All Chapters of The Game of Heavens and Earth: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

“Hey, hey, you awake?” A girl’s voice woke me up, though I was a bit drowsy. There was a guy with wavy blond hair staring above me. “It’s just a dream,” I whispered with my eyes shut. “Hey, buddy,” he said. “I don’t know what you are dreaming, but this is real.” I opened my eyes again. There was a bushy brown-haired girl beside him, smiling and waving at me. Blowing a small sigh of relief, for a second there, I thought that girl’s voice came from him. “Can you stand?” He offered his hand. Once my senses became clear, I was lying on a concrete floor. The thick furry lining of my hoodie coat cushioned the back of my head. After he hoisted me to my feet, I glanced around while dusting my back, only to realize that we were in a plaza, along with hundreds of people. They were all kids and teenagers, from twelve to eighteen years old. Not a single grown-up was found among them. Even the blond guy and the bushy-haired girl were perhaps the same age a

Once our trolleys entered the Eastern District, the surprises here never ended. Everywhere our eyes could see, the city and its citizens were a mishmash of ancient, medieval, and modern civilizations. Again, not a single grown-up was found among them. It was like a school carnival for United Nations Day. There were Romans, Medieval and Colonial Europeans, Mayans, Africans, and Asians, though there were others that I couldn’t recognize. Many of the passengers stood up to take a closer look out the windows. On the stone-paved street, we saw a Roman wearing sneakers, an armored knight riding a bike, and a girl dressed like from the Victorian Era and was talking to a cell phone. “Guys, look,” Katie gasped. “They got cell phones. A lot of them got cell phones.” From what she said, my mind told me to look up. I was amazed they had modern technologies here as well. Utility poles, streetlights, satellite dishes, and radio towers; they even had cars on the street, but there w

I am dead. I am so dead, I screamed in my thoughts. A cold lump was building up in my throat as if I was about to choke before swallowing it, though my heart kept pounding against my chest. “The sad part is that you’ll no longer remember the god you met and all the events happening in this world,” Rad said. “And you go back to your normal lives like it was yesterday. It sucks, but it’s for the best. And also part of the rules of the Game.” Someone asked, “What happened to those braves who had reached the other side?” The Party King glanced at the crowd with a widened grin. “They made these….” He gestured toward the window once more. “The city that we live in, the walls that protect us, and the farms that feed us. The Guilds of Eight, or G-8, they called themselves, came together for peace and built this paradise for everyone. They then went back to protect the finish line so we can enjoy this paradise for all eternity.” As I glanced

“Slip?” Lucas paled at the sight of the arrow below his groin. “You were clearly trying to shoot me!” The second arrow was embedded on the wall, about two millimeters from his ear. “Oops, I slipped again.” Anne nocked her third arrow with an emotionless face. “Stop it!” a Wolf Reign member growled. “We’ll call Libra on you!” Another threatened them. Two more struck underneath Lucas’s armpits. Again, Anne said aloud that she was clumsy, though everyone had a clear sight of her twisted retribution against him. Something that I’d remind myself to never tick her off if we ever crossed paths. Anne continued shooting every time Lucas and his companions kept threatening her to call Libra, the city’s only police guild. The last arrow struck near his other ear. It was dipped with foul, green ooze, slowly melting a small chunk of the wall. “Is that poison?” Lucas flustered as he grew paler and paler. The Wolf Reigns were gaping in horror

We stayed in the alley for a while, discussing how to raise money for our flag before we could become a proper guild. We made Wilt the leader of our party since he was the one who planned all this. Eventually, not only did we find the solution to our flag’s expense but also for our livelihoods and bills to pay once they kicked in three months — that solution was taking quests. They were not only the biggest economy here but also the way of life in this world. Trade, manufacturing, industry, city maintenance, and defenses were built by this practice. For example, restaurants hired part-timers for labor, warriors for security, and hunters for retrieving high-class ingredients. Bounty hunting, mercenary works, barters, as long as anyone posted their quests on websites or information booths, everyone would join in to reap its rewards and profits. Quests also ranked the same class of metals as guilds, based on their level of difficulty and importance, at the same time, th