Ratroval is a popular video game that has over 3.1 billion players worldwide. A 19 year old man by the name of Lea. He was hooked on this game for over 10 years ever since the demo was released. The game still gets updated frequently. BUT one update changed everything.

“Are you sure this monster is right for us?” Siz feels tired
"Let's me open handbook” Q Breathing strength “again”

Monster: Desert Snake (Mini Boss)
	Level: 5
	Location: Easily found southern desert If you look carefully, the sand will loop in a triangle.
	Featured Items: Golden Snake fangs, Snake Skin, Yellow Stone Level 1
	How to Fight: Win it
	* Advice: For adventurers under level 10 and for adventurers at least level 9

"Five thousand gold price book doesn't seem to be worth price" Q Shook his head “level five? Monster and win it”
"Win it” Siz speaks with laughter " ridiculous"
"Yes, in the book says, way to fight is to win it" Q said again
“It's easy to say. That’s a crazy book” Siz grabbed the sword attack again
	Siz strikes the sword to the torso of the desert snake, but it does not work “The skin is really strong" he said
The desert snake turned to bite into the torso he’s using a sword block, but the fangs are too long to handle. It breaks through his arm.
Blood gushing out. Siz uses a sword to attack back between the mouths of the snake and jump out, Squeeze Red potion to two bottles and he try to coated sword with blue magic
"Another bomb ready” Q Throw bombs to attack desert snake but it's dodgy “Oh, no” The explosion was in the air the smoke is floating the desert snake opened its mouth large Bite into Siz's head
 	He stabbed a sword on the palate It's full of snake saliva 
The sword hit the solid palate, making a sound ‘Cackk...Cakk...’ 
Long fangs pierced into his arm black venom flows through his veins He's getting tired try to reach out to green potion in the waist bag.

"Do you like them...? Gamers"
"Of course, I like them. They are cool and strong and powerful."
"Do you... wanna be... like them?
"Actually, I do... I, I just... wanna shine like a star... just like them."
"Z......, don't do that."
"Huh?"
"The world down there......., is hell."
"Hell?"
"I mean, just give up on that. You don't wanna do that, trust me. You are not like them."
"...?"
"All I'm saying that, that these guys are, are just like mindless pricks."
"They are?"
"They don’t know what they are doing or chasing or everything. And you, you don't wanna be like them."
"Wait, I don't wanna be someone who doesn't know what he is doing or chasing or anything."
"Yeah, they are just some stupid human beings."
"Okay then, I won't be like them. But I, I will be someone else then."
"What?"
"Someone else, somewhat different. I gonna be... I wanna be someone... someone like... me. YEAH, I, I COULD BE ME, SOMEONE LIKE ME, BEAN.
"You wanna... hold on, hold on a second... You wanna WHAT?
"Yeah, I, I will be me, just me, Bean. I promise."
"..."
"And once I finally be me, then I will go become the No. 1 gamer."
“Huff…, there he goes again. You never listen to me. Do you?"
"You just wait and watch. I will shine like a star, in a way like me."
"Okay. But not for this night mate. Go to sleep, now."
"Um... Okay."
""
"zzz"
"No. 1, huh."

Born in a different universe, Trex, a former computer operating system/artificial intelligence, woke up to find himself in a world that revolves around the energy called mana. 

In a late 20th century that has a European flair, Trex opens up a store similar to the early 21st century arcade that was filled with games. Remembering how his last master's wishes were before he perished, he aims to create a virtual world beyond what the reality could provide.


Unfortunately for him, in a society where individuals are seen as more important than an entire city, the cultural difference made a simple wish turn into something even more.

Born in a different universe, Trex, a former computer operating system/artificial intelligence, woke up to find himself in a world that revolves around the energy called mana. 

In a late 20th century that has a European flair, Trex opens up a store similar to the early 21st century arcade that was filled with games. Remembering how his last master's wishes were before he perished, he aims to create a virtual world beyond what the reality could provide.

Unfortunately for him, in a society where individuals are seen as more important than an entire city, the cultural difference made a simple wish turn into something even more.

An International Olympic event that is held every
10 years. The olympic games are done in decade for
one time is always changed state to become the
master of the house.


 The olympic games in the year to 17 this will be
held on d continent of Asia, the Southedstern
precisely in Indonesia with 9 branches of
international sports and followed by 60 selected
countries around the world. For the sport is divided
into 8 parts one is the "diving to get the treasure".
Every implementation of this olympics, the
organizers have done a thorough research about the
valuable treasures that are still buried to the
earth, the sea or the forest of the world.


 For this time, d sport that became the core is
dive virtual objects the sky purple. Such objects are
falling and drowning in the bottom of the ocean Jaya
already for 1000 years. And according to
research scientists, the sky objects that have the
power, which can be the parent satellite
other satellite, its right is to be the holders of
control of the entire satellite there.


 Archie Xaveceana are athletes divers from
Indonesia, along with 5 other colledgues united in a
team of Maritime Squad. Then Andrew Lukas derived
from the superpower of the United States, his team
Ocednd. Fight under the sea, which requires
three preliminary round to be able to participate in
the final and dive to the bottom of the sea are
addressed. In the final round, leaving only 10 teams
that can fight and race to get that body.
Both of them stuck in the trough of love to make
the rdce it s getting murky dnd frustrating. It turns
out that the poem was really "loving You is a losing
game". Victory finally won by Archie, he mandged to
find ob.jects in the sky valuable it is. But, one of the
team Oceana piercing her heart from behind her
severely injured and was pronounced dead. When
others no longer fight for her, Andrew came in with
full confidence. A ending or d sad ending? No
one knows it, becduse every people have a point of
view and they own opinion.
Let s see the end of that thought…

Six teenage gamer-hackers break into a live action gaming arcade populated with the Undead. Getting back out will be the fight of their lives.

Jin was sitting right beside his tall and mighty Panda Tian Gong Statue, wanting nothing more than to just close his eyes and go back to sleep. Unfortunately, the System informed Jin that he had to move to the Arcade Dungeon Instance on the Third Level of the Tiangong Tree Mall and instruct Yong De, the owner of the Arcade Dungeon Instance on several things.
He stood up sluggishly before inserting some chi on his legs and used his Green Panda Wind to jump to the third floor. Without opening his Pandemonium app, Jin merely scanned his phone over the statue of a Panda sitting down and holding an arcade joystick controller.
There he found the anguished face of Yong De and He Rong.
He had asked the two to collaborate together for this new joint dungeon instance. This usually wouldn't be a problem, however, Yong De and He Rong had some history with each other, and it wasn't exactly the pleasant kind.
Apparently, Yong De had asked He Rong to sponsor some of the card tournaments when he first started out which the latter agreed to unilaterally. However, Yong De's ambition had gotten the better of him, and he had promoted the gaming card tournaments a little too widely and fiercely.
The participation had been tremendously successful, but because Yong De's predicted budget for He Rong's sponsoring had been severely underestimated, he inevitably caused He Rong to be unable to pay for his shop's rent for three months.
He Rong was forced to wit's end when the landlord's management team had insisted on him paying up or else they would demand the immediate closure of the store. Upon learning of his plight, Si Fang managed to get into contact with Grandma Yuan begging her for leniency towards He Rong especially since he had always been consistent with his payment.
Grandma Yuan, who always left the management team to their own devices, had been unaware about the situation He Rong was in and had graciously allowed him an extended period to pay his rent.
On the other hand, Yong De knew about He Rong's plight but had not helped out much because he too had underestimated the prizes he gave out, causing him to pay the rent by living on just the basic necessities.
While the Arcade owner had improved since then in terms of managing his business, He Rong had not been very happy to team up with him when Jin asked him to. The Toyz Connection store owner no doubt had prefered to do literally anything else, but Jin asked him to give the partnership another shot.
"I roughly looked through the records you guys have given me and thanks for that by the way. He Rong, I see that your card sales have been doing rather well in the months whenever Yong De conducted these mini tournaments." Jin had pointed out as a matter of fact, and He Rong had his mouth tight for a moment.
"I believe Yong De has been trying to make up to you and was too afraid to offend you too. But you need to make an effort to understand what he does too. I think both of you owe each other an apology and with this new shop instance, you can start things anew." Jin had said during the brainstorming session when he asked the cooperation between those two.
Jin perceived that He Rong would not have the guts to do anything daring, and that made him rather conservative and calculative with his accounts. That was how he managed to keep a vast array of hobby related goods while maintaining his accounts well.
Yong De, on the other hand, was the opposite. He enjoyed being an entrepreneur and always wanted to bring in the latest fad since he yearned for both kids and adults to have fun.
But because most of these new arcade machines were licensed by the Japanese, importing them cost a fortune which had always put his accounts near red. That was why Jin had a hunch that if these two joined forces, they could become a formidable duo against the tides of business obstacles.
Yong De had been more than happy to bury the hatchet by joining such a partnership. He Rong had been still reluctant but agreed to give it a try. If things did not work well, the dungeon supplier promised that he would create a brand new shop instance for both of them at no cost at all.
-----
As Jin entered the brand new Arcade store instance, he could already see the two owners arguing on what needed to be done. Contrary to most arcade centres where the place was either very flashy with lights and poor decoration or the opposite being mostly dark and dull, Jin had chosen a simplistic modern view for it.
His concept took inspiration from Zamzung or Huawee store outlets with lots of space providing the items in stock the opportunity to present themselves.
He Rong's toy models (or what's left of the undamaged stocks) were placed in a gallery kind of exhibition. Should the customers for something in particular, they could use the virtual hologram which Jin had installed to choose what kind of robots or toy models they wanted to buy.
The virtual hologram module was an extension of the pilot's modification workshop console which Niu Lang's Supa Robot Wars mini game offered, and Jin had used it here after scanning all the models available in He Rong's stock. New stocks needed to be scanned once, and the System would take care of the logistic matters.
Usually, one would not necessarily have a good idea on how the product looked like before it was assembled, and the advertising on the packaging could only make them imagine. However, imagine no further since the virtual hologram not only showed the toy model but also the history or background of the toy based on internet sources and Wikipedia.
"Humans become slaves to what they see." One of his professor's quote during architectural design had made Jin remembered and slighty understood the vague and complex concept of aesthetics. Since then, he applied to his understanding superficially and in depth whenever possible. Hence, the creation of this virtual hologram was one of the ideas.
He Rong was surprised that they could do that and he believed that these virtual holograms would definitely make window shopping a blast for the hobbyists. Not only that, but Jin also began to sell some of his models to He Rong and of a high price too since most of the models were currently redeemable from the Goblin Raid event.
Jin purposely asked He Rong to price it high so that it would be fair for those who worked hard to get the various toy models Jin had created previously. As for the newest XXXXL Panda plushies? Those would be under Yong De's speciality. 

Aside from placing the three mini games instance entrances (the WunderPanda Park Entrances are still valid, these were just additional entrances) and the sales of Spinning Tops, Digital Pet playing card packs, Jin had placed a giant UFO machine that featured these oversized plushies.
How big was that UFO machine? The cage size was as big as a large cinematic screen, and the plushies were not limited to Pandas.
Mmhm. Pandas. Red Pandas. Penguins and a limited number of 1st edition Foxes and Snake plushies.
Yong De could not get the meaning behind these plushies and thought that Jin was merely exaggerating especially when the price to get these plushies was equivalent to getting a Panda Burger Set Meal (which cost roughly 15-16 Yuan.) Jin could only smirk and told him to leave it there for it to do its magic.
Other than that, Jin had revamped the fighting arcade games in one particular corner and equipped them with wide screens and a default arcade joystick controller. Should the gamers have their own personal controllers, there were terminals for them to attach the controllers as well.
As for the other arcade games, Jin had placed them neatly and replaced them with more modern controllers so they could be more responsive. (For example, the gun controllers were replaced with ones that could vibrate whenever reloading and the response time was better.)
The seats on the racing arcade games were also upgraded to quality leather ones, and it was very comfortable to sit in. The grips on the stick and wheels were better than the worn ones which Yong De had. But that was not all for the arcade games as Jin was planning to make this arcade instance one of the best instances he ever made. Yet. (He has no more money right now.)
Jin did tell the two new co-owners that he would be directly meddling with a number of the games and in return, they would receive these new arcade games for free without having to pay for any sort of license. However, Jin would receive 50% of the profit while the rest was them to keep.
Hence, the Arcade was handled not just by the two co-owners but by Jin too, and thus he aptly named it the Panda Arcade so people can associate the Panda brand to Jin's Dungeon Supplier store. (At the same time, a meagre wish by the System to revive and relive the old Panda Clan's roots.)
In terms of maintaining the games, he would get the goblin engineers to take a look once in a while so that would fall under maintenance cost. Otherwise, Jin would leave the promotion of these arcade games to He Rong and Yong De for he wanted to focus more on the dungeon supplier part.
One of the games that Jin had invented was something similar to a street fighter style game, but Jin told them not to charge any money for that particular game. That was because it would be a violation of various copyright reasons and that particular game was set in the underground basement level where it would take place.
At first, the He Rong was curious why Jin placed it underground, and then Yong De informed his new partner that the Triad members frequented the arcade a lot. That was why he requested Jin to create something to occupy the Triads time and most importantly money.
As for the Triad who would be protecting this particular underground fighting game was none other than the Tigers. In return, the Three-Eyed Tigers Triad would set up a small outpost here to monitor and protect the Tiangong Shopping District.
The dungeon supplier was unaware that this under the table deal was struck between Yong De and the Three-Eyed Tiger Triad Leader, San Ya Bai, enabling the tigers to response to the previous Ruby Rat ambush that quickly. For this, it gave Jin the impression that Yong De was not a simple person to read.
In any case, that particular (and borderline legal) game was sort of a replacement of the underground arcade game matches that had been taking place under Yong De's basement. (It was surprisingly popular, and the money they made wasn't that far from underground illegal street/boxing fights.) This was because they would not be using any licensed game but toy models and figurines. It was laughable, but Jin purposely made it this way to boost He Rong's sales.
However, this was where the magic came in. Any toy models or figurines could be used for the fight. That's right. ANY! So those cheapskate plastic toys that cost under five Yuan? It's valid. Those miniatures that one bought from those gacha machines? Also valid. That collector version of Godzilla which worth thousands of Yuan? Equally valid!
The fighting game worked was by placing the desired toy model in front of the 'transporter', and the System would analyse its fine details for art and assign it a set amount of arbitrary stats. Based on the quality of the figurine, including custom paint job or mods would increase the stats for the model.
Yet, stats were just part of the equation. The System made sure that the stats would provide the player an edge but only enough to make a minor difference. The rest was up to the player's skills and abilities in controlling the 'character' that they used from the figurine.
So, a cheapskate toy plastic tiger could beat a well painted American/Japanese figurine costing hundreds of dollars. However, like fighting arcade games, the outcome could not be determined beforehand so the Three-Eyed Tiger Triad would be using the underground basement of this shop instance as always for betting purposes.
While he did condone the betting act since the dungeon supplier did it in his instances too, Jin did reinforce Yong De to not keep any of the profit from them at any cost. In return, he would fall under the dungeon supplier's protection instead.
Meanwhile, He Rong did not exactly understand (or pretended not to understand) the concept, and he asked Jin for a demonstration in case other people were interested to play in the game. Jin nodded stating he would gladly give them a demonstration.
"But first, choose a toy model. Both of you. Let's have a mini try out after some basic tutorial." Jin said as he purposely chose his Knight Savant figurine model that was on the shelves.


In a modern world where cultivators need a place to cultivate or vent their boredom, there are private businesses that set up instance dungeons with the aid of technology and cultivation magic to enable cultivators to train and commoners to experience the life of cultivation. They are called dungeon suppliers.

Xie Jin's one and only dream was to be a dungeon supplier and when his only relative passed away, the relative's inheritance gave him a plot of land and surprisingly, a 'System' Module which the relative had previously used. 

With the help of the system, Xie Jin decided to pursue his dream of becoming the number one dungeon supplier.

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(13/8/2020) Author's opinion: At this point, this book had hundreds of chapters worth of content which I had planned for a long time. If you wish to undertake the book and appreciate the story, please read it up till chapter 300s to understand the sudden twist in chapter 100s.

i will admit that during that time, I am still a young budding author and could have expressed the story better in the early hundred chapters. But I assure you the story development is worth it. 




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Each day was close to the same as always. School then home with a few white lies to hang around with Nick and Barley. Of course, as time when on it became more of a constant in my daily life. I began to spend more and more days with them. Even as the seasons changed we'd keep doing things together. I had enjoyed it more and more. Maybe it was because Nick acted differently out of school than in school. At school, he was always the one to put everyone down, but out of school, he was almost sweet, charming.
Though every day was always close to the same. We went somewhere outdoors and we chilled a bit. That was it and it was clear that I was getting bored. Nick had noticed this as he began to bug me about why. I had to eventually, spit it out. He of course knew this and began to slither around my neck like a snake. He was continually chocking me into an answer by cornering me and trying to get me to finally say something.
Each day the pressure kept building up until I eventually said "Well Nick I'm bored! I want to do something else! Like video games! I haven't played any in days now!" once it was out there I tried to stop what was bound to happen. Every word after those foaming out the mouth like shells out of the ocean and onto the wet sands of the beach. Before long we had parted. Before long I began to lay awake wondering if I had just lost the one thing I finally earned. Nothing was left in my mind soon but a tidal wave of worry and doubt. Each second of restless sleep becoming more and more mocking. The birds started to sing their early morning songs eventually. I myself had nothing in regards to sleep or even a single moment of peace within the night. 
Soon enough I was walking to the grey building. I had never really noticed its features before now. It was just a building after all. Though what did worry me was what would soon happen inside. It all started with the sudden sense of being ignored. Then was soon followed by the first thing Nick said to me that day. "Hey, new kid! Looking pretty chubby today. Especially in that shirt am I right!?"
What I had forgotten to mention was that he had said it the moment I had walked into that room of desks in which would become the torment zone of my existence. No teacher in the room just kids and more kids. Groups of my peers all taking this opportunity to laugh at me. I just sat down at my desk pretending like each bit of ringing laughter wasn't a hammer thrown at the glass thing that would later be known as my heart. He kept going and going. On and on with the remarks throughout the day until eventually, it was over. At that point, I was going to call the day a loss and head home to cry into all the pillows and toys stacked on my bed but he didn't let me. 
He said we were off somewhere new and that I had to go. I tried to leave but he just kept grabbing onto me and pulling me the other way. No matter what happened I was definitely losing that battle. Even as we began to walk to somewhere new I felt part of me begin to stop working. There was clearly an error in the codes of my mind somewhere and I couldn't seem to fix it even as we walked into a huge arcade.
The Arcade had tons upon tons of machines. Each beckoning me to play. The lights added to the atmosphere of fun technicolored desire. "Welcome to the best arcade in town Redacted." Nick had begun with a smug grin on his face. "500 tokens are 5 dollars. I'm sure you can stomach the cost." He then stared over at me. I at the moment just nodded before pulling out a ten and handing it to him. My mind was stuffed with the idea of colorful electronic fun. 
Within minutes I was trying out the games. I was never good at them and that became clearer and clearer as I wasted token after token. However, someone soon began watching me. "Press B twice then spam C." was the first thing she ever said to me. I followed her instructions. The game suddenly began to spit out ticket after ticket after ticket like it was under some magical spell. "Woah thank you!" was all I could respond with as the tickets poured and poured.
"No problem! just showing you a cool thing I added to that machine." She then patted me on the head softly. "You added that?" I had asked near impressed. The girl was my age in fact I swear I had seen her before. "Yeah. My dad runs the arcade and I fix the machines and such. Name's Charlotte! Nice to meet you!" she extended her hand out to me and I happily shook it. "I'm-" I had started before suddenly Nick yelled from across the Arcade "Redacted! I'm out of tokens!". "Oh umm sorry I gotta go!" I had said to her before turning to go find Nick.

Though part of me did hope we would talk again as my heart skipped another few beats.

"Thank you, but I'm only 18. I'm not old enough for someone to call me Miss Kato. I appreciate your politeness, though!" Sumire bubbled. She enjoyed compliments quite a bit, given she rarely received any. Why would she anyway? She spent most of her time at home alone. She had no friends, Kuna was gone, and her parents were never around, so it's not like any strangers would go out of their way to say something kind to— 
 
"Oh, I see it! There's the building! No wonder I couldn't find it, it's hidden behind all those buildings!" exclaimed Akiji, separating from Sumire's hand and running towards the building.  
 
She wanted to scold him for running off like that, but it'd be pointless. He'd be coming here alone starting tomorrow, right? What was the need to get overprotective? She decided she'd piggyback on the boy's excitement and help him associate the monorail station with something fun; that way, he wouldn't feel nervous about coming here alone. "I'm a genius!" Sumire thought, raising her chin towards the sky in triumph. 
 
Sumire decided to run alongside Akiji, pointing out various landmarks along the way as they ran. Since it was about 8:45 at this point, most commuters and students were already where they needed to be, so they didn't need to worry about running into people on their dash toward the station. Once they made it there, they both paid the fee to ride the monorail and headed for the waiting area. Thankfully, they didn't need to wait long, or rather, the wait didn't feel that long? Akiji's constant questions about Sumire's "super deadly ability" and his fascination with the monorail station helped time feel as though it was flying by, so when the monorail to Redline finally arrived, she was pleasantly surprised by its apparent punctuality.  
 
Sumire made sure they rode in a car in the very back, as that one usually had nobody in it. If she was going to show off her Imperium, she didn't want anyone to see her. She was pretty self-conscious about it and could probably count on one hand how many times she'd used it during her high school years. Sumire considered how she'd show off her ability to the boy before her thoughts were interrupted by another one of his questions. 
 
"Do you think I'll be okay going to school alone? The only Hero Seeker in Redline was Arrow, and he retired two years ago. What if someone tries to get me?" questioned Akiji, holding tightly onto Sumire's hand and staring out of the window across from them. 
 
"You'll be okay, Akiji. After all, I'm an SSS student! I'm going to become a Seeker pretty soon, but I'm still strong enough to take a bad guy down. If you feel nervous, just call me! I have pretty good ears, so I'll hear you and come flying over like an eagle!".  
 
"You can fly?" asked Akiji, his eyes beginning to light up.  
 
"W-well, I probably could," guessed Sumire, "but I can definitely do this. Super deadly Imperium, go!" 
 
Sumire yelled the chant, shot up from her seat, and walked out in front of Akiji. The glowing eyes and rapt attention from Akiji reminded Sumire of her brother. He'd make the exact same face each time she'd show off her Imperium.  
 
Sumire's pupils narrowed. Her teeth sharpened. Her tongue lengthened. Her mouth widened. She had become snake-like in appearance and began stretching and contorting her body in impossible ways.  
 
His broken eye contact, bitter smile, and slumped shoulders also reminded Sumire of her brother. This was the same trick she'd always use on Kuna. It was stupid to think the result would be any different. Despite his obvious disappointment, the unimpressed boy did his best to be polite. 
 
"That looks...interesting. C-can you grow scales too?", Akiji questioned, his voice dismayed, and his face dampened. 
 
"No, but this~ isn't the cool part.", Sumire boasted, her eerie smirk taking up nearly her entire face. "This~ is the s~uper deadly attack."  
 
Sumire usually wouldn't have used her Imperium like this, but Akiji had challenged her! Her snake ability wasn't impressive? She could potentially strangle someone to death just by elongating her arms around their neck! How is that not cool? Whatever, she just had to show him this. Sumire's mouth opened so wide it seemed as though her jaw would separate from her body. She positioned her head toward the window behind Akiji and spat acid at it. Almost instantly, the window began to dissolve, like acetone on styrofoam. 
 
"Wait, I thought snake venom could only poison things and burn flesh! How did you do that!?", Akiji yelled, the excitement returning to his face.  
 
"Why the hell does this kid know about shit like that?" Sumire asked herself internally. She sighed and answered her question, maintaining her creepy grin, "My venom is a mix~ of poison and ac~id," Sumire hissed.  
 
"That's so cool! What else can you melt?" 
 
Sumire spent the rest of the trip melting various parts of the monorail with her snake venom. By the time the automated chime informing passengers to let them know that they were approaching Redline had played, the two finally realized that the car was nearly destroyed. The windows, railings, handlebars, and even parts of the floor were all melted. The two looked at each other, sharing an awkward smile that quickly transformed into laughter.  
 
"L-let's get our stuff and go to a different car.", Sumire stammered.  
 
"O-okay.", Akiji responded. 
 
The two picked up their bags and practically ran to the monorail's front car, where most of the riders had been staying. When they exited the station and arrived in Redline, Sumire took note of the city's looks. The town had bright lights everywhere; there was a bridge in the distance with a manmade river below it, plenty of bright billboards, and even restaurant employees giving free samples of food on the sidewalks. There were so many cars and buses on the wide city streets that the two decided to play a game with each other to see how long they could speak without being interrupted by a car horn. Wasn't this supposed to be the dangerous city everyone warned people about? The town felt so...alive!  
 
"Sumire, look! It's so co—" Akiji's words were cut short by the most heavenly sight either of them could've imagined. "Is that an Ages Arcade?! Sumire, we have to go! Look, there's a manga store next to it, Sumire, ple~ase can we go?".  
 
"We can't go to an arcade when we both have school—." Sumire's brain had finally processed Akiji's final words. "Y-you said you saw a manga store?".  
 
"Yup," Akiji smiled. He continued, "I bet they have the new volume of Diamond is Indestructible!"  
 
"W-we both have school right now. We're both late. B-besides, the next volume comes out tomorrow. How would they have it?", she protested as she crossed her arms. 
 
"My friend's dad owns a manga shop in Periti, and he said that the stores always get the new volumes a week early so they can show them off in the store and do preorders and stuff.". 
 
Shit, this kid played her like a fiddle. He found out she likes manga and knew exactly what to say! It's like she said earlier, they're already late, right? 
 
Sumire decided that the most responsible decision was to take Akiji to the manga store next to the Ages Arcade. She convinced herself that taking him to buy manga in Redline would help him trick his brain into liking Redline instead of fearing it.  
 
Inside the bookstore was nothing special. It was what anyone would expect: shoulder-high bookshelves, fancy displays with popular books, and even a sitting area for people to read manga in the store. After being unable to find the new volume on the shelves, Akiji suggested asking the clerk directly. 
 
Sumire asked the clerk in the manga store if they had the newest volume of Dodo's Crazy Quest: Diamond is Indestructible and received an answer she hadn't been expecting. The clerk tried to subtly tell her that she'd have to pay extra to get the copies early. Neither Sumire nor Akiji could pick up on his subtlety, though, so he flat out told Sumire that she'd need to pay extra for the early volumes. 
 
 "Is that illegal?" Sumire whispered, her eyes glancing around the shop.  
 
"Do you want the manga or not?" the clerk sharply responded.  
 
Sumire looked at Akiji, who was visibly eager to get his hands on the volume to no doubt show off to all of his friends. Sumire sighed and paid the clerk to "see if they had any." Eventually, the clerk returned with two copies of the newest volume of Dodo's Crazy Quest and even threw in a new copy of Deadly Composition for free. 
 
As soon as they exited the store, Sumire wondered why she received the extra manga for free.  
 
"Maybe he thinks you're cool?", Akiji guessed. 
 
Sumire doubted it, but when she opened the book and saw a sticky note with a phone number and a heart, she couldn't help but chuckle. Two compliments in a day!

Order & Fate: Rebellious Children is a series about a girl named Sumire Kato who is abruptly thrust into a world seething with murder, conspiracy, and drama. She must find strength within herself, rely on the friends she made, and uncover the mysteries of her home before doom reaches her and her loved ones!

 




Sumire Kato is an 18-year-old girl who has spent the last two years of her life alone in her apartment. She’s had little contact with other people and has no friends or family to communicate with. All of this changes when Sumire is invited to the Soteria School for Seekers, the prestigious school where Tenebris’s strongest study to become Seekers.  

  

As she makes the most of her new school experience, Sumire is continuously haunted by her demons, which threaten to damage the connections she’s made with the people at her new school. Eventually, she is forced to face her demons in a big way when one of her new friends is murdered by an unknown assailant.  

  

Sumire must overcome her past ghosts and find the killer with a clear mind and empty heart, lest her brother suffer the fatal consequences!  

 

Thank you for reading Order & Fate: Rebellious Children! Here are a few things you should know before getting into the story.

 

First, the chapter-length varies between 1000-3000 words depending on the events. Admittedly, the first batch of introductory chapters is a bit of a slow burn. I want to introduce you to the characters before getting to the craziness, so if you're interested in wall-to-wall action and fights each chapter, then this may not be the story for you.



Secondly, this story is heavily inspired by darker shounen manga and anime such as Hunter x Hunter and Jujutsu Kaisen, with the fights and magic system in particular taking inspiration from Jojo's Bizzare Adventure. If you like anime, then you'll probably like this story. If you prefer Tolkien-esque fantasy, though, then this story also may not be for you.

 

Thirdly, I have a decent stockpile of chapters stored, which I plan on expanding upon each day. Because of that, this series won't be dropped or put into indefinite hiatus, and chapters will be released daily unless otherwise stated. Finally, I've done multiple grammar and spell checks, so there shouldn't be any immersion-breaking grammatical issues. If you do find one, though, please leave a comment, and I'll revise! 

 

Finally, while this is my very first fiction, it's also a first draft of sorts. I plan to have this story professionally edited and published, so any feedback is very much appreciated!




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"I can see you realised. Before you start coming to some sort conclusions, let me explain." Raynor said to Weiss while raising his hand to get waitress attention, The heiress mouth closed, and she waited for his explanation.
"First of all I am mentally eighteen, and physically seventeen." This make her jaw go down for second time today.
"Yes, I know that look, hard to believe, but yes I am a teenager with an unlimited amount of power." He said with an eye roll.
"...And being Dragon part?" Weiss decided not to bother with believing or not. If she is to be with him in future, since she doubts she can say no to him anymore, after all he did to Vale, and her family, which in turn to Faunus as well...
"It comes in two parts, first the cultivation method which transform one's soul, spirit into a Primordial Dragon, and the other one is body transformation where one choose his dominant Law, in my case it's Origin Yang." He explained to her right before the waitress came over.
"I would like to order today's special..." Raynor started ordering, he was internally amused that this place has Coca-Cola as well! He doubts that such meagre concept of space and time can be in way of such drink!
The waitress typed it down on her notebook.
"...and for drink I want some Coca Cola," he then look at Weiss who eye-rolled at him.
"Atlesian grilled fish please, and orange juice." She said after checking the menu, there was only a few fish dishes, and she picked one closest to her home.
After taking orders the Waitress left and Raynor continued to speak.
"I believe you will get along splendidly with my mom, she likes her fish," Raynor spoke with a smile, as he saw Weiss expression.
"Hmph! I can't understand the obsession will all this unhealthy food, do you know how bad it is for your health?" She asked him with a huff.
"Yes, because all this unhealthy stuff will kill me..." Raynor sarcastically answered her question.
Making Weiss stop for a second, and think, she then realised something.
"You know this is not even funny, I been trying to have a healthy diet, but then you can just snap all the bad ingredients out don't you?" She said that with deadpan look.
"I don't need to do that, my body will actively destroy anything which affect it negatively." 
Hearing that he doesn't even need to snap his fingers made the white-haired girl pout even more at him.
"Don't worry, I teach all the stuff you need to enjoy eating anything you want." 
This make her pout lessen, instead she started asking about his other realities which he has 'conquered'.
Well more like took over without any fighting...
From floating paradise, to realities focused on martial arts, even to the world where his swords have originated.
To say that Weiss was shocked just how different those places are is understatement!
A world without Grimm is already something shocking to her, but world without dust?
Their whole society is based on that!
~~~
"Do you still want to be huntress?" Raynor asked her curiously.
"Because Remnant is about to change in upcoming days, while the Grimm will be around, they will be less of threat, until these creatures completely disappear." He said that while sipping his coke.
Weiss stopped eating for a second, she thought for a moment, realising where this was going.
She then looked at him.
"Something is going on, isn't it? my sister is tight-lipped as well, every time I ask something about invasion in Vale she says it's 'classified', even Atlas troops are still here..." She said all that with narrowed eyes.
"You are right, Remnant is at its tipping point, everything is about to change." He confirmed her suspicion.
Weiss for second was thinking to ask him normally, but he might end up redirecting the question, instead she decided to see how he will react if she is to take 'Ruby' route for this.
"So, can you tell me what is going?" She asked with a genuine smile, which caught Raynor slightly off-guard.
One moment she was thinking, and the next one she started behaving out of character, he could use his powers to find out what is going on inside her head, but that would be boring, besides it's cute to see her behaving out of character like this!
Raynor leaned forwards with a smile.
"Very cute Weiss, but first do some practise runs..."
The white-haired girl exploded with blush, and quickly looked away.
"Since you are that interested in the whole thing I will explain to you WHEN our date is over."
Weiss slowly nodded hearing that, she can agree to that...
~~~
"This is quite good, and very cheap..." Weiss said with small awe, she never expected for food cooked in a diner to taste like that, not only that but Raynor only spend pennies!
"The magic of home-cooked meals Weiss, now our next destination is arcade." He took her hand and started walking towards the arcade.
Her eyes widened for a second hearing where they going next.
"W-Why there?" She never been in that place! for her arcade equals stuff Ruby does!
"Because it's fun! I have only been in one in my home reality! even then only a couple times, which is a size of goddam kiosk which has three arcade machines inside." Raynor explained and same time complained, his home town barely has any entertainment of that sort!
"...Really?" The Heiress instantly got interested about that, since he only talked about extremely 'magical' places, while never mentioned from where he originated himself.
"My home town is incredibly mundane with barely functioning Public transport, since everyone has a car, population barely in twenty thousand, that means there is barely anything of interested, one cinema, several supermarkets, while we do have quite large marketplace."
Weiss never heard that city of that size can exist, the only place she can think of is Argus in Anima Continent, but even then it's either large city which is a Kingdom or small villages, nothing really in the middle exist in Remnant thanks to Grimm.
So, hearing someone talking about living in 'the middle ground' is new...
Not long after that they arrived in one of the arcades available in Vale, the City Kingdom of Vale is a massive city even by Earth's standards and small to average by Primal Chaos standards, but even by then he is on planet the size of Mars.
So, it's considered big, and it has several large arcades likes the one they just arrived, to put the cherry on top it has that futuristic setting with all the holograms all over the place, the only thing his inner otaku needs is games from his reality and he won't be leaving this place anytime soon...
Raynor walked to the cashier and pulled out a large pile of Lien(Remnant currency) and dropped on the table.
Weiss's eyes bulged out seeing the amount he going to spend here, she lived her whole life in luxury, but even so, seeing this much money to be wasted in this place makes her heart hurt.
"Raynor..." She was about to ask if he is serious, but seeing large grin she just sighed.
"Don't worry darling! with the amount of money I have I can buy hundreds of Remnants over, and if that is not enough I can just create more." He said that with shrug, he made sure whatever they speak sounds normal to people around them...
Weiss then remembered just what kind of being he is, in the end, she just shrugged herself, and relaxed.
"Fine then let's get this over with, I want to see why Ruby and Yang likes these places this much." She just showed a challenging smile.
Raynor answered back with his own, there is a mountain of tokens in his hands.
"Let's go then..."
~~~
Once they passed the cashier, their ears were assaulted by a bunch of different sounds coming from arcades, Weiss's eyes bulged out seeing so many different screens, lights and even forms of arcades, from UFO saucers, to cars...
"W-Where should we start?" She asked him, her voice was like a lost puppy in the streets, not knowing where or what to do.
"From the very beginning, of course!" All his tokens simply disappeared from his hands and with a hand wave, a ring appeared in his hand.
"Here this is intent-based storage ring, it has quite a bit of space, I have stored half of tokens in there." He handed the ring to her.
Weiss eyes remained wide, as he knows what ring mean...
'What... a sneaky guy!' The white-haired girl slowly took the ring from him, she instantly felt a connection to it.
She focused on it and she could see feel a massive nearly endless amount of space inside of it!
'Quite a bit.. yeah right! I can store whole Vale and Atlas in this ring!' Internally eye-rolling she put the ring on her right-hand index finger, it automatically rearranged its size to fit perfectly, not only that but it was white and icy blue...
"Good, it looks quite nice as well." Raynor looked at her dandy hand inspecting his craftsmanship which was done with 'Creation of All Things'.
The Heiress slightly blushed for second, she inspected the ring now on her finger.
"Yes...beautiful...*cough* now why don't we start?" She motioned towards the very first arcade she saw.
Raynor followed her gaze.
"Space defender? hmm kind of brings back memories..." He said that with chuckle remembering the days when he had Nokia 3310...
"Really? there are similar in your reality?" she asked curiously, his reality sounds so similar yet so different!
"There was a similar game in my home reality version of scrolls when they came out for the first time." He chuckled for second remembering how 'Snake' and that other game were the sparks which led him to be 'Otaku' and even towards this current status.
"I see... there are some games on Scroll, not that I play them." The Heiress admitted that she is not playing them, even if her partner offered to play multiple times...
"Well we going to fix that later, but now let's test this out!" Raynor quickly inserted one of the tokens and pressed the start button.
He then motioned for the White-haired girl to grab the second controlled.
Even inserted the token for her, Weiss could just roll her eyes at his eagerness...
~~~
Several hours later, the duo have tested out most of the arcades, Weiss got hit by a hard case of competition, and very quickly learned most of the controls of the arcades, and would compete with Raynor on pretty much any games which is possible to play for two.
From car racing to zombie shooting, even dancing...
Since he was not using his powers many of the games were won by her, and many were won by him as well.
And, now several hours later they finally reached the place where Weiss's eyes were sparkling with need.
Yes... they reached the crane games...
"So which one you want?" He asked curiously.
The Heiress quickly snapped out, and composed herself for second, still there was a small embarrassed blush on her cheeks, after several hours she finally loosed herself, and stopped behaving like Heiress, and instead was acting like a girl her age.
"Well, they all... are... cute..." She said with an embarrassed voice, she never seen this many plush toys before!!!
"I see, then let's get all of them." He said with shrug.
She quickly looked towards him with disbelieve.
"What? I am serious, we still have more than half of tokens." He said like it was a common thing to spend thousands of liens in arcade...
"In that case, let's try..." The white-haired girl realised that it's the truth, so she nodded and joined him in the crane game.
Slowly but surely Weiss is becoming like Raynor... 
The Concept of Common Sense has no place here...











 















 




We all know how cultivation novels are, starting from nothing and by the end of the novel, he becomes god.

But what if the Main Character becomes god by the end of the first volume? then add the fact that he got multiverse travelling powers? and most of all he is Otaku who 'tries' living normal life and fulfilling his Otaku dreams?

A 'Wish Fulfilment' type of story, when a normal Otaku type of guy gets the power to travel the multiverse!

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