Is it Wrong to Copy Abilities in Apocalypse?

Chapter 210: CHAPTER 209 – The Third Scenario.

[I don't want to waste my time on you guys, who know nothing other than running away, so let me tell you guys something interesting...]

The system, averting her eyes away from Alex, began speaking again, her voice still tinged with a mocking sneer, something she could never let go of since it was in her nature.

[All you will have to do in this scenario is run. Just like you guys like it.]

Her condescending words echoed in the heads of the humans all over the country, causing them to frown. Some frowned in confusion, some with uncertainty, some in fear, and some in rancor.

'What is it this time...?'

They thought to themselves, never sure about what was going on in the system's mind.

[Here, a simple scenario, one with no more than one objective, but that alone is hard to accomplish. Oh, and before you guys go on, expecting me to explain the scenario to you again, hear me out. I'm not going to stand up to your expectations... like always.]

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The system, with those words, went silent, leaving the humans bewildered.

This has never happened before.

The system was abrupt and would do many things on her whim, but this was something she did every time. She never left without giving an explanation.

So, her actions made many questions appear in the humans' heads, but there was nothing they could do about it. Even if she was doing it to make them suffer by going against what the rules said, they didn't have a way to check that.

By now, there had been many reports on the system. Many humans had tried to report her actions. Some report her for being unjust and killing people, some blaming her for other things, only to yield nothing from it.

The only thing that happened was that they lost their only way of keeping the system in check—they lost their report function.

The system, as malevolent as she was, didn't let go of the chance and, by using some underhanded means, made it so that the ones who reported her had a very hard time for the next few days.

Many even died, but no one could do anything about it since the only ones who could report the system were the ones who were feeling the injustice of the system, and the ones the system was torturing didn't even have their report function on them.

That was why, now, even though many humans felt that something was going on with the system, they didn't report or even think about that.

By now, many humans feared the consequences of being wrong when they reported the system.

But that was not the only reason why no human spoke anything about it, it was because they didn't have time to do it. The moment the system's words ended, a new scenario's details appeared in front of their eyes, letting them know what they had to do next.

[{Main Scenario 2 – The Raging Onslaught.}

Quest Category: Main.

Difficulty: A+.

Clear Conditions: -

? Survive for the next 24 hours.

Details (Only for this scenario): -

? All of the beasts in the 300-kilometer radius will be moved to a single point randomly before they are released, and after getting released, those beasts will be thirsty for blood, killing anyone that comes in their path.

What the humans have to do is survive and possibly reach the point at which the beasts were released, as that is the only safe zone you can find in the whole area. But be aware that this safe zone won't remain steady for long; it will shift every hour, and so will the beasts.

Every hour, the same process will repeat with the beasts getting teleported to a random point and getting released right after.

As said in the clear condition, all the humans have to do is survive for the next 24 hours.

Duration: 24 hours.

Reward: -

? 10,000 coins.

? A new system function.

Penalty: Up to the beasts to decide.

]

The system had said that she wasn't going to explain anything to them, but as said before, the system never let humans have a single chance to point at her, so she did give them the necessary details.

It was given in a different tab called 'details'—it was supposed to be this scenario-exclusive.

But just like the system had commented, it was a scenario where all the humans had to do was run.

There was one more scenario where they did the same—the first scenario—but things were different in that one. They didn't have to worry much after they reached the safe zone or the green zone, and there was more than one green zone within the 100-kilometer radius at that time.

Now, it was different. There was no more than one safe zone, and that too was right in the middle of the swarm of beasts who were thirsty for human blood.

It would've been good if that was all since this was still manageable. All humans fighting together, strong and weak, ganging up on the beasts would've done the trick, but as said before, it was not all.

The safe zone was going to keep shifting, and every time it did, the beasts would again be pushed out of it.

No matter what, the humans, even with their combined strength, wouldn't be able to defeat all of the beasts; all they could do was make a path toward the safe zone and clear the beasts that came in the path.

With the shifting safe zone, however, it was not going to be easy.

What if it took them around 45 minutes to reach a safe zone, only for it to disappear in 15 minutes? Wouldn't that make all of their hard work go to shit?

If that was not enough, they still didn't know the capacity of the safe zone. Just how many people could it accommodate?

There were many questions but too little time, as without a warning the air stilled.

It was as if something had happened—something the humans couldn't see but feel in the air. The tension in the air had risen to a new level. It was hard to even breathe.

Things had been getting harder and harder for humans, making many wonder if they would ever be able to get out of this hellhole. Will they ever be able to live the same life they used to before the apocalypse hit the world?

They knew that even if everything returned to normal and the world turned normal, the same as before, they wouldn't be able to live the same life anymore. Anyone who had lived in the apocalypse would never be able to get themselves back to how they used to be.

Other than a few good things, such as gaining power, being able to do things no one could before, and some others, there was nothing the humans really felt relieved about.

Oh, yeah, there was this thing about the compulsory coins that the system took every day. It stopped at 100.

On the 23rd, they were supposed to give 100 coins, and they did, but on the 24th, when they were supposed to give 110 coins, the system asked for nothing more than 100 coins. It could've been an error on the system's side. They knew pretty damn well that it could be that, but they still clung to the hope that maybe they were finally able to get rid of one of their worries.

Things would become clear today, but before that, they needed to survive the day.

Just then, however, as if not finding the humans' situation bad enough, the system's voice echoed again.

[I almost forgot to give out the penalty for the humans who failed to get past the guardian and shatter the egg.]

Those words tensed every person who knew they were among the ones the system was talking about. They had failed to kill the guardian, hence deserving the penalty, but the scenario was already this hard; how could it be turned harder than this?

It was an A+ ranked scenario, one that was just below the S-ranked one. No one knew how difficult the S-ranked scenarios were since none of them had faced such a scenario, but no human was actually curious about it.

Now, as they heard the system's words, the humans realized something: They might be the first ones to feel what an S-ranked scenario was like.

*Snap*

The next second, a snap reverberated through the air, reaching each and every corner of the country, audible to every living being on the land, water, or air, causing all of them to turn to look up, only to see nothing.

But just then some humans—the unlucky ones—started to hear the growls and grunts of beasts, causing them to frown.

Some of those humans moved toward the sound and tried to find the source, looking through the buildings or the bushes, but when their eyes landed on the source of those growls, there was only one thing they could do: scream.

"RUUUUNNNNNNN!!!!"