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[An Ergency Task has been created!]
[Task #1]
[•Objective - Escape from the building.]
[• Ti limit - 10 minutes]
[• Reward - ???]
[• Failure to reach outside within the given ti will result in your death.]
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Almost instantly, his facial expressions grew tense. He narrowed his eyes and gritted his teeth in frustration.
*Keuk!*
His brows arched down towards his eyes as he clicked his tongue in spite.
’This is way worse than I thought...’ a thought crossed his mind. Suddenly, his soles banged louder against the ground and his speed increased.
Normally, when the System chooses soone, it offers its host a head start — either by an overpowered talent or a harmless task like swatting insects.
It’s to build a level of confidence that one requires to surpass others and climb the ladder faster.
In both cases, System assures the host’s safety as it judges the threats to be minimal to none.
’However, in this case, it’s clearly telling to escape — not from the building, but the creature that is lurking around ...’ he clenched his fists tightly, and hurried towards the main gate as fast as he could.
Lucian understood the System’s ssage completely. It was a single word just divided into many — run.
’Whoever... Or whatever’s lurking around , it’s probably way out of my league, even if System helps with all its might. The chances of my survival have beco extrely low.’
For a split second, his eyes followed the ground, and his ears twitched, ’Even more so since I’m creating so much noise.’
’But again, I don’t rember the main hall being this big...’ his mind eerily remarked, piling more stress on his body.
It was true, the main building that Lucian used to live in used to be smaller and congested. Walking for re seconds would’ve gotten him outside in no ti.
Although that didn’t seem to be the case now, as he had been running non-stop for over 3 minutes.
"I’m definitely running in circles, since I’ve crossed this sa puddle of blood twice." He muttered as his feet slowly began to beco lighter.
In seconds, his body ca to a halt. He took in long, deep breaths — though disgusting, he had to calm his gasps down.
Then, he looked around and found sothing amusing.
"Wow, looks like I really am being affected by sothing."
For so reason, Lucian’s vision had been restricted. He could not see anything beyond roughly two ters around him. As such, except for the narrowed walls and the straight path, his senses could not track anything further.
"The good thing is that I know that the path ahead leads to the exit, but the bad part is that I don’t know where ’that’ is..." He grumbled in a low voice.
Lucian stood in the sa place for another minute, confused. His eyes constantly wandered towards the small system screen; the tir slowly ticking down in front of him only seed to worsen his anxiety.
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[Ti remaining - 6 minutes]
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4 out of 10 minutes had been wasted. Yet, Lucian hadn’t figured out any way out.
Without a doubt, it was the worst situation one could ask for since not long after, a sound ca piercing through his head.
A wild, unkempt laughter thundered right beside him. At first, Lucian was left completely startled as he jumped against the wall. Instantly, his eyes darted to his side as he saw a dark blurry silhouette from the corner of his eyes.
The bright crimson glow that leaked out of the crevice of its eyes crackled in jagged patterns — almost like the unkempt nature of lightning.
With just a re glance, Lucian felt a sharp chill run through his spine. His feet ran cold as a seed of frost budded within his chest. For a mont, he had lost all sensations in his body.
Although as he tried to sharpen his gaze, the silhouette disappeared. Almost as if it never existed in the first place.
Lucian gasped soundly as his sensations ca back almost imdiately. His right hand softly grabbed onto his chest’s left side, trying to comfort his heart.
"Wh... what the fuck was that!?" He sneered, his voice uneven with the lack of breath.
For the first ti since this nightmare began, he lost his composure. No doubt, he had been fear-struck before.
But this ti... It was different.
He had witnessed the one system that had warned him about. The one that even the system fears would kill him if not handled carefully.
"He was so close, yet he didn’t attack... Only laughed..." He lowered his gaze in disdain and frowned at his own incompetence.
Lucian knew that he neither had any powers to begin with, nor the ans to fight back such threats. Yet, feeling the horror up close, toying with him like a toddler, seed to have hurt his pride.
However, at the sa ti, a new question had taken root within his mind.
"Whatever it was, it definitely stood on two legs... Was it a creature? Or just... Another human?"
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