While the World Goes Wild Over Levels and Dungeons, This Hardcore Gamer's Just Gonna Keep Hunting Achievements ~Nobody Told Me Unlocking Achievements Came With World-First Rewards~

by Kogaryu

Hold up — so achievements are first come, first served? Black spheres — Gates — appeared all around the world. Rumor has it that inside each one spreads an unknown space called a dungeon. And at the same time, reports began pouring in, one after another, of people awakening to special abilities. First-year high schooler Himuro Ren was one of them. —Awakeners. That's what they're called. A game-like window display at the edge of his vision. Status. Skills. Items. "Whoa, it really is a game." But beneath that was an entry he didn't recognize. Achievements. What's that supposed to be? But even as he thought it, Ren's heart was oddly starting to race. Going all-in to hunt down the kind of thing any normal person would take one look at, go "what's that?", and be done with — there's nothing in this world more exciting than that. That was Ren's gamer soul. "...Alright. Which achievement do I go for first?" And off Ren marched, spirits riding high, toward the Gate closest to home.