Exiled From The Heavens, ARYJIA

Chapter 3

[ SYSTEM HOST FOUND! ACCEPT OR DENY ]

[ Xulian wishes to guide you into greatness, press ok to allow Xulian to regenerate. Press deny to die ]

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Jamie Mac had ACCEPTED the alien projection to let Xulian regenerate in him. He clearly remembered the day when he had met the slimy slug that had slithered through his nostril and saved him from death during the Harvorly Massacre 16 years ago. This slug was probably the system aiding Xulian through the regeneration process at the cost of temporarily wiping out his memory, the only wish he had made 16 years ago as he saw his family being annihilated.

"Your family runs back to the era of giants, the blood of the fallen angels flows in you too." The feminine voice in his head went ahead, "After the great massacre, the souls of the watchers evolved and Iblis made bodies for them... demons are lurking in the dark, tormenting the followers of the highest God on earth."

"Haha, You can compose a story well! Congrats." Mac congratulated the system after an hour of listening.

"I didn't compose it, don't you know the Last Dying poem?" The system didn't look pleased with Mac now as it started analyzing a task for him.

"Hmm, the one that says..." Mac scratched his head with his middle finger. He sure had heard of the last dying poem, they always recited it when they were young in the field over the ranges in the East.

"Don't you just tell me?" Mac begged. Like where would he learn of the last lines if not from...

[ Task, Analysed.]

[ Form a powerful team of not less than five ]

[ Failure will lead to a week of exercise ]

[ Reward - Team Master ]

The system ignored Jamie Mac as it started initiating an awakening process,

[ Former punishment ]

[ Eat the whole baskets of grapes once you wake ]

[ Failure will cause your grandmother's death ]

[ Reward - Flash Speed ]

[ SYSTEM CLOSED! ]

There was no time to summon the system as Jamie Mac started rejection. He could feel his body waking up to the real world as a familiar voice echoed through his head.

"Please, don't die... "

'Sob sob sob ' He recognized his grandmother's voice through her sobs that were drenching his linen clothes, he had to wake.

"I'm not dead. " Jamie Mac woke up silently drawing his grandmother close to him as she spread her arms and embraced him in tears. He was all lively as he saw his grandma switch from a cry to joy as she quickly remembered the grapes she had brought earlier.

"These are for you my dear. " she offered as she handed the basket to Jamie who knew this was a punishment and greatly savored the whole basket quickly.

"There is more my boy. " His grandmother was growing excited as she saw how fast and hungry her grandson was and quickly fetched five more baskets for him. "Eat more, you can have as many as you wish." She merrily offered him more grapes as Jamie's stomach began to ache.

"I'm full nanny. " He wished to stop this hunger strike behavior to save his stomach from exploding but the words from the system still rang in his head, a warning that his grandmother will die if he failed to eat the whole pile.

After an hour, Jamie Mac sat horribly in bed trying to ignore the pain caused by his stone-hard belly. His grandmother sat next to him proud, proofing to the doctor that she knew what Jamie Mac wanted once he woke up.

"I'm going to puke. " Jamie Mac who had been silent suddenly bolted and rushed to the bucket but the puke never came, instead his stomach felt empty and another hunger strike began.

He was beginning to wonder when the system suddenly powered on with a reminder.

[ You have two hours to create a team of Five ]

[ Xulian is grateful for the grapes, do you mind if you can eat five more baskets? ]

" You can't be serious... " Jamie Mac was going to refuse this request but the doctor interrupted.

"Serious about what? "

"Ah, nothing... Can I leave? "

"No! You need to rest." The doctor strictly emphasized Mac's necessity to rest and let his body recover. But Mac had no time for recovery, he had to gather a team of who knows who.

'Hey, Xulian? System? If I eat Five more baskets can you get me out? ' Mac started talking in his thoughts. His lips were noticeable as he mumbled silently and incessantly.

[ No. Eating five more baskets was a request from Xulian, no favors allowed ]

[ CONGRATULATIONS! ]

[ YOU HAVE GAINED FLASH SPEED! ]

[ SYSTEM CLOSED ]

"Stupid! "

"Hey! " The doctor turned round with questioning eyes as Mac stood up ready to leave. This system was a mess, full of ego and arrogance.

"I wonder what kind of thing you are! "

Mac angrily hissed as his grandmother raised her voice tapping the doctor to tolerate the young man.

"Is ok mummy. I've met more mad people than him." the doctor confessed as Mac decided to try his reward, flash speed.

'I guess is like running. I just have to dash out now' Mac prepared himself ignoring the witnesses and made a dash for the door but ended up falling over the bucket and sliding straight over landing at the doctor's feet.

"Young man, please relax. You are doing fine." Mac got up only to be escorted back to the bed with another load of the basket full of grapes and an aching neck and swollen wrist caused by the floor. His time to find a team was ebbing and the week of exercise mocked him.

" I hate You!" Mac cursed at the system as his grandmother shoved more grapes into his mouth not letting him utter another vengeful word.

"Sorry my dear, you will be fine... Here eat more. I got more grapes for you."

The sweet voice from Mac's grandma added to Xulian's appetite and made Jamie Mac do all but gamble with the grapes.

"You have an enormous appetite." The doctor noted as he left for a remedy.