The Player's System

Sea desert

Seventh quest

Wolves howling in the silence of the night made it threatening. The rain started. It was tough and the team members looked at the boy digging the soil. They stood in line. Close to hundred wolves showed up entering inside their range of sight.

Their sparkling eyes gave off terrible aura. Junan did not blink. He did not want to miss single moment. It was tense situation where they were empty handed and the enemies were coming to battle them.

Jake turned his head and saw the wolves showed up. His hand removed wet soil from the ground and met the card. For now it was life saver. The Alpha led its wolves for the attack.

Jake picked the card and ran toward the team head. The wolves leapt to capture the team members. Team head collected the card and before the sharp teeth of the wolves reach their heads team members got transferred in the next quest area.

Some of them spread their arms in front of the face because the blood thirsty wolves were going to tear apart each of them. As soon as the card got collected the quest area changed.

Team head took deep breath when he saw the new quest ground. He was holding his breath to see the death in front of the eyes.

Others were no different. They last time remembered their ancestors to say goodbye this level of the game.

Orin huffed with the horror. He was ready to yell at the wolves and thank the 'Sovereign Rulers' headquarters.

"I swear if it was the internet of my house I would have died in the game before the team head collect the card." Orin admitted the good decision of the CEO.

His Wi-Fi connection at home always lagged when he happened to be in the daring situation. Others were simply facing the attack of the wolves from front while his head was in claws of the wolves.

Orin wanted to thank the developers of the game portal. This was one of the best features of the portal for the damned players in the tough situation.

As soon as the quest area changed they were transferred regardless of the situation going on. Unless someone got seriously injured the players would be saved if they completed the quest of the certain area.

"Haha fortunately we are not in our homes." Clark laughed. He was actually in the same situation.

He even felt sweat trickling down his spine.

"Let's pray for the internet of the headquarters. It saved our day." Team head wiped his sweat from the forehead. They were playing live portal and just a moment ago they were in dire situation.

"All hail to the headquarters' Wi-Fi." They spoke in unison.

Jake slightly smiled to see the expressions of the team members. He always felt that the experienced and pro players never feared anything in the game. They played fearless in his eyes but to see the experienced team members he was forced to admit that every player feared when playing any level.

Players were also humans be it pro or experienced. They feared to lose the game or get defeated at the hands of the enemies.

Jake understood how they became experienced it was all effort and the continuous effort. The will to win levels sometimes surpassed the fear to lose which helped let them stand in the game and the higher level of any game.

He also came to know that his fear of the game was based on his fear of real life confrontations with the disability of his hand.

However he was ready to defeat all his fears be it real life or the in-game.

They looked at each other after the threat of the previous quest ended. The gaming gowns and the weapons appeared again. "I got my life my weapon. Ah I love you my weapon." Clark kissed hammer.

He was like someone who lost his dear one and found again by luck. Orin was no different. He in fact looked at the weapon more closely as if he missed his weapon like girlfriend.

Slowly they got much acquainted with their weapons that they liked their existence in every quest no matter if the quest demanded different use of other weapons or some strategy.

"Stop being emotional, what the younger player would think about experienced players?" Team head laughed at them. He was amazed the way his team members were acting after getting out of dire situation.

"It is just beginning of endless battles. What if we are surrounded by players and no weapon work what would you do? Suppose some weird quest again throw us in the similar situation." Team head spoke to remind them.

Orin opened his mouth agape. "Shay that quest, are they going to keep the oddity at the peak?" He was seriously thinking to practice some martial arts moves after this level ended.

The live game portal was ruthless in the quest formation and settings along with enemies. Anything was expected. So he was sure to get enrolled in the martial arts class to save his face in the game.

He always relied at the strength of his weapons to win the levels. But now it was different.

Albert was standing silent. He looked at the shield. It was similar as it looked before the last quest. However he was quite happy to have it again.

Sashi did not add in the conversation. She was looking at Ahram.

They barely made the previous quest. "Why I am sweating?" Team head looked around. Earlier he thought that perhaps he was worried because of the wolves attacking and he faced threatening situation but now why he was sweating like rain.

The bright sun appeared at their heads. It was hot day. They were standing on the burning sand. First time they felt that their gaming gowns were burden for them.

The angry sun wanted to dry out their moisture. "Right after rainy quest we are standing on the dry sand. Welcome all of you to suffer this quest. If you have any complain please be patient, no one is here to listen you." Orin spoke in his calculated tone.

He was free to comment whatever his heart said.

Jake suffered the same situation. But it was nothing for him. He remembered the bright sunny day when he was returning from his school. The bullies threw him on the ground and he was unable to stand up because the leg hurt a lot.

Jake was actually very excited because the task panel promised to open the shop option after completing this level.

He was anticipating something helpful for his right arm. Hopefully he would be able to get rid the sling that kept his arm hiding or else the team members would look strangely at him.

Although he became strong part of the team still there was some fear in his heart. After facing many years of weird looks of others he was no more ready to face it again.

The reason behind the offer of the task panel was simple. The third level would give some perks of certain amount. Those completed quests and the perks would add up in the Exp of the host.

By addition his overall Exp would reach level seven. The shop option would open at level seven however he could buy with some restrictions in the initial levels.

The task panel wanted to soberly distribute his earned Exp because the host was lesser than the certified age of a host.

To tackle this problem the task panel took responsibility for various submissions and tasks that could balance his expected performance. Also the levels could increase his overall strength so there was no haste. As for the safety of his in-game life it was the responsibility of the task panel.

Jake wiped the sweat and looked away in the distance. The eyes felt difficulty to look in distance because of brightness of the day. The team members were standing at the sand dune.

It was not high above but one could open his eyes and see the waves of the ocean roaring against the shore.

Slowly the waves were increasing in numbers. The water surface increased and took most part of the dry sand in it.

Team head noticed. His eyes started burning because the sweat almost dried his pupil. "What's wrong with this place?" he spoke.

Orin opened the book of detection and read. The one page book opened. "From now on if you want to get clue, you will give your Exp in return. If you want to continue then click on the 'agree' option in case you no more needed clue then you can deactivate the profession option. However it would reduce your performance by half. Enter your selection."

This was the first ever that long text was printed on the book of detection but it was similar of some curse.

Team members heard.. They were speechless.