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An unlikely Alliance
Chapter 41"Who are you?"Ryan's eyes thinned to slits. His weight shifted forward onto his toes, shoulders squared at Owen like a guard dog about to lunge.Owen didn't move. He stayed leaned against the cracked wall, arms folded, like he was watching something mildly entertaining."Someone who saw your little fireworks show and decided to check it out.""I didn't ask you that. What's your name?"Ryan took a step forward. The line between his eyebrows cut deeper.Owen finally pushed off the wall. A slow arch of one brow."You know, for a guy I just pulled out of the claws of an overgrown hawk, you have a really shitty way of saying thank you."Ryan's hand snapped into a fist. The knuckles went white. The air between them went tight — the kind of tight that makes everyone else stop breathing.Anderson stepped in fast. He dragged the scarf down from his nose and mouth, hands up, palms out to both of them."Whoa. Whoa, whoa. Everybody calm down. We have not gotten to that part yet, gent
Another Rank
Chapter 40Owen didn't say a word. His eyes remained fixed on the screen floating before him.[Congratulations! Host has advanced one rank.][Owen Wilson][Stage: Awakened] [Rank: D][Strength: 100/150][Agility: 110/150] [Stamina: 100/150][Endurance: 100/150][Total Stat Points Remaining: 120]Owen's fingers curled slightly.Another rank. All from killing that giant snake.He dismissed the screen and raised his head.High above the street, the young man was still battling the mutated hawk. Its enormous wings beat against the air, sending gusts of wind across the surrounding buildings. Every time the man swung his electric rope, the hawk twisted away with an ear-piercing screech.Owen glanced at the ice girl and the ninja standing beside the snake's headless corpse.Then he disappeared."What the—?"The ice girl stumbled backward, her eyes darting across the street.The ninja rubbed his eyes and looked again at the spot where Owen had been standing."Where did he go?"Neither of them
The screech
Chapter 39Crazy.This was crazy. Especially the last part.He could grant a class ability to people who the universal system had not granted a class. Wasn't this system way too overpowered?Of all the system novels he had read online, he had never read one where the MC could grant a skill or an ability to others.With a system like this, he could gather an army of his own. Especially in a world like this, where martial law was the order of the day."No," Owen said to himself. "I don't need an army. Becoming some leader is not part of my plans right now. Especially not until I've seen my family."He looked up at the dark night sky."Mum, Vivian? Please be okay."---The next morning, everyone was jolted awake by a loud explosion.Owen jerked out of bed immediately. He had retired to the bedroom closer to the balcony the previous night. He made for the balcony but paused.Whatever had caused that explosion, he wasn't the only one who heard it.He looked out the window towards the ten-s
Unlocking a fragment of the origin system
Chapter 38Owen took the room with the window closest to the ten-story building.Vanessa disappeared into the kitchen and returned some time later with a pot of rice. Nobody complained about the plain meal. They simply sat around the table and ate, the only sounds being the occasional clink of spoons against plates.Matthew barely spoke.Kai kept glancing toward the window.Vanessa ate slowly, her eyes distant.Owen said nothing.His mind was already on the building outside.By nightfall, the others had settled down, but Owen stepped onto the balcony and rested his forearms against the railing.The darkness swallowed most of the compound.At first, the ten-story building looked abandoned. No lights. No movement. Nothing but rows of dark windows staring back at him.Then Owen narrowed his eyes.There.A figure moved behind the gate.Then another.And another.They weren't civilians.The faint glint of metal caught the moonlight as one of them passed beneath a broken streetlamp. Armour.
The slave dealers hideout
Chapter 37In less than the blink of an eye, Owen was already halfway down the stairs.He stormed into one of the rooms at the end of the house and froze at the sight before him.Vanessa was cornered against a wall, surrounded by three zombies.His eyes widened."Help!" Vanessa screamed as she desperately tried to keep the creatures at a distance with a piece of wooden board. Her arms trembled as she swung it at the nearest zombie, forcing it to stumble backward.But the other two were closing in.Without wasting a second, Owen dashed forward, unsheathed the Sword of Vertyx, and swung it in a swift, powerful arc.Three heads flew into the air.The headless bodies collapsed to the floor with heavy thuds as the severed heads rolled away. Black blood splattered across the wall, and some of it landed on Vanessa's face.She stood frozen for a moment before letting out a shaky breath.Her chest rose and fell rapidly as she struggled to catch her breath."Are you okay?" Owen asked, sheathin
Scouting
Chapter 36Three stares pressed into the back of Owen's neck.He stopped mid-step on the cracked asphalt. Kai, Vanessa and Matthew had all stopped too. Waiting.Owen turned. "What?"Vanessa folded her arms. "We're waiting for you to tell us which way.""Why me?" His eyebrows knotted together.Matthew rolled his eyes so hard his whole head moved. "Because you're practically our leader. In case you haven't noticed."Owen's jaw tightened. He looked down the left street, then the right. Both were empty, lined with shuttered shops. Both had fresh footprints in the thin layer of dust.He exhaled through his nose and started left. The shuffle of three pairs of feet followed him. After ten steps, he stopped again, crouching.The prints were clearer now. Boot marks, small and large, overlapping. Some were deep, as if the people who made them had been carrying heavy loads. Others were lighter, almost dragged across the ground.He stood and crossed to the right street.Same thing.A mess of prin
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