Adam walked into his apartment building, struggling to enter the pin code with his thick gloves on. Then the elevator buttons, and the keys to his doors. After all those, he had to fit in the door frame wearing full armor and carrying a sword and other belongings. He walked straight to his small bedroom, tossed his things on the side and fell onto the bed.
*Creaaaak* as his wooden bed frame was struggling too.
And it gave out shortly, breaking its legs. Leaving just the mattress with an metal covered Adam on it.
But the only sound heard from him was
*SNOOOOREEEEE*
He didn`t even realize that something like this happened.
~few hours later~
Adam finally opened his eyes, very slowly, his face put deep in his pillow.
[The System T
[would you like
[Yes]
"Mother f***er" he stumbled and fell of his bed straight to the ground. thankfully it wasn`t a large fall.
Half of the pop up window covered by the pillow was now visible to him.
[The System Tutorial has arrived
[would you like to receive it]
[Yes] [No]
Adam still very much not fully awake waved his hand in the direction of the'Yes' button and fell asleep again.
A small info - pamphlet landed spawned in a small flame and fell gracefully on him.
Again, he had no idea.
~another few hours later~
He finally woke up for good. almost for good but enough to see that he should be in his bed, not laying on the ground next to it. He got up and stretched a little.
A few seconds passed as he just stood there waking up and then he realized.
He wasn`t in his armor anymore. Just his regular outdoors clothes. Around him, only his backpack and headphones, no sign of the sword. And under his feet - the pamphlet.
Adam kneeled and picked it up. On the front their were bright orange letters
'WELCOME RECRUIT'
A helmet , similar to the ones other soldiers wore, pointing his metal glove towards the reader.
'TO THE FRONT LINES OF YOUR NEW REALITY'
Adam rubbed his eyes and read that again. It was still the same , a bit cringy but definitely an army recruitment pamphlet just .... angel style.
He turned over to the next page.
'YOU ALREADY KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH MONSTERS. GOOD! '
'NOW WE WILL TEACH YOU WHAT YOU DON`T KNOW'
'OUR BRAND NEW INVENTION '
'HUMAN-FLAME INTERACTION SYSTEM'
'TO USE IT WE ADDED SIMPLE VOICE COMMANDS SUCH AS:'
'ARMOR'
'WEAPON'
'STATUS'
'QUESTS'
'SHOP'
'DISCOVER WHAT EACH DOES ON YOUR OWN.'
'ENJOY THE HFI SYSTEM'
'...sure' Adam thought to himself while reading
He put it aside and went to finally clean himself up and while he was throwing his dirty clothes to the washer , his checked his phone. 5 PM. Most of the day went by just for sleeping. Quick wash and a new set of clothes later he read the info pamphlet again.
That`s when he remembered how he got the sword before.
"wait a second, I never said.... WEAPON' he held out his hand to summon his sword. But, as before, instead of appearing in the air it started to come out of his chest.
When he pulled it out another doubt appeared. He can pull the sword OUT of his chest, but how did he put it away?
"Do I just... stab myself." and he did. "Ouch, ouch" he missed his flame twice, but the third time it just, passed through and disappeared inside.
"Huh" there was 0 surprise on his face at this point.
After that, it was time to test the other commands.
"Alright. STATUS"
A window appeared, with his full name, a mugshot of some sorts and then
his current occupation - Low Ranking soldier.
Under that , Unit - Earth Corps Europe Division 2nd division 1st platoon 37th squad
And to the right a field called List of abilities.
Which was empty.
"So....I`m low ranking and I`m useless...cool" He looked at this for a while, and when he decided to close it... well he didn`t know how. A very small X button in the top right was hard to notice, but he did in the end find it.
"Next is.... QUESTS"
Another window - this one was looking simpler.
Qouta.
Weekly 0/20 Monthly 0/60
Traininings
Weekly : 0/14h
Special tasks
None
Since the window was simple, and gave almost 0 information, Adam closed it and moved on to the last one - shop.
A large scrolling list appeared, with items varying from books to medicine, others had words like Valenthir, others were filled with ??????. Each item had a short description, at least those with english wording and not question marks or unkown languages, as well as a price listed.
Adam scrolled looking at the selection Field Manual : Goblin anatomy and weak points.
Root of ?????? Tree, Stamina draught, AethelgardTactics : 3rdTome .... and a lot lot more.
Most of them too expensive for Adam, since his total - 225, was displayed on top of the list.
"AND I`m broke.... even cooler" he closed that too, and threw the pamphlet on the nighstand.
Dinner time and some well earned TV. Of course, nothing good was on it, since almost all channels were either government broad casts, apocalypse survival tips or 24/7 dramas.
"Well well, let`s see what our great country is doing now"
The news - people are in panic, stores and shops abandoned, looting everywhere..... but not that many deaths actually. Just 12% in the last 2 days.
"You know what.... I thought more... would die by now" he was commentating to himself over leftovers microwaved.
another channel, 24/7 live broadcast from the police. They were now using swords AND their old equipment. Except guns, since apparently they do almost nothing. Some policemen where just straight up soldiers, some were regular guys in uniform. The broadcast was just a simple patrol through the streets, trying to prevent any human-caused accidents, calming the people down etc.
Another channel, clips and recordings of people dealing with goblins. And some random commentator explaining the obvious things like "and here .. see here? the guy just chopped his head off" pretty interesting, apart from the voice over, how different people reacted and took care of the monsters. There was one clip of 1 guy handling the wave himself, slashing goblins left and right.
And he ate , and he looked at channels, and he got another portion, and he looked at more....