Defiance of the Fall

It was a weird feeling walking back to the camper with his backpack . He felt somehow robbed of his momentum . If the car battery was broken he was pretty much stuck in the middle of nowhere , at least for now . Either he had to somehow fix the car with his non-existing knowledge of cars or he had to get back to the nearest town by foot , which was about 80 kilometers away .

Eighty kilometers would take the better part of a day when conditions were good , but with hurt legs and monsters likely lurking in the woods it was suicide . There was no way he would try that with his current condition . His only option was to wait where he was in order to heal up , and maybe someone would even come and rescue him . Like the military or the police .

To be honest , he didn’t hold high hopes of a rescue . First of all , no one really knew he was here , and even if someone did he was afraid that these changes would have disrupted law and order to the point they couldn’t be bothered about a single straggler stuck deep in a demon forest .

He would have to save himself , and for that he needed to recover and figure out a way to get back to civilization .

If this stupid system could help out a little and tell me what to do , that would be great . - Zac mumbled , lost as what to do from now .

Active Quests :

Unlimited Potential (Normal) : Reach level 25 . Reward : Unlock class system . (16/25)

Dynamic Quests :

Demon Slayer I (Normal) : Kill 10 denizens with demonic alignment . Reward : +1 All Stats when fighting enemies of demonic alignment . (2/10)

Off with their heads (Unique) : Kill the four heralds and the general of incursion within 3 months . Reward : 10 E-Grade Nexus Crystals , E-Grade equipment , unique building depending on performance . (1/5)

Incursion Master (Unique) : Close or conquer incursion and protect base from denizens of other alignments for 3 months . Reward : 5 E-Grade Nexus Crystals , outpost upgraded to town , status upgraded to Lord . (0/3)

A screen flashed in his view just like when he was transported to the blackness earlier . Zac froze for a second before even registering what was happening . So there was more to this system and multi-verse as he suspected .

The screen slowly hovered in front of him and even moved with him when he turned his head and looked around .

It seemed the system could give out quests which would grant different advantages and power-ups . What Zac first took note of was that there were two types of quests , active quests , and dynamic quests . From looking at the contents it seemed that active quests were normal quests that you either automatically got or got from quest givers or something .

Wait , would there spawn NPC’s around the world with yellow exclamation points above their heads giving out quests? Zac’s gut feeling said no .

The other type of quest was dynamic quests . All the quests were related to the demons and the red pillar . By now he was pretty certain the red pillar in the distance was , in fact , the Incursion mentioned by the system .

He also noticed that there were some rarity or difficulty in front of each quest . He currently had two types , Normal and unique . Normal was pretty straight forward , and seemed like normal grinding quests in video games , - kill x number of y . . . - or - collect 10 ores - , which would reward some experience and gold .

In this case , there was no gold , but the unique quests did reward him with something called Nexus Crystals , which might be a currency . The other rewards were a bit more unclear .

The Class System he could somewhat guess what it would mean . He would probably get to choose warrior , magician (if magic was now real , which actually felt like a very real possibility) or something , and get buffs pertinent to that class .

The demon-slaying quest's reward was also somewhat straight forward , although +1 stats did not seem very strong . However , it said Demon slayer I , meaning there might be follow-ups . What if he killed a thousand demons , would he get +100 all stats against demons? He would be a one-man army by then .

The last rewards he had no idea of what they meant . Upgrade outpost to town? What outpost? And why would he want a town in the middle of nowhere surrounded by monsters? As that quest somehow seemed the hardest to complete , he felt there was something more to it , but couldn’t figure out what . As for the benefits of being a Lord of Monstertown or a unique building , he did not have the slightest idea .

Why is there no explanations of things? - Zac grumbled . - There should be a tutorial or something . -

User does not qualify for teleportation to tutorial protocol . Please explore the system of the multi-verse yourself A robotic voice echoed in his head .

WHAT? - Zac shouted - Why can't I get the tutorial? Teleport me right now! -

By accepting Protocol SL-34572 , user automatically declined standardized initiation protocol in favor of lottery opportunity