Chapter 1

Let’s in crisis==

Editor: Dre

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I’m looking at the sky.A little girl is looking at the sky.Ah, what a beautiful blue sky.Admiration leaks from that girl’s mouth.A sudden expanded world.An opened grassland.Remains of a decaying ruin.A flowing brook.A far away mountain range.As if it was the Iota’s region in “Zexiahart Biography of Illusions”… she thought in a daze.

“Eh?”That’s why that girl is confused.Raising her lying body, she looks at the soil in her hand.“Soil.”A natural confirmation. But it’s a truth that is not natural in any way.

“Where is…this?”While pressing her head as her thoughts starts to be clear, she stands.Then she once again feels confused. Where is this? She has no recollection whatsoever about this place.

No, wait.“I think…I know this place. That ruin…is Signa Ruin. That mountain peak…it’s Jiltia mountain range…and that river is connected with Rull river.”

As it was smoothly said from that girl’s mouth, she convinced herself that this is not an unknown place. However, she being here is something that is impossible.

‘Why’, you ask?“This is…inside the game?”The answer to her doubt escaped from her mouth. An impossible truth.“What’s happening?”In a fluster that girl scans the area. This place is affirmatively not her own room, where she was awhile ago.

“I was at my room until awhile ago, right? I don’t remember coming here…”Then that girl saw the ruin. Moss grew densely at the stone paving, indicating that there is no one who have ever touched it in months or even years. Well if it was only that then it might be fine. What if the idea of being in her room is her own misunderstanding, and the truth is that she was on a vacation abroad and she had hit her head in front of Mohenjodaro ruin, then she lost her memory?

“Well, as I thought it’s unrealistic.”If only there’s no floating stone in the air.(If I remember it correctly, Signa Ruin is a magic temple created to manufacture floating stone…that was the setting)At the tutorial quest in the beginning of the game, Signa Ruin was explained as a place to produce floating stones that were used in the creation of flying ships.

I mentioned 'was' because now it has been abandoned. After players drifted as emigrants in the town and registered as adventurers, the first quest urged players to pick the floating stones.Those who took this quest would have surely learnt the basics such as purchasing item, using equipment, and fighting or fleeing from monster.

(eh, wait!)As she saw the ruins, dumbfounded, cold sweat starts to trickle down.She thought back to her current status. This place is the tutorial quest ruin. This is the tutorial quest last checkpoint. The stage of the first boss fight.

(no way!?)She feels beast presences from around her.(uwawawawa)Countless breathing sounds. Inhuman footsteps.“Command Open.”

Following her words, various windows appears around her.“Oh, they appeared! So this is really a game?”She still thinks it as unreal, but she believed that this is inside the game and she opens the status menu.

“Yuihama Kazane, um it’s my name.”(But I never used my real name when playing–)While thinking she might have become senile, she—Yuihama Kazane, confirms the other parameter.(Level 8? So it stays in the initial value. It’s not the one I used to play. Weapon, armor is…just normal clothes)The one I wear here is the clothes I wore at home, a baggy tank top and shorts, plus somehow I'm also wearing sneakers. The defensive capability is just as pathetic as it sounds.

There’s no way I can fight. As Kazane judges it that way, for her next option she turns on the display visualization.(Geh!!)As she did so, in the plain with overgrown grass surround her several windows have appeared one after another.Goblin level 12. Typical Goblin tribe, but there are a lot of them.(17, 18, 19, 20. Twice the amount of when it was a game. No way. Seriously, no.)

As she realizes that she is in an absurd situation, she takes a deep breath in resignation. The boss in this quest is usually fixed at 10 goblin tribes. And now it’s twice the number.With ‘High Freedom, High Reality’ as it's catchphrase, a lot of the battles in Zexiahart were extremely strict.For example, battling against twenty, no, even if it were just ten goblins, fighting while the character stats is still at the initial stage would mean certain death. Originally if you didn’t follow instructions from the guild to break them apart and kill them one by one, you will most likely die. That’s why the quest in Signa Ruin was often called as the ‘Beginner Killer’.

(They encircled me in an instant…well, of course)Even If I fight, I can’t win. Just to be sure I checks the skill column, but of course it is empty. Running into the grassland is also reckless. As I have no weapon, if it become a hopeless situation my option will be limited.

Gulp… Kazane swallows her saliva.“U, Uwaaaaaaa!!!!”Instant judgement. She shouts with her might and run away.“Gyaga!” “Agaijigigi!!?” “Jareaganii!!”Ignoring the shouts behind her, Kazane run without turning back. Into the Signa Ruin.

(Game! Game! Game! This is a Gaaaameeee!!)

Kazane : err… Am I killed?