In a world where mysterious portals known as Gates have sprung up around the globe, connecting the human world to alternate dimensions. Simultaneously, something has awakened within humans, granting them supernatural abilities to fight the monsters...
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CHAPTER TEN ! ───the system, part two.
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JINWOO AWOKE TO THE VIOLENT SHAKING of an earthquake, but the hospital room transformed into a surreal desert landscape. Everything, including the furniture, crumbled into sand. As he tried to make sense of the bizarre situation, a colossal centipede, labeled "Poison-Toothed Giant Desert Centipede," emerged, initiating a penalty quest for survival.
Despite the relentless pursuit of the centipede and the unexpected challenges, Jinwoo managed to survive the four-hour ordeal. He found himself back in his hospital room, battered and exhausted.
The experience wasn't a hallucination or a dream; it was a real, life-threatening event triggered by a penalty quest. Jinwoo felt a growing sense of foreboding, realizing that this might not be the last time he faces such challenges.
Another notification confirmed his completion of the penalty quest, leaving him questioning the fairness of the system that had thrown him into the jaws of death.
Ping!
He jumped, but thankfully, it wasn't another quest.
[Your rewards for completing the penalty quest have been delivered.]
