Mercenary Systems: The Eternal Life
Chapter 1 Screen Emergence

A 20-year-old man, resigned from college for various reasons two years before, then unemployed until now. It was me, the pathetic man.

I want to go back in time to change the path I took. Too bad, that's an impossible thing, isn't it?

I think a lot of people are probably more pathetic than I am. That should be true, but it was hard not to feel envious of those who were able to walk forward. Unlike me, who just stood still in the comfort zone.

I realized how mushy I was, thinking that the end of my life was expected to come sooner than it should.

After all, death was the best choice to give up everything that was painful.

Sitting on a comfortable chair, not at all heed the sunlight that provides nutrients to the body for free, even though it only needs to come out of hiding. My days are filled with boring lives. Not only the walls, furniture, and various kinds of things that are usually at home, but the activities that I do are not much. There is no challenge at all.

In August, the 10th day.

It was the date when something beyond reason happened to me. It ended my miserable life, as if the Earth was fed up with me.

At that time, during the day. The Sun shines on half the Earth, at some point it should be covered by a layer of wind-borne clouds.

As usual, those were the times where I would spend the most hours sleeping.

Without knowing what would happen to me, I slept comfortably. It is not difficult to enter the dream world. I thought, it was indeed a dream, where I saw my helpless body bobbing among the stars scattered in the air.

How long have I been in space? I can't guess at all the passage of time. However, in a dream, it will sometimes feel long, sometimes short.

Oh, naw.

Far ahead, I could see that there was a black hole devouring the heavenly bodies. I seem to be moving there too. Maybe I'll get sucked into it. But, I could do nothing but watch my body continue to move closer to the black hole.

The more my body moves forward, the more I can see how big the black hole is devouring the celestial body. I can imagine my body is just a speck of dust in front of a black hole that can even devour stars.

Without any hindrance, I continued to flow in the void. Watching the light surrounding the bottomless darkness, I could only give up as my body continued to move through the halo, continuing to move into the darkness. Where does the void take me? There really is only darkness, even I cannot see my own body. I know I entered a black hole, but there can't be just darkness, right?

The light? I saw him in the distance. Starting from a single point, it continued to grow as my body flowed.

Like how I got out of the dark corridor towards the exit of the room during the day, could it be that I finally reached the inner end of the black hole? Is that light the doorway out of this darkness?

I can't keep watching what's coming next because it's too glare. Finally I chose to close my eyes, hoping nothing bad happened.

As soon as I opened my eyes, thinking that I had come out of a blinding light, I found my body floating in the sky. Down there, the blue sea is scattered without being able to see the end of the world. What I can see besides the ocean is the dividing line between the view of the sky and the sea level.

"WAAAAAAHHHH!!!"

It didn't take me long to realize that this wasn't a dream. The sensation of air density being at this altitude, the repulsion of the wind, and the sight that seemed, were all real.

How could I suddenly be here!? That's how I think it is.

Even though I was about to land in the sea, it was still too high to fall. Perhaps, my bones were crushed even before my body hit the surface of the sea. My body lacks the nutrients needed by the bones, it will definitely be easy to break down. Besides, even though I'm still alive, I'm far from good at swimming.

However, one thing I can do as a last resort is to stay alive. In order to reduce the damage, I had to land by positioning the body vertically.

Ah, goddamn. I was just kidding. Who wants to end up at a young age? I haven't even felt the pleasure of the world. Really, in this case, the world has granted me hope. Will my life end up being ridiculous like this?

Look at the rolling sea level. Sometimes there will be fish jumping. This time, I saw a flock of white-colored birds with light blue tones flying quietly. Although seeing this beautiful sight became an extremely rare experience, my life was at stake. I can't enjoy it at all.

"OOOOOONG!!!"

I saw a ship far away. Even though I asked for help, I wasn't sure they would be able to hear my voice. In fact, my voice came out indistinctly.

It was time for me to position myself following the trajectory of my fallen body. With both eyes closed, I felt my body break as it hit the surface of the sea. But, I'm sure I'm still alive after hitting it hard. The problem now is that I can see the surface of the ocean looking away, even though I am the one who stayed away from it.

I can't move my body. My bones must have been crushed, right? If I knew my life would suddenly go through this strange event, I would exercise more and absorb the sunlight.

Never mind. This miserable life of mine should have ended miserably.

Just a moment I closed my eyes, I felt a shock that made me re-open my eyes, only to find an unexpected sight.

Hands tied, sitting in a damp place, surrounded by wooden poles lined with some unknown people inside. That's how I am now. My body and clothes are still wet. Did I just get in this cage? I don't know. Who saved me doesn't know. Even though I was saved, I guess my situation remains unfavorable. I feel a bad feeling about this.

"Hey," I got a little closer to a man sitting next to me. As my eyes met with a pair of eyes that showed a look of eyes that had lost hope, I undoed the intention to ask her a few things.

Still in confusion, my attention was distracted by the screen that suddenly appeared before me. I, who was a little jolted in shock, immediately looked around to find people no one noticed the appearance of the blue half-translucent screen. After making sure they were completely unaware of it, I turned my eyes back to the screen in front of me.

[While integrating the system ... 5%]

[While integrating the system ... 63%]

[System 100% successfully integrated!]