Wishing to survive

[System message]

You have leveled up!

Level 6

Exp: 12/60

[Massage end[

I have been hunting monsters with the same method for almost 3 hours. Only one hour is remaining until the end of the first stage.

Silvia is now level 11, since she has been hunting more monsters than me.

She insisted I defeat more monsters because of my low stats, but I convinced her to hunt more monsters because growing her abilities are more of an asset to us than growing mine.

Currently, out of a few thousand people, only about a thousand are remaining according to my estimation.

Besides leveling up to 6, my hide stat skill has leveled up to 2 due to it being activated for a long time. I can now hide 3 stats.

People have been noticing us for the past two hours or so. After most of the population inside the barrier died, the monsters started to appear less as the remaining powerful individuals were slaughtering them. So they started to notice my teamwork with Silvia and how two kids were killing monsters easily.

I'm trying to avoid their attention by pretending to look worn out so they won't approach us. As I'm doing this, a system window appears in front of my face.

[System massage]

By teaming up with Silvia Silverlane for a long period of time, you have increased your relationship by an enormous amount!

A skill of the hidden title, Party Lv.1 has been unlocked.

[Massage end]

Apparently the hidden title has granted me a skill. This hidden title of mine is really mysterious. I don't know if I'll be able to find out what it is in the future. Maybe I can figure it out by leveling up?

It has given me a helpful skill and a feature. I don't know what this title is, but if I make good use of it, surviving will be easier. Especially if its giving me skills and features.

Enough about that. Let me see what the party skill is. Its going to be really helpful. But to understand its true value, I need to know more about the skill.

[Party Lv.1]: A skill granted by the hidden title "??? ????? ?? ??? ????? ???????". Allows user to party up with a number of individuals based on the level of the skill. Affects: Track your party member_ know your party members condition. As the level of the skill increases, the affects increase as well.

Alright. This is really helpful for Silvia and me to keep track of ourselves in different situations. By what I've gathered, using skills frequently or activating it for a long time males their level go up, so if I keep this skill active all the time, it'll level up pretty fast. And the affects will increase to.

Its really strange though. I thought that using skills needed magic power or for short MP. But there is no such requirements for skills that I have. Maybe its just that easy to level up your skills in this world.

Having thought enough, I decide to wait until I activate the party skill and form a party with Silvia and observe the surroundings.

I see the remaining people are fighting the monsters. Only about nine hundred people are remaining now.

The gods are most likely planning on training us and choosing the ones who survived the tutorial and sending them to the other world to do their biting. I'm not going to accept their request first hand though. If by being their slave I'll be able to save my family, then I'll do whatever they want. Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind afterwards.

I checked the time. There's only thirty minutes left until the first stage ends. I'm on the verge of collapsing out of exhaustion and starvation, but I keep it in.

Silvia has been laying beside me while she has her dominate skill active.

I forgot to mention, due to Silvia's domination skill being active for almost six hours, it is now on level 3 and it has new features including poison, which infects the people on her domain and kills them. And sleep, which puts whomever on her domain to sleep.

Her first abilities power has increased as well. For example, she can now paralize three people . Besides that, the distance of her domain has increased as well. Almost doubled in fact.

She has gained new skills too. They are the "Earth magic Lv.1" and "Water magic Lv.1" skills.

For why she gained these skills, I have to say that the domain she set up had both dirt and water and her title is basically the dominator, meaning controller and she was king of killing monsters by controlling dirt and water so her gaining these skills were expected.

Compared to her, I haven't grown a lot, but I have gained useful abilities and powers.

Suddenly, I get a twisted feeling in my stomach. What if its not enough? what if I cant find my family? does thoughts run through my mind. I wasn't always thinking negatively. In fact, I was what you would call a bright child. But due to getting into trouble at school with bullies and some other circumstances, I was turned into a negative kid. Well, enough about that. There is no benefit in me remembering those stuff. I already made up my mind. I'm never going to give up. That was decided from the start, when I was first got summoned to this world.

I asked Silvia about the party skill:

"Hey, Silvia. I just got a new skill."

"Really? What is it?' She replied with excitement.

"Its the party skill. It basically allows me to find out and know the conditions of my party members. Its level one of course."

She doesn't talk for almost a minute. It seemed like she was thinking about something.

After thinking, she came to her senses, turned her head to face my face, and said: "Alright. We don't know if that skill of yours can backfire. I mean if you party up with a bad person intending to harm you, he or she will know your location and state at all times. So I want you to make another promise with me. Don't party up with anyone other than me without my permission. I know its kind of harsh, but its what's best for you. I beg of you, Leon."

It almost seems like she's going to cry. At the moment she said that, I actually felt that she genuinely cared for me. I mean, she can be acting and planning on trucking and killing me. But I have no choice but to go along if I want her to protect me. I'll work very hard on getting stronger so that I can't be easily killed. I'll use Silvia until she leaves me and she will probably do the same to me.

I can be accusing her of betraying me when she hasn't done anything other than listen to me and protect me until now. If she's actually kind and caring, then I'm sorry Silvia.

"OK. Well, you've done nothing but save me so I completely trust you. I promise."

A delighted expression appeared on Silvia's face as she said:

"Okay! Its a promise!"

OK, now I kind of feel wrong about thinking these bad things about her.

After that, we formed a party and the skill activated. Silvia and I agreed to let the skill be always active so it can level up.

I look around. The remaining people are talking to each other. Looks like they are starting to form groups between them. I haven't come in contact with other people because Silvia is the strongest person present in the crowd, so its best not to stand out for now.

I did see some people with interesting titles and skills, but it seemed like almost all of them have died because I can't seem to find them amongst the remaining individuals.

There is a person standing out from the others.

He seems to be a tall young man. About in his twenties. He has blonde hair, blue eyes and a good build. The most of the remaining people seem to be joining his team. At the pace that he's going, he'll definitely become a famous, strong and handsome guild leader. If guests exist in this world of course Its going to be really helpful if I have a good connection with him.

[System massage]

Congratulations! You have survived the first stage of the tutorial.

Deaths: 1643

Survivors: 519

Details on the second stage will be revealed soon.

[Massage end]

After reading the massage, I asked Silvia to turn off her dominant skill. Then we individually checked our stats and skills so we could know everything about our newly gained abilities.

I close my status screen. A new thought has reached its way into my mind.

If the events or get harder as they go on, the second stage is going to be harder than the first stage.

On the first stage, we got lucky that not many monsters came to Silvia's domain. I don't know if we'll be lucky next time.

I have hope in Silvia. My only wish of the gods currently is that I can survive.