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Chapter 11 - Cleric System - Pest control

Ok. Cedar here again. Last I left off I believe it was the end of the broadcast. Let me have a moment to remember what happened after that. 

After waking up Janet's kids informed me I'd slept eight hours. And after the system unlock started there was another broadcast that informed everyone they had 48 hours before the titans would arrive. 

After helping her son by showing him my system he suggested going home and getting anything that could be useful. He reads a lot of stories so I figured 'I'm out of my league here. Might as well follow his advice.'

So I go home. I locate the system inventory like I'd seen. I start with the basics like food. Turns out the inventory freezes time for whatever is in it.

The next thing I grab is my guns and ammoes. Figured they might be of some use. That's when I hear it. A sound like paper ripping. I rush to my living room to see a black slash with jagged edges in the middle of my living room

"Spontaneous quest generated. Defeat the monster that spawns. Reward. System upgrade. Failure. Probable death" 

My system opens without me accessing it reading a message outloud as I watch the black tear starts closing. As it gets about a foot long two baby doll sized hands pop out pushing at the edges. 

As I watch this small creature squirm from the rip I can't help but say aloud "goddammit. You're uglier than a two day old road killed skunk" 

"Creature assessed. Race, gremlin. Threat level, B-" my system informs me the name and threat of the creature before me. 

"B level Threat. Buy it's tiny" I say as I raise my boot. The gremlin wasn't but 6 inches tall and had dark scaly skin. I bring my boot down and stomp it with a crunch soon as it falls from the rip and hits the ground 

"Well that was easy" I say as I lift my foot. The gremlin was still alive "ok. Not so easy" I say stomping it again and grinding my heel

This time when I lift my boot it's getting up in seconds. "More persistent than a roach huh?" I mutter. Obviously stomping it wouldn't work. So I raise the shotgun in my hands and hold it a foot away from the ugly bastard. 

I squeeze the trigger as the gunshot echoes inside. The gremlin's torso is destroyed as the head and legs hit the ground 

"Quest complete. Due to monster difficulty rewards are being recalculated" my system reads the new message for me