Savage Awakening: A LitRPG Apocalypse Adventure by Adastra339

Author:Adastra339 [Adastra339]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

53. The New Deal

Jason Walker?

It couldn't be the same Jason Walker. Right? But in Zane's gut, he knew.

It had to be. This was Zane's brother he was talking about. It would've been more shocking if he were not elite.

The last Zane had heard of him, he'd graduated top of his class at Harvard and was working at some executive level somewhere important—the World Bank, or the president's cabinet, or something. Zane had lost track. He'd tried not to know. He wasn't even sure if Jason was still in America.

Jason was the type of man you could throw on an island infested with cannibals, and when you returned a year later, you'd find they'd made him king. He had a strange idea of love. He'd throw you into shark-infested waters to teach you how to swim—and if you died, that was on you. You weren't strong enough. You didn't deserve to be Jason Walker's brother.

When Jason had shoved him over the railing at Yellowstone, and Mom berated him afterward, Jason claimed it was Zane's stupid fault. Maybe he shouldn't have stuck his head over the railing so far, like an idiot. Jason was teaching him a lesson.

When Brad made fun of Zane's parents' death, Zane had tackled him through a wall.

That same week, an upperclassman, jealous his girlfriend had a crush on Jason, had made a dig too.

Jason put him in the hospital. The man couldn't eat solid food for six months straight.

If Zane saw Jason… he wondered if, somewhere out there, his brother could see him too.

***

Zane moved past the rankings to the next tab. This one was a progress bar—it showed:

Integration Phase: 0

World Dungeon Clear Percentage: 38%

So, about a third of the world's dungeons were cleared. Seemed about right. It looked like a progress bar—like once they hit 100%, they'd go to the next Integration Phase. Zane wondered what it meant.

So far the aliens—or whoever threw this System on them—were awfully quiet. Earth's people only got hints of their existence through Treasures. Like that Azure Flame Faction tome. What were they waiting for?

Zane checked out the next tab. This one was marked 'Quest Board.' It showed a map similar to the Dungeon/Safe Zone map, except it had little 'Q' markings all over the place. When he checked one of them down the West Coast, he found—

Quest: Rescue Mission

Issuer: Charles White, Leader, Mighty Sequoia Faction—

"Calling all top-100 World Rankers! One of our Safe Zones has devolved into a B-ranked Dungeon. Some of our best fighting men are trapped inside, fending for their lives! Time is of the essence! We need you to clear the Dungeon and rescue them."

Reward: B-grade Essence Treasure

This was pretty cool. You could put out a System-mandated call to pretty much the whole country, and see who'd answer. The System even let Zane make quests of his own—only it warned him that there would be a severe penalty if he failed to produce the reward.

Some quests offered hundreds of high-grade essence stones for clearing certain A-rank dungeons. He imagined only a team of World Rankers could take those up.

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