"I.." Rash said as he stared at me who had frozen."What have I done.." My voice sounded as the body of the doctor fell to the ground, I stood as he stared at his hands which trembled in fear."He's back" Tasha breathed out in relief, for a moment, she had thought that I would move to them next to kill them."Dom, calm down and look at me" Rash said to me whose mind was messed up, I felt like he was having a mental breakdown."What was that now, that feeling of power, and the taste of the blood in my mouth, so sweet, wait no, what am I, a vampire, or something worse' I was thinking about a thousand things at the same time."Dom snap out of it and help me out of these binds, I think I know what you are" Rash said which brought me out of his daze and back to the real world."Aren't you like afraid of me?" I asked."Uh yeah seeing you freak out like that is a bit scary but I can see that you are more scared than I am, maybe even more, and I know that the I I know will never do that" Rash
"Long Wang?....who are you?" I asked in confusion."Hahaha, for now, I can't answer that question but with time you'll get to know, the only reason why I could get to speak to you now is that the gamemaster isn't as strong as he used to be but he's getting there, we don't have much time so I'll try to make this brief as possible" The golden-haired man replied with a smile."What…I don't understand, what is going on? Where am I? who are you?" I piled all the questions waiting on my tongue."I'm sorry but if I were to answer all your questions, I would end up being sensed by him and it would only bring more trouble to you, for now, you will get your old profession back but you will only have 0.1% of your original power now but as time progresses, you'll get to understand more about yourself and remember never underestimate anyone or anything or it might be your last, I'm sorry that we met under such circumstances but it will all be all right soon, I'm gathering allies and I can see that
It was in a battered and destroyed city, four figures could be seen sneaking through the streets carefully as they maneuvered through demolished shops and packed roads."Empty again, shit those raiders didn't even leave a little bit for us" Rash complained as we searched a convenience store only to find it empty, it had been ransacked to the bone, this was almost the 10th store we had searched and up till now we didn't have any luck."Well I have to say that I didn't expect much" I replied with a sigh as I observed our surroundings while thinking over the events of the past few days since we left the hospital, we had been updated on how things would work now, to summarize it all, if we wanted to survive we had to get stronger to protect ourselves from the varying threats to our lives and to get stronger, we can either kill the creatures around us to level up or enter a dungeon, if we beat the dungeon then we level up, we don't then we die, that's what was happening presently."Growl"
"Woah okay slow down a little and let me understand what you just said, you mean that we've gone back to the time of one of if not the most notorious serial killers in existence" Rash said in disbelief as his mind absorbed the information he was receiving."Yeah in summary yes" I replied calmly."How are you so calm, do you understand our situation now? We are going up against someone whose identity is unknown up till date, someone who kills then sends a letter to the press saying that he just killed someone, I mean who does that, it's so fucked up when you think about it" Rash said with a look of confusion, his mind was jumbled at the moment that he couldn't think straight."Well, one of the first things they teach you in the army is that in every situation, you must remain calm and analyze your situation before jumping to conclusions" I replied."Wait you were in the army?" Rash asked in surprise."Yeah I was, how do you not know this by now?" I asked in disbelief."What do you mean
“Listen to me, I think there’s been some sort of misunderstanding here, I’m not the reaper, why don’t you just drop your gun and let’s talk things out” I tried to bargain with the man whose eyes glinted in anger.“You really underestimate my intelligence, that’s exactly what the reaper would say in this situation, I can’t believe that you thought that this would work” The man chuckled as his gun wrapped around the trigger tightly like he was about to shoot, I was thinking of what to do when.CLICK“Drop it” Rash’s cold voice sounded as the nozzle of his gun tapped the back of his gun.“What?, there are two” The man said to himself in confusion.“Dominic…” Christina shouted in worry as she and Tasha arrived.“I said drop the gun” Rash said as he pressed the gun harder against the man’s head.“Hmmp, why don’t you drop your gun or I’ll shoot your friend over here” The man said as his gaze wafted to the side for a split second but that was enough for me as I ducked to the side, and rolled
I opened my eyes as I drowsily sat up and quickly closed my eyes before opening them slowly for my eyes to adjust to the light, the first thing I saw was Rash standing in front of the window staring outside with a serious expression, seeing this I unconsciously grabbed my gun thinking there was danger and the noise drew the attention of Rash who grinned as he turned to me.“You finally up sleepy head, I was starting to think you were dead” Rash joked as I got up and wiped my eyes before staring outside where I recognized the figures of Roger and some other people with a few familiar faces from the previous night.“They’ve been there for almost 30 minutes, just standing there” Rash said after seeing my actions.“Grab the guns and wake the girls, we’re going out” I said with a frown as I walked back and picked up my gun as I counted the remaining number of bullets, we needed to conserve our ammo because we didn’t know what the future held for us.*****************************************
“Because of the recent activities, we’ve stuck to sleeping in small groups so you guys will be staying here, if you need anything someone will be outside to attend to you, I’ll leave you guys now, when you’re ready you can come downstairs and I’ll introduce you to the rest” Roger said with a smile after leading them to a huge room before he left.“Hmmp, attending to us? More like watching us, I don’t think we should trust them, Dom, I’m telling you” Rash said with a look of annoyance.“I think he’s right, since we don’t know whom we can trust at this point, we should try to act amicable but keep an eye out for any suspicious activity” Tasha suggested with a nod after hearing Rash.“Hmm, something feels off about this whole thing, I keep having this bad premonition like something bad is coming” I said with a deep frown, I couldn’t shake off this bad feeling like something big was approaching.“It’s probably since you haven’t, you know drank any blood since that day” Rash joked.“Rash!”
“It’s you” I said in shock as I stared at the figure before me trembling in fear.“Please don’t kill me, sob” A little voice sounded from the figure who then started sobbing as I suddenly realized that the gun was still pointed at him.“Oh no no I’m not going to kill you, don’t cry” I quickly placed the gun back as I stared at the child crying in front of me, when I first entered the room, I wasn’t able to recognize the figure because he was crouched but now I could finally see the full appearance of the figure, it was a kid maybe 10-11 years, he had brown hair and blue eyes which were clouded as tears fell from them, he was wearing a red sweater and it was actually because of this that I had recognized him, he was among the kids I had seen when I first arrived.“I’m sorry if I scared you, I just…I was just startled that’s all” I said while taking a step toward the frightened kid who retreated in fear, seeing this I tried to think of a way to make the kid feel okay.“Oh, hey look I ha