“Game? What game? We didn’t talk about a game!”(Daniel)

“Don’t worry, it’s a good and exciting game. I do this all the time.”(Jenny)

My heart started to race.

I don’t know what kind of twisted game this woman was talking about, but I know that it isn’t good for both Cath and Julia.

“So, what is it?”(Daniel)

“Simple. Each minute you waste inside, I will cripple someone’s leg. Exciting, right?”(Jenny)

What?! Crippling someone? Is she crazy?! I don’t care what happened to the others, but it can’t happen to Cath or Julia!

“You crazy woman…”(Daniel)

“C’mon, don’t be like that. Be positive! I’m telling you, it’s an adrenaline rush! Not for you, though, but for them. Not knowing who is the one getting their leg crushed next and praying that my eyes don’t land on them. Isn’t it exciting?! So, do you like it?”(Jenny)

What I would like to do right now is smash your face to the ground and grind it as long as possible.

I looked over Cath and Julia. They’re both glaring at us with disdainful eyes while the others are shaking.

They totally heard what she just said.

My heart raced faster.

Julia, and Cath, are watching me. I can’t do this in front of them.

“Let’s forget about this mission… I just can’t do this one. Not with them here. But, I promise I’ll join you on your next task when I got the time. Please?”(Daniel)

“Hmmm, let’s see. Maybe… NO.”(Jenny)

Tsk

“I said please. Aren’t you gonna think about it first?”(Daniel)

“Okay… Hmmmmmmmm. HMMMM! You know what, if you said it like that… NO”(Jenny)

Ugh…

Then I have to do this hastily. I can’t afford to waste a lot of time inside.

Before I went inside the building, I looked at both of them and apologized inside my head.

The building is small. Just after I got inside, I could already see a couple of police officers in front of their computer desk and were talking with each other.

I grind myself against the wall to my left and behind a plant, hiding myself from their sight. I opened the quest window and changed one of the quests, the Null one, for something new.

-Generating New Quest-

-Defeat All Hostile Forces In The Building-

-Reward: 100EXP-

I cast MuffledBoots and Hawkeye.

“Huff.”(Daniel). I calmed myself. I draw an arrow and pointed it at one of the police officers.

‘Right now, I’m not Daniel.’ I told myself.

The two of them are pretty close, just about ten feet away from me, but they are still not aware of me. After I let go of the arrow, I immediately drew another one, and by the time one of them fell from his chair, I was already ready to shoot another arrow.

They made quite a bit of noise when they fell. The door just at the left of them opened.

I immediately took another arrow and also shot him, but I missed. The arrow only hit the side of his right arm, leaving a deep cut behind.

Bang Bang

He hid behind the wall. It was unfortunate that I wasn’t able to kill him instantly. Now, if I don’t do things quickly, I will get overwhelmed by their numbers.

Then I remembered.

Damn, I should have also used Tranquillizing Shot, so even if I didn’t manage to kill him with that arrow, he’d still go down.

I checked my mana

57 / 70

I’ve already activated Hawkeye and MuffledBoots, but it won’t last for too long. And my mana will run out pretty quickly if I wasted my time casting more Spells just for this one guy. Worse is, there’s still more to come.

Not only that, but my only cover was this plant, which is by no means safe. After a quick thinking, I made a decision, a reckless one.

Just before he was about to shoot again, I shot an arrow. He hid back in, and I run towards him. It’s good that he can’t hear the sound of my steps clearly. For him, it sounds like I’m still far away.

As he was about to shoot again, I shot another arrow, but this arrow was coated with my spell. It pierced his hand, causing him to drop the gun, but by the time he was about to pick it back up again, he fell helplessly. He was losing strength from the effect of my Traquillizing Shot.

I took a handgun from one of the two officers I had killed and shot him about a couple of times in his head.

Wondering how much EXP I got from killing these three people, I opened the window.

-Level 5 – EXP 115/200-

So only about three each?

Hmmm, so if I massacre a lot of people, I won’t receive a lot of EXP…

Well, considering they’re regular humans, maybe their quality is the problem…

But as I was about to take a step forward, I heard a gunshot, and I was hit on my right thigh but didn’t go through the other side because of my bone. I quickly hid behind the wall beside me and cast Regeneration and Healing, which took about fourteen mana away from me to get it healed.

To my surprise, after I healed the wound, the bullet didn’t come out. And that was the problem. I could still feel the pain. Not only was the bullet taking a space inside my thigh, but it was also burning my flesh from how hot it is.

“Ow ow ow, crap, it hurts!”(Daniel). I didn’t expect getting shot hurt this much. To be honest, when I started using the Healing Spell, I thought that the bullet would just naturally come out as I began to heal myself. But it didn’t.

With an arrow in my hand, I pierced the closed gun wound that I had healed and used the tip to pick out the bullet inside.

“Ow, huff. Ahh. AGH!”(Daniel). I sobbed and cried from the pain.

Just right after I removed the bullet, I took a peek and was immediately shot again, though, this time I wasn’t hit.

I can’t just keep hiding behind cover. If I don’t shoot back, they will get to my position quickly, and by then, I’d be dead.

I held the gun tightly and started shooting in their direction without peeking. After the third shot, I took a quick glance, there were four of them, and as I was expecting, they quickly hid from my bullets. Just before I ran out of ammo, I hastily drew an arrow into my bow and fired towards one of them.

He was expecting me to hide back again now that I ran out of bullets, so he left his cover and pointed his gun at me. But unfortunately for him, just right after he showed himself, an arrow impaled his chest.

“Gah!” He cried and fell to the ground.

I took another handgun from the other corpse after I hid back to my cover.

What do I do next? Do I do the same thing? But they already know that trick. It won’t work again. I rack my brain for a plan.

The clock is ticking. I don’t have much time to plan. So I’ll follow the first one that comes out to mind. And I thought of one… It was a reckless and stupid idea.

“Fortification.”(Daniel)

I picked up one of the officers' corpses and tied him in front of me. He’s heavy.

His rifle was also dangling from his side. And just I was about to remove it, I thought of another idea. It was the same as the initial one, but in this one, the rifle is included.

“I could use this…”(Daniel)

With the corpse as a shield, I used the Tranquilizing Shot to each bullet inside the handgun.

14 / 70

Now, I’m down to only fourteen mana.

“Okay, please work.”(Daniel)

I left the cover and started firing at them. I caught them off guard and without cover. I managed to hit only one of them, though, and it was on his shoulder. But soon enough, and he fell asleep.

With quick and reckless shooting, the handgun quickly ran out of ammo. And as soon as it did, they quickly returned fire at me.

Bratatatata!

They were shooting at me with their rifles. The body in front of me took a lot of bullets. But, there were still quite a few that passed right through and went towards me. I fell to the ground from pain. But this is where the plan begins.

I will have to tolerate the amount of pain my body is going through and pretend to be dead, and when the two of them got close enough, I’ll quickly shoot them with the rifle hidden at the side of this guy’s body. This will be quick and easy as it was hidden beside the corpse and me, and it’s already pointed in their direction. Now I just need them to get closer for better shredding.

Unfortunately for me, I’ve been hit by four bullets. One on my right shoulder, two on my stomach, and one in my thigh again. I quickly healed the one in my thigh as I could reach it without moving a lot. But it was still hurting, and for the others, I have to pray I don’t bleed out to death before I get myself help.

The good part is that they can’t hear me so that I could cry in pain, and they will not notice that I’m still alive. I just have to make sure I don’t breathe too hard so that they won’t notice the movements.

I guess I’ll take this time to cry in silence.

“Ahhhhhhh, It fricking hurtsss...”(Daniel)

I think I’m going to die soon! I've already ran out of mana from healing my thigh again, but it was still hurting. Crap crap crap. Get here faster so I could shoot the both of you dead, please.

But they did so, only a minute later when they moved closer to my location. If it weren’t for my Fortification Spell, the bullets would have been deeper in my body, perhaps even through me.

With my eyes filled with tears and my nose with snot, I waited until they’re close enough. The Fortification and Hawkeye effects had already disappeared. Only the Regeneration is left. But I cannot heal myself anymore from the lack of mana.

I’m in a pinch.

When I heard that they’re finally close, they’re still taking small steps each. But since I cannot wait any more, I aimed the rifle and started blasting at them.

I instantly killed one of them with a shot on the head, but the other was only hit on the body and fire back.

Unexpectedly, luck was on my side. The mask was bulletproof, and when he aimed at my head, it didn’t go through. Instead, it just bounced and left a small dent. I continued shooting at him until he went down.

“Finally…”(Daniel)

And lastly, I killed the guy I shot in the shoulder. He was sleeping peacefully as he’s bleeding out.

Huff.. huff... Is there more of them? I can't handle anymore, with this body... I started walking towards the door I had entered.

“I can’t continue the mission anymore. I’ll have to go back. Huff. Huff… I can’t look for the equipments, I just can’t… In… Huff… In this condition…”(Daniel)

I was walking slowly and carefully while putting pressure on the gunshots in my body but letting the blood from my shoulders flow.

Damn it. I hate my life… If only I have an extra arm, I could try and stop the bleeding on my shoulder.

But then, just right after I was about to open the door, the message appeared.

Quest Complete! - Defeat All Hostile Forces In The Building -

+100EXP!

-Leveled Up!-

"Huh? What? W-was it all of... them? Just... seven? Maybe... The system.. Lagged?"(Daniel). I didn't put a lot of thought into it as I could only feel my body suffering.

After coming out, I saw four of the students without one of their legs anymore. Thankfully, Cath and Julia weren’t any of them.

Jenny, I still hate you, but you didn’t hurt both of them, so I’m still thankful. I’ll give you that.

“Wow, you looked like a mess. So where're the things?”(Jenny)

“Je-Density, I-I can’t… Huff. I’m dying… You frick… let’s just go.”(Daniel)

I was breathing heavily, and my head is spinning.

“Ow, oooookay.”(Jenny). She said in a sassy, sad tone. But it might have been my imagination, but it felt like she signaled at someone behind me.

Jenny then carried me on her back.

“I hope you die from that.”(Catherine). She said as we walk away from them.

“That’s what you get!”(Julia). She glared at me with tears in her eyes.

It felt like the pain in my body disappeared when I heard them cursed at me, and my heart started ache. I know that it’s because they don’t know who I really am, but I still don’t want to see them looked hurt and look at me with hatred.

My head spun faster, and my heart hurt even more from both guilt and sadness.

“I’m sorry…”(Daniel). I could only say in the empty air without reaching both of their ears.

“Stop talking. You’re bleeding.”(Jenny). We flew in the sky after she spoke.

No, we didn’t fly, but fell towards the sky. The arrow that was still on my back plunged into the empty sky, also did my knife, then my consciousness followed.