"Today's class choosing is going to be insane! ".
"Yeah, today's era youth is so amazing and powerful that we can't even compare them to our time. ".
" Well, you guys are right but they are nothing infront of our hero, Lucian Vale. ".
" Yes, you said it correct. ".
Many voices whispered these words to each other. These voices were of specatators came to witness the beginning of the current era youth. It was the day of inheriting class where current gen's youth will complete their class choosing quest and get a class.
"It's about time.. I can't wait anymore. ".
" Yes.. same here.. ".
The whispers increased every second.
All of them were watching the scene from a very big screen, the crimson screen from different places—home, workplaces or even streets. The screen was screening the live scene of the class choosing quest.
The scene was of a city, a very big city. Actually it was not a city but only a clone created by one of the adventurer. The city who's clone was created was none other than but Tokyo.
The class choosing quest was going to take place in the tokyo. The quest window decides the place 2 months before the class choosing quest. All the children who were going to take part in it were here. Not only children, but adults too. The time at which one may recieve it's first quest defy for every person. One may never recieve it and they are called ordinaries but those who do are the adventurers.
There was a teenager, a 17 year old boy, Lucas Walker. He also recieved a notification from the crimson window about the class choosing quest and the location. They were standing in the middle of the tokyo, numerous building surrounding them. The whole city was silent—as it was a clone and the only souls present their were of those who received the quest and of those surveying it.
During the quest, any participant is allowed to eliminate others and to eliminate, one must kill other.
Lucas' legs were trembling, the vibrations could be transported inside the land he was standing on. He was currently standing on a road and many others were too but few were standing beneath the trees near them to embrace the shadow and defy the sun. Many were standing on footpath. Lucas' looks were below average, his short black hairs and skinny body. Many hated him because his temper and attitude was very bad.
Lucas was weak, physically weak but he was mentally strong. He wore casual clothes, cyan t-shirt and jeans. His black blue sneakers matched his outfits. It was the time of noon and they were sweating.
There was 5 minute for the class choosing quest to start and the information of the quest came on their screens.
Quest Choosing Quest:
It is the very basics of every quest, it defines the role and power of an adventurer.
But how can one complete it? Will this quest be completed after killing a monster? Will this quest be completed after gathering few materials? Will this quest be completed after solving puzzles?
No, absolutely not.
An adventurer gain it's class after proving it's worth and achieving it's feats. The feats and achievements defines the class of an adventurer.
To complete this quest, one must survive for a time limit of 24 hours and during these 24 hours, any action a participant will perform may define it's class after the quest is finish. If you hunt, you might be a warrior, if you conserve your energy, you might be a healer, if you use your brain and use your surroudings, you might be a mage and etc.
One can even kill other participants and do whatever they want during these 24 hours.
Goodluck.
This was the information written on the screen.
Lucas murmured, "What is this piece of crap? ".
Not only Lucas, but other's too. It was not like their teachers taught them. Actually, every year, the class choosing quest changes itself to match the power and potential of new generation.
Every participants body suddenly freezed, their body won't listen to them. It was not their mistake, it was the magic of the crimson screen. To prevent any form pf cheating, the crimson screen freezes the body of the participant after announcing the information of the quest.
Lucas looked aroumd him, many strong people. There were people even in their mid 30s, many were in their prime and even younger than him.
The crowd was talking to each other, "Actions will define our class? ".
"What does that mean? ".
"Wait, so if I killed anyone, will I get a offensive class? ".
" I am scared, I do not want to die. ".
These emotions were normal for any participant to feel as we humans ourself love our life, we do not want to die.
The sun was white, it was the mid of summers. The clouds were moving slowly and many animals were sleeping in the real world. The specatators were inside their home watching it on their own crimson screen. Every human have a crimson screen but only the chosen one gets the class choosing quest.
Only 2 minutes were left until the start of the quest. Lucas was trembling very hard, he was scared. He was thinking of all sorts of things going to happen after these 2 minutes.
None said a word, they could not. All those who were here to survey were also freezed. Only 1 minute left.
They had no weapon, they had to find them inside the houses. The weapons were randomly laying on the ground at any random place. It's on luck whether one find a strong weapon or a weak weapon or even none.
Only 10 seconda remained,
9,8,7,6,5,4,3...2.....1..
Times Up! Message came on the screen and they could move their body.
Lucas didn't focus on anything but only ran towards a big building. He was not good in sports, his stamina was terrible. His black eyes, they were weak as he wore glasses. The whole building was made up of glasses, it was big, very big. Lucas jumped and shattered the glass infront of him and entered into the ground floor. There was also a basement. The whole building was empty, no furniture but only stairs and floors made up of glasses. He saw no weapon but the empty ground.
He could hear screams of those fighting and dying in the combat. Lucas was himself breathing heavily and sweating very badly.
He moved his head left and right to search for any kind of weapon but found none. He had no choice as he could hear many footsteps coming towards him, he climbed the floors one by one to find any weapon but to his luck, he found none even though he already climbed 3 floors. The building contained 17 floors and Lucas had no more stamina to climb those. Only 4 minutes had passed after the starting of the quest, it was like the time had slowed down.
Everything around him was made up of light blue glasses, they were weak. Even a small jump can break them. Lucas had to walk slowly and calmly or he will fall to his death. He heard something, someone climbing the stairs. There was no place to hide, Lucas had to face the person. He could not jump as he will face a great damage if he did. He remained silent and sat down, waiting for the person to come. But suddenly, the sound of the steps disappeared like it never existed. Lucas' heart which was beating very fastly was silent now.
He slowly moved towards the stairs to climb more floors and climbed like a dog, slowly. He could see the outside view, the land which was clean before but now, it was stained red with blood. There were corpses outside, numerous corpses. Some were cut from a knife, some were crushed from a heavy object.
Suddenly, Lucas felt a presence behind him, he turned behind, there was no one. For a moment, his breath and heart both stopped, his expressions changed to fear. Lucas was scared, very scared.
"This year class choosing quest is really something else. It's like these kids have no heart, they are murdering each other like human live have no meaning to them. ".
One of the old man in a house said these words to his son. They were enjoying the view, they were enjoying it like an entertainment. Whereas, many other families were crying because their child was killed, because their husband was killed, because their grandchild was killed. Lucas only had a big brother and his brother was busy in work. He had no time to watch Lucas' class choosing quest. He was pretty busy.
Lucas was already at the 7th floor and now there was no stamina left in his body, not even to move his fingers. He was thirsty and only 10minutes had passed. He found a pair of sharp knives used to cut bones on the 6th floor and was now carrying them, waiting for the presence in his building to come to him. The view infront of him was calm, as he could only see the other tall buildings, sky and the clouds. But despite all that, he could hear screams, cursing of the participants. A point came where he thought of cutting his ears.
The way he was spending his time, he was going to get no class.
Yes, if a participant do nothing but only sit around and hide, they will get no class and their career as an adventurer will end before even starting.
Lucas knew that he had to do something, he can not sit around and just pass time. He could again hear footsteps climbing the glass stairs. He waited and ready to ambush and then again, those footsteps disappeared. Lucas had no patience, he was annoyed. He grabbed those knives and climbed down the stairs to check.
He slowly move ahead to conceal his presence and not to shatter the glass below him. After walking down atleast 5-6 steps, he saw a shadow, a shadow of another person.
Someone was following him, Lucas got scared. He pointed both the knives towards the shadow and asked, "WHO'S THERE!? ".
No answer came, Lucas turned around and ran with all his might. He was scared, scared of dying. But after running few steps, the glass shattered below him and he fell on the floor down him. The floor on which he fall also shattered and he fell again. This event continuously happened until he fell on the ground floor. Many shattered glasses pierced his skin and he was wounded pretty badly. Blood was coming out of every wound of his body. He was moaning in pain, shattered glass around him.
He looked ahead and there were only corpses and a transformer. It was weird because all of the thing in this world was made up of glasses but the transformer, it was real.
He stood up in pain, his vision blurry and he was feeling dizzy. He was moaning, moaning in pain. Someone came out of the shattered building, it was a dark figure. Lucas could not see who it was but it had horns on it's head.
Lucas thought it was his imagination, he was seeing horns because his vision was blurry.
The presence started running towards him and he ran to escape from it towards the transformer.
When he stood up and looked around, he did not see the transformer alone, but a corpse wearing rubber gloves. He ran with all his might towards the corpse but on his way, he fell on the ground. The corpse was right infront of him, he had only few seconds until the presence catch up to him. He grabbed both the hands of the corpse and removed the rubber gloves from his hands.
He wore those gloves and stood up. The transformer was fine, it was not stained with blood. It's surrounding was but it was like it repealed every drop of blood. He again begin to run away from the presence but this time, the presence caught up to him and tackled him. The impact made him fell on the ground again, the pain rose.
Lucas grabbed the face of the presence and kicked it back, stood up and again ran towards the transformer. The transformer was only 2 meters away from him and only 20 minutes passed since the quest started.
The presence again grabbed him from back and this time, he grabbed both the hands of the black presence and threw it on the transformer. It was as he planned, the transformer had a blast and that dark presence felt great shock but it touched his rubber gloves and those gloves, they turned to dust for some reason and he was also pulled into the shock of the transformer.
The crimson window popped up and a message came, [You died. ]