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"Ruuuuuun, Ruuuuuun"

The voice shouted again, Sean looked back to see why the man wants them to run. He saw something he don't know how to describe. Magma hands, burning eyes, breathing smoke, superb strength. He had read some novels that speaks about magma beings, most time they are the devils.

Sean took to his heels, grabbing the girl along. The three of them ran as fast as they can but they can never outrun the devil who is already close to them. The man who screamed earlier ran closer to Sean and said

"You see that building over there?"

"There are lots of buildings here, which one are you talking about?"

"The one that is broken down among them, we run into it and hid. We will devise a plan to kill the devil"

"Kill the devil? I don't understand"

"Run faster, he's catching up"

Sean tried to run faster bit the little girl is holding him down, Sean carried the girl on his back and run into the building with all his might leaving a considerable length of distance between him and the devil. 

"Split up and hid,l. When he comes in, if he finds me first, you strike him from behind and of he finds you first I'll attack him. Don't be afraid, those devils are not that strong. Hid in a separate place from the girl and watch her back" the man gave his plan to Sean and Sean hid the girl in a coner of the broken building. Sean covered the place he he hid the girl with bricks to erase all trases of her before he also hide in another corner alternate the girl. 

The devil came in and growl, he couldn't see anyone in sight. He entered into the building and started sniffing the whole area but didn't smell anyone. The devil gave up searching and was about to leave when he saw a place. This place have more bricks packed on it than other places. The devil went to it and removed all the bricks; he saw a girl under. The devil growled and and hold the girl on her, carried her up and squeezed it. Sean saw this, he ran out of his hiding place to the devil, he jumped up and strike the devil in his neck. The other man also came out if his hiding place to join Sean. The devil threw the girl down and smacked Sean's face. Sean does not only feel the pain from the slap, he also felt heat from the hand that slapped him. The devil kicked Sean away and went to the other man. The man had a gun with him but before he could even shoot, the devil squeezed the gun out if his hands at three it away, somewhere close to Sean. While the devil was busy punching the man, Sean stood up at took the gun. He shot all the resolt in the gun at the devil's head. The devil turn back at him and growled. Sean screamed loudly as he ran to the devil, he jumped on the devil's neck and strike the devil with his dagger until the devil dropped dead. He received a message from the system 

[Your target is dead, you killed a devil soldier]

Sean was gasping as he rolled on the floor, the devil was hot and when he jumped on the devil's neck, he kind of burn his butts. The other man stand up with lots of bruises on his face, they both went to the girl at found her dead. Sean felt like crying and his eyes already teared up but before they fall, new messages popped up in his vision 

[Alert! Alert! Alert!]

[Mission Intrusion: Due to an abnormality in the transmitting system, another player was  transmitted into your mission]

[Mission level increased tremendously]

[Main Mission: Slay a devil lord]

[Secondary Mission: Find the other player]

[You and the other player are bound as one, you share the same mission]

[Identity Changed; Identity will be confirmed when you meet the other player]

[You share skills, equipment and inventory with the other player]

[One skill or equipment or inventory cannot be used by the player at the same time]

While Sean was reading the message, his eyes went blank and tears fall off his eyes, the man that was with him mistook it for the pain of losing a loved one. The man pat Sean's back and try to console him, this is what jeered Sean out of his reading position

"It's ok man, things like this happen frequently in the apocalypse that we are in"

Sean doesn't understand 'devil lord' in his mission so he asked the man

"The devil we killed now, I thought you said he is not that strong"

"Yeah, I meant that he is devil soldiers are the weakest among the devils, there are still devil generals and devil lord"

Sean remembered the system notified him that he killed a devil soldier, now his mission is to kill a devil lord who is at minimum three times stronger than a devil soldier . For what reason? The system's mistake?

"What's your name?".

The man askwd for Sean's nane and another message appeared

[An NPC asked for your name; set a code name that the system will call you, you can modify it later]

[Code name:_______]

Sean thought for a while, the babe that came to his mind is Sheoul so he set it as his code name

[Code Name Set]

[Code name: Sheoul]

"My name is Sheoul".

"Mine is Bean, I have a secret place that we can survive in, come with me"

"How safe is your place?"

"Very safe, it's a place in a broken house like this, the devil soldier don't really attack collapsed buildings. Trust me"

Sean was thinking about bean's offer, he is afraid of making a wrong man a friend but then, a message appeared in his vision

[Two new equipment are added to your inventory, A magic sword and A Magic Shield]

[Summon equipments to see their stats or use them]

Sean knew he can't do that here. Anyway, where in earth did his bounded player find a magic sword?

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Trina and the guy with her suddenly swim out of a river. They had ran inside it earlier and hid inside it against the dragons. They hid under the grasses until they couihesr the dragon's movement anymore.Trina was breathing heavily with her mouth because she almost suffocated.

"I cannot remember the last time I swam" Trina said when her breathe regulated

"what do you mean, you should swim everyday to take your bath"

"oh, actually I come from a more civilised place so we don't bath in rivers"

"doesn't matter, what's your name?"

Messages popped up in Trina's vision

[An NPC asked for you name, set a code name that the system will call you]

[Code Name:_______]

On Trina's previous game, her code name was Queen Trin so she decided to use it again

[Code name set]

[Code Name: Queen Trin]

"My name is Queen Trin, you?"

"Sean, you?" Sean replied

"Quinton, you can call me Liu" the young guy mispronounced the name

"No it's not Quinton, it is queen Trin. You can call me one if them"

"I guess I'll tay queen then

"Ok Liu, what you did earlier, is that magic?"

"my father is one of the magicians in Song City" he started while walking out of the bush and Sean following him "although we are not famous from the start, at the advent of this mysterious devils dragons, magic is the only way to keep them off"

  Liu paused to confirm Trina's attention. Trina was very happy that she can get information about this world for free then she realized that this world is not as complicated as the real world, or should she say this current mission background 

"I'm listening"

"When the dragons invade us we were helpless at first, the village's military tried their best in stopping the dragons but failed. One day, around five dragons attacked one magician and he won against them. Then the village realised that only magic can be used to stop them. Isn't this Chen's sword and shield?" he asked" I thought you picked them up"

Chen asked when he saw the weapons in the bush.

"they are to heavy for me to use so I dropped them during the dragon chase"

Liu drew out a dagger from his left side

"take this, it will at least help you chase off a dragon"

Trina collected it and swing it in the air like she is striking something to test how fast she is in it. She admired the dagger and immediately some words popped up in her vision 

[Name: Magic dagger]

[Type: Sharp weapon]

[Rarity: Damage]

[Attribute: protection]

[Effects: Fire repel, fresh cut]

[Able to take as loot: Yes]

[Remark: It is very rare in Agrah, can cut through level 1 defence skin]