Chapter 5: Insane Day
After a while of me doing nothing but stared at my handiwork.
My head buzzing with a new thought.
'What… did I just do'
Look like I hasn't processed what had happened.
"Hah, hah, hah, hah,…" my breathing speed up, my previous calm demeanor vanish.
My heart is beating loudly… so loud and fast I sure I would have a heart attack if not for my Mark.
Right… I killed this… thing… this is my first time killing but I felt like I already know how to killed this creature before.
Was that part of my Mark's abilities?
I was oddly calm as well, only after a few minutes does it hit me… yes. I've kill something, even if what I killed is not human I felt absolutely no remorse, like a predator hunting it's prey, it was frankly… normal.
Maybe I'm underestimating my Mark after all. These things aren't simple by nature.
"Phew…", a rough breath come out of my mouth.
A cool sensation calm my head, my heartbeat slow down. Not giving me time to panic my Mark has automatically make me cool down.
"Haaaaaaaa~" it is indeed not the time to panic.
"Kuh… Kuhahaha!" I laughed loudly disregarding the fact that something way worse could happened if I make too much noise.
What a fucked up scenario, don't you think? I just want some mud and a freaking abomination just jumped out and eat me like I'm it's snack.
Such comedy is life.
My laughter died down, I still want to live after all. Letting me laugh a little but no too much was a great way to decreased stress level.
When I finished checking my surrounding and make sure nothing will happened, even turning on my enhanced senses for a period of time, before finally relieved and sure that I'm still safe.
Now it's time to check my haul for this hunt.
Looking at the dead mutated plant, I remember the word of Kaula.
- When you killed a mutant, it's entire body will become a treasure trove from head to toe. So if you manage to kill some give them to me.
That was what she said, which is weird since I don't remember she kill any mutants before nor that she sell them to know that they worth a lot.
Was I suspicious of her, yes. But she don't even have money to buy an apartment for us to lived in, so it is unlikely that she ever caught or sell a mutant.
…
Maybe she heard it from someone else… that must be it…
Anyway, it is not like I don't have any secret either. And that secret is that I actually own 10 pence!
So rich I know.
But then it beg the question, how the fuck I'm suppose to transport this to the above. I don't have Folding ability like my sister…
How about I just use brute force and drag it to the scrapyard. But then it would make a blood trails, and there is a huge chance I going get extorted.
Ah, what a dilemma!
"How about… just take pieces of it and sell it?", my thought blurred out of my mouth subconsciously.
That right! Even if the quality will be worse and they won't value much. At least I will still have some meat… or vegetables for my sister to eat, given that she can eat it of course. I don't want her to have a third eye or anything. Though that would be kinda cool.
With that decision in mind, my hand move to clawed out the creature nails and leaves, and some flesh.
I wonder how good is plant's meat. Is that a thing?
'Maybe teeth will worth a lot…'
The plant-like creature simply don't just have leaves and root, it also have claw, mouth and teeth, honestly it look disgusting.
Thankfully it doesn't have eyes, people said that eyes is the window of the soul. And I do not want to see what kind of soul does this abomination has.
I tore my shirt and make a makeshift bag to contained the body part of this plant. Look like I need a new shirt, conveniently I'm in the sewer, I'll probably find some wet shirt down here somewhere.
"Hm~, does this guy have any organs? I heard they sell by a lot" I don't know if this Mutated plant have any organs but it's worth checking.
Placing the bloodied stash down to the side of the sewer, I use my finger and clawed out the plant-like creature to seek it's organ.
*Rip*
Sound of tearing flesh echo around the clamp sewer. The mushy feeling of flesh can be felt on my hand as I rip them apart, bit by bit.
'Still no organs, maybe it's somewhere here…" turn little to my left I'm continued to digging.
Slowly…
The previous creature is now disfigure, no longer the predator it used to be. Now a lifeless corpse for me to loot, in front of me is no longer a terrify beast but a trove of treasure.
As I continued to rip tear the flesh, slowly I discovered something, something shine brightly with a white color.
'What the fuck is that?' was my thought.
It's indeed the first time I killed a mutated plant so I don't really know what is the thing that making this mild white light. But as long as it's worth a lot he will tale it.
"Maybe this monster eat a flashlight before", of course he couldn't rule that out. False hope is worse than disappointment.
As I keep digging the light intensified notify me of it's presence. It is pulsing like a heart. 'What is that light…'
'Maybe… I should stop…' something tell me that when I reached the light me life will change for the better or worse.
But before I made any decision, I could feel it. A small bead like object, the surface texture is smooth, the warm it emit was very comfortable.
'I feel like melting.'
Once again for the second time my head felt drowsy and unfocused but instead of nausea, it felt warm and relaxing.
Is this how people felt when they do drug? I would do it too if I had know that it was this relaxing.
'Heaven… this is heaven right? I wonder if Kaula could come here and joined me'
My thought was in a jumble mess, nothing make sense yet everything is. But before I can sink to deep in addiction something awaken inside of me.
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A small sound ring in my head with a bunch of nonsensical word, except for the last part signify my newly added path.
A flow of new information appears in my mind as if it was always there. A new path has been added, and I already understand what it's capable of.
This feeling is weird… very weird. Like learning something you not supposed to, it felt… illegal.
"Wait… skills?" I do have some skills that had been ingrained in my Mark upon awaken. Skills is what I called my various Techniques.
I dubbed it
And lastly
Now I had a new one.
Unlike my previous 'techniques' that is in my Mark,
I will call that white bead for now, the most interesting thing of all is that I had gain something so unexpected when my task is only trying to find some mud.
'Instead of muds, I find white bead that can give me skill! What the fuck! Am I the son of God? Is my destiny was to become the second coming of Lord Transcendent?'
"Kahahahahhahahah!" of course such thing is delusional but I felt nice to be arrogant once in a while.
I know full well how trashy my life is after all. Just let me drown myself with pride for this time.
Like a maniac, I laughed until I'm started to cough profusely.
*Cough*
*Cough*
"Hahahah… haha..hah… haaaa~"
'Well that was satisfying'
I remember that there are still some Mutated Creature around my area. Should I go and kill then for the white bead?... no… don't let victory get over my head. Even if I could kill it that would still put my life at risk.
*Tak*, *Tak*, *Tak*,…
Sound of water dripping can be heard as I calm down… like a hypnotic chime. My mind come to daze as I recount today events.
Wasn't today like any other day, I tease my sister, go to the sewer, have some random thoughts on the way. I should be back home right now, yet today is so drastically different, so different I couldn't even compare.
I killed a Mutated plant, I dig out it's flesh like a psychopath, teeth, claws, blood…
I discovered something, a bead like shape thing that emit white color light, it's also gave me an euphoria of emotions. More than anything I finally discovered the path to become stronger.
The Mutated beast can improved my power by absorbing it's energy. For some reason all of this felt too surreal, so fake yet all of this is reality.
"Pah, let's stop thinking and move on"
Yeah, let's do that.
I'll have to move quickly before something located me, since I very been on hysterical streak for the entire 30 minutes that I'm standing there. It would be a miracle for nothing to come my way, and I don't believe in miracles.
Pick up the stash of bloodied body parts, I make a run for the exit. There should be a ladder two hundreds meters from here, if I make a mad dash for it then everything would be good.
Forget about the mud and whatever, I just want to get out of here as fast as possible.
'Goodbye sewer hope to never see you again, you will never be missed.'
With that regretful thought I ran.
Hopefully this time he isn't going to die by some Mutated beast for real.
Chapter 5: Insane Day