We are in August 10, 2045, a time where technology evolved to a new level. Helm Nielwald took technology to a level that even surpassed the technology that the governments that ran the world boasted of mastering. A world that was run by nuclear weapons became run by a game where life and death are step by step.

Three years and two days earlier on this same day than the current present day, a communication reached all the people on the planet that would change their existence and for others it would be their final destiny.

—My name is Zeon and I am 16 years old and I am in Kitano High School in the district of Osaka, a city in Japan. What can I tell you about myself?... Actually I have nothing special I'm just a boy sitting at a desk looking out the window waiting for class to end each day and taking notes that barely pass the pass

—!Zeon!....When are you going to pay attention? -shouted the teacher pointing a ruler towards his head

"Emm... I'm sorry, professor," he answered, opening one of his books quickly.

"Pay more attention or you won't pass the finals that will come in three months," he replied, turning around to continue the class. Since he was saying two squared of the cube is...

<>...while he swiped his hand over a hologram coming out of the bracelet

The bracelet showed in a small hologram that was covered by his book the current news

Today, for twenty years, the dead of Russia's domination over what is currently the Reorganized USSR has been commemorated.

The United States declares its separation from its West side and is divided into Western States and Eastern States

The greatest invention of the modern era, nanobot bracelets, reach hundreds of millions of sales in a few hours.

<>

Then in the next moment the devices of all those present and when opening the alert a counter began to mark a countdown of 60 seconds.

"Damn…this alert won't close!…Should we wait the sixty seconds or should we remove the device?" <>

"Listen to me whoever is responsible for this is going straight to the student council!" — The leader of the Yase council warned in turn that she was trying to remove the device by brute force

—It is impossible just to see the magnitude of this, the person in charge will not allow you to take off the bracelet so easily, I think that in five you will be able to do it —she answered to calm him down a bit

"I know that..." Yase added, sitting down frustrated and somewhat embarrassed, sitting down looking at the other side.

—She's going to ignore me... typical of Yase was always like that—.<>

Zeon watched as the counter went down to zero but the alert faded, he swiped through all the sectors of the device but did not find it anywhere nor any clue

On each nanobot bracelet appeared a hologram of a person who was unknown.

—Welcome to the whole planet to a new world, our revolutionized real world in which you can mark the course of it

<>... When looking for it, I found out that this was not false, they showed videos of a hologram that emerged from the bracelets from all over the world on the main social networks

The man on the screen asked them to pay attention to his next instruction and told them "if you pronounce Synchronize you will be pleasantly surprised"

The man disappeared and then I heard shouts that said Synchronize!... Synchronize!... Synchronize! from everywhere including my own classroom...

Zeon also whispered Synchronize and his eyes couldn't believe what he was seeing. Anyone would think that the real world had been exchanged for a virtual one

<>. Zeon pinched his skin to see if he had fallen asleep but the pain was real, the news he saw said the same thing that everyone saw and he also felt a breeze from the wind in the window

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Zeon turned his eyes to the side and saw Yohiko, one of his classmates, his arms transformed into robotic arms and Yase, the leader of the student council, began to fly with huge wings, enjoying it around the room, but the tranquility turned into disturbance. in less than we thought

A scream caught everyone's attention and they took so long but they watched as Ronu's body slowly disappeared as if it were a hologram and a sword stuck in his torso that came out of Yore's arm

—Ahhhhhhh! Zhare yelled... I... Yore for... why did you kill Ronu?

"Don't you see it?... I leveled up," answered Yore.

After these words, Yase flew out the window in fright and no matter how hard some tried, there was no one to stop Yore with words while she continued her slaughter

Zeon couldn't take it anymore as Yore killed one partner after another so he looked up and down but he didn't have armor like Yohiko or weapons like Yore, he only had a pocket watch.

<>. he asked himself

He also looked around more and could see above each person a green bar that referred to life and a blue bar that Zeon supposed was referring to mana and above these the name of the person accompanied by a number. When he saw Zhare's number he had a [1] and then but when he looked Yore already had a number [5] with a red name

The first thing Zeon tried to do was try to tell the teacher to stop this but he wasn't with any of them

—Where will the teacher be?... Where are we really?. "Think fast! ... Wait, the teacher didn't have a bracelet, maybe that's why he's not here with us."

So as a test Zeon yelled Desynchronize and to his surprise it worked. He opened his eyes and raised his head to the front.

—Zeon, do you know what's happening?... Some fell asleep and didn't wake up—. Others woke up after a few minutes

The first thing that came to Zeon's mind is because he didn't ask anything about the dead students, so he looked again and all those who supposedly died, it's as if nothing had happened to them, they were trying to wake up others.

"Do you remember anything from just now?" Zeon asked, keeping a distance.

"You mean Fainting?... Ah, I don't remember any of that. Layers put me under pressure."

<>.

Zeon sat back in his place and yelled Synchronize!

When he returned to reality where everyone had some kind of supernatural ability, he saw that Yore was heading towards him with his sword raised to finish him off.

<< Is he going to kill me?... Will this be the end of me?... I couldn't even observe everything >>.

Panic Zeon quickly opened his pocket watch and turned the handle to number forty and everything around him turned black and white. When he fixed the clock it did not work like a normal clock but it moved in the opposite direction towards 0

"It's as if time had frozen, no in fact it's like it's much slower," he murmured in shock.

The clock had started its countdown to zero, fifteen seconds had already passed

—I only have 25 seconds left, what do I do?

Zeon went quickly and only thought of two questions

—If I kill Yore, will I be the same as he is?... Why was this system implemented, which is almost fanciful?

Many more unimportant questions began to surround him but then he thought that the only possible way forward is that if he didn't kill Yore he was going to kill them all.

—I'm sorry I don't have any other alternative this is for the good of others... damn I only have ten more seconds

Zeon with difficulty was able to remove Yore's weapons from his hands and stabbed him, ending his life. The time instantly returned to normal and the clock closed, not allowing it to be opened.

—Yore's weapons did not disappear but those of the others did when he died. Is it because I had them when he died?

[You have obtained Sword of Life[1] and Sword of Death[1]]

"Did you kill him, Zeon?" asked Zhare. I looked at her sadly and without knowing what to answer I said Desynchronize and when I woke up I ran out of school

 When I got home the bracelet opened by itself and showed me the following message

[Congratulations on reaching level 5 you can to the Virtual Inventory... To use said inventory say Inventory Activate]

[Virtual Space limited to two Simultaneous objects]

[Next use of Special Skill Desynchronize will be in 10 hours 30 minutes 45 seconds]

"Virtual Inventory?" Special ability? Zeon whispered in surprise. Inventory Activate

From the bracelet a hologram with three occupied spaces expanded

"Time clock?... So that was his name and the swords also appear." What happens if I press on the sword of life?

Zeon pressed on the sword of life from his inventory and from his hand appeared a curved sword surrounded by a white aura. From the fright Zeon released her and fell to the floor nailing himself in the same

—The... The object became real... Impossible! Activate Inventory —he repeated and selected the three objects from his inventory

[System error: Unable to use three items simultaneously... You must reach level [10]]

—I can only use both swords or else the clock and one sword, although if I select only the clock I figure that I have to wait 11 hours and 30 minutes, it must have a use cooldown to balance the skill

—Inventory Deactivate —I say and both the inventory and both swords disappeared from the place

Zeon sat at the computer for a few hours and all the news was talking about the same thing

"Billions of people fell into a deep sleep and some are slowly waking up... Medical agents are treating those they can but Services are Collapsed and they don't know the root cause of this"

"England, the Reorganized USSR, China and other first world powers call this the worst global crisis and ask people if they have acquaintances to take them home"

"Western States and Eastern States increase their forces on the border arguing that neighboring countries can take advantage of the current situation to invade territories"

Zeon lay down on his bed and looking at the ceiling began to reflect on everything that was happening

—If I didn't have this special ability I'd be like the others, that means everyone must have a hidden ability... There are certain levels that unlock items and/or functions and if I kill a person with their item in my hand the system kills me. leave it to me... I wonder if it will work with animals or physical parts?

Zeon fell asleep until he was woken up by an alert that had reached his bracelet, in said alert he said the following

"By exceptional decree in Japan classes and exceptional jobs are suspended until further notice, stay at home and don't go out"

- Does it mean that they thought it was a terrorist attack from some country?... It may be something extremist but not even in wars had classes been suspended