"What is the use of this damn thing?" Jaffery Lutta asked himself in a murmur as he fiddled with a small cleaver in his hand. The cleaver's cutting edge was 20centimetre long with a handle that only his hand could fit in fully without leaving any space. The cleaver was so shinny in that it glistened in the disco lights of this floor. Jaffery Lutta could even see his own face on the shinny surface of the cleaver.
Anyway, just as Jaffery Lutta was still pondering, a panel surfaced in his mind which startled him at first before he saw that the information of the cleaver was written on the panel.
"So, this is what I can depend on in this time of struggle? I thought a gun would have been much better that this. Anyway, at least I have a weapon to protect myself to what is coming my way." Jaffery Lutta thought inwardly.
The panel flickered and Jaffery Lutta's status information was showed,
Name : Jaffery Lutta
Age : 16
Survival level: 1
Exp: 1/100
Agility: 5
Vitality: 10
Stamina: 10
Spirit: 10
Endurance: 5
[ Survival level will improve when the exp bar is wholly filled. Agility is the current speed of the user, Vitality is the lifeforce of the user that determines the life that the user has remained with, note that vitality can also be improved with stat points obtained after a level up. Stamina is the energy of the user and it is measured in (dings), Spirit is the will of the user that helps in mind control mage- like skills and attacks.]
[ Level 1 cleaver - has the ability to kill the corrupted ones. If you kill the corrupted ones with this cleaver, you will receive their boons which will be added to your stats. Yes. Kill the corrupted ones to survive or be replaced by them.] This was all that Jaffery Lutta read on the panel. But the question that remained in his mind was who were these corrupted ones that had been said?
"All this is sick stuff. I don't believe it." Ojo Abraham spluttered the bar table into splinters in anger. He had also seen the panel inside him and everyone had seen it but Ojo Abraham refused to accept the reality.
Jaffery Lutta glanced at Benjamin Sunusi and he could see that the guy was utterly devastated. He couldn't even stand up from where he was and he had already forgotten about their earlier scuffle between him and Jaffery Lutta as they fought over Shamim Mwikhaki. What Benjamin Sunusi was thinking right now was how this world was going to be. How they were going to survive in this mayhem.
Benjamin Sunusi threw the hammer that he was holding in his hand aside and burrowed his head between his palms. However the next moment, Benjamin Sunusi stared at Jaffery Lutta with determined eyes and then the hammer that he had just thrown away.
"I have to kll you for real today. Even if I will have to go to jail, so what!" Benjamin Sunusi stood up tiredly and picked up the hammer, he was adamant this time. He hated Jaffery Lutta's guts to the core and the guy had been a sore to his eyes, if he didn't send him on his way to his maker today, then he would not be Benjamin Sunusi. All the stress and helpless of his was thus pointed at Jaffery Lutta, Yes. He blamed Jaffery Lutta for his misfortunes so, he had to take Jaffery Lutta out so that his agitated heart could calm down. He was not doing this because he wanted Shamim Mwikhaki, No. He just wanted to finish off Jaffery Lutta.
However, the moment that Benjamin Sunusi wanted to move forward, they all could hear cries and shouts of agony from the lower floors. These cries appalled them and no one moved as they waited for what was about to unfold.
It didn't took too much time and they could all hear rashed footsteps on the stairs as several people seemed to be coming towards their way but those people didn't even have that chance as Jaffery Lutta's group could then hear that the rushed footsteps came to a halt before a cry of help reverberated in the corridor, after that, there were several cries of agony before the owners of the voices became quite.
"Why have they became quite?"