William used to tell me how a night was enough to turn a person's life upside down. But I...I always scoffed at him. I even told him to keep his moronic philosophies to himself.
Even though somewhere deep inside my heart I had always appreciated the things William used to tell but my ego never let me express the appreciation.
Now was a perfect time for that fool William to appear out of nowhere and wake me up from this dream I am having.
I closed my eyes and waited for sometime. But nothing happened. Just a breeze blowing by telling me the thoughts coming to my mind right now was moronic.
Living in the past and wishing for something unattainable and hopeless would only hamper my cognitive abilities.
I already had a path ahead.... strengthening myself as fast as possible. And on the path of strength these thoughts just become a hurdle that I must overcome.
After redirecting my thoughts on the path of strength, I focused on the stats I was previously shown to scrutinize what my fortitude was and the things I was currently lacking as well as wondering about ways to raise these stats.
The dimly lit status window glowed once again as if it was responding to my inspection.
And after looking at it closely, I felt somethings had changed within it.
STATUS WINDOW
NAME - AURIEL
AGE - 5 HOURS
SPECIES - UNKNOWN
LEVEL - 0
CLASS - NECROMANCER TREE (EVOLVABLE)
EXP - 4.5/10
HP - 150
MP - 300
STRENGTH - 2.2
INTELLIGENCE - 3
VITALITY - 1.5
SENSE - 2.5
MOBILITY - 0.001(CANNOT MOVE)
SUBORDINATES - 0
ATTRIBUTES POINT - 0
It had already been 5 hours since I had came to this place. And the previous 0 on the EXP was replaced by 4.5 . This change regardless its insignificance was a change and how did all of this work, I had to figure it out.
As if the status window was looking at me listening to my every word and thought, the words on it rerranged itself and with a few changes a new status window with some sentences was shown to me.
STATUS WINDOW
KILL VARIOUS CREATURES TO ABSORB THEIR ENEGY ACCUMULATION OR INCORPORATE ENERGY PARTICULATES TO INCREASE EXP.....
ENERGY PARTICULATES ARE RADIATED BY THE WORLD WHICH CAN BE ABSORBED BY THE NATIVES OF THIS WORLD...
ADVANCING TO NEXT LEVEL GIVES ATTRIBUTE POINTS THAT CAN BE ADDED TO VARIOUS STATS....
ABSORBING THE ONES KILLED BY SUBORDINATES CAN INCREASE STATS..... (NECROMANCER TRAIT)
LEVEL TOO LOW....(ABSORBTION OF THE DEAD NOT AVAILABLE)
I had been contemplating about how to increase my strength and the status window just gave information on things that could be done to increase strength.
With the help from the status window, some of the basic things had been cleared helping me pave a path to move forward.
While I was busy thinking about the path shown by the status window something abruptly distracted me. Everyting infront of me started turning red.
Even the sky had turned red. And this sudden reddening of everthing was accompanied with a loud noise that sounded like a warning system that went off to warn residents about a incoming missile.
It sounded like some kind of disaster warning bell that prompted people to stop what they were doing, run for their life and hide in the bunkers to pray for this time to pass very swiftly.
After the warning bell stopped, I heard a mechanical voice. The voice was weird. There was no vibration in the air but I was able to hear it.
WELCOME TO THE MAGICAL WORLD OF
WARKINELS.....
THIS THE WORLD OF THE STRONG.....
HERE THE STRONG RULE AND THE WEAK ARE RULED...
PROVE YOUR STRENGTH USING THE RACE ASSIGNED TO YOU....
FIGHT TO BE THE SOLE RULER OF THIS WORLD....
KILL THE VARIOUS CREATURES OF THIS WORLD TO GET STRONGER...
TIME TILL NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT: 7
DAYS
The voice was mechanical and it just gave the introduction to this world. Was this like a introductory welcoming speech? And the mechanical voice was my senior that was briefing me about this universi.... world.
After the voice stopped. A new section of status window appeared infront of me.
RANKING
1. -NA-
2. -NA-
3. -NA-
(RANKING STARTS AFTER NEXT ANNOUNCEMENT)
Ranking word puzzled me. What ranking? How would I be ranked? What can I do to be on ranking? Who am I even competing with to be ranked ? Was this really not a university welcome program? Every question I asked puzzled me more.
RANKING IS THE MEASURE OF POWER.....
RAISE YOUR LEVEL.....(GAIN SUBORDIBATES)
RANKING IS DONE BETWEEN THE SOULS THAT HAD BEEN TRANSPORTED TO THIS WORLD.....
My little bit of hope was now completely shattered. I had really been transported to a new world and this was what ranking meant by.
Souls that had been transported to this world??? It meant I was not the only one that transported here.
And brought ? What did it mean by brought ??
FIRST BATCH OF PEOPLE BROUGHT FROM THE PLANET NO.368 (EARTH) IN WARKINELS.....
NUMBER OF PEPOLE BROUGHT - 100K
NUMBER OF PEOPLE ALIVE - 98K
As a response to my thoughts new sets of words appeared infront of me.
100k people were brought here and 2k people had already died in just five hours.
Was this Warkinels so fearsome? I was not sure as nothing of such sort had happened to me till now.
Another thing that bothered me abominably was, What had killed those two thousand people?
THE NATIVE BEASTS OF THIS PLANET...
The question could not disturb me further as I was promptly answered by the mechanical voice.
A impending feeling of my privacy being invaded appeared in my heart and in reponse to my thoughts the mechanical voice briskly replied.
NOT INTERESTED IN USER'S PERSONAL LIFE.....
I felt quite offended from its snide remarks and why was it answering my questions ??
THE SYSTEM IS DESIGNED TO MAKE USER ADAPT FAST IN THIS WORLD....
It answered again. The mechanical voice was designed to help me adapt to this world faster.... Was this the fabled power that the god bestows to a transmigrator ?
CANNOT ANSWER....
DESIGNED TO ANSWER QUESTIONS RELATED TO THIS WORLD....
The system justified itself and I also thought it was true because the system had not interrupted me while i was thinking about my previous world.
I became more curious and started asking about this world. I asked again and my question was related to this world too.
Why were we brought here ?
TO GAIN STRENGTH...
This puzzled me. What type of strength was it talking about?
STRENGTH BEYOND HUMAN COMPREHENSION.....
FURTHER INFORMATION RELATED TO THIS WORLD IS RESERVED TO THOSE WHO APPEAR IN TOP RANKING FOR MORE THAN 12 TIMES....
What does that even mean? I waited for a answer to be given but the mechanical voice that was giving swift remarks even to my thoughts previously now remained silent.
Now that I knew something about this planet and the situation I was in , wanting to gather strength and prepare for the worse was a natural response.
Two thousand souls had already perished with what type of adventure this world conferred still unilluminated.
Gaining strength safely and swiftly should be the number one concern for everybody that remained.