SpacesSnips

It was originally a game, made to be as realistic as possible with features to match. But as time passed and the game progressed there was no doubt about it. The game encroached upon reality. Not in the traditional sense, that the same monsters and people we had come to know so intimately started to appear in reality. But blank spaces that swallowed the country... the continent. And any that attempted to even reach a finger within those blank spaces of reality were consumed alongside it. 
I had thought myself average, that I could make some money with this game. Sanctuary. But there was a problem - a boon - whenever I gained a skill, it became max level. There was no exception. So, when the world started to fall apart, and my prowess revealed… They hailed me a hero. Despite the wrongdoings and plundering I had done in the name of wealth and power, they looked to me. To solve their problems and save the world. But could I do it? Demons and beings of absolute power. Such that even my cheat made it only marginally easier. 
I had no choice. It was either I fought and won, or I cowered and let the world be consumed by the cold devouring void. 
And so, I fight; from a beginning filled with greed, to a future filled with the hopes and wishes of mankind. Can I do it?
"Heh~"
Of course I can.

My Skills Are All Max-Level

I stilled. My hand held taut against the handle of that ethereal dagger, the blade swished in the air, cutting with such sharpness that I could hear the whistle of wind being cut.

I grasped for anything around me, a chair, a couch, a table, something for my hands to hold while the revelation played through my mind. For a moment I caught nothing. I flailed and flailed.

Until the cool leather of the couch touched my fingers. I tipped my body down and let myself collapse against the covers. My eyes widened as I threw the dagger up and down. I caught it with absolute precision, the same way my game character would.

For a moment I just lay there. My mind reeled with revelations big and small. But the only one that really mattered was the tiny thought.

'No wonder… this game truly is bigger than life…'

Life. One wasn't meant to do anything but live and die. Breath and eat.

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