Everyone Else Has a System

[What kind of weapon would you be using?]

'Hmmm… a spear would be nice to hide my power but… If someone can actually get through the System to see my Stats, then honestly I would like to meet him… and since I am only partially hiding my status, then…' My eyes turn dark and I smile widely as I speak,"Single edged one sided sword."

[With what difficulty would you like to start with?]

A bunch of options were displayed in front of me as

[Easy]

[Medium]

[Difficult]

[Hardcore]

[Insane]

[Nightmare]

Obviously, I chose nightmare, and then the System registered the information and began a simulation before a sword appeared in my hand. It was fascinating that I had such a real-like sword; it was so fake… The scene changed and a lush of greenery spawned in front of me with a blue sky and a bright sun. The atmosphere was quite lovely, to say the least… until…

A giant monster spawned in front of me. It was a massive bear with glowing dark red eyes and skeletal wings that gave off a dark energy. It had a horn on its head and its teeth looked sharper than that of a carnivore.

It looked at me and then

-Swish!

I saw it vanishing, and I too jumped in the air, using my energy

-BOOM!!! I saw the bear jumping at my position before turning at me. Looks like he can sense me, even if he cannot see him… now how do we go about defeating it?

-Aaaawwww!!! -Cawww!!!

I saw a couple of flying dinosaur type monsters coming towards me as well… which later turned out to be a whole horde. Their numbers were somewhere between 40 to 50 and looking at their speed, they should be here in about a minute or less.

-Bam!!!

-Clank!!

The bear jumped at me and, using my sword, I attacked its head as swiftly as I could. While I wanted to cut it into pieces, it looked like the simulation didn't allow me to cut it using the sword I was given.

"Hmmmm. What is the purpose of this simulation, then? Survival… Hmmm, it actually makes-"

-Boom!!!!

It actually punched, throwing me up above in the air and I used my sword to block, but the blow was too heavy, so most of my bones were crushed into pieces at once. Using Life Magic, I barely survived before I flew up and above in the air…

While I was going up, I healed myself back to prime health and saw the whole simulation world. It wasn't as big.. must be about a stretch of 10 kilometres with my position as its centre.

After a few seconds, I stopped going up… stopped in the air for a brief moment and then started falling down. Looking at those monsters coming at me from below…

'Well… I thought this would be fun but… the parasites were more interesting than these,' I thought as I positioned myself carefully in the air and waited till those flying monsters came close…

And soon…

"Shadow God's First Strike: Judgement of Death," I spoke as I released all my dark energy at the sharp edge of my blade and then… I got in contact with the first monster.

-Slash!

Then jumped on another…

-Slash!

And another..

-Slash!

And soon…

-Slash!

-Slash!

-Slash!

-Slash!

.

.

-Slash!

I killed all of them in one sweep before reaching the ground.

-Bam!

My eyes then moved towards that bear monster who was looking at me with a concentrated gaze and I kind of felt bored.

Despite how ferocious he looked, I had already figured out how strong he was, his weakness and strength and almost everything about it.

"Well… I guess I'll enjoy my time playing with it. Getting out too early would be suspicious so… Let's enjoy, I suppose," I sighed a little as I looked at that bear coming towards me.

-Swish!

Once again, he came at me and I dodged sideways as I reached just a metre away from his reach and

-Slash!

The first cut was brutal. It was filled with dark and light energy that didn't allow the blood to clot, meaning the wound won't heal and it will continuously bleed, making it weaker as the time will pass.

I saw him turning at me and then attacking again and I smiled as I dodge again and cut him again with the same type of attack.

"Now, let's see how much longer you can endure," I thought as I looked at it, trying to stand, but because of the pain, he was having difficulty doing so. He looked at me, glared at me, and then roared ferociously.

Then his eyes turned black and the horn on his head started glowing dark as well, before he stood up and rushed towards me once again.

"Berserk mode, huh? Well, it should give you a couple of minutes more… or maybe take a couple of minutes from the rest of your life," I muttered as I jumped up enough to let him brush pass me and, using the exact timing, I made about

-Slash! x 7

Seven cuts on its back and blood started gushing out from everywhere.

From that point onwards, it was a matter of time before it started bleeding out and I just dodged its attack without doing anything.

Honestly, I wasn't really as fast as he was nor as strong as he was. Just that my skills were strong enough to deal impactful damage to it and win the fight without having the necessary power to do so.

'It's not just power that will help you win the battle, sometimes you need to be sharp enough and you can even deal with enemies at least 10s of times stronger than you,' I recall what Adara had told me last time in the previous timeline when I used to train with her.

Time passed as I recalled the memorable times and soon the bear succumbed to its injuries, marking the end of my test.