A figure in black hoodie and his half face covered with a black cloth mask leaped through a ruined building to another and slashes off a few snake-human and demonic monsters with his dual daggers which were emanating quite the amount of mana through them.
He pulls his cap down and reveals himself to be varun, who looks behind at the disappearing bodies of the monsters and continued his way inside the ruin floor of the building.
He sat on the top of one of the buildings, the world looked red and ruined like a dungeon with yellow light tearing through the sky towards infinite.
The status window opens and he puts his hand inside to pull out a cold coffee, he pulls his mask a bit from under his chin and puts the straw in his mouth and looks up at the sky where the light was going, he pulls it away after few sips and says.
Varun:"I thought this quest would be fun.... But it trapped me here.... Why do I feel like the rat who fell for cheese?,... Sigh~,... If only I had came with a plan that day instead."
[Few months ago]
Varun was doing his daily quests of push ups, curl ups and running in a park,wearing his navy blue gym suits and sat on a bench after completing it.
The status window opens and shows his stats and quests.
[Level: 94, (No job)
Strength: 240
Stamina: 240
Agility: 235
Intelligence: 270
Precision: 240]
[Daily quest reward: Z-rank dungeon key]
[The the player have succeeded the qualifications for a job change quest, would you like to accept the quest?]
Varun looked at the status window and thinks to himself while munching on a protein bar.
Varun:"job change quest, eh?... Now that's certainly what I didn't expect to see this early. Let's see what's the quest is for now."
Varun:"quest window."
[Job change quest: "The tower of hell". A tower with 1000 floors.
Difficulty level: Z-rank.]
Varun chokes on the protein bar after reading "Z-rank".
Varun:"cough cough!....F-ck... I almost died from that, what the hell is this?... Z-rank?... Is this thing for real right now?... S, A, B, C, D and E..... That's the ranking system I ever heard about.... What the hell is a Z-rank?!.... Uh-.... Maybe this is stronger that S?... But then I'll get difficulties to clear it, I am still far from S-rank."
"Hmmm?.... Let's see... Well, I should just take some more details and go inside to check.... I'll come out if it's anything dangerous for me."
[There are no details for this quest]
Varun:"what the f-ck?!"
A woman next to the bench, near a slide, scolded varun suddenly while covering her 4 year old son's ears.
Woman:"HEY!... you shouldn't be swearing in front of kids!!"
Varun flinched and looked at her with apologetic eyes.
Varun:"eh, He. He. He~.... Sorry... I didn't mean too."
The women yelled again.
Woman:"didn't your parents taught you how to talk in public!"
Varun went silent... His eyes going slightly dark.. But he held back and left the park..., entering inside bushes.
The woman stared at him with anger and skepticism, she didn't understand why he went into the bushes suddenly.
He sat behind the bushes and thought to himself.
Varun:"I really wanna show her what happens when you blame someone's parents for their Own mistakes, even though they apologized to you....if only she wasn't with a kid."
He facepalms in irritation
"In this world people blame you for no reason if you are a adult. But, they blame your parents if you're at a young age... Well, considering I am a high schooler again... This was a expected reaction.... But, I hate these type of people... First they scold you and then start shit talking about your parents being irresponsible..... I really want to kill these people."
"But, that'll change nothing.... You can kill as many as you want.. Kill every adult in this world, the youngsters are no different.. They look innocent and kind on the out, but they are even more savage on the inside, there maybe some exceptions.. But, that's just a rare trait to find in anyone.... Everyone just blames you so that they look like a victim and ask for compensation.. And if not compensation, they'll at least get sympathy from everyone around them.... This world is just a place of messed up people."
"Either if it's for attention or anything else, men, women, children... Everyone are just selfish humans... I feel gross to even call them humans. You can only survive in this world if you have fame, money and power... If not, then just stay quiet and let them do whatever they want, because it's not you, who have a choice.... It's them. your life, respect and attitude of people around you is in their hands.. The more power you hold, the more people agree to you, maybe they'll talk savage behind your back, but, when in front of you... They'll shut up and do as told.. Like a good little servant. Not because they like you, but because they fear you, or that they know that making you a ideal would benefit them in someway."
He looks down at the quest window after taking a soft sigh, and decided to go on the quest to calm his mind.
"I really need to hunt my satisfaction"
He gets up and went back to his home first... Upon entering inside, he mother saw him and frowned.
Mom:"Where have you been? You said you'll come back in a hour or two.. It's been an good 2 hour and 30 minutes sice you've been gone."
Varun stood there with his right hand in his bottoms pocket. He held himself back from bursting into laughter, stiffling the laugh by looking aside and taking a few deep breaths. He was amused that his mother is worried for him even though he only took half of an extra hour to come back.
Varun:"she's worried as always... Well, I can't say she's wrong... A person was married off in their childhood knows nothing but to care about who they have... But, she needs to control her worrying. I don't know when but there might be a quest that might not let me come back for a long time."
"Let's just calm her down for now."
Varun:"well, working out takes time, you know?... And I also ended up playing with a pup on the way. Sooo,... Yeah, I am sorry."
"Maybe you should give me a cell phone for next time I go out, haha"
Hearing that, his mom scowled.
Mom:"no way, young man!... Even your brother got his cell phone after graduation, you will not get one before that time either."
Varun scoffed in amusement, but gets serious just as fast and thinks to himself.
Varun:"I got my first mobile when I got in the third year of high school... She can say as she wants.. But... I know how to get what I want anyway... But this time I won't take anything from them... I'll earn myself, people think that going in the past will give them a chance to earn ways that they couldn't think of.. By becoming a streamer and upload videos... But that doesn't work.. I've uploaded 143 videos in 3 years.. But I still just have 40k followers on metube.
And by the views that I get... I barely make a 1000 rupees per video.... So yeah, you can't expect to be famous just because you know the future."
"I can't do stock or crypto trading because even if I know when the stocks are going up or down, you still need money to make more money, I can't ask my father to give me a million or so rupees just to make 10,000 rupees... It's better to increase my intelligence and look what I can do to earn.... For now, let's go and see what does this job change quest have for me."
About few hours later, in the afternoon, varun went under the staircase of the first floor of his building, he inserts the black key in air.
The air crackles with energy and the dust and webs dusts away from walls by the air impact.
The portal opens, first as gray then blue and then red. It kept changing color and came to a stop at a black energy radiating purple portal.
Varun's eyes widens slightly as he stares at the portal.
Varun:"Now, ... That's something new I saw in a while."
"Let's just go inside and see how long will it take, I'll just come out by using the 'rune of time'. This time I'll increase my stats as much as possible..... And I still haven't satisfied my irritation that I got from that lousy woman."
"Let's start hunting, shall we?"
He enters the portal and just as he steps inside, the ground shook. As he enters completely inside, he found that that there was no tower, but just a ruined place with broken building and walking monster.
Varun:"what the hell is this?.... Where the heck is the tower?... Bro, don't say I have to walk miles ahead to find the tower!?"
Just as he was expecting the worst case scenario, the system window pops up in front of him.
[The player have entered the "Tower of hell's first floor"]
Varun reads it and realized that this was in fact the tower in itself, it looked a whole world on its own in just one floor.
Varun:"This is a floor?.... I thought I was at the ground, how am I supposed to reach the 1000th floor from here?"
The system window pops up again and gives the details of the quest finally.
["Tower of hell": to reach the upper floors of the tower, the player needs to find the "ticket to next floor". It is a ticket that's placed in every floor at certain places. Find the ticket to reach the next floor.]
[The player can't leave the quest until they clear the whole tower.]
[Sealing off the runes that are used to get out of the dungeon. Exit runes, pause runes and rune of time.]
[Closing the gate to the real world, so that, the player can't leave before completing the quest.]
Varun:"wha– .. What the f–ck!!?,... I–... I need to leave right now."
He lunges with every strength and speed he had, but the portal just sparks out a energy impact and throws Varun away from it, and gets closed off.
Varun couldn't do anything but stare at it in irritation and panick.
Varun:"WHERE THE HELL DID I GOT MYSELF!!!?"
"AAAAAAARRRRGGHHHHHHHHH!!!"
He screams out his frustration with every bit strength of his lungs.