Chapter 11
Staring at his wife in this timeline Crimson felt hurt, betrayed, powerless and useless.
He loved her and has done a lot of things to keep her close to him, ever since they were kids they have been in love but now that things suddenly become tough for him, she hastily abandoned him and hop into another greener pasture, {CJ was right, Your best friend or family member true nature will be exposed when he has power and same goes for people who called you friends or comrade, you will be abandoned by them when you have no more value}.
{If only I had power such thing could have happened, I would be able to acquire any type of woman I want, govern any kingdom and do whatever makes me happy} he thought as he looked at his now ex-wife, who was giggling and smiling at sir McMuffin like a teenage girl in love.
Feeling hatred and disgust for her, he turned and wished to leave them, but how can McMuffin let him go freely?
He suddenly heard sir McMuffin's grumpy voice call out to him "Crimson, come on, be my slave and I pledge that you will be able to at least eat meal ones a day, cause from the look of things..." He pause his lips and gaze at Crimson from head to toe then said "you are born to be a slave, hahaha!".
Crimson clenched his fist so tightly that his veins pultrude out of his arms, he felt so embarrassed that he wish to throw a punch right at McMuffin's chubby face, but he didn't.
If it was the past him, son of Walker's noble family, he would have made sure to teach sir McMuffin a lesson but after going through numerous sceneries and experiencing several miseries, emotional traumas, war and a lot more he slowly changes from the vulnerable mind and hothead boy into a claim and calculative man.
He knew that punching sir McMuffin would lead to his death and even if he luckily killed him he won't gain anything rather he will gain a powerful enemy trying to hunt him.
Without showing too much emotion on his face he bows to Sir McMuffin and turns to go out but just when he reaches the door and reaches out his hand to open it, someone abruptly rushes in and stabs a dagger into his stomach, still in surprise Crimson looked at the person and discover he was wearing Sir McMuffin guards attire.
He force himself to turn, he wanted to ask Sir McMuffin why, why did he kill him. and what he saw made him feel like dying straight away, his ex-wife and sir McMuffin was watching him like a movie as his life force seep away, it was like he was just a rat made to entertain them as they laughed and kiss each other.
[Humans can betray you, be it your brother who cares and take care of you, your parents who always protect and guard you or your lover who has been with you through tough and rough times.
As long as benefits which are so alluring are presented to them, they won't hesitate to stab the hands they value.
The only thing that can be with you no matter who abandons you, who hates you and who craves for you is, "POWER!!!" with it you can twist the world or society rules into your favour, and with it, you shall be feared, respected, worship and can easily dominate the universe and that's the reason am created to give you power so.
You have lived for 1,500 years, spending 40 years each in three mortals world and hundred years each in the superhuman world, you have experience battles of different tides and know what to expect so I ask you.
CRIMSON WALKER, LAST HOLDER OF THE PRIMORDIAL ORDER BLOODLINE, WOULD YOU ACCEPT ME AS YOUR SYSTEM?, BE THE GUARDIAN OF UNIVERSE, PROTECTOR OF RACES AND SEAL THE CHAOS BLOODLINE ONCE MORE].
Although the words sound hurtful, it was the bitter truth.
Strange scenes flash through Crimson's head, a warrior who leads millions of soldiers in war gets betrayed later by his generals.
A man having his village raided and slaughtered by humans from another kingdom, the powerlessness he felt that day made him cry.
In another place, a teenage boy getting bullied in high school and the girl whom he dated and promised to be with him no matter what suddenly left him after a rich kid offered to take her out, ''Can't remain poor just because of you, the rich are worth fighting for, but poor pukes like you deserve no love cause you ain't worth it".
Those words hurt him and made him know one thing which he hasn't known, 'POWER!' he must have even if he has to become the villain or anti-hero to have it then so be it!
He calmly look at the system and then open his lips and spoke one sentence,
"No".
Even the system was stunned, who in their right sense of mind would reject a golden alternative to become strong?
But Crimson just did, after going through those rough times, it didn't only sharpen his sense of battle, but also made him wiser he looked at the system and said expressionlessly, "Nothing comes for free, especially power, speak what's your mission with me? What do you want? And what are you?".
[Mission: Stop the seal of the demon god to be broken and if eventually the seal gets broken then you are chosen to stop him...
Who am I?....
I don't know if my memory has been sealed for now but when you get stronger you will find the answers.
It's either you accept the power now and find a way to leave the underground building, the fight is reaching the climate].
Confused by what he means by underground fight, it took him over 20 seconds to realize that he has been in an illusion and his main body is still somewhere else, feeling conflicted he wanted to reject having the power but thinking back to the words he ones heard "even if it's to sell my soul to the devil I shall do it", he suddenly felt calm, {yes without power, I'm not fit to negotiate in anything...}.
And without further delay, he looks at the words,
>Reject< >Accept<
And then mutter ''accept.''
A purple light ball suddenly spread around his body, Crimson felt warm inside but suddenly the warmth feeling disappear and got replaced with an intense inching, it felt like millions of ants were crawling and biting him with sheer determination he manage not to scream.
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Back to the underground, the building has completely collapsed, with a lot of human corpses littering the floor.
The only safe place was where Crimson and Jane layed unconscious, the necklace which Jane's mother gave her was held tightly in her hands even though she was unconscious and strangely the necklace release a barrier which protect both her and Crimson as they were close to each other.
Crimson whose body has been unconscious for some minutes suddenly tremble and then dark liquid start oozing out of his pores, the liquid smell so awful that even Jane sneeze subconsciously, just as it instantly appears the purple light although faint suddenly surrounds him and evaporates the liquid.
"Urrgg..." Crimson woke up and looked around, he felt energized and filled with power, like he could punch a mountain which he knew was just a joke after all he hasn't received any power but had his talent awakened.
Just when he wanted to stand up the system popped up in his front.
[Quest complete: Reward will be given immediately].
"Hopefully it will help in this situation" Crimson mumbled as he looked around, seeing the fighting going on with the last only two humans fighting 3 other humans while the shura was nowhere to be found.
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Well, this is my first time writing a novel, also English isn't my first language.
Would love it if you guys drop a comment on my mistakes and which plotline deserves to be amended.
With your, helps am sure this novel will be great.
Thank you for reading.