On a prestigious university in the mountainous region of Ifrane, an 18 years old boy was strolling around the football stadium in the middle of the night. Lost in his thoughts, the boy didn’t count how many laps around the field he took, but his sore feet told him tale about that number: a lot. But, he didn’t care, or more appropriately, his psychological status didn’t leave him the opportunity to care. The amount of stress induced by the deadlines he missed and cramming he will need to do overpowered any physical sensation. Thus, he did as any other sane person would, he entered the denial phase.

‘God, as I do every day, today I come again, here standing before you, praying that you would bring change to this static world, this unfun, boring playground that you created. If this world is truly a test as you have said, then it’s an elementary school one, and if it is an MMO as I would have said, then it’s one whose main development team is EA. God, everything in life is hidden behind microtransactions.’

And, waving in the air as if it was a reality, the teen started visualizing a blue screen appearing in front of him, showing him his stats and bringing with it hope, hope he might never see occurring, forever trapped between the bones of his skull, inside his imagination, that he always struggled with materializing for more than a few seconds.

 This is a warning to whom is ready. The universe you are currently residing in achieved one of the criteria that enable it to update, due to the next evolution being a tier 3, the system will be implemented. To accelerate the evolution of your universe or its downfall, a test will be conducted on a universal scale. The beasts contained in the chaos region of your parent universe will be unleashed on yours, their levels will be calibrated to each planet’s average level. Also, due to the observed erratic behavior of your races, all weapons above level 5 will be nullified by the start of the test. To ease your preparation for the test, a basic identify skill has been granted to whoever received this warning. The skill can check the level of an object below level 5. 24 hours until the test, Godspeed 

When Omar saw the blue screen in front of him, his thought process froze, he recognized the familiar blue screen, but he couldn’t bring himself to believe it. Then, a wave of emotions invaded his brain, a mixture of bewilderment, happiness and excitement made rendered him dazed for a few seconds, only for them to be put back on a corner of his mind as he read the long message. He didn’t pay attention to the full message due to his boiling blood, but he understood that the world is going full apocalypse litrpg mode in 24 hours and that the system will be fair by making firearms useless.

"Wait, I need to call Othmane, see if he got the message too or not. Hmm, if he got it, he will prolly talk about it first thing once I call him"

And thus, Omar dialed Othmane.

"Yo, Othmane"(Omar)

"Yeah, I got it too. That’s damn wack, ya’ just talked about how would the world be fair if our world became an RPG happened three days ago, and here we are, 24 hours left until it happens." (Othmane)

"yeaaah, I hope that doesn’t happen"(Omar)

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"What are you talking about?"(Othmane)

"The prediction about getting first blood achievement"(Omar)

"Heh, that you’ll probably die the first in one shot, ending up as a skeleton on my right shoulder" (Othmane)

"yeah that one, oh, by the way, did you check whether everyone got the message or not. The way it was worded made it sound as if only a few got it"(Omar)

"Hmm I'm not sure, but my roommate Taha got it too, see with that weird guy that lives with you"(Othmane)

Agreeing with his proposal, Omar subconsciously nodded his head, when he suddenly reached an epiphany « sure, oh by, the way, can you please not go around telling people that you saw the warning from God or whatever, it will just make things weird for you later. You know, the usual "you are insane" speech, and followed by the "you have something to do with what is happening to us speech" that everyone knows and love »

Some might think that it is exaggerated to think this way, that the human mind is unpredictable, and that people do not behave this way. However, they would be surprised at how attached human beings are to their roles, bullies stay bullies, until the script says otherwise, when it becomes convenient to them to change their roles, else they stay stick to dem stereotypes as if someone paid millions of dollars to do so. Of course, this wasn’t the main reason Omar wanted to keep the info to an as little number of persons as possible, the main reason was of course that he didn’t want too much competition for his recourses.

"Ehhh, are you sure, I mean people’s lives are probably at stake here."

As Othmane said those words, Omar felt as if a knife stabbed his heart. ‘What am I doing here, FUCK! people’s lives are at stake dude, no, noooooo, every man for himself, fuck it, I shouldn’t pussy out, I already had this conversation many times with myself and managed to make a convincing reason. There is no reason to think about that now, I can create excuses or cry out of guilt later. The shit that needs to be done has to be done. Now, I just need to make Othmane numb to that responsibility.’

"I don't care if people die, I just don’t want you to die, because some stupid fucker wants to frame you or some shit and fucks up your morale. Promise me, you will not tell anyone about this shit"(Omar)

"Okay, whatever. But this does not feel right." (Othmane)

"Thank you. Hmm, okay, bye, for now, I’m going to sleep, tomorrow is going to be hectic"(Omar)

"Oh yeah, by the way, before you hang up, tomorrow, we need to go to the market. When do I pick you up?"(Othmane)

"Hmm, 14.30 would be good. Oh also, just a tip, try not to sleep early today, because the apocalypse is going to start at night tomorrow"(Omar)

"Sure makes sense, anyways, see ya tomorrow.."

Just as Othmane was about to hang up, he suddenly had a thought that would change up his future for eternity.

"WAIT.. stop, I just had an idea, tomorrow, wake up early, at 6.00 and come get me. We’re going to Rabat.."(Omar)

"Ehhh, why? You do realize we have a goddamn mock final?"(Othmane)

"Solar panel battery. I’ll explain later"(Omar)

"Omar, I swear to god that if this wasn’t about the end of the world I would smack the man out of you."(Othmane)

"yeaahh, suck my dick. Anyway, download as much useful shit as you can tonight and tomorrow, we go do all our shopping in Rabat, they have much more materials than we have in Ifrane anyways."(Omar)

"Hmm, yeah, you can just remove your ribs and do it by yourself, anyway, goodnight"(Othmane)

"Yeah, goodnight"(Omar)

After his conversation with Othmane, Omar went into his room, opened his laptop, started downloading every martial art, science and French cuisine video. In the meantime, he started checking for any post in the last 24 hours about the apocalypse or god, or litrpg irl, and it’s only after 2 hours of searching did he find one Reddit post talking about God's warning. Of course, it was dismissed as the OP is a troll. The post faced the ridicule of dozens. Fearing that the post may become even more popular, Omar dropped the classic"Don’t feed the troll guys, he only wants attention". After doing so, he went to sleep, tomorrow is going to be a hell of a day.