The rectangular screen glitched slowly after it had notified Harry of the current state of his soul stone. The revelation had come as a surprise to him since he was not expecting to have darkness etched into his soul even though he was one with it.
After the system had performed its glitching action, the darkness around Harry slowly cleared away from his line of sight and he was finally able to open his eyes and see his surroundings.
The dark theme of the system screen appeared out of nowhere with the crackling sound of thunder and the purple colorization of lightning. Harry's eyes sparked with excitement as he stared at the new improvements the system had made to itself.
'I didn't know robotic systems were also show-offs', he sniggered with a sacarstic expression on his face.
As if reacting to what he had said the system disintegrated into nothing as if a highly corrosive acid had been poured on it. The crackling sound of thunder and the purple lightning appeared once again as the screen erupted with new words written on it.
[This system is one of a kind after all😏]
Harry almost spilled out saliva when he had seen what the screen had displayed. 'What the— what's with that emoji?', he asked with a look of annoyance.
[How did you know its name?😏]
Though it might have seemed like a simple question, it had caused a vein on Harry's forehead to bulge like crazy.
'What do you mean by that? I am not that dumb, stupid system', he replied forcefully with an agitated look on his scornful face.
[Hahahaha! I don't mean to offend you but from the data I have been able to obtain from your memories, your parents don't allow you to use a phone🤣]
Shut up!
Mongrel!
'You know nothing about me!', he exclaimed with all his might in a desperate attempt to silence the system for good. Though his attempt wasn't a bad one, it had done the opposite of what was expected of it.
[Oh, are you angry already. I'm just playing with you ]
The system had displayed this message without any emoji but the manner with which it had been displayed infuriated Harry to his core and he was ready to kill who ever had made this technological excuse of a system.
Fwoosh!
Before he could do so, a sudden object had erupted towards his torso. Harry had heard the sound of the approaching danger and had immediately hopped out of harm's way. He landed a few inches away from the object with his hand tightly gripping onto his chest.
Ba-thump!
Ba-thump!
His heart was beating violently in his chest and there no way of stopping it. This was as a result of it coming into contact with something which could have ended his life within a jiffy. Looking back at where the attack had landed, Harry could see the green roots of a plant crawling back into its original position. An awful scent filled the place as the root crawled back to its original position with a sickening sound.
Harry raised his line of sight to a higher angle and he could finally see the monstrosity which stood in front of him. The grass surrounding the place where the soul stone of the great cat had fallen had grown to a certain level and had intertwined with each creating and a humanoid monster made up of the blade like leaves of the grass.
His eyes darted around to search for the black sword but it was no where to be seen. Harry sighed in disdain while turning his head to the side with a look of annoyance on his face. His silver hair wavered effortlessly as if they were defying gravity. They displayed the immaculate glow of the blue highlights at the tip of his hair.
The screen appeared in front of him and this time it wasn't ready to mock him or do anything unimportant to him at the moment. The words written on it had come as a surprise to Harry who could now see that the whole system was like that of the games his classmates used to play in school.
[Calculating user's progress….]
[1000EXP has been allocated to user for defeating a 5th grade enemy.]
[1000EXP has been given to user as a first kill bonus]
[100EXP has been given to user for defeating a member of the Katakana race.]
[User has leveled up]
[User has leveled up]
[User has leveled up]
[User has leveled up]
[User has leveled up]
Even though Harry didn't understand what the system was doing, a tingling sensation had been building up within his body. His muscles tensed up a bit and he was able to notice a sudden rise in his strength as he opened and closed his hands a couple of times. This was done to check what the tingling sensation was doing to his body.
He gently slammed his hands together with a determined look on his face as he journeyed towards the monster in front of him.
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