Survival Game Era

Tick!

The sewer was dark, foul-smelling, and silent, yet it was also teeming with life.

Insects, rats, snakes... all kinds of small creatures that lived here made up this underground society.

Tick! Tick!

The drops of water falling from the pipes brought faint sounds to this silent world.

In the sewage-filled sewer, more than a dozen rats poked their heads out of a hole, probing for any possible danger.

These rats had lived in this sewer since birth and had never once been to the surface.

Rotten, foul-smelling garbage was the rats' only food.

Fortunately, sewage mixed with food scraps often flowed through the sewers here.

They did not need to travel far every day just to find a little food to fill their bellies.

To this group of rats, this place was practically a paradise with endless food!

Today, however, was the day the young rats who had just passed infancy would go out to forage alone for the first time.

The little rats were about to head out and find the first food of their rat lives by themselves.

Everything was so ordinary and peaceful.

The rats enjoyed this life, believing that it would always flow as calmly as the water outside their hole.

But today, this tranquility was suddenly shattered, just like the floods that came every year!

Among the young rats, one suddenly froze. She looked around in terror, then finally... at her own body.

"What's going on--!!!"

Squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak squeak--!!!

Moss clutched her head and shrieked at the top of her lungs among her brothers and sisters!

The memories that had suddenly awakened left her unable to figure out what was happening!

"My name is Moss. I'm female, twenty-three years old in my previous life, and I lived in an apartment complex in northeastern C City. I was unmarried."

"I was an ordinary employee at an ordinary company. Every day, I clocked in at six and clocked out on time."

"I didn't smoke, and I never drank. Whenever I attended a business dinner, I ate two cephalosporin capsules to remind myself."

"I went to bed at eleven every night and slept a full eight hours."

"Before bed, I always drank a cup of warm milk and then practiced Tai Chi for twenty minutes."

"Once I got into bed, I fell instantly asleep and slept until dawn."

"I never carried fatigue or stress into the next day. Even the doctor said I was unnaturally healthy."

Yet this perfectly ordinary life, which she thought would continue until retirement... had ended!

Honk----!!!

That day, she saw a heavy truck speeding toward her.

Amid a sharp scream and intense pain, she lost consciousness instantly.

"So I died..."

When her memories ended, Moss crouched alone in a corner, squeaking despondently with no will to live.

"Why... could I even get run over by a heavy truck in a subway station!!!"

As she spoke, Moss reached out with her short forepaws and touched her furry belly.

Unfortunately, her paws were too short. She could not reach it!

Moss was devastated and collapsed onto the ground.

"It's gone!"

Her body's instincts told Moss a tragic fact: her untouched original little brother was gone!

Not only was it gone, she had also become a female rat!

"No, maybe I should say a doe rat... Aaaaaah--"

Moss covered her face and began rolling wildly across the ground, squeaking in despair.

"Why?! Why did this happen?!"

"Just because my name is Moss, I didn't have to actually turn into a rat!"

"And where is this place? Another world?"

"Why do all the other transmigrators reincarnate as princes and nobles, or at least as rich second-generation heirs?!"

"Even if they reincarnate as nonhumans, they at least get to be dragons!"

"How did I end up as a rat?!"

Moss lay on the ground in utter despair. Ignoring the strange looks from her brothers and sisters, she began crawling around in a twisted fashion.

"And I'm female... No, a doe!"

"I haven't even used it yet! Damn it! I don't want to live anymore!"

Moss rose with an anguished expression, turned, and charged into a pile of discarded cloth beside her, hoping to kill herself by smashing her head against it.

Puff!

Well, it was actually pretty soft!

Moss calmly pulled her head out of the pile of cloth and silently praised the rats' nest-building skills.

She rubbed her face. A deep look of resentment once again appeared on her calm features, and she leaped high into the air.

"I don't wanna live anymore!"

But just as Moss was about to dive into the pile of cloth again, a voice made her freeze instantly!

Survival Game Awakening

Moss froze, then suddenly realized she was still in midair. She immediately flailed around in panic.

Smack!

"Ow, holy crap!"

It would have been fine if she had not flailed, but her flailing somehow sent her body crashing onto an uncovered patch of ground.

This time, she landed flat on her face with a solid thud!

But Moss had no time to pay attention to the pain in her body. She stared in disbelief at the memories that had appeared in her mind.

Otherworldly invasion, the arrival of World Gates, Awakened Ones, talents... the Law of Survival Games!

"Hiss--!"

Moss drew a deep breath, half from shock and half because it really hurt!

She rolled over, rubbing her belly with her paws while sorting through the memories in her mind.

This planet was called Blue Star. Several hundred years ago, countless cracks had appeared in Blue Star's sky!

Countless enormous gates had crashed down from the sky. These gates were called "World Gates"!

The appearance of the World Gates had triggered extremely violent tectonic movements. All the tectonic plates had completely separated overnight!

The human rulers were utterly shocked and dispatched armies to seal off the areas surrounding the World Gates.

But before humanity could investigate, all kinds of creatures found only in fantasy novels walked out of the World Gates.

Goblins, Harpies, Deep Sea Mermen, wyverns, Stone Golems...

Countless monsters appeared and launched frenzied attacks on humanity!

Faced with the attacks, humanity naturally refused to sit around and wait for death. They soon launched a counterattack!

However, a situation that horrified humanity soon emerged: they discovered that all their weapons had stopped working!

Even their ultimate weapons had turned into useless scrap metal!

All advanced technology had been sealed away because of the appearance of the World Gates!

With no other choice, humanity could only pick up cold weapons and fight these monsters.

But how could monsters possessing supernatural power be resisted by ordinary humans?

Defeat! Extinction!

In just a few days, countless small countries around the world vanished!

The destruction of the larger countries was merely a matter of time. Humanity could not withstand the iron hooves of the otherworldly creatures!

Billions died beneath the monsters' claws and sharp teeth. Extinction had already begun its countdown.

And just then, the consciousness of Blue Star suddenly awakened!

The reason was that the souls of the billions of humans who had died horribly contained immense sacrificial power.

The confused consciousness of Blue Star sensed that unwilling will and awakened a new power!

The Law of Survival Games!

This was a law belonging to humanity. Every human would receive the law's favor and become an Awakened One!

This was the only way for humanity to obtain supernatural power!

With the law's abilities, humanity successfully gained the power to fight the monsters.

After several hundred years, humanity had stabilized once more and developed an entirely new era!

It was called—the Survival Game Era!