Parallel world.

Republic of the Pearl Country.

Olung City.

Jay is sitting in front of his computer inside his dirty rented apartment, staring at his own image on the computer screen.

"Sigh… What the hell am I doing with my life? I knew that this was hopeless from the beginning." he said, feeling dejected.

Right now, Jay is actually live streaming on the BoBo live streaming website.

Unfortunately, as shown on the screen, there are zero people inside his streams.

Meaning, not even a single person is watching him.

Today is already the 2nd week since Jay started live streaming.

These past few days, his stream room hasn't really attracted any viewers.

Even though there are people who enter the room from time to time, they also leave just after a few minutes.

This is mainly because there's nothing really noteworthy in Jay's streams.

He's not handsome nor is he talented.

All he does is sit there, play the MOBA game 'Mobile Mythology' silently.

Without even a background music, people can't help but feel bored after staying for a while.

In the end, everyone stopped caring about him.

With both palms on his face, Jay sighed with a heavy heart.

Putting his hands down, he slumped on his chair and stared at the ceiling.

After a while, he opened his mouth and said,

"... I should stop wasting my time here and start looking for a real job."

Jay is a 19 years old guy who just graduated from senior high school not long ago and is about to enter college in two months.

The reason why Jay tried to start live streaming is all because he needs money!

As an incoming freshman in college, Jay needs to pay for his tuition and other miscellaneous stuff in order to proceed with his study.

Unfortunately, Jay is from a poor family and he is the 3rd out of the 5 siblings.

Because of this, his parents can't really provide much, making it hard for them to let Jay go to college.

Supposedly, they want Jay to stop studying and immediately start working as soon as he finishes senior high school.

But, Jay doesn't really want that because he knows that only by having a bachelor's degree, would the people really recognize him as an individual.

It can't be helped, that is what our society is already like nowadays.

With the failure of this live streaming attempt, Jay has now accepted that there is no longer any other choice for him besides finding a real job.

If he really wants to continue studying in college, that is the only thing that he can do.

Letting out another heavy sigh, Jay stood up from his chair and walked to the kitchen to grab some water.

After downing a glass of ice-cold water, Jay felt a little better.

"Ahh~ That felt good."

Jay felt his stressed nerves relax after he drank some water.

But at this moment, Jay suddenly heard a sound of a bell from out of nowhere.

[Ding!]

"Huh?"

The sudden noise made Jay pause in confusion.

"What the hell was that?"

Looking around, Jay failed to see the source of the sound.

In the end, he just shook his head and sigh, "I guess I'm too stressed that I'm hallucinating sounds."

With that in mind, Jay walked back to his computer and sat down.

"Huh? Why is this…"

However, Jay's attention was immediately attracted to the phone that he left on top of the computer table.

Picking up the phone, Jay noticed an eye-catching notification on his phone screen.

[The 'Book of Achievement' has been installed.]

"Book of achievement? What the hell is this?"

"I don't remember installing anything. Did my phone catch a virus?!"

The look on Jay's face immediately changed at the thought of his phone being infected with a virus."

Hurriedly, he unlocked his screen and opened the 'reliable' anti-virus app to see if there's any problem with his phone.

Jay waited for a bit as the app scanned his phone.

After a few seconds, the anti-virus app finally showed that his phone was clean.

"Thank God, it's not a virus."

Jay patted his chest, feeling relieved.

With that secured, Jay turned his attention to the strange app that got installed without his consent.

After a moment of hesitation, Jay tapped the app icon that looks like a book and launched the app.

[The Book of Achievement]

The title of the app immediately appeared on the screen.

Written in bold golden colors, it somehow gives off a grand and magnificent vibe to it.

Then the next second, it zoomed out and showed that it was a book before finally stopping.

Jay waited for a few more seconds, but nothing else happened.

"Huh? Why did it stop? Is that it?"

Confused, Jay tapped and swiped the screen.

When he swiped his finger to the left, only then did the screen show some reaction.

The cover of the book with the golden title on it suddenly flipped, opening and showing the contents of the book.

However, when Jay saw what was on the first page, he frowned.

[Owner: Jay Cruz]

[Achievements: 0]

[Occupation: None]

…

"What is this?" Jay muttered.

"How come my name is written here. There is even a picture of me on it!"

Jay said, looking at the upper right corner of the book inside the screen.

"How the hell did this app get my name and even my picture without my consent?" He questioned.

Then the next moment, Jay thought of something and his expression immediately changed.

"This, this can't really be a virus, right?"

Just as Jay was becoming suspicious and inclined to his thoughts.

The sound of a bell once again echoed and this time, Jay sensed that it came from inside his mind.

At the same time, the phone on his hand also sounded and showed a prompt in the middle of the screen.

[It's been detected that the owner of the 'Book of Achievements' has unlocked the book.]

[Congratulations, you got the achievement 'The First Page!'.]

"Huh?"

Staring at the notification on his phone screen, Jay was confused.

"First Page? Achievement?"

"What the hell? Is this a game?"

With questions running on his head, Alex tapped the prompt on the screen and the book started turning on its own.

Flipping a page, a blank paper was shown.

However, that didn't remain blank for long.

The next second, as if someone is writing on it, letters and words written with black ink started appearing on the paper.

It only took a few seconds before and after for the ink to stop appearing on the paper.

Looking over it with curiosity, Jay inspected what were written on the paper.

At the top of the page, 'The First Page' was written prominently, like the title of it.

Then below it, writes,

[Details: Successfully unlock the 'Book of Achievements']

[Reward: Body Enhancing Capsule x1, 10 thousand pesos.]

…

The content of the page was short and concise.

It's just like a game that you'll see almost everywhere in the play store.

Scratching his head, Jay muttered, "This is probably a virus."

"What luck. My phone even got infected out of nowhere."

Jay

We will rise because the answer was always in our hands. We must make sure rhat no one will step on our heads. Be careful of your every step.

Our time will come and we will shine once again. Trust issues.

"FIRE!!"

At the command of the captain, countless laser cannons shoot out beams of light.

All of those shots hit the enemy spaceship that is in front of them without missing.

Explosions spread, covering the space battleship from sight.

"HALT!"

The captain raised his hands, issuing a command for the shooting to stop.

Without additional explosions happening, the cover of the enemy ship slowly subsided.

When the captain saw the enemy ship again, a heavy look covered his face.

After taking those shots from the laser cannon, the enemy ship appeared unscathed!

Seeing that, the captain closed his eyes and started massaging his brows.

"Sigh… Is this going to be my last battlefield?" He muttered,

He felt hopeless after seeing that he was not even able to deal any damage to the enemy after doing an all out attack.

There is an energy shield covering the enemy ship right now.

From the looks of it, it did not expend that much energy defending from the attacks of that laser cannons.

Silence…

No one was able to say anything, at this time, feeling hopelessness just like their captain.

Everyone here has been together since the first time the ship has recruited members of it.

Everyone felt emotional knowing that this will be their last moment together.

They just stared into the darkness of the space in a daze, while even some of them were not able to hold their emotions and started crying.

Dismay, regret, anger, hopelessness, etc.

All kinds of emotions weld up inside those crew of the Battleship [Marina].

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