2026-04-16 15:25:32The six-legged monster glided through the air, its shadow swallowing Rian’s body as he leaned against the concrete wall. The stench of rot, like decaying flesh mixed with sulfur, burned his nose. In front of him, one of Gardo’s men, a heavyset guy who had laughed the loudest earlier, did not even have time to scream.
"Argh!"
The sickening crack of bone echoed through the narrow alley. The creature landed squarely on the thug’s shoulders, its kitchen-knife-length fangs plunging straight into his neck. Fresh blood sprayed across the wall, splattering Rian’s face as he stood frozen just inches away.
"Run! Gardo, help me!" the other thug shouted, but his voice cut off the moment he saw Gardo already ten meters ahead, sprinting for his life without looking back.
"You bastard, Gardo!" Rian shouted, his voice still hoarse.
The monster’s red eyes shifted. It released its lifeless prey, letting the body slam onto the asphalt. Its forked tongue licked the blood from its snout, then focused entirely on Rian, the only remaining prey.
Ting!
[Warning: Shadow Wolf (Level 5) has locked onto target.]
[Player level too low. Survival probability: 0.01%.]
"Zero point zero one percent?" Rian let out a bitter chuckle, wiping the blood from his lips. "Not bad odds for a loser like me."
[Activating Justice Protocol: ‘Disability Compensation’...]
[Description: Every permanent physical deficiency will be converted into additional stats exponentially.]
[Left Leg (Paralyzed/Atrophied) detected. Conversion in progress...]
[Permanent Bonus Activated: +50 Agility, +30 Reflex, Passive Skill: ‘Phantom Step’.]
A sudden burning heat surged from Rian’s waist down to the tips of his left toes. It felt like thousands of electric needles stabbing into nerves that had long been dead. Rian groaned, but the sensation was not just pain. For the first time in ten years, he could feel the position of his leg against the ground. Not a weak limb, but one that felt like a coiled steel spring ready to explode.
Guk!
The Shadow Wolf lunged. Its movement was so fast it appeared as nothing more than a streak of black shadow. To ordinary eyes, Rian would have already been torn apart. But to him, everything seemed to move in slow motion.
Left. Up. Diagonal.
Rian did not think. He moved on instinct. With a single push from his “crippled” leg, his body shot sideways at a speed impossible for any normal human. He spun midair and landed gracefully atop a stack of wooden pallets, while the monster slammed into the wall where he had been moments before, shattering the concrete.
"What... what is this?" Rian stared at his trembling hands. "I... I’m not limping anymore?"
[Correction: You still possess a physical deficiency in the real world, however the system provides ‘Compensation’ in the form of pure kinetic energy at that point.]
[Use your brain, Player. Analyze patterns, destroy the target.]
"Analyze patterns, huh?" Rian smiled faintly. This was his specialty. "Shadow Wolf. Assassin type. Three consecutive attacks, followed by a two-second pause to recover stamina. Front claw range, one meter."
The monster turned, roaring in fury as its weak prey suddenly vanished. It leaped again, its claws slicing through the air, leaving faint purple trails in the darkness of the alley.
"One," Rian murmured, leaping onto the wall and running vertically for two steps.
"Two," he flipped backward, passing over the monster’s head.
"Three!"
Right as the monster landed and staggered slightly, the predicted two-second gap, Rian spotted a rusted iron pipe jutting out from the rubble nearby. Without wasting a second, he grabbed it.
"This world really is a game, Gardo!" Rian shouted, his voice booming with years of buried anger. "And you don’t know how to play it!"
He dashed forward. The ‘Phantom Step’ skill left afterimages trailing behind him. Before the Shadow Wolf could react, Rian was already beneath its belly. With full force, driven by his surging Agility, he drove the iron pipe straight toward the creature’s heart.
Craack!
The pipe pierced through the predator’s tough hide, bursting out from its back in a single fatal strike. The monster let out a long, agonized howl, a sound that tore through Jakarta’s collapsing sky, before its body stiffened and began to shatter into particles of black light.
[Target Eliminated: Shadow Wolf (Level 5).
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