Jack and company make their way through downtown New York City. Climbing over broken down buildings, burnt up cars, and some burnt corpses. The smell of burnt metal fills the air and the wind blowing through the buildings gives an eerie and lonely feeling.
Jack has wrapped the girls with blankets he found throughout his journey as the temperature begins to drop.
"Stay close, girls." Jack says gesturing to the girls to stick close to him.
They slowly move through an abysmally dark alley way. The smell of rotting food and death fill their nostrils as they turn a corner, and a horrifying sight stands before them.
A man is standing over a dead corpse, and it appears to be eating something.
As they come closer, they hear the crunching of bones and Jack vaguely makes out what looks to be a man tearing something off of what could only be an arm.
Jack throws his right hand up signally the girls to stop moving and starts pushing his hand downward gesturing them to get down.
He looks on to see the man apparently enjoying his meal. Jack shakes his head. He slowly and silently approaches behind the man but suddenly a piercing scream from behind him erupts, causing Jack to look behind him.
What he sees and a horrible sight, apparently two other men were waiting in ambush as they snagged two of the girls, Jesse and Auburn! The sister sits on the ground petrified.
Jack became distracted as the other man comes swinging down with a club! Jack new heighten abilities allow him to dodge out of the way, but just barely.
Jack resolves himself quickly and takes his knife out. "Gotta help." He mumbles to himself.
The man charges at Jack, but Jack quickly dives out of the way and approaches the two other men that are pinning both Jesse and Auburn down onto the ground.
"Get off them!" Jack shouts outward.
With both knives in hand, Jack quickly throws one of them, nailing the one holding Auburn down in the eye!
< 20 Experience Points Gained >
Thinking to himself, 'Damn... This is truly insane. My aim and everything has improved greatly since getting this system.'
The one holding down Jesse watches as his friend's body collapses onto the ground. Shocked by what just happened, he doesn't see Jack standing in front of him.
In one swift motion Jack slits the man cross the eyes!
The man screams out in agony as he presses both hands against his face, "My eyes! My motherfucking eyes!"
Jack kicks the man in the chest causing him to fall into a pile of trash.
The other man comes charging at Jack shouting at him, "Die! Motherfucker, you and those beauties will become our fucking dinner!"
Jack twists around with his knife in hand and releases it as soon as he is in front of the man charging at him. This causes the knife to fly through the air at impressive speed, a loud thunk can heard as the man drops to the ground skidding all the way to Jack's feet.
< 20 Experience Points Gained >
Jack reaches down and steps on the man's head, one hand on the knife sticking out of the man's forehead. He yanks it out causes blood to just start pooling outward.
Jack turns his attention to the man scream and flailing around. "My eyes! How could you do this you bastard!" Seeing that he isn't going anywhere any time soon Jack shrugs and looks at the two girls laying on the ground.
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Jack walked up to both Auburn and Jesse, then helped them up.
"Are you both alright?" He says with great concern in his voice. This causes both girls to nod and blush slightly. "Go to your sister." Jack says with a soft demanding voice. The two girls quickly move over to her, and sit be her side.
Jack gives a nod. Then he turns his attention to the guy screaming. He lets out a sigh as he walks up to the man screaming. He grabs his knife and swiftly slits the man's throat, causing him to spew up blood and other bodily fluids.
Jack standing over the man watches as slowly die.
< 20 Experience Points Gained >
As soon as he gets the notification of his experience, Jack takes a look at his status.
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Player Name: Jack
Race: Human
Class Job: None
Level: 4
Health Points: 15 / 28
Stamina Points: 26 / 35
Stats:
Strength - 3
Agility - 9
Intelligence - 5
Luck - 10
Experience: 2,200 / 5,000
Unspent Status Points: (0)
Skills: Increase in status points when level up by 2
Improvised Weapon Mastery: 10 / 1,000
Stealth Mastery: 850 / 1,000
Knife Mastery I: 1,100 / 5,000
>
A smile appears as he looks at the experience he accumulated.
A few moments pass and he turns toward the girls. Sheathing his knives he walks up to them, helping them to their feet, and continuing onward to his hideout.
Seeing his hideout, Jack points toward it, "There she is girls." He says with a smile.
The girls nod and then follow behind Jack as he maneuvers through the broken road.
As they get closer a loud piercing roar fills both Jack and the girls with fear.
Recognizing the roar as one of the Xelon's, Jack whips his head toward it.
Not so far, he spots the Xelon rushing toward them. Jack shouts out, "Get inside, now!" The girls rush into the build as Jack takes his gun out.
Carefully aiming toward the Xelon, as it comes closer and closer, Jack pulls the trigger. Boom the end of the barrel ignites as blood spurts out from the Xelon's head.
Its head whips back as it falls to the ground. Jack takes this opportunity to continue on with the rest of his shots, emptying the gun into the Xelon's body.
Once he's out of bullets he throws the gun to the side and takes his knives out. Knowing the Xelon is far from dead.
"Come on!" Jack shouts as he slowly makes his way around the Xelon.
The creature slowly stands up, blood dripping from its gunshot wounds. Two shots to the head and two to the chest area.
As it sees Jack approaching, it lets out a deafening roar, causing Jack to slightly freeze in his spot.
A notification pops up.
< User has been petrified >
Seeing this for the first time, Jack is shocked, but it only lasts for a short while, because the Xelon is right in front of him with its big claw coming toward Jack.
Jack gets hit hard by the Xelon, blood erupts from Jack's chest as the claw comes down, ripping his shirt up and causing him to get sent flying a way.
Jack smacks hard onto the ground, coughing up blood. 'Damn, this think is fast and hits hard.'
As Jack looks up, he sees what could only be a smirk coming from Xelon face. This enrages Jack!
Jack twists his body, gaining momentum, he chunks one of his knives at the Xelon, piercing its eye!
The Xelon lets out a roar of pain! Jack takes this opportunity and sees a broken piece of rebar and grabs it. He charges at the creature and keeps to the side where the knife is sticking out of.
Unable to see where Jack went, Jack takes the chance and stabs the rebar through the Xelon's neck. And taking the knife in his other hand and slices the gut of the Xelon, causing its insides to spill out onto the ground.
But as he gets to the other side of the creature a massive claw smacks him into a pile of rubble, with a piece of rebar sticking out of it. That rebar pierces Jack from the back sticking out of his side.
Jack lets out a scream of pain.
The Xelon slowly approaches Jack, with its guts trailing behind it.
Jack grits his teeth and in a desperate attempt he pushes his body off the rebar and falls to his knees on the ground.
He watches the creature slowly and wobbling approach. He takes his knife and grips it tightly.
Jumping to his feet and cocks his hand back and with a roar and launches the knife as hard as he can.
The knife whistles through the air as it slams into the creature's head.
The Xelon head snaps back and it collapses onto the ground.
Jack collapses onto his feet as he presses tightly against his wound.
"Damn it... Th-this fu-fucking sucks..." Jack mumbles to himself as he doesn't receive experience points, which can only mean the Xelon is still alive.
Jack watches the creature struggle getting to its feet. Blood pooling all around it causing it to slip and fall. Eventually, it stands on its two feet.
The Xelon struggles taking a few steps before falling flat onto its face, causing the knife to come out the other side of its head.
A weak smile appears on Jack's face as he sees a notification for experience!
< 1,000 Experience Gained >
He mumbles a few words, "Good..." and passes out from the pain and fatigue.
What seems to be a few hours he wakes up covered in bandages and laying on a mat.
Standing next to his side is Jesse. She greets him with a smile, "Good morning."
Jack nods as he slowly recognizes the inside of his tent, "Th-thank you."