutting through it viscous green body easily before slicing right through the glass core and instantly shattering it in half.



[ Ding! ]



[ Ding! ]



[ User has Defeated Green Slime! ]



[ User has Defeated Green Slime! ]



[ User has gained 50 experience Points! ]



[ User has gained 50 experience Points! ]



[ User has gained 1 Silver Coin! ]



[ User has gained 1 Silver coin! ]



'Alright stop with these damned notifications already.' Alan thought as he almost felt like he was about to have a headache from the constant pinging bell like sounds ringing out directly inside his mind.

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Standing inside the dark alley and slowly gathering his breaths, Alan felt relief slowly enter his system as a soft small smile appeared on his expression.



'I am actually getting stronger, a while back I would have most definitely not even been able to dodge the slime attacks, let alone attack fast enough to shatter their cores. But now im fighting these slimes for the first time and I'm defeating them left and right.' Alan thought to himself, feeling somewhat proud of his growth and achievement.



Looking down at the ground that had been covered in slime goo after the cores had been broken, he noticed that even the goo that had been left behind by the slimes after their deaths was quickly disintegrating and turning into small motes of light.



'Is the system… recycling them? Or like atleast a part of the monster that I'm defeating by turning it back into mana and thus using that once more later to create monsters again and again for me.' Alan thought and the more he did, the more he felt like the notion had some sense to it.



'It's definitely possible as a theory atleast. I mean if i was the system I would most certainly be doing that and the motes of light look pretty weird but then on the other hand, I was able to see those even before I got the mana perception skill so maybe its not even mana but something else… whatever.' Alan thought as he turned and walked out of the dark alley and back into the clean japanese themed main road.



'Alright, now I just have to keep finding these slimes. In comparison to the Straw Dummies, they're quite a bit harder to find though.' Alan thought to himself as he walked down the main road until he noticed one more alley that was almost completely hidden in the shadow of a tall building. Heading towards it, this time without worrying that much, having grown confident after his two complete and utter victories against the slimes.



As he walked into the dark alley, he noticed something that confused him slightly.



The alley was dark and he had anticipated that, what he hadn't was the smell. It was worse, much much worse than anything he had ever smelled in his lift.



*Gasp*



A gasp erupted out of his mouth as he quickly bent over, slamming both hands over his own nose as he started wretching out onto the ground, vomiting everything that he had eaten.



'What… what the fuck is that.' Alan thought to himself as he gazed back at the alley with the side of his eyes whilst his body continued vomiting onto the concrete ground.



There, quite a bit further into the alley, his eyes caught sight of something.



It was a slime, however it wasn't anything like the slimes that he had met before, the colour was a blood red, a deep dark crimson instead of the light green colour that the other four slimes that he had encountered had.



'That… what the fuck is that thing eating.' Alan thought as he saw something inside of the bulbous gelatin like substance, inside there, inside the crimson slimes body, floating inside it.



Alan's eyes widened completely as he turned and instantly ran out of the alley as quickly as he could, heading into the main road and falling down as he tripped, thankfully however he had already managed to escape before he had fallen down onto his ass.



'That thing…' Alan thought to himself before quickly shaking his head, his pupils trembling inside his eyes as he remembered the image that had just been deeply ingrained inside his mind for what he felt would be the rest of his life.



'Dont… dont go further down the road. Is the main road like a sort of mini level? The further down you head, the more dangerous the alleys get?' Alan thought to himself as he gulped, feeling the taste of his own vomit, that almost caused him to head into a second round of wretching however he held it back, his entire expression narrowing for a bit in pure disgust as he slowly lifted himself back up and turned to head back the way he had come, heading towards the start of the main road, where he had first spawned inside this dungeon.



As he walked, still swaying slightly on his feet, his hands trembling, his mind almost in shambles from the fear that had gripped him in an instant.



It was worse, what he had just seen was much worse than anything he had ever seen before in his life, it was worse than the possession, worse than the unknown Cullens who he was sure were some kind of supernatural creatures.



As he walked, his mind kept going back to it as he gripped his fists and grit his teeth, his eyes flashing with determination for a moment.



'Fuck… why the fuck wast that thing eating a human limb?' Alan thought to himself as he finally arrived at the start of the tokyo main road and turned his head towards the first alley that he had entered in the dungeon and walked towards it.



He wasn't overconfident this time, he was cautious, more cautious than he had been even when he had entered the dungeon for the first time and seen the slime substance, and much more cautious than he had been when he entered the alley with the crimson slime.



'I can't let my guard down even for a moment, what If that damned thing had attacked me whilst I was vomiting? I would have been its next meal… It wouldn't have been that random human leg, it would have been my head inside of that damned things belly, slowly dissolving…. Fuck!' Alan thought as he almost felt like he would break his teeth from how much he was clenching them together.

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Heading inside the alley, looking left and right, his mind fully on alert, looking for the slightest movement or the slightest sound that could indicate anything was around him, Alan quickly found his next target.

As he had entered the closest alley to the start of the dungeon just as he had expected, there was no crimson slime, there weren't even three regular slimes, just a singular green slime that was currently enveloping an entire trashcan and trying to dissolve it with its stomach acid.

'Alright you piece of shit…' Alan thought as he gripped his makeshift spear as hard as he could and thrust forwards directly into the slime's glass core.

*Shatter*

The glass core shattered instantly as he received the system notifications about the kill and exp and loot gained instantly after.

Taking a deep breath, he started moving slowly deeper into the dark alley.

'Still… what I dont understand is how that thing got a hold of a human leg… are there other humans around here? Did someone come here before me? What exactly are system dungeons? I'm so fucking confused and there's no god damn answers.' Alan thought as he headed deeper and deeper into the alley.

Looking around at the structure of it, the alley which had been created inbetween two modern japanese tall buildings was slowly but surely changing.

The amount of moss on the white slab like walls was increasing, the quality of the slabs themselves was degrading at a visible rate after every few meters, just slightly but enough for him to visually notice it.

The path itself that had been made of concrete was slowly turning more gravelly aswell as his feet actually started making noise as he walked down the alley.

'It's like everything around me is growing older. How long is this alley anyways? Is it infinite? An infinite length for each alley?' Alan thought to himself and somehow he found that it was likely to be true.

'Just like how the grassy field plains were infinite, if I were to assume that this dungeon is made of mini levels which are represented by these alleyes then the infinite that was in the past dungeon is likely true for these aswell, just that its didn't feel like It at first when I entered directly into the main road.' Alan thought to himself, as he released a soft sigh, he felt more mentally drained than he had in a long time, he always recovered everytime that he leveled up and he had, he had leveled up quite a few levels since the possession incident, however he had just seen a scene that looked like one that had come straight out of a nightmare from hell, right after the possession that hadn't even been an entire real life day apart from this.

Physically he was in top condition, he wasn't even tired at all, and neither was he sweating or injured or drugged up in any way shape or form. However he had noticed that the level ups didnt fix his mental, they didn't suddenly remove the traumatic images that weighted down on his mind, they could refreshen his mind, making him capable of working longer or fighting longer and hold his concentration again and again after each level up, however the core trauma and memories that he had gained wouldn't lose any of their effect, those were things that he had to learn to overcome on his own.

'On one side, I kind of wish that the system did do that, that it did make me feel nothing about scenes like that but then on the other side, if the system influenced even my mind and my responses to images and events and even memories that I have, would I even be me anymore or would I just be a puppet created by the system that couldn't even make decisions about himself since my mind would have clearly been manipulated.' Alan thought, a slight shiver running through his body at the idea, it was a terrifying thought, and one that he almost believed had already happened, the system had afterall let him adjust his intelligence stat and that was clearly related to his mind, what if he had already changed from the real Alan, what if he wasn't even himself anymore but rather just another creation of the system just like the baseball bat and the monsters were.

'Dont… just don't think about it. There's nothing I can do at this point. I just need to get stronger, finish dungeons, level up, so that I can both survive better in these damned dungeons and more importantly in real life. I've already learned theres supernatural shit going on that I never knew was there before this system showed up. I've already gotten entangled in shit that I really don't even want to think about. I don't have a choice now do I? No… I guess I do, I could just leave it all behind… but should I?' He thought before releasing one final sigh that showed just how tired he was, mentally of everything that had gone on for the past few days.

Shaking his head slowly, his eyes refocused as he noticed movement just slightly ahead of his current position, gripping his makeship spear in his hand tightly, he looked directly at the slime that was slowly crawling up the side wall of the alley and thrust forward, the spear piercing through the air with a whooshing sound and spearing directly through yet another slime glass core.

'No… I don't want to. I… this is an opportunity that people would kill for… even if its dangerous, even if im fucking terrified of everything. I don't want to just give up. Though… these fucking special stats are a fucking joke. Luck at maximum my ass, how the hell was I lucky, I havn't been lucky even god damn once in the entirety of these three days.' Alan thought as he gritted his teeth, his will reigniting itself.
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Time seemed to pass by quickly, around three hours later, having already leveled up and kept going, Alan quickly felt the speed of his levels start going down much faster than he had expected.



'The amount of exp doubles every time that I level up, I guess it makes sense for this dungeon to had different types of monsters inside of it or I'd be stuck here for years to reach level fifty.' Alan thought to himself as he looked around the alley quickly to see if anything was closeby to him before releasing a soft sigh and looking down at the spear in his hand.



He had already put the makeshift knife spear that he had crafted back inside his inventory and instead he had bought the spear that he had unlocked with the level two system shop.



Looking down at the basic steel combat spear, he felt a soft smile show on his lips.



The spear was long, longer than the one he had crafted himself, reaching a complete length of two meteres long. Thankfully, it wasn't made entirely just from steel, only the tip of it was, meanwhile the rest of the body was made from what appeared some kind of extremely elastic wood and even that part was covered in a layer of some kind of material that made it more grippy and less likely to slip from his hand.



The tip of the spear was a long arrow head that had a sharpened tip aswell as was sharpened on both sides so that it could slice and pierce at the same time whichever he choose to do in any kind of situation.



'It's most definitely higher durability… but that's not even the best part, its the damage.' Alan thought to himself as he used his observation skill on the spear as the holographic panel appeared before him in an instant, floating in the air right before him.



[ Observation Skill has been used! ]



[ Basic Combat Spear ] [ Level 2 ]



[ Attack Damage: 10 ]



[ Description: A basic combat ready spear, crafted out of hardened steel, Fraxinus wood aswell as leather. It was created by the system for the user by utilising mana to generate the materials and then granted to the User upon purchase. ]



'Fraxinus wood… I didn't even know that kind of wood existed, I knew of Oak, maple, birch and that kind of stuff, not some kind of mythical name or whatever that is.' Alan thought to himself as he almost felt like releasing a chuckle, he had been very excited when he had first bought the spear but that excitement had quickly faded once he continued having to fight thoe damned slimes that had attacked him numerous times by this point.



One had even managed to finally strike him in the back, the pain had been quite excruciating.



The slime tendril hadn't been able to devour through his armror easily atleast not the leather plates however a splash of it had managed to land on the base of his neck and on his hands, it had instantly given him burns in those spots, as if he had been scalded by a hot iron rod in an instant.



'Status Menu.' Alan thought as he brought up his stats, looking at the progress that he had made in the last few hours whilst fighting the Slimes.



[ Status ]



[ Name: Alan Walker ]



[ Age: 18 ]



[ Race: Human 88%, Elf 12% ]



[ Gender: Male ]



[ Level: 8 ] [ Xp: 100/2560 XP ]



[ MP : 244/244 ]



[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]



[ S: 3 ]



[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]



[ E: 6 ]



[ C: 10 ]



[ I: 10 ]



[ A: 7 ]



[ L: 10 ]



[ Abilities: ]



[ Talents: Faint Nature Attunement ( Level 1 ) ]



[ Perks: Elf ]



[ Coins: 45 Silver Coins ]



[ Normal Stats ]

[ Strength: 90/150 ]

[ Perception: 0/150 ]

[ Endurance: 15/300 ]

[ Charisma: 5/500 ]

[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]

[ Agility: 0/350 ]

[ Luck: 0/500 ]

[ Normal Stat Points Left: 60]

[ Skills: Observation, Mana Perception. ]



Looking over at his status screen, Alan's eyes widened slightly as he finally showed his first true wide smile, excitement and dopamine instantly starting to rush all over his body at the sight that was before him.



'Finally! Fucking Finally, that damned strength stat, its finally going to reach four special, with that, I should be doing much better but then again this piece of shit dungeon doesn't even have a damned use for attack damage, you cant defeat the slimes no matter how much damage you do, the only way to actually defeat them is to launch a direct attack onto the glass core thats inside their bodies.' Alan thought, as the excitement dwindled slightly however he quickly shook his head to get the almost depressing thought out of his mind.



'Doesn't matter, currently my strength is limiting my agility by quite a bit, the higher it is, the better. I need atleast a base of five to fully use my agility so that's good.' Alan thought to himself as he turned and started walking back towards the main road, he had already gone a long ways inside the alley and it would take him a few hours until he returned.



'There, should be a few slimes that have respawned by now aswell and I also wanted to check out if they had a specific weakness that i think they might have. Their slime thing is extremely similar to a snails, and snails quickly die if you through salt at the because it absorbs the water properties that they have, would something like that work on these things? I dont just have to be strong and fast afterall… maybe I can defeat them using other stuff aswell.' Alan thought as he quickly brought out his system shop and headed inside the items subcategory and bought a one kilogram bag of salt for two bronze coins.



'This thing… why is it so expensive, thang god that I learned that I can convert one silver coin into five bronze coins or id be stuck going back to that dummy dungeon and I really dont want to.'

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Looking back at the unused stat points, Alan didn't hesitate even for a second longer as he instantly dumped all sixty of the new points he had gained into the strength stat.

[ Strength: 90/150 ] -> [ Strength: 150/150 ] [ Max ]

Instantly as soon as the normal stats were maxed, Alan instantly felt it, a subtle yet clear change in his body, a sudden rush of adrenaline and dopamine going through his body at the same time or atleast thats what it felt like, as his palms started sweating slightly whilst his pupils dilated for a brief second before all the changes finished and his body returned to its natural state once more.

'Allright… all that's left to do now is level up once so that I can breakthrough and after that… I just need one more upgrade to strength to get back to my baseline.' Alan thought to himself as he released a soft sigh of relief and continued on his way.

As he walked back towards the main road, he encountered six more green slimes, giving him a total of 300 experience points, not a lot in comparison to what he needed however it was still a sizeable amount.

Finally after what he felt like hours, he arrived back at the edge of the dark alley, the alley walls and ground had once more returned to the polished concrete and metalic slabs for the buildings instead of the moss, gravel and run down area he had been in whilst deep inside the alley.

'That part was honestly barely standing… still… I don't suppose that it would fall down… or maybe it could, I'm unsure what the dungeon will do at this point in time.' Alan thought as he looked around quickly once he arrived at the edge of the main street, finding no one around him, he opened his system dungeon menu.

Instantly the blue holographic panel appeared before him, floating there in the air.

[ System Dugeons ]

[ Dummy Dungeon ] [ Level 1 ] [ Join ]

[ Slime Dungeon ] [ Level 5 ] [ Leave ]

[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 50 ]

[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 100 ]

…

..

Lifting his hand, he quickly pressed on the leave button and then instantly proceed to click the confirmation.

Once more, his vision quickly dwindled into darkness as his senses were removed one after the other, starting with sight and finishing with touch.

For a brief moment, he was once more in that floating darkness, his thoughts were nonexistent at this point, he had gone through too much to give much attention or to care about the process, something like this wasn't even scary to him, not after what he had seen and experienced.

A mere second later, he once more found himself laid back on his bed inside his apartment.

The morning light hitting his profile from the small window to the side.

Slowly getting up whilst using his hands as support, Alan turned towards the left wall where a small run down wall clock was.

'Eight… seems like classes already started huh. Guess, I'll be late for the first one. Better hurry up, don't really want to deal with school bullshit aswell.' Alan thought to himself as he got up and quickly changed into another pair of clothes, even though he didn't have many, he didn't particularly fancy going to school for three days in a row with the very same outfit.

Putting on an old white turtleneck sweater, a black jacket that had a few cuts into it and a pair of black faded jeans aswell as a pair of black boots, he quickly finished dressing up whilst he simply threw his used clothes back onto the bed before turning and heading out of the small apartment.

Walking down the stairs and then heading into the street down below, Alan's eyes were narrowed, he was deeply in thought about everything that had happened to him in the last twenty four hours and then in the entirety of the three days.

'I got overconfident, i leveled up and I was growing stronger and I thought that I could do anything, I had a system afterall, I thought that everything would be going well. Well my ass, I got drugged like a dumbass, because I looked for the drugs myself as if I could do something against supernatural creatures, im part elf? Who the hell cares, all my physical abilities are just like a humans, heck I'm weaker than a regular human.' Alan thought as felt like punching himself.

Lifting his head slightly higher, he walked slightly faster as he gazed at the sky above him, the regular real sky with clouds covering most of it, so unlike the cloudless sky that he found in the dungeons.

'And then there's the second dungeon… just how did that crimson slime find a human body part? Is it possible that just like the artificial slimes and dummies and other monsters that ill find in the future that the system has the capabilities of making human npcs of sorts?' Alan thought to himself before shaking his head.

It was something that he had been repeating inside his own mind for a while now, however the more he thought about it, the more he realised just how useless those thoughts were. He couldn't know, not now atleast, with his current strength he couldn't even investigate let alone do anything about it.

'It's… let's just head to school and then head back home and continue on the leveling spree. I need to atleast get to level ten, upgrade my strength stat to four and then put some normal stat points into it before I try to head back and defeat the crimson slime.' Alan thought as he kept walking.

Around twenty minutes later, he finally saw the Forks Highschool in the distance. It looked normal, and it was. Yet Alan knew, the normality was fake, and he was sure of it. Atleast with all the events happening all around it.

'Why Forks?' Alan thought to himself.

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Walking towards the school whilst he looked around, his mind was still on an almost constant state of alert, no matter how much he tried calming himself down by taking long deep breaths and releasing them slowly as he walked, it wasnt having any effect that was worth mentioning.

'Can't seem to get my heart rate to go to normal either, its not beating super fast exactly but its most definitely faster than it should be normally.' Alan thought to himself as he placed two fingers on the pulse on his wrist before releasing a sigh and closing his eyes for a brief moment and then snapping them open almost instantly as he looked around before continued to walk inside the schools parking lot.

It was at that moment that he saw three people that he wasn't exactly hoping he would meet however he had acted as their friend, he had gone with them, he had laughed with them, he couldn't exactly pretend to not know them now, not when he had just gone to their place yesterday to get drugged up together.

Standing there near the front entrance of the Forks Highschool were the three people that Alan had made as friends.

Jennie, John and Adrian.

Something however clearly was wrong with them, something that Alan noticed almost instnatntly.

'Mana Perception.' Alan thought inside his mind as he activated the skill, as soon as he did, his eyes widened almost imperceptibly as he saw it, their entire bodies were covered in mana, from head to toe, and it wasn't the blue cozy mana that felt like water that he had seen in the baseball bat. No, this mana was a sickly yellow colour that semeed to almost constantly be in erratic motion around them.

In a certain way, it looked closer to vomit than it did to clear water.

'Thats… disgusting. Is that what the drug did to them?' Alan thought to himself as he looked closer at the three of them as he got closer.

Each of them had dark circles under their eyes, the blood in their sclera was bloodshot and their pupils were slightly diluted, they were standing in a way that clearly showed they were completely and utterly exhausted.

"Hey guys, y'all look like you got ran over by a truck. What happened after I left?" Alan asked, simply as he arrived to stand before them, giving them a short wave of his hand in greeting.

The moment he spoke, the three of the students seemed to get out of some kind of stupor as their eyes refocused and then turned to look at Alan.

As soon as they did, Alan felt a shiver run through his entire body. The movement, the moment of refocus, it would have been normal if it wasn't for the fact that all three of them had done it at the exact same time.

"Alan, hey!"

"Alan, hey!"

"Alan, hey!"

All three of them said at the exact same time, all three of them lifting their left arm up and waving back for a moment before lowering it, all three mouths then curling up into a smile that didn't exactly look like a real smile, it looked too forced, too stiff as if it was the smile someone had drawn onto a clay doll.

*Gulp*

'What… the fuck.' Alan thought inside his mind as he instinctively took a brief step back and brought his arms slightly forward in a more defensive position yet trying to not show it to the three of them.

'Observe'. Alan thought to himself as instantly three holographic panels appeared right before him, floating mid air.

[ Observe Skill has been Used. ]

[ John Miller ]

[ Race: Human ] [ Level 12 ]

[ Status: Complete Possession ] [ Intelligence Stat: -4 ]

[ Jeannie Adams ]

[ Race: Human ] [ Level 9 ]

[ Status: Complete Possession ] [ Intelligence Stat: -4 ]

[ Adrian Stone ]

[ Race: Human ] [ Level 11 ]

[ Status: Complete Possession ] [ Intelligence Stat: -4 ]

'Complete… possession? Its… not just possessed like last time… its complete possession… it could just mean that possession is at one hundred percent… but wouldn't the system just show me that instead then?' Alan thought as he gulped softly, taking another step back unconsciously as his hands turned into fists.

"So… Alan, you… want… to… come… with us… Palm Angels?"

"So… Alan, you… want… to… come… with us… Palm Angels?"

"So… Alan, you… want… to… come… with us… Palm Angels?"

All three of them asked at the same time once more, their fake smilies widening more as they gazed at Alan.

'Hell no, hell in the no no no. I don't fucking wanna.' Alan thought to himself inwardly as he opened his mouth to say something in return, to reject them somehow in someway however he didn't even have to speak as in the very next second, someone else spoke for him.

"I dont think Alan wants to. And besides, me and him have some plans, just the two of us. Maybe another time he can come with you."

The voice said from behind Alan, freezing him still for a moment in shock and even slight relief, even though he didn't even know the person who had spoken, he was thankful that he wasn't alone with these three 'things' infront of him.

Turning his head to look behind him and see who it had been that had helped him, Alans eyes widened as he saw who it had been.

It was someone that he knew, someone that he had exchanged numbers with recently, just yesterday actually.

It was Alice Cullen.

'What… she… is this better or worse… nevermind, it's much fucking better, I don't even know what she is, I don't even care, I havn't seen her possess someone's body before and neither have I seen her devour and digest a human leg. She is the far far far better option than the others, than everyone else. And shes a pretty girl. Save me Alicee!' Alan thought inside his mind as he quickly took a few steps towards her before slowing down.

'Fuck… can't actually be too excited, this is still like the ol saying, between a rock and a hard place.'

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Standing in between Alice Cullen and the three of his friends who had gone under possession, Alan felt like he was fighting a losing battle.

'Who do I, even chose in this kind of positon? One of them is something that I don't even know and the other is some kind of magical monster that's inside their mind. Still… they do have their intelligence lowered, I wonder if maybe that was also one of the reasons as to why the thing didn't act or do anything? It truly thought that I would follow it's lead and then head back and grab some of the drug for myself?' Alan thought to himself as he walked closer and stood next to Alice.

"Yeah, we did have plans didn't we?" Alan said out loud as he forced a cheery smile onto his expression whilst he gazed at her.

"Yeah, you promised me yesterday, didn't you?" Alice asked as her expression similarly turned into one of joy, though in comparison to the one that Alan was sporting, it clearly looked much more real, or maybe simply more practiced.

'I wonder though, is that expression real or is that just a practiced act? Doesn't matter… not now atleast.' Alan thought to himself as he turned towards Jeannie, Adrian and John and gave an obviously fake cough.

"Anyways, I'm heading with her, we got class together and then after, we goin to that place together. Until later guys, ya'll have my number if something comes up." Alan said as he grabbed Alice's arm as he started to walk.

For a brief second, or maybe even faster, it was like he was trying to move a tectonic plate, cold, hard and utterly immovable and then in the next second she started walking with him towards the schools front entrance.

Leaving the trio behind them.

"Alright Alan, We'll call you, We can go get the thing this weekend… together"

Alright Alan, We'll call you, We can go get the thing this weekend… together"

Alright Alan, We'll call you, We can go get the thing this weekend… together"

They all said at the exact same time, with the same tone of voice, the same slightly dull eyes.

Jeannie who had once more been affected the most out of the group was almost drooling at this point and another student who had been late and was passing through clearly avoided the group as much as he could from a distance.

They were the most well known bullies in the entire school and now they were similarly the most well known druggies around town as well, and it wouldn't even take long, rumors spread around really fast especially in a town as small as Forks and even in Forks, the greatest hub or rumors and gossip was the Forks Highschool. By the end of the night, everyone from the kids to the adults would learn of what the young student had seen.

Meanwhile, Alan and Alice had already walked inside the main school building and were walking down the hall.

As they walked, Alan turned his head towards Alice and released a soft sigh of relief.

"Hey… thanks about that back there… those guys seemed a bit weird today, I just wasn't feeling comfortable going with them. I even went with them yesterday to their place… and I just couldn't do it… like they were doing drugs and stuff… maybe its some kind of side effects." Alan muttered under his breath, his voice low as he spoke to Alice who was walking by his side down the school hallway.

"Hey, you don't have to mention it. You promised to be friends with me and all, of course I'd help you out." Alice replied with a giggle at first before her face fell as she donned on a much more serious expression than before.

"But you're right, they didn't really seem to be in their right mind, and the way they were talking was just downright creepy, it was like they had practiced that all night in the mirror or something. Maybe It's just a prank, I really hope so atleast but It didn't seem like it. You should stop associating with those guys, I don't think its a good idea to be around them. You just admitted didn't you? They're not the kind of friends that you'd want around you." Alice spoke, her voice serious for once, and quite lower than the usual cheery and giddy tone that she took whilst speaking to others.

It wasn't just the voice, if one were to look at her eyes, they weren't the regular amber color, they were much much darker than usual, almost nearing pitch black but the pupil and the iris still weren't fully the same colour.

'Ofcourse they're not fucking normal. Now your strong, your a high level, do something about those fucks before they actually start chasing me down or come to my apartment at night.' Alan thought inside his mind as he felt like banging his head onto the wall but he couldn't simply tell her straight up that he knew what was going on or that they were possessed, he could only hope that Alice herself would be suspicious and start investigating them by herself.

"Yeah, I really… I just didn't talk to a lot of people and like a few days ago, I talked to them and we became friends, they aren't… bad people though but I think they've just done something wrong this time and aren't really themselves, they didn't even sound like their usual selves… maybe we should call the police on them or something? Do a drug test and get them some kind of help?" Alan spoke to her as he kept walking down the hallway.

They weren't headed to any class in particular, classes had already started and they wouldn't be allowed to join in halfway through the lesson, instead they were just walking around whilst talking at least until they reached a more secluded corner of the highschool and stopped.
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Both of them stopped at the same time as they reached one of the darker corners of the school hallway, once there, they turned to face eachother once more.



As Alan gazed into those dark almost pitch black eyes, he felt a shiver slowly start from the base of his neck and start heading down until the base of his spine.



'Did I get her help… or did i just trade one horror for another?' Alan thought to himself, fear slowly starting to creep up on him before he tightened his hands into fists, his nails almost breaking into his palms as he used the pain to forcibly calm himself down, stomping down onto the emotion of fear as quickly as he could, as his eyes narrowed slightly.



"I'll talk with my father, He's a doctor and he should know what to do, but honestly Alan… maybe you should just leave the matter alone, if they bother you, you can always tell me y'know? I and my family could deter them from getting close to you, even though we dont talk much with the students around here, people still don't really mess with us. Actually I got a really great Idea." Alice said softly as her lips slowly but surely curled up into a smile, that to anyone else might have made her look utterly majestic, as if she was a small pixie from one of those fantasy stories.



And yet… to Alan it looked terrifying, It wasn't that Alice or the rest of the Cullens had even done anything to make him feel this fear, it was a sort of irrational fear that he felt whenever he was close to them, it was a fear that had always been there on the background even when he hadn't known what the Cullens were, it was the reason as to why no students messed with them or tried to bully them even considering their rather unique dating and family situation.



Anyone else in their position would have been relentlessly bullied, and yet no one dared even come close to touching any of them. All the students could do was whisper and gossip rumors about them and that was it.



It was at that moment as Alan was thinking, that he realised this fact aswell, as his mind stopped for a full moment before it reignited with even further fervor than before.



'An Irrational fear… almost like how humans know to fear snakes or other predators that can kill us. Is it similar?' Alan thought to himself before shaking his head.



Alice who was looking at him, at Alan who had still yet to respond to her question and was now looking like he was deep in his thoughts and shaking his head, she raised her hand and put her palm onto his shoulder and shook him lightly, a slightly worried expression on her face, softening the previous terrifying smile to a look of pensive worry that was infinitely softer than the pervious almost predator-like expression.



"Alan? Hey? Are you okay? You're not responding." Alice questioned softly, her voice lower and warmer than before, careful not to jolt him too harshly from his thoughts.



At the sound of her voice, Alan turned towards her and released an outward sigh before giving a soft slow nod of his head as he finally spoke up, escaping out of his mind.



"Yeah, I'm fine, I was just thinking about something. But joining you at your family table? I… that feels like too much, I'm not really used to just joining others at tables, and I'm pretty sure it would be really awkward, your family doesn't even know me and they likely don't want to be bothered during lunch y'know?" Alan said as he tried to softly reject the proposition about joining them at their table during lunch whilst trying to not offend her in any way or capacity.



'Join you? And your supernatural freak family that I just realised causes instinctual fear in humans? Yeah… don't really think I'll be doing that.' Alan thought to himself as he raised his arm and scratched the back of his head awkwardly whilst he looked away from her, feigning a sort of embarrassed look.



"Bother them? You won't be bothering anyone at all. They'll be so happy to meet you, after all you're like the first friend I've made in Forks after all this time." Alice replied quickler, her voice slightly higher pitch as she quickly tried to reassure him.



"Are you really sure about that? Really. Extremely one hundred percent sure that none of them will mind. Not one of them. Don't lie to me Alice." Alan replied back instantly, just as fast as she had reacted to his soft dismissal of the idea, his voice soft yet clearly firm on the no lying part.



For a moment Alice simply looked at him, her pupils seeming to almost turn thinner for a brief flash of a moment before they returned back to normal and she released a soft sigh of exhaustion as she shook her head.



"No… I can't say that. Rosalie will likely disagree with it, and Edward too though he isn't around at the moment." Alice said in reply to his question, her tone of voice defeated as her entire posture seemed to slump slightly at the fact that Alan clearly wouldn't be joining her at the Cullen table.



That sullen look however only seemed to last for a brief second before her face exploded into excitement once more.



"Then I'll just join you at your table. We can just sit together by ourselves. That's the best Idea." Alice said, her voice almost painfully excited, and hope clearly genuinely shining in her eyes.



For a moment, Alan was stumped as he gazed at her expression, at times like these, as much as the instinctual fear wanted to act up… it was simply impossible, how can one be afraid of a girl who clearly wanted to just sit with her friend and eat lunch together with him. It was utterly and completely disarming of all the alarms that had been ringing in his head as soon as she had mentioned the idea of him joining the Cullen table.

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'Fine… I guess that's not so bad, and Alice hasn't done anything wrong to me yet, in fact she's even helped me. Maybe just maybe I was judging the book by its cover too hard?' Alan thought to himself, though he was still holding back, he wasn't exactly excited about the idea, however he wasn't completely against it as he had been earlier.

Joining the entire Cullens felt like a deathtrap, he didn't even know the rest and neither had he talked to any of them, however joining just Alice at the table? That felt much safer than the other option.

"Alright… yeah that can work Alice. But yeah, as we were saying, definitely ask your dad about it, they're not a good bunch but they were still nice to me, heck, they even gave me this pair of prescription glasses since I lost mine. So, I guess I'm just sayin, I wish they could come back to normal and leave those drugs they're doin aside." Alan said as he gave a nod of his head, the tone of his voice was softer than usual, he was still hesitant about his decision and about even involving the Cullens into the magical mess that was going on with the three of his friends however he felt like he had no other choice.

'I can't risk it, I can't risk something like the possession thing happening to me again, and It's so easy, you just have to inhale the smoke from the enhanced weed and you get affected, what if the 'thing' manages to create an even more concentrated version or I just get trapped into a room with its smoke, there's dozens of ways that I can lose and lose control of my body and will. The annoying part is that I can't even just tell Alice about it, I don't trust her enough… damned.' Alan thought to himself as he almost felt like releasing his hundredth sigh of the day before stopping himself, maintaining his resigned yet calm facade on the outside.

"Really? Really?" Alice asked quickly, her voice once more regaining its giddy nature as her excitement finally boiled over, unable to hold it back, she started practically jumping on her feet in overzealous excitement at the mere idea of sitting together with Alan for lunch. Her eyes that had gone almost pitch black also slowly started to change colour once more, it was a slow change however Alan who had already caught it happening before was paying extra attention to the small details.

The difference between the colour of the iris and pupil slowly started growing and growing until the pitch black eyes turned back to those beautiful amber eyes, that seemed to shine like gems under light.

'They… they're really beautiful, heck. She is beautiful herself, all of her.' Alan thought to himself for a moment as he gazed at the woman before him before he turned his attention away, not wanting to keep staring at her in wonder as he lifted his hand to his mouth and fake coughed into it.

*Cough* *Cough*

"Anyways, how much more time until class is over and we can go to our next classes?" Alan asked her curiously as he took a few steps back and put his back against the wall of the hallway, leaning against it as he lifted his head to look back at Alice once more.
"Don't know, let me check." Alice said quickly as she took out her blackberry phone and turned it on quickly as she checked the time.

"Around five more minutes more or less. What class you got?" Alice asked curiously as she replied to his question, walking closer to him and leaning against the wall alongside him, one leg turned back and the foot onto the wall, standing only with one foot on the ground whilst her arms were crossed above her head.

Even with her arms in an upright position, she was still quite a bit smaller than Alan who was similarly leaning back next to her on the wall.

"English, It's boring but atleast I won't have to listen to the professor and can just slack off hopefully." Alan replied in an already bored tone at the mere thought of the oncoming classes, in comparison to the activities that he had been doing recently, and the events that were happening around him. Attending classes almost felt like a complete and utter waste of his time, yet he understood that if he wanted to keep going on his life, he needed to atleast complete this last year of highschool.

'I've worked way too hard on the last years for me to just give up the diploma on the last damn year just because some supernatural creep decided to start selling magical drugs to highschoolers. Couldn't he have atleast started selling to criminals or drug addicts, why'd he have to go for students.' Alan thought to himself before turning his head to look at Alice.

"What about you?" He asked curiously as he lifted an eyebrow in question.

"Arts. So I'm good." Alice replied with a giggle as she hid her smile behind the palm of her hand, her eyes seeming to glow with mirth at the difference between her slight excitement to the class and his complete and utter boredom about his.

"Yeah, yeah. Good for you." Alan said in turn with a chuckle of his own as he turned his head to face forwards once more.

For the next few minutes, the two made small talk, it wasn't really anything serious, ranging from the most confusing topics about daily student life, to the most random stuff like how they had seen that student come a month ago with purple hair because his little sister had decided to prank him by switching his shampoo.

Five minutes later, the bell signaling the end of the current classes rang, inside classrooms and on the top of the hallway walls around the school, a loud electronic bell ringing sound that carried throughout the entire Forks Highschool building.

As soon as it did, the sound of students talking much more loudly and chairs scraping on the ground quickly followed, almost instantly after.

"Alright, guess it's time to go, see you at lunch, Alice." Alan spoke as he turned to fully face her once more.

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Walking towards his next class, down the hallways that were quickly swarmed by students coming out of classrooms to head to their next classes, Alan was deeply in thought, it was something that he did unconsciously a lot more these days, it wasn't just the system at this point that he was thinking about, and neither was it the supernatural events.

Somehow in the span of barely a few days, Alice had managed to get much closer to him, at first it had been an irrational fear, a fear that he just recognised that he had held, and now after acknowledging that fact, he had somehow slowly started to trust her more, or rather it wasn't trust, it was more like he was opening up to her.

The human mind was a rather fascinating creation, it feared what it did not know and yet it longed to know the unknown at the same time. It was contradictory and yet it was one of the greatest engines in all of creation, it was what had led humanity to thrive in a world where they should have gone extinct long ago by other predators with much greater natural weapons and strengths than them.

And now, Alan had slowly started to become curious, curious about the Cullens, curious about Alice, about why they acted like they did, about what they were and most importantly about the reason as to why Alice seemed to want to befriend him so badly that it clearly showed to anyone watching.

The idea that she was romantically into him, didn't even cross his mind, to him, it was an impossibility and so he didn't even think of it. At most he thought it was some kind of plan for them to blend into society better or maybe just maybe to make a human friend.

'Though… I'm not even really human anymore am I?' Alan thought to himself as he stopped for a moment and turned, looking far down the hallway, Alices back could be seen as she walked away.

'Mana perception.' Alan thought to himself as the skill instantly activated at once.

[ Mana Perception has been activated! ]

As soon as it did, the world which was as bland as ever instantly gained mesermising supernatural colours.

Looking at her back, he instantly saw something that had previously been hidden out of sight for him, the colour of mana that he had previously seen on things like the three bullies, his friends, and then on the baseball bat and the items created by the system. It was surrounding Alice, and yet it wasn't the blue colour from the system and neither was it the sickly yellow of John, Jeannie and Adrian. It was a colour he had never seen before.

A very dark, almost bloody crimson aura that surrounded her, the movement of it was slower than the blue mana and much less erratic than the movements of the sickly yellow mana that came from those possessed. It looked as if a film of blood was surrounding her entire body and moving around slowly almost protectively around her body. And the other major difference that he could see clearly as day was the density and saturation of it. It was thicker, and much much denser than any other mana coating that he had seen before.

It looked so thick and clear that he was sure he could have noticed it even from hundreds of meters away.

'What is that? Why… is it that thick? Is it because of her strength or mana quantity or maybe the quality of it is just much higher? Does mana have quality ratings? And why is it that bloody dark crimson… its most definitely not… human thats for sure, or maybe it is? Maybe every person has a different colour to their mana?' Alan thought to himself before he turned away once more and continued walking down the hallway.

The next few classes passed by swiftly with Alan mostly dozing through them, his mind on a completely different plane. The more he figured out, the stronger he grew by using the system, the more questions he got. It seemed like the mysteries would never end, that he would never get all the answers to the questions he had.

'Stronger… the stronger I get, the more information I can gain. If i was strong enough, I could fight and protect myself, I could go and find the drug supplier and the thing that's possesing the three of them without having to worry, but alas, as my current self, the best I can do is hand the job over to Alice and the Cullens and hope that they deal with it themselves.' Alan thought as the bell signaling the end of the class rang out, students quickly getting up from their seats and heading out of the classroom towards the cafeteria hall for their lunch break.

Getting up from his seat and taking his books in hand, Alan walked out of the classroom and towards his locker.

As he walked, he saw something he hadn't expected, students were glancing at him not so subtly, as they talked with themselves. Straining himself whilst pretending to be occupied, he tried to listen in on the conversation.

"Isn't that the Alan kid that was hanging around with those guys? They were just bullies but now their druggies, you think he sold it to them?"

"Maybe? I mean, he always kept to himself and never talked, he's pretty weird."

"No, I actually think he didn't do it, Alan's never really bothered anyone, and the guy said that Alan rejected them when they asked him to come with them."

"Really?"

"Yeah"

A soft expression of surprise appeared on Alan's face as he tried to keep his gaze only on his locker as he shoved the books inside and closed the locker door softly.

'I obviously stayed with them a lot, and even skipped with them, I expected them to instantly put me on the same level as them… is it charisma?' Alan thought to himself curiously.

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'It likely is, I just didn't expect for it to be this effective, all the rumors that should have spread about me, they're practically gone before they even had the chance to start, it's like people are more inclined to believe in my so called 'goodness' than the fact that I might have been the drug dealer or even really associated with them' Alan thought to himself as he closed his locker door and turned around, heading towards the cafeteria as he walked past students who kept gossiping around the events that had happened today.

Only one other student had seen the scene besides Alice and Alan and yet in less than an hour, the entire school seemed to know about it already.

'Man… highschool gossip really does spread fast.' Alan though as he gently shook his head and put his hands into his jean pockets as he arrived at the cafeteria, opening the double doors and heading inside, he quickly looked around, noticing the usual groups of students, the jocks, the nerds, the famous girl groups and the rest.

His eyes caught onto Bella Swan's image for a moment before he turned away, not thinking much about the brown haired girl, whilst sure she most definitely had something special about her, in comparison to the recent events, she had fallen far down below in the matter of things inside Alan's head, if he was being honest with himself, he had almost even forgot she existed for a while.

As he turned his gaze away from Bella and her group that she had already found herself in, consisting of Jessica, Angela, Eric and Mike, Alan found his gaze landing on an empty table that was way far into the back of the cafeteria. It was close to the Cullen table, and sitting right there, alone, by herself as promised was Alice Cullen, her hair as always in a pixie cut, her eyes shining a bright amber and a gentle yet clearly excited smile on her face.

'How does someone even manage to look both gentle and excited at the same time… perks of being beautiful or something?' Alan thought to himself in slight confusion at how his mind had come up with that conclusion about her combination of emotions from one simple glance.

Walking past the first few tables, Alan quickly arrived to stand before the table as he lifted his hand in a small shy wave.

"Hey Alice." He spoke, his voice lower than usual before he grabbed the chair opposite to her and sat down, not bothering to get any food from the cafeteria at all.

Alice meanwhile had already gotten herself a tray of food aswell as an apple, though it remained completely untouched right before her.

"Hey Alan, glad you came." Alice replied with a smile as she looked at him, for a moment she looked as if she was completely and utterly absorbed into gazing at Alan before the moment broke and she leaned slightly back.

Alan's eyes lowered to her tray before they slowly lifted back up to her face as he raised an eyebrow.

"Not going to eat?" Alan asked curiously as he crossed his arms over his chest comfortably and laid back more on his own chair.

"Not really hungry, I was for a bit but then decided I wasn't. Im kind of an impulsive person I guess." Alice replied with a giggle as she shook her head clearly indicating that no, she wasn't going to eat the food.

'Now that I think about it… have I ever seen the Cullens actually chew on something? Or eat anything at all?' Alan thought to himself as his mind went back to all the previous times he had seen the Cullens, his memory was good, and every since his intelligence stat had become a ten after the system, it had become freakishly good, and yet he couldn't find a single memory of them eating, not a single one.

'What… fuck, so they don't eat regular food? That… gives me more doubts about just what do they eat, a living organism can't survive on nothing and even the system can't create from nothing, it takes up mana… then what do these guys eat?' Alan thought whilst outwardly, he released a soft hum in agreement to her statement.

"I'm similar in a way, I kind of just go with the flow, not really the type of person to do impulsive things, but if something does happen accidentally, I just go with it. I guess I'm the middle ground between Impulsive and ordinary?" Alan replied to her with a shrug of his shoulders as his eyes swerved towards the Cullen table.

"Oh, see! We were made to be friends together, I do the impulsive things and you just go along with them, the best duo ever." Alice said instantly after Alan had spoken his piece about himself, her smile widening further and a slight gleam of teeth showing, her pupils almost seemingly becoming dazed for a moment.

Turning his gaze away from the Cullen table, Alan looked at her expression and almost felt a shiver run through him at the sight.

"Right, yeah best duo ever. Anyways, your fam didn't have any problems with you sitting here?" Alan asked curiously as he lifted an eyebrow.

Alan's question pierced through the slight daze that Alice had gone into as she frantically nodded her head a moment later.

"They didn't mind at all, infact Jasper and Emmet are happy that I'm socialising more." Alice replied with a giddy tone of voice as she leaned forward, closer to Alan.

"What about your sister?" Alan questioned, Rosalie was the one he knew would have a problem, he didn't think he had ever seen a person radiate more antisocial behaviour than her in his entire life.

"She doesn't matter." Alice replied, whilst still keeping that exact same smile on her face, her response instant.

"Riight…" Alan muttered in slight exasperation as he nodded his head at her whilst inwardly releasing a sigh of slight regret.

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'What did I expect from someone like her anyways.' Alan thought to himself as he had unconsciously turned his gaze back to the Cullens, and he saw all of them looking towards him, those eyes, the exact same colouring on each of them, fixed directly into his own pupils.

This time, the shiver than went through him wasn't something he could stop, it was like he was facing a group of lions in the middle of a jungle, every other sound seemed to become muted for a second, as Alan's pupils tightened visibly whilst his body grew rigid, just like a prey animal in front of it's natural predator.

This however only lasted for a brief second as all three pair of amber eyes quickly swerved away to gaze at each other instead of Alan.

For a brief moment, Alan was confused, before slowly his head turned until he was staring at his side where he found Alice, still there, still gazing at him and yet her amber eyes had changed dramatically from just a brief second before, they were dark, unfathomably darker than before.

'What just happened?' Alan thought to himself as the confusion in his mind deepened.

If one were to turn back time a mere few seconds ago, and have had a supernatural level of perception then they would have noticed what had happened.

"Alice… you are making the wrong move, he already suspects something, the question about the food and then him not responding for a bit, he was clearly thinking. This is a dangerous game for all of us that you are thrusting us into. Tell him to fuck off and come back here." Rosalie had spoken, her voice a mere hush said at supernatural speeds that carried and was heard to only three other people in the entire cafeteria, Alice Cullen, Jasper Hale and Emmet Cullen.

"Come on Rose, Carlisle let her do whatever she wanted with her mate, let's not do this here." Emmet spoke after, his voice and tone clearly trying to placate his own mate as he put a hand on her thigh.

"Shut up Emmet." Rosalie had hissed right back whilst Jasper who had been silent this entire time was constantly trying to calm the woman whilst using his gift however these days with the tensions growing higher, he was finding it harder and harder to do so, especially the emotions of Alice Cullen who was further away from them and as he sensed was currently like a volcano on the verge of eruption at the mere fact that Rosalie had told her to tell Alan to fuck off.

The fact that he was surrounded by so many humans who smelled like the greatest delicacy to someone of his kind wasn't helping the fact much if at all.

"Rose… stay in your lane." Alice spoke back from Alan's table, her head swerving towards Rosalie, her amber eyes instantly darkening to a pitch black colour, and her teeth almost fully showing.

The trio at the cullen table had turned to face her for a brief moment before their eyes had landed onto Alan and then they had turned away once more, this time at regular speeds.

Almost the entire situation had gone unnoticed by every single other person besides the family members, everything had occurred either with them talking at supernatural speeds or moving their gazes at speeds that the other humans hadn't even been able to see them move at.

Meanwhile Alan who still remained completely oblivious to the situation lifted his hand and grabbed the apple that Alice had gotten as part of her lunch tray.

"You don't mind if i take this apple right? Since you're clearly not eating it, or we could share if you want?" Alan said as he tried to show the confusing woman before him a smile, though it was clearly a struggling one.

Alice's eyes slowly moved down towards the apple before they lifted back up to Alan's own eyes and for a second she seemed to instantly want to reject it, at least until a moment later she released a sigh and nodded her head.

"Alright, just a little since you're offering." She relented as she released a soft sigh.

Alan's eyes widened for a moment as he stared at her before nodding as he took the small knife besides the tray and cut the apple in half before offering one side to her and taking one side himself, as he took a bite out of it and started chewing, his mind once more in slight disarray.

'So… she can eat? Was I wrong about that then? Maybe they can eat regular food but just don't need to?' Alan thought to himself, in slight confusion as Alice proved his previous theory about them not eating human foods or being incapable of it wrong as his eyes closely watched her take her half of the apple and bring it to those pale lips and take a bite out of it with a loud crunching sound.

'Just… what is she then? At first, I thought she was some kind of like ghoul who eats human flesh or something because of that crimson aura and the fact that she doesn't eat human food but that's clearly wrong.' Alan thought to himself, he still knew that she wasn't normal, there was no way she was, but now his slight theory about what she could have been was completely thwarted.

'So a creature that does eat human food… do I have to find some kind of monster encyclopedia or something?' Alan thought as he released a inward sigh, his head slumping slightly.

Meanwhile Alice who was chewing the apple turned her head at speeds beyond human limits as soon as Alan's eyes had turned slightly down and spat out the chewed apple bite far away to the corner before turning her head back instantly and pretending that she had swallowed.

"Ew… it's kinda gross, like I only did it for you y'know?" Alice said with a giggle as she put her half of the apple down onto the table once more.

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'Barely…. But rosalie… she was right in a way… this way, it'll at least stop him from thinking of anything that comes too close to home. Look however much you want for now Alan… I'm just a regular girl who's really really into you.' Alice thought to herself as she gazed into his eyes, her smile lifting up softly as the memory of the absolutely disgusting human food slowly flew away from her mind.



She had done one thing right, in a way she had indeed pulled Alan away from his thoughts of human eating monsters but she had completely failed to convince him that she was a human, afterall… he already knew at least that much simply from the system.



Minutes passed slowly as the two continued to almost dance around each other in the conversations, Alan making soft quips that he tried to use to gain more information on what she was, whilst Alice on the other hand kept trying to trick him into believing that she was just a regular girl with a crush.



It was almost painful to watch, if someone who knew both of them were to be next to them, their annoyance would likely cause a cholesterol problem.



Finally, half an hour later, the bell signaling the end of the lunch period rang as Alan slowly rose up from his seat and look down towards Alice.

"I'll get going them, also the part about going out after school was just a joke right? Because I don't really have much time to do it, maybe another day?" Alan said, his voice gentler than it had been before, and for the first time in a while when facing Alice, it was almost genuine.



"Oh I mean… I hoped it was real, but if your really busy, I guess I can't complain much. But I'll hold you to that 'another day', don't leave me next time alright?" Alice said back with a teasing voice as she slowly rose up from her own chair and walked to Alan before lightly bumping her shoulder with his.



The other students all around them were already out of the cafeteria by this point or already close to the exit and currently walking out. The rest of the Cullens as always had already long left and gone about their own ways, the last to enter the cafeteria at lunch and the first to leave it as usual.



"Alright, well then I'll get going. See you tomorrow then?" Alan asked with a raised eyebrow as he slightly turned his body away.

"Yeah, see you tomorrow Alan." Alice replied softly with a light sigh though her lips as they always were when facing Alan, were turned upwards, it was clear that she was seemingly enjoying every single moment, even this moment of temporary parting.



'Weirdo… but nice enough.' Alan thought to himself as he fully completed his turn and started walking away, step after step until he was out of the cafeteria and into the schools hallways, the students having already gone to their lockers and took out their books to head to their next classes.



Walking towards his own locker and opening it, Alan quickly looked at his schedule calendar.

'Today's Wednesday? Man… time really does fly by, I almost feel like I just got the system and it's monday. Yet at the same time, It feels so slow, so much stuff has happened and yet barely three days have passed. The first day, meeting the guys, the second day where i went to their place and then today and most of last night…' Alan thought to himself as he gently shook his head before releasing a slow tired sigh.



At this point, Alan almost felt like he would have already aged ten years had it not been for that small percentage elf that he had become.



'Alright, let's just go.' He thought as he took his books and turned, walking towards his next class, which happened to be spanish.



Heading inside the classroom, he walked towards his usual seat at the very back, next to the window and sat down, before completely turning off his brain as he dozed off, his mind flying away into the distance.



Time kept passing, slowly but surely, the hours changed, the classes changed and soon enough, the last bell signalling the end of classes for the day rang, its sound being heard all around the entire school building, in every hallway and classroom.



*Riiiiinnnnngg*



'Finally.' Alan thought as he lifted his hand, holding it to his mouth as he released a long tired yawn before getting up from his seat and walking towards the exit of the school.



It didn't take long for him to navigate through the hallways which for a certain Bella Swan had been quite confusing, thankfully she was usually always with atleast one of her new friends.



She was walking a few feet ahead of Alan, together with Angela Weber.



'Hum… that's Bella, this is the first time besides that one time in bio that we were this close.' Alan thought curiously though he didn't bother trying to start an interaction, he was sure that she was human however he didn't know what exact gift she had, but something told him, something that he suspected was his charisma told him that unlike Alice, Bella wasn't faking her expressions or moods, she really was a clumsy highschool girl.



Soon after, Alan and the rest of the students exited the main school building, once in the front parking lot, many of them headed to their own old beat up cars, just like Bella Swan headed to her old barely functional orange truck or they headed to their new shiny cars, though that was only the Cullens.



Alan meanwhile headed down the road on foot, he had neither a car, nor a motorcycle or even a simple bicycle.



'Someday, someday.' Alan thought as he walked down the road, humming slightly under his breath.



He had managed to at least somewhat forget what had happened, though it was still a thing he was thinking about, he had calmed down a lot about todays events, he expected the Cullens to deal with the problems.



At least until he arrived before his apartment building… He wasn't the only one there.


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Arriving before his apartment, Alan gaze landed on three people that he had really really not expected to be there and neither had he wanted for them to be there either.



It was his three friends, the three bullies who he had befriended, and the three people that he had somewhat grown attached to even though only slightly, it was the three people that had quickly befriended him, helped him and treated him as one of their own almost instantly, so to say that he wasn't even slightly attached to them would be a lie.



Humans are social creatures afterall, and Alan had quickly grown used to them, their jokes and their humor, he had started to enjoy their presence. Atleast…when they were 'them'.



But the three people standing in front of him, standing before his apartment, weren't his friends, they were someone else, or rather 'something' else.



Instantly activating his mana perception, Alan quickly noticed that indeed, the same sickly yellow aura was still fully covering their bodies.



'God damned it.' Alan thought to himself as he instinctively took a step back before stopping as his lips curled up in a twitching smile, or at least he tried his best to do the best impression of a calm smile that he could.



"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."



"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."



"Alan… It's great that we saw you leaving alone… It's much better to come with us… your real friends rather than someone like her."



The three of them said at the same time as their lips curled up further and further until all three of them were giving wide toothy grins towards him, that wasn't the end of it however as they started walking towards Alan slowly, it wasn't just slow movement, or a slow walk, the way they were doing it… it was off, Jeannie looked like she was about to fall down after every step that she took, only for her to reposition her foot at the last second to stop the fall.



John meanwhile swayed as if he was completely drunk on his feet and Adrian, seemed to be the only one that had somewhat remained decently standing, if one wasn't looking at his arms that is, his arms were completely limp at his sides, as if he had lost all control over them.



The sight caused an image to instantly appear in Alan's mind. It was as if they were wooden marionette puppets being controlled by a clumsy puppeteer from above them.



"I don't think I can come with you today guys, how about we meet over the weekend, that was the plan anyways, wasn't it?" Alan said as he lifted one arm to scratch the back of his neck, a nervous tick when faced with the stressful situation before him.



"Weekend… too far away… we already ran out Alan, we need more… more… more." Jeannie said as she kept half walking, half almost falling towards Alan before she stopped right before him, John and Adrian flanking her on the sides.



"Ah… then can you just let me go get some stuff in my apartment and I can come back down and then we can go there, it's in port angeles anyways so we need to take the car and drive right?" Alan said as he looked past them towards the door of the apartment building.



'They don't have superhuman levels of strength or anything, the drug doesn't do that… infact theyr even slower and weaker whilst under this possession effect… so… as long as the real 'thing' doesn't appear here.' Alan thought as his gaze turned back down towards the three of them, his eyes narrowing slightly as logic cut through the almost paralyzing feeling of fear that he had been feeling.



He was indeed right, the current motor skills that the trio had shown were much much weaker than the skills of any other regular person, not to mention the fact that they were practically as dumb as rocks in their current state, this would mean that they likely didn't have any real plan in place.



"It… is fine." The thing controlling them said by using Jeannies mouth as the trio looked directly into Alan's pupils with their own dazed and slightly faded eyes.



'It's fine?' Alan thought slightly confused at the agreement, if they allowed him to go to his room, he could simply slip away by using the emergency stairs and find a hiding spot and continue living inside the dungeons until he grew strong enough, it would be an easy escape path for him.



As Alan started nodding his head, taking one step forwards to head past them, he stopped as the trio spoke once more, this time, all three of them speaking as they had earlier, in complete eerie synchronisation with eachother.


"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."



"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."



"They… are here. In Forks. No… need for Car. They are coming here… they should be near."



Alan froze, the words kept repeating inside his mind over and over again, like a sick mantra of doom, his pupils widening until they no longer could from shock as he instantly took a few steps back, his arms that had been at his sides lifting up slightly in a more reactive defensive posture, his hands shaking badly as his eyes moved left and right constantly, searching for someone, anything really, however he couldn't see anything but the regular street and buildings and the clearly irregular trio in front of him.



*Gulp*

Swallowing audibly, Alan concentrated his gaze back onto the three of them once more as his hands slowly tightened into fists, hard enough that his nails dug into the base of his palm and drew blood.



"They're… here?" Alan asked slowly, his mouth barely working at this point, the shock was slowly wearing off and being replaced by absolute terror, if the thing that had created those drugs was coming here… he needed to run, and he needed to run to the only place that he knew would be safe.


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For a moment, the trio, Jeannie, John and Adrian didn't respond, their eyes half lidded and dazed as they started at Alan, their smiles gone from their faces, their expressions a complete deadpan, giving nothing away.



Seconds passed slowly, they felt like hours to Alan who felt like he would be drugged, possessed or worse at any second by now.



It was at that moment, that a change occurred, the trio finally reacted to Alan's question as their lips slowly curled up once more, it wasn't a wide toothy smile this time, instead it was a small barely noticeably quirk of the ends of their lips, an almost gentle smile as their eyes widened and the dazed look, the faded pupils seemingly focusing for a brief second.



And then they spoke, in a perfect voice, their original voice, it was as if the previous clumsy control that the thing had over them had vastly improved in the span of a few seconds.



"I… am already here. Alan Walker."



"I… am already here. Alan Walker."



"I… am already here. Alan Walker."



Alan's eyes widened and he didn't hesitate even for a single second, as he instantly opened his system panel.



'System Dungeon, System fucking dungeon, open, open.' Alan screamed inside his own mind as the system holographic panel instantly appeared before him, floating infront of his face and blocking the eerie sight of his three friends for a moment.



[ System Dungeon ]



[ Dummy Dungeon ] [ Level 0 ] [ Join ]



[ Slime Dungeon ] [ Level 5 ] [ Join ]



[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 50 ]



[ ??? Dungeon ] [ Level 100 ]



…

..



'Join slime dungeon, join, yes confirm, just fucking join.' Alan thought almost instantly as soon as the holographic screen appeared before him.



"What… are you doing mister Alan?" Another voice asked, it wasn't a voice he recognised, it wasn't the voice of Jeannie, or the voice of John and neither was it the voice of Adrian.



It was soft, velvety and somewhat gave a posh accent feeling to the listener, but most importantly, it was coming from right in front of him.



Alan's eyes couldn't even widen any further than they already had, as his vision started darkening as the transmission to the dungeon started, and in those last moments before his vision fully darkened, he saw someone lean forwards from behind him, from over his left shoulder, putting their head before him as they turned and gazed directly at Alan.



It was a beautiful face, with dark hair and blue eyes that seemed to pierce right through into Alan's very soul, and they were close, they were right behind Alan, leaning over him, their head right next to his, he could practically feel their breath on his face cheek for a mere moment before the dungeon teleportation took that sense of his away.



A moment later, as his heart was beating at speeds that he felt like were loud enough that even someone on the other street block could hear, he saw all the surroundings disappear, as he arrived in that same senseless weightless space, for a brief second.



A moment later, his vision returned, there was no face next to his, there was no trio infront of him.



He was back into the Dungeons tokyo streets, back into the dungeon that had given him one of his traumas, and the place where he would have to reside for as long as he needed to grow strong enough.



Alan stood there, on the main road, not even bothering to look at the alleys, his eyes still widened, his body completely frozen, he had gone much further than any other time, he was too terrified to even tremble anymore, all he could do was take deep harsh quick breaths over and over as his heart felt like it was about to explode at any second.



This state of his continued for an amount of time that Alan wouldn't ever be able to tell anyone truly, he didn't even notice the passage of time, he only knew that for a while he was frozen and then suddenly he felt like he came out of the deepest waters of his mind that he had ever been in.



Slowly lifting his hand to his face, he put his entire palm over it as his breathing slowly started stabilising, his heart rate starting to slow down to regular levels slowly.



'That… that's the thing… it's… human… or atleast It looks like one, or it is one, I don't even know at this point… fuck, I didn't even use observe on It. I came here to hide and grow strong enough to be able to defeat or atleast survive that fucker but I don't even know how strong 'It' is. How do I know when I'm strong enough to defeat it?' Alan thought to himself, as he slowly felt a feeling of pure helplessness appear in him.



The thing had most definitely seen him teleport away to the dungeon, and now… now he had to defeat it if he wanted to keep his secret safe, and yet he wouldn't even know how much stronger or how long he had to spend here to get strong enough to do so.



Lifting his head up and removing the palm that he had placed over his head, Alan took one last deep breath before slowly releasing it in a sigh and looking around.



He was back in the dungeon, wearing his leather armor and holding the combat spear, he would be able to get enough coins to eat and drink as long as he wanted in here with the shop, so survival wasn't a problem, however…



'The mental toll that I'll take from living in a combat zone… I'll have to get used to it quickly, or I'll start making mistakes in fights and that… that could lead to my own end.' Alan thought as he gripped his combat spear tighter in his hand before taking a step forwards, and then another and another until he slowly approached the first dark alley on the long tokyo street.




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Slowly walking towards the first dark alley, Alan's mind was mostly overwhelmed, even with the fact that recently he had started adjusting, that now his mind worked and thought much more clearly than it had before the system, he still could barely hold a single long though string, there was simply too many things to think about and options that seemed good but at the same time not better than the others.

At the end, he was left feeling confused, not knowing how to proceed and so, as he had always done in positions like this, he did the things that he knew he had to do and left the options for later.

'Calling or not calling Alice, staying in here for long or short, escaping Forks or saying in Forks, and all the other options, none of them matter, at the moment… I need to get strong enough to defeat that thing either way, or atleast try to, It's the only thing that I know that I have to do for sure, I have to get stronger than I currently am.' Alan thought before releasing a slow sigh as he entered into the first Alley.

For the next four hours, he continued, thankfully the silver coins could be converted into bronze coins and he could use those to buy all his daily needs.

One single green slime kill turned into two and then three and then a dozen more, he didn't stop, there was no reason to do so, if he stopped, he felt like that face would appear over his shoulder and it would all be over.

Around five hours later, he walked out of the first alley and headed into the second one, the one where groups of green slimes appeared instead of simply one at a time, by this point he had gotten quite skillful at instantly breaking the glass core with a single thrust, ofcourse, It wasn't as if he didn't take any damage, It wasn't that the slimes were strong or fast, but it was simple human error, missing the core even once, meant that you would likely get hit especially when facing groups of enemies all at once.

Meanwhile, whilst Alan Walker was inside his system dungeon, in the real world, inside his apartment, four people could be seen, one of them sitting at Alan's desk chair whilst the three others were laid flat onto the ground, their eyelids open, showing eyes that looked utterly devoid of any light and life in them, they were the eyes of corpses or atleast humans so mentally damaged that they had no thoughts left, no thinking processes going on inside their brains.

But in this case… it unfortunately was the first, the three people laid on the ground were Jeannie, John and Adrian.

Their chests were no longer rising, the colour of their bodies had already faded and they were not just cold, utterly cold and dead bodies on Alan's apartment floor.

Meanwhile, the man who had been right behind Alan before he had gone into the dungeon was sitting at Alan's desk, his chin in his palm whilst he had one leg crossed over the other, humming a slight melodic tune as he was inside his own thoughts.

"I wonder… just where he went? He was quite interesting, It's the reason that I wanted to get him to be my precious doll so badly, he wasn't affected by the drug almost at all, he could still think almost fully rationally and even head home on his feet after being drugged…. I wonder Alan Walker… just how many more things are you hiding… being able to teleport away at once, living inside this random town… Ah… I can't wait to find out." The man muttered softly to himself as an excited expression slowly emerged onto his previously languid facade of an expression.

His eyes slowly lighting up, whilst his lips curled upwards further and further, at one point it reached a point where it looked like a combination of pure orgasmic pleasure and excitement merged into one, an expression that was completely unhinged from any other regular being, morphing the handsome face of the man into something eerie and utterly terrifying.

The night that had encroached upon Forks only caused the scene to appear even more otherworldly, as if it was a scene from a horror novel rather than one from reality.

Whilst the man was waiting for Alan patiently, on the other side of Forks, another person was thinking about the very same Alan.

Deep inside the forest surrounding Forks, surrounded by the large trees of the region, inside the expensive and modern Cullen mansion, on the second floor, Alice Cullen was inside her bedroom, laid on her bed, flat on her stomach and currently playing around with her phone whilst her thoughts were somewhere far far away.

'I wonder, maybe I can take him shopping? I could buy him so many new clothes, his are already old but I could see that he takes really good care of them, ahhh…. I can't wait.' Alice thought to herself, as she couldn't help but daydream about future dates, about Alan, about them going somewhere together, especially clothes shopping as she almost released a squeal at the idea.

Alice Cullen was giddy usually, and yet for the past few days It had gotten so bad that Jasper had simply asked her to go to his room, Jasper's supernatural gift was empathy and emotional control, he could feel someones emotions and also influence them at the same time, it was a great weapon usually however when the emotion the other person was feeling was too intense, it leaked into Jasper's own emotional pool aswell, and Alice, Alice had been a volcano of emotions recently.

'Maybe I should call him?' Alice thought to herself as the mere idea excited her, she wanted to hear his voice again so badly, she just wanted to talk to him, she wanted to be close to him, she wanted…

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'Calm down… I'm getting too dangerous for this.' Alice thought as she abruptly stopped her train of thought, it was something she had recently realised, maybe because she unlike the other didn't remember her time when she had been human, her reactions to her mate were… a lot more violent and much much darker in nature.



'If I don't start saying no to myself, I could do something really really bad. I need to… keep myself in check more. No calling him, no trying to go and spy on him whilst he sleeps again, none of that.' Alice thought to herself as she shook her head, she knew that she was weird, she knew that she wasn't remotely close to human in any real sense of the word, however Alan was, and she needed to do her best to understand that, even if she didn't truly know how.



And so, Alice Cullen… decided that she would not be visiting or calling Alan tonight, much to the unfortunate luck of a certain Alan Walker who was currently covered in splashes of slime goo all over his body after another fight with a group of four green slimes inside his system's dungeon.



As all of these events were taking place, at a certain pizzeria inside Forks, two people had gotten together and were currently having dinner together for the first time in a long time.



"So Bells… how've you found school?" Charlie Swan, the current chief of the Forks police asked his daughter with his usual gruff and utterly awkward tone of voice, the man hadn't truly interacted with his only daughter and child in so long and found it hard to reconnect the small girl that he had raised with the current person she had become, and yet he was trying, he had been trying his best to do so. He had bought her a truck as a welcome back gift, had tried to talk with her and make sure she had everything she wanted.



However unfortunately for Charlie, his daughter was simply his own copy atleast in demeanour, Bella Swan who was sitting before him, taking a slice of pizza, was just as equally awkward in small talk as he was.



"I… uh, I guess I've been good, made a few friends, Jessica, Mike, Eric and uh Angela." Bella said softly, her voice small and almost barely there, the words coming out slowly and almost as if her throat was slightly clogged up.



"Oh, I know those kids, they're good kids, I'm glad. Especially Angela, she's a good one, studies a lot too, and the Mike kid, his parents run the local sports shop, he helps them quite a bit during the summer." Charlie said with slight surprise as atleast a part of the awkwardness was removed, he now had a topic to talk about with his daughter, he could do this.



"Ah yeah…" Bella replied as she took the pizza slice…. And then she ate it.



And so the conversation came to an instant stop once more, no matter how much one wanted to make a conversation, it was usually a two sided thing, one couldn't talk with someone who was clearly not interested, the conversation would simply come to a lull.



It was at that moment however that Bella's eyes lit up slightly as he turned to fully face her father.

"So uh Charlie, what's up with the uhm Cullens." Bella asked curiously whilst trying to seem like she was just asking randomly though she was failing quite spectacularly as anyone with a decent pair of eyes could see that she was clearly very much interested in knowing about them.



Thankfully, Charlie Swan seemed to not have a decent pair.



"The Cullens? Oh, doctor Carlisle Cullen's family? They're all a very nice bunch Bella, they've never made any problems and have actually helped around quite a lot, especially doctor Carlisle, a doctor of his level could have gone to work into any of the big cities and yet he chose to come to Forks for a quiet life and so that he could raise his children right. I hope you didn't believe the rumors going on around them, frankly, they're one of the nicest families in Forks." Charlie replied quickly, clearly having had to deal with a lot of baseless rumors about the Cullens before.


"Ah no, I didn't believe any of the rumors, just asked randomly. One of the uh kids, Edward Cullen was givin me weird looks a few days ago that's all." Bella said shyly as she looked away towards the window on her left, showing the darkened streets of Forks outside of the pizzeria place.



"Ah Edward, yeah he's always been a bit of an introvert, I'm sure he just wanted to talk to you or something Bells, he likely didn't have anything against you, did you ask him? It could have just been a misunderstanding." Charlie said softly, trying to reassure his daughter whilst believing in the good of others, especially the good of the people who constantly seemed to be misjudged in his eyes by others around Forks.



"Ah, not yet, but yeah… It was likely just a misjudgement on my part… I'll just ask him when I, uh, see him at school." Bella replied as she shook her head, slowly inwardly starting to question herself if what she had really seen had been nothing more than just a misunderstanding on her part and yet her mind, as always like a curious cat simply couldn't believe that, whatever had happened on that day in biology class had indeed been just that, it was simply… too weird.



'What person, asks to change their entire class just because of a misunderstanding? And then starts missing school for days right after… something… just doesn't add up here.' Bella thought to herself as she saw droplets of rain start falling from the sky, faster and faster until a complete downpour began.



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Hours continued passing, in the real world, and just the same they similarly passed in the dungeon, inside of which, a certain young man could be seen currently sitting down at the edge of an alley, in the main tokyo road, crosslegged whilst he ate a small nutritional bar and drank from a half used water bottle.

He didn't know how much time exactly had passed, that had blurred after the first few hours, he knew however… that it had been quite a while since he had come inside this place.

'Do I try it?' Alan thought to himself as he looked in the distance, past the current alley that he was in front of and towards one that was further down the main dungeon road.

There it was, the unassuming alley that he had entered with so much confidence once and then proceeded to promptly run out of, terrified of his wits after having witnessed a special crimson slime devouring and digesting human body parts in the darkness of the alley.

'Damned… just thinking about it causes my hands to shake, how do those movie protagonists just jump into danger without a second thought… this shit is so fucking scary. Im afraid, im fucking terrified, I wanna go back home, I wanna lay down and cover myself in a damned blanket and just… just sleep.' Alan thought to himself as his mood slowly dropped further and further until he finally shook his head.

'Stop… I can't think like that, It's not like I have the option and neither do I have the time to be fantasising about what I want. Its time that I do what I need to do.' Alan thought before releasing a soft sigh, a sigh that showed his fear, his exhaustion and finally his determination that had led him to push forward until now, even when in moments, it all felt pointless, even in moments when it all felt like he was simply a rat running around in circles whilst the cat played with it.

'Even if it's the last thing that I do… I'm going to fucking make sure that bastard regrets it… for targeting me… aswell as for targeting them.' Alan thought to himself as his mind wandered towards his first three friends that he had made after the system, wandered to the parking lot, to the car drive, to the lunch period that he had shared with them.

There were so little moments that he had shared with them, and yet they had such a large effect on him.

'They do say that in times of need, people bond over more easily, and considering how my entire life turned around after that one morning… maybe thats why I got attached so… so quickly. I wonder, maybe the drug effects ran out by now? I wonder if they're okay… I have to find some way to get them saved, to remove those damned effects off of them. I… I wanna save them.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly fisted his hands at his sides and threw the nutritional bar wrapper away as he slowly stood up from the ground and onto his feet.

Dusting his backside and pants quickly with a few brushes of his hands, he turned his head towards the alley that he had been fearing so much and started walking towards it.

'It's fine… I trained for this.' Alan thought as he pulled up the status menu, the blue holographic panel appeared before him, floating in the air in an instant.

[ Name: Alan Walker ]

[ Age: 18 ]

[ Race: Human 88%, Elf 12% ]

[ Gender: Male ]

[ Level: 13 ] [ Xp: 0/20,480 XP ]

[ MP : 244/244 ]

[ S.P.E.C.I.A.L ]

[ S: 4 ]

[ P: 5* ] [ +2 Equipment Boost Active ]

[ E: 6 ]

[ C: 10 ]

[ I: 10 ]

[ A: 7 ]

[ L: 10 ]

[ Abilities: ]

[ Talents: Faint Nature Attunement ( Level 1 ) ]

[ Perks: Elf ]

[ Coins: 404 Silver Coins ]

[ Normal Stats ]
[ Strength: 60/200 ]
[ Perception: 10/150 ]
[ Endurance: 20/300 ]
[ Charisma: 15/500 ]
[ Intelligence: 10/500 ]
[ Agility: 20/350 ]
[ Luck: 0/500 ]
[ Normal Stat Points Left: 0 ]
[ Skills: Observation, Mana Perception. ]

Looking over at his status menu, he truly felt like he had no other choice but to go and try defeating the crimson slime and hoping that It would actually give more experience points, because at this point, he felt like he was making no progress, simply looking at the amount of silver coins that he had gathered, he felt a headache about to hit him.
He had killed over four hundred slimes, over one hundred encounters with three or more slimes at the same time, whilst sure, he had gotten used to it by now and the battles ended in a mere few seconds, they were still utterly exhausting mentally if not physically. Thankfully, every few hours, he would level up and thus would gain a refresh of his mind but even then it wasn't truly.
His body would restore itself, and the base capacities of his mind would too, in a way he would indeed be 'fresh' and ready to go another round, however the mind was an interesting part of a human, even if it felt like it could go on, sometimes It couldn't, the repetitive tasks would get too… boring, too long, too tiring to keep doing the same thing, over and over and over again.
'Damned it all… and mostly damned that handsome mother fucker.' Alan thought as his mind wandered to the face of what he had started to call the magician inside his own mind, he didn't exactly know if it was a magician or a wizard or what exactly it was, for all he knew, that thing could be a worm that got inside peoples brain or something, some kind of parasite, but that had been the name he had chosen for the moment.
Arriving before the alley, he closed his eyes for a brief moment, looking at the alley with dark eyes before slowing shaking his head, gripping his combat spear tighter and then slowly heading inside.

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It didn't take long, less than a dozen meters inside the darkening alley inbetween two large stone buildings, Alan noticed the first change, it was the air, the quality of it was dropping… and it was dropping fast, it was much more humid than before, and not in any way was it pleasant.

'This… is annoying.' Alan thought to himself, as he slowly started sweating all over, his back quickly becoming drenched from both the stress, the constant need to remain vigilant and the humid small passageway that was the dark alley.

A dozen meters further, the second change started, this time, it was the smell, that same utterly abhorrent smell that he had smelled before, right before finding the crimson slime for the first time. This time however, Alan… had come prepared.



Lifting his hand, it slowly vanished into thin air, before appearing into reality once more, and yet appearing with it was another item that he had pulled out of his inventory, it was something he had bought for this exact reason.

It was a gas mask, something he had bought with a whopping twenty silver coins, more expensive than even his combat spear, he hadn't bought it because the slimes released some kind of gases, he had bought it simply for this smell, whilst sure, he knew that he could get used to the smell, that if he was just strong enough, 'hard' enough as some said, he could push through and just fight.

'And I call those people dumbasses.' Alan thought to himself as he tightened the gas mask over his head securely, it apparently was called an active carbon gas mask or something of the sort, not that Alan had any idea what that actually meant, but it didn't matter much, what mattered to him was the fact that the thing worked, and it worked damn well.

As soon as the gas mask fit over his mouth and nose, completely covering the lower half of his face, he breathed in once deeply as he smelled nothing but smell-less air, and for once, that felt like smelling the best smelling flowers on earth, in comparison to the foul smell of rot, this was practically heaven.

Continuing down the path that kept darkening and darkening the further he went in, the more things started to change, it wasn't the extremely gradual change of the previous alleys, this was much quicker, much more abrupt, and in a way… much creepier.

The walls were deteriorating and being covered by some kind of rotting moss, the walls slowly starting to get littered with what he guessed were bullet holes, and a few dark patches started appearning here and there that he believed to be dried blood. Human blood.

'What the hell happened in this place?' Alan thought to himself as he pulled his spear slightly a bit more forwards as he raised his guard that slightly higher, the changes had increased more than enough… and by this point, he expected an enemy to jump at him at any moment.

However… much to his confusion, he kept walking, and walking and there was nothing in sight, finally after more than three minutes of walking, Alan stopped as he turned back and then towards the front again, and yet he saw nothing.

He had gone so deep inside the alley that at this point, he could barely see two meters infront of him from the darkness, it was practically pitch black.

'I can't keep going like this… good thing that I got this.' He thought as he lifted his hand and summoned the inventory window once more with a single thought, the holographic panel appearing before him in a flash as his hand disappeared inside the window and he pulled out a pair of nightvision goggles that he quickly put on with one hand, it had taken some getting used to, however he had practiced before going inside the alley, knowing that letting go of his weapon even for a moment inside an unknown alley, with enemies that he had yet to even use 'observe' on, was a foolish mistake that he wouldn't make unless he was begging for his own death.

As the nightvision goggles were secured over his head, his vision turned green as he looked around, unfortunately, a side effect of equipping the nightvision goggles was that he couldn't keep using his prescription glasses, that lowered his perception all the way down to a three, and yet that was still much better than complete blindness in the dark.

'They're quite big blobs… so I should be able to see them fine enough even without the glasses on.' Alan thought to himself as he slowly raised his head, he didn't do it to check above him intentionally, it was a simple unconscious gesture, a complete accident, something that could have never happened.

And there they were… the crimson slimes, but it wasnt just one… no, the sight before him, was not something he had expected, he had expected one, maybe two at most, not… not this. Not the monstrosity that was before him.

The sight was gruesome, the crimson bloody coloured slimes were on both sides of the alley, stuck on the walls, moving around slowly as if they were in some kind of sleepy state that slowed down all of their movements and speed. Yet that wasn't the gruesome part, no, that was just a fact, the gruesome part, was the fact that each and every single one, had some kind of human or animal body part inside of their bodies.

With his lowered perception, he couldn't tell exactly what each of them had, yet he could clearly tell even with his perception what some of them had, and he knew what a human head silhouette was even with a blurry vision.

Alan felt bile slowly rise up his throat before he quickly slammed it down, gulping as he gripped his spear tightly enough that he was sure the skin on his palms was about the get ripped apart, and yet this time, this time he didn't take a step back, he didn't bend over and vomit, even as he stood infront of what he counted to be around eight crimson slimes, five on one wall and three on the other.

Alan… Alan Walker didn't take a single step back.

'Observe… let's see exactly what the fuck you are.' Alan thought to himself as he gazed hard at one of the crimson slimes.

A split second later, the observe skill was used and the corresponding holographic screen appeared in his vision, floating there before him in the air, standing against the gruesome background.



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