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Chapter 13 - Risks And Rewards

Hearing the robotic voice , Astrick found himself once again in this white room as he found out something he didn't the last time , this place was full of mana , more pure than any type of mana he has ever seen before, it only made him get more curious about this System thing.

Speaking about it , the voice continued its analysis as it started stating Astrick's most recognizable moments in Lilith's world.

[The Challenger Has completed A Hidden Mission: Save Three People From A Certain Death]

[The Challenger Killed Over 40 Zombies And 3 Humans]

[The Challenger Was Able To Lower The Main Mission's Difficulty To A :B Grade Difficulty And Complete The Mission]

[The Challenger Has Killed 1 Mutated Zombie]

[The Challenger Has Completed The First Step To His Next Main Mission]

Hearing the last sentence made Astrick really confused as he didn't understand ,

' next mission? does that mean there are gonna be more missions in the future? but why ? he could understand that the first mission is to test for some reason , but what purpose would another mission serve?'

The Voice didn't care about his confusion as it kept talking.

[With Great Risks Comes Great Rewards, Your Risks Will Be Awarded Rightfully]

[Completing the main mission , the Challenger has been given +30% System authority + awakened a part of a teleportation ability]

[The System will be installed in the challenger's body after returning to his home world]

[The Challenger completed a hidden mission: +1 healing skill(Quick Regeneration(rank: C+))]

[The Challenger has killed many zombies , humans , and a mutated zombie risking his life in all the fights.... ]

[The Challenger will be awarded with accordingly...]

[Calculating available suitable awards....]

[The Challenger can pick one of the three following awards:..]

[1_ Increasing the challenger's mana pool X2...]

[2_ Obtaining the sword eater....]

[3_ Enhancing the challenger's battle power...]

Astrick was surprised that the voice wanted him to choose something as it was the first time it tried to communicate with him....

As For the choosing one of the awards , Astrick had already made his choice after hearing the options.

And the reason he made it that quickly was because of his ability, his ability was to copy anyone's fighting style as long as he watches it long enough , which was a strong ability that lives up to what is expected of a soul ability, but its potential was wasted as Astrick's body couldn't get strong enough to copy the styles of those who are really strong .

He was barely even able to copy the styles of those who had a higher rank than him, so the ability's potential was not achieved by Astrick because of his talent....

And his ability didn't use that much mana if he wasn't trying to copy someone's style , he could use a previously copied style with little to no use of mana, which eliminated the first award from his options .

As for the other options , it wasn't that specific on what is the battle power making Astrick suspicious , while the sword could be something useful to him since it can be paired up with his ability, but it was not clear if the sword was strong or not , forcing Astrick to make a choice between the last two options .

Eventually he decided to go with the second option , choosing the sword , there was no reasoning behind his decision as it was more of a gambit to him...

" I Choose the second option "

Astrick screamed for the voice to know his choice but got embarrassed after hearing the voice's response,

[The Challenger doesn't need to scream , as the System is inside your head , as long as your thoughts are guided towards the System , the System will hear you]

Astrick's face was red like a tomato as he coughed to hide his embarrassment,and said the choice in his brain this time....

[The Challenger picked the sword eater as his award...]

[The award will be given after the challenger's back to his world...]

[Proceeding the teleportation to the fallen world...]

After hearing the last few words Astrick's vision blacked out for a few seconds .

After his vision was back again he found himself in a place he was familiar with for the past 14 years of his life , but he never felt like missing it like he did in the past ten days.

He was finally back at his room , at his house at his world , he was finally back home again .

The Past ten days felt like ten years to him as all he did was risky and one mistake could've cost him his life , although the System said that he was able to somehow lower the mission's difficulty, which he didn't even think was possible .

It was still full of risks , and the only reason he was able to survive was because of pure luck and chances as well as being so cautious and as careful as possible.

Anyway he was so tired so he went to bed to get some proper sleep without even checking his awards .

Ten days in Lilith's world meant one day here , which also meant that now he only has two more days before the academy starts , he was going to spend this time with his family as he might not see them again for a long time.

With thoughts about what the future is hiding for him , Astrick got the best sleep he had in a long time .

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