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Chapter 39 - Jackson

Zero started rapidly pulling his left hand in every direction, the whip fallowing his motion. The whip moved so fast, that it only had enough time to create small cuts into whatever it hit before it was moving once more. Due to Zero focusing the movements around the girl charging at him with the rock, her body was instantly met with the whip. Within seconds of his impromptu horizontal tornado, the girls body was sliced into more then seven pieces.

Without pause, Zero threw his hand out towards Jackson, the whip following both is motion as well as his minds intention. Instead of slicing through Jackson, the whip curled itself around his neck and entire body. With a hard tug of his hand, Jackson was sent flying past Zero and into the wall. There was a loud crack and a gasp of air leaving lungs as Jackson fell to the ground, landing on the sea of dead bodies. There was a small sob that came from Jackson's lying form, however Zero didn't care.

Zero proceeded to throw Jackson against the wall, as well as the ceiling and floor multiple times before a soul floated out of his body. The whip disappeared to reveal a bloody and broken Jackson. Without saying anything else, Zero walked over to the two darker floating souls in the room before absorbing them both.

-Notice-

Host currently has <24841> souls.

Zero turned around to find the three large men all sporting the same expression before he looked at Tyler. Tyler slightly flinched back as there eyes made contact before he recovered and spoke. "Zero, fix your expression." Zero didn't know what he was talking about, so he walked over to the window and looked at himself through the reflection. The first thing he noticed was his expression, which he realized looked psychotic, made even worse by the fact that blood was smeared and dripping off him.

Zero turned around, his face now the picture of disinterest. After Zero looked at Tyler for a moment, as if expecting something, Tyler finally spoke. "The day is almost over. Seeing as this was where you were supposed to sleep, we will quickly clear the body's, with your permission?" Zero shrugged at his question. "I have no use for them, do whatever you would like with them." Zero moved to the other side of the room, which seemed to be the front of what he figured was a classroom before everything happened.

After finding a chair that hadn't been broken, he placed it in the corner of the room and sat down, letting out a sigh. 'Window, tell me more about the entire situation. You have mentioned that all Windows are connected to a single System, and that this whole thing is a 'Trail'.'

-Notice-

Planet <4391.43> is currently in its Trial period. Each planet joins the System when it reaches the end of its safety period.

'What is a planets safety period?'

-Notice-

A planets safety period is something set by the System to protect its growth and there for the growth of souls. When a planets total population exceeds the Systems set number, the planet will loose its safety period and there connection with the System will be completed.

'How long does the average trial period last per planet?'

-Notice-

Unable to reveal the information. Please rephrase the question.

Zero sighed and asked again. 'How long does the Window believe planet <4391.43> will be in its Trial period?'

-Notice-

Each planet takes different amounts of time to finish their trail period.

'How does a planet finish their trail period?'

-Notice-

Unable to reveal information until Host collects the required amount of souls.

Zero asked his last question, not expecting the Window to answer. 'Window, what happens at 30k souls

-Notice-

Multiple things happen when a Host reaches <30,000> souls. Would the Host like a list?

Zero was shocked to find that the Window actually answered him. 'Show me the list.'

-Notice-

List of things that happen when <30,000> souls are acquired.

unlocked.

unlocked.

Ability <(F-) Rank Communication> acquirable.

Item acquirable.

Item acquirable.

Item acquirable.

Item acquirable.

Item acquirable.

Zero noticed the list went on for another multiple rows. As Zero looked through all the options, there was only three that he could see that seemed like obvious to him. The first was the Information that would be unlocked, however he didn't know what else he needed to know from the Window that would be worth getting in trouble for. The second one was the Shop Function being unlocked, however the shop revolved around having souls, and he couldn't see it being able to help him that much.

The last one, which was the Communication ability that would become acquirable seemed to be the one that had the highest chance of being what he meant. 'Window, Show me the description of the purchasable ability, F- rank Communication.'

-Notice-

Ability

Name-Communication

Rank-(F-)

Price-<30,000> souls

Description-This ability allows the caster to convey there thoughts to anyone they have come into contact with.

Information-The target must be within 1 foot of the caster for the ability to work.

Price of cast-<313> souls.

Zero looked at the abilities Description as well as its information with confusion. Anyone could tell that it would have little to no practical uses and decided that it must either be the shop function or the information Fykin had been referring to. 'Looks like I will just have to figure it out when I reach 30k souls.'

Zero sat in his chair acting like he was asleep while listening intently. Although he didn't feal in danger as he had his ultimate ability, he also wasn't going to needlessly raise its price by being an idiot in a world that wants to kill him.