Hal woke up to the sound of his phone vibrating, he reached out his hand to take it from underneath the pillow where he had stuffed it before going to bed last night. Looking at the screen of his phone, he saw that it was a distress call from the 'MHO', which indicated that a gate had spawned not too far from his location and that a raid was about to go down. "A raid by this time of the day. Didn't they just clear a gate yesterday?" "Why the heck had another one spawned so soon and near his location as well." Hal thought. He looked at the time on his handset and saw that the time was just a little past seven in the morning. Jumping off his bed, he tried his best not to wake his little sister and slipped into the bathroom to take a quick bath. "Luckily enough, today was a Saturday, so after the gate had been cleared, he'd had the rest of today to spend with his little sis." Quickly scribbling down a note of apology for his sister and a promise to be back as soon as he c

Survival. In a difficult or life-threatening situation, the human mind always found a way to survive, it was sort of a reflex action. The monster as if having given them enough time to talk, screeched loudly while charging forward. "Krrrrchhh!" Mister Heights also charged in while tightening his grip on his axe. He lifted the axe above his head and slashed down on the monster, but it was too fast. It easily dodged it and slammed him away. The other hunters, seeing their leader hurt quickly rushed in to help. Jason, who made use of a broadsword, screamed while swinging down hard on the monster, it easily dodged him and stabbed its claws into his shoulders. "Ahhh!" He screamed as he was thrown away by the monster. The long-range hunters who made use of weapons such as arrows and the like fired continuously at it, but it evaded them all by flying around in the air. It swooped down at a frightening speed while spinning its body around like a drill with its wings sprea

Hal was surprised by the familiar feminine voice coming from the corner of the hospital room and hurriedly turned his head to look. "Are you okay?, how are you doing?, hope you aren't feeling any pain?" She asked a series of questions without taking a breath. "Bethany? I didn't know you were around, and yh, I'm fine, or at least I think I am." Hal was quite surprised to see his little sister standing there in the middle of the room with eyes that Indicated that she must have cried herself to sleep last night. She threw a scrutinizing look at him as if to confirm his answers through her eyes before her breathing became irregular, angry. And then as soon as Hal assumed a defensive position, she began punching him in all the unguarded parts while almost shouting. "I told you to stop getting hurt! Do you have any idea how worried I was?" ".... I'm sorry." "Do you want to die and make me twice an orphan? Don't you know how much you mean to me?" ".....sorry" The strength

Chapter 8 "Fuck!" Hal screamed as he endlessly ran through the cave-like passage with the Craptor hot on his heels. He had been running for over one hour now, and the monster didn't seem keen on giving up. At least the matter wouldn't have been this worse if he had the Teknovo-T71 on him. Even though he could only draw very little of its powers, it would still have helped alleviate the issue of running about a little. "Hey system, can't you at least give me a hand?" Hal called out to the system but got no reply. "You stupid system, is this how you plan on increasing my strength? Sending me to my death?" "Well, I don't want your system again. Just get me out of this hellhole and leave my life!" Hal continued screaming as he ran like a deer while continuously nearly managing to evade the monster's attack. "Ptoii!" A green substance was shot from the Craptor's mouth as it gave chase. Hal, who had slightly turned to look behind him, saw the green substance just in

Hal made up his mind to do his best to get stronger. Strong enough to not be bullied by anyone, strong enough to make his way in this current world where only the strong ruled. "Strong enough to make 'em damn monsters pay." With that, he decided to focus on the matter at hand. "Now for the random box." Hal got on the bed and picked up the random box before opening it. "Huh, a card...?" Hal could see a black card with blue words written on it. "The blank card... D...? He read out. "What's it used for?" Hal stared at it as if to bore a hole through it and then the description came up. - Blank card: Gotten from a random box. Allows the Host to select a weapon from the store. 'Weapon?', 'Store?' That's new. "Okay then, how do I access the store?" "Umm....store?" Hal called out and then he could see it floating right in front of him. He could see the word 'store' written in white at the top of the system's interface. - Store: The store is used for buying a