"Where the hell am I?" A tanned skin man croaked as the blinding light surrounding him slowly dissipated, as he managed to regain his sight he looked around him and he was left stunned.
"Where the hell is this?" Julius questioned his face filled with a tearful expression, the sky was pitch black and the only thing illuminating light was the three blood red moons.
The air was filled with a harsh dust that made it hard to breathe and small cracks on the ground made it possible for the lava underneath to create some sources of lighting.
-Ding!
[Location: Underworld | First floor (Devil's land)
Description: The first floor of the Underworld a barren corrupted land from another realm, it is now filled with it's inhabitants which have adapted and are now powerful]
[Punishment: Survive 2 hours In the Underworld or die!]
Seeing this Julius stood staring at the screen with a raised eye brow, 'Underworld?' he mumbled his eyes shining with a hint of confusion he hadn't heard of a dungeon or place called the underworld but somehow he was here.
Suddenly the ground rumbled making Julius take a few steps back as the ground continued rumbling until a monstrous large worm with flames around it's body erupted from the ground.
[Death Worm, Lvl.15]
[Description: One of the most common and weakest crearures of the Devil's land, they are classified as the weakest and as such move in packs to hunt.
Note: When moving in packs they an be very deadly!]
After reading this Julius had an expression of total disdain he squeezed his face so much that even a monkey could rival his current appearance.
'How the hell does the system expect me to survive against such monstrous beasts?!' If it was only one of the beasts then he would have managed but now he was seeing that these beasts hunted in packs!
They didn't even cause injuries to him like simple cuts or deep wounds, no, they would swallow him in one gulp and end his life!
As he took a step back further three more monstrous worms sprouted out of the ground heading towards Julius with their numerous scattered teeths wide opened to swallow him but he refused to die at the mouth of souch beasts! Not thinking twice he made a run for it not caring where he was headed but the ground in front trembled and a fourth work appeared.
'What the hell!' Julius said in a yell his eyes water as he immediately made a sharp turn running through the desert like ground, though he wasn't fast and for the worms it was as easy as swimming through the sand so they caught up to him each time their mouth jamming together in each failed attempt to eat Julius.
As he ran Julius felt anger build up in him not because of he was weak but because of the system was forcing him into a situation he never wanted to be in.
Suddenly in front of the path he had been running towards a death worm jumped towards him unexpectedly leaving him unable to dodge, the only thing he could do was watch as the mouth inched closer towards him.
"Fuck it!" He yelled lifting his right arm which glowed with a dark purple glow, he swinged it with all his strength and swinged it to the side with all his strength, the Death worm who was alarming close to getting it's first meal in a century suddenly felt an unexpected invisible force push it head away taking away it chance at eating Julius.
"I—it worked!" Julius said as he exhaled his relief he didn't expected to be able to use his magic power so freely but he had managed to do so when he needed it the most, still it didn't mean he was saved from the others as he continued running away from the other Death works.
[Agility stat has been increased by one point!]
***
[2 hours later]
-Ding!
[You have survived for 2 hours without even taking a damage! Commendable!]
[Reward: +5 Stats Point(s)/ Gate to the Underworld/ +100 Coins
Warning! You were not rewarded for completing the punishment but for surpassing the system's expectations!]
[You will now be transported back to your world...]
Suddenly a white light surrounded Julius and once again he was in his bedroom his body covered with intense sweat and was on the brink of collapsing.
He shakily reached for his phone and checked the time it was excatly 2AM in the morning, it seemed that the way time flowed in the Underworld was in perfect sync with the way it did in earth.
-Ding!
[Daily quests received!
Run 10KM
100 Push-ups
100 Sit-ups
Drink 3 liters of water
Reward: +1 Free Stat point/Status recovery
Punishment: ???]
Seeing this Julius's face squeezed once more as he immediately went on the floor he wasted no time in attempting to do the quests, the first time he was sent to the Underworld an unknown place filled with deadly monsters this time he may just be sent directly to Sung-Jinwoo.