The sound of a million footsteps woke me up, and as I looked up, I was shocked to see the same ceiling once more. What was going on? Did I come back to life? Wasn't I dead? Questions raced through my mind as I opened the system and began to laugh hysterically.
James Adam Age: 18 Level: 3
Title: The one who stands above everything through pain and death.
Class: *New* Chaos Berserker Level 1
Skills: Superior Regeneration Level 3, Superior Mental Fortitude Level 3, Sword Play Level 1, *New* Chaos Berserkers Roar Level 1, *New* Chaos Berserkers Leap Level 1, *New* Battle Rage of the Chaos Berserker.
Health: 200/200
Mana: 40/40
Stamina: 200/200
[Stats]
Strength: 40
Defense: 40
Agility: 40
Intellect: 40
Death count: 1
I opened the Title and read it.
{Through pain, you will increase your stats. Every injury will increase your stats by 1. Through death, your stats will double, along with your health and stamina. You will be brought back to life after a few minutes after death. So suffer through your life and grow stronger, stronger than anyone, to do what you please with your life.}
As I finished reading that the Greater Death Centipede had noticed me, making me laugh as I slowly picked myself up. If I am going to die, then I will go down swinging. Only to claw my way back to life.
"COME GET ME!" I roared out, activating Battle Rage of the Chaos Berserker. This increased my stats by 10% for 10 seconds as I leaped into the air using Chaos Berserkers Leap. It let me jump 20 meters into the air to challenge the biggest one. My sword in hand, I swung it down on its head, breaking it as its pinchers wrapped around my waist, and I swung a punch at its eye.
My fist slammed into it, breaking my hand, making me curse. "Fuck, even its eye is like armor," I said as it bit me in half, and my torso fell to the ground. I activated my mental fortitude, not that it helped much, as I screamed out in pain.
Using my Regen skill, I tried to stay alive as long as I could so the smaller ones would start to eat my body. I have to handle the pain so I can gain more stats. This was going to be a long day, I could already tell.
The little ones began to take chunks out of my body and dig into my organs as I screamed out in pain. Every second felt like a lifetime of pain until my vision went blank, followed by the sound of a million foot steps once more opening my eyes.
Everything doubled once more, reaching 120 in each now. Meaning I gained 20 stat points just from being eaten alive before I died. And I smiled as I saw my regen and mental fortitude skills level up once more. My death count was at two now as I picked myself up once more, and the big one looked at me. Tilting its head, like it couldn't understand how this weak being was still alive as the young ones ate it.
"I can do this all day, you ugly fuck!" I yelled out once more, attacking the biggest one. He looked to be the strongest, meaning if I can kill him at some point, then the others will fall. But this time wasn't any different, as I met the same fate. But the pain became slightly more bearable as they ate me.
I was on my third death, and my stats now reached 300, as I rolled over naked now from the number of times they ripped my body apart. Standing up completely naked, my fear of the Greater Death Centipedes wasn't there anymore. After dying three times, the fear of death had started to subside.
No wonder they feared the Chaos classes; they didn't follow any rhyme or reason. It was madness, no order, be it good or evil. It didn't care; now I knew why they killed anyone who awakened one. Their fear of losing their rule must be strong, as I smiled. If this world wanted to take from me, then I would spread this madness and take back everything that was taken from me.
Remembering Coraline, something wasn't right with her. She looked like she didn't want any part of it. I am missing something, and I will find out what it was, but first, I needed to get out of this Dungeon.
"Shall we go at it again, big guy?" I said, walking towards him, activating Battle Rage as I leapt into the air once more. It went to bite me this time, and I punched it, and a ding sound rang out in my head. Telling me I had learned hand-to-hand combat skills as it clamped down on me.
This time, it needed to use more force to bite me in half as I fell down to the ground in two pieces, laughing as I lay on the ground like a madman. These insects were dumb as they had no idea I was growing stronger with each bite and death. This went on for another hour as I stood there for my seventh death. Looking at my stats.
James Adam Age: 18 Level: 3
Title: The one who stands above everything through pain and death.
Class: Chaos Berserker Level 1
Skills: Superior Regeneration Level 5, Superior Mental Fortitude Level 5, Sword Play Level 1, Chaos Berserkers Roar Level 1, Chaos Berserkers Leap Level 5, Battle Rage of the Chaos Berserker Level 5, Hand-to-Hand Combat Level 3.
Health: 12800/12800
Mana: 480/480
Stamina: 12800/12800
[Stats]
Strength: 4800
Defense: 4800
Agility: 4800
Intellect: 4800
Death count: 7
"Big guy, this ends here," I said, smiling, as the last time I punched him in the eye, he screamed out in pain. Now that my stats increased again, I felt like I could take him. Pushing off the ground, I showed up right next to his head, shocking him as I swung my fist. It slammed into his eyes, rupturing them, and he screamed out in pain, shaking his head, throwing me off him as I slid on the ground.
I activated Battle Rage as the medium-sized ones charged me. I entered a frenzy as I punched and kicked everything that got close to me. Green blood and chunks of Centipedes flow everywhere as the millions started to swarm me.
"Is that all you fuckers have! I want more! More carnage! More pain!" I roared out as cuts started to form on my body, but I didn't stop. My rage and hate weren't satisfied yet, as a giant tail swung towards me and I caught it.
My feet dug into the stone floor, making me slide as chunks of rock and Centipede flowed everywhere. The giant fucker wanted to act as I began to pull him, making him start to spin around, slamming him into the other Centipedes as their bodies exploded. Before I throw him, I make him fly across the giant cavern, as he slammed into the stone wall, screeching in pain.
"You don't like the pain?! I fucking love it, makes one feel alive!" I yelled out as I charged him. He picked himself up as he charged me, pinching me open, wanting to bite me in half once more. As his pinchers began to wrap around me, I pushed out my arms, stopping them as he put more force into his bite.
My fingers squeezed onto his pinchers, making them start to crack before finally breaking as I quickly flipped them over, using them as swords as I jumped up, landing on his back, slamming them down at the base of his head.
"SCREAM FOR ME! HOWL AND SCREECH IN PAIN! TAKE PLEASURE IN IT!" I roared manically, enjoying inflicting the pain he had inflicted on me onto him. He shook his head, trying to get me off before lifting his body and trying to slam the back of his head against the wall, as I quickly jumped off as he pushed the pinchers deeper inside, hitting his brain.
He gave one final screech before falling to the ground dead. I broke out into laughter. "You killed your fucking self! Priceless!" I yelled out as his body began to glow, replaced with a chest.
Walking over to it and opening it, I smiled to see it had a plated helm with pinchers on the front. I picked it up and looked at the information on it.
{Helm of the Death Centipede- increases the defense of the wearer by 10% and has a 40% chance to intimidate weaker stat enemies.}
Well, I normally wouldn't wear anything that would increase my defense, since I want to get hurt. But to intimidate people weaker than me, that could be fun. I thought to myself as I put it on, now I was a naked man with a helm that covered my face with pinchers coming out from the side of the helm.
Both the doors opened, and I looked at the one heading up, then the one heading down. I smiled and picked the one heading down.