Chapter 5: [Chapter —5]
' When did potions exist in Teen Wolf?' Was my only thought plaguing me as I kept dodging the man's unskilled swipes with his sword.
I also did not disregard that he also took the sword he was currently to cut me down with out of thin air.
" Stop dodging!" The man shouted, his eyes bloodshot not seeing that I had been leading him inside an alleyway ever since he slashed at me.
" Okay." I muttered, already we were deeper into the alleyway and great fully for me it led to a dead end.
So after side-stepping his swipe once more and seeing that he was getting slower and slower and wasn't drinking anymore potions I attacked.
Flicking out my claws I stroked him on his armed hand causing him to let the sword go.
" Ahhhhhhh!"
Then with the only threat perceptible gone, I clawed at his chest, then another and in doing so shredded his clothes dyeing my claws and his chest red with his blood.
" Rhaaaaaaaah!!" Almost on instinct, I let out a roar as I jumped in the air and Sparta kicked him a couple of meters away from me.
Grinning at the quick work I had done from my first ever supernatural encounter as that could be nothing but, now I only needed to know what type of supernatural it was.
Quickly walked up to the downed figure with my claws still out and my clothes a bit bloody.
" *Cough*p-pleas-e st-hop!*Wheeze*" He begged while trying and failing to crawl back.
" Oh don't worry, this will be quick." I said as I crouched down beside him, grabbed him by the throat and activated my ability [Siphon].
He, probably feeling the effects of my ability tried thrashing around but failed as his body refused to cooperate.
Throughout my draining him though I felt his emotions as clear as day, terror and disbelief.
A minute passed and I felt his life leave him, his skin sunken and bones protruding through his dry skin.
[—+1.8 Body.]
[—+3 Mind.]
[—+8 Soul.]
[—+9.3 Mana.]
[—New Skill—Herbology[Lv-5/10].]
[—New Skill— Swordsmanship[Lv-1/10].]
[—Chemistry has leveled up!]
[—New Skill—Alchemist[Lv-4/10].]
To say the least, about the sudden migraine of having memories shoved into your brain the better, my system seemed to streamline the process somehow though as some of the more useless memories besides skill memories were immediately discarded.
But I got enough time to see his life, and I did not like what I saw.
And almost knowing I was thinking of it, I watched as from the chest area of the man that I now knew to be named Kevin a golden light emanated from it.
After that light, I watched as something that looked like a worm with multiple tendrils floated out while I stared at it disbelieving.
From the memories I just had skimmed I understood what it was, a system.
Not only was the fact that people out there in this world had systems, but I was still reeling from the fact that I seemingly killed one of those said people.
I also knew that this very system when it had bonded with Kevin had told him a very important piece of information.
That information was that there were other systems in this world.
So all in all, I was kinda fucked.
Luckily though for me, I managed to find a relatively weaker system user who just awakened to his system.
' This just gets more a more complicated.' I thought before I stared at the system as it slowly lost its color, about to disappear and find a new host.
Then as if hit by an epiphany I stared at my hand and quickly reached out, grabbing the thing in a vice grip.
I felt my hand phase through the system before I activated [Siphon] while also digging my claws into the thing which seemed to have kickstarted the process as it started squirming and losing more power as it got siphoned through my claws and ability into myself.
[—Ding! The Blessing: Evil Incarnate has activated!
— +5 Body
— +6 Mind
— +5 Mana
— +3 Skill Levels: Brawling.
—[—]—
[—Ding! The Serial Reincarnation System is evolving.....]
[—Ding! The Serial Reincarnation System is absorbing beneficial Data and Information from the System Designated as — The Alchemist System.]
[—Plundering All Beneficial Properties.....]
[—The Function — Inventory has been added.]
[—The Function — Affection Metre has been added.]
[—You have obtained the ability— Matter State.]
[—The Skill: Alchemy has leveled up X3]
And so after being bombarded by one status screen after another, I felt my vision wavering, almost as if about to enter slumber.
Knowing that passing out here would not do me any good though I immediately bolted out of there, great fully I was close to the motel I was renting.
Ignoring anyone and everyone that thought to ask me if I was fine I managed to get to my room without much trouble, then I proceeded to pass out.
Face first, right in front of my door.
Not my finest hour.
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—[ 5:57 In the Morning ]—
Waking up to the uncomfortable feeling of the floor and then remembering my little escapade yesterday I couldn't help but groan even as I stood up.
Blinking the tiredness and drowsiness away as I tried going through the skill memories I had obtained as I entered my bathroom to take a shower.
Opening my Status Screen I immediately understood some of the content it had been showing me yesterday, the plundering of all beneficial properties from another fucking system.
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[—Status—]
—Name: Markus Willow.
—Race: Beta Werewolf.
—HP: 100%
—MP: 89%
—[Stats]—
—Strength: 26
—Agility: 25
—Constitution: 30
—Magic: 20
—Mind: 18
—Mana: 23
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