Since that, he was now an ordinary player and now finally one level 22. It was a lot harder to upgrade his level. He also discovered that upgrading weapons was twice harder as upgrading strength and ability.
George was on the streets carefully glaring around the area not letting his guard down for a single second. He kept his eyes in front of him while his steps were quiet and his breathing pattern was slow and careful. He also made sure to listen to the surroundings.
Woosh! He heard something behind him and he immediately took out his knife glancing around the area. He was ready to use his super speed ability in case something went wrong while staring at the area seeing where he could escape.
George placed his two fingers on the handle of his black knife and immediately threw it elegantly behind him. "Ah!" A girl's voice screamed. George's heart thumped when he recognized that voice and immediately looked behind him. He saw the girl from door number 1 against the wall trapped with his knife stabbing her jacket.
He remained calm and so did the girl. He ran to the girl and pressed his hands against her throat carefully not choking her before pulling out the knife and pressing it against her throat. "What do you want?" He said coldly to the teenage girl Kassie which was her code name.
It wasn't smart to use her codename back in the game. The codename was important since that was the name that gets announced in public. This girl didn't seem to fear that. Unless she was stupid.
Kassie was about the age of 13 and she looked small about 5 feet for George. However, for her age she was average. "I didn't follow you," Kassie said, "I just saw you and wanted to say hi," she said casually.
George stared into her eyes checking for signs of lying and pressed his hands on her neck checking her heartbeat. It was a normal heartbeat of a teenager. The brunette sighed and let go of the teenager. "I know for a fact that you didn't come here just to say hi," George said coldly.
Kassie stared at George and grinned, "Haha, you're right! But you have an accent. By the way are you British? I'm a fan!" This girl seemed silly and George felt like he had met another person right now.
Kassie seemed to be forgetting that they were in a game that is life and death. Players kill players to improve for them to live. They play games to live even if it was a matter of life or death. "Yes, so what's your name?" George asked Kassie who pouted crossing her arms.
"Sorry big bro. But my older brother told me not to tell my real name to others" Kassie frowned. George raised an eyebrow glaring around and saw Kassie panic waving her hands, "Don't worry! Ever since the Eliminate situation happened. We weren't able to see each other for five months" she smiled.
George calmly stared at Kassie, "You do know that the world has changed right? Your code name will be the one published in public and to other players" he stated pointing his fingers at Kassie's forehead while she blinked scratching her head.
George sighed placing his knife back in his pocket. "I'm leaving," he said turning his body to the back as he started walking back to where he was going.
Kassie gasped, "Woah! Mister George, don't leave me! I swear I'm helpful!" she yelled panicking, and ran beside George. George only rolled his eyes ignoring the foolish girl pressing his hands on his pocket as he kept walking in a straight direction.
Kassie huffed pressing her hands on her chest and staring at the brunette. She suddenly snapped her fingers, "Hey, I can make potions!" She exclaimed as a thought immediately went to George's mind. He quickly shook his head cursing at himself as he turned to look at Kassie.
If she could make potions she can be a great teammate. Even if she doesn't have a great physical appearance she could still help by making potions for healing, speed, hopping, and poison. But, she was still a child. George couldn't also kill her and take her ability. He looked at her bright green eyes and sighed, "Fine" he mumbled.
"Yes!" Kassie whispered under her breath and clenched her fist grinning running to the brunette's side. While walking George noticed that he couldn't hear any footsteps coming from Kassie which was surprising since she was still a child. "My brother's a detective y'know? It's pretty cool" Kassie broke the silence.
George only hummed. That explained why her footsteps were quiet. Her brother must have taught her that and cared for her safety. Being a detective was a dangerous job anyway. "Can you make a healing potion?" He asked Kassie who gave a thumbs up.
"Yes, but I'll need a bottle or anything I can fill liquid in. It doesn't matter if it's empty or not. I can replace it" George nodded and grabbed the empty water bottle in his bag and gave it to Kassie. Kassie took the bottle into her hands and stopped walking. George watched her place her palms on the bottle and slowly fill the bottle with red liquid.
George watched calmly while Kassie fills the bottle. Kassie turned to look at George and gave her the now full bottle. "Just 5 milliliter of that can heal a deep slice on the skin. 10 if you want to heal a stab. However, it can't heal bullet shots except when the bullet is out" she smiled.
George asked, "How long does it take for it to react?"
Kassie looked up at the sky placing her hands on her chin, "Depends on the injury. But a deep cut can take about three seconds to heal. It'll probably be faster once I upgrade my level. The process of healing also stings a little. Like an ant bite," she said looking up at George.
They started walking again through the street, "Hey Mister, the first one to clear the first door. That guy named Dream I'm pretty sure. When Eliminate announced his name he already was an Ordinary player. How do you think he got that level so fast?" She asked.
The cold breeze waves over their faces. George exhales through his mouth softly, "How do you think he achieved it?" He said. To be honest, he just thought that the Dream player was probably skilled and had a good ability. But now that he thought of it. It seemed impossible to achieve Ordinary in less than twelve hours.
Kassie places her hands on the pocket of her jacket, "Well I have many theories. One, he could probably have good physical strength, a good reaction time, and a powerful ability. He also must have been smart. Or number two, Eliminate can upgrade your level depending on your life before it happened" she said while George raises his eyebrows.
He looks down at the teenage girl, "What do you mean by 'your life before it happened?" He asked while Kassie clicks her tongue glancing at the stores beside.
Kassie, "Maybe level depends at the start on your stats. For example, a person already killed before Eliminate happened and when Eliminate happened. He was already in level five because of that kill," she said simply.
George widened his eyes at the girl's theory. That indeed was possible and that was probably the reason why he met some players in the world who got ordinary in just a short amount of time. But it wasn't 100 percent reasonable.
Since there were police, soldiers, and murderers out there that probably already killed many people. So why Dream out of 2 billion players? The second reason for this was because he probably had a good ability to start with. So he could easily prevent himself from getting killed. "A good theory. But not really accurate" George said.
George stared to his left and saw a clothing store. He stared at the clothing store and saw that it still wasn't looted. It was rare to find a store that isn't looted because of Eliminate. He also noticed that this store was H&M. George entered the clothing store while Kassie followed from behind confused.
George glanced at Kassie, "We'll need to at least change clothes. Grab some comfortable for fighting. I'll give us both ten minutes. If you don't get back at the exit in fifteen minutes. I'm leaving you" he said seriously while Kassie nods quickly dashing off to the clothing area.
He grabbed only a few clothes. A simple leather black jacket and a white shirt. He also grabbed black jeans for his lower body. He quickly removed all of his clothes from his body and tossed them somewhere hidden then replaced them with his clothes of choice. He grabbed his bag and threw it over his shoulder.
He was on his way to the door outside but he stopped when he saw a pair of black leather masks. He quickly grabbed at least five masks and shoved three in his bag. They would need the masks to hide their identity from other people in case they defeated players who hated them and would want to take a battle.
When he got to the exit. He was surprised to see Kassie already there. She was wearing black leggings, a purple shirt, and a white woman's leather jacket. "Hm, you're already done?" He asked and Kassie nods pulling a thumbs up.
He nods exiting the clothing store and gives one leather mask to Kassie who gladly took it placing the two thick strings over her ear. George also did the same grabbing an energy drink from his bag and downing all of them in his body.
"We'll travel from here to San Diego. It should take about two hours from car. Every 2000 kilometer distance there's a monument. So there's no worry when we need to clear door two in the next month" George says as he glared around the area looking for a car.
Kassie hummed crossing her arms against her jacket, "There must be at least a million monuments then if that's the case. Damn, I wonder how Eliminate happened" Kassie said as George opened the door to the car as they both entered.
For now, they still haven't met someone who knew about the real truth about Eliminate. As of now. No one still knew how Eliminate happened in the real world. Some probably thought that there were Earth outsiders that went here to this planet and made it as their game.
Perhaps they thought that humanity was just something they could play with. Or maybe humanity built this itself. But the technology was too high. There was no way humanity itself created this. George avoided Kassie's statement and started driving through the roads.
"Drista, by the way," Kassie said and George tilted the window's car using to gaze at Aurora.
"What?"
"Drista is my favorite real name" Kassie chuckled, "But still call me Kassie," she said. George stares at the small teenager and sighs nodding as he started driving calmly through the streets.
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Author's note
Drista/Kassie: Where the hell is my brother?!
Dream: When am I going to show up Author?
Hehe, just wait Dream. You'll show up soon :)