"I am Minxx," the elfin girl said, extending her hands to Dimm for a handshake.
"And I am—"
"Dimm." The girl completed it.
"How did you know?" Dimm asked.
"It's a good thing I wasn't directed to the wrong person," she said, making her move forward as Dimm followed behind her. "When you chose the na, I heard it."
Dimm was bemused by the whole turn of events. This girl appears to know much about the happenings in this ga.
He needed to find out more, so, he followed behind the girl continually asking questions that remained unanswered.
"If you want to know more, you will have to follow to my village," Minxx said.
"But—"
***
Just as the broad announcent that had been broadcast vanished, the prospective players began to notice so changes in their bodies and movents.
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His body felt an unfamiliar force, exhilarating at the sa ti, coursing through his veins. His instincts flared to life as if speed had always been part of his existence.
In the blink of an eye, he moved, to one side. Subsequently, he moved to another. He did this in a rotary motion before he stopped, clamping his head.
The pain that shot through his head seed to reduce, letting him make use of his mouth.
"What is this just now?"
Another voice, the one that was yet, unknown to the candidates, the voice of Vorex announced.
[Congrats Survivor—you have gained Special Ability—Speed.]
In a similar way, other survivors of the ga got different reactions pertaining to the ability that they had awakened with. This ability rely represents the main factor that led to your survival.
So awakened Combat ability, so Speed, majority awakened Luck ability. Amongst all, one person awakened a Mage Ability.
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The player with the ID 400 was a girl.
She intuitively sat on the bare sandy ground. Her hands clutched her head as she gasped for breath.
Whispers of thoughts flooded her mind, expanding her senses beyond the physical, or what it seed. She heard weird voices, so of them unspoken, others overlapping, all growing louder in her mind.
She fell to the ground, struggling to overco the growing whispers that distorted her thinking, and that was when it abruptly stopped. Her head beca free again, but her hand—her fingertips—hurt.
She moved her eyes to her hands. Flickering glows emanated on them, growing brighter before becoming dimr. And, "swoop" it went off.
Then she heard the sa voice as others, the voice of Elion.
[Congrats Survivor—you have gained Special Ability—Mage!]
[Extension Ability: You can read minds—a Mother confessor!]
The girl, unlike the others, didn't glimr at the information. She acted as though she had expected such. She, however, lowered her head to the ground where she lay, only to be jolted upright by a bright glow in the sky again.
All the current awakeners, the Survivors, wherever they were witnessed the occurrence. Sohow, Dimm was included even though he had not legally awakened as per the ga rules.
[Each Survivor must have awakened an ability. This ability will help you explore your new challenges as we await your success.]
[Survivor (400) has been recruited! This will only take effect based on the ability to survive the forthcoming challenges.]
Every survivor wherever they were murmured in glamor. They wondered who this sane candidate was, for being able to perform to the extent that recruitnt laid at the doorstep.
So comnted that without doubt, it must have been the candidate who was announced to have been tested on a highly different level of difficulty.
"If his test was specifically difficult, what if I was to be in the shoes?" a Survivor, in its zone comnted.
"No, if the system referred to the sa candidate, it should have used the ID 160. But, clearly, this is the ID of a fellow survivor," another Survivor lanted.
Here and there, Survivors in their different zones made comnts concerning the sudden developnt and most of them now wished to see this special being.
***
However, like the others, Dimm was bewildered by the information that blared at his eyes like a sight-seeing horn.
"That's the first that is happening for over two centuries, since the invention of the ga," Minxx said.
"Eeh, what do you an?" Dimm asked.
Minxx shrugged before taking the question. "I ant that Players rarely got recruitnt opportunities in their first rank. It usually happened in the second rank, or mostly, the third."
"How do you know all these?" Dimm asked.
"I have offered to make you know more if you accept my request to go with to my village," she snorted.
Unknowing to her, that was a good idea for Dimm. He has co to this environnt and has suddenly survived. His mind was focused on exploring the place rather than the challenges facing him as one of the ga players.
The edge of his left eye was attracted to the glow again.
[Find the Route!]
The information in the sky is now read.
[After so consideration, the system has decided to let you embark on the next round as a pair. FIND THE ROUTE!]
"The route?" Dimm was confused.
"You sure don't know anything about this ga, why then co into it?" Minxx mocked.
"What is a route?" Dimm said with a serious tone.
"The route will serve as a connector between survivors. It will help Survivors to connect to each other, and whoever you connect with, will beco your pair."
"It doesn't really require both Survivors to find their routes. If one of any possible pair should find the Route, then, connecting with the fellow Survivor can still be possible."
"How are the other survivors going to know this?" Dimm asked.
"They probably will," Minxx said, putting on a mocking smile. "You're actually alone in this lack of knowledge."
"That being said, I guess I won't have to find the Route with them, I'm not awakened yet—" Dimm halted in his words. "Wait, I am awakened right?"
"The information above didn't say so," Minxx replied quickly.
"Although I didn't know how it had gone for them, I can say I heard a voice. Yes, I heard a voice," Dimm tried to explain.
"Don't explain."
Dimm's jaw dropped. Minxx noticing the effect of her reply, quickly asked.
"Did you receive any ability like they have?" she asked.
"No."
"Then, you've not awakened according to the ga," Minxx said.
"But, the thirty minutes I was given must have expired, nothing happened. Any explanation?" Dimm tried to get her attention.
"None."
"Or. Maybe. Besides, you can continue telling about the ga," Dimm suggested.
"Not saying that either. Not until you reply to my offer," Minxx said, picking up a stick from the ground.
"What offer?" Dimm tried to rember. "Oh, I did like to check it out."
"So, you're coming?" Minxx asked, happiness gradually spreading on her face.
"Yes," Dimm confird.
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