What's going on? Hilda wakes up due to being disturbed by a sudden bright light.
Hm? What's going on?
As she slowly stands up, frowning from the sudden brightness, she finds herself in a fully white room, the same as when she tore her tip coupon, but with an elevated platform in the center makes out another 9 silhouettes.
Oh, those are probably the other contestants.
Hello everybody! A sound comes from the center of the platform, which she recognises is the guide's without even needing to look in his direction.
This is the start of the event, the first activity being hide and seek!
All 3 activities will last for a total of one day for each.
The rules of this are simple, there will be a random user here that starts off as ‘it”, the first three users to be caught will be killed, but remember, you will be revived after the event, if the “it” doesn't catch 3 users within a day, they will be excluded from the game, to catch someone, you need physical contact with their bodies.
But first, everybody picks a colour. The colour shall be your identity until floor 10
Starting off with my favourite person, choose a colour.
Huh, his favourite person? Whose that.
Hilda looks around waiting for him to announce but sees everybody staring at her as she looks up and sees an oversized arrow pointing at her.
What the fuck…
Why am I this guy's favourite person?
Because you have the most unique reason for being in this tower.
Fine, so what color should I pick?
Your favourite or just a random one.
… Black than I guess.
Why black?
It's the simplest colour.
What about white?
Too bright.
Fine.
You're black now, now everybody can see your appearance.
Huh? Hilda looks around and realizes that the other people are actual silhouettes and that it wasn't just due to the bright environment.
Oh…
Ok, for the next person... you! What color would you want? Hilda watches as the guide points to another person with them choosing blue colour.
Hmm, he looks like a 30 year old man.
As Hilda watches them all choose a colour, she takes note of all their appearance with this being what she can tell.
Black:her
Blue:a 30 year looking old man.
Red:a 30 year old looking woman.
Yellow:a 20 year old looking woman.
Orange:a 40 year old looking woman.
Green:a 20 year old looking man.
Brown:a 20 year old looking woman.
Grey:a 40 year old looking man.
Purple:a 20 year old looking woman.
White:a 18 year old looking guy.
Am I the youngest here?
Wow, also I can't really make out more of their appearance, I wonder if that's due to the guide.
Alright everybody, time it starts!
The guide claps his hands and Evelyn gets teleported into a maze.
Red is the “it” please do avoid her.
Have fun!
Hilda looks around the maze with extremely high walls, and a very wide path.
Wow, this is one hell of a maze.
Hilda looks around, noticing that she leaves a black trail behind, likely due to her choosing black.
How.. unique?
She continues looking around and encounters some monsters with sirens for arms.
I wonder what level they are at.
Hilda checks their level to see that they're at level 10 but with their stats being unique.
(0 S) (0 E) ( 20 A) (0 M)
All xp gained from killing this event lifeform will provide 500 percent of an average level 10 monster.
Damn, that ain't worth it.
I should probably look for a place to rest since my sleep was interrupted by that stupid guide.
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Red's pov
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Name:josaine(30)
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Race: Human
Gender: Female
Level:9
Stats:(10 S) (10 E) (10 A) (10 M)
Skills:
Low level taming magic(4)
Low level strength buff magic(3)
Trait:animal lover
Personality:adores animals.
Inventory
Shop
Hide and seek in such a big area is going to be so bad for me luckily, my pets can help send their location to me when I find them, sadly they probably can't help me tag others though.
As josaine keeps looking around the area while on a horse that she tamed, she suddenly hears a loud siren sound and heads to it.
As she approaches the location where the sound was heard, she sees a humanoid monster with hands running faster than she could hope to catch up with.
What the hell was that, so far only animals seen on earth have appeared, but no way that was on earth before. Her thoughts get interrupted as she suddenly sees a person with a white trail behind them.
Guess this will be easier than expected.
Hilda commands her pets to attack the person as she checks his stats only to see that it only says.
“White”
So I can't check other people's stats, how annoying.
Hilda charges at him with her pets as he conjures up some water to attack her pet's with with high water pressure.
Should have expected that other people had skills too.
Josaine uses her low level strength buff magic allowing her pets to endure the attack from white.
After a lengthy exchange of defending and attacking, one of the bats she tamed manages to bite him, and with the low level strength buff magic, it successfully bites into his hand before he grabs it and kills it easily.
Josaine uses this opportunity to attack as he suddenly shoots water in her direction.
What's he doing? That's not gonna hit me.. unless.
Josaine immediately orders some of her pets to defend her horse but was too late, chasing her horse to be knocked over and severely injured as white runs away.
Shit, no way my pets will be able to catch up.
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Hilda's pov
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I just heard a couple of loud sirens, so I'm just gonna avoid that direction entirely.
Hilda was looking for an area to take a nap as a random event lifeform suddenly runs by.
What…
Hilda eventually finds a small hole in the wall, which she uses to Take a nap in after seeing up a sensor incase anybody comes in which she bought from the shop
A couple hours later, she wakes up relieved and hears fighting outside.
As she goes out to check, she sees a person with a red trail fighting with someone with a blue trail.
Hey system, once she gets 3 people out does the activity end?
Yes.
Oh, I've got an idea.
As Hilda grips her sword tightly, and changes it to the mental state, she waits for an opportunity before slashing at blues head, causing the sword to go through with no visible damage.
Huh, What happened? Hilda turns back to see the man kneeling down clenching his head in pain and dropping his sword before slashing him again and running away.
Secret function discovered, when attacking in the mental state, “mind slasher” ignores all physical material non-biological material that does not have mental resistance.
That's gonna be really nice.
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Red's pov
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Who is this random person suddenly?
Josaine looks and sees that they have a black trail.
Huh? The person the guide said was their favourite due to the reasons she is in the tower right?
Josaine watches as black swings her sword through blues head causing him to react instantly without any visible injuries as she slashes in again and runs off.
What just happened?
Josaine decides to attack blue first before questioning it any further as she touches him while her pets bite blue.
Congrats, one user(blue) has been tagged!
Contributions.
(Red: 7 percent) (Black: 93 percent)
Oh so the contributions count…
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Hilda's pov
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A notification?
Oh nice, it seems she was able to make use of my help, though having contribution is really nice though.
Wait… I kinda want more rewards, so if I followed her wouldn't I be able to get more contributions?
Hilda follows red but constantly avoids her pets and keeps a safe distance while slashing her pets with the mental state of her sword when she they keep attacking.
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Red's pov
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Why the hell is black following me?
She's been at this for the past at least 30 minutes, she's probably trying to get more contributions, how greedy.
As josaine continues to move on with the maze, she notices black following behind nonstop.
Fine, if she wants to follow them I'll just make use of her.
Shortly after, she hears an explosion and runs to it to see yellow and green fighting as she listens to their argument.
Damn you, you stole my kill, no way I'm letting you go. The person with the green trail shouts as he shoots an arrow at her with his oddly thin but firm looking bow, only for yellow to block it with a shield and charge at him with a sword.
IThe monster ran in my direction, it was a free kill, if you don't think it was fair then complain to someone else.
As josaine hides and waits for an opportunity to third party, she sees black run right past them.
How arrogant…
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Hilda's pov
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Two more people? This is a great opportunity for some freedom contribution Hilda thinks while charging at them as they notice her presence.
Who are you? The person with the yellow trail shouts but Hilda ignores her and slashes her body through her shield causing her to kneel on the floor clutching her stomach but avoiding Hilda's next slash.
Hey, I know we hate each other, but let's team up for now? Hilda watches as both green and yellow team up as she creates clones and use the same method she did on the wyvern
What the fuck is he doing? Green shouts as he slashes one of the clones only for it to disappear before his sword reaches.
They're fake! God this is such a problem.
Green and yellow back up against each other, attacking any clones who get too far as Hilda attacks green with the same sword but shining, causing the arm he was using to hold his sword to be cut off.
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Red’s pov
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Josaine watches as black cuts off one of greens arms and slashes at yellow as she tries to block but the sword goes through, causing her to fall to the floor again without any visible damage but black successfully stabs one of yellow's legs.
What the hell is up with him?
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Hilda's pov
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I'm finally done with these two, but why did green call me a guy? I get that I'm wearing a mask but do I really look like a guy?
Hilda looks down and notices that her clothes are for both men and women but fits men better. Oh yea, it was on discount so I just bought it…
Hilda grabs both green and yellow by their hair and starts pulling them, looking for red as a hand suddenly appears to her right, with Hilda avoiding just barely.
Tsk, so close. Red says as she keeps attacking with her pets and trying to grab her.
Oh, she's gonna do this huh?
Hilda attacks with her word, infusing mana into it to make it sharper and easily slices through the weaker pets.
As Hilda kills all over red’s tamed pets, red falls down as she slashes Hilda with her sword at the mental state causing her to shout in pain while grabbing herself but Hilda keeps attacking.
Ok ok! I'll tag them! Stop it!
Hearing this, Hilda pulls green and yellow who have both fainted over to red who reaches her hand out while using the hand to grab her head and body in pain.
Congrats, two users(green/yellow) has been tagged!
Contributions.
(Red: 1 percent) (Black: 99 percent)
How nice.
Suddenly holograms that look similar to the system appear all over the area and the guide is shown on the screen.
Wow, it has only been 11 hours that ended a lot faster than I thought, this didn't really feel like hide and seek, but whatever, also… hi– I mean black, you really are pretty greedy aren't you?
Anyways, take a break before the next even starts.
The guide claps and Hilda gets sent to a place that looks nearly completely identical to her home, but with the outside being all white with nothing.
Wow, didn't think I'd see this place again so fast.
As Hilda looks around the house, taking in every detail even the smallest ones like the permanent marker marks left on the wall, the oddly nice but mostly nostalgic moldy smell and the creaking whenever she takes a step, all of which are attributed due to her and her sister always having to save money, with most of their saved money being from their small inheritance and insurance from their parents.
Hilda starts heading into her sister's bedroom and lies down feeling tired immediately.
How am I tired already? Didn't I just sleep just now…
The bed has properties that make you tired. The system answers.
Oh, well I guess a bit more sleep wouldn't hurt either. Her thoughts get interrupted as she dozes off.