Chapter 13: Character Viper
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- 'Miss Stark, you probably don't quite understand,' Augustus turned the buggy towards him and looked back at the woman. - I am your bodyguard and will be until our contract is up. The fines that I charge you in extra pay are strictly stipulated in our contract. I'm annoyed by your behaviour, but I put up with you for the money. Don't think of me as your saviour or faithful dog, I got you out of Afghanistan just for the money. As soon as our contract is over, I will leave you immediately.
A cold, confident tone and a rigid posture. The mercenary decided not to play Stark's favourite soldier anymore and told her everything at once and to the point.
The cheerful glint in Anita's eyes disappeared, and she looked at the man in a completely different way. The words he had said were not quite to the girl's liking. Somewhere in the depths of her heart they even pricked her.
- Take me to the ground floor, mercenary," Anita hummed seriously. - The money will be credited to your account today, along with the extra charges.
Augustus lowered the pram with Stark to the ground floor. There they were met by Stark Industries security. Anita asked one of the guards to load her into the car. The mercenary wanted to follow her into the car, but the door slammed shut in front of him and one of the guards escorted August into another car.
"Did she take offence at me? Funny, if she gets killed by her own stupidity, it won't be my fault here. I've done too much to save her already."
The five black cars convoyed out of town, into the private sectors. There was Anita's private villa. Built right on a cliff, with beautiful views of the sea. Kilometres of land around the villa had been purchased, so the Starks had no neighbours.
At the house of the multi-billionaire only two cars drove up, the other three remained waiting at the entrance to the territory.
Pepper was already waiting for Anita outside the house, the blonde standing near the entrance. As soon as she spotted the cars in the distance, she went to meet them. Stark got out of the car and moved to the wheelchair with her help.
August quietly got out of the car and followed Anita and Potts into the private villa.
- No going down to the first floor or basement without my permission. On the ground floor there are a couple of living rooms, a kitchen, a shower and a toilet, you'll have enough, - said August Stark and then turned to Pepper and with a more gentle tone continued. - Pepper, please take me up to the first floor and make me something to eat. It's been so long since I've eaten junk food...''
The mercenary smiled widely under his steel mask. Finally this red-haired girl would get off his back and he could finish his contract in peace. No one would play on his nerves. On Stark's cold attitude, August didn't care at all. Even on the contrary, there was less to worry about.
Pepper visited Anita's house almost every day. The billionairess threw the care of herself on the poor assistant and so tired in the company of Stark.
- Do you also cook her food? - August asked in surprise, sitting on the couch and cleaning his new weapon. Stark had recently given him the requested weapons. A couple of heavy blades and a couple of large-calibre pistols that could penetrate the armour of a BMP. The recoil from such firearms was easily withstood by the mercenary's arm. August's superhuman capabilities allowed him to shoot without any recoil at all.
- Anita forgets to eat when she's busy working. Malnutrition is bad for her body right now," Pepper replied casually, continuing to chop vegetables. The mercenary had come to the villa with Stark a week ago. Potts visited her boss almost every day and came into contact with the mercenary, willingly or unwillingly. Somehow, on the third day, they started talking to each other.
- You mean her basement workshop? She's been there for a week already?
- Yes, she's making something again.
August thought about it. Pepper hadn't told him, but he had an idea what Stark might be creating in her workshop. The second sample of the Mark series costume. A less bulky version of the Mark One suit demonstrated in Afghanistan. This costume would serve to create the Mark Three costume, which is what the original Tony Stark used to showcase himself as America's hero.
- Save me some food," August smiled and Pepper, as usual, piled his portion into a separate plate.
"They're bringing my hard earned millions in cash today. I had to sweat to cash out such a large sum in a short period of time. It sucks that the system only accepts dollars in cash. There are always problems because of that."
In the evening, a car pulled up to the Stark villa with Happy in it. Anita Stark's personal bodyguard. August sometimes met with her. This large woman was in charge of guarding the outer perimeter of the villa.
- Take it mercenary, your money is in the boot of the car, - a woman in a black suit got out of the car and opened the boot.
- Thank you Happy, what would I do without you, - August patted Happy on the shoulder. The large woman's face glowed childishly, and she somehow lost all her stern look at once.
- No need for thanks August, I was just doing my job ...
- Happy, cashing out and bringing in money is not part of your job. I'll buy you dinner in the future.
- Haha, thank you," the giantess blushed even more.
August pulled out four large bags with stacks of money from the boot of the car. Once again thanking the girl, who was embarrassed by the compliments, the mercenary returned to the villa. A major event awaited him. He would finally spin roulette in the system and get a new character and accordingly the powers of that character.
In his room, the man dumped money out of his bag, forming a mountain of it. There were no cameras or listening microphone installed in his room, he had made sure of that on the first day of the race.
Pointing his hand at the mountain formed, he wished he could exchange the money for system coins. A flash came out of his hand and the dollar mountain disappeared.
August checked the balance in the system and smiled widely.
- Ha ha ha, now I have enough money to spin a mid-level roulette game! The chance of normal characters falling out there is much higher.
[Do you wish to spin the medium level character roulette?].
"Yes!"
A transparent drum divided into many sectors appeared in front of August's face. Each sector was some superhero character or villain. Half of the superhumans he knew, but the rest were unknown to the man.
The drum slowly turned and remotely familiar music played. Against the backdrop of such a fate-deciding event, the music looked absurdly silly. August quickly distanced himself from this music and focused on the rotating drum.
Just then a sector with the name James Howlett, simply Wolverine, flew by. Then another standout sector flew by with the name of Bruce Wayne, Batman. The dark genius of the DC universe. Sectors with strong characters were very small. The chance of those sectors stopping on a winning streak is very small. August had no hope of winning at the roulette wheel of strong characters.
The drum began to stop slowly, the music stopped. The winning streak skipped the large sector and stopped on the medium-sized sector.
[Congratulations! You have won the character - Viper!
You get one random ability of the character - skin shedding].
August's eyes gleamed with interest. The supervillain Viper was known for her ties to the Hydra organisation and later became the leader of the Snake Squad. This lady had managed to do a lot of things in the Marvel universe. All of her power came from peak human capabilities, poisons, and regeneration - shedding skin. She could even regenerate missing limbs with her regeneration.
[Warning. You already have a level 1 regenerative healing factor, would you like to combine it with the skin shedding ability to level up?
Price: 10000000000 coins]
- This is my last money, system, you're going to leave me pantsless! Of course I will.
[Ability merging is in progress...]
August's body was thrown into a fever, his legs gave out, and he fell to the floor. Drenching himself in sweat, the man pulled off his iron mask and shoved a towel into his mouth, trying to hold back a painful scream. The skin on his body burned and throbbed, and his head rattled terribly. Her temperature had risen to forty degrees and her blood pressure was up to two hundred.
Squirming in pain, Augustus underwent changes.
Toward morning the pain stopped, the mercenary woke up and gruntingly rose to his feet. The first thing he noticed at once was his expanded field of vision. His other eye had returned! August immediately rushed to the mirror and looked at himself.
The mercenary's missing eye had returned to its original place. Only it had changed, losing its human appearance. His right eye was now yellow with a vertical pupil. In the semi-darkness, it glowed slightly, adding to the intimidating effect.
- What, is that my skin?! - Augustus patted his pale cheeks. His face no longer looked like the face of a Deadpool Orc. It had recovered and had taken on an exotic beauty.
To see if his body had fully recovered, Augustus undressed. Spinning around in front of the mirror, he looked at his soft white skin and his long, long, white hair.
- Am I really a bisyonen now?! Damn it, I'm not going to accept this!
And the first thing the mercenary did. was to cut off his long hair. He refused to be a teenage girl's dream!
(Viper)
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