The Dreamer's POV Chapter 24: End Of The Tutorial

[10:52 AM, Saturday 6th of May, 2024]

"How... how can this be?" I muttered, slumped in my makeshift base, an abandoned warehouse a few buildings away from my previous hideout.

My face wore a pallor of disappointnt, and despair gnawed at .

I was distraught, my eyes sunk with weariness, my body unable to bear the weight of my failure.

"I believed I could do it. I really did," I whispered, my voice heavy with regret.

On the sixth day, after defeating the Colossal Demon, I was convinced I could push myself to Level 15.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

"Even after killing over a hundred Demons throughout the sixth day, I only managed to reach Level 9, and I've been stuck there ever since."

"I can't even reach Level 10, let alone Level 15, and the Tutorial is almost over."

Once it reached 11:00 AM, the Tutorial would conclude, rendering my efforts pointless.

Moreover, there were hardly any Demons left in my vicinity, and I didn't want to venture too far from my base.

'I should have been more proactive, hunted down more Demons, or even spent more Currency,' I contemplated but imdiately dismissed the thought.

'No, thinking that way won't help.'

Leveling Up was inevitably going to get more challenging as I progressed. How many more Demons would I need to kill before I Leveled Up again?

Two hundred? Three hundred? Maybe even five hundred? Impossible.

I couldn't possibly kill that many.

"Reaching Level 15 was an unattainable goal from the start," I realized.

In the end, I could only find contentnt in the progress I had made and watch as the clock counted down to the Tutorial's conclusion.

{Ti Left until the end of the Tutorial: 000 hrs: 02 mins: 30 secs}

I waited, bracing myself for the next challenge, but first, I anticipated my rewards.

{Ti Left until the end of the Tutorial: 000 hrs: 00 mins: 10 secs}

I could only hope that all my efforts were worth it.

~DING!~

[SYSTEM NOTIFICATION]

{Congratulations, User! You have overco the first stumbling block, and you are now fit to officially begin the race.}