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Chapter 3 - A Crisis

{ HP-58 }

{ HP 39/100 }

As the spikes pierced through his arms he tried his hardest not to scream out loud. The blood was running down his arms onto the floor, all he could do was watch as the blood ran down and off onto the floor. The bully started smirking.

"Is that all you got?" Cristian said violently pulling the spikes out of his arms ripping off flesh and it slide out.

{ HP-5 }

{ HP 34/100 }

He cried out in pain laying on the floor bleeding out.

"Your pathetic, I thought you would at least entertain me a little," Cristian said walking away.

{ HP-1 }

{ HP-1 }

{ HP-1 }

Then Ike felt the feeling when he was laying in the bed, when they had pulled the tube out of him he felt nothing and when he looked over nothing was there. Ike looked at his arms it had some sort of glitch type effect but all red, when he looked at his HP he knew what it was. It was some sort of healing ability.

{ HP+1 }

{ HP+1 }

{ HP+1 }

Ike could feel his strength growing, there was no longer pain in his arms. He walked up to Cristian and as the boy turned around Ike punched him straight in the face knocking Cristian of balance.

"AH you bastard!" Cristian yelled as he plummeted to the ground.

"What's wrong Cristian, did I punch you to hard?" Ike said smirking.

Cristian stood up with a sinister grin on his face, charging at Ike he lifted up his arm and curled his hand into a ball.

{ Next Action: Earth power }

In an instant Cristian slammed his into the ground creating spikes that were expanding out of the ground at an alarming rate. He didn't know what to do, he just got ready and lifted up his arms again waiting for it to hit, waiting for it to come and him scream out in pain. But nothing happened, he slowly put down his arms to see what was going on.

{ New Skill Learned: corruption panel }

When he looked up he saw a red glitched shield that was blocking the path of the spikes Cristian had created.

"What the hell is that!?" Cristian blurted out.

Ike was still in a state of shock but also relief, he did not want to take that hit. Cristian started pounding at the panel with everything he had.

{ Next Action: Earth empowerment }

{ Next Action: Absorption }

{ Next Action: Mimicry }

{ Next Action: Ground rupture }

But every time he hit the corrupted panel he did nothing. At this he started to get frustrated.

"Why isn't breaking!?" Cristian said hitting the corrupted panel again and again.

Ike then questioned this ability, can he manipulate it? he took his hand pointing it at the corrupted panel and slowly moved it to the right, it started to stretch following his hands movement. He had another idea and shaped the front of the panel into spears, he slowly walked forward pushing the wall of spears towards Cristian. Cristian saw this and panicked there was no way around it.

"Wait stop I was just messing with you!" Cristian yelled out.

"You call stabbing me playing?" he replied walking towards him speeding up his pace.

"Please spare me, I won't do it again I swear!" Cristian said, tears running off his cheeks.

"I don't want to feel pain! I'm begging you let me go please!" Cristian shouted.

But after he heard Cristian begging him he had no mercy, he couldn't hold it back anymore his expression turned into a menacing smile, his mind went blank and before he realized it.

A piercing scream hit the air and Ike had killed Cristian. He turned over to Cristian's friends who were watching the fight and when they saw Ike's menacing eyes they tried to run. In an instant Ike put of a corruption panel right in front of the others and cut off there exit. He slowly walked towards them getting ready to kill, he formed a spear in his hands. Getting ready he held the spear in the air.

{ New Skill Learned: Glitch manipulation }

the notification the Network gave him took him out of his blank state before he could throw the spear towards them. When he saw the spear in his hands it disintegrated into nothing, when he looked around the hall he was in he saw everyone staring, watching what was happening. He couldn't deal with it so put his hood up and his hands in his pockets and walked away until he reached his room. He opened the door and shut as soon as he stepped in, he laid on his bed tried going to sleep but he couldn't get his mind off what what had happened he didn't even want to think about what he did to the boy named Cristian. his effort to sleep was a failure so he decided to take a look at his network.

[ Possessor: Ike Torres ]

[ Level: 4 ]

[ Race: Unknown ]

[ HP 62/100 ]

[ Strength: 50 ]

[ Agility: 94 ]

[ Stamina: 74 ]

He looked over at his level to see how much xp he gained from the fight.

[ xp 352/2000 ]

he wanted to know what happened after he leveled up but it would take some time if he needed 2000. The only way he could think of getting to 2000 was to complete more of those kill quests that the Network assigned him when Cristian confronted him. The only downside is that if he got to caught up in the objective like last time he could end up killing other that he didn't need to kill. A sudden thought crossed his mind.

'Do random people give me xp even without the me having the objective to kill them?'

He wanted to test it out but didn't want to risk the thought being wrong. If he was right then he had something to gain from it, if he was wrong he just killed people for no reason. But what's wrong with that?

'What should I do?'