Ugh...where...am I? 

All around is nothing but blackness and faint rumbling sounds. Nothing to distinguish where and what is happening here...or anywhere. 

[Congratulations, you’ve been chosen.] 

Huh? 

[Good luck.] 

What!?  

Ah! 

A bright Flash of light enveloped a white soul in the black darkness and sent it away. The next destination... another world. 

Where...am I? 

[Congratulations! You've been chosen after your death from old age to participate in the death games! You will be reborn into a new body with the standard set system for participants. Good luck!] 

What! 

Again? 

[Your first death game begins... now.] 

Why am I so unlucky… 

Before the soul could fully accept everything happening to it. The soul was sucked into a whirlpool and sent flying into a body and sent into a special area of nothingness for their waiting area. Waiting for the death game to begin. 

Where... Am I? 

[Hello! I am your personal system chosen for the death games!] 

Can you please... just tell me what is going on... 

[Sure! Although I may not know much since I was just born not long ago. My parents left me some information!] 

Your fine and thank you. This place even puts children to work, granted it is a system... maybe this is normal for them. 

[You died of old age and your soul was captured by a powerful being. That powerful being sent you and many others into the death games for their entertainment. You became one of the many souls across the universe and beyond to participate in the death games. As a gift to all participants, each soul is given a system.] 

This... I don’t even know what to say anymore. 

Be grateful to be revived in a second life? 

Or hate that my life is now forcibly involved in a death game... something that sounds obvious how my end will be with the word death in the name. 

Although I feel conflicted. I have a more pressing issue. Does everyone have a system? 

And are they the same? 

[All systems of participants will have their own unique ability. Although some may be stronger, weaker, similar, or even almost an exact replica. The ability of the system will stay unique, even if that uniqueness is only a minor inconsequential difference.] 

Huh, so what’s your name? 

[I don't know.] 

What...what do you mean you don’t know!? 

[Parents never gave me one, I was quickly sent here with you right after I was born.] 

That...uh...sorry. 

[For what?] 

For...never mind, I’m just sorry okay. 

[okay...] 

So... 

Can you get stronger? 

[Yes and No. No, I cannot get stronger by ourselves. However yes, if one of the great beings is amused in watching our death game. That being can give more strength to the participant’s system in the rewards pool after clearing a death game. As far as I am aware, the rewards pool is the only possible way for me to get stronger.] 

Rewards pool huh, sounds like we need to win first before we get to something like that. 

[Indeed, after exiting the death game you will be sent back here to this waiting area. Once all participants have either passed and come back here... or failed and passed away in the death game, will the rewards pool finally appear. That is the only method I know that can enhance a system] 

Cool, so just win a death game and get stronger. Sounds like a typical grind to the top. Just a lot more difficult and dangerous. 

Also, what we do needs to amuse them too. if we entertain them enough then they will make us stronger after winning the death game. 

Am I right? 

[Maybe.] 

What, why Maybe. 

[If the improvement method I transform into already has another participant alive with that system... the strength improvement will be sent back to the great being. You won’t be able to strengthen yourself again until the other participant is eliminated.] 

This... Not only do I need to stay alive until the end of the death game for the rewards pool... 

But I need to hope the path to strengthen myself is not blocked by someone else? 

Even if it is... I still need to hope they die before I get to the rewards pool!? 

This... 

How many participants are there? 

[Multiple universes.] 

...and what is the chances of my survival in the death games. 

[Usually, beginning first several death games has a mortality percentage of about 90%.] 

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