Another Quest...
Neo scowled when he saw the familiar message flickering in his mind, though, he quickly calmed down and sighed.
'Well, at least this time I have been given enough time.'
1 hour...
That was more than enough time for him to complete his next Legacy Quest without the need to rush things pointlessly.
The only problem, was, however, the fact that he had to eat the carcass in front of him to complete the Quest. The whole of it, at that.
Or that is how he interpreted it from the Quest's description. After consuming a piece of flesh of the horror he had slain, he inherited 2% of its Legacy. This meant, if he wanted to inherit its Legacy wholly, whatever that was, to begin with, he had to eat the remains of the beast without leaving anything behind.
'Let's just hope I don't have to munch on the bones also or else...'
Letting out a soft groan filled with anguish and disgust, Neo ignored the pain piercing his entire body, grabbed his knife, and began to chop up the Augur Beast's carcass into small chunks. Then, after a hint of hesitancy, he threw them into his mouth.
'Urgh... Gross! Disgusting! Tastes like crap!'
Grumbling silently with small teardrops rolling down his cheeks from the corner of his eyes, Neo kept chewing on the cursed thing's flesh and organs with a ghostly pale face while the messages flickered silently in his mind.
Naturally, he could have decided to explore his surroundings and see whether he could find some materials to create fire, to cook them thus making this moment more... enjoyable, however, after thinking about it in more depth he changed his mind.
First of all, he was blind. Except for darkness, he could see nothing which meant his chances for survival was pretty much equal to zero, especially in this nightmare where horrors like the beast he had just slain seemed to be lurking!
Hell, just thinking about how he will survive from this point onward made him both helpless and terrified, his only hope being the mysterious system in his possession.
Secondly, he didn't know where he was and how he got here. The only thing he figured out so far was that he was no longer on the planet he was so familiar with, Earth, but somewhere else.
...After all, on Earth, there were no monsters like the one that almost claimed his life, meaning he was truly in another world no matter how hard it was to believe.
Thus, with all that in mind, he knew it was best not to rush things and take one step at a time.
Lastly, which was also the most important one, he was completely and utterly beaten up. Not only was his leg injured thanks to the Augur Beast, but every muscle and bone in his body felt numb and ached thanks to those two gangsters who beat him up before he...
Killed them.
'No, that is not right. I wasn't the one who has done that to them. I don't know what happened, but it was not me!'
Shaking his head firmly while swallowing a chunk of flesh with a still pale face, Neo shifted his line of thought somewhere else and frowned.
'That phenomenon... What the heck was that?'
He could still vividly remember as the sky turned crimson and the way a mysterious voice appeared out of nowhere and began to speak. A voice that sounded both majestic and... ominous...
Also, there was that conversation between those beings he got to overhear just before he lost consciousness. He didn't know who they were and what their true intent was, but he knew one thing for almost sure...
They were the cause he was here and probably also the reason why he got this Legacy System. This meant if he wanted answers he had two options; either find those beings or try and ask the system itself.
'Though, for some reason, I doubt I would get any answers from it even if I try it.' Neo sighed bitterly.
"You never know. It's still worth a shot if you ask me."
Hearing Zen's voice Neo stopped chewing for a second before he scowled and asked silently;
'Probably. But before that... How did you do it?'
"Hm? Did what?"
Biting off a small chunk from the raw flesh in his hand with a grimace, causing darkish blood to flow down his lips and chin, Neo chewed slowly and thought;
'Don't play the fool. You know perfectly well what I'm talking about!'
"If you are curious about how I took care of those two back there, then sadly I have to let you down, I have no clue."
'That's just bullsh-!'
"I'm telling the truth." Zen interrupted Neo with an indifferent voice and continued, "I really don't know how I did it. The only thing that I know is that you wanted my help, so I did exactly that."
'Wanted your... Help? Nonsense! After all the crap I had to go through, all the hell I had to endure just because of you, I would rather die than ask for your help ever again!'
Hearing those words, Zen chuckled softly.
"You can say and believe in whatever you want, but you can't deny the fact you have asked for my help. Whether consciously or not, you wished for my aid."
'That's...'
The scowl on Neo's face only deepened, not knowing what he should say or think. He was pretty confident in his memory and he knew for sure he didn't ask for Zen's aid.
No, that's not right. Even if he would have chosen to ask Zen to help him, it still won't explain how he achieved what he did. This was the very first time when something like this happened to him.
It felt both unnatural and... Frightening.
'I need to figure this out, but how?' swallowing the last chunk of flesh from his hand before using the knife to chop up the organs, Neo grunted.
[You have inherited 86% of the Augur Beast's Legacy!]
Upon seeing that he was almost there Neo took a deep breath and sighed.
'Well, whatever... Even if I decide to stay here for days and try to figure out what happened there with what little information I have, it's pointless. Instead...'
He should focus on things that could actually help him and probably give him answers.
"Yeah, that's right. I'm talking about you! You are the only one who can help me, so speak!" Neo spoke loudly, hoping the system will speak to him once again.
However, it didn't. Despite waiting for several minutes in silence while chewing on bloody organs on the verge of puking, the Legacy System which spoke to him before didn't answer him this time.
"As I thought..."
Neo sighed again, and just as he was ready to bite into the juicy heart of the slain beast, the system spoke.
[...Aurora.]
'Hm? Aurora? Is that it... Her name?' Neo raised a brow before he smiled and said, "So you have decided to speak once again. How delightful! Then can you tell me where am I and how did I get here?"
[...]
"...Please?"
[...]
Neo's smile quickly vanished when he heard no answers again, and as he sighed dejectedly he raised the small heart before his mouth.
"Sure, then I will figure it out myself... I guess."
Then, he took a big bite from the organ in his hand, only to feel as if he bit into something hard, causing his teeth to almost shatter as a result!
"Urgh... What the-"
With a pained scowl, Neo took out the thing from his mouth and wished to use his fingers to "see" what that hard thing was, however, just as he could have the system notified him about something.
[You have inherited 100% of the Augur Beast's Legacy!]
"Huh? But I still have more to..." Neo hoped to say something when suddenly a sharp pain pierced his head from both sides, making him feel as if his head was about to explode!
It felt so painful that both the thing he bit on accidentally and his knife fell out of his grasp as his hands subconsciously went and clutched his head.
And not even a second later, that in truth felt like several hours...
[Congratulations! You have successfully inherited a new Legacy: Enhanced Senses!]
[Congratulations! You have completed your assigned Legacy Quest!]
[You can collect your Rewards within the Quest Hall!]