Blink!
A groggy pair of eyes snapped open in a completely dark world.
The world was so dark, or not?
It was just his eyes, they struggled to adapt to the lighting in this place.
Clinton squinted his eyes as he tried to make sense of his surroundings. ‘Where the hell am I?’
‘What happened?’
For some reason, he could not stand up, he was too weak to stand up.
Lying on the ground or wherever this was, feeling lazy all of a sudden, Clinton tried to grope around for the boobs of whatever girl definitely laid beside him but to his shock, he found no boobs to grab.
“…!” Clinton was shocked till he was speechless.
‘What?!’
‘No boobs?!’ Now, he was horrified. ‘What the hell happened?!’
The last thing he could remember was overtaking that prick, Frank at the last moment, clinching first position for his school again, Landmark Academy and making them 3-peat champions, right?
As soon as he thought of this, his eyes narrowed, right?
And then, he shuddered in fear. ‘F*ck! That bastard punched me on the back of my head, the last thing I remember is his ugly face!’
‘Did I faint?’
He felt like muttering a curse but having just remembered the reason why he was in his situation and in this place, wherever this was, likely a hospital, he no longer panicked as he calmed down.
‘I’m probably in the nearest hospital’. He thought.
‘But why can’t I see?’ He tried to squint his eyes again, yet, he could see nothing. The bright lighting seemed to affect his eye in a certain way.
Heck, it almost felt like he would see better in the dark.
‘Weird’. He thought.
And then, at this moment, Clinton finally decided that he was fed up of this lack of information, it was time to scream loudly for the nurse’s attention.
Afterall, he was Donald Clinton, the Donald Clinton, how dare a pretty nurse keep him waiting alone inside a hospital ward?
Besides, having just won the relay race for Landmark University again, where were the girls? That was the most baffling fact of it all.
As the only high school athlete in recent times who never lost a major tournament yet, he was extremely popular with the girls.
After every race, the girls literally fought among themselves to decide on the one to spend the night with him.
That was why waking up, the first thing he did was to naturally grope around for the soft sensation of boobs.
Afterall, what is life without boobs?
Heck, he wanted to grab that bastard girlfriend’s boobs above everything else right now and f*ck her till she screamed daddy at the top of her lungs!
Boobs and a nice round ass were one of the few things that made him relax in this life. Life itself was so hectic and stressful so anything that gave him peace, he loved spending time around it; boobs and a nice ass definitely gave him peace.
At this moment though, Clinton was fed up, it was time to call the nurse.
And then, he screamed at the top of his lungs.
“Nurtscht!!!”
Clinton’s voice blasted so loudly and in such a weird goosebumps-inducing tone that even himself felt a chill crawl down his spine, his voice echoed.
Clinton was shocked.
That voice was not his voice, definitely not!
T-that voice, it sounded like the voice of a troll rather, or whatever grotesque monster are depicted in horrific movies to scare kids.
He tried chuckling to relieve his stress and fear at this moment but due to some reason, his vocal cords could not produce the right sound. ‘Hehe,’ he chuckled in his mind. ‘What the heck is all this?’
Operation rescue Clinton, start!
First step in this operation was to roll out of this bed since he could not stand up with his own strength.
Clinton tried to roll but instead of his full body moving, to his shock, he felt a sensation like only his head move.
‘Huh?’
His head did move though, rolling to the side and away from the direct illumination of the light.
He was right, he could not see under direct light.
On the side of his head, exposed to shadows which dimmed the lighting now, Clinton could see better.
The things that he saw though made him feel light-headed.
At this moment, scattered at the side of this place, wherever this was, there was a pile of bones, so many bones that they heaped together to form a hill.
They were not the bones of a single species.
At this moment, staring at the hill of bones, Clinton recognized the sight of bones belonging to humans, animals like Tigers, Elephants, and even bones that belonged to species that he didn’t recognize.
Clinton shuddered. ‘Is that the bone of a Dragon?’
‘W-where the f*ck am I?!’
And at this moment, there was a particular set of bones closer to Clinton’s head than the hill of bones.
The bony white torso was closer to him, the thin bony arms laid further away, and the thin bony legs were twisted haphazardly on the ground.
These were not any random bones though, staring at these bones, Clinton felt something like an affinity attract him to them.
And once he understood what this affinity meant, his eyes widened as wide as saucers. ‘What?!’ He almost fainted.
‘Are these…, a-are these my bones?’
‘What happened?’
‘Did I die?’
And then, the impossible alternative found its way into his head, Clinton felt like he would faint the moment he thought of it.
‘A-a-am I…?’
‘Am I a zombie?!’
Immediately after he asked that question, a loud crashing sound reverberated from the general direction of the light.
And then, Clinton thought he heard the sound of something sharp scraping against the stone surface of the ground where he was at this moment and this sound was coming in his direction.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
As a genius athlete who had never lost a professional race, Clinton was good with the sound of footsteps and running steps, he could tell immediately that 3 people were coming in his direction.
‘Are they even real people?!’ He thought in trepidation.
Despite the fact that he could not tell what these people were, at this moment, Clinton felt a primal sense of fear that came from the very depth of his being.
It was a type of fear that warned him that if he faced those things without escaping, he would suffer a fate worse than death.
‘A freaking fate worse than death!’ Clinton felt like crying.
And then, something happened.
Beep!
{Warning! Enemy has been detected!}
{You have encountered a Holy Knight! ×3}
{You will die!}
(Miserable system hint: Escape or die!}
‘Oh boy!’
Beep!{You have unlocked reincarnation curse: Miserable Undead System!}>This is a curse that was imbued on you by the Angel AthenaSystems are originally supposed to be a blessing but appalled by the sight of your 999+ sins, the infuriated Angel cursed you, corrupting your system and turning it into the Miserable Undead SystemYou only have access to the basic identification abilities of the cursed Miserable Undead System<{Host Status:}Race: Low-tier SkeletonLevel: 0Class: ClasslessAttributes:STR- 0.2VIT- 1.2SPE- 0.4MIN- 0.3{NOTE: STR for Strength; VIT for Vitality; SPE for Speed; MIN for Mind}Health Points (HP): 3/3{Skills: Bone Assembling}{Passive Skill: Calma}{Special Skills: None}{Magic Skills: None}…{Remark: A befitting form for a miserable womanizer and arrogant prick! You will die the final death soon enough!}~________~“…”“…”“….
“Tsk!” The Holy Knight who already unsheathed its sword clicked its teeth in annoyance. “It escaped”.“Now, we’ll have to explain to the Lord”. Another one chipped in.To confirm, the 3 Holy Knights went closer to the edge of the World of Light, close to the abyss to peep in.Peeping, they saw the skeleton at the very bottom of the chasm.They gave up on him immediately at the sight but one of them commented. “He won’t survive for long; his own kind will devour him”.“They’re cannibals after all”.And then, the 3 Holy Knights turned to leave.…“F*ck!” Clinton cursed under his breath.At the bottom of this chasm, Clinton was in agony.The pain he was feeling was not even from the damage that he suffered itself. Rather, he felt that coming in contact with the white energy of that Holy Knight, whatever it is was what caused him this agony.Coming in contact with that white energy felt like darkness coming into contact with light, or like water coming into contact with fire.It was an en
‘Surviving is winning, Franklin’.‘Everything else is bullshit, fairytales spun by people afraid to look life in the eye’.‘Whatever it takes kid…, survive!’At this moment, Clinton felt himself resonating so much with these famous words from NPC game characters in his previous world.At this moment, to him, surviving really was winning.Heck, to him right now, surviving was everything.That f*cking Angel Athena sent him here to die right?Well, he would spite her and survive.To escape the 3 different species of enemies that his miserable undead system’s identification showed to him, Clinton had no choice but to disassemble his skeleton body again to hide under the roots of the tree.And since he made that choice, it had been 4 hours already.It was already more than 4 hours since he reincarnated into this world as a freaking lowly skeleton.Hidden under the roots of the tree, all Clinton wanted was to survive.For the first 2 hours, it was all smooth and easygoing until the already
Every 10 minutes, Clinton would lose +0.1 of his total health points and since he had only 0.4 total health points remaining, he was on a time limit.Unless his situation changed, Clinton had only 40 minutes to live.The threat of death increased his yearning for survival even more, and for those final minutes of his life, Clinton planned for the first time in his life.He planned extensively, he schemed, he plotted to survive.During the first 20 minutes, remaining patient inside his lair under the roots of the decaying tree, Clinton observed every beast that passed.By now, he could tell already that this level of the dungeon was filled with only 3 species of creatures, the goblins, the undead trees, and the ogre.First sight of an Ogre and Clinton removed that specie from his planning.Till now, the weakest Ogre that he had seen was level 3.As a level 0 undead and considering that this was going to be his first fight since reincarnating, Clinton wanted nothing to do with something
Beep!***{You have killed a level 2 Undead Tree!}{The residual holy energy of the Holy Knight has been wiped off!}{Congratulations! You have killed a level 2 Undead as a level 0 Undead!}{You have leveled up!}{You are now a level 1 low-tier Skeleton!}{HP regeneration has been recovered!}>You naturally regenerate +0.1 HP every 15 minutes<***‘I-I did it!’At this moment, Clinton felt like doing a happy dance.Of course, doing a happy dance in a human body vs in a skeleton body was entirely different. In a skeleton body, it would only look creepy.He didn’t care about all that at this moment though, he was just happy.With 0.2 HP remaining, he only had 20 minutes to live in this world but all of a sudden, he managed to drag himself back from the deepest depths of hell, so why won’t he be happy?At this moment, he felt on top of the world.‘I did it!’Just a minute later as he celebrated though, the 2nd Undead Tree finally fell down dead as it was consumed by the fire.***{You ha
~__________~{Welcome to the Miserable Undead System!}{Host: Donald Clinton}{Special System Abilities: Corrupted- Locked}>You only have access to the basic identification abilities of the cursed Miserable Undead System<{Host Status:}Race: Mid-tier SkeletonLevel: 3Class: ClasslessAttributes:STR- 0.5VIT- 1.4SPE- 0.5MIN- 0.6{NOTE: STR for Strength; VIT for Vitality; SPE for Speed; MIN for Mind}Health Points (HP): 3/3{Skills: Bone Assembling}{Passive Skill: Calma; Vampire}{Special Skills: None}{Magic Skills: None}…{Remark: A befitting form for a miserable womanizer and arrogant prick! You will die the final death soon enough!}~________~Despite leveling up 3 times the previous day, even as all his attributes increased with his level ups, something remained stagnant, his health points.Despite leveling up 3 times, his total HP remained unchanged.This led Clinton to conclude that his total HP would only increase when he either gained a class, leaving his classless stat
***{You have killed a level 1 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 1 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 1 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 2 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}***Compared to when Clinton just entered this decaying forest where he had to run from every monster around, now, he was no longer the weakest in the food chain.Now, he was a level 3 mid-tier undead skeleton.Compared to when he started as a level 0 low-tier undead skeleton when his strength attribute was a measly 0.2, though his strength attribute was still measly, still, now it had a higher value of 0.5.This and the little difference growth in his other attributes was why he could take down so many Green Goblins with some little sacrifice now.Of course, his exploits could also be attributed to the fact that he was no longer an ignorant novice about this decaying forest.Having explored every corner of this forest, knowing all its
***{You have crafted a low-tier weapon: Wooden Spear!}{Low-tier weapon, Wooden Spear has been imbued with a passive skill: Sharpness!}>Sharpness: The tip of this wooden spear is sharp, able to pierce through the hide of most monsters in the first level of the Dungeon of Azarick<…{Congratulations! For crafting a low-tier weapon, you have unlocked a utility class!}{You have unlocked the class: Weapon Master or Weapon Craftsman!}{Unique Effects: While crafting weapons using materials from low-tier resources, your success rate is very high!}{For unlocking a utility class, you have received 1 free attribute point!}***‘Huh?’ Clinton was completely baffled by what he just saw.‘I crafted a weapon? Low-tier Spear?’‘I even imbued it with a passive skill?’‘And I unlocked a utility class?’ If Clinton had hair at this moment, he would be scratching it in bewilderment. ‘What the hell even is a utility class?’Thinking of this, he remembered his miserable undead system status again, pre
***{Warning! You have encountered a powerful enemy!}{You have encountered a level 5 apex predator of the decaying forest: Ancient Undead Tree!}…{You have killed a level 5 Ancient Undead Tree!}{You have gained XP!}{You have sucked health points!}***Like a hurricane, Clinton with his new weapons went on a rampage in the decaying forest, targeting the apex predators of this ancient forest.The battle against the Ancient Undead Tree was not much different from his encounter with the Lord of the Green Goblins.The only difference was that the Ancient Undead Tree had much more health points than the Green Goblin and its body was much more massive, giving it time to flex most of its power.In the end, what Clinton got was a weapon, not an armor.He could deal devastating damage now did not mean he got inviolable defense with it. One hit from the level 5 apex predators could still leave him on the brink of death, this was why he was extra careful.Even more with an opponent like an un
~__________~{Welcome to the Miserable Undead System!}{Host: Donald Clinton}{Special System Abilities: Corrupted- Locked}>You only have access to the basic identification abilities of the cursed Miserable Undead System<{Host Status:}Race: High-tier SkeletonLevel: 5Class: Spear Master{Utility Class: Weapon Craftsman}{Sub Class: Master of Daggers}Attributes:STR- 3.5VIT- 2.8SPE- 1.8MIN- 0.8Health Points (HP): 7/7{Skills: Bone Assembling; Spear Thrust; Silent Slice; Accurate Throw}{Passive Skill: Calma; Vampire}{Special Skills: None}{Magic Skills: None}…{Weapons: Magedon, Light Slayer}…{Titles: Hell Slayer}…{Remark: A suddenly not so befitting form for a miserable womanizer and arrogant prick. Don’t raise your hopes up though, you will still die the final death soon enough!}~________~Charging out of the cave of the level 5 Stone Ogre, the first thing that Clinton did was to check on his system status again to reconfirm certain details for the plan he had in his
***{You have activated active skill: Spear Thrust!}***In one smooth motion after shrugging off the grasp of the humans, the skinny skeleton thrust forward at the wall with the suddenly shiny bone in his hand.His hand thrust with so much force that a mini sonic boom was induced.The bone was no spear but at this moment, Clinton was able to wield it like one.The bone hit the wall, and then…KABOOM!Force was transferred, and the wall collapsed.“…”“…”“…..!”Clinton’s eyes almost popped out of their sockets as he saw the scene that suddenly played out before his eyes as his current reality.‘H-how? What the f*ck!’‘Did I just do that?!’‘Did I just tear down the walls of this cave with a single strike?’The mere thought of it sent tingling feelings of excitement through his bones.This was no simple achievement.Afterall, this was not any cave in the decaying forest. This cave was the home and lair of one of the most destructive and sturdy existences in the decaying forest, a level
Beep!***{Congratulations! You have crafted a high-tier weapon of the mythical rank: ???}{High-tier weapon, ??? has been imbued with a passive skill: Corrosion!}>Corrosion: The source of this weapon is the bone of a Doom Knight who was a master of deathly corrosion. The corrosive powers in this bone have been awakened and when used to attack an opponent, it inflicts the opponent with high-tier corrosionParalysis: Paralysis was one of the main powers of Magedon, the Doom Knight. These powers have been inherited by his bone. When attacking an opponent, there is a 15% chance of triggering paralysisWhen activated, by sacrificing your stamina depending on the distance where the weapon will be thrown, you can activate teleportation, making the weapon appear in yo
‘Huh? How am I even supposed to do this?’While Clinton asked this question in his mind, the Stone Ogre who was frustrated to see that it was not crushing the tiny creatures before it suddenly jumped, hitting the roof of this cave then it came crashing back down with force.It hit the ground with devastating force, then…KABOOM!…Earthquake Stomp!Hitting the humans with one of its trademark active skills, this powerful Stone Ogre caused a literal earthquake as the humans staggered.Watching the tiny creatures stagger disorderly, some even panicking, the Stone Ogre’s eyes gleamed deviously as it chomped down with its sharp stone teeth at one of the humans.But at the last moment, a dagger crossed its path.Clang!The clear ringing sound of 2 hard objects colliding reverberated.It was the level 12 human.In the world of this dungeon, to combat the powerful beasts, humans evolved, awakening different powers under myriad classes.Some awakened as mage classes, others as assassin classes
In the decaying forest, what were Stone Ogres?Stone Ogres were the most terrible of the 3 types of monsters that took the first level of this dungeon, the decaying forest as their home.The Green Goblins were the weakest, their main weaknesses being their vulnerable skin and weak strength.It was why they hurdled together in the biggest packs.The Undead Trees had tough hides but this was undone by their blatant weakness to fire. With fire, they become vulnerable.As for the Stone Ogres though, they were the real OGs of the decaying forest.They had stone skin as tough as nails. They were slow, but their impenetrable defense more than made up for it.They were literal tanks.Of the 3 types of monsters in the decaying forest, the Stone Ogres were the only types brave enough to move alone around this forest, even the lower-leveled ones. They were scared of no one.In a way, they were the apex predators of the decaying forest.And right now, Clinton was now hiding in the lair of one of
Beep!***{You have killed a level 3 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 3 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 3 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have killed a level 4 Green Goblin!}{You gained 0 XP!}…{You have triggered passive skill: Vampire!}{You have sucked +1.3 health points!}{HP: 2.9/7}***Due to his higher level than the monsters that he went after, Clinton’s efficiency in regaining his health points was expectedly slow but he was not deterred by this fact.The higher leveled he was from a monster, the less health points he could suck from killing it.But this only motivated him to kill even faster with more ruthless intent.Clinton went back to the world of light with only a fraction of his total crafted weapons. Though he carried the best of the best with him there, he still had a stockpile of weapons in his safehouses under a mound of sand.After losing his best weapons, he now set his sight on the reserve.Rush
“He’s still alive”.“He’s there”.Clinton raised his head and saw… humans.He raised his head right in time to notice one of the more overenthusiastic humans reveal his head past the boundary of the world of light into the slope, into the boundary of the decaying forest only to be affected by a strange dark power.This power seemed to have rotting properties.“Ahhh!”The young human who seemed inexperienced immediately grabbed his face in horror as the other humans reacted.“You fool, stand still!”Clinton recognized that human. It was the lady among the first 3 humans he met in this world that was a mage.Raising her staff up, she spoke a word as green light left her staff, coalescing on the face of the other human as the strange dark power was expelled.His skin that also started being eroded by the dark power was healed.‘Healing magic’. Clinton deduced immediately. ‘But why?’Thinking deeper into it, he understood. ‘Humans are not allowed in the world of darkness?’He was puzzled
Clinton was subjected to the greatest reality check of his 18 years of existence.For the first time in his life, he was made to understand that he was nobody.For the first time in his life, he was made to understand where he stood in the grand scheme of things.He was made to understand that he was just a cog in the grand wheel of existence, a cog that could be rejected and discarded at wheel.For the first time in his life, he felt ugly.For the first time in his life, he understood rejection.All these were things and emotions that Clinton had never experienced in his 18 years of existence before now and as expected, experiencing it was draining.“Uhh,” Clinton groaned as his hollow eyes looked at the gloomy skies of this forest. “Now would be a good time to end it all, right?”As soon as he muttered that, he let the seed of thought generate in his head, watered by his emotions as it blossomed into a sapling and then a big tree.The idea of committing suicide was getting more prom