Mag-log inMarc Stanton.The fifth S-rank Hunter. A billionaire pre and post-apocalypse.He was practically a god in the eyes of the public, and idolized by millions, the kind of man every woman dreamed of having. Handsome, impossibly wealthy, powerful, and was considered the ideal man and a hero to countless people.In the eyes of the public, Marc Stanton was the luckiest man alive.He stood over six feet tall, with messy dirty-blond hair, striking emerald-green eyes, and a face that looked as though it had been sculpted for a modeling career. Even standing there with dust covering his clothes, he was undeniably attractive.Vivi furrowed her brows as she stared up at him, still struggling to process what she was seeing.‘What the hell is a man like him doing out here? And why does he know my name? More importantly, why is he grinning at me like we’re old friends?’“Are you okay, Vivi?” Marc asked, that easy, dazzling smile still resting on his lips. “Did you hurt yourself anywhere?”When she di
Vivi woke up the next morning inside her bunker and immediately looked at the interface floating before her eyes. Her attention settled on the System’s first objective.┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ [NEW QUEST GENERATED] ┃┃ ┃┃ * Quest: Survive the First Seven Days. ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━%]“Seven days outdoors. In the middle of an active apocalyptic nightmare.”She stared at the floating words, her stomach dropping.The problem was that she had no confirmed abilities, her status was still a complete blank, her rank was unclassified, and the thirty golden crystals inside her core were vibrating like a ticking bomb. Stepping outside meant throwing herself into raw danger without knowing if her body would even obey her when she found herself in danger.To make matters worse, she wouldn’t see a single scrap of reward from the system until all seven days were up.Just thinking about it was stressful, bu
Vivi rose and checked the bunker supplies. Some boxes had been damaged during the earthquake, but most of the supplies remained usable.She would need to repair the damaged shelves and inspect the rest of the shelter.After that, she could begin training.Vivi stopped beside the desk and glanced once more at the dark computer screen.Somewhere outside, millions of people were still trying to understand what had happened. Parents were searching for their children. Children were crying for their parents. The injured were waiting for help that might never arrive.And above the ruined cities, the mysterious gates remained open.【 Ding! 】Vivi stopped what she was doing as a panel of instructions appeared before her eyes.┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ 【NEW QUEST GENERATED】 ┃┃ ┃┃ * Quest: Survive the First Seven Days. ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ 【QUEST DESCRI
The camera zoomed in, but the reporter’s voice drowned beneath the shouts of people behind her.“These unidentified structures appeared shortly after the earthquake stopped,” she shouted over the commotion, her eyes wide with terror. “Similar formations have been reported in several major cities worldwide. Authorities have not confirmed their origin or whether they pose any immediate danger.”The camera shook as someone in the crowd shouted that another rift had just torn open in the distance.The reporter turned, and for a brief moment, the screen captured the full structure looming above the distant buildings.Vivi slowly exhaled, seeing that the world has really changed. There was no going back.She watched as people gathered in the streets, pointing toward the enormous portal. Some recorded it on their phones. Others stood frozen, unable to comprehend what they were seeing.The gate did not move. It did not attack. It simply hung above the streets, silent and mysterious.And that
┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ 【Opening Host Status…】 ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛Another translucent blue screen appeared in front of Vivi’s eyes and for several seconds, she simply stared at it.┏━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓┃ 【HOST STATUS】 ┃┃ ┃┃ * Name: Vanessa Viola Shepard (Vivi) ┃┃ * Race: Human ┃┃ * Awakening Status: Complete ┃┃ * Hunter Rank: Unclassified ┃┃ * Core Energy: Unstable ┃┃ * Abilities: Not Yet Registered ┃┃ * System Synchronization: 100% ┃┃ * Special Condition: Thirty Golden ┃┃ Crystals Absorbed ┃┃ * System Assessment: Abnormal ┃┗━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛Vivi’s eyes moved slowly from one line to the next.Hunter rank? Core energy? Abilities?She had seen these terms before. In her past
Vivi’s scream tore through the bunker as she clawed at her chest, desperately trying to pull out whatever was causing the unbearable agony.But there was nothing to grab.The crystals continued fusing with her one after another, their golden light pouring into her body.Her veins glowed beneath her skin, her heart pounded so violently that she thought it might burst.She tried to crawl away, but her limbs refused to obey her.“WHY?!”Tears streamed down her face.“WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME?!”The final few crystals circled her head and for one brief moment, everything stopped, even the light did and the terrible pain seemed to recede slightly.Vivi lay on the floor, gasping desperately for air.Suddenly, the remaining crystals rushed toward her at once and her body seized.A blinding flash engulfed the room.“AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!”The force of the impact lifted her off the floor and hurled her backward.Her body slammed into the concrete wall with a sickening thud before dropping heavily ont







