7 - My day cannot get any worse!

'Ring Ring' the alarm goes of, signalling 6:30 am, the usual time that Mickaila wakes up for school however since it was already summer holiday, he forgot to shut down the alarm so that he could sleep in for the day. He moaned and lazily swung his hand over to the alarm, attempting to silent it however it took several attempts to be successful with his subconscious state of mind that was too tired to open his eyes.

And by the time he successfully switched the alarm off, another alarm went off, 'Come on, system. It's summer holiday!' he complained, 'at least let me sleep in a bit more.' he said tired from all the action that happened last night.

And just before he could hear the system's reply, he unconsciously fell back asleep. With his sister going back to the army training, he was left at the residents all alone with no one to disturb his sleep.

After a few hours, Mickaila subconsciously felt something was odd, he suddenly felt a much colder wind blowing his way, and this wasn't the one from his air conditioner. Despite this coldness he was suffering, he wasn't going to open his eyes, instead he tried to reach down to his covers and pull it up so that he could carry on sleeping. However, as he reached down to get a hold of his covers, his hands wandered around what was believed as his bed but he couldn't find anything, furthermore what's more strange was that instead of facing the soft and comfy mattress underneath him, he felt something that was cold and solid, much like a stone ground.

Due to this, his eyes suddenly widened and was faced with what seems like a a place of a dungeon's tunnel, just like the ones he read in manga's, those with several pathways much like a maze with torches put on every side of the wall to ensure he could see everything clearly.

Looking around, it seems there was no end to the tunnel, Mickaila was just faced with stone walls at every corner as if there was no exit.

[Am I dreaming?] he asked himself, he wondered why he would dream of such a place that he never been before and that if he was seriously dreaming, instead of being faced with unknown places he would dream of eating luxurious and scrumptious  food for example a chocolate cake that he rarely eats except on special occasions where his sister would buy for him I.e. birthdays. Since Mickaila has no clue of whether this was reality, he reached out to his hand and pinched it, "ouch! I guess I'm not dreaming."

As he came to realisation that this was no dream, he wondered why he has suddenly transported himself from his bed to this unknown dungeon like tunnel.

Walking around this maze like place, he tried to find an exit but nothing was there, and just then he heard a noise, believing he found someone that could help him, he followed the sound until he reached a dead end, he sighed and turned back around, turning at the corner and was coincidentally faced with what seems like a group of trolls, their slimy green body, a large 1 eyed monster with a gigantic frame along with a large barbed wire wooden stick held in their left hand, all staring at Mickaila who stood there dazed, unsure of what was happening, but one thing was for certain, which was the fact that Mickaila has no chance against these group of level 5 monsters. As he stood there, all the trolls looked at him with a greedy look, believing Mickaila was a delectable feast with saliva dripping down the troll's mouth, hearing the roaring sound from the largest troll, alerted the others to attack . Mickaila was then pulled out of  his daze and started running, the trolls high upon his heels gave chase close behind.

'System, what's going on?' Mickaila asked exasperatedly tired. 'Well, if you listened this morning this wouldn't have happened would it?' Mickaila clenched his fist quite unhappy with the system's attitude [ I mean from all the manga I've read, I've never seen such a conscientious system like this one before], Mickaila took a sigh and calmed down knowing that anger wouldn't get him anywhere, furthermore it would just deplete his energy quicker. 'And what was it?' he asked.

'This morning's alarm was to warn you that if you don't complete your daily quest then you would have to face the consequences. But since you ignored it, you eat what you sow.' the system replied with it's usual monotone voice which annoys Mickaila even more, 'You got to be kidding me! And what's this daily quest thing you are talking about, I've never seen it before.' he asked confused whilst running at his highest speed away from the trolls that was shortening their distance.

'Well, it is a daily quest to increase your status and it must be completed within 24 hours that it was set, meaning you'll have to do a new set everyday without fail or you will have to face the punishment.' the system answered, 'then why didn't you remind me any sooner?' Mickaila said frustratedly.

'Well, I did.' Mickaila then rolled his eyes, 'fine, how do I get out of here then?' He asked not wanting to confront the system anymore.

' every time you don't do the daily quest or fail to finish it, you would be transported to another realm facing monsters which would last for 3 hours.' The system replied.

'So how long till I get out then?' He shouted out to the system fiercely as he was getting tired.

'You have 2 hours and 10 minutes before you could leave'

'WHAT?' Mickaila fumed, [my day couldn't get any worse than this!] he scoffed unhappily.

[aah, I'm getting more and more tired from running, I need to quickly get these trolls out of my tail and find somewhere to hide out for now or else I'm really going to die today!] he told himself.

And with that he put all his basic points into agility, bringing it up to 25 with his speed massively increased, he quickly ran cutting corners before his stamina fully runs out.

After half an hour, the group of trolls were out of his sight, now Mickaila was just keeping a low profile ensuring he would be able to survive for another 1 hour and 40 minutes. Making small movements, he ducked from the sight of trolls that split up to find him which would be easier for Mickaila to deal with even if he was found out furthermore he would have a better chance of defeating 1 troll than facing a group of them at the same time.

Seeing how this was a great opportunity for Mickaila to gain points and level up, he decided to sneak attack these trolls and maybe gain some valuable materials along the way.

[inventory] he called out and the inventory screen appeared in front of him, reaching in and took out the 2  weapon from the system that he thought would be useful:

| item: poisonous dagger

   Rank: D

   Effect: when penetrating skin, it can decrease enemies speed by 20% |

With the poisonous dagger in one hand along with the gun he got from the house, he placed it in his back pocket.

He used the system's detector  to locate the trolls position and sneakily made his way over, seeing how there was only one troll before him, he took the opportunity and used the element of surprise to attack and slashed the troll from behind before it knew what has happened.

And since he had the poison effect on the dagger, it helped Mickaila quite a lot in defeating the trolls with their movement becoming more and more slower and dull.

|Congratulations, you've defeated a troll, Exp would be rewarded|

|congratulations, you are now at Level 2|

And with that Mickaila plows his way through defeating one troll after another with no difficulty and soon he finished the last one off that was in front of him which soon disappeared into thin air.

|congratulations, you have gained the skill dagger slasher|

Mickaila looked at the screen that suddenly appeared in front of it and tapped the description bar

|skill: dagger slasher

Level: 1

Description: slashes the foe down with 5% more damage|

After reading through the use of the skill, he nodded and closed the screen and was about to go for a rest before finding his next prey, however unluckily for him, there were 2 trolls standing before him, both started running towards him and attacking Mickaila at the same time, surrounding him with no where to escape to.

Mickaila has no choice but to fight, he swiftly brought up his weapons close to himself, ready to take a gamble, he knew that his strength wasn't enough to defeat these trolls and his speed wasn't enough to dodge their attacks, so with the points he earned he quickly put 10 into agility and 10 into strength bringing agility up to 35 and strength to 45 along with adding another 20 to his senses making it reach 30.

With this he has the ability to dodge any attacks from the trolls in time along with his senses telling him which direction the attack is coming from.

With his strength increased, he was able to use this against the trolls, slashing down a deeper cut into their body so that they are dead with one blow.

|Congratulations, you've defeated a troll, Exp would be rewarded|

"Well, it seems you have no where to run" Mickaila mocked looking at the other troll that was angered and rushed towards his way, and with that opportunity he quickly made his way ducking underneath the troll and reached behind him before once again slashing it down.

|Congratulations, you've defeated a troll, Exp would be rewarded|

|congratulations, you are now at Level 10|

|congratulations, skill dagger slasher is now at level 2|

[few, that was a close call] he thought to himself, as he tried to regain his energy. He then asked the system, 'how long do I have left?'

'You have 30 minutes left' the system replied whilst Mickaila nodded sitting down trying to get some rest before fighting anymore however luck wasn't on his side.

Just as he was about to take a breather, a group of about 30-40 trolls marched their way towards Mickaila and just as they see him insight, "ROAR!" They shouted cutting Mickaila short from regaining his energy.

[damn, my day couldn't get any worse!]