"uh" hil said as he stepped into the room, "where are the other boys? i thought i will be showering with the males?" he asked the warden beside him, confused.
"there arent enough men to reserve a room for them so you will be taking a shower here". the warden said that and closed the room. she stayed inside, probably as a guard.
hil didnt really want to shower with girls. it wasnt because his preferences were slipping towards somewhere else but because of his... well... you could call it his "primal instincts".
hil didnt feel comfortable taking his clothes off either. its fine if you are alone or if you are with a group of people who dont care but here? it wasnt doable. the room was pretty small; there were 2 large baths, one bath was at the right side and one at the opposite, 4 hoses that came from holes with a large gap between each in the wall in front of the entrance, some benches and pretty much everything else you would see in a public shower rooms. some prisoners were sitting on the benches, probably talking and drying themselves. some were using the hoses to shower, they put some kind of lotion on their skin and washed it off after a few minutes. some were relaxing inside the baths, they all talked with each other and splashed some water while occasionally laughing.
hil didnt want to get involved with any of these groups so he just went to the hoses and claimed one for himself. he didnt even take his clothes off and showered with them. the rest of the prisoners were either naked or wore a very thin cloth around their privates.
after hil made sure he splashed some body everywhere on his body he took the lotion bottle and rubbed himself. after that he put the bottle down and kept rubbing himself with the lotion. it was pretty hard as he needed to lift up his shirt and take off his pants to actually clean himself. hil ran out of lotion and reached for the bottle but his hand was coated with leftovers of the slippery lotion so the bottle slipped from his hand and fell on the floor.
'oh' hil thought, 'i dropped the soap'
he squated and took the bottle from the floor. after that hil kept scrubbing himself. after he was done with scrubbing his body and hair he took his shirt off and washed everything away. it took some time as he still was in his briefs.
after hil was done he headed outside. on his way he bumped into a fellow prisoner.
"ah, sorry" hil noticed she dropped something, "here, ill pick it up for you"
hil bended over to pick up the clothes she dropped but suddenly she slapped his butt and reached to his ass under his briefs.
[ you are feeling wrathful ]
[ rage (+50) ]
"SKILL: REND" hil shouted at the middle of the room.
[ -20 mana ]
the woman's hand that was on his hips suddenly was filled with cuts. it was overflowing with blood and some parts of her fingertips fell off.
the woman groaned.
"you little rascal. wait until i knock you out" the woman shouted at him and started to hit him.
hil quickly stood up and stepped back until he was out of the woman's range.
"EDGE!" hil shouted again.
[ skill: {call} has been activated ]
the beautiful purple sword appeared once again with a puff of smoky mist. hil swiftly cut off both of the woman's hands and quickly dashed behind her. when he was behind her back he thrusted his sword from behind and pierced her heart. the sword's edge could be seen peeking from her chest, so strong was the thrust that wounded her or was the sword simply godly?
hil raised his knee and kicked the woman's lower back while pulling back his sword from her body. the sword was separated from her body and the woman fell on her knees and died shortly after.
after her body fell lifeless to the floor everything accelerated quickly. many women ran to hil and tried to kill him as well. the guards couldnt handle all the chaos and just exited the room shouting stuff. some women just screamed or hid and the women that ran at hil soon fell down to the floor as he slashed their limbs in a beautiful dance-like moves with his sword.
after some time you couldnt tell what possibly happened here. the floor was filled with bodies and layers of blood and limbs. there were no longer any water here as they all blended with the seas of blood. no screams were heard as the women in hide fainted. the only one standing was a figure coated on blood and holding a beautiful purple sword.
[ the rage has faded ]
hil fell down on his knees and the sword faded.
"awwwww. it hurts everywhere" hil moaned.
hil's bones cracked with loud voices. it sounded like he even broke some of them.
[ hidden quest completed! ]
[ x10 luck for 1 minute ]
messages popped out in front of the confused hil who was about to check how many souls he got.
"oh! really? shit" hil said as he realized he needed to do it quick. he opened his status window and checked his souls. he got so many souls that he could level up 5 times and even have some souls left.
"alright. gimme that luck my friend" he said as he confirmed his request to level up.
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
[ level up!, +3 to each stat ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ Y/N ]
[ exclusive skill, hyper healing ]
[ would you like to activate the event? ]
[ ... ]
[ .. ]
[ . ]
after everything hil could level up six times because of an event that made 1 level up free but due to the extra souls he had to pay he had no souls left now. hil opened his status window to check everything.
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user: hil | level: 11 | race: human
health points: 100/100
strength: 31
agility: 29
stamina: 22
mind: 17
mana: 34 / 34
sanity: 100/100
rage: 0/100
souls: 0
ability: edge, the tamer, creature of the night, master of contracts.
skills: call, quick edge, flow, overflow, tame, awakening, lesser contract, roar, smithing, give me a break, rend, hyper healing.
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this time the luck effect worked very nicely. hil only got a useless event twice and even got a new skill.
"well, well, now lets check the..."
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skill: hyper healing (level: 1), (passive)
'tis but a scratch
description: natural healing of the body increases dramatically
effects: wounds heal much faster
!: the skill's effects will be distributed through the body, the more wounds there are the lesser the effects. on the other side, the less wounds there are, the faster they will heal.
!: unable to heal wounds more severe than skin wounds (shallow cuts, burns, etc.)
!: will not heal diseases but may accelerate the healing process
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"ooo, a jackpot! if i just have to kill some people for this much luck ill do it everyday, haha" hil giggled and celebrated his great new skill.
"lets try it" he said as he scratched his arm.
he waited for the red marks to appear. he waited. and waited. and waited. after a few minutes nothing happened.
'i guess it heals wounds much faster than i expected. now i can play with cats i guess' hil shrugged it off from him, not aware to how rare the potential of this skill was.
"couldve been my best day yet. too bad i have to take a shower again" hil sighed.
he checked the baths. there werent any people there but the water were red as blood. well, it really was blood. he went to the hoses and washed himself again, this time with no one to slap his butt.
after a few minutes the door was slammed open. the warden that brought hil here was at the door with 5 other guards. they all looked around, terrified. they jumped at hil who couldnt hear them because of the water. he tried to struggle a bit thinking it was another woman who wants to hit him but after he realized they are guards he faked himself fainting. hil closed his eyes and made a neutral face. he felt hands on him, lifting him up. he felt they were moving so he assumed he was moving back to his cell.
'i wish i had put some clothes on before this parade' hil thought, a bit embarrassed.
they kept going. hil tried to listen for whatever they were talking about or maybe some interesting things the prisoners say but he couldnt catch anything good.
hil was thrown back to his cell. he waited a few minutes before he "woke up", he went to his bed and took the thin blanket on it to cover himself as he still was naked with only his underwear. he spotted shane on the other bed, he was asleep. hil went to shane and started to slap him.
"uhuhuhuhuh" shane muttered as his cheeks changed shape 4 times per second.
"good, you are up. when are they cutting off our dicks?" hil asked shane with a completely serious voice.
"huh?" shane muttered, "our what?"
"oh god" hil replied, "they already cut yours. im all alone here"
-"they arent cutting off any dicks friend. who told you that?"
"well, you see..."
hil kept going telling shane about how genders of babies are 50/50 and there cant be so many women.
"oh you dont know?" shane told hil," there was some nasty outbreak here or something like that. for some years no male baby was produced and not many babies survived as well. i dont know what really happened, most of the people dont know either so dont ask about it. its pretty weird but thats how it is. now there are male babies but so few since most of this kingdom are females. they also have the upper hand in everything, today no male can live by himself unless he has ties with a woman."
shane kept explaining why there are so many women and answered hil's questions. he didnt know most of the answers but tried his best to answer.
"wait" hil asked "then how did i see some males here?"
"well males arent that rare. besides, some just cross the border and come here."
"so basically" hil finished the Q&A session, "its normal that there are so many girls here?"
"with these circumstances, yes" shane replied.
they kept talking about various hot topics such as the weather, their favorite type of food:
"meat"
-"yes"
after some other heated discussions like mentioned hil noticed some prisoners going out and in of their cells.
"so... what now? do you know what they gonna do to us?" hil asked shane.
"they cant do jack" he replied, "we arent 20 yet thats the law"
"what does the law say then?"
"well, unless you slay the queen or something like that the kingdom cant brand you as a criminal before you reach 20 years."
"doesnt that mean they can just bring up everything we did in the past and take us right after we turn 20?" hil asked, confused a bit.
"nah" shane explained, "its not like that. itll just be forgotten by the law. it may impact about your public image though, which isnt very good. it might work for you actually since you killed people. maybe some assassin group will pay you for jobs"
"i dont need anything like that for now. so anyways, now we just go away from here?"
"haha" shane sighed, "i wish. now they will take us to the correcting school."
"the what?"