Green Zone, Central Game Station.
The sounds of groaning and moaning can be heard at the game station. Players who are obviously new were scattered on the floor either badly injured, missing a limb, or came out of the beginner game mode as a corpse.
'Ugh~ Ha! Fuck! Where is this place!?' '!
'Someone help me! I lost my arm to a monster!!'
'Where is this!? Where the hell am I!? This is not real. NOT REAL!?'
'I don't like this! What is happening!? Where am I?'
'You…!! Are the guys that kidnapped me? Get me back home! I will pay you… Thousands? Millions!? I have money!!'
'Wuwuwu~ Mommy, I want to go home~'
The ones speaking above were new players who couldn't believe the existence of the Abyssal World. They might have been lucky and survived their beginner mode games. But this doesn't mean they believe what is happening right now. Most of them were in denial of the truth before them.
Meanwhile, the other players who were watching were either recruiters from the other game zone or old batched players in the green zone. They were jeering at the reactions of these newbies.
'Pfft! These newbies are hilarious! He said he will pay millions. Does he think RMB or yuan is the useful currency here?'
'Don't laugh. They are new. What would they know about this world?'
'What a goody-good man! Protecting these kinds of newbies is a waste of time…'
'Look most of them are badly injured and this is only beginner mode games. How would they survive in a world like this if they are this weak?'
'As if you weren't weak like them in the first place! Didn't you also get support from the strong!?'
'You!!? What did you say!?'
'Enough fighting. Look for some decent players to recruit. Lost limbs can be regained with regeneration pills. Aren't those distributed from your agencies!?'
'As expected most of them were abandoned by their temporary managers ha.'
'What can they do? Those managers only stand at the side of the strong and talented. But it seems that in this batch there is no one…'
As soon as Hei Anjing, Han Ya, and An Yuan appeared at the central station within the safest zone in the whole Abyssal City, everyone couldn't help but compare them with the other newbie players.
'Hey! Look at that small group. Fuck! They don't have any injuries at all! Only some dust and mud on their clothes. Wait! Is one of them blind? Look at that man who carries a spear, his blade is soaked in monster's blood.'
'Idiot what are you looking at!? The one behind. Look. He… He… Is he a human!? S-So gorgeous… His clothes look clean from the top and below as if he didn't fight at all.'
'Shit! Did you see his face!? This is the first time in my life that I feel kike I'm bent!'
'Is he a male!? With that appearance!!? No fucking way!'
'Wait! Look at his collar bones! There's a marking!!! A black and red shade!? What is a monster or a player!?'
'Two colors! It might be a player. It was red and black. Means fire and darkness elements? Is there a ranked player who used those elements?'
'I don't know. I haven't met those rankers in my life.'
'What are you guys looking at!? Contact the seniors! These guys are the strongest newbies!!'
A commotion and chaos are happening around them but Hei Anjing and the rest don't seem to care at all. They were waiting for Manager Tian to announce their rewards. They are under the shared contract, after all, their rewards would be tallied as a group.
[Main Mission 2 of 4 Completed!
Rewards: 7000 gold coins and 2 Skill book Random Ticket.
Side missions:
Player Hei Anjing killed 1000 mob monsters and ghosts. Both low and mid-level monsters.
Rewards: 10,000 gold coins.
Player Han Ya killed 250 mob monsters. This includes the mid-level boss and helps in fighting the Boss NPC. But the last hit was left to an unbind player. So most rewards for Boss NPC's death were left to Player Sui.
Rewards: 2,500 gold coins + 500 gold coins for Fighting with NPC boss. = 3,000 gold coins in total
Player An Yuan killed 50 mob monsters and mid-level bosses.
Rewards: 500 gold coins.
Special Rewards:
Player An found the hidden NPC boss. The Shadow Monster.
Reward: 1000 gold coins and 1 skill book "Shadow Possession"
Player Hei Anjing killed the Boss NPC Clone. The clone of the NPC boss is the extra life the Boss Character has, killing it is the same as killing the boss.
Reward: 1,000 gold coins.
Player Han Ya killed Guest Boss NPC 'Chainsaw Man'.
Reward: 1,000 gold coins.
Newbie Rewards for completing the game for the first time. Each Player is allowed to awaken one bloodline suitable for them. A crystal bloodline inducer would be given to these three players.
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Accumulating Rewards Total Tally:
Player Han Ya
– 4,000 gold coins.
– 1 Bloodline Crystal Inducer
Player An Yuan:
– 5,000 gold coins
– 1 random Skill Book Ticket
– 1 Skill book: "Shadow Possession"
– 1 Bloodline Crystal Inducer
Player Hei Anjing
– 14,500 gold coins
– 1 random Skill Book Ticket
– 1 Bloodline Crystal Inducer
Congratulations! New Players Hei Anjing, An Yuan, and Han Ya. Welcome to the Abyssal World!!!]
All the managers and the other players who heard their rewards were rendered speechless, especially the one to awaken a bloodline. Bloodlines are extremely expensive and only the players in Black Zone and some in Red Zone have an Awakened bloodline.
[DAMN! FOR REAL!!?] exclaimed the little angel.
Manager Gui was also stunned, [They were given a bloodline each. How is this possible!? Isn't this a beginner mode game?]
[I've contacted the world consciousness and they said. Player Hei Anjing had accidentally ripped the mirror dimension to rest in the Abyssal Hospital while in the game. This is something no one had done before. When Player Han and Player An were pulled in the Master's resting place you had been considered as someone like him who had escaped the game venue and returned to resume the game. The bloodline is a reward for being able to do such a thing.] explained System Yang.
Everyone looked at Hei Anjing with surprised expressions.
An Yuan asked, "Did Sir Hei do this intentionally?"
"No. I just want to look for a place with a clean bed and a bathroom. The original game venue is too dirty and doesn't have it so I just destroyed one of the mirrors and found a room to rest." replied Hei Anjing with a casual attitude.
The little devil and little angel managers were flabbergasted at this answer. This only means Player Hei had enough strength to destroy dimensional boundaries inside the game. He is a big cheat no… the strongest bug in the Abyssal world.
'[Monster! What the hell is this human!? He could destroy space boundaries!! His rewards are too abundant!! Shit! This is too unbelievable!]'
Hei Anjing glanced at An Yuan and said, "I will lend you 5,000 gold coins. Buy the sense of sight as soon as possible."
"O-Okay…" said An Yuan who received another 5,000 gold coins from Hei Anjing and had his Manager Gui buy the Sense of Sight for him. Then he noticed Han Ya quietly staring at the rewards panel with an ugly expression. He thought that the latter might be upset with such low rewards under his name.
But Han Ya was looking at the first sentence of the reward panel. His eyes were lingering in the main mission part. He wasn't upset with the total rewards he got. He is wealthy and now he is back in the city. His personal storage has returned to him. Except for some of his abilities locked, his weapons and armors were all intact. He can use it anytime. He had piles of gold coins in his storage so the little 4,000 gold coins he had received as rewards were nothing in his eyes.
He is now worried about a different thing. The main mission countdown was 2 of 4. This means Player Abyss was counted in the group mission task list which he didn't expect.
This could only mean that with him failing his main mission and Player Abyss not being inside the last game meant another main mission failure. 2 of 4, the requirement to avoid the Punishment mode is 3 of 4. This means everyone in their group would be pulled to the massacre insane mode as punishment.
When he saw Hei Anjing wearing a sly smile on his face, Han Ya realized that this human knew about this result. He couldn't help but become fierce as he tried to grab Hei Anjing's neck.
Han Ya bellowed, "You! You know about the Punishment Mode why did you ask A'Yuan to sign the shared group contract!?"
Professor An Yuan blocked his path and prevented him from hurting Hei Anjing. He knew that this person is not only powerful, his lover is even more dangerous than he is. Who is Lou Yan? Manager Gui had told him who he was. He is the strongest player in Abyssal World for newbies like them is like an ant fighting an elephant.
An Yuan said, "Stop! Xiao Ya! What's wrong? Why are you angry at Sir Hei?"
"It is his fault! If we didn't sign that contract you wouldn't have to come to the punishment world with me!" said Han Ya.
"Punishment World? What do you mean? Didn't we complete the main missions?" asked Professor An Yuan in confusion.
Manager Gui felt something was wrong and checked the reward platform once again and panicked when he saw 2 of 4 main missions written on it.
[This is impossible! How can there only be two completed main missions!? Didn't you three complete your main mission?] asked Manager Gui.
System Yang spoke, [My master completed his. Your player has done it as well. This only leaves one person.]
All eyes had fallen on Han Ya. Even the Professor was shocked. The protagonist himself was avoiding his beloved's gaze.
An Yuan was in disbelief. He had never thought Han Ya would fail his main mission.
"Xiao Ya, what is your main mission?" asked An Yuan.
Han Ya didn't speak. "…"
Manager Gui grabbed Manager Tian and said, [Give us an answer!]
Manager Tian: (QAQ)
The thoughts of Manager Tian were in chaos. Thankfully, he and the boss had decided what made-up story was there to cover up this mission failure.
[We are the unlucky player among all the six. Player Han Ya was teleported directly inside the Boss NPC room. I know we are going to fail so I lend him some gold coins to buy a resurrection pill. After Player Han Ya was killed once after getting ambushed. The resurrection pill had revived Player Han Ya outside the Boss NPC. Our main mission was deemed a failure. We can only focus on the side mission to gain coins.] explained Manager Tian.
This little angel was quite an actor. He portrays a figure whose face had no other choice but to do that. Manager Tian thought this excuse was enough but Player Hei Anjing rolled his eyes at him and smiled like watching a play. Player An Yuan was silent, his eyes were closed as he was waiting for his new sense of sight to be adjusted to his body. But he was so silent and obviously did not believe Manager Tian's lie.
Instead, the Professor moved his face in Han Ya's direction and grabbed his hands. He then asked a question that startled everyone.
An Yuan asked, "Xiao Ya… Are you really a newbie player? Not a Veteran Player like Player Sui Rou?"
Han Ya didn't reply right away but a few memories of the original Han Ya flashed in his head and understood the real identity of the former.
At the sideline, Hei Anjing had brought out a fruit crepe he took from his dimension storage. Something his System Yang had made while he was napping.
[Master, I just found out that the original Han Ya used to be a Veteran Player of Abyssal World. He is a player who lives in the red zone. When he was having a vacation in reality to see his crush that accident happened. He didn't want to lose An Yuan and brought him into the Abyssal World as a newbie player. But the world consciousness had punished him by throwing him inside the boss room with sealed skills. He ended up dying and was replaced there by the undead knight who is the real protagonist gong of this world.]
Hei Anjing spoke, "No wonder~ and here I thought this would be enough to make him reveal his real identity to the protagonist shou. The Heavenly wills are so biased with their beloved children."
[Should we interfere, Master?]
"Forget about it. It would be more fun to watch for the protagonist shou to dig out the secrets of his fated lover~"
"By the way, where is that husband of mine?"
[He is on his way. He tried teleporting here but his heavenly laws were halting him as his actions were completely different from his original programmed movements and thought he is a bugged existence. Yue'er is using your authority to pressure them so it would take a while for them to come here. You might meet in the Punishment world instead.]
"Well~ that's also okay. Please prepare some ingredients from the dimensional space. I would be cooking sooner or later." said Hei Anjing as the little sun landed in his palm while System Yang's consciousness entered the dimensional world in his snowflake earring.
In front of him, Professor An Yuan is still confronting Han Ya who was staying quiet as he looked through the original's memories.. They look like a couple having a lover's quarrel.
