That day, it started off as an otherwise normal day for everyone. Of course, no one knew what time it actually was for real. They wanted to know what time it might be from the clock that was within their own personal room. Though it displays two different times, one that many of them did not understand the meaning of. Why were there two times, and why did only one of them seem to go up at a time, was something many people did not know, even after they had been informed they were logging out into reality, but they were within a game that allowed them to enter into another game.
For Tester 83, this was just then continuing to push forward to see where their starting region ended, as this was surely not a segmented world but a huge connected one instead. They were not on different servers, but instead on one massively gigantic one that was just the size of Super Earth. At least from what they were informed about, the overall planet on which the world of Avelon took place on. The facility in the reality portion of The Decagon was equally as massive, though the hallway between the ten different areas was just as massive. Along with the outdoor area, they could visit and roam around in.
Yet at midnight that day, something none of them expected appeared all of a sudden; it was a clock. Not just any clock, but one started at negative thirty minutes, and once it struck zero, that was when it happened. Everyone, all ten thousand and nine player, were affected by this, as anyone logged into Avelon was immediately and instantly logged out regardless of their intent, desire, or interest. Then, just as fast as everyone was logged out, they were all logged in to Avelon. By all, this meant everyone, as even the beta testers that never played the game for even a moment because of how they were split up originally across the ten areas. Players who gave up after they were disillusioned by the world of Avelon having everything they ever wanted, but not NPCs of any kind. Then there were those who just lost their will entirely over time, just remained as broken beta testers that still existed but did not do anything. This was from the realization they were trapped within The Decagon, be it through their own figuring out or when they were told that directly.
They were not just logged into Avelon at their designated starting area. Instead, they were logged in to place within their starting region at random and spread about so that there would be no one around for well over a dozen miles in every direction. This does not just mean left or right only, but also up and down as well, causing even more chaos and mass panic as well. Since up " means that they were people who were logged in basically in the sky itself. They were literally free falling from starting at sixty three thousand feet in the sky, a dozen miles from any other player applied to those in the sky as well. However, those that probably had even worse were those that logged in not on the ground, but in the sky, and even in the water, as there were countless ones of those within Avelon. They were the most unlucky type because they were logged in starting sixty three thousand feet underground itself. If the logging process did not instantly kill them, they were trapped underground, with the only way out being to die in the game. Thus, they would respawn in the last known settlement they were in. This was to prevent them from being stuck in a death loop or scenario that made it so they could not continue playing. The main choice was to be play or not play The Decagon, so things that got in the way of that choice were addressed and handled well in advance. The only exception was if there was a way out, regardless of how unlikely it was for a player to get there.
While all this chaos was going on, the players were informed that the main objective of The Decagon for the players was to kill nine massive kaiju size demons that were maxed in every and any stats, skill, or ability that was present within the game. They also had one trillion HP that will only go down, as they can not use healing magic on themselves to recover HP. They use it for everyone and anyone but themselves. The ten thousand players can endlessly respawn and remain at the current level at the moment of the announcement.
Just as they were told this, nine massive creatures appear within nine of the ten areas. Each one was a different type of creature that was kaiju size and one of nine players chosen from the entire pool of players through a random selection process.
Within the starting area for the fourth region, when they looked up, what they saw above them was the massive figure of a dragon that was falling towards them at first, but them righted itself to fly above the fourth starting area. The player who had become this dragon and one of the nine demons was Kuzas Iavko themselves.
Kuzas had been free falling through the sky at twelve miles up until they were transformed into their demon form, which they just put down as merely a dragon and nothing more. Once they had been fully transformed into a massive kaiju size dragon, that was when they were given the rundown on what their goal was for The Decagon now. It was not just being one of nine targets for the other ten thousand players. They were now the hunter as well as the hunted, too. Killing all ten thousand players would result in their victory; however, they have to kill all ten thousand of them, which was going to be hard even for the nine of them. The player's endless respawn, so to make the wiping out of them stick, they have to do it in a manner where they are dead at the same time, with none having respawned yet.
A difficult venture even for them, but they were given two other options. Kuzas ignored both of them, as they did not care about winning this game through either of them. One of them they felt was beneath them, and the other was just pure insanity, even for a demon such as themselves now. Instead, Kuzas was going to rule as the one of the strongest beta testers in The Decagon from now on. No one could stop them in their view, as a new clock that was now at the center of every settlement, large or small, as there was even one now in the center of each facility area in the 'real world,' showed not the time but the amount of time that had passed since the game of kill or be killed between players and demons began.