Chapter 6 - New Task

New Task

Overstraining and the accident greatly reduced his stamina; Jake was looking scrawny. He ignored how he was feeling about the injuries and the present circumstances. He wanted the system give him one after the other task. The visual screen appeared in front opening the stats. 

Race: Defected Human

Level: None

Skill: None

Reputation: 0/100%

Endurance: 1/10%

Achievement: None

Goals: Unlock one by one

Urgent stats updated: Added damage due to accident and procured color blindness. 

Jake did not read further and wide opened his eyes reading last line. He looked around as if testing his eyesight; it was fine. Only that due to the accident this new disease added in his list. "Now, you can call me defected." Jake voiced in dead spirits. 

He thought about the school bullies; they will have another weakness taunt on him. Though he has some hope in the form of system but how it will work; he was not sure. The things on the international level were drastically horrible. In all the conversations; the name of Patina was added like fire. Jake was only fifteen; he was not clear what can change everything in his favor. Not only the hand was defected; the arm got fractured from two places. 

Jake got the notification and the system screen appeared. Task1: Replenish your weakness. (Time left 15minutes) Task2: Exercise your left hand. (Time Left Two Hours) Task3: Prepare yourself for the registration in the new game portal. (Time Left one day)

Jake got three tasks in one go and the most gripping aspect that the time was running. The engaging time limit was something new and it stiffened his heart. With only one hand working; Jake ran toward the icebox. Fifteen minutes was not less time for stuffing lot of food in the stomach however he was supposed to do with one hand. Pick the utensils; unwrap the food and so on. He was in a rush. 

Setting aside his concerns Jake greatly wished that he should not lose the task. He gulped spoonful of food one after the other and hiccupped. Fetching the glass of water; he dawned like the boy came from desert of Sahara. He was eating in haste scattering some crumbs around the platter. Jake burped and the notification appeared at the same time.

Congratulation: task is done under the time limit. You earned 10 Exp and the bonus of 5Exp doing the task before the time ends. However not maintaining the cleanliness; -5Exp. Jake was about to bring smile seeing the bonus but it ruined at the next instant. What kind of happiness it was; taken away before he could rejoice. "It seemed the system cares the cleanliness." Jake concluded and noted for the next time. 

He did clean the table and thought for the next task. According to system he should exercise his left hand. The right hand was broken and hanging. "I better strap it and secure." Jake picked the extra medical strip. He then carefully hung around the neck. Now it was safe and the broken bones cannot possibly damage internally. 

The time for the second task was running. He was not familiar with the various exercises regarding arm so he picked his phone and searched few poses. The search engine was slow or it was the Wi-Fi connection with the weak signals; more than half of time slipped in the ignorance. Jake sat on the floor for the first pose exercise. It was for the back end of the bone arm joint. After doing the complete set; he checked with the second set. Before he could complete the second set the notification appeared. 

'Failure: you failed to complete the second task under the time limit. There is three types of punishment (Easy) (Formal) (Hard) this is your first failure so you will be given easy punishment.' Jake read the description with fallen face. He was thinking that perhaps his hard earned Exp will be deducted. 

Punishment: 'Make a fake account and post these coded words (*****) on the public domain of social complains.' The coded words seemed conversation between two people. Jake was a kid to understand such corporate conversation. The Public Domain of Social Talk was created officially and people can post their problems there. Any official or jury related person will note them down and address the issue. 

It was one of the biggest domains created and its traffic exceeds from any popular game. National and international topics were discussed here with sober limits of morale.                      

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The media conference 

The five most talked over and popular presidents of the five top games were sitting in front of the media personals. They had their business make over masked on their faces. The main speaker mentioned all the problems from which half of them were the fake words and not the truth. They were doing it for the sake of their own good and for the future. In case the present business closed after the game portal ended; they will have chances in setting new business in the gaming industry. "The developers are working on the new project and it will be available in next week. Till then all the respected presidents will select their teams from their respected servers. Be sure that we will remain fair in the selection of the teams as well as the players from all over the world. There will be several in-game and spectator rewards during the event of the game. If you are player from any of the five respected games; you are welcome to register for the selection." 

The old media manager of the 'Optimal Crown' spoke one word at a time in front of the media personals. His words were precise however it brought commotion among the people, players and correspondences watching this conference live. 

As following the appeal; the protestors stopped their remonstration and the gamers got ready for the selection process. The promised rewards were enough to make them forget the hatred. The rewards were not limited. In every game session; thousand over spectators will be given money envelopes by using random assortment of the winners. 

It caused another round of excitement. Now it was clear that there would be over rush of spectators on the live streams. The owners announced five official live stream channels for this purpose. There was only one week for preparations. The presidents gave appropriate answers of the questions and the matter seemed leading smoothly.. The loss of personal data and the higher level accounts was no more problem because the players did not need level accounts for playing the game portal.