Jack and Rebecca journey through the vast, desolate city. The hairs on Jack's neck rise as he hears an eerily familiar crunching sounds in the distance.
"Hold up!" Jack harshly whispers to Rebecca, then he throws his hand up, using a hand signal to inform her that she needs to stop moving.
She recognizes the crunching sounds as well and immediately stops moving, holding her breath as Jack slowly approaches around the corner.
He recognizes a familiar sight, a sight of horror and disgust. He sees a Xelon! The horrifying creature appears to be munching on a poor soul. They can't recognize the thing its chewing as it's been mutilated.
The creature starts gurgling the meat and blood as it rips and tears through the body. Its face becomes covered in crimson red as pieces of meat are scattered across its face.
Without alarming the creature both Jack and Rebecca silently move past the horrifying sight.
A few moments of crouch walking they come into an alley, Jack looks up at the mini map and sees that the position of the yellow dot is estimated to be about 200 meters away from their position.
Jack taps Rebecca on the shoulder, alarming her.
"We'll cut through this alley, just try your best not to make any noise alright." Jack whispers into Rebecca's ear.
She nods in agreement as the two start slowly walking, watching their steps to make sure they don't step on any sort of glass or paper. The alley way is covered in moss, it seems nature has started to take over the city.
Just as they're about to step out of the alley way Jack hears a crunch sound, turning his head, he sees a panicked face.
The color on Rebecca's face has disappeared as she stepped on a broken piece of glass, the sound reverberates through the air, and they hear a loud shuffle coming from where the Xelon was.
Jack quickly grabs hold of Rebecca's arm, but as he does, he freezes. Memories flash through his eyes of the incident with Claire. He quickly releases his grip and tells Rebecca to make a run for the store right in front of them.
"RUN! Find a hiding spot, I'll distract it!" He shouts as he grabs a handful of moss with shards of glass inside.
Rebecca doesn't think twice and runs at full speed towards the store across the road.
As she is about to cross the street with Jack the monster appears out of the Alley, with drool coming down its chin, blood splattered all over its face and claws. It looks hideous, with its kangaroo legs and big meaty claws.
Jack pushes Rebecca into the building as the creature lunges at them. Rebecca falls into the building as she turns around; she sees Jack get picked up by the creature and thrown into a broken-down car.
The creature turns its attention to Jack as it slowly approaches. It wants to play with its food before finishing it off.
Jack twists his body as the creature rains down a powerful blow that rips the roof of the car in half.
Jack throws the moss-covered glass into the monsters' face. Aiming for what looks to be its eyes.
The monster lets out a piercing howl that makes Jack and Rebecca tremble in fear as green blood slowly drips out of the creature's wound.
Rebecca takes one of her knives and aims for the creatures back. She throws it with all her might, piercing the creature.
It lets out a howl of pain as it turns its attention towards Rebecca.
With a missing eye and a knife sticking out of its back it charges at the girl.
Just as it about to lung at Rebecca to deliver the killing blow, Jack takes his knife and slashes the back of the creatures' legs.
The creature tumbles to the ground, blood leaking out of its knees.
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The creature wails and swings its massive arms around trying to get up but Jack takes his sharp knife and digs it into the creature's back and starts ripping it upward. Green blood splatters everywhere as the Xelon howls in pain. Jack takes Rebecca's knife and starts stabbing into the Xelon. Starting from the upper back and working his way to its skull.
Within a few moments the Xelon stops moving and Jack is covered in its blood.
Rebecca slowly approaches Jack, "Did we, do it?"
Jack breathing heavily as he stands above the Xelon, slowly nods his head, "I think so, it stopped moving."
That second, he said that a notification popped up, the system has sent an alert to Jack.
< DANGER! DANGER! DANGER! >
Just then the Xelon body twisted and his claw smacked Jack into the building! A loud crash and bangs can be heard from outside as Jack crashed into the shelves.
Rebecca, frozen in fear, watches as the Xelon slowly stands up. The Xelon is covered in green blood making it look even more horrifying than it originally did.
It slowly approaches Rebecca, and she stands there petrified. Jack laying in a mess as he looks at his status,
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Player Name: Jack
Race: Human
Class Job: None
Level: 3
Health Points: 8 / 25
Stamina Points: 15 / 25
Stats:
Strength - 3
Agility - 6
Intelligence - 5
Luck - 10
Experience: 320 / 1,000
Unspent Status Points: (0)
Skills: Increase in status points when level up by 2
Improvised Weapon Mastery: 10 / 1,000
Stealth Mastery: 145 / 1,000
Knife Mastery: 320 / 1,000
>
He thinks to himself, 'shit.'
Jack hears a piercing scream come from the store front and he quickly rushes out, the sight before him fills Jack with fear and regret!
He watches as the Xelon throws Rebecca around, slamming her into the broken-down cars and road. Blood spraying everywhere as her body gets brutally wrecked.
Jack shakes his head as he musters up an ounce of courage he has and charges at the Xelon.
Throwing Rebecca's knife at the creature, striking it in the back of the neck. The Xelon releases Rebecca making her fall on the ground.
Jack doesn't have time to look at her wounds and see if she's still breathing. The next second decides if he lives or dies.
"I won't abandon someone again! I WON'T!" He shouts out loud as he cuts and slices at the Xelon.
The Xelon slams down its claws onto Jack's back, pinning him into the road.
It picks up the broken Jack and decides to eat him. The Xelon opens its gapping maw as it slowly descends onto Jack's head. As it is about to eat his head Jack Slices the Xelon's throat, making it drop Jack onto the ground as blood profusely pours out of its wounds.
The Xelon starts stumbling, and Jack takes this opportunity and takes his knife stabbing it in the waist and twisting his body to the left, causing the knife to slice open its gut.
The creatures' organs spill out and it slowly drops to the ground.
< 1,000 Experience Gained >
It takes but a moment for Jack to register what just happened and rushes to Rebecca's side.
He quickly checks on her pulse and sees if she is breathing. Luckily, she is.
Seeing that she isn't conscious though, Jack picks her up princess style and carries her to his tent in his hideout.
As soon as he lays her down, he immediately grabs his first aid kit. "I'm sorry for seeing you naked, but I gotta do this." Jack mumbles to himself as he strips her naked.
Jack performs first aid on Rebecca, cleaning up her wounds and bandaging her up.
"Thank god for my training..." Jack says as he falls back watching Rebecca breathing easily again and seems to be asleep. "I can't watch another person slowly get torn apart by those fucking things again."
Jack gets up and starts cleaning his tools. Thinking to himself, 'I'm going to need a bigger weapon. Any recommendation, system?'
'Yes, Jack. There are a few places nearby where you can get a bladed weapon, or you can purchase from our shop via system points.'
'How do I get these "System Points"?' Jack askes
'You must complete certain trails set by the gods, in doing so you'll gain a certain amount. Do to your first Xelon kill, the gods have bestowed upon you 1,000 system points that can be used in the shop. Would you like to see what is available?'
"FUCK Yeah!" Jack shouts out loud, causing Rebecca to stir about in her sleep.
The system pulls up an item list, and Jack starts scrolling through it. Sadly, the items he sees are extremely expensive, and half of them that he clicks on have labeling of ????, and when he asks what that means to the system, it just replies that he doesn't mean the required level and or stats to see the displayed information.
He sighs but finally he gets an idea, 'Hey system, can you recommend any sort of items that I can use and can afford right now?'
'Most certainly.' And then the system pulls up a small list of items that are quite alright but nothing eye catching like the expensive items he was seeing.
Shaking his head, he stops himself for a moment, 'hold up, how often will I be able to get these system points?' He asks the system.
'That all depends on your travels.' The system replied.
Thinking for a second Jack finally decides to save his system points for the time being. Unless something dangerous like today happened, he decided to leave his points piling up.
A couple of hours later Rebecca finally opens her eyes, she weakly says to Jack, "H-How d-did we sur-sur-survive?"
Jack grabs her hands and with a reassuring smile says, "It wasn't easy, but I managed to kill it and bring you back here, your safe now."
Rebecca smiles back at him as she slowly closes her eyes, "Th-thank you." she mutters before falling back to sleep.
Jack smiles at her as he leans against the bed with a bowl filled with blood covered cotton swaps and water dyed crimson. He lets out a breath he did not know he was holding.
"Thank god you're alright." Jack mumbles to himself, as he looks up into the tent.