Author: Nameless One

Chapter 3: First Death

Blinded once again by the sudden transition from pitch darkness to a radiant forest, with the sun shining brightly in the sky. Frederick found himself in the middle of an abundant forest. He still had some questions, but he seems to have missed the opportunity, so with a gloomy face he looked around him.

The trees in this forest are incredibly tall, their tops almost out of his sight.

The leaves themselves are massive, adding to the imposing scale of the vegetation, making Frederick quite amazed by the splendid vegetation.

The verdant grass reached up to his shoulders. If he were any tinier, his sight would only face those tall grass. He was glad to be tall enough or otherwise, he wouldn't even be able to navigate through this forest. While attempting to survey the forest and speculate about his location. Frederick felt something was wrong or missing. He looked more carefully and indeed, there was something missing. He had no clothes on him!

He let out a weary sigh as he made his way through the dense forest.

As he walked he found that there are only more trees and more grass. Lost in his thought, he said "status" and the blue panel appeared once again

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Name: Frederick Field

Race: Human

Age: 26 years old

Level : 1

<Authority>: Forgotten times (Unique)

<Curse>: One Against the Worlds (Unique)

-One Against the World (Unique):

Effect: The Worlds will try to kiII you by every means possible and the experience point you earn will be divided by ten times

Remark : How did you even survived until now?

-Constitution: 10.

-Mind: 10.

-Perception: 10.

-Dexterity: 10.

Experience points: 0/1000

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'The puppet said that an average human has 10 point per stat and gain only a point per level… But something is wrong…Lets suppose I reach level 100 and put all my points in strength. Does it mean that I am only x10 stronger than the average human? I mean its great and all but not very "godly" as a gun could still easily kiII you.

First, you probably cannot just dump every point in only a stat as you'll probably just hurt yourself as your body or mind wouldn't be able to handle it. Just imagine if your head suddenly explode because your brain couldn't handle the information from your perception. Or if you run ten time faster but crash everywhere as your perception isn't high enough … And even if you have enough perception can your brain handle the information?

Second, I don't think the Chronicle would consider someone with the strength of 10 people but can't handle it as a "god", or perhaps the Authority thing has something to do? Well the puppet said that we only get a single point per level up … So could probably increase of around 10% my stat per lev-'

However all of a sudden his eyes widened as a terrible theory appeared in his mind…

'What if it was compound ? Then it means that ...'

Having previously worked in a management company, Frederick was well-acquainted with mathematical concepts. In this moment, he grasped the significance of compound percentages more than anyone.

As he was dreaming and in his own world. Some hysterical noises made Frederick go back to reality abruptly. He hesitated for a moment before his curiosity took over and he carefully approached the clamor. This very bothersome noise looks like a laugh mixed with some kind of rusty metal grating a rock, making it almost unbearable to anyone sane ears.

As Frederick cautiously steps through the vegetation on high alert. However What he saw left him in such horror that he nearly stumbled. Frederick quickly seek refuge in a tiny hole in a tree that fitted him perfectly. Frederick's hands started to shake because of the fear, but he didn't care as he was busy trying to stay as silent as possible. At this moment, he felt that even breathing was too noisy and only wished that he could be invisible.

What Frederick saw was a type of hideous monstrosity that could perfectly fit in a horror movie. Heck, if a child were to see this thing, he would need therapy for life.

The gruesome entity stood at a towering 2 meters, a humanoid form crafted entirely from what seems to be rotten flesh. Its nightmarish presence was accentuated by its claws, sharp and menacing, as if designed to tear apart every being unlucky enough to be on its path. Its grotesque face had an abundance of eyes, an unsettling cluster that covered its face like a grotesque paint. Each eye fixated on its surroundings with a sinister gleam, and its entire being seemed to exude an aura of malevolence and dread.

Fortunately, this hideous monster doesn't seem to have noticed Frederick yet as it was too busy chewing a headless woman. Her unfortunate body appeared incredibly gruesome, with her mammary glands torn away, her insides exposed for all to witness and her head and a leg still missing.

Frederick has never been so frightened. The sound of bones breaking under the teeth of the creature made everything worst ! As it was feasting on the body, Frederick remained hidden with every part of his body completely still, not a muscle twitching… and he remained patient as every minute felt like days.

After an hour had passed, the gnawing finally ceased. Frederick sensed the abomination moving away, it's horrifying cries gradually fading into the distance. Frederick had never been so glad, and even thanked the tree that hide him multiple times.

After making sure that this evil entity was gone, he cautiously emerged from his hiding with an uncomfortable face and stared at the place where the monstrosity was gone. Slowly, he began to step backward in the opposite direction, his eyes never leaving the path the creature had taken.

However as he walked, his back hit something. And with an even greater horror he slowly turned his eyes only to find that he's face to face against another one of these monstrosity.

'…There was another one?'

And before he could do anything, the flesh monster seized Frederick's head and, with a swift movement, put some of the deformed claws of its left hand right into the mouth of Frederick and with a horrifying tearing sound… The monster simply tore Frederick's lower jaw alongside with a part of his throat !

There was a fountain of blood with the source being his throat. Frederick wanted to struggle under the intense pain but he could do anything no matter how much he tried to hit the creature with his hands full of blood.

The monster threw away Frederick's jaw before violently thrusting its sharp teeth directly into his rib and with a sickening crunch, directly tore a chunk of him alongside with a few organs that weren't supposed to be outside his body.

This made Frederick that was already in pain almost immediately having a mental breakdown and everything was red not only because of the blood but because of the intense pain.

With a heavy thud, the monster dropped Frederick on the grass that was completely red of his blood and started devouring him alive . While he was agonizing and drowning in his own blood, his vision started to fade and the last thought he had was 'It's so painful…'

Before everything went black. However it didn't last as Frederick suddenly woke up on a cold stone floor. As Frederick slowly regained his mind, he suddenly yelled out of pain.

The pain from his last encounter seemed to persist endlessly, and it is only after a few minutes of pleading and cries that he slowly calmed himself a little after seeing that his body was back to normal. Only then did he noticed that he was in a quite peculiar room.

"Wh-where am I?" Frederick's gaze swept across the room filled with countless clocks of varying sizes. Some were broken and others twisted, but surprisingly many continued to tick despite their twisted appearance.

With a heavy body, Frederick stood up, still with fear from his previous encounter in his mind when a familiar blue panel appeared

Suddenly every clocks stopped and moved in the opposite direction at an alarming speed and with another blinding light, Frederick found himself at the place he started with a familiar message