My Creation System

Mutant rats

The next morning,

Aren woke up at 7 a.m. His father had already gone to work, and his mother was cooking a meal for them.

"Mom, I'll be staying out for the day. Don't cook my lunch."

"Where are you going?" Erina asked.

"I will tour around the slum to see if I can find any work I like."

Erina felt a sharp pain in her chest. If they were awakened, maybe their son would have also awakened something, or at least they could provide him with a secure life.

"Okay, come home if you feel hungry. Don't go near the gate, okay?"

"Alright, Mom."

He went out after eating something light. Today his target was the sewage. There should be rats.

He wanted to see if killing bigger creatures would bring him more points or not.

He had prepared a long uPVC pipe with a knife tied at one end.

He had created a cheap spear, which should be enough to kill rats.

He took some precautions too. He had heard that rats could be vicious. If they bit him, that would be dangerous.

So he wore an extra layer of clothes around his feet.

Soon he arrived near a manhole. After looking here and there, he ensured there wasn't anyone around.

Then he entered through the manhole, going down the stairs.

There was a strong odor coming from the water flowing there.

He didn't have to search for long. Soon he found a big rat. It was at least a foot long.

"Damn! Why is it so big? Will I be able to kill it with this cheap spear?"

He went near the rat, and the rat looked at him. Its eyes were blood red, sharp teeth protruding outward. It looked menacing.

"What the hell? Is it mutating? How is that possible? The radiation can't enter the city, then how come this thing is mutating? I should report this instantly."

He tried to take out his phone to take a picture of the rat, but it didn't give him the chance. It attacked him with lightning-fast speed.

"Damn it!"

His phone fell into the water as he hurriedly aimed his spear toward the rat. But he didn't have time to think about that. That ugly thing was already upon him.

It jumped at him. Instead of thrusting the spear forward, he jumped to the side instinctively.

It made the rat lose its target. It screeched at him and came at him again.

Aren knew that if this bastard bit him, he would be a goner. In a desperate moment, he held his spear and thrust it at the rat, which was mid-air.

It couldn't dodge his attack, and the tip of the spear, which was a cheap knife, hit the rat.

But to his horror, it couldn't penetrate its skin.

"I'm finished," was the only thought in his mind.

But he wanted to live, so he jumped sideways again.

He hurriedly unbound the knife from the pipe and took it in his hand.

The rat was really angry this time, as Aren had hit it.

It ran toward him again and jumped, but this time Aren didn't move. For a moment, something happened—he felt the rat was moving really slow in the air, and he thrust the knife into the right eye of the rat.

This time it penetrated directly, as the rat was in full motion.

It didn't expect its prey to strike its vulnerable spot at the perfect time, and it lost its life with one last screech.

[Ding! You have got 50 points]

Hell yeah, killing bigger creatures indeed provided more points. But it was really dangerous.

"But what was that? For a moment, everything felt slowed down." Aren remembered the feeling when he thrust his knife into the rat's eye.

"I should inform the authority." But then he remembered that his phone had fallen into the water earlier. His father had worked really hard to get him that phone.

Aren felt very sad.

"I will buy you the most expensive phone soon, Dad." He strengthened his resolve and started to look for more rats. He needed to collect 1k more points.

This time he found a normal rat and attacked it before it could react.

[Ding! You have got 5 points]

"So little? That big one was indeed on the verge of its mutation."

Five hours passed by.

Aren had killed nearly a hundred rats, but he didn't find any other extraordinary ones like the first.

He was very hungry now.

"I should go out and wash up before eating." He had blood all over his body. Now he had 600 points in his panel.

He needed 500 more.

He would have to kill a hundred more rats. Aren went back to the place where he had killed the big one to collect its carcass, but the carcass was gone. Only blood could be seen there.

"Where did it go?"

He suddenly felt a chill on his back and started running toward the stairs, but something—or many things—were following him. He looked behind. There were at least ten big rats chasing him.

They all had that same menacing look.

"There's something wrong here. Very, very wrong. So many mutated rats." Aren ran with all his might and finally reached the stairs.

The rats jumped at him to bite, but he tilted his body precisely and fell from the stairs doing so.

"Am I going to die here? But I have so many things to do. I can't die here!"

As soon as he thought that, his pupils turned red again, and the world seemed to slow down like before.

Those rats attacked him again.

He immediately thrust his knives precisely at their eyes—ten perfect strikes.

But this time, he felt drained instantly and fell unconscious.

It was his luck or something else, but since there were no more mutant rats there, he survived this catastrophe.

Four hours later, Aren opened his eyes slowly. He was really hungry.

But then he remembered what had happened and jumped up from the floor.

He started checking his body to see if he had been bitten anywhere.

"Thank God, I'm not injured. If I were bitten by a mutant creature, I would have surely died."

Then he looked at his panel, as he had killed ten more mutant rats.

[Host: Aren Hunter]

[Tier: Non-Awakened]

[Slot 1: Inactive (0/100)]

[Slot 2: Locked]

[Slot 3: Locked]

[Slot 4: Locked]

[Slot 5: Locked]

[Points: 1100]

He finally had the necessary points to begin his plan.

But first, he needed to eat, and he also needed to inform the authority. However, after thinking for a while, he decided against it. What would he say when they asked how he killed eleven mutant rats?

He should create the bloodline technique first. After that, he could go to the awakening hall and state that he felt something strange in his body to double-check his stats.

There had been news about people awakening two or three days after taking the serum.

So he should be fine if he could cultivate the technique in two or three days.

"Let's go out."

"I still don't know what that power was. Have I really awakened something? Should I go and check? What if I didn't? Then they won't check me a third time for sure. I better go there after I'm 100% sure."

Aren climbed out of the sewage. It was already afternoon.

He closed the manhole and went toward his home, but he had changed his clothes. He had brought some beforehand, expecting something like this.

If he went home covered in blood, people might think he had done something wrong.

His mother opened the door.

"Mom, I'm extremely hungry. I'll take a bath first."

Erina smelled the odor coming from him but didn't ask anything.

"Okay, go take a shower first. I'll give you food afterward."

Aren took a shower, spending thirty minutes cleaning his clothes and himself completely.

Then he came out and ate the food voraciously.

"Slow down," Erina warned him.

"Cough, cough, cough!" But he had already choked.

After drinking some water, he finished his meal slowly.

"Where have you been all these hours? Why did you smell like sewage?" Erina asked suspiciously.

"I'm very tired, Mom. I'll tell you after sleeping for a while. Thanks for the meal. Love you."

He went inside his room and fell asleep as soon as he lay on the bed.