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[You have survived through the Connection Pact.]
[Rewards - Full Recovery]
[The System has noticed the severity of your condition.]
[Automatically recieving the rewards.]
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Kai barely skimmed through the contents of the screen as his mind continued to sink into a vegetative state.
He was confused, and even more so—curious.
His body though, had already reached its limit.
Kai's senses had become numb since long ago. Thus, he had never realized how much of a grave danger his body was in.
A large sharp rock had long since impaled his back and shattered his spine and ribs. The nerves in his body had ruptured while the muscles had been torn apart.
Blood continuously gushed out of his body, pooling beneath on the ground creating a small pond made of nothing but blood.
The metallic stench was strong enough to make a perfectly fine human nauseate even with just a small puff of air.
"Hmm?"
Just as he was about to shut down his eyelids, a sweet melodious churn woke him up.
Feeling an embracing warmth in his chest, his eyes fluttered open.
"Wh-What's... Happening...?" Words slipped out of his mouth subconsciously.
Just as he was wandering about what in the world was happening to him, he felt as if he was being pulled upward.
His hands uncontrollably moved upwards, hanging in the air. Then came his torso, and his lower body.
He was standing normally, just that—in the air.
Completely shocked by what was happening to his body, his eyes kept darting towards different directions as if they were looking for someone or something.
"MMMPH!" He tried to speak, but couldn't open his mouth.
'The fuck is going on!?' All kinds of different thoughts started to flood his mind, causing his brain to think of it as an attack.
Just as he was about to lose his mind, the warmth that he once felt in his chest seemed to have awakened again.
However, this time, it spread throughout the entirety of his body.
Soon, he realized that it wasn't just some simple warmth, but something much more unbelievable than that.
His body was covered in a bright golden glow, whose intensity kept rising with no signs of stopping.
It didn't take long for his body to be completely devoured in an intense golden glow, his body illuminating the whole collapsed vicinity with intense exposure.
The golden light in itself seemed to have materialized on his skin as cracks began to appear on it.
Almost instantly, the light completely faded away. It was a very sudden action.
Kai on the other hand, slowly opened his eyes and looked down towards his hands. He repeatedly clenched his fists and was shocked to discover that his injuries had vanished as if they never existed to begin with.
His senses had become normal, his holed-down back was already healed.
That's when a certain memory came to his mind...
It wasn't a distant one, but rather—a recent one.
His eyes drifted up toward the ceiling and just as he thought, the same rectangular screen was still there.
"Reward? System? It makes... No sense!" Kai snarled as his eyes remained fixated on the floating screen.
Kai had long since admired the concepts of fantasy novels and was a die-hard fan of such genres, yet the idea of a system window to appear in the real world was nothing but totally absurd to him!
As he was lost in his thoughts, his eyes noticed a change occurring in the system window.
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[Progress: Error (Failed!)]
[Analysing...]
[System has detected the presence of a seal on your memories.]
[A higher power level is required to unseal them completely.]
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"Huh? My memories are sealed?" Kai slightly raised his eyebrow, but his expression remained the same.
'That's certainly not possible... Because I remember most of the things that have happened to me since my birth...' He squinted his eyes as he began to think about the situation thoroughly.
'But why would the system lie to me... and if it isn't lying, then maybe that would explain why that old man... Lukas... felt so familiar...'
It was a genuine concern, but before he could think about anything else, the content of the screen changed again.
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[System has completely analyzed Planet E13's current situation.]
[Initiating emergency protocol...]
[All the remaining survivors will be teleported to the 'Tutorial Area'.]
[Time Remaining - 0:03 seconds.]
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"Wait! What do you mean by that now!?" Utterly confused, he couldn't help but ask the system, his voice wavering as various concerns arose in his mind.
The stopwatch, though, continued to tick while a cerulean-blue energy started to gather around Kai, forming a circular dome-like barrier around his his body.
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[Time Remaining - 0:00 seconds.]
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As soon as it touched the surface of zero, Kai's vision became distorted.
In an instant, the whole dome-like barrier including Kai himself, vanished into thin air.
Kai's vision changed dramatically, causing him to become a bit nauseated.
Kai unconsciously took some steps back as he tried to balance himself, his head spinning from the nausea.
As his nausea finally began to subside, he was once again greeted with another one of the system windows.
And of course, just like before, the contents had been changed.
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[Welcome to the Waiting Area.]
[You are to familiarise yourself with the system within the next 10 hours.]
[You will be teleported to the Tutorial Zone once the 10 hours are complete.]
[The world wishes you luck.]
[For the Seventh Calamity has begun.]
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The message sounded eerie... Yet it was the sole truth that stood way above any doubts in his mind.
Kai tried to look for anyone or anything, yet for as far as his eyes could see, he saw nothing but a pristine white realm that stretched well beyond his sight.
"So, system, mind telling me what you can do?" He asked in a calm and decisive tone. Unlike before, his attitude seemed to have changed as soon as he entered this space.
Almost as if he had accepted the reality and was already trying to get used to it.
And for some unexpected reasons, a hint of excitement could be seen from his bright eyes.
Why? No one knows.
But one thing is sure, that the Seventh Calamity... Has begun...