"Saviours are the true backbone of society, they protect us against the monsters, and without them, we would have already been overrun by the terrorist!"
"But if they didn't exist, the disease wouldn't exist, there would have been no monsters, and the terrorist would have just been some idiot groups with a gun! And the dark age would have never happened!"
Two men were arguing on opposite sides of a table, the one defending the saviours on the right, the other on the left, with a mediator between them.
"Oh, you with your ifs! If this and if that, the parasitee exists, and saviours exist, end of story. You keep calling them evil, but they are men and women who have gone through hell for us!"
Just about the other man was about to refute, the mediator intruppted.
"By your definition, what is a saviour?"
The man on the right was the first to respond.
"They are people who got infected, but their body managed to rid itself of the parasite, gaining the power, but not getting corrupted."
The man on the left's face turned into a scowl.
"Oh that's just convenient! Their body just happened to get rid of the disease at the perfect time! Let me tell you, they are lying bastards! They are corrupted but they managed to convince us they are not, they now control everything!"
"You are just ins—"
*Click*
William turned off the TV.
He was sat one his couch, with a blanket covering him. With the TV now off, he was sat in complete darkness, with an emotionless expression on his face. After a while, a small light filled the room.
*Ring**Ring*
It was Mr Roberts, who was ringing his phone. After letting the phone ring for a bit, he let out a sigh then answered the phone.
"Hel—"
"WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN!"
Mr Roberts screamed through the phone, which was very justified, as William hadn't shown up to work for three days now.
"I have just been si—"
"GET YOUR ASS HERE, NOW!"
Mr Roberts hung up.
"Fuck my life."
William threw his phone to the other side of the couch out of frustration. After his awakening, William's mental state reached absolute rock bottom. Hell, has has been sat on his couch for 2 days now!
He kept staring at the roof for a few minutes, he then got up, took a shower, changed his clothes and got out his apartment, to start making his way to the restaurant.
Although he wished nothing more than to stay at home and do nothing, he couldn't dare disobey Mr Roberts words, awakened or not.
As he was making his way to the restaurant he thought a while about what he had gained from awakening.
"Status."
He whispered.
****
『 William
Titles: Treacherous Beguiler
Rank: Awakened
Sub-rank: N/A
Ability: Space Manipulation
Sub-ability: Voice Of An Angel.
Artifact: Twilight Necklace of
prophecy 』
Treacherous Beguiler:
This title serves to remind you of your actions in your awakening challenge.
Space Manipulation:
You have the ability to manipulate space.
Voice Of An Angel:
Your voice, no matter the occasion, sounds extremely beautiful.
You have gained this sub-ability due to your performance on your awakening challenge.
Twilight:
This is an artifact that was created by the challenge's author.
It is your eternal companion, it will be with you untill your death. It gets stronger as you do, and it can be in any shape, as long as your mind imagines it.
It cannot be broken.
Necklace of prophecy:
A gift given to you by your master. While wearing it, your actual future can't be seen by seers.
***
It's safe to say that he had hit the jackpot. Even the ability he got was extremely overpowered, I mean Space Manipulation??
William's eyes kept lingering on the description of the Treacherous Beguiler.
'Looks like it's going to hunt me for the rest of my life'
William sighed.
He had almost reached the restaurant now, and to proof how vast the difference between his before and after awakening, a walk that took him more than 15 minutes, now took him only a little less than 5 minutes.
He opened the door to the restaurant and looked around.
It was your typical American restaurant, and as it was still afternoon, it wasn't really filled. As soon as he entered one of his co-workers noticed him.
"William! Where the he— You... Look like shit. What the hell happened? Did you go through a breakup or something?"
His co-worker, Michael's face turned into one of worry.
"Don't worry, it's nothing."
William quickly responded.
"Go ahead and enter boss's office, he sounds so pissed that I don't doubt that he may kill you."
Michael chuckled, while William just let out a faint smile.
William then walked over to the office. After some hesitation, He knocked on the office door and entered.
***
As soon as he entered he saw Mr Roberts sitting on a chair Infront of him a desk, and opposite to him two couches parallel to each other.
Mr Roberts was a dark skinned, slightly overweight man, he had a thick beard and mustache, and he was balding. All the hair on his head was gray, seemingly from stress not age.
As soon as William entered Mr Roberts took off his glasses and began glaring at William. But, as soon as he noticed William's condition, his face visibly softend.
"What's wrong, kid? Come sit down."
He spoke in a soft voice.
William walked over and sat down on one of the couches.
"Uncle I... Have awakened."
Silence filled the room after William's words.
"You have what now?"
"I have awa—"
"I heard you the first time! What do you mean you have awakened? How the hell have you awakened?"
Mr Roberts face was one of bewilderment as he sprung up from his chair and quickly made his way towards William.
"Well, turns out there is a challenge for awakening and I, well, passed it!"
William responded as he got up while slowly walking back.
But as soon as he said this, Mr Roberts stopped in his tracks and his face turned blank for a few seconds until he seemingly woke up again.
"I heard you the first time! What do you mean you have awakened? How the hell have you awakened?"
Mr Roberts said, as he was making his way towards William, shock visible on his face.
'What the hell?'
Didn't he just tell Mr Roberts what happened?
He told Mr Roberts about the challenge again and—
"I heard you the first time! What do you mean you have awakened? How the hell have you awakened?"
The same thing happened!
William now decided to just not tell Mr Roberts what happened.
"I just woke up a few days ago and found out I had awakened."
Mr Roberts was in disbelief.
"It is just that simple?!"
Although Mr Roberts had no reason to believe William, he also knew that there was no reason for William to lie about awakening! If he just wanted to escape from work, he would have said he was sick, not awakened.
"Well if you are awakened now, does that mean you have to turn your self In to the military?"
Mr Roberts asked, causing William's eyes to widen.
"I totally forgot about that!"