Ethan was in his office on a beautiful day when he suddenly received a call from his old-time partner, Cillian. There was no name on the number, but his brain immediately recalled the owner of the number. He answered the call and placed the phone close to his ear. "Hello.""Ethan Silvermore, it is me, Doctor Cillian.""I know already.""Oh, anyway, can you come to the central hospital of Luxuria anytime you have a chance, or if you want, I can fly over to China to meet you.""I'll be in Luxuria in a week or two. Is there any problem?" Ethan recalled that he had once visited a hospital where he learned of a new disease that gave Coma to anybody who contracted it, rendering them in an inactive state and showing no sign of sickness. He immediately linked that incident with this call. "Please, I can fly over to China to come meet you. The matter at hand is too urgent. I'm sure the Minister of Health in China would soon contact you for this same matter."Hearing this, he immediately knew t
The large TV in the room was switched on the moment the female doctor held the remote control, and then a scene started to play almost immediately.The scene showed a large hall with so many sick beds and people resting on top of them. There were more than one hundred people lying on these beds, all having the same mysterious illness.The scene looked really normal for the first one minute, but then everything twisted into a horror-filled scene as every patient in the room suddenly started moving their head as though they were nodding, even though all their eyes were closed.Soon, they lifted their upper torsos from the bed. This scene and the way all of them behaved were as though they were demonically possessed.Doctors did not believe that people can be possessed, but this scene made them disregard their disbelief, immediately believing that such a thing really existed.Each patient started carrying the same behavior for a few seconds before they all started muttering strange words
The tension in the room was palpable as everyone tried to make sense of the eerie events they had just witnessed. Ethan, however, remained composed and determined to understand what was happening.Cillian, the other representative, turned to Ethan with a worried expression. "Ethan, this is beyond anything we've ever seen. What do you think is going on here?"Ethan contemplated for a moment before responding, "I'm not entirely sure, but it's clear that this isn't a simple illness. It's as if these people are being controlled or influenced by something, something dark and powerful."Cillian was looking at Ethan a little bit surprised when he heard his last words. What was Ethan talking about? Powerful and dark, isn't that something only seen in movies?Ethan noticed that Cillian did not understand what he had said; he shook his head and watched as all the bodies breathed their last and gave up the ghost.His healing elixir didn't even manage to make a difference; instead, it hastened th
The way the system put it was as though he was going to hell, and there is almost no chance of coming back. Ethan stared at the system for a few more seconds, looking at the time remaining. He felt the need to give Shelly and Qiao Lian a warning, but it was already too late.'What is the meaning of the system objective, a challenge between system users? This is new, and the system said it could be my last mission if care is not taken. Also, with my level, I'm not even close to the top,' Ethan pondered to himself.Without wasting time, he transferred almost everything he had into the spatial ring: swords, daggers, pills, spell books, potions. Everything was packaged in his spatial ring. He was still in his car driving home, and there was no way he could get there before 5 minutes, so he rode his car to a quiet street and stored it inside the Spatial ring.The spatial ring had the space bigger than a house. If Ethan wanted, he could even store all his cars inside, and there would still
It was a dark void, with almost nothing in sight except the movement of the void itself, which kept moving in a weird orbit around itself.In the dark void, so many people in a sleep-like state could be seen, descending like a flower falling from the top of a peach blossom tree; they descended slowly down this weird void.Among these people was Ethan, dressed in an expensive suit, looking even more handsome in this sleep-like state.There was also Elfina, descending at the same pace as more than one hundred thousand people.Soon, they were all swallowed by the void....This place was dark beyond comparison. It was hard to describe how dark it was; some said the darkness was silent, and others would say the darkness is loud, but the correct one is whichever spoke of how dark this place was.It was so dark that if you lit up a torch, you would only see the torch lighting up, and the only person who would see that is the person holding it. This was far from what the human race had exper
[Welcome, Chosens from all worlds, as you already know, this is a challenge. In this challenge, the weak die, and the strong live; in this challenge, the wise succeed, and the foolish perish.]"Ethan and Elfina heard and saw this message almost at the same time; the others saw it this way and placed their focus on it."[The first challenge phase, INFERNO DIMENSION! would begin in 1:00:00]""[Brace yourselves, everyone, for this is going to be a challenge like nothing or something you have faced before. The countdown starts now, but before then, you can rest in the buildings behind you.]"As the system spoke, several houses started appearing behind all of them; the houses appeared so fast that they almost had no time to react or do anything about it.Anyway, it wasn't dangerous."Elfina, let's take this one," Ethan said to Elfina with a smile and pointed to the house behind him; she agreed.But then someone stepped in front of them."I want this one. Both of you, go look for somewhere
Ethan and Elfina gazed upon this chaotic view in front of them, and looking at it filled them with a new purpose: survival.Before they could even move, several other system users made the first move, charging down from the mountaintop at the fiery ground with no fear.Ethan turned to Elfina, knowing that there was no time to waste. "Follow after me," he said and charged down at the fiery ground as well. He was charging at top speed towards the grounds that blasted with hot flames while she followed after him."Elfina, you can use mana to create a shield around your skin, right? Like an extra layer that can protect you from the heat?" Ethan asked as he flew down at top speed, to which she nodded her head and muttered a yes.She chanted, and soon her body started to glow in a pale green light. Ethan nodded his head; at least now he wouldn't have to worry about the heat affecting her body and could focus on fulfilling the goal of the competition for both of them."According to that voic
"You two, you are so weak that I can't even think of fighting in the same arena with both of you. I will kill both of you as fast as I can, maybe I might even be rewarded with points, who knows?" It said to them, confirming their thoughts that it wasn't a monster and was instead a system user like them."Stop spouting nonsense. What are you trying to do, attacking someone sneakily? If you were so strong, why move from behind to attack someone who is occupied with another enemy? Based on logic, you are actually the weakest." Ethan was pissed. If he was a tad bit slow earlier, then he might not have been able to save Elfina from that attack."Frickin hell, hearing weaklings like yourself call me weak makes me wanna puke. I will just kill both of you as fast as I can, and then I can rest assured that no weaklings are participating with me in the contest for glory. Both of you, you don't have any strength; you are just like the rest I killed before now, weak and pathetic."Ethan was surpr