[SYSTEM TALKING TO HOST: Host EXP level added a hundred points for consuming a hundred coins, too. Thus, the host HP level is decreasing to 28%. The lesser the HP the lesser the chance of being the Rank 1 Grim Reaper. Do you wish to open another Item?]
The system keeps on talking even though Frey is ignoring her for a while. She was with Andreus and Harley at the very point. After a private conversation with King Amadeus, Frey confidently walks back to the Irish Annex, following the two reapers who know the way out.
"Tell me, what did you do to take back the King's decision? You know, he's the one who never broke what he already said or decided. So c'mon Celestine, do you have any malicious affair with King Amadeus?" Andreus broke the silence. He eventually caught her attention this time. He cannot be blamed, he knew King Amadeus. He's a low-tempered and impatient King of the Afterlife.
"Nothing unusual, well I just talked to him about something and he said . . . okay I'm giving you another chance." Frey left a mysterious smile, she could still remember the guilty figure of King after she spilled out about Alabama. The King truly gave her another chance. In three hundred and sixty-five days she needs to raise her rank as a Negotiator, if not, Frey will accept the punishment for Celestine and just disappear in the world as if she doesn't exist.
The System helped her a lot to overcome that storm that was supposed to hit her two hours ago. And she thought of trusting the System, everything she needed is on her files.
Frey doesn't want an enemy, especially on this side of the world, but there are no other ways she can do it. She needed to protect herself, she wanted to go back to her original form and leave the dark place she was walking at.
But on the other side, she doesn't know that King Amadeus is as furious as storms and thunders. His big voice is exploding throughout his throne. "I need to eliminate her," The King mumbled to himself.
"Wooh, hellish hell! That was loud." Harley who was walking on Frey's side jumped in horror after a tremendous thunder and lightning echoed to the building on their way out of the IRISH.
"A deity must be in anger," Andreus said.
Frey, who was now in silence glanced to the corners of the place. 'They were all busy.'
PING!
Frey automatically blinked her eyes, responding to the familiar beeping sound that entered her head, then the blue screen with a floating envelope popped up in her system.
POWER TREATS!
• ADD UP HEALTH PILL
> Take it for only 10% energy of a soul who was betrayed by her family.
°Get
°Delete
Yeah! Frey's feeling is getting weaker, she can sense her speed is getting slower. And coldness is hugging her from head to toe.
[The Host should get the Power threats before it expires, her HP percentage should rise at least 50%. If not, the Host HP Level will drain and she cannot come back to her stability.]
'You want me to get that thing, even though you know I don't have what you want in return?' Frey's irritably responded to the System's command.
[SYSTEM TALKING TO HOST: The Host can scan through the Storage to find the free skill she has.]
Puzzled, Frey scanned the Shop as System said. There she finds a free item under Skills.
'Plundering?'
[The System commands the Host to simply touch her colleague, either Andreus or Harley as they both have the energy the host needs.]
Confused but still Frey do what she was told, as she said earlier, she should trust the system. She will go back to her true body if she succeeded in this crazy system.
She slowly touch the tip of her index finger to Andrues shoulders, the slight touch wouldn't leave any trace of what she had done.
In one instance, Frey successfully steals some of Andreus' energy as she felt a sudden change in her mental state. She never thought it would be that possible, but it is.
'Amazing.'
Now she clicks on the Add Up Pill and paid for the energy she plunders.
[CONGRATULATIONS HOST FOR SUCCESSFULLY PUNDERING 10% OF ENERGY WHO WAS BETRAYED BY HER FAMILY TO YOUR COLLEAGUE ANDREUS.]
[CONGRATULATIONS ON AVAILING OF THE POWER TREATS! YOUR HP LEVEL INCREASES UP TO 62 PERCENT. TO FILL UP MORE, YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT ANOTHER OPTION ON HOW TO INCREASE YOUR HP LEVEL IN THE QUEST SECTION.]
'Nah, I'm fine for it right now.'
[20 EXP HAS BEEN CREDITED TO THE HOST. NOW DISPLAYING HER CURRENT STATS.]
NAME: FREY STATTERFIELD
AGE: THIRTY-THREE
LEVEL: 1
COINS: 200/10000
HP: 62/100%
EXP: 120/500
STRENGTH: 20/100%
INTELLIGENCE: 40/100%
SKILLS:
PLUNDERING- LEVEL 1
TELEPORTATION- UNLOCKS AT LEVEL 2
QUESTS: Updates daily
SHOP: Open
SPIN THE WHEEL: UNLOCKS AT LEVEL 5
"Ugh, wait." Andreus stopped and look both ladies with him.
Frey gulped at Andreus' sharp look at him. 'Did he find out what I did?' she asked herself.
"Argh! Something bit my shoulder, alas! It hurts." Andreus caressed his shoulder, from the expression on his face it was obvious that the man was hurt.
"The building needs to be inspected by pest control, Andreus," the runner nurse reaper Harley said before eyeing Andreus' shoulder.
They were surprised by what they saw, Andreus have burnt skin, it was small but it look hot and painful.
"You guys still need to go back to the infirmary to look at your wound," Harley said to her companion in a bit of a panic.
"Oh! No more Harley babe, Celestine and I have to go somewhere." After that, he raised a card in front of them. There are strange carvings on the card surrounded by a flaming red pen.
"Oh, job call. Okay, just hurry back after your duty. I'll gonna treat your wound, okay?"
Harley left her two friends and went straight to her workplace again. 'Surely they will be working again overnight.'
***
Frey and Andreus headed to a construction site, there was silence all over. And only a cry from frogs and little crickets was visible in their ears. The two reapers parked their Black Fortuner on the other side of the road, then goes along with the crowd of construction workers leaving the place to go home. Frey, on the other hand, got confused about what was happening. She never thought that Grim Reapers are as modernized as the human being was. Having a luxury building, nurses, and a car?
Frey come out on acting after she knew she can't teleport at the moment, after looking back at her stats she figured out why. Her teleportation skill will be unlocked at level two, meaning, she needs more experience to level up. Good thing, Andreus ride along with her acts, being tired of all that had happened to her the past days.
"Where are we?" Frey asked.
"Celes, you go there, and I will go there too." Andreus pointed out the right way for her and the left for him. Frey with confusion just nods her head, she shouldn't get caught knowing anything about their job.
In just a blink of an eye, Andreus lost like a bubble in the thin air while Frey was left clueless.
"Ohh. That was cool, I wanted to teleport as easily as he was. Hmm . . ." Frey tried flickering her fingers but as expected nothing happened. "Okay, I knew it, level up before getting the teleportation. For now, I will just run as fast as I could."
***
Amidst the cold shabby room, a trembling man hides in a corner. He looked around, observing if he had been tracked down by the one who had been chasing him. The man is the soul that Frey and Andreus are supposed to be escorted to the Afterlife, but unfortunately, they can't as the soul resists. The soul scream that he didn't want to go and that he needed to go home to his family.
Frey, who had been rounding the entire construction site, luckily found the soul he was looking for. She heard his sobs and followed it, and there in the darkroom on the fourth floor, he met the target.
"Eduardo Gomez?"
Little prayers are the response to the call Frey has done. A mixture of crying and pleading came from that small voice.
"Leave, let me go. I don't want to die."
Frey felt the same emotion from the soul. Similarly, she is also someone who does not want to die. "Nobody wants to die, but you have to come with me. Don't worry, I'm sure you're heading to a good place."
"No. I don't want to!" His voice grew louder, desperate that he didn't want to go with Frey.
The System explained to her earlier what should be done in this job. They must bring the soul to the Underworld to be judged on whether they can accept reincarnation or be banished to the boiling lava of hell.
"No," cried the soul, running towards Frey. And since they are both creatures of the Afterlife, he was able to grab Frey by the neck. He lays the reaper down and keeps hurting her.
Frey's body is not yet capable of the abilities that a fetcher should have, he can't do anything, just forcefully pushing the soul even though she can't.
"H-help . . ." Frey mumbled, slowly losing her breath.
"If I can't go back to my family, I'll make sure you can't take me to the place you're saying."
The man's face showed desperation, he held Frey's breath with all his might. He had no intention of stopping.
PING!
[YOUR SYSTEM OPENS A DAILY QUEST]
[PREPARING . . .]
[QUEST ON THE GO!
°Blink 20 times for 2O seconds
Reward: Get a FACE-SLAPPING HAND
POWER: 100/100
HOW TO USE: ONE BLOW OF SLAP AND LET YOUR ENEMY SLEEP FOR AN HOUR.
COOLDOWN: FIVE DAYS
'Twenty blinks? It's that all? Okay.' Frey was now having a hard time do as what the System wanted.
After doing so, automatically, the reward appeared to be available on her stats. Without wasting any more time, Frey get the Face Slapping hand and landed it on the perpetrator's face.
Then, it was declared as a knockdown. Frey stood up, catching her breath, and face the soul with stars circling on his head.
Her hand is still burning in fire, a blue fire to be exact.
"That Slap is indeed a Victory", she thought.