Book One: Alpha World

24 EPS. Not your Friend

Zam felt pain all over his body as he woke up from his coma. The first thing he saw was the blackish old cupboard right in front of where he lay. A terrifying dark aura came out from that closet. It felt like a big, creepy creature was coming out of that closet.

Zam tried to move his body again which was still stiff and heavy to move.

"Non muoverti troppo, don't move much, *Stupido* !!" A sudden voice came from beside him. Zam slowly moved his extremely stiff back, trying to find the origin of the sound. Twenty seconds later, he hit his head.

A white-faced European-style young man looked at him coldly. His gaze was flat without expression. A sinister aura also came out from the black robe he was wearing. Zam looked at him from top to bottom.

"Perche? Huh huh? What are you looking at?" The young man looked at him fiercely.

"Buona, all right, let me introduce myself."

"L**e persone qui mi chiamano Nero, people in this village used to call me Nero." Nero said with a flat face. Strange perhaps because usually people introduce themselves with a sweet smile. He also did not experience Zam at all.

"But you're an outsider, and you're a burden to me, too." Those condescending words came out of his mouth without shame. Zam realized that Nero was indeed no ordinary person. Although Zam did not know him yet, he hoped for more because Nero had saved his life.

"You can call my usual pseudonym outside the village." Nero showed a holographic business card from his hand that made Zam gawk. "My name is Black."

Zam was only dumbstruck at hearing his explanation. According to him, Abu Death Village never got residents from outside. It is impossible for any of the ordinary surface inhabitants to enter here, unless Black alias Nero is a resident of the earth.

"V..voi, are you an Alpha?" Ask Zam with sparkling eyes. But his sparkling eyes dimmed remembering something else.

" A.or including from the Red Eye Army and the Rebel Union?" Zam asked back with a slightly anxious face. Black shook his head slowly.

"Nessuno in loro, I'm not of either."

"P. thepoi? Where are you from?"

"That's not important to you. I'm just tasked with saving you and getting you back into the Alpha that's enough."

Zam gawked at Black's reply. Black simply passed away leaving his seat. His mysterious face left Zam as if there was nothing there. His steps were quick without a pause from the room.

"Aspettyre! Waitaminute! Are you my friend? Did you save me for that?" Zam asked with a completely confused face.

Black looked back with an annoyed face. His head was back.

"Non, no, I'm not your friend." Black is gone. Zam could only lie in confusion.

@-@-@-@-@

"Stupid! You guys are so stupid!" Master Kiseti shouted loudly into our faces all. His spit splashed to various directions. His face flushed with no wrinkles and looked at us with his eyes glared. His friendly attitude yesterday turned one hundred and eighty degrees cold and grumpy. I don't know what, it seems like every bit of frustration is being spilled on all of us.

After the second day, or rather the two years we practiced, Master Kiseti gathered us back together. Everyone gathered in the same place as the first year. In the second year it all came back from zero. The exercises are repeated from the beginning where our strength and ability are equal to our ability in the ordinary world.

"Weak!" Shouted Master Kiseti again. We lowered our heads as deeply as possible, not daring to stare at his dead red face.

"Lian! Lift your head!" Master Kiseti pointed at me. I slightly raised my head.

"I said lift your head!! Keep your body do not lack!" Master Kiseti shouted loudly like a roaring lion, right in front of my face. I straightened my body as hard as I could. As straight as the flagpole I saw during Monday's ceremony.

Master Kiseti was angry more than the lion whose fur was taken. His eyes glanced back at all of us. His gaze was directed at me and the others Without mercy he shouted.

"Stupid!" His spit splashed everywhere. There was no smile left on his face. His hands swung and slapped us one by one. My cheek felt excruciating pain. I can't believe Kiseti's master's hand can be as hard as steel. He slapped me like he was slapping an animal it hurt so much.

We could once again just fall silent while bowing our heads. I even saw Gina's eyes glazed over.

"Your abilities are so empty." Master Kiseti's tone began to decline.

"I didn't expect it just because you like to fall down in training to make your abilities plummet like this." Her dead red face gradually normalized.We do not understand the direction Master Kiseti was talking about.

Master Kiseti asked us all to sit down. His gaze looked at us and turned to look at a beautiful blackish-orange sunflower that suddenly floated beside him.

He took the flower.

"This is the Night Sunflower. This flower is efficacious to add and accelerate the development of your abilities and physical. Just one sunflower seed Tonight you'll be able to train to survive in the Corpse Field Room."

We are horrified by Master Kiseti's words."M...master b..yet ak.kan meng...irim kam.mi there, right?"

Master Kiseti turned to Ella who asked nervously. Ella's gaze was no longer on the Kiseti master, but on the flower that was being cut by Master Kiseti. He cut the flower as small as possible, as if tore our bodies into small pieces.

"L..then Master, what was y.yang k..kau m.you mean by R..uang Pa.... ap.pa earlier?" Ella looked at me in confusion as she continued her sentence.

"The Corpse Field Room."Master Kiseti replied firmly. He put the small pieces together and divided them into ten bags.

"You will go there and be there for the remaining five days. I hope your abilities can improve and be able to educate you better than now."

Master Kiseti pressed a few buttons that were on his watch. A portal appeared beside him. A pitch-black portal that seemed to attract everyone who saw it to enter. We stared at the hole with hunting breath.

"Welcome to the Corpse Field Room. Where you trained your true cooperation and abilities." Master Kiseti let us in while giving us the bag containing the cut of the flower.

With trembling bodies we entered the portal one by one. When we all entered, the portal door closed. We could all just stare blankly at the scene in front of us. The piles of corpses that were piling up were not just one but even thousands.

A whisper was heard quietly, "Your death has arrived today."