"Chill dude, nothing's wrong. Just wondering, what's up with the hair." Speedster was the one who answered.
"The hair?" I said before taking a look at my hair.
'Fuck! '
'What the heck! '
'My hair has turned silver! '
My eyes widened in surprise as I looked at my now silver hair.
I was just as Bewildered as they are.
"Seems like even you don't know what's happening," Drake said with a frown, with this, he fell into deep thought.
"Maybe you are from the same family as me, maybe he is royalty and not from the Maxwell's," Silver said.
The situation was confusing, How can a person with jet-black hair suddenly turn silver, that's unnatural for sure.
But Leon was thinking about something else. He remembered the last thing he saw before he fainted and fell deep in thought.
'Did I get a System'
Naturally, this is Earth in the year 3000, and Qi has been formed in the world and since it has Qi. It's a Cultivation World.
Though it's more of a world of Cultivation with futuristic technologies [Urban Cultivation]. So things like phones, flying cars, and AI exist, But not in the slums but in cities.
The present technology is different, they are created with a more advanced technology than chips, this technology is created to resist the energy called Qi.
When Earth begot Qi, all phone technologies, the internet, and technologies that include the use of chips like radio and television, etc. Cease to work.
Scientists then formed a theory that as far as Qi is concerned, technology with chips won't work.
And the world then went back to an almost primitive stage. Cars that use gears and machines are the only things that could be used.
The scientist and inventors set to work, researching technology that would be able to resist Qi, and then, the Qi resistor chip thereby known as the [Q.R Chip] for short came into existence
Past technologies were created with this chip, and that was it.
Since the Q.R Chip was hard to create, there were few of them, making phones and other things rare and costly.
So lots of these rare technologies are used by those with money, while those in slums use the trashed ones.
Nevertheless, Leon has heard about systems from those who've read web novels, manga, and animes.
Yet, Leon was bewildered by the fact that he had a system.
"Leon..."
He heard someone call him, he recognized the voice as trickster's voice.
"Hmm..." he answered half-mindedly.
"Look up man, so what's up? You're saying right now that you have no idea of what's going on?"
"Yeah, I'm just as bewildered as you guys" Leo nodded. "But I am sure am not a royalty of any sort. I have the Maxwell blood This... I'm confused." Leon said in confusion, but Trickster did not seem to be buying it.
"So Drake, how do you think we should deal with this? His heart disease is already a problem making him a burden to us all, now we have to deal with this too!" Trickster said as he walked out of the room, visibly annoyed that Leon was not willing to speak up. He did not believe that Leon was telling the truth.
Leon ignored his rant and continued to let Lia feed him, he put up a brave face and let them decide. He had already told them the truth, it's up to them to believe it or not.
Though he acts nonchalantly he is scared about what might be the outcome of all this.
They might make him a wannabe, banishing him from the gang.
And without a gang to back him up, he wouldn't be able to last more than two days out on the streets. Especially when he has this heart disease that doesn't cease to trouble him every time he tries to work hard.
"Calm down guys, Calm down. We need every manpower we can get. Banishing Leon might do nothing but cause trouble for us, we don't want the Boss gangs to find out about our hideout." Drake said, trying to make the others think rationally.
"Think about it." He added. "Compared to other gangs, we are too small and don't have the manpower they do, and besides Leon is just as useful as everyone else during raids... It's hardcore running that makes his heart fail."
"But Drake, don't you see the kind of burden he is becoming, we almost got caught yesterday because of him" Gym bro chimmers in support of Trickster.
Lia who was feeding Leon felt sad as she heard their words, but she kept mute and continued feeding Leon.
But after some time even she couldn't take it.
"It's unreasonable to treat Leo like this all because of his hair"
Though it seems as if they were acting like this because of his hair, most of them have been looking for a reason for Leon to get banished.
They felt that keeping him would bring nothing but trouble, especially with that heart disease of his.
Despite hearing what she said they still kept arguing amongst themselves, with only the Gangleader siding with Leon.
Lia was happy that the gang leader was supporting him.
But she couldn't keep up with this anymore, "ENOUGH!"
Hearing her shout like that all those in the room shut up and looked at her.
Seeing that she got their attention, she spoke, "I Don't Care Whether you banish him or not, but keep in mind that if Leon is out, then am out with him. We joined together and we will go together, so if you think that he is not good for this measly group then suit yourself, cause the moment he steps out, then am out with him"
What Lia said stung hard at everyone's heart. Like a charm, they stopped the argument.
*Cough *Cough *Cough
"No worries, we weren't planning on doing that, we are just bickering" Gym bro said while coughing and walking out of the room. He decided to meet Trickster who was already outside.
He wants to escape as fast as possible from the tense and awkward atmosphere of this room.
Soon, everyone apart from Drake, muttered their own excuse before walking out of the room.
"Man, That heart disease is trouble, you slept for more than eleven hours," Drake said in his deep husky voice as he went and stood beside Lia.
"Thanks, guys, you guys are truly my lucky charm," Leon said with a genuine smile on his face.
He wanted to check out that system right now, but he decided to do it in private.
An hour later, only Leo was left in the room, he stood up and stretched for a while. But just then he heard someone speaking in his mind.
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Congratulations Leon Maxwell, my reincarnated self, the Soul Merging process has been completed.
You have obtained a Legacy from the God Of Souls, Deus Anima...
THE GOD OF SOULS SYSTEM
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