The start
John largens was a freshly graduated college student who got a major in professional writing. After deciding to start a business was forced to work at a convenience store to make ends meat. He worked hard and wrote in his free time, honing and mastering his craft.
It took him over four years to start his mass publication of the three books that he had wrote during his life as a freshly graduated student, he made a action, murder mystery, thriller like book series. After all those years was finally able to quit his job at the store stepping down from his branch manager position. The company was sad to see him go, but they weren't able to convince him to stay.
He had finally began the next step of his life, but there will always be those who are jealous of other peoples success. His childhood friend Clark star, that he had drifted apart from had decided that he wanted the kind of money John had started to make.
One night after many drinks Clark had hired some thugs to murder his best friend.
It is with this back story that lead him to his current predicament, running down the streets away from three thugs with machete's and knifes. His heart thumped in his chest, his lungs burned from the exertion, but if he stopped now he would die.
Turning a corner without paying attention, John slammed into a mail box. He stumbled and tried to get back on his feet, he felt a blade pierce right through his flesh, reducing his shoulder to a bloody mess.
The nine inch knife was ripped back out by the man as he went for another blow. Throwing his whole weight at the man, John was barely able to buy him self a moment to escape.
Having just barely escaped the clutches of death, John made it out of the neighborhood and onto the streets as he headed towards the police station. Sadly his plans were foiled once when they appeared on the path before the main road, with no other escape root he ran towards the beach. By this time though it was nearing dusk and the beach was utterly devoid of people.
Pushing his body to the limit he continued to run as best he could, the none ceasing flow of blood from his shoulder had caught up to him. Collapsing to his knees, a miracle happened. With a flash of light a magnificent sword made of a black steel appeared right in his reach. The blade stood in the sand, tall and powerful. John with his conscience fading defiantly refused fate, if he was going to die he sure as hell wasn't good out alone.
He reached out and grabbed it by the handel, as soon as he had grabbed the sword, he felt large black tentacles grab his leg and attach onto his mind. He felt a burst of strength from deep inside, hefting the sword in the air and plunged it into the chest of the first thug from behind him killing the man instantly.
He felt a searing pain from his left as the third thug had slashed his slide, whipping around the sword cleaved directly through the man bisecting him.
As John stood there heaving from exertion he collapsed into the sand and before he could even properly react, he felt nauseous and was dragged into a dark chasm. He felt like he was falling, as he was about to swing the sword he passed out. He awoke in a place that was different from where he was, first off he noticed the three large moons that rested in the sky. He immediately started to think that he was dreaming, until he heard a voice echoing in his mind.
"The sword excalibur has been picked up as the one who has used its power without the proper strength you have been summoned to this plain. Say the key phrase, status to open your status screen."
"Status" A screen appeared in front of his eyes, suddenly and it revealed basic stats and abilities.
John largens
Class: ???
Race: ???
Experience: 0/10
Stats:
Mp: 5
Strength: 1
Speed: 1
Defense: 1
Intelligence: 1
Fitness: 1
Stat points: 0
Abilities:
[God of revival's blessing]: level 1
This allows your experience points to grow rapidly. You also have the ability to recover mentally fast and other abilities as it levels up.
Effect: 2x exp gain.
[Sword of the gods]: level 0
This weapon is called Excalibur, it is infused with holy magic and boosts your stats when your ability mastery is higher. (Required level 5)
[Punch]: level 0
You can punch and deal 1 damage. Increases by 5 every time the ability levels up.
He was confused but sat there for a minute, he recovered quickly thanks to his ability. He was about to get up when a box appeared in front of his eyes again.
'[New quest:
Do a 100 pushups
Do a 100 sit ups
Do a 100 squats
And run 10 miles
Time limit: 2 hours, you will be teleported to
the penalty zone if you fail]'
John didn't really take the systems message to heart as he was too shocked with the suddenness of the situation and he decided to explore the area rather than do the quest.
In a flash the two hours had passed and John still couldn't tell if this was a dream or if he had lost his mind and was having a psychotic episode after the men had gotten to him.
All of a sudden he was ripped from where he was and felt as if he was falling at extreme speeds as he couldn't see anything and his eyes began to tear up and everything around him was blurred from some reason.
John suddenly jolted awake and he was on a rock hard surface completely different than the plains that he had started to explore when he had first woke up.
"Well, shit I guess I wasn't dreaming". John began to look around to try and figure out what he was going to do. As he did so, he realized that he was in a extremely dark cave with low visibility. He heard the sound of something scurrying across the stone surface ahead of him.
John looked at the cave and noticed that it delved down into a deep and wide ravine that he could see multiple dozens of creatures rushing at him.
'[You have been sent to the penalty zone]
•survive for the next two hours or you will
return back to the cycle of reincarnation'.
John knew that he wouldn't be able to survive against the hoard of beasts coming at him so he strayed to run the opposite direction.
He was sprinting down the tunnels and after a while his eyes had become used to the darkness again so it made his able to find the ends and beginnings of the many different tunnels.
The four hours passed mind numbingly slow, even still after sprinting near constantly for hours John felt as if his lungs were going to explode. He then again heard the ding of the system's message and looked at it.
'[Congratulation's on surviving the penalty
zone you will be transported back to reality
now]'
John was brought back to reality and immediately passed out in the forest where he had ended up in.
John awoke in the morning and saw that the system had the same quest for him.
'[New quest:
Do a 100 pushups
Do a 100 sit ups
Do a 100 squats
And run 10 miles
Time limit: 2 hours, you will be teleported to
the penalty zone if you fail]'
So of course having nothing else to do and not wanting the same penalty from before to happen again he quickly did the quest. He completed all of it except the run just where he was spat back out by the system. He decided to just do the run through the forest without much thought, and went on for the path with the least amount of obstacles.
After about two hours of just running, he finally got the notification he had been waiting for. He even managed to not catch an ankle on a root or dead log, so other than being tired he was pretty much fine.
'[Quest complete]
Rewards:
+5 stat points, +5 hp,
and status recovery'.