Zuck had stabbed through the individual he had flung back earlier with his spear and saved Roland's hide. Yet all that sweat and blood got him no appreciation, well he was a ghost anyway so not much he could do about that.
Once the individual felt unconscious, his spear began to glow with a yellow hue. Having a faint idea of what this was from the description that stupid system gave, Zuck aimed the spear at the group near Roland and charged the spear with his chi energy. After a few seconds, the spear began to pulsate, visualising an arrow Zuck pushed the energy to hit all the assassins still standing.
'''ROAR!!!''' the raw power of the projectile the weapon fired created a loud sound as if it were a mighty beast pouncing on its victims.
All the assassins were knocked out cold and the ease of no longer being electrocuted knocked Roland out as well.
Panting heavily, with sweat beads pitter pattering on the floor, Zuck, having drained a massive amount of chi and spiritual energy, now turned to look at the doorway and noticed one of the village elders 'Solio' was here. Being an outer disciple with little talent he had always stayed with his parents in the outskirts and had never been able to join the settlement for higher talents amongst the outer disciples. Some amongst these would have the opportunity to become inner disciples and if they had true talent, a one in a million shot to become prime disciples or even elders.
"What is an elder doing here?" questioned Zuck. Well not that he was going to get any answers.
Solio looked like she was off the handle when she entered. It nearly frightened Zuck to death, well he would be if he wasn't already. He could literally see her eyes go red for a second when she saw Roland out cold, but slowly her expression turned to one of shock seeing all the assassins also knocked out.
It seemed like a few seconds passed, before she gathered herself and began dragging all the assassins to the Hall of Intel for the specialists to get some useful information out of.
How did Zuck know, by following her of course- he was a ghost so moving didn't exhaust him as he had no weight to carry and he was plain bored anyway. He had again tried entering his body, but after another unsuccessful attempt, he began to think of other ways to regain his body in the meantime.
After the scene was cleaned up, Solio left. But before she left, she asked one of the outer disciples she trusted to clean up the place and keep a watch out for any other occurrences at the barracks.
Zuck's association with the physical world was short-lived, now with nothing else to do, no need to eat or sleep, all he could feel was despair at the possibility that this was an impossible endeavour. Things had never gone his way in life, and it seemed it would be the same in death as well. He also remembered that the SRS told him something about taking him away into another place.
Zuck thought, 'if I don't have long in this world by that account, well let me come up with a name for the stupid system, I don't want to die to something called SRS. Hmm what would work best, a name that sounds super scary in case someone in the after life asks what got me. I think Kane II sounds perfect'.
Almost as if in agreement, Kane II woke up and spoke,
" --Time to transfer at central management facility 08Hrs:07Mins:23Sec-- "
Log 4 (Day 143, 300 A.C.): Update, world divergence anomaly detected, current trajectory based on corporate simulator rerun divergence of 50% in 25Yrs:8Mths:312Hrs:48Mins. Scenario 3 failure imminent, once threshold reached- world dissolution to be auto engaged.
Log 5 (Day 143, 300 A.C.): Recalculating possible scenarios for mitigating divergence ratio, calculating, calculating....
Log 6 (Day 143,300 A.C.): Options available to host:
1) Return to Central Management Facility for handling within 8 Hours, survive dissolution of world.
2) Extend stay in world with temporary body for 25Years, 8 Months uptil point of divergence to mitigate anomalies and restore world to ideal timeline.
Host has 3 Hours to decide, process of transference has to be initiated 5 Hours in advance for beam across to CMF.
Shaking from anxiety, Zuck was ignoring the bits about saving the world or what not. That was not relevant to him. What was relevant was that he could extend his stay and have a chance to beat that body thief and get his body back!
Cackling like a mad man who believed there was no tomorrow, Zuck yelled out, "Of course, I'm choosing option 2 I want to stay here hell yeah!!!!".
"-- --"
"What are you not telling me, you've been quiet too long. Don't tell me there is a catch somewhere?"
" --Time to create new body ETA 10Yrs--"
"No!!!! My sweet revenge, my body! Aaaarrghhhhh!!" yelled Zuck as he again wallowed in despair. Even more so than before, he was stuck as a ghost for the next 10 years…