William looked at his hand and saw a shining metallic oval on it, he had a shiver down his spine when he looked at the thing.

It was grey in color while its surface shined from the light. It was not something he felt threatened by but from the angle William looked at the object, he could see small metallic spikes embedded in his skin as if It was a big centipede with all the legs actually inside his skin.

William moved his arm around furiously but he felt even more pain, it was latched pretty tightly in his skin.

"What the hell is this thing!?" He exclaimed not minding that he was talking to himself.

He smacked his hand around but the thing didn't seem to detach from his wrist anytime soon.

"Calm down, William. Calm down…" William took a few deep breaths, he looked at the thing for a second, thinking confidently that the thing couldn't stay on his wrist anymore.

His fingers went toward the metallic oval, William didn't actually know that it was a circle but half of it was already inside his skin. But he still made his fingers move toward the object in order to pull it out.

"!"

William saw the metallic oval change itself in front of his eyes, the very shiny surfaces circled in a second and mysteriously, a red button came out.

William couldn't understand why these sudden changes were going on in his very body.

'So what now? I have a power switch to kill myself or something?' William tried to joke to lighten his mood but it did not do anything, even making his thoughts more chaotic.

"A red button right on my wrist huh… What could go wrong?" William calmed himself and after switching his brain off that was tinging and telling him that this was the greatest red flag he could find in this new relationship, a red button!

CLICK

William's face moved instinctively back when something came out of the object.

He looked at the thing again and couldn't help but widen his eyes in dumbfoundedness.

A hologram!

On his hand!

William looked at the content written on the half meter long hologram and tilted his head in confusion.

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"What language is this?"

William tried to touch the screen, not minding the fact now that a parasyte-like object was stuck on his wrist.

When his hand went to the hologram, it passed like he expected yet where he touched, a wave went to every corner of the hologram just like water.

[Synchronizing the system with the host's mind…]

[3… 2… 1… Effective!]

[Congratulations on activating your system! And welcome to the world of Towers!]

[This is a game designed especially for lower-grade species like you to get accustomed to the outside world.]

[In order to take full advantage of the system's features, the host has to click the red button twice and all you need to know will be sent directly to your mind.]

[This feature was announced after observing many experiments dying due to their lack of knowledge! Good luck to the host! Hope you survive to the end!]

William read the notifications that popped into the holographic screen one after the other.

He read the description of the second last and last pop-up twice until his hand went to the red button at a very fast pace.

'Like hell I will wait around just because I find this thing imaginative and unreal!'

CLICK CLICK

The hologram went inside the object again and then came out.

"Hm?"

It was not the same as before where the hologram was empty and pop-ups came one after other every next second.

This time, many texts were already engraved in the hologram from the start and William couldn't help but engross himself with it until he felt an itchiness in his forehead.

"What?" William scratched his forehead and the frown on his face couldn't get more ugly.

The itching was on the inside, no matter how he scratched on his head or forehead, it didn't matter.

"FUCK!!"

William couldn't bear it anymore, he dug his nails even sharper inside the forehead and that was when his head started hurting too.

At the back of his head, he knew he couldn't do anything about this situation. What could he do? Go to a doctor? Where was a doctor anyway!? Where was his phone, laptop, his house?

William sat on the ground, he diverted his mind toward other thoughts. What was happening to him? The hologram did say that the information was going to get engraved in his mind but he didn't expect such a thing to happen.

Minutes passed and he finally could feel a small bit of new memories that were not his, they were visions that felt like that of a dream.

William got a small vision of multiple horrible-looking creatures running at a horrendously fast pace toward a big tower.

The tower was nothing like the one William had seen in front of him, it was touching heights that not even the tallest mountains could reach on Earth.

It had weapons of all types, creatures of all types, on the tower, around the tower killing the many horror show creatures like they were nothing.

At the end of that memory, he saw the name, Tower defense.

Now William saw everything, he knew all the basics.

'I am in a tower defense game?' William's itch in the head had gone away a minute ago as he kept his hands on his eyes.

He looked to be in deep thought, his face looked like he was going to cry anytime soon.

But something very unexpected happened, William was not crying at all. He had a grin plastered on his face with small giggles coming out of his mouth here and there.

"Hehehehehehehe….this is so exciting!!" William shouted as he got up, there was no pain in his wrist now and he felt happiness well up in him that he had not experienced for a long time.

William opened the hologram again with confidence as if he had used the thing for ages now.