Lmao... A moment of silence for the unfortunate monks. This marks the end of the first arc, World Awakening and the subsequent arc follows immediately. Like and comment on your thoughts about the books so far... Thank youuuuu🌹🥹
“I wonder what this third stage of world saturation means for humans without the system.” Eric randomly stated, as they ate dinner. They had gathered the foodstuffs from the house where they were.“Give it a rest OG fodder! You've said this thing more than twelve times! I'll smack you skull if you mention it again! Fawk!” Nelson cursed, clearly tired of hearing Eric talk about it.“It's simple really. A moment of silence isn't for the living. Whatever changes the third stage brings is probably killing the people without the system.” Amy made a wild guess as she put a piece of cucumber and bacon in her mouth. They were eating a cucumber tomato salad with bacon.“Hey Amy, what's your intelligence stat?” Chuck changed the topic and gazed at the pretty lady.Everyone on the table, except Amy and Chuck, chuckled whilst expecting her answer.“29 intelligence points.” Amy replied casually, putting another piece of the food in her mouth.Eric, who was drinking water from a glass, nearly choke
The Demon Imp Monarch towered over the six humans, its grotesque silhouette stretching ominously across the destroyed street. Its six eyes, glowing with a malevolent crimson light, bore into them with a chilling intensity, stripping away any semblance of hope or courage. With every breath, it exudes an aura of pure malice, filling the air with a palpable sense of dread. As its gaze swept over them, the humans felt a cold shiver run down their spines, realising they were nothing more than insignificant prey in the presence of this ancient evil.'So evil… To think those Grade 9 Imps would have a form as peak as this.’ Eric gritted his teeth as he had this thought.The Lesser Demon Imps looked nothing like this, if anything they were like nymphs or day old spawn of this abomination. The area around the Imp Monarch was scorching hot, but it was bearable to an extent. A normal human would have gotten heat stroke in just one minute of staying in its presence.Nelson swallowed hard, real
Potato chips, chocolate, marshmallows, cookies and a lot of soda were everywhere in the stores either on the ground, on counters or in their inventories.“Apart from snacks and various edibles, we'd need medical items and toiletries. Pack up quick!” Eric said before clapping.“Who the hell are you ordering around shrimp? Do what you like, just don't order me.” Amy said as she packed several edibles into her inventory.Eric glanced at her and smirked softly before walking to the counter and getting a brown carton.“What do you need that for? Just put the stuff into your inventory straight up. Why do you need a carton?” Chuck said a pair of raw hotdog packs glitching away from his hands. “It's wiser that way, yuuno?”“As expected of someone with a system IQ of ten.” Amy quipped causing the others to chuckle.Chuck, clearly displeased, interjected.“It's common sense guys. Why do you need a carton? Why would you even need it?” Eric sighed, and explained before the poor guy embarrasses h
“A truly dangerous skill.” Erica said, remembering how she hadn't even sensed the assailant.“Ah. Guess who you killed.” Chuck said to Matt with a smirk plastered on his face.“Who?” Matt asked, his curiosity piqued.“The store cashier.” Chuck replied, pulling up the tag on the dead man's shirt.“...” Everyone was speechless after hearing that.Nelson and Eric folded their lips into their mouth, suppressing a potential laugh.“Damn.” Amy said, feigning regret and sorrow.…They had packed up whatever they needed in carts and segregated each of the categories to each people; Nelson's and Erica's inventory held the carts for food, Amy held the carts for medical items and Eric's inventory for ‘toilet stuffs’.Matt and Chuck got nothing, except what they had packed beforehand into their inventory.…“Yo Rich worm. Get over here, let's go dump your murder victim somewhere.” Nelson called unto Matt as he walked towards the cashier's corpse.“...” Matt frowned, ready to protest and reject th
“Guys, what the hell is a Kalekalip?” Matt asked as he continued to stare intently at the screen.“Doesn't ring a bell.” Chuck said, looking at others for clues.Amy shrugged indicating her obliviousness to the name. Erica and Nelson also shook their heads.“A screen says Armament Kalekalip 12.7mm AMR. I don't even know what it is. And there's two of them up there. Probably outside in the skyscraper.” Matt said in frustration and looked at everyone. He suddenly scowled when he noticed Eric with a sly smile.“Eric? What is a Kalekalip?” Matt asked with a subtle frown on his face.“Heh.” Eric's smile grew wider as he nudged invisible glasses as though adjusting them.Nelson frowned and walked up to him grabbed by the collar.“Hello there, you little scoundrel. I don't know if you understand the situation at hand but for some reason we're surrounded by people with weapons called a Kalekalip. What is it?” Nelson growled, staring intently at Eric, who for some reason even has a wider smile
The blonde bearded man and Drake, the goth, trained their snipers at the entrance of the store.Several smoke grenades were thrown by the men downstairs and some by the snipers.The men, all of them dressed like robbers in black, trooped for the entrance with guns in hand.“Halt!” The illusory voice came again, domineering as ever.The men found themselves unable to move despite how much they tried to move.Amy exhaled and tore open her eyes that shone a dangerous bright amber light. Her form turned ghostly and she disappeared from her position with a gust of wind in her position.An ethereal silver glint was seen by the seven figures that aimed to storm the store and with a metallic ring, Amy was behind all of them, facing away from them.Their attention was drawn to her automatically and as they hoped to move, Amy sheathed her katana.As soon as she did, the silver glint permeated the air again and a red fog covered the area.All seven men fell down to the ground, lifeless and decap
“I hope you burn in hell!” Eric spat on the corpse, stepped over them and returned to the main room of the store.He had now accepted that humans, whether in a perfect world or not, will continue to be humans.The world awakening that happened on earth has solidified the survival of this world as a dog-eat-dog survival strategy.Throwing literal predators into the world has made it so that one would have to kill or be killed.‘It doesn't have to be this way. If need be I'll grow stronger and hunt the system.’As soon as he had this thought, he could have sworn he heard a distant snickering sound. He wheeled to check on the corpse but analysis showed that they were dead.‘Huh, that's weird.’He continued on ignoring the sound that lasted for a second, ruminating over the fact that he had just killed a human.‘That was a necessary evil. I would have been the one to die instead.’He consoled himself internally and walked even faster, pushing the thought to the deepest parts of his mind.
Just as the cohort settled down for rest during the rain, they all received alerts.[Greetings Awakened, please find, attached to this alert, a ‘terms and condition’ contract. Read it and sign at the end whether you want to keep the system or not.] However, one alert was specific to Eric. One alert he usually dreaded was now right before him again.[Analysis: An Awakened Grade 1, Queen of Storms, is in the vicinity. Be advised!]Not long after the alerts, a loud unearthly screech pierced through the air, generating a forward blast of wind that seemed to stop the rain for two seconds before continuing.Following this screech, the rain intensified and turned in a storm with lightning now snaking across the sky and striking tall buildings.“What the hell?!” Matt exclaimed, visibly mortified by the screech.Everyone, in fact, was shaken by this screech.“An Awakened Grade 1, Queen of Storms is in the vicinity.” Eric shouted so his voice could be heard over the loud storm that seemed to be