"Don't wake up, you shouldn't" say a young woman like she knew her wining, in the middle of a battlefield. Despite calling it a battlefield, there were not so many human bodies, but where there were it does not seem that a battle had been fought, but a massacre.

"This is not over yet! if you want to win, kill me first!" The man answers, getting up from the ground. Despite being on the ground, he only looks beaten up and somewhat dirty, but he has almost no blood on him.

*RUMBLE* the ground trembles, no, it seems that the whole world is shaking.

"(But What...)" is the only thought he has, standing on the deserted wasteland of all life, just blood and some human parts.

"So you still had enough mana for another shit like that?"

"Don't say i didn't warn you" she replies.

"Girl, I wouldn't get to where I am if I was afraid of tricks like that"

The world trembles and little by little everything turns black

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In a not very large room, the man open his eyes suddenly, breathing heavily.

"Same dream again" say the man while search for his phone to see the time.... "Shit..." he speak again, to know if because of the dream itself or because the time displayed on the phone, 5:01 in the morning, again he slept for a very short time, but didn't matter to him as long as he felt that he had rested enough, like the current case.

"Oh well... new day, same routine"

The subject, Daniel Owen gets up and begins his routine., the typical thing a normal person would do after waking up, once ready with his suit on and phone on hand... "(what should i eat for breakfast)" thinks, "every shit is closed yet..." makes a pause and... "District zero again i guess"

-Your destiny has been selected, District Zero's Central Square, do you wish to go to selected destiny?

Was the word of a half robotic man.

"I guess i should change the voice to a woman again... is more comfortable that way..." was not like the first time he changed the voice of his assistant, even he bought special voices in the district.

-User, you wish to go to selected destiny?

Ask the voice again but with a tone tottaly robotic

"Souns like from an old movie... but i like it! yes, let's go"

Then everything around him turns into blue particles, as if reality were distorted or turned into a virtual space, a few seconds later...

-Welcome to district zero, North American division, player Daniel T. Owen, current location, Central Square, currently the weather is slightly cloudy with warm temperatures of about...

He is informed by another voice in the area where he arrives, but he really cares little about the weather of the district, so he advances without paying any more attention. A few meters from leaving the 2-meter-radius circular booth in which he appeared, he is greeted by the magnificent and lonely view of District Zero.

"District zero, where everything you want you get" Daniel says with an ironic smile "Except to wining..." Who knows how many times he'd said that same line in the past few weeks.

You could be reading stolen content. Head to Royal Road for the genuine story.

In front of him was a very clean square with well-kept green areas, like a beautiful view of an impeccable city without smoke, huge with wide streets, but almost no people around. Most of the people around, of the few that were in the place, cleaned the area or maintained the gardens and carried out any type of maintenance with a certain serenity, but these people were just androids, controlled by district zero to maintain the image of the city. Daniel cared little for these androids.

"Assistant, I need a taxi to take me to the same restaurant as yesterday"

-Immediatly

The central square was located on the edges of the city center, hence its name. The taxis did not take a minute to arrive from the moment they were requested, while the first seconds passed, a new notification arrived.

-User, you have received an invitation to a PVP duel from an anonymous player...

"Ignor..."

He could finish the words 'ignore it' when listening the rest of the words from his assistant

-...with a base bet of 45 mithril credits, would you like to play the challenger's personal message?

"..."

In District Zero, few people challenged very experienced players to PVP, unless they were very sure of their victory but Daniel had never participated in one in which the bet was so high, at least not for a long time, even as one of the highest level and most skilled people in district zero, he would have to think twice before accepting the challenge, but the sum of 45 mithril credits was something that a common player would have to work for years, of course, he had that amount and much more in his account.

"Play the message"

-Playing message from anonymous challenger...

While the taxi arrived and parked right in front of Daniel, a pre-recorded message sounded from the assistant, probably by a subject unknown to him.

"I know your legend died, but... well, I've seen your fights during the era of..." He paid little attention to the message despite the amount of money at stake, there was nothing interesting that kept his attention in the duel.

-End of message

Announces the assistant's voice as the taxi waits patiently in front of him.

"(It seems that another day there is nothing new in the district)"

Daniel gets into the taxi and without having to speak to the driver (an android) it starts driving as if nothing had happened.

"(legends die, but not me, idiots... the district is the one that is dead-)"

-User, you have received a personal message

The robotic voice interrupts his thoughts.

"Fuck, ign-"

And is interrupted once more

-The sender of the message is system zero

mute for a few seconds, he decides to play it.

"(really... if the district can read my thoughts... no! I prefer to think that not even if the truth is different)"