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2024-10-29 19:42:56What do i do?
My system tab appears and spix speaks. “Host, you are presented with two options. If you choose to escape with the soul player, you will face unprecedented danger. However, if you stay here, a dangerous high level host will be alerted of your presence?“ Can other hosts detect me? I think to myself.“Due to your apparent weaknesses, at first glance? Negative. However, they will be alerted by the system that another host is closeby. It will only be a matter of time before they finds out who you are.“ “Hey? You coming?“What do i do? Leave with the one who wants to eliminate every host her path and would not hesitate to kill me or stay with the one who wishes to uses me for her own benefit? The answer is obvious. I close the tab and get on my feet. A mischievous smile spreads on Kara's face as she opens the door to my cell with a key. “How did you get that?“ I ask as i walk out the cell.“I have my ways” she grins, twirling the key with her index finger. Her eyes travel down to the small mirror in my hand, her eyes are questioning but she doesn't say anything. I put my hand behind my back and decide to change the topic. “So how do we get out of here?“She dips her hand into her jacket pocket and takes it out. I spot the lighter as soon as she ignites it. She stares at the flames with a smile. “We give Dante a taste of his medicine?“ “Are you insane or stupid? You want to set this place on fire? What about us? We could die—” she tosses the lighter to the discarded sacks in the corner. It lights up immediately and soon, half of the room is up in flames. “What have done?!“ I ask. She grabs my arm and pulls me towards the door. Her other hand lights up with a golden light and she blasts the door open. The flames follow us up the stairs, consuming everything in it's path. “The door!“ I shout. She throws a ball of gold energy and it shatters to smithereens. We burst out in the fancy living room and i expect the fire to fall behind us but it bursts out too as if following us. Kara pushes me out of the way and i realise the fire isn't following us, it's following Kara. It doesn't consume the whole house, it stays on Kara's tail as she runs up the stairs. A gush out water blasts into her, she loses her footing and falls into the flames. I'm convinced she's dead until she bursts out of the flames and the water falls after her. She's controlling both fire and water. I look up to see Dante, Ravena, Axel and a young girl with blue hair at the top of the stairs staring down at us. “I told you” the young girl said. She didn't look a day over twelve. She spins her index finger lazily and a giant bubble filled with water forms over her head. She's the one who splashed Kara. A tab opens up over her head and my jaw drops at the sight of her statistics. Warning: Level 7 host detectedName: AliaPowers: Water manipulation Healing magic Lethal move: Ice planet. Cold blooded.Energy level: 75% It instantly hits me that the dangerous high level host Spix was talking about wasn't Dante. It was the little girl. She stares down at Kara without a single emotion on her face, like Kara was nothing but a bug under at her feet. “Come at me, you old hag” Kara curses.Alia's expression hardens and the water bubble shifts its form immediatly. Hundreds of ice spikes hang over our heads like chandeliers. Alia puts her hand down and the spikes drop. I close my eyes waiting for my second death but the spikes never meet my skin. I open my eyes and there's a gold forcefield around us, Kara is glowing in front of me. I look up and there are no spike, they've all been absorbed by the forcefield. Alia is no longer firing spikes at us. Our eyes meet and she raises a brow at me and turns to Ravena. She lets her guard down and Kara attacks, a hundred golden spikes of gold, water and fire burst through the force field and straight at Alia. Dante acts quick, pulling up a force field of his own. A few spikes make it through his fire shield. The stairway collapses and they fall down with it. Alia levitates and so does Ravena. Axel lands on his feet like a pristine cat but Dante almost burst through the ground with his fall. Dante heats up as he rises to his feet and i can see embers of flames sparking up around him. His blonde hair falls over his face and his eyes glows red. It doesn't take a psychic to know that he's furious. We're going die. “You little bitch” he curses.I lock eyes with Ravena who has a disapproving look on her face as her feet touches the ground. Axel's reaction is somewhat indifferent. “Would you like to see a real show, hosts?“ Kara taunts, running her hand through her hair. “Attacking a host unprovoked is against system rules” Axel says. Kara shoots him a dark look. “And so is sucking up to them but you seem fine. To hell with your rules. You two just wait, once i level up, I'll be back for your heads. You hosts will all die by my hand and I'll end this stupid game” My heart speeds up. I've just witnessed a fraction of Kara's power, if she finds out that I'm a host before i can access my power, I'll be dead. I look up at Ravena, not sure what i was expecting her to do. She only stares at me with a glint of worry in her eyes. Alia's blank stare startles me. Could she have caught on? Dante lunges for Kara covered in blazing flames but he doesn't make it to us before he freezes in his tracks. He struggles to move but he appears frozen. I hear the frosting sound of water and when i look closely, i see red shards of ice growing out of his skin. It's not water freezing but blood. I look up af Alia who has her hand held out in the air as Dante chokes for air and struggles to move. He collapses to the floor. Cold blooded.Alia drops her hand and Dante falls to the ground. The red ice melts into blood and he's completely battered. So this is the power of a true host. “Let them leave” Alia says, her eyes still firmly planted on me. Kara scoffs and drops the field. She looks around and grabs my arm, pulling me towards the nearest window. I stare back Alia, Ravena and Axel who watch us keenly as we dive through the glass window. We're falling. Kara is beneath me. There's a big smile on her face but that's not what has me breathless. For the first time since I met her, a tab appears over her head.Name: KaraPowers: Absorption and repulsion of energyLethal move: Atomic bombEnergy level: 101Rank: System error
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Host And The Soul System 7. Errors in the lobby
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Host And The Soul System 9. The illusionist
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Host And The Soul System 10. Monster and Prey
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Host And The Soul System 11. I am my own enemy
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Host And The Soul System 12. No control
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Host And The Soul System 13. The Tournament of surprises
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29. The Blind King's Revelation
“My lord!“ Chancy yells, running over to us and falling on his knees. In fact, everyone in the vicinity was bowing to the King. “You should not have come. I was just about to lead them to the palace” Chancy adds. The King regards me and for a moment I start to doubt if he's truly blind. “Very well. You must be tired from your travels. Come. Rest in my palace and we shall talk when you are well rested” he says turning to mount his horse. His eyes land on Kara who is now walking this way and he squints in confusion, turning his head towards me and then back to Karam he shakes his head, deciding to not comment on whatever he saw. “Chancy! Treat them with utmost care! These are our guests. I will see you all at the palace so you can shed light on this new situation” he orders before turning his horse around. “As you wish my lord!“ Chancy yells as he bows towards the king. “That is the king?“ Ravena says once he was out of earshot and the villagers had resumed their t
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26. The Halls Of Self Reflection
[NEW LOCATION UNLOCKED]“It's definitely different” Ravena breaks the silence. It's an empty space with mirrors on every corner. The hallways are lined with mirrors on each sidd that reflect whoever goes through them. There's no one here but us. “Hello?” She calls out. Her voice echoes through the hall of mirrors. She levitates into the air to survey the area for a possible exit. When she lands, there's a worried look on her face. “There's nothing in here but mirrors” “What is this place?“ Kara asked. She had recovered after taking Inara's tonic but she still held on to my shoulder for support when she wasn't walking. “It's a maze” Axel says, analysing the routes in front of us. There were four paths in front of us, each lined with mirrors facing the walkway like walls. “Spix, can you run a check on this area and find the host's dwelling like you did with Inara's pit?” I want to know. We might be walking into our deaths if we take each path individually. We had to be 1
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25. The Plan Failed... or did it?
I take off running. I hear their boots hitting the ground as they follow after me. “Spix, open map” I say and a small map opens up at my side. The red dot is still there and beaming, pointing me in the direction of Inara's pit. A spear of ice swooshes past me and lodges itself inside a tree. Panting, I don't take my eyes off the red dot as I run like my life depends on it, because it does. I jump over a fallen tree and slide under another. The earth splits beneath me and I land on my back. “Give me the gem, boy” Cane growls. I get on my feet and throw a weak energy ball at him. It lands at his feet and he stares down in confusion. I spent all my energy on that punch. There is only little left until I am rendered useless and I have to use Ayra's system. I just hope it won't come to that. The after effects of the host system is not a pleasant experience. “ARGH!” Cane exclaims as I kick sand in his eyes. “I'll kill you!” I hear him yell as I take off in a differ
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24. There must be something in the air
I knew Dante won't be out for long but I didn't know how long Ravena and Axel could hold out for before Cane and Alia came looking for me. I had no idea why they were after me or what they wanted once they got to me. Ravena mentioned something about orders. Who could have ordered them not to harm me? There was plenty of time to get answers to that question but for now I need to find the host of this chamber. I was closing in on the red dot. I jump from a fallen tree and I land mere inches away from a giant hole in the ground. "Woah" I exclaim and my voice echoes inside of the dark hole. I would have fallen to my second death if I hadn't stepped back in time. A wave of energy emerges out of the pit and my body shivers at the feeling it exudes. The hair on my skin rises and my whole body is on full alert. "Someone's excited" A woman giggles from the pit. I see her rising up into the air, her hair is pink, she wears an exposed one piece suit that leaves nothing to the i
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23. The Forest Of Emotions
“How did you get here?“ I ask. Reid steps on the broken stump so he towers over me. He takes a deep breath as he looks around. There's nothing to see other than the trees and i doubt this place smelled like anything other than wet trees and pollen. “I'm not actually here. I've been in your head once. It's not hard to do it again” Shit! I let my mental guard down. How powerful must he be to be able reach me all the way on another chamber? I step back from him and run my hand through my hair. Just when i thought i could escape from them, he can get into my head. “What do you want?“ I ask him blankly. If he's here to convince me to change my plans then he might as well be talking to himself. “I'm actually here to tell you that you're doing the right thing” He huffs and sits down on the tree stump, propping up an arm on a raised knee. His blue eyes study me with keen interest, spotting a million silent faults and for a split second i see pity in them. I lower my head bu
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22. Soul Sucker
“Knox? Did you… Did you see that?“ Kara points to a random spot on the wall, but there's nothing there. She sways on her feet, and i go to catch her before she hits the ground. Her energy slips into me the moment i make contact with her skin. I drop her and move away from her before i absorb any more of her energy. Axel groans as he gets up on his feet. He goes straight to Kara while I stand at the far side of the room. “What happened? What did you do to her?“ He asks, looking from Kara to the petrified body of Arachna, then back to me. “I… I don't know. What… What's wrong with her? “ I say, holding my right arm to myself so i don't touch anything else. “Arachna fed them spider venom. It's starting to take effect. She's burning up, and her energy levels are abnormally low. Check on Ravena. We have to treat them, or they'll die” He says. I turn to see Ravena right beside. Looking at her, I can already see the energy radiating off her like it's calling out to me. I ca
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21. Consume My Memories
“WAIT!“ I yell. Arachna drops Kara's body startled my outburst. She spins around slowly. Locking eyes with me, she sighs in disappointment. “What?!“ She demands. “Cook me first.“ I blurt out. She raises a brow and tikts her head to the side in confusion. “Eat me first. You can't see it right now, but I'm actually very delicious” “What are you doing?“ Spix says. Arachna looks around like she's considering it, then shakes her head to expel the thought. “I'm not supposed to harm the 100th host. The others will be here to take you to the 100th chamber.“ “Hmm that's a shame. I'm actually really delicious, plus i have a lot of energy you can absorb. Also, i hear if you eat me… The game automatically ends, and everyone is free to leave. Haven't you ever wondered what host energy feels like? I bet it's nothing like these normies… if you put me in that broth… mmm“ I say sarcastically with a fake frown on my face, but she seems to buy it. “Why would you want me to eat you? Yo
