"Good Luck to all of you who chose to chase Immortality, and Condolences to everyone who didn't!"
Immediately the whole world was drowned in a new wave of distress, fear, and panic. This whole this was new and chaotic, they still didn't understand what their choices entailed.
In a matter of seconds, a lot of people were hit with the features and options of their systems, that were visible only to them.
While the format of the system was similar in the origin, there were quite some small changes in the options, and missions, and opportunities they offered.
Since there was more than one organization that had started this great game, there were all kinds of ways and missions that represented them to follow after.
Each and every one of the people that chose to accept the System was in a strange state of mind knowing that their lives would change thoroughly but at the same time not believing it.
'Swish…, plop…'
As the majority of people were still lost in their thoughts and contemplations, they finally heard the sound of something cutting through the air, and then something fell with a plop.
It was impossible to understand what happened right away, as everyone raised their heads to take a look, only to find something that startled and shocked them thoroughly.
It was a human body, or to be more exact it was a sword severed human head, that had fallen on the ground while the body was still standing on its location, with blood coming out as a fountain.
At first, this scene looked like something out of a movie, something staged, but the more they looked at it the more did these people realize its reality and authenticity.
Just what the hell had happened!?
people couldn't believe their eyes, ears, and senses, as the one who was most probably responsible for that, screamed in excitement and pleasure,
"Hell Yeah! This is real, this is reality! I can reach the top with this, I can do whatever I wish!"
Those words were certainly a huge emotional hammer, but what made this scene even more extreme was that these words were coming from a police officer.
Someone that had sworn, and was paid to protect the normal people, their lives, and security, was now killing people in broad daylight, and even screaming in excitement about it.
To many people who still had hopes in government and the public services, this was the deal breaker, the dream breaker, the hope breaker.
If even a policeman acted like this, then what could they expect from the rest of humanity? Whatever hope, ideal, and wish they held for the future seemed to have been shattered at that moment.
That moment was only the start button of whatever would come raining the next one, as people started attacking and killing left and right.
From one there were a few, and from a few the whole crowd seemed to have turned into bloodthirsty demons the next one.
Of course, not everyone was capable of killing, or heavily injuring and destroying a human life, as a big majority started running as fast as they could towards shelters, or their homes.
Their first instinct was to run away and hide in their safe houses until the government and police took action and brought everything under control.
Stimulated by the danger, and the smell of blood behind them, they were running away to the best of their abilities.
In such a situation it didn't really matter how many people fell behind them, at this moment they only knew they had to run away no matter what.
Staying behind even for a moment more meant extra danger for their selves. None of them wanted to die, even if they had to sacrifice and leave behind some friends and unrelated people.
Unfortunately, that situation wasn't happening only at that location, but everywhere, and no matter how fast and far they tried to run they weren't able to completely avoid whatever was going on.
Human society had completely crumbled!
Even though these people weren't able to think calmly about this situation, such a thought had clearly passed through their hearts and minds quite a few times already.
This day would mark the true descent of S-Day on Earth, and also the day when the providence and future of Earth had completely changed.
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Just the first day, Earth lost more than 30% of its population, and by the end of the first week, that number had gone close to 70% and was still growing steadily.
Humans seemed to have lost their logic, and rationality as they were fighting, killing, and destroying other people non-stop.
The feeling of getting stronger through the system was much more addictive than even the best drug on Earth. Even more so when the growth in strength was supposed to be permanent.
The sudden fall in population caused a great change in the heavenly laws of Earth, and its barrier, weakening it by many times.
Still, it was impossible for any outsider no matter how high his cultivation was to break through the weakened barrier and laws of Earth.
They could only tweak a bit with it, by sending quite a few mortal and low-level cultivators, which didn't seem capable of destroying it.
These guys would be considered as ants without much of a future, and even Earth's will wouldn't chase them away.
Perhaps as a form of self-protection and self-restoration, Planet Earth's will started 'taking' inside many mortals and low ranked cultivators from the surroundings, and the small words around itself.
At the same time, it started to release the restrictions on its life forms and races nurturing flora and fauna even more than before.
This move was extremely efficient, because it gave humanity a much bigger, dangerous, and opportune enemy, like the animals and spirits.
It was crazy how in a short amount of time Human society fell from one of ideals and democracy to one of complete madness where strength was the law.
Earth had completely changed into a wild forest, where humans were the most terrifying and dangerous animal.
Soon though the real animals seemed to have been empowered and boosted all of a sudden turning into complete disasters for humanity.
Many different animals had gained not only intelligence but also power surpassing their limits. What humans didn't know was that even the animals had received their own system.
After all, to the people on the outside it didn't really matter who finally obtained that Legendary Artifact, they only cared for it to be found.
The more existences searched for it, the better it would be.
The appearance of the empowered and boosted animals seemed to have given a great way for the remaining humans to level up without gathering much negative karma.
After all, even in front of Heaven, a rabbit wasn't similar and didn't have the same value as a human being.
This new happening seemed to have put a leash on the madness and chaos that humanity was going through, but it seemed like it had only postponed its decline.
After all, each and every one of these people would slowly want to devour the rest in order to become the highest existence, able to become an Immortal and live the longest.
Of course, that would happen only in the case that they were stronger than the rest, but something like that would destroy the game too fast and wouldn't help with the intentions of the powers beyond.
For that reason, what these people didn't know was that they would only be able to rush and grow stronger in a short time only up to some point.
After that, their paths would become extremely difficult and hard, as they would slowly stabilize to similar levels.
Once they were faced with such a situation, these guys would actually turn to a simple but gross and gore method, raising sheep to feed their hunger.
The only problem was that the 'sheep' in this case were nothing else but humans. that's right, these existences at the top would raise and kill humans to proceed on their path.
At least a majority of them would, while another majority would try to find methods that didn't require killing, and destruction to grow stronger.
Still, one thing was worth mentioning! From this day forth Earth would cease to exist as everyone remembered it to be!
Perhaps one day things would change, perhaps one day humanity would turn to their roots, unfortunately, that seemed impossible, as Earth welcomed the law of Jungle.
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While Earth welcomed such a change, tragedy, and chaos the big families, different government bodies, and other special organizations were caught by surprise and tried to counterattack and resist.
At first, these guys thought that they would be given the opportunity of the system as well. Then coupled with their knowledge and strength they would be able to grow stronger, and bigger.
Unfortunately, none of them was selected as a bearer of the system, making many of them frown in displeasure and despair.
After all, it looked like people who had the system would have a fast and direct growth. something that they had cultivated and sought for centuries would be as easy as a few days, months, or years for these new guys.
Since it was impossible for them to have something like that, then they could only hope to strangle the baby in the cradle, as they started to hunt people down.
For most of them, it was better to be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix…
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