'Fate… Fate… Damned Fate.' He thought as his hands curled tightly into fists, before his knees hit the bloody floor, unable to hold him up any more as the adrenaline finally fully and completely left his body.
Leaving him feeling utterly empty in the process.
It was at that moment that a notification rang out inside his head. It was quickly followed by a dozen more as the air before him was almost instantly filled with holographic screens.
The system as he had noticed, usually didn't show itself whilst he was in combat or fighting, it was in a way something he was thankful for, if he got his vision caught up by a blue holographic screen and got distracted, it could be the cause of his death.
Lifting his head slightly, he looked up at the holographic screens floating before him on the air.
[ Ding! ]
[ User has defeated 'Skin Walker Johanna.' ]
[ Ding! ]
[ User has defeated an opponent of higher level than himself. Experience Points Doubled! ]
[ User has leveled up! ]
[ User has leveled up! ]
[ User has reached Level 32. ]
[ Ding! ]
[ Enhanced Analysis Complete ]
[ Skill: Basic Wind Gust Obtained. ]
[ SkillBook has been placed in the user's inventory. ]
Reading the notification and the text on the holographic screens, Alan's eyes were caught on a single line of text.
'Skin walker, Johanna.' He thought to himself as his mind went back to the holographic observation screen that he had previously seen.
'Enhanced human… did the observation merely tell me, about the skin she was using? Not… what she actually was? Did she somehow manage to fake or trick the system? It.. it could be possible, she was afterall higher level than me, so whilst I could see most of her information… it wasn't exactly correct.' Alan thought before releasing a sigh as he slowly got back up onto his feet.
He didn't have much time to waste, even as he felt completely ruined both physically and emotionally and mentally, he couldn't stop right now, not when he currently had four dead bodies in his apartment and he was quite sure that the sound generated from all the furniture hitting around and the sound of him and Johanna fighting had reached someone.
'Let's just hope that they havn't called the police yet.' Alan thought as he slowly crouched down to the dead body closest to him, Johanna.
His finger touched her cheek for a moment before he flinched, his hand trembling, almost half expecting for the dead body to move and grab his hand.
*Gulp*
'She's… she's dead. It's fine.' Alan thought as he slowly carefully touched her bloodied face once more and then activated the system, in an instant her body disintegrated into small motes of light and was absorbed into the inventory holographic screen that he had pulled up and was currently floating in the air before him.
In less than five seconds, the entire body had turned into small white motes of light that were floating in the air, and just two seconds more, the motes had already disappeared entirely aswell after having entered the holographic screen.
In seven seconds, he had already perfect disposed of one body.
His mind, instantly went to places that he didn't want it to go to.
'Isn't…. Isn't this the perfect way to… get rid of a body?' Alan thought to himself, slightly shivering a moment later at having even thought of something like that in the first place, it wasn't a hole of thought that he wanted to enter, he knew that with how much he was changing, with how much of an impact his life had gotten after he had received the system… he couldn't start thinking about things like that, he had to keep himself in check.
'It… at the current point where I'm at… It really isn't a far stretch to see how I could… just become an insane bastard like her. Power that's beyond human limits, ways to perfectly hide my crimes… it… it really… fuck. It's really unfair isn't it…' Alan thought before releasing a soft sigh as he got up and walked towards the exit, the door where all the furniture of his apartment had been thrown to and crouched down.
There they were, his three… old friends, he couldn't exactly call them his friends anymore, afterall they were gone.
This time… his hands were trembling even worse than before as he closed his eyes for a moment and finally made contact with the first body.
'Store.' He thought and then moved his hand to the second and third body, quickly thinking of the command inside his mind without opening his eyes at all.
Even after he did, he didn't open his eyes at all, instead he slowly lifted himself up until he was fully standing up and then took a step back, before counting down from ten. When he hit zero, he finally opened his eyes, and the bodies were gone, fully gone. Now it was just broken furniture and a ruined room, with admittedly quite a lot of blood on the center of the room's floor.
'It's done… I… I won.' Alan thought as he walked towards desk and sat down onto it. It was one of the only pieces of furniture that was bolted to the walls and had survived.
Lifting his head up, he closed his eyes once more, and for the first time in days. He felt relieved, finally, he didn't have to be on constant guard.
After days of fighting, of surviving, he had finally come out on top. He had survived, he had won, he was most importantly alive. Everything else… everything else could wait.
His body slowly leaned back as he fell asleep right then and there, sitting on his desk.
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Volume 1: The Beginning
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