Arthur goes through all his stats. Although he is happy to be reincarnated with a game like a system. But the first thing he did was slaughter tens of peoples, robbing them of their life.
With him coming from a peaceful world without war. And seeing the slaughtering his skeletons has done. He is having mixed feelings, he did level up all the way to Level 14. But at the cost of taking the lives of people.
The grief and remorse caused by the onslaught of the peoples are making his feelings bitter. But what is done is done. There is no going back. So, he carefully going through his profile. Suddenly, he gets a message.
[ Host is suggested to collect all the valuable items from the corpses.]
[ The people's belongings rightfully belongs to the Host.]
" WHAT? HOW CAN I DO THAT? NOT ONLY DID I KILLED THEM BUT YOU ARE EVEN ASKING ME TO ROB THEM" He screams because his morale is opposing to the System's suggestion.
[ Host's soul has been successfully bound to the body.]
[ Retrieving the past memories of the Host's body.]
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Arthur stares at the Messages in a daze. He is thinking ' Just what is th-'. Before he completes his thoughts. A sharp pain stings his brain. He feels like as if his brain is being poked by thousands of needles at the same time. Going on and on and on.
Unable to hold in the pain. He tries to scream at the top of his voice. But his scream is unable to manifest. His vocal cord is not following his command. The pain intensifies, he kneels down on the ground and curls up into a ball.
Eyes full of tears and saliva falling from his mouth. He makes an arc with his body. His forehead rubbing on the ground. Both hands squeezing tightly around his head. His mouth is wide opens trying to scream with all his might. Blood vessels appear all over his face due to pressure.
But his voice can't be heard. He slowly lies on the ground. All his clothes are full of dirt. On his forehead, hair and face too.
He tries to stand up. But being unable to instead kneels on his legs. His body slowly recovering from all the pain. He rubs his face with his hands.
He starts crying again, covers his face with his both hands. His cries can be heard out loud now. He starts crying like a baby. Tears keep on rolling down through the small gaps on his fingers.
He starts to scream as if he is going through hell. In his mind, he is currently going through all the memories of his pirate self. He sees his own crew being slaughtered by the soldiers of this kingdom. He sees the cries of his comrades, blood oozing out from their heads and limbs, and the heart-piercing shout telling him to run away from that place.
He sees himself going on an onslaught, killing all those soldiers with all his might. He sees himself carrying a sword on his one hand and using magic from others. Sees the begging of the soldiers who just now killed all his comrades so cruelty.
Even after Seeing their gruelling begging. He shows no mercy. He is seeing the sweet memories of the time spent with his crew, doing all sorts of activities on the deck of the ship.
And seeing the cruel fate his crew members met. He is gritting his teeth so hard he is even producing the sounds.
While two people enter the scene. They are wearing a white robe and have their face covered under a mask. Seeing Arthur greeting his teeth and crying they remain puzzled.
All of a sudden, they see the skeletons standing in a line. Seeing the huge army of the skeleton they step back from their position. Person A whispers in the ear of person B" H-Hey, looks like the news is true. I think we should go back and call others for support. We won't stand a chance again that huge army.
Currently, more than 200 skeletons are standing straight in front of Arthur.
Person B clenches his fist and says out loud " Looks like he is currently having backlash from using his magic. His guard is down, we should strike right now killing him in one swoop. If he is dead then without his magic all the skeletons will disappear."
" Don't be an idiot. What if he notices us. We will be killed immediately and we too will be turned into an undead." Person A touches others shoulder.
" Cheh! What a coward. Nothing will happen. I will go and kill him in one swing, you just wait and watch." Person B says putting his hands on the sword on his waist.
[ Mana is about to be depleted.]
[ Unable to maintain the speel.]
[ 256 Skeletons have disappeared. Only one skeleton Knight remains]
Arthur is unable to receive the message. He is still covering his face. After slowly removing his hand from his face. His face comes in clear view. Blood is oozing out of his lips, completely covering his chin in blood.
His eyes somehow look different from before. It looks kind of empty, it has lost its shine it had before. He slowly turns his head towards the two people in white. One in an attacking stance, while another seems to be trying to stop him.
From all the memories he has seen. Killing people is not much of a deal to him right now. All he needs is a sword. The killing intent emitting from the white-robed person is Crystal clear.
Without thinking much, Arthur looks around him. He sees the tall skeleton which freed him from the ropes. He notices the sword it was carrying. And sees the mark of their pirate flag on it.
He immediately recognises the symbol, he scans the build of the skeleton. Leaping forth towards the skeleton he sheds some tears and shouts" Edgar, it is you right. Right? It is you right." The skeleton seems to understand his words. Although the skeleton can't cry or talk. It nods its head and embraces Arthur.
Edgar is a crew member of his ship. He was a knight given the task to protect John; the pirate king. He too died back then in the battle against the soldiers. But later, after he killed most of the soldiers. He wasn't able to find Edgar's body. Apparently, the remaining soldiers took his body along them and ran away.
Now, he is reunited with Edgar's dead body. Which is mostly a skeleton.
Two people from before are startled seeing the things in front of them. When Person A, frees himself from others and dashing towards Arthur with all his might. Edgar tries to let go of Arthur but Arthur holds Edgar tightly and spreading his right arm he asks for his sword.
Edgar opens the belt holding the sword and gives to Arthur. Arthur takes the sheath along with the sword. And drops down the belt. The enemy jumps into mid-air and attacks with all his powers.
* Clank* Arthur defends it with his own sword. And makes a counter-attack. The enemy tries to back off but his robe gets a clean cut nearly cutting his stomach.
[ Basic Swordsmanship Learned]
This time Arthur attacks with his sword. Nearly hitting him again.
Arthur keeps on attacking. And the enemy barely manages to dodge his attacks. Arthur is very engrossed in his battle. When out of the blue, a medium-sized fireball comes flying towards him. Catching him off-guard, he gets hit by it.
His upper clothes are ripped apart by the fire. Arthur is able to minimize the damage by shielding his upper body using his hands.
But his hands are bleeding due to blocking the attack. Arthur grins and says" Oh, so another joined the battle."
[ Due to the skilled use of the sword. Swordsmanship has been upgraded directly to another phase.]
[ Intermediate Swordsmanship Learned]
Arthur smiles after receiving the message. He smiles and thinks ' What is the use of talking about intermediate when I have already mastered the skill already?'. Well, his past self was very proficient in swordsmanship and fire magic.
And after remembering his past memories all his skills also came back to him.
This time both of the enemies are attacking. Arthur tries to use an intermediate level fire magic but soon realises the deficiency of mana. And immediately casts a basic level fire magic; Fireball.
The fireball is shot straight towards the swordsman. The enemy smiles as it is widely known that fireball is basic fire magic and it can be easily defended against. Due to which the swordsman drops his guard and the mage too keeps in focusing on Arthur instead.
Arthur smiles slightly before snapping his fingers. The mage immediately realizes what it was but just as he turns toward his teammate. *BOOM* The small fireball causes a huge cloud of fire.
The swordsman gets caught up inside the fire cloud. The mage's eyes are full of terror. When the fire finally settles down. Nothing is rest of the swordsman body. Everything turns into ash and falls down on the ground.
The mage turns his face towards Arthur and makes a face fu of disgust. Without any delay, he starts running towards Arthur's direction.
Without any mana left, Arthur again unsheaths his sword. He gets into his stance and puts his sword in front of him. Arthur swings around his sword in the air. ' Fuck, I don't have enough strength for it currently. Ugh! I never knew that trading my stats points to live will come back to bite me again.'
The mage keeps on rushing towards him. He is using wind magic to increase his speed. With his insane speed, he quickly shortens the gap between then. Arthur attacks him with his sword. He slices through the mage's arm.
He sees a wide smile on the mage's face. Arthur immediately tries to back off. " All for the father" He shouts at the tip of his voice. Arthur tries to back off, he jumps backwards towards the gallows.
BOOM.
Just like a bomb is dropped on that place, a fire ignites from the mage's body. Arthur covers himself with his hands and curls up into a ball to brace the impact.
After a second, a huge hole is made on the ground. The mage is nowhere to be found. He probably destroyed himself trying to kill Arthur.
"Ugh!" Arthur opens his eyes and finds himself under Edgar. He immediately tries to get up when he finds that his one leg is split open due to the destruction. Although he is safe thanks to Edgar his leg was caught up in the fire.
He is making a pained expression due to bus injured leg. He gets up and sits on his butt.
[ Advanced Swordsmanship Learned]
[ Basic Fire magic Learned]
[ Detonation Learned]
[ Two powerful figures defeated]
[ 23,000 XP earned]
[ Levelled up!]
[ Levelled up!]
[ Levelled up!]
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[ Levelled up!]
[ Level has been raised to 21]
[ Congratulations to host for levelling up]
[ 7 More Mystery box has been stored in your dimensional pocket]
[ 21 unused Stats point remaining]
[ 70 Points has been added to your balance for killing high-level peoples]
Arthur smiles a little and stares at the messages. When immediately his smiles disappear. He hears sounds of soldiers rushing towards that place. Trying to avoid any confrontation.
He says" System. Help me find the best items which will let me leave this place quickly."
[ Searching through all present items in store]
[ Items suggested to buy: Teleportation skill]
[ Costs 50 Points]
[ Buy]
" yes," he says with a little panicked expression.
[ Would you like to learn?]
" yes, motherfucker. Use your brain a little. Damn it" He feels pissed off from all the questions.
[ Skill is being learned]
The sound of the soldiers marching is coming nearer and nearer. ' God, I don't want to see the soldiers right now.' he prays to god.
Why? Because if he does all his emotions will be out of control resulting in berserk mode. It burns his life force to make him full of energy and mana. But resulting in death later, when his condition stabilizes. He has a very deep hatred for the soldiers that is the main reason.
[ Skill has been learnt]
[ Please imagine of a place you want to go to]
Arthur closes his eyes and holds Edgar tightly. He imagines of a place.
[ Place is out of coverage.]
'Shit' he thinks and again imagines another place.
[ Place is out of coverage.]
' Goddamn it. Does it want to kill me?' he thinks and again thinks of another place.
[ Place is out of coverage.]
' Fuck!' he says when he suddenly hears the sound of the soldiers near him.
' please work. This is my last chance' he prays and thinks about a place.
[ Place within the coverage. Teleporting in..]
[3]
" Look! What is that corpse?" one soldier points towards Arthur along with A skeleton.
*Swoosh* Both the skeleton and Arthur disappear.
All the soldiers get startled for a moment and they immediately move forward towards the place. They search around but they are only able to find a huge crater on the ground. Made for unknown reasons.
Arthur has a bitter smile on his face. He is currently on sandy ground. Water current soaking the sand time by time. Arthur looks in the straight direction where the roof of a house is visible. ' I am Home, Everyone.'
' I am back to the Island of Death.' He says and smiles.
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