The sound of reality ripping apart thundered in my ears.
The world fractured—colors twisted violently, space warped like a folding mirror, and time stretched into something alien.
Then—
Darkness.
A suffocating void. No light. No sky. No ground. Just endless black, swallowing everything.
And then—
THUD.
I slammed into solid stone, rough and cold beneath my palms. I staggered to my feet, the air damp and heavy around me. The silence that followed was unnatural. Not the quiet of peace—
but the silence before death.
My eyes adjusted slowly.
I wasn't in the city anymore. I'd been transported—into the Trial Zone.
Alone.
No people. No screaming. Just the chilling stillness of an unfamiliar world.
Then it came.
A screen flickered to life before me—translucent, glowing.
Not my personal system.
No—this was the common system.
The one given to everyone.
[COMMON SYSTEM MESSAGE – TRIAL ZONE STAGE 1]
Select an appropriate weapon.
Objective: Eliminate 10 Goblins .
