[You cannot continue to stage 45.]
A notification popped on my screen. No matter how many times I click the exit button the notification won't dissappear. I've been clicking for few minutes already.
"No way... I really reached the end?..''
I exited to app and then entered it again but it kept sending the same notification.
[You cannot continue to stage 45.]
I reached the Game's final level.
The game 'Apocalyptic Challenge System' was an online rpg game that updates every month. With players estimated to be around or over 100,000.
I've been playing this game since I started high school and then still unable to finish it after graduating.
During those times when I got dragged by my classmates to join a gang, when I failed my semester exams and had to comply the failed subjects and attend summer classes, when I had to attend by parents burial then my grandparents, when I had to work while studying for college, when I got admitted to the hospital after working myself during cold season, the game remained ongoing for almost 4 years.
Anyhow.
[Developer's Message: Thank you so much for playing 'Apocalyptic Challenge System' up to this point, please accept my gift as a token of gratitude for your loyalty towards us and for being the first player to reach its end.]
"It really ended without even revealing the Disciples huh?"
(Disciples - The main antagonists of the game.)
I was really disappointed and sad at the same time, the game I played for almost nine years didn't get the proper ending I wanted for it to have.
At the time the game 'Apocalyptic Challenge System's' first release, it had over 100,000 players from stage 0 to 5 that decreased to 20,016 at stage 6 to 10, that then decreased to 2,000 or smaller at stage 11 to 20, that became 312 at stage 21 to 25 that became 7 at stage 26 to 35. And here I am, the first one to reach it's end.
I wonder if the other 6 players that reached stage 26 to 30 got tired of it or just busy.
Maybe, the reason why the game had its downfall maybe because it had so many challenges and side quests on most stages, the players must've got overwhelmed.
Then, a notification saying that I received an email popped above my phone's screen while I was searching information about the game.
[H43200 - Good morning mr.Kim! Claim your reward at
ApocalypticChallengeSystem.com]
I felt a strange feeling like the link sent to me was very important. I clicked the link but it just sent me back to the game's loading screen.
But, something felt different. The loading screen didn't show the usual texts I've seen before. In the past it was [Please Wait. This may take a few minutes.] But now it was different, it was.
[Welcome Back Jinoo Kim.]
I never used my real name in the game. I used the name Mephisto in the game so, how did it know my real name? It wasn't even connected to any of my google accounts, neither my Twitter or Instagram, how. How did it know my real name?
[Starting The Game.°.°.]
[Pansophic Player's Encyclopedia.]