Beneath the lead-grey sky stood countless high-rises like tombstones. Deathly silence and despair were the norm here; everything seemed utterly commonplace.
The Tombstone Apartment world—a world where humans were raised in captivity by anomalies.
In this world's history, humanity had suffered a crushing defeat in its struggle against the anomalies. So that more people could survive, humanity's leaders had struck a deal with them.
Although players still operated in this world, in this despairing world now ruled by anomalies, they could only hide underground like rats in the street.
Because the players of this world were simply too weak, the power of this world's system had also declined drastically. All its system could do was use the few remaining local specialties of its world to attract players from other worlds to come here and undertake Novice Quests.
—Bai Zhi's first System Mandated Quest, for example, had taken place in this world.
Systems and players supported one another. With the system being weak, the players naturally could not be very strong either.
In this world, leave alone rated players who had passed the novice stage and completed the construction of their Talent Cores—even players who had reached Level 20 were pitifully few.
At present, the two highest-level players in this world were the twin sisters Moonlit Snow, Dark Clouds Part and A Pure Smile, Shy Blushing Cheeks.
Level 26. System Rating: Elite Grade.
Stats that would have been at the very bottom in other worlds were already enough to make them the Strongest Players of the Tombstone Apartment world.
"How are things?"
Rubbing her slightly swollen head, Moonlit Snow, Dark Clouds Part looked up from her complicated, burdensome paperwork at the younger sister who had entered the room.
In appearance, the twins were almost completely identical. The only distinction was that