2026-03-01 08:00:51[There's no gap, you idiot. This is a sea of flesh. Your running speed is useless if there's no ground to stand on. You'll slip on top of their bodies and be eaten alive in seconds.]
"So what should I do?! Fly?!" Raka shouted in frustration.
A mutant rat jumped from the front row and lunged at Raka's calf. Its sharp, yellow teeth ripped through Raka's pants.
"Ah!"
Raka kicked the rat reflexively. The rat's body felt solid and heavy as it flew off his feet.
"Get away from me, you damn pest!"
The situation quickly deteriorated. The rats weren't just biting. They were climbing. They crept up Raka's shoes, trying to reach his thighs and waist.
On the other hand, Baginda was also struggling hard. Three mice had jumped onto the swan's back. Biting its wings and neck.
"KWARK! HONK!"
Baginda screamed in anger. He pecked one of the mice with his beak as hard as steel until the mouse was thrown far away.
"Baginda!" Raka saw his swans in danger. "Hold on! Don't let them overwhelm you!"
Raka swatted away a rat that tried to bite his shoulder and then turned to face Baginda. He saw blood starting to drip from the swan's leg.
"System! Weapon! Give me an area weapon! Anything!" Raka shouted.
[The Shop feature is offline. Use your brain, Barista. You have inventory in your bag. Get creative or you'll be a corpse.]
"Inventory?"
Raka thought quickly amidst his panic. His hand reached into the backpack he had stolen from the minimarket earlier. His fingers touched a cold plastic bottle and a lighter.
"Alcohol! I have medical alcohol!"
A crazy idea popped into his head. Raka grabbed the bottle of 70% alcohol and the cheap lighter.
"Baginda! Listen to me!" Raka shouted over the squeaking of the mice. "Use your wings! Spin! Like a propeller! Get them away from us!"
Baginda stared at Raka for a moment. The swan understood its master's instructions, or perhaps it simply wanted to destroy everything.
"HONK!"
The swan spread its wings wide. Its sharp feathers glistened in the afternoon sun. The swan began to circle in place at high speed.
WOSH! WOSH! WOSH!
The rotation created a strong wind. His wings hit the rows of rats surrounding them.
The sound of bones cracking could be heard as the rats' bodies were thrown back and created a safe distance of about two meters around them.
"Good! Keep doing that, Baginda! Don't stop!" Raka exclaimed.
Taking advantage of the gap created by Baginda, Raka opened the cap of the alcohol bottle with his teeth.
He splashed the clear liquid in a semicircle on the asphalt in front of them, wetting the bodies of the rats in the front row.
"Sorry, Jerry. This isn't cheese," Raka muttered.
CRACK!
The lighter is lit and thrown into the pool of alcohol.
WOOSH!
Blue flames mixed with orange flames erupted. The smell of burning flesh and singed fur filled the air.
The rats caught in the flames screamed, scurried backward, and crashed into their own pack.
"Step back, Baginda! Get behind the fire!" Raka ordered as he pulled the goose's neck away from the flames.
Baginda stopped spinning, his chest heaving rapidly. The two of them stood in the center of the small circle, now fortified by a knee-high wall of fire.
"Did you see that, System? We're not dead yet!" Raka exclaimed with a triumphant smile, even as sweat trickled down his forehead.
[Creativity: 6/10. Effectiveness: 8/10.]
[You forgot one thing, Genius. Fire needs fuel. That alcohol will burn out in less than a minute. So what's your plan?]
Raka's smile faded as he saw the flames begin to shrink. The alcohol burned quickly.
Meanwhile, across the wall of fire, thousands of red eyes still stared hungrily at them. The rats hadn't left. They were waiting.
"Damn..." Raka cursed softly. "They know this fire won't last long."
Suddenly, a half-burned rat leaped through the flames. It landed right at Baginda's feet, then sank its teeth into the goose's webbing with the last of its strength.
"KWAARKK!" Baginda staggered, almost falling from the pain.
"Don't touch my goose!" shouted Raka.
Without any regard for his own safety, Raka leaped forward. He didn't use his super speed, but rather an emotional kick.
His sneaker hit the rat's head so hard that it released its bite from Baginda's leg.
Raka then stomped on the rat's head repeatedly until the creature stopped moving. Raka's breathing was labored. He knelt down, examining the King's feet.
"Are you okay, friend?" Raka asked. His hands trembled as he touched Baginda's fur. "The wound isn't deep, but it must hurt."
[AnimalLover12: Ah, I love your interactions.]
[User666: Hey Noob, watch out if the goose gets hurt!]
Raka didn't pay any attention to the comment that suddenly appeared.
Baginda snorted softly, then nudged Raka's shoulder with his head. It was a gesture of thanks.
Their partnership grew stronger. Raka was no longer a fearful master and Baginda was no longer just a pet. They were partners in survival.
"We must prepare, Baginda," Raka said. He stood back up and stared at the wall of flames, now reduced to thin smoke. "When this fire dies down, they will attack all at once."
[Warning. Fire barricade extinguished in 3... 2... 1...]
The fire disappeared.
Only a thin cloud of smoke drifted in the wind. The line of rats squeaked in unison, a sound that sounded like thousands of forks scraping against plates.
The largest rat among them with a scar on his face that seemed to be the leader of the group, took a step forward then let out a loud screech as if giving the command to attack.
"This is it," Raka clenched his fists, ready to trigger his heart. "Baginda, protect my back. I'll kick as hard as I can."
"HONK," Baginda replied weakly but firmly.
The leader rat leaped. Raka held his breath. Time seemed to slow down. He prepared for an impossible close-quarters battle.
However, the attack never arrived.
WOOSH!
A soft whirring sound cut through the air, barely audible above the din of the mice.
THWACK!
The leader rat that was floating in the air was thrown backwards.
A black, carbon-coated arrow pierced straight through the center of its head, nailing the creature to the asphalt with precision.
Black blood spurted onto the street. The leader rat died instantly, its body convulsing once before going still.
Silence fell over the battlefield. The other rats stopped moving. They were confused and afraid as their commander was killed in the blink of an eye by an unseen attack.
Raka stared, his mouth hanging open. He hadn't heard the sound of gunfire. The attack was silent, swift, and deadly.
"What was that?" Raka asked into the empty air. His eyes searched for the source of the attack.
[Oh, looks like an uninvited guest has joined the game. The plot is getting more and more interesting.]
"Who shot?" Raka shouted hoarsely. "Who's there?!"
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Chapter 162: Opened Eyes
"Incredible... perfect. He is a masterpiece," Vanya muttered.Her eyes never left her cracked tablet screen, ignoring the temperature inside the meat factory which now felt like a sauna.On the stainless steel table, Raka's chest which was now layered in metallic black scales rose and fell with a slow breathing rhythm. Hot steam billowed from the crevices of his new skin, mixing with the remaining cold air in the corners of the room.Luna could not share the same enthusiasm as the doctor. The mute girl held her injured left arm.Her hunting instinct warned her that the silence enveloping the Cold Storage right now was not a sign of peace.And Luna's instinct was never wrong.DOOM... DOOM... DOOM...The sound of very heavy footsteps was heard from the darkness outside the broken steel door. The steps were slow, heavy, and full of certainty. Every step made the puddles of ice water on the factory floor vibrate.Luna immediately turned around then raised both her scalpels in a low stance
Chapter 161: Bio-Mechanical Fusion
"His human chromosomes surrendered without a fight!” Vanya kept babbling. “The heart is overhauling the structure of the surrounding skin into a natural shield!"Before their eyes, the layer of Raka's human skin began to harden and blacken instantly. Micro scales with a metallic texture grew piercing through the skin pores, spreading to cover the left chest area up to the base of his neck.Those metallic black scales reflected the magma red light which could create a visual illusion as if Raka were wearing a chest protector made of molten iron.Luna stared in horror from ten meters away. The temperature inside the hallway was now spiking drastically. The frost flowers on the factory walls began to melt quickly, dripping water that turned the floor into warm puddles.“You see it?” Vanya asked, then turned to Luna.Her face looked mesmerized by Raka's body which was still emitting light.The mute girl gave rapid hand signals toward Vanya. 'THIS FACTORY FEELS LIKE AN OVEN! IS HE GOING TO
Chapter 160: Hybrid Evolution
"Take this," Vanya roared.The woman in the white lab coat stood at the side of the operating table, her feet planted firmly. Both her hands gripped each thick jumper cable that kept sparking flashes of blue electricity.Before her eyes, the metallic black-scaled Dragon Heart was still silent inside Raka's chest cavity."Live, my Masterpiece!"Without a second's hesitation, Vanya slammed both ends of the high-voltage cables directly onto the surface of the mutant organ.ZAAAAAAPPPPP!!!The electric shock exploded instantly. An incredibly blinding blue light illuminated the entire contents of the frozen meat factory and chased away the shadows in every corner of the Cold Storage.Raka's body jerked violently. His waist lifted half a meter off the surgical table, his muscles tensing, enduring the thousands of volts of electricity forced into him.Then, a long screeching sound was heard from the generator box in the corner of the room. That matter made Vanya almost step back due to the e
Chapter 159: Organ Rejection
Raka's body convulsed wildly on the stainless steel table. The Dragon Heart struggled, releasing dark red flesh roots that pierced and ground into Raka's muscle tissue.Raka's biological body responded with a defense. His antibodies went to war against the mutant organ."Damn it! Hyperacute tissue rejection!"Vanya shouted with eyes bulging behind her futuristic glasses whose data screen was blinking bright red with the text [IMMUNE SYSTEM OVERLOAD].Raka's skin, which was previously pale, now began to change color to a purplish blue. The blood vessels in his neck and arms bulged, then blackened like rotten tree roots. Gray foam mixed with blood began to come out from the corners of his tightly closed lips."His body considers this Dragon Heart as a foreign object that must be destroyed!" Vanya gritted her teeth with trembling hands as she tried to hold Raka's body to prevent it
Chapter 158: Server Tower
"I mean," the Admin interrupted. He raised his face with a bitter smile that was very unsuitable for a child's face, "if you destroy that Transmitter to save your world, you also destroy me. I will be deleted permanently. Log Out forever."Silence emerged between them. Raka felt as if the transparent floor beneath him had just been removed.This System, which used the form of this annoying boy, was the entity that always cursed at him, that made a live stream of his suffering, that gave him ridiculous weapons from Netizen voting results.But also the one who saved his life repeatedly. Who kept him company when he was almost going crazy. Who became the only 'voice' in his head when the real world was too brutal to face."No." Raka shook his head firmly. His voice began to rise. "No, that makes no sense. There must be another way. Vanya is a genius, she can hack the system! We can cut the monster conne
Chapter 157: Final Quest
BZZZZZZZT! ERROR! [BIOLOGICAL FUSION REJECTED]Raka staggered and almost fell backward as the sight of the frozen meat factory and Luna's panicked face suddenly shattered into blazing red pixel dust.He was sitting back in the transparent chair, right in front of the Admin's chrome gaming desk.On the desk, the loading bar that was almost full earlier was now blinking aggressively with warning text.[RESPAWN FAILED. ORGAN REJECTION DETECTED. RELOADING EMERGENCY PROTOCOL...]"Dammit! Why am I back here?!" Raka slammed the black glass desk. "I saw Luna! She was surrounded by monsters! Send me back there now, Admin!"The Admin, who was still sitting cross-legged in his luxurious gaming chair, did not answer immediately. The boy in the black hoodie was staring at the main monitor screen displaying
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