Chapter 26

Not realizing this, however, I kept looking around frantically like a crazed man, looking into all the different shadows in the room as my bottom finally touch the ground, making my exhaustion all that more prominent.

Failing to find anything, I slowly lowered my head onto the rough, hard ground, allowing my face to grind against the bumps of the surface of the cave's floor.

Looking up with tired eyes, I recalled the system message I had gotten a hours ago, and as if the system was waiting for this thought to pass through my mind, a screen appeared before me and caused me to widen my eyes slightly.

[Level: 1]

[Progress: 20/100]

'Seems like this is just like the games I used to play' I sighed and immediately closed my eyes.

Even though I would have usually been annoyed or agitated by the condition of the surface that I would be sleeping on, the only thing I could feel was the relief of finally laying down alongside the exhaustion within me slowly percolating out of me to seep into the ground under me, as if the ground itself was soaking up all the hours of hard work, all the hours of running, all the hours of hiding...

Everything that I had done for the whole day slowly seeped out of my body as my conscience finally fell into a deep slumber.

***

In a space where the only color that could be seen was white, a white that seemed to span out infinitely sat a single person on a throne made out of what looked like it had been created out of all the elements on the planet.

The strange glints of blue light reflecting off the diamonds from an unknown source of light intertwined with vines, metallic textured ores, and all sorts of other materials one would be capable of finding on earth.

It was as if it was sitting on miniature earth that had been morphed into the shape of a throne, yet even though one would feel a sense of harmony while looking at it alongside the throne, one could also feel powerful chaotic energy fluctuating around it.

Even though this was the case, it seemed like chaos and harmony were living alongside each other, as the molten lava that would have set the world afire flowed alongside the green vines and the brown roots of trees, even intertwining with one another as if they were made to live alongside each other.