After the first gate appearance, a strange energy leaked into the human world. Scientists were able to manufacture battle suits from the items recovered from the gates. They were used mostly by the powerless officers as support to the real hunters.

     But what did it mean to be a hunter?

     "Umm, what's this now?"

    [THE SYSTEM IS STARTING...]

     "A gaming system?"

     The panel was a white screen with black words on it.

     "Was this your doing professor dude?"

     The drone hovered over to his side. "It seems you are delusional Mr Ajax. Perhaps I should leave you to your rest." The drone hovered out if the open door.

     Ajax still looked at the screen before him. "He could not see the screen? What does that mean anyway? I have to get back to mom and Teo but I'm stuck here, I can't feel my hand or my spine. Will I ever still be able to work as a G-tuber? It's not like I can do any other work, no one will accept me either way."

     "Ah fuck!" He cried aloud. "Just when I was starting to think I could make a good life for them all this hunter shit just had to ruin it."

     There was a high pitched ringing in his head causing him to yell out in pain. "Acccckk!! My head feels like it could explode at any moment."

     The screen started to flash before him. His face reflects the beautiful framework and stunning text.

     [SYSYEM START UP...]

     [OBJECTIVE: CHOOSE YOUR FATE]

     [INFO: BEFORE SETUP CAN BEGIN THE SYSTEM WOULD LIKE TO KNOW UF YOU WISH TO BOND!!]

     [ONCE YOU HAVE MADE YOUR CHOICE, IT CAN NOT BE TAKEN AGAIN]

     [ON DENIAL, THE SYSTEM WILL COMPLETELY VANISH FROM YOU SINCE IT IS NOT LINKED TO YOU]

     [ON ACCEPTANCE, THE SYSTEM WILL MERGE WITH YOU AND...]

     [CHOOSE WISELY!]

     [TIME TILL OFFER EXPIRES: 10 SECONDS]

     Ajax found his head in a loop. Everything came as a rush to him. What was going on? What the panel real? What he illuminating? What was a system? Hunters didn't have systems so he was clueless as to what is was? Was it a prank? Did the professor really turn him to a cyborg?

     As the time slowly approached zero he was still unsure of his choice. His choice to change his fate from being plain, foolish, useless Ajax to... WHATEVER WAS DOWN THE PATH OF THE SYSTEM.

     Just two more seconds left and he had already made up his mind not to accept the system's offer. He was doing well living his trashy life as it was...

     "I ACCEPT!!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. "No way am I gonna continue in this shitty life anymore!"

     He had already lived the life of Ajax the trash, there was no way he would go on regretting what would have become of him if he accepted the offer. Even if it was a prank. 

   The screen had already reached zero before he had spoken. The screen panel fizzled out into thin air, vanishing forever.

      Ajax drew a look of shock and confusion on his face. "No! What now!? Did I just throw away my only chance to become someone else?"

     Up until that moment Ajax Handerson had not realized how much he wanted to leave his own life behind. Much to the point that he would jump to any offer that came his way. To have missed a blank check!

     He wanted to pull out his hair and die!

     "Dammit! Why can't I get one thing straight in my goddamn life!?" He gritted his teeth showing clear signs of rage and exertion.

     [THE SYSTEM HAS BEGUN ASSIMILATION AND BONDING]

     [PREPARE YOURSELF FOR THE NEURAL UPLINK]

     Ajax shed a tear of joy that he had not missed the offer. Now he was clueless as to what would happen next.

     BOOM!!

     There was this constant loud thumping on his ear drums like a herd of elephants running all over the place. If he was to describe the compounded noice more accurately, he would say something was eating up his brain from the inside out.

     "Aaaaaaarrrrrrgh!!" His wails were so spine rattling that the nurses had to come in and put him to sleep with sedatives before he could call down.

     Even as his eyes closed and his mind faded he could feel his consciousness dissolve in a vast pool of numeric data.

     -- THREE HOURS LATER ---

     His eyes weakly opened, the effects of the sedative had worn off. His mind was still in a mix though. "Ow? What a really weird dream I had." He clung to his head with his normal hand and sighed.

     The screen panel presented itself before him again.

     "Shit! Not sure if I should be glad that this is real or not." He gestured as he looked up at the screen.

     [BONDING COMPLETE!]

     [THE SYSTEM HAS ACKNOWLEDGED YOU AS ITS MASTER!]

     [WOULD YOU LIKE TO VIEW YOUR STATUS WINDOW?]

     Ajax sighed. "How the hell is this not a game?"

     "But I swear that if this is a prank, I'll..." He stopped himself short there, he had no one to blame for his predicament but himself. "Might as well see what this is all about. Access status window."

     [FOLLOWING COMMANDS]

     [# STATUS WINDOW]

     [NAME: AJAX HANDERSON]

     [AGE: 19]

     [SEX: MALE]

     [BLOOD TYPE: AA]

     [* PROCEEDING TO ACCESS ADVANCED CHARCTER INFORMATION]

     Ajax was speechless.

     [# CHARACTER PROFILE]

     [NAME: AJAX HANDERSON]

     [RACE: HUMAN]

     [LEVEL: 1]

     [GRADE: F (LOW) (WEAK)]

     [EXP: 0/100]

     [OCCUPATION: G-TUBER]

     [NOTABLE TITLE: LOSER, TRASH]

     [REDEEMING QUALITIES: STUBBORN, HOT TEMPERED]

     [HEALTH: 10 (-3)]

     [MANA: 10 ]

     [STAMINA: 10 (-5)]

     [STATS: STR- 1, AGI- 1, INT- 1]

     [SKILLS: NONE]

     [OVERALL: YOUR BODY IS HEAVILY INJURED, YOU ARE SUGGESTED TO PARTAKE IN THE RECOVERY QUEST BEFORE YOU CAN START A MAIN QUEST.]

     Ajax's eyes widened. "I-- it really is like a game? Does that mean I can heal my injuries with this? This is so unreal."

     He could not tell why but he could feel his mind open up to the world of infinite possibilities that came with the system.

     "It's this a blessing?"