Infinite Disasters: I Hoarded My Way to Godhood novel Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Disaster Game, Scavenger Profession

"Where is this?"

Seraphina Sullivan frowned as she looked around. The unfamiliar environment made her tense up entirely.

It was a cramped dormitory. A single light bulb hung from the ceiling, flickering dimly due to an unstable current. Several dilapidated suitcases were piled in the corner, their zippers half-open, revealing the clothes inside. Outside the window, a loudspeaker blared, hawking savory sauce pancakes for a dollar a portion.

Just a second ago, she had clearly been staying up late to revise a design proposal. Her boss’s absurd request for a "vibrant black" color scheme had nearly driven her crazy. Her keyboard had clattered incessantly, and she had chugged cup after cup of coffee, her eyelids so heavy she could barely keep them open.

But just as she rubbed her aching temples, ready to fight through another round, her vision blurred. When she came to her senses, she was standing in this hellhole.

"You’ve got to be kidding me. A paranormal event?"

Seraphina subconsciously pinched her arm. The pain was so real it made her gasp. "Or perhaps..."

She read plenty of web novels in her spare time and was all too familiar with the tropes of transmigration, rebirth, and infinite flow genres. But those were other people’s stories. Now that it was happening to her, she only felt a mix of absurdity and terror.

"Transmigration? Or a game?" she muttered under her breath, her heart pounding like a drum.

As if to confirm her guess, in the next second!

[DING!]

A cold, mechanical voice abruptly exploded in her mind, making her shudder.

[DING! The Disaster Game is loading. The doomsday instance is about to begin...]

Seraphina’s pupils constricted.

"Disaster Game?"

[DING! Welcome, lucky Players from the Azure Star Universe, to the Disaster Game. You will enter an unprecedented survival test, struggling to survive in various doomsday and disaster instances!]

[Starting now, please read the game rules carefully!]

[Rule 1: Players have been selected at random from able-bodied individuals aged 16 to 50. Once the game is joined, you cannot return unless you complete the main quests distributed by the system!]

[Rule 2: Death in the game equals true death!]

[Rule 3: The novice gift pack has been sent!]

[Rule 4: The first doomsday instance is a novice instance with lower difficulty!]

[Rule 5: Attention! Your Azure Star Universe is entering a doomsday era. The Abilities Players acquire in the Disaster Game may be able to change the fate of the real-world apocalypse. Therefore, survive—do it for the planet you live on.]

[Rule 6: The instance ’Alien Apocalypse’ will open in five minutes. Players, please prepare yourselves!]

[Rule 7: Be careful not to reveal your identity as a Player to the Native People.]

Listening to this, Seraphina took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. Since resistance was futile, she could only do her best to deal with the impending danger.

"The instance is called ’Alien Apocalypse’?" Seraphina quickly analyzed the situation. "Judging from the name, it should be a doomsday world invaded by extraterrestrial beings or mutated species... In a setting like this, the danger level definitely won’t be low."

"And the system actually said this is a lower-difficulty instance? You’ve got to be kidding me." She immediately grew tense. "I can’t panic... The system also distributed a novice gift pack."

She immediately began searching and soon spotted a pitch-black metal box not far away in the cramped dormitory. The surface of the box was carved with eerie patterns, emitting a faint, ghostly glow.

Without hesitation, she quickly opened it.

[DING! Congratulations on obtaining a Talent Awakening Scroll!]

The box dissolved into specks of light in her hands. In its place appeared a yellowed, ancient scroll. The parchment was covered in obscure, incomprehensible runes that faintly exuded a mysterious Power.

"A Talent Awakening Scroll?" Her eyes lit up. "This must be the key for Players to survive in the instance!"

She unfurled the scroll without a second thought. In an instant, the runes on the parchment squirmed like living creatures, transforming into countless specks of light that surged into her body.

A bizarre Power flowed through her, and the system’s notification chimed in her mind!

[DING! Congratulations, Player, on awakening a Talent: Worker!]

"...What?"

Seraphina’s expression instantly froze.

A Worker Talent???

Upon hearing that she had awakened this Talent, her heart went completely ice-cold. Awakening a "Worker" Talent in a life-or-death doomsday instance? Was this a joke?

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