Battleground of Celestial

Chapter 4: Is It A Dream?

*Beep! Beep! Beep!*

The alarm rings loudly, which makes me awake. But the moment I opened my eyes, I realized that I wasn’t inside the abandoned church anymore as I am currently in my room. 

It makes me quite confused about what’s happening here…

‘Was that all just a dream of mine?’  

I feel like it was too real to be a dream but since I am in my room right now. The possibility of it being a dream is quite high. It’s still weird as I can’t remember anything that happened, about how I ended up in my room right now. 

Did I go drinking last night and get myself drunk? At least that’s what I thought until I saw something… 

That was the phone in my dream, it was on my desk. 

I quickly grab the phone and open it up... It’s the same phone as in my dream as it only has that one app called Zodiacs. All of this makes me realize that all of that thing wasn’t a dream at all, I went through all of that. 

Still, I don’t get how I can be here right now? Shouldn’t I be at the abandoned church… You could say that I was teleported back but I doubt that it’s real. As magic doesn’t exist in this world at all, at least that’s what I believe in. 

Maybe if I could remember something, it could explain what’s happening at the moment. But all that I could remember was we were told to press the app and that’s all I could remember. 

‘Wait that app!’

It must have something to do with it… I open the app almost immediately and the app does open up. But I thought they will be something useful but it’s just a big logo of a Taurus Zodiacs. There are also some other words but there’s nothing besides that. 

Seeing all of this made me realize that all of it was real. I am indeed a battle royale game that could lead me to my death. 

As I stand here looking at the phone, knowing that there wouldn’t be a way to get out of this and the chances of me going to die are quite high since my face is already exposed to the other participants. I can’t help but feel quite afraid. 

Deep down, I know this wasn’t supposed to happen as I just want to learn about why my older brother disappeared, and now I could die if I make even the slightest mistake in this game. 

I feel like all of my confidence has gone completely and somehow the bravery I felt before turned into fear. 

Yet, It’s too late to change my mind since I’m here already. The only thing I could do now was to keep on surviving and also try to avoid the fate that my older brother once had in these Celestial games, that’s dying. 

Since I am already in this,  I’m going to survive no matter if the odds are against me. I’m going to do it… 

So the first step was to find out what’s happening to me. How I ended up in my room and of course what’s the other rule that these Celestial games had. 

But after seeing the app, I didn’t get anything at all. I thought that the app would explain what happened but it seems I was wrong, this app is utterly useless. 

As I was just about to throw it onto my bed, it suddenly gave a notification sound. 

*Ting!*

-You earned 100 points- 

After that notification, another option under the Taurus logo appears. 

[MATERIALIZE] - deduct 5 points each time. 

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Yet even with that, I still don’t have any idea what it does. I do want to try it out but I am afraid that the points are something important in this event. I do not wish to make any stupid move now since I don’t know anything about this event. 

As I believe that all of the other participants at least have a clue what’s going on right now. That’s why they could keep their composure even after knowing this was going to be a battle royale. 

I sat on my couch, trying to plan my next move. 

Wish that they had given more details about this event, like the rules or something like this. 

With that, my options are quite limited right now. The only thing I could do right now was to figure out all of this myself and probably try to survive all of this. 

From what I could figure out, all the participant’s faces were hidden and that meant we had to find the rest of the participants ourselves to win this game. That would be hard since there’s a lot of people living in this city. 

But because of that, I’m sure I would be their first target as I was the only one that has revealed my face that time around. 

That means I'm disadvantaged right now as I don't have that element of surprise like the other participants had right now. Although it also benefits me in some way as I wouldn’t need to find them as they will be the one that does that. 

So the only thing I needed to do was to prepare for it and be cautious around strangers. As that’s the only way for me to not be killed in this event. 

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With all of that thinking making me hungry, I believe that I haven’t eaten anything. I headed to the kitchen to find something but the moment I opened up the fridge, the only thing left in the fridge was some r****h. 

Seeing that, I do know that I had to go to the supermarket to buy some food. 

But I realized that going out into the public will put me at risk that other people could kill me while- I stopped halfway as I noticed that I might not be killed after all. 

As there’s no way they would want to kill me in public because doing so would attract the attention of others and worse the police. With that thought, I realized that it might be safer if I put myself among the public as that would be the safest option. 

Knowing that I would be safe, I decided to go to the supermarket. There’s no worry in my mind as I believe that nothing is going to happen as long as I’m in crowded places. 

Besides, I do need to go there anyway because if I don’t… my cause of death wouldn’t be because I was killed but simply starved to death. 

Of course, I need to prepare as well, so I bring some stuff that could protect me from danger. As there’s a chance that the participant is a lunatic and wouldn’t care if I was in a crowded place or not. Especially that guy wearing the gray mask, as I’m sure he hated me and wanted to kill me as soon as possible. 

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After all of the preparation, I head out from my apartment… I was so careful that I watched my surroundings to see whether some suspicious person was looking at me. 

Luckily, there’s none as all of the people that I see were just residents of this apartment. 

It eases my mind a bit knowing that the other participant might still be looking for me… Because I don’t think they would be able to find me that easily as there’s a lot of people in this city plus it’s also a big city as well. So finding me wouldn’t be that easy. 

As I was about to head to the parking lot to get my motorcycle, I noticed that there’s a police car there. It seems like he’s waiting for someone… 

I didn’t think much because it’s just a police officer doing his job, protecting the safety of our neighborhood. As there’s no way a police officer would want to join a game that involved murder.

Plus having a police officer in the area reassures me for a bit, because if anything happens… He’s there to help me if anyone is suspiciously trying to do something with me. 

So with that, I just walked towards where I parked my motorcycle. 

When I was finally near my motorcycle, the police officer got out of his car and somehow walked towards me. 

“Is your name is Alan Marc?” The police officer said that towards me. 

“Um… yes, my name is indeed Alan Marc. But may I ask what’s all this about?” I said as I was quite confused as to why this police officer suddenly asked me that question. 

“You will need to come with me, there’s something our department needs to ask you.” The police officer said. 

“Could you at least tell me what’s this about?” I said. 

“I'm afraid I can't do that for now… Just follow me back to my department and everything you need to know will be answered.” He said. 

What’s happening? Did I do something wrong before… I can’t remember at all.