The day started off just like any other; Davy was busy playing his games as usual and eating food like a glutton but surprisingly his body was still fit. Davy is a shut-in who dropped out of school because he found everything there pointless and annoying.
All day long he either sleeps or plays games; he doesn't even pay attention to his girlfriend, the only person who truly loves him for who he is, and sooner or later she will get tired as well. He is 21 years old, has above-average looks, and a nice build. He learned martial arts a long time ago, but one wonders if he even knows the basics anymore.
[buzz, buzz] His phone rings; he hesitates at first, but after looking at the caller, he picks it up. It's from his girlfriend.
"Hey Suzy, how are you?"
"I am not good at all Davy" she sadly replies.
"why do you sound sad?"
"um, Davy, "I called you because I don't think things will work out between us; you always spend time gaming or sleeping; you never take me out; and when I am over at your place, you don't even pay attention to me; this relationship just isn't going anywhere, and I am sorry."
She hangs up. Davy looks at his phone for a while; he is shocked, but even he knew this day would come. One would expect him to be sad after he was just dumped, but he didn't seem to care all that much. It's true that he loves her, but he doesn't feel any strong attachments to her.
His gaming mood is now ruined, so he decides to sleep it off. He slowly crawls into bed, turns on the AC, and falls asleep.
After a few hours of sleep, he wakes up. He yawns as he sits up like a grandpa. He turns on his computer and opens a game. While the game is loading, he turns on his phone and sees a shitload of messages and missed calls. He tries calling them back but none of them pick up. He goes into the messages and sees that all the messages have one thing in common, monsters.
Davy stands up and looks outside. He sees a giant tower reaching into the heavens. He quickly puts on some pants and runs downstairs; he wants to go outside and see what is going on. As soon as he opened the door, a giant mouth filled with fang-like teeth greeted him. He is frozen in fear and can't move an inch as he stares death in the face.
"Move, dammit, MOVE!" he shouts.
After some extreme willpower, he finally moves and attempts to flee, but it was too late; the monster rips off his arm like it's a piece of paper.
"My..my..my..ARM!" he yells as he falls down.
The monster roars as it targets Davy as prey. He stumbles while standing up, shuts the door, runs upstairs, locks the door to his room and falls down. With tears running down his cheeks, he takes one of his shirts, rips it apart, and ties what's left of his arm to stop the bleeding.
"What the hell was that thing? I thought when they sent those texts they were just trying to prank me. Dammit, I am losing too much blood. Will I seriously die in this pathetic state like this?, a virgin who didn't accomplish anything in life? Fucking hell."
His eyes start to slowly close; he is losing consciousness, he is feeling dizzy, and everything around him appears to be spinning. He lies down and closes his eyes.
[buzz.... buzz... buzz... buzz]
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"Dammit, can't a guy even die in peace?" he says as he picks up the phone to answer.
"hello?"
"Help me, Davy." Suzy says in dying voice.
"Suzy, are you there? What happened, Suzy? Can you hear me?" Where are you? "DAMMIT, what the fuck is going on?!" He yells in a pissed-off voice.
Although she dumped him, Davy felt he owed her for always being there and loving him for who he is. He stands up and stumbles downstairs; he sees that the front door has been destroyed, but doesn't see the monster. He slowly walks down and checks every room. When he arrives at the kitchen, he doesn't even try to take a peek because he could already hear the monster breathing. He slowly walks back, and that's when a voice appears in his head.
"DING, system synchronization complete; activating the blank system." "Hello, master."
"What the, am I hallucinating?" I guess that's to be expected considering how much blood I lost, not to mention the pain I am feeling." he says while he shakes his head.
"DING! Pain nullification has been acquired; healing has been learned."
The system heals his wound and stops the pain.
"Huh, what the? The voice I heard is actually real?, ah, hello." He says in a awkward voice.
"Yes, hello master, I am system, and starting today I will be your helper as you climb the tower."
"helper? Tower? "You mean that thing outside? Why would I climb that shit? Are you fucking with me?" He says in a pissed-off voice.
"I am sorry, master, I was out of line." You may choose to climb the tower at your own pace after you learn more about it.
They kept talking for a while; Davy still is not convinced about climbing the tower, but he learned a lot from the system. First, towers appeared all over the world, and the towers are all connected. The second is that monsters and dungeons also appeared; they are from the towers, and the monster that ate Davy's arm is the lowest-ranked monster, a G-rank reaper wolf. And lastly, a certain percentage of humans all over the world are awakening special abilities to fight the monsters; however, in Davy's case...
"WHAT? You are telling me I have to earn all my skills from scratch while other people are being gifted; how is that fair? "You are basically useless."
"I am sorry for being a useless master." system replies in a sad tone.
"Sigh, no, I am the one in the wrong, you did heal me after all and I apologize for calling you useless."
"Apology accepted, master." system says in a happy voice.
He takes a peek in the kitchen and sees the monster sleeping. He backs away and thinks of how he can kill it. He can easily run away, but he is pissed because of his left arm. He remembers how he got the skills: he was in pain, and the system deemed it necessary to grant a skill.
"Hmm, I get it." He whispers as he runs up the stairs.
He goes into his parent's room, and underneath their bed is a secret safe in the floor. He moves the bed without making too much noise, unlocks the safe with the passcode, and inside are a pistol and bullets. He takes out the gun and bullets and walks back downstairs. He loads the gun, sneaks into the kitchen, and aims the gun at the monster.
"Ah master, I am not sure that's a good idea. That weapon you are holding won't even scratch the reaper wolf."
"I figured as much, but my goal is actually to trigger a skill."
He shoots one round which bounced off the reaper wolf, it wakes up, and sees him, he runs away while shooting another two rounds which also bounced off the wolf's skin. He was expecting a skill to pop up, but nothing happened. He runs upstairs and waits for the reaper wolf to reach the stairs. The monster arrives, he shoots his remaining bullets, runs into his room, and barricades the door.
"DING, weapons expert acquired. You can handle any weapon efficiently, and get a 5% boost on attacks."
"Sweet, I knew it, this system is a total cheat, seems I was wrong, you are an amazing system." He says with a smile on his face.
"Thank you, master, I will do my best." system proudly replies.
The wolf arrives at the door and starts breaking through, he aims the gun and waits until it's broken through completely. When it showed its head, he fired a bullet right in its head and another in its throat. His precision is scary, he fired the gun like a seasoned soldier, even though he was surprised.
"Woow, that's so cool." he says he walks towards the dead monster.
"That's for my arm, you piece of shit." He kicks the monster as he says these words.
"DING. "You have leveled up, you have earned 10 points and a monster core." System says.
"I can feel myself getting stronger, which is nice; it's a shame about my arm though; alright, let's not waste time; Suzy is waiting."
People everywhere are either killing monsters while risking their lives or are being killed by the monsters. Is this the end of the world, or is it a new beginning?