Wait...What is a System?

Sero looked at the screen in front of him with a surprised look evident on his face (I mean, who wouldn't if some random screen randomly popped up in front of your face?). He looked around, wondering if anyone had the same random text box pop up in front of them. Nobody else did, or if they did, then they were just ignoring it. Sero found it weird, however it was just as intriguing to him as well. After a couple of moments of pondering, he decided to press the 'Yes' button.

The second he press the button, the entire screen closed suddenly, startling him. Then the black box appeared a second later with new words written on it. It read, "Welcome To The System Weakling, It's Time To Whip You Into Shape".

"What in the world is th-," Sero started to say, until a booming voice called out to him.

"HEY YOU! GET BACK TO WORK!" a guard called out to him, the guard taking out their massive sword.

"Oh crap," Sero thought. "I'm getting sent back, won't I."

That's when suddenly, Sero saw that the black box had something new written on it. It said, "First task: Kill the guard. Reward: ???. Penalty: Getting sent to the Survival Zone."

"What? It wants me to kill this hunk of muscle? How the heck am I going to do that?" Sero questioned, clearly confused. Before he could gather his thoughts, the guard was already in front of him, their sword in a strike position, ready to strike him down. Sero barely managed to dodge the swift blow that instantly followed, sweat starting to form on his forehead. The guard aimed for Sero again, however Sero was already breaking record speed trying to get away from the encounter. He then hid behind a huge rock after making sure to lose the guard.

After narrowly escaping another trip to the "Survival Zone", Sero tried to look around for a weapon, just in case the guard found him again. After a couple minutes of looking around, all he found was a pickaxe (which you all should know does not make that good of a weapon) to defend himself with. Sero was just about to leave his hiding spot when something fast nearly sliced his head off. He turned around and saw a massive greatsword that buried itself into the rock he was just hiding behind.

He nearly managed to dodge another one, which also was headed for his head. Sero finally noticed who had thrown both swords; the culprit was (surprise, surprise!) the guard that was trying to murder him earlier. Sero readied himself to fight the guard (wasn't he complaining about how he was supposed to kill this 'hunk of muscle' not too long ago in this chapter?) with the pickaxe that he had just obtained (well, good luck with that cause you probably won't win).

The guard closed the gap in an instant, startling Sero, and aimed for his neck for the third time with another greatsword. Sero responded by ducking, causing the blade to miss him, and swung the pickaxe up, trying to stab the abdomen of the guard. However, the guard dodged the incoming attack by turning their body to the left, nearly getting hit. Of course, the guard did not seem too happy about that, as it started to attack much more aggressively, mixing punches with the slashes.

Sero, on the other hand, was getting more and more uneasy (as if he already wasn't) as he kept on dodging (quite the nimble one, I see) the attacks and trying to counterattack with his not-so-handy pickaxe. The pickaxe was deteriorating at an alarming rate, cracks being evident from the heavy blows made by the guard deflecting the counterattacks every damn time. Sero desperately tried to find a replacement for the pickaxe, however there were none in sight. Suddenly, the pickaxe finally shattered, now leaving only a stick. Sero stabbed the broken part of the stick into the guard's arm (and how did you manage to achieve this exactly?) and ran away. The guard, shocked for a moment on what had just happened, finally came back to their senses and roared in agony and pain from the wooden stick now sticking out of its arm. It pulled it out (not recommended, but at the same time they aren't human beings, so who knows) and threw it aside, then chased after Sero.

Sero headed over to where the two swords were stuck and tried to pull them out, but the swords were just straight up stuck in the rock, just like how Excalibur was stuck in the stone. Sero kept trying and trying, however the thing would just not budge at all. As he was pondering on what to do, as he was exhausted and felt like dying, as he was running in the scorching temperature without having access to water for god knows how long. "On second thought, screw that damn god who put me through all this torture," Sero thought to himself.

Suddenly, a huge shadow loomed over him, and before Sero could react, he felt a wagon crash into him at full speed. As he struggled to get up due to the irreversible damage done to him because of the punch, he saw the guard go over to the swords and pull them out of the rock. Suddenly, the guard sliced off one of Sero's arms, causing him to scream from the intense pain. Then the guard stabbed Sero in the leg, immobilizing him. As Sero was dying from the pain, the guard grabbed Sero's other arm and started to add pressure, somehow breaking all the bones in that arm. Sero screamed even harder, and finally, the guard pulled out the other arm. As Sero was fading into the dark, all he could do was to curse everyone involved in this for the suffering they had caused him and his fellow comrades.

Finally, a black box appeared in the middle of the darkness, reading, "You failed. So miserably at that as well. Well hopefully, you survive. Make sure not to fail next time."