Several hours passed and nothing came, even as it was nearly midnight. Eric had briefed them on the abilities of Jasmine's cohort so they were well informed.“I doubt if those bastards will show up, I'm too tired from the speedy advancement today. I’mma go sleep.” Nelson said before going to lay on his mattress.Eric nodded and started walking towards the door.“Yeah… I'll keep…” His voice stopped abruptly and a smile slowly found its way to his lips.There were holographic screens in front of him, his usual unique screen.[Analysis: The shadows are moving towards you. Be advised.][Analysis: A user of Stealth is dangerously close by. Be advised.][Analysis: You're being watched! Be advised.]“They're here.” Eric said with a calm voice, his face already neutral again.Everyone was on high alert but just as planned, they didn't behave as though they were expecting an ambush.He opened the door to see an arrow and an hatchet flying towards him. The arrow had an odd red glow around it wh
Mark didn't recognise the weapon in his hand simply because it was disguised as a pair of jade green escrima sticks so he didn't fret much.‘What is giving these bastard this confidence though? He said something about me being a bad person too. What?’Eric couldn't help but wonder what was going on.The 10-foot giant swung his hammer at blurry speeds at Eric hopping to smack him away like a golf ball being hit.Eric launched himself into the air, totally avoiding the blow, before swinging one of his escrima sticks at Mark.However, it was a mere taunt. The swing wasn't meant to hit the target and it was even swung halfheartedly, without vigour or intentions.Mark was about to make a remark about Eric being sloppy but a concussive force smacked him on the side of his head, knockinhg him to the side and stunning him a bit.The wind generated from the half-hearted swing of the disguised Divine Smite was strong enough feel like an actual attack from Eric.Mark's nose and ears bled from th
“It really is them. Eric?” Amy said in disbelief, her ghostly blue blade shuddering, ready to reap souls.“You don't have to ask.” Eric said simply as the blue glow in his eyes intensified.After a moment, he nodded, having gleaned the necessary details from their profile.“Yeah… the important thing is that one of the is an Awakened Grade 2, four of them are on our level, three of them are Awakened Grade 4 and two of them Awakened Grade 5 with one of them being Jasmine.” Eric said, his hope renewed.Erica put on a scowl at the mention of that name.“Pretty basic shit. We can do this, we can cook these guys for real.” Nelson said, brandishing his trusty elbow long dagger that was blacker than night itself.“We'd have to go all out from start though. No holding back, no playing. This could very much cost us our lives.” Mr. Baker said, already covering himself and the cohort in an invisible forcefield.Just then, Eric's hairs stood on their ends as he forced himself to look up, an expres
The entire area was wiped out and wiped clean, the fodder amongst the ones hiding, utterly obliterated without traces.Eric also received a few skill points and XP from killing the tamed beasts in the surrounding area.An influx of messages flooded him because now, he had several high level and mid level beast type summons available to him.He sighed and inspected himself pitifully.His new tailsuit, that hadn't used up to a month, was in rags and burnt in several places.There were charred patches of flesh on his body as well, half of his face was marred and grotesquely burned with his teeth visible from the outside.Another message popped up in front of him, one he hasn't seen since his days as a low level Awakened.…[-50 Durability Points of Divine Smite.][Divine Smite Durability: 19950/20000]…“No doubt about it. That guy also had a Divine Smite in hand.” Eric muttered unintelligible. “It only makes sense that a Divine Smite would cut a Divine Smite.”“It also means that the ch
Immediately they entered the rift, the dark clouds swirled violently as yellowish orange lightning streaked in-between them.Soon, buildings were starting to get rooted up from their foundations. Large chunks of earth the size of these buildings were also getting upheaved by the inverse gravity.The clouds soon took the form of a large maw. A large maw the size of the entire city.The entirety of post New York floated speedily towards the sky into the maw like cloud.Soon, everything under the all devouring cloud will be history.…His eyes fluttered softly as he rolled in his sleep. He was having the dream of his life, perhaps it's a beautiful dream.‘Eric’A solemn and ethereal angelic voice called out to him.He turned in his sleep.“Just five more minutes.” He muttered groggily.‘Eric’“Lemme… I wanna sleep.” He replied again, as he turned again.‘Eric!’The solemn voice was now more stern!He jolted awake and quickly sat up.“Where am I?” He asked himself.He scanned the surround
Dicing Touch was an active ability that encompasses the act of generating slices, deep lacerations or cuts, about four metres long and a meter deep, on anything that is being touched. About seven slashes or cuts can be generated at once and it stops working, so the user would have to retouch the target to start the ability again.Ferrous Hide was a passive ability that likened the skin of the user to a dense compacted metal. When made active, the skin morphs into a metal like surface and durability is increased by 10 points again. This makes the rats very durable.Pained Taunt was an active ability that dealt with sound. Just like its name it is used to goad or tease the target of the rats making them attack or fight without reason or instincts while amplifying their sensitivity to pain and discomfort. The more the pain inflicted on a taunted target, the more they lose reason and the more they're susceptible to having a mental shutdown.Cutting Edge was another active ability that the
Eric chatted with his faction members for a few hours, describing where he was and so did the others. With that, they got the general situation and location of each other.It wasn't after a few more hours that Chuck, ‘Decay_Mandem’, texted the group, thinking he was the first to enter the chat only to meet more than two thousand messages there.Even after the chat session, Amy hadn't texted the group and they were already starting to worry.It was when he left the chat to the world chat that he noticed that the system had created a party chat group with the name, Rift.Eric entered it and saw that no one had texted the place.He then proceeded to drop just one message.…__________King_Noel: …__________…He then dismissed the chat feature entirely and surveyed his surroundings. Apart from the tall pine trees and weird shrubs on the ground, nothing graces it with life.“Imma just find higher ground.” He said to himself and looked at one of the pine trees, eyeing its height as though
[I've helped you analyse the rift information and it is a vast land the size of a small country. It is also divided into several regions.]“Good. Thank you very much. Can you…err… can you chat on the Rift page?” Eric asked, half expecting the system to insult him about it being an AI system or something else.[Pfffft. I am the System! Of course I can chat on the Rift page…]Eric nodded again, pleased before the system interrupted him.[... However, I will do no such thing. I will only help you and the people with shared access to your exclusiveness.]“Shared access?” He blurted out almost immediately, in confusion. Then his expression warped to that of realisation.“I still haven't checked the details of this title that I got. Meh, after this meeting I will.” Eric shrugged casually.His expression then shifted to that of concern.[What?]“Can't we do a video call or a voice call or something? You know, like a live chat feature?” Eric suggested.[...]The system let out a tired sigh an