There was a stinging pain on his head when he woke up he sat up and heard a gentle voice asking if he is alright.
‘Huh?’ He thought to himself upon seeing the marbled floor and white pristine spacious facility, he moved a little and noticed wires attached all over his body connected to a familiar looking medical equipment, he looked towards the female nurse who wore a quarantine suit tapping on a familiar looking device, but before he could ask a question a flood of unfamiliar memories entered his mind.
With this sudden memory he quickly understand his current situation, right now he is in the hunter’s academy medical facility undergoing through a procedure simply called ‘Transformation’ that greatly enhance the human body overcoming its limitation to become a hunter.
‘What in the world? Isn’t this the opening scene from the game!?’ The man thought as he examine his surroundings and what he sees is almost identical to the game.
The man’s name is Brandel an easy going college student who’s motivation for living is playing games and he is addicted to a game called ‘Survival of the World’ a monster hunting game which you collect monster parts to craft stronger equipment to fight even more stronger monsters, Brandel became hooked and addicted to this game that he created many characters and played each character with a different type of weapon which is also the reason that he become familiar with the games opening scene.
Brandel thought he might be dreaming as this type of situation is scientifically impossible but the other memory inside of his mind tells him that its reality, Brandel closed his eyes and recalled his memory before waking up in this place, He was playing the game ‘Survival of the World’ as it just released a new set of boss monsters that Brandel quickly defeated but one monster is giving him a hard time this boss monster is buggy and overpowered that he saw no chance of winning at all until it was fixed, trying for the last time Brandel is greeted with the ‘You Died’ screen a few second after he met the boss monster, Brandel fumed in anger and cursed in his mind as he turn the computer off and went to sleep.
Brandel then decided to check this unfamiliar memory he have gotten and quickly learned that the owner of this memory is also named Brandel but with a different last name than his, Brandel Urwick this is the name of the owner of this memory with his last moment in excruciating pain, Brandel noticed his back becoming sweaty recalling the kind of pain in this memory.
“You’re a lucky kid, I thought you’re a goner when you started shouting earlier.” The nurse said checking the data on her device, which made Brandel open his eyes and look towards the busy nurse.
The facility is filled with beeping and tapping sound coming from all over the place until a person next to Brandel screamed in pain, Brandel quickly turned his head and saw the man scratching his chest ripping his hospital gown and skin, he moves as if he was lit on fire soon his veins bulged out and was clearly visible underneath his skin that slowly turned purple but when his eyes turned white and foam begin to come out of his mouth he fall flatly on the bed and was announced dead, Brandel looked with a stiff face watching a few guys in a different quarantine suit put the body into a body bag and carried it away swiftly.
“You almost became like that too you know?” The nurse said looking at the body bag being carried away. “But thankfully your body somehow stop rejecting the transformation vaccine near the end.”
“Uh...” Brandel tried to respond but before he could even utter a word a familiar looking menu was floating in front of him. “Is that so...”
[Status]
[Crafting]
[Inventory]
There were 3 menu option in the window that looked exactly in the game ‘survival of the world’ with many option not included but this 3 menu is the necessary ones to progress in the game.
Brandel’s eyes widen and he unconsciously reached out and choose [Status]
[Status]
Brandel Urwick
Rank 0
Strength: 1.2
Vitality: 1.5
Dexterity: 1.1
Energy: 0.2
‘Weak!’ Brandel thought and was greatly surprised.
[Crafting]
[Select Equipment Type]
-
[Material]
-
[Core]
-
[Preview]
[Craft]
‘It looked exactly as the game.’
[Inventory]
-
‘Empty.’
“This, this.” Brandel whispered with a wry smile, he wanted to freak out and shout but having two sets of memories from his own memory of earth and this world’s Brandel Urwick is keeping him rational, he dropped back down on the bed and place his left arm on his head, it was hard to believe but he have transmigrated and his proof was himself, He didn’t know how it happened but he came to a conclusion that this world’s Brandel have died while undergoing the transformation which he somehow manage to snatch the body from.
Brandel didn’t think his life on earth was memorable and did not have any lingering emotion making him want to return but this world’s Brandel’s memory if filled with things unknown to him until now that this world have a similar background as the game ‘survival of the world’ but unlike the game everything happening here is real, Brandel begin to feel terrified with that knowledge and chanted ‘Everything is going to be fine’ in his head trying not to think too much.
Not realizing he had fallen asleep, Brandel was awakened by the nurse taking off the wires on his body, after the nurse have finished her job she instructed Brandel on what to do next, Brandel stood up and started walking down towards the door, on his way he saw other people undergoing the procedure and saw the scale of this dome shaped facility and halfway to the door he heard another agonizing scream coming from a female that quickly went silent, Upon reaching the door and entering it he saw a group of people in quarantine suit and they instructed him to pass through some sort of a detecting apparatus that is 3 meter long, after a few question and check up he was given a bag and entered the waiting room with locker and a large shower room.
Brandel took a quick shower and used the provided necessities in the bag, he wore a dark blue hunter academy uniform and checks himself out in the mirror, as he expected the person that is reflected on the mirror is not the body he is used to but a 19 year old with a chestnut colored hair and eyes, Brandel compared his new body and stated that this Brandel is a little bit good looking than him.
He searched deeper in the bag and saw a folder with the hunter academy insignia on it and upon opening it he saw a copy of the contract this world’s Brandel have sign confirming that he knows the risk of undergoing the transformation procedure, Brandel looked at the crooked sign on the bottom of the paper and recalled how nervous this world’s Brandel was when signing.
Brandel sat on the bench near the entrance of the locker and saw people begin to come in, in his observation he noticed that a lot of guys seemed extremely fatigue and pale while a few seemed perfectly fine.
Soon the benches was all occupied and people is still coming inside the locker waiting for the next instruction on what to do until an announcement was made through the speakers.
“To all new students please enter the auditorium.”
Soon a group of people wearing a dark green hunter guard uniform entered the locker room and called names, upon hearing his name, Brandel went to the guard and was strictly ordered to directly head towards the auditorium, Brandel get in one of the four lines entering the auditorium and quietly sat down and waiting for the place to be filled.
Not long the stage was lit up and a man stood in front of the thousands of new student in the auditorium, Brandel almost stood up upon seeing the man in stage it was Arthur Yuri nicknamed the ‘Blood Wolf’ from the game ‘survival of the world’ this elderly gentlemen is one of the highest ranking member of the hunter association but easily died near the end game when the horde of monster siege this place called ‘Nova Sanctuary’
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Without wasting much time, Arthur Yuri started his speech and Brandel whispered each of the words he spoke from start to finish, Brandel have memorized Arthur’s speech as it was an unskippable scene at the beginning of the game but to hear it live gave him chills as it sounded so cringegy for him after all he saw it many times in the game, but the student applaud loudly at the end of his speech which in shorter term is ‘Destroy monster and die for the humanity’.
After a few more speeches from other people Brandel looked around the empty seats of the auditorium and recalled a memory from this world that this auditorium was filled with people in the beginning but now almost 30% is missing, But Brandel already know the reason why, those who are not in here have lose their life undergoing the transformation, in the game’s lore the success rate of transformation is less than 60% percent.
Soon the speeches have ended and the whole auditorium is lit up, everyone inside is now free to go roam around the academy or head towards the dorm to rest for the day, Brandel wanted to rest as his body started to feel fatigue even thought all he did was sit down and listen to the cringe worthy speeches but his focus quickly change when he heard a familiar cry coming from a huge building not far away that looked like an olympic stadium.
Brandel reached its entrance and entered inside, what he saw is a gladiator styled arena with seats that can hold 100,000 people and in the center a group of 6 people fighting a single void monster, called ‘Iron Boar’, Brandel eyes widen and he leaned to the railing to see a monster he only saw inside a monitor right in front of him alive and moving realistically.
Void monster is how the game called ‘survival of the world’ labeled their monsters, in the game’s lore the void monsters came from the depths of this planet upon exhausting there source of food they climbed up to the surface and begun terrorizing the living beings for their bio mass and since then they evolved into a more stronger and terrifying monsters.
Weapon used to defeat the void monster are called Voidbane, weapons crafted using this world’s strongest materials or void monster’s parts, the sizes of the weapon created solely for killing void monster are extremely large and weighted a lot and because of that only certain individuals are capable of handling such weapons, until a thousand years ago a history not known to the public anymore and kept with the highest secrecy a certain substance was created that when introduced into the human body will give it extraordinary capabilities exceeding its limitation, that substance is now called ‘Transformation Vaccine’ in the present, and if anyone tried to dig up any details about this substance will end up dead the next morning.
Right now in this world only the people of the highest positions and some certain individuals including Brandel knows its secret, the substance inside the transformation vaccine is the ‘Artificial DNA of a Void’s Queen’. A thousand years ago an island suddenly surfaced in the middle of the sea and when they explored its vast interconnected tunnels they reached the room where a deceased void queen rest.
Since then history have slowly change, humanity gained the power to increase the number of human that is capable of using voidbane, many heroes was born at that time that helped create ‘sanctuaries’ for humans to live without the fear of being hunted by void monsters, and as humanity started to relax information of the dark past of the transformation vaccine was slowly hidden from the masses.
‘Clang’ sound was produced when one of the people fighting the center clashed against the iron boar that is 2 meter high and 3 meter in length, it has a black colored skin that could easily deflect bullets and iron plates on its head, chest and upper back, this monster was the lowest rank void monster in the game as it lacks intelligence and will only charged towards it enemy with its 2 long black tusk, and it can withstand a tank shell but even if it was the lowest ranked void monster a normal human would have no chance of winning against it.
The person was dragged 5 meters backward holding off the iron boar while the others started attacking it from the sides and soon after 20 minutes of slow and tedious fight they slayed the iron boar that would only take seconds to kill in the game, Brandel watched in surprise at how careful the group fought the iron boar they are filled with hesitation and fear and the iron boar kept fighting even with such sever injuries all over its large body.
As the iron boar fought it didn’t follow what knowledge Brandel has on it from the game, the monster who should have only charge towards its enemy have shown different kind of attack and at one point almost killing 1 of the 6 people on the center.
Brandel imagined himself in their position what if he is fighting that monster right now what would happen to him? After thinking for a little Brandel could only see himself getting impaled or crushed, Brandel then got annoyed and scratched his head and went to the dorm building. there are four tall buildings that serves as the dorm and is interconnected at some floors, the inside of the building is well decorated with people coming and going, Brandel not knowing where his room is, went towards a machine that his other memory knows how to operate and after inputting his name the device shows him where he would stay.
Arriving inside the room what he saw is a simplistic room with 6 beds 3 on each side of the wall, 2 guys are unloading their belongings and 1 is deeply asleep, not long Brandel recognize a bag belonging to him now, he wanted to unpack before resting but upon reaching his bed on the corner side of the room he simply fall on the bed and sleep.
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In the middle of the night for the first time since its founding the sirens placed all over the nova sanctuary has been used creating a deafening noise that rang all over the high walled and well protected sanctuary awakening its inhabitants, and not long after it started all the television, radio and other forms of communicating devices spread the unlikely news to everyone.
“[A horde of high ranking void monsters has been confirmed heading towards the nova sanctuary, It’s estimated to reach the sanctuary walls within 5 hours, all citizens are advised to head towards the military or hunter base near you for evacuation.]”
Brandel who was deeply asleep woke up from hearing the sirens and was greatly shocked at the news being broadcast everywhere.
‘How is this possible? It can’t be, Why does a horde of void monster is heading towards this place this early? This isn’t how it happened in the game...’ Brandel thoughts went wild and having a cold sweat as he watch the television that shows the live position of the horde, he stared on the screen and soon have a revelation that made his eyes wide. ‘This isn’t a fucking game anymore, This world’s setting is the same as the game but its a real world!’.
Fear shows in Brandel expression same as the millions of people living in the sanctuary, a sanctuary is a place of great protection against void monster as it says in the game, where thousands of hunters from the hunter association protects its safety, but when a sanctuary is forced to evacuate its inhabitants then it means that powerful void monsters have united under an extremely powerful or even unknown void monster that the hunter association concluded that they could not handle.
Panicking shout and the sound of hundreds of helicopter can be heard where Brandel stood, soon his roommates started to head towards the door but a sea of people is running through the hall heading towards the stairs and elevators, Brandel squeezed in the stampede but quickly found himself getting pummeled from all direction until someone accidentally headbutt him so hard that he lose consciousness and his body got dragged by the current of people and ended up inside a room where the door slowly closes.
Soon the day break have come and when the sunlight touched Brandel’s face he woke up with a stinging pain and a small lump on the back of his head, he remembered what happened and froze in place as the sound of sirens keep ringing and the television that broadcast the news now only show and produce static noise.
Brandel was left alone in the place now crawling with void monsters, when he realized his situation his anger swelled up that he ended up stomping the bed over and over until he kicked it with all his might not expecting the bed to lift up and turn over.
“What?” Brandel muttered seeing the upside down bed, quickly he opened his [Status]
[Status]
Brandel Urwick
Rank 0
Strength: 2.2
Vitality: 2.5
Dexterity: 2.1
Energy: 0.5
“It went up?” Brandel said and realized that it must have been the result of the transformation,
After a few moment after his outburst a running footstep could be heard coming closer to his position, Brandel quickly opened the door and looked at the person running towards him, an extremely nervous expression is on her face and her blonde hair in a low pig tail sway as she run, her blue eyes saw a door opened not far away and saw a man with a brown hair step out looking at her.
“Thank goodness I’m not the only one left in here!” The girl said with a trembling voice and almost tearing eyes as she looked towards the brown haired man staring at her with a shocked expression.
‘No way!?’ Brandel thought staring at the girl in front of him, he knew her and upon hearing her voice he was sure that she is that girl, a npc in the game which helps you out while your out in a mission as she relays information to the player, there was no mistake, this girl who has a blonde hair styled in a low pig tail and blue eyes that almost tearing up with a bit of tomboyish look on her beautiful face.
“Is Erika your name?” Brandel asked looking at the girl a few meters away from him.
“T-That’s right, my name is Erika how did you know?” Erika couldn’t help but ask seeing the man for the first time that knows her name.
After talking to Erika for a little they seemed to have suffered the same situation when the evacuation was happening but unlike Brandel who got headbutt, Erika has been elbowed in the forehead, the both of them ride the elevator to the ground floor.
“What should we do? I’m happy that I’m not all alone but there is no way of contacting anybody every telecommunication system is down.” Erika said looking at her phone.
Brandel only looked at her still with disbelieved that a npc in the game that only have a static action and dialogue is now a real human, When the elevator reach the ground floor and the door opened they saw a single void monster roaming around outside through the glass window of the building, Brandel slowly walked forward staring at the void monster outside until he heard a voice.
“What in the world is going on? Where is everyone? Why is there a void monster outside the dorm?” A female voice asked in a serious elegant tone.
Brandel was surprised that there is another person left in the build apart from him and Erika who also have a surprised looked looking at the same person who has a straight long red hair and red colored eyes with a serious expression and a drop of sweat running down on her cheek, Brandel couldn’t believed it another npc from the game have shown up in front of him this time, a npc who you could add to your party and hunt monster with, unlike in the game where she always looked calm and collected here she’s showing different kinds of expression on her elegant beautiful face.
“You’re Claire right?” Brandel asked keeping his calm.
“Yes I’m Claire, do I know you?” Claire replied putting her left hand on her waist.
Before Brandel could even talk multiple shrilling noise rang around them and saw that the number of void monster around have increased to 10, Erika and Claire have a terrified expression looking at the crawling monster.
“Blade beak.” Brandel said looking at the rank 0 void monster that crawls with four legs, it has a large sharp beak that it uses to pierce and slice its enemy and has a purple skin and white feathers on half of its upper body and a single vertical eyes with multiple pupil.
“We need to call the hunter association to send a hunter to deal with this monsters.” Claire said looking towards Erika who’s gripping her phone.
“No, They won’t come, they abandoned nova sanctuary because of the void monster horde that is here now, all we could do now is escape this place by ourselves.” Brandel said turning his gaze away from the void monster towards the training facility not far away.
“We’re at the end game right now.” Brandel muttered and clicked his tongue that Erika managed to hear.
“You must be joking?” Claire said with an angry expression but when she looked at Erika who’s expression shows that what Brandel said was true she turned her gaze towards Brandel who started walking towards the entrance. “Where are you going!? There are void monster around you know!”
“To the training facility, there should be some voidbane inside of there.” Brandel said pointing towards the training facility.
“Are you an idiot are you trying to kill yourself!? Trying to go out where void monster could see you!?” Claire said in a panic.
“I’m not dumb, I won’t put myself on disadvantage position.” Brandel quickly replied with a serious expression.
‘I killed countless amount of monster such as that in the game you know?’ Brandel thought.
“Blade beak have extremely good eyesight and sense of smell we could lure them away if we have some kind of smoke bomb.” Brandel said.
“If its something like that then I have an idea how to make it.” Claire said doubting Brandel’s word.
“You’re doubting me aren’t you?” Brandel said with a smile that made Claire raise an eyebrow. “I don’t have any plan on dying in this place, you can trust me on that one.”
The blade beaks moved around the field checking its surrounding for potential meal it stared on the dorm glass window but only sees its own reflection, inside the dorm building Brandel looked at the blade beak.
“If we want to live we will need to fight sooner or later, if we stay here for much longer more monster come and if a higher ranked void monster appeared then its game over for us.” Brandel calmly said “and to do that we must first get weapons to depend ourselves.”
Erika and Claire realized that what Brandel said makes sense the longer they stay in here the more dangerous it will become so they must move as soon as possible, Claire walked closer towards Brandel and Erika and talked about her idea to lure the void monsters and create a safe path towards the training facility.
Hearing her idea, Brandel and Erika quickly nodded as it was simple and effective, Brandel took a glance towards the blade beak outside the dorm before entering the elevator, as the elevator door closes with a serious expression Brandel thought of this words.
‘Like hell I’m gonna die in here.’
[Status]
Brandel Urwick
Rank 0
Strength: 2.2
Vitality: 2.5
Dexterity: 2.1
Energy: 0.5