"and whats happening when i kill someone? like how that works?" hil asked the system out loud. all this time he forgot the fact he can just think about stuff and itll happen.
[you just get their souls]
"thats it? just 1 soul each kill? thats not worth it."
[oh who said just 1 soul. you get all of their souls]
"all of their souls? wait, where did you get that idea from. its the fifth time we are doing this and you guys never added the soul thing, even that system of yours is a new thing we just used it once"
[eh well, lets say that erm... you know that thing from the future right? that uh...]
"again with that shit? i told you its useless, they only invested that because their world is grey and bland. trust me, if they were like the rest they would just take a sword and do whatever they are doing in that square."
[well but they cant and it is based on real thing, anyways, the souls you get depends on how many souls the person you killed has]
"what do you mean?"
[for an example, if someone killed 3 people he has 4 souls; the 1 he was born with and the ones he took from others, so if you kill that person you will get 4 souls. do note that its not working for other people like that; if the same person from before killed someone who killed 3 people he will only get the soul that person was born with]
"ok and what do i do with souls?"
[level up]
"how"
[you get enough souls, doing a ritual and you level up. dont ask about the ritual ill tell you about it later]
"oh yea? you will tell me it tomorrow"
[doubt]
after that, the room's door has opened and anna stepped in holding a bowl with one hand and a piece of bread with the another.
'damn, im getting here more food as a captive than a slave, i guess that rich man didnt care about the life of his slaves. well i dont think these bandits care about my as well, they will slaughter me after they get their weapons.' hil thought to himself while anna struggled to open the door, it seemed that the bowl in her hands was full, probably with a liquid.
"hi, mister blacksmith" the last word was pure mockery and filled with cynicism "i brought you some food and sketches for the weapons, make sure its done by a week." anna walked towards the bed and placed the food on the small table beside it and went out.
"oh and the sketch for the enchanted sword isnt done yet, someone will bring you that in a day, maybe even this evening." anna said while closing the door
when the moon could be seen and darkness has fallen upon the land there was a loud beep in hil's head.
[the moon sheds its pale light on the land after the sun has fallen, the howls and the cries of the wanderers who couldnt reach home can be heard in the distance]
[ skill: {awakening} has been activated ]
[ all stats increased by (x2) ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ function: (sanity) has been unlocked ]
[ function: (rage) has been unlocked ]
hil's head ringed 5 times and he felt a surge of power.
"argh, whats this, im not using this" hil said with groans and an unstable voice.
[yea but you didnt turn it off :)]
"well then how i turn it off?" after a few moments hil shouted "turn off"
[well its already active so you got to survive the night like this :)]
"you dickhead, you tricked me"
[look whos talking ¬_¬]
"what, hi, shut up!"
[just try to sleep im sure itll go away in an hour or two if you do that]
"well an hour or two is exactly how much of my sanity i can offer"
[not my problem ◔̯◔]
"damned asshole"
[ ¯\_( ͡°_ ͡°)_/¯ ]
"well, fuck off. i will, in fact, just sleep until the time is over"
[good luck then]
hil went to the bed in the room and lied down on his back, he didnt take off his clothes since he still wore the rags he got from the rich man.
"whaaaaat. they didnt give me a blanket"
[do you think you are in a hotel]
"no but i mean, its pretty cold here. i think we are underground actually why they didnt give me a blanket"
[calm down, sugar honey blondie of daddy, i will get you a blanket tomorrow, alright sweety (¬_¬)]
"oh goodness, my heart, it feels like its gonna explode from all your toxicity"
[just go to sleep ¬_¬]
"oh yea? well now im not doing that"
hil sprung up from his bed so fast he almost fell then he started to work on the sword he made
[going from sleeping to late night smithing?]
"well at least its warmer near the furnace"
[talking about that i think its out of coal]
"huh? is it?"
[well you did work on that sword for an hour or something, plus you didnt turn it off since then]
"OH SHIT, COULDNT YOU TELL ME ANY SOONER"
[shh, shush, its the middle of the night some people are trying to sleep you partying youngster]
"..."
at this point hil just couldnt reply to the system. he dragged his bed to the furnace and tried to fall asleep, this time however, he did fall asleep. while hil slept system messages popped in his inbox and waited for him to wake up.
after a few hours the messages stopped waiting and woke up hil.
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ !warning! sanity is reaching to its depths ]
[ your sanity is leaking ]
[ your sanity has gone beyond its rock bottom]
[ mode: (berserk) activated ]
[your mind learns from this awful experience and trains itself to become better]
[ stat: (mind) has been unlocked ]
[ mind has leveled up (+1) ]
[ your inner self feels hopeless and lost ]
all those messages popped up at once to wake their host up. after hil woke up only one, red, glowing message caught its eyes.
[ mode: (berserk) has been activated ]
hil couldnt read anything at this point as his eyes betrayed him and he started to hallucinate. black shapes emerged from the shadows, taunting him to hit them, chase them, kill them. his legs started to give in to the desire and began to shake as if begging him to chase the shapes. all he could see was the shapes, the fire in the furnace and the walls of the room.
after a few minutes his body, too, gave in to the desire and allowed his legs to chase the black, shadowy shapes. his arms tried to hit them with clumsy sweeps with no success as the legs walked on their own after the most eye catching shapes. at this point hil looked like a madman and he really was one now, until he regained his sanity the black shapes would keep taunting his body to chase them.
after an hour of madness, hil's eyes saw a beautiful, big, glowing, juicy shape. that shape was the biggest one yet and it taunted his body like there was no tomorrow. the second this shaped appeared the rest of the shapes ceased to exist and the madness in hil's eyes was directed to the new shape. the new shape was very different, it walked towards hil while taunting him instead of running away. that shape was also a humanoid. shape with legs, body, head and arms. it kept shouting at hil and when it was close enough it started to hit him. after the first hit hil's body boiled with rage and madness and he started to hit the black shape and this time it felt better than the others as his hands could feel the shape and the shape moaned and staggered each hit, the shape also bled black liquid after many hits. after a few minutes of a barrage of hits and sweeps the shape fell to the ground he dirtied with its liquid and hil got some messages.
[ the bloodlust was satisfied with the kill ]
[ mode: (berserk) has been deactivated ]
[ mode: (rage) has been deactivated ]
[ congrats on your first kill! +1 additional soul ]
[ killed a human, +3 souls ]
after all the messages faded the madness in hil's eyes faded as well and his legs gave up and let him drop to the floor. his vision was restored and the black shapes were no more, but, instead of the black shape he defeated, there was a body, with a long brown hair and a slim figure. the black shape has turned into a bloodied, dead...
"anna?"