The voice that disturbed me belonged to none other than the system. The eerie mechanical voice neither masculine nor feminine tone with a feint metal scratching background made me wonder who was the one that had created it everytime I heard it.
But since I arrived here the mechanical voice was the one and only support I had. It always quenched my curiosity and also gave me some information. Now the mechanical voice had sounded again that means there is something I need to know.
KILL THE BEAST TO GAIN EXP POINTS.....
My mind went blank for a second after hearing it."Why did it not come to my mind ?"
Was the first thing I thought.
Then I slowly opened my eyes, gaze fixated at the half dead bird beast tweaking vigorously like the god of death himself was sucking the life out of it.
Blood from the bird beasts wounds had long stopped and the cause of it might not be its recovery as one might think. Rather the bird beast was far more nearer to its death than ever before.
I stared at the bird beast for a while with a sense of pity but was also amazed by its greed to life. It flew here with those ghastly gashes all over its body hanging to dear life and was still trying to fight for its life.
The thought of killing the bird beast to gain exp points had not even once crossed my mind but now the mechanical voice had planted a seed of greed in my heart.
The bird beast was there within my reach and I could have easily end it but there was something that was telling me not to do it. It was hard to point to that feeling but it had become a wall between me and the thought of killing the bird.
Greed is a destructive force that even made gods tremble and i was but a mere mortal. The amount of exp points I could get was huge though not astronomical and the benefits from exp pointa were obvious.
Levelling up, unlocking my skills that could give me some life saving abilities and the free attribute points that could me back my freedom of walking, there were many benefits of killing that bird but what could letting the bird die on its own give? A sense of satisfaction thats all.
My covetous eyes were now even more fixated on the bird beast. And like the bird had sensed me looking at it with greedy eyes shivered and tried looking in my direction but it failed to do so. It was too badly injured.
Even though I had already made up my mind, I searched for reasons to end the bird beasts miserable life.