By the time Peter was able to catch his breath Mark had shut down the sprincklers. The water key was hidden inside a utility closet, you had to use a small ladder to acsses the pipe that feed the water from the water tanks on the roof of the building.
Before He and the Girls returned Peter looked at the wierdest thing he saw in his life.
A small popup similar to the notifications you get when browsing the internet apeared in front of him. the first screen was not bigger than a cellphone.
Level UP: Level 2!
For a second a feeling of revitalization took over him and he felt like if he just had done cocaine (not that he ever tried it *cough* *cough*) the feeling quickly faded and another screen apeared in front of him
You are the Human #6783 to achive Level 2
ACHIVMENT UNLOCKED
Title: Early Promise
+3 to All Attributes
The Cocaine like feeling took over him once again, this time it was more intense, far more intense, like an orgasm. Peter clenched his teeth and fists and tried to not make any wierd noises, even though he was alone at the moment he did not wanted to moan like a virgin on Prom night.
As he dismissed the screen in his mind it disapeared but before he could get up a new screen poped up in front of him
Level Up: Level 3!
He clenched his buttlocks and prepared himself for the burst of energy and overwhelming feeling that was to come, but this time it was more like the first time he leveled up, far more tolerable than when he aquired the Title
You are the Human #75 to achive Level 3
ACHIVMENT UNLOCKED
Unique Skill granted: Divine Eagel's All Seeing Eyes
As he was reading the first line the only thing he could think of is "Ohh shit, here we go again". but insted of gaining Stats he Gained a Skill, instantly insight on how to activate the skill came to him as if he was downloading the information to a computer.
For a second he sat there and wondered if something had changed in him. "All Seeing Eyes" kept replaying on his mind. He focused and tried activating the skill.
He went blind
Too much information was sent at the same time to the brain rendering his sight to what was for him a white light that was so bright it hurted him. he groaned as he deactivated the skill mentally, after a few seconds he dared to open his eyes again
Peter started to get a glimps of how the system worked and he focused on the skill he gained, trying to obtain more information of it. it took him some time and by the moment a blue screen apeared in front of him explaining what the skill granted him Mark and the girls where already back.
he read the description as they aproached him still seated with his back against the < ReanimatorBot > Level 10 *deceased*
Divine Eagel's All Seeing Eyes Lvl 1
The ability to see Everything that one wants.
Divine tier skill (SS)
It did not explained much but he had an idea, He activated the skill but he focused on infrared or better said thermal sight. he saw his surrondings, all of them tainted with a shade between deep purple to red finishing on a very bright yellow. The colder the surface the darker it was, the hotter, the brighter. Consciusly he started to switch between the diferent layers. he could even combine them. At some point he realized that he could see sound, similar to the way it was depicted in the videogames, he felt like he was a bat as he flicked hiss tongue and saw the after image of his surroundings.
"YO!" Mark screamed as he waved his hand in front of peter's face
"yes, sorry what is it?" he sad as he tunrned his sight back to normal human, keeping in mind to play with his skill later.
"your... eyes. they..." Mark seemed confused and looked a bit scared.
Peter took out his phone and used the screen as a black mirror to see himself.
horizontal slit pupils, and his eye glowed with an ever changing pattern of colors like a rainbow.
"i gained a skill at level 3. have any of you gained any levels yet?" Peter asked as he limply got up only to realize that his wounds where not as severe as he thought, he examined his calf, and the stab wound the ReanimatorBot did was almost closed. he guessed that his magically recovery rate speed had something to do with his level up. Definetely something to keep in mind for the future
"no, Levels..." Mark frowned and looked at Peter for a few seconds.
"holy shit!" he exclamed. " I did not think it would work!" so excited he was almost jumping
"what?" Anastasia asked
"focus on Peter or that ReanimatorBot, you will see what i mean, just try to concentrate on what they are" Anastasia did and after a few seconds ghasped.
"so it is true!" she finally beleaved the two man about the Names on top of monsters.
"ther is one thing that is wierd. Peter. It says here your name is "Petro Melnik" " Mark said as if questioning Peter.
Peter frowned and sighted.
"it was the name i was given at birth. after i emigrated here i legaly changed my name to Peter Smith." he wanted to avoid this kind of questions, but the "system" did not gave a fuck.
"wait, you are not from NY? where are you from?" asked Anastasia in a curipous manner
"Ukraine" Peter said bluntly. he knew that Anastasia was from Poland from a few times they exchanged words before but he never told her where he was from.
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she smiled and gave him a thumbs up "we are country neighbors" she sad as she winkend at him.
"so how you want us to call you?" Mark asked as he looked at Peter aka Petro
"give me a second" Peter tried to focus and change his name. for this long he knew that the system could read his mind, and he tried to persuade it to change his name to peter, just as it was for the last 7 years.
Problem is it did not work. After a good 5 minutes of Peter or better said Petro trying to change his name he gave up
"just call me Peter, since its the western variant of what shows on top of my head..." he masaged the bridge of his nose as he saw other complications coming his way. the system seemed to know way to much to just be inplemented just a couple of hours ago.
Peter claped his hands "allright. enogh of this. we need to slavage as much of this thing as we can." he sad as he pointed towards the ranimator bot.
"bitch almost broke my drill while trying to kill it, the metal seems to be very hard and strong. but its also light. i say we dismatle it and do armor shields other stuff with it. its a gold mine right now" he concluded.
as he walked towads his tool belt he could hear the splash sounds of his every step as he picked up the discarted impact drill and other tools.
"time to dismatle this thing" said Peter as he started to drill in the side of the dead beast, where the biggest and more intact parts of the metal armor stood.
"what is this?" Lisa asked as she picked up the body of a small being. it was the grey looking fucker inside the ranimator bot
"he was inside controlling this thing" Mark intervined. on top of the creature's head there was a screen < Gimp > Lvl 5 *deceased*
Lisa dropped the boddy as soon as she first saw the message. then she screamed as she looked around. seems like she was not prepared for the incoming information in front of her.
< Mark Truman > Level 1 < Anastasia Korolova > Level 1 < Petro Melnik > Level 3 < ReanimatorBot > Level 10 *deceased*
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It took some time to be able to dislodge some of the metal sheets from the ReanimatorBot's sides, but they where made of very high quality steel, it was light, but at the same time very hard and durable without being brittle. Peter fixed a sheet on the two improvised shields by using rivets, for now it would do the work. and with the quantity he was using the wood would break before the metal would dislodge from it.
"so i kinda figured out this system thing" Peter said as he was finishing the second shield.
"its all mental, the same way you focus to see the names of the monsters, you need to focus on what you want from the system. when i levelded up all the screens and information given could be directed without the need to use hands or voice comands. " he made a pause as he drank some water before continuing "this is both an advantage and a disadvantage"
"how come?" Lisa asked, she finally started to pull herself together, the last two hours it's been her crying and whining, now she just seemed to have submitted to the fact that this was now reality.
Peter tried to not stare at her as they where still wet from the sprinkler water, and her white summer dress did not help with the see-through effect it caused. it was almost as if she was naked in front of him.
not that he needed this to see her naked, for a few seconds he played with X-ray vision. and yes, it worked. (a teenager boy's dream come true) if not for the monsters.
"it means that you dont expose yourself while using the system, lets say you want to activate a skill like my eye one, i dont need to say the name of it or chant anything, it just satrs working when i will it so if we are hiding you dont make sounds, but the disadvantage is clear since it also means that who or what ever is doing this whole monster system ordeal can read our minds, thoughts..." he did not know if exposing them to this kind of information would be beneficial right now but sooner or later they would come to the same conclusion.
"that does not matter right now. how long has it been?" Peter asked as he snapped everyone back in to reality.
"since the second wave started? 42 minutes and change" said Mark as he looked at his Analog wrist watch
"now, we gotta decide, we ether stay here and prepare since its more than likely that there will be a third wave or we try to make it to the streets." Peter said
"I say we need to leave, if monsters will keep spawning in the filming set i dont want to be here, we should look for the army or police, they will help us" Lisa's position did not changed over the last few minutes, Peter took a few moments to think about what she implied.
Yes it was true that firearms and military equipment would still be operational similar to how his impact drill and some of the cars down on the street had lights on, but that does not change the fact that not only they would have to make it to a base or a police station in the first place, and he knew soemthing that the other three ignored.
"i say we stay, even though its dangerous here, i think being inside is safer than out" Said Anastasia
"I will follow Peter, he is the one i trust the most to keep us alive at this point... no offense" Mark said in a bitter tone, he knew that this statement showed how now only the Girl's but his inability to act almost lead to their deaths.
"there is a big problem if we are going to go outside" Peter finally revealed what he feared would cause panic among the group.
"the Divine Eagel's All Seeing Eyes Lvl 1 lets me see trhough walls like an X ray machine, at this point its not much but i can see trough like 2 and half floors down, more or less... its all full of monsters, right benith us there is a flock of Orcs, they have killed something that resembles giant spiders with the heads of canines, i can see their levels and names. < Orc Warrior > Level 5 and < SpiderHound > Level 3 *deceased* they are making a fire and cooking the Spiders, while chatting, the floor benith them there is some Snake like creature < Infant TitanoBoa > Level 9 i know its says "infant" but beleave me, its body is almost as wide as my torso, not to mention it's lenght, and finally, benith them there is a fucking < Minotaur > that is level 15 that has been choping everything on sight with his giant axe and he seems to be in blind rage" Peter decided to wrap up fast since the look of dread in the faces of his companions where not a good sign "the thing is, we might be able to make it down, but what if there are monsters in the hallways or the fire escape stairs, what if this big ass beasts from the floors below hear us fighting, not to mention we are on the 12th floor and i cant see further than 3, so its only guessing after that"
there was dead silence for what seemed an eternity
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"you said Xray vision?" Anastasia broke the silence, her question came out as acusing as she frowned slightly while covering her body
Peter groaned and shook his head not beleaving that from all the information he had given them that is what she retained and considered most important. he snapped.
"i can see it ALL, i can see the monsters, i can see the cadaves of other humans that got killed a few floors below, i can see the pitchblack street down below and tell you that is not any better... Hell i can see your magic power, your weak spots where to aim if i want to kill. I CAN SEE YOUR FAITH ! " he screamed making Lisa take a step back. After breathing deeply to calm down he put himself together "and yes i can see that you have nipple piercings" Annastasia gasped while her hand went instinctevely covering her breasts.
"fuck it man" Peter was not having it any more, he turned around and left.
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After finding a sweet spot inside a closed office with a confortable computer chair he sat down.
he tried to calm down but it was imposible, his right leg was shaking up and down like if he had to much coffe in the last few hours.
He spoted an ashtray on the table near the computer monitor.
"could it be?" he opened the drawers of the office desk fenetically and started to search for the thing he craved the most.
There was no luck, after comfirming that there where no ciggaretes inside the office dest he got up and kicked the table Spartan style out of pure frustration. The desck fliped over before impacting in to the near by wall.
"well, that was unexpected"
Peter heard a knock on the door.
"what is it?!" he barked
"its mark, and we got a situation" Said the IT professional.
Peter opened the door and and ask him what was going on
"ehhm, im fairly sure we just heard gunshots inside the building"
"ohh for fuck sake" Peter groaned as he got up, grabbed his hammer and shield and waleked outside.
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Officer Lin was gunning down orcs on the 11th floor of the Building she and her Sergeant had taken shelter in.
"fuck fuck fuck, i fucked up" she cursed under her breath, they have avoided every single floor because of the monsters, but when she saw a human like figure she stared for far to long trying to find out if the thing was human or not subsequently getting spotted and now she had 15 crazyed orcs charging her. her Sergeant was on the floor giving her as much cover as he could with his shotgun.
"RELOAD!" she screamed as she changed magazines in her AR15. Sergeant James started shooting his 12 gauge at the incomining bogies.
Some of the orcs had already perished, others where seriously wounded, but they seem to not care about their lives, charging mindlessly at them in a fit of rage.
"IM OUT!" she screamed throwing the AR15 to the side and drawing her Service Weapon a Glock 23.
"I ONLY HAVE ONE CLIP LEFT!" she screamed to her Sergeant
"guess its over" the man said resigning to his death, he had a deep would on his left leg, and could not run away.
"run away ill entertain them long enough" he said while trying to get on his legs. he pulled a Tactical knife and his pistol.
"GO!" he screamed at her.
She was reluctant to leave.
"this is the end of the world, i might as well go with a bang" she said "no man left behind"
The closest Wounded orc was aporaching them while limping, they where not shoting yet since they wanted to have a better shot at them.
out of nowhere someone past them sprinting, It came from the stariwell behind them.
It was a dude dressed in full biker gear, with a shield and armed with a hammer, he shield bashed the first Orc sending It trumbling to the ground, then without any hesitation he started bashing its head in with the hammer, the hits of metal hitting bone resonated through out the hallway, it took him two hits with all of his body to crack the skull of the orc open like if it was a coconut. she could not take her eyes away from the gore as the man keept fighting the other three wounded orcs. after him went another man, this one looked kinda normal, except he was also carrying a shield and an improvised wodden spiked club.
"I'll cripple them you finish them off, go for the vitals and dont let them catch you!" The man in the motorist gear said, soon after he ducked under the attack of and orc and swinged his hammer at it's knee cap. loud crunch could be heard as the knee of the Orc bent backwards, it went down like a sack of potatoes.
As he keept the other two orcs at bay with feints and his shield, his companion started smacking the incapacitated orc with all his might on the throat with his spiked club.
"its decesead!" Screamed the normal looking man
"next one coming right away!" The biker said as he shield bashed the orc on his left while ducking and repeating the same process with the orc on his right.
"LIN!!!" she turned arround finally snapping out of it, there she saw two women helping her Sergeant on his feet and helping him up the stars.
"ill cover them, you guys go!" by the time she turned back at the carnage, the third orc was dead and the two man where double teaming the last one.
"get the last hit" Said the man in the biker ger as he was pinning down the orc against a wall. The normal man hesitated for a second and then started bashing the Orc in it's head.
"its deceased!" Said the man, then they turned around and started running towards her, she instinctively rased her gun.
"put that thing away and run!" The biker said as they passed her and kept sprinting towards the stars.
She did as she was told, only one thing in her mind "what the fuck?"