Following his memories, Allen finally arrived at his own house. Looking at it, the tears that should’ve died a long time ago began overflowing again. However, those weren't tears of sadness, but tears of joy.
In this world, there were friends he was close to during his school days, and there were those he only remembered by their faces.
However, those moments were very precious to him.
It felt as if the Beast King was turning back into the innocent Allen Bando of Earth.
He wouldn’t be lying if he said he would be satisfied if he was struck dead right now.
His family was here, and now he had friends here.
He wouldn’t have any regret even if he died. However, he wanted to live much more now.
He wanted to protect his family and friends, who know him.
This time I have a chance! This time I would set everything right!
God. Whether you are real or not but I know you’re there. I don’t care what your purpose is but let me say this one thing…
“Thank you. Thank you for giving me another chance.”
The war to protect everything was just starting.
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“Had everything been prepared?” The man sitting in front of a huge monitor asked.
“Yes, boss. Everything has been prepared; weapons, food, and shelter.” His subordinate immediately answered. “But boss, do you really believe it? The Apocalypse?”
The man called boss gave his subordinate a glare causing him to tremble in fear. “What can I do? Let her beat me? Anyway, it’s the princess' order so we can’t do anything…this apocalypse or what not Miss Mia told us, whether it happens or not we can’t say anything or else a bullet would make their way through our head. Understand!”
His voice was cold. He wasn’t asking a question but confirmation.
“Yes!” the other man immediately answered.
Without caring about his subordinate, the man rubbed his chin. Well, with the mistress personality she would never joke about this kind of thing so there’s a high chance that it would really happen.
But still, monsters and demons huh…
This nonsensical world seemed to be getting even crazier.
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To do everything within 3 days was utterly impossible and so Allen doesn’t have any choice but to do as many as he could.
First was the problem with his body. As of now, he had no athletic ability.
Even if he could remember how to fight, his body would not be able to catch up, so the first thing to do is to tune it up.
Going to a Gym seemed to be a must.
Second, the very important information he has from the ‘past’. Who and where. The locations of several crystals and hunting area.
In other words, I have knowledge of the future!
Allen’s body trembled when he found himself becoming like a prophet because of his memories.
From what I know, there are several crystals that appeared in the school.
Allen has acquired this valuable information when he was talking with the others that came from the same school in his ‘past’. And two of these crystals have taken his attention.
Crystals.
When the apocalypse began, these things also appeared out of nowhere.
These valuable crystals were not just ordinary crystals and were divided into 4 categories.
Skill-crystals or S-crystals are crystals that possess skills.
Of course, these skills are not just ordinary skills but skills that could be said to be supernatural. This type of crystal is said to be very valuable yet scarce.
Skills are also ranked from E to S.
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Item-crystals or I-crystals. True to its name, this type of crystal stored amazing items and equipment often called Artifacts. Artifacts were also categorized by class; normal, rare, mythic, Legend and God.
Mythic and above artifacts are very rare and these artifacts are often things found in myths and legends such as King Arthur’s Excalibur, the shield Aegis, Piper’s pipe, Thor’s hammer and even the Greek god Zeus lightning bolt.
The third type of crystal is the Class-crystals or C-crystals. These crystals gave anyone a specific class and skills corresponded to it. Although not as rare as the S-crystals, they were still difficult to find.
From Allen’s ‘Past’ they were several known classes such as; Warrior, Archer, Gunner, Spearman, Psychic, Insect eater, Iron Man, Electron Master, Blacksmith, Grappler, Dragon Knight, Sorcerer, Pyromaster, Shapeshifter, Thief as well as Allen’s former class; the Beast Master.
There might still be some classes found but not yet known.
The fourth and the last type is the Special-crystal. A crystal that holds random things including things that don't belong to either the S or the I-crystal such as, things randomly increased stats or give one-time used ability or items.
This type of crystal also contained some items and skills that are deemed useless and worthless.
However, there were rumors that there were Special-Crystals that hold precious and valuable things that could make anyone crazy.
And so, whether you can acquire a good thing inside it was all deemed to luck.
With his knowledge in the ‘Past’ there some skills and items that he very much wanted and so…
I need to get all of it.
And some of these crystals would appear in the school. As for the precise location, he doesn’t know but as long as he knows it’s inside the school then all is well.
Without wasting any time, Allen started his preparations.
And so, 3 days had passed in a blink of an eye.
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Allen opens the door and walks through. The classroom is perfectly square just like in his memories, filled with over twenty people, sitting at rectangular desks. All eyes are on him.
Allen thought their gazes were creepy. He can even feel some Jealousy, revulsion, hostility, and hate, though there’s no killing intent.
Of course, he knows full well the reason behind it.
Looking up ahead, his gaze met a certain woman’s gaze. Ms. Grace Lim.
She didn’t say anything. But upon noticing his gaze, she immediately averted her eyes while her face was bright red.
Smiling wryly, Allen shrugged his shoulders and continued walking. The other students aren't sure how to respond and most of them are still staring when he takes his seat between a short black haired girl with freckles and an overweight guy who was also looking at him.
Allen didn’t bother caring about the surrounding’s weird gaze. He wasn’t here to relax but to prepare himself for the upcoming calamity.
There were two reasons why he joined the class. One was of course because of the crystals that would appear inside the school, and second was to protect Ms. Grace.
In this second life, he would make sure to pay his debt towards her.
Ms. Grace stands at the head of the class. She seems a little flustered, but then shrugs it off and explained some goals of society which was economic growth and some degree of income equality.
Well, none of it registered in Allen’s head, after all, all his thoughts circled in the last 3 hours of peace.
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The only sounds in the classroom were Ms. Grace’s weak voice and the chalk hitting the blackboard.
However, apparently that passionate embraced that happened not too long ago which was dubbed as; the forbidden fruit was still bothering some students; they still kept stealing glances at the usual quiet boy
Well, not like I care about it. Allen let out a sigh. Gossip anything you want, this might be the last time you would be able to do that.
09:59:00. Only a minute left.
Narrowing his eye, Allen took his bag and opened it. Inside it was various kinds of knives and some chocolate bars.
As expected, 3 days wasn’t enough for training his body but for better or for worse he can still do some maneuvers without burdening his body too much. Besides he won’t fight the monster barehanded anyway.
Within these 3 days, he had already prepared some emergency food, mostly instant cup noodles, chocolate bars and chips. All of it was hidden inside his house.
Allen had already prepared everything he could prepare. He had even asked Mia to hide his sister which was working in Manila for safety which she readily agreed.
09:59:34
Hiding some knives in the waist, arms and legs, Allen stealthily prepared his self.
09:59:48
Inside his bag were two guns given by Lieri. Taking them out, he put them under his desk.
09:59:51
Creak. The class was suddenly interrupted when the door was opened and revealed two women slowly entering the classroom.
These two were none other than Mia and Lieri.
Not paying any heed to the confused surrounding, Mia nonchalantly walked towards where Allen was followed by Lieri who made a deep bow towards Ms. Grace.
“Hey, could I---”
“Allen, it’s time.” Ms. Grace called out but was cut off by Mia’s words. Smiling like a child expecting a very good present from her parents, Mia stood in front of the youth.
Allen looked at this with half-opened eyes.
Just why is she always like this. Does she even understand that this was the end of the world they were expecting? And besides, she was even killed in the first run, how can she stood there as if it was nothing.
Being killed himself and knowing the pain of losing something very important because of the apocalypse, Allen really couldn’t help but wonder what’s going on in the girl’s head.
As expected of the Mad Princess, huh…
10:00:00
Bang! As if something just explodes, the whole world trembled.
Kyaaaaa!! Surprised screams echoed inside the classroom because of the sudden earthquake.
“Everyone! Calm down and hide under your desk!” Mia immediately issued an order. Hearing this, all the students except the three people who were unexpectedly calm, crouched their selves under their desk.
Allen ignored his surroundings and took the two guns on his hand, BERETTA 92.
FLASH!
Accompanied by a sound of shattering glass, a shallow silver-white light spread throughout the world for an instant.
BIKIBIKIBIKI!
Strange high pitched sounds are raised and then a giant rift ran on the blue sky.
And a black, muddled parallel world spread out at the other side of the rift.
From the rift, numerous black dots appeared and scattered.
Looking at it through the window, Allen’s hand which was holding the two BERETTA 92 pistols suddenly tightened.
“The game has begun.” A voice rang out beside him. Mia flashed a fearless smile as she wore two black colored gloves.
As if influenced by her fearless confidence, Allen’s tight nerves began to calm down as he slowly stood up.
With this chance, I can repent.... My past mistakes... I can protect what I've lost, the things I held dear!
“…Time for Judgement…”
It was time to carry out his plan.
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