"Increase the difficulty."
"This one has potential."
"No… not yet. Let him struggle more."
Their voices echoed without sound.
Watching.
Waiting.
Feeding.
I used to be one of them.
I used to watch… the same way.
Until I realized something.
We weren't guiding humanity.
We were consuming it.
…
"Judgment passed."
"Authority revoked."
"Return him to the beginning."
"Wipe his mind."
When I opened my eyes—
I was standing at the base of the tower.
This time…
I wouldn't watch.
I would break it.
I look around.
People, millions... no billions.
Panic screams and crying can be heard in every direction.
"Ahhh, w-what the hell."
Everyone asking questions.
Just where are we?
A loud sound, like a bell ringing plays in the sky.
A prompt appears-floating text.
Then a robotic voice can be heard... it's reading the text.
|Oh look at all of you, poor-poor beings, disgusting humans.|
|Don't be despaired, all of you may be wandering "just what is going on here."|
The robot laughs to itself, mocking the humans.
I close the message Infront of me.
I block everyone out so I can focus.
"Status."
A window appears Infront of me, a blue floating box.
Labeled status window on top, at the bottom it says system.
It shows everything as if it's your ID card, with a few addons of course.
Mine Reads-
| Name - Arthur ____ | Age: 19
| Level: 1
| Strength: 5 | Agility: 5 | Endurance: 5 | Perception: 6 | Cognition: 7
| Available points: 0
Why do I know how to do this?
What is this?
Why am I doing this?
I get a headache and the world around me starts to open up again.
I come back to my senses as the system finishes up it's "talk".
The system speaks-wait-that's a real voice... almost human.
"Oh forget that trash talking robot, he's an ass."
A gold shiny sort of portal opens and a very large man appears.
As tall as a modern house, wings that stretch to the size of a bus, the voice of a man in his 50's.
"Anyways, your world has been chosen to get the rare chance to ascend the tower."
"Fantastic right? I know."
"Each of you will have an opportunity of a patron; god's who will gift you talent and skill enough to ascend the tower, you don't have to pick of course."
The man smiles.
"But if you don't, things will become much more difficult."
The people look up to the man.
He looks down, then frowns.
"OH MY! I totes forgot to give you people an oh so important skill."
He taps his fingers on what's probably the system although we can't see it.
"Oh here you go, I'm so-so sorry about that."
| System Announcement |
The robotic voice can be heard again.
| Universal Comprehension has been granted to all players |
The people look around now able to understand even those of other language.
I don't know what to think right now.
My brain is so flustered.
I'm confused.
Why don't I feel the way they feel.
I only feel as if I've forgotten a very important piece of my memory.
Whatever I'll deal with this later.
The people can feel gust of wind past by them... it's flowing like water, moving person to person, as if it's searching for something.
"Ah. My-my would you look at that, the first Patron has arrived, seems it's my time to go, Farewell everyone."
The very Large but handsome man tucks back into the portal as it disappears.
"W-w-what does he mean by first patron."
Then the wind stops on a man who is probably in his late 20's, the wind picks of leaves that surround the man.
He starts talking to it, he smiles and balls his fist. Then in a few seconds... disappears, a blue light, bright and fast.
Many people around can be heard asking where he went some seem even more terrorized and in pain while others seem to have realized something.
That was a patron.
More gust of wind, so many you couldn't count them with how many people were here, over 2 billion.
Soon many disappear.
"Arthur-Arthur-Arthur"
A gust of wind circles Arthur saying his name over and over.
"Take me as you patron, I will gift you greats amounts of money and fame as I am the patron of fortune and fame."
Arthur listens, doesn't react and shrugs the wind off.
Arthur then disappears as well.
Everything goes black and then he falls into a vast land of greenery, trees, flowers, even mountains are seen in the distance.
A robotic voice again.
| Welcome to Floor 1 |