Varun woke up, laying between adi and sudhanshu, who were unconscious too, the lightning hit them too after all, even if its one each.
"What the hell happened?... Ugh!... My body?!"
He checks himself hastily, but had no scar, scratch or wound... Like.... He was never hit by the lightning.. And the weird thing was... He was seeing a system window in front of him, and surrounding him were all the students and staff... Who presumably can't see it.
Staff:"hey, kid... You alright, bud?"
Varun wasn't sure what to make of the situation... He just.. Shrug it for a moment.. But there was something he couldn't shake off... The tightness of hernia... His groin wasn't tight like usual... He touched it to see what's wrong.. And.. It was fine.... It was normal, with no inguinal hernia anymore... And that's when he realized what's the meaning of what he's reading in the window... "Full recovery"... It recovered everything... This wasn't a bullshit dream or hurt on his brain.. It was a real thing... A real system like in games and those Korean manhwa... What was the name again... "I level up alone".
"Uh... Yeah.. I am... I just.. My head spins a bit... I should go home... And.. These guys should too"
He, sudhanshu and adi all went back home of their own... But what Varun couldn't shake away was the "quest" He was reading on the system window...
[Daily quest: 1000 push ups, 1000 squats, 1000 sit-ups, and a 100 km running]
"That's a absurd amount.... No human can do that,.. Even the manhwa had at least just a human imaginable amount.... How am I supposed to do this.... F–k it... I am not doing it.. Surely there's now way I can... Even mom, dad won't let me do something this straining... Damn that, I'd pray this system if mom, dad even let me go to to park for this training"
Yeah.. Varun said it because his parents doesn't let him go anywhere alone.. And surely won't let him do something this straining after knowing that their son just came out of death twice, one that they could never know and second they didn't get to see.
As he got to his home, the tension was clear... There were his mom and dad.. Waiting with held in breaths
His mom a sweet ,chuby woman with black hair and brownish eyes, about 5'3 height in mid of 45-50 and a gentle looking father with black hair and eyes like him in his 50s
Mom:"sweetie!... You're back... You aren't hurt, right!?... You.. You are good, you haven't got any injury right!?"
She didn't give neither him not his dad a chance to talk, still his father stepped in.
Dad:"let him breath, .. He just came from a intense situation... He also needs time to understand the situation himself"
He was being understanding but it was sure that he's also concerned about his son's well being
"I– .. I'll go take some sleep first"
Varun's voice trembled not because of seeing them concerned this much... But because they are concerned about a guy who always wanted to die and leave them, they didn't know but he did, he couldn't hide that from himself..... He went to one of the bed, which were one next to another, because they sleep together at nights due to having just 2 rooms with a attached kitchen and bathroom, which was further connected to toilet right inside.
"I'll just sleep for a bit.... I don't know what will happen if I didn't do this daily quest... I don't think it's real yet... I might be hallucinating... There's no way this system is real... I can't even touch it... Let's just sleep"
He fell asleep, and the timer wemt on.. 10 minutes... 30 minutes.... 45 minutes.... 79 minutes.. 120 minutes.
The surrounding started to shake... Not for anyone but him... His parents, birds, squirrels, every life frozen,.. What shook was the very bed he was on... And it open wide... A portal, which he fell on... And kept falling through the sky, not normal sky.. Something like from dream, heaven and hell colliding... Weird creatures flying and more weird creatures walking on the ground he was about to fall on.
"WHAT THE FU–K!?... WHERE THE HELL AM I FALLIIIIIIIIIIiiiiiinnng~!"
His voice became low as he fell down from the portal area.
He fell on his butt on the ground.
"Agh!...my butt... What the hell is this pla–?"
[Penalty quest started, survive for 3 hour-.. ]
System glitched into multicolored breaking around rgb lights.
[Penalty quest started, survive for 3 days...don't die]
"3–... 3 days!!! .... Mom doesn't let me stay out more than 3 hours, that's also because of coaching... What the hell will I say why was I away for 3 days?!... AND WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN 'DON'T DIE'?!!?"
Crash out was valid here, anyways the system seems to have glitched for Varun.. The very system he was shrugging of as nothing but illusion, and is even telling him to survive and "don't die", like it knows he'll die.
Suddenly the ground started to tremor, as he was just making sence if it's earthquake, since where he lived never came a earthquake this big... But it wasn't a earthquake.... The ground opened flat... Like a mouth .... It was a monster of this whatever universe he was in... And just like that he got eaten alive to death by the ground.
[Player died]
[Respawning player]
"MOTHERFU–!... what the hell just happened!?"
He was back where he was before getting eaten alive with the pop up window in front of him.
[Player died by the consumer of monster eating them alive. Monster name: "land garxial"]
"The name sucks bro,.. Who even named this thing?"
[Player has died once, the time has been reset from "2 days 24 hours 1440 minutes and 86390 seconds" to "3 days". Player survived for "10 seconds"]
" Eh!... I... I survived just 10 seconds?"
The ground started to tremor again just like before... But this time he knew what's coming
[The "land garxial" Is coming]
"I know that.."
He started to run towards the forest, since the open ground had this "garxial" Think under it... But couldn't make it.. He ran with everything he had, but couldn't make it in time... He got blocked by the jaw of the "land garxial" Closing up and....
[Player is dead, initiating respawn]
"... FUUUUUUU–K!!!"
[Player survived for 13 seconds]
[Player time is reset from 2 da–]
"Yeah yeah yeah!.. Three days ... Don't need to rub on my face every second"
He said while running.
[Impatient eh~]
Window was red and glitchy again but varun didn't notice as it popped up again next to him.
Just as the jaw of the monster was about to close. He jumped out.. Getting a big cut on his thight because of the teeth that was closing up.
"AAARGH!.. FU–K!"
[You have left the land of the monster land garxial, entering the land of white elves.. The eternal forest, find your way out without becoming the elven's dinner]
"...!?"
He didn't know what to say any more.
For about 7 weeks he spent dying limitlessly and coming back to just survive for three days, which always got reset by his dying.
Until finally... He survived, limphly walking on the sand covered land with torn up expression and broken mind because of constant deaths.. Eyes dull and lifeless because of no sleep at all.
[Player has completed the penalty quest]
He came back on his bed, time moving again from when he went into the portal, like it never moved a second or millisecond.
[Would you like to use "full recovery"?]
"Yes please"
A static ran from his body and he was fresh and good... Like nothing happened... And... His body looked slightly different... Just a slight bit... He was a bit more fit, instead of chubby... His double chin was gone and his figure was more lean, but still fat slightly.
He fell back a sleep without knowing the changes, since they were too subtle for naked eyes, and even for himself after dying for so many times
"I need to complete these daily quests from tomorrow... The penalty quest is more terrifying then these daily workout bullsh*t"
"I'll need to complete the daily quests from tomorrow... I can't handle this penalty quest".
He didn't fell asleep because of body strain, they were all recovered the system, he fell asleep from the strain he got by constant deaths, from fast to slow and painful.