Yo, reader.
Yes, you. Just wanna let you know— all of the chapter titles will be continued by sentences in this novel, just to stop any future confusion that may occur.
Also, sorry if the chapter is a bit...Boring(?) or repetitive, and the story is most probably a bit fast paced. Any future suggestions for the story are appreciated!
I also want to apologize for any inconsistencies in the construction workers stuff. Any way it could be edited would also be massively appreciated
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Birds chirping—
⧼⧼CHIRP, CHIRP⧽⧽
Children playing—
"Bro... You kicked the ball over the neighbors fence AGAIN!?"
"I just have a strong kick!"
On beautiful days like these, people like me...
"Should be rotting in hell"
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「 1st POV : ??? 」
Today, I simply walked to my shower, got dressed after forgetting to brush my teeth (don't ask how), and drove to my construction job in my Honda Civic (Reliable car), replaying the same message in my head.
"I should be rotting in hell" I chuckled.
I should, really.
But hey, my glorious king Jesus prevented that.
Sure, I work in an extremely dangerous construction company that barely pays me anything, but the amount of times I think about how my daily life is far better than eternally burning in Hell keeps me going!
"Dude, what the fudge!" Said one of my coworkers, Bob. A brown haired & eyed 5'5 dude, so relatively short.
"That stupid storm..." He whispered.
"What happening?"
"Practically all of the supplies that we are supposed to be getting have had their delivery time delayed! All because of that stupid Megastorm happening in Orman."
Orman, a decently close city known for its massive amount of supply based companies, and also, just with how technologically advanced is. For some reason, there's some weird mega storm happening all over the place in its area, delaying some supplies that we should have been getting for weeks now!
"Did I not pray enough?" I whispered, and Bob stared at me.
"To be fair, don't think any storm on that level has happened for months, although I haven't really bothered to check... Maybe it's God's will?"
"Nah, keep dreaming."
As I said that, I walked away, until...
「 Loading, loading... 」
I heared someone whisper, like, directly into my ear. It was unnatural and weird sensation, and my instincts perked up.
Along with that, I saw a black tab with golden vines seemingly coming from the edges of it, simply showing LOADING...
"Hey, Rael, you see this shit too?" Asked another nearby coworker.
Amelia, a Jewish dark red haired person, with bright yellow eyes, standing at 6'2, taller than me (I'm 5'6 mind you)
"Uhh... Yeah, but what even is this?"
"How would I know?"
Sooner or later, practically every person in the area (manager or not) was wondering what the strange tabs meant, or what it was loading.
"Guys, calm down. For all we know, this could be some sort of... Prank (?)" Said the manager
"Holy shit, a system window, YEAAAHHHH!" Said a new worker
"Uhh, system window? What do you even mean?" Said an older coworker
Multiple different voices immediately spoke up after the strange silence held seconds before. However...
「 You have been chosen 」
The screen changed. Although the tab itself appeared to have the same design, it was larger and held different words.
"Chosen? What does that mean—"
"A... AARRRRGGGGHHHHH!"
The particular person who had talked about the system window with major excitement before started...Morphing?
"Holy shit—His skin is peeling!"
"AARREGGGHHH"
"WHAT'S HAPPENING!!?"
The person who had first started transforming seemingly shed all of his skin as it turned into black fog— what was left behind was a pure white mannequin, being seperated into diffrent parts on the ground, and other such individuals soon became the same things.
Large broken mannequins that just spread apart on the flour came to everyones sight, surrounded by pools of crimson liquid.
Blood, of course.
"J-JJOOOHHHHNNNN!"
"HOLY SHIT! WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!?"
Clouds seemingly appeared out of nowhere, turning black in an instant and raining down purple thunder amongst themselves!
Not only that, but rain also thundered down as well, seemingly avoiding the mannequins.
"I-im scared..."
「 May I personally congratulate any individual who is still alive. You have been specifically chosen to survive the world's melting process and have been given the 'Quintessential Guideline System' as reward. As of currently, you're only quest is to survive the numerous "FRACTAL", monsters that appear when someone dies because of not being chosen. 」
「 because of the fact that this whole apocalyptic situation is so sudden, everyone will be granted a temporary (but very fragile) barrier that will only last for 2 days, along with gaining a permanent 50% EXP buff! Good luck surviving, chosen! 」
The mannaquins, which had previously remained on the ground...Rose up?
Blood seemingly formed into more mannequin parts, for Jin long tails for every mannequin, and it did the same to create Horne's for every mannequin as well.
「 Faceless Puppet | (Simple) 」
Some of the mannequins simply had their limbs rearranged, well, others seemingly fused with other mannequins, tendrils of pure blood connecting them.
「 Gorebound Faceles Puppets | (Simple) 」
Chaos ensued.
And I bolted out of there.
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「 3rd POV 」
You know, when Rael started work that morning, he thought it would be a normal day.
After he was done with work, he would simply pray, eat, take another shower, doomscroll, pray again, and sleep.
But monsters? Mannequins that looked like demons with their extra blood, limbs and golden dragons that just so happened to be swirling around any tall building?
'... Fudge'
He withheld his erg to curse, as he quickly jumped in his car, and waited a couple of seconds for 2 other individuals to jump into the back seats.
Amelia & Bob.
"Where are we going—
"My apartment, since I don't really know anywhere safer to go to."
As the engine for his Honda started, and they bolted out if the area, Amelia couldnt help but look back.
"W-what the..."
From one of the backseat windows, she saw an extremely gorebound seen— people rapidly dying by being rude up by the random golden eastern dragons, who were usually in packs led by an extremely large specimen.
「 Mini Dragon Harbingers | (Simple) 」
Faceless demons ( as they would soon be known as ) we're tearing apart people with simply unnatural speeds. They morphed the blood that made up the extra limbs (Horns and tail) they had, conjuring threads that would cut through anyone in their way.
One of the worst parts was (other than the fact that people were getting killed in the first place) was because the so-called barriers they had or getting broken before they were even striked— the literal wind pressure behind their hits were obliterating the barriers!
It was a massacre by definition...No, GENOCIDE.
The starting of this apocalypse would soon be known as : "The Morning End".