[Agreement has been logged. You have five minutes for orientation before you have to fight for your lives. Please pay attention, the system will not repeat itself.]Kate blanched, an annoyed look on her face as she tried but failed to keep the scowl from marring her features. She turned to Kenan, her expression clearly reading *can you imagine this thing?* He shrugged, his heart skipping a beat at the familiar way she looked at him. Then she frowned, huffed, and turned her face away sharply. For a moment Kate had forgotten she was dealing with a liar and a cheat. Her time and attention were better spent figuring something else out.[This World used to have life and was overseen by an impartial system. However a corruption began, its origins to this day unknown. But it swallowed every living being on this world, and buried structures and civilization under an endless forest of parasitic hive mind trees. The system has spent eons finding heroes from different universes to fight the encr

3 Years Ago"Are you stupid or something, Kenan? You're abandoning everything you know, including your inheritance, because of a woman. Is she even worth it? Is this domestic life that you're so adamant about—is that how you want to exist? A lion will never give birth to a rat, yet here you are wanting to live like the rest of these cattle. You should get your priorities straight, brother."Kenan grunted in response, his hands still moving to fold his clothes into the luggage in front of him. "I'm tired, brother. Our whole lives have been one murder after the other. Is that the only thing we're good for? To be killers for our grandfather and father? We've done nothing meaningful with our lives, brother, and now I've found something... someone who makes me want to live. She makes me want to wake up in the morning and take a second to appreciate the warmth of the sun on my skin. For the first time ever, I can wake up not smelling of gunpowder and cold steel. I can sleep without the scre

Kate felt the tingle of energy running through her body even as she tried and failed to get some sleep. Two hours wasn't a lot of time to rest—she wanted to make the best of it. But the increase to all her stats had left her body buzzing with energy the likes of which she'd never felt before. Unfortunately, it was throwing everything into overdrive, including her mind. There was no space for sleep as things stood. She sighed, trying her hardest to quiet her thoughts, but she couldn't.She turned onto her back, laying on the ruined mess of her wedding gown. The sky beyond was awash with colors and lights. She could see a massive bright moon peeking out from behind the clouds—a sign that dusk was approaching. But the skies themselves were completely bare. No birds, just that massive moon hidden behind fluffy white clouds. She sighed and turned to her side. Kenan was sitting in front of the pylon with his back to her. She scoffed.Was this his idea of giving her privacy? Well, if that

"Basic Fire Bullet!"Kate screamed, stumbling back a single step as the spell circle appeared right in front of her. She felt the stirrings of her mana as it flowed through her, coalescing at a point around her heart. She gave it everything she had—her fear, her rage, her anguish. The fire bullet increased in size and exploded with the force of a shotgun going off. Kate felt the heat as flames from her own skill swallowed her hair and scorched her face. Then came the concussive blow from the explosion caused by the overloaded skill.The first thing Kate felt was her ears popping, then came the ringing, and then nothing else until her back hit the ground. She could hear Kenan screaming her name, but his voice sounded so far away. Then came the pain—so all-encompassing that everything else seemed to fade into the background. Darkness came not long after.Kenan saw the explosion. It was as if a grenade had gone off right in front of her face. The goblin was blasted apart with barely anyt

5 YEARS AGOKenan stepped out of the restaurant with a dull look on his face. He was the last out, but only because torture was an unpleasant act and he really hated having an audience. He looked down at the cuff of his shirt where a bloodstain remained. He frowned. This was his favorite shirt—it would be hard to get this out. He looked to the left where the entrance to the restaurant's back alley stood.Cars passed by as people went about their evening, none of them aware of the massacre that had just been carried out. He turned his head to the other side and raised an eyebrow at the sight in front of him.A woman was being robbed… except it wasn't going as the robber planned. Kenan watched with both shock and amusement as the woman literally slapped the gun out of her attacker's hand. The man was astounded, even more so, when she whacked him over the head with her handbag. He cried out in pain, but she wasn't done as she pushed him until he smashed the back of his head against the w