I Am The Master of God Player System

Ilucca almost couldn't believe what he saw right now; his world was in chaos, screams echoed through his ears and he had never hated red this much—when he saw a pool of red blood that looked like an ocean on the brink of destruction. Ilucca wanted to drop the rifle he held now, but his damn pride screamed inside him and reminded him of who he was. "I am the leader... I am the strongest. I have to protect them. I have to save my team!" Ilucca said, but his legs were still shaking and wouldn't move when someone ran to him, begging for his help. "Help me, Captain! Please save me—argh!" And Ilucca saw the monster tear his body apart with a single claw. Ilucca stifled his screams; he was both terrified and extremely confused. Ilucca went on a monster hunt with his team, made up of ten people with him as the leader. Everyone admitted that Ilucca was a good fighter; he had the perfect sense to be a hunter, and he was also strong. People in the district called him the perfect future leader, successor to his father who was called the God of War. But all those praises sounded like nonsense in front of a pack of monsters that came without warning, and spread terror throughout the team. Two healers had been slain, and Ilucca could see the bodies of five of his friends who had died in tragic ways. Two members remained, and they tried to fight and defend with their powers and weapons, but it was all in vain. The six-member monster pack was very strong, and they easily killed Pelsy, the raider, and tore him apart like pulling a whole chicken to share. "Pel... Pelsy." Pelsy was the strongest attacker Ilucca had, and after he was defeated so easily, Ilucca was running out of hope to survive. Only until a monster dashed towards Ilucca and death was already in front of him, when he saw his friend come to shape a transparent barrier and protect him. "Mari...." "Captain, hurry up and run away from here. I'll expand my barrier, and you can run." "But what about you?" "I'll keep these barriers up so you can escape. Run!" Ilucca was dumbfounded by the bold words of Mari, a gentle girl and his loyal childhood friend. Mari had always been a timid girl, but what made her so brave when death was clearly in front of her like this time? "You are the future leader of Ooz; you will be the new protector of the district, and soon you will awaken your power. I believe you will become as strong as your father, so you cannot die here, Captain." "Mari, I can't do that... you'll die!" "Is that worse than you dying here?" Ilucca was silent, unable to say anything as Mari gave Ilucca her necklace as proof. "With this, people won't think of running away and leaving your team. You have to stay alive, Ilucca. Now run!" Ilucca didn't want to leave Mari, but the fear made his legs move to run. Ilucca left Mari, who was screaming in fear, and that made Ilucca run in a pool of his tears. "Mari... Mari... forgive me, Mari~" it wouldn't be enough even if Ilucca said it a thousand times. "Why did it become like this? We defeated the type D monster pack and were heading home to get a good score from the central, but why is there suddenly a type B pack... no, it's a type A pack! Why is there a monster pack attacking us in another monster area?!" "HELP—AAAA!" Ilucca turned his head, and from a distance he saw the huge claws of the four-meter-tall monster pierce Mari's abdomen, and she no longer made a sound. Ilucca was shattered in a way he couldn't explain, but he still had to run for his life. Ilucca thought it would be better for him to die than to run away, but he was also afraid. Ilucca couldn't imagine a horrible death because of those monsters, and yet as he stumbled to fall and hit the tree so hard, Ilucca still thought about running away with a bleeding head rather than having to die by the monsters' hands. *** When Ilucca opened his eyes in an unfamiliar room, he thought someone had rescued him and brought him to his place, but when Ilucca heard someone's voice, Ilucca realized that he was in prison. "Welcome back, Captain." Someone spoke outside the prison; it was Abel, his childhood friend. "Abel, why am I in prison," Ilucca asked in a trembling voice, fear slowly washing over his pale face, "and I survived...," "Of course you survived," Abel replied, he smiled, and his face reflected his calm as always, "you couldn't have died after sacrificing your friends' lives, right?" As Abel said that, Ilucca's face became dozens of times more tense; he was stunned. "Other than the head injury from the violent crash while fleeing, the doctor reported no other injuries to your body. That's good; we've already prepared for your execution." Ilucca was shocked like lightning had just struck him. "Execution?" "In monster hunting, all possibilities will be tolerated, but not with the loser attitude of a leader." "What do you mean?" "You're being punished for neglecting your members and running away from your duties as leader. You're also blamed for your carelessness that led a pack of unidentified monsters to attack your team." "What? I didn't do any of that!" Ilucca was about to approach Abel quickly, when a strong drag made him fall to the cold prison floor and realize the chain binding his right leg to the bed. Ilucca was stunned to see himself treated like a criminal. "Nine members died tragically; the investigation mentioned that the monster pack that attacked was predicted to be type A, whereas you knew your group was in type B and you forced your way into their territory. This is fatal carelessness, Captain." "I didn't step into type A monster's territory! I followed the map I was given, and my team completed the hunt as planned! I don't know why those monsters are there! I didn't commit any carelessness." "Alright. But what about you abandoning your members?" Ilucca didn't answer; his head just replayed the gruesome scene of his friends tragically dying. "A pack of type A monsters slaughtered your team, and you were found with no injuries at all; I thought the blood on your head was proof of your fight, but you only hit a tree because you were so scared and wanted to run away." Ilucca realized his inability to protect his members. "I didn't abandon them," he said; crying in great guilt. "I tried to fight with them, for them, but the monsters were too strong... I couldn't do anything, not even for Mari." Ilucca remembered Mari and what she gave him last time. "Mari gave me her necklace! Mari's necklace will show everyone if I don't run! Mari asked me to run!" Ilucca groped all over his body, but he didn't find Mari's necklace until Abel spoke again. "What necklace are you talking about? We didn't find Mari's necklace near where you fainted; there was only you. Mari's necklace might have been swallowed by the monster since," Abel paused, shifting his disappointed and angered look over his friend's tragic death, "the monster swallowed the upper half of Mari's body." Ilucca was petrified with his eyes wide open; Mari's death was even more tragic than Ilucca remembered. He didn't know if the monster ate Mari's upper body because he just stared ahead and ran. "Mari~" Ilucca cried loudly, but Mari wasn't coming back—neither were his friends. "Mari, forgive me." "Mari must forgive you; she's a good and merciful girl," Abel said, and his soft voice turned stern as he said, "but the district people and I aren't as good as her. So be strong, Ilucca, you should have cried during the execution, so that you know what death feels like when you can't do anything to escape it."