System Beast Lord

Chapter 9: Total Chaos

Somewhere at another part of that street, inside a dojo, the stench of blood was heavy in the air, very heavy.

All around the main room of the dojo, corpses of different types lay with dire and devious wounds on their vital points.

Thud!

Another corpse dropped, without so much as a scream or a sound, as blood quickly pooled underneath it.

The killer walked to the corner of the room, not minding all the bodies around, and took a napkin and wiped the blood from the katana used.

In the dim room, the outline of the killer's face showed. Fair in complexion, golden long hair tied to a ponytail, neon amber eyes, a sharp nose, plump lips, a sharp chin and a very cold expression.

She exhaled and brandished her katana and looked towards the last living thing in the room, walking slowly towards it with a cold and calculating gaze.

“Blradl jshehisn krjdb!” The goblin at the corner of the room, who was on its arse and its back touching the wall, uttered.

It sounded like gibberish but this goblin was pleading with grey tears streaming from its eyes, its long nose dripping snot. It stretched out its hand, shaking it frantically in utter horror as it shook its head as well, eyes filled with regret.

They had trooped en masse to the dojo because they smelt the fear of the civilians taking refuge inside. The goblin horde wiped out the students of the dojo and the civilians but we're also wiped out by this female and her master.

Her master who had died in a fight with an Ogre Brute, both of them killing each other.

“You came to kill, laughing maniacally. You took everything from me and now you're begging for mercy?” The lady said softly as she brandished her weapon once more before raising it.

“Tell your friends I said hi.” She added as she slashed downwards, cleaving the goblin diagonally.

She had expected blood to squirt and stain the walls but an explosion of light happened instead, like a flashbang without the ‘bang’.

The goblin was surprised that it was still alive. It scrutinised itself as though its body was alien to it.

While it was about to be joyful, another cleave came again, this one reaping its life.

‘What was that?’

She asked herself and was about to inspect the corpse of the goblin when a screen popped up in front of her.

[You've received 95 coins for slaying an Awakened Grade 9 Goblin.]

[Your soul is getting stronger.]

[Congratulations, you are now an Awakened Grade 7 entity.]

[+5 points to all stats.]

“I ascended again.” She sighed and continued to inspect the corpse of the goblin till she found a dark stone inside its chest.

“Huh…” She uttered curiously and yanked it out of the gash in its chest.

[[Skill Stone Information]]

[Item Name: Fragment of Eternity (Fake)]

Her eyes widened at the name.

‘Fragment of Eternity? That sounds too powerful. It's fake though.’

She continued reading the information on the screen.

[Item Class: Epic]

[Item Description: An illegally acquired aspect of the Goddess of Life and Fertility.]

“...” She was speechless at the description.

She read the description multiple times to take in what she was seeing.

“Illegally acquired aspect? How does this runt possess something that belongs to a goddess?” She soliloquized, unable to understand how such an item was doing in the hands of a baseless monster.

She looked at the last line on the screen and turned her gaze to the skill stone in her hand.

[Crush the stone to claim the skill]

She crushed the stone and an ethereal golden light enveloped her being, infusing her with the skill inside.

[Skill ‘Fragment of Eternity’ has been absorbed]

She exhaled, her already glowing eyes more glaring.

She summoned the skill tab and read about the skill.

Essentially, it was a healing skill and it had three aspects;

The first aspect granted her the ability to heal herself and others from various life threatening wounds as long as they were not dead.

The second aspect allowed her health to be restored back to 100% if it ever hit zero but it had a cooldown time of three weeks. That was what happened with the goblin.

The third aspect allowed her to cleanse or purify anyone of negative statuses such as poison, slowness and other things while also granting her the ability to buff whatever was purified.

The first and third aspects were active while the second one was passive.

She smiled, content with what she saw. She was jolted back to reality by sounds of an explosion and roars of a beast.

She frowned and sheathed her katana, letting it glitch into her inventory and left the dojo.

…

A 9-foot tall pale blue humanoid appeared around the corner just as the cohort had slain the Asphalt Golem.

[An Awakened Grade 8, Ogre Brute, has set its sights on you. Survive!]

Everyone was drained in a way and they could not afford to fight another monster.

Yes, the monster was on par with just one of them in terms of class and grade but it had its energy intact and more health than each of them.

The monster raised its leg and kicked the nearest target, Nelson.

He couldn't dodge in time and was sent flying by the blow, his ribs shattering and blood escaping his mouth as he hit the house at the end of the street at a T-junction.

[-60 HP]

[You have been stunned for 10 seconds]

“Arrgh!” Nelson groaned as he tried to get up but his body didn't respond to him.

He cursed and looked ahead to see the monster barrelling down on the rest of the cohort.

Eric snapped out of his daze and sent an arc of heat towards the ogre, thanks to the dagger.

The slash hit the ogre, cutting it and drawing blood. It roared and turned its attention towards Eric, rage evident in its eyes.

It raised its arms and brought them down fast, faster than Eric could react but his mind's speed was faster than his body.

‘All skill points to the durability stat now!’

He mentally ordered the system and promptly, it answered.

[+12 Durability points]

[Durability: 22]

The arms landed on Eric and Eric was supposedly flattened.

“Eric!” The rest of the cohort shouted in unison and horror.

Chuck pointed at the ogre and the two undead imps flew towards the ogre. The Ogre noticed them however and threw a quick punch at one of them, reducing the corpse to pieces of decaying flesh.

The other got close and swiped at the ogre's face, mutilating its eye with its claws. Even dead, it retained its attribute of ‘Claws of The Sun’ so it wasn't a pleasant experience for the ogre.

The ogre removed its second hand from on top of Eric and tried to pry off the imp from its face. As it fought off the imp another one joined in the attack and attacked the second eye, biting and clawing with its hand and leg.

Eric shuddered inside the crater, his eyes bloodshot and nose bleeding.

“Goddamn! That hurt like a… hrgg!” Eric cursed amidst gritted teeth. He pushed himself up from the ground and wobbled before stumbling again.

That blow had taken away a whopping 35 HP from his health bar. If not for his quick thinking, he would have sustained a more dire injury.

He laughed in pain as he regained balance before retreating towards Erica, staggering.

Erica met him and embraced him.

She wanted to ask him something when a screen popped up in all of their faces.

[Stage 3, World Saturation, of the World Awakening has commenced. A moment of silence for the humans who rejected the system.]

“Just how many damn stages does this main event have?!” Chuck shouted in frustration as he watched the last of his mana extinguish.

He could no longer rouse dead imps in the area.

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