10 The New Toy Pt.2 (2/2)

The golden child had a face of glee as he flips through the book that was in his hand. He looked completely enraptured in the book. His eyes are practically twinkling like stars. The book I'd given to him to hold was the guide for this world.

”Mistress! This book has a section about me!” He says quickly flipping the book around. Doing so to allow me to see the passage.

In the passage, a similar picture of him did appear. However, it the original look of when he'd been a monster, this child-like look he was sporting now wasn't documented in the book. Was this a special feature of my own special skill?

I reach out and take the book from his hands. Skimming the page, I look for anything that suggests that there was a transformation that this creature would undergo if obtained by a Player.

It didn't reference a transformation for a monster, it just simply stated that a ring would drop that allowed you a onetime summon of that certain monster. Whereas my skill was broken, as long as I had MP, I could summon any monster on my list.

Making this drop rate even better than what was listed in the book. I also had the feeling that the higher my luck went the better the chance that I would have to obtain that monster. With that thought in mind, I wanted nothing more than to pour almost all my points into my luck stat.

But that was a little hasty. It was safe to say that it would be a little hasty to dump everything into one place, especially when I felt really weak against these monsters. After fighting two of these stronger and advance monsters in a row, I learned just how inexperienced I was in combat.

These monsters had more thought and reasoning than just the mindless clowns that I had fought in that hallway after first waking up. That was playtime, this was the beginning of the real combat that was happening, a life and death situation.

In this life and death situation, I found myself with two monsters, I'd lost the only other Player. In this sense, I was completely by myself but I still had my subordinates, basically.

Flipping through the book, I stop when I see a description of the mini-game that I found myself in…「Clown's Seek」. I wanted to hurl the book at the sight of that fucking name.

Sucking in a deep breath, I begin to scan the page.

There wasn't that much information on it; it was ranked a Hell mission. The reason for that was the second stage that can be triggered if one doesn't finish the first stage. It was unlikely that someone that was fresh as snow would survive this challenge. Or that's at least what the book was telling me.

In terms of overall clearing of this stage, it was in the single digits. This really was such an unfavorable situation.

There was a list of people that had cleared the minigame, and I sucked in a deep breath. They all we're elites in terms of their level. Most of them are above fifty, I was sitting her at level eight. Most of the monsters in this minigame are over level fifteen.

Biting my lip, I want to cry, this luck stat was bullshit! If I was lucky, I wouldn't have found myself in this damn game, to begin with.

I'd almost given up hope, but I flip the page and a section straight out of a holy text appears.

「The second round, of the minigame, is the true salvation of a player. If one can complete the minigame, being under level 20. A special prize will be rewarded to them, along with a specialized skill!

Higher-level players will receive world currency in replace of a specialized skill.

Outside of the rewards, solo clearing the minigame will also reward a randomized prize. 」

I remember Matthew, telling me that there was a handsome reward in clearing the first part. He apparently, wasn't stupid enough to tempt fate, and risk the second trail. In the end, he'd still overestimated his skills and gotten killed in the process.

This wasn't a joke.

Nothing about this was simple, without Royal and this powerful skill I'd gotten. I'd be in his same boat; I probably wouldn't even survive half as long as him.

I clench the book, and continue reading, but there wasn't anything else that was helpful. Most of the information was about the first section of the minigame, it seems that a fair few had cleared that.

It was an easy clear if you had enough people, you'd just have to split the reward. But that was a small price to pay to survive.

Then all the strong players, that had cleared the second round, didn't seem to want to share the information. But that wasn't a surprise, this was a simple concept that was followed by everyone that was strong.

As if that triggered something, I felt a prickling behind my eyes, as if something was scratching to get out.

The echoing sound of a man's voice starts in my head.

'It's simple like Darwin's rule of natural selection, the weak die out, while the strong continue on and survive. It's survival of the fittest, remember ****, the strong keep strong by never allowing the weak to get strong!'

Darwin…

I hadn't been able to remember anything, since the moment I'd become conscious. Had that been a memory… the man's voice had seemed so familiar, almost like he was talking to me.

He'd said a name, but I hadn't been able to understand it at all. However, I can't shake the feeling that I did know that voice, and that he'd been calling my name.

Who had I been before, I'd woke up here?