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Micheal looked at the small room he had set up in, feeling an odd sense of familiarity.

There was a small bed, a desk with an office chair, and a window that faced the outside. It was a cramped room, barely enough for a single person to live in, but it was a place he planned on calling home for the next month.

He sighed, rubbing his forehead,

'If I recall everything accurately, this Cluster will only connect to the Main Cluster after a month or so, maybe a month and a few weeks. From there, reaching The Towers and finding one of the Subways to the Second Layer will probably take about as long.' He ran the idea through his head, nodding.

The First Layer was set up as a very unique world.

Spread across it were tens of thousands of 'Clusters.' Each Cluster had tens of thousands of skyscrapers in it, all connected with a variety of bridges. At the edge of each Cluster, however, the skyscrapers stopped.

Leaving nothing but barren space, all the way to the dirt ground.

In the distance, one might be able to see other Clusters, spaced miles apart. These Clusters would never connect to each other. Trying to cross the dirt ground from one Cluster to another was suicide due to the presence of the Morenkai.

There was one special Cluster that existed, a unique one. A Cluster much larger than other Clusters, bigger in its size and scale. The Main Cluster.

And at the center of the Main Cluster were The Towers. A set of massive skyscrapers that seemed to pierce the heavens, towering above all else. There were around 100 Towers, all standing tall and proud.

Micheal's mission was to reach one of these Towers and then descend through it to the ground floor, exit, and find a Subway entrance. The entrances looked like normal subways on Earth. However, the moment anyone walked into one of the Subways on the First Layer and sat down on one of the waiting benches, they would be transported away, teleported to the Second Layer.

Reaching the Subway was the trial or goal set for those on the First Layer, something the Spirit announced as soon as the Clusters connected with the Main Cluster.

'And the only way to reach the Main Cluster is through the Great Bridge that appears in about a month or so.' He nodded his head, the memories all flooding back.

'I know what's going to happen. I know all, or at least most, of the secrets of this Layer.' He clenched his fists, nodding again.

'I can do this.'

After the envoy for the Saru Group greeted everyone, back atop the roof of the skyscraper, he had given a short speech explaining how to survive in the First Layer.

According to him, the Morenkai came out at random times. They had poor senses and if you were quiet, you could usually avoid conflict as long as you didn't get too close to them.

Once they latched on to your trail, though, they would pursue you viciously till you lost them or killed them.

The Morenkai were strong, durable, and difficult to kill. They possessed powerful regenerative properties, deadly pointed fingers, and an unwavering appetite for human flesh. They were like zombies out of a horror movie, only much stronger and harder to kill.

The Morenkai usually only stalked the rooftops, the bridges, and the ground level and actual ground outside. It was very rare for them to descend into the skyscrapers themselves, at least not in the many scattered Clusters spread out across the planet. On floors that were close to the ground level, it was slightly more common to see the Morenkai.

As long as one stayed inside, one would be mostly safe.

However…

There was one problem with that.

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Humans had to eat and drink to live.

Water was not a problem. All of the faucets in the skyscrapers worked, providing clean fresh water, as did the lighting and air condition. How or why exactly they worked, no one knew.

In this strange, foreboding world there were only 2 ways to get food.

The first was to randomly find food stashed away in unexplored rooms in the various skyscrapers. The first few Waves had largely cleaned out most of this food, making this option one that wasn't very viable.

The second was to spend Points.

The Artifacts section of the Shop contained tons of actual Artifacts, magical objects that contained odd or mystical effects, some that were overwhelmingly powerful and in limited supply.

It also contained much more normal objects, like common weapons and armor. One could even find guns, cannons, or a variety of vehicles within it.

As a part of those rather normal objects it also contained a pair of special slots.

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Food Selection - Custom

Liquid Selection - Custom

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By tapping on one of these options, it was possible to call up a large assortment of foods and drinks. Almost anything one could imagine could be purchased here.

To get anything at all, though, one had to spend Points.

And how does one obtain Points?

In the First Layer, there were only two ways.