'When they sleep' is an otome game that was released in 2017 by an unknown developer, Even though there was no marketing for the game it quickly became famous among the game market but the rise of the game is fast as its decline.
The game had excellent and high-quality graphics that did not lose to a big company production, The game characters were attractive to its players but the primary reason for its decline is the cause how random things were in it.
The character can die in any way and anytime in this game, It won't be wrong to say no character in this game is actually safe, The game might be actually attractive if the deaths were logical but the developers of the game had thrown all of the logic behind and then made this game.
I mean just think if you are a player and you are going to confess your love to your favorite character after raising the love meter to the max but then suddenly a meteorite comes and strikes the earth and destroys everything in its path or you are going to a restaurant to have dinner with your friends in the game and you suddenly discover that the food is poisoned and then you simply die.
The most unreasonable situation that happened to me while I was playing this game for my sister is that I cleared a difficult level and slept for the night but when I woke up my character died. I mean it would be fine if the game had a save function but no if you die all of your progress and stats directly reset so you have to start from the beginning.
It would be okay if it was simply just that but when I actually tried the strategy to progress the task that I used before It didn't work anymore, the game doesn't allow the same strategy to be used again, It's like the game is continuously changing and the characters that are in it are real but there is no way that's true? Well, at least that is what I thought at that time.
It was even thought that the game incorporates a highly advanced Artificial Intelligence Program that is recently in development and it's an experiment to see how the program interacts with humans so in the name of a game it was released.
At that time I was in half doubt because it can just be a rumor but there is also a chance of it being true, It might look like the government might suppress the news if it was true but in reality the suppression of news many times lead to opposite reaction so the government might have decided for it to be just a rumor, The government might have also thought that if they later admit the experiment and technology is real after denying it might just lead to distrust among the public so the best option is to neither deny nor admit it.
Well even though I say all these things but in the end, it's just a theory, It might just be a simple rumor.
But why and how I came to this world is still a major question, Is it the developer of the game who brought me here, or is it some kind of virtual reality, These types of question comes to my mind with no answer in sight.
The lecture had been completed and I had been thinking about how to survive in this cruel world, yes survive as I doubt that saving this doomed world is even possible.
I started to walk faster and faster until I started to run, The sun had started to set and the atmosphere had started to become cold.
My destination this time was not my home but I had decided to get closer to the edge of the village, I had reached the entrance of the dark forest and looked at the planks with the so-called enchantment on them, The enchantment was made of different weird symbols which had grown blurry.
It looks like I was right its a really dangerous situation for us, I jogged my blurred memories about games and I remembered about the invasion of the dark races from the north after 2 years the main character had joined the academy, The invasion might have started from our village.
Even though I still have a lot of time before the invasion and the start of different sequences that might destroy the world, I had to become stronger so strong that no will be able to harm me and the old man.
I remembered the fantasy system about this world, There are many ways to become stronger in this world.
If you had a large magic pool and a strong affinity with elements you could become a mage, There are people who don't have enough affinity or magic pool generally train their bodies and refine their skills to fight and become stronger.
Magic affinity and magic pools are officially examined by official mages but people who generally have high element affinity are able to communicate with the elements in a way not possible for ordinary people, They might feel they have a special communication with the elements for example a fire user might not get burn with fire or an individual with affinity with plants would be able to feel their emotions and talk to them.
In this world there are also special individuals that have unique and different power out of the norm, these powers might or not use magic to work, and they can be good or bad for the user, these power are called superpowers.
The power can come from a wide range of gravity, darkness, self-injury, healing, and other weird powers like superfart which is kind of a really weird superpower.
I looked at the dark sky and thought of something important, If this world somehow is related to the game then would this work? I opened my mouth and took a deep breath and shouted in the air.
"STATUS"
< DUSTIN>
* Ability
[Physical Strength: 0-star 7%]
[Sense: 0-star 36%]
[Agility: 0-star 13%]
[Health: 0-star 9%]
[Endurance: 0-star 8%]
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[Mental Strength: 4-star 79%]
[Mana: -null]
*Skill
[No magic pathway]
*Characteristic
[User is incapable of using magic]
*SuperPowers
[Healing: Unawakened(The superpower will awaken naturally when the physical body of the user is strong enough or by an external simulation]
*Characteristic
[It enables healing small wounds at a lower level while at a higher level it could heal death-inducing injuries.]
One of the main ideas in When they sleep World was that while there was no distinct system for character levels, there were levels associated with the powers and skills.
A skill's level was indicated by "Level (Lv)," and an ability was identified by a "Star."
Although the ability in the gaming system could be upgraded to 10 stars, it was said that no such characters had ever existed in the history of When they sleep.
I've been playing this game for a while, but the highest stars I could unlock before quitting were 6 for strength and 4 for senses.
Only those who have received the blessings of heaven can enter the 9th star, a holy realm, The 10 was thought to be a myth but if it existed it might be a realm of gods.
It looks like I had horrible luck in this world, I mean I am incapable of magic as even those warriors have magic power in them-no to be more correct every human in this human world has some amount of magic power in them but it looks like I am a sole exception to that rule.
No magic pathway means that I don't have the system in which magic travels through the entire body and is released from it, so it's impossible for me to increase magic as in a literal sense I don't have the function of magic.
It looks like my stats are horrible except for the mental strength which is unusually high as 4 stars generally those super-geniuses of the arcane academy are able to achieve and that too upon graduation. It is not a huge surprise seeing my stats as I am just 6 years old but still I wished I had some other power than simple healing.
A superpower is found in 1 in 100 thousand people which is very low considering the proportion.
An adult male's average muscular strength was [1 star 0%].
Wherever you go, compliments like "Wow, he's in shape" are commonly made. When you reach [1 star 20%], you hear that you have exercised a little, and when you reach [1 star 40%], your body starts to get a little more muscular.
The opposite would be true if you dropped to [0-star |], which is the absolute definition of a weak body.
There are 2 ways to awaken my superpower one is to make my physical body enough stronger and the other is to give myself a life-and-death simulation which is very risky as if something goes wrong I might just hang up.
Ughh, I really wish my status bar had any other function other than simply showing my stats and abilities.
I looked around me and searched for something sharp, I needed it so I could awaken my ability. My gaze landed on the plank made of wood but then I shook my head as removing a piece of wood might just destroy the enchantment and I am not even sure I am strong enough to destroy it.
I looked around and found a fine piece of stone some distance away, I looked at the stone and thought that perhaps I have to sharpen it a little more. I picked another rock and started to grind them against each other to sharpen the edges of the first stone.
A cut is a break or opening in the skin. It is also called a laceration. A cut may be deep, smooth, or jagged. It may be near the surface of the skin, or deeper. A deep cut can affect tendons, muscles, ligaments, nerves, blood vessels, or bones.
A puncture is a wound made by a pointed object such as a nail, knife, or sharp tooth. Puncture wounds often appear to be on the surface, but may extend into the deeper tissue layers.
My intention was to give myself a wound deep enough to put me in a near-death situation, I might look crazy for cutting my hands but I believe I will survive as I always do!
It might also be because of learning about this world's true nature I am so pressured and nervous that I am doing a crazy action like this.
Okay so here goes nothing.
I put the stone on my right wrist and tried slashing it many times but It only lead to surface area injury, it looks like cutting your wrist is not easy as shown in the movie.
I could just go home and bring a real knife to cut my wrist but there is a chance for me to get caught by the old man, I mean what would I say if he asks me why I am taking the knife.
I could make a random excuse but I doubt something of that level would be able to deceive him, he is much smarter than I give him credit for.
I looked at my surface-level wound and then looked at the rock again and thought about how If I did something like this in my old world I would probably get some kind of infection.
The common people here are much more immune to diseases compared to those athletes, It might be because of genetic evolution or it might be a different rule of this world.
I looked at the rock the sharp edge of the rock and suddenly punctured my right-hand wrist, I kept puncturing my hand several times again and again.
My entire arm was covered in my blood and the blood had also gotten on my clothes, the blood had started to drop on the ground and I simply started to move towards a tree to sit by it.
I looked towards from where i came and the entire path was covered in blood.
This unique method of awakening wasn't discovered by me but by one of the villains in the game, she had taken strong poison to try to awaken her power and in the first place she didn't even know she had superpowers, I mean superpowers can only be discovered when they are awakened. I don't know what kind of desperation one had to have to seek power so much but I knew that she is one hell of a character.
I might be not taking poison but losing blood is also considered an external simulation! probably?
My face had become pale due to too much blood loss but the damm power still has not awakened, It looks like I am going to die again.
I started to feel dizzy and my head really feels heavy like someone has put 100-kilogram weight upon it, I started to feel difficulty in breathing and I am feeling really tired.
It makes me remember all that nonsense medical knowledge my sister had put in my head for example the reason for Anemia that I currently am having!
When blood is lost, the body quickly pulls water from tissues outside the bloodstream in an attempt to keep the blood vessels filled. As a result, the blood is diluted, and the hematocrit (the percentage of red blood cells in the total amount of blood in the body, or blood volume) is reduced. Eventually, increased production of red blood cells by the bone marrow may correct the anemia. However, over time, bleeding reduces the amount of iron in the body, so the bone marrow is not able to increase the production of new red blood cells to replace those lost.
This causes a lack of oxygen sent to our body which causes tiredness and weakness.
Suddenly everything around me started to go black, this darkness was scarier than death to me because This darkness felt like the embodiment of loneliness.
I have stopped feeling my body and it's chilling cold here.
I am barely hanging on my conscious right now and right now I realize that maybe I don't have what it takes to become strong.
I will always be that coward that runs from situations when they become too difficult, and no matter how many times I called my sister stupid at least she never ran from anything.
She was someone who never gave up on me, I wish that I could see her again.
I wanted to tell her that I am sorry, that I miss her and most of all thank you for always being with me.
With this thought the last string of my consciousness
broke apart.
[Error: Extreme external stimulation received towards the host which may lead to death soon]
[Error: Due to external stimulation the superpower Healing is awakening ahead of time]
[Error: The superpower Healing has awakened and is now functioning]
[Healing: 2-star 13%(The superpower is able to heal all minor injuries in the body and rejuvenates the blood and the physical functions of a human body ]
[Error: The superpower Healing has healed all the injuries of the host body and has pulled him out of his near-death state.