"How did you break my shell!!!?? What is going on with you!?"
A reptile with a hairless back in the wall screamed while facing Crocus. As a response, Crocus only looked at the reptile with contempt. His arms wriggle, shocking the NPC turtle with dread.
"What kind of Ashura are you?!?? Why are you regenerating too!? Your health points are also coming back to full health! Why!!??"
Crocus moved in the turtle's direction. Controlling his emotion from his rage and to avoid the provocation, Crocus went silent and thought of his attacks.
'His shell was so strong, my five hands were destroyed, but for some unknown reason, the five of them were healing and my health improved. My ability is I deal more damage with every hit to the same foe.
'So each smack of his shell in the same area is effective. Adding the fact that in this wrath transformation, my human... Erhm... Demon body was seven times stronger than my human body.'
All of a sudden.
"Hey!! I will kill you!"
It was the reptile turtle out of his shell, screaming. The turtle looked secretly at his shell.
'I just need to heal a little. To make him look like I don't need it. I will try to take his attention with a little trash.'
"Hey... Maggot! Answer me! How did you do it!?"
Crocus ignored the turtle carefully, ignoring its noisy scrambling words while Crocus is still trying to calm himself down from his rage.
'An NPC that is so noisy and realistic. I hate this kind of NPC...'
In a split second, Crocus noticed something using his precognition.
'His health is going down. Could it be that his life is connected to his shell? I see.'
With a smile, Crocus walked next to the direction that made the turtle swallow its saliva.
'No... What is he thinking?'
The turtle said in his mind with a huge sweat, despite not having sweat glands.
'No... It can't be... He found out?!'
Crocus suddenly lifted the shell of the turtle. He looked at his hands, that healed and were currently healing.
'I have no idea why my hand is healing but... well, maybe because I am a demon now.'
Soon he made a punching position with the three of his six demonic hands.
"Let's see what will happen if I break this!"
The shell was so thick and had a sprouting thorn that hurt Crocus last time. Still, he didn't care. Crocus was about to smash his hand when...
"Wait."
Crocus did not look, but he knew it was the turtle. However, the pleading sound of the turtle will not stop him.
"WAAIIITT!!!"
This time, Crocus stopped and looked at that turtle who he found to look so weak.
"If you destroy it, you will kill me. If I die, you won't pass this chamber... *Cough Cough* I am the key to pass this chamber, so please give the shell back to me."
Crocus listened. He stopped and decided not to smash the shell. He is a little shocked inside because his killing intent was so strong against this turtle. If he killed this turtle, it might have been game over.
「 Time limit: 2 minutes and 37 seconds... 」
"Why should I believe you?"
Crocus asked, not giving the turtle shell.
The turtle did not want to waste energy answering, he lifted his reptilian hands and soon a door appeared in front of Crocus. Leading him to the next room.
"So it was that easy..."
Crocus entered the door, leaving the turtle behind.
「 Congratulations, you have completed the first cycle of the trial. You have proven that you are a brave Ashura warrior. 」
「 You are rewarded with 10,000 experience points... 」
「 The user reached level 14. Congratulations! 」
"That was all? First cycle? What do you mean?"
A scene appeared on Crocus's head.
It was a male with a red face and a horn, An Ashura race. Sitting down on the ground.
'A cut scene again?'
A screen appeared in front of him.
「 Skip cut the scene? [>] 」
Crocus clicked the cut-scenes and the surrounding dimension became twisted as his vision darkened.
Another screen appeared.
「 You have got 3 spirit eggs.
「 Game Dimension system notice: Remember, the user can get skills but depends on the location. The user can level up and get things as a reward. Happy gaming! 」
「 Continue to the second cycle? Yes [>] No [<] 」
Crocus was a little stunned as he grabbed the three spirit eggs.
'What the? I thought I could only level up? Take things and skills? Then what are these seven demon powers... Wait... Don't tell me... Hmm... Something's confusing but in a good way... I think.'
Lifting his hands to click 'Yes' Crocus remembered what happened earlier.
'First cycle, maybe there are more cycles if I stay in this place a little longer. Envy, I need to solve him first or I won't be able to go back to this Dark Beast... Zoo... Animals... Ah, whatever game this is. I want to see my fate as an Ashura.'
Crocus stopped on what he was about to do and then he clicked 'No.'
...
Outside, Envy appeared from the bottom of the pond. His hands and face are injured and the way he walks is a little off.
"F*ck! That sh*tty fishes almost got me. But I'm glad that I killed a lot of them, leaving more of those fishes! Kahahaha! My Envy disappeared. I also reached level five, and now... What should I do next?"
He instantly stopped and saw the body of a familiar person. He maniacally smiled as he looked at it with pure malice.
"What a good situation. It's time to pay back what you did to me... B*tch!"
All of the sudden, when Envy was about to come to the unconscious Crocus...
[ All system warnings! All system warnings! All system warnings! This is an anomaly that is not related to us or something we 'all systems' can't control. An unknown effect might happen to the user! An unknown effect might happen to the user! Once you are tagged as an anomaly, you might become a target of the system.
[ We have a powerful Magma spirit that can Burn and Bury anything you want. Consider exchanging it for a Magma spirit buffalo? Yes <> or No <> ]
"Huh? What Magma spirit? Are you kidding me!? I love my newfound power!!! I won't!"
[ What's the answer? ]
"Huh? Me? Of course NO! F*cking idiots!"
[ You have been tagged by the 'All system' as an anomaly. You won't be able to enter the 'All system' Academies and receive any future gifts from them. All system information, All system shops, and all system announcements. You can only use all system statuses. ]