My Life Almost A Year Later (1)

It's almost been a year. Nothing much changed. At least for me.

I still game all night. I had a fun summer vacation. My adventure level went up by twenty-one after completing the remaining world quests. Nothing changed.

Oh right, I didn't go to school. The aliens paused time for the humans on Earth and said that schools will open after spring break. It's spring break now.

Oh the aliens? They didn't change much. They just replaced all the governments. Just in position, though. The different governments still exist, only they have to answer to the aliens. It's like the world was united.

The world actually wasn't united though. That's because the aliens themselves were divided. The only reason why the world still has order is because the aliens have to listen to the System. Yes, the system who gave me the phone and developed the game. By the way, Valyn really is the System's son. No wonder he's so overpowered.

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Almost one year ago, the screens appeared in front of everyone. Except me. No one noticed. How could they pay attention to me when they have to deal with all the things that were happening?

That day, the aliens descended. That was the day when everything changed.

Or, that's how it should be. And that's how it is, for everyone but me.

There some changes. Some impacted me, others didn't. For example, the game became available to everyone. Although, the format was different...

My game was updated too. For some reason, all my characters and items went up two ranks. Plus, every single one of them are not available in the game version others are playing. Although, the quests are the same. The characters you get from quests are the same as well. Those characters and weapons didn't go up in rank. They weren't very highly ranked anyway.

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Today, the sky is blue. Distantly, I hear the sounds of people fighting against monsters. The sounds are constant, but never get any closer. The monsters never come near my house.

As for me, I'm just gaming on my bed.

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The day the aliens descended, a new app was downloaded on my phone. It said it was an extension of Basically, it was a shop for real-world items. They can be bought using kills. If I kill anything, human or monster either in real life or the game, I get one Kill. It's literally called a Kill.

The items are pretty useful. One of those items was It's pretty self-explanatory. No monsters come near anything I sprayed, and no one who wanted to fight monsters came to my house. There was no monsters, so it wasn't worth the time.

For those who didn't want to fight monsters, they were too scared to come to my neighborhood. My house it the only one standing amongst smashed plaster and wood. It looks so out of place that it's terrifying for others.

After the initial chaos subsided, it immediately started up again after the announcement of the aliens. Monsters were suddenly released on the planet by the System. The aliens wanted to conquer the world while it was in a state of panic. However, they failed.

Why you may ask? Aliens should be super powerful with advanced technology or magic. It's not like humanity's advantage of repopulating quickly or something like "courage" came into play. In fact, the aliens looked exactly like us. The System grouped any organisms that looked and had the same anatomy into the same universe. Why I know that information? Because I bought it.

The digital store app, called the System Shop, also sold books on different universes. Apparently, the characters come from different universes too. Although, my characters each come from different universes, while the rest of the world only uses characters from one world.

Oh yeah, the characters can appear in real life. Everything from the game, items, weapons, characters and even quests are now in real life. It's not very exciting.

First of all, I can just play at my house on my phone. There's no leveling advantage or anything. There's not even the advantage of not dying. No one dies from a monster in real life. They can only die from other people. However, it's still better to game in the comfort of my house. Who wants to trek around the world to fight monsters you can fight at home?

Transportation is also a problem. As I said before, I don't want to travel all around the globe to fight monsters. In the game, I can just teleport to a Teleport Point, dungeon or Heal Point. Healing is also a problem. In-game, you can just teleport to a Heal Point to regen health. In real life you need an insane amount of food. That's not a problem for me, as I can heal using the Heal Points in-game. I also have a ton of food. But it would draw too much attention.

I'm fine with drawing attention from anyone on Earth. I'm much higher level than the humans and even the Experts, but I'm worried about the

The are an alliance that, as it's name suggests, destroys worlds. The books on them are insanely expensive, and with my game monsters disappearing, I can't afford to buy them. All I know is that they're insanely powerful.

Fighting in real life is not as exciting as fighting in-game. I don't know how to fight in real life, but the monsters are too low leveled. I would be One Hit Man.

In-game, there's monsters around my level for me to fight. Besides, the monsters in real life give me trash loot. The monsters are supposed to be upgraded as people progress in their quests.

The quests are the same as in It's not worth completing those quests, as just the five daily quests in-game take longer and give me more rewards than the real life quests. I wonder what will happen when someone unlocks the final boss...

I've digressed from the original topic. The aliens are called the Experts, since the actual name is in a different language. They are higher leveled and have better loot, like the experts in a game.

The Experts failed to conquer the world simply because they had the same technology level as us. They were behind in entertainment, as they already activated the system, but had interstellar travel. Not that far, just barely enough to reach Earth. They were pretty close to humans on Earth.

Their planet wasn't even dying. They attacked us just because their civilization is based on conquering. As soon as they achieved space travel, they hopped on a spaceship and promptly invaded. Therefore, their space tech wasn't that much more advanced.

Because the Experts were lacking in entertainment, they possessed very bad imagination. This limited their intelligence in some places. They actually announced that they were going to attack and thought that we would surrender right away. Humans had five hours to prepare. That doomed the Experts.

However, the Experts were still experts after all. They had magic and technology on their side. They couldn't fit many people on their spaceship, but they made it up using characters. Though Earth has way more people, most of them are non-combatants.

The war turned into a stalemate. It lasted a couple months, but eventually the two sides were stuck. Until the System decided to intervene. Both sides were so shocked that the war ended with just a word. The humans because the System was an omnipotent existence, the Experts because the System never gave this much attention to a world before. Plus, it was still an omnipotent existence.

I'm sure it's because of me. The System gave me this phone after all. It even gave me it's own son! Although he was nerfed—to keep the balance of the omniverse; something about "a restricted world"—he is still strong enough to crush a whole army of Experts.

I don't know why the System pays attention to me. I don't believe that I'm all that special. I'm not a genius, or particularly good at sports. I'm not really horrible at anything either. Maybe I'm lacking in the emotion department, but it's not like I don't understand love. I just never experienced it with someone.

It can't be something like, "The System found a random average person and decided to change his fate," or anything. I have my strong and weak points. I'm not even unhappy. I just don't know why it chose me.

After the System stopped the war, it did something completely irrational for an ultimate being. It actually set up a system of government itself! It paid special attention to anything related to high schoolers, like schools. It's because of me, isn't it...

Today I'm grinding the dungeon It's a really hard dungeon. Orb Wizards are the hardest monsters in the game. They directly serve Kai, but he's dead now, so they can only be found in dungeons. This is becoming a problem. The monsters in the game are dwindling. Even the daily quests have become something like or I have a feeling the System wants me to fight in real life.

I tap on the choice to enter the dungeon. The dungeon was basically two stone doors embedded into the side of a mountain. Those doors glowed blue and whooshed open.

My avatar didn't step inside. Instead, a menu came up. The menu featured several dungeon modes. For the higher modes, you have to be a certain adventure level to even access them.

I selected the hardest mode, Death Mode. The minimum adventure level is 480 and the recommended parry level is 200. That's the max level for a character. The tenth and final evolution phase doesn't raise the level cap, but gives the character a sub-element. The sub-element is not one of the standard elements, but rather a completely new element.

Parties are groups of five characters. In your avatar switches place with a character in the deployed party. In a fight or dungeons, you cannot switch parties. The five characters are the characters you have to use for the fight. The avatar also takes up a slot.

All my characters are male since I actually switch to them in-game. However, ever since the update, I could now summon the characters beside me, but only in real life. I can also switch to my avatar from the game. Other people can get either gender character since they use the same summoning system. Although the quest characters are all male because of me.

The NPCs are not all male though, or someone would have said something.

In the game, the screen showed the loading screen for a brief second before switching to the interior of the dungeon. It was dark and entirely made of stone. Some blue torches lit up the area. For this multiple-use dungeon, there is only one room. A floating red crystal hovers in the middle of the circular room.

The floor is floating above ground. If I fall off the platform, I get kicked out of the dungeon. Essentially, I die.

I activate the key by running up to it and tapping the option to start. A countdown appears, saying I have five minutes to kill all enemies. The number of enemies also appears.

[Number of Enemies Defeated: 0/10]

Two Orb Wizards spawned on either side of me. Both wear a blue robe and black shoes. Their faces are white skulls with huge eye sockets. The Orb Wizards are fat little monsters.

Orb Wizards are surrounded by a round shield. The shield's color depends on what type the Orb Wizard is. You have to break the shield before actually dealing damage to the Orb Wizard. If you don't kill them fast enough, the shield reappears at full durability. Of course types help break shields. Zap is especially helpful.

The two Orb Wizards are frozen and hydro, on my left and right respectively. This is a deadly combination, because if a living thing in the game is wet, if an attack with frozen hits it, the living thing will be frozen. In-game, I have to tap on a certain part of the screen to free myself. In real life, you need a pyrus attack or some sort of fire.

First, I take care of the frozen elemental Orb Elemental. They can spawn bubbles that freeze me even if I'm not wet. The hydro Orb Wizard's bubbles only deal splash damage.

I use my level 200 zap character. Not only is zap effective against Orb Wizards' shields, it is also effective against both frozen and hydro. Pyrus is better against frozen, but an Orb Wizard's shield comes first.

This character is named Vaqu and has a sub-attribute of space. He's a rank five character. He currently equips the rank five, or rank seven in real life It deals damage in an electric arc, which means every normal attack is an AoE attack. It deals 500% more damage when the opponent is paralyzed, the status effect of zap.

The weapon is at the max level of 200. For weapons the tenth evolution unlocks a additional skill. For it has a 50% chance to paralyze the opponent. The skills' percentages are so high because the weapon is also at improvement rank 10, the max. Improvement requires an identical weapon and enhances their skills. It was hard finding ten more

Vaqu onscreen swipes his sword at the frozen Orb Wizard. A bit of the shield's durability goes down. Vaqu's basic attack has a 70% higher crit rate than other characters. This wasn't a critical.

I activate the skill It's a skill that creates a purple crystal near the enemy. The crystal deals zap damage and also acts as a teleport point. It's the skill from the space element. If I use the skill again, I teleport to the purple crystal and deals 150% extra damage.

A fifth of the durability bar goes down. The Orb Wizard uses an ice bubble after the hydro Orb Wizard bombards Vaqu with mini waterfalls. I try to dodge, but get hit by the hydro Orb Wizard.

The other Orb Wizard abruptly teleports behind me. Another ability of the Orb Wizards. They can teleport at any time. There is no pattern.

I quickly toggle Vaqu to turn around and unleash a Charged attack, which happens when I hold down the attack button. It takes up a bit of stamina.

The frozen Orb Wizard then uses another skill, one that shoots icicles down from the sky. I zigzag between them and continue attacking the Orb Wizard.

This continues for another twenty seconds before the shield breaks. I use Vaqu to lunge towards the Orb Wizard like a vulture swooping down for its prey. After a quick release of a combination of skills, the Orb Wizard is dead.

Next I teleport towards the hydro Orb Wizard. It tried its best to kill me in the prior battle, but it still failed to catch me off guard. I have been grinding this dungeon for a while now after all.

The ultimate skill finally finished charging up. I eagerly tap on it. Three lightning swords appear behind Vaqu and aid him in his attack. The hydro Orb Wizard dies a second later.

Four more Orb Wizards appear. I still use Vaqu to break through their shields. Vaqu constantly teleports during this battle royale, appearing behind the enemy and dodging their attacks.

All my characters can teleport while attacking Vaqu has a passive skill that increases his teleportation rate by as high as 1,000%. I did evolve the skill to the max after all.

Skills cannot level up, they can only evolve. They can only evolve if the character is at least Evolution Phase 2. It works like character and weapon evolutions, needing specific materials to evolve.

By the way, other people's characters in real life cannot teleport. Only mine can.

As I manage to kill off the third Orb Wizard, two more appear. Those are the final two I have to kill to complete this dungeon. However, I have to deal with the pyrus Orb Wizard in front of me first. This one already has its shield broken, so it's better to kill it before the shield regens.

I switch to a rank four, or in real life rank six character, Xinghui. He's hydro and has a sub-attribute of weather. He uses a five star sword called the It raises either crit rate and crit attack or skill attack by 200%. It's a fifty-fifty chance. This activates every 0.3s and can stack three times. Its additional skill heals the user by damage dealt. It can activate every 1 second but does not stack. It wouldn't make sense if it did.

I slash the pyrus Orb Wizard to death and turn to the other Wizards.

For these two, I use Valyn. I need to level him manually after all. The two Orb Wizards, zap and venti elemental, stare menacingly at Valyn. I'm about to give them an epic beat down. Let's beat them up!