Chapter 16: Starter pack.
'Two weeks...'
In two weeks, something was going to happen, and if the words "Complete Dimensional Collapse" could mean something, Mark was sure it wasn't anything good.
As he watched the number of seconds decrease, a sudden thought appeared in his mind.
'It's the end of the world...' Mark was strangely confident in that guess. 'The world will end in fourteen days...'
A lot of people spoke of how the world almost ended twenty years ago during the Great World War, and how it's a miracle that they were still around.
Mark wasn't even born back then, but having seen some of the numerous documentaries depicting the war, he understood that those old soldiers weren't exaggerating.
As he stared at the small screen in front of him, Mark came to a realization. The miracle didn't prevent their world from ending; all it did was delay it for a couple of decades.
'... why?' he started pulling on his dark brown hair. 'Why is this happening to me!? What do you mean powerful Soul!? Since when did I have something like that!!?'
Life has always been difficult for him, being forced to pretend everything was fine while hearing strange voices in his head. The voices disappeared and he was finally granted a moment of reprieve, but he couldn't even savor it for a day before a damned dragon came looking for him.
'What am I even supposed to do!?' He scratched his head furiously. 'That's a goddamn late-game boss monster if I ever saw one!'
Mark didn't even dare look at his stats, fearing what he would see. The tutorial seemed to end by itself following his thought, but as he stared at the Player Menu, nothing came to mind. He struggled even to think.